[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

check you freepmail and email, I just sent you something that is related to this thread. It won't solve the problem but I think it cold draw more donations.

[MJY1288]

This thread will break all records, all we need now is the "Kibg of Ping" JohnHuang2 :-)

[Barnacle]

"Free Republic is an online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web."

Those who want something else, should go somewhere else!

[mlo]

Jim, You have a popular site here, for good reason. It is simply the best discussion site on the internet. I know that people have made claims about your finances, and honestly, I have no opinion on that. But I do think those claims only have whatever weight they do because of the donation model you run FR on. If you turned it into a for profit business nobody would care how much you paid yourself or demand that you reveal your expenses. It could be ad based or subscription based or however you think. We are all capitalists here, there is no sin in doing business. Why not try that?

[anti-lucifer left]

Please keep the site. I'm new, but I really like comming here. I don't understand why anyone would object to this site or the articles and posts written in it. There's some miserable people in this world, and it would be nice if they'd go somewhere else.

[jerod]

Don't get discouraged Jim.

This site is the best forum on the internet, and as for the detractors. They can gripe all they want, because nobody in here is paying any attention to them.

[Texaggie79]

common IHC, I know your a decent guy. I too know what it is like to be "isolated out" from groups. The crap that is posted on the ani-FR threads are all nothing but made up BS by ex-FReepers with hurt feelings.

You need to realize that this site is one of a kind, and cannot be reproduced. Please to not contribute to it's demise, but help it be the best it can be.

True, outlandish conspiracies are not quite welcome here, but what this site IS about, true conservatism, is a voice that needs to be heard.

I am an avid believer that if not for this very site, we would not have our great president in office that we do. We must all support this oasis of light in the web full of darkness.

[DainBramage]

I'm amazed you can do it for as little as you are. If this were a corporate site, you would be making tons personally.

I'm in on this fundraiser...and since I might snag my wife's card...I'm upping mine too.

Thank you Jim ,and your family.

[sarasmom]

OK!OK! check #1014 $50.00 on its way.Very much worth it, even though I wont be able to get myself a Christmas present. I so had my eye on one of those foot massage thingies.

[Luis Gonzalez]

I recently spent some time in Eschoir's anti-FReeper site after finding out that I was a topic of conversation there.

All they do is discuss FR, it's like a soap opera fan club in there!

Look, I love FR, spend way too much time here, get in trouble way too often here, and if you shut the site down tomorrow, I would miss it...but I would have lots and lots of other things in my life that would fill up the void quickly. I don't think that's the case with the bozo's at that site. Their FR personna IS them now!

Maintain the site as long as you can, understandable if you can't.

Either way, good work and God bless you and yours.

[InvisibleChurch]

stay

[who knows what evil?]

Sorry, Jim...you're going to find that most of us will stand right by your side, and we'll do WHATEVER IT TAKES to keep FR going. As a society, we pay a monthly fee for cable; a monthly fee for newspapers and magazines; and L-rd only knows what we spend on books! Jim has graciously allowed us to access THE MOST INFORMATIVE NEWS FORUM on planet Earth free of charge! A small percentage of the posters go above and beyond the call of duty to support FR monthly and quarterly because they love it here! Others of us here are 'poor as church mice', but we still dig deep to help keep this site going. Freedom is NOT free! Besides, if Free Republic goes down, who's going to keep an eye on Hillary? :-)

[weikel]

Who is suing you.

[Nateman]

The major pundits and talking heads cruise this site often. RINO was a term coined here and now you hear it on FOX. Rush has used terms straight off this site and has even got into good natured fights with it. SORE LOSERMAN was born here and is now an American Icon. This site kept the light of truth burning during the dark night of corruption and cover-ups of the Clinton regime. It's very ability to reveal the truth and expose Media outlets  ( like the LA Times and The Washington Post ) as unofficial mouthpieces of the RAT party has made these powerful forces of evil aware of its existence along with their desire to shut it down.

It would be a shame to let such evil win.

[Starrgaizr]

If you wanted to make FR a for-profit site, and succeeded, that would be the American Way. The premise is all wrong here. Let them whine at your success and great popularity.

Making FR a fee based non-profit membership service will limit disruptive hit-and-run members and save some bandwidth for those who value it the most. That, too, would be a fine form of organization. Just choose something that is self-sustaining and pleases you, and is properly disclosed, to the extent the law requires. Period. You have no moral obligation to do more that I can see.

[SCalGal]

Please keep FP alive. I'm addicted; I'll ante up.

[TLBSHOW]

They can kiss my ass. All anti-freepers have no life besides talking about this site day after day. They have no clue what it takes to run a business.

This is a great site and their spew is like watching 3 and 4 year olds. Like watching the rats nest. LOL

Keep up the good work. You are doing something right if they hate this site so much.

Yep just checked and this is a hot topic at their rats nest!

BUMP TO #1 Conservative News Forum web site in the world!

[nunya bidness]

I applaud your efforts to address all of the issues confronting you. Well done.

Harry, care to comment?

[bookworm89]

Please don't let the angry folks get to you.
There's never been a website so great.
Keep it up, but my donation has to wait until after Christmas, if that's OK.
I have kids. They want EVERYTHING for Christmas!
I'm broke until 1/1/02!

[RightOnline]

OK, well........this is definitely what is known in the vernacular as a "no-brainer".

Now.......about chuck allen.......are you serious? Chuck???????