Glenn Beck may be blind within one year.

[AngryOldDem]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100719/bs_yblog_upshot/glenn-beck-says-he-could-go-blind-in-a-year

<<<Beck, about midway through his keynote address Saturday during his American Revival tour, brought the topic of faith down to a personal level. The Fox News host tearfully told the Salt Lake City crowd of 6,000 that he’s recently been diagnosed with macular dystrophy, the Deseret News reported.

Jokes aside, Beck spoke of how his faith is getting him through the ordeal. Beck is Mormon.

"I truly came to a place that is the greatest blessing," Beck said. "Lord, if you need my eyes, they're yours. They were yours the whole time anyway. Thank you for letting me see as long as I have. That's a blessing." Beck got choked up telling the crowd about how much he loves to read — another heartfelt moment.<<

The lights may go out within a year...

But by sheer coincidence, I also found this, from Media Matters in 2006:

http://mediamatters.org/research/200608250004

<<On the August 24 edition of his CNN Headline News program, nationally syndicated radio host Glenn Beck claimed that Braille on walls (used to identify rooms for blind people) "drives me out of my mind." When he made his comment, Beck was discussing the "politically correct world we live in," which, he claimed, will not allow "stereotypes or sensitive questions" to be broached. He explained that "a blind person would have to be feeling all of the walls to find 'kitchen.' " Beck then waved his hands about, presumably to mimic the actions of a frustrated blind person. He then said, "Just to piss them off, I'm going to put in Braille on the coffee pot ... 'Pot is hot.' "<<


Karma is surely a bitch.

[JuniperLea]

1. Not only is she a bitch...

But her aim is true.

[gateley]

3. ...

:thumbsup:

[Arkansas Granny]

8. So true.

[racaulk]

13. Yup.

:thumbsup:

[Bitwit1234]

44. Knowing the type of person Beck is, I won't believe it til it happens.

[JuniperLea]

49. I had that thought too...

Phony tears... what else is phony and meant solely to be a mean tug at the heartstrings of America?

I'll hold onto the hope that Karma is a bitch with good aim, and if this is yet another lie from Beck, she's going to hand him a double dose.

[AnArmyVeteran]

51. I don't believe anything that fraud says. He would do anything to dupe others.

[bobbolink]

66. Look for a miracle healing.

[JuniperLea]

67. Hahahaha!

:applause:

[bobbolink]

74. It was very unnice of me, but I'm glad it gave you a chuckle.

:evilgrin:

Some days, being gleefully evil is about all there is........

[JuniperLea]

76. When used to keep one's sanity...

in situations involving Beck and his ilk, I can't help but approve!

[bobbolink]

78. I agree completely. As opposed to harming either myself, or someone else or property,

dissing a jerk seems acceptable.

Still unnice, but.... acceptable.

:hi:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

116. It's like algebra, and "plus times minus", "minus times minus" etc.

Being nice to nice people is nice.
Being nice to un-nice people is un-nice.
Being un-nice to nice people is un-nice.
Being un-nice to un-nice people is nice.

[Joe Bacon]

94. Yeah, so is Pat Robertson praying for his "brother in ¢hri$t"?

Pat heals all those ulcers, hemmoroids and spastic colons, healing Beck should be child's play for him!

[femrap]

108. I hadn't thought of that....

I was thinking a combination of Karma and too much viagra.

The miracle heal....please say it ain't so! All the fundies will go nuts. I won't be able to bear it.

[mwb970]

133. The angel Moroni will descend and save him. /nt

[quiet.american]

81. My thought exactly. nt

[bobburgster]

100. My thoughts exactly....don't trust anything he says.

[blondeatlast]

53. Word. nt

[SharonAnn]

75. When will he be mute? That's what I'm waiting for.

[JuniperLea]

77. I thought of that too!

Perhaps Karma should inflict the ultimate backlash on his smarmy ass.

[Ozymanithrax]

2. I'm sure his mother and father warned him that being a wanker would ...

cause him to go blind.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. This will drive him even more radical though

lord.

[Ozymanithrax]

5. This is one of those things we need to watch and see if God...

mysteriously heals him of that affliction, making him the second coming of Christ.

[MineralMan]

6. Well, he's been blind to truth and reason for a long time already.

So, I don't see much of a change.

[daa]

9. I am always toooooooooo late nt

[MineralMan]

38. LOL!

GMTA, after all...

[Wolf Frankula]

7. Now if only he would develope degeneration of the mouth

and be silent within a year.

