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FreeRepublic Network ^ | 2/22/2002 | BadJoe

[maxwell]

Hehehe... I'm sorry... I'm in one a my moods... I got a danged dentist appointment tomorrow at 8, and the optician's at 1, and I'm fixin' to go get drunk on cuervo right this minute, and youknowhowitgoes...

[Slip18]

Oh, come on now. On the Recall John McCain Campaign, I was making the recall buttons for goodness sake. And, I must admit, I was getting everyone lost in the desert.

[maxwell]

Well I think most of us were disappointed b/c he didn't go out in a blaze of furied glory or something... No, if he's for real, we'll miss the ol' coot... If.

[diotima]

Yes you have the smarts! Get on board!

[MrB]

bimp

OK, that cracked me up... more than the "crack" picture following yours...

[uglybiker]

I'd say it's past time for an ARIZONA CHAPTER meeting.

[uglybiker]

Donation made.

Plastic is a wonderful thing!

[BADJOE]

Thank You.

[Slip18]

You betcha, UB. We haven't met up with each other in a long time. I loved that one place in Scottsdale (Greasewood Flats)where the wind whipped up out of nowhere. We were all sitting there, and, dang, we almost got blown away. That was one of my first AZ meetings.

[Slip18]

"Plastic is a wonderful thing!

Isn't it, though? You can use it for such marvelous things. LOL!

[VA Advogado]

That donation link looks like someone's homepage with a credit card script. Is that a secure professional donation site?

[VA Advogado]

Bump for expanding Free Republic and squishing John McCain. Two very nice goals for the coming year!

[diotima]

Thanks! Now lets get to work!

[Bob J]

It's secure. We use an outside service.

[diotima]

Yes it is. We use Authorize.net for all credit card transactions and it is totally secure.

On another note let me clear up a few things that were said earlier but deserve repeating

1. The FRN is hosted on OUR dime. It is not hosted on FR's servers. (freerepublic.net redirects to our site and we are in the process of buying the name)We do not use the forum software. We also pay for RadioFR and all bandwidth.

2. The FRN money raised from the cruise paid for CPAC, the forum DID NOT pay for CPAC. CPAC expenses included brochures, business cards, shipping the booth, updating the booth, canvas bags with a variety of items that were given out to the VIP's of all CPAC sponsors at the party the FRN paid for and hosted, and the board paid their own room, board, convention fees, airfare and meals. The publicity that the forum got at CPAC was intentional on our part, we were happy to promote it. The forum was an active promoter of CPAC and the ACU.

3. The money raised from the cruise was disclosed to the Board, and we voted on the ways in which to allocate the money.

(The above is not directed to you VA, its just general information.)

[Slip18]

Why thanks, VA!

[VA Advogado]

(The above is not directed to you VA, its just general information.)

Thanks. I wouldn't have said a thing but I didn't see a HTTPS in the browser window. Good luck with this project!

[VA Advogado]

Do you have pictures of your handy work? I know you must be part of the dittomom mafia! She's the best.

[Slip18]

Dittomom is the best. My first ever "demonstration" was in the middle of the desert here with the McCain/Daschle Summit Demonstration. We're on a dirt road to McCain's Compound. We were a sight!

[lds23]

Count me in.