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Health, that is an ad hominem argument. I sentence you to take an introductory course in Logic. Besides, the AG didn”t issue the report. The ME and an independent specialist did.
Health, here is the report by CBS News:
“George Floyd, the Minnesota man who died after an officer arresting him pressed his knee onto his neck, died by homicide, according to the results of two autopsies released on Monday — one by the county medical examiner and the other by independent pathologists commissioned by Floyd’s family. But the two autopsy reports differed on exactly how the man died.
Dr. Allecia Wilson, one of the pathologists who conducted the independent autopsy, said Monday afternoon that Floyd died as a result of mechanical asphyxiation.
But the report released later Monday by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office said Floyd died of ‘cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint and neck compression.'”Moreover, Chauvin and Floyd worked together as bouncers. How well he knew him is not yet known. In any case, even he did not know about Floyd’s medical issues if a healthy person would have died from it it would not make a difference. If it can be proven that Chauvin had some personal grudge against Floyd the prosecution might just be able to get him on an even more serious charge. Maybe even murder one. You can google “What is premeditated and deliberate conduct?” on Nolo.
Fact check: The Minnesota Criminal Code states:
09.195 MURDER IN THE THIRD DEGREE.
(a) Whoever, without intent to effect the death of any person, causes the death of another by perpetrating an act eminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved mind, without regard for human life, is guilty of murder in the third degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 25 years.
609.205 MANSLAUGHTER IN THE SECOND DEGREE.
A person who causes the death of another by any of the following means is guilty of manslaughter in the second degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than ten years or to payment of a fine of not more than $20,000, or both:(1) by the person’s culpable negligence whereby the person creates an unreasonable risk, and consciously takes chances of causing death or great bodily harm to another;
Prosecutors tends to charge defendants with the most serious crime possible with an eye toward plea negotiations. This is generally true of bargaining situations. For example, a union will ask for a large pay raise whereas an employer will claim that no raise is possible.
CTL,
The ticket proves that the person is entitled to the garment. The number also serves as an identifier both as to location in establishments that have many garments and to distinguish it from similar garments. In Israel one must always present the ticket when retrieving the garment from the cleaner – and the cleaners are invariably sabras.
In any case, many restaurants had a “no entrance without a tie” policy. There is a joke about someone who is walking through the desert when he finally sees someone. When he asks for water the guy says that he has none but is selling ties. The disappointed traveler continues until he sees a restaurant. When he cries “Water, water” the doorman says “No entrance without a tie”.
Amil, actually it was “no ticket, no shirt”.
CTL, I think that you are being Freudian. “Go to the mall” explained “that sounds like a great business potential.”
From the Wiley Online Dictionary:
“Explanatory phrases are used to restate, define, explain, elaborate, or provide examples for a noun that usually appears immediately before the explanatory phrase. “CTL, did I say you or any other attorney? I would imagine that there are many people here who are hurting due to the restrictions. There are also recent grads who can’t find work even in normal times.
CTL, that sounds like a great business potential. Go to the mall without a mask a few times a day, get a supply of masks and sell them on Amazon.
CTL, some of the Polish partisans were themselves fascists. They just wanted Poles to be on top and not Germans.
We do not rely on miracles. Who can say that he has such merit (see Iggrot Moshe Orach Chayyim 4;48 regarding buying life insurance)? Even if he is going to do a mitzva the merit does not help where danger is prevalent (Kiddushin 39b). Even Shmuel haNavi had to worry (Shmuel Alef 16:2). Besides here all of the people with whom he comes in contact require that level of merit.
Common, it is not a matter a public record. I checked and found that the poster does not name names. I simply says “whoever”. Here is the Hebrew (I copied and pasted from an Israeli site):
מטעם ההנהלה הננו להודיע לכל מי שהיה לו או לביתו יד במסירות ובמלשינות, לאלו שהתפללו במנין, או בבית המדרש, או הליכה למקווה וכדומה, בין בקהילתנו ובין בקהילות אחרות, ואף על פי שקיבלו איזה שהוא היתר. אנו אוסרים עליו בכל תוקף דיני התורה, מליהנות מכל ענייני המוסדות לכל פרטיה.
Obviously they have no idea who called the police. They don’t even know if it was a member of their Chassidut or even a Litvak. Just as obviously no one will admit it. Thus, their declaration is a silly exercise that maybe makes them feel good but has no teeth.
Common, there is a gemach for COVID-19? As for the social hall, there are many social halls in NYC. I personally would be very wary of entering this group’s. Just out of curiosity, how did they know who called the police. Were they just guessing? Did they collectively punish all the neighbors
If you really want to get down to it everybody except full-blooded Native Americans are in a sense squatters in America (including Canada and Latin America). Even those of us who have left for various reasons (and there may be as many as nine million American ex-pats around the world – the Wikipedia even has an article titled “The American Diaspora”) by and large retain citizenship with all of the rights and responsibilities thereof. So in that sense we are still Americans. Does someone who leaves his parents’ home stop being their child? France, BTW, even reserves eleven seats in the National Assembly for ex-pats on the basis of geographic area. The member for the district that encompasses Cyprus, Greece, Vatican City, Israel, Italy, Malta, San Marino, and Turkey is Meyer Habib. He splits his time between Jerusalem and Paris and is very active in Likud and general pro-Israel circles.
