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Please Think of the Children!
Last night I was as paying my bills and reconciling my checking account and I put together a tally of the causes that I have supported this year.
I just got a letter from the EFF thanking me for my $120 donation that I made during the Blogathon and I got a cool metallic bumper sticker to show my support. The RIAA has begone to sue their core audience again including a poor 12 year old girl who lives in a low income housing project. Bastards!
The RIAA is making to really hard for me to buy any new music without feeling guilty and getting really pissed at them. So the only way I buy music these days is used CDs so the RIAA does not get a dime of my money.
Since I got a new bag of coffee to get my ass up in the morning I donated 10 bucks to Mozilla. I know that sounds like a non-sequitur but I will explain.
There is this coffee roaster who was donating profits to the Mozilla foundation. I don't mail order things on line unless I can help it so I figure for every ten bucks I spend on coffee I would give Mozilla a buck. The Mozilla coffee blend probably only cuts them a buck for every ten bucks spent anyway. The $10 I donated to the Mozilla Foundation will help them keep the lights on an make Mozilla even better. I will give them another donation once Mozilla 1.5 goes gold. The Mozilla form manager makes it easy to order things on line and donate money so it is a self-fulfilling tool.
There is a DeanCorps Food Drive for Northwest Harvest. I am not inclined to lug several pounds of canned food to Seattle on my bike so I am going to donate $20 on line instead and save my back.
I donated another $25 to Dean For America bringing the amount that I have donated up to $70. I would pay really money to have a new President and I am donating the $200 that Bush gave me in a tax cut to help give us a president I can be proud of.
I gave six bags of clothes to Goodwill and three boxes of books to my library.
So that is the causes that I have supported and I can now spend some disposable income on video games without any guilt.
Jake at September 9, 2003 
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Jake, I'm with 'ya. From here on out, It's only Used CD shops and half.com for my music buying stops.
BTW - The RIAA has really gotten my dander up, especially with the 12 year old's case mentioned above. I could elaborate, but it would take up way too much space and I'm in too good of a mood to dole out a long negative rant like that today. :)
Posted by: pellinore at September 9, 2003 10:38 AM
I am defiantly with you; these corporate bastards must be stopped at almost all costs. I encourage all readers to join me in a boycott of all CD labels that support the RIAA. This shit has to stop somewhere I believe it will with a boycott.
Posted by: LaMiNaToR at September 9, 2003 3:40 PM
RIAA im not afraid of them.
I still use kazza although, I buy used cds when I really like the band
Posted by: Zachary at September 9, 2003 6:47 PM
I've been planning to donate to the Mozilla Foundation but kept putting it off until I read this entry of yours. (I donated $10 too.)
Posted by: Richie at September 10, 2003 1:01 AM
There was a short article about the RIAA suing all the fileswappers on the news this afternoon. It wasn't anything new thanks to this sites coverage of the saga.
Posted by: Matt at September 10, 2003 1:22 AM
Well blogs can add flavor that the normal news can't. I can say FUCK THE RIAA on my blog and I can't get away with that on TV.
Posted by: Jake at September 10, 2003 1:49 AM
Alas, I know this is off topic, but ain't too proud to blog is once again "over."
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Posted by: yadayada at September 10, 2003 12:07 PM
I sense a great disturbance in the force. It is as if hundreds of asshats cried out, and then were gone.
Posted by: Jake at September 10, 2003 12:25 PM
