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Charlie, ct lawyer where were you for the last 9 months? What happened in Washington was an inevitable outgrowth of the continuous unchecked rioting and violence in Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis and elsewhere. Police were told to back off as noone was prosecuted. People were assaulted, raped and murdered in the peaceful Seattle autonomous zone. A CNN reporter reported peaceful protests in , I believe Wisconsin, while fires raged behind him. Did you protest when BLM looted and destroyed businesses with impunity? When they killed that retired cop in St Louis ? When BLM rioters in LA branched off to deface shuls and day schools in Fairfax?
No, I don’t. Too many cars,trucks, busses and pedestrians. When I ride locally I avoid major streets even if it means taking a longer route. I also, weather permitting and when there is daylight, ride by bike to minyan weekday mornings.
I’m a driver , jogger and a bicyclist ( obviously not at same time ) and I find that many bike riders don’t follow the rules of the road or use common sense, thus putting themselves at risk.
Pre pandemic , I would walk from Penn Station to 16 st to see my doctor. I wish I had a dollar for every bike riding the wrong way against traffic, running red lights. riding on the sidewalk or listening to music on headphones.i actually saw one guy texting while riding .
Can drivers be careless? Absulutely but since a bicycle offers little protection in a collision with a car, in behooves a cyclist to be extra cautious and aware of their surroundingsI would like to add a nonsectarian reminder. Many, if not most sitters are paid off the books. This becomes a very expensive issue when the sitter/nanny suffers an on the job injury and there’s no workers comp. Guess who gets sued? Guess who potentially owes thousands in back payroll taxes ? Guess who has to pay thousands in legal fees?
Obama commuted the sentence of Oscar Lopez Rivera, an unrepentant FALN terrorist. FALN carried out 130 bomb attacks in the U.S.
Reb Eliez, I’m still at a loss to understand your positions on Covid. The original projections called for over 2 million deaths. The President in February closed our borders to China and Europe., ramped up production of ventilators, set up Fauci’s commission and established whirlwind process for a vaccine. Remember, while this was going on, what were the Democrats doing? Distracting the country with the impeachment hearings. Democratic senators were ignoring Covid Covid hearings to attend impeachment hearings. Biden was against closing the borders and Pelosi was encouraging people to party in Chinatown and Cuomo as late as mid MARCH was still telling people not to over react . Unlike Trump, Cuomo is directly responsible for 10000 nursing home deaths. He forced nursing homes to take Covid patients while a hospital ship and a hospital built inside the Javits Center , both provided by Trump, sat empty.
So, tell me what Biden would have done different.
Eliezer, that’s the role of the legislature, not the judiciary. The judiciary cannot create new laws.
Ubuiqutin, you don’t have a clear understanding on how a “textual” or an ” originalist” interprets the law. It applies to Federal and State legislation as well the Constitution, and they oppose judicial activism. So, for example, the they reversed the judge who ordered Wisconsin to extend the voting deadline . The majority opinion went out of it’s way to criticize the judge for substituting his policy for the one enacted by the Wisconsin legislature. However, they ruled differently in Pennsylvania because there the Legislature enacted the delay.
Meanwhile, here in Nassau County home sales are booming. The big complaint of local realtors is that they have a relatively low inventory of houses to show because , unless a house is a true disaster structurally, most sell within 2 to 3 weeks of going on the market
GH, you seem to suffer from a short memory span. What the Republicans are doing is what any party in power would do. Remember, Schumer didn’t care who Bush would have nominated had there been an opening, the Democrats were not going to have any hearings.
I’d like to clear up some misconceptions.
A. Filling open seats is not court packing
B. This year is not unique. Vacancies have occurred 27 times
in an election year. 14 were confirmed, primarily when the
President and the Senate were in the same party
C. What goes around comes around. Senator Schumer told
President Bush ( when the Demicrats controlled the Senate)
not to bother submitting an applicant in Bush’s last year.
Bush’s father was told the same thing
D. Senator McConnel has LEGALLY facilitated the confirmation
of over 200 Federal judges , without any tricks but with the
help of a rule change implemented by his Democratic
predecessor Harry Reid that allowed confirmation
by a simple majority. Reid apparently never thought
that it could backfire if the Republicans retook the
Senate.McConnell warned Reid that
he was making a big mistake but Reid did it anyway and
made it possible for Trump to appoint so many judges.
