Someone left very revealing comment about Jerry Ferris, so-called ASL interpreter on the Jackie Dickenson Modeling Agency tv show. Just read the enclosed comment below.
http://by113w.bay113.mail.live.com/mail/InboxLight.aspx?FolderID=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&InboxSortAscending=False&InboxSortBy=Date&n=1559512046#
I wonder if this comment is really from Martin Ritchie himself or someone deaf. I do not want to put Martin Ritchie in any awkward ways.
Let's BLACKLIST Jerry Ferris from working again as an ASL interpreter! He used many deaf people as a stepping stone to his own fame. We must stop this person from exploiting any of us, deaf people much further in the near future and beyond. What do you think of this one?
ASlize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
Monday, January 12, 2009
Friday, January 9, 2009
The Doctors.Com Afternoon TV Show and CIs
What is up with the latest spikes in media coverage of CIs? Is there any hopeful agenda for the Obama administration to be more sympathetic to the urges of cochlear implant surgery among deaf youngsters?
The latest media coverage of CIs found yesterday, 1/8/09 on the syndicated tv show - "The doctors.com", a medical reporting tv show about the CIs on deaf youngsters.
http://www.thedoctorstv.com/main/info_finder Please type cochlear implant on Search and will show you different 8 CI features from this show. The title of "Procedure ..." is the main feature of yesterday's tv show - http://thedoctorstv.com/main/procedure_list/47
The hunky male host of "The Doctors" seems skeptical and disapproved of the idea of cochlear implant surgery on deaf babies thru his facial expression and body language. The parents of deaf baby daughter heavily emphasized "That is not a cure for deafness".
http://www.thedoctorstv.com/LandrysMom
We are living in the period of economic instability right now. We do not need any government or private insurance spending on non-medical/health necessity like the mega-thousands cost of cochlear implant surgery on per child.
We ought to persuade "The Doctors" syndicated tv show to let the former cochlear implantees make their presence (show up) on TV to let the general public that there are real downsides to the cochlear implant surgery on non-consented deaf babies and youngsters.
It's time for the balanced news reporting on the issue of CIs before distressed and emotional parents of deaf babies and youngsters do the lifetime damage to their own offspring and children!
We must keep the watchful eye on the media coverage of cochlear implants on deaf babies and youngsters.
Unfortunately, there is no written transcript available from "The Doctors". Just the DVD on particular episode.
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
"Non-Objective and Self-Promote" Washington Post article on Bilateral CI
After reading today's Washington Post print edition, 1/6/08 on the special article submitted by Anne Dooley on the issue of bilateral cochlear implants (CIs). "At the Rim" deaf blogger also do the similar blog piece on very same newspaper article.
This Washington Post article is one of "self-promote and non-objective" journalism ever seen on the issue of CIs. Anne Dooley is not a trained journalist herself. She actually write and edit several psychic-related and spirituality books.
Here is an enclosure -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/05/AR2009010501944.html?sub=AR
The Washington Post should not let Anne Dooley to do this special article or publish it in the first place. Any journalistic publication like the reputable Washington Post newspaper know better than letting someone writing out the self-promotion and non-objective piece without being objective or let someone do the investigative reporting by independent collaboration and inquires.
I once approached the Washington Post newspaper back in summer 2005 for writing the special coverage of the Deaf Way II Conference in exchange of paying my Deaf Way II conference registration package. The Washington Post coldly replied "We do not hire any freelance writers to do the specials, only the staff journalists!".
In the end, the Washington Post assigned someone hearing, who knew NOTHING about the enrichment and beauty of the Deaf Culture and Way of Life. The Post published only an article about the Deaf Way II Conference on the issue of noise level bothered hotel guests in the surrounding area and described how the real loud music vibrations shook the Washington Convention Center.
Anne Dooley is a classic audist herself which she assumed the best for her own deaf daughter to be refitted with single cochlear implant, then explored the idea for bilateral cochlear implant. She said "rather have her daughter the ability to hear" in despite of acquiring the American Sign Language (ASL) at Columbia School of the Deaf (MD).
Did Anne Dooley frankly ask her own deaf daughter what and how Ruthie really feel about having the cochlear implant? Nope!
Have Ruthie been previously consulted if she was for getting the cochlear implant surgery?
How the cochlear implant surgery for Ruthie being paid by?
Most important of all is the journalism ethics which they clearly forbade any "conflict of interest"
and "subtle advertising".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism_ethics_and_standards
http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp
This article is originally going to be published on 1/6/09, but put it on hold
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
This Washington Post article is one of "self-promote and non-objective" journalism ever seen on the issue of CIs. Anne Dooley is not a trained journalist herself. She actually write and edit several psychic-related and spirituality books.
Here is an enclosure -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/05/AR2009010501944.html?sub=AR
The Washington Post should not let Anne Dooley to do this special article or publish it in the first place. Any journalistic publication like the reputable Washington Post newspaper know better than letting someone writing out the self-promotion and non-objective piece without being objective or let someone do the investigative reporting by independent collaboration and inquires.
I once approached the Washington Post newspaper back in summer 2005 for writing the special coverage of the Deaf Way II Conference in exchange of paying my Deaf Way II conference registration package. The Washington Post coldly replied "We do not hire any freelance writers to do the specials, only the staff journalists!".
