What will you say to this New York Post cartoon?

The New York Post newspaper recently published the editoral cartoon as a cheap shot or real hilarous at the current governor - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/05/new-york-post-cartoon-has_n_487865.html

How would any of you feel about this similar cartoon taking all the unnecessary swipe at deaf individual and the interpreter of the deaf in that manner?

Governor Patterson of New York will raise such questions whether culturally deaf individuals will be able to lead the government due to the bumbling performance by someone, who are deaf, blind and other kind of societial labels.

Of course, many of us, deaf people hardly consider ourselves to be part of the disability group anyway.

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

More and more people scrutinize all unncessary surgery

Deaf people are NOT only expressing their outrages and legitimate concerns toward medical surgery.

Other segment of human population DO question the legitimacy and ethical practices of barbaric surgery on teenagers and young kids.

Here is the link - http://www.slate.com/id/2245898/

Keep drumming against the identity alternative design on deaf babies and kids without their consents or permission with forced cochlear implant surgery.

That is NOT about the protection of deaf culture as I have been falsely accused in the mainstream media last month. Medical ethics and language/intellectual development play the major role in my endless opposition against cochlear implant surgery on deaf babies and kids without drawing the natural instincts among visually-oriented youngsters.

Naturalism always will defeat technology anyway.

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason
RLMDEAF blog

Deaf Person's Fifth Avenue (NYC) Apt. With 18 Rooms on Sale!

Who is really the richest deaf person among us? John Yeh seems fall off from the list of richest deaf individuals after the Viable, Inc. scandal. What will happen to Yeh's Potomac house?

One of the richest deaf individual is putting hir own personal possession on the market of the exquisite New York private-owned apartment unit with 18 rooms lately after personal wrath with the Patterson administration for levying highest tax percentages on anyone, who earn more than $500,000 per year.

Guess who? Of course, we never consider the leading radio host as one of us, deaf people. It's
http://gawker.com/5482793/rush-limbaughs-gaudy-fifth-avenue-penthouse-is-now-for-sale/gallery/?skyline=true&s=i

Why not for Rush Limbaugh donate 3/4 of his profit from the sale of his Fifth Avenue apartment unit to the Deafhood Foundation - http://deafhoodfoundation.org/Deafhood/Home.html ?

The newly-created Deafhood Foundation desperately need the immediate millions in American dollars to help this foundation to launch successfully from there.

Please do the letter/email campaign to urge Rush Limbaugh to donate his 3/4 profits from the house sale to the Deafhood Foundation. Here is the contact info for Rush Limbaugh -
Rush Limbaugh's public e-mail address is ElRushbo@eibnet.com. He also has a private e-mail address but it is for 24/7 members only.

Ever please send the copy(c.c.) of letter and email message to the Deafhood Foundation via Rush Limbaugh - danny@deafhoodfoundation.org

What the Deaf Republicans will say about this one? Here is the Deaf Republicans Facebook site -
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=10006291062

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

MIDDLE FINGER AS SIGN LANGUAGE?

One media reporting indicated that the middle finger is a part of "little sign language". Is that really the middle finger "sign language" or just a gesture?

Here is the link to Eddie Runyon's Bluegrass State U.S. Senator's offensive gestural sign -
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2010/03/sen-bunning-is-angry-this-is-a-senators-only-elevator.html

http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0310/Bunning_flips_the_bird_at_reporter.html

When people decide that the middle finger is really a "sign language"? What the middle finger is?
http://photobucket.com/images/middle%20finger/

Here is the links to the so-called profanity signs within the American Sign Language (ASL) from the Internet -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profanity_in_American_Sign_Language

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Transwiki:Profanity_in_American_sign_language

Many of us, deaf Americans know what the deaf Japanese people usually use their middle finger for the Japanese Sign Language of "brother" -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(gesture)

How interesting about the use of text for middle finger - ..l.. http://forum.ebaumsworld.com/showthread.php?t=121411

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=middle+finger+emoticon

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/62/bbv4life/how-do-you-make-smiley-text-middle-finger-100881/

When and how the "middle finger" begun used by people as an offensive gesture. Here are the links - http://www.ooze.com/finger/html/history.html

http://necromanc.blogspot.com/2006/05/middle-finger-history.html

Many Americans including me as a little kid never forgot our own Vice President Nelson Rockfeller of the Republican Party extended his famous middle finger at people during the Ford presidency (Gerald Ford) - http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/rockefeller-gives-middle-finger/

