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Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $13,140
16%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 16%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.


FReepathon: Our new Donation System is Ready to Roll! -- Thread Two
Free Republic Donation System ^ | Originally Published 9/28/02 | Jim Robinson

Posted on 10/01/2002 12:08:57 AM PDT by Auntie Mame

Edited on 10/02/2002 11:59:40 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Welcome to the New Free Republic Donation System!

John has programmed a great new donation system for us. It can accept credit cards or PayPal donations and will eventually also accept electronic checks. We have installed a new secure server system and have contracted with Authorize.net to do the actual credit card processing, and, of course, PayPal will process the PayPal donations through their system.

I've changed the links on our front page to link to the new program:

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

If you have bookmarks to the old system, please update to the new. The old system will be discontinued.

Take a test drive through the new system if you haven't already, and notice that it has several new features and reports available, including scoreboard, current stats, our budget and a faq. It's live now, so if you enter a donation it's for real (and thank you very much if you do).

John will continue making enhancements to the new system as we go, but the basic program is ready to go, and is live, and on the air.

We've decided to roll out our 4th quarter fundraiser with the new system on a late Saturday afternoon, as Saturday's are slow days and we might as well be gentle while breaking in the new system.

Thank you John for the new system! Great work!

Thank you BadJoe, WillaJohns, WIMom and all of the dedicated hardworking volunteers on the fundraising team who have helped us so much with these FReepathons in the past.

And thank you all for your continuing efforts! Without your dedication and hard work, FR could not stay on the air.

And thank you FReepers! Without your continued participation and financial support there would be no Free Republic!

A note to current monthly donors: We will need you to re-enter your recurring monthly donation to the new system, but please do not do it yet. Joe just processed your September donations on the 20th of September. The new system processes your donation on the day it is entered, so please wait until later in October to start your monthly on the new system. Also, please let BadJoe know via FReepmail (and please include your real name so he can match it with your credit card info in his file) after you re-enter your monthly donation so he can take you off his list. At the end of October, he will email all of those on his list who have not contacted him to remind them of the new system. Thank you very much for your continued support.

A note to prospective new monthly donors: We have included a list of our fixed monthly expenses as well as an estimate of our non-recurring expenses on our budget page of the donation system. We've also included an estimate of our current recurring monthly donations from our monthly donors. If and when the total of the recurring monthly donations ever meets our monthly expenses, there will no longer be a need for these FReepathons. It can happen someday. Thank you for considering a regular monthly contribution.

Note to all: We are looking forward to an exciting and rewarding election cycle. I know that we are not all in full agreement on this, but I sincerely believe that we have an excellent opportunity with this election to set the liberals back many years. And I also believe that winning this election in a big way for the conservatives will be the spark that allows our fight to return the Constitution to its rightful place as the Supreme Law of the Land to really get off the ground. I sincerely believe this is essential in our fight to secure our Liberty!

We hold the White House and the House of Representatives. If we re-take the majority in the Senate, it will be one of the very rare times in our history that the conservatives have held the majority control in all departments.

I see this as a gift from God. A majority means that the conservatives will chair the various committees of Congress and can set the legislative agenda. And, perhaps more importantly, a majority in the Senate will make it much more likely that President Bush's appointments will be confirmed.

This means we will be able to start replacing some of the liberal judicial activists on the bench with conservatives (don't tell Daschle & Co. that) and perhaps we will finally have a real shot at actually overturning some of the liberal bunk that has been foisted on us over the last century or so. How about overturning Roe vs Wade? With the current mood of the populace and with a conservative Senate, I think it can be done!

Remember, the liberals have controlled all or most of our government for at least 80 of the last 100 years. No wonder we are in such a mess today. This is the best opportunity we've ever had to reverse it in a big way. Kick the liberals out! Take control of the Senate and replace the liberal judiciary. This alone will set liberalism back thirty to forty years!

We must not fail to take advantage of this opportunity. Daschle and Company sense their days are numbered and are in a panic. Now is the time to redouble our efforts and throw these bums out!

I expect the volume on Free Republic to pick-up substantially as we head into the final weeks and days of the campaign season. And I expect exciting things will be happening for for all of us!

Thank you all very much!

God bless you all and may God continue to bless America!


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Time for a new thread.

Carry on, freepers, you're doing great!

THANK YOU!

1 posted on 10/01/2002 12:08:57 AM PDT by Auntie Mame
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To: Auntie Mame

VOTE THE RATS OUT!!

DONATE TONIGHT.
SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC

Donate Here By Secure Server

Or mail checks to
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or you can use

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STOP BY AND BUMP THE FUNDRAISER THREAD

2 posted on 10/01/2002 12:10:50 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: Auntie Mame
Thread One
3 posted on 10/01/2002 12:12:28 AM PDT by Auntie Mame
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To: Mo1
LOL!

