[Rhodes22-list] Friends Helping Friends

[Rik Sandberg]

Ed,

Right off the top of my head, I don't remember what the addresses for the 
sites were. I'll see if I can find them next time I get down to the office.

Rik


At 08:12 AM 1/19/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Rik,
>      Do you have listings of any of those Web sites?
>                                                       Ed K
>      Speaking of web sites, have you seen SONY's ad for laptops?  It is
>a video clip that unless you have High Speed Access, takes a long time
>to load: http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=030113FA-Working_at_Home
>
>       I had to 'refresh' to get it to run.
>                                               Ed K
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces@rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Rik Sandberg
>Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 7:41 AM
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>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Friends Helping Friends
>
>Brad,
>
>Yes, I haven't seen the website you refer to but I have seen a couple of
>
>other Gov't sites that list payments (mostly for NOT growing things) to
>farmers, etc. We checked out a few of the larger recipients in our
>county.
>Lo and behold, we know some of these folks quite well (but, not as well
>as
>we thought). No wonder these guys were talking about putting up a second
>
>mailbox!!!  :-) :-) Wonder if I can get paid for not running my
>trucks?????
>
>Rik
>
>
>
>At 04:20 AM 1/19/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> >Since we managed to get through last week without
> >anyone on the list setting off a nuclear bomb, I
> >thought I'd add some food (no pun intended) for
> >thought.  Every year I do my income taxes I pick a
> >special project where I want my money to go and then
> >consider that project my "gift" to the government(it
> >helps keep my anger in check).  As much as I
> >appreciate the military and the job they do, its tough
> >to buy them anything because everything is so
> >expensive.  I don't want to share a B-1 bomber with
> >several thousand others. So this year as I have for
> >the past several years I'm sponsering my old friend
> >D$%^&t M@#$%r from my hometown.  D$%^&t inherited farm
> >land but decided he didn't like farming so he became
> >an aircraft mechanic instead and opened a small repair
> >shop.  He hired me as an apprentice when I was only
> >fifteen and for that I will be ever gratefull.  Years
> >later D$%^&t decided to quit aviation and return to
> >farming.  He's a nice guy, goes to church with my
> >parents, and is well liked by most in our little town
> >of 650 people.  One day I stumbled across this website
> >in the Wall Street Journal - ewg.org.  ewg.org lists
> >all the farm subsidy recipients by state/county/name
> >and by crop.  It also has some interesting lists of
> >CEOs, movie stars, and others who are recieving
> >payments.  Look up your own county or someone you know
> >and see for yourself.  Since we have a war coming up
> >and April 15 is looming, I'm counting on some of you
> >to buy bullets and gas masks and stuff.  I pay a hell
> >of a lot of taxes but its a real struggle just to take
> >care of my old friend D@#$%t each year, and some years
> >I come up short, so please take up some of the slack.
> >If you want D@#$%t you can have him and I'll buy some
> >Humvee tires instead.  Thats ewg.org.
> >
> >Brad
> >
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