No, I don't. I grew up in New York City. When I was growing up, I met the blind
people whom I got to know because I attended the children's recreation program
at the New York Association for the Blind (the Lighthouse). Most of the kids
attended public schools where there were braille or sight conservation resource
rooms. The residential school for the blind that they attended was a private
school owned by a minister, Dr. Framton, The New York Institute for the Blind,
located in the Bronx. Much later, I met other people and I heard about the
State School in Batavia.
Miriam
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Hi Miriam and Frank,
Do you by any chance know Ed. He lives in your state. i believe that he lives
not far from Batavia. He attended the Batavia school, and Genesio State
College.
He lived in northern CA for several years, but returned to NY to marry his
current wife myra.
I do not know her, but I knew his former wife marleen, who is from Syracuse.
I believe that Ed is President of the Batavia school alumni association.
Andy
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Perhaps it's healthy to have a sense of humor about all of this like Cooney?
Miriam
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From: Edwin Cooney <mailto:edwincooney45@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2020 7:08 AM
Subject: dastardly Don plots on!
Hello Everyone,
What you like, what I like, are the legitimate rights in a free society to be
who we are, to establish the principles and the rules of conduct for ourselves
and for those whom we favor.
In a free society where societal likes and dislikes are “cumulative,” many of
us are left in the minority largely due to powerful interest groups.
Hence, we come to the circumstances being brought about by the recent death of
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
To the distress of many of us, President Trump has selected Amy Coney Barrett,
a very Conservative jurist, as his pick for the Supreme Court. He hopes that
very soon, even before the November 3rd election, the United States Senate will
confirm his selection.
As to where we go from here, that's what we will examine!
After you've received what's here, I invite you to make it your turn to tell me
where you think we're headed due to this latest political squabble — for that's
exactly what it is!
Warm Regards,
Me, E.C.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th, 2020
DASTARDLY DON PLODS ON!
If you're happy (even though I'm not) with President Donald and the GOP
Senate's plot, you may well triumph in your justification, but beware of the
wrath of an angry nation!
It might as well be cheerfully acknowledged, President Trump has the legal
right to nominate a Conservative judge even with the approval of an
unprincipled Republican Senate. After all, our Constitution empowers the
President to propose and the Senate the right to dispose the nominations of
cabinet officers, treaties, and justices of the Supreme Court of the United
States. It also empowers both bodies of Congress to establish their own rules
governing the creation, passage and rejection of legislation that appoints men
and women to high public office. What it doesn't do is require the Senate
majority to vote on the president's choices for office. Thus, back in 2016, the
Senate could legally ignore President Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland on
the grounds that it was sufficiently late in the president's second and final
term, that it was only right that the next president should have the right to
choose the successor to Conservative Justice Antonin Scalia who had died in
February 2016 while on a hunting vacation.
Now, especially in view of the possibility that the next president could be
Democrat Joseph R. Biden, the 2016 GOP Senate principles are being abandoned by
that Republican herd of pachyderms as swiftly and deadly as the herds of
buffalos that once roamed the prairies of the Old West. "So," you may say,
“what of it?"
During an election year where motives often rate above either principles or
explanations, President Trump has just stirred the political pot full of young
women throughout the country who believe firmly that they, and not the
government, are the mistresses of their own bodies, social and spiritual fates.
As the campaign rumbles on toward the first of three upcoming debates between
Messrs. Biden and Trump, the president, so far, appears to believe that his
base which left him nearly 3 million votes behind Hillary Clinton four years
ago will carry him back into the White House.
What both Conservatives and President Trump don't seem to realize are two vital
facts. First, the defeat of Roe v. Wade in a Conservative Supreme Court will
not put this nation on a "moral path to salvation” since it will only limit the
abortion rights to the poor. The well-off will meet their private needs without
public notice or punishment. That would constitute no “moral story” that I've
ever read or heard about. Second, once you solve the Roe v. Wade issue, the GOP
will be that much politically weaker.
There's a wonderful old story once told by Tommy (The Cork) Corcoran, one of
FDR's aides. Tommy Corcoran was a young lawyer who originally worked for
President Herbert Hoover in the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He was
originally embittered by President-elect Roosevelt's coolness toward President
Hoover and the RFC. Fortunately for both Tommy and FDR, the Cork, at Hoover's
direction, was assigned to stay on and work with the new administration to
solidify the RFC and, within just a few weeks, Tommy found himself completely
overwhelmed by the new President's humor and charm. So "The Cork" stuck with
FDR. One day around 1935, the president sent the Cork to Capital Hill to lobby
a Senate committee on a political matter. A few hours later, Tommy came back to
say: Boss, I got it. The committee will support you on this thing. FDR grinned
and took a long drag through his ivory cigarette holder and said: “Oh, Tommy,
of course! You did a grand job to get me the votes I sent you up there for, but
after thinking the matter over, I sent some other fellows right up there after
you and they undid your work. After all, Tommy, next year is an election year
and I'd rather have the issue than the solution!"
Politics being what it is, I told two Pennsylvania friends of mine that I
thought that the president would select Judge Barbara Lagoa from Florida, an
Hispanic jurist, believing that by doing so, he would be well on the way to
winning the Sunshine State's 24 electoral votes. (Note: I'll let them be right
while I remain provocative!)
The unhappy fact for "Trumpites" is that while Dastardly Donnie can be both
decisive and even totally legal and he may not be impeachable these days, he is
definitely both deflatable and defeat-able!
President Trump, unlike four years ago, possesses more foibles than his
opponent.
Beware Mr. President, "Sleepy Joe" has been hibernating and he's as hungry as
the proverbial bear when he awakens!
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,
EDWIN COONEY