Our 2nd quarter '08 FReepathon is now underway!! Thread 2

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[Jim Robinson]

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[Jim Robinson]

Howdy everyone!!

Woo hoo!!

We have incoming:

$50 from Utah
$10 from Florida
$10 from California
$20 from Arkansas
$20 from Pennsylvania
$50 from Colorado
$10 from Michigan
$20 monthly from North Carolina
$50 from South Dakota

Thank you all very much!!

Plus we processed the first batch of monthlies for the quarter bringing in approx $1,800!!

Thank you monthly donors!!

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New thread bump!

[afnamvet]

mid mornin’ Bump for Bucks!

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you, afnamvet!!

[WVNan]

Jim, what have you started? My dear hubby fell off the back concrete steps and really hit the concrete patio hard. He's bummed up pretty good. Both knees and the Tibia on his left leg are bruised. We don't think at this point that anything is broken (not that the old Marine would submit to going to the doctor for a "simple" fall). Men! Grrrrr. Just like you going through all this for weeks without a peep out of you for help from your prayer warriors.

I pray that you are continuing to get the much needed rest using the recliner.

[Lady Jag]

[WVNan]

That reminds me of an illustration we had in Communication class on how we can mis-communicate. If I say, “John shot two bucks,” a guy in WV would see those two bucks with 10-point antlers, while the metro-sexual would lament that John should be more careful with his money.

[Fiddlstix]

Howdy everyone!!

Woo hoo!!

We have incoming:

$50 from Utah
$10 from Florida
$10 from California
$20 from Arkansas
$20 from Pennsylvania
$50 from Colorado
$10 from Michigan
$20 monthly from North Carolina
$50 from South Dakota

Thank you all very much!!

Plus we processed the first batch of monthlies for the quarter bringing in approx $1,800!!

Thank you monthly donors!!

[Fiddlstix]

   Q2 2008 Scoreboard -- ranked by total receipts   

Rank	Location	Receipts	Donors/Avg		Freepers/Avg		Monthlies
1	California	$1,797.00	42	$42.79		$	$1,225.56	80
2	Texas	1,520.00	39	38.97			932.00	59
3	Florida	688.00	28	24.57			669.00	38
4	Maryland	500.00	10	50.00			215.00	14
5	Australia	500.00	1	500.00
6	Armed Forces - Europe	360.00	1	360.00			25.00	2
7	Virginia	354.99	14	25.36			411.00	24
8	Missouri	345.00	10	34.50			150.00	13
9	New York	330.00	8	41.25			382.50	17
10	Tennessee	320.00	4	80.00			53.00	6
11	New Jersey	315.00	7	45.00			240.00	12
12	Pennsylvania	308.00	15	20.53			263.00	14
13	Washington	286.00	12	23.83			295.00	18
14	Arkansas	240.00	5	48.00			25.00	2
15	Colorado	220.00	7	31.43			155.00	11
16	Oregon	220.00	7	31.43			60.00	4
17	Montana	180.00	3	60.00			378.33	4
18	New Hampshire	170.00	2	85.00
19	Alabama	165.00	6	27.50			258.00	14
20	Maine	160.00	4	40.00			70.00	3
21	Wisconsin	145.00	4	36.25			125.00	9
22	Utah	135.00	4	33.75			72.00	4
23	Georgia	130.00	7	18.57			195.00	14
24	North Carolina	128.00	9	14.22			80.00	9
25	Nevada	125.00	5	25.00			105.00	5
26	Ohio	125.00	7	17.86			515.00	12
27	Canada	125.00	3	41.67
28	Indiana	120.00	6	20.00			60.00	3
29	Minnesota	115.00	3	38.33			45.00	6
30	Illinois	115.00	7	16.43			237.00	14
31	Oklahoma	110.00	2	55.00			90.00	5
32	Mississippi	100.00	3	33.33			105.00	6
33	New Mexico	95.00	3	31.67			15.00	1
34	Massachusetts	70.00	4	17.50			275.00	14
35	South Carolina	70.00	3	23.33			85.00	7
36	Louisiana	60.00	3	20.00			85.00	6
37	Arizona	55.00	3	18.33			130.00	12
38	Vermont	50.00	2	25.00			31.00	2
39	Wyoming	50.00	2	25.00			30.00	1
40	Alaska	50.00	2	25.00			90.00	4
41	South Dakota	50.00	1	50.00			30.00	1
42	Michigan	40.00	4	10.00			70.00	7
43	Connecticut	40.00	2	20.00			10.00	1
44	Idaho	40.00	2	20.00			105.00	6
45	Puerto Rico	35.00	1	35.00
46	Iowa	30.00	2	15.00			30.00	2
47	Kansas	25.00	1	25.00			70.00	6
48	Rhode Island	20.00	1	20.00			45.00	2
49	Germany	20.00	1	20.00
50	Kentucky	10.00	1	10.00			10.00	2
51	Nebraska	10.00	1	10.00			42.50	2
52	Netherlands	10.00	1	10.00
53	West Virginia	5.00	1	5.00			30.00	2
54	Hawaii	5.00	1	5.00			50.00	4
	North Dakota						10.00	1
	Norway						10.00	1
	Japan						20.00	1
	Armed Forces - Pacific						10.00	1
Never Never Land		340.00	12	28.33			198.00	15
55 locations total		$11,631.99	339	$34.31		$0.00	$8,917.89	523

