Our 1st Quarter '07 FReepathon is now Underway!

Click here to donate ^ | January 1, 2007 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

Happy New Year Everyone!

Are you ready for a FReepathon?

Well, we're entering a new year and a period of new challenges. Pelosi & Co have some big plans for us. Unfortunately, their plans are not necessarily conducive to continued liberty.

As a matter of fact, their immediate desire is to further clampdown on our rights to free speech and freedom of assembly. If you loved McCaine/Feingold, you're really going to love Pelosi. It's aimed directly at grassroots organizations and could all but neuter political forums like FR.

Under Pelosi, any grassroots organization that reaches 500 people or more and asks them to communicate with their representatives regarding political issues would be required to register with the government as lobbyists and report quarterly on finances and expenditures and report separately on each individual issue they're advocating.

Huh? What happened to the first Amendment? Between McCain/Feingold and Pelosi, it's gone. Free speech and freedom of assembly would be history. Regulated to death. Forums and grassroots organizations like FR would be completely under the government thumb.

But it's not just the feds. The states are clamping down too. We're currently locking horns with the Commonwealth of Virginia. Virginia, the home of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, James Madison and the cradle of American Liberty itself now has a law they're trying to apply to Free Republic. Their state law requires charities that raise more then $5,000 per year in Virginia to register and report audited financials to the state. And even though we're a California company and clearly not a charity (we raise money to fund our operations, not for charitable purposes), they want to cross state lines and regulate our activities.

I tell you, between federal and state governments clamping down on our rights and the mainstream media corporations pressing the copyright issues, we're quickly losing our rights to organize and communicate on the Internet. The freewheeling wide open days of the Internet frontier are just about to end for the grassroots citizen.

And what's really ironic about all this is that just as the terrorists and enemies of freedom abroad are ramping up their Internet activities aimed at destroying our free society, we are being squeezed off the Net by the domestic enemy at home.

Oh, well, enough of my ranting. It's a new year and we have plenty to be thankful for. Thank God for each new day of good health and freedom. Thank God for our courageous military and may He watch over and protect our men and women in uniform wherever they may be serving and may they all return safely home soon.

Here's wishing you all a Blessed and Happy New Year!

God Bless America and God Bless us all.

God willing and through His good graces, we shall prevail!

Special note to Virginia residents:

We still do not have a resolution for the donations issue with the Commonwealth of Virginia, so please hold your donations until we get it resolved. As it is, any donations received from Virginia have to be returned or turned over to our lawyer to hold in his trust account until we get the matter settled.

Thank you all very much!

Regards,

Jim Robinson

[Lady Jag]

Have you seen my collection?

[onyx]

