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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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