Happy New Year FReepers! The 2005 Q1 FReepathon is now underway!!

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[Jim Robinson]

Happy New Year FReepers! The 2005 Q1 FReepathon is now underway!!

Welcome to 2005!

The excitement of the elections is still going strong. With the decisive victory for President Bush and the increased majorities in both the House and Senate and throughout the state governments of the land, we conservatives should look forward to finally being able to achieve some of our goals.

Look for President Bush as commander-in-chief to continue wiping out the scourge of terrorism from the world. Free elections have already taken place in Afghanistan and are about to take place for the first time in history in Iraq! Fifty million people liberated in the middle east! The butcher of Iraq is in chains and about to be tried for his crimes against humanity. Thank you President Bush for a magnificent job of putting down terrorism!! And thank you to our men in women in the armed forces for your dedication to God, duty, and country and for your personal sacrifices for our freedom and security. The nation owes you a great debt of gratitude! May God bless you all and return you safely to your homes and loved ones!

Tax reform is on the radar! We hear more and more each day about the possibility of either overhauling the income tax system or even replacing it altogether! Hurrah! President Bush has a golden opportunity to LIBERATE all Americans from this horrendously unfair and anti-freedom slave tax that has enslaved us all for nearly a century! And in the process, he'll be freeing up the productive capital and resources that will once again make America the envy of the entire world! There is no other country or economic system in the world that can out produce America when we are allowed the freedoms that our forefathers fought and won for us over 200 years ago. It's way past time that we rise up and overturn the ill-conceived income tax imposed upon us by the populists and progressives (socialists) of the last century. We should declare 2005 as the year the battle for freedom from tax slavery begins!

And we can look forward to President Bush appointing conservative judges to the federal courts and the Supreme Court! Thank God we have a conservative president and a Republican majority in the Senate rather the the traitor John Kerry and his gang of liberal obstructionists! Daschle the lead obstructionist is gone! Liberalism defeated! We know that the Democrats will not roll over and play dead, but I doubt the Republicans are going to stand for the all out obstructionism of the last four years. Either the president's nominations get a hearing before the full Senate or we can expect nuclear action! Go Pubbies!!

And Free Republic was in the thick of it again! In addition to the thousands of FReepers campaigning and working hard to get conservative candidates elected, we had some real successes right here on the forum. I think of Buckhead and TankerKC on Howlin's now famous thread calling for an examination of Dan Rather's forged "Texas Air National Guard" memos. Way to go FReepers!! Your sharp eyes and diligent efforts have sent yet another infamous lying socialist MSM propagandist to early retirement! Congratulations!!

And what can we say about the fantastic work of John O'Neill, Jerome Corsi, and the SwiftVets, and our very own Interesting Times!! Way to go guys!! You've restored honor and dignity to the names of countless Vietnam Vets and have exposed John F'n Kerry as the disgraceful fraud and traitor that he actually is. And, in doing so, you've helped save the nation from falling into the despair and shame that it would have under a President Kerry. God bless you and thank you! Welcome home brothers!

And let's not forget our FReeper Ball! Come to DC and join us in celebrating the reelection of President George W. Bush and honoring our men and women in the armed forces and our honored guests. Dance the night away to the rock and roll music of Gov Mike Huckabee and his Capitol Offense band and enjoy dinner and refreshments and the great company of your countrymen and fellow FReepers!

Thank you all very much for your continued support. Your generous donations during these quarterly FReepathons keep Free Republic on the air and makes it the very best conservative site on the Internet!!

God bless you all,

Jim


P.S. Don't forget to offer prayers for the victims and families that have suffered so much after the devastating earthquake and Tsunami waves. I've included links on our homepage to a couple of threads where FReepers have posted URLs and addresses of relief organizations. Please donate if you can.

[RottiBiz]

Good morning, Fiddlstix!

Thanks for breakfast.

[RottiBiz]

