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els as if we should show the public what crazy out of control really looks like grand poobah roberts and the other four judges in the majority opinion will form a new governing council called the supremes whose first act was to arrest the four opposing judges as well as all elected and appointed officials from the other two branches of our former government we won t keep them locked up for forever said grand poobah roberts just until we ve sufficiently solidified our power and feel more comfortable in our roles we just don t want them making trouble while we re establishing ourselves when asked about changes that are being planned grand poobah roberts was rather vague we re toying around with a few ideas he said we re not planning to do anything too outrageous at first just so the people can get used to their new overlords grand poobah roberts went on to say that the only change he was going to make for now was to make same sex marriage mandatory we haven t decided on a punishment for those that won t comply said grand poobah roberts everything s on the table for now though when asked about the reasoning behind the mandate grand poobah roberts said we just want everybody to experience what same sex marriage is like for a while we ll probably lift the mandate after a few years reaction among most of the country was mixed but the nation s academics were fascinated by the mandate it s a really interesting social experiment said dudley grabbington associate professor of sociology at harvard it will be really interesting to see how many people stick with the same sex marriages after the mandate is lifted reactions from the nation s political establishment was mixed as well it s certainly an unprecedented step said rnc spokesman brad ciegler it goes against everything we believe in and i fear for our future shortly after making his remarks ciegler was arrested and sent to a camp for political retraining i for one welcome our new supreme overlords said dnc spokeswoman constance pattinson after hearing of ciegler s arrest as unelected officials they will bring a new perspective to governance that we ve never experienced before i m really excited about it thought by justin 11 08 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday june 29 2015 bruiser and i are in mourning for one of our fellow bloggers for those that have read my blog for a long time well before my blindness induced hiatus you know i had a good back and forth relationship with k t cat from the scratching post for a few years we had a bet going on weither the saints or texans would have a better record among other things i even had dinner with the man behind the blog once when he was in houston on business he s a cool guy r i p katie the cat we had a really good run pic twitter com bplx9dm6it k t cat ktcat june 30 2015 for those that don t read the blog it s written by k t herself bruiser and i are both in mourning of our maximum leader but we re sure she s got plenty of sun spots to lay in as far as the human behind her i owe you a dinner and a beer whenever i make it out to san diego remember it s nowhere near as long a haul for me now update there s a great post remembering k t over at the scratching post thought by justin 10 03 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday june 25 2015 the whole confederate flag thing with all the craziness going on about the confederate flag lately i figured i should throw out my two cents on the issue yes the confederate flag is a part of our history it s a symbol of a time gone by and in my opinion not one of our better moments as a country like it or not slavery was and is still wrong and like it or not the confederate flag is a symbol of it remember a native texan is saying what i m about to say the south did a ton of things that i m not proud of i don t need to go into details on what i m talking about i think everybody knows exactly what i mean also news flash the south lost the losing team doesn t get to fly their flag over government buildings that to me is like flying the british flag over the capitol we wouldn t do that right now my stance is a bit different when it comes to businesses and individuals businesses and people can in my opinion do whatever they want to with it just don t be surprised if your business loses business because of it other people have the right to vote with their money and choose not to spend it with you for whatever reason they want to would i do business with a place that was hanging a confederate flag on the wall yes because but not because of it after all it s not like i can see the flag i ll do business with anybody as long as they haven t given me a compelling reason not to i could care less about a company s stance on something now if i either or someone i know has had a really lousy experience with a company like my mother in law s experiences with united that i mentioned in my last post then i will refuse to do business with them thought by justin 8 26 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday june 24 2015 leaving on a jet plane as i m sure you can imagine flying is a little more difficult when you re blind thankfully the airlines make it as easy as they can which i ll go into later but there s still plenty of things that i have to do that i wouldn t have to think about as much otherwise the big examples i can think of are getting to the airport and getting picked up from said airport i know the mass transit system here in phoenix well enough that i could get to the airport by myself if i needed to but i d rather not have to rely on bus and light rail especially during our lovely read only slightly cooler than hell summers also as close to the airport as i live lyft is a fairly cheap option to at least get me to curbside again something i ll go into more detail about later where i go though i don t have all that kind of knowledge so i have to try to time my flights in and back home so someone can get me to and from the airports one of the nice things is that it s not hard for someone to get a pass to go past security and meet me at the gate they just have to tell the folks at the ticket counter that they re picking up a blind guy whom they want to meet at the gate and give them my flight info when i get dropped off i d simply go to the ticket counter or curbside and tell them that i need either a pass for them to come back with me or that i need a guide to help me get to my gate of course if i m flying with someone i don t have to worry about any of that kind of stuff since the person flying with me can get me through everything after all they re going with me i ve personally never had an issue with the folks at the airport helping me get from place to place though my mother in law has had a couple of bad experiences with united which is why i ll never fly them the guides at the airport will help me get through security presumably through the special needs line which tends to be short but i ve never asked when i ve had to go through security with a guide once through they ll sit me down next to my gate and let the folks at the counter know that i am there and will need assistance boarding most of the time they ll preboard me so there s not a ton of chaos and confusion while i m getting on the plane someone will walk me down the jetway to the door of the plane while usually a flight