In the end, the Washington Post assigned someone hearing, who knew NOTHING about the enrichment and beauty of the Deaf Culture and Way of Life. The Post published only an article about the Deaf Way II Conference on the issue of noise level bothered hotel guests in the surrounding area and described how the real loud music vibrations shook the Washington Convention Center.
Anne Dooley is a classic audist herself which she assumed the best for her own deaf daughter to be refitted with single cochlear implant, then explored the idea for bilateral cochlear implant. She said "rather have her daughter the ability to hear" in despite of acquiring the American Sign Language (ASL) at Columbia School of the Deaf (MD).
Did Anne Dooley frankly ask her own deaf daughter what and how Ruthie really feel about having the cochlear implant? Nope!
Have Ruthie been previously consulted if she was for getting the cochlear implant surgery?
How the cochlear implant surgery for Ruthie being paid by?
Most important of all is the journalism ethics which they clearly forbade any "conflict of interest"
and "subtle advertising".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism_ethics_and_standards
http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp
This article is originally going to be published on 1/6/09, but put it on hold
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
Monday, January 5, 2009
Questionable Links Between AGB and Smithasonian Institution
There are more questionable links between Alexander Graham Bell (AGB) and the Smithsonian Institution.
Alexander Graham Bell and James Henry, the director of the Smithsonian Institution and fellow scientist, had the close friendship. James Henry was the ONE, who told Alexander Graham Bell to "GET IT!.
Bell admitted that he did not have the necessary knowledge of making the working model of telephone before filing the patent claim. AGB told his father-in-law (Hubbard)'s own patent attorney, Anthony Pollok that he doesn't have the equipment needed to continue his experiments, nor the ability to create a working model of his ideas.
The U.S. Patent Office examiner, Zenas Fisk Wiber, later stated in a sworn affidavit that he was an alcoholic. who had much in debt to AGB's lawyer, Marcellus Bailey with whom he fought in the American Civil War. Wiber claimed that he showed Gray's patent to Bailey before AGB's official patent claim filing.
Bell admitted that he learned some of technical details from letter correspondences with Gray before filing the patent. He usually took great pains for locking up his notebooks and lab equipments was widely known at that time. AGB also submitted the diagram of workable telephone suspiciously similar to that in Gray's patent in his patent claim.
AGB's politically and socially powerful connected father-in-law, Mr. Hubbard and other financial investors were pretty much behind AGB's patent claims to reap financially from Gray's patent of workable telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell did not file any counter suit action against Gray for libel suits. Why??
The U.S. Attorney General suddenly dropped the lawsuit against Alexander Graham Bell for "fraud and misrepresentation" based on no merits. Political pressures from AGB's father-in-law, Hubbard??
Anthony Meucci claimed to have the first working model of telephone in Italy in 1834. The U.S. House of Representatives done the official investigation whether Meucci really invented the working telephone. They reached the 2002 conclusion that Meucci did invent the telephone first before everyone.
AGB instructed his patent attorney (Hubbard's) to file the patent claim only in the U.S. after they got words from Britain's patent office turning down AGB's patent filing. According to Britain's own policy of issuing patent claims based on discoveries, not previously patented elsewhere.
Queen Victoria of Englad lent credibility and universal acceptance to AGB's claims of telephone invention after had a private audience with Alexander Graham Bell. Much connections between AGB and the Smithsonian Institution was the British subject, James Smithsonian, the founder of the present Smithsonian Institution within Queen Victoria's approval, British himself. AGB also was a British subject due to his Wales native status.
Pretty competition for the national pride between the Victorian England and Italy was much evident, Queen Victoria somewhat ended the ongoing disputes whether Alexander Graham Bell really invented the workable telephone. The scientific circles within Victorian England was pretty clannish and protective and supportive of Alexander Graham Bell's quest for claim on the invention of telephone in name of national pride and superiority.
More reasons for us, deaf people to demand that the Smithsonian Institution to do the permanent exhibition on the horrors of Alexander Graham Bell's legacy toward deaf people as a counteroffensive balance to the American History Museum's wrong impression of Alexander Graham Bell as a lifelong advocate of the deaf and inventor of telephone.
The American History National Museum done such permanent and special exhibits like the repressive Jim Crow segregation and the unfortunate interment of Japanese American citizens in the past.
Moreover, Alexander Graham Bell's own wordings, lifetime beliefs and actions created the systematic discrimination and human sufferings from his own word - "a defective variety of the human race" led to many U.S. states and Nazi Germany's eugenics laws.
Alexander Graham Bell must be widely discredited as a lifelong advocate of the deaf and inventor of telephone within the Smithsonian Institution's correction of museum display of AGB.
The Smithsonian Institution recently had the extreme pains of removing the stuffed blue whale from the Natural History Museum due to the erroneous display of anatomically position of whale for more than 50 years. It finally replace the correct anatomically positioned whale last spring 2008.
Let's do the vigorous campaign to request that the Smithsonian Institution to make the real corrections on Alexander Graham Bell, then provide the major exhibition display of the rich cultural and linguistic and social history of Deaf America and its other deaf citizenry around the world.
