*** The 2005 Q1 FReepathon is now underway!! BTTT with Thread No. Two!! ***

The excitement of the elections is still going strong. With the decisive victory for President Bush and the increased majorities in both the House and Senate and throughout the state governments of the land, we conservatives should look forward to finally being able to achieve some of our goals.

Look for President Bush as commander-in-chief to continue wiping out the scourge of terrorism from the world. Free elections have already taken place in Afghanistan and are about to take place for the first time in history in Iraq! Fifty million people liberated in the middle east! The butcher of Iraq is in chains and about to be tried for his crimes against humanity. Thank you President Bush for a magnificent job of putting down terrorism!! And thank you to our men in women in the armed forces for your dedication to God, duty, and country and for your personal sacrifices for our freedom and security. The nation owes you a great debt of gratitude! May God bless you all and return you safely to your homes and loved ones!

Tax reform is on the radar! We hear more and more each day about the possibility of either overhauling the income tax system or even replacing it altogether! Hurrah! President Bush has a golden opportunity to LIBERATE all Americans from this horrendously unfair and anti-freedom slave tax that has enslaved us all for nearly a century! And in the process, he'll be freeing up the productive capital and resources that will once again make America the envy of the entire world! There is no other country or economic system in the world that can out produce America when we are allowed the freedoms that our forefathers fought and won for us over 200 years ago. It's way past time that we rise up and overturn the ill-conceived income tax imposed upon us by the populists and progressives (socialists) of the last century. We should declare 2005 as the year the battle for freedom from tax slavery begins!

And we can look forward to President Bush appointing conservative judges to the federal courts and the Supreme Court! Thank God we have a conservative president and a Republican majority in the Senate rather the the traitor John Kerry and his gang of liberal obstructionists! Daschle the lead obstructionist is gone! Liberalism defeated! We know that the Democrats will not roll over and play dead, but I doubt the Republicans are going to stand for the all out obstructionism of the last four years. Either the president's nominations get a hearing before the full Senate or we can expect nuclear action! Go Pubbies!!

And Free Republic was in the thick of it again! In addition to the thousands of FReepers campaigning and working hard to get conservative candidates elected, we had some real successes right here on the forum. I think of Buckhead and TankerKC on Howlin's now famous thread calling for an examination of Dan Rather's forged "Texas Air National Guard" memos. Way to go FReepers!! Your sharp eyes and diligent efforts have sent yet another infamous lying socialist MSM propagandist to early retirement! Congratulations!!

And what can we say about the fantastic work of John O'Neill, Jerome Corsi, and the SwiftVets, and our very own Interesting Times!! Way to go guys!! You've restored honor and dignity to the names of countless Vietnam Vets and have exposed John F'n Kerry as the disgraceful fraud and traitor that he actually is. And, in doing so, you've helped save the nation from falling into the despair and shame that it would have under a President Kerry. God bless you and thank you! Welcome home brothers!

And let's not forget our FReeper Ball! Come to DC and join us in celebrating the reelection of President George W. Bush and honoring our men and women in the armed forces and our honored guests. Dance the night away to the rock and roll music of Gov Mike Huckabee and his Capitol Offense band and enjoy dinner and refreshments and the great company of your countrymen and fellow FReepers!

Thank you all very much for your continued support. Your generous donations during these quarterly FReepathons keep Free Republic on the air and makes it the very best conservative site on the Internet!!

Jim

P.S. Don't forget to offer prayers for the victims and families that have suffered so much after the devastating earthquake and Tsunami waves. I've included links on our homepage to a couple of threads where FReepers have posted URLs and addresses of relief organizations. Please donate if you can.

