Woo hoo!! Our First Quarter 2009 FReepathon is underway!! (Thread V)

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   Q1 2009 Scoreboard -- ranked by total receipts   

Rank	Location	Receipts	Donors/Avg		Freepers/Avg		Monthlies
1	California	$2,838.00	92	$30.85		$	$1,329.67	81
2	Texas	2,016.23	74	27.25			1,127.00	67
3	Florida	1,725.00	42	41.07			708.00	39
4	Ohio	884.00	22	40.18			540.00	14
5	New Jersey	750.00	17	44.12			220.00	10
6	New York	697.76	28	24.92			400.26	21
7	Maryland	690.00	13	53.08			225.00	12
8	Virginia	650.00	25	26.00			380.00	22
9	Washington	635.00	20	31.75			283.00	19
10	Georgia	600.00	23	26.09			315.00	15
11	Colorado	455.00	13	35.00			200.00	12
12	Pennsylvania	440.00	18	24.44			278.00	17
13	Illinois	386.00	16	24.12			225.00	10
14	Arizona	365.00	13	28.08			200.00	13
15	Alaska	345.00	8	43.12			60.00	2
16	Wisconsin	325.00	10	32.50			105.00	8
17	Massachusetts	303.20	17	17.84			245.00	15
18	Indiana	290.00	10	29.00			100.00	5
19	New Mexico	255.00	8	31.88			35.00	2
20	New Hampshire	250.00	3	83.33
21	Oklahoma	240.00	8	30.00			95.00	5
22	Alabama	230.00	13	17.69			199.00	13
23	Nevada	215.00	9	23.89			75.00	4
24	Michigan	205.00	9	22.78			80.00	7
25	Oregon	205.00	8	25.62			60.00	5
26	Louisiana	195.00	6	32.50			90.00	6
27	Missouri	194.00	12	16.17			149.00	13
28	Montana	190.00	4	47.50			45.00	3
29	South Carolina	185.00	8	23.12			55.00	5
30	Connecticut	184.00	7	26.29			40.00	2
31	Tennessee	180.00	7	25.71			75.00	7
32	North Carolina	168.00	14	12.00			113.00	11
33	Utah	160.00	8	20.00			110.00	7
34	Sweden	150.00	1	150.00
35	Kansas	150.00	5	30.00			90.00	7
36	Idaho	140.00	5	28.00			160.00	6
37	Arkansas	135.00	5	27.00			60.00	5
38	Maine	120.00	4	30.00			70.00	3
39	Australia	120.00	2	60.00
40	Minnesota	115.00	5	23.00			50.00	6
41	Germany	100.00	2	50.00
42	Thailand	100.00	1	100.00
43	Mississippi	90.00	6	15.00			105.00	6
44	Armed Forces - Europe	80.00	3	26.67			25.00	2
45	Canada	75.00	3	25.00			10.00	1
46	Kentucky	70.00	2	35.00			5.00	1
47	South Korea	60.00	2	30.00
48	North Dakota	60.00	2	30.00			10.00	1
49	Hawaii	55.00	4	13.75			55.00	4
50	Iowa	50.00	3	16.67			30.00	2
51	Rhode Island	50.00	1	50.00
52	Vermont	45.00	2	22.50			31.00	2
53	West Virginia	35.00	2	17.50			35.00	2
54	Cuba	30.00	1	30.00
55	Nebraska	20.00	1	20.00			42.50	2
56	South Dakota	20.00	1	20.00			30.00	1
57	Delaware	5.00	1	5.00			5.00	1
	Norway						10.00	1
	Wyoming						30.00	1
	Japan						30.00	1
	Armed Forces - Pacific						10.00	1
Never Never Land		570.49	31	18.40			10.00	1
58 locations total		$19,896.68	680	$29.26		$0.00	$9,065.43	529

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This Day in History

January 16, 1861

Crittenden Compromise is killed in Senate

The Crittenden Compromise, the last chance to keep North and South together, dies in the U.S. Senate.

Proposed by Senator John J. Crittenden of Kentucky, the compromise was a series of constitutional amendments. The amendments would continue the old Missouri Compromise provisions of 1820, which divided the west along the latitude of 36Ý 30". North of this line, slavery was prohibited.

The Missouri Compromise was negated by the Compromise of 1850, which allowed a vote by territorial residents (popular sovereignty) to decide the issue of slavery. Other amendments protected slavery in the District of Columbia, forbade federal interference with the interstate slave trade, and compensated owners whose slaves escaped to the free states.

