[nfbmi-talk] god blessus everyone!

joe harcz Comcast joeharcz at comcast.net
Wed Dec 4 18:07:42 UTC 2013


Thanks. Been having a few glitches with my Word program.

Think I fixed them.

Will re-edit this and send it to the media.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry D. Eagle" <terrydeagle at yahoo.com>
To: "'NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List'" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] god blessus everyone!


> Joe, I hope you distributed this to friends and contacts in the media.
> Looks like a great editorial opinion with a wee bit shaved off!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbmi-talk [mailto:nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of joe
> harcz Comcast
> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 8:00 PM
> To: Rodgers, Edward (LARA)
> Cc: Steve Arwood LARA Dep; Christyne.Cavataio at ed.gov; 
> nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org;
> BRIAN SABOURIN; bsbpcommissioners at michigan.gov; zimmerm at michigan.gov; MARK
> MCWILLIAMS; Elmer Cerano MPAS
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] god blessus everyone!
>
> December 3 2013
>
>
>
> God Bless Us Everyone
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>
> Tiny Tim Blinknes
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> joeharcz at comcac/o st.net
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>
> To: Mr. Ed Rodgers
>
> Michigan Bureau of services for Blind Persons
>
> (B.S. for Blind Persons)
>
> Via-mail
>
>
>
> Dear Mr., Rodgers,
>
>
>
> Mr. Ed it is certainly a wonderful day in the neighborhood of we who are
> blind as we visit this festive and joyous season of giving. I must say I 
> was
> personally touched being an advocate for people who are blind and for 
> others
> with other disabilities to note that the BS for Blind Persons (branding is
> everything) is going to sell some Christmas ornaments with something to do
> with the state Capitol though not described in press releases by the by 
> and
> that the money or part of it might just go to your federally funded, state
> entity to actually employ blind people which is its very reason for
> existence under the Federal rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended in the
> first place. Wow forgive the run on sentence and those yet to come but I
> thought the Vocational Rehabilitation of the blind by your agency (BSBP) 
> was
> your primary thing to do in the first instance and thought you were amply
> funded to do so as per your reports to the feds, the legislature and so
> forth. I didn't know you were in such hard shape that you had to depend 
> upon
> the sales of a few Christmas Tree bulbs as to depend upon them for amongst
> other things your well deserved $128,000 per year salary and that of your
> administrative minions whom don't quite know their mission in life, but 
> sure
> do know their hackery as a digression, for where else would these types 
> go,
> if not on the BSBP rolls at their salary range for all their years of hard
> work for all of us except upon welfare rolls sire? Needless to say I was
> shocked to note I was incorrect in that sire. And let me tell you I'm 
> saving
> my penny's sans the usual $20 usual FOIA indigence fee thanks to thee 
> sire,
> and thank the Lord too,   to buy at least one or two of these lovely and 
> yet
> undecided Christmas Tree bulbs to help you out in your time of trouble and
> turmoil and through all of  your travails, for I know how hard it is to be
> blind and how hard it is for the average blind person to make ends meet 
> and
> all that not to say that we who are blind have issues or anything like 
> that
> sire, let alone those like you who are "sight impaired" or  otherwise
> denoted with those paltry salaries you get sire from the ungrateful people
> of this here United States of America and even those derelicts and 
> ingrates
> in the State of Michigan for crying out loud!.
>
>
>
> Anyway I think it a really nice touch sir, that you sell these items out 
> of
> the very state Capitol of Michigan without being fully accessible to the
> blind. I mean it is our state capitol after all and an historical monument
> and not the place of the people for they are ingrates and God forbid we
> actually despoil the thing by putting any sort of Braille on any room let
> alone room numbers and let alone a restroom.  Don't these folks have 
> pampers
> and such?: I mean don't those silly blind people know their places like 
> you
> do sire? Don't they all have their own sighted guides and sighted readers?
> Why do they bother us sire with all of these demands? And I really think 
> it
> is a superb nice touch that you sell them in the state Capitol which
> violates the "little Randolph Shepard" provisions of Public Act 260 and 
> that
> the facility is federally funded but doesn't have a licensed blind 
> operator
> in it to sell these pieces of providence and all that all in the good 