Q1 2005 Scoreboard -- ranked by total receipts

Rank	Location	Receipts	Donors/Avg		Freepers/Avg		Monthlies
1	Texas	$1,430.00	28	$51.07	1,952	$0.73	$1,137.00	68
2	California	955.00	24	39.79	2,287	0.42	1,604.56	109
3	New York	810.00	10	81.00	855	0.95	360.50	24
4	Pennsylvania	625.00	16	39.06	659	0.95	330.00	23
5	Illinois	605.00	13	46.54	582	1.04	447.00	24
6	Virginia	540.00	11	49.09	735	0.73	585.50	31
7	Washington	435.00	5	87.00	556	0.78	360.00	21
8	Florida	395.00	16	24.69	1,081	0.37	718.00	44
9	Louisiana	380.00	2	190.00	230	1.65	65.00	7
10	Maryland	290.00	10	29.00	417	0.70	288.00	15
11	Tennessee	265.00	6	44.17	386	0.69	83.00	9
12	Wisconsin	250.00	6	41.67	308	0.81	183.00	12
13	Massachusetts	250.00	10	25.00	356	0.70	215.00	14
14	Michigan	240.00	5	48.00	475	0.51	110.00	11
15	New Jersey	240.00	8	30.00	438	0.55	239.00	13
16	New Hampshire	220.00	4	55.00	131	1.68
17	Missouri	190.00	7	27.14	418	0.45	131.00	12
18	Connecticut	165.00	5	33.00	218	0.76	45.00	4
19	Ohio	137.00	4	34.25	587	0.23	612.25	20
20	Arizona	135.00	3	45.00	471	0.29	165.50	12
21	Alabama	125.00	3	41.67	280	0.45	385.00	20
22	Oregon	110.00	5	22.00	273	0.40	85.00	6
23	Indiana	100.00	5	20.00	346	0.29	65.00	7
24	Canada	100.00	1	100.00	242	0.41
25	South Korea	100.00	1	100.00	7	14.29	10.00	1
26	Sweden	100.00	1	100.00	18	5.56
27	Costa Rica	100.00	1	100.00	11	9.09
28	Colorado	95.00	3	31.67	379	0.25	130.00	9
29	Kansas	85.00	2	42.50	209	0.41	60.00	4
30	Hawaii	85.00	3	28.33	66	1.29	15.00	2
31	Maine	85.00	3	28.33	107	0.79	10.00	1
32	Montana	80.00	3	26.67	53	1.51	333.33	1
33	South Carolina	80.00	4	20.00	245	0.33	91.00	8
34	Nevada	70.00	2	35.00	138	0.51	120.00	6
35	Minnesota	70.00	3	23.33	320	0.22	140.00	11
36	Arkansas	70.00	2	35.00	173	0.40	40.00	4
37	Germany	70.00	2	35.00	53	1.32
38	South Dakota	65.00	2	32.50	47	1.38	35.00	3
39	Iowa	60.00	2	30.00	163	0.37	35.00	2
40	Utah	60.00	4	15.00	113	0.53	90.00	4
41	North Carolina	55.00	4	13.75	576	0.10	460.00	29
42	Rhode Island	50.00	1	50.00	44	1.14	10.00	1
43	Georgia	45.00	2	22.50	587	0.08	330.00	19
44	Wyoming	40.00	2	20.00	34	1.18	30.00	1
45	Kentucky	40.00	3	13.33	223	0.18	20.00	2
46	Idaho	30.00	1	30.00	118	0.25	35.00	1
47	Nebraska	25.00	1	25.00	92	0.27	48.00	4
48	Panama	25.00	1	25.00	7	3.57
49	Delaware	25.00	1	25.00	34	0.74
50	Ireland	20.00	1	20.00	31	0.65
51	Vermont	20.00	2	10.00	39	0.51	76.00	5
52	West Virginia	20.00	1	20.00	90	0.22	35.00	2
53	United Kingdom	20.00	1	20.00	178	0.11	5.00	1
54	Mississippi	20.00	1	20.00	135	0.15	57.00	5
55	Oklahoma	15.00	2	7.50	242	0.06	117.00	9
56	Israel	10.00	1	10.00	41	0.24
	New Mexico						50.00	3
	District of Columbia						10.00	1
	Kenya						20.00	1
	Armed Forces - Europe						10.00	1
	Armed Forces - Pacific						10.00	1
	Alaska						55.00	2
	Indonesia						20.00	1
Never Never Land		844.00	29	29.10			401.00	30
57 locations total		$11,571	299	$38.70	22,425	$0.52	$11,122.64	681

Before I found FreeRepublic, I subscribed to all the weekly and monthly news magazines...........cost me a fortune! I'm a REAL news junkie, and a conservative one at that. After my "awakening" I cancelled all those subscriptions and started sending a monthly donation to this wonderful forum. The best news, first, can be found here, along with wonderful commentary from the FReepers. I will be sending my monthly donation tomorrow.....and will be raising it by $10/per month.

You can add me to the "dollar a day" club.........it's well worth it.

Thanks JimRob and all those who help you.

Rushmore Rocks

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