It is permitted to turn in anyone who is a danger to the general community. Even a forger (Rema, CM 388:12). Did these people self-isolate and do everything there? If not, there is no assumption of risk. Besides, in Torah law there is a positive mitzva to guard our lives very carefully. Rav Asher Weiss vehemently condemned people like them. Those who were outed were done a great favor.
If you wait long enough they will jump in by themselves.
Common, it is not correct that Judaism is only about obligations. There are many things that are “רשות”, meaning that they are optional. Moreover, in matters of בן אדם לחברו they are two sides of the same coin. For example, if Reuven has an obligation not to cause damage Shimon has the right not to be damaged.
So in time-honored Jewish tradition they will form their own shul. YAWN!
Correction: The second definition of “stop by” is from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
Milhouse,
1. According to the Cambridge English Dictionary “stop by” means “to go into a place for a short time when you are going somewhere else”.The Oxford English Dictionary only says “to visit briefly”. “By” here is apart of the verb. This is known as a phrasal verb.
so you are saying that midnight is both 12AM and 12PM. However, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (quoted by the Wikipedia) states “By convention, 12 AM denotes midnight and 12 PM denotes noon.
CTL,
1. Iit would seem logical that the defendant is the one being sued. If the legislation is the one being sued it would say “In the Matter of” as with asset seizures. As in your country club example, basically the request is for the state to be ordered not to enforce its law just as it cannot enforce a law that was never passed.
2. I think that you mean ” if Defendant wins the law stands.”Joseph, it interests me. Moreover, I like to compare their laws with Halacha. In addition, these issues, such as freedom of speech, are very current in Israel. Why do people take courses in Roman law?
Milhouse, that is not necessarily true. Where there is a “chilling effect”. See “Chilling Injuries as a Basis for Standing” by Jonathan R. Siegel (available online).
Charlie, not all coercive methods are permitted. In fact, several judges have struck down corona regulations. Those that are arbitrary, such as dividing businesses between “essential” and “non-essential” are particularly problematic. It is even more problematic when no clear-cut definition is give. This is known as the vagueness doctrine. See Coates v. City of Cincinnati 402 U.S. 611 (1971) and FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc 567 U.S. 239 (2012).
RE, don’t put Descartes before de horse.
CTL, since when does someone need permission to challenge the constitutionality of a law? Sovereign immunity refers to monetary actions. Disclaimer: I am not licensed to practice law anywhere but I have taken formal courses in Constitutional Law and am now taking video courses.
Joseph, do you know her personally? When does a girl become a woman?
Joseh, it should be “Haifa girl” not “haifagirl”. BTW, when I was in school “ain’t” was considered very poor English and”a lot” was a parcel of land.
Huju, it should be “mistakes in English”. An English mistake is a mistake made by people from England. However, to my great consternation there are very common mistakes in spoken English. Two examples are using “less” to refer to something whose individuals are important (e.g. “less people”) and “there’s” (= there is) when referring to a plural. There is also a certain maggid shiur who constantly uses “a” before a word beginning with a vowel (e.g. “a onion”).
While we are on the subject, I also find it annoying that people constantly say “you know” and use Yiddish words in the middle of English for no apparent reason (e.g. “fregt Rabbi Akiva”). Sometimes it is downright ridiculous. A certain writer wrote about someone finding the Ten Lost Tribes. They wore caftans and streimels and said “Gut Shabbos”.
Anyway, don’t feel bad. Israelis make mistakes in Hebrew. One very common mistake is to use feminine numbers for masculine nouns (e.g. “שלוש עשרה שקל”). They also very often say “כמות של אנשים” instead of “מספר אנשים”. I don’t know who picked it up from whom (not “who” – another common mistake).
Zelenko has not published anything. He is simply making unsubstantiated claims.
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Garlic also keeps vampires away. People too. However, in general it’s very healthy.
The gedolim in EY half changed their minds. Now only small groups (up to 10) are allowed and they must keep a distance of two meters from each other. There is no heter to endanger oneself or the public unnecessarily. Why can’t two chevrutas or even a chabura of ten meet in a large private home and sit two meters apart?
Tax policies that benefit the affluent trickle down due to increased investment. This, in fact, was what JFK proposed although it took LBJ to get it through.
A vote for Red Bernie is a vote fora Yevsektzia.
Funnybone and Reb Eliezer, please do not feed the troll.
Syag, if she speaks the way you do I would not want anyone’s son to marry her.
PuhLease, the are treating the guys like dogs, looking into their pedigrees. Would you encourage your daughter to marry Moshe Rabbenu’s grandson or Rabbenu Gershom’s son? What about Shemaya, Avtalyon, Rabbi Akiva, Onkelos, Rabbi Meir, etc. for that matter, Rav Ovadia’s father was a simple Jew.
Syag, you need a remedial reading course. The O.P. dos have a similar hashkafa to the girls in question. If you would not be a baal gaava about your minhagim you would not hear a rant. Chumrot are supposed to be kept to yourself. In fact, Rav Abramsky ceased to hear the Megilla read on the 15th (in deference to Rav Tukachinsky’s opinion regardiing samuch v’nireh in the New City of Jerusalem) when someone told an acquaintance outside the immediate family.
CA,
1. Who say that she will have to watch TV in their home?
2. Maybe they will. However, who says that her chumrot trump honoring in-laws or getting married (women are obligated in shevet)? Maybe a man who is looking for good middot and common sense will not be interested in them. They can then keep company with their mirrors. “Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who is the frummest of them all?”
3. What about people who are makpid on bein adam l’chaveiro but not on chalav Yisrael or glatt (BTW, some say that the there is too much “glatt” on the market for all of it to be what was once considered glatt_) vs. those who are the opposite? What about the kashrut status of their money?CTL, you are a literalist? Do you believe that “an eye for an eye” means lex talionis? What about Common Law terms such as “effective” and “constructive” (I had a professor who called them “weasel words”). BTW, Aharon Barak ruled that a contract should be interpreted according to its “soul” (= what he considered to be its goal). This caused a great stir and apparently it has been overruled. See also “Literal or Contextual? What is the Correct Approach to Contractual Interpretation?” on the Oxford Business Law blog.
In Halacha a precedent requires three instances. As for whether or not a grandparent should pay, it sepends on local custom as well as the parents’ means. I know someone who pays his grandchildren’s day school tuitions. He is a retired college professor and his wife is a retired teacher plus they own rental property in NYS while their kids are just getting by.
With their fighting spirit they should be in IDF combat units.
Recognizing Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. Supporting annexation of settlements. Getting tough with the Fakestinians. Appointing conservative judges.
Even if you support some Democrat you will be hated. The Jews in the Civil Rights Movement were booted out as whiteys. Then came the NYC school dispute where Jewish teachers and administrators were fired from a black school and a violently antisemitic poem was read on a black radio station (interestingly, the reader, Julius Lester, converted to Judaism after discovering that he had a Jewish grandfather and now sang in a shul).
Yaapchik, maybe they on their way to fast for their sins. They remind me of the cohen who stabbed another cohen so that he could do terumat hadeshen (Yoma 23a).
Rav Eliezer Melamed recently wrote an essay on serving in the IDF. It appears on Arutz 7 English site under the title “Claims against IDF service”.
Saying that Hashem is mitlabesh in the Rebbe sounds very much like another religion. you then bring it down and seem to just say that Hashem inspires the Rebbe. Do I understand you correctly?
Chossid,
1. The fact is that right in Crown Heights there are Yechis. There is also a group in Tzefat that davens to his picture.
2. I ran the quote through a Google translator. If the translation is accurate he only said that the Rebbe is the spiritual leader of the Chassidim. This is a far cry from those who say that he is the embodiment of Gd in this world. Even saying that he is Mashiach and will have a second coming is extremely problematic for obvious reasons. In fact, after he died the Jews for Yushki put a full-page ad in the NY Times with his picture and the caption “Right Idea. Wrong Person”. To be fair, chabad.org talks about Mashiach as coming in the future.Chossid, while one learns the Troah of the greats of previous times (and thus we say “says”) they are not here to give guidance to the generation. Rather we go by the judges in our times. As no living person is at the helm there is no captain and anyone can claim to be a Chabadnik or Breslover. In contrast, when the Rebbe was alive he pushed out at least one person who crossed the line. Of course, if you hold seances …
The problem with Chabad (and Breslov) is that it is a chassidut without a rebbe. That is like a ship without a captain. Anyone can claim to be Chabad or Breslov or both (yes, there are such people). The “official” Chabadniks never talk like this. they even say “the Rebbe zatsal”.
Ten times nine lives equal a ninety year commitment.
RE, that what a few hundred years ago. Even one hundred years ago the situation began to change. Thus, bot the Chafetz Chaim and the Imrei Emmet approved of Bet Yaakov. As I previously posted, Rav Soloveichik approved. Rav Shimshon Rafael Hirsch wrote “The fact is that while women are not to be exposed to specialized Torah study or theoretical knowledge of the Law, which are reserved for the Jewish man, such understanding of our sacred literature as can teach the fear of the Lord and the conscientious fulfillment of our duty, and all such knowledge as is essential to the adequate execution of our tasks should indeed form part of the mental and spiritual training not only of our sons, but of our daughters as well. (The Hirsch Siddur, 122)”. In our day, this might certainly include wider areas than he envisioned. In fat, there have always been talmidot chachamim. Beruria bested her husband Rabbi Meir (Berachot 10a). The Maharshal’s grandmother was a rosh yeshiva and poseket. Rav Mordechai Eliahu’s grandmother bested the Kaf haChaim in Halacha.