Deaf Writer's Alarm

Not long time ago, just recent we talked about womens sport on TV.   We watched the tv show called Glam Fairy and one women football team comes to her studio for  their show off about the women football.   It was interest to know about them.

Well, there we talked about WNBA (Womens National Basketball Assoication) on TV and successful.   They are on 16th Seasons and lot of women enjoy the play like professional NBA.  

I can remember those women who play in professional BASEBALL while men are in World War in 1940s.  They played for three or four years in professional baseball leagues.   It made me feel proud of them because I am baseball player.    Those women who play in league states that all years, they not playing in ball is little depression for them because they sees all girls play in softball and not ever in professional like MBL (Major Baseball League).  They wanted to encourage them to play in professional MBL on TV like Men playing.   That made me wonder why no one play ball in league but WHY basketball success?  It is hateful to play there instead of basketball? Why not?

Also, you know women is playing in professional football league.  One thing, they also is not on TV!    NFL (National Football League) on tv but I not see any of women playing football.  Men playing football on TV?  I wanted to see your point about it.

I happens saw women in professional soccer so men on TV, too.  That makes me wonder why not Football or Baseball leagues on TV?  Only Basketball and Soccer on TV.   I need your view of point about it.

Thanks

-DeafWriter

Deaf Writer has notice no one writes.   How do you feel about writing here?  Not good at English?   Feel embarrassed about write here?   Deaf Writer has nothing against with English or ASL.

Deaf Writer wanted you to express yourself in here.   No one correction here like I have told you in earlier.

Any of your issues comes frist before details next.  I sees this issues becomes ugly then I will trash it.

- Deaf Writer

I been read all acticles and spoke out from my mind.  I itch my facial hair on my chin and wish I would strech my skin off!   No, I don't do that.  Hehe   I can image how everyone got pissed off by calling the names.

I come here to vent about calling names.  I watched Dancing with the Stars.  My heart goes to Chaz Bono who elimination Tuesday Night Results.   I knew Judges has spoke about his weight and names called.  Those been hurt by words.   Also, Maks has lost his cool about his dance with his partner, who is World Cup Soccer Player.    I can understand their feeling against the judges comments.   Their jobs has told any turns on their experiences on their own risks.

I can tell you from my side because my partner is big woman.   She been called by many people on her weight and told her bad names.  I can see that and I had my childhood friends who also big.   It comes to me to tell them that they has beautiful inside than outside.   They sees their outside also beauty, not by the words.  

Many times, you ask for help with weight or gain weight.  You felt should hurt all the time...I don't believe that!   Many times, I see their success on their own.    I been called names ,too.   You want to know?   PENCIL,  MICE, or SKINNY.   That hurts too.    I am small and thin.

No more!

Deaf Writer

That title come to me and my mind wonder.   Many times, I have notice celebrities who brings their manager to stand with them, and assistant to public.   Of couse, they have bodyguards followed.

This strange photo, I have seen from my friends who took the picture and they told me, why celebrity bring hir interpreter in deaf community?  I can't answer that question but it bothers me and wondering why.

I would bring my manager  with me if I have to take public or anything relate to speaker or public appears.  Why need an interpreter ?   In hearing world, I would understand that, need an interpreter for communication with others.   I would prefer my manager able to use sign language so I won't miss the comments from public or people around me.

In deaf community, need an interpreter?  No.   If you are Foreign and need sign language translator for their reason.    You know deaf has accents and sound like we are foreign. 

Hear!

- Deaf Writer

I just bring this because soon, I am going to class for some training.   The supervisor told me to get plently notes and that stuck my head.   I knew impossible to take notes during the speaker because I would be watch the interpreter.   I am sure I would take notes that will requires board or copy from others.

In my youth years, I used have note taking because the teacher tends to write the blackboard to allow all students write and copy from the board.  That been easy for me and used to it.  I never have anyone take notes for me till gone to University.  That kills me alot!   The teacher asked the students to voluntee to taking the note for me or disabled students, NO one voluntees!   Oh my!