Essentially, the Crittenden Compromise sought to alleviate all concerns of the southern states. Four states had already left the Union when it was proposed, but Crittenden hoped the compromise would lure them back. Crittenden thought he could muster support from both South and North and avert either a split of the nation or a civil war.

The major problem with the plan was that it called for a complete compromise by the Republicans with virtually no concession on the part of the South. The Republican Party formed in 1854 solely for the purpose of opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories, particularly the areas north of the Missouri Compromise line.

Just six years later, the party elected a president, Abraham Lincoln, over the complete opposition of the slave states. Crittenden was asking the Republicans to abandon their most key issues.

The vote was 25 against the compromise and 23 in favor of it. All 25 votes against it were cast by Republicans, and six senators from states that were in the process of seceding abstained. One Republican editorial insisted that the party "cannot be made to surrender the fruits of its recent victory."

There would be no compromise; with the secession of states continuing, the country marched inexorably towards civil war.

This Day in History

The Crittenden Compromise

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Thank you, Maryland!
America in Miniature!
The Old Line State!

Baltimore, Maryland

[Fiddlstix]

Here's an interesting Thread.
Y'all might want to check it out.

COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum. (Trolling 101)

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Thank you, Michigan!


Photographer Dusty Burns
Rabbit River, Wayland, Michigan

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[Fiddlstix]

Here's another Thread of some interest.......

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second

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Thank you, New York!

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[bd476]

Thanks Fiddlstix. If you don't mind, I would like to quote you because that bears repeating!

Fiddlstix wrote:

" Here's another Thread of some interest.......

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second "

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Background on the 22nd Amendment

Since the presidency of George Washington, only one thing could be said to be totally consistent - that no President had the job for more than two full terms. Washington had been asked to run for a third term in 1796, but he made it quite clear that he had no intention of doing so; that an orderly transition of power was needed to set the Constitution in stone. And so it was for almost 150 years.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was first elected President in 1932, and re-elected in 1936. When it came time for the Democrats to nominate a candidate for the Presidency in 1940, two things had happened. First, the Republicans had made great gains in Congress in the 1938 elections. And Hitler happened. Europe was in the throes of a great war, with trouble in the Pacific, too.

A change away from Roosevelt, who had led the nation through the Great Depression, did not seem wise. He was nominated for an unprecedented third term, and won. It was not a landslide victory, however, and it is debatable that FDR would have had a third term had it not been for the war. When 1944 rolled around, changing leaders in the middle of World War II, which the United States was now fully engaged in, also seemed unwise, and FDR ran for and was elected to, a fourth term.

His life was nearly over, however, and his Vice President, Harry Truman, became President upon FDR's death less than 100 days after his inauguration. Though FDR's leadership was seen by many as a key reason that the U.S. came out of WWII victorious, the Congress was determined, once the war ended, to ensure that Washington's self-imposed two-term limit become the law of the land. Specifically excepting Truman from its provisions, the 22nd Amendment passed Congress on March 21, 1947.

After Truman won a second term in 1948, it was ratified on February 27, 1951 (1,439 days). Truman could have run for a third term, but bowed out early before campaigning began.

The 22nd Amendment

1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.

But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President, when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

US Constitution.net 22nd Amendment

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Two years ago the New York Times ran this:

New York Times Op-Ed

No More Second-Term Blues

By JAMES MacGREGOR BURNS and SUSAN DUNN

Published: January 5, 2006

AS George W. Bush's leadership flounders a little more than a year after his re-election, we are seeing a return of an old affliction in American politics, "second termitis." The protracted woes of Richard Nixon's Watergate, Ronald Reagan's Iran-contra affair, and Bill Clinton's impeachment were all, in part, manifestations of that malady.

Is there some human failing that affects second-term presidents, like arrogance or sheer fatigue? To some degree, perhaps. But the main problem is not personal but institutional - or rather constitutional, as embodied by the 22nd Amendment limiting presidential tenure.

A second-term president will, in effect, automatically be fired within four years. Inevitably his influence over Congress, and even his authority over the sprawling executive branch, weaken. His party leadership frays as presidential hopefuls carve out their own constituencies for the next election. Whether the president is trying to tamp down scandal or push legislation, he loses his ability to set the agenda.

But whether or not a president has a diminished second term, the amendment barring a third term presents the broader and more serious question of his accountability to the people..."

Excerpted. No More Second-Term Blues

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