Remember, some of these blind folk may have been working, studying, and paying tuition there for years, and now everything's been changed, for maybe not much reason. "Clean out your desk, Perkins--a man who can't throw a javelin better than that has no business in shoe distribution--God knows how you almost got vested in the pension plan."
Besides, schools should be concentrating on sharp minds, not sharp eyes.
Let's say you came to work one day and all the stairs and elevators had been replaced with climbing ropes. You'd still be a perfectly competent WHATEVER_YOU_DO_FOR_A_LIVING, but you'd never be able to reach your third-floor office, and all because you can't climb thirty-foot ropes--boo hoo, you whiner!
Since when does the Third Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War apply to the case of a U S Army enlisted man held by the U S Army? He may be a prisoner during time of war, but so is the guy who robbed the liquor store down the street
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Does the UCMJ (which would seem the appropriate body of law) provide for speedy trials and such?.
Our representatives are not simply expected to vote as their constituents feel at the moment. If they were, we could shut down this whole elaborate structure of elections and simply run referenda on everything.
We expect them to vote for what is right and in our long-term interest. Sometimes that means something other than reading polls and being a weather vane. Many a politician has voted against his state's wishes and later been revered by those same voters for taking a stand that they themselves couldn't see. Many more have been voted out of office next time around, because them's the breaks.
There's a reason we call them (well, some of them) "leaders" rather than "followers."
Do you worry about telephone handsets and toilet handles as well?
(Unless, of course, you were just working the staph/staff pun, in which case I apologize for my density.)
At any rate, I don't think he meant "platen" as some sort of bastard-German plural, like Vaxen.
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.