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Wow! It's been ten or so years since I followed an FR fundraising thread. The dedication, the technichal dexterity, the shear perseverence of the leaders is just astounding and humbling. I believe, the last time I was really paid attention, there was a discussion concerning the servers to be purchased, the support required for such, and the necessity for funding. Back in those days I would provide some dusty nugget bumps that were a year or two old.I hadn't any idea of the requirments to support the servers. The cost was astounding. Meanwhile, Prodigy died off, Prodigy Internet died off,...

Wow! It's been ten or so years since I followed an FR fundraising thread. The dedication, the technichal dexterity, the shear perseverence of the leaders is just astounding and humbling. I believe, the last time I was really paid attention, there was a discussion concerning the servers to be purchased, the support required for such, and the necessity for funding. Back in those days I would provide some dusty nugget bumps that were a year or two old.I hadn't any idea of the requirments to support the servers. The cost was astounding. Meanwhile, Prodigy died off, Prodigy Internet died off,...

Well it's been a few years since I participated in a fund-raisng thread for FR but I just read through 200 or so posts and noticed I am not alone. Come on Freepers! It's long past time to renew our passion. I know, I'm guilty, of fatigue, of complacency, of resignation. We are better than that! Coming at you JimRob is my 2nd $50 for this quarter. But complacently throwing bucks aint enough folks! Youngsters, hipsters, those with the energy of youth need to step up to the plate. It is your country, your way of life, your future at...

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ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization September 11, 2001 ALERT: Now Is The Time for Americans to Defend America Everybody in America now knows that on Tuesday, September 11, three aircraft were crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. These crashes appeared timed and were part of a planned terrorist action. The death toll will likely exceed that caused by the Imperial Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that started World War II. This coordinated attack was an act of war. Some years ago Israel bombed a nuclear plant in Iraq. ...

"The more things change the more they remain the same." This editorial is drawn from the NRA publication American Rifleman. Published in the March 1959 issue. A Man and His Gun One of the prize possesions of manhood since our forefathers first settled America always has been the gun. This attitude towards firearms has become an historic tradition in the United States. It represents a priceless freedom won by our forefathers which few other nations enjoy. So strong was their conviction about the right of reputable citizens to own and use firearms for lawful purposes that they amended our original ...

SOUTH AFRICA - An anti-rape device invented by a retired anaesthetist in the Free State has appalled men and women - for different reasons. Jaap Haumann, 72, who farms near the small town of Clocolan, has designed a "killer tampon" which can lop off the end of a would-be rapist's penis. Dr Haumann said he designed the device after speaking to several rape victims. "It was clear to me that rape has a devastating impact on the lives of women, physically and especially mentally." Women found the idea of carrying a 'tampon timebomb' absurd He said in one instance, a ...

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, I hunted and hunted for that darned little mouse His turds were laid around without care, that old St. Nick might step in them there My wife and the kids were asleep up in bed and I hoped that the mouse would soon be dead All of a sudden I heard a clash and a clatter, and I wondered what the heck could be the matter To the living room I ran with 22 at the ready, I tried to hold it so very steady As I gazed down ...

Subject: The Year in Review From: Gun_Owners_Of_America@mailmanager.net [Please circulate this report far and wide. Invite those not presently subscribing to sign up at http://www.gunowners.org/ean.htm for GOA's low volume e-mail alerts.] 2000: The Year in Review Gun Owners of America E-Mail/FAX Alert 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151 Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408 http://www.gunowners.org What They're Saying About GOA Rep. John Hostettler, (R-IN) "Gun Owners of America is the pit bull of the Second Amendment. They are relentless and never give any ground whatsoever to the gun grabbers." Retiring Rep. Helen Chenoweth (R-ID) "GOA is close to standing alone ...

I recently posted a link to this outpouring of private info to the current fund-raising thread. The original has grown to 500k due to replies stacking up on this old and unecessary revelation. JR's Finances,Thread One! Free Republic and Jim Robinson's Finances Miscellaneous Free Republic Source: Free Republic Published: 07/15/99 Author: Jim Robinson Posted on 07/15/1999 01:02:53 PDT by Jim Robinson Just trying to set the record straight. Even though it's boring, I'll have to go back a few years to lay the groundwork for the story. Warning: it's boring so you might just want to skip this whole thing ...

The Window War (A work of Fiction) By Mike Vanderboegh Author's Note: The events related in this are set in the real town of Hobbs, New Mexico. Although some names have been changed to protect the guilty, it begins early in the morning, the day after tomorrow. "And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had...and his sling was in his hand; and he drew near to the Philistines."-- 1 Samuel 17:40. "We Americans have set dangerous precedents. We can rest ...

