The Orange Deafie Blog

Rip-Off Report On OCDAC Is False & Libelous

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:15:00 +0000

Submitter of the false and libelous report on Rip-Off Report and the subsequent responses to our rebuttals was done by our CEO's acrimonious ex-wife. That's her retaliatory response from getting evicted from his home at the beginning and subsequently losing the divorce suit against him at the end.

Check our credentials listed at our 501(c)(3) info link on the left hand column for our credentials and check the links within there to see our current IRS and FTB reports.

Our business license is found on the City of Irvine Business License list on line # 13973.

Richard

OC Fair 2009

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:48:00 +0000

This year we're doing something very different.

We will have a kiosk instead of a booth. This will enable our presence at the fair and educate people of our availability to serve and help those with special needs.

Kiosks dont have to be manned.

As The Deaf World Evolves

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:01:00 +0000

Here is a fact.

Gallaudet Research Institute's 2006-2007 Annual Survey of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children and Youth revealed that 87 percent of students who are deaf use speech in the classroom to some degree, and 52 percent use only speech. That is only children -- the percentage of adults is a lot higher.

A Failure In ASL Education

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:11:00 +0000

I was recently asked to assist a deaf webmaster to develop a letter he/she can use to send to people asking for financial support. The letter below is the example he sent to me. I can see why this person wasn't able to get any sponsorships. The letter below represents the result of the failed sign language based education system we have been feeding, as in funding, for too long. This is the result of the taxpayers $800,000.00 that was spent to teach this person sign language. The person can't succeed because he/she wasn't taught the right language. That's a $800,000.00 waste of taxpayers money you're seeing here. Getting this deaf person to hear and speak would have cost far less than $100,000.00 and would have made a better writer than what you see in the letter below.

I've been seeing a lot of examples like this and feel it's high time we start teaching deaf children the right language. It's high time we stop funding the failed sign language based education programs for the deaf and start funding programs that teach deaf children the right language. Lets do that so we dont have to see more letters like below.

Richard Roehm

(I have removed identifying components to spare this writer additional embarrassment)

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Thank you for your time to read this.

Dear Company,

We are here to request the partnership with your company to be part of our website to expand the bandwidth and announcement, we tends to earn 40 to 50 visitors a day for our website attendant. So our partnership is with you will be wonderful experience.

The problem- We don’t have enough bandwidth and profits. We need some partnership to help us to grow the business to be successful to become world-wide directory in the future for the deaf and hard of hearing community. We could help you to attract the visitors to your website if you are become our partner and help us out. Give us some profits and attention to our website for trade.

The Solution- The visitors will attract to your website and business. Any order to your website can be helping us out too. Our profits and business, we just started our website in xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to help the deaf and hard of hearing people to find the thing more easier in our website, we provide the information that deaf and hard of hearing can find and interested in. The CEO/Founder and the webmaster, we are the team to keep the website running since xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. We are forwarding to have the partnership with your company to keep our website running and expanding to become world wide directory in the future to help the deaf and hard of hearing to find the information easily. Our url: http://www.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com, you may check us out and give you some considering to become our partner In the future.

Thank you for your time to read this again.
Sincerely,
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com
contact us via the email- xxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com
Hope you have some thoughts about this.

Letter To Senator Harkin

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:42:00 +0000

February 27, 2009

The Honorable Tom Harkin
731 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

Dear Senator Harkin,

Even though you're not one of our senators, we appreciate the time to read the letter from us.

We at the Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center thanks and appreciates your longstanding zeal to make life better for people with disabilities.

As civilization advances, the deaf community has been very slow to advance with it. And they show it by forcefully rejecting futurists like Dr. Jane K. Fernandes from running Gallaudet University. They also show it by violently resisting most attempts to create bridges out of the so called 'crab theory' syndrome that keeps many of the deaf community members in a prison of silence.

We are all for advancing the deaf community through mitigation of their hearing and speech disabilities. Two of our board members serve on UCI's Stem Cell PAC as one of the avenues we use to help the new deaf generation escape the prison of silence among other ailments.

