Long Live Conservatism! Long Live Liberty! (2nd qtr '09 FReepathon thread IX)

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[Jim Robinson]

It's been said that conservatism has different meanings for different people. It may not be textbook, but without a whole lot of navel gazing, here's what it means to me and what Free Republic is all about:

In a word, Freedom! In two words, Preserving Freedom. In a handful of words as stated by our Founding Fathers, to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity!

America was founded on the proposition that all men are created equal by God and that our unalienable rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness are granted directly by God and that no man, no government, no power on earth has the legitimate authority to deprive us of same or to redefine them out of existence. All down through history, tyrants of every stripe have tried to do so. All eventually fail. Man was created by God to be free, and so shall he be!

Today, our American heritage, our traditional American way of life, our American freedom itself is under constant attack. The enemies of freedom are daily eroding away our rights, forcing their repugnant evil ways onto our society and our children and trampling our constitution. Abortionism, homosexualism, extremist environmentalism, militant feminism, socialism, Marxism, government enforced atheism, paganism, perversion, cowardice, overreaching abusive government intrusion, etc, are all antithetical to conservatism and antithetical to continued freedom.

As a conservative site, Free Republic is here to defend, preserve and protect our rights, our religious freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, the right to keep and bear arms, private property rights, the right to life, the right to have a traditional family and to raise and educate our children as we see fit, the right to free enterprise and free markets, the right to corruption-free government, the right to constitutionally limited government, the right to self-government, the right to self-defense, and the right to live our lives free of government supervision, intrusion or intervention.

We empower our government to perform certain defined tasks, such as defending our rights, defending our borders, defending our nation, establishing courts, establishing certain standards for trade among nations and states, etc., but we do not empower them to run our lives, seize our property, indoctrinate our children, poison our society, trample our constitution, stomp out our religious freedom, tax us out of house and home, force themselves upon us or otherwise have their way with us. King George learned the hard way that you DO NOT TREAD ON US!!

History has a way of repeating itself.

Keep your powder dry.

If you are of like mind and believe that our unalienable rights are not negotiable and would like to see Free Republic continue in its mission of conserving our freedom, please consider making a donation today.

Thank you all very much!!

God bless!!

[Jim Robinson]

Woo hoo!!

Just in:

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Thank you all very much!!

And now I’ve go a Dr appointment I have to make. See y’all in a couple hours.

[mnehring]

btt

[Fiddlstix]

34%

Woo hoo!! Over 34 percent!! Way to go FReepers and Lurkers!! Thank you all very much!!

Woo hoo!!

Just in:

$50 from New Jersey
$100 from Arizona
$50 from Never Never Land

Thank you all very much!!

[Fiddlstix]

Q2 2009 Summary
Q-t-D Receipts
	$27,656.27 (includes monthlies to-date)
Monthlies
	$9,329.43 (pledged, not actual receipts)