Okaloosa won't recount ballots By MICHAEL STEWART, Daily News Staff Writer CRESTVIEW - The Okaloosa County Canvassing Board shot down a request Tuesday for a manual recount of the presidential election Supervisor of Elections Pat Hollarn, County Judge Keith Brace and County Commission Chairwoman Paul Riggs said a protest filed by a woman identified as Karla Zeieler had no merit. The protest requested that all ballots be manually recounted because an "unlawful announcement of a result before the polls closed resulted in the vote not fairly representing the will of the voters in Okaloosa County and thus in Florida." "There ...

We have to fight for our freedom By CASEY BROOKS, Daily News Columnist I'm standing in line at the polls yesterday and I'm looking around at the phenomenal turnout and I'm thinking, What a great country. Here we are, founded on freedom, born against tremendous odds, built generation by generation. Instilled with government for the people and by the people, we are a free society blessed with the highest standard of living of any nation on Earth. We have it all, and none of it was free. Veterans Day is coming up to help remind us of the great cost ...

Sorry for the vanity, but can anybody help me out here? This clown has apparently, well see below......... freegards Pat still pumped from seeing Bush Sr. in Ft. Walton Bch today. Return-Path: Received: from proximity.globalgold.co.uk (proximity.globalgold.co.uk [212.250.240.2]) by mail.cybertron.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA13029 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:38:26 -0600 (CST) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by proximity.globalgold.co.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA11963; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:36:25 GMT Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:36:25 GMT Message-ID: Received: from www.ManicMail.net (abuse@manicmail.net) Comments: email ManicMail with all instances of abuse Comments: enclosing a copy of the email and all header information To: psmallwood@cybertron.com ...

EDITORIAL - A Nobel laureate pulls for tax cuts Milton Friedman, Nobel laureate and free-market thinker, is concerned about taxes taken from some members of the middle class to pay for programs of other members of the middle class; taxes and regulations that control up to 50 percent of U.S. output; taxes that don't necessarily reduce wealth, but that do diminish personal liberty. Professor Friedman gave the keynote address recently at a conference at the Hoover Institution at California's Stanford University. The subject of taxes was much on everyone's mind, given the presidential debates currently under way. Texas Gov. George ...

Patriots to fight for our rights by CASEY BROOKS, Daily News columnist A couple of weeks ago I received a note about a pro-Constitution rally that will take place in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 7. Called the March for Liberty, it heralds patriots across the country to come and peaceably assemble to petition the government for redress of grievances. The organizers of this rally are exercising one of our First Amendment rights: to peaceably assemble to petition the government. Obviously, the framers of our Constitution understood the nature of people and government. The fundamental rights from which the Founding ...

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet" - Al Gore, CNN Interview, March 9, 1999 Equal Time for Al Dateline: 9/04/2000 We've spent quite a bit of time lately, looking at the aims and agendas of the Religious Right. Lest anyone think that the only threats to American liberties come from the Right, it's time to turn our focus on the other side of the political spectrum. Specifically, are there special interests behind Al Gore which present a threat to our freedoms? Do any leftwingnut groups have their dollars in his ...

"The Americans Who Risked Everything" >From Rush H. Limbaugh, Jr. (Father of notable EIB radio host, Rush.) "OUR LIVES, OUR FORTUNES, OUR SACRED HONOR" It was a glorious morning. The sun was shining and the wind was from the southeast. Up especially early, a tall, bony, redheaded young Virginian found time to buy a new thermometer, for which he paid three pounds, fifteen shillings. He also bought gloves for Martha, his wife, who was ill at home. Thomas Jefferson arrived early at the statehouse. The temperature was 72 and the horseflies weren't nearly so bad at that hour. It ...

Real World Cyborgs - Part Two Dateline: 06/20/00 Last week we started to learn about research projects and commercial products utilizing technology that merges electronic components with organic tissue. Our overview of "real world cyborgs" couldn't be complete without mentioning "cyborg professor", Kevin Warwick, from the Cybernetics Department at the University of Reading, UK. In August 1998, he begun a research experiment by inserting a glass capsule about 23 millimeters long and 3 millimeters wide containing an electromagnetic coil and a silicon chip into his upper left arm. He claimed to be the first person in the world to ...

Real World Cyborgs Dateline: 06/13/00 If you were convinced that cyborgs live only in the imagination of the Science-Fiction writers, here is another example of how technology is converting yesterday's SF into tomorrow's reality. Several research labs are working on a hybrid device in which a body of a robot is controlled by the organic "brain". I'm sure this research will raise many ethical issues, but let's stick to the tech-side of a story first and see what can we expect in the near future. Vittorio Sanguineti of the University of Genova, Ferdinando Mussa-Ivaldi, Simon Alford and Bernie Reger ...