What we ask from you is for your continued support in helping the deaf community advance with civilization and helping them escape the prison of silence. Please support the oral deaf schools, please support the application of latest medical innovations to mitigate hearing loss such as cochlear and brain stem implants, and support the organizations like ours for advocating these avenues for the new deaf generations.

Also we ask for you is to give a hard look at the Deaf Bilingual Coalition and consider adding them to the lists of domestic terrorists since their members have been violently resistant to advancements of the deaf community. They show it through numerous videoblogging activities and violent activities at deaf socials and expo events.

Finally we ask you to help millions of deaf Americans and deaf Californians escape the prison of silence with your support of oral deaf schools, medical innovations, and suppressing violence from members of the deaf community that are resistant to advancing with civilization.

We look forward to a response from you once you have taken the opportunity to look into the matter.

Thank you,

Richard Roehm
Chief Executive Officer

Jobfox.com Lists Out Job Categories Boosted By Stimulus Legislation

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:20:00 +0000

Tomorrow President Obama will sign the legislation that will provide the needed economic stimulus. According to Jobfox.com, the most wanted new jobs, listed by major Obama initiatives, will include:

Initiative: Construction of Roads, Bridges, Transit and Rural Broadband

Key Jobs:

Construction managers
Project managers
Civil engineers
Computer-aided drafting specialists
Telecommunications engineers

Initiative: Greater Oversight of Financial Markets

Key Jobs:

Compliance accountants
Internal auditors
Tax accountants
Government regulators

Initiative: Energy Independence

Key Jobs:

Electrical engineers
Mechanical engineers
Power grid managers
Biofuels chemists
Sales and marketing

Initiative: Healthcare Modernization

Key Jobs:

Nurses
Information technology specialists
Bioinformatics specialists
Information security specialists
Software developers

Initiative: Volunteerism and Community Involvement

Key Jobs:

Social workers
Administrators
Translators

VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN ANNOUNCES KAREEM DALE AS SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR DISABILITY POLICY

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:56:00 +0000

VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN ANNOUNCES KAREEM DALE AS SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR DISABILITY POLICY

First Time a President has had a Special Assistant Focused Exclusively on Disability Policy

BOISE, ID – Vice President Joe Biden today announced Kareem Dale as Special Assistant to the President for Disability Policy. The Vice President, who was leading a Presidential Delegation at the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Boise, Idaho, made the announcement during a stop at the Special Olympics’ Healthy Athletes Event, a worldwide program in which athletes receive a variety of health screenings and services.

“The commitment that the President and I have to Special Olympics and people with disabilities is deep and abiding. And we are backing up those words with real action at the White House,” said Vice President Biden. “This is our first step to ensure that we have a strong advocate for people with disabilities at the highest levels of our Administration.”

Dale, who is partially blind, will have direct access to the President in this role and he will coordinate the Administration’s efforts to ensure that people with disabilities are on a level playing field with all Americans.

Originally from Chicago, Illinois, Dale previously served as the National Disability Director for the Obama for America campaign. He also served on the Arts Policy Committee and the Disability Policy Committee for then-Senator Obama.

Dale graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor's degree in Advertising in May 1995. He received his JD/MBA in May 1999 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, graduating Cum Laude. While attending law school, Dale was also active in community service, including serving as president of two organizations, the Black Law Students' Association and Open Forum.

Did Ramsey Push The Disabled Out?

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:07:00 +0000

I dont know if thats the message from Ramsey or the consistency we've been seeing in the restaurant industry in the past decade.

If you are disabled, you should be given a chance to prove yourself, you shouldn't be shown the door.

$819 Billion Stimulus Package Contains Many Disability-Related Provisions

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:19:00 +0000

The $819 billion stimulus package that passed the house today contains money for the disabled. There had been sensational rumors flying about in the disability communities that the bill had nothing for the disabled.

The bill also provides these disability related provisions;

$87 billion to states for a temporary increase in the Federal Medicaid matching rate (FMAP).

$13 billion for IDEA state grants, to increase funding for special education.

$600 million for IDEA Early Intervention.

$500 million for the Vocational Rehabilitation state grant.

A one time $450 (individuals)/$630 (couples) payment to all SSI recipients ($4.2 billion total).

