Disability:The inaccessible civil right.

Written by: Thomas M on Aug 14, 2009 10:37 AM EDT

    I know from experience how important the ADA Act is. I was working and the higher ups realized I had epilepsy. I was put on call but the call never came. This was before you couldn't do that, under law.

Also businessmen complain about jobs disappearing but it never happens under law, since these 'businessmen' should know the disabled are also consumers.

     Only now we get the non-handicapped handicapped. My wife is in a wheelchair due to having a brain tumor,being in a coma, then having a stroke. She's OK now but she can't walk and needs my help.

     So it aggravates both me and her and it is an injustice to all to see the "able' use disabled parking and disabled bathrooms. Some say the parking spaces are there or the stall is there and being unused but do they really beleive a disabled person must sit on a commode 24 hours straight or be parked 24 hours straight!? Abide by any others timetable!? Who's handicapped then?

     Just knowing right from wrong and justice from injustice should guide all and any accomodation for the handicapped is should not be accessible only when the "able" feel like it applys.

     Rights are not 'given' to the handicapped but owed due to past injustice. Wrongs begat the ADA act ,Not charity. When you do something wrong you make it right not just because you feel charitable but because it is right to do right. Inaccessibility was a wrong we are in the process of righting not a gift or a grant due to some feeling of charity.

    Disabled people were sterilized, put in institutions, or attics. These are truths not hyperbole. You got these town hall disruptors who fear ,unreasonably, being put to death. The disabled were put to death or in a nuthouse , shunned from society and they see that it takes a law for people to do right? 

"No" to Republican governors!

Written by: Thomas M on Jul 10, 2009 12:35 PM EDT

After a long yet recent history of destroying State Economies The Republicans would have you beleive they are different. Remember the 'recall' in California. Before it could at least pay its citizens tax refunds.

"I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results." As Craig Ferguson would joke, 'sound familiar?'

The Republicans dread action because of a result they can voice and scare people with. By the way those dour sentiments were by Roderick Usher, the mad and in the end doomed 'hero' of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher."

So instead of offering the people a vision, they insist on scaring voters with, voter fraud in Georgia, socialism in D.C., homosexuals in Churches, and gun control.

"We won't get fooled again!" is another quote albeit from a Rock band. Republicans lie and lie and lie and we can't afford a liar in a state house.

Clean up our mess in Iraq.

Written by: Thomas M on Jun 19, 2009 12:25 PM EDT

     Iraqi Environment Minister Narmin Othman has appealed for more international help to clear Iraq of landmines and unexploded ordinance. Iraq's Environment Ministry say there are over 25 million landmines and 25 million UXO(unexploded ordinace) including cluster bombs. Zahim Mutar, head of Baghdad based NGO Iraqi Mine and UXO Clearance Organization supports this finding.

     When we did "shock and awe" and invaded, we polluted Iraq with Danger and Death and we must do something,NO MATTER WHAT THE COST, to at the very least clean up the mess we made in the name of "Iraqi Freedom".

Written by: Thomas M on Jun 5, 2009 11:41 AM EDT

War is bad.

Written by: Thomas M on May 22, 2009 11:10 AM EDT

     When did it become popular to fight wars with small nations, or people with no nation at all? Why do we feel the US is so great beating a third world country,or none at all. Do we really need to feel superior to "anybody"? And the old worn out worm eaten chestnut that "9-11 changed all that" is stupid!

     Did it change us as a people? Are we no longer inhabitants of this planet in order to feel good! Are we no longer proud to be American and have it mean just that, not the might or force of our arms! Torture becomes "OK' so long as we torture who we consider the right people. As was once said of Joe McCarthy "Have we no Decency" left.

     The news runs the ramblings of Dick Cheney as if that makes them fair and balaned. NO! Did the news run speeches by Al Gore after Bush was put into office by a few old men. Where was the fair and balanced reporting then?

    Back to the point: War makes people dead, even those who don't fight them. Ideals die, peoples trust in Government dies, and we march mindlessly to the "good ole days" of lynching, sexism, and fear. I say bring ALL our boys and girls back home not start new and "smarter" wars. Give peace a chance. Death is NEVER an option and it is NEVER practical. Death leads to more death NOT victory.

     Elect courageous people to Congress and not a bunch of whiny toadies who listen to Limbaugh or Cheney and call it courage. If peace is so unpopular then elect congressman who will do the unpopular thing. Remember to them going to war is popular it is no skin off their noses to do so since it never affects them, NEVER! 

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