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  • The past 10 years of American public policy, described in two characters: :( #

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    Ever since seeing that, the word “eyedog” is a part of our household parlance.

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  • Thanks to wonderful, invaluable family and friends (you know who you are) I was able to switch from loaner and backup PCs to a Mac I own! #
  • The upside of a Mac is you can focus on actual computing instead of minor or major hassles with troubleshooting problems ALL THE TIME! #
  • and that saves serious time and money, more than offsetting the extra costs. #
  • The first day of adjusting to Mac is hard, because I so used to Windows interface. But after the adjusting phase, you see how good OS X is. #
  • Here's a good article from the Wall Street Journal to assist PC defectors! http://bit.ly/4sZkui #
  • The onscreen keyboard software for Mac, KeyStrokes, that allows me to type with the mouse, is much more powerful than the software for PC. #

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  • The nursing agency model is broken badly, and almost anyone who is helplessly subjected to it soon will want to jump out a window. #

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  • is loving celebrating and learning Hanukkah with girl #
  • RT @superaleja http://twitpic.com/tg2et Hanukkah #

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  • This is a scary article about dangerously incompetent nurses and the nursing agencies that send them http://is.gd/5fgK4 #
  • http://is.gd/5fgK4 is unfortunately consistent with what I have experienced, especially with my 17 years with nursing agencies in Alabama. #
  • Three different nurses we had were later jailed for sex crimes, two others were took my meds, and an half-a-dozen or more stole from us #
  • This in-depth ProPublica news investigation http://is.gd/5fgK4 exposes how too many nursing agencies send out *anyone* #
  • and do nothing about complaints of dangerous negligence but send the nurse to the next hospital or home. #
  • There are many wonderful people in the nursing field. I hope they can step forward and overhaul the ways nursing works in this country. #

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  • eating great foodie food generously provided by @jasonnolan http://www.flickr.com/photos/complicitytheory/4160764853/in/photostream/ #
  • This is how I eat
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/complicitytheory/4161533172/in/photostream/ #

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  • The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody. Hilarious! All the muppets get involved. http://tinyurl.com/yfwfr2x #
  • Here, have a chihuahua infant inside a burrito wrap. http://tinyurl.com/ya48spg #

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  • Win a new Macbook Pro on Cyber Monday 2009. Details here: http://bit.ly/29rFES #

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  • RT @superaleja I loves it, my precious nerd-boy. #

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  • More realistic (& hilarious) version of the usual hokey and false Thanksgiving play http://is.gd/54q4i I especially love powerchair Indian! #

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  • RT @superaleja thinks @NickDupree is cute with his dog show-liking. #

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  • I've been reading http://www.j.mp/23o1Ew and I learned that Alexander Hamilton lived mere blocks from my location, and #
  • that both he and Aaron Burr got in rowboats and went from homes in LowerManhattan to a dueling spot in NJ, because dueling was illegal in NY #
  • Thus began a long tradition of people shooting each other in New Jersey, a tradition vigorously practiced up through the present day #

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  • RT @EricHerboso "Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another." -Immanuel Kant RT @philosophytweet #
  • Last Saturday's SNL was the worst piece of crap I've seen from them in years. Not a single funny sketch, and Samberg appeared only once WTF #
  • Alejandra coloring books beside me as I color too on the computer. At peace. I like this #
  • Obama addresses internet censorship in visit to China. http://bit.ly/48Fla6 #

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  • at 5:30am, my new nurse says to Alejandra, "so, what's wrong with your legs?" REALLY? #

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    ]]>     http://www.nickscrusade.org/twitter-updates-for-2009-11-15/feed/ 0     Fun with labels http://www.nickscrusade.org/fun-with-labels/ http://www.nickscrusade.org/fun-with-labels/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:13:54 +0000 superaleja http://www.nickscrusade.org/?p=1136 Labeling things can be useful, like Several labels fresh from label maker, for medical supplies and Rear of cart with labels attached to power cords for respiratory equipment.

    But sometimes it can go awry, like Photo of Nick. He has a label stuck to his forehead. It says BOY..

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  • Yankee fanatics threw toilet paper rolls at any vehicle that didn't honk for Yankee victory, including (multiple times) at my ambulance! #

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  • I went to Mt. Sinai hospital today for an ENT consul Ambulance went right down the Yankees ticker tape parade route, pandamonium! #
  • crazed Yankee fans went lord of the flies and knocked down a police barricade and took over, then the police restored order #
  • our street was barricaded off and confetti up to the front door. Actually an awesome sight. #

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  • I voted for Rent Is Too Damn High party for NYC Comptroller, because I wanted to lodge a protest vote against John Liu. #
  • He publicly lied about his own mom! I expect a corruption indictment against him eventually,and want to be able to say I didn't vote for him #

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  • I just mailed my absentee ballot. #
  • Alejandra went through unbelievable bureaucratic nightmare down at the Board Of Elections, just to change my address and get me the ballot #
  • I wonder if they realize how hard they make voting. #
  • I voted against Mike Bloomberg. I think pulling a Hugo Chavez with term limits is a terrible precedent and everyone should protest vote. #

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  • Wow, I bet 2 years ago, she never thought that she would meet me and because of me, have an Orthodox Jew cutting her hair right now. #

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  • just learned that they film the ABC TV show Ugly Betty's Mode building (all the exterior shots) merely blocks from our apt. (near City Hall) #
  • is excited to celebrate Girl Day with my girl and some EXCELLENT chicken takeout picked up by @boringaaron #
  • HAPPY 29th GIRL DAY TO @superaleja #

