Tesla

This Finnish guy is really upset that it costs $22,000 to repair his Tesla. Maybe the warranty doesn't cover the battery. He took it out to the quarry and loaded it with dynamites then detonate it, posting the explosion on YouTube, generating millions of views, perhaps enough ad revenues to purchase a new car in its place.

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Pentacostalism

The majority of the AGBAD membership are Pentacostals as it's the only religion that accepts oralism.

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2022

Hang it there, it's coming!

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Squishmallow

A father surprises his Deaf daughter,Kylee, with Winona,  a Squishmallow that uses sign language.

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Agregator

I notice that our Deaf aggregator sites are becoming a landfill of inactive blogs., they are easy to spot.

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Calendar

We always celebrate the first day of the new years on the first so the year starts on that date using the Gregorian calendar. It's observe in all countries except Isael but the Jewish still wants to party anyway. Some Othorox church uses the old Julian calndar so Christmas is celebrated on December 25th in the western world while it's celebrated two weeks later in the estern world. Our weeks starts on a Sunday. Deaf time, that's another matter.

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Homo Audisticus

Aleksandr Zinovyev is a Russian socialogist who wrote a book, "Homo Sovieticus," a study of people mindset after the fall of the Soviet Union. I've see the documentary on a German network, Deutch World (DW) this morning. Homo has several different meanings, not just homosexuals but it's also use to describe milk and in this case, human beings, We are talking about humans with a particular mindset. I choose the photo above as our mindset is like a brick wall. Studies shown that generations are having difficulty adjusting to democracy because they grew up under communism. 

In other words, Homo Sovieticus are people lthat lives in an oppressive society adapting to a repressive regime and live with it. Younger generations were expose to Western way of life, and more willing to accept changes in a democracy society giving them hopes of a better life thats awaits them. Sometimes they revert back to their old ways. Habits are difficult to break, we all know that. The documentary were filmed in former Soviet republics from Latvia to Armenia interviewing people how they dealt with chaand live with it? What about "Homo Adusticus" which describes Deaf living under audism (society) and adapt to a repressive  AGBAD (regime) and live with it. It's the Deaf mindset, they wants to keep things as they are, unwilling to improve their livelihood, fearing that changes will disrupt their dependency on social welfare. It's the younger Deaf generations that now has the tools to change the world while at the same time preserving our Deaf culture. 

Let.s recap, -icus is a suffix an adjective of a noun. Sovieticus has the mindset of a life under communinism while Audisticus has a mindset of live under audism. In addition, Deaficus can be the mindset of a Cultural Deaf individual. This concept is open to debate. Perhaps Deaf socialogist and pychologists can collaberate in applying for grants to to do more research in this field. 

In conclusion, audisticus is a brick wall that to be torn down with a wrecking ball.

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Polar Express

Smokey: I am on the Polar Express on my way home to Milwaukee, we'll stopover in Red Lake, Ontario to visit Jeremy who just got back from Madgasacar.

Jeremy: It's been a long time, where you been?

Smokey: Were at the North Pole doing a story for Deaf Anthology.

Jeremy: You still writing those satiracal articles, you ought to work for the Onion. 

Smokey: You got everything you want?

Jeremy: Yes, Santa left us a lump of coals, we just had a power outrages, it comes in handy, and you?

Smokey: I only got one Christmas card this year from a local n local newspaper boy, everyone into social media nowadays.

Jeremy: We got a busy day ahead of us, getting a taste of Canadian life, snowmobiling under the northern lights and watching a hockey game, my nephews hopes to join the NHL someday.

Smokey: How is Madgascar?

Jeremy: Great movie!

Smokey: Seriously?

Jeremy: Our missionaries been reaching out to the tribes, giving them hope amid the pandamic.

Smokey: Keeping up with your friends at St. John's School for the Deaf?

Jeremy: Yes, visiting Kenny and one of the twin brothers, Daryl whenever I'm in the Chicago area. You?

Smokey: I sometimes get calls from their families asking me to send zoom video on their 50th birthday, willing to oblige!

Jeremy: I'm looking forward to seeing you in Madgascar soon let's get you back to the station.

Greg: All aboard, tickets please.

Smokey: What a surprise, long time, no see?

