[nfb-talk] Check Out This Link On Rush Limbaughtalkingaboutblind justice

Gloria Whipple fairyfoot at webband.com
Thu Aug 12 20:09:33 UTC 2010 

That is pretty good!


Gloria Whipple
Corrisponding secretary
Inland Empire chapter
nfb of WA

cell number: 509-475-4993

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of John Heim
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 12:52 PM
To: NFB Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Check Out This Link On Rush
Limbaughtalkingaboutblind justice

Holy cow, Ray. Lighten up.  Personally, I think everything Rush Limbaugh 
says is funny.  But I also thought mmy thing about giving Little Johnny an 
87th place medal was pretty good.

But if you're going to act that way, I'm kind of glad I didn't keep going. I

was going to talk about how much I hate liberals and ask you if you wanted a

pilot's license too. "If I can't have a pilot's license, nobody can."  Do 
you think you could land that plane in the Hutson like Captain Sully did? Is

that what you think Mr. Liberal?

Glad I didn't go there.

Anyway, I'm funny and I can prove it. I wrote a joke that has been on 
Prairie Home Companion many times. A dog walks into a bar and says, "Hey, 
I'm a talking dog. Bet you never saw a talking dog before. How about a drink

for the talking dog?" And the bartender points and says, "Sure. The toilet 
is right around the corner."

I don't care what anybody says. That's funny.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Foret Jr" <rforetjr at comcast.net>
To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Check Out This Link On Rush 
Limbaughtalkingaboutblind justice


> Nothing funny about this at all.  Not a bit.  Frankly, as a conservative 
> and blind person, I take offense at what Limbaugh said, and, you thinking 
> I am what everyone here can attest that I am not.  IF that is the 
> direction you are going to take this discussion, I shall say nothing more 
> to you.
>
>
> Sincerely,
> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
>
> A Very Proud and Happy Mac User!!!
>
> E-Mail:
> rforetjr at comcast dot net
> Skype Name:
> barefootedray
>
> On Aug 12, 2010, at 2:28 PM, John Heim wrote:
>
>> Man, you liberals are all alike -- absolutely no sense of humor.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Foret Jr" <rforetjr at comcast.net>
>> To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 2:23 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Check Out This Link On Rush Limbaugh 
>> talkingaboutblind justice
>>
>>
>>> Oh no I won't.  I was offended that he called us a bunch of "bigoted 
>>> morons".  I was offended that he, and too many of his kind, do not seem 
>>> to want to understand the NFB position on this matter.  I could ask why 
>>> you decide now to be so ugly about this; but, I will refrain.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
>>>
>>> A Very Proud and Happy Mac User!!!
>>>
>>> E-Mail:
>>> rforetjr at comcast dot net
>>> Skype Name:
>>> barefootedray
>>>
>>> On Aug 12, 2010, at 2:03 PM, John Heim wrote:
>>>
>>>> Your disappointment with Rush Limbaugh aside, what's wrong with what he

>>>> said?I mean, specifically, where do you disagree with his comments? 
>>>> Because I don't think you can disagree with him without trampling on 
>>>> several sacred cows of the conservative point of view.
>>>>
>>>> Are you in favor of the Justice Department telling Amazon how to run 
>>>> their business? If you don't like it that Case-Western University is 
>>>> giving out kindles, go somewhere else. Go to UCLA or the University of 
>>>> Wisconsin. Or go to Case-Western and opt out of the kindle program. 
>>>> Where is it written that government is responsible for making sure that

