Posted on 11/28/2006 1:35:36 PM PST by SmithL
Edited on 11/28/2006 3:20:53 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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So far, so good. Let's see ... Jefferson ... Jefferson ... I've got it!
--> Brown Sugar.
re: Sally Hemmings
--> Brown Sugar.
re: Sally Hemmings
Look at post 69
Hi R,
A juducial decision may not be the best way to put this change into practice but I stand by my post in all other respects.
I was born blind, almost had to go to a school for the blind, am still legally blind without glasses, and I cannot *see* one single reason that paper money should be off limits and unusable by blind people. If there were EVER an accommodation that could and should be made for a disability, this is it. Phasing it in is the only way that makes sense to me, but that's all right, just so long as it is done.
I wish someone could explain to me why there are braile instruction on a drive in teller machine. I mean if you can't see the screen should you really be driving?
Brought to us by the same idiots who mandated the "low flow" toilet, which has so much enriched my life as I now get to stand by for 30 seconds to confirm that my handiwork has made it down the pipes, repeatedly flushing as necessary. I keep a stick handy, too, just in case. In a sane world, these fools would be tarred, feathered, and exiled.
The whole US monetary system is unfair to me. I never have enough of it.
But as is obvious from this jack ass decision there is no limit to their stupidity.
Go Kerryfy America elsewhere.
Are the bills too thin for those with Parkinsons to pick up off of a counter?
I love judicial kings. Don't you?
Hey - didjyaknow you can still go up to Canada and get "full-flow" toilets?
They've got socialized medicine that really sucks, but at least they have a lot less constipation.
Good idea, eh?
Next time I go skiing at Whistler-BlackComb, I may bring one back in my carry on luggage. Thanks for the tip!
Jefferson - Brown Sugar; Hamilton - "I fought the law and the law won"; Franklin - "She blinded me with science"
So how were you inconvenienced?
The Congress shall have Power To ...Yet it is certainly not a bad idea to help make the dollar accessible to the blind. It is common sense. I used to go to a shop at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard where people operated by the honor system with their purchases and the amount of money they gave to a blind cashier. Embossing the money or some other modification would have made his life a lot easier....
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
I'm sorry. I agree with the judge. The government does have the obligation under law to make reasonable accomadations for disabled people. There was simply no excuse for the government NOT to take into account the needs of the blind when they redid the bills recently.
The article quotes the costs, and frankly the costs they give aren't really all the big a deal, they are talking a few million dollars, not billions. You just have to make SOMETHING on the bill that is different physically, most every other country has managed to do so.
If the government doesn't want to support blind people, the government should not pass a law that requires the government to support blind people. If they pass the law, I fully expect judges to enforce the law.
I don't really understand why everybody seems to be opposed to this concept.
BTW, it's not the ADA law, it's the Rehabilitation Act, which governs GOVERNMENT programs (ADA forces costs onto private businesses).
I figured they could punch holes in the bill, that wouldn't "wear down" either.
They're tyrants who impose their own self-righteousness on Congress, the Executive branch, and the masses.
Wouldn't it be nice if our President, or Atty General, for that matter, pointed out that lifetime-appointed judges aren't supposed to be running our country? They're ought of control, and yet no one in power will take them on.
I used to think that way, until I realised that if they didn't have the handicapped space, someone else would have already been parked there and I'd still be sitting around waiting for a space.
I'm with you on this one.
True.
They already are to many blind.
Every bill is a different thickness and there are blind people that can tell the difference.
There used to be a blind man that ran a magazine etc, stand in the lobby of a 13 story building in L.A. that people tried to trick for change and I never heard of one time that he didn't know the size of the bill that was handed to him. He would rub it between his fingers and know what it was.
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