Evan,
What about peaceful change as revolution? That's about the only kind of
revolution I'd support. The problem is, it doesn't seem as if powerful social
forces can be controlled.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Evan Reese
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 4:48 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: New member
I would like to add my voice to the welcomes, Mary.
I've seen you on other lists. You seem pretty tech savvy, which is cool.
I am also new here. I joined last week. On social issues I'm definitely left of
center, but on economic issues I'm in the center, or maybe even a bit to the
right. I support the current economic system. I defend the "capitalist running
dogs" around here. (Yes, some people actually talked like that in the 20th
century. Fortunately, humanity has moved on since then. Mostly that
is.)
Seriously though, I am more than happy to talk about shortcomings of the
current economic model and how to fix them, but I'm not interested in
revolution. I'm with John Lennon:
But when you talk about destruction,
Don'tcha know that you can count me out.
So once again, welcome. I hope you enjoy it here.
Evan
-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Jarvis
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 11:50 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: New member
Hello and welcome, Mary.
If you have a natural curiosity and a sense of adventure, you've come to the
right list. We do try hard to stay on target and not fall into name calling,
as happens on the ACB chat list at times. But a good sense of humor and a
moderately thick skin, and you'll soon be right at home.
As for me, besides being Carl Jarvis, I am a self proclaimed Progressive, an
Agnostic, and 83 years old. My wife and I provide services to older blind and
low vision folks on the Great Olympic Peninsula, through our organization
named, Peninsula Rehabilitation Services. We've been at it almost 24 years and
have worked with well over 3,000 clients. I'm totally blind...for the past 55
years. Cathy and I work as a team since living here in the deep, dark forest
does not allow a blind man the ability to travel to many of our clients alone.
And just for the record, eating, sleeping, working, vacationing and breathing
the same air day after day finds us still deeply in love with one another.
Carl Jarvis
(PS. Cathy's horse is down this morning. She's called the vet and is trying
to get him up and moving. I was going to buy a new keyboard today, but it's
looking as if I'll have to make do with these sticky keys for a while longer.)
On 10/23/18, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Mary,
This list is suddenly becoming busy. We've acquired two new members
and will, I believe, be acquiring another one. It's an ill wind that
blows no good, they say. I do believe we can thank Mr. Trump for the
rejuvenation of this list. At any rate, I'll forward one of the Real
News Network digests to the list. It's a website which has excellent
little news videos that you can listen to and also, there's a text of
each one, I believe. I'll forward one of the digests. You go to the
heading of the story in which you're interested, which is also a link,
and then, you move down until you find a play button and press enter.
If you find the website, you can sign up for your own digests. The
website is in Baltimore. Its founder, Paul Jay, comes from Canada,
and it does national, international, and local Baltimore news.
Some of my favorite people are on there: max Blumenthal, Ben Norton,
Dean Baker, etc.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Mary Otten
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 8:44 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] New member
Hi folks,
I just joined this list, of whose existence I had no idea until a
friend forwarded me a book recommendation from one of the BARD lists,
where this list was mentioned. I recognize Miriam's name from the
bookshare list of many years ago. We liked lots of the same books on
political/historical topics. Anyway, I joined out of curiosity to see what
the list was like.
I've seen a couple posts, one of which mentioned the real news
network, with which I am not familiar. what is it?
Mary
