Lisa Lampanelli: I was always [wondering] if God would maybe think my act was awful and make me deaf so I can’t do comedy no more, ’cause that’s why people are deaf; ’cause god hates them.

Male DJ: Now, listen, Lisa.

LL: God hates deaf people, what is wrong with you?

Male DJ: There are gonna be a lot of deaf people there.

LL: Oh, I hope so.

Female DJ: Well there will be. There’s a college within RIT that’s specifically for deaf students.

LL: Don’t you think deaf students, could be maybe just retarded, and they’re trying to sneak by saying they are deaf?

Male DJ: Lighten up a little bit.

Female DJ: You can’t make deaf jokes in this town. (The DJ’s quickly change the subject of conversation.)

Now, my question, what is the difference between Imus and Lampanelli? To me, NONE. At least Imus apologized that he made the “ho” statement, but Lampanelli didn’t give any crap. She went ahead with a show at RIT and without any apology to deaf community for the statement that she made.

It just appalled me greatly that Lampanelli still has a show at Comedy network and Imus was fired from NBC and CBS for making that statement. It makes me to wonder if we are being ignored.

Yes, I am in Orlando. It was last minute thing. A group who went to Orlando to give a presentation at a conference lost their technical person and they were very nervous and begged my boss to send me along so I bought the ticket yesterday morning and flew out at 5 pm yesterday afternoon. Now I am in Orlando airport, typing this blog before I fly back to DC.

Too bad, I couldn't stay here longer but I can't due to Jake. Jason has a friend visiting from Kansas and it was hell trying to arrange babysitters. Jason and Cameron are going to a hockey game tonight so Jake is staying at Noah's house until I come and pick him up at 10 pm tonight. I was supposed to arrive in DC at 8 30pm but we were stuck in the traffic on the way to the airport so I missed the earlier plane and am taking the later plane at 7:55 pm.

Last time I was in Orlando when I was 14, vacationing with my family. Things looks the same even the airport. It has not changed in 15 years. Jeez. It's so 80's. They need to upgrade the airport badly. Perhaps make the airport more interesting like creating airport that looks like Disney World, MGM and Universal Studios.

I better get going and walk around and see what they have in this lousy airport.