Greg: I guess I outgrown that HO set from Santa, where you heading?

Smokey: I am heading for the reunion of SJSD reunion at Deer Creek.

Greg: Great!

Smokey: I'm stopping over in Minneapolis to see Ryan.

Ryan: I got tickets to the Timberwolves game against the Bucks tonight.

Smokey: I knew it!

Ryan: We got beaten by the world champions!

Smokey: "Why are they chanting "Let's go Bucks?"

Ryan: You ain't good at lipreading, it's Brandon.

Smokey: I gotten go back to the station, Greg is waiting.

Ryan: I'll be at the reunion, see you there.

Greg: All aboard, tickets please.

Smokey: I'll take a nap, wake me up in Hartford.

Greg: We don't go to Connecticut, you'll need to take Amtrak.

Smokey: I meant Jeff and Steven farm in Wisconsin.

Greg: We got milk!

Smokey: They'll met me at the station with John Deere.

Greg: Who?

Smokey: The tractor!

Jeff and Steven: Welcome to our dairy farm. We'll wake you up at 5 am to milk the cows.

Smokey: I'm tired, gotten get back on the train. 

Jeff and Steven: You sure?

Smokey: I wouldn't want to stick around making fertilizers from manure.

Greg: You're back!

Smokey: A change of heart, my ferrets awaiting me.

Greg: Milwaukee, last stop.

Smokey: Mark texted me that they cancelled the reunion due to the coronavirus so I'll head straight to Chicago to take a flight back to Madagacar.

Greg: We got Corona beers here.

Smokey: Si!

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Santa's Workshop

Smokey: We are still at Santa's Workshop at the North Pole. Our Deaf Elf giving us a tour.

Deaf Elf: Here is an old vintage TTY we got from Gallaudet where I was a computer programmer before Santa hires me to set it up here to communicate with Deaf children around the world.

Smokey: Great what does Deaf children ask for?

Deaf Elf: We got an archive full of requests, here is a stach of them from St. John's School for the Deaf in Milwaukee fifty years ago. 

Smokey: Let's read them:

1.  Marty wants a chess set and that his brother Peter be given swim lessons.

2.  Paul wants a baseball and a glove so he can play with his older brother Mark who is a shortstop in the Little League.

3, Greg wants a HO train set after visiting with a group hobbyists who set up a layout in a basement, he enclosed a clipping from the Sentinel.

4. Brady wants everything in the Sears catologue 

5. Ryan wanted a basketball and a Game Boy, Mike Walter confiscated them.

Deaf Elk: Everyone got candy canes, we put them in Zerkel's office to distribue them.

Smokey: Your elves been busy, do they get time off.

Deaf Elk: They got weekends off, but actually been putting in a lot of overtime ever since Toys R Us went out of business.

Smokey: Does Santa ever makes mistakes.

Deaf Elk: He once gave a Deaf child in Florida a tobaggan, it doesn't snow there. 

Smokey: Was there any problems on Christmas Eve?

Deaf Elf: We had a few incidents over the years like knocking out those HBO satellite dish. We had to get liabilty insurance as Santa been scratching solar panels on roofs. 

Smokey: And?

Deaf Elf: Santa once was escorted out of restricted air space over the White House by F-4 Phantom jets while trying to deliver toys to the President's children. 

Smokey: And?

Deaf Elf: A few burglar alarms goes off, my job is to notify the local police when Santa in the area.

Smokey: what is Santa's favorite thing on Christmas Eve.

Deaf Elf: Santa loves those eggnogs, can't resist the temptations.

Mrs. Claus: Santa will be a bit late, he is now reuniting families who were seperated at the border.

Smokey: That's great, perhaps he should be a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. you agreed?

Deaf Elf: I think a star on the Hollywood sidewalk will be enough. 

Smokey: Let's tour the rest of the workshop.

Deaf Elf: Your flight back home been cancelled, so here is the tickets to the Polar Express.

Smokey: Thanks, Merry Christmas!

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Grandma Kat

Deaf actor Keith Banks, Jr will be perfoming at the Orlando Fringe, tickets avaiable online.

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Painting with Leslie

Here is an opportunity to learn to paint a canvas next month from Leslie, an artist. Registration is free, class size is limited to ten Deaf participants. Just need to brush up my skills and hope to be as good as Rembrant.