attendant will take over once i m on the plane and help me find my seat on my last solo flight one of the flight attendants even made sure i could find the call button if i needed anything and made arrangements with one of the passengers near me to assist me in case god forbid we had to evacuate the plane as far as getting off the plane how i do it will depend on a few things if i m at my final destination and i know someone is waiting for me at the gate i ll just deplane with everybody else since i m competent enough getting around to get off the plane and walk up the jetway to where whoever s picking me up can find me if it s a transfer or i m meeting whoever s picking me up outside security which i ve done at a really small airport i ll wait for the plane to empty out and have someone help me off then when that happens the airline usually has someone waiting for me either coming onto the plane or right outside the gate to get me where i need to go as you can imagine the first time i flew solo since i lost my sight was pretty scary thankfully my lovely wife jen had some experience with this with her mom so we knew what we had to do i was still thinking of the stories from my mother in law like the time she was supposed to be handed off from one person to another in denver but wound up missing her flight because she never got picked up thankfully beyond a minor hiccup in dallas that a fellow passenger fixed for me it went smoothly and i don t worry about it anymore 1 thought by justin 4 38 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday june 05 2015 it s the small things patience a virtue one that i don t have if anything it s gotten worse with my vision loss one of my biggest struggles i ve faced with my vision loss is dealing with the things that i could easily do before but now can t it s not easy giving up some of your independence i d love to say that i handle it fine but i don t it aggravates the hell out of me as i m sure it does most people in my position thankfully with the advances in technology that are out there blind people can do way more than they were able to do on their own 20 years ago but it still isn t easy take something as simple as going through the mail the average joe just stands at their kitchen counter looks at the envelopes and opens what s of interest to them but not me after i bring in the mail i have to either boot up my laptop and use a piece of software called openbook in conjunction with a document scanner or an iphone app called knfb reader which will do basically the same thing using the iphone s camera that technology works great for printed material but if it s hand written all bets are off it s also no help if i have to sign something since it can t show me where to sign i have to get someone to identify the blank for my signature and place a signature guide a piece of plastic the size of a credit card with a hole cut into it that can be lined up with where i have to sign it s small stuff like that which aggravates me on a related note people who expect that i can do something that i either can t or are not comfortable with doing by myself and then get aggravated because of that annoy the crap out of me i mean did you really think that i wanted this because i ve got news for you i didn t i m having a hard enough time with the fact that i need help the last thing i need is you piling it on thankfully with the skills i picked up at rehab there s a lot more that i can do now than i could four months ago and i m starting to get more confidence in my abilities but it s still a struggle that i don t think a lot of people understand thought by justin 5 47 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest solo flight note i had originally written this post last week before i knew about the problem with blogger and windows live writer i haven t made any changes to it because well i just didn t feel like it as i have mentioned before this is my last week of rehab with my last week comes my orientation and mobility final exam for those that don t know that s the class where i learn how to get around using a white cane public transit etc the final exam for that class is a tough one this morning i got dropped off without being told where i was and had to get to a restaurant of my choosing by myself well not completely by myself i could have others help me find things help me cross streets etc but i couldn t hop in a car with someone or anything like that because i ve been there and i know it s good i chose to go to alice cooperstown after tom dropped me off i spent some time figuring out where i was thanks to gps on the iphone i was able to determine that i was on thomas just west of 16th street once i had that figured out i loaded up the google maps app and had it give me a few options on how to get there using the bus or light rail i chose which route i wanted to take and took a seat at the bus stop which i had been conveniently dropped off at when the bus came i hopped on swiped my pass told the driver where i was getting off i was taught to do that instead of to hit the button when my stop is announced and found an empty seat when my stop came up i walked east to the corner of thomas and central avenue from there i crossed thomas to get to the stop for the southbound central bus at this point i could have hopped on the light rail but google maps said that the bus route would be a little quicker and it meant less street crossings since the station is in the middle of central someone who was there helped me find the bus stop and i sat for a few minutes before the bus came it was when i got off of that bus downtown near 1st ave and jefferson that my adventure really began at that point i changed over to apple maps on my iphone so i could get walking directions to the restaurant according to that it was only about a 7 minute walk away that 7 minutes took me a good half hour downtown phoenix is pretty confusing to me and i don t know it all that well plus there was some scaffolding set up on the sidewalk after trying to figure it out for myself i got some assistance locating jackson st the street i needed to turn onto so i could get to alice cooperstown i headed down the street towards it thankfully jackson isn t a busy street because at some point between 1st ave and 1st st i wandered out into the street i realized it just as tom who had been following me at a distance the entire time came up behind me to tell me i moved back over to the sidewalk and made it to the corner of jackson and 1st st where i got confused again it s easy to get confused in that area since there isn t much traffic to give you sound cues so instead of simply crossing the street i managed to make a turn and start down 1st st taking me farther away i knew i d screwed up somewhere but i wasn t sure where i backtracked and tried to figure out where i was but had some problems doing so after a good 10 to 15 minutes of me going around in circles i ran into a guy working in the area that got me pointed in the right direction and made it even with a few shaky moments i did manage to get there and passed the final with flying colors i really felt like i d earned that cuban sandwich thought by justin 7 43 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday june 04 2015 and i m back sorry that blogging was light the past week or two but 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