I thought I would provide you with an update about the website since the denial of service attack was launched against the site on May 1.
Even though the site is up and running, the attacks continue. There have been 8 million attempted hits on the site in the last 24 hours. This is down from a peak of 50 million per day on May 4, but if I wasn’t paying CloudFlare and the Man With No Name to protect TBP, the site would not be functioning.
I’ve really done some excellent tax planning in the last few weeks. In the space of a couple days, I reduced my annual revenue by $3,000 per year when Media Nexus terminated my ad agreement because Google told them to. In order to get TBP back online I had to commit to an additional $9,000 per year of expense. So, the blood sucking Federal & State governments won’t have any TBP profits to tax in 2014. I sure screwed them, didn’t I?
Two years ago when the site was on BlueHost, my annual cost to run the site was about $300 per year. The occasional donation and a few dollars from Amazon covered my costs.
Last year when we switched to DreamHost, because BlueHost had become too slow, my annual cost rose to about $1,500. Again, the generosity of my readers, some Amazon commissions, and a few bucks from the ads were sufficient to cover my costs.
Now my annual costs will exceed $10,000 per year. I was overwhelmed by the generous response to the attack on the site. I received $2,300 in the week after the attack. This will go a long way towards covering my annual expenses. There are also 9 TBP regulars who make recurring donations every month. They have been supporting the site regularly for years. I really appreciate their consistent support. I’m eternally grateful for the financial support this site has received over the last few years.
I know the name of every person who has ever contributed to TBP and would love to thank them publicly on TBP, but based on our knowledge about the NSA and knowing that someone or something wants to silence TBP, it is probably prudent to keep your names secret.
There are many other truth telling sites, like Charles Hugh Smith’s and Automatic Earth, that depend on donations for support. Charles does name his contributors and puts them into categories depending upon how much they give. Automatic Earth and a few other sites set a goal and track it with a fund raising widget.
I would love for this site to pay for itself with just ads, then I wouldn’t have to ask people to donate, but we’ve passed that point. I don’t really have the financial resources to operate this site at a loss. Generally, the site will receive a short term surge of donations after a particularly popular article. Then nothing will come in for weeks. I would prefer not to waste your time with monthly posts asking for donations.
I thought that a donation widget like the one below, with a goal of $10,000 on the side of the page, would be the least intrusive way to encourage donations. Let me know what you think.
I’ll keep firing away at the establishment until I’m hauled away during a DHS domestic terrorist crackdown for daring to speak the truth to power.
Jim
I like the donation widget and think it’s a good concept.
I had no idea your costs have become so high. I will help when I am able.
I’m proud they are still attacking you.
Admin, it’s sites like yours (and antiwar.com which is also getting hacked) that drive the neocons crazy. You are having an impact and they don’t like it. So keep up the good work!
If you can slightly redesign it to resemble the giant red dildo from Amazon it might be even more popular… just a thought.
Or maybe rerun the Best Penis Nicknames contest to name it?
That is a good idea, the donation widget not so much the amazon dildo.
Like Gayle I will help when I am able.
Can you accept literal cash at your PO box?
I find literal cash to be the best cash of all. 🙂
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The TBP dick measuring contest!
Let’s get this this thing all the way to the tip!
Donation sent. Please forgive me for not having donated in a while. Yours is the first site I read in the morning, and the last I check at night.
….Help us, Obi-Wan Quinnobi
You’re our only hope
This may seem like a dumb question but is a money order from BOA and made out to JIM QUINN ok ? JIM QUINN P.O. BOX 1520 KULPSVILLE PA 19443 RIGHT PLACE TO SEND MONEY ORDER ? Idont give out credit card information anymore or any other personal numbers .
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How can I insult you if you send a donation?
A money order made out to Jim Quinn and sent to that PO Box will work.
Admin,
While I can’t donate funds I can donate my web design skills to optimize you page clicks. Currently you are losing a lot of possible ad revenue through your design. With the right layout I am sure I can up your page clicks 5X and draw in new readers.
“Admin, it’s sites like yours …….. that drive the neocons crazy.”
—-grgy
Correction. This site drives almost everyone crazy. As Admin stated several years ago when launching TBP 3.0, “It is my intention to piss everyone off.”
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I’ll make a contribution when I can. I’d like to give you half what I give my ex-wife for child support, then you wouldn’t need any other contributions, and you could lease a Porsche (or I could). Fucking parasite beeotch.
It’s amazing how expensive it is to run a “free” blog. I don’t see the widget yet.
I hope people contribute. I almost blew a gasket when TBP was gone for a week.
Don’t turn Admin into a beggar, he needs his cash for cheese steaks.
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Damn, ten grand is a lot. I had no idea it cost you so much.
Just bought a bunch of shit through the Amazon link. Will be sending a donation shortly.
You deserve it.
Since you’re flush all of a sudden, could I borrow some money? There’s this guy, you see, who promised me I could have a huge dick IF I buy his special herbal non-viagara pill. It was in an email I got and everything on the internet is true and I’m totally good for it….