> spirit
> of this season. I mean how rich is it sire to give it to those ungrateful
> and blind ingrates and show them how to lift themselves up from the
> bootstraps you put upon their throatsafterall? I mean sire the spirit, and
> the action, is after all delicious irony don't you think?
>
>
>
> And it is a nice touch sire, if you don't mind me saying so as I kiss your
> ring and through that the rings of the powers that be above you, thank the
> Lord, that you think so much of us who are blind to have these very 
> things,
> these very ornaments of our blessed existence sold by sighted and
> non-disabled types like the student assistants whom man these stands meant
> for blind entrepreneurs. Nice touch sir and in our State Capitol. Lovely.
>
>
>
> Wow, I must commend you sire as I again kiss your wring and grovel before
> you and your masters.Sorry I'm getting carried away with the emotion of it
> all and of all of your and your masters benevolence.I really am and I'm 
> kind
> of tearing up and all that.forgive me sire.I'm just an emotional sort of
> blind person and this is sending shivers up my spine for I am after all 
> over
> whelmed by your kindness, charity and all of those adjectives of which I
> know public servants like yourself shun with humility but which are not 
> oft
> heard, , let alone your omnipotence and all of your potency and potency 
> let
> alone your impotence.Oops did I say something wrongly or whatever as those
> darned youngsers say it?
>
>
>
> Regardless, if that is ok to say and if I say something that offends you 
> in
> your beatitude ness or whatever, let me say this, "Feel free to FOIA my
> sorry and scrawny self in rebuke of my most ignoble impudence sire."
>
>
>
>
>
> Anyway I wanted to compliment you and yours on this joyoues celebration of
> all that is Holy in three great religions for your charity in this holiday
> season.
>
>
>
> And aside from that fact I want to thank you for your business acumen and
> the fact you've really put this Governor Snyder thing of running this 
> state
> like a business in to effect in such a graciousness and effective manner. 
> I
> mean sire this Christmas Tree ornament thing is a stroke of bloody
> genius.Excuse me whilst I slobber on myself being the blind and disabled
> blokeI am sire!
>
>
>
> But as again you said, "Branding is everything." And might I say the brand
> upon our sorry butts is most ssmartly attiered sire and not unlike those 
> of
> those there snappy SS sort of brands upon the victims of concentration 
> camps
> back there in WW II. Nice touch sire.
>
>
>
> And this thing about the ornaments sire???? Well let me say that this was
> your best idea since your Tim Hortons franchise thing. You're a genious 
> for
> sure though those folks in the community, and the media and even some in
> government won't realize it I do sire!
>
>
>
> All of these things were the best ideas since your vision of a charter
> school for the blind!!
>
>
>
> Man oh man where have all the visionaries gone but yourself in this here
> state of affairs sire?
>
>
>
> Say, whatever happened to that Charter School for the Blind thing? Did 
> those
> rascals in the NFB spike that right at the proverbial goal line just like
> those rascals spiked along with the mass media your wonderful and 
> brilliant
> and Essenberger conflated notion of branding in the Tim Hortons affair?
>
>
>
> Oh Canada is the least of it right?
>
>
>
> And say let us see this press release you denoted from the hysterical NFB
> types at their own convention. I mean we'll show those son-of-a-guns 
> right?
>
>
>
> You've got the evidence sire. Release it without FOIA and all of those
> sire. This is war we must smash those types of people sire! We must.
>
>
>
> Do not fear sire right is on our side. After all all we want is the same
> thing and that is an efficiently run system isn't it.
>
>
>
>
>
> .Eh eh.Elbow in the rib.But we wouldn't really want the money going 
> towards
> the benfit of those nasty blind folks would we? I mean not to throw any of
> them under the bus but they can't even clean their rooms can they? I mean 
> we
> spent $3,000 to clean up their messes and all that didn't we. I mean you, 
> I
> mean we, oh sire I'm so confused, so sorry for all that?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Anyway sire, forgive the ramble, but I'm just one of those poor uninformed
> and in fact ununiformed kind of blind folks and don't know my place in the
> world for sure let alone in your majestic light which blinds me with its
> majesty as if my own regular blindess weren't enough, but again I must say 
> I
> do digress....Sorry 'bout that sire....Really I am so.
>
>
>
> Every Humbly and Upon Bended Knee in Fealty in this Season of Love
>
> and Goodly Stuff and That Sort of Thing and all That,
>
>
>
> Happy Holidays and God Bless Us Everyone,
>
>
>
> Tiny Tim
>
>
>
> Joe
>
>
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