   Q1 2005 Scoreboard -- ranked by total receipts   

Rank	Location	Receipts	Donors/Avg		Freepers/Avg		Monthlies
1	Texas	$1,250.00	23	$54.35	1,952	$0.64	$1,137.00	68
2	California	935.00	23	40.65	2,287	0.41	1,604.56	109
3	New York	810.00	10	81.00	855	0.95	360.50	24
4	Illinois	525.00	10	52.50	582	0.90	447.00	24
5	Pennsylvania	445.00	12	37.08	659	0.68	330.00	23
6	Washington	405.00	4	101.25	556	0.73	330.00	20
7	Louisiana	380.00	2	190.00	230	1.65	65.00	7
8	Florida	370.00	15	24.67	1,081	0.34	718.00	44
9	Virginia	290.00	6	48.33	735	0.39	585.50	31
10	Massachusetts	250.00	10	25.00	356	0.70	215.00	14
11	Maryland	240.00	9	26.67	417	0.58	288.00	15
12	Michigan	230.00	4	57.50	475	0.48	110.00	11
13	Wisconsin	210.00	4	52.50	308	0.68	183.00	12
14	Tennessee	165.00	5	33.00	386	0.43	83.00	9
15	Connecticut	165.00	5	33.00	218	0.76	45.00	4
16	Missouri	140.00	6	23.33	418	0.33	131.00	12
17	Arizona	135.00	3	45.00	471	0.29	165.50	12
18	New Jersey	110.00	5	22.00	438	0.25	239.00	13
19	Indiana	100.00	5	20.00	346	0.29	65.00	7
20	Canada	100.00	1	100.00	242	0.41
21	South Korea	100.00	1	100.00	7	14.29	10.00	1
22	Alabama	100.00	2	50.00	280	0.36	385.00	20
23	Sweden	100.00	1	100.00	18	5.56
24	Costa Rica	100.00	1	100.00	11	9.09
25	Colorado	95.00	3	31.67	379	0.25	130.00	9
26	Ohio	87.00	3	29.00	587	0.15	612.25	20
27	Kansas	85.00	2	42.50	209	0.41	60.00	4
28	Maine	85.00	3	28.33	107	0.79	10.00	1
29	South Carolina	80.00	4	20.00	245	0.33	91.00	8
30	Hawaii	75.00	2	37.50	66	1.14	15.00	2
31	Nevada	70.00	2	35.00	138	0.51	120.00	6
32	New Hampshire	70.00	2	35.00	131	0.53
33	Minnesota	70.00	3	23.33	320	0.22	140.00	11
34	South Dakota	65.00	2	32.50	47	1.38	35.00	3
35	Iowa	60.00	2	30.00	163	0.37	35.00	2
36	Montana	60.00	2	30.00	53	1.13	333.33	1
37	Oregon	60.00	4	15.00	273	0.22	85.00	6
38	North Carolina	55.00	4	13.75	576	0.10	458.00	29
39	Rhode Island	50.00	1	50.00	44	1.14	10.00	1
40	Arkansas	50.00	1	50.00	173	0.29	40.00	4
41	Georgia	45.00	2	22.50	587	0.08	330.00	19
42	Wyoming	40.00	2	20.00	34	1.18	30.00	1
43	Kentucky	40.00	3	13.33	223	0.18	20.00	2
44	Nebraska	25.00	1	25.00	92	0.27	48.00	4
45	Panama	25.00	1	25.00	7	3.57
46	Delaware	25.00	1	25.00	34	0.74
47	Utah	20.00	2	10.00	113	0.18	90.00	4
48	Ireland	20.00	1	20.00	31	0.65
49	West Virginia	20.00	1	20.00	90	0.22	35.00	2
50	United Kingdom	20.00	1	20.00	178	0.11	5.00	1
51	Oklahoma	15.00	2	7.50	242	0.06	117.00	9
52	Vermont	10.00	1	10.00	39	0.26	76.00	5
	Mississippi						57.00	5
	New Mexico						50.00	3
	District of Columbia						10.00	1
	Kenya						20.00	1
	Idaho						35.00	1
	Armed Forces - Europe						10.00	1
	Armed Forces - Pacific						10.00	1
	Alaska						55.00	2
	Indonesia						20.00	1
Never Never Land		724.00	25	28.96			401.00	30
53 locations total		$9,801	250	$39.20	22,078	$0.44	$11,090.64	680

[eureka!]

Happy New Year, Jim. $20 via snail mail pledge as per usual...

[Fiddlstix]

Good morning J

[Mo1]

Good Morning Rotti ... just popping in for a sec

FNC is saying that Bush and former Presidents about to have an annoucement

HERE THEY ARE

[RottiBiz]

Thank you, eureka!!!

[Gabz]

Were you able to get up alright this morning? you sure didn't get much sleep if you did!!!!

[Grampa Dave]

Good Morning!

Due to family commitments, I'm a late arrival to the first Freepathon of 2005.

Hopefully this will be another fast and successful one.

A financially sound Free Republic has to cause daytime terrors and nightmares with the lunatic libs across America and around the world.

[Gabz]

Happy New Year Gramps!!!!!!

[Grampa Dave]

Happy New Year!

[Mo1]

Were you able to get up alright this morning?

I got up .. got the older ones off to school .. now I need to give Carly a bath and then take her to school

I'll hit that brick wall later :0)

[RottiBiz]

Thanks for the heads-up, Mo.

Didn't have the TV on and would have missed it.

[Grampa Dave]

Calling on all Freepers to cancel your subscriptions to left wing bird cage liners.

Then send your monthly savings to Free Republic for the real news.

[RottiBiz]

Happy New Year, Grampa Dave!

I think you'll find this news encouraging:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1312224/posts?page=1778#1778

[Grampa Dave]

Barset's reply on my 5000 Freepers Needed/Rerun thread summarizes the importance of Free Republic.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/581234/posts?page=1431#1431

To: Grampa Dave
If there were no Free Republic, there would have been no Buckhead; if there had been no Buckhead, there would be no CBS crawling on its knees to the White House begging for another chance to be "fair and balanced."

We know that the Left never rests. Neither should we. We should not have to beg for money to maintain freedom's outer perimeter.

We don't "donate" to freedom's defense; every dollar we give to support Free Republic is really a payment for services rendered. b.



1,431 posted on 01/03/2005 7:17:10 AM PST by Barset

[Grampa Dave]

This is great news!

Did you notice on the latest Scoreboard (#1757) that monthly donor contributions are $11,000 per month ($33,000 for the quarter)?

We have a new milestone!

Fifty per cent of the $66,000 operating budget for the 1st quarter will now be covered by monthly donor contributions.

Thank you Monthly Donors!!!!

[blackie]

"I know I'm lucky..............she was reading by the time she was 3. Her 2nd grade reading teacher (she's in 1st grade) told me she never worries about her doing her homework assignments, because whether she does them or not she aces the weekly spelling tests anyway. She doesn't know this, so we make sure her assignments are done anyway, so she learns the discipline of doing her work early."

Congratulations all around for your commitment to your daughter and for giving her the tools to accomplish her goals in life.

[RottiBiz]

Excellent post, Barset!

Thanks for re-posting it here, Grampa Dave.

[blackie]

Haven't seen so many red noses since my first AA meeting in '75. :):)

[rightinthemiddle]

The deed is done. This Freeper is not a Freeloader.

Oooo....my credit card bill is going to hurt after the holidays. I need to ask for Free Republic Gift Certificates next year!

Thank, JRob.