Social issues crowd state ballots

Wow, I used to live in Colorado and now call California home. Both states have some pretty conservative issues up for a vote at this years November election. Guess this is how you get the extremeists out to vote...
Social issues crowd state ballots

Sirius and XM Radio Murged!

I am so excited to hear that SIRI and XMSR were given the green light to murge by the FCC. I love Sirius and baught stock in both companies I believe in it so strongly- this is a great medium! At the moment the shares I have in XM have been exchanged for shares of SIRI, and the price of the shares has dropped 42% over the past 3 days. Ok, it is pretty depressing to see the share price drop, but as I said before, I believe in the medium. Satellite is the future of radio. 18 months from now I believe the value of SIRI will please both Wall Streat and me!
Sirius XM Radio

Check Out the Disability Blog Carnival!

Not too long ago I searched in vane for blog carnivals about disability. It is so great how the internet connects people who used to be isolated from one another through blogs and now through blog carnivals!

Pitt Rehab: 42nd Blog Carnival !

Toughest on the Poor: America's Flawed Tariff System

Foreign Affairs - Toughest on the Poor: America's Flawed Tariff System - Edward Gresser

And this 2008 update:
Foreign Affairs - Taxing the Poor - Edward Gresser

'Elderspeak' (from MSN Health)

Alzheimer's Patients React Poorly to 'Elderspeak' - MSN Health & Fitness - Alzheimer's Disease: "Nursing experts have known for years that family caregivers and professional nursing staff alike tend to lapse into infantilizing speech, what they call 'elderspeak,' when dealing with the elderly or infirm. This type of speech involves an overly caring but controlling tone of voice, shortened sentences, repetition, the use of inappropriately intimate terms of endearment ('sweetie,' 'dear'), and a tendency to treat the person in a childlike or highly dependent manner.
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I don't see myself as elderly or infirm, and I am infantilized on a regular basis. I was crossing Hyde street last week when someone told me, "Honey, Jesus loves you very much." I doubt he'd say this to someone of my age, race and social economic status who could see- so I wonder- is the implication that Jesus loves me more because I can't see? Pardon me while I let me head get bigger.

On Sunday evening this woman at the Seattle airport called me, sweetie, honey and dear in less than 5 minutes.
She also wanted to hold my boarding pass for me at the ticket counter- may be she thought I'd lose it?
Unfortunately, when I said, "Thanks for your conscientiousness darling, but I've got it covered," it was completely lost on her.

Most of the time how people treat me is a projection of their own fears about blindness.