Thursday, December 27, 2007

When The Truth Hurts The Deaf, Desperation Takes Over



When I announced that OCDAC's $12,500 sponsorship to SoCal Deaf Disc Golf Tournament that was turned down in response to the video published http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoWvPUo8PmA

The truth must have hurt them bad enough to make them take on a desperate move to try steer people away from the issue by responding with a very inappropriate video published on http://www.deafvideo.tv/watch/4937



This is the very trademark of the old deaf guards.

So with the deaf community, when the truth hurts them, desperation takes over.

Richard

Sunday, December 16, 2007

Silencing Deficit Thinkers?



This is about deficit thinkers.

John Egbert's idea to banish deficit thinkers from deafread blog is the most childish the most sophomoric ideas we see that is consistent with the deaf community, the ASL deaf community.

Well deficit thinkers have the eyes on the future and their feet on the ground meaning they move on and know whats going on and how to respond properly.

Also deficit thinkers spice up and liven up the discussions, open discussions, should include that in deafread too.

Banishing deficit thinkers only shows that deaf community is not inclusive enough.

You really want to show that the ASL deaf community is banishing people out not being open minded people, you want that?

Wow I find that to be insulting to the idea of being open, inclusive, discussion.

John wants a sanitized presentation of the deaf community through deafread.

What's wrong with John? I think John needs to have his head examined to find the bugs in it.

Richard

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Testing New Communication Device


The $8.00 communication assistance device wont be available till 2008.

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Lance Allred - Deaf Professional Basketball Player - Comes To Orange County Feb, 2, 2008


Tonight at the NBADL's Anaheim Arsenals vs Utah Flash game a deaf employee of the Anaheim Arsenals advised me to spread the word of the February 2, 2008 game. The Arsenals will play the Idaho's Stampede at the Anaheim Convention Center. Idaho Stampede has a deaf player, Lance Allred. The deaf worker wants to see a lot of deafies cheering for Lance at this game.

Lance's bio : http://www.nba.com/dleague/playerfile/lance_allred/bio.html

Anaheim Convention Center : http://www.anaheimconventioncenter.com/

Anaheim Arsenals : http://www.nba.com/dleague/anaheim/

Idaho Stampede : http://www.nba.com/dleague/idaho/

Tickets : www.ticketmaster.com

Event tickets : http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/09003F45CB848E4B?artistid=1053345&majorcatid=10004&minorcatid=7

More information about Lance on these sites.

http://www.nba.com/jazz/features/workouts_062205.html

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/player/profile?playerId=3860

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,600148031,00.html

Our deaf center volunteers gets to watch the Anaheim Arsenals every once a while, and for me, its a good break from the commotion that spins around the office. We might go there to cheer Lance on February 2, 2008.

Richard Roehm

Dealing With The "Too Soon" Syndrome At The Pharmacy

I'm a busy person. I have to take care of myself too. I pick up my meds from the pharmacy when I have time to waste 20 minutes at the pharmacy. Usually it happens before I run out. When I get there, several times the pharmacist would approach me with a note stating "Too Soon" which means I've come pick up my meds too early to for the insurance company to be able to reimburse them.

I came up with a surefire way to deal with the "Too Soon" syndrome. Yesterday I decided to do a little holiday shopping at the pharmacy store (Rite-Aid). And as expected with the shopping cart half filled I noticed the pharmacist started chasing me. I pushed the cart up to the cash register area and allowed the pharmacist to approach me. Again it was another "Too Soon" note and I responded out loud "In that case its too soon for me to be buying this from your store". The cashier who was also the assistant manager heard what I said and had a talk with the pharmacist and after about 5 minutes the Rx was filled and handed to me.

The customer power is stronger than the insurance company.

Richard Roehm