Photos of famous people's use of "middle finger" (please scroll down for more pictures) Okay?

http://www.ooze.com/finger/html/random_famous.html

Many countries use gestural sign of profanity to express their thoughts and feelings -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_profanity

Americans usually use the gestural sign for "okay" which consider truly offensive in other countries. You would be punched by someone else when you use "OK" gestural sign - http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/1158504

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-ok

Other places considered the gestural sign for "victory" to be offensive -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Profanity_in_ASL

Pretty much for the United States' own major political party like the Republican Party elected officers engage in offensive gestural sign. The Republican Party often declare itself as a party of "family values". *stratch head*

Will the American Sign Language Teacher Association (ASLTA) and National Association of the Deaf (NAD) and other linguistic departments across the United States send out the letter of correction in dispute with the media use of middle finger as part of "little sign language"?

ASLize yours,

Robert L. Mason (RLM)

RLMDEAF blog

New Executive Director Search for Buffalo-Area Deaf Service

Deaf and hard of hearing community within the Buffalo area in New York are actively seeking the right "Deaf" individual to run the community-based organization in serving the deaf and hard of hearing individuals.

Handful of deaf and hard of hearing community leaders were very upset with the Western New York Deaf Service Association (DSA) board's past decision for hiring the hearing individual with questionable qualifications and background. Eventually, the hearing individual ended up leaving the center in no time.

The DSA board realized what they done to the given community. They finally embraced all the inputs and feedback from the Buffalo-area deaf and hard of hearing community what the new executive director ought to be.

Here is an email message from Emily Glenn-Smith, a deaf community leader within the Buffalo-area last month -


Hello!!


You are receiving this email because you have shown support in the past of the Western New York Deaf United - WNYDU protest against the hiring of Tom Burns at Deaf Adult Services, Inc. of Buffalo, NY. As you may already be aware, Tom Burns DAS after 6 short months so he could move on to a job he really wanted. While it may have felt like we failed at the time because the board refused to "listen" to our requests, I feel that our fight did not go unnoticed. The board of directors at DAS has reached out to local community organizations for their support in finding a new director for the agency. I am going to go and represent WNYDU and assist in Deaf Adult Services finding a new permanent director. I am asking for all of your support in spreading the word. We said we wanted the job to go to a Deaf person, a qualified person that can sign - well, now is our chance. We need to get resumes and interested, qualified people to apply for this position to make Buffalo a better Deaf community to live in and be a part of. Please forward this email to as many people as you know that are willing to help us fill this position here in Western New York. Thank you support and I will continue to update you as we move forward.Thank you!Emily Glenn-Smith & Western New York Deaf United


Emily Glenn-Smith

American Sign Language Program Director Linguistics Department University at Buffalo State University of New York

606 Baldy Hall North Campus OFFICE: eglenn@buffalo.edu MOBILE EMAIL: emilyglennsmith@tmail.com AIM: EMILYGLENNSMITH Office: (716) 204-7431


Here is the link to the Deaf Services Association website for job description and qualification and application deadline - http://www.wnydas.org/

Wish you, all the best within landing your employment opportunity with the Western New York Deaf Services Association.

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

Technology of Future for Deaf and Hearing People

Real amazing to see the future of stove top without the use of pots and pans and whatever they are - http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/02/23/space-age-stovetop-eliminates-pots-pans-and-cookbooks/?icid=mainaimdl3link4http%3A%2F%2Fwww.walletpop.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F02%2F23%2Fspace-age-stovetop-eliminates-pots-pans-and-cookbooks%2F

What will be in for us, deaf people in the future with the use of useful technology? Will we be truly optimistic for our signing community?

The futuristic society would be more likely to ban any kind of physical violence against human beings from such unnecessary surgery on deaf babies and youngsters.

I personally envision the future of technology to be the efficient backlash against the so-called social engineering of audists' perspective of human flaws and imperfections like helping deaf signers achieve the real full societal equality for very first time in the humankind history.

Deaf signers could show up at any public events at very last-minute decision without such hassles of making all arrangements in advance for sign language interpreter.

Or deaf signers could be running for the public offices without any communication obstacles or language gap. They could appear on the talk shows within instant electronic translations which will put less burden on interpreters of the deaf. Interpreters could run the behind the scenes to make sure that everything go smoothly and accurately within deaf signers run the entire show.

So the parents of deaf babies and youngsters do not have to resort to such barbaric methods of cochlear implant surgery on their own kids. They would let all deaf kids to be real unique and productive citizens without suppressing the use of sign language.

