His name is Tom Willard

My dear friend, Dawn Schriver wrote this important message on her FB. I feel it is important for me to post this on my blog as well!

Cheers,

R-

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Deviants. Social deviants.

This society is FULL of many kind of deviants. This gives me better insights about certain types of deviants.

I'm now reading, studying and learning the profile of abusers, controllers and manipulators.

I have came across a person last night on someone's post. Admittedly, I was involved in a heated argument with this person who seems to think he had done no wrongs to anyone when he is truly a destructive individual. He continues to bash an agency, ASADV and myself as a person to no end.

This person is not a productive citizen to the community given that he has no ability to carry a healthy discourse. Nor can he reason with his actions.

Yes, he is considered as a deviant to the Deaf community.

His name is Tom Willard.

Anyone who comes across this post, remember this name.

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True words were never spoken, Dawn Schriver!

Cheers,

R-

UPDATE:  Tom Willard has quietly turned his blog (tomwillard.wordpress.com) into private after an uproar that seemed to turn against Tom for what he did to others including myself.   This is what community accountability is all about. 

VLOG: 3-7-2013 Tidbits

Staring at you with ... contempt.

Once again, this vlog is not positive nor pleasant one. But it is necessary for me to expose and address this mess in order to stop the lies and misinformation. This vlog focuses on 5 individuals that I wanted to address:  Dr. Reginald Redding, Clare Cassidy, John Proffer, Alex Long, Jeff Kurz and Keri Macfarlane-Ogrizovich.  

That means what?  I still hadn't gotten a chance to talk about Julia Silvestri, Leala Holcomb, Dr. Harold Mowl, Chris Wagner & Elena Ruiz. That will be dealt in the next vlog or two. 

Cheers,

R-

Messiah Complex?

I finished making the 3-7-2013 Tidbits vlog but could not be able to upload since I'm at work. As soon as I get home, I shall upload the vlog to appease the insatiable viewers like you. However, I appreciated the messages via YouTube, Twitter & my blog asking for it.

On other hand, I have to address this with a certain fool who claimed that I have "messiah complex" - I nearly shot the unsweetened Iced Tea out of my nose when I saw someone flinging this upon me.

Umm, according to wiki, "messiah complex" means: A state of mind in which an individual holds a belief they are, or are destined to become, a savior." 

Ha!

It appears to me that some people confuse or distort one's ability to enhance their knowledge in life with  the so-called messiah complex.  I am on a mission to understand the universal message. It is a personal journey for me to infuse myself with different subjects to empower myself with knowledge. After all, knowledge is power. The more I know about things in life, the more I become confident in my ability to share my thoughts.

And that is when some people would try to fling the messiah complex upon me or others for acquiring too much knowledge.  I find that somewhat ... flattering, though.

It is amusing, though. My first reaction would be: "What's the point of me doing that?"

Absolutely nothing, really.

Cheers,

R-

No Anonymous Allowed

People, the comment section has been enabled.

Due to my experiences with the social media in the last 10 years, my tolerance for anonymous commentators are at an all-time low, mainly because of their repeated threats directed at myself and my readers who supported me from time to time. So I am making this an official policy - Anonymous commentators are not *allowed* on this blog at all.

Last night, I already got a notification that someone tried to leave a comment using the "Anonymous" with a discreet threat on me. That person assumed that I knew nothing about the law, defamation and all that shit.  That person thought I am clueless when it comes to dealing with the laws. It is obvious to me that this person has no idea on what I have been doing in the last 5 years. I filed a lawsuit. I won the court cases. I retained the attorney on various topics including blogging/vlogging in the last 5 years. I am confident enough to say one thing: I am well-versed on this matter.

So that person who tried to make a threat on me, that is quite lame thing to do. All I can say is:  Try me.

Cheers,

R-

P.S.  "Cheers" is my trademark and for you to copy my signature says one thing about you: You lack originality and creativity of your own. That is for sure.