ASlize yours,
Robert L. Mason
Alexander Graham Bell and James Henry, the director of the Smithsonian Institution and fellow scientist, had the close friendship. James Henry was the ONE, who told Alexander Graham Bell to "GET IT!.
Bell admitted that he did not have the necessary knowledge of making the working model of telephone before filing the patent claim. AGB told his father-in-law (Hubbard)'s own patent attorney, Anthony Pollok that he doesn't have the equipment needed to continue his experiments, nor the ability to create a working model of his ideas.
The U.S. Patent Office examiner, Zenas Fisk Wiber, later stated in a sworn affidavit that he was an alcoholic. who had much in debt to AGB's lawyer, Marcellus Bailey with whom he fought in the American Civil War. Wiber claimed that he showed Gray's patent to Bailey before AGB's official patent claim filing.
Bell admitted that he learned some of technical details from letter correspondences with Gray before filing the patent. He usually took great pains for locking up his notebooks and lab equipments was widely known at that time. AGB also submitted the diagram of workable telephone suspiciously similar to that in Gray's patent in his patent claim.
AGB's politically and socially powerful connected father-in-law, Mr. Hubbard and other financial investors were pretty much behind AGB's patent claims to reap financially from Gray's patent of workable telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell did not file any counter suit action against Gray for libel suits. Why??
The U.S. Attorney General suddenly dropped the lawsuit against Alexander Graham Bell for "fraud and misrepresentation" based on no merits. Political pressures from AGB's father-in-law, Hubbard??
Anthony Meucci claimed to have the first working model of telephone in Italy in 1834. The U.S. House of Representatives done the official investigation whether Meucci really invented the working telephone. They reached the 2002 conclusion that Meucci did invent the telephone first before everyone.
AGB instructed his patent attorney (Hubbard's) to file the patent claim only in the U.S. after they got words from Britain's patent office turning down AGB's patent filing. According to Britain's own policy of issuing patent claims based on discoveries, not previously patented elsewhere.
Queen Victoria of Englad lent credibility and universal acceptance to AGB's claims of telephone invention after had a private audience with Alexander Graham Bell. Much connections between AGB and the Smithsonian Institution was the British subject, James Smithsonian, the founder of the present Smithsonian Institution within Queen Victoria's approval, British himself. AGB also was a British subject due to his Wales native status.
Pretty competition for the national pride between the Victorian England and Italy was much evident, Queen Victoria somewhat ended the ongoing disputes whether Alexander Graham Bell really invented the workable telephone. The scientific circles within Victorian England was pretty clannish and protective and supportive of Alexander Graham Bell's quest for claim on the invention of telephone in name of national pride and superiority.
More reasons for us, deaf people to demand that the Smithsonian Institution to do the permanent exhibition on the horrors of Alexander Graham Bell's legacy toward deaf people as a counteroffensive balance to the American History Museum's wrong impression of Alexander Graham Bell as a lifelong advocate of the deaf and inventor of telephone.
The American History National Museum done such permanent and special exhibits like the repressive Jim Crow segregation and the unfortunate interment of Japanese American citizens in the past.
Moreover, Alexander Graham Bell's own wordings, lifetime beliefs and actions created the systematic discrimination and human sufferings from his own word - "a defective variety of the human race" led to many U.S. states and Nazi Germany's eugenics laws.
Alexander Graham Bell must be widely discredited as a lifelong advocate of the deaf and inventor of telephone within the Smithsonian Institution's correction of museum display of AGB.
The Smithsonian Institution recently had the extreme pains of removing the stuffed blue whale from the Natural History Museum due to the erroneous display of anatomically position of whale for more than 50 years. It finally replace the correct anatomically positioned whale last spring 2008.
Let's do the vigorous campaign to request that the Smithsonian Institution to make the real corrections on Alexander Graham Bell, then provide the major exhibition display of the rich cultural and linguistic and social history of Deaf America and its other deaf citizenry around the world.
ASlize yours,
Robert L. Mason
Saturday, January 3, 2009
AHN Museum Gave Me a Heart Attack About AGB and Edison
On the day of Happy New Year 2009, the real opportunity of seeing the renovated and repackaged National American History Museum under the Smithsonian Institution operation after its grand re-opening day on November 21, 2008. This same museum underwent the recent $85 million dollars renovation from the public and private funding.
When I came into the "Walls of Inventors" exhibition on that day. I was totally shocked to see how the Smithsonian Institution's "National American History" somewhat painted Alexander Graham Bell (AGB) as a savior of the deaf people and inaccurately pointed out him as an inventor of the telephone.
http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/iap/inventors_bel.html
This online posting doesn't contain the same information from what I personally seen the exhibition display about the so-called great inventor, Alexander Graham Bell (AGB).
Don't the Smithsonian Institution's American History National Museum recall the 2002 fact-findings of the U.S. House of Representatives that the Italian sausage maker and innovator, Merucculi to be the real inventor of the telephone, not Alexander Graham Bell (AGB)?
