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Syag, tyvm for having my back. I suspect these males would find it immodest to communicate with we mortal females. I do agree with you about the ‘silent’ agunahs, I know of far too many in the RW (Most east of the Mississippi).
Shiduchim was not a part of my family’s culture. As related above, women and men met organically, at simchas, community events. My husband and I met during chemo therapy. In my community boys and girls were permitted to play and talk with each other and learn to communicate with the opposite gender from an early age. One of my brothers married a woman he met at my cousin’s shabbos table. Another cousin was introduced to her future husband while working in a family members business.
So no word on ankle socks?
1 it sounds like you don’t have much experience with vote by mail. I’ve been voting by mail for decades. One year after hand surgery my signatures didn’t match and I got a text, phone call and email telling the same. It was a simple matter providing an exemplar and signing an affidavit.
Lostspark, when Emma Goldman spoke those bon mots she used voting as the example. “If voting changed anything…”
AAQ it now appears that you are judging that there is a laxity of enforcing voting rules/polling place rules in your child’s voting district. That may be true, and you can find this out by having a complaint filed. That doesn’t mean every precinct is rigging elections.
AAQ, it seems you’ve ignored CTL’s real life explanation. Why not offer that up as a possible explanation to your child or better yet, call your local registrar of voters to ask for clarification? FWIW I’ve got no dog in this fight and have been voting by mail for decades.
AAQ help me out here. Because there was a variance in your local elections practice (within the law) your child will choose to listen to read and believe right wing blogs. I don’t quite understand the thought process. It’s your child so perhaps you do and you can explain it.
Lakewhut, I live in Oregon, a state with legal weed. I often wonder what flavor of the devils lettuce you are smoking. I don’t think I’d want to be that distanced from reality, but now that I’m fighting another round of cancer that info could ultimately be helpful to me personally (not politically).
Please fix it so that only one thread per year about ankle sox is permitted. TYVM
Avira, the compounding of many factors makes this traumatic. The loss of physical agency, the betrayal of trust by one who is held in esteem by the community (i.e. rabbi/teacher). The threats not to disclose to others, betrayal by parents or community when reported and not believed. Then there is the physical impact of rape on a small person by a large person. All of this can skew a persons future relationships and can continue onto marriage resulting in inability to maintain a healthy sexual and emotional relationship with a spouse. Add up all the trust issues I mentioned above and it’s not a pretty picture. Your response to this appears to me to be rather simplistic. Syag this is one area that you and I will continue to agree on time after time.
YMBR many years ago someone here mentioned, There Once Was a World by Yaffa Eliach’s chronicle of her shtetl of Eishyshok. I immediately found it online and got it at a bargain price. I’ve read it 3 times. It is rife with photos that example the diversity of Eishyshok. Today I just discovered a PBS program on YouTube that is called There Once Was a Town. In the film Eliach tours her old shtetl. Like her book, this film shows photos of the diverse Jewish population of her shtetl prior to the extermination of it’s Jewish population.As you probably know already Yaff Eliach compiled the photos for the three story display in the Holocaust Museum in DC known as The Tower of Faces. It would be refreshing if other posters here availed themselves of these resources which document how different that frum world and its people were from todays. Consider this post a mere footnote to your earlier posts. Clearly in that old world, the frumma lived and associated quite differently than todays shtetls here in the US.
2cents. If you have access to the internet you can simply google the federal process for declassification of documents and the necessary procedures. You are far afield from the actual process.
Gadolhadorah, years ago I worked for a frum business in Los Angeles and got an invite to the bar mitzva of the owners son. It was a huge over the top affair with Michael Jackson performing.
Darn it, was Camilla here? In other news of the royals, a home has been found for the dead queens remaining pooches. It seems Fergie and Andrew are taking them.
Kings and queens in the UK can only inherit their titles via their royal blood lines. Camilla will be married to the King but not be a HRH since she married into the bloodline ergo consort. This is simple to understand with a mere google.
UJM, just a reminder, I’m a female. I’m surprised you’ve set aside your convictions to reply to me. QC is a title with zero power, she can never be an HRH.
At the time of the Queen’s Jubilee chief rabbi Mervis attended a prayer service for the Queen at St. Pauls. It has been explained that since the 1970’s the London Beis Din approved attendance if the Chief Rabbi was invited by the monarch. So if invited the chief rabbi could attend, unless the London Beis Din revokes their prior permissions.
Camilla can never be queen due to an agreement signed by Queen Elizabeth, Charles and Camilla in 2005 prior to their marriage.
I don’t have a smart phone and a tablet is an easy way to for me to deal with reading as I age. I’ve got arthritis in my hands and my vision isn’t great. I can zoom in and scale the visual and adjust the contrast, it’s lighter weight than most of the non fiction I read. The tablet saves room on my lap for my cat, space that would be unavailable with a laptop. I don’t have children and have no basis for an opinion on kids and tablets.
AAQ , somehow I thought I replied to you. FWIW some elections here are ranked choice (county commissioners, sheriff). It’s not difficult to understand and is explained in the voters pamphlets and on our local ballots and online in those states/areas that have adopted it. Unfortunately I cannot link you to any sites that have simple explanations of how the process works due to the rules of these forums.
I live in an area where some elections are ranked choice. I voted for it. It’s not difficult to understand. It’s too bad that neither you or Sarah can understand it.
Alaska voted for ranked choice voting. I’m surprised that someone running for office during this special election doesn’t understand how it works or who put it in place.
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UJM my use of the word ‘monopoly’ is would not withstand a legal test.
What I may call a monopoly doesn’t meet the legal test for one. Your premature assumption is just that UJM.