We're going to have to change your name to Mo"Andretti"1.
4 posted on 10/01/2002 12:14:53 AM PDT by Auntie Mame
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To: Auntie Mame
hehehehe
5 posted on 10/01/2002 12:15:37 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: All
OK FOLKS LISTEN UP!!

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It seems that some Freepers that are on dialup are having a bit of trouble loading up the pictures on the Freepathon Thread and since it is taking so long, they end up moving along and not coming to the thread

Maybe we can make the pictures smaller or limit the number of picture between each 50 posts??

If anyone has any suggestions to help those on dialup .. please post them because I am too brain dead to think anymore today .. LOL


And now I'm off to la al land

Sweet Dreams Y'all

6 posted on 10/01/2002 12:17:35 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: Mo1
Early morning bump!!
7 posted on 10/01/2002 12:26:07 AM PDT by Ben Hecks
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To: Auntie Mame; leadpenny
$27 in from Virginia with the following note:

"This is the 10% bonus added to what the Virginians gave since I made my challenge yesterday AM. Please add it to my previous contribution." ~~leadpenny

Thank you leadpenny! Thank you Virgina!

And thank you, Auntie Mame, for the new thread!

8 posted on 10/01/2002 12:29:45 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: Jim Robinson; Auntie Mame; All
Let's Roll ! !

Thanks Jim.

9 posted on 10/01/2002 12:33:09 AM PDT by leadpenny
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To: Mo1
Goodnight, Mo1.

On the picures, if the posters would be sure to include "width=xxx" and "height=xxx" parameters within their "img src" html statements, the threads will load much faster. The browsers will reserve space and draw a box for the photo and then continue displaying the rest of the thread while the photo fills the box.

Jim
10 posted on 10/01/2002 12:41:39 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: Mo1
How to disable graphics images so a page loads more quickly
- dialup users THIS WILL HELP!

First, if you use Internet Explorer, go to the menu bar (should be the top of the browser). Click on "View". From its sub-menu, choose "Options".

From the Options dialog box, select the "General" folder tab at the top of the box. In the multimedia section you can select whether or not Internet Explorer loads an image, sound file, or movie. If you want a type of file to be automatically loaded, place a check mark in the appropriate box. If you want the images disabled, click to remove the check. Now whenever Internet Explorer loads a document that has images, a small icon will appear where each image is located on the page. If you wish to view the image at that location, right-click on the image area and then select "View Image" from the menu.

No more slow loads if you do this!

11 posted on 10/01/2002 12:46:10 AM PDT by petuniasevan
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To: Mo1
G'night dear Mo. ....and THANK YOU for all you've done today.
12 posted on 10/01/2002 12:49:19 AM PDT by Auntie Mame
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bump
13 posted on 10/01/2002 12:50:03 AM PDT by heleny
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Netscape users:

Just like above, but click on EDIT, then choose the Preferences sub-menu.

Depending on which Netscape you have, there may be one or two more steps.

If you see an option called "Automatically load images and other data types", uncheck it.

Otherwise, click on the "Images" category, then check the "Do Not Load Any Images" option.

Then click OK.
14 posted on 10/01/2002 12:54:35 AM PDT by petuniasevan
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To: Jim Robinson
Jim,I just wanted to thank you again for your service to this country, and for FR. What a truely brilliant idea!
15 posted on 10/01/2002 2:13:02 AM PDT by exnavy
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To: Auntie Mame; "Be not afraid!"; 0scill8r; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; 782gear; a history buff; ...
This is from the USA Ping List- if you want off this list, you must let me know ( and politeness counts in my book as to the speed with which you are removed ) and mention the name of the list- I can't locate you without a reference.

If you can't contribute- and we all have been there, we all have to put family first- please flag a few names you know, and bump this post.

Come on, we can't let Streisand and her ilk win!

16 posted on 10/01/2002 3:18:07 AM PDT by backhoe
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To: backhoe
Thanks, but I'd like to be removed from the USA Ping List. Nothing personal, it's just that I'm on too many ping lists now, and I can't visit every thread. Oh, I contributed already.

George W. Bush is the greatest! Down with bolshevism! Defeat the socialistic dems! Win back the Senate! God bless America!

17 posted on 10/01/2002 3:21:52 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
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To: PatrickHenry
it's just that I'm on too many ping lists now, and I can't visit every thread. Oh, I contributed already.

I well understand- I just kind of gave up asking to be removed from various lists- I'll dig out that floppy now & take you off... OK, you are gone...

18 posted on 10/01/2002 3:30:09 AM PDT by backhoe
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To: backhoe
Hi, Backhoe, please remove me from the USA ping list. Thank you. Regards,
19 posted on 10/01/2002 3:32:08 AM PDT by Unknown Freeper
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To: Unknown Freeper
Sure thing- and I thank you for your courteous reply!
20 posted on 10/01/2002 3:35:17 AM PDT by backhoe
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