Wolf

[madmax]

39. lol

Welcome to DU Wolf. :thumbsup:

[SammyWinstonJack]

62. +1

:thumbsup:

[Pathwalker]

10. I am a proud Liberal with extreme Macular Degeneration -

Is that the result of my Karma, too? I need to know because I have an Aunt named Karma, and if this her fault, I want to give her a piece of my mind. You're right about one thing, though - she IS a bitch!
Glen Beck may not really be going blind - if you read wiki, he likely has a mild version of the disease, so his prognosis isn't as dim as he says.

[Vincardog]

15. I wish his prognosis was as dim as he is

[Deep13]

19. +1

[AngryOldDem]

22. No disrespect meant to you...

I just have a real problem with people mocking the physical issues of others.

[Pathwalker]

32. He's also exagerating the level of blindness he'll have, but still,

people saying he's going blind because of his beliefs is wrong as well. The disease he has is genetic - he should blame his parents, and refuse to learn braille.

[AngryOldDem]

37. I wasn't aware it was genetic.

Again, my apologies if I offended you.

[Pathwalker]

47. Thank you, but no apology is necessary. Right now, I am laughing

to keep from crying - I just got a letter from my Insurance Co. - they're cutting off my Health Savings card because I used it for a co-pay with my Retinologist - in January! The kicker - it's already completely used up!

[Warpy]

46. I was going to point out that the asshole didn't even get the name right

My mother eventually went blind from it and you can bet she knew what robbed her sight. My guess is that he heard it at one of his many meet and schmooze the plutocrat parties and is using it like he uses that Vicks under his eyes.

In any case, going blind is horrible, unimaginably horrible. Being blind is a pain in the ass. I've been there and still find myself sticking a thumb into cups and glasses to tell when they're getting full, four years post corneal transplant.

[MiniMe]

71. I wish you well, my Dad had some macular problems too

My Mom keeps saying it wasn't Macular Degeneration, but I don't know what it was. They are talking about macular dystrophy, which is a different disease.

http://www.radio-info.com/news/talk-radios-glenn-beck-is-diagnosed-with-macular-dystrophy
The Premiere-syndicated Beck chose a weekend live appearance in Salt Lake City on his “American Revival Tour” to share the news: “a couple of weeks ago I went to the doctor because I can’t focus my eyes. Actually, I went to Lenscrafters first, and the guy said, ‘Whoa, you might be going blind.’” A later consultation with an eye doctor produced a diagnosis of macular dystrophy. It’s a progressive disease, often hereditary, that can cause a loss of central vision as the cells in the center of the retina (the macula) fill up with a fatty substance. Macular dystrophy is a different disease from macular degeneration, which can also produce loss of central vision. Peripheral vision may be unaffected in both conditions.

[racaulk]

11. Self-delete

Posted in wrong place, sorry. :hi:

[Hubert Flottz]

12. His head is so far up his ass he will never notice it!

[Steely_Dan]

14. "Lord, if you need...

my eyes, they're yours."

Oh, please...

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

16. Why am I reminded of the film "Bob Roberts"? -nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

106. Some people will have / Some simply will not / But they'll complain and complain and complain and

complain and complain / Some people will work / Some never will / But they'll complain and complain and complain and complain and complain / Like this: / It's society's fault I don't have a job / It's society's fault I'm a slob / I'm a drunk, I don't have a brain / Give me a pamplet while I complain / Hey pal you're living in the land of the free No-one's gonna hand you opportunity

Yup that foot tapping at the end when he's supposed to be disbled from the waist down. Mr. Beck better hone "acting skills".

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

110. Nothing some partially-opaque contact lenses can't handle. -nt

[immune]

17. Worked for the ditto head when his numbers and reputation were

on the line. :nopity:

[Deep13]

18. I'm sorry to hear it.

It's a random disease that could strike anyone. Karma has nothing to do with it. I'm also sorry to hear he's throwing in the towel on the basis of what god wants. They're his eyes, not god's. That kind of irrationality is the basis of this country's problems. There's a really decent and good woman who went to high school with me who is suffering from MS. Like Beck, she is resigned to "god's will." What sin did she commit to draw Karma's wrath?

[Taverner]

23. I think he's lying

IN fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he made this all up on the spot

[Deep13]

35. Could be. He IS an asshole.

Too bad The Lord (tm) won't cure that.

[Canuckistanian]

40. Wouldn't surprise me either

And if he did, it wouldn't lower my opinion of him.

