Deaf Republicans Are Real Nutcases! Deaf Democrats???

Deaf Republicans under the leadership of Mike McConnell are real nutcases for being disillusioned with many so-called issues and occurrences.

Let's check out the http://deafrepublican2008.blogspot.com/ website to find many loony tunes and wacky messages. You could see why the McCain-Palin supporters are purely insane and wallow in their own materialistic and selfish individualism, instead of being community-minded and societal inclusiveness.

You could see how real mean-spirited Deaf Republicans could be about the idea of its own redistribution of wealth like giving $10 tip money to the homeless guy, instead of a waiter sported the Obama necktie. That is intentional display of arrogance and sadism on part of many Republicans.

Democrats are no better than Republicans anyway. We ought to elect someone based on leadership capacity, abilities, vision and interpersonal skills, not only the party affiliation.

Real sick of seeing someone deaf Republican saying "I have to follow my own family's political tradition by voting Republican". Same thing happened with many staunch deaf Democrats for not willing to look into other political party affiliation's candidate.

Robert Underhill ought to be called "Over the Hill", not the "Under the Hill". Every of us know that there are no such "under the hill" within our geographic destiny. Underhill take the info from someone looney's website for the prediction of McCain winning the 2008 presidential election like McCain 309 to Obama 229. You ought to read that hearing loony's website to see for yourself and understand what I am talking about.

I personally like Robert Underhill. He is really a decent individual unlike Mike McConnell. Too bad, Underhill end up making the unholy association with Mike McConnell.

Somewhat disappointed with the Obama-Biden campaign for not fighting back on taxes issues. The Obama-Biden campaign ought to emphasize on the progressive taxation system to see everyone pay fairly within their earned ranges, not leave to the 95 percent of the American people paying more than the 2 percent wealthiest paying almost nothing or little taxes.

The Bush II presidency ought to raise a little taxes or sell the U.S. bonds during the wartime, instead of leaving the wealthiest pay almost nothing or little taxes. The wealthiest people ought to do their own patriotism by paying fair shares of taxes. That is not definitely the redistribution of wealth.

That is based on more logical approach to balance the government spending and taxation.

How come didn't Senator John McCain propose for the government bailout of homeowners whose victimized of the sub prime and predatory home loans few years ago? Just a desperate campaign tactics on McCain's advisers.

The Reason magazine, the libertian magazine pointed out the real dangers of Senator John McCain as our chief executive and commander in chief. McCain hardly accept any kind of respectable defeats or often defy almost anything. McCain is more likely to ignore the law or not obey the given laws. That is very dangerous precedent within the likely McCain presidency.

Please think twice before casting the ballot for Senator John McCain. Keep broaden your mind and cast the ballot whatever you strongly feel right.

Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign apparently HID the monstrous childhood photos of young John McCain back to age of 6. His pre-adoloscent childhood photos were pretty scary!

Senator John McCain is pretty guilty of concealed racism like hiding his adopted daugther from Bangaladesh from his campaign stops for predominately white crowds at rallies. Why hide his adopted daughters and parade his blonde gals instead for the "t*t and as*" shows?

Will Be Our Deaf Fault for Not Aggressively Exposing John McCain to the General Public What He Have Done to Us, Deaf People?

 How sad of our American deaf community being pathetically apathetic for not taking any efforts in educating the American electorate about Senator John McCain's dismissive attitude toward deaf people for the 2008 presidential campaign.  

Many and many of us already knew what Senator John McCain have been done to the Gallaudet community back in Fall 2006. McCain served more than 8 years as a board member of Gallaudet University Board of Trustees. The Gallaudet insiders repeatedly reported that McCain never showed up or attended the Gallaudet board of trustee meetings at all.

Why in the world, Senator John McCain agreed in the first place to accept the appointment to serve on Gallaudet University Board of Trustee and DONE NOTHING to ensure and reap the real benefits for Gallaudet University and its facilities? 

Was John McCain directly responsible for sudden federal funding cutbacks from the U.S. Congress after he irresponsibly resigned from Gallaudet University Board of Trustees? Perhaps yes! 

