Comments on: WeekStart Roundup: The Sigh-Of-Relief Edition

By: Mr_Pnutt

Mr_Pnutt — Fri, 19 May 2006 23:51:51 +0000

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.

By: Cloak & Dagger

Cloak & Dagger — Wed, 17 May 2006 20:59:00 +0000

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.

By: Curious Eyes

Curious Eyes — Tue, 16 May 2006 00:52:01 +0000

aww, crap, and I thought I was being subtle….

;-)

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 16 May 2006 00:33:03 +0000

You’re applying for the now-open Provost position??? :-)

By: Curious Eyes

Curious Eyes — Mon, 15 May 2006 23:19:59 +0000

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.

By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 15 May 2006 22:59:37 +0000

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!

By: Talsey

Talsey — Mon, 15 May 2006 22:13:47 +0000

Try http://www.deafdemocrats.net :)

By: regina

regina — Mon, 15 May 2006 21:11:05 +0000

Wow. Putting on the same plane as “Prague Spring” was mighty reverent in my opinion.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 15 May 2006 20:25:55 +0000

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.

By: Bobby Cox

Bobby Cox — Mon, 15 May 2006 19:57:00 +0000

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 =)