[zipplewrath]

27. You're mixing your religion

Karma and the concept of "sin" are two different religions, and I don't mean just two different factions of one faith. You're really on roughly the opposite side of the world.

The Buddha’s reply was:

"All living beings have actions (Karma) as their own, their inheritance, their congenital cause, their kinsman, their refuge. It is Karma that differentiates beings into low and high states."

He then explained the cause of such differences in accordance with the law of cause and effect.

Certainly we are born with hereditary characteristics. At the same time we possess certain innate abilities that science cannot adequately account for. To our parents we are indebted for the gross sperm and ovum that form the nucleus of this so-called being. They remain dormant within each parent until this potential germinal compound is vitalised by the karmic energy needed for the production of the foetus. Karma is therefore the indispensable conceptive cause of this being.

The accumulated karmic tendencies, inherited in the course of previous lives, at times play a far greater role than the hereditary parental cells and genes in the formation of both physical and mental characteristics.

[Deep13]

50. "Karma's a bitch"

That clearly implies that Beck's purported condition is some kind of divine judgment for his bad behavior. It isn't. Attributing illness to god's will, Karma, sin, witchcraft or any supernatural force is something that should have ended with germ theory.

I used to be interested in theological matters. I stopped caring when I realized just how utterly pointless the whole thing is.

[zipplewrath]

52. germ theory is the mechanism

Karma is the motivation. It is an attempt to explain why one person gets a disease and another does. And explanation that is something other than "random selection".

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

111. Sorry to break the news to you, but there IS such a thing as random selection.

Both natural (less-than-certain contagion of some diseases upon exposure, natural disasters etc.) and man-made (lotteries, stray bullets etc.).

And I assure you the moral standing of the targets of such selections play no part in the probabilities.

[zipplewrath]

114. Prove it

To be honest, I agree with you. But as I say, considering the forces they are bringing into play, one would be hard pressed to prove that random selection existed.

Proving a sample is truly random isn't particularly easy, and in reality there are precious few "truly" randomm data sets. Almost all have some hidden or buried collection biases. (If nothing else, the instrumentation itself may have functional limits on the scale). The most one can do is to demonstrate that whatever supposed correlation is being expressed, just doesn't seem to exist. That gets pretty hard to do with the concept of "past lives".

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

115. Proofs of lack of correlation do exist.

It was applied to prayer, which was proven worthless. (Cue the nyah-nyah-nyah-that-proved-nothing-so-stop-saying-that wailing from the usual suspects.)

The problem with "past lives" is that, unlike prayer or homeopathy, no measurable effects are alleged. I could think up some experiments, though. Like taking two "past lives therapists" and putting them to "analyze" the same group of people, taking care of isolation so as to avoid collusion.

[zipplewrath]

117. Agree on the lack of correlation

One can demonstrate that the supposed correlation doesn't exist. That in and of itself isn't proof of randomness. Our presumption of randomness (or what we call in my business "psuedo random") is mostly an extrapolation from simple experiments where we can control all the variables. (Or at least quantify them). But in the end, one is limited in "real" systems from demonstrating that there aren't biases of selection that are as yet not understood.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

118. Here's a thought experiment.

Take a fair amount of money (say, $5000).

Take a coin. Use the following mechanism to avoid coin bias:
- To select between outcome A and outcome B, throw the coin twice.
- Heads-tails, it's outcome A, Tails-heads, it's outcome B.
- Otherwise, repeat the two throws.

Divide the $5000 into $1 chunks.

For each $1, throw the coin as above. According to outcome, put the $1 in pot A or pot B.

Beforehand, pledge to give the contents of pot A to a worthy charity, and the contents of pot B to a convicted child rapist. AND FOLLOW THROUGH.

I assure you the fractions will tend to 50-50 as expected.

[zipplewrath]

119. You might be surprised

You said "tending", and that's the key word.

My sister, being the daughter of a PhD, came up with a simple "science fair" experiment along these lines. Basically she rolled dice... ALOT. Actually, we all did since we all got involved before it was all over. Red die, blue die, roll 'em, write down the results. We literally did THOUSANDS of rolls, and the data was constantly moving around, never really wanting to fall into the predicted categories. The were "approaching" them, but one of the numbers, or one of the die would constantly be more outta whack than the others.

