I'd be the first to admit I don't know but surely not an all-out rocket
attack on Lebanon.
Kat
ken barber wrote:
> what do you think would have been appropriate reaction
> by isreal to the rocket attacks?
>
> --- Kathleen Salkin <[log in to unmask]> 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 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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