$6 billion for broadband and wireless services in underserved areas.

$200 million for state formula grants for Centers for Independent Living.

$900 million to improve the Social Security Administration claims process and computerization upgrades.

$6.5 billion for several low income housing initiatives.

Therefore ignore any rumors flying around that the stimulus bill that was passed today contains nothing for the disabled.

OCDAC's 2009 Resolutions

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:27:00 +0000

2009 will be a monumental year for Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center as we have been collaborating with numerous health related organizations to advance our zeal. We have 5 key goals to accomplish in 2009. Most of these goals are similar to our 2008 resolutions. The key goals all fit within our mission and vision statements.

1) Solidifying our leadership direction by adding "more sails to our ship"
a) Increasing the evaluations of irresponsible deaf leadership ( achieved in 2008 )
b) Promoting responsible deaf leadership ( achieved in 2008 )
c) Increasing resources for the Deaf WAI (War Against Indiscipline) program ( exceeded in 2008 )
d) Increasing our resilience to casualty events such as loss of primary youtube outreach account.

2) Focus on deaf evolution
a) Expanding non-confrontational advocacy ( achieved in 2008 )
b) Increasing the support of oral-deaf on staff and board census
c) Increasing the use of technology-based social service concept ( exceeded in 2008 )
d) Expanding our fiscal independence concept ( exceeded in 2008 )

3) Office resources
a) Reduce facilities costs by acquiring additional real estate for the use as office resources ( exceeded in 2008 )
b) Consolidating our expenses to avoid repetition of costs

4) Outreach
a) Participate in deaf events that promote responsible deaf leadeship ( exceeded in 2008 )
b) Focus on events that need exposure to hearing loss outreach ( achieved in 2008 )
c) Develop outreach videos and use the video sharing websites ( achieved in 2008 )
d) Simplify outreach materials for easier transporting, setup, takedown ( exceeded in 2008 )
e) Provide leadership in non-deaf causes (AIDS, Paganism, Medical Innovations, Environmental, etc...) ( achieved in 2008 )

5) Social services
a) Development of web-based social service automation for global access

Find more videos like this on Deaf Paradise

In the past 10 years and continuing beyond 2009, the Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center will do what they do better than anything else in the world, ENTERTAIN YOU, with their special brand of deaf advocacy.

Mr. Chico Fashion Show Fundrasiser
Uploaded by Nesmuth

We wish everyone a safe, healthy, and productive 2009!

FROM THE BOARD, THE STAFF, AND THE VOLUNTEERS

Holiday Gift $35+

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 17:41:00 +0000

Holiday Gift $35+

Here is a small holiday gift to all those who have or had Wachovia credit card and/or banking accounts.

It's at least $35.00! MORE IF YOU QUALIFY!

Download the claim package at http://www.restitutionpayment.com/PDFs/ClaimForm.pdf

Fill the claim form and send it out by March 4, 2009.

Orange County deaf Advocacy Center is a true humanitarian website connecting people, deaf or not, to opportunities for improvement.

Happy Holidays!

Accessibility Anywhere Based Braille Displays Petition to Braille display manufacturers

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:29:00 +0000

Accessibility Anywhere Based Braille Displays Petition to Braille display manufacturers

This is a very important petition that would allow a blind person to buy a braille display and be sure that is works with their computer. Or any other windows based computer.

A petition has been started by George McDermith at http://www.petitiononline.com/brldis/petition.html asking Braille display manufacturers to base their drivers on the human interface protocol, found on all Windows computers. Such a design philosophy will ensure that users can be certain of having support for their Braille display on any computer, not just one which has been custom-configured for such access, and will eliminate the need to depend on specific screen reader drivers.

The text of the petition reads as follows:

"To: Braille display manufacturers

We, the undersigned, who are Braille display users, friends and family of Braille display users, and teachers of the blind,

*: Believe that accessibility to information for the blind on a par with their sighted piers is a right. Believe that due to this right, and due to the cost of Braille displays, accessing Braille through the use of Braille displays should not be limited by the type of screen reading solution used by the blind.

