-=> ED KOON wrote to DON MARTIN <=-

 EK> On Apr 08, 2003 07:41pm, DON MARTIN wrote to DANNY CEPPA:

 LE> Sorry, but Bushie is the kind of President that makes me (and
 LE> doubtlessly many others) ashamed to be an American.

 WC>>  Count me among them.

 CD>> But not too ashamed to accept free American money.

 DM> This would appear to be an attack upon Wayne rather than
 DM> upon the argument.

 EK> I think he was just stating the facts :)

No he was not and it quite obviously was not a topical 
reply.
FACT: I wish my spine wasn't screwed up to the tune of my 
having lost 2 1/2 inches of height in about a millisecond.
FACT: I told my good friend Larry Thomas that I wished
I could go back to work at Precisionaire just two years after 
becoming disabled. This shocked Larry because while we were there 
we both hated the job environment though the pay 
and job itself was O.K.
FACT: I wish I could go grocery shopping today, or yesterday,
or any time in the last week but have not beeen able to do so.
FACT: Last month I had to ask my sister to run an errand for me
as I was unable to walk two blocks.
FACT: I have to remain laying prone 22 out of 24 hours a day
for at least 3 -5 days in order to manage to do basic housekeeping 
tasks or a grocery run after which I must start that cycle over again
It is because I swept the floor and cleaned the kitchen
that I'm currently unable to take a bus 13 blocks to the grocery store.
FACT: I _was_ ashamed of being disabled until such time as an
ignorant indivdual followed me into _holysmoke_
and proceeded to enlighten by virtue of his ignorant
baiting that I should not be ashamed of that over which I have no 
control.
Perhaps had they the new spinal fusion technique utilizing
titanium braces with embedded bone growth enzyme sponges
that are wedged between vertebra in place of the lumbar discs
I no longer have back in 95 when I underwent failed surgery
I'd be working today?
I underwent that failed surgery while attending vocational
rehabilitation in an effort to return to work.
Perhaps if it bothers you so much I'm disabled you should
talk to the Tampa Administrative judge whose name I've already 
provided you who granted that disability?
While you're at it why not blame the ignorant ---hole
that crippled me in the first place.
May I inquire if you're here in the same capacity and with the 
same intent with which you entered into the _Holysmoke_ echo?
In closing let me say I cannot remember a single instance of my ever
having taunted or shamed a disabled individual in my entire life
and I think one in doing so one would be both socially
and politically incorrect.
JMHO
 
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