Wow, Freeperville seems to be on life support these days, check out the 3rd quarter pledge drive

[K8-EEE]

JR's bizarre power tripping and "off with their heads" attitude about banning all who disagree with him FINALLY seems to have caught up with him....he's asking for a reduced (yet still outrageous) amount and is showing a donation rate of 1% per day - even that is probably fabricated to save face.

Unfortunately for them they have no FREE MARKET solution such as ad sales on DU, since no business would want to be associated with a bunch of racist old crackpots. So poor JR just has to keep begging for handouts, even though he "zotted" most of the suckers who were dumb enough to send him money in the first place.

He had a great grift going, and he blew it.

http://www.freerepublic.com

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Alas, the link doesn't work...

[warrior1]

3. it's better that why

I would hate to see your beautiful mind tainted.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Ah, thank you, but my mind is hardly beautiful! lol

[1StrongBlackMan]

5. Yeah it does ...

You just have to use the right gerbil pellets to get him up and running the power source.

[Justpat]

21. LOL. n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

7. It's on their front page

You can try this (and it redirects to the OP's link) --> http://www.freerepublic.com/

[K8-EEE]

10. OK THANKS, think I fixed it

The fab "freepathon meter" is on the first page. You can go to the "freepathon threads" if you dare but the consist of bizarre "patriotic" glitter graphics that make the opening of Stephen Colbert's show look subdued

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. Thanks! It is working now!

And no kidding about the glitter!

Good god.

[eppur_se_muova]

15. Copy and paste the entire link -- DU3 doesn't like certain characters in links.

Here, it's the * that's messing things up.

[K8-EEE]

27. Ah I will remember that bout the * in the future, thanks nt

[eppur_se_muova]

33. The telltale is that the * and all the following text appeared as normal text ...

whereas the rest of the link appeared with a blue underline (the way my browser settings are chosen).

With some characters, the link becomes invisible !

[apocalypsehow]

2. A sad little site for sad little fanatics. I think your link is broke, BTW.

[freshwest]

13. Perhaps the cybergods are trying to tell the Freepers something..

[wandy]

29. Actually it's probably the doings of Nefarty.................

Nefarty is the goddess of all things IT. Rather short but surly cutie she does have one bad habit.
Occasionally she unfurls her little fairy wings, flies around the computer room, then proceeds to shit all over everything.

I know this. Just recovering from one of her visits myself.

[AngryOldDem]

4. He wants $85,000????

And the site STILL looks like something from the early '90s????

[K8-EEE]

8. That's the conservative way! Lots of money, no progress....

WOOT!

[apocalypsehow]

9. That's what I was thinking when I surfed over there - what is this, like, 1999?

"A fool and his money are soon parted."

[Scootaloo]

12. $85,000? Jesus holy shit...

is FreeRepublic powered by nuclear fission or something?

I guess it would explain the mutants and the toxic green glow...

[AngryOldDem]

20. Yeah, my eyes bugged at that, too.

Makes you wonder what they need all that money for...certainly not to improve the appearance of the site.

[K8-EEE]

26. Apparently JR has his whole damn family on FR payroll

Last quarter he was asking 92k!!

[Posteritatis]

28. Hosting costs for high-traffic sites can get astonishingly high quickly

I can believe their bandwidth bills would be in the four digit range per month, and then there's hosting of the servers and associated costs like that.

I doubt the whole bill comes to $85K and that the owner's pocketing some of that for himself, but half of it? A third? Something in that neighborhood? I wouldn't be the least bit surprised.

[toddwv]

30. Yeah? So? What's your problem?

Updating the site i.e. "progress" would be communism!

You're not some un-'Merican commie are you?

Disclaimer: JOKING!

$85,000... for one quarter.

Wow, those people are getting ripped off.

[HarveyDarkey]

6. can't go there, never do

[freshwest]

16. Tell me about it... Fortunately though with cast iron guts make the journey for us... As for me..

[arcane1]

11. Is he still on his anti-Romney trip?

I can't navigate that mess enough to find out if he has an alternative or not.

And wow, $85k per quarter for that POS site... I'm in the wrong line of work!!

[freshwest]

18. No doubt 95% into JR's pockets... If they thought about it... But they can't... It'd be 'envy...'

None of them can ever admit they've been scammed.

[K8-EEE]

19. Yep although JR as Benevolent Dear Leader issued some kind of a "truce" or amnesty or whatever

To Freepers who wish to support the GOP candidate.....but it didn't work, they cannot discuss the Presidential election without having a massive tantrum about all the WONDERFUL candidates that Romney did wrong to (LOL like RICK PERRY!) IT'S HILARIOUS....JR ACTUALLY THOUGHT NEWTER PIE WAS GONNA SAVE FREE-DUMB.....

[OffWithTheirHeads]

22. Hey! Leave me out of it! I didn't do nothin.

[K8-EEE]

24. LOL sorry, Off!

Any similarities to real OWTHs purely coincidental.....

[mysuzuki2]

23. How many bags of cheetos can Rimjob buy with $85k?

[K8-EEE]

25. No no no he is saving freedumb with the 85k

also keeping us ladies out of the burkas! So have some respect....

[lpbk2713]

31. I love the smell of desperation in the morning.

It smells like ... Freepville.