UPDATE:  I highly recommend you to check this link where David Eberwein discussed about the anonymous comments in our communities. Here is the link to get the gist of what is going on. Thanks, Joey Baer!

VLOG: 3-5-2013 Tidbits

Staring at you ... with contempt!

3-5-2013 Tidbits (25:42-min long)

This vlog is not pleasant nor positive. But it is necessary.  This focuses on 4 segments on Richard Roehm, Michael Hubbs, Russell Errigo & Dr. Angela McCaskill, Lindsay Dunn & Sheri Ann Farinha.

Yes, more people will be exposed in the next vlog, but I'm going to identify who's who just to get ahead of time.

  

They are Dr. Harold Mowl, Dr. Reginald Redding, Elena Ruiz, Julia Silvestri, Keri MacFarlane Ogrizovich, Leala Holcomb, Clare Cassidy, John Proffer, Jeff Kurz, Alexander Long & Chris Wagner.

It is high time that someone has to pull the "community accountability" upon these individuals.  

Cheers,

R-

2000s, 2010s, 2020s

I noticed something interesting about how Deaf people used the internet between 2000s and 2010s.

In 2000s, we had blogs where plenty of Deaf individuals that wrote on various topics which often brought the heated discussions among each other. I remembered arguing with Elisa Abenchuchan, Joey Baer, Amy Cohen Efron, Shane Feldman, Alex Abenchuchan, Jesse Thomas, Allison Polk, Jason Lamberton, Chris Kaftan, Joseph Santini et al on many subjects.  Then after that, in person, we are all fine with each other. We do respect each other. In fact, whenever I saw them in person, we would have a good conversation. It was civilized, really. Except for Mike McConnell, I just can't stand the sight of him. So never mind him at all.

However, Elisa, Alex, Jesse, Jason, Chris, Joseph and so on - they would not try to silence or attack others by reporting or trying to shut our blogs down. I appreciate this kind of people. Why? Because as much as I rarely admit this, I learn something new from their views from time to time.

Fast forward to 2010s, with the age of Facebook & YouTube, a new group of Deaf individuals comes on the internet. Many are trolls. They became disruptive. They abuse the system in their warped attempts to shut or silence others down. They created fake usernames (I know of one person who created 10 different usernames just to sow the conflicts) with their goal: Do anything possible to destroy the others whom they might feel threatened or disagreed with. They would not engage in heavy discussions or arguments, they would do anything possible to get you silenced and at the same time, trying to drag your name through the mud by telling untrue allegations. Today, you have Lindsay Dunn who kept on trashing people from time to time. Same thing goes for Carl Schroeder, Julia Silvestri, Damon Stump, Sheri Ann Farinha, Vikee Waltrip, Robert L Mason, Steven Baier, Richard Roehm ... they participated in pushing for each other to silence the ones they disliked the most rather than to click on "x" and ignore whoever was writing on their webpages. They would try to ostracize the ones that may disagree with them by kicking them out of FB groups, by silencing them by reporting them to FB, by encouraging their peers to find their personal & workplace information in their warped attempts to get them in trouble with this, that and there.

10 years ago, it was not like that. Today, it is common. What prompted the change? I noticed that many older Deaf bloggers/vloggers has reduced, stopped and/or abandoned their blogs/vlogs ... out of fear.  Many said that they could not handle in dealing with the current group's malicious streak. I noticed this with myself as well. But I'm a fighter. I don't cower before these malicious people. I fight back. Why do you think I won the court where one family tried to bully me around with accusations regarding the posts on Facebook?  I am not the kind of person who will tone down my voice just because others threatened me with this, that and there. In fact, it made me more determined to do something about it.

However, I cannot help but wonder what it will be like in 10 years. I shudder to think what 2020s might look like ...

Cheers,

R-

Emotional Entities ... with Contempt.

It is an open secret that I'm a huge fan of Green Lantern in the last 8 years primarily because of this dude, Geoff Johns.  In fact, when I was a kid, I was not into Green Lantern mainly because I thought being part of intergalactic police using the green rings to cruise across the universe was dumb. To make things worse, its green rings were largely ineffective against anything that is yellow. Back then, Ron Marz plotted the series. They really never explained why the green power was powerless against anything that is yellow.

