Hey DUers oreilly-sucks.com Needs Some Help

[stewert]

I have an emergency, last friday my computer died on me so I need to raise
the money for a new one. I am on my brothers computer right now, him and his wife
both work all day until 4:00pm so I can use his computer during the day.

On top of that the server for my website is having problems so the website and the
donation page is offline sometimes. It is working right now, but who knows when it will
go down again.

So I would appreciate it if you could make a donation to help me buy a new computer. I am
disabled and unable to work due to a bad back. So I have no other way to raise the money.

Here is the donation page, it has a link to my paypal account. And my snail mail address etc.

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

I have been working on a new website blog and I have a copy of the donation page on it. If
the oreilly-sucks.com site is down you can use it.

http://www.realusanews.com/donate.htm

Thanks,

Stewert

[candy]

1. $5,000.00 on it's way!!!!!!

[stewert]

2. Huh ?

If that's a joke, it's not funny.

[stewert]

3. Just Got One....

Some freeper just donated 1 cent to my paypal account.

Yes I said 1 cent, what an idiot. So far that is the only donation I have
recieved.

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Stewart: I'd help, but I'm kinda in financial troubles of my own. Hang in there though...

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14. You're right. I alerted myself.

but I must ask... you haven't been here too long. You only have 6 posts and all... how do you know all these rules...

btw, that was the first time I ever got a message of mine deleted :(

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[Tinoire]

29. That was probaby a freeper's interpretation of "$5000" n/t

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[stewert]

5. labtec62.....

That $40 includes my monthly ISP cost etc. The actual web hosting cost is almost nothing.

The server is reliable 99.9% of the time, it's had a couple problems in the last
week or two. Other than that they are almost never down.

My biggest problem is raising the money for a new computer, I did not even buy
the one I had, it was gift from my Father in march of 1998. He paid for it with some of the
money he got when my mom passed away. Now that money is gone and we are
both broke.

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[candy]

15. I assumed this was a scam like the Nigerian scam---

I received an E-Mail requesting money last winter to make me a millionaire etc.

The requst for money seemed unuaual to me so I posted my sarcastic reply.

Sorry! I'll learn my way around DU eventually.

Good luck!

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[kcordell]

22. For What it's Worth Candy

This same person was on here a few months back asking for money. If I remember correctly there wasn't any computer 'emergency' at that time. He just wanted money to keep his site running.

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[salin]

34. What is the big deal? If you don't want to support it - don't

I don't see any scam - and don't get the innuendo.

Look, folks run volunteer organizations in communities all over the place - and in this case in cyberspace. Thing is - beyond the time donated to the cause... there are often basic operating expenses. Just a reality. When those (individual or group) can no longer completely fund it on their own either it just disappears - or they can appeal to those who might want to see the effort continue who might be willing (to help the effort continue) to make donations. Without letting people know the effort is in jeopardy - it just disappears. If after letting people who might be interested know its status and if noone cares enough to keep the effort going - it still just disappears.

I have been around DU for well over two years. Have followed Stewert's efforts and "adventures" (like when ORielly et al threatened legal action to get Stewert to "cease and desist" with the website) over that time - the effort is consistent. Prior to the appeal a couple of months ago - only saw updates - and appeals for advice (during the Lawyer letter situation.) All things he has written has been consistent.

I really don't get the nasty tone this thread has taken.

[stewert]

26. Some Information !

I own and run www.oreilly-sucks.com. I have done this since 8-26-01 for nothing. I
do it as a public service to the American people. I do not collect a salary and I do not
make a dime from the website. I have been a member of DU.com for about 2 years, I
have over 2,500 postings.

I use the money I recieve to pay for my internet expenses. That includes my ISP cost,
my upgrades and computer problems etc. I am disabled from a back surgery in 1985 and
I can not work. I live with my retired 80 year old father who supports us both on his small
monthly social security check. He is broke and in debt to the credit card companies because
his check does not cover our monthly expenses. Now I have to pay for everything I do on the
internet all on my own.

If I can not raise the money to pay my ISP I can not get on the internet. If I can not raise the
money to keep my computer working I can not update the website. I hate like hell to ask for
donations, it makes me sick to beg for money. And I am not going to do it ever again.

A few months ago I made a posting here asking for some donations to help me pay to
keep the website online. I recieved about $250 in donations. It paid my expenses at the
time, and I even made a donation to DU.com from that money. I also donated a little to
the Kerry campaign. One of my expenses was I had to buy a new computer monitor, I
found one on sale for $120 so I bought it.