   Q2 2009 Scoreboard -- ranked by total receipts   

Rank	Location	Receipts	Donors/Avg		Freepers/Avg		Monthlies
1	California	$4,003.00	114	$35.11		$	$1,362.67	80
2	Texas	2,504.00	92	27.22			1,032.00	61
3	Florida	1,650.00	56	29.46			745.00	39
4	Pennsylvania	1,142.19	30	38.07			282.00	17
5	Colorado	1,133.25	19	59.64			200.00	12
6	Maryland	1,025.00	25	41.00			235.00	12
7	Virginia	850.00	31	27.42			370.00	23
8	Ohio	839.00	21	39.95			584.00	15
9	New York	705.26	32	22.04			435.26	22
10	Michigan	695.00	16	43.44			80.00	7
11	Illinois	658.00	20	32.90			245.00	11
12	Washington	609.00	24	25.38			323.00	21
13	Georgia	600.00	23	26.09			305.00	14
14	New Jersey	590.00	18	32.78			210.00	9
15	Massachusetts	575.00	23	25.00			245.00	15
16	Australia	500.00	1	500.00
17	Arizona	465.00	17	27.35			220.00	15
18	Indiana	455.00	21	21.67			135.00	9
19	Missouri	424.00	16	26.50			144.00	12
20	Armed Forces - Europe	410.00	4	102.50			10.00	1
21	Utah	370.00	14	26.43			160.00	10
22	New Hampshire	370.00	4	92.50
23	Mississippi	360.00	9	40.00			135.00	7
24	Wisconsin	360.00	12	30.00			110.00	9
25	Arkansas	311.41	13	23.95			85.00	7
26	Alabama	250.00	15	16.67			170.00	11
27	Montana	250.00	7	35.71			40.00	2
28	Alaska	250.00	4	62.50			60.00	2
29	South Carolina	235.00	9	26.11			55.00	5
30	Maine	230.00	6	38.33			70.00	3
31	Minnesota	210.00	13	16.15			50.00	6
32	Oregon	210.00	11	19.09			70.00	6
33	Connecticut	210.00	6	35.00			40.00	2
34	Idaho	210.00	7	30.00			160.00	6
35	Thailand	200.00	2	100.00
36	Iraq	200.00	1	200.00
37	Tennessee	195.00	9	21.67			75.00	7
38	Kansas	190.00	12	15.83			90.00	7
39	Nevada	185.00	8	23.12			50.00	3
40	North Carolina	173.00	13	13.31			123.00	12
41	New Mexico	165.00	7	23.57			35.00	2
42	Canada	160.00	4	40.00			30.00	3
43	Oklahoma	150.00	8	18.75			100.00	5
44	Rhode Island	150.00	2	75.00
45	West Virginia	135.00	3	45.00			35.00	2
46	Wyoming	120.00	2	60.00			30.00	1
47	South Dakota	105.00	3	35.00			30.00	1
48	Nebraska	105.00	5	21.00			57.50	3
49	Finland	100.00	1	100.00
50	Louisiana	95.00	3	31.67			80.00	5
51	Delaware	90.00	4	22.50			5.00	1
52	Kentucky	90.00	3	30.00
53	Vermont	71.00	4	17.75			51.00	3
54	Hawaii	65.00	5	13.00			65.00	5
55	South Korea	60.00	2	30.00
56	North Dakota	60.00	2	30.00			10.00	1
57	Iowa	40.00	3	13.33			30.00	2
58	Cuba	30.00	1	30.00
59	Germany	25.00	1	25.00
60	Armed Forces - Pacific	20.00	1	20.00
61	Moldova	20.00	1	20.00
62	Norway	10.00	1	10.00			10.00	1
	Japan						30.00	1
Never Never Land		988.16	42	23.53			25.00	3
63 locations total		$27,656.27	886	$31.21		$0.00	$9,329.43	539

[Fiddlstix]

Free Republic Monthly Budget

Once we get our monthly donations to the point where they will cover all of our expenses, we will not need to have fundraisers.

Est. Recurring Monthly Contributions			$9,329.00
Monthly Expenses
	Bandwidth and Colocation	$2,430
	System Administation and Programming	7,000
	Administrative and Taxes	10,500
	Legal and Accounting	1,000
	Bank Fees, Credit Card Fees, Processing Fees	800
	Equip, Maintenance and Repairs	300
	Office Expenses, Rents, Insurance, Telephone, ISP, Supplies, Misc.	2,500
	Travel Expenses	800	25,330.00
Est. Monthly Shortfall			($16,001.00)

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Est. Recurring Monthly Contributions

This is the amount contributed by the monthly donors only. It does not include one-time donations.

Est. Monthly Shortfall

Amount needed in one-time donations per month or additional monthlies need to meet budget needs.

[Fiddlstix]

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[Fiddlstix]

Please

Click The Pic

[Fiddlstix]

Proposed Unofficial Anthem For Tax Protests
Ray Stevens:
If ten percent is good enough for Jesus
It ought to be enough for Uncle Sam
Click The Link Above

Now, I'd just like to say a few words right here about taxes!