Years later, in college, a professor of mine would write a paper addressing this a bit. It was basically an attempt to identify if samples were "truly" random. It wasn't a proof methodology as much as an error detection methodology. i.e. it didn't prove that data sets WERE random, it tried to detect if they potentially WEREN'T random. But what he developed was a set of guidelines (based upon sample size) for finding REGULAR distributions of data, i.e. apparently highly ordered or repetative. In a "truly" random set, there should be "runs" of numbers in order (10, 20, 30, 40..., or 1,2,1,2,1,2). the length and frequency was the point of the paper. Look for them and if you don't find them, somethings probably wrong. Years later I read that forensic accounts do something similar in which the just take all the digits used in accounting data and do a histogram. There should be a roughly "even" distribution of digits in a large report. If there isn't someone's cooked the books.

In your example, it wouldn't be surprising if there was a deviation by a couple hundred dollars either way. It wouldn't be "common" but it wouldn't be out of the relm of reality either.

And again, you're trying to extrapolate a narrow, limited variable, result to a system with large numbers of variables (potentially infinite) and say that because randomness exists in the limited case, it must exist in the larger case as well. Don't mistake me, I know randomness exists, and I'm not much of a believer in Karma. I merely make the case that proving them wrong is difficult.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

120. That's why I said fractions, not absolute difference.

As the amount of dollars grows, the difference in dollars between the two pots tends to get HIGHER, often after a number of flip-flops. The percentages, however, tend inexorably to 50-50. Always.

Oh, and it just hit me: We could throw prayer in too. Make it public and urge people to pray the money doesn't go to the rapist.

[zipplewrath]

121. They've done some of that

"remote prayer" studies. Various folks keep advertising that they've shown correlation. I'm dubious but I haven't seen any data one way or another.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

123. Those "various folks" (aka "some") that "keep advertising" (aka "say") are in a state of denial.

Just like the Shroud of Turin.

[zipplewrath]

125. Double blind

I'm not sure quite how to structure it, but I'd bet a buck or two that any credible double blind test would never show any correlation.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

126. The prayer tests WERE double blind. -nt

[zipplewrath]

127. How do you pray for the unknown?

How do you pray for someone without knowing who, or what, you are praying for? How does God know who you are praying for if you don't?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

128. "Please pray for the person whose name is in this envelope. God knows who it is." -nt

Or: "Please pray for the person behind this wall, who is suffering of cancer."

[zipplewrath]

129. Talk about faith

And so sometimes there is no one "behind the wall"? Or there is a healthy person? Or they put someone behind the wall and no one prays for them? Heck of a test to design. Probably takes alot of "faith".

[superduperfarleft]

20. "claimed that Braille on walls (used to identify rooms for blind people) "drives me out of my mind."

:rofl:

Oh, man, that is too sweet. Too bad he can't go mute at the same time.

[Taverner]

21. He's lying

And when his vision doesn't go out, it will be a "miracle" from "god"

[Erose999]

30. As an ordained minister in the Universal Life church, I hereby offer my services to GB as a

faith healer. Just one good backhand slap and I can guarantee Mr. Beck will see again. Stars, anyway.

[hatrack]

24. Yes, and he would never, NEVER lie about something like this!

Truth is paramount to Glennnnnnnnnnnnnn, as we all know.

[AngryOldDem]

25. Especially when his ratings are in the tank.

[Iggo]

26. I'm having a difficult time giving a shit.

EDITED TO ADD: I suppose I could have worded that differently...lol.

[madmax]

41. Thanks for the laugh n/t

[Blue Owl]

28. It's the fake-tears-inducing eye drops

does karma make you weep, Glenn?

[madmax]

42. Can using too much

Vick's to produce fake tears cause blindness? :evilgrin:

[Hassin Bin Sober]

59. It's true. I heard his eye problems are the result of inducing fake tears with Vick's Vapor Rub.

I read it somewhere (well maybe another thread but let's start a rumor).:)

[Ignis]

29. "And if I'm lying about Obama being a Socialist Muslim, may God strike me blind!"

:hide:

[blm]

31. oops....I posted this, too

I remembered seeing it back when it happened.

[gauguin57]

33. Pardon me if I don't buy it hook, line and sinker.

I remember him crying on his radio show, saying he'd almost died of a bleeding hemorrhoid.

Limbaugh: deaf
Beck: blind

I want them to both be fired; however, I wouldn't wish blindness or deafness on anyone -- even those two lyin' skanks.

[truebrit71]

36. And Palin: Dumb..you hit the trifecta!

:rofl:

[BrklynLiberal]

103. Now all we need is a mute RWingnut tomake a complete set.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

107. BREAKING: Michael Weiner (Savage) is going mute from all the screaming. nt

[BrklynLiberal]

109. LOLOL. Perfect.

[southernyankeebelle]

34. Funny thing I thought he already was blind. Everyday he looks at the world crookedly. I wonder how

it will change him. Maybe he will be more understanding. Na I don't think so he is a millionaire so he can buy his way through life.

