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“Nowadays”, probably not. Maybe 100 years ago
AAQ: Ungarishe posers aspiring to be high-end Yekeshe Yiddin?? Really??
If presidents are held responsible for every problem that occurs on their watch, No. 45 would be sitting in Otisville making license plates
Cannabis plants can thrive in most parts of the Africa although it would require considerable irrigation in the sub-Saharan portions of the continent.
“A shortage in baby formula. The Democrat based media had been silent about this for weeks”
Lakewhut: You obviously are a machmir on not reading newspapers, watching TV news etc. or your filtering software has gone overboard, either of which presumably accounts for your total ignorance of blanket media coverage of this issue. A simple google search shows thousands of stories on the major national and local news media just over the past month or so. This was a lead story on 2 of the major evening news shows the last week of April and almost a nightly story since. Its the kind of news story every local and national new outlet wants to cover because of its immediate impact on so many families. Otherwise, its a really well-kept secret by the fake news outlets.
“Now, Why would make believe that we all agree Moshiach is not a woman?”
OK. I’ll stipulate that it could be Moishiach BAAS Dovid and a sheitel or snood could be the headcovering of choice.
Why isn’t Mashiach here yet?
Perhaps heavy traffic on the Belt Parkway coming from the Ohel in Queens to 770
Not really…..in Kentucky, its always been the minhag among the goyim to marry a 15 year second cousin.
Whats “in-town”? Many of us discovered an extra 5-10 hrs/week of time during Covid shutdowns not commuting and working from home. Even a day or two weekly of commuting back to the office now seems like an imposition. Good news is that most clients discovered they didn’t need to pay obscene hourly billing rates and airfares to have us fly to their locations for in-person meetings and could get by in most cases with a video meeting. Not having to navigate the airports and flights for same-day or overnight trips is even better than avoiding the drive back and forth to the office.
UJM: Any baas yisroel would be thrilled to find an OOT young ben torah who produces the finest quality (goat) cholov yisroel and can teach her to slalom.
chazal bring down that it is mutar to virtually “neutralize” an online troll without waiting for a din torah from a reputable vaad. Waiting to see if a particular troll has gotten a plumba from CS may not always be a realistic option.
10th Window: Sounds more like you fell out of a 10th floor window. Good news is that B’h you survived. Bad news is that you seem to be suffering from some sort of delusional episodes.
Assuming you are not referring to SIDS (Sudden infant death syndrome) where rates are noticeably declining, a recent study compared the incidence of “sudden deaths” occurring outside the hospital across highly diverse neighborhoods found that increased sudden deaths during the pandemic was positively correlated to higher rates of virus infection in a neighborhood and inversely correlated to lower vaccination rates.. The analysis appears in Heart Rhythm, the official journal of the Heart Rhythm Society, the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society, and the Pediatric & Congenital Electrophysiology Society, published by Elsevier. In any event, NO study found a 50 percent increase in any definition of what you reference as sudden death. There were elevated levels of unexplained mortality but those have been linked to the fact that many individuals deferred medical exams and treatments during the 18 months of the most intense Covid outbreaks and we are now seeing the consequences of medical conditions that might have otherwise been treatable .If that “future human” has been forcibly implanted into her body in a violent rape/case of incest and threatens her physical and psychological/emotional well-being, I respectfully disagree. Call it “rechitza” and whatever you want and I’ll still disagree.
Find a guy who was a ski-instructor out West during bein hazmanim or worked on an organic farm raising goats or something out of the mainstream who has moved back to the big city to find his beschert. No guarantee but they are less likely to adopt the “in-town” mindset/hashkafah that you doesn’t turn you on.
Obviously, hishtadlus is a factor in finding the right partner, but ultimately, face-to-face interaction after initial indirect communications through third-parties or virtual/remote contacts is a necessity to affirm the chemistry is there on both sides. If you’ve been hanging out somewhere during Covid or have always telecommuted from OOT, you might want to consider moving back to the American reincarnation of the Alte Heim for your serious dating and hopefully engagement. Location, location, location. Having the resources to purchase a home or rent a nice condo is a great starting point to build on too.
it spans two boroughs of NYC and carries a high volume.
Does the Bronx side of your bridge run adjacent to a city-owned golf course leased to Biden Enterprises???Everyone knows that Moishiach will be wearing a kipah segurah….no Borselino, no Shtreimlach, no Fedora…..why is that so difficult for everyone to agree .
So 60,000 tickets to Meron sold out this AM in just over an hour. Doesn’t sound like there will be any shortage of opportunities to participate, either in-person or online. Given the tragedy, this sounds like a really big number but presumably the police will be better prepared and they have constructed new walkways and road capacity to avoid crowding and allow easy access/exits
Alternatively, it could be a government funded “public works project” that was completed but the assoicated appropriations for a river never got through Committee.
Sounds like the arsonist calling in the fire department….anyone with common sense would realize that.
Not any longer unless I figure out how to recover a deleted poster from my trash bin.
“why give a troll what he wants?”
Well, there are a few “good” trolls and lots of really, really bad trolls. The “good” ones provide comic relief from what sometimes gets way too serious rhetorical and hyperbolic exchanges about existential matters such as the fake shiduch crisis, PETA approved shtreimlach and vegie chulent recipes.
CR trollistic adaptation of classic 19th century German slogan of Kinder, Küche, Kirche (loosely translated as “children, kitchen, church” ) which was used to describe a woman’s role in society. The phrase is vaguely equivalent to the American misogynistic anthem of “barefoot and pregnant” and somewhat more elegant Evangelical X’stian themes of a “special” subordinate role. I suspect that several of our justices likely believe the 19th amendment was “wrongly decided” by Congress and the ratifying states and certainly inconsistent with the original intent of the founding FATHERS.
Perhaps given its Mother’s Day, we should all include Mrs. UJM in our thoughts given the enormous responsibilities she carries on behalf of the varbeshe klal.
“….Ridiculous to believe it was anything other than the obvious – a leftist-activist clerk attempting to cause riots and intimidation of sitting justices.
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Alternatively, Gini Thomas seeking to assure that none of her hubby’s colleagues get cold feetnomes0rah: It might be apikorsus, but I respectfully submit that even the heilege Chofetz Chayim would not have been supportive of any Yid marketing air time to the Pillow Guy. As I’m sure you are aware, he always wears a tzelem on his lapel and his most recent ads show him at his desk with a weird painting of Xxxst in the background.
What may not be so widely known is that R’ Kagan MAY have been among the first of gadolei yisroel and the 20th century Roshei Yeshivos to get his semicha online (or technically “by wire”) when he encountered a legal requirement for documentation to list his “occupation” as “Rabbi” in order to obtain a passport. According to one biography, he arranged for a “semicha by wire (aka telegram) from R’ Grodzinski, the av beis din of Vilna.Syag: Very well done for a dreary, rainy erev shabbos. I assume the Mods won’t allow a “like” with my favorite bug emoji
