oreilly-sucks.com donation thread #2

[stewert]

OK DUers I am reposting the donation thread because the other one got so long it was
hard to load for people on a dial-up, and it got pushed back to the 6th or 7th page. I got a pm
from a person on a dial-up who said they had problems loading the thread it was so big. You
guys can help by keeping this kicked up for me, or if you are sick of seeing it you can let it
die. Either way is fine by me, I appreciate what everyone has done already. But I was hoping to
keep it going until 12-1-03.

My goal is 50 donations by 12-1-03, as of today I have about 30, it's up to you to help me
reach my goal.

To all who have donated I thank you very much.

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I have a serious problem, as you know I own and run www.oreilly-sucks.com. The problem I have is I am
not getting enough in donations to pay for my website and internet fees. For anyone that may not know,
I started the oreilly-sucks website on 8-26-01 after someone here said it would be a good idea. The guy
who suggested it then sent me $150 to get the website started in 2001.

I have been running it now for over 2 years and I do not make a dime for doing it. I have no sponsors or
advertisers, I am the only employee and I fund it with donations. In fact I just started taking donations
in march of this year because I was using more than the free bandwidth I get from my web host. My hits
have increased from 3000 a month to 30,000 a month in the last 10 months or so. And whenever O'Reilly
says or does something stupid my hits explode. this happened last month after the NPR interview, I got
over 8,000 hits in 2 days, it basically used 15 days bandwidth in 2 days. I normally get 800 to 1000 hits
a day.

I am currently using almost double the free bandwidth I get. When the extra 6 month supply of
bandwidth I have runs out I will not be able to buy a new 6 month supply of extra bandwidth because I
am as broke as broke can get. What makes it worse is my web host makes you buy bandwidth 6 months
at a time. And if I need to upgrade it during that time I have to buy 6 more months of bandwidth. Then
they credit me the difference for the months I have not used, but I do have to buy the upgrade or the
website goes offline until the 1st of the next month. This happened in october, I ran out of bandwidth on
the 17th of the month. I did not have the money to buy the bandwidth upgrade I needed so the website
was offline for 14 days until 11-01-03.

Basically I need to generate some donations to keep the website online. I only get 1 or 2 donations
every 3 or 4 months, and sometimes I go 2 or 3 months with no donations at all. The average donation
is about $5 to $20 dollars. As of today I need a minimum of $150 every 6 months to pay my expenses, or
about $300 a year.

I live with my retired father who is on a fixed income, and he can no longer afford to pay for any of my
internet expenses. So right now I am up a creek without a paddle. I sure don't expect 1000 DUers to
donate to my website like they did here, but if just 50 people donated $10 each it would give me $500
dollars to work with.

I also have two Al Franken books to give away with a donation, and one Peter Hart (fair.org) book called
the ohreally factor to give away with a donation. All the information is on the donation page. People
send me liberal books and I offer them for sale with a donation.

So please donate if you can, every little bit helps.

Donation page:

http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/donate.htm

P.S. Before I made this posting I asked ELAD if it was ok to ask for donations here in GD and he said it
was ok with him.

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[bearfartinthewoods]

2. thanks stewart for the answer

to the question i asked in the old thread about the books. i asked because i know that sometimes books are donated in bulk to websites in order to help. maybe that's something you could look into eventualy, when you get the other stuff set up?

[MooPie]

3. Kick!

Kick! Let's keep this going. We need this site. O'Reilly continued to paint himself as a monolith of truth on Chris Matthews.

[alarcojon]

4. Kick

:kick:

[calimary]

5. Kick - I just donated. You should get it Monday or Tuesday

via snail mail. Good luck, Stewert!

[SeveneightyWhoa]

6. Ayy..

You messaged me before, but just in case I forget to get back to you on Monday, message me (or email me, just visit the site in my sig for the link) when you're ready with PayPal.