[Davis_X_Machina]

43. I'm so old I can remember when Rush was deaf.....

[tom_paine]

45. This is simply a variant of the "Rush is going deaf" lie.

Not that any of the Authoritarian Followers from either marketed brand will notice.

You've got to envy the RW Authoriarian Liars/Mouthpieces their choice of audience. Ignorance of basic history, gullible mental malleability, and mental compatrmentalization. The perfect combination of traits for tyrants and their demagogues like Beck, hannity, Limbaugh et al.

[David__77]

48. I think Limbaugh was indeed losing his hearing.

I heard his voice during that period, prior to his announcing his hearing loss, and noticed it very clearly - he speaking in a way similar to many deaf people.

[provis99]

55. his deafness was caused by his massive drug abuse.

Oxycontin usage makes you go deaf. Limpballs did it to himself.

[SnakeEyes]

70. Rush DID go deaf

He has cochlear implant now.

[midnight]

54. When I heard this, I was wondering if it would be Rush who

would draw attention to those who suffer from eye sight issues. You know the way he went after Michael J. Fox for his M.S. The last decade has turned this country into one that acts contrary to those who are differently abled. It leaves many wide open to abusive comments like Beck and Limbo feel comfortable dishing out. We need to train those on the front lines in this country to stop abusing those who are differently abled.

[SnakeEyes]

72. Rush deaf, Beck blind

Hannity mute.

[newfie11]

56. to bad he won't be mute too. n/t

[Politicalboi]

57. I smell bullshit

He wants sympathy. He's losing ratings, and like others have said, he is going to say it's a miracle when it doesn't happen. He's using his sheep for all their worth. What's next a Glenn Beckkk marathon to raise money. And the sheep obey.
Side note if it is true. Hey Glenn didn't your mother tell you you'd would go blind for masturbating too much?

[Dappleganger]

58. Same here. His theatricality is uncanny.

[marions ghost]

60. "Lord, you can have these crappy eyes back...

I'll just wave my hands around..."
:nopity:

[eppur_se_muova]

61. I think Beck is positioning himself to become a televangelist.

He knows those guys can get away with big money scams for life, and he wants in on it.

Expect to see a "miracle" cure. And some really bad acting, if we're lucky.

[TheCowsCameHome]

73. Pat Robertson had squeezing his eyes shut down to an art form.

Beck could follow suit and still make millions.

[jimlup]

63. God has a really cynical sense of humor...

That is if he/she exists.

[Forkboy]

64. I'll cough up an extra $100 if we can make him mute, too.

[EFerrari]

65. lol

:rofl:

[Arkana]

68. Here's hoping his tongue rots out too.

[TheCowsCameHome]

69. But we'll still be able to see him. We're the unfortunate ones.

Sorry to sound crass, but......

[daleo]

79. I don't believe it

I think it's a play for sympathy. It's been my experience that when people have really medical crises, they don't say things like "God, take my eyes if you want to." It's like saying "I'll take the cancer if it was your will" - even truly religious people can rarely manage that sort of response.

[JoePhilly]

80. He's already deaf and dumb ....

Maybe if he goes blind he'll become good at something meaningful ... like pinball!!

edit:typo

[LawnKorn]

82. So now Beck picks up his part of the right wing triad by personifying "See no evil"

[Saphire]

83. but will he still be able to cry???

[spanone]

84. he's been blind for years

[fascisthunter]

85. he doesn't have any faith... and wouldn't know what it was

[Whisp]

86. why should I believe that asshole?

probably a big fat sympathy lie.

and if its true, I don't give a shit what suffering he goes through when he dishes out the lies and hate every day like he's done.

tough shit, Mormom Moron boy.

I've got people I care about, decent people with all kinds of troubles, that make it way above you on my list of things to care about.

[Old Troop]

87. What a whiny baby. The guy cries more than my 2 yo grand-daughter.

[Cass]

88. Maybe its all the vapo-rub he smears around his eyes to make himself his cry.

I am having a hard time working up much sympathy for him. I can't forget his juvenile mocking comments about braille.

Karma is a bitch.

[MrScorpio]

89. Frankly, as much as I detest Beck, I won't celebrate this

But what I do find ironic is that Beck is notorious for his lack of empathy towards people that he considers adversaries.

