<br><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 10, 2007 5:48 PM, J Patrick Draine <<a href="mailto:jpdraine@gmail.com" target="_blank">jpdraine@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Wow. Thanks for the information. I shall strive to be incorrect henceforth. Just in time for the holidays. <div><font color="#888888">Patrick Draine</font> <div><br><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 10, 2007 4:00 PM, Alan Barnard <<a href="mailto:pianotuner@embarqmail.com" target="_blank"> pianotuner@embarqmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>Political Correctness is one of the greatest evils of our age. It is a direct, nuclear assault on our freedom of speech. I condemn it utterly. <br><br></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div> <div><br> </div> <div>Hi Everyone,</div> <div>I don't know about Alan, in fact I don't even KNOW Alan except via his posts on this tech list. I can tell all of you one thing about him though, he is an equal opportunity free thinker who speaks his mind. If someones handi-capability gets in the way of that and is bruised by it I don't believe it was done with any animosity but rather the man speaking his mind and letting the chips fall where they may. I have no problem with that and I have been at the end of his rapier on occasion. </div> <div> </div> <div>I would suggest we all lighten up a little and remember the message of the season. </div> <div> </div> <div>I don't believe any offense was intended, I believe he, like me, didn't know what to make of the message and had some fun with it. In other words, perhaps he didn't KNOW what it was and therefor couldn't have been, intentionally, making fun of Marshall. <br clear="all"></div> <div>A couple of you elected yourselves as the "Politically Correct Assumption Squad", made the assumption that Alan was making fun of the "sight impaired" and drafted yourselves to scold him. In so doing you have made the same error you accuse him of, treating the sight impaired differently just because of their impairment! This action makes you better how?  <span class="huge"><font face="Verdana" size="5">When you're finished changing, you're finished.</font></span> <br><span class="bodybold"><strong><font face="Verdana">Benjamin Franklin</font></strong><br><br></span> </div> <div>Read my tag line, I choose them carefully and change them frequently!</div> <div> </div> <div>Mike  <br>A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.<br>Michael Magness<br>Magness Piano Service<br>608-786-4404<br><a href="http://www.ifixpianos.com/" target="_blank"> www.IFixPianos.com </a><br>email <a href="mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com" target="_blank">mike@ifixpianos.com</a> </div>