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I didn't miss that at all, it says "potentially". The memorization part doesn't sound concrete to me, it sounds like an excuse I hear all the time from people who don't want to study, so it's hard to draw a conclusion from that. Saying it gave too much weight to the written part also doesn't...

Exactly, and the article didn't say anything about that. All it said was this, "The promotion exams were closely focused on firefighting methods, knowledge and skills. The first part had 200 multiple-choice questions and counted for 60 percent of the final score. Candidates returned another day...

But after the results came back, the city says it found evidence that the tests were potentially flawed. Sources of bias included that the written section measured memorization rather than actual skills needed for the jobs; giving too much weight to the written section; and lack of testing for...

I agree. Sometimes you just have to deal with certain things. From the posts, it sounds like your sister is hearing and the vibrations wake her up? Or she's also deaf and the vibrations wake her up too. Either way, there might just not be a way around it. If you were hearing, and had a regular...

But this is why I think it's pointless to get so upset about it. You can't really compare the two words here. "Gay" as a word has a variety of meanings. The word itself means joyful, if you're referring to a homosexual person it designates their orientation, if you use it to say "that's so gay"...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/us/19DNA.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper So what do people think? Is it violating someone's rights to put their DNA in a database whether they've been convicted of something or not? Personally, I agree with the guy quoted at the end of the paper. If you're not...

Yeah, I've never really seen the need to be all "up in arms" about it. I mean, if you say something offensive to someone who's gay in regards to their orientation, that's a different story, but I think that everyone accepts that words can have different meanings and connotations depending on the...

Yeah, that's gonna put a whole new spin on all those old jokes like, "My momma left us before I was born..." stuff like that. I can just imagine someone being like, "Yeah, my dad died before my mom got pregnant..." and the other person laughing, and them having to say, "No... really..." :ugh...

I'm not sure what the point of this post is. Obviously, if you want to say that you are Catholic even when you deliberately don't follow the church's commandments, that's up to you, but what does that prove? You seem to be against what the Pope said, but to me this post takes blame off him even...

Right, but my point was that abstinence also helps prevent the spread of disease, and as far as the church is considered, it's not much of a choice between endorsing abstinence or endorsing birth control. And I don't think he's "targeting" a group of people, it's the same stance for everyone...

Here's the thing, do I agree with the pope that they shouldn't use condoms? No. Absolutely not. But what's the point of vilifying him? The Catholic church has a certain stance of any form birth control, and he has a position within that church that requires him to voice that stance. Also, it's...

Nice one, Hear Again! :cheers:

Well maybe just in case you should start groping around with your arms. Now you never know what you'll run into! :naughty: :laugh2:

My gf's mom is the exact same way. We've tried sending emails, talking things out, but she always cuts us off, and anything that we say that she disagrees with, she just writes off as us being young, and immature, and rude. It's starting to seem like it's impossible to get through to her. She...

Yup. God loves you and me too, deafdyke. :cool2: And I'm convinced he wouldn't have sent me someone as amazing as my gf if he didn't want me to love her. :hmm:

:cheers::cheers::grouphug::dance::dance2:

If there seems to be something that makes them more susceptible to HIV, then I'll give them that, but I don't necessarily agree with the comments in the article that "Gay black men do not engage in riskier behavior than gay white men, for example." When that's pretty clearly not true these days...

Personally, I'll take a president who's learning the ropes and occasionally makes and then accepts responsibility for his mistakes, over GWB, who can barely form a coherent english sentence, and seems to be completely unaware of it. But yeah, keep raggin' on Obama, I think he just needs to...

Oops, I guess I took the wrong shot.... :laugh2::laugh2:

I'm just too lazy to write this all out again, but in case people missed it (or just forgot), I already covered why there is really no question that it is unconstitutional to deny same-sex couples the right to marry. I still haven't heard any good responses to that argument, but I'll keep...