Come All Ye FReepers, Patriots, FRiends & New Members [FReepathon Thread XLV]

Our 4th Quarter FReepathon is now into its 56th day, which I think, is both a heartbreaking shame and also outrageous. Free Republic is the premier online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the whole on the Internet!

You all love Free Republic or you wouldn't be here. You all know that we hold FReepathons every quarter to finance Free Republic. What you might not know, or realize, is that our quarterly FReepathons raise the funds to finance that quarter's expenses - the current expenses, so it's hardly right to burden Jim, is it?

Ideally, FR needs every member and regular user to contribute to keep Free Republic up and running strong., but sadly, that's not the case. If it were, our FReepathon's would conclude in a matter of a few short weeks.

Time and time again, our loyal membership contributes several times, aside from their Monthly Donations, and other loyal members send checks and donate more than once.

Ask yourselves, can you forgo a pizza or a hamburger, fries and shake once a month to Donate Monthly or contribute $20 to FR now to help us get this done? $5.00 a Month makes you a hero here! Think what $10 and more makes you!

We have a New Monthly Donor Campaign wherein generous FReeper Sponsors have donated $10.00 for every New Monthly Donor or New Dollar-A-DAY Donor! Please consider signing up to donate monthly, if you possibly can. We're currently looking for New Monthly Donor #50!

We also have I_be_tc's "300 FReepers with $100 for FR Challenge" and it's still going strong!!

"FReepers are absolutely the greatest," just like Jim says, and you always come through, but it shouldn't always be the same loyal FReepers supporting Free Republic!

It's really time for new members and regular users to understand that Free Republic is here for all of us, and that all of us should want to pitch-in to keep the Premiere grassroots site on the whole of the Internet for God, Family, Country, Life & Liberty, TEA Party, Conservatives, independent and running strong!

Thanks very much everyone. May God bless and keep you all and everyone you love.

Remember, Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God, and We are the resistance!!

Now, will you all who haven't yet donated, please pitch-in to GET THIS ONE DONE?

$5, $10, $12.20, $50, $100. Every donation is important.
Please Donate today!
Ideally, FR needs every member and regular user to contribute to keep Free Republic up and running strong, but sadly, that's not the case. If it were, our FReepathon's would conclude in a matter of a few short weeks.
Time and time again, our loyal membership contributes several times, aside from their Monthly Donations, and other loyal members send checks and donate more than once.
Someone will do it for me? What if that doesn't happen? Should we lay down and give up or continue to fight for our Constitutional freedoms? This in my opinion is the choice.
Don't wait for someone else to do this very important yet inexpensive thing for you. Please do your part and donate today.
The Republic you save may be your own.

Click the link above to donate via Credit Card or PayPal on our secure server or mail checks to:

Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9774 - Fresno, CA 93794

Thank you all very much for your continuing participation and support!!

Have the management looked into moving Free Republic into the cloud? For an example, here’s what 10K will get you on Windows Azure: 8 Extra Large Windows or Linux VMs (8 x 1.6Ghz CPU, 14GB Ram), 50 TB Storage (geo redundant - stored in 2 geographically separated data centers), 1 TB bandwidth. Another 1K will get you professional direct support.

These are monthly totals, and can be adjusted for FRs requirements.

I don’t know what FRs actual requirements would be, but that is an awful lot of computing power for a lot less than it appears to be costing now, not to mention that you would no longer have to worry about hardware wearing out and having to be replaced.

Thank you very much, whinecountry!!

Woo hoo!!

And we have incoming:

$40.00 from California
$20.00 from California
$50.00 from Never Never Land
$50.00 from California
$20.00 from California

Thank you all very much!!

FReepers are absolutely the greatest!!

Woo hoo!! Less than $4.9k to go!! We can do this.

This is Free Republic!
Thank You Very Much Donors and Sponsors!!
Thank you Very Much California and Never Never Land FReepers!!

WooHoo!!

