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  • I Was Kicked Out of a Gym for ‘Staring’ at a Woman — Even Though I’m Blind

    06/19/2023 3:15:33 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 52 replies
    New York Post ^ | June 19, 2023 | Emily Lefroy
    Toby Addison, 21, recalled the mortifying moment years prior when he was kicked out of the gym for “creepily” staring at a woman — despite the fact he cannot see — while on the “Happy Hour Podcast” earlier in June. Addison, who shares his life as a blind person on his TikTok account, @blindtobes, said he was “minding his own business” during a workout when he heard a woman say: “Oh, do you like the view?” “Obviously I don’t really know where I’m looking a lot of the time,” the content creator shared on the podcast. “I was just staring...
  • DeSantis Bashes Reporter in New Hampshire: ‘Are You Blind?’

    06/01/2023 12:26:08 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 67 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 06/01/2023 | HANNAH BLEAU
    A reporter and 2024 presidential hopeful Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) shared a tense exchange during the Florida governor’s first campaign event in New Hampshire on Thursday after the reporter asked him why he did not take questions from voters during the event. “Why not take any questions from voters, though?” the reporter, identified as the Associated Press’s Steve Peoples, asked as DeSantis mingled with the crowd, posing for pictures with the event’s attendees. “Governor, how come you’re not taking questions from voters?” the reporter asked again, prompting a response from DeSantis, who explained that he was now very clearly talking...
  • Blinding eye disease strongly associated with serious forms of cardiovascular disease

    11/18/2022 1:18:46 PM PST · by ConservativeMind · 16 replies
    Patients with a specific form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness, are also highly likely to have either underlying heart damage from heart failure and heart attacks, or advanced heart valve disease, or carotid artery disease associated with certain types of strokes, according to a study. This research, is the first to identify which types of high-risk cardiovascular and carotid artery disease are linked to the eye disorder. "We have been able to connect these specific high-risk cardiovascular diseases to a specific form of AMD, the one with subretinal drusenoid deposits (SDDs)," explains R. Theodore Smith,...
  • Maher: Getting ‘Robbed Blind’ on COVID Relief Makes Me ‘Less Excited about the Money They’re Planning to Spend’

    08/20/2022 7:26:49 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 29 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 08/19/2022 | Ian hatchett
    On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that America was “robbed blind” by fraud with coronavirus relief programs and said that this makes him “a little less excited about the money they’re planning to spend.” He also wondered why Democrats aren’t being “the good government party” they’re supposed to be and Republicans aren’t being the fiscal watchdogs they’re supposed to be. Maher said, “[T]his is the question I asked back in April and I’m going to ask it again, it doesn’t really make me a conservative, does it, that I don’t want to be absolutely robbed...
  • WHO chief: World is ‘increasingly blind’ to COVID transmission, evolution

    05/12/2022 5:21:46 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 20 replies
    The hill ^ | 05/12/2022 | Caroline Vakil
    The World Health Organization’s (WHO) director-general is pressing countries to maintain COVID-19 surveillance and share information on its transmission and sequencing, saying reduced testing abroad “makes us increasingly blind to patterns of transmission and evolution.” Speaking on Tuesday during a press conference, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted that while COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to decline, the world needed to welcome the news “with some caution.”
  • High number of Strokes caused by the Covid-19 Vaccines may explain why so many of the Vaccinated are also going Blind

    04/27/2022 8:40:22 AM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 42 replies
    The Exposé ^ | 4/26/22 | The Exposé
    Since the first Covid-19 vaccine was authorised for use in the United Kingdom, and administered on the 8th December 2020, there have been hundreds of thousands of adverse reactions reported to the MHRA Yellow Card scheme. But there is one particular adverse reaction which is both concerning and strange, and the number of people suffering from it is increasing by the week – Blindness. The MHRA Yellow Card scheme analysis print for the Pfizer / BioNTech mRNA jab shows that since the first jab was administered on the 9th December 2020, and up to 6th April 2022, 163 people have...
  • Florida family allegedly beat gay man so severely, he was left blinded

    04/14/2022 1:31:27 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 33 replies
    Nypost ^ | 04/14/2022 | Emily Crane
    A Florida family has been charged with hate crimes after they allegedly beat a gay man so severely that he was left blinded. Inna Makarenko, 44, Yevhen Makarenko, 43, and 21-year-old Oleh Makarenko are accused of attacking the 31-year-old victim after allegedly breaking into his Pompano Beach home last summer.
  • ‘Where the bats hung out’: How a basement hideaway at UC Berkeley nurtured a generation of blind innovators