Why the American History National Museum still post the historical inaccuracies of Alexander Graham Bell (AGB) at her exhibition display? Worst of all, the American History National Museum glorified Alexander Graham Bell (AGB) for his contribution to the deaf community without any rebuttals or opposing viewpoints from the Deaf America and deaf citizenry around the world about AGB's eugenics and deceitful practices most of his life.
How interesting about the American History National Museum mentioned several times about Alexander Graham Bell's love for doing the experimental stuff (experiment)! Bell definitely experimented on deaf people in name of scientific arrogance.
Don't the American History National Museum ought to do the permanent exhibition of what Alexander Graham Bell and other cultural and linguistic imperialists really done to us, deaf people over more than a century as part of balanced factual reporting and education for the American public?
"Thru Deaf Eyes" temporary exhibition had been gone from the "Arts and Industries" Museum after its ongoing renovation. It ought to be belonged to the American History National Museum to expand on the reflection of social and cultural and linguistic history of Deaf Americans as part of permanent exhibition to rebut with the museum's current portrayal of Alexander Graham Bell (AGB).
We, Deaf America would love to remind the American public, especially museum goers what and who Alexander Graham Bell really was all about as a master thief, impostor, eugenicist, propagandist and divider.
Alexander Graham Bell's so-called inventions have been on the exhibition displays around the museum. Look at that -
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object.cfm?key=35&objkey=107
http://hnn.us/articles/802.html
The American public ought to know that Alexander Graham Bell directly responsible for such unnecessary death of U.S. President James Garfield with his so-called invention - earliest cat scan to pinpoint the location of assassination bullet. The attending physicians were horrified what Alexander Graham Bell caused President Garfield much physical pains and delayed medical necessity with his untested invention.
Alexander Graham Bell ought to be branded as a real murderer of President Garfield after the known assassin. He caused the attending doctors from doing their jobs as waltzed in with his untested invention - earliest version of cat scan equipment.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/3d1d.html
The Smithsonian Institution DO make factual errors over years. The recent incident involved the fifth-grader boy noticed the scientific labeling error - http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/04/02/5th_grader_finds_mistake_at_smithsonian/
Another example of the Smithsonian Institution's continuous slap on the face of deaf people with Thomas Edison's museum exhibition displays. The American History National Museum never bother to acknowledge the historical fact of Thomas Alva Edison as a deaf person. The American public deserve to know the rich contributions of deaf people like Thomas Edison to the ways of life and human advancement. Don't we?
This online posting from the Smithsonian Institution's American History National Museum did mention Thomas Edison being a deaf person and proud to be deaf as a true blessing, but, but, but no reference to Edison as a deaf person on the museum exhibit display.
http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/edison/000_story_02.asp
What we ought to do? We ought to send a letter of e-petitions to the American History National Museum's Office of External Affairs, Curational Affairs and Department of Museum History how and why the museum keep peddling the myths and historical inaccuracies of Alexander Graham Bell as an inventor of the telephone to the museum goers.
We ought to demand that the American History National Museum to do the special and permanent exhibition of Deaf Americans along with other prominent cultural and historical figures in our American History moments beside "Thru Deaf Eyes" temporary exhibition.
The renovated American History National Museum is beyond the real horrors of dismantling and downplaying the fine displays of historical items collections and historical data. The museum somewhat do the upside part of renovation is much and more brighter environment unlike the past darkened museum.
The past American History National Museum exhibition displays were much worthwhile and appealing more than the renovated museum' present displays.
That is the time for the American public to learn about the real Alexander Graham Bell!
Great opportunity for the deaf students of the pre-K to 12's to do the school projects how to demand and change for the real social and cultural and linguistic justices to correct the historical inaccuracy of any museum exhibition displays. Here comes the greater social activism in the Age of Obama!
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
When I came into the "Walls of Inventors" exhibition on that day. I was totally shocked to see how the Smithsonian Institution's "National American History" somewhat painted Alexander Graham Bell (AGB) as a savior of the deaf people and inaccurately pointed out him as an inventor of the telephone.
http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/iap/inventors_bel.html
This online posting doesn't contain the same information from what I personally seen the exhibition display about the so-called great inventor, Alexander Graham Bell (AGB).
Don't the Smithsonian Institution's American History National Museum recall the 2002 fact-findings of the U.S. House of Representatives that the Italian sausage maker and innovator, Merucculi to be the real inventor of the telephone, not Alexander Graham Bell (AGB)?
Why the American History National Museum still post the historical inaccuracies of Alexander Graham Bell (AGB) at her exhibition display? Worst of all, the American History National Museum glorified Alexander Graham Bell (AGB) for his contribution to the deaf community without any rebuttals or opposing viewpoints from the Deaf America and deaf citizenry around the world about AGB's eugenics and deceitful practices most of his life.
How interesting about the American History National Museum mentioned several times about Alexander Graham Bell's love for doing the experimental stuff (experiment)! Bell definitely experimented on deaf people in name of scientific arrogance.
Don't the American History National Museum ought to do the permanent exhibition of what Alexander Graham Bell and other cultural and linguistic imperialists really done to us, deaf people over more than a century as part of balanced factual reporting and education for the American public?