You’ll be seeing some more cashola from me. Spend those Bernank, oops, Yellen Bucks while they still spend, my brotha! Keep up the great work for The Cause. If this country had 1,000 more like you we’d kick the bastards out of D.C.!
Wow! With dozens of readers coast-to-coast, TBP is sure to raise $10 by the end of the weekend! Way to go, Admin!
It’s like everybody got religion after TBP went down for a week. Same thing happened after 9-11, people were scared into actually marrying the mother of their children. What happened to Salma pics?
I don’t go to strip joints anymore so i can spare a couple of bucks, I’d be proud to add a 10 spot to T4C’s dime. I consider it an investment in my kid’s freedom of expression. Anybody who didn’t get in on the ground floor of Google stock can still invest in TBP’s Google bunker buster.
El Coyote
I bet if I turned this into a Salma fan site, the donations would really roll in.
Admin.,
You know some of my personal infro in the way I send you contributions, but for me it is like standing next to you while the firing squad takes aim. To have these bastards come at you makes me proud to be in your company.
AWD,
Divorce and child support, LOL priceless.
Thank God the Diner is so unpopular!
Also Thank God for the Database Cavalry from California.
Diner Still Ad Free and keeping the costs down. A non-stop battle.
RE
Is cash still okay?
HZK
Cash is always OK.
I prefer American dollars. Llpoh once sent me Euros. I had to find a freaking bank that would convert them to dollars (for a big fat fee) and sit there for almost an hour as they figured out what to do. He got a good chuckle out of that.
I emailed the admin at Silk Road. He offered to make a donation, too, but you have to go to Columbia to get it and it is considered recreational pharmaceuticals by the cops.
Admin.,
When in Europe it is sooooo easy messing with foreign currenies, the exact opposite in the U.S.
It was enough euros to make it worthwhile, tho!
I had a small wad left over after a trip. Thinking of sending koruna this time.
Sorry the costs have blown out on you. I will crack open the piggy bank.
Many, many thanks Admin.
Llpoh
Send some rubles or yuan this time.
Oh you take euros—OK – as a matter of fact I even have some Philippine pesos around here somewhere, I’ll go look!
A money order would require me to go out into the world…
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Sorry Admin, but you’re getting a check from me.
@ Maddie’s Mom …. is this what you tried to post?
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People, accept only genuine, real-time images of Salma Hayek from the master, who is I. Admin posted a pic of her taken over 16 years ago. Shameful. Here’s Salma today (I hope this doesn’t go nuclear).
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Wow, $10k, it is becoming way expensive to not go along and support the status quo.
Whom am I kidding, it has ALWAYS been expensive, even the Revolutionary War was over budget and underfunded, mainly because England had the power and ability to control a lot of the supplies.
Am so grateful for those that risk much to bring truth to light. I am so happy I found you at SA, then followed you here.
Last note, anyone that thinks mailing anything is “private” now is really kidding themselves. The postal service has been photographing EVERY piece of 1st class mail and keeping it in a database. It really doesn’t matter if you contribute via mail, or Paypal, or whatever, there is a record of the contact. Bank on it.
Read somewhere that they have a list of 8 million Americans that are considered potentially “subversive,” anyone that visits this site more than once has a really good chance of being on that list.
We’ve passed the point of no return. We are literally entering territory where the enemy has ALL the capabilities and all the rules on their side. Those that don’t want to live under tyranny, injustice and fascism may be completely out of luck.
So it goes, I’d rather go down standing up for the belief that human beings have rights no fucking government has a right to take away, than shut my mouth and eat my poison and pretend to be happy about it.
Thank you Jim, thank you so much!
Donation on the way, I wish it could be more, and like T4C if I win the lottery your site will no longer be struggling for funding.
Just a quick note on “donations” to Jim.
Mr. Quinn provides me with advice, I’m not supporting the website or its subversive ideas, I’m paying a life coach.
Underpaying is more like it.
Thanks again Jim.
“Read somewhere that they (the feds) have a list of 8 million Americans that are considered potentially “subversive,” anyone that visits this site more than once has a really good chance of being on that list.”
—-TE
Don’t know whether that’s true or not, but if it is, lots of people here are in trouble. It will start to show up in subtle ways, such as when you travel. For me, so far, so good.
SSS – if current Salma’s bra strap should snap, her boobs will hit her feet and she will likely break a few bones. She is wa-a-a-a-a-y past her prime.
Well, I would have to think about where those ddos attacks come from and if, or not, these are the same people fleecing me for 10k a year.
AS mentioned earlier anti-war.com was facing some ddos attacks, from those hack purveyors in Russia, so they say.
I dont know the specifics of the attack but often bot networks arent controlled by the country they initiated in. It could be Somalis, or Czechs., or some kid in moms basement in America needing to support his cheetos, porn, meth and diet coke addiction
@ T4C …. nice rant supporting donations to the site.
@ llpoh, who said, “if current Salma’s bra strap should snap, her boobs will hit her feet and she will likely break a few bones. She is wa-a-a-a-a-y past her prime.”
I post pics of Salma because she is middle-aged eye candy, which might appeal to the TBP demographic and perhaps make readership more entertaining. That’s it.