The office of Senator John McCain did HIRE deaf individual to be part of his U.S. Senate operational office in Washington, DC and retained him for about less than three years before McCain being appointed to Gallaudet University Board of Trustees. McCain never being active on our deaf rights and issues so far except largely responsible for the shoddy works of putting the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) draft for the final legislative passage of this very same law later in July 1990. 

The real problem with Senator John McCain's fingerprints all over the ADA legislative draft bill to be largely unenforceable and pretty vague for letting the lawyers of disability rights get the fats off us, deaf people and other disabled individuals or let the court to interpret what the federal government could or could not enforce the burdensome or costly accommodations and accessibility to see the deaf American citizens being equally treated. That took another 18 years for the amendment to the existing ADA law to be fully enforced later next January 2009. 

That is much handiwork of Senator John McCain to leave us, deaf people from achieving the full status in the American society as real equals. McCain let the majority of disabled community to ignore our deaf people's requests like the mandatory requirement for the full accessibility with the neighborhood movie theatres for open captions. McCain's leadership philosophy rather see the private sectors to exploit deaf people and other disabled individuals by encouraging the Rear Window Captioning (RWC) incentives later as part of enterpreutial compromises, instead of reasonable and effective approach for bargain captioning cost, ex. open captions at all movie theatres. McCain's leadership largely responsible for the disabled community not to include deaf people in the final phases of the ADA legislative draft

Everything come back to Senator John McCain's failed problem-solving leadership in the long run. We have to think of the real consequences of the McCain presidency within our own existence. 

Remmy that the one vote for John McCain is for every audist(s) like Mike McConnell and Jane Fernandes. 

Senator John McCain have been much chummy with I. King Jordan and Jane Fernandes, instead of being the real maverick as McCain and Palin always claimed to be. Johnny (McCain) have been no maverick for nonetheless reaching out to the Gallaudet community during the "Unity for Gallaudet" (UFG) protest. 

Senator John McCain is basically a "spoiled brat" all his life and insisted of having his own way or will spew ugly profanities at anyone, who stands in his way. He have done to his own U.S. Senate colleagues many times. What kind of person we have for the higher public office? 

President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy Reagan were very disgusted and horrified with Senator John McCain for what McCain done to his first wife and left her without any kind of financial support. The First Lady Reagan had to hire John McCain's first wife to help her out. Senator John McCain publicly admitted that he regretted for not working out with his first wife, the former model whose turned physically disabled from the auto accident during John's imprisonment. 

John McCain was supposed to be expelled from his military school for being insuburdation to the peer student commanders, but his mother managed to keep him in the school.  McCain ranted racial epithets toward his Vietnamese captors in English. He always was a pure opportuntist  all his life and wanted anything his way. McCain spent considerable time in Rio after his Vietnam imprisonment. Many of us knew that John McCain was no real war hero since he poorly miscalculated the Vietcong battleground positions. That reflected much of John McCain's intelligence capabilities and "reason" abilities which he stumbled poorly with Charles Keating, the greedy banker during his first years of the U.S. Senate career. 

Barack Obama is really the person of integrity and ingenuity, who is more likely to see the real abilities and contributions of deaf people as equals in the American society as compared to Senator John McCain and Sarah Palin's endless desperate acts. 

Mike McConnell of the "Deaf Republicans" had done real pandering and distortions of so-called deaf culture as what Governor Sarah Palin said "ILY" Come on! The "ILY" gesture meant real nothing. The Deaf Perspective blogger noted that there was no official positions on any deaf issues and disability positions on the McCain and Palin's 2008 campaign website. 

We, deaf people must show our own solidarity  by voting for Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States to reverse the disastrous Bush and other past Republican policies for the past economic and social inequality more than 25 years. 

Deaf Americans greatly benefited from the real economic and social prosperity of the Clinton presidency like opening the paths for the video relay service (VRS) and wireless communication and constant considerations for being inclusive within the deaf community. The Clinton's Federal Communication Commission (FCC) were very friendly and approachable to the deaf customers. The FCC under George W. Bush, deaf Americans had to fight and fight for what was right for our own deaf benefits from rapid transformation of our artificial communication, ex. wireless communication and VRS and emergency notices. 