   Q1 2007 Scoreboard -- ranked by total receipts   

Rank	Location	Receipts	Donors/Avg		Freepers/Avg		Monthlies
1	California	$825.00	16	$51.56		$	$1,328.56	95
2	Texas	545.00	10	54.50			936.00	64
3	New York	540.00	8	67.50			418.00	23
4	Florida	305.00	7	43.57			667.11	40
5	Indiana	280.00	7	40.00			103.00	10
6	Minnesota	280.00	4	70.00			85.00	7
7	Virginia	260.00	6	43.33			583.00	28
8	Kansas	250.00	4	62.50			40.00	4
9	Arizona	245.00	4	61.25			140.00	13
10	Washington	195.00	4	48.75			315.00	18
11	Pennsylvania	180.00	6	30.00			278.00	20
12	Canada	180.00	5	36.00			5.00	1
13	Maryland	160.00	3	53.33			175.00	11
14	Alabama	155.00	6	25.83			280.00	14
15	Colorado	155.00	4	38.75			190.00	13
16	Arkansas	150.00	3	50.00			55.00	3
17	Montana	150.00	2	75.00			343.33	2
18	Sweden	150.00	1	150.00
19	Ohio	140.00	3	46.67			567.25	15
20	Illinois	133.00	3	44.33			268.50	15
21	Alaska	125.00	2	62.50			40.00	2
22	New Jersey	125.00	3	41.67			220.00	11
23	Michigan	100.00	1	100.00			130.00	10
24	South Korea	100.00	1	100.00
25	Hawaii	100.00	2	50.00			50.00	4
26	Wisconsin	100.00	3	33.33			125.00	9
27	Massachusetts	100.00	4	25.00			310.00	17
28	Utah	90.00	3	30.00			92.00	5
29	Georgia	70.00	2	35.00			210.00	14
30	New Hampshire	70.00	2	35.00			10.00	1
31	Nevada	60.00	2	30.00			80.00	4
32	Missouri	60.00	3	20.00			175.00	12
33	Connecticut	50.00	1	50.00			20.00	2
34	New Mexico	50.00	1	50.00			40.00	2
35	South Carolina	50.00	1	50.00			105.00	8
36	Louisiana	50.00	1	50.00			75.00	7
37	North Dakota	50.00	1	50.00
38	Finland	50.00	1	50.00
39	Nebraska	50.00	1	50.00			42.50	3
40	Vermont	45.00	2	22.50			76.00	4
41	Oklahoma	35.00	2	17.50			91.00	5
42	North Carolina	35.00	2	17.50			315.00	20
43	Tennessee	30.00	2	15.00			108.00	9
44	Oregon	30.00	2	15.00			90.00	9
45	Puerto Rico	25.00	1	25.00
46	Maine	20.00	1	20.00			10.00	1
47	Mississippi	20.00	1	20.00			145.00	7
48	Wyoming	20.00	1	20.00
49	Delaware	20.00	1	20.00
50	Kentucky	10.00	1	10.00			10.00	2
	Norway						10.00	1
	West Virginia						50.00	2
	United Kingdom						5.00	1
	Idaho						85.00	4
	Iowa						75.00	4
	Rhode Island						45.00	2
	South Dakota						40.00	2
	Armed Forces - Europe						25.00	2
	China						10.00	1
	Croatia						5.00	1
Never Never Land		400.00	13	30.77			228.00	19
51 locations total		$7,418	170	$43.64		$0.00	$9,925.25	603

[onyx]

LOL -- go to the NASCAR and Sports thread with that....LOL...we'll reach our goal immediately. :)

[onyx]

Nice to be told at the last minute, isn't it?

[Lady Jag]

You think that's good for shifting?

[onyx]

LOL! Er......

[Mo1]

I'm kind of use it from dealing with my inlaws

Here's a story (Told ya I had lots of them)

When my sister in law got married .. at first we all thought we were attending .. but she said no .. then my MIL had a fit and then 3 days before the wedding we were told we were going ..

So I called my sister to babysit the kids since they were to young to sit through all that

A day before the wedding I was told to bring the kids and then had to change my plans .. yet again
It's been down hill ever since

[RedRover]

OH, NO!!!!!

California is now number one! Where are all those New York Freepers???

[Lady Jag]

[Enosh]

I can\\\'t see the posted chart because of my firewall at work

I can\\\'t get to FR at all for the same reason.

Try going to http://www.proxybrowsing.com/ and putting the website address in there instead of directly into your browser.

One drawback is that it appends quotes and apostrophes with slashes, as seen above.

[onyx]

LOL

[onyx]

I thought of you as soon as I saw the change.....

[onyx]

Very cute!

[onyx]

Testing, one two.

[Lady Jag]

FREEPATHON CURRENT TOP 3 STATES

[onyx]

I have removed your name.

[onyx]

Ping to Red Rover in the blue car!

[Mo1]

testing good!

Houston, we have success

[Enosh]

Calling President Bush King is not likely to endear you with anyone but Democrats.

pain in the ass than the mods here

They made me laugh on election night, not an easy thing to do considering the outcome.