I pay another man to do my taxes
On account of it's just one more deduction I can take
But the postman brought my W2 this mornin'
And this year they're claimin' a third of all I make

Now I'm just as patriotic as the next man
And you know I love that Red, White, and Blue
So I'll help to pay this risin' "cost of freedom"
But I'll be danged if I'm gonna change my point of view
 
Because every time the bureaucrats run out of money
Well Congress socks it to the workin' man
And I don't think it's one bit funny
When they take so much of my money
And do things with it I don't understand

I don't know why they feel they gotta squeeze us
But I'll tell you just exactly where I stand
I believe if ten percent is good enough for Jesus
Well, it ought to be enough for Uncle Sam

Now, some of them folks that we've been sendin' off to Congress
Think that all they've got to do is spend and spend
But, you know, you can't run a family, much less a country,
With more money goin' out than comin' in

And that ole debt just keeps on gettin' bigger
And we're all gonna have to pay, so don't you laugh
'Cause one day soon you might just look down at your paycheck
And figure out that they done started takin' half

And every time the bureaucrats run out of money
Well Congress socks it to the workin' man
And I don't think it's one bit funny
When they take so much of my money
And do things with it I don't understand

I don't know why they feel they gotta squeeze us
But I'll tell you just exactly where I stand
I believe if ten percent is good enough for Jesus
Well, it ought to be enough for Uncle Sam

I said if ten percent is good enough for Jesus
Well, it ought to be enough....
(Ya know times is gettin' tough)
It ought to be enough for Uncle Sam

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[ButThreeLeftsDo]

“Ckeck”???

I criticize, because I care....

;-0

[Fiddlstix]

ROTFL!!

I've got way too many things going on here today......
I posted without using the spelling checker......
Thanks for pointing that out.....

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Anything for a BUMP!!!!!

[Fiddlstix]

Click The Bump Graphic

Back At Ya

[Fiddlstix]

Hey There, Y'all!
Check Out This Thread!
Gun sales going ballistic

Picture Copied From Freeper:Abathar

[Jim Robinson]

Woo hoo!!

Just in:

$50 from California
$36 from Connecticut

Thank you California and Connecticut!!

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I’m waiting on a $500 Cabela’s gift certificate in the mail....

The quandry....yet another ammo-eater....or ammo for the starving children.....??

What to do.....

[Fiddlstix]

Woo hoo!!

Just in:

$50 from California
$36 from Connecticut

Thank you California and Connecticut!!

[Fiddlstix]

Go for the ammo.......
"Shootin' arns" jis ain't no good without ammo.....

[Fiddlstix]

Please

Click The Pic

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Good answer!!!!

(Family Feud Contestants)

;-)

[Fiddlstix]

Always happy to be of help

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I think I’m going to toddle off and poke some folks for some dough on the other threads for a while.......

;-)

[Fiddlstix]

Works for me.......

Mysef, I'm gonna go "feed my face".......
I'm a gettin' thet thar "lean an' hongry" feelin'......

Friendly Warning:
When I goes ta eatin'....
It's a good idea not to get too close.....
I been knowed ta chomp anythin' thet looks edible.....
LOL

[Jim Robinson]

Woo hoo!!

Just in:

$20 from Ohio
$50 from Connecticut
$20 from Never Never Land

Thank yoku all very much!!

[Fiddlstix]

Woo hoo!!

Just in:

$20 from Ohio
$50 from Connecticut
$20 from Never Never Land

Thank yoku all very much!!

[vox_freedom]

BTTT

[bd476]

Thank you Jim!
God Bless Free Republic
and
God Bless America!

[Fiddlstix]

Best Line Ever

In Movie History
(Click The Pic)

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Back later...

Mom is not doing well.

I’ll check back if the ER has wireless....

[MHGinTN]

Like Democrats?

[Fiddlstix]

Okay.....
So sorry to learn about your mom.....
I had no idea she's ill.....
Prayers go with you.

