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From: Jeff.Salzberg@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Jeff Salzberg)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: blind politics
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Date: 28 Jun 91 14:48:41 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 WW>  Heck, I get pretty nasty when someone has provoked a little
 WW>  squeel of pain from LeeRoy quite by accident, like stepping on
 WW>  his tail in the dark

 Many sighted persons use adaptive viewing devices called "lamps".  The
 National Federation of the Sighted is trying to ban such conspicuous
 adaptations, as we feel that it calls attention to our sightedness
 and therefore might cause blind employers not to hire us.

... Money is the root of all evil - and a person NEEDS roots.

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