      VOTE FOR JOHN MCCAIN ARE FOR MIKE MCCONNELL AND JANE FERNANDES! 

                                         DON'T WE, DEAF PEOPLE WANT THAT?

Post-Gallaudet University Homecoming Deaf Get-Together Event

There will be the Post-Gallaudet University Homecoming DEAF Get-Together Event this Saturday, October 18th at the Nellie's Sports Bar in Northwest Washington, DC, 6pm to 1am.

Here is the street address -

Nellie's Sports Bar
900 U Street, NW
Washington, DC

http://www.nelliessportsbar.com/


HUGE ROOFTOP FOR PERFECT BREEZY DEAF CONVERSATIONS!


BRIGHT INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT WITH MANY BAY WINDOWS!


8 HDTV TV SETS FOR PERFECT SPORTS VIEWINGS!


PLENTY OF GREAT RESTAURANTS WITHIN U STREET AREA!


DINE-IN AVAILABILITY!


FRIENDLY BAR STAFF AND BAR PATRONS!


PLENTY OF STREET PARKING SPACES WITHIN VERMONT AVE AND

SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD AREA!


EXTREMELY SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD AREA!


ONE BLOCK FROM U STREET/AFRICAN AMERICAN MEMORIAL AND CARADOZ
METRORAIL (SUBWAY) STATION TO NELLIE'S BRAND-NEW SPORTS BAR


EASY METROBUS ACCESS FROM GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY MAIN CAMPUS
STRAIGHT DIRECTLY TO NELLIE'S - METROBUSES 90'S, #90, #92 AND #94


FOR MORE INFO ABOUT WMATA METRORAIL AND BUS ROUTES HOW TO GET THERE FROM GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY AND OTHER DC AREA- http://www.wmata.com/

WALKING DISTANCE TO BRAND-NEW NIGHTCLUB ONE AND HALF BLOCK AWAY WITH SPECIAL OFFER FROM THIS DEAF EVENT HOSTING - http://www.towndc.com/

MANY CULTURAL EVENTS ON U STREET - LINCOLN THEATRE

FOR MORE NEIGHBORHOOD INFO -

The U Street Corridor Cool Again!- article from NY Times newspaper

http://travel.nytimes.com/ type U Street and DC on NY Times search

http://www.culturaltourismdc.org/ and click on U Street header

http://www.ustreet.info/

http://www.washingtonpost/wp-srventertainment/virtualtour/ustreet/

http://www.rawdc.org/dc/ustreet.html

ASlize yours,

Robert L. Mason (RLM)

Is the Time For NAD To Offer Free Membership?

Is the time for the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) to offer the basic free membership for the purpose of statistical numbers to show our political muscle to the elected officeholders and corporations and donors?

What do you really think of this one?

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog

NAD's Disastrous Protest V. NFB protest

Many of us already knew about the NAD's disastrous protest against the "Tropic Thunder" film last summer 2008. NAD doesn't protest soley against "Tropic Thunder" for endless mockery against disabled people in general. NAD went along with other disabled groups' protest against that film.

What about you think about the National Federation of the Blind's latest protest against the new release film, "Blindness" with the star-studded casts all over from the world? This film is based on the novel with same title about the mystery global epidemic turned normal-sighted people instantly into blind people. That seems very interesting concept of probable occurence in the future of the humankind within the film.

Here is the link to the Yahoo News about the ongoing National Federation of the Blind nationwide protests against the "Blindness" film. You could see the National Federation of the Blind's speech text blasted the producers and director of "Blindness' for portraying blind people as some kind of depraved and filthy kinds. What do you really think about this film and ongoing protest by the National Federation of the Blind?

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/blindness_blog.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindness_(film)

http://www.blindness-themovie.com/

http://www.nfb.org/nfb/Default.asp

That would be real nice if we, deaf people finally bring our everlasting deaf folklore to the life on the silver screen like "Eyeth". Don't you agree?

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog

How Come the NAD Didn't Televise BB's 80th Birthday Bash and "ASL Idol"?

How come didn't the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) televise the special events like Bernard Bragg's 80th Birthday Bash and "ASL Idol" from the NAD Conference 2008 via webcasts?

