A FReeper CALL TO ACTION! EVERY DONATION COUNTS! PLEASE MAKE YOURS TODAY! (FReepathon Thread XIX)

Free Republic | February 3, 2014 | onyx

[RedMDer]

FR is funded solely by the freedom loving folks who love and use it.
Please Consider Donating Monthly, if you possibly can!
We need your help to keep the lights on.

Every donation counts no matter how big or small.
If you can donate $5, $10, $20, $100 or more,
it would be greatly appreciated.

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you very much, LibLieSlayer!!

Woo hoo!!

And this just in:

$50.00 from Mississippi
$20.00 from Alabama
$20.00 from Washington
$20.00 from California
$10.00 from California
$18.39 from Texas
$10.00 monthly from Texas
$10.00 from Florida
$10.00 from California

Thank you all very much!!

FReepers are absolutely the greatest!!

[RedMDer]

W H !

Jim just posted more of your generous donations!

Thank you very much, LibLieSlayer!!

Woo hoo!!

And this just in:

$50.00 from Mississippi
$20.00 from Alabama
$20.00 from Washington
$20.00 from California
$10.00 from California
$18.39 from Texas
$10.00 monthly from Texas
$10.00 from Florida
$10.00 from California

Thank you all very much!!

FReepers are absolutely the greatest!!

[Lady Jag]

I fell in love with swans over in the UK where there are large numbers of them everywhere. Her Majesty's swans are protected.

Support your Free Republic

[DJ MacWoW]

Jim Posted!!!

Thank you very much, LibLieSlayer!!

Woo hoo!!

And this just in:

$50.00 from Mississippi
$20.00 from Alabama
$20.00 from Washington
$20.00 from California
$10.00 from California
$18.39 from Texas
$10.00 monthly from Texas
$10.00 from Florida
$10.00 from California

Thank you all very much!!

FReepers are absolutely the greatest!!

Donors

[DJ MacWoW]

I need to get ready for my party.

See you all later! :-)

[onyx]

OKay!

[MeshugeMikey]

Ive never seen on in real life that I can remember! Photos yes real swans nope.

[TheOldLady]

Thank you very much, Texas FReeper!!

The New Monthly Donor Count!!

One Round of ten New Monthly Donors is Complete!
Thank you very much, Tijeras_Slim

The Count for Round 2 is 8!!

These FReepers have paid or will pay $10 for each New Monthly Sign-up!!
upchuck will sponsor Round 2!!
somebody will sponsor Round 3!!
OwenKellogg will sponsor Round 4!!

WOO HOO!! WE HAVE 18 NEW MONTHLY DONORS SO FAR THIS FREEPATHON!!
Including 1 New Dollar-A-Day donor!! WOO HOO!!

Who is going to be New Monthly Donor #19? Will it be you?

Please click here to donate. Go monthly if you can.

[onyx]

Thank You Wonderful, Fabulous FReeper PATRIOT DONORS!!!!

YOUR LOYAL SUPPORT IS TRULY & GREATLY APPRECIATED!


THANK YOU SO MUCH, ALABAMA, 3 CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA, MISSISSIPPI, 2 TEXAS & WASHINGTON FReepers!!!!

Thank you all very much!

Your loyal support keeps FR alive and well and is truly and greatly appreciated!!

FReepers are the absolute greatest!!

~Jim

   2014 Q1 Scoreboard — ranked by total receipts   

Rank	Location	Receipts			Monthlies
		Total	#	Avg/Per	Total	#	Avg/Per
1	California	$4,612.32	125	$36.90	$987.00	65	$15.18
2	Texas	3,737.39	94	39.76	1,265.00	82	15.43
3	Florida	2,040.00	68	30.00	983.00	48	20.48
4	North Carolina	1,538.00	32	48.06	410.00	19	21.58
5	Pennsylvania	1,210.00	36	33.61	310.00	22	14.09
6	Washington	1,125.00	33	34.09	422.00	21	20.10
7	Virginia	1,121.00	34	32.97	412.00	25	16.48
8	New York	1,059.00	37	28.62	210.00	19	11.05
9	Georgia	1,027.00	28	36.68	300.00	22	13.64
10	New Jersey	977.00	28	34.89	205.00	11	18.64
11	Maryland	863.00	23	37.52	305.00	15	20.33
12	Ohio	844.00	28	30.14	296.00	20	14.80
13	Colorado	705.00	20	35.25	280.00	13	21.54
14	Michigan	655.00	20	32.75	360.00	16	22.50
15	Delaware	605.00	7	86.43	20.00	1	20.00
16	Minnesota	552.00	21	26.29	237.00	14	16.93
17	Connecticut	535.00	8	66.88	145.00	6	24.17
18	Louisiana	500.00	8	62.50	93.00	6	15.50
19	Tennessee	465.00	15	31.00	195.00	13	15.00
20	Missouri	448.00	18	24.89	220.00	13	16.92
21	Illinois	434.00	18	24.11	125.00	9	13.89
22	Arizona	424.00	23	18.43	165.00	16	10.31
23	Oklahoma	390.00	13	30.00	190.00	9	21.11
24	South Carolina	384.00	17	22.59	150.00	11	13.64
25	Massachusetts	366.00	20	18.30	266.00	16	16.62
26	Arkansas	365.00	6	60.83	70.00	5	14.00
27	Mississippi	360.00	9	40.00	195.00	7	27.86
28	Nevada	335.00	13	25.77	65.00	6	10.83
29	Kentucky	330.00	15	22.00	80.00	5	16.00
30	Wisconsin	321.00	12	26.75	178.00	7	25.43
31	Oregon	310.00	11	28.18	130.00	9	14.44
32	Kansas	308.00	14	22.00	170.00	13	13.08
33	New Mexico	231.00	15	15.40	81.00	6	13.50
34	Maine	227.00	7	32.43	57.00	4	14.25
35	Canada	215.00	7	30.71	25.00	2	12.50
36	Nebraska	210.00	9	23.33	40.00	4	10.00
37	Alabama	210.00	7	30.00	160.00	6	26.67
38	Alaska	195.00	7	27.86	55.00	3	18.33
39	Indiana	145.00	10	14.50	155.00	13	11.92
40	Utah	130.00	4	32.50	80.00	2	40.00
41	United Kingdom	130.00	2	65.00	30.00	1	30.00
42	South Dakota	125.00	4	31.25	25.00	3	8.33
43	Norway	120.00	2	60.00	20.00	1	20.00
44	Idaho	105.00	5	21.00	100.00	6	16.67
45	Montana	105.00	3	35.00	50.00	1	50.00
46	New Hampshire	100.00	6	16.67	100.00	7	14.29
47	Hawaii	98.00	7	14.00	90.00	6	15.00
48	Germany	50.00	2	25.00
49	Japan	50.00	1	50.00
50	Iowa	40.00	2	20.00	50.00	3	16.67
51	District of Columbia	40.00	2	20.00	40.00	2	20.00
52	Vermont	35.00	2	17.50	15.00	1	15.00
53	El Salvador	30.00	1	30.00
54	Puerto Rico	25.00	1	25.00
55	Philippines	20.00	1	20.00
56	Australia	20.00	1	20.00
57	Wyoming	10.00	1	10.00	10.00	1	10.00
58	Albania	10.00	1	10.00	10.00	1	10.00
59	Armed Forces - Pacific	5.00	1	5.00	5.00	1	5.00
Never Never Land		851.00	37	23.00	493.00	45	10.96
60 locations total		$32,477.71	1,002	$32.41	$11,130.00	683	$16.30