    04/02/2022 11:46:56 AM PDT · by thecodont · 4 replies
    STAT ^ | March 28, 2022 | Isabella Cueto
    BERKELEY, Calif. — If, in the fall of 1987, you found yourself at the University of California, Berkeley, and you made your way through the sloping, verdant campus to Moffitt Library, you could walk through the doors and take two flights of stairs down to the basement. Turn right and you would find a door tucked in the corner — room 224, though the placard isn’t written in braille. After unlocking the door using a key with a ridged top, you’d walk through a small lobby with tables, chairs, and a “sofa” made of seats pulled from a van. The...
  • Carl P. Leubsdorf: Biden’s health checks out

    11/28/2021 4:23:38 AM PST · by John W · 41 replies
    AP via Bozeman Daily Chronicle ^ | November 26, 2021 | Carl P. Leubsdorf
    At long last, President Joe Biden has undergone a thorough physical exam, and the detailed White House report ought to end the frequent insinuations from some critics that the nation’s oldest president is not up to the job. But it probably won’t, given that he does show some signs of his age. “President Biden remains a healthy, vigorous 78-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency, to include those as chief executive, head of state and commander in chief,” concluded Kevin O’Connor, who has been his primary care physician for 13 years. The report didn’t...
  • Minnesota Turns Down Concealed Carry Permit for Carey McWilliams

    05/20/2021 5:15:13 AM PDT · by marktwain · 35 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | 17 May, 2021 | Dean Weingarten
    Carey McWilliams is a gun owner, a successful small and big game hunter, holding concealed carry permits for 20 years. He has been turned down for a Minnesota permit because he is blind. He has applied for a second time.It is blatant discrimination based on a disability. It probably violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).Update: The Minnesota Sheriff, confronted with the evidence, and with the possibility of an ADA lawsuit, has issued Carey a Minnesota Carry permit.The initial thought of blind people carrying firearms causes many to do a double-take. Consider the concept more closely and you will see...
  • Rep. Dan Crenshaw says he'll be 'blind for about a month' after eye surgery

    04/10/2021 10:56:46 AM PDT · by Texas Fossil · 47 replies
    Fox News ^ | Published 1 hour ago | Marisa Schultz
    Texas congressman, former Navy SEAL, lost his right eye after being wounded by IED in AfghanistanRep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, said he underwent emergency surgery Friday for a detached retina in his left eye and will be unable to see as he recovers."The surgery went well, but I will be effectively blind for about a month," Crenshaw said in a Twitter statement on Saturday.Crenshaw, a U.S. Navy SEAL veteran, lost his right eye during a deployment in Afghanistan when he was wounded by an improvised explosive device (IED) and wears a patch on that eye.Congressman Dan Crenshaw's post on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/RepDanCrenshaw/status/1380896286082265089 https://twitter.com/RepDanCrenshaw/status/1380896286082265089
  • Biden Campaign Under Fire for TV Ad Featuring Tech Investor as Struggling Bar Owner

    10/20/2020 1:54:12 PM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 38 replies
    National Review ^ | October 20, 2020 | By MAIREAD MCARDLE
    The Biden campaign is taking flack for a recent television ad featuring a struggling Michigan bar owner that the ad neglects to mention is actually an affluent veteran tech investor who donated to the Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign. Joe Malcoun, who is introduced in the ad as the “co-owner” of The Blind Pig in Ann Arbor, Mich., backed Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s stringent lockdown orders that kept businesses shuttered for months but says he blames President Trump’s administration for his business’s pandemic woes. the ad does not mention Malcoun’s other business ventures, including being an “angel investor” in several...
  • Some Fish Can Regenerate Their Eyes. Turns Out, Mammals Have Those Genes Too

    10/08/2020 7:10:14 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 17 replies
    www.sciencealert.com ^ | 8 OCTOBER 2020 | TESSA KOUMOUNDOUROS
    Damage to the retina is the leading cause of blindness in humans, affecting millions of people around the world. Unfortunately, the retina is one of the few tissues we humans can't grow back. Unlike us, other animals such as zebrafish are able to regenerate this tissue that's so crucial to our power of sight. We share 70 percent of our genes with these tiny little zebrafish, and scientists have just discovered some of the shared genes include the ones that grant zebrafish the ability to grow back their retinas. "Regeneration seems to be the default status, and the loss of...
  • Biotech firm: Screening to ‘avoid’ babies with Down syndrome is a ‘cash cow’

