Dear FReepers: We need your help to get this FReepathon moving again! [thread XIV]

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[Jim Robinson]

Dear FReepers:

We need your help to get this FReepathon moving again. Now starting the second month of the fundraiser and we're lagging behind the pace. Hopefully it'll pick up so we can complete it in the next few weeks.

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I_be_tc's $100 challenge:

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[re_nortex]

Wow! I hadn't seen that presented visually in such stark contrast. It's well known that Conservative areas, such as Texas and Oklahoma are free of the violence that are the norm in liberal cesspools like Massachusetts and more recently, with a high profile, Connecticut. But that map makes it clear -- crystal clear.

Leftist tool Piers Morgan of CNN ought to take that into account when he heads to Texas on Monday.

GUNS EQUAL FREEDOM!

[TheOldLady]

Ping to Post 505 for another clever Marylander.

Sorry! I pinged you to the wrong post!

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Don’t you love coming back and finding somebody elses butt in your seat? ;-)

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"I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.
And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.
If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts,
in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds as the people of England are, our people, like them,
must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts
and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes;
have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves
to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers Our land-holders, too, like theirs, retaining indeed the title
and stewardship of estates called theirs but held really in trust for the treasury, must wander, like theirs, in foreign countries,
and be contented with penury, obscurity, exile, and the glory of the nation. This example reads to us the salutary lesson,
that private fortunes are destroyed by public as well as by private extravagances.
– Thomas Jefferson, letter to Sam Kercheval about reform of the Virginia Constitution, July 12, 1816; Bergh 15:39-40

[Lady Jag]

[DJ MacWoW]

Annals of Congress, House of Representatives, 3rd Congress, 1st Session, page 170 (1794-01-10)
The Annals summarize speeches in the third person, with the actual text of Madison’s quote as follows: “Mr. Madison wished to relieve the sufferers, but was afraid of establishing a dangerous precedent, which might hereafter be perverted to the countenance of purposes very different from those of charity. He acknowledged, for his own part, that he could not undertake to lay his finger on that article in the Federal Constitution which granted a right of Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” The expense in question was for French refugees from the Haitian Revolution.

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