I live in an area that is well serviced by a medical monopoly that covers 3 counties. Tues, I called to make an apt for what I believed was a minor issue. I was given an apt for later that day. During my intake the PA found an abdominal mass. I had a CAT scan that afternoon, before I got home, the DR called me with the results (after 5pm). By the time I got home the CT scans were posted to my electronic medical records and available for my viewing. Two days later I had an MRI, I got my results within one hour and was able to view them on my patient portal once I got home. This Tuesday I meet with the surgeon to discuss my options.
I think that a lot of problems with medical systems across the country have to do with densely populated urban areas, and some underserved rural areas. In my case I was spared a trek to Ptlnd. for second opinions. This was effortlessly completed with the seamless electronic transmission of medical records and imaging results. In most areas there also much difficulty in retrieving medical records and history and transferring them to other offices. My electronic medical records are delivered seamlessly via an online patient portal. This portal makes my electronic records available at any time. I can look up previous office visits, meds, request prescription refills, see billing and charges, see test results, Drs notes, notes of others called in on a consultation basis, vax records etc. The monopoly also covers chiropractic, nutritionists, PT, OT, and acupuncture. Locally there are still Drs. not a part of this system, typically these are physicians and surgeons who deal in elective cases.
Syag, sometimes boredom (esp during Covid and the rainy season) gets to me and I up my reading and sometimes posting more frequently. This is a mild summer in the PNW and I’ve been enjoying the pool far more than previous years when it was too hot (100+) to float or swim.
Good shabbos to all, even those who find the posts of a female steps on the road to perdition:)
Reb, E with all do respect, I’m not prolific enough to be missed on this site. The owners make zer0 from me on advertising clicks. I go away for long periods of time and am not a daily visitor. I would say the same regarding the Imas. (Although the Imas politics are hidden from public view and the CRs are public.)
In the meantime, there are men here who seem to oppose posting to or sharing the same internet venue with females. I can live with that, ergo I’ll choose not to reply to them and spare them pixels created by a +70 female.
Its interesting to note that the counties Cheney carried were among the most educated in the state.
Our Xpresident should be fighting hard to pardon this thief, just like how he though he could just declassify documents by looking at them.
Luckily for him, there is always a minyan at Ottisville.
It’s gonna be more than difficult to fit the Secret Service in a 6×9 cell.
There is also a womans CR, it’s called imamotherdotcom. It is not necessary to reinvent the wheel.
Moish I’m a female and I can honestly inform you I don’t crawl around here or anyplace else.
Point of information: Ethel was later determined to be innocent. She was stitched up by her brother David, under the influence of our our Xpresidents deceased pal, Roy Cohen.
Frankly, just how do you imprison someone who has a lifetime of protection by the Secret Service?
I used to play a bit of poker. Our Xpresident has a ‘tell’ I’ve observed over the years. He usually accuses others of behaviors that he is in fact guilty of.
The search warrant and inventory of seized items are now avail online at a variety of outlets including YWN.
Argh the Xpresident rather than release the warrant is refusing and ‘permitting’ the DOJ to release the material. I guess he needs time to work on the spin.
Just in the DOJ is asking the courts to unseal the warrant due to ‘public interest’. What ya betting that our Xpresident says no. It could hamper his continued fundraising if the warrant is released.
Word on the street is there was a confidential informant. We will all know for sure once charges are pressed.
Gadolhadorah, Today Newsweek posted a story that claims that there was a confidential informant who spilled the beans.
Ubiquitin, do you really think this warrant was issued without supporting affidavits? That a judge didn’t sign off on it? It’s certainly to the Xpresidents advantage not to release the warrant or inventory. If he did questions would be answered and it would inhibit his ability to fund raise off these events.
I do have a question though, why did our Xpresident choose to have his personal statement about the search warrant issued by his PAC?
Akuperma, if it was possible I would give you 4 stars for that well reasoned and accurate post.
I’m not less concerned about the warrant due to those who signed off on it. Im not surprised that the law and order supporters of our Xpresident refuse to accept a legal search warrant and don’t understand how this legal process works. The warrant is sealed, our Xpresident can release a copy of the warrant, the DOJs warrant and supporting affidavits are usually unsealed at the time charges are pressed. President Biden has no legal authority to release the warrant or affidavits in support of it.
For those of you that can access the site, Newsweek just posted an interesting story about some of the foundations for the warrant.Our xpresident is free to release the search warrant, naturally it would hamper his ability to fund raise over this event.
Didn’t he say, ” Anyone being investigated by the FBI is not qualified to be president of the USA”. He mentioned it several times, 8/3/16, 9/7/16, 10/15/16, 10/20/16, 10/20/16, 10/21/16, 10/25/16, 10/30/16.
Back in 2016, he mentioned “Anyone being investigated by the FBI is not qualified to be president.”
My Maternal grand and great grandparents lived in the forests of Ukraine a days travel from the closest town. They had a way station for teamsters and the uncles were woodcutters. My G and GG grandfathers were sojourners and traveled to America to work as wood carvers on some of the great country houses of the wealthy. The residence was built on stilts, cattle,horses and oxen were housed below. There was a stone fireplace and hearth on the second story with ‘sleeping closets’ on either side. Travelers bunked on the floor. A wraparound ‘deck’ was used for summer sleeping. I’ve seen old photos of the place but none of the interiors. In America they were the proud owners of a huge monarch wood burning stove with a hot water boiler. (Lots of picture of this acquisition.) Family stories tell me that kids piled up and slept together outside their parents sleeping closets in the winter in Ukraine. Non of the peasant Jews entered a synagogue until they came to America.
Thanks for the compliment SL, even though it was left handed. You can also use a variety of other sources to take the ‘pulse’ of the frum community across America. Due to my education and intellectual level I will not provide you with the names of sites, BTDT.