[TheOldLady]

Many thanks to Arrowhead1952 for sending this email to me.

Here’s the difference between a “thoughtful President & a “thoughtless” President by Joseph Curl

Every year, in the week between Christmas and New Year‘s, I think about George W. Bush. It was in that week each year for the eight that I covered him as a reporter that he gave me a spectacular gift — and he knew it. I started covering the newly elected president in 2000, when I was in my late 30s. Back then, as a reporter for The Washington Times, we went everywhere the president went. If he went to Charlotte , N.C. , to give a 30-minute speech on an airport tarmac, we went. Up at 4 a.m., an hour long commute to Andrews Air Force Base, in place on the ground hours before POTUS landed, and there for hours and hours after he left — sometimes right through the evening news so network reporters could file live from the site.

We also went with the president to Texas every summer — often for a month — and every winter, too, over the holidays. But here’s the thing: In December, we never left Washington, D.C., until the day after Christmas. Never. Mr. Bush and his wife Laura would always depart the White House a few days before the holiday and hunker down at the presidential retreat in Maryland, Camp David. After a few years, I asked a low-level White House staffer why? I still remember what she said: “So all of us can be with our families on Christmas.” Who was “us”? Hundreds and hundreds of people, that’s who. Sure, the reporters who covered the president, but also dozens and dozens on his staff, a hundred Secret Service agents, maybe more, and all of those cops required whenever the president’s on the move in D.C. For me, that one-day delay was huge. My kids were 6 and 8 when Bush took office. When he went home to Prairie Chapel that last time in 2009, my girl was driving, the boy was 6 foot 1. But in the meantime, I was home for eight Christmas mornings, playing Santa, stoking the fire, mixing up hot chocolates.

That was President Bush. And every year for the last five, I’ve thought about what that meant to me. (By the way, some years, I got holiday duty, which meant I was off to Waco, Texas, the day after Christmas. But once again, the Bush White House had us covered: A press plane flew out with the president, and back then, reporters could pay $100 per family member for the plane ride. So sometimes, the family went along. For the kids, it was an adventure; for me, well, we were all together).

All that has changed with President Obama. No more press plane, for one. Reporters are on their own — so taking family is, say, $1,000 a pop. Not likely. And this president would never delay his trip to his island getaway. He’s off every year well before Christmas. Hundreds and hundreds head off with him, leaving family behind. No Christmas at home. Instead, the Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort. Nice, but not exactly home.

Anyway, that’s why I think of George W. Bush every year in the week between Christmas and New Year‘s. Probably will till I die. Thanks, GWB.

• Joseph Curl covered the White House and politics for a decade for The Washington Times and is now editor of the Drudge Report. He can be reached atjosephcurl@gmail.com and on Twitter @josephcurl.

What a decent man. I believe history will be very generous to George W. Bush.

[onyx]

VERY NICE.

[onyx]

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[MeshugeMikey]

FLUKE•SMIDGEN....2016

[onyx]

LOL.

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[TheOldLady]

I used to walk from Hemingford Gray to St. Ives to “stretch my legs,” but really it was to see the swans in the canal there.

I never met the man with seven wives when I was walking to St. Ives, though. ;-)

[bert]

I met an old lady
She swallowed a fly

But, I don’t know why
she swallowed that fly

[TheOldLady]

About a hundred years ago, I used to know all those old poems and fairy tales.

I have forgotten most of them now, but a few rise to the surface on occasion.

[onyx]

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