*: Strongly request that all manufacturers of Braille displays cease basing the drivers of their Braille displays off of particular screen reader drivers, but rather base all Braille display drivers off of the Human User Interface Protocol, which can be found on all Windows computers.

*: This will allow true portability and equal access to information for the blind, as they will be able to use their display with any computer. This will create greater competition in the market for the best Braille display to stand out, grant greater literacy in Braille through greater access to electronic Braille books and other materials, and support the right of all blind people to have accessibility anywhere."

To add your support to this worthy cause, visit the petition web page at

http://www.petitiononline.com/brldis/petition.html

The Serotek Team

Beth Koenig
bethko@gmail.com
Director of Deaf Blind Services
Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center
2960 Main Street A100
Irvine, CA 92614
http://www.deafadvocacy.org/dbs

We Have FREE Access To A Multipurpose Hall In Orange

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:55:00 +0000

We Have FREE Access To A Multipurpose Hall In Orange

We have free access to this hall in Orange, California not far from the Edison Field ( Los Angeles Angels Stadium ) for any events, meetings, dances, etc... Plenty of tables and chairs are available at the hall. Excellent for fundraisers.

We are willing to share the use of the hall with other deaf and disability organizations at no cost on the condition that we are announced in printed or electronic form, like website or email, that we (Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center) are sponsoring the event.

Let us know about your plans and we'll work it out and enjoy the pictures of the hall below.

Richard Roehm
Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center

A Word For Those Looking To Tap The Local Food Banks

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:19:00 +0000

Just so you know, a food bank is there to help you in a time of need. You have to provide documentation, ie. pay stubs, rent/mortgage paperwork, utility statements, etc. In addition, you must provide SS cards for everyone in the household that you would like to receive food for (minor children). The food bank is not perfect.

What you can expect:

-A long line of people, mostly who have been laid off recently and cannot buy groceries and basic needs for their families.
-As much stale bread as you can handle
-Rotten produce(ie. blackened bananas, extremely bruised apples, rotten grapes)
-expired canned products, not always, but most of the time!

So, if you are truly in need of food, you will go to a food bank. It is not meant to live off of. Most people would rather work (more than one job, if necessary) in order to make ends meet and buy their own food stuffs.

If you are in a desperate situation, you will do what you have to do, including getting food from a source that is, quite honestly, substandard! You do what you have to do.

Actually, it is much better to take your chances at the local markets with the sales, and quite possibly local farmers' markets if you are able to find them.

Please do not bash people who humble themselves to receive food when they are in dire need. Have you ever been in such a tough spot that old bread actually sounds good?

Probably not.

Richard

Good Riddance To Yahoo Live Chat

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:38:00 +0000

Good riddance to a medium thats been a beacon of advanced deaf cyberbullying.

Good riddance to a medium that advanced the scourge of ASL.

Good riddance to a medium that has borne the hatred of the old deaf guards!

Good bye Yahoo Live Chat and dont come back!

Richard Roehm

Nothing Wrong With Deaf People Wanting To Hear

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:28:00 +0000

This is rather a graphic video of a lady who just faced the ugly wrath, disrespect, and the scourge of the ASL extremists in the deafvideotv website. The only thing she did was get a cochlear implant.

My heart goes to her and my respect goes to her too for wanting to hear and for getting the cochlear implant. The video above is her response to the ugly colors of the ASL extremists who dont want deaf people to hear.

Not long afterwards she made another video of her intent to leave deafvideotv.

I dont blame her for making that video blog too. In fact I encourage her and other people to leave deafvideotv because its a dark coven of ASL extremists. And time and evolution is doing it's best to get rid of them for us.

And for this lady, she has my respect and she's a blue ribbon vlogger at the Hearing For Life Foundation website.

She's one of my heroes!

Richard

Low Vision Sign Tracking Explained

noreply@blogger.com (Beth Koenig) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:18:00 +0000

Low Vision Sign Tracking Explained
By Beth Koenig
Director Deaf-Blind Services
Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center

Sign tracking, which is an off shoot of tactile signing, has the receiver gently holding the signer's wrists to follow general arm and hand movement. In this way, the receiver is able to get the location, position, and movements of a particular sign. This then allows the eyes to focus on the handshape formed for a sign, and switch back and forth between handshapes and facial expressions when "listening". It also allows the person to receive signs in a more relaxed manner as they always know where the signer's wrist and hands are located thus eliminating the need to exert one's visual energy in tracking or searching out such information.