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An Interview with Santa's Deaf Elf

A Deaf Anthology journalist, Smokey, took an overnight flight to the North Pole to interview the Deaf Elf at Santa's Workshop.

Smokey: How are things at the North Pole?

Deaf Elf: It's a bit easier this year as hundreds of trailers full of toys are arriving everyday by diverting cargo ships off the coast of California. The Coast Guard assist us with their icebreaker creating a passage. 

Smokey: Where is Santa?

Deaf Elf: Santa is in the basement checking the fuse box, we just installed solar panels on our roof to save energy, we'll be able to deplete our stockpiles of coal distributing them to naughty kids.

Smokey: I heard you are importing coals from West Virginia?

Deaf Elf: Yes, kid are restless these days due to the pandemic, they are michievious when there is a lockdown,

Smokey: Does Santa get a lot of letters from kids?

Deaf Elf: Their lists are shorter nowadays since Sears stop publishing the catologues.

Santa: I'll be right with you in a minute, I got to recharge Rudolph's red nose.

Deaf Elf: Let's take a tour of our new state of the arts facility, everything is automated, having to laid off some of our elves. 

Smokey: Where are they now?

Deaf Elf: Will Ferrell hires them to work on a sequel.

Smokey: Why the cracks on the floor?

Deaf Elf: It was an old Soviet submarine that attempts to rise to the surface, we found the periscope in the bathroom. 

Santa: I'm taking a break, you guys wants to join us at the bar, we're having snowcones? 

Deaf Elf: We'll be there!

Smokey: Santa, whose autographed photo on the wall?

Santa: That's Peary, we met over a hundred years ago.

Smokey: You're fluent in ASL, where you learn it?

Santa: I was in America doing an ad for Coca-Cola, that's where I met the Deaf Elf.

Smokey: Any messages for the Deaf children around the world?

Santa: Yes, leave out the eggnogs, behave yourselves and don't keep your parents up all night!

Deaf Elf: You can keep tracking Santa around the world using at this website. 

Santa: One more thing, keep the chimney clear, don't be burning your yule logs yet.

Deaf Elf, the sleigh is ready to go, the reindeers are fed and it's now Christmas Eve.

Smokey: Thanks, had a great time here, our Deaf children around the world are looking forward to waking up in the morning to play with toys you left under their trees. 

Deaf Elf: I filed the flight plan with the FAA, they want you to wear a mask while airbourn, it's the mandate. 

Santa: Got my booster shot last week, I hope the parents do the same, keeping our children safe.

Smokey: That's it Deaf America, enjoy the holidays!

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West Virginia

Coal miners of West Virginia are working overtime trying to keep up with the demand this season. A Deaf foreman told a Deaf Anthology journalist that Santa Claus ordered tons of coal, apparently there been a lot of naughty kids across the country and around the world. 

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Petition

I just sign a petition seeking  a gambling referendum on the ballot. Let the people of Florida decide if they want a casino in the neighborhood. They got football pools at the office so we might as well make it legal. It doesn't necessarily mean that I support expansion of gambling, I just want to test our governor to see if he will follow the will of the people or abuses excutive orders to avoid its implementation like he did in the past by attaching strings to restoring felons rights to vote.  Gambling revenues would support our schools,  teaching our children playing with marbles to place bets. I would rather see lobbyists contribute millions to college schlarship funds than sendinbribing corrupte politicians. 

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Christmas Card

I am ticked off that the only Christmas card I got this year is from my newspaper boy.

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Christmas

Let's celebrate the birth of our Lord, Jesus Christ!

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Deaf Night Out: Ocala, Florida

Deaf Night Out is hosting an event at Mojo's in Ocala, Florida in February. Let's drink and socilize!

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Rest

It's been a long day, taking a break to rest. This is a sand sculpture from Sweden. 

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FEC

It's time to that our taxpayors stop subsidizing  campaigns of corrupt candidates. They recieves millions from their own political action committee (PAC) and depends on contributions from corporations and their lobbyists. Bigwits uses "bribes" seeking favors, tax incentitives and postions within the government, etc. They equate money with power. Federal ElectionCommission (FEC) turns a blind eye to violators and are tone deaf to us voters.  Watchdog groups file lawsuits over its failure to investigate allegations. Presidential candidates, especially Trump, violates ADA for not closed-captioning their campaign commercials and having an ASL  interpreter on site during rallies, etc.  Without them, we Deaf are mislead into making an informed decision at the ballot box and may reqret it after the elections. 