E. Textual, conservative judges are biased but not liberal
judges?Charlie, by 1950 the Cold War had begun, the Soviet Union had already occupied Eastern Europe and was no longer an ally.
Akuperma, you have an interesting history . MOST ( ???) Jews simply moved to adjacent friendlier countries? How did they get there? Europe was under Nazi occupation so name the friendly countries. As for the Crusades, the Rhineland communities thought that their nobles would protect them. By the time the massacres proved them wrong, there was no time to move to “friendlier ” areas.
Charlie Hall,
So, why were the BLM protests supported by Cuomo and DeBlasio when there was no social distancing and many didn’t wear masks? I’m not excusing the violence but fair is fair.4 days ago at the daily White House briefing, Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany listed the 13 occasions since August 29 alone that President Trump condemned white supremacy in general and specific organizations i e. the KKK. Yet that wasn’t good enough for the press ; John Roberts asked her to do it again.
GH, you’ve displayed an steadfast, unrelenting hatred for the President for the past four years, starting with the disrespectful name that you use.
You seem to have no concept of our Federal system of government when you ascribe responsibility to the President for all or most of the 200,000+ deaths. The states and localities have a major role. Trump provided a Navy hospital ship and had the Corps of Engineers construct a hospital in the Javits Center. However, they sat empty as Governor Cuomo chose instead to force nursing homes to take in Covid patients. It took over 10,000 deaths and 6 weeks for Cuomo to rescind his order.
You seem to have perfect 20/20 hindsight and selected forgetfulness. The Democrats and you claim that Trump did nothing until March. However, in January Trump instituted his travel ban and in February established his commission to run the process and began to ramp up production of masks, ventilators and testing. What were the Democrats doing? Calling Trump xenophobic ( Biden ) , inviting people to visit Chinatown ( Pelosi ) and restaurants ( DiBlasio ) and doing nothing until mid March ( Cuomo ).
Did Trump make mistakes? Of course, everyone did. Did the press take comments out of context ( i.e. claim he wanted to inject Clorox) ? Also of course. Did the CDC and Dr Fauci flip flop on masks? Yes.
GH, what is the major difference between people like myself and Syag and yourself ? It’s the ability to recognize the shades of grey in the actions of our political and medical leaders. We are able to acknowledge his faults as well as his accomplishments. You, and others like you, seem incapable of putting your hatred of Trump aside and consider his positives or Biden’s and the Democrat’s negatives. Could Trump have expressed himself in the past more clearly? Yes, but he is clearly not a racist if you judge him by his actionsI spoke with him, but he had already handled the door knob on the way out. That’s why I never touch a bathroom doorknob barehanded. I didn’t yell at him which is why I think he washed his hands at the sink outside the bathroom
I’d settle for people washing their hands with soap after using bathroom
Syag, the original intention was to flatten the curve so as not to completely overwhelm hospitals and other medical facilities . I agree with you that these lockdowns were never intended to be long term as recurrences of the virus were anticipated.
While the rate of infections has had spurts, due to our increased treatment knowledge base, the percentage of deaths and hospitalizations keeps dropping.
So, should the lockdowns be ended? Yes as they really aren’t based on science . A Federal judge last week ruled that lockdowns issued by Penn Governor Wolfe were unconstitutional as they violated First Amendment ( freedom of assembly). The judge said the lockdown was arbitrary, not science based as the governor allowed protests with no distancing while sharply limiting or banning other activities. And the lockdowns, by keeping people out of work and sick( noncovid ) patients away from their doctors is causing great damage.
So, should people keep wearing masks and social distancing? I would say yes , if only to be on the safe sideThere is a theological reason why Catholics not only ban abortion but, given a choice between saving the life of the fetus or the mother , will save the fetus. They believe that only a person who has been baptized can go to heaven. The mother has been baptized, the fetus hasn’t.
Some people here are confusing registration with voting. NYC is basically a one party town , with the winner of the Democratic primary usually the general election winner. To vote in the Democratic primary you must be a registered Democrat.
However, when you get to the general election, you can vote Republican even if you’re a registered Democrat.Charlie , congratulations, you know how to cut and paste from Google. The Federal government has been conducting limited burns, but obviously not enough. Had there not been such a huge accumulation left over from the 8 Obama/Biden years it might have been sufficient. And Gov Newsom admitted California had not done anything.