[Fiddlstix]

If you click the pic on my post it will play the same clip.

[MHGinTN]

This is what I got when I clicked the pic:

Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

Most likely causes:
You are not connected to the Internet.
The website is encountering problems.
There might be a typing error in the address.

[Fiddlstix]

Hmmm......
I just checked it......
It's working okay here.....
I've posted it before and people who clicked it were all able to see it.....
I have no idea why you couldn't see it.....

[MHGinTN]

The URL:

http://home.granderiver.net/~capnjim/fun/Bob_Hope_Ghost_Breakers.jpg

[Fiddlstix]

Yep. That’s the URL.

[MHGinTN]

The URL I used:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srrw_UnlRII

[Fiddlstix]

The “clip” is: http://home.granderiver.net/~capnjim/fun/BobHope.wmv

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you, bd476!!

Woo hoo!!

Just in:

$20 from California
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$50 from Never Never Land

Thank you all very much!!

[Fiddlstix]

Woo hoo!!

Just in:

$20 from California
$20 from California
$50 from Never Never Land

Thank you all very much!!

[Jim Robinson]

Prayers for your mom.

[Fiddlstix]

[bd476]

Jim Robinson wrote:

Woo hoo!!

Just in:

$20 from California
$20 from California
$50 from Never Never Land

Thank you all very much!!

[Fiddlstix]

Click the Pic

Good Night Everyone
It's Been a Long Day
I'm Outta Here
See you all tomorrow
God Bless

[bd476]

That's perfect, Fiddlstix!

[bd476]

MollyPitcher, thanks for gifing me the cookies you posted here. Here are some early flowers brought on by April showers.

[afnamvet]

Before bed Bump for Bucks!

[bd476]

Operation Persecution April 22, 1944
from This Day in History

Americans launch Operation Persecution in the Pacific
On this day in 1944, Allied forces land in the Hollandia area of New Guinea. The Japanese occupiers, only 15,000 in number, many of whom were on administrative duty, fight for more than three months against ludicrous odds at great cost: When the battle for the northern coast of New Guinea was finally won by the Allies, 12,811 Japanese were dead, compared with 527 Americans.This Day in History

Hollandia:

A town on the northern coast of New Guinea on Humboldt Bay. During World War II Hollandia was a major Japanese air base, and was taken by a brilliantly executed American amphibious operation 22 April 1944. The success of the operation had much to do with securing New Guinea and was a major step toward the eventual invasion of the Philippines. History.Navy.mil

RABAUL, WEWAK AND HOLLANDIA ATTACKED

During January and through most of February, General Street's Thirteenth and the U. S. Naval Air Forces, based in the Solomons, concentrated on the job of knocking out Rabaul as a major air threat. Just before end of February -- after having lost nearly 900 aircraft in defense of the base - the Japanese withdrew their remaining air strength from Rabaul.

In consequence, Japanese ground forces on New Britain were forced to abandon virtually all of the islands; the shipping lanes, which had served as lifelines to the doomed Japanese garrisons in the Bismarcks and the Solomons, ceased to exist.

Here, as in the Central Pacific, the Army-Navy strategy of bypassing Japanese-held islands has proved lucrative.

Simultaneously with the effort of the Thirteenth against Rabaul, the Fifth Air Force was knocking out Wewak as a major enemy base. At Wewak, too, after land and sea communications were out cut and airplanes destroyed in combat or on the ground, the base became so untenable that the remaining air strength was withdrawn.

This left Hollandia as the only major enemy air base in all of eastern and northeastern New Guinea and paved the way for our over-land advance up the coast of that vast island. Such withdrawals had a very decided effect upon the operational value of the Japanese air force.

At each base bypassed or abandoned the Japanese left behind their best combat and maintenance crews and squadron and group staffs - these they have never been able to replace.

In 4 days of concentrated attack the Fifth Air Force put Hollandia out of the running. The entire enemy force, of approximately 400 aircraft, was destroyed -- mainly on the ground. About 2 weeks later, an American amphibious operation captured Hollandia, sustaining negligible losses.

