Posted on 10/15/2010 6:50:47 AM PDT by rstrahan
Did you know that this is National Disability Awareness Month? Unless you are part of the disabled community, you probably had never heard of it. We have National Hispanic Heritage Month, Black History Month, and even Earth Month. Then there are special days for various issues. All of these get media attention. The newspapers run series on how these issues have affected our lives, and television runs ads, news articles, and special programming to feature whatever special issue is being promoted. That is, unless it is concerning the disabled, and then the media is conspicuous in its silence.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedisabledadvocate.blogspot.com ...
Please notice..........
Being fat is NOT a disability....Please refrain from parking in handicapped parking areas just because you are fat and talked your doctor into signing for you a handicap tag.
This reminds me of the South Park episode where the school nurse has a dead fetus growing on the side of her head, and they organized a parade to draw attention to her. Like that’s just what these people want or need.
Now that is funny...Don’t care who you are...*LOL*
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