Comments on: Super Tuesday Tomorrow: The Candidates’ Views on Autism

By: Autism Vox 2008 in Review: February

Autism Vox 2008 in Review: February — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:20:59 +0000

[...] and also a topic that came to dominate 2008, the presidential election, starting with a post on the candidates’ views on autism prior to Super Tuesday on February [...]

By: Justthisguy

Justthisguy — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:07:29 +0000

Cliff, Hitler and Mussolini were most definitely on the Left. They were into collectivism, and against individualism, big time!

I’ll admit that individualism and libertarianism, taken to extremes, would end up with, as Jerry Pournelle wrote, “human meat sold in the market.”

Extreme individualism horrifies me as much as extreme collectivism. I think we’re trending too much in the latter direction, these days.

Oh, and I count limited-liability corporations as extremes of collectivism.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:38:35 +0000

thanks for these updates—-NJ Senator Menendez is listed too.

By: Moi

Moi — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:21:22 +0000

I met Hillary today. What an amazing woman. I thanked her for her autism plan, and told her I had a 15 yo autistic son. We talked about how as kids get older, they are basically abandoned by the system. So – Then I asked her if she was going to create an Autism Task Force, and her face LIT UP and she emphatically said YES! She also said she wanted to make sure that more services are provided all around.

So there you go.

I will have this all on video to prove it, as soon as a friend gives me the DVD she took.

By: Regan

Regan — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:10:45 +0000

Just something that was submitted to the Senate April 2007, was read twice and then has been sitting in committee since.

If you take a look, check out the co-sponsor list.
IDEA Full Funding Act (Introduced in Senate)
S 1159 IS
To amend part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to provide full Federal funding of such part.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:s.01159:

By: Cliff

Cliff — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:54:35 +0000

Oh, but I would vote for Kristina any day. That would just be too cool (the introspective intelligence seen here is desperately needed in politics on all levels, from my experience in such circumstances).

Cliff

By: Cliff

Cliff — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:52:46 +0000

Contrary to jutthisguy’s opinion, I think the liberal view of the nurturant model of government (as it stems from family terms) bodes well for autistics, many of whom distinctly benefit from the values concerning societal commitment as opposed to self-gain (where individuals who may not have as many skills are fought against). Indeed, it does consistently seem to be liberals who do fund programs like IDEA in general (though, sure, they haven’t, but the only place where we see anything of a disabilities platform is, surprise, on the Democrat side, and health care isn’t an unrelated issue at all, is it?). Of course, I could never claim to be half as nationalistic or patriotic as Justthisguy says, so of course it wouldn’t bother me that he lived abroad (I’ll even admit to thinking, “What’s wrong with Hawaii? It’s part of the United States.”)

And, I should suppose to mention, Hitler and Mussolini were on the far right in ideology, not the far left. Just a note of observance.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:15:25 +0000

flattery is much appreciated!

By: Justthisguy

Justthisguy — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:19:37 +0000

Whoops, it *did* show up, right after I said it hadn’t!

Sometimes I think I should stop the late-night drunken Internet political blathering, but, hey, everyone else is doing it!

Snork!

By: Justthisguy

Justthisguy — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:15:30 +0000

Sorry about that, Ma’am. I got WAY off-topic with my last comment which didn’t publicly show up.