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2013-03-14 --Tech & Moderator Notes
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Posted by Sherry 2013-03-14 00:29|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 Challenge?
Posted by Sherry 2013-03-12 00:59||   2013-03-12 00:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Done via PP
Posted by phil_b 2013-03-12 01:07||   2013-03-12 01:07|| Front Page Top

#3 At a time when I didn't have $1, some dreadlocked douche hawking The Socialist Worker insisted that he had to charge me $1. I asked, "what about, from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs?" He still wanted $1. Well, he didn't get $1, and I didn't get a paper.

So here I am, and I have more than $1 now. Thanks Fred.
Posted by RandomJD 2013-03-12 01:31||   2013-03-12 01:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Happy to help, I appreciate the work you do here, and I love the birthday gam shots, I have to admit it!
Posted by Rob06 2013-03-12 01:55||   2013-03-12 01:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Sent.

I looked for recurring payments on Paypal but didn't find it. More coffee needed perhaps, and will look again later. But many small monthly payments would probably help more than sporadic requests.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2013-03-12 05:44||   2013-03-12 05:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Done. Always a pleasure to donate to Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2013-03-12 07:35||   2013-03-12 07:35|| Front Page Top

#7 PayPalled ya
Posted by Frank G 2013-03-12 07:54||   2013-03-12 07:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Done. Thanks, Fred!
Posted by Mullah Richard 2013-03-12 08:07||   2013-03-12 08:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Freddie,
I get my latest unemployment check later in the week and I'll give you my widow's mite for sure.

How do I do that? I am a complete computer phobic so what buttons do I use or am I being thick again?
Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-03-12 09:44||   2013-03-12 09:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Done! Ride fast, stay low in the saddle Fred.
:-)
Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-12 09:57||   2013-03-12 09:57|| Front Page Top

#11 How do I do that? I am a complete computer phobic so what buttons do I use or am I being thick again?

Bill, if you would prefer to send Fred a check or cash, scroll up to the yellow box in the right margin, click on "E-Mail Me", and send Fred a note asking for his mailing address. If you're willing to try Paypal, there's an orange "Donate" button to the right of today's Birthday Gam Shot girl. Click on that, and do what it tells you. Good luck!
Posted by trailing wife 2013-03-12 10:56||   2013-03-12 10:56|| Front Page Top

#12 Also, Bill, if you click on PayPal, on the left side of the screen, credit card payment is presented. Look for the question, "Don't have a PayPal account?" And you are good to go.
Posted by Sherry 2013-03-12 11:01||   2013-03-12 11:01|| Front Page Top

#13 Catch you later this week Fred.
Posted by DarthVader 2013-03-12 11:06||   2013-03-12 11:06|| Front Page Top

#14 I did it. I liked Amazon better but for Rantburg I did Paypal.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-03-12 11:30||   2013-03-12 11:30|| Front Page Top

#15  If you're willing to try Paypal, there's an orange "Donate" button to the right of today's Birthday Gam Shot girl.

...and what better place to put a "Donate" button?
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-03-12 11:32||   2013-03-12 11:32|| Front Page Top

#16 Sent a little.

Thanks for everything
Posted by Beavis 2013-03-12 12:50||   2013-03-12 12:50|| Front Page Top

#17 RandomJD, that reminds me of a time back when, walking along I came across a booth whose peddlers wanted me to have a copy of the Bahagva-Gita. "Have this free copy if you just listen to us for 5 minutes and consider a donation". Never read it, so you know wth, only had $10 for the whole day. Listened to their deal about love and community so forth, gave them the 10spot. They said the book was valued at $15, it would be nice if I donated that. "But you said this book was valued at five minutes of my time?! What was that deal about worldy possession possessing us and all?"

But it costs $15!

No, it sells for $15. Looking at that stack you all paid much less for each book, if they weren't donated to you.

Three major moves and children later, I still have that book as some sort of reminder; translation by AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Thoreau, Emerson, and Gandhi statements on the back if that helps tell what part of town I was in.
Posted by swksvolFF 2013-03-12 14:09||   2013-03-12 14:09|| Front Page Top

#18 Thank you everyone who submits news, and especially to the mods and mechanics.
Posted by swksvolFF 2013-03-12 14:10||   2013-03-12 14:10|| Front Page Top

#19 PayPal used for the first time, so I hope it goes through. Thanks Fred et al, I really enjoy the site, the comments and the breadth of the news and commentary. Nice to see sanity amidst the drivel on the web, and some world class sarcasm and experienced insight.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2013-03-12 14:14||   2013-03-12 14:14|| Front Page Top

#20 Chipped in. Beats puttering around...
Posted by M. Murcek 2013-03-12 14:45||   2013-03-12 14:45|| Front Page Top