"Thru Deaf Eyes" temporary exhibition had been gone from the "Arts and Industries" Museum after its ongoing renovation. It ought to be belonged to the American History National Museum to expand on the reflection of social and cultural and linguistic history of Deaf Americans as part of permanent exhibition to rebut with the museum's current portrayal of Alexander Graham Bell (AGB).
We, Deaf America would love to remind the American public, especially museum goers what and who Alexander Graham Bell really was all about as a master thief, impostor, eugenicist, propagandist and divider.
Alexander Graham Bell's so-called inventions have been on the exhibition displays around the museum. Look at that -
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object.cfm?key=35&objkey=107
http://hnn.us/articles/802.html
The American public ought to know that Alexander Graham Bell directly responsible for such unnecessary death of U.S. President James Garfield with his so-called invention - earliest cat scan to pinpoint the location of assassination bullet. The attending physicians were horrified what Alexander Graham Bell caused President Garfield much physical pains and delayed medical necessity with his untested invention.
Alexander Graham Bell ought to be branded as a real murderer of President Garfield after the known assassin. He caused the attending doctors from doing their jobs as waltzed in with his untested invention - earliest version of cat scan equipment.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/3d1d.html
The Smithsonian Institution DO make factual errors over years. The recent incident involved the fifth-grader boy noticed the scientific labeling error - http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/04/02/5th_grader_finds_mistake_at_smithsonian/
Another example of the Smithsonian Institution's continuous slap on the face of deaf people with Thomas Edison's museum exhibition displays. The American History National Museum never bother to acknowledge the historical fact of Thomas Alva Edison as a deaf person. The American public deserve to know the rich contributions of deaf people like Thomas Edison to the ways of life and human advancement. Don't we?
This online posting from the Smithsonian Institution's American History National Museum did mention Thomas Edison being a deaf person and proud to be deaf as a true blessing, but, but, but no reference to Edison as a deaf person on the museum exhibit display.
http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/edison/000_story_02.asp
What we ought to do? We ought to send a letter of e-petitions to the American History National Museum's Office of External Affairs, Curational Affairs and Department of Museum History how and why the museum keep peddling the myths and historical inaccuracies of Alexander Graham Bell as an inventor of the telephone to the museum goers.
We ought to demand that the American History National Museum to do the special and permanent exhibition of Deaf Americans along with other prominent cultural and historical figures in our American History moments beside "Thru Deaf Eyes" temporary exhibition.
The renovated American History National Museum is beyond the real horrors of dismantling and downplaying the fine displays of historical items collections and historical data. The museum somewhat do the upside part of renovation is much and more brighter environment unlike the past darkened museum.
The past American History National Museum exhibition displays were much worthwhile and appealing more than the renovated museum' present displays.
That is the time for the American public to learn about the real Alexander Graham Bell!
Great opportunity for the deaf students of the pre-K to 12's to do the school projects how to demand and change for the real social and cultural and linguistic justices to correct the historical inaccuracy of any museum exhibition displays. Here comes the greater social activism in the Age of Obama!
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
Monday, December 15, 2008
Update on Deaf "Extreme Makeover" Family
Many of us, DeafRead readers and viewers keep abreast of the news about the Deaf "Extreme Makeover" family whose face the house foreclosure situation.
Somewhat the good news occured for this family. We could*sigh* for relief to see many good-hearted people pour in finanical donations for this deaf family except hearing son.
Here is the link via news report -
http://tv.yahoo.com/show/36736/news/urn:newsml:tv.ap.org:20081215:extreme_makeover_foreclosure__ER:50545
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Somewhat the good news occured for this family. We could*sigh* for relief to see many good-hearted people pour in finanical donations for this deaf family except hearing son.
Here is the link via news report -
http://tv.yahoo.com/show/36736/news/urn:newsml:tv.ap.org:20081215:extreme_makeover_foreclosure__ER:50545
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Rebuttal to Gary Brooks' Lurdcious "Red Dawn" Scenarios
In rebuttal to Gary Brooks' luridcious "Red Dawn" scenarios on his latest vlog about expressing such concerns about the latest Russian strategic and tactic developments down in South America region.
First of all, Gary Brooks, deaf vlogger and Gallaudet graduate, made numerous significant errors in refer to the Reaganesque 80's film, "Red Dawn". The fictional invaders were the part of Soviet Union empire, NOT Russia. Comprendo? Gary Brooks had to understand the real difference between the Soviet Union and Russia being specifically portrayed in the "Red Dawn" film.
Gary Brooks had to realize that the "Flamingo Kid" 1984 film with Matt Dillon, was really the FIRST Hollywood film to be stamped and labeled as the PG-13 film, but shelved and released later.
Yes, "Red Dawn" film was the first Hollywood film to be released with the PG-13 rating. Gary Brooks' favorite Hollywood filmmaker, Steven Spielberg was directly responsible for the call of creating the PG-13 rating in response to many outraged parents about overly violent materials in "Gremlins" and "Indian Jones : Temple of the Doom" films. Spielberg was pretty defensive and reactive and greedy to save his films from being labeled as "inappropriate" for many young kids. Nothing new about Hollywood!
"Red Dawn" film was purely known as the product of "Cold War" mentality or subtle propaganda of the Reagan/Bush administration to manipulate the American public opinion about the nuclear freeze movement and other dovish activists which pushed the unrealistic and illogical proposal for the Strategic Defense Intitatives (SDI) often popularly labeled as "Star Wars".