    05/27/2020 10:25:58 PM PDT · by Morgana · 4 replies
    Live Action News ^ | May 22 2020 | Right to Life UK
    (Right to Life UK) – A Chinese biotech firm has declared “screening out” babies with Down syndrome is a “cash cow” funding the growth of the whole business. The admission comes from a spokesperson for BGI Group – a Chinese genetics conglomerate whose main business is offering non-invasive prenatal tests, primarily used to diagnose Down syndrome. In a segment from an Aljazeera documentary titled Genesis 2.0, the spokesperson gestures towards a digital map of the world and says: “You can see clearly, especially for Down’s syndrome, we have nearly two million samples all over the world. This part is, what...
  • Presidential Proclamation on Blind Americans Equality Day, 2019 (on October 15, 2019)

    10/11/2019 6:46:40 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 1 replies
    whitehouse.gov ^ | 10/11/19 | Whitehouse
    Issued on: October 11, 2019 Blind Americans Equality Day pays tribute to our fellow Americans who are blind or visually impaired for their many contributions to the strength and vitality of our Nation. We renew our steadfast commitment to ensuring their full participation in our communities, workplaces, and social life. My Administration is committed to promoting policies that foster greater liberty, prosperity, and equality. We are expanding educational, social, technological, and employment opportunities for Americans with disabilities, including blind or visually impaired individuals. We have partnered with States to promote independent living and equal employment opportunities, as well as social,...
  • Ed Clute At Hudson Manor Bed & Breakfast

    09/10/2019 6:13:33 AM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 5 replies
    Youtube ^ | 09/10/19
    World class pianist came to tune the piano at Hudson Manor this morning and played "Sweet Georgia Brown" when he finished. Imagine if he had warmed up a little first. Oh, did I mention he is blind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5xGR7tmcmo  
  • Facebook outage offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the social network's AI 'sees' your photos

    07/03/2019 5:21:36 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 15 replies
    Insider ^ | 07/03/2019 | Zoe Schiffer
    On Twitter, people shared screenshots of how their photos were tagged. "To be fair, 'one person, beard' is pretty much a spot-on description of me," Zack Whittaker, an editor at TechCrunch, wrote. Facebook automatically scans all photos on the social network with facial- and image-recognition software powered by AI to detect who or what is being pictured. At times, it appeared the AI incorrectly tagged the photo, as in the case of the Fortune reporter Danielle Abril's where the photo description read: "5 people, including Danielle Abril, people smiling, people standing, hoes and indoor." Hopefully there was a gardening tool...
  • A Shooting Guide for the Blind by Carey McWilliams – Book Review

    04/29/2019 1:38:52 PM PDT · by marktwain · 8 replies
    Ammoland ^ | 26 April, 2019 | Dean Weingarten
    I first became aware of Carey McWilliams in 2018. Carey has been completely blind since age 10. He distinguished himself by acquiring carry permits in several states, and by successfully hunting big game and birds with firearms. I met Carey at the Gun Rights Policy Conference in 2018. He graciously gave me a copy of A Shooting Guide for the Blind to review.Shooting Guide for the Blind by Carey McWilliamks The book is a practical guide for blind people to become familiar with and use firearms for self defense, recreation, and hunting. Carey, while completely blind, has done all...
  • Spiritual and Physical blindness...walk in the light pt 5

    And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. ( John 9:1-3)The Gospel of John contrasts the two kinds of blindness which afflict humanity. We see at the outset that the first kind of blindness comes as a result of original sin. One of the consequences of the fall of man, is...
  • Blind Man Sues Playboy's Website for Not Being User-Friendly to Visually-Impaired: Report

    12/01/2018 6:12:22 AM PST · by Eddie01 · 49 replies
    Yahoo ^ | November 29, 2018 | Joelle Goldstein People
    A blind man says he wants to read Playboy for the articles but can’t. On Wednesday, Donald Nixon — who is legally blind — filed a lawsuit against the legendary company’s website, claiming that it was in violation of the American with Disabilities Act, TMZ reported. Both Playboy.com and Playboyshop.com are allegedly not compatible with Nixon’s screen-reading software, which allows blind or visually impaired users to read the text with a speech synthesizer or braille display, according to the American Foundation for the Blind. Based on court documents obtained by TMZ, Nixon argued that visually-impaired people could not “fully and...