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ANNOUNCEMENT: We have installed a new SHA-256 secure server certificate on our freerepublic.com domain and we have a NEW donate link: https://freerepublic.com/donate/ FR is now more secure than ever! Google, Firefox, et al, were flagging our old SHA-1 secure server as "not secure" even though our certificate was paid-up, still valid, still in force and our secure server was still encrypting our donation transactions as securely as always to the SHA-1 standard. You should see a green "Secure" padlock now when you click on our new donate link and that signifies that your transaction will be encrypted by the newly...

When FR breaks, it's serious news, so even though I didn't post to "breaking" news, I thought this information belonged on the main forum. Jim said that he anticipates that FR will be offline again tonight for up to 8 hours. Some of you are aware that there is a Radio FR chat room, hosted by Agitator. You can come in and log in with your own screen names, or whatever you want. I don't know how many the room will accommodate. I've seen it pretty full at election time. Anyway, just wanted everybody to have the link bookmarked where...