Many goofs and technical errors and laughable plot found in the "Red Dawn". Not many people realized that the Pentagon and Reagan's first Chief of Staff, General Alexander Haig, were heavily involved in the storyline development to create the panic fears about the likely "Soviet Union" invasion of the United States. President Reagan also gave the birth of pop culture trend of describing the Soviet Union as the "evil empire" borrowed the phrase from the first Star War film. General Haig, the first chief of staff under President Reagan, was pressured to resign for his dictatorial remark - "I am in charge now" and kept the Vice President George H.W. Bush in dark about Reagan's failed assassination.
There will be the remake of "Red Dawn" film for the post 9/11 scenario in the near future. It is in the pre-development phase right now.
ABC's "Amerika" television mini-series back in 1987, also was seen as part of the "right-wing paranoia". This mini-series consisted of very boring and dreary 14 hours which were blasted by every directions from the left and right. The Soviet Union also threatened to shut down the ABC-TV's Moscow news bureau, but the ABC-TV network had to prove themselves tough and not back down. Many people were concerned about the possible damaging aspect of "Amerika" and "Red Dawn" film on the U.S.-Soviet Union relations.
Gary Brooks had to ask himself "whom is to blame" for the real obesity epidemic among the American youths. He had to realize whose ran the White House for past 40 years - Republicans. President John F. Kennedy established the President's Commission on Fitness
which the Republicans made many mispriorities like the "War on Drug". Republicans never did use the common sense about the importance of physical fitness. We could get our natural adherline from execrising and eating appropriately.
The Reagan administration was fully responsible for relaxing and weakening the quality and standard for food regulation, ex. , creation of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) as most economical and profitable for the mega food industry like the Protcer and Gamble and the Kraft Foods, Inc at that time. President Reagan claimed that "ketchup" as real vegetable with a lot of HFCS in it. The U.S. Senator, John Heinz, vigorously protested that the Reagan administration labeled ketchup to qualify as a vegetable for the administration's so-called justifiable calls for deep cuts on school lunch programs across the United States. The Reagan administration assaulted on the expanding school lunch program for providing real nutritional foods, instead of junk foods.
During the Reagan years, the administration loosened the definition of nutritional quality of school lunches. My former school, WV School for the Deaf got chocolate milks and pizzas and other junk foods for very first time in its school history, because of the Reagan and other national administration being permissible with the weakening of our school lunches' nutritional quality in name of real capitalism.
The presence of HFCS in our processed foods were unquestionably responsible for many symptoms among our American youth - diabetes and obese at very young age. The Reagan era highly encouraged the excessive materialism within the American people - home video games.
Pros and cons of the video game uses have to be stated. Many military experts found real benefits with the regular application of video games among the youth to maximize the spatial orientation and time-response. The present American soldiers of the Gen X found themselves that the video games often doesn't reflected the reality of war battlegrounds.
Is the present Russia under the sleath leadership of Vladmir Putin and Medevev's hidden agenda of occupying or invading the economically vulnerable United States are possibly real?
We probably will not know for sure. The neo-conservatives and pro-military fascists like Gary Brooks, often overstate or make the molehill out of many things to protect their own "military-industrial complex" interests, ex. the Blackwater or RPK contractors.
Yes, President George W. Bush was very idiotic for re-assuring the American people back in 2001 - "I looked into Putin's eyes and seen his soul. I trust him". Bush was totally wrong about Putin, the ex-KGB agent. Gary Brooks' 2000 presidential candidate - GWB? Bush in 2004?
Most important of all is to strengthen our economic foundation and military preparedness than outlying such right wing paranoia about Russia's geopolitics activities in Venezuela, Panama Canal and Iran.
The United States of America must invest substantial time and pay real attention to the South America region, not intimidate and bully and dictate any South America countries much further. Just work along with, not ostratched any hidden agenda to solely serve the commerical interests for the United States. We ought to re-visit our official policy toward Cuba and help to democratize the Cuban society than remaining the economic and political sanction.
Gary Brooks is wrong again about the size of Iraq as a country. Yes, Iran is much bigger than Iraq in geographical destiny.
Gary Brooks usually confuse the reality of geopolitics thru the lens of Hollywood fiction movies. Many battle scenes in "Red Dawn" are absurdly illogical and unpractical anyway.
Russia have its own military problem - serious morale problems among their enlisted soldiers, explosive rate of HIVs and diminishing "petro-dollars" and shrinking population. Russia would not stomach any physical invasion of the United States. It would resort to the use of electromagnetic pulses (EMP) to disrupt and disable the electronic system from television broadcast waves to the AMT machines as most "cost-effective" and "practical" to paralyze the daily economic and military operations.
That would be possible for the return of the Cold War between the United States and Russia. Who knows? How interesting for Russia making the odd alliances with Venezuela, the firebrand critic of the Bush II administration, Iran and the post-Fidel Cuba. Russia want to send the direct message to another imperialistic country like the United States about its meddlesome foreign policy.
Gary Brooks really do not understand the realities and pragmatism of foreign policy and alliance to defend the democratic country from falling in down like Georgia. Gary Brooks seems give the contradictory postiton about watching out for Russia's likely invasion, then criticized the United States' postiton toward Georgia.
The critics of Russia's unjustifiable invasion of Georgia are realists since they are very familiar with the history of humankind like the Imperial Japan's invasion of Manchuria and Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland and other Eastern Europe.
Our country will be really okay under the Obama-Biden leadership with the strong defense mechanism. President-elect Barack Obama is a superbu poker player himself. The Obama-Biden administration could outsmart and outbid Premier Vladmir Putin and Russian President Medevev.
Most important of all is to restore the real strength of our military response and defense perimeter which the Republicans overspend the military budget on many countless stuff like $1,000 toilet seat and other non-workable military equipments from the Reagan era.
Our country needs to treat our war veterans much better than we have. The endless arguments about whether deaf people ought to be allowed to enlist into the U.S. military. I strongly that we ought to open up the idea to Israel and other countries' example of enlisting every citizens for two years service including deaf American citizens to appreciate the strong national defense. Pros and cons about enlisting every citizens for two-years military service and look at Israel's irrational endless dealings with terrorist acts. Israel ought to re-examine its own policy toward Palestine.
The recommended reading material like the 80s Film and Its Social History by William J. Palmer which sh0w many parallels to the relationship between films and pop culture and the given society. "Red Dawn" is purely the money-maker film like the 1950s' paranoia about the UFO intergalaxy invasion of Earth from many Hollywood classic sci-fic films, ex. "The Day The Earth Stood Still" and "The Invasion of Saucer-Men" and "The Blob".
Just have a faith in our national defense. "Red Dawn" film is also a propaganda for the National Rifle Association (NRA) on the issue of gun rights.
One hilarous scene in the "Red Dawn" film left me smile about some ASL interpreters twisted what the deaf client said. The assigned Russian interpreter falsely told the Russian soliders what the plaque with the written English on it . How true about some audistic ASL interpreters do to us, deaf people.
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
First of all, Gary Brooks, deaf vlogger and Gallaudet graduate, made numerous significant errors in refer to the Reaganesque 80's film, "Red Dawn". The fictional invaders were the part of Soviet Union empire, NOT Russia. Comprendo? Gary Brooks had to understand the real difference between the Soviet Union and Russia being specifically portrayed in the "Red Dawn" film.
Gary Brooks had to realize that the "Flamingo Kid" 1984 film with Matt Dillon, was really the FIRST Hollywood film to be stamped and labeled as the PG-13 film, but shelved and released later.
Yes, "Red Dawn" film was the first Hollywood film to be released with the PG-13 rating. Gary Brooks' favorite Hollywood filmmaker, Steven Spielberg was directly responsible for the call of creating the PG-13 rating in response to many outraged parents about overly violent materials in "Gremlins" and "Indian Jones : Temple of the Doom" films. Spielberg was pretty defensive and reactive and greedy to save his films from being labeled as "inappropriate" for many young kids. Nothing new about Hollywood!
"Red Dawn" film was purely known as the product of "Cold War" mentality or subtle propaganda of the Reagan/Bush administration to manipulate the American public opinion about the nuclear freeze movement and other dovish activists which pushed the unrealistic and illogical proposal for the Strategic Defense Intitatives (SDI) often popularly labeled as "Star Wars".
Many goofs and technical errors and laughable plot found in the "Red Dawn". Not many people realized that the Pentagon and Reagan's first Chief of Staff, General Alexander Haig, were heavily involved in the storyline development to create the panic fears about the likely "Soviet Union" invasion of the United States. President Reagan also gave the birth of pop culture trend of describing the Soviet Union as the "evil empire" borrowed the phrase from the first Star War film. General Haig, the first chief of staff under President Reagan, was pressured to resign for his dictatorial remark - "I am in charge now" and kept the Vice President George H.W. Bush in dark about Reagan's failed assassination.
There will be the remake of "Red Dawn" film for the post 9/11 scenario in the near future. It is in the pre-development phase right now.
ABC's "Amerika" television mini-series back in 1987, also was seen as part of the "right-wing paranoia". This mini-series consisted of very boring and dreary 14 hours which were blasted by every directions from the left and right. The Soviet Union also threatened to shut down the ABC-TV's Moscow news bureau, but the ABC-TV network had to prove themselves tough and not back down. Many people were concerned about the possible damaging aspect of "Amerika" and "Red Dawn" film on the U.S.-Soviet Union relations.
Gary Brooks had to ask himself "whom is to blame" for the real obesity epidemic among the American youths. He had to realize whose ran the White House for past 40 years - Republicans. President John F. Kennedy established the President's Commission on Fitness
which the Republicans made many mispriorities like the "War on Drug". Republicans never did use the common sense about the importance of physical fitness. We could get our natural adherline from execrising and eating appropriately.
The Reagan administration was fully responsible for relaxing and weakening the quality and standard for food regulation, ex. , creation of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) as most economical and profitable for the mega food industry like the Protcer and Gamble and the Kraft Foods, Inc at that time. President Reagan claimed that "ketchup" as real vegetable with a lot of HFCS in it. The U.S. Senator, John Heinz, vigorously protested that the Reagan administration labeled ketchup to qualify as a vegetable for the administration's so-called justifiable calls for deep cuts on school lunch programs across the United States. The Reagan administration assaulted on the expanding school lunch program for providing real nutritional foods, instead of junk foods.