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[Jim Robinson]

Thank you, WVNan. The recliner is great! God bless your Marine! Semper Fi!

[Fiddlstix]

Hey There! All You Monthly Donors Out There!
Be Sure and Check In At The

Monthly Donor List

Posted By don-o and Get Your Name On The List!

[WVNan]

I went to the WV message board and tried to shame the WV freepers. Doesn’t look like they paid any attention to me. Sigh..........

[WVNan]

Woo Hoo!! The recliner is surely a God-send. I’m glad you are resting better.

[afnamvet]

LOL..I just knew you would find the bucks. If I dipped my head that low , I would fall over. : )

[don-o]

Don-o, you maple sugarin' this spring?

Hmmmm. Maple flavored moonshine. May be a niche market there.

[Fiddlstix]

......Doesn’t look like they paid any attention to me.....

Don't let it get ya down.
It's happened to me too.
Just keep on, "Keepin' On".

[Lady Jag]

At least it wouldn’t fall off like some dems’ heads do.

[WVNan]

It’s frustrating. People will think nothing of going out to eat at least once a day and spend $20 or more, yet they come to FR every day for all the news that’s fit to print and think that Jim should provide all this free of charge. Never mind that it takes a lot of money to run a site as large as this one. Shame on anyone who takes it for granted.

[afnamvet]

Donkeys have no heads. They ...ummmm.....have screw on attachments.

[Fiddlstix]

That’s one of my pet peeves as well. Sometime it makes you want to pull your own hair. It’s very frustrating.

[Lady Jag]

SWEET!

[Lady Jag]

You're right.

Plus they must continue to kiss up to their deceased voters.

[Texican]

Jim:
My friend my quarterly check went out Friday. Not much but for an 84 year old man on SS it is all that I can afford at this time. Hope all is well with both you and Amy. (John too.)

Good evening and the very best to you and yours.

Semper Fi
Tommie

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Do you get a lot of people sending payments through the Fresno P.O. Box address?

[Fiddlstix]

Hey. Did y'all see this thread?

Clintons Offer Date With Chelsea In Exchange For Vote

Now, please correct me if I'm wrong........
But didn't sHillary recently throw a conniption fit because some reporter implied that the clintoons were "pimping out"`Chelsea?
Good Grief! What a "family" they are.

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you very much, Texican!!

Woo hoo!!

Just in:

$100 from Massachusetts
$20 from Indiana
$100 from Washington

Thank you all very much!!

[Jim Robinson]

Yes we do. We post them to the FReepathon thread in batches as we receive them.

