Third Quarter 04 FReepathon Now Underway!!

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[Jim Robinson]

Howdy everyone,

Are you ready for a FReepathon?

The state of our FR is strong!

Our big legal bill is now paid off and our budgetary requirements are now reduced. For the first time in our history, our monthly donations are now bringing in more than 50% of our quarterly budget! Thanks to our generous membership and the settlement with the City of Fresno, we now have a comfortable cash buffer and should have no problems meeting our coming tax payments and other obligations.

I've recalculated our estimated budget requirements for the remainder of the year and have posted them here:

https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/budget

We just completed the first loop of our nationwide tour and we had a great time! We traveled through eleven states in three weeks and FReeped with, met with and dined with FReepers in ten cities and from at least a dozen chapters. It's great to see all our old friends again and to meet new ones. Joining a gathering of FReepers is just like going a family reunion. Very warm and friendly and just like home. Thank you all so much for your gracious hospitality and friendship!

We hope to visit all fifty states and most of our chapters within the next year or so. We hope to visit our LA Chapter on the 1st of August to tour the Reagan Library. We hope to visit our San Diego Chapter sometime this month to welcome home the USS Ronald Reagan. We're also planning a Pacific Northwest Tour in August. In January, we're planning a trip across the South and down into Florida and then up the Eastern Coast to Washington, DC for the Free Republic George W Bush Inaugural Ball II!! Woo hoo!!

Well, with the war in Iraq all but concluded, the trial of the Butcher of Iraq about to start, and the election season heating up, I'm sure that FR is going to be THE place to be to get the very latest in news and conservative discussion in the coming months.

Thank you FReepers for making FR the premier conservative forum on the Internet!

Looking forward to the coming campaign season! Good luck to all and may the very best people be chosen to lead our great nation!

Thank God for our successes thus far in the war for freedom and may He guide us through to complete victory over tyranny and terrorism.

Thank you and may God bless you all.

Jim

[Brad’s Gramma]

[Brad’s Gramma]

[Gabz]

Dang - you got 1,200!!!!!!!!

[Gabz]

Gotta love a man that doesn't rely on makeup (or making things up) to make himself look good!!!!!!!!

[Gabz]

ENOUGH - my husband is still awake!!!!!!!!!!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Bonasera, portrayed by Frank Puglia, asks Don Vito Corleone, portrayed by Marlon Brando (news), right, for a favor in a scene from the 1972 movie 'The Godfather'. Brando, who revolutionized American acting with his Method performances in 'Streetcar Named Desire' and 'On the Waterfront' and went on to create the iconic characterization of Corleone in 'The Godfather,' has died, his lawyer said Friday, July 2, 2004. He was 80.(AP Photo/Nick Ut/File) (AP Photo/ Paramount Pictures )

[Brad’s Gramma]

Actor Marlon Brando portrays Johnny Strabler in the 1953 film 'The Wild One.' Brando died at age 80 in Los Angeles July 1, 2004. (Reuters - Handout)

[Gabz]

ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Brad’s Gramma]

You're gonna be soooorrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyy

[Brad’s Gramma]

Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry (news - web sites) sought to shake off the Northeastern liberal label on July 2, 2004 and connect with voters in rural America who could tip the balance in battleground states when he faces President Bush (news - web sites) in November. Kerry (D-Mass.) gestures during a speech at the annual Rainbow/PUSH convention in Chicago June 29, 2004. (Frank Polich/Reuters)

[Brad’s Gramma]

U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) looks on as former U.S. Senator John Danforth is sworn in as the U.S. representative to the United Nations (news - web sites), in the Old Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House in Washington, July 1, 2004. Bush, seeking to mobilize religious conservatives for his reelection campaign, has asked church-going volunteers to turn over church membership directories, campaign officials said on Thursday. (Mannie Garcia/Reuters)

[Gabz]

OK OK ----PLEASE go back to REAL men............

[Brad’s Gramma]

A U.S. Army soldier secures the scene of a boobytrapped bus, which exploded early morning in central Baghdad July 2, 2004. A boobytrapped bus exploded outside a mosque in central Baghdad on Friday morning but police at the scene said there were no casualties. Rockets also hit two central Baghdad hotels used by foreigners on Friday morning. (Nikola Solic/Reuters)

PRAY for this man, and every serviceman and woman...hourly!!!

[Brad’s Gramma]

The next one's TOO good.....sorry. Shield your eyes if you just can't stand it...

WARNING!

WARNING!

[Gabz]

That's a REAL man hubby has no problem with me looking at!!!!!

He happens to be my daughter's second favorite man - first favorite is DADDY!!!!!!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) has raised $180 million in his bid for the White House, including $34 million in the last month alone, his campaign announced July 1, 2004. Kerry (R) chats with Rainbow/PUSH leader the Reverend Jesse Jackson before Kerry's speech at the annual Rainbow/PUSH convention in Chicago June 29, 2004. (Frank Polich/Reuters)

[Gabz]

Forget hourly prayer, my FRiend - it is just a constant.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Program Director Robert Mitchell (2nd L) joins hands with fellow scientists after the Cassini spacecraft successfully inserted into the orbit of the planet Saturn, following the monitoring of the mission at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California on June 30, 2004. Hours after it completed a journey of nearly seven years to Saturn, the spacecraft Cassini sent its first pictures back to Earth on July 1, 2004, showing sharp edges and ripples of energy in the planet's enormous rings. The early photos, taken from the unilluminated side of the rings, were full of electronic 'noise' and only in black and white, but were still clear enough to show fine ring structures and edges sharper than might be expected, given all the particles in the rings colliding with each other. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)

[Gabz]

oh puke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Brad’s Gramma]

A U.S. Marine was killed in action in western Iraq (news - web sites), scene of clashes between American troops and insurgents on the outskirts of Falluja. The U.S. military issued a statement saying a Marine had been killed while conducting security operations in the western Anbar province, but gave no further details. In this photo, U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Marine Division keep a lookout for insurgents in Falluja on July 1, 2004. (Bob Strong/Reuters) Add News Photos to My Yahoo!