FReepathon: Our new Donation System is Ready to Roll! -- Thread Six

Donate to Free Republic via our Secure Server ^ | Jim Robinson

[Mo1]

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:

Donate Here By Secure Server

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!

[EdReform]

Tabasco on a Philly Cheesesteak???

Sure. And it's great in coffee, too!

I mean this is Yankee food after all

Damn Yankees! ;o)

[lodwick]

;-) There's nothing to learn re: tagline usage - just type in whatever you wish - up to the space allowed: it's just like the "YOur Reply:" field that we use, just limited in characters that can be entered, like the current "To:" field.

[EdReform]

Sure - you experts always say it's soooo easy! Will there at least be on-line help with examples for the creatively challenged?!! ;o)

[lodwick]

Mash here

[EdReform]

The requested document does not exist on this server.

[RottiBiz]

Outstanding!

[lodwick]

Jim Robinson
JimRob, I'm very pleased to know you (in the virtual sense). You are one of the few people I've met who actually have the courage to talk back to the power.


106 Posted on 07/15/1999 09:21:17 PDT by ewo (Free Republic: the Samizdat in the Clinton Dictatorship.)

Here's one example from a 1999 fundraiser - I have not a clue as to what a "Samizdat" might be however.

[RottiBiz]

Good! Love to see Tosh.

Don't forget, updated pictures of Shadow, BeauDog and Lady when you have them.

Thanks.

[EdReform]

It won't show up for me. I even tried pasting http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/765919/ into a new browser window.

[RottiBiz]

Will there be an on-line seminar covering the use of tag lines?

I believe Professor Lodwick will be giving one.

I'll be with you in the class.

[RottiBiz]

I just clicked on and up came a great graphic.

Don't understand this stuff at all. It's all some kind of magic to me.

[lodwick]

Here's a worthy quote from 1999 - and thanks to everyone of you who "is in the arena" on this fundraiser.

People will ask us "Why bother?" to which I say:

It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

192 Posted on 07/15/1999 19:41:45 PDT by ParrotsUp

Ed - I'll try reposting the link - but I previewed it and all that - but it will be reposted. JL

[EdReform]

Samizdat. Never heard of it before either. New word for the vocabulary!

[lodwick]

Beetle Bailey

If this doesn't work - shoot the computer

[EdReform]

If this doesn't work - shoot the computer

It didn't work. I can't shoot the computer - Dave's got the gun.

[grammymoon]

Good Morning Everyone!
Coffee is great, thanks.

Is today "THE" day?

Are we there yet?

Come on folks, lets get this over and done with.
God bless all you hardworking freepers helping with this Freepathon.

You are making the banned, whining & complaining ones over on LP VERY upset! That's a good thing.
love you all.
Grammymoon
HAAA!

[glock rocks]

[lodwick]

LOL- good grief - it must be gremlins. Here's another post:

Mr. Robinson,
Thank you for Free Republic, I have only found this forum recently, but this has become the most visited site I go to. My finances are a little tight, but any money left over will be sent your way. If only I could make you a payroll allotment! But I will send whatever I can, even if it's only a few dollars (sometimes that's all I have -- sorry). G-d bless you, and these UNITED STATES.
--SSgt Phill Rosenthal, USAF Reserves (left active duty because of Clinton-Gore's endless decisions to make the military an International "Meals on Wheels")

278 Posted on 12/04/2000 13:37:18 PST by USAF_SSgt

[EdReform]

Good Morning Grammymoon!

Try a little of this in your coffee

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks, JL.

The chronic whiners and complainer who never bring any positives to the Free Republic table will know this quote by Teddy quite well. I intend to use it for them when they whine/moan and criticize our good conservatives who are trying. I have saved this and others might want to! Thanks!

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It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat.