I wish I had written that, but all I did was agree that the hourglass, ia fitting
symbol, and on some other post I objected to the tulip because they are pretty and
PD is not.
Thanks,
Nita Andres

William Heitman wrote:

> In a message dated 8/7/98 11:09:32 AM Central Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> <<
>  > an hourglass with its accompanying slogan, "Time is running out".
> Therefore,
>  > as nice as it would be to adopt an international symbol, I vote for the
>  > hourglass.
>  >
>  > Regarding ribbons: Yellow, purple, silver, puce....it really doesn't
> matter.
>  > Every group has its ribbon nowadays.  If we really want to stand out, we
>  > should do something different, for example, we could tie a balloon
> (imprinted
>  > with an houglass and slogan) on walkers, wheelchairs, canes, antennas of
> cars,
>  > doorknobs, mailboxes, etc.
>  >
>  > I keep bringing up this idea, but no one ever replies to my suggestion.
>  > However, I'll trot it out once more because I think it would work.
>  > 1.  Pick a day in September when all the congressmen will be back from
>  > vacation. Proclaim it PD Awareness Day.
>  > 2.  On that day we make a great effort to see that every PWP and caretaker
>  > sends a   nominal donation (could be as little as $1) to their favorite PD
>  > organization.
>  > 3.  Then we each send a letter (and a balloon?) to our senators and
>  > congressman and to our local newspaper saying that time is running out and
>  > we're tired of waiting for Congress to appropriate the money promised to us
>  > and the NIH to stop playing games.  Therefore, we have sent in our own
>  > donations to keep research going until Congress stops procrastinating.
> Send a
>  > photo of yourself or a group of Parkies and caregivers holding balloons.
>  > Include a fact sheet about Parkinson's and the inequality of funding.
>  > 4.  Try to get additional spots on radio, TV, etc.  Hand out balloons to
> all
>  > your friends and family. Ask them to display them on that day.  Support
> groups
>  > could hand out balloons and literature at local malls. There are lots of
>  > things we could do.  The thing is to do it on one designated day and be
> sure
>  > that the press, radio and TV are informed.
>  >
>  > Any comments?
>  > Mary Sheehan
>   >>
>
> Mary,
> I like this idea.  Could we include another feature?  For years I have wanted
> to flood congressional offices with fax (what is the pleural of fax anyway)?
> If everyone on the list who has a fax capability sent one fax to each member
> of the appropriations committee.  I think they would be flooded.  So much so
> that we would probably need to send in waves by time zone .to avoid
> conflicting and unnecessarily blocking other peoples fax.  If the list
> consensus is to do this, someone needs to work out something akin to the
> Single Integrated Operation Plan (SIOP) of Strategic Air Command fame.  That
> was the plan that was supposed to keep nuc bombers from blasting each other
> out of the skies.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Regards,
> WHH