During the Reagan years, the administration loosened the definition of nutritional quality of school lunches. My former school, WV School for the Deaf got chocolate milks and pizzas and other junk foods for very first time in its school history, because of the Reagan and other national administration being permissible with the weakening of our school lunches' nutritional quality in name of real capitalism.
The presence of HFCS in our processed foods were unquestionably responsible for many symptoms among our American youth - diabetes and obese at very young age. The Reagan era highly encouraged the excessive materialism within the American people - home video games.
Pros and cons of the video game uses have to be stated. Many military experts found real benefits with the regular application of video games among the youth to maximize the spatial orientation and time-response. The present American soldiers of the Gen X found themselves that the video games often doesn't reflected the reality of war battlegrounds.
Is the present Russia under the sleath leadership of Vladmir Putin and Medevev's hidden agenda of occupying or invading the economically vulnerable United States are possibly real?
We probably will not know for sure. The neo-conservatives and pro-military fascists like Gary Brooks, often overstate or make the molehill out of many things to protect their own "military-industrial complex" interests, ex. the Blackwater or RPK contractors.
Yes, President George W. Bush was very idiotic for re-assuring the American people back in 2001 - "I looked into Putin's eyes and seen his soul. I trust him". Bush was totally wrong about Putin, the ex-KGB agent. Gary Brooks' 2000 presidential candidate - GWB? Bush in 2004?
Most important of all is to strengthen our economic foundation and military preparedness than outlying such right wing paranoia about Russia's geopolitics activities in Venezuela, Panama Canal and Iran.
The United States of America must invest substantial time and pay real attention to the South America region, not intimidate and bully and dictate any South America countries much further. Just work along with, not ostratched any hidden agenda to solely serve the commerical interests for the United States. We ought to re-visit our official policy toward Cuba and help to democratize the Cuban society than remaining the economic and political sanction.
Gary Brooks is wrong again about the size of Iraq as a country. Yes, Iran is much bigger than Iraq in geographical destiny.
Gary Brooks usually confuse the reality of geopolitics thru the lens of Hollywood fiction movies. Many battle scenes in "Red Dawn" are absurdly illogical and unpractical anyway.
Russia have its own military problem - serious morale problems among their enlisted soldiers, explosive rate of HIVs and diminishing "petro-dollars" and shrinking population. Russia would not stomach any physical invasion of the United States. It would resort to the use of electromagnetic pulses (EMP) to disrupt and disable the electronic system from television broadcast waves to the AMT machines as most "cost-effective" and "practical" to paralyze the daily economic and military operations.
That would be possible for the return of the Cold War between the United States and Russia. Who knows? How interesting for Russia making the odd alliances with Venezuela, the firebrand critic of the Bush II administration, Iran and the post-Fidel Cuba. Russia want to send the direct message to another imperialistic country like the United States about its meddlesome foreign policy.
Gary Brooks really do not understand the realities and pragmatism of foreign policy and alliance to defend the democratic country from falling in down like Georgia. Gary Brooks seems give the contradictory postiton about watching out for Russia's likely invasion, then criticized the United States' postiton toward Georgia.
The critics of Russia's unjustifiable invasion of Georgia are realists since they are very familiar with the history of humankind like the Imperial Japan's invasion of Manchuria and Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland and other Eastern Europe.
Our country will be really okay under the Obama-Biden leadership with the strong defense mechanism. President-elect Barack Obama is a superbu poker player himself. The Obama-Biden administration could outsmart and outbid Premier Vladmir Putin and Russian President Medevev.
Most important of all is to restore the real strength of our military response and defense perimeter which the Republicans overspend the military budget on many countless stuff like $1,000 toilet seat and other non-workable military equipments from the Reagan era.
Our country needs to treat our war veterans much better than we have. The endless arguments about whether deaf people ought to be allowed to enlist into the U.S. military. I strongly that we ought to open up the idea to Israel and other countries' example of enlisting every citizens for two years service including deaf American citizens to appreciate the strong national defense. Pros and cons about enlisting every citizens for two-years military service and look at Israel's irrational endless dealings with terrorist acts. Israel ought to re-examine its own policy toward Palestine.
The recommended reading material like the 80s Film and Its Social History by William J. Palmer which sh0w many parallels to the relationship between films and pop culture and the given society. "Red Dawn" is purely the money-maker film like the 1950s' paranoia about the UFO intergalaxy invasion of Earth from many Hollywood classic sci-fic films, ex. "The Day The Earth Stood Still" and "The Invasion of Saucer-Men" and "The Blob".
Just have a faith in our national defense. "Red Dawn" film is also a propaganda for the National Rifle Association (NRA) on the issue of gun rights.
One hilarous scene in the "Red Dawn" film left me smile about some ASL interpreters twisted what the deaf client said. The assigned Russian interpreter falsely told the Russian soliders what the plaque with the written English on it . How true about some audistic ASL interpreters do to us, deaf people.
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
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