Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $35,069
43%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 43%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

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  • Woo hoo!! And our 4th qtr FReepathon is now underway!! [Thread II]

    Woo hoo!! And our 4th qtr FReepathon is now underway!! Please get your donations in early so we can wrap this baby up early!! Would be great if we can get 'er done within 60 days!! Greater yet if we can do it in 30 days or less!! Go, FReepers, GO!! Prayers up for a great election and continuing progress and success. FR is funded solely by contributions made by the liberty loving patriots who love and use it. We are beholden to no political party. No advertisers, no outsiders, no sugar daddies, no corporate string pullers. Definitely no government...
  • Changing Cuba: Monster Buses Vanish From Havana Streets

    04/19/2008 7:08:10 PM PDT · by JACKRUSSELL · 24 replies · 64+ views
    The Associated Press / Google News ^ | April 18, 2008 | By Will Weissert
    (HAVANA) — First comes the stink of diesel, then a metallic roar, and finally a tower of black smoke that tells you the "camello" — the camel — has reached your stop. These hulking 18-wheeled beasts, iron mutants made of two Soviet-era buses welded together on a flatbed and pulled by a separate cab, have long been Havana's public transport nightmare — bumpy, hot and jammed with up to 400 passengers at a time. But their gradual disappearance is a telling sign of change in the twilight of the Fidel Castro age. The last "camello" is expected to go out...