FReepathon: Our new Donation System is Ready to Roll! -- Thread Five

Donate to Free Republic via our Secure Server ^ | Jim Robinson

[Mo1]

Welcome to the New Free Republic Donation System!

John has programmed a great new donation system for us. It can accept credit cards or PayPal donations and will eventually also accept electronic checks. We have installed a new secure server system and have contracted with Authorize.net to do the actual credit card processing, and, of course, PayPal will process the PayPal donations through their system.

I've changed the links on our front page to link to the new program:

Donate Here By Secure Server

If you have bookmarks to the old system, please update to the new. The old system will be discontinued.

Take a test drive through the new system if you haven't already, and notice that it has several new features and reports available, including scoreboard, current stats, our budget and a faq. It's live now, so if you enter a donation it's for real (and thank you very much if you do).

John will continue making enhancements to the new system as we go, but the basic program is ready to go, and is live, and on the air.

We've decided to roll out our 4th quarter fundraiser with the new system on a late Saturday afternoon, as Saturday's are slow days and we might as well be gentle while breaking in the new system.

Thank you John for the new system! Great work!

Thank you BadJoe, WillaJohns, WIMom and all of the dedicated hardworking volunteers on the fundraising team who have helped us so much with these FReepathons in the past.

And thank you all for your continuing efforts! Without your dedication and hard work, FR could not stay on the air.

And thank you FReepers! Without your continued participation and financial support there would be no Free Republic!

A note to current monthly donors: We will need you to re-enter your recurring monthly donation to the new system, but please do not do it yet. Joe just processed your September donations on the 20th of September. The new system processes your donation on the day it is entered, so please wait until later in October to start your monthly on the new system. Also, please let BadJoe know via FReepmail (and please include your real name so he can match it with your credit card info in his file) after you re-enter your monthly donation so he can take you off his list. At the end of October, he will email all of those on his list who have not contacted him to remind them of the new system. Thank you very much for your continued support.

A note to prospective new monthly donors: We have included a list of our fixed monthly expenses as well as an estimate of our non-recurring expenses on our budget page of the donation system. We've also included an estimate of our current recurring monthly donations from our monthly donors. If and when the total of the recurring monthly donations ever meets our monthly expenses, there will no longer be a need for these FReepathons. It can happen someday. Thank you for considering a regular monthly contribution.

Note to all: We are looking forward to an exciting and rewarding election cycle. I know that we are not all in full agreement on this, but I sincerely believe that we have an excellent opportunity with this election to set the liberals back many years. And I also believe that winning this election in a big way for the conservatives will be the spark that allows our fight to return the Constitution to its rightful place as the Supreme Law of the Land to really get off the ground. I sincerely believe this is essential in our fight to secure our Liberty!

We hold the White House and the House of Representatives. If we re-take the majority in the Senate, it will be one of the very rare times in our history that the conservatives have held the majority control in all departments.

I see this as a gift from God. A majority means that the conservatives will chair the various committees of Congress and can set the legislative agenda. And, perhaps more importantly, a majority in the Senate will make it much more likely that President Bush's appointments will be confirmed.

This means we will be able to start replacing some of the liberal judicial activists on the bench with conservatives (don't tell Daschle & Co. that) and perhaps we will finally have a real shot at actually overturning some of the liberal bunk that has been foisted on us over the last century or so. How about overturning Roe vs Wade? With the current mood of the populace and with a conservative Senate, I think it can be done!

Remember, the liberals have controlled all or most of our government for at least 80 of the last 100 years. No wonder we are in such a mess today. This is the best opportunity we've ever had to reverse it in a big way. Kick the liberals out! Take control of the Senate and replace the liberal judiciary. This alone will set liberalism back thirty to forty years!

We must not fail to take advantage of this opportunity. Daschle and Company sense their days are numbered and are in a panic. Now is the time to redouble our efforts and throw these bums out!

I expect the volume on Free Republic to pick-up substantially as we head into the final weeks and days of the campaign season. And I expect exciting things will be happening for for all of us!

Thank you all very much!

God bless you all and may God continue to bless America!

[Grampa Dave]

Isn't that a great joke.

[lodwick]

There's some great stuff on algore's internet - glad you liked it.

Don't be a quitter - donate today.