Now I need to raise the money to buy a new computer because the one I had totally
died. The whole hard drive is dead, gone, done. The thing was 6 years old, it was given
to me as a gift in march of 1998.

This will be the last time I ever ask anyone for a dime. if the site goes dead, so be it, I just
don't care anymore.

I will keep the domain name, and keep the site online, but I may not update it anymore.

I am tired of asking for money to keep the site going.

I am done..............

Steve

[candy]

27. This entire thing is really strange !

Spend more time job hunting would be my advice.

[Egalitarian Zetetic]

31. He is disabled, what part don't you understand???<nt>

[candy]

44. How do we know he's disabled?

Anyone who is clever enough to run a website is able to work from home,disabled ot not.

Lots of disabled pwople work outside the home also.

As I said before,I don't get it.

[salin]

45. I don't get your hostility

so don't donate? Easy decision. Doesn't even require casting inferential aspirations. :shrug:

[alittlelark]

52. candy - you are rotting my teeth with your soul

you are a deeply hostile individual who should go back to the 700 club and stay outta here. Your attitudes appear to display the worst of this great country.

[SammyWinstonJack]

57. Just what is your problem?

I don't "get" you. :shrug:

[salin]

32. easy to say

when one doesn't have debilitating back problems... its in the posts, and consistent with what has been discussed through conversations over several years through DU.

Don't know if folks have any experience with "running" a completely volunteer effort or not - but there are costs - and the only way to cover them are through donations by people who support the work of those who volunteer. That isn't a strange concept.

If there wasn't a website - and therefor something to verify the existence of the effort - then yes, it might seem like a scam.

Either one sees the website and thinks it is valuable out there in the public domain (ongoing debunking/criticisms of the (All)Spin Factor) or not. If one does, and wants to see it continue... from time to time one can make a donation. If not, don't. No reason to be demeaning and nasty.

FYI a year or so ago, this website was targeted by ORielly/faux and attempts to shut it up via lawsuits occured. We saw some of the communications. So here is this guy, on his own keeping this up - being threatened with a financial lawsuit (costs of hiring lawyers to respond... which is the whole point of such lawsuits). So for whatever reason - you may not think the website and effort to monitor and respond to ORielly is worth a hill of beans... but apparently ORielly and his folks think otherwise. So don't offer any support if you don't think it is worth while... but again I must say, I don't see any reason to be demeaning to Stewert.

Just my two cents.

[elf]

38. I can and will help,

but how? Can you send me a private mail?

[DarbyUSMC]

58. Steve, I don't know you, nor am I familiar with your web site. I have to

wonder about the shape you are in regarding your disability. I assume you have applied for SSD and been denied, if you have no income. If that is the case, reapply or go to a lawyer. They will work on it and take only a percentage of the first lump sum check. If you've never paid into SS or haven't paid enough into it....have you considered SSI? If so, while waiting for an answer you may be eligible for something called HR-SSI through you local county Social Services office....that is a state to state thing but worth looking into. There are a lot of safety nets out there for people who are disabled. Your father should not be supporting you if he is getting SS. He gets that for his needs and it should cover basic necessities.

As far as people contributing to your website, I think people are so inundated with people asking for help in one way or other that they tend to be skeptical.

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[Tinoire]

28. I'll be making a donation to you tonight when I get home.

Ignore these strange, very strange, new posters with no profiles, who are trying to paint you badly!

Kick. And I'll be kicking this again later.

Hope someone alerted on all the ass-holes giving you grief and that they've been properly disposed of. If I were you, I'd ask to have this thread locked and start a new one.

This is simply inexcusable. It's too bad we can't see the names of all the asses who got deleted in here.

[stewert]

39. Unreal........

I guess some people think this is a scam and I am a scammer, the regulars
here know better. I would hope it was a bunch of freepers, they usually tell
disabled people to get a job.

Earth to moron, I AM DISABLED. I had an L-5 Laminectomy for a ruptured disk
and a pinched sciatic nerve. It left me with PPD, DDD, and permanent disability in
my right leg. I worked in a printing factory doing heavy labor for 17 years and it
ruined my back.

PPD = Permanent Partial Disability
DDD = Degenerative Disk Disease

I have a 10 lb. weight lifting restriction, and I can not do any repetative lifting at all.

I could go on but I think that is enough.

I have not worked since 1995, in 1998 my mother passed away from a brain anurism. She
left my dad some money, he bought me a computer with that money. This computer died on
me last friday, now I need a new one. But I am broke, if you think this is a scam then do not
donate, I do not want your money.

