Hi Group,

What I hate more than anything else--and it crosses all political and 
cultural boundaries--is when people use one or two smashing successes as 
examples as to why everyone else who isn't a smashing success and who is 
blind is somehow lazy, shiftless, stupid or evil.  I find this 
especially among media types who seemingly want to portray all the 
issues associated with blindness as trivial or perhaps even already solved.

...And then there's those few favored blind people who lord it over the 
rest of us who claim to be smashing successes and when you find out in 
many cases--they're phonies.  People with all sorts of acclamations in 
their e-mail signature such as 'Director of...' or 'coordinator of...' 
and who then call lowly me on the phone asking me how to do something 
simple in Microsoft Word such as 'How do I save a copy of a Word 
document to a different folder than 'My Documents' or 'Documents.'

That's the kind of stuff that troubles this booby! hahsehahehahe!



On 1/9/2015 9:05 PM, Colin McDonald wrote:
> exactly right...the original idea has long since been eaten up by
> politicising pundants who are more interested in power and influence rather
> than a genuine desire to further the ideals by which the organizations are
> founded upon...kind of like government really lol.
> But, thankfully it's a free place we live in and we can choose to accept,
> follow or deny any organization we wish...unless of course that organization
> is one that, due to political correctness, we must tollerate and pander too.
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Dresser
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 6:59 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: scanners?
>
> That's the trouble with propaganda; it often overshoots the mark by several
> orders of magnitude, and thus fails to make its original point.  I'm sure
> that slogan was born as an attempt to make the point that if you ever want
> to accomplish anything, you can't just sit around and complain about how
> awful blindness is, but that certainly doesn't mean that it's just a
> nuisance.  A hangnail is a nuisance, but blindness is far more than that.
> If you doubt that, just try to go to a place where no busses run when you
> can't drive a car.
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: January 09, 2015 20:07
> Subject: Re: scanners?
>
>
>> 100 per cent agree on that one Alan!
>> Minimizing a disability or minimizing limitations is plain stupid and
>> unfortunately a major selling point for the biggest blindness organization
>> in the US...I'm sure it's obvious which one.
>> Yes, lets just hide from it, pretend it doesn't exist and maybe it'll go
>> away, or maybe others will treat us like sighted people...serious BS.
>> Accepting ones disability, learning to work within the limitations and
>> becoming totally comfortable in your own skin as a blind person is far
>> more
>> productive and allows one to lead a happy and successful life.
>> Pretending it's no more than a neusance only prolongs acceptance and
>> obtaining your own healthy level of self security, self confidence and
>> self
>> asteem.
>> And to keep it relatively short, living with ones own limitations, and
>> accepting the way one is and will always be is not the same thing as
>> failure, or complaicents or giving up or not trying to push those
>> limitations or boundaries...that is always healthy more or less.  A
>> Neusance
>> my foot lol.
>>
>> 73
>> Colin V A 6BKX
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alan R. Downing
>> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 5:04 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: scanners?
>>
>> Hey Butch, ain't being blind great?  I have to laugh at those poor souls
>> that really believe that being blind is a mere nuisance.  What hog wash!
>> On a scale where blindness is a mere nuisance is on one end, and a total
>> disaster on the other, blindness would be a lot closer to the disaster end
>> than a mere nuisance.
>>
>> N7MIT
>>
>>
>> Alan R. Downing
>> Phoenix, AZ
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Butch Bussen
>> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 1:57 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: scanners?
>>
>> Has anyone had any luck using radio refference with scanner programming
>> software.  I have a pro 433 with butel software and although it wasn't at
>> all speech friendly, couldn't edit any fields, I could go to radio
>> reference from within the program and down load to the scanner.  I can no
>> longer do that, comes up with combo boxes as window-eyes calls them for
>> state and I can't get anything to work. I've tried n v d a as well with no
>> success.  I sware, we kep losing accessibility on this stuff.
>> 73
>> Butch
>> WA0VJR
>> Node 3148
>> Wallace, ks.
>>


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