This technique also allows the receiver to send subtle cues when signing goes out of their visual field. Cues can also be transmitted to the signer such as slow down, repeat, agreement ("yes", "yeah"), pause or hold, or move to better lighting (visual field).

It should be noted that in the deaf-blind world, such use of technique means "yes, I am paying attention and focused on what you are saying". Letting go of one wrist but holding the other tighter can signal "hold, I need to do something", losing grip and moving one hand under the signers hand signals that the receiver would like to say something.

All of this seems to be learned and applied naturally by the two people conversing over the course of the conversation. Simple physics and practical studies can further the understanding of this technique.

Community Carnival Food Stands - Fundraiser or Pissing Contest?

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:01:00 +0000

To begin this with, I been involved in hundreds of foodstand fundraisers. But there's one event that stands above it all.

The Tustin Tiller Days stands tall above the others.

This one has a reputation system that places organizations having the best type or fanciest looking BBQ systems on top of the others. Basically its become a more of a pissing contest among the organizations than a fundraising event.

Mine is a respectable model noted for it's efficiency , safety, and ease of use. Thanks to a donation last week by one of our long time sponsors to replace the one that got stolen. We got a brand new char-broil.com BBQ. This event marks the first ever 100% fully sponsored foodstand event. We were hit up with hundreds of dollars in purchasing cards from a dozen supermarkets and wholesalers.

So Saturday afternoon comes then 'judgment period' when people walk in the back areas and gawk at the new and fancy BBQs out there. And some are wealthy guys and they're compassionate and sometimes make donations if they like your BBQ arrangement. We were hit up 4 yrs ago with a nice $250 donation cause of it. We were treated with extra hands in teardown. And a guaranteed invite back in the following year.

Keep our fingers crossed at the Tustin Tiller Days event for a good fundraise and we have lots of hearing impaired help here.

Based on the excellent preparation results so far, I feel I'm a winner in the 'pissing contest' not because of our new BBQ, because I was able to get our organization's participation in this event fully funded by corporations.

Richard Roehm

Helping Deaf Blind Succeed In Life

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:07:00 +0000

Helping Deaf Blind Succeed In Life

We're showing the way to these deaf blind people they can succeed selling their artwork over the internet.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230291816792 .

We are giving them a good shot at success in life.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330271469909 .

We are offering them hope.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330271469092 .

We are building their confidence.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330271468319 .

We are leveling the playing field for the deaf blind community.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230291816323

We are giving them the opportunities to succeed.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330271469688 .

We are building the foundations of their independence.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item= 230291816442

We are leading the deaf blind community toward success.

Richard

DEAF DOOMSDAY CLOCK

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:30:00 +0000

DEAF DOOMSDAY CLOCK

Most of us already know what the doomsday clock means. For those who havent heard of it should consult http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock for more information.

How about one for the deaf world? Deafness wipe out begins at midnight. The handle position on the clock shows how close we are to effecting a wipe out of the deafness condition globally.

As of today, the deaf doomsday clock is set at 4 minutes. What factors are used in determining the position of the handle on the clock?

MEDICAL OCCURRENCE - This factor relates to babies developing into deaf people. With the high incidence of Rubella outbreaks and the high occurrence of birth defects in the past, creating a higher population of deaf people back then, had pushed the clock back. Now with medical and ototoxic knowledge, vaccinations against rubella, genetic counseling, and preventive prenatal activities, is pushing the handle closer to midnight.

TECHNOLOGY - With the advent of technology that mitigates deafness such as cochlear implants, it pushes the handle toward midnight. When the Food Drug Administration opened investigation into one of the makers of the cochlear implants, it pushed the handle back a little bit just as bacterial meningitis would do. Stem cells entering the clinical trials phase could push the handle far closer to midnight. Ipods and the growing hearing loss epidemic from noise related causes are pushing the handle backwards.

