Ok, guys. It’s all over. We all can go back to our lives of normalcy and worry about pressing issues such as Bush’s militarization of the Mexican border, Bush’s spying in our phone calls, Bush’s plummeting approval ratings, Bush’s party’s rebellion against the prescription drug plan sign-up deadline, or Bush’s party’s impending losses in November.
Or not those.
For the past two weeks, DeafDC.com has been dominated by the Gallaudet protests. Know Thy Enemy? Better President Now? DPN 2? Unity for Gallaudet? FSSA? Twelve Days In May? For posterity, we’ve archived all our Gallaudet-related posts in one nice webpage. The URL’s also super-easy to remember, too: http://www.deafdc.com/blog/gallaudet. Go reminisce our deaf version of the Prague Spring!
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A thoughtless, insensitive post. Gallaudet and the issues being brought to the forefront deserve more than this.
Lighten up. Not everybody’s world revolves around Gallaudet. Two weeks was enough.
i dont think that this was really insensitive especially considering how much the conflict dominated deafdc.
while the conflict was important its also crucial that one not narrow one’s vision so much as to forget that there’s a war going on, increasing poverty both locally and globally, and a whole host of other issues that affect us all directly or indirectly. i was beginning to become concerned that it was going to become “gally news central” - i applaud deafdc’s pulling in the reigns and
Agreed, amanda. I think that Adam could have been a bit more diplomatic here but at the same time, yes, people are dying left and right, HELLO =)
Wow. Putting on the same plane as “Prague Spring” was mighty reverent in my opinion.
Funny you mentioned Bush’s reign of terror and regime of annihilation… McConnell also wants to invite everyone to join Deaf Republicans! Maybe by working from within the system — abhorrent as that thought is, makes me want to go wash my hands with soap — we can put an end to the travesty in Iraq and Bush’s other inhumane acts.
I was thinking this morning that I know exactly how the protestors feel when the BoT stuck to its guns and kept Jane, and Jane decided to stay despite the pressure. During the last two presidential elections there were similar feelings about how the electoral process was rigged, the Red and Blue states business, and that BushCo. and cronies used other illegal tactics to “win” the elections. The Supreme Court ruled that Bush was in the right. I didn’t agree, but had to suck it up back then, too. The Gallaudet situation is the same thing on a micro level.
Try http://www.deafdemocrats.net :)
Let’s not forget that NYT, Washington Post and others are being monitored by the Bush Admin. Their phone calls, that is. Ahhh, the glory of KGB is back and alive! Who knew that the CIA and other spy agenices would use the KGB’s methods? Honestly, I didn’t think any of us would foresee that happening in our lifetime.
To echo conservatives’ usual weird rhetorics: Why the so-called ‘liberal’ media hates America? Damn ‘liberal’ media for reporting that Bush Admin is spying on so-called ‘liberal’ media! Filthy commies!
;)
One wonders if TDD calls are indeed being monitored. I suspect not…
This is not news.
I am in such a state of disbelief that people exclaim that they are in a shock when they learned that NSA have been monitoring or snooping on phone calls nationwide or “our safety’s sake.”for a good amount of time.
I’m like, “Hello!?” Have you ever even thought of that possibility that the NSA which happens to have the world’s top mathematicans, statisticians, spy agents, physicists, engineers and of course, military leaders and politicians, toy around with the notion that they should spy on citizens near and far.
I could care less now. It has been happening for years. We are picking up the “cry wolf” approach. That’s indeed pathetic.
Of course, I do not support what the NSA does in general, but on the other hand, we have absolutely no idea what the hell they are up to on a daily basis. Congress do not even know. Even CIA doesn’t know. CIA and NSA do not always collaborate on “issues” together.
Even Pentagon. Name it.
We have the most advanced, dysfunctional military bureaucracy in the entire world. No wonder that we have yet to get Bin Laden. I even bet you if the U.S. Government contracted a small group of cap”able” Mafia to finish the business for a reasonable undisclosed sum, they would have handily completed the job a while ago. And, we would SAVE money as well.
I might come across as somewhat cynical, pessimistic and myopic about our country but I just wish that they would stop making an ass of themselves to an extent and while they work on that, they should respect our civil liberties as well.
Congrats goes to the DeafDC team for the blogging endeavors they’ve done in covering nearly all facets of the recent FSSA protest at Gallaudet. DeafDC will never again experience the numbers and popularity that spiked during the past two weeks.
At any rate, DeafDC introduced me to the blogosphere and I’m grateful for that. I’ll try to stick around in DeafDC, even though I’m nowhere near DC!
I agree, Todd! good job, Adam and other DeafDC bloggers, for making this THE most stimulating, thought-provoking, “relatively” flamer-free blog on the Internet. In fact, this Gallaudet controversy is what introduced me to blogging for the first time. I never got what it was all before, but now I’m addicted. In fact, if all you intelligent and cool folks are really from DC, I might even reconsider that job I was asked to apply for.
You’ll never guess where.
Yup, at Gallaudet.
You’re applying for the now-open Provost position??? :-)
aww, crap, and I thought I was being subtle….
;-)
Same here. After reading about the protest on the Washington Post and found this blog - nice to see so many intelligent posts about it. Thanks to DCDeaf.com. Now - out of the country for the summer.
I’m replying from my creaky ol’ sidekick, which doesn’t support Java, so this is a little late, but: F’duped: I’d say that all the work Deafdc did in reporting & diseminating info over the past events more than entitles him to cap it off with any words he might choose - not that I perceived anything offensive in his choice of words.