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CSDR: Kelly Clarkson Show

The CSDR football team apperas on the Kelly Clarkson show where its coach and its players were discussing their experiences during their undefeated season heading to the state chapionship. The producers donated $25,000 to the school to build a new stadium. The studio also arrange for all the players and to a special open-captioned screenings of the latest Spiderman blockbuster with snacks from the concession. "Enjoy the popcorns." 

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Winter

Today is the first day of winter so get out there and taste the snowflakes and enjoy the season.

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Truckers

Deaf Anthology goes on record to support the truckers boycott of Colorado in their efforts to freed Rogel Lazaro Aguilera Mederos, 25, from a "life" in prison after an accident where his breaks fails while decending down the moutains  on Instate-70 unable to avoid crashing into traffic that was slowing down to bypass another wreak, causing a chain reacion that costs four lives. The driver tested negative for both alcohol and drugs, with no records of traffic violations. I think that company, not the driver, should be held accountable in assuring that its fleet are safe to operate. They got a record of satety violation in the past. 

There is a lot of Deaf truckers out there and I hope they support the boycott to protect their livihood.

 

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Christmas Key

An eight years old Deaf child from Indiana wrote a letter to the North Pole.

Dear Santa, 

Our house don't have a chimney, here is the key to our front door so you can enter and put the presents under our Christmas tree. I'll like a bicycle and a baseball glove so I can play with my friends.

Roger

The family just got home from grocery shopping. 

Mom: "I lost the keys, can't find it in my purse."

Roger: "I send it to Santa Claus!"

Mom: "Why?"

Roger: "We don't have a chimney, how can we expect Santa going to get in with our presents?"

Mom: "I'm going to call in a locksmith and get new spare keys, we'll sit in the car and wait."

 

In the meantime, the mother went to "Toys and Tots" to pick up a few Chrstmas gifts since she can't afford them as the pandemic got her laid off. The mother knows her Deaf son, Roger, wanted a bike and a baseball glove but at least she was able to get a baseball and a bat along with a  few other items but it's the least she could do. She also found a vintage Atari video game system at a neighbor's garage sale. She was disappointed that all the bicycles was gone before she arrive at the Marine base, her husband is overseas serving our country.

Christams Eve:

The mother was awaken by a loud noise and the Deaf son can feel the vibrations within its walls.

The mother assume there is a prowler in the househouse and was about to the police but Deaf son, Roger, was exciting and came into the bedroom and with delights told "Mom, I just saw Santa Claus leaving the rooftop!"

They went into the living room and there was a bicycle and a baseball glove under the tree. 

Mom: "Where did that fireplace comes from?"

Roger: "Santa left a note."

Dear Roger:

I got your letter and I hope you like your new bike and baseball glove.

I won't be needing the key anymore since my elfs build a chimney for your home and the family can now stay warm and enjoy the holidays in front of the fireplace. 

Tell your Mom I enjoy her pastries and have her send the recipes to Mrs Clause at the North Pole.

 

Santa

P.S. I left a few Yule logs.

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Ask Amy

People seeking advice, asking Amy various question on any given topics. In her Monday column, one wrote that their Deaf elderly family member been complaining that they haven't visited him since last spring. They are vaccinated and only socialized with those that recieves the booster shot, wear mask and practice social distaning. The elderly Deaf family member never got vaccinated nor follow any of the CDC recommendations, Amy simply replied that they be honest telling him that can't visit him because of the consequence of his choice. I agreed with Amy because it's just not worth risking your health with anyone who don't take this ongoing pandamic seriously. Deaf only further isolating himself. We Deaf are vulnerable to misinformation where freedoms and economy conflicts with our health concerns. 

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Matchmakers

A Deaf couple first met on the jobsite in New Hampshire, they were a perfect match made in heaven.

They took time off from Matchmakers where they work producing book matches for a week vacation in Havana to smoking Cuban cigars. 

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