ATTITUDES TO THOSE WITHIN THE DEAF COMMUNITY - Deaf community's attitudes toward to those within their community is a critical factor. Things that'll push the handle closer to midnight are actions like getting Jane K. Fernandes ousted from Gallaudet University. Deafhood cult hijacking many aspects of deaf community and their organizations would push the handle closer to midnight because deafhood has so far been a constant source of internal instability and scourge since the past decades. Only open armed leadership from people like Fred Schreiber would do a lot to push the handle back. Another brilliant example that pushes the handle closer to midnight would be deaf websites, particularly Deafread.com and Deafvideo.tv, end up banning deaf leaders for various, yet stupid, reasons.

ATTITUDES TO THOSE OUTSIDE THE DEAF COMMUNITY - Coexistence is a critical factor in determining the handle position on the clock. The deaf community's relationship with the hearing counterparts plays a strong role. If there is peaceful non-confrontational coexistence between deaf and hearing people, the handle will be pushed back. Things such as excluding hearing people from participating in social events like in the case whereas sign language students are being ignored by the deaf community like at The Block At Orange would push the handle closer to midnight. If we show the good side of being deaf to the world, then people will want to keep us in existence. However if the media continues to report the deaf community in some sort of a war with the hearing community through various forms of litigations and actions, the hearing people will be pushed to mitigating the deafness occurrence and the handle will be pushed closer to midnight.

So it's all up to you, the deaf community, to determine your fate, your future, and the handle position on the deaf doomsday clock.

Richard Roehm

Faultlines Of The ASL World

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:31:00 +0000

Who Won In Milwaukee Last Weekend? AG Bell or the deaf coalition?

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:33:00 +0000

AG Bell won by having a smooth, seamless, rich, and wholesome conference that brought hope to the future generations of the deaf community. They did it without any static from the deaf coalition. This was capped by the newly elected president of the organization having a well televised interview on national TV http://www.agbell.org/uploads/2008Convention/JayTVMilwaukee.wmv .

The deaf coalition who were steadfast in their hatred toward AG Bell and toward people who are "not deaf enough" were successfully locked out of the venue. Brian Riley in his "Gearing Up" editorial at the deaf coalition website emphasized confrontation and shows everyone that the coalition is of, for, and by deaf bullies. Furthermore the conference by the deaf coalition was riddled with contradicting, conflicting, and confusing messages. It even caused a popular deaf blogger who goes by the name of 'Mishka Zena' to state "I would like to make a recommendation that the DBC leaders work together on making the goals of DBC more consistent to the public and the media" in her blog. The deaf coalition's hostility continues as they remain utterly unyielding at getting the AG Bell's name off one of NTID's dormitory buildings.

Convincing Video Blogs!

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:12:00 +0000

I'm so proud of these video blogs!

They actually convince Milwaukee folks to do things!

Richard

Brian Riley Proves DBC Is Of, By, And For Deaf Bullies!

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:40:00 +0000

Brian Riley's Gearing Up Blog Post

Richard

Skywalk Closure An Accessibility Issue?

noreply@blogger.com (OCDAC) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:02:00 +0000

Recent messages in the deaf blogsphere relating to the AG Bell and DBC's conferences has intensified by 20 fold!

Now The Hyatt hotel there has been convinced to close the skywalk that connects the Hyatt hotel to the Midwest Airlines Center where the AG Bell conference is held at and DBC has their conference at the Hyatt.

Among the comments published include a line that closing the skywalk is an accessibility infraction.

I don't see the walkway closure an accessibility issue at all and it shouldn't be an access issue since DBC don't include deafs with other disabilities.

I base this on the actions of the likes of DBC such as the former CSDR Superintendent Dr. Rachel Stone. She believed the safest haven for ASL is the purity of the students. She simply wanted to purge out programs that supported deaf people with other disabilities.

That alone probably cost Rachel her job. Good riddance!

We work with and even house deaf people with other disabilities and they are deserving the equal opportunities that's been met with contempt by Old Deaf Guards.

Richard

Another note : Rileys post "Gearing UP" shows a new light at DBC. It shows that the DBC has a soft underbelly waiting to be punched.