Remember the time that he called the wife of rival radio jock on air to tell her a tasteless joke about their then recent miscarriage? When he was hospitalized he did the same thing then and once he recovered he came back just as detestable as he was before.

And now this man is trying to elicit empathy for himself, despite his lack of empathy for others?

Tough shit.

It's a shame that he may go blind, but it's a bigger shame to know that he will still be just as ugly in heart as he is now, if not more, after going through something that has the potential to make him a better person, were he to learn some compassion and humility.

[Control-Z]

90. And here I thought it was going to be

a masturbation confession.

[BrklynLiberal]

104. ROTFLMAO!!!!

:rofl: :rofl:

[indepat]

91. Beck: Oh, the humanity of this man so eaten up with God's love and grace

:D

[pleah]

92. I'll believe it when I see it. :D

Is this his poor, poor pitiful me routine?

[RagAss]

93. Ladies and Gentlemen,.......... The RagAss Sympathy Orchestra.....

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

:evilgrin:

[John Kerry VonErich]

95. He's faking it.

He does this to make fools out of Media Matters. Just like he fooled them into believing that Muse's management emailed him renouncing his endorsement. The band and reps never even heard of Beck until this made waves.

[Number23]

96. I was JUST about to feel deep sympathy for that @sshole

and then I read the second part of your post.

God, what an ugly man.

[gaspee]

97. My first instinct is that he's a liar

My second instinct is to laugh at the godbag leaning on his faith. If you believe in that shit, well, your skydaddy made you blind. So he's saying, thank you sir, may I have another.

But I still think he's a lying piece of shit. And he'll get away with it because of health privacy laws.

We all already know the guys a liar living in a fantasy world of his own making.

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

98. His mother warned him that this would happen.

[SkyDaddy7]

99. Sorry but I do not buy it...

This will just be another one of those so-called "Christian Faith Healing Stunts"...Several months from now he will claim to have gotten better due to all the prayers he has received and most of the Nation will be reassured their deity is looking out for them as well! Well, that is if they vote for god's party the Republican Party!

This time next year Beck will still be on the air and still crying about something. This guy is a media whore and having his own show does not satisfy his want for attention.

If I am wrong then Beck gets what he deserves for making fun of people with disabilities and we do not have to see him on TV for much longer...Hopefully.

[peekaloo]

101. so mental masturbation makes a person go blind, too?

damn.

[BrklynLiberal]

102. Ironic considering how blind he already is to so many things...

[AllyCat]

105. He must have a pretty short fuse to be angered by signs in braille

What frickin' difference does it make? He is such a jerk.

[valerief]

112. ONLY blind? Not enough. nt

[joeybee12]

113. BecKKK is probably lying...but if he isn't, I must be a bad person...

...because i believe he deserves this and much, much more.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

122. My mom had regular macular degeneration and suffered greatly from it.

I was in an amateur opera production some years ago, when Mom was still alive, and one of the other sopranos in the chorus (who wore reading glasses, BTW) kept asking me "Why don't you get LASIK? blah blah blah" because I INSISTED on wearing my glasses on stage. I told her, "Well, this stage is old, and tiny, I could literally take three steps, fall down the back stairs, or off the stage in the front, and sue your non-profit ass out of existence for damages".

She was shocked. It was the most immature thing I had run into in DECADES. It was like being bullied on the playground. I talked to the director and informed her the people in the chorus at Houston Grand Opera in their production of Mefistofeles with Samuel Ramey, world's most pre-eminent operatic bass, were wearing glasses.

I'm just thankful that I have full color and stereo vision, as near sighted as I am. I got to keep wearing my glasses but they didn't call me back for anymore productions.

That was OK, as the whole place was full of battling egoes, which I wanted nothing to do with. I just wanted to sing and have a good time playing a drunken peasant. This was "The Elixir of Love" which is a delightfully funny opera. I had more fun than I have had in years. We did it in Italian. That was fun too.

I guess this woman who had a problem with my glasses must have been on the Board of Directors to get away with hassling me. I should have told her how thankful I was to have full color vision and stereo and about my poor mother with macular degeneration, that they couldn't really do anything about.

I think it's the leading cause of blindness in the U.S. in the aging population.

[DainBramaged]

124. I believe his bullshit like I believe McCain would have been a good President

[laureloak]

130. I've heard that's caused by ...... n/t

[madokie]

131. His seeing doesn't bother me its his mouth that I'd like to see stopped

lying mofo anyway.

[BlueIdaho]

132. Lets all get in line for the great Glenn Beck Pity Party.

I hear he's only charging $125 a seat.