There are people here who know what I do, and know my situation. Salin is one of them, catwoman
is another, and many more.

Frankly I am shocked at the reaction to my posting. This is the crap I would expect from
republicans.

I have devoted 2.5 years of my life to exposing O'Reilly as the lying right-wing fraud he is and
this is the thanks I get. I spend 5 to 8 hours a day searching the net for stuff on O'Reilly,
articles, transcripts, watch his Nazi show, etc. I don't have to do this, and I may not do it anymore
after all this crap.

And that don't include answering e-mails and responding to postings on my message board. I have
been called every name in the book by every right-winger on the net. I don't need this shit.

[Tinoire]

40. Hey Stewert... Relax my friend...

I'm sorry. Take comfort in that fact that people here know you and will, Skittles-style, KICK THEIR ASS for you.

You don't have to explain a god-damned thing.

How disheartening to know there is so much scum running around on this earth.


Your sight provides an important service in unmasking the filth coming from the right. Is it any wonder that you would be pounced on? Take it as a compliment- you're getting to them & they're seething like snakes.

Good job.

:hug:

[Rationality]

41. I got both the disruptors banned, so you should try again ((n/t))

[Sparkle]

33. I would like to help you out but some of us just contributed to DU and .

can't afford it right now. I can't stand that blowhard O'Reilly either. Good for you on running the site.

[Tinoire]

35. Kick. n/t

[Tinoire]

42. A DU kick to keep this web-site operational! n/t

[salin]

43. think I figured out the origin of some of the deleted posts

seems that this thread was highlighted on one of our "fan" forums (right wingers who watch and mock). I was a bit surprised by the tone on the thread (you don't trust the plea, or want to support the site - don't... no big deal...) No longer.

[Tinoire]

46. I'm not surprised... You can tell when they coordinate their little freep

You can tell when they coordinate their pathetic little freep-attacks. The tone was as despicable as those nut jobs are. Thanks for jumping in!

:pals:

[gulfcoastliberal]

47. You've got Cash

Your site was one of the very first I discovered when my rage against the misadministration launched my online quest to find anti-repuke websites. Best of luck to you and I hope my small donation helps.

-Noah

[Pepperbelly]

48. kick

:kick:

[peekaloo]

49. kick

snail mail being sent.

[MooPie]

50. Hi Stewert

Although I can't send as much as I did last time, I am mailing out a check tomorrow. Please please ignore those ignorant "morans" and please continue to let us know when your site is in financial trouble. There are many of us who support you and value what you do so don't let those losers taint your faith in those of us who want to help. And we can't help if we don't know when you need it.

[alittlelark]

51. Never - even in the GD 2004 forum

have I seen sooo many deleted messages. Either we have a mod on a roll - or it must have been damn interesting!

When you get a $31.39, you'll know it was from me. Wish I could see the 'deleted' posts!!

[Democat]

54. If only he got a dollar for each deleted post

He'd probably be rich soon. :)

[Tinoire]

53. Ok- Just sent you 20 bucks. Keep exposing that ass-hole

And just know, by the number of deleted posts written by seething RW snakes, that you are doing something right!

:thumbsup:

[dmr]

55. Just sent you something, Stewert

Thanks to those who've kept this kicked, or I would have missed this.

There are people who do not (or refuse to) understand the limitations of a disability, physical pain and how it can keep you from a quality life. What you can do one moment does not mean you can do it the next. Sitting, standing or walking is a moment to moment issue. Maintaining a website isn't like working a 40 hour a week job. You maintain it when your body let's you. An hour here, an hour there.

I wish you well, Stewert, you are a valued and seasoned DUer. Don't let those with the cold hearts keep you from coming back to ask for help when you need it again. They are not worth your time or energy.

[stewert]

56. Update.........

Thanks for the donations folks, my oreilly-sucks.com server is still down off and on so if you can
donate you might have to use my backup donation page.

http://www.realusanews.com/donate.htm

I am guessing all the deleted postings in this thread were made by 2 freepers. At least that
is what I hear, I did not see any of the postings. I just saw the message removed postings, so
I thought a bunch of DUers were hammering me for asking to donate.

Now I hear it was two people, they were banned I guess. I want to also thank Skinner and Elad
for putting up with my crap and letting me post my donation message.

They probably think I am an idiot for bothering them like I did, but when you are desperate you
take desperate measures. Basically the internet is my life, as sad as that is, it's pretty much true.
If I could not get online I don't know what I would do, I depend on my computer and I can not
comprehend not having one.

Anyway, thanks again to everyone who donated.

Steve