Let me lay this out simple and clear. Every one of you whining a-holes better have thrown a few bucks into the kitty during the last fund raiser. One of the reasons why Jim and John have to work their software interface magic is because there are MANY MANY freeloaders here who suck up resources and don't give back a thing. The demand grows, the network resources are stretched, the costs rise and the equipment investments are evaluated ... Never mind, it's none of your business. Everything John and Jim do is with the FR users in mind. EVERYTHING. It's simple ... nobody is forcing you to lay on a bed of nails, nobody is forcing you to stick a screw driver into your left eye, nobody is forcing you to be drawn and quartered, and nobody is forcing you to endure the Bataan Death March torture that is the new Free Republic. Log off, and don't come back. With an attitude like that, just maybe I'll log off and take my money with me. In the last fund raiser I gave a dam* and contributed a large percentage of my state's contribution (somewhere around 25 %, as I recall, due to a lack of other contributers). The only thing I'm asking that it buy is an efficient and fast Conservative FreeRepublic web site on a slow-dial up-modem, which it did. This new FR design is not that, and I have no problem in telling John and Jim what my opinion is.