[Fiddlstix]

Thank you very much, Texican!!

Woo hoo!!

Just in:

$100 from Massachusetts
$20 from Indiana
$100 from Washington

Thank you all very much!!

I would like to add my own note of thanks to you Mr. Texican for your service to our great nation.
May God Bless You & Yours.

[don-o]

More is not that important. "DO" is the concept. We need more who "DO". (See "do the math" in the original post)

Monthly donor thread

[bd476]

Molly, thanks for the beautiful breakfast again this morning.

Here are some thoughts for food. /(pun intended)

"How can you expect to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese ?"
- Charles de Gaulle.

"The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again."
- George Miller.

"Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat."
- Alex Levine.

"The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish dramatist and critic. Explaining why he had turned down an invitation to a vegetarian gala dinner.

"Sushi /n./ Known to the rest of the world as 'Bait'."

"If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat ?"

"I'll bet what motivated the British to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal."
- Martha Harrison.

Today in Iraq, American and British troops handed out food to hundreds of Iraqis. But to no surprise the Iraqis handed the British food back.
- Conan O'Brien

"Food is an important part of a balanced diet."
- Fran Lebowitz (1950- ), US writer.

"Give me liberty or... OOOooo... A jelly donut !"
- Homer Simpson.

"All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening."
- Alexander Woollcott.

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst, for they are sticking to their diets."

"Never eat more than you can lift."
- Miss Piggy.

"If animals were not meant to be eaten, why are they made of meat ?"
- Bumper sticker

[Lady Jag]

Practice safe eating -- always use condiments.

[Fiddlstix]

"The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish dramatist and critic. Explaining why he had turned down an invitation to a vegetarian gala dinner.

ROTFL!!

Rimshot

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[Fiddlstix]

Here's an interesting thread......

Snow covers London ahead of Olympic torch relay

Folks. This Global Warming is gonna freeze us to death.
I guess we'll have to wait for Global Cooling so things will warm up. huh?

[Molly Pitcher]

He, he...I like that last bumper sticker!

[Lady Jag]

The Dream Keeper

Bring me all of your dreams, You dreamer, Bring me all your Heart melodies That I may wrap them In a blue cloud-cloth Away from the too-rough fingers Of the world. Langston Hughes

[afnamvet]

Early afternoon Bump for Bucks!

[Jim Robinson]

Woo hoo!!

Just in:

$50 from Canada
$50 from Kentucky

Thank you Canada and Kentucky!!

[Fiddlstix]

Woo hoo!!

Just in:

$50 from Canada
$50 from Kentucky

Thank you Canada and Kentucky!!

[Fiddlstix]

