i think i remember mag saying something about suits
but not sure if it had anything about taxes. i do not
remember anything directed to you, kat. but, then i do
not remember yesterday sometimes.
--- Linda Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> At 01:54 PM 7/26/2006, you wrote:
> >Frankly, I don't care *how* we all get to the same
> page as long as we
> >*do* get there. I deal with too many people whose
> lives have been
> >totally upended by late on-set disabilities not to
> have sympathy for
> >them. And I'm just glad that Case's dad "saw the
> light" even though it
> >might have been a bit late for Case.
>
> You couldn't be more right. What a great advocate
> you are.
> Jason's been a good advocate for Case, who has had
> good interventions
> physical, occupational, eye, gymnastics and other
> help to manage his
> body which just doesn't seem to cooperate the way we
> wish it should.
> BUT then, the reality hit Jason when he broke his
> femur. Experience
> counts. That's a primary reason I joined this list
> to learn from the
> experienced.
> We are all learning, no one is perfect, and
> especially not my family.
> We think very similarly about all that political
> stuff. I could have
> written what you wrote myself. We have given Israel
> carte blanche to
> go in and slaughter people. That's how Bush is
> taking the war to a
> new level. My son also was planning enough in
> advance to have saved
> Case's brothers stem cells and the whole family was
> very hopeful for
> stem cell research. I despise Bush for vetoing that
> incredible
> science while endorsing bombs that will continue to
> destroy for
> decades. What a shortsighted idiot for a president.
> Just my opinion.
> My dad was also Air Force, a great guy who worked
> for the defense
> industry, after becoming an Ace fighter pilot in
> Korea. Luckily he
> lived afterwards and we fought about Republicanism,
> peace in Vietnam,
> freedom, and democratic principles often.
> I don't remember the tax comment...obviously off
> base. I think no
> matter where we stand, for or against Bush, what he
> has instigated
> has us all on edge and stressed out. I had to stop
> watching CNN after day 11.
>
> >You said something about my being against taxes or
> something earlier in
> >this discussion, I believe -I am not against taxes
> for programs that
> >enabled disabled people to function with training,
> etc. I am against
> >taxes that benefit the wealthy at the expense of
> the poor. I am also
> >totally against welfare programs that exist purely
> to keep people on the
> >dole and encourage their children to stay on the
> dole. I am also
> >pro-military but am totally against the war in
> Iraq, which I feel
> >strongly was a strategic blunder on the part of the
> present
> >administration that will resonate negatively in the
> years to come. On
> >the other hand. I am aghast at the Israelis for
> their actions against
> >Lebannon - their is NO excuse whatsoever in my
> opinion, for what they
> >are doing.
> >
> >My dad was military and if it hadn't been for the
> military and its
> >marvellous support system, my family would have
> been much worse off - my
> >mother would never had been able to afford her med
> during her last
> >illness nor some of the treatments if it had not
> been for the benefits
> >of being a officer's widow. So I am immensely
> grateful to the Air Force.
> >
> >
> >Kat
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Linda Walker wrote:
> > > Exactly right....being disabled and getting
> older and becoming
> > > disabled with age are entirely different.
> > >
> > > At 07:52 AM 7/25/2006, you wrote:
> > >> As the first of the baby boomers are reaching
> their sixties, IMHO,
> > >> another Grey Panthers movement is likely; I'm
> hoping that the line
> > >> between "having difficulty getting around
> because you're getting older"
> > >> and having a disability will not be as sharply
> drawn. I look at people
> > >> in my parent's and grandparent's generations,
> and still see a strong "us
> > >> vs. them" bias, particularly toward people who
> are perceived as having
> > >> cognitive disabilities.
> > >>
> > >> Kendall=20
> > >>
> > >> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> redundant!)
> > >>
> > >> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
> the unreasonable one
> > >> persists in trying to adapt the world to
> himself. Therefore, all
> > >> progress depends on the unreasonable man.
> > >>
> > >> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
> > >>
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]=20
> > >> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 12:01 AM
> > >> To: [log in to unmask]
> > >> Subject: Re: [C-PALSY] Disability Right (was:
> Re: Case)
> > >>
> > >> =20
> > >> In a message dated 7/24/2006 8:11:30 AM Pacific
> Daylight Time, =20
> > >> [log in to unmask] writes:
> > >>
> > >> We really need another Grey Panthers movement,
> really we do
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> No joke there! I wonder if it'll ever happen.
> > >>
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