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  • just learned that they film the ABC TV show Ugly Betty's Mode building (all the exterior shots) merely blocks from our apt. (near City Hall) #
  • is excited to celebrate Girl Day with my girl and some EXCELLENT chicken takeout picked up by @boringaaron #
  • HAPPY 29th GIRL DAY TO @superaleja #

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    On Disability Unity

    NextStep blog
    WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER

    Finding My Way: Journey of an Uppity Intellectual Activist Crip
    Human Rights

    Whose Planet Is It Anyway?
    Supporting Allies

    Insights

    Sanabitur Anima Mea
    Look Closer (my favorite post in the ’swarm)

    Metamorphosis (Bob Kafka)
    On the discrimination behind the institutional bias

    Documenting The Action

    PhilosopherCrip
    Atlanta Action Days 1 & 2
    Atlanta Action Day 3

    The Roving Activist’s Blog
    I am excited
    Live from Atlanta

    Today.com’s Official Disability Rights Blog
    Action Day One: Conversations with Self
    Action Day 2

    Finding My Way: Journey of an Uppity Intellectual Activist Crip
    Power is sexy and…

    Composite: thoughts on poetics & tech
    ADAPT in Atlanta kicking ass, taking names

    Comment below to add a post to the ’swarm!

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  • Remember the #ADAPT #Blogswarm! If you're participating, got to post something to your blog and send me a link for the launch TOMORROW! #
  • Here are the blogs slated to post for the #ADAPT #Blogswarm so far http://bit.ly/27f3TO #
  • You can still post for the 'swarm even if not listed–just blog and send me the link! Easy, and makes a difference! #

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  • Today marks a month of the post-institution experience. Lots of downs, ups and downs with the nurses but life w/ girl is boy heaven (beaven) #

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    I’m honored to announce the following blogs will be participating:

    PhilosopherCrip
    Announcement post

    The Roving Activist’s Blog
    Intro

    Crippled Under The Law

    NZ Accessibility

    The Center for Disability Rights

    Sanabitur Anima Mea

    Today.com’s Official Disability Rights Blog

    Composite: thoughts on poetics & tech and Hack Ability

    LTC Reform

    Empowering People Changing Lives

    If you’re not yet listed as a participant and would like to be, please comment below. We need all the help we can get.

    FREE OUR PEOPLE!!

    Nick

    ]]>     http://www.nickscrusade.org/blogswarm-2009-participants/feed/ 7     Blog To End Unjust Institutionalization! http://www.nickscrusade.org/blog-to-end-unjust-institutionalization/ http://www.nickscrusade.org/blog-to-end-unjust-institutionalization/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:42:06 +0000 nickdupree http://www.nickscrusade.org/?p=1096 ADAPT is going back to the heart of the civil rights movement, Atlanta, to demand that the promises made to Georgians (and all Americans) by the Supreme Court in Olmstead v. L.C. and E.W. are kept. Read ADAPT’s page on the action here.

    Segregating people with disabilities in institutions solely because they need daily help, especially given the 21st century technology that can assist them and the widespread success of people with disabilities living in the community, is fundamentally unjust, immoral, overly costly, and, according to the Olmstead ruling, illegal under Title II of the ADA.

    Olmstead, the case of two Georgia natives who wanted the state to stop segregating them, affirmed all Americans’ right to receive care in “the least restrictive setting” (i.e. not in prison-like institutions) and ordered all states to end unnecessary confinement of their disabled citizens (which it deemed illegal discrimination) at a “reasonable pace.” Most states have done little to nothing to comply. The institutional bias of the system is deeply entrenched, and even though the Olmstead decision came down 10 years ago last June, millions of people with disabilities are still kept out of sight, out of mind, stuck in institutions. “A right delayed is a right denied,” Martin Luther King, Jr. would say.


    Georgia’s system, the focus of the Olmstead case, remains notoriously bad, insisting on expensive life-long institutionalizations that strip people of any choice in their daily lives, block opportunities to grow and become self sufficient, and kill hope. And most states are similarly awful, especially in the South. They refuse to heed the Supreme Court’s orders, reminiscent of their failure to follow school desegregation rulings “with all deliberate speed.”

    We can no longer ignore illegal segregation and the community support services states must use to prevent it. We can no longer ignore Olmstead. We mustn’t put long-term care on the backburner and not include it in this year’s health care reform; telling us to wait another decade or more is deeply unjust. ADAPT will be in Atlanta, October 10-15, demanding that this change. You can help raise awareness around the Fall National Action by blogging!

    The ADAPT Blogswarm, Fall ‘09, will collect posts raising the issues of the institutional bias, ablist and unjust institutionalization, lack of community-based services, long-term care reform, the Olmstead decision and posts highlighting ADAPT’s Fall Action. Blogswarm posts will all be listed here, on nickscrusade.org, on October 12.

    Your blogging is incredibly important to raise awareness of these issues (often swept under the rug). Please contribute to the blogswarm!

    For instructions on how to participate, see
    ADAPT Blogswarm, Fall Action 2009

    Thank you!

    Nick

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  • Love my girl so much #

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  • Well, my laptop bit the dust, toast, kaput. The screen goes black whenever on, except in safe mode. Never seen a failure this unexplainable. #
  • For now I'm using an old spare laptop of Alejandra's while we try to resolve the problem. She's really great at advocating for me. #

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