The article below is one of the reasons I never want to own a home in the USA. Fuckin PC is going to far when it makes it seem you don't actually OWN the home, you're just renting it from the state and the handicapped.

I remember listening to a host of talk show in California talking about the shit he went through with his house. He lived in one of those cliff homes, and had a long set of stairs going up to the house. I think he said it was 20-30 steps, maybe more.

Anyway, he was doing some work on the inside, and they took the molding around the bathroom door off. The state inspector happened to see it, and mentioned that according to the law, he now had to widen the door so a wheelchair could fit through. The host was like "Are you fuckin kidding me? I don't have any friends in wheelchairs and I don't foresee any in the future willing to climb those stairs!" The inspector insisted it was the law, so he had to widen the doorway a couple of inches.

A few inches doesn't sound bad, except it also meant he had to move a wall that ran the length of the house on top of that, so that the door would overlap. Guess who gets to pick up that bill? Nope, not the hypothetical handicapped guy!

Being handicapped sucks, but for such a tiny percent of the population, it seems the majority is being forced to conform to the minority...and that sucks.

I think making public places accessible is fine, within reason, but I think it should be up to individual homeOWNERS to do what they want. After all they are the ones paying for the place.

Anyway, I'm off to a party so I gotta wrap this up. Here's the link to the news article that set me off: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,45146,00.html

Hopefully this party will make accomodations for me by painting the walls blue, since white represents the man keepin' a brother down! ;)

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