Gadolhadorah

All this misses the point. Certain recipes call for certain ingredients and in many cases also have a cultural context. There are so many options designed for specific dietary needs, there is no real need to skew the recipe beyond its original purpose. All the new “fake” meat and dairy products have some utility but should not be the starting point. Beyond beef is great if you are narrow focused on reducing cholesterol or avoiding fleish but the sodium, fat and other chemistry set ingredients are not all that attractive.

“I cannot wait to read Cruz and Trump’s speeches at the NRA convention which begins Friday in Houston…”

Amil. No need to wait. You’ve heard it all before.
1. Our prayers are with the families of the niftarim
2. We salute our heroic first responders (who allowed the shooter about 30 minutes before taking him out).
3. Now is NOT the time to discuss “gun control”….the Dems never miss an opportunity to exploit a tragedy
4. We need to put an AR-15 in the hands of every school teacher or some retired policeman to protect their students.
5. These evil events are all the result of America having gone against G-d’s will (aka its all the fault of the LBGTQs and their political enablers).
6. The only useful government action should be on mental health (while at the same time objecting to red flag laws or monitoring of social media for violent postings etc.)
7. The children who were slaughtered should be remembered as korbonos to protect our “beautiful 2nd Amendment”
8. Abolish the ATF since we won’t allow them to do anything anyway.

UJM is correct numerically but really need to focus on which endorsements have really changed what otherwise would have been the outcome. His more recent endorsements seem to be driven more by ego and revenge and less on principle. In Georgia, the two winning candidates that defeated Trump endorse candidates had incredibly strong conservative credentials and a record of performance (other than bowing to Trump’s election steal BS). Voters recognized that and ignored Trump. His senate endorsed candidate (a former Georgia college and NFL football legend had incredibly strong sentimental support and no serious opposition) was an easy call but may have a real fight in November.

P.S. Anon Jew is 100 percent correct that Dems seem to be tone deaf regarding voter photo ID. They’ve probably spent more money litigating a common sense issue than it would take to send an uber to drive every voter lacking such an ID to the local DMV or government office to get a license or state-issued ID card. Incredibly stupid and losing issue for the Dems.

Also in Nebraska (where his endorsed sexual abuser candidate lost big) and possibly Pennsylvania where Dr. Oy’s microscopic lead seems to be further dwindling. He generally endorses candidates literally running unopposed or with marginal opposition (like with Herschel Walker) or waits to the 11th hour to see who the polls show is the likely winner.
I’m not celebrating Georgia only in the sense that Kemp et. al. are about as far-right as you can go without falling off the cliff.

“NYC is not at sea level. It’s six or seven feet above. It won’t be really threatened by sea rise before the next century”

But 770 is only 4.3 ft above sea level according to the USGS locator.

Besalel: Thanks for the disclaimer. Otherwise, some might have quickly jumped to the conclusion that you are one of those blatantly anti-misnaged litvish-haters who lurk here in the CR seeking to discredit anyone who doesn’t wear streimlach and bekeshes.

Assuming, arguendo, that there were anecdotal cases of data having been manipulated and/or dissenting views suppressed, that would still mean that well over 90 percent of scientists with relevant credentials agree on the core issue of a warming trend attributable to man-made activities. Even many (non-Maga) Republican “climate deniers” have come around to accept the fact that global warming is a real concern. The primary disagreement today is more over the rate of change and the most cost-effective strategies for slowing the warming effect. Unlike most other forms of pollution, it does little good to reduce CO2 emissions here in the U.S. while China, India, Russia etc. continue to emit at current levels or even increase the emissions that would offset our own reductions.

On a serious note, other posters have correctly observed that the economics of the recycling market are volatile and material specific. Certain materials, especially certain metals, will always have scrap value and recycling makes sense for local governments. The most volatile prices seem to be for paper/cardboard where at times, they have to pay for disposal rather than selling at a net margin. The decline in new combined recycling/waste power generating plants is also problematic. If people are to take recycling seriously, local governments have to be honest in explaining the rationale for their programs.

“The better question is why does YWN allow such obvious trolls?”

Because the editors are hoping that Elon Musk will make an unsolicited offer to purchase YWN given that he is likely to walk away from the Twitter deal. The valuation of a social media site is based in large part on the number of postings and active users they can sell to advertisers. Trolls are good for what the investment bankers call “engagement” (aka how long users stays on the site). More trolls means more engagement means the stock options held by the Mods will will be worth a fortune.

Markets can adjust relatively quickly. Some countries already are limiting exports of their local staples (cooking oil, rice,m wheat etc). There will be periodic shortages of certain products but unlikley to be be long-term shortages unless there is a long-term drought from global warming or something unrelated to Russia.

