19th March 2008

How Subprime works

Best cartoon drawings about how USA has gotten into the subprime mess. Really simple to understand and gets right to the point.

How subprime works

Warning: swear language

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10th March 2008

Fallen IDF soldier Banai defied deaf parents to join combat unit

Another brave Israeli soldier killed. This one is different - his parents are deaf.

At first glance, the hundreds of mourners gathered at the Ashkelon military cemetery Sunday for the funeral of Israel Defense Forces Staff Sergeant Liran Banai seemed to display both agility and morbid curiosity as they climbed every available surface in a scramble to get a good view of the proceedings next to the freshly dug grave. But then the reason became clear: Many of the mourners were deaf. They came to the funeral in a show of solidarity with Banai’s parents, Guy and Gila, both of whom are deaf, and wanted to find a spot from which they could read the lips of the eulogizers. Due to the mass of mourners in attendance, however, few succeeded.

Rest of the story…

Here’s more details of Liran Banai. He didn’t have to serve in combat because he has deaf parents, but he wanted to.

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6th March 2008

Sitesell = blacklist

I’ve made a big mistake of subscribing to Sitesell.com and I cannot get unsubscribed. They’re already in violated of FCC rules for not providing an unsubscribe link. I’m getting bombarded with their emails and am at my wit’s end to stop it!

So this is my deafbiz.com policy - any deaf related website using sitesell.com web builder will be immediately removed from the link directory, no question asked. If you plead with me to get back on the list, your pleas will be ignored. Use another website builder program!
This is my message to Ken Evoy (even though he said he’s an MD, I call b.s. on that) - get me off your f****** mailing list!

posted in General, Internet, Search Engine | 4 Comments

6th March 2008

Kevin Mowl, in memoriam

I’ve never met him but I know his parents since our paths crossed at Deaf Rochester events.

Kevin Mowl is a CODA and who has made the ultimate sacrifice to make USA a safer place to live and help bring freedom to Iraq.

Here’s his website: Kevin Mowl.

The Gunter family expresses deep sympathy to his parents and sister.

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