The disabled student might not able to take notes during the speaker because they has differcult attention or listern the speaker.  You know all students tends bring the tape recorder, not take notes.  So all normal students not voluntee to take notes for me?   All students think it is hard to take note and not have to make copy for me?   Whoa!  Wrong think.    You know there is copy machine around and can make a SIMPLE copy for me.  Smiles.   Some paper has NCR paper that write in two papers together.   S/he could have hir white paper and I can take yellow paper that already copy.    That is also SIMPLE.

Today, I am going in few minutes and knew my co-worker is impossible to take the notes herself.   She got alot confuses and I would take pay extra attention.   In the future, she would ask me for HELP so I need my notes ready!

- Deaf Writer

I am drop this little note about DWTS (Dancing with the Stars).  Everyone gets serouisly about the cast for DWTS.  It is very popular TV Show and it is been dancing all the seasons in Spring and Fall, have season starts with new faces and dance partners.   it always made everyone excitement to watch because it is worth like popular Biggest Loser TV Show.

Now here it is.   This little moments and maybe little longer ago,  I not know if everyone becomes quiet before I make this post.   Since I know DWTS do their job to pick who and match better dance partner.  The producer did good job with DWTS for 13 seasons, rated still been roller coster depends on who watching.   I have nothing with them, and I see who in it.   I rarely watch DWTS due to other TV Show on same time and I enjoyed to check who winning and who losing.   I would love to watch this season because it would be more interesting to watch first transgender star dances.   I already watch Lance Bass in last seasons ago and whoo till he got third place.   I am proud of him come out and dance!  I would do with Chaz Bono and hope he can conutine dance unless votiing or low scores.

I read few articles that tells about everyone starts to say rude and not public for kids, etc.   That comes to me and my guts tells you, DWTS already spending with gay openly people, dirty dancing, and romantic.   Will my kids watch all of those dances?   I would say NO!    Now, why everyone got upset over transgender for kids to watch him?    Do you think they would advice the kids?   No!   The kids would watch the guy who dance with lady not mean they are same sex who dances together.   Sheesh!   Think about it,  if they asking you then you would have to explain.    You are not responible to control the kids watch or not watch TV.   I saw lot of kids watch dirty, horror, and romantic movies.   What is kind is that?  Think twice before you starts with kids who or watch any TV shows.   

I would be proud to hear from someone that teaches her kids to not to watch TV because of reason why....they are not old enough to watch all those till they are actually old enough to UNDERSTAND the shows.   I raised not watch any of horror or romantic movies or TV shows till I was in teenager years.   I understood the world better, not advice anything bad but can be curouis lately.   I admited I did, but learned more than once.    

Enjoy the SHOW!   Stop the hater rumor!

- Deaf Writer  <3 

Many times, I received the names around but genders did not call.  How? What? What do you mean by gender?  Okay.

My relative has odd names.  I thought I would uses to it but not success because many times, get mistake or got bullied by the name calling.

Johnnie and Tommie are girls' names.  Yeah, it is!   They are my cousins.    Both of my relative has initial name like W.E. and M.C does not have Full Name!   W.E. was well known by our family history but unexplain how he got that name and no one know.  I could ask one of my older cousins who born by W.E.'s side.   M.C is my precious father and got in trouble so he get his full name by force.     His name was become natural name now, not initial anymore.

Some I met unsex names like Dallas, Sean, Dale and Jordan...Jamie.    I not see why anyone would like to bullying over the names and genders?    

My name was tough because they kept calling me nickname instead of full name which is not my name.   i got tired of everyone called me wrong name in my life.   I kept told them my real name is ------ (5 letters, not 8 letters)   No one understands.    Other time, I came out without knowing my name,  they called me in gender instead of name.   I correction the gender and name same time.   Everyone shocked.

Everyone thinks legel names must be in right name and gender.   I met lot of people who uses nicknames and become habit calling them.    Everyone got in little trouble by nicknames but real name comes in same person... no mistakes.