2012 Q4 Scoreboard — ranked by total receipts

Rank	Location	Receipts			Monthlies
Rank	Location	Total	#	Avg/Per	Total	#	Avg/Per
1	California	$8,201.00	212	$38.68	$949.00	71	$13.37
2	Texas	5,763.50	185	31.15	1,048.00	66	15.88
3	Florida	3,750.00	98	38.27	875.00	49	17.86
4	Pennsylvania	3,300.12	61	54.10	205.00	15	13.67
5	North Carolina	1,855.00	47	39.47	400.00	22	18.18
6	Maryland	1,826.00	49	37.27	277.50	16	17.34
7	Virginia	1,705.00	63	27.06	383.00	25	15.32
8	Ohio	1,686.00	57	29.58	276.00	22	12.55
9	Colorado	1,665.00	48	34.69	270.00	15	18.00
10	New York	1,581.00	60	26.35	290.00	24	12.08
11	Missouri	1,580.00	45	35.11	235.00	15	15.67
12	Wisconsin	1,442.00	18	80.11	162.00	11	14.73
13	Washington	1,325.00	47	28.19	330.00	16	20.62
14	Georgia	1,284.00	31	41.42	290.00	19	15.26
15	Arizona	1,260.00	39	32.31	250.00	14	17.86
16	New Jersey	1,229.00	28	43.89	55.00	4	13.75
17	Tennessee	1,209.00	38	31.82	120.00	14	8.57
18	Michigan	1,113.34	35	31.81	236.67	13	18.21
19	Illinois	1,110.69	46	24.15	206.00	13	15.85
20	Arkansas	1,040.00	19	54.74	155.00	8	19.38
21	Massachusetts	891.00	35	25.46	231.00	12	19.25
22	South Carolina	880.00	27	32.59	120.00	9	13.33
23	Alabama	873.70	31	28.18	285.00	14	20.36
24	Nevada	805.00	18	44.72	110.00	8	13.75
25	Oklahoma	793.00	24	33.04	280.00	15	18.67
26	Australia	700.00	4	175.00	10.00	1	10.00
27	Indiana	665.00	28	23.75	135.00	11	12.27
28	Iowa	645.00	10	64.50	40.00	2	20.00
29	Alaska	640.00	9	71.11	120.00	4	30.00
30	Mississippi	587.00	18	32.61	169.00	8	21.12
31	Louisiana	578.00	15	38.53	148.00	9	16.44
32	Kentucky	565.00	15	37.67	60.00	3	20.00
33	Minnesota	555.00	27	20.56	205.00	14	14.64
34	Oregon	525.00	18	29.17	130.00	8	16.25
35	Kansas	470.00	26	18.08	140.00	12	11.67
36	Utah	410.00	11	37.27	70.00	3	23.33
37	New Hampshire	400.00	13	30.77	90.00	5	18.00
38	Maine	384.00	7	54.86	27.00	2	13.50
39	United Kingdom	383.69	7	54.81	30.00	1	30.00
40	Connecticut	365.00	14	26.07	80.00	5	16.00
41	New Mexico	342.00	18	19.00	50.00	4	12.50
42	Canada	320.00	11	29.09	35.00	3	11.67
43	Idaho	313.05	13	24.08	105.00	6	17.50
44	Montana	290.00	10	29.00	95.00	4	23.75
45	South Dakota	240.00	8	30.00	45.00	4	11.25
46	Nebraska	240.00	11	21.82	70.00	5	14.00
47	Hawaii	210.00	15	14.00	140.00	8	17.50
48	West Virginia	205.00	5	41.00	65.00	2	32.50
49	Sweden	200.00	1	200.00
50	Vermont	118.00	8	14.75	65.00	3	21.67
51	Israel	100.00	1	100.00
52	North Dakota	100.00	1	100.00
53	Norway	90.00	3	30.00	20.00	1	20.00
54	Delaware	82.00	5	16.40	16.00	2	8.00
55	Rhode Island	80.00	3	26.67	30.00	1	30.00
56	Thailand	50.00	2	25.00
57	Uruguay	50.00	1	50.00
58	Germany	40.00	2	20.00
59	Wyoming	40.00	2	20.00	10.00	1	10.00
60	El Salvador	30.00	1	30.00
61	Cuba	30.00	1	30.00
62	Puerto Rico	25.00	1	25.00
63	District of Columbia	20.00	2	10.00	10.00	1	10.00
64	Armed Forces - Pacific	10.00	2	5.00	5.00	1	5.00
Never Never Land		2,338.00	80	29.22	960.00	79	12.15
65 locations total		$61,604.09	1,790	$34.42	$11,214.17	723	$15.51

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