GH, you seem to have overlooked that Gov Newsom of California agreed that Trump was right in that years of accumulation of millions of pounds of dead leaves and trees on the forest floor provided the fuel that made the fires much worse. Newsom said California had to begin effective forest management
Hakatan, how do you get around the fact that, even if you accept them as having halachic status, the 3 oaths no longer apply due to one of the following:
1. In allowing the Holocaust, the goyim violated their obligation to not oppress the Jews excessively and thus abrogated the 3 oaths
2. The Jews did not rebel, an international body of nations granted us a stateMidwesterner , you conflated my statements.
Statement #1: I haven’t seen cigarettes given put at simchas in over 50 years.
Statement #2: cigarettes are very expensive in the NY metro area. Any bochur who smokes a pack or more a day is disqualified from tuition assistance. The money spent on cigarettes should go towards tuition.With regard to the yeshiva. Many make big issues regarding the color of shirts, manner of dress and hashkafa of their talmidim. Yet, when it comes to an unhealthy, disgusting and expensive cigarette habit , they are suddenly powerless?
The 3 oaths are aggadata and pardon me if I don’t accept the Satmar Rav as my authority on the subject.
People are still giving out cigarettes at Simcha? As far as I’m concerned, any bochur that can afford cigarettes ( heavily taxed in the NY metro area ) doesn’t need a tuition break.
Last I checked, the 3 oaths are not halacha
Jacob Blake had assaulted his girl friend. She took out a restraining order which he had just violated. She then called 911 and the police were responding to that call, and he had an outstanding warrant. Are you saying the police should have ignored the 911 and warrant? If Blake didn’t resist arrest, the rest doesn’t happen. Blake is an alleged rapist , and getting shot doesn’t make him a hero.
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Charlie, you are beyond help. Obama/Biden had the weakest recovery from recession in decades. You conveniently forget that before Trump listened to the science and shut the economy , it was going great, with the lowest black unemployment in history. By lowering the corporate tax rate and encouraging companies to bring money back home for reinvestment and eliminating costly regulations , he encouraged job creation. He has brought manufacturing back, something Obama/Biden said was impossible. He made the U.S. energy independent.
f007,the reason we didn’t telecommute 10 years ago was because bandwidth and speeds weren’t what they are today, an DC parts of the country were still on 3g networks
Charlie, when you’re right your right. Reverse all the Trump policies that generated the great , pre covid, economy is the ticket! Not only reverse the tax cuts that benefited the middle clasd ( and no, it didn’t benefit only the rich )but raise taxes another 4 trillion. Oh yes, and go back to the Obama trade policies that cost thousands of manufacturing jobs.
Manhattan streets are empty for several reasons:
1. People have been leaving in droves. The moving companies are operating at 100%
2. Because of filth, crime and the homeless, people are afraid. And, with no restaurants and many boarded up stores, there is no foot traffic.Manhattan real estate vacancies are at near record highs
Charlie, vote by mail is and isn’t secure.
Absentee ballots are secure because they are only sent to the address of the people requesting it.
Mailin ballots, mailed to every registration in a state’s rolls of voters can only be secure and safe if the rolls have been properly purged of invalid registrations ( i.e. people who have either moved or died ). To qualify for purging, a person would have have not voted in 2 successive presidential elections and failed to respond to 3 requests mailed to last known address. Stacy Abrams of Georgia called this voter suppression, and states have thus been cowed into not updating voter registrations.Nomesorah,
I think there will be some frsud. Look at what happened in Paterson New Jersey. However, that is least of potential problems. The millions of manual ballots would have to be hand counted. If you don’t think that won’t take time, look at what happened n.v ed in only 1 congressional district in NY. It took nearly 2 months to certify her win , thousands of mailin ballots were thrown out and her opponent is suing. Regardless who wins the Presidential election, the loser will call for a recount. By law, the Electoral College has a deadline of mid December. There is no way an original manual count and recount can take place in 6 weeks.A couple of points:
1. The states that have mail in ballots have had years to get.
the kinks out
2. They’ve also cleaned up their voter registrations,
eliminating bad addresses, deaths etc
3. Attempts to clean up registrations in other states have
been met by Democratic claims of voter suppression
( see Stacy Abrams in Georgia )