I’ll bet all of the regular female readers on TBP who see those pics of Salma do an “eye roll” and say to themselves, “Men.” And move on.
As for Salma being “past her prime,” I don’t know what that means.
Prime Angie Dickinson:
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Past Prime Angie:
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What is so hard to understand?
@SSS,
Yes! Thank you so much. I tried and tried…guess I need a tutorial :-/
Anyway, that’s me, most days. 😉
Haha oh Salma Hayek. Completely correct about the 10 dollars just did my share 🙂
Glad to be in the company of David Stockman, et al. Note to anyone who wishes to send Jim currency (it’s not “money”) – send USPS Registered Mail or Fedex/UPS. USPS “unregistered” currency has a way of failing to reach its destination. BC-LR to all.
I think the donation widget or whatever should be a ‘fuck google’ gauge. Their the fuckwads that started this bullshit, might as well celebrate daily their failure and utter frustration – taunting bullies…nothing better.
Happy to join the elite club of regular donors, Admin., though I’ve always tried to support your exemplary website along with many others’ worthy of sustenance (ie. Professor Macdonald’s “Occidental Observer,” Brother Nathanael Kapner’s “RealZionistnews,” “Vdare.com,” “James Edwards’ The Political Cesspool, & “Top Conservative News” being just a few of my favorites).
“…Again, unless you or anyone who regularly visits this site meet ANY of the aforementioned criteria….I call Bullshit on that.” – T4C
I concur. And anyone still subscribing to the controlled-disinfo-media Jews News’ Progressive-Marxist rags at the expense of donating here is not worthy of posting and should hang your heads in shame.
Keep fighting the good fight, Admin. It is a noble cause and there are none better qualified to be our mighty General. We are blessed to have such a warrior.
Cheerio,
Stephanie
Tommy is now a regular monthly donor, now that I’m a big shot – somebody get me a beer.
“I rely on you Vets to……teach me. But I will tell you as things stand; if you were a professor at a college teaching about “military stuff”….I wouldn’t sign-up for your class because your approach to teaching is just this side of belittling.
Now….Was there an attempted deal by the SS to surrender unconditionally and as a bonus kill Hitler in exchange for having the American aid in stopping the advance of Soviet Forces into Central Europe? Was Ike aware of that deal? Did Ike shelve the Churchill plan of invasion which lead to prolonging the war?”
—-T4C @ SSS
Why do I always get homework assignments on this site? The answers to your 3 questions are: I don’t know, yes (conditionally), and yes.
1st question about the SS offer prompts two questions. Who made the offer and what are the details? I simply don’t know. But I do know this. If there were such an offer, it was NOT Ike’s decision to make on acceptance or rejection. It would have been FDR’s, the Commander-in-Chief. Yes, FDR would have relied on people like Ike and Army Chief of Staff George Marshall for advice, but ultimately it’s FDR’s call to make, not Ike’s. Source: the U.S. Constitution.
2nd question about whether Ike was aware of the deal. If there were such a deal (offer), absolutely Ike would have known. And FDR and Marshall would have expected Ike to hammer out the details. He was, after all, the American theater commander and would have been expected to make sure Churchill and De Gaulle were on board every step of the way. Source: that’s how the chain of command works.
3rd question about Churchill’s plan of invasion. Churchill was overruled on a lot his ideas in WWII. For better or worse, the Americans were in charge simply because we brought more firepower to the table. Much more. Churchill’s brilliant intellect goes only so far when reality sets in. MacArthur had no such vexing political issues in the Pacific Theater.
As for my being a professor, my classes would be 100% booked. I’m an excellent teacher. Been there, done that when I was in the Air Force. I’m patient, respectful, well prepared and encourage discussion.
llpoh
SSS – if current Salma’s bra strap should snap, her boobs will hit her feet and she will likely break a few bones. She is wa-a-a-a-a-y past her prime.
She’s still beautiful and when I lay on back looking up it wouldn’t seem to be a problem to me.
@SSS, nope on eye-rolling to Salma, even now she is one of god’s most beautiful creatures, and I, for one, truly enjoy looking at her.
When I see you post her pics, I don’t roll my eyes, I actually chuckle a little at your obvious schoolboy crushing on her.
Endearing and amusing. Keep ’em coming.
Yo Some o’ you m’fuckers – an’ ah’m including you too Stephanie – need ta stroke yo’ wallet an’ git uh couple o’ Andy’s, uh Grant, or uh C note out in da open, put it in an envelope, an’ send it off ta JQ. Support da Main nigga.
Me, dat’s *R*O*D*N*E*Y*, an’ don’ you forget it, iz putting up cash out o’ muh motha fuckin pocket an’ adding uh grand’s worf o’ credit wif muh motha fuckin beotches fo’ Jimbo whenever he’s in da 30 blocks an’ needs uh few nice strokes ta git home in uh pimp-tight mood.
Administrator, please cash da check o’ one o’ muh motha fuckin bomb coast customers an’ do write mo’ ’bout the 30 blocks an don’t make me pull mah gat!
Angie Dickinson said of her affair with Jack Kennedy,…”It was the most incredible three minutes of my life”.