YIKES!! We're now in the last month of the quarter and approximately $8k behind schedule. We're gonna need a lot more of your help here, folks. Let's get 'er done. [FReepathon]

[Chris Robinson]

Dear FRiends, We need your continuing support to keep FR funded. Your donations are our sole source of funding. No sugar daddies, no advertisers, no paid memberships, no commercial sales, no gimmicks, no tax subsidies. This means no spam, no pop-ups, no ad trackers.

And because we are not a 501C, we have preserved our God-given, constitutionally protected right to free speech without government intervention.

All of the above means Free Republic remains an independent, grassroots, user-funded, conservative forum.

If you enjoy using FR and agree it's a worthy God-Family-Country endeavor, please consider making a contribution today:

Click here: to donate by Credit Card

Or here: to donate by PayPal

Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, page CA 93794

Thank you very much and God bless you.

[Chris Robinson]

Woo hoo!!

And this in since Saturday morning:

$500.00 from Pennsylvania
$125.00 from North Carolina
$100.00 from Pennsylvania
$50.00 from New Hampshire
$200.00 from South Carolina
$20.00 from Massachusetts
$50.00 from Wisconsin
$20.00 from Tennessee
$40.00 from New Jersey

Thank you all very much!!

Plus, we ran a batch of monthlies yesterday, bringing in approx $2,200!!

Thank you very much monthly donors!!

Woo hoo!!

FReepers are the absolute greatest!!

God bless.

[gloryblaze]

Wow! This Q is going by like a flash!!

[McGruff]

With all the hustle and bustle forgot about things. Sent a donation in today.

[Chris Robinson]

Thank you very much, McGruff!!

Woo hoo!!

And this just in:

$100.00 from Texas
$50.00 from Nevada
$100.00 from California
$20.00 from Wisconsin
$100.00 from Georgia
$50.00 from Connecticut
$100.00 from Massachusetts
$50.00 from Texas
$40.00 from Wisconsin
$50.00 from Ohio
$100.00 from California
$20.00 from Florida
$100.00 from California

Thank you all very much!!

FReepers are the absolute greatest!!

God bless.

[ConservativeMind]

Chris, I thank you for your help.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

'Uncle Sugar' paid me on Wednesday. Checking the checking account balance tomorrow and I should be able to send in another check this week, on top of my Monthly.

Come on, FReepers! Step it up! So what if Little Ralphie doesn't get his Red Rider BB Gun THIS Christmas? He'll shoot his eye out, anyway! And you CANNOT afford that as a family under 0bamacare...the Gift that Keeps on GIVING! *SMIRK*

[Chris Robinson]

Thank you very much, Diana in Wisconsin!!

Woo hoo!!

And this just in:

$20.00 from Illinois
$10.00 from Arkansas
$20.00 from California
$20.00 from Oklahoma
$60.00 from Texas
$20.00 from Pennsylvania
$20.00 from California
$100.00 from Florida
$20.00 from Indiana
$25.00 from New York
$30.00 from Washington
$25.00 from North Carolina
$20.00 from Texas

Thank you all very much!!

Plus, we just processed another batch of PO Box donations, bringing in an additional $731!!

$20.00 from United Kingdom
$40.00 from New Mexico
$75.00 from Louisiana
$200.00 from California
$25.00 from Florida
$100.00 from Arizona
$35.00 from California
$10.00 from Maryland
$31.00 from Florida
$100.00 from California
$15.00 from Pennsylvania
$15.00 from Washington
$40.00 from Ohio
$30.00 from Virginia
$5.00 from Virginia
$10.00 from Florida

Thank you very much mail-in donors!!

Woo hoo!! And now only $564 to reach 60%!!

FReepers are the absolute greatest!!

God bless.

[NowApproachingMidnight]

I’ve enjoyed this site for years and I’ve always wondered why it takes so much money to run. I run a Software company actually I run a few software companies. We use a large well-known in fact, the largest cloud provider on the Internet and we run sites with many many users and with much more sophisticated needs it cost about $1000 a month to run one of those sites do you guys need help with technology or do you need help with hosting services knowledge or what can we do to get the cost down because quite frankly this seems ludicrously high. I’m not trying to be mean here. I’m not trying to nitpick, but I’m just scratching my head going what’s up here partly for selfish reasons because I’d like to know what kind of tech Stack you’re on and obviously I’m dictating this to my phone.

[Tunehead54]

Dear Mr. Chris,

OK. Maybe a weird one. I’ve talked and chatted with Mr. JimRob on several subjects.

Long ago I suggested just a basic membership fee. A hundred posts sharing your (FReeper) feelings? Then sign up. Share your valuable opinion with us. $20 a year.

He always said no. He wanted FR open to everybody.

Sniff.

My wife does ALL the bills. Sometimes I find out I’m not donating to FR anymore, maybe was a tight month and the little lady cut you off.

Women. ;-)

I give her 5 grand a month - two different accounts and she spends it in a day. Paying bills.

The monthly money though comes from me. The cards I have, I don’t want on the net. One of my wife’s cards is our “internet card”.

Take it all? I’m out $2000. And I’ll get it straightened out.

What I’ve got is Paypal. 3 different accounts but they’re protected. Nobody is going to have my larger accounts online.

Except AMZN. ;-)

See? Sign up with Paypal. I know the head is a lib whackjob but security? Seems flawless.

Then I put up $50 a month that my gal can’t touch.

Any help would be appreciated.

Condolences,

Charlie

[buckleyfan]

You could have just led with “sign up with PayPal”

[Tunehead54]

A lovely Aunt passed that day, nobody was around and I was thinking about JimRob and apparently feeling chatty but wanting to set up $50 a month account for FR that my wife couldn’t touch.

Sorry to bother you.

Charlie ;-)

[buckleyfan]

No bother. I love a good story; I’m just too impatient for a mystery. ;)

Anyway, your message was for CR, I was just butting in.