   Q2 2008 Scoreboard -- ranked by total receipts   

Rank	Location	Receipts	Donors/Avg		Freepers/Avg		Monthlies
1	California	$1,797.00	42	$42.79		$	$1,225.56	80
2	Texas	1,520.00	39	38.97			932.00	59
3	Florida	688.00	28	24.57			669.00	38
4	Maryland	500.00	10	50.00			215.00	14
5	Australia	500.00	1	500.00
6	Washington	386.00	13	29.69			295.00	18
7	Armed Forces - Europe	360.00	1	360.00			25.00	2
8	Virginia	354.99	14	25.36			411.00	24
9	Missouri	345.00	10	34.50			150.00	13
10	New York	330.00	8	41.25			382.50	17
11	Tennessee	320.00	4	80.00			53.00	6
12	New Jersey	315.00	7	45.00			240.00	12
13	Pennsylvania	308.00	15	20.53			263.00	14
14	Arkansas	240.00	5	48.00			25.00	2
15	Colorado	220.00	7	31.43			155.00	11
16	Oregon	220.00	7	31.43			60.00	4
17	Montana	180.00	3	60.00			378.33	4
18	Canada	175.00	4	43.75
19	Massachusetts	170.00	5	34.00			275.00	14
20	New Hampshire	170.00	2	85.00
21	Alabama	165.00	6	27.50			258.00	14
22	Maine	160.00	4	40.00			70.00	3
23	Wisconsin	145.00	4	36.25			125.00	9
24	Indiana	140.00	7	20.00			60.00	3
25	Utah	135.00	4	33.75			72.00	4
26	Georgia	130.00	7	18.57			195.00	14
27	North Carolina	128.00	9	14.22			80.00	9
28	Nevada	125.00	5	25.00			105.00	5
29	Ohio	125.00	7	17.86			515.00	12
30	Minnesota	115.00	3	38.33			45.00	6
31	Illinois	115.00	7	16.43			237.00	14
32	Oklahoma	110.00	2	55.00			90.00	5
33	Mississippi	100.00	3	33.33			105.00	6
34	New Mexico	95.00	3	31.67			15.00	1
35	South Carolina	70.00	3	23.33			85.00	7
36	Kentucky	60.00	2	30.00			10.00	2
37	Louisiana	60.00	3	20.00			85.00	6
38	Arizona	55.00	3	18.33			130.00	12
39	Vermont	50.00	2	25.00			31.00	2
40	Wyoming	50.00	2	25.00			30.00	1
41	Alaska	50.00	2	25.00			90.00	4
42	South Dakota	50.00	1	50.00			30.00	1
43	Michigan	40.00	4	10.00			70.00	7
44	Connecticut	40.00	2	20.00			10.00	1
45	Idaho	40.00	2	20.00			105.00	6
46	Puerto Rico	35.00	1	35.00
47	Iowa	30.00	2	15.00			30.00	2
48	Kansas	25.00	1	25.00			70.00	6
49	Rhode Island	20.00	1	20.00			45.00	2
50	Germany	20.00	1	20.00
51	Nebraska	10.00	1	10.00			42.50	2
52	Netherlands	10.00	1	10.00
53	West Virginia	5.00	1	5.00			30.00	2
54	Hawaii	5.00	1	5.00			55.00	4
	North Dakota						10.00	1
	Norway						10.00	1
	Japan						20.00	1
	Armed Forces - Pacific						10.00	1
Never Never Land		340.00	12	28.33			198.00	15
55 locations total		$11,951.99	344	$34.74		$0.00	$8,922.89	523

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[mysterio]

Bump to the top.

[Lady Jag]

Here, print this out and use it if you need to negotiate with your doctor.

Norovirus Sickens 65 at Medical Meeting


Apr 5, 12:16 AM (ET)

LARGO, Md. (AP) - More than 60 people fell ill with the stomach flu after attending a medical convention, with several reporting symptoms as they prepared to leave on flights from Washington, health officials said.

Many of the victims came forward Friday, the day after attending the meeting Thursday at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Md.

The illnesses were first noted when officials received calls about a dozen sick people Thursday evening at Reagan National Airport. The travelers had similar symptoms, including nausea, said Rob Yingling, spokesman for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.

Noroviruses cause the stomach flu, also known as gastroenteritis, the health department said. People can get it through contact with infected people, ingesting contaminated food or drink, or by touching contaminated items and then their mouths.

About 350 people attended the conference, and all but one of the 65 people who became ill have returned home, health officials said. The specific focus of the convention was unclear.

Staff members of the Prince George's County health department interviewed resort workers and inspected the center to determine what caused the illness. A private company has already started cleaning, health officials said.

Noroviruses have been responsible in recent years for sickening hundreds of passengers on cruise ships.

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you, mysterio!!

Woo hoo!!

Just in:

$18.01 from Texas
$20 from California

Thank you California and TEXAS!!

[Jim Robinson]

Woo hoo!!

Just in:

$50 from Pennsylvania
$5 from Never Never Land

Thank you Pennsylvania and Never Never Land!!

Over $12k!!

Woo hoo!!

Just in:

$18.01 from Texas
$20 from California

Thank you California and TEXAS!!

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Woo hoo!!

Just in:

$50 from Pennsylvania
$5 from Never Never Land

Thank you Pennsylvania a