I'm not kidding that no Green Lantern can use its ring to pick up the yellow plastic chair or cup!  I vividly recall one story where John Stewart, another Green Lantern from Earth rushed to another planet named Xanshi, trying to stop the Blink Bomb from blowing the planet - The Blink Bomb is a bomb that can destroy the planets. Xanshi was destroyed because John could not stop the bomb from going off. Why? The Blink Bomb was painted with yellow.  That was one silly crap, in my opinion.

Green Lantern was not my thing back then because so many questions were not addressed nor dealt with. But I was a huge fan of another comic book character, Amethyst. No, I'm not going to talk about Amethyst in this entry. I intend to do that very soon on another entry. However, Amethyst's greatest enemy is none other than Mordru, an immortal being who is quite the most powerful sorcerer who was destined to survive the universe after it dies - in fact, it was said that Mordru was never born nor die.

Whenever Mordru or Amethyst makes an appearance in any comic book series, I pick it up. Many years ago, I instructed my old friend, Dylan Westbury, that if he saw Mordru or Amethyst pop up anywhere, he is to tell me immediately. And one day, he told me that Mordru is showing up in JSA, a brand-new comic book series plotted by Geoff Johns. I quickly purchased it up front.

That's when I was introduced to Geoff from that point on. He impressed me with his ability to revamp, introduce, develop, build conflicts and all that shit. For years, I was annoyed that other authors would portray Mordru as a villain whom you can beat up in your sleep - Many would treat Mordru as a pansy villain who you can fight and stop in *one* issue. But not with Geoff, he made sure that he is truly powerful & dangerous villain and it took many issues for JSA to stop Mordru. Not only that, the dialogues by Mordru towards others were fantastic. None of this would be possible if not for Geoff.

Later, DC Comics offered him to revamp Green Lantern, especially with Hal Jordan. Remember I was not a fan of Green Lantern but with Geoff doing the script, I just had to give it a try. He did a fucking great job. The readers finally found out why the green rings were powerless against yellow and so on. He basically built the mythology of Green Lantern and beyond. Green Lantern Corps is not just an intergalactic police department who are trying to restore order and peace across the universe. It is much more than that. Not only that, he also brought different colors which has their specific emotion - Each color has its own groups and their own missions. Geoff also explored on how the energies of each color works with their central power batteries as well as whether if it can work against different colors.  Geoff also explored the secrets within the Book of Oa which is guarded by the Guardians of the Universe.

Geoff made it clear that Green Lantern Corps are not democratic. It was not, it has not and it will never be one.

Geoff also introduced the Emotional Entities - these are creatures who were the *first* ones that experienced the specific emotion billions of years ago. For that, the universe granted them the immortal & immense powers of that specific emotion. As we learned, they cannot be killed. They can be contained by tossing it inside the central power battery. Often, they would possess the mortal bodies to do whatever it wanted. I mean, they're immortal beings who survived billions of years, they'll do whatever they wanted, right?

Needless to say, I was and am mesmerized by these entities.  I'm not going to explain all in details on these intriguing entities.  However, these entities are my favorite creatures in all of Green Lantern mythology.  Not a long ago in the beginning of the War of the Green Lanterns, a renegade Guardian Krona assaulted the Citadel where the Guardians converged on Planet Oa with the emotional entities and ambushed them in a quick succession. The image of the emotional entities seizing the Guardians are quite powerful. It tells me one thing:  The entities are oldest beings in the universe. They look at you with contempt.  They know more than you do in your lifetime.

Each time I see this image, I think of them staring at you or me with ... contempt.

So when I used them on my vlogs, it is my way of informing the viewers that the next segment is the one that I held whoever I talked about ... with contempt.

And from now on, if you see the image on the below on any future entries on my blog, it means that I am going to talk about someone else ... with contempt.

And here is the image that I was referring to.

Cheers,

R-