What do you would do when they tell you?  What do you do?  How do you correction them by name and gender?   Tough? Easy?

- Deaf Writer

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_98b09746-b84b-5121-bc1f-23527869e5bf.html

ST. LOUIS • About seven of every 1,000 households in the St. Louis area are headed by same-sex couples, and about 23 percent of those households are raising children.

Census data released today show for the first time at a local level how many same-sex couples are raising children.

The new numbers show a jump in the number of same-sex households from a decade ago, when similar information was collected by the Census Bureau. For example, in Missouri, the number increased to 15,242 couples from 10,881 a decade ago, a 40 percent increase.

Demographers say that is due more to a willingness to identify on census forms as a gay couple rather than a spike in the number of same-sex households.

"There's no question that acceptance (of gays) has increased in the last 10 years and, as a result, more people are comfortable reporting as a couple," said Gary J. Gates, a scholar with the Williams Institute, a think tank at the UCLA School of Law focusing on sexual orientation issues. That rationale is the reason for dramatic jumps in rural areas, he said, especially when it comes to those raising children. For example, there was an increase of 42 percent in Washington County and 41 percent in St. Francois County since 2000.

"It's not that gay couples are moving to rural Missouri to raise children," Gates said. "They often come from a socially conservative environment and don't come out until later in life."

As a result, many of those couples include at least one partner who brought children into the relationship.

The Census Bureau has been rolling out new data on same-sex couples a few states at a time. Today's findings include Missouri and five other states. Illinois information will be released next week. Gates said that after reviewing data released on the first 25 states, he estimates the final tally will show 900,000 households headed by same-sex couples, about 50 percent more than in 2000.

Among them are Julie and Kate Brueggemann of St. Louis, who are raising a 19-month-old girl in the Carondelet neighborhood.

"It was 2004 when all the marriage amendments went through the states. That really triggered a lot of people to be more public and talking about their lives," said Julie Brueggemann, 38. "It's not surprising at all to me that the number of couples would have jumped so dramatically."

In the last decade, six states have legalized gay marriage, most recently New York, where the law took effect Sunday. In June, Illinois joined seven other states that allow civil unions or broadly defined domestic partnerships for same-sex couples, but not formal marriage. And a Gallup Poll in May suggests that for the first time, a majority of Americans supports same-sex marriage. When the question was first posed 15 years ago, only 27 percent of those polled said they supported the unions.

But gay marriage and same-sex couples raising children remain divisive issues in the United States. Some conservative groups argue that marriage is for two people of the opposite sex, geared to creating and raising a family.

The majority of states, including Missouri, have constitutional bans on same-sex marriage

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Chris Thetford, 47, and his partner, Tom Kempker, 55, of St. Louis, are raising two adopted sons. Thetford said having an official count of gay couples raising families "lifts up a curtain and allows there to be a discussion in hard numbers." It also shows an evolution in the country, where census numbers more accurately reflect what families in the United States look like, he said.

While the city of St. Louis has same-sex couples living throughout, there are concentrations downtown, in the Central West End and around Tower Grove Park, not far from where Thetford and Kempker live.

Tracking same-sex couples dates to 1990, when the number reported was closer to 150,000. That year, the person filling out the form could identify another person in the household as an unmarried partner. If, however, the head of household marked his or her significant other as husband or wife instead of unmarried partner, the Census Bureau recoded the form and counted it as a heterosexual couple.

In 2000, the recoding was dropped and the Census Bureau assumed that if there were two adults of the same sex marked on the form and the relationship marked as husband or wife, it was a gay couple. With the 2010 data, the Census Bureau will distinguish between those who marked "unmarried partner" vs. "husband/wife" and release that information later this year. This distinction is significant because it will for the first time give on a national scale the number of gay couples who consider themselves married.

The latest census numbers make it possible to determine down to a local level how many same-sex couples have children. Before, that information was available only at a state level.