#21 pa-ching! paypal went through on this side
Posted by abu do you love 2013-03-12 15:11||   2013-03-12 15:11|| Front Page Top

#22 Done.
Posted by Grunter 2013-03-12 16:28||   2013-03-12 16:28|| Front Page Top

#23 There ya go. Wish it was more, but, my wife is the one on paypal ;^)
Posted by Alanc 2013-03-12 16:33||   2013-03-12 16:33|| Front Page Top

#24 I don't know?
Am I a Burgher?
My posts vanish, I get threatened by the Mods, and I'm just not sure.
How about posting WHY my posts vanish.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-03-12 16:46||   2013-03-12 16:46|| Front Page Top

#25 I get threatened by the Mods and I'm just not sure

You were warned, not threatened.

It's simple and long-standing rule: Commenters will not make comments at Rantburg threatening the life or health of Americans, including elected officials.

You, in particular, have been warned twice recently about making such comments. Does a "30 caliber curable" comment that you made on March 11th with regards to a US Senator ring a bell?

There will not be a third warning.

Understand?
Posted by Pappy 2013-03-12 18:10||   2013-03-12 18:10|| Front Page Top

#26 Jim, think, post, review, delete post.

Of course I escapered the ban finally because of my natural good looks and a certain joie deh ummmm voie.


tl;dr

Think Jim I been where you are.
Posted by Shipman 2013-03-12 18:27||   2013-03-12 18:27|| Front Page Top

#27 Done. Thanks Fred and the rest of the crew.
Posted by remoteman 2013-03-12 18:41||   2013-03-12 18:41|| Front Page Top

#28 #5: I second Whiskey Mike - is there a way to do recurring donations? The NYT charges $15/mo for unlimited digital access. A bargain for The Burg, plus the warm fuzzy feeling of giving it to Fred instead would have a value all its own.

swksvolFF: LOL! You'll always remember your $10 lesson, won't you! Like South Park taught us, freedom isn't free. Freedom costs a buck-o-five. :)
Posted by RandomJD 2013-03-12 19:22||   2013-03-12 19:22|| Front Page Top

#29 There'll be a check coming on payday (15th).

I also do all my Amazon shopping through the 'Burg, and suggest others do, too. It's easy - just click on the 'Burg, then click on the Amazon square on the right-hand side a little below the "Donate" button. Then if you buy something, Fred gets a little bit (a tiny little bit, sure - but it's better than nothing).
Posted by Barbara 2013-03-12 19:57||   2013-03-12 19:57|| Front Page Top

#30 Chavez Obit said "instead of flowers please contribute to Rantburg".

So I did.
Posted by airandee 2013-03-12 20:23||   2013-03-12 20:23|| Front Page Top

#31 Done, and thanks to Fred and all the Rantburgers
Posted by jay-dubya  2013-03-12 20:45|| technochitlins.com  2013-03-12 20:45|| Front Page Top

#32 Fred, on the 25th I will send ya something.
Posted by Mikey Hunt 2013-03-12 20:47||   2013-03-12 20:47|| Front Page Top

#33 I am in and thank you all for what you do.
Posted by Capsu78 2013-03-12 21:22||   2013-03-12 21:22|| Front Page Top

#34 Done via Paypal...In a world beset by Socialist propaganda...some truths are self-evident...rock on Fred
Posted by Warthog 2013-03-12 21:50||   2013-03-12 21:50|| Front Page Top

#35 Swanhill address still right for USPS?
Posted by Glenmore 2013-03-13 08:05||   2013-03-13 08:05|| Front Page Top

#36 Snail mail inbound (Saturdays excluded) thanks Fred
Posted by USN,ret 2013-03-13 09:04||   2013-03-13 09:04|| Front Page Top

#37  Swanhill address still right for USPS?

That's what I'll use, Glenmore. Fred hadn't mentioned moving house.
Posted by trailing wife 2013-03-14 00:17||   2013-03-14 00:17|| Front Page Top

#38 Rantburg is an valuable resource. It would suck to lose it.
Posted by newc 2013-03-14 00:25||   2013-03-14 00:25|| Front Page Top

#39 Happy to chip in ... gotta keep a good thing going.
Posted by Beau  2013-03-14 19:08|| https://www.facebook.com/beau.brummel  2013-03-14 19:08|| Front Page Top

#40 cookie
Posted by lotp 2013-03-14 20:45||   2013-03-14 20:45|| Front Page Top

#41 mmmmm cookies
Posted by Frank G 2013-03-14 20:53||   2013-03-14 20:53|| Front Page Top

#42 It's in the mail.
Posted by Glenmore 2013-03-14 21:27||   2013-03-14 21:27|| Front Page Top

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