Sometimes the statement just needs to be re-read or explained.

Like this.
You get this award for winning an award.

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I protest! Their award criteria discriminate against all the non-award-winners.

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"It is quite clear that Occam's razor does not sharpen in your pyramid." (Nicolas)

"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)

It takes awards to make awards

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Sweet. I've always wondered if there was an award for awards. You know, "Best Directing Award of the Year"

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I forget where I saw it - a skit.. "The Award Show for Award Shows" - of course, I didn't understand it, never having watched an award show.

Here's a reporter with a good grasp of the english language.

A Record-Breaking Guitar Solo
Solo?

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I thought they had cancelled this. Technically you can have more than one guitar playing the solo part. But the result is not a solo. But unless these people stood around only playing the solo (which i doubt) seems to me the headline is flubbed. So what else is new?

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.
"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

Here in Europe we used have a "Cup Winners Cup" in football, where all the cup winning teams from different countries used to compete to win the "Cup Winners Cup", and the winning team were the "Cup Winners Cup" winners.

Yes, but each of the 1,683 people played it in a different key, or at a different tempo, so it still counts as 1,683 solo performances.

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One Earth, One Sky - IYA 2009
All moderation in purple

Being reported here now
COASTAL FLOOD WARNING in effect for :
Ashtabula, OH CUYAHOGA, OH Lake, OH

Lake Erie?
Per the weather channel definition...
Now what the local channel is saying:

Quote:

...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 KNOTS TODAY COMBINED WITH WAVES OF 4 TO 6 FEET WILL ALLOW FOR RIP CURRENTS TO OCCUR ALONG THE SHORELINE OF LAKE ERIE.

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Neat, so you guys get all the weather-related dangers of say, Florida, without all that pesky beautiful scenery to get in the way. Lucky dogs.

I remember when we were vacationing in upper-Michagen they had a rip-tide warning. One swimmer "bravely" (stupidly) defied it and swam out into the water. The tide grabbed them and slammed them into the jagged rock cliff that flanked the beach. It was the last "brave" thing they ever did.

[edit: on a completely unrelated side note: I also remember from that vacation that the "kiddie pool" that was next to the main pool in the lodge area had clearly painted "Depth: 6 inches. No diving." Even at age 10 it seemed to be a "well, duh!" thing. Although if there's a warning it means someone's probably done it in the past...]

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.
"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

There's a warning because that "duh" someone was just smart enough to sue the pool maker... and probably won the suit.

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"It is quite clear that Occam's razor does not sharpen in your pyramid." (Nicolas)

"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)

Step by step, researcher looks for sexuality clues

Ok; whether you agree or disagree on the cause, it doesn't hurt to research. But this one got me thinking...
If rare/recessive traits require both parents to carry it, then wouldn't that mechanism be logistically impossible anyway?
So, if it were found to be genetic, it still wouldn't be inherited?

Beside; we should just rely on the poll... if 56% of Americans think that orientation is not learned, then it must be.

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But...

From 1998

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It's the "inherited" part that I am questioning. How do you inherit from two homosexual people. Doesn't it require heterosexual sex to inherit a gene from each participant?

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I'm sure there are plenty of homosexuals who have taken part in heterosexual sex over the years --- and vice versa.

Well, yeah, it would. I worked with a guy who was gay but sufficiently in denial about it for about 7 years of marriage. He has a son. Another woman I worked with was married with two kids. We would have some very frank talks from time to time and from those she expressed no curiosity at all about being with another woman. She seemed similarly convinced about her husband. Despite this, her youngest kid, age 5, is showing a serious interest in dresses and make up, and has told her that he wishes he had different plumbing. (I don't recall the way she said he called, but I know it's not board friendly) A former girlfriend did choose to prefer women after some bad experiences with an uncle. She wasn't opposed to guys, but given the choice, preferred women.

If it is genetic, then it would seem that is something recessive in just about everyone.

My point with that link was that the one guy in the story said that there was no evidence at all to indicate that it was anything other than a choice. In 1998, it seemed there was. Looks like I butchered the links and quotes often enough trying to post it that missed adding that bit from the article.

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But the child is not the product of TWO same sex homosexuals...

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Go back to Mendel and the pea pods. In the hypothetical case of a recessive homosexual gene, some heterosexuals would still carry the gene. Just as a blue eyed child can be a product of a blue eyed parent and a brown eyed parent.

But they are arguing that statistically among parents of homosexuals...so, statistically, it really doesn't matter because one of the parents is not homosexual. So, if the heterosexual partner can be a carrier, then statistically, there should be no difference in parents.

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Um... well... depends on your definitions... certainly male and female sexual material have to be united in some fashion. Whether that happens in the traditional fashion or in the laboratory, or in the traditional fashion in the laboratory, is the only question...

Did you leave out turkey baster?

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It is more than possible that both parents are homosexual. A homosexual couple wanting a child may have another homosexual of the opposite sex be the other parent. I've known it to happen. If they're going for a biological child, at any rate. Homosexual couples also adopt fairly regularly.

But yeah, we can't discount the possibility of the closeted marriage, the recessive trait--I've a great-aunt who never passed her own genes for just that reason, but she had at least two siblings who had children. And, of course, bisexuality. My best friend's mother is bi leaning toward lesbian. True, my best friend isn't planning to breed (family history of severe mental illness on her father's side), but if she did, she'd be passing those genes.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

No. A person displaying the recessive trait would pass the recessive gene on to all their children. A person displaying the dominant trait would pass the recessive gene on less than half the time.

So a dominant/recessive mating would be much more likely to produce a child with the recessive trait than would a dominant/dominant pairing. It's not impossible in the latter, but it is less likely.

So what the article says is correct - if it's genetic, it should be more common among children with one homosexual parent than among children with two heterosexual parents.

Unless, of course, a lot of homosexuals are pretending to be heterosexual.

No, let me reword that:

Unless, of course, a lot of supposed heterosexuals are actually (genetically) homosexuals.

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Ok; I'll stop now and accept it, but I did have to take a double take on the original statement..

Now for the other side of the coin. Does the word "genetic" automatically imply inherited, or can it be random mutations or something else?

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JUST IN: No terror link found to London car bomb

So this was what? A car bomb used for hunting?

Ok; so it was not Iraqi insurgents or maybe not even an organized group. It is still a weapon used for terror.

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From a link on that page:
So... what are they taking off if they're already naked.?

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A agree... just because someone is naked out on the golf course that's no reason to conclude that person is a stripper!! When will people stop jumping to conclusions like this...

Well, yes and no. From the first description I read when this was "Breaking News" this morning, I could tell this was more an object for personal attack. At least, that's what it sounded like to me. You'll read about lawyers and judges (mostly, for some reason) here in the states that are killed this way from time to time.

They keep saying "car bomb" but that implies the whole car was rigged to explode. What gave away that it was something more like a pipe-bomb that was IN a car was the description that it was "Packed with nails". Common way to create shrapnel.

Basically it's just the media jumping to conclusions to make "breaking news", then calling it "breaking news" when they revise their story to reflect (closer to) what is actually going on. Two stories for the price of one.

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"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

Judging from what is coming out at the moment, it was designed for many casualties.
Manhunt for London bomb suspect

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