Woo hoo!! Our Third Quarter '06 FReepathon is now Underway!!

Click here to donate ^ | July 1, 2006 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

Howdy everyone!

Are you ready for a FReepathon?

Well, looks like we're going to be in for a great election cycle after all. With Zarqawi's death and a general round-up of terrorists, things are looking better in Iraq and the president's popularity numbers are looking up. We're also seeing some good things happening in the primaries. Apparently, things aren't quite as gloomy as the gloom and doomers have been portending.

Looking forward to not only holding our seats this Fall, but actually building on the conservative majority and continuing to rebuild the judiciary thereafter.

God bless President Bush and our troops and may the war in Iraq come to a successful conclusion soon.

Thank you all very much!!

By the way, received a letter from the Commonwealth of Virgina last month. Seems they are concerned that we are not registered as a charity in Virginia and are therefore not authorized to solicit for charitable contributions in the great state of Virginia.

Well, I don't know about being authorized, but I can tell you we are most definitely not a charity. We're also not a registered non-profit, nor a political PAC, nor a veterans group, nor a professional fundraising organization.

We have no corporate presence in Virginia, do not advertise in the media, do not solicit for funds over the phone or by telegraph, direct mail or even by email and we do not raise funds for any other purpose other than to fund the operations of this web site.

And we solicit only to our members (readers and participants of this site) who, when they donate, do so freely with nothing expected in return other than the hopes of seeing this conservative forum continue to operate.

We state plainly on our web site and on our donation page that donations to Free Republic are not tax deductible.

We are not a charity and do not raise funds for charitable purposes. We are organized as a Limited Liability Company (Free Republic, LLC) in California and as we are not a charity or a registered non-profit, we pay all applicable federal and state taxes on our income to the Federal Government and to the state of California and do not feel we are subject to Virginia's regulations for charitable organizations.

Hoping this will satisfy the Commonwealth of Virginia, otherwise we may have to ask the good people of Virginia to please ignore our fundraisers in the future.

Thanks again for your continuing support and God bless you all.

Jim Robinson

[Lady Jag]

Morning

[RottiBiz]

Good morning, Txsleuth!

Not to worry -- a Texas cowboy has ridden to the rescue the last five Freepathons.

Maybe he will again. ;-)

[RottiBiz]

$50 from Connecticut
$20 from Illinois
$10 from Florida

Thank you Connecticut, Illinois and Florida!!

[RottiBiz]

Thanks for the bumps, RobFromGa!

[RottiBiz]

Thanks for the bump, rottndog!

[Txsleuth]

I hope he does...BUT, our known Texas freepers need to step up also...

Hmmmmm...I guess I will have to go into cheerleader mode...somehow.

[RottiBiz]

Good morning, Coop!

Virginia has reclaimed position #9.

[onyx]

Good morning, coop and everybody.

I think you would have aced the president's first names. Even I liked my question...lol.

[Lady Jag]

Number 9!   Calling Number 9!

[firewalk]

bttt

[Michael Goldsberry]

cheerleader mode...somehow.

Go Go Other Coast!

Rah Rah Other Coast!

[Lady Jag]

[Txsleuth]

Hey...that looks JUST like me....LOL

[Lady Jag]

Well, aren't you cute!!

Do you always have your pompoms?

[Txsleuth]

Oh, yes, of course, doesn't everyone carry their pom-poms with them???

[Lady Jag]

Not me.   Mine keep getting wet.

[Txsleuth]

LOL...

[Lady Jag]

Hold on, I need to put my pom poms away.

[Vision]

Come on Freepers, if everybody would just give a little this thing would be over.

[Lady Jag]

Safari Dog

A man goes on a safari and brings his dog along. Of course the dog runs off and gets lost. Well the dog comes up on a skeleton of bones on the ground and he realizes they are Jaguar bones and just out of the corner of his eye he sees a jaguar stalking him. So the dog thinks real quick and picks up one of the bones and says "Man, that sure was a good Jaguar." So the jaguar backs off realizing he shouldn't mess with this dog.

At the same time a monkey was in the tree and sees this situation and thinks if he lets the jaguar know what's up maybe he won't get eaten by the jaguar. So he goes down to the jaguar and says "You've been had. He didn't eat that jaguar." The jaguar says "Well, see what I do to this dog." The monkey jumps on his back and he begins to stalk him again and the dog realizes what has happened so he thinks really quickly and says "Where's that monkey? He's so unreliable, I sent him ten minutes ago to get me another jaguar."