4. Among the provisions stuffed by Pelosi into her stimulus
package were 2 laws stripping away security provisions
from mail in ballots which would make it impossible to
prove who actually filled out the ballot
5. Absentee ballots work fine and there is plenty of time
fir them to be requested
6. The difference between mailin and absentee ballots?
Absentee ballots are requested and mailed to a specific
address. Mailin are sent in bulk, to all registrations on
file, regardless if they intend to vote in person of at allSyag, carrying on Shabbos has some arcane halochos that are not so simple. My Rav in Midwood had paskened it was assured to use the Flatbush eruv, but paskened that it was permissible to use a cane, if the user needed it 24/7. He held that it was the same as not considering carrying to wear a hat. He did make one HUGE qualification. To enter the shul from the street one had to climb 10 stairs , with a handrail from the bottom to the top. He said it would be considered carrying, and thereby assur to carry the cane, if a person used the handrail, not the cane, to climb the last 10 steps
Commonsaychel, you don’t seem to get it.I don’t care which position you take, you’re entitled to your point of view. as long as you don’t support your claims with unverifiable data . Or, as Syag suggests, just say you made it up/exaggerated.
If you did, I missed your evidence that the average age of a YI shul goer is 75
I’m not saying anything or taking any position . You asked for examples of undocumented claims that you made. I’ve provided 3. I’m still waiting for you to provide your data source.
Commonsaychel,
You’ve cited anecdotal evidence for the shuls and your list is also anecdotal.
I don’t claim to know the numbers, I just am curious as to the data base your numbers come fromCommon satchel
Examples:
1. Half of frum doctors are yeshivish
2. Most successful frum businessmen are chassidish or
Black hat
3. Average age in Y.I. is 75What were your sources
Commonsaychel, you throw around numbers and percentages but provide no sources. Where do you get them from?
CT, you’re the one deciding she is Black. Forget the Census , use the seichel Hashem gave you. Her paternal ancestry is Jamaican and her maternal ancestry is Indian. Also, just because people disagree with the “Trump” census , as you keep repeating, doesn’t make them a Nazi or an advocate for apartheid.
Harris’s father did not arrive in the U.S. until 1938 and considers himself a proud Jamaican. You also to seem to have overlooked the Indian half of her ancestry. So, how does that make her an African American?
On October 22, 2016 a Reuters poll had Hillary with a commanding 326 to 212 lead in electoral votes, and gave her a 95% chance of winning
Charlie, the teacher unions all oppose reopening and see no medical risk marching with Black Lives Matter. If health is their only concern, why do the demands include banning charter schools, keeping private schools closed and, in case of the LA union, Medicare for All? The Academy of Pefiatrics says children are suffering more damage staying home.
Yes, Trump was an anti vaxxer, but he is now pushing for a vaccine. Who cares what he said before. Senator Harris claimed 10 months ago that Biden was a virtual racist ( for associated and cooperating with racist colleagues in the Senate) and a predator,supporting women’s claims against him. Are you now going to hold her to those beliefs as well?Charlie, unfortunately there will never be a vaccine for Trump Derangement Syndrome
Neither Trump or most of his supporters are anti science or anti vaccine. Ironically, the progressives argued follow the science only when it supports them. Now that the American Academy of Pediatrics ( among others ) has supported school reopening, the unions have dismissed science.The Jews of Eastern Europe had more pressing issues to deal with than the flu. The Eastern Front was unfortunately located in the heart of major Jewish population centers.Each time the Russians advanced one way, only to have the Germans and Austrians push them back, many Jewish communities were devastated and many Jews died. The estimates of Jewish lives lost range from a low of 100,000 to as high as 600,000.
More Jews died after 1918 when they were caught in the Russian civil war. The Cossacks may have hated the Bolsheviks, but they still took the time to murder Jews. I’ve seen archival of film of Jews being dragged by their beards thru the shtetl street, but it’s Cossacks, not Nazi’s, doing the draggingIn 1918 most Eastern European frum Jews lived in Shtetls with no electricity or modern communication. They also didn’t have a full understanding of what at caused the flu , and wouldn’t have closed yeshiva or shuls