From Hollandia, and from a captured enemy airfield on nearby Wakde Island, the Fifth Air Force then turned its attack on the island of Biak, Noemfoor, and Owi in the Geelvink Bay area of Dutch New Guinea. Again enemy air was neutralized, and our amphibious forces moved in with light casualties.

When we began the concerted attacks against Rabaul and Wewak, the Japanese started feverishly to build air bases on the Halmahera Islands, southeast of Mindanao. Most of these fields were nearly completed by the time of our amphibious operations against Noemfoor and Biak; they based nearly 250 enemy aircraft in the Halmaheras. But this air power could not be used to contest our landings because it had to be conserved for the air defense of Mindanao and the Visayas.

As soon as our aviation engineers had made our fields on Biak, Noemfoor, and Owi, operational, the Fifth Air Force went after the enemy air strength on the Halmaheras, on Ceram, Boeroe, and on the Vogelkop peninsula of Dutch New Guinea. The Japanese then had between 400 and 500 aircraft deployed in these areas. Within a week, the enemy withdrew the remnants of this force to Ceram, Boeroe, and to Mindanao. When we sought to neutralize Ceram and Boeroe, the enemy made a more determined stand, but in another month those two islands, as well as northeast Celebes, were eliminated as sources of Japanese air power.

This report was prepared by the Army Air Forces and is dated Feb. 27, 1945.

National Museum Air Force Fact Sheet

U.S. Army in World War II
The Approach to the Philippines
Robert Ross Smith

Chapter Two
Planning and Preparation for the Hollandia-Aitape Operation



The first step in the Southwest Pacific Area's drive to the Philippines--the seizure of the Hollandia region of Dutch New Guinea--could have far-reaching consequences. (Map I) Anchorages at Hollandia were known to be capable of basing many of the largest combat vessels, cargo ships, and troop transports.

Inland plains in the area were thought to provide almost unlimited potentialities for airdrome development. Aircraft operating from fields at Hollandia could dominate most Japanese airdromes in western New Guinea and nearer islands of the Indies, could fly reconnaissance and bombing missions against the western Carolines, including the Palaus, and could provide support for subsequent landing operations along the north coast of New Guinea.

Small naval vessels, such as motor torpedo boats (PT's), operating from Hollandia area bases, could interdict Japanese barge traffic for miles both east and west of that region. Finally, the Hollandia region was capable of development into a major supply base and staging1 area for the support of subsequent Allied operations farther to the west.

General Headquarters, Southwest Pacific Area, and its subordinate commands were to have no easy task in planning the advance to Hollandia; but by March 1944 these headquarters had accumulated two years' experience with the complex air, sea, and ground operations that characterized the war in the Pacific.

Indeed, the planning for Hollandia provides an excellent case study for most amphibious undertakings in the Southwest Pacific. For this reason a detailed discussion of the work undertaken by the various theater commands, the problems they faced, and the means by which these problems were solved is included here. The planning for subsequent operations within the Southwest Pacific is treated in less detail with emphasis placed principally on the differences from the Hollandia planning.

Solving the many problems faced by the Southwest Pacific commands in planning the advance to Hollandia was made more difficult by the interrelationship of many of those problems. A direct move to Hollandia from eastern New Guinea, bypassing Wewak and Hansa Bay, could not be undertaken unless carrier-based air support were made available from the Pacific Fleet.

It was also possible that a more powerful enemy force might be encountered at Hollandia than had been met during any previous landing operation in the Pacific theaters. This meant that a larger Allied force than had ever before been assembled for any single amphibious operation in the Pacific would have to be sent against Hollandia.

The size of this force would complicate logistic planning and preparations and would necessitate the use of more assault shipping than was available within the Southwest Pacific Area. Finally, the advance was to be made into terrain about which many important details were unavailable and unobtainable. Thus, all interested commands of the Southwest Pacific Area were to have a thoroughgoing test of their training or past experience... Continues here: The Approach to the Philippines