That would be an excellent opportunity for the National Association of the Deaf to do the nationwide membership recruitment tools and exposure for showing its own prestige and presence to the Deaf America and the rest of the deaf communities around the world.

NAD really could done like contracting out the television producer and television crew to televise the lifetime opportunity of Bernard Bragg's 80th Birthday Bash and other NAD events appealing to the deaf and hearing television viewers.

We did not have any chance of seeing our deaf fellows in the "ASL Idol" contests within the NAD Conference 2008 to recruit more deaf individuals to be the NAD members and build the sense of unity among the Deaf America and the global deaf communities.

In reality, the NAD do not have its own media department for filming NAD speeches at various places, ex. in support of rallies and protests. The NAD members did propose for the creation of the NAD's TV branch at the past NAD conventions/conferences and turned down the proposal every time.

The televised NAD events would garner a lot of $$$ for the National Association of the Deaf thru the webcasts like $10 to $20 per viewing and build up the membership base at same time.

Many deaf Americans and other deaf fellows would love to watch the deaf people roast Bernard Bragg thru humorous recantments few days later after the official event take the place at the Gallaudet Kellogg Conference Center.

Dunno know if the Gallaudet University already filmed Bernard Bragg's 80th Birthday Bash for its own campus television viewings or not. The Gallaudet Campus television facility is not widely available for the general television viewings thru satellite television uses.

Not everybody deaf able to come down to Gallaudet University's main campus in Washington, DC or similar event in Los Angeles for the fundraising venue of Deaf West Theatre in very same weekend.

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog

Deaf Regional Personality Traits Across the U.S.

Any of you wonder whether we really have our deaf regional personality trait development within our former alta mater schools/universities and neighborhood?

The Wall Street Journal newspaper reported the scientific study of regional personality traits across America - "The United States of Mind".

The research study shown that the residents of North Dakota are most outgoing as compared to neuoritic Kentuckians and conscientous Floridians.

http://wwwonline.wsj.com/article/$B122211987961064719.html?mod-yhoof#articleTab%3Dcomments

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/05/04/where-do_all_the_neurotics_live/

www.toddshackleford.com/downloads/Schmitt-JCCP-2007.pdf

My recall about handful of deaf people informally label the graduates and students of California School of the Deaf - Fremont are most likely to be cliquey among their own kinds. Any proofs about deaf Fremontians?? Probably true or not!

When I came to Gallaudet for very first time. Many students thought that I was a Californian myself. I said "What?" I asked those students why I was considered "Californian". I was told that I was too confident, dress casually and signed pure ASL. How interesting about the first impression I made on Gallaudet students.

After telling Gallaudet students that I was from West Virginia. Many students said "Really?" I was not look like a typical hillbilly. I laughed so hard.

From my own personal observations, Maryland School for the Deaf graduates are intentionally involved in deaf activism later in life. Look at Joey Baer, Carl Schroeder and other mores.

I noticed that many deaf North Dakotans have superbu English writing and reading skills at Gallaudet University. Isolated and chilly environment contributed to their eventual polishings of the dominant language usage- the English language.

Deaf Floridians and Texans tend to be more party-minded people. Don't you agree?

Former graduates from Rochester School for the Deaf, NY and American School for the Deaf , Connecticut seems turn out most pathological liars and troublemakers from what I socialized with those people.

That seems the deaf residential school/university neighborhoods area greatly influenced the personality formations more than parents of deaf youngsters.

Fremont, California is really a modest small-town which contributed to the feelings of close-knit community and resulted in more cliquey mentality among deaf Fremontians compared to the graduates and students of Riverside California School for the Deaf .

Deaf West Virginians are noticeably overdependent on hearing people and seek their approvals more than anyone deaf across the United States. They intentionally believe that hearing people know more than deaf individuals or being right than deaf people. Of course, deaf West Virginians are politically passive as compared to Northern California deaf community. Deaf West Virginians are more likely to use the Language Contact (PSE) and SEE more than other deaf Americans.

Some deaf people consider many deaf New Yorkers to be arrogant and boasteous. Any truth to this one?

My own Deaf Regional Personality Traits Across the U.S., are purely speculational, not based on scientific observations. Any personal observance or speculation of yours?

ASlize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog