Well as everyone else rants -
     I have od'ed on all the hate and exclusionism people love to express.
You know the my way or the highway, and the everyone is against us. Kinda
curious how they got the ego to think we have nothing better to do in our
lives than make theirs miserable on purpose. I find it all too easy to get
caught up in the web of anger they both exude out of their pores and the
anger they light in us by making us feel bad and have the need defend
ourselves. We tend to practice exclusionism until our worlds are very small
and we find the facts that fit our way of thinking. I am so far out of step
with humanity - its not funny - I look for what I have in common with folks,
I accept almost everyone and don't label them by one aspect of their life (*
see fotenote) - It comes under the heading of life being like a mirror and
what reflects back is what you put out. If you seperate yourself with a
label and ,boy we have lots of little factions with labels and the
anti-label group - Gays versus Straights,  Disabled versus able bodied -
Male versus Female - Christians Versus the other 67% of the worlds religous
and non religous population, Whites versus Blacks - name a trait you have
and there will a be factional difference even within the factional
differences. People seem to have the biggest inferioty complexes and shore
up themselves up by putting down others. There seem to be three kinds of
folks - those who takes what happens to them and learn to live with it,
those who loathe and and hate what happens to them and spend a lot of time
whining about how awful stuff and people are and how everyone is against -
and those who look events in the eye and turn them into success stories. And
we love their success stories - and then the majority of us go back to
whining - we missed the point. Just becasue you are brilliant even if you
are able bodied doesn't mean you get a great job or even a chance at a great
job - am fairly abled bodied have an IQ in the top .XX% ( less than 1% of
the population) and I don't rule the world. Most of us are as focused on our
own lives as you are on yours - sorry to tell you - we aren't out oppress
you - in fact we could give a rats ass about you - becasue like you - we are
all about ourselves. If you weren't disabled you wouldn't be screraming
about disabled rights - you would be screaming about something else being
unfair. As far as I know life isn't fair for anyone. And you can view life
from - I coulda been a contender or  I have accomplished x,y,z. I think the
more positive focused folks are happier. So often times we don't see the
lives we touch or the changes we make or the good we do, we can't bring
everyone online to our way of thinking, but we can always put love and
positive stuff out there if we have learned enough compassion to realize how
fear limits people and that making them fell bad - and it doesn't further
our causes. The worship of false Gods - Money, Possessions, The Right Way to
Think, Act or Believe - doesn't promote unity. Its the love and compassion
in our hearts that makes the changes and it can't exist in an atmosphere of
fear and hatred. I have been a disabilities rights person since I was 12 -
when I met my friend Tommy - who was thalidimde baby and had those truncated
arms. When she moved in to the quarters the kids where afriad to touch her
and she had joined in out on the playground. I didn't want to touch her
anymore than anyone else did - but my need to not hurt her feeling was
stronger than my fear. So, I reached out and took her hand and drew her into
our circle and them the other kids accepted her too. No one can ever
understand life from where you stand - you are unique - but by the same
token you can't understand it from where they stand either. Normal is a
point of view - there was point where I looked at regular kids who could use
both arms and hands as freakish - becasue normal to me was my one
armed/handed kid. So I guess the crux of the matter here is - we are trying
to remove the splinter in someone else's eye and ignoring the mote in our
own. Having said all that - there are some real assholes out there - and
amazing enough - each of us occupies that position to someone else - so be
humble - the jerk you are putting down - is just you with a different
subject heading.

                                                      Brightest Blessings
                                                            Angel

* The exception being - of course  Born Again Christian - or Southern
Baptists or any other radical fundamentalist group of any religion - I pity
them from the bottom of my heart becasue they have turned their backs on
God, Love and Peace).Llest anyone think I have a problem with all of the
Once Born Christians) - I only have a problem with the Once Born who have a
problem with me. Its that mirror effect.