Interesting information, but I'm not impressed.  Most of these
companies give according to which way the wind is blowing, mostly
supporting who will promise them the most so they can make money,
which is evil, I guess.  I gave $ 180 to Ford's Political Action
Committee, not knowing who it would be distributed to, only that
Ford's Government Affairs targets auto. industry supporters; political
non-supporters try to do (wait; they're just lawyers and they don't
actually DO anything; they just enact) things that are beyond the laws
of physics.

JJK


On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:33:16 -0500 (EST), Daniel Reeves
  wrote:
> Useful email from Tony (feel free to argue about this, Cam!).  I'm also
> appending a touching skating story.  See below.  --Danny
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 10:13:03 -0500
> From: anthony nicholson  
> Subject: Buy Blue Current Campaign
> 
> Here's a page which helps you vote with your wallet when doing Christmas
> shopping. Who knew that Borders gave 100% of its political donations to
> the Democrats? Guess it makes sense, given that store #1 is in Ann
> Arbor. Maybe they're not such an evil corporation after all.
> 
>  
> 
> -----
> 
> SEATTLE (Reuters) - A Polish man traveled more than 3,000 miles on
> rollerblades to Microsoft Corp.'s headquarters to ask Chairman Bill Gates
> pay the medical costs of two disabled Polish girls, the company said on
> Tuesday.
> 
> Krzysztof Dzienniak, 24, rolled into Microsoft's Redmond, Washington
> campus on Monday after setting off from New York in late August to raise
> money for 7 year-old Monika Mosur, who was born with hydrocephalus, and
> Patrycja Bialkowska, a 10 year-old who lost a foot in an accident.
> 
> Although Dzienniak did not get to meet with Gates, who was out of town, he
> did convince Microsoft executives to set up a special
> employee-contribution fund for the girls, with donations matched
> dollar-for-dollar by Microsoft.
> 
> Gates kicked off the fund, established in association with the charity
> group SOS Children's Villages, with a $1,000 personal contribution and
> encouraged Microsoft's employees to donate as well.
> 
> "We do respond to needs like this... and hope that we will be able to
> raise the money necessary for the girls' treatment," a Microsoft
> spokeswoman said.
> 
> Dzienniak, who lives in Warsaw and read about the girls' plight, decided
> to make the trip after Gates visited Poland in 2003. He said he was
> inspired to make the trip by the movie "Forrest Gump."
> 
> Dzienniak wore out three pairs of rollerblades, or inline skates, and
> traveled about 32 miles a day.
> 


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Regards, 

John J. Kapusky