>>>> everything is fair? I don't remember seeing that in the Constitution. 
>>>> If the kindle isn't accessible, why don't you invent your own 
>>>> kindle-like device that is accessible. Amazon didn't exist 15 years 
>>>> ago. They built that business up from nothing. If accessibility is so 
>>>> important, why don't you get out there and build your own Amazon that 
>>>> is 100% accessible and put Amazon out of business? Otherwise, stop 
>>>> holding everybody else back just so you can make it in this world. Or 
>>>> are you one of those guys who thinks everybody has to win? You think 
>>>> that if Little Johnny comes in 87th he should get a pat on the back, 
>>>> told he did a good jo
> b,
>>> and get handed an 87th place medal he can have framed and put above the 
>>> fireplace?
>>>>
>>>> Boy, I'd better be careful here. Next thing I know you'll change your 
>>>> mind and side with Limbaugh after all.
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Foret Jr" 
>>>> <rforetjr at comcast.net>
>>>> To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 12:15 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Check Out This Link On Rush Limbaugh talking 
>>>> aboutblind justice
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I believe that everybody on this list knows of my political 
>>>>> affiliation with the conservative side.  Let me say something about 
>>>>> this Limbaugh piece.  I find it extremely offensive.  I have never 
>>>>> felt so betrayed by someone who was supposedly one of my own!!!  It's 
>>>>> quite clear to me that there are many issues which this brings up; 
>>>>> but, I will touch on only one of them here.  Sadly, it is the case 
>>>>> that many political conservatives and Republican party mouth pieces 
>>>>> will not understand our point of view.  Note that I did not say do not

>>>>> understand; rather, I said "will not understand"; big difference.  I 
>>>>> first began to see the sad truth of this back in 2005 when the 
>>>>> secretary of education, Spelling, wanted to cut out individual rehab 
>>>>> services offices.  I dare say we all remember what happened in 
>>>>> consequence of that.  Joanne wilson resigned her position and became a

>>>>> private citizen.  I believe that was when the light really went off in

>>>>> my head about the truth of what was reall
> y
>>> go
>>>>> ing on.  Small wonder that we are in the situation we are in.  The 
>>>>> trouble with political conservatives is this.  Many of them say words 
>>>>> that they know that the true conservatives want to hear, and, maybe 
>>>>> some of them even believe those words.  The trouble is this.  They are

>>>>> saying those words for the sake of political expediency.  Now, on the 
>>>>> other hand, my personal life experience has taught me that it just 
>>>>> doesn't work that way. When people like Rush Limbaugh make statements 
>>>>> such as he made in this piece, he only serves to hurt both the 
>>>>> blindness cause, and also, the conservative cause also.  I want to say

>>>>> something else for the record. There was a time when I did used to 
>>>>> listen to him; but, over the course of the past five years or so, I 
>>>>> ceased to listen to hymn; especially after Hurricane Katrina.  I felt 
>>>>> that he was no longer what he once had been, and, I felt that he had 
>>>>> lost focus.  Frankly, as a blind conservative, I find myself very much

>>>>> offended by what Limbau
> gh
>>>>> says here because what we have is a fundamental lack of the will to 
>>>>> understand our point of view.  To put it bluntly, he's going for 
>>>>> sensationalism and not much if anything else.  Be that as it may, 
>>>>> words mean things.  The way people use words also means things.  I 
>>>>> cannot help but wonder how this effects other blind conservatives; 
>>>>> but, that subject matter, I forbear to enter.  Doubtless, blind people

>>>>> on the other side of the isle, (so to speak) are wondering why, in the

>>>>> face of Limbaugh's tirade, we can still feel as we do.  I will not 
>>>>> discuss this except to say that we who are blind conservatives do not 
>>>>> need Limbaugh to tell us what to think.  I feel as I do and think as I

>>>>> do and have done so long before I ever heard Limbaugh for the first 
>>>>> time.  Sadly, this recent event more than confirms something I have 
>>>>> long thought.  But, that is a subject which does not directly touch 
>>>>> the blindness factors, and so, I will leave it to another group or 
>>>>> time.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
>>>>>
>>>>> A Very Proud and Happy Mac User!!!
>>>>>
>>>>> E-Mail:
>>>>> rforetjr at comcast dot net
>>>>> Skype Name:
>>>>> barefootedray
>>>>>
>>>>> On Aug 12, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Michael Barber wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Check out the following link.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtR_yHDVAQ8&feature=related
>>>>>>
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