In St. Louis, 1.4 percent of households are headed by same-sex couples, accounting for more than 1,900 city residences. Of those, 13 percent are raising children. St. Louis County has 2,300 same-sex households, and 25 percent of them are raising children. St. Charles County has 656 same-sex households, with 30 percent raising children.

Michael Sherberg, 54, of Olivette, is raising three sons with his spouse, Dr. Simeon Prager, 50. Sherberg said breaking down the number of same-sex couples raising children gives a better portrait of the country.

Many gay couples are private and don't feel comfortable talking about their home lives, Sherberg said. But with a census form, where the information shared is confidential, it's different, he said.

"It allows you to be more honest about your situation."

Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_98b09746-b84b-5121-bc1f-23527869e5bf.html#ixzz1TPXJbRIN

I just wanted to remind again that there was couple who had baby birth before break up, one of couple into same sex relationship that has kid to raisie.

Also, wanted to remind again that census did not say "who lives with you" or "How many kids you have with partner".   There always different by different parents and can be same parents if marriage contuine 40 years with a child(s).    Hope get ball rolling and speak to remind everyone.

- Deaf Writer

Most of us who just lost a job or been cut off on economy for last few years ago.  Lot of job less emplyees getting better with their business on their own.  Those stores been closing down because of less people attends and no shop at their well-known stores.    All suburban shopping malls getting gather into popular mall in DFW or St Louis like Mills Mall or County Mall.    Gas Stations move around into nearest highway and some lost gas stations nearest their home in suburban.   Shopping strip malls getting smaller and share with smaller stores or resturant nearest that where most of people attends to.

Some in suburban Post Offices recents is going to be close due to less of people use packages or snail mails.  Larger Post Office is still open and active where most of people use and attends.  

Kmart, JCP, and Sears are well know brands strores might will be closed in few years later.   Border bookstores is going to be closed till September 2011.  Noble and Barnes bookstores should be alright in next few years.

Lot of people who have nowhere to go and not have a job yet.  They always has something to do like their hobby, setting up a business and save the trips.    I know it seems hard to live in without a job.   I know there always have a job for you and everyone.   I cant image if I am retire and do the strange image inside of me to deal with the world without a job.  I believes I have a job forever if I am retire or job less.

Job is best and ever better.

- Deaf Writer

I had sat down in the breakroom and think.  Something come to me is God's eye.   Want to know ?

Okay, let me say something is very mystery about God' eye is here and universal itself.    Many years, I "hear" see all the Sunday School teacher told the class and preacher that preach in the worship service about God looked over the earth from the beginning of gospel.   He look at the blank planet with no trees, no animals, or anything.   Just blank,  he create the trees, animals, and even Adam.   Again, he look around the planet like he uses the magnifiying glass on make something really tiny to see from its sky.   The way, as we spoke He look at us like we are ants that bash around on the earth.

One thing, hit me is God's eye recent.   I would say sound funny and very interesting about our view of this earth between God' eye.   When go to highest building like NY Empire that we can look down at people like ants or tiny black spots  moving on the street.   Can you see them?   Let's go to airplane and fly over the clouds.   We only see the land, shape of lands.  Can you see them?  Image that God's eye are much further away.  

Okay, go to further away into space.   When in space shuttle, can we see the people or lands ?  No, only the planet itself, maybe see more planets in the space, too.    I think God has very much with talent of gift about create on the universal, planets, and everything.   How we can see from our eyes?  True impossible.

Few things that old news comes out and failed.  One is before chirst, the beginning of history that try to built the tower  to reach with God.  God damaged the building and people changes into languages and colors.   People started to fuss and complain how to proof there is God. They had failed.  Secondly, after christ,  in 1960's,  Russian has planned to find God in heaven that called "cloud above the earth".  The Russian astronauts worked on to figure and engineer that state where to find God's place.  They thought they found it so fire the rocket spacecraft and came back found NOTHING.   They failed, too.

(some words are impossible to understand)

- Deaf Writer