We, deaf signers must fight together for better future of our own linguistic and cultural community against the evils of inhumane approach to resolve the so-called problematic in minds of audists and social engineers and geneticists.

We must seize on the real advantages of futuristic technology into our hands to reshape the human society against audists and clueless and ignorant parents of deaf babies and kids.

Hopefully that we, deaf signers will take the guilty party whose inflict very inhumane methods against our deaf babies and kids to the court. Ever parents of deaf kids whose had them implanted with cochlear implants without kids or babies' consent or permission, will also face the court of law why those parents resort to barbaric practices against their own offspring. All kids are no longer seen as a private property within parents which they are much part of the society as equals. Deaf kids and adults could enjoy the fruitful aspect of futuristic technology without removing their so-called flaws and still be DEAF.


More futuristic technology like elegant hearing aid look like a real jewelry -

http://www.tuvie.com/

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=futuristic+technology&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=l8aKS4jXF42wtgfriO2tDw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CB4QsAQwAw

The new humanity could be free of human prejudices and ignorance and systematic discrimination against deaf signers if we really fight, fight and fight and get things successfully done.

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

Deaf People Not Only Object to Questionable Medical Procedure

Deaf community at large are not only the enclave whose challenge and question the medical procedure whether they are necessary. More and more people begin to stand up to the medical profession and speak out against all kinds of unnecessary medical practices which have done nothing to do with the health of infants and kids. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christiane-northrup/we-need-to-stop-circumcis_b_470689.html

One commentator publicly asked me whether I am circumised or not. So the commentator could point out such hyprocrisy within me. I chose not to answer Toby Wyler's question directly. Check out the dialogues between Toby Wyler and me on the blog posting - "Is the U.S. Government Declaring Sleath War Against Deaf People"

February 23, 2010 5:47 PM

Toby Wyler said...
Robert,Are you circumcised? If yes, are you upset at your parents for having your genital trimmed at a very young age with your consent? Same difference.
February 24, 2010 12:27 PM

Toby Wyler said...
Correction: withOUT your consent
February 24, 2010 1:12 PM

RLM said...
Toby,That is very PERSONAL question to be asked in the open public area whether I am circumised or not. To preserve my own personal intergity from answering your own question. Real sorry! Circumise the baby male which remove more than 1,000 nerves from the male foreskin. Pros and cons of male circumision I have to spell out in very lengthy details. I will come back when I have some substantial time. Okay? I have to go to the store tonight before the sale receipt expire today for returning shirts. RLM
February 24, 2010 8:24 PM

I personally dislike seeing the presence of uncircumised males or male foreskin which I find them to be grossly disguisting. What give me the right to decide for the days-old infant or kid which greatly affect their entire lives for just a sake of appearance or so-called health purpose or functionability?

So everyone have their own biases and preferences what we ought to be all about to the likeness of our own human images. That's what many parents of deaf babies and kids tend to preoccupy with their own images and reputations to the given community.

There are many botched male circumisions and life-altering experiments on male babies. Handful of doctors purposefully altered the sexes of newborn infants in name of medical experimentation as what happened in Canada. One of the doctor publicly admitted that he purposefully done to the male infant to study two male twins how the sexual identity affected their lives over years. One remained as normal male, another infant had been altered as girl by removing his natural-born male gential. http://www.canadiancrc.com/Newspaper_Articles/Globe_and_Mail_Boy_raised_as_girl_suffered_final_indignity_11MAY04.aspx

Here are several links via discussions on the pros and cons of male circumision as similar to the ongoing discussions and disputes and opposition to the cochlear implant surgery on deaf babies and kids -http://artofmanliness.com/2009/02/22/clip-the-tip-pointcounterpoint-on-male-circumcision/

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1451381/the_pros_and_cons_of_male_circumcision.html
http://www.cirp.org/library/procedure/

http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/milos-macris2/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision

The opponents of male circumisions held the sign - "FORESKIN IS NOT A BIRTH DEFECT". So the opponents of cochlear implant surgery would say "BEING DEAF IS NOTHING WRONG. WE ARE PERFECTLY FINE. WHY INTERFERE WITH THE NATURE OR GOD'S WILL?"

I am blessed to be circumised, but would wonder what I really miss out on male foreskin. Same thing with deaf babies and kids would curse their own parents for taking out "deaf" out of them.

ASLize yours,

Robert L. Mason (RLM)

RLMDEAF blog