Woo hoo!! Our 3rd QTR '09 FReepathon is Underway!! Thread IV

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[Jim Robinson]

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[Brad’s Gramma]

BWAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

[DoughtyOne]

Alright France, alright Spain, you’ve got FreeRepublic, on the brain.

Thanks!

[DoughtyOne]

My psychologist says words can be hurtful, Miss Grandma. Yes hurtful. Ummm hmmm hurtful... yes hurtful.

;-)

[don-o]

   Q3 2009 Scoreboard -- ranked by total receipts   

Rank	Location	Receipts	Donors/Avg		Freepers/Avg		Monthlies
1	California	$1,959.00	51	$38.41		$	$1,338.00	81
2	Texas	1,030.00	33	31.21			1,017.00	58
3	Florida	805.00	23	35.00			775.00	42
4	Colorado	795.00	5	159.00			200.00	12
5	Pennsylvania	584.20	15	38.95			287.00	18
6	Virginia	375.00	11	34.09			405.00	25
7	New Jersey	365.00	8	45.62			220.00	10
8	Washington	365.00	12	30.42			383.00	22
9	Ohio	310.00	3	103.33			584.00	15
10	Indiana	305.00	11	27.73			160.00	11
11	Maryland	255.00	10	25.50			295.00	15
12	New York	235.00	7	33.57			440.26	22
13	Michigan	220.00	8	27.50			100.00	7
14	Thailand	200.00	2	100.00
15	Georgia	200.00	7	28.57			305.00	14
16	Arizona	180.00	4	45.00			185.00	13
17	Wisconsin	180.00	6	30.00			120.00	8
18	North Carolina	173.00	10	17.30			163.00	14
19	New Hampshire	170.00	3	56.67
20	Massachusetts	170.00	5	34.00			235.00	14
21	Missouri	164.00	6	27.33			134.00	11
22	Alabama	150.00	7	21.43			200.00	13
23	Illinois	145.00	7	20.71			305.00	13
24	Nevada	125.00	5	25.00			50.00	3
25	Kentucky	120.00	8	15.00
26	Nebraska	120.00	3	40.00			45.00	2
27	Utah	114.00	7	16.29			180.00	11
28	West Virginia	110.00	2	55.00			35.00	2
29	Mississippi	100.00	1	100.00			125.00	6
30	Armed Forces - Pacific	100.00	1	100.00
31	Italy	100.00	1	100.00
32	Idaho	95.00	3	31.67			160.00	6
33	Louisiana	90.00	3	30.00			127.00	7
34	Oklahoma	85.00	4	21.25			125.00	6
35	Montana	80.00	2	40.00			40.00	2
36	Connecticut	80.00	3	26.67			40.00	2
37	Tennessee	70.00	4	17.50			140.00	9
38	New Mexico	66.00	4	16.50			50.00	2
39	Hawaii	55.00	3	18.33			65.00	5
40	Oregon	50.00	4	12.50			70.00	6
41	South Korea	50.00	1	50.00
42	Arkansas	50.00	1	50.00			85.00	7
43	Maine	50.00	1	50.00			50.00	1
44	Minnesota	50.00	3	16.67			65.00	7
45	South Carolina	35.00	2	17.50			65.00	6
46	Canada	30.00	2	15.00			30.00	3
47	Kansas	30.00	2	15.00			80.00	6
48	Armed Forces - Europe	25.00	1	25.00			10.00	1
49	Vermont	20.00	1	20.00			51.00	3
50	Wyoming	20.00	1	20.00			30.00	1
51	Germany	20.00	1	20.00
52	Iowa	10.00	1	10.00			50.00	3
53	North Dakota	10.00	1	10.00			10.00	1
54	France	3.00	1	3.00
55	Spain	3.00	1	3.00
	Delaware						5.00	1
	Norway						10.00	1
	District of Columbia						20.00	1
	Japan						30.00	1
	Rhode Island						10.00	1
	South Dakota						30.00	1
	Alaska						60.00	2
Never Never Land		204.00	22	9.27			15.00	2
56 locations total		$11,505.2	354	$32.50		$0.00	$9,809.26	556

[Brad’s Gramma]

Ask your psychologist if you & I can go out tonight and get plastered.

Please note that I am NOT the drinker I used to be, so by the end of 1/4 of the first glass of beer, I’d be asleep and snoring so perhaps this is a bad idea and let’s just scratch that over & out good buddy!

[DoughtyOne]

Sound like a plan made and thought better of. LOL

Over and out. I am thinking one Coor Lite might no be a bad idea right now though.

Here’s to you Brad’s Gramma.

[Brad’s Gramma]

As I lift my glass of Skim Milk to you, too!

Cheers!

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Another Monthly From Minnesota!!!

Aghast?

I’ll show you aghast!

[bd476]

DoughtyOne wrote: "Alright France, alright Spain, you’ve got FreeRepublic, on the brain."

That's good D1. For some reason though it reminds me of a childhood rhyme/taunt with England and France as the locales.

... never mind. :D

[bd476]

Freedom.

[Brad’s Gramma]

I’ll show you aghast!

lOL!!! Um. LOL!!! :)

[Jim Robinson]

Woo hoo!!

We have incoming:

$20 from Pennsylvania
$20 from Maryland
$20 from South Carolina

Thank you all very much!!

[bd476]

This Day In History

German general's diary reveals Hitler's plans for Russia

July 8, 1941

On this day in 1943, upon the German army's invasion of Pskov, 180 miles from Leningrad, Russia, the chief of the German army general staff, General Franz Halder, records in his diary Hitler's plans for Moscow and Leningrad: "To dispose fully of their population, which otherwise we shall have to feed during the winter."

On June 22, the Germans had launched a massive invasion of the Soviet Union, with over 3 million men. Enormous successes were enjoyed, thanks in large part to a disorganized and unsuspecting Russian army.

By July 8, more than 280,000 Soviet prisoners had been taken and almost 2,600 tanks destroyed. The Axis power was already a couple of hundred miles inside Soviet territory. Stalin was in a panic, even executing generals who had failed to stave off the invaders.

Franz Halder, as chief of staff, had been keeping a diary of the day-to-day decision-making process. As Hitler became emboldened by his successes in Russia, Halder recorded that the "Fuhrer is firmly determined to level Moscow and Leningrad to the ground."

Halder also records Hitler's underestimation of the Russian army's numbers and the bitter infighting between factions within the military about strategy. Halder, among others, wanted to make straight for the capital, Moscow; Hitler wanted to meet up with Field Marshal Wilhelm Leeb's army group, which was making its way toward Leningrad.

The advantage Hitler had against the Soviets would not last. Winter was approaching and so was the advantage such conditions would give the Russians.

German general's diary reveals Hitler's plans for Russia


Generaloberst Franz Halder testifying at Nuremberg Trials


Chief of the General Staff until 1942. Halder served in World War I and stayed in the army after the war. In the Russian campaign of 1941, his subordinate, General Guderian, the colorful panzer master, almost drove Halder into a nervous breakdown with his insubordination which was allowed because of Hitler's strong support for his favorite general, Guderian. Halder was generally opposed to the war and his continuous opposition to Hitler's strategy got him fired in 1942. He worked with the conspirators against Hitler for some time but was not an active participant in the assassination attempt. Nevertheless, he was arrested and placed in a concentration camp where he stayed for the rest of the war. He was a fortunate conspirator to have survived the war.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Woo hoo!!

We have incoming:

$20 from Pennsylvania
$20 from Maryland
$20 from South Carolina

Thank you all very much!!

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t remember it unless it’s something like...

Red Rover, Red Rover, send John Paul right over.

;-)

[Brad’s Gramma]

So! Did you get a nap? ;)

[Brad’s Gramma]

WAKE UP!!!!

;)

[Molly Pitcher]

Nice!

And here's breakfast to go with that wonderful image...

[DoughtyOne]

Si!

[DoughtyOne]

Uuuuuuuhhhhhh... Huh? What? Uuuuuuuuhhhh...

Rolls over and goes back to sleep...