I watched my little boy take one more step into adulthood this week. I’m not sure how many more steps he has to go.
This week he went to actions without me. I stayed behind and made calls to the media - wrote blog entries - posted to listserv and sent out emails. This is what […]
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Drove home from DC….9 long hours. Today I am so tired I can barely function. But of course there is much to do - so no rest for the wicked.
So many people do not understand how very important the Community Choice Act/ Money Follows the People is. They have no idea how many people […]
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Day 2—-
8:30 PM - Now that it is dark, the arrests begin in earnest. The 30 remaining protesters in John McCain’s office have been arrested. About 100 protesters at the Republic National Committee office are also being arrested. None of the protesters have been allowed to use the bathrooms or permitted to order food in […]
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500 ADAPT disability activists from around the county surround the US Department of Health & Human Services in the pouring rain. They demonstrate in support of the thousands of people with disabilities and older Americans who continue to be unnecessarily forced into and kept in nursing homes and other institutions because of the inaction […]
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Inclusion Daily Express is having a sale!
Yeah! Dave is the greatest and if you want a daily news source of disability related info this is the best place to get it!
$20.00 off one-year and two-year subscriptions and $10.00 off six-month subscriptions.
Two years = $139.95 (usually $159.95)
One year = $69.95 (usually $89.95)
Six months […]
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This article discusses the views of a woman who is gay and why she is not excited by the prospect of legal gay marriage.
http://mensnewsdaily.com/2008/04/03/gay-marriage-what-for/
She references Andrew Sullivan who “complained that because he is gay, courts probably wouldn’t recognize his “right” to have his partner starved to death.”
Marriage is really nothing more than a legal contract. […]
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I have decided that the disability community should boycott Yahoo Answers. There are a multitude of sections where people can ask questions related to specific areas of concern. There is a section called “people with disabilities.”
All sections have monitors who pull questions that are offensive. “Community” members can also let the monitors know when something […]
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What follows is part of an interview CNN did with the parents of Ashley X. Clearly they are not happy with the disability community and with my website in particular. I couldn’t be happier!
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Just added a new page that I had forgotten to add from the old site. These are the best of the best books to read around living life with a disability! Click on Disability Books!
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Is this not a country of free-choice? If a child is doing well in a home environment do we have the right to take a child out and force them into an institution? Does it matter what the label is - doesn’t every child deserve to have prioritized living at home with their family?
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The lavender all around these pages reminds me of the lavender fields of Norfolk where they grow the lavender for Yardley's English lavender - hence it's appropriateness for my soapbox.
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