[Grampa Dave]

Here is the actual response of alpha Rat Senators to the dead donkey body:

[ValerieUSA]

*LOL* That's a GREAT one Loddy!

[lodwick]

Consider that joke stolen - too funny. Thanks ;-)

[Grampa Dave]

After hearing about the sad death of one of their own, a donkey. Da$$hole rammed through an emergency Home Land Defense Rider for an extra Billion or so $'s to post the following signs around DC:

[Ditter]

Thank you. I love FR & if there was an hourly rate charged, I'd really be a big spender! I know we have butted heads & I am apologizing for my part in it. I was only trying to feed you the "truth according to Ditter" & you weren't buy it. LOL I will try to do it again in the future & I will always try to do it with humor.

[Grampa Dave]

Besure to steal the graphic arts that I have added re the alpha rats reacting to the death of a family member and the donkey beware sign.

[Gabz]

You're a good man Loddy.

OK - my turn to bug out - gotta get an OK on a press release from a bar owner - story of my life I always seem to be heading for the bar!!!!

Talk with you all a bit later!!!!!

[lodwick]

Back when - the tag line was the only way I could add something to my posts: then several great FReepers took the time to teach me how to do the links and the picture stealing stuff, so if there's someone else out there that used the tag lines to communicate, it would help them out for the tags to be re-instated.

[Gabz]

LOL I will try to do it again in the future & I will always try to do it with humor.

LOL!!!

And I apologize to you as well

But, I do think your idea of humor and my idea of humor will always clash - but isn't that the great thing about FR?!!!!!!

OK FRiends - I'm outta here!!!!! Will be back later.

[cake_crumb]

"Then, they will not show our President Address the Nation on the critical issue of Iraq."

Yep...the networks are still the left wing's propaganda machine...the machine suffered quite a blow when George Bush was lawfully elected president of the US, and have suffered many embarrassing setbacks since - 9/11, Harding, the pretzel, GW's IQ, heart rate etc...manufactured "scandals" which the left just can't successfully (thank God) generate against the president simply because he IS what he seems, and the left just doesn't get that.

HOWEVER, the machine is still running. It might be blowing a little smoke out of the tailpipe now, and has some definite squeaks and rattles, but it's STILL chugging along.

[lodwick]

I don't blame the networks for not carrying the speech: they know their audience and that the channels would be changed to BET, or Friends reruns, or anything else that would not make them think.

Every day the line is being drawn more clearly: patriots and conservatives watch FoxNews; idiots and dim/lib government pets watch the rest - don't worry about it. Everythings moving along just as it should.

[cake_crumb]

I love that "9-11-01, Black Tuesday" graphic. It is so fitting.

[Darlin']

Me, too, Gabz, and I hope the spike for FoxNews is significant. Honestly, I'm not really expecting the president to drop a bomshell tonight, so to speak :). If that were the case, he would be speaking from the Oval Office. Even though The White House has frequently talked about tonight's address, apparently, they haven't asked for time from the networks. However, I do expect President Bush will present a convincing and passionate case for our allies and our foes alike. He will be effective and it chaps the likes of Jennings, Rather and Brokow that no matter how they try to filter it, he wins everytime he bypasses them and speaks directly to the public. Every home in America ought to be able to watch that speech not just the ones with cable.

[lodwick]

Thanks - I'll do that. Nice work with the jackass crossing. ;-)

[Grampa Dave]

I bet that your evil conservative mind with those three images and what you have stored on your computer can come up with some incredible stuff for us using your blending method.

[Mo1]

He will be effective and it chaps the likes of Jennings, Rather and Brokow that no matter how they try to filter it, he wins everytime he bypasses them and speaks directly to the public. Every home in America ought to be able to watch that speech not just the ones with cable.

You know what Darlin' .. even if we had a Dem President at this time (thank God we don't) it is STILL an important speech regardless and I for one would still want to hear it ..

We are talking about the lives of Americans and the future of our Country

It is OBVIOUS that these networks care for about their OWN AGENDA then the do about OUR COUNTRY

And if you really think about it .. That is so sad

[lodwick]

;-) Thanks for the vote of confidence - but all I can do is links and stealing borrowing from talented folks.

I need to leave this fine company and go play businessperson for a while. Back later.

[cake_crumb]

WOW...that "Quitters..." graphic is GREAT!