I’m sure somewhere on a planet in another galaxy there is some ehrliche alien posting a question on their version of the CR asking whether its possible that there might be intelligent life on earth.

There is a certain CR poster who constantly insists we should go back to the time of yiddeshkeit’s golden era in the Alte Heim so perhaps he has developed the means of transporting us back to Eastern Europe in 18th/19th century. The more contemporary right-wing (political) segment of the tzibur would be happy to revert to a “Leave it to Beaver” velt when all was good if you were a white, affluent suburban family. The latter, however, offer a simple mechanism for achieving that outcome: Vote MAGA.

Depends on which chassidus he identifies with and what the fight was about. If a chassid of Rebbe A walks around with a sign outside Rebbe B’s beis medrash claiming that Rebbe B’s chassidim will never be allowed entry into olam habah, Rebbe B’s chassidim might feel justified in punching the guy with the sign. That doesn’t mean they can no longer claim to be “chassidim” (albeit chassidim sitting in jail awaiting trial on assault charges). Some may recall when the chassidim of a certain Rebbe A had frequent violent “encounters” with the chassidim of Rebbe Z, the brother of Rebbe A, both of whom claimed to be the rightful successor to their father, Rebbe M. I don’t recall either side ever being dismissed as misnagdim.

Sadly, zealots on both sides of the spectrum, whether religious or political, attract attention and the oxygen of media is “attention” since that is what allows them to survive via ads or subscription or some hybrid model. As Kuvult notes, normal and responsible behavior, rational thinking and civil discourse are BORING and Boring does not put NIS in the bank to pay the utility costs for the server and editorial staff.

Brown or White???

So an ehrliche yid is invited to come over to the rebbe’s home for lunch after davening and introduces his wife Surahlah and his concubines Rivkalah, Mushalah and Chayaleah. Do they get to sit at the “grown up” table or do they sit in the kitchen with the kids??? A good troll turning silly??

What’s a “side wife”??

Well, in the really, really good ole days (and thats pre-Alte Heim), she used to be called a concubine (aka a woman who (among others) has the potential to become one’s wife, or who is fulfilling the role of one’s wife in addition to one’s actual wife). Some might argue that R’ Gershon spoiled it for ehrliche yidden in later generations given that most modern frum women would have their beschert sleepiing out back with the dog if they even raised the subject.

“So if we mess up hashems plan things can get messed up on the other side of the equation to. Is that not possible?”

Yochy: No, its very unlikely unless you are postulating that the Ebeshter is unable to modify his “plans” to meet changing circumstances. Sounds a bit restrictive to the boreh olam

Tunaisafish: You have it backwards. If the really smart and successful women were able to marry multiple husbands, that would even out the numbers of young men and women in the marriage pool. Women are generally more emotionally mature and economically capable of handling several husbands then vice versa. I have heard from an adom gadol that such was the view of Rebbitzen Gershon.

Then, of course, there are stories about those young men in the vietnam war era whose sense of patriotism pushed them to pursue every possible avenue of military service but were denied the opportunity because of life-threatening conditions such as bonespurs.

There are multiple cases of competitive events where frum yidden seek to participate but have to navigate the rules and schedules for events. In some cases, event organizers are able to juggle the schedule to accommodate competitors who are shomer shabbos w/o disruption or creating problems for other participants. In other cases involving tight schedules and multiple rounds of events, it really isn’t feasible. In this cases, it would seem that they SHOULD have been able to accommodate but I wouldn’t jump to conclusions about anti-semitic intent versus simple stupidity and bureaucracy.

Nice story but unlikely factual. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, most (but not all) yeshiva and divinity students continued to get draft deferrals even if they had a low number in the lottery. Other deferrals for married and college students were generally eliminated. The process would NOT have occurred the way you described. His pre-induction medical checkup did NOT include a mental health assessment component with the same doctor doing the physical and if the story occurred AFTER he had been inducted, he would NOT have retained his peyos etc.

Tuna: Unless you are trolling, you obviously know that there is a sign on all the entrance ramps to the Belt Parkway and other limited access roads saying that all animals are assur. Even on city streets, there are special rules for drivers sharing the road with horse and donkey riders:
NEVER honk your horn or wave yellow flags
Provide extra space between you and the donkey (the preferred amount is arba amos)
Pass slowly and quietly only when it is safe to do so (the rider/handler may give you a signal unless he is otherwise engaged in more spiritual endeavors)
Be patient since the klal has already waited for over two thousand years—especially if the rider is trying to maintain control of the donkey while pondering the exact timing of the geulah
Always be cautious and remember that even MbD may not be able to always control the behavior of the donkey

And no one even asks about the hashgacha??