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No, *I* feel sad, wistful, or regretful that my sign skills are not yet at the point where I feel confidant that I can communicate with a deaf person who doesn't have to work really hard to understand me.

Dude, I tried. But I am hearing, and a fifty year old homeschooling mom, and other hsing moms follow my youtube listings and likes. I cannot like a video with that many f-bombs in it. I didn't know it was possible to have that many in such a short time. The skateboarding is cool. The...

In our case, when we used to raise chickens, we put a golf ball in teh nest because it made the chickens think there was an egg there, and thus, it was a good place to lay eggs. Old timers used to actually have glass eggs that went in the nest. I've even seen chickens lay eggs in a 'nest'...

I am an old bat. However, I am pretty sure my 21 year old reads here once in a while (she's the one who found the forum first and told me about it), and I know my 16 y.o. reads over my shoulder from time to time. They are both learning ASL.

That's lovely, Kristina, and I love that you haev a rose bush with the same name as your mother.

Oh, Derek. I feel badly that you don't care about life any more. That sounds like more going on than just a church issue with your girlfriend. I'm sorry. Is there something I could do that would be more helpful than uttering stupid platitidues?

Or it could be that they are people who already spend a lot of time in situations where they have to accommodate others, for whatever reason, and at a Deaf Coffee they just want to relax and talk about the football game, or their dogs, or their kid's antics, or whatever- and it's not that they...

People are also just unobservant. In the dark ages as a teenager I worked as a hostess at a restuarant. I stood with the reservation book beneath a five foot long sign that said RESTROOM and pointed the direction to the bathroom, and every day 20 people stood there and asked me where the...

That's true in every church I've gone to- communion is for members - or at least believers in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. Can you just not take communion? At our church we prefer that nonmembers not take communion, and we very clearly explain that nonmembers are not expected...

I don't watch it, so I don't know. But my own personal impression of the two actors has nothing to do with their deafness. My first instinct is that Marlee comes across as smarter than Lou more because of physical appearance- you know, the dumb athlete stereotype. It would be the same with...

I wouldn't consider either of them reputable, not being an angry liberal or a Rush groupie. However, I would expect any adult who can read would be able and willing to read both blogs and sift them for themselves, separating out the facts from the hype, and I would be open minded enough to...

False on every level. Are you just making things up, or is there some reason you imagined these things were true? The fetus is viable in the second trimester. Abortion is legal well beyond viability. The Supreme Court has repeatedly refused to allow the legislature of any state to...

that's what you said, but the article I pointed out said that doctor errors (and other medical errors) are the third leading cause of death in America. Are you sure you want to call that their best efforts when those efforts are the cause of death? And I prefer accuracy, so I will stick to...

Outlandish statements- that is in the eye of the beholder. Blogs are the new media, and they have broken multiple news stories ahead of the old legacy mainstream media. There's nothing inherently false about information appearing on a blog. there are no unbiased sources. The worst are those...

Look up the word 'iatrogenic.' death caused by your medical care is the 3rd leading cause of death in this country. Medical care is the 3rd leading cause of death in the U.S. When a police officer points a gun it is to stop the suspect. If the suspect can only be stopped by shooting...

I agree with Jiro that tasers are over-used and often resorted to because it's easy and fast not becaues it's necessary. But the suggestion that over-use of tasers could be addressed by police having more hand-to hand combat training is just ridiculous. Women on the police force would be at...

I don't know, either, but you made fantastic points here. Maybe sending this as a letter to the editor to the Indianapolis paper is at least something better than nothing. It might educate somebody.

You trust government far too much, and it's dangerous and naive. Politicians are human beings. Political power corrupts. And when government officials are given blind trust and little oversight, combined with lots of power and money- it's ridiculous to expect that being of one party or the...

Eugenics is eugenics wherever it happens, and it is comparable. In Germany, in 1933, the Reich Cabinet passed the "Law on Preventing Hereditarily Diseased Progeny," calling for involuntary sterilization of all those identified as bearers of hereditary disease, including deafness, blindness...

I think you are right, that the primary issue is detecting individuals with a specific gene mutation which is known to cause deafness in those who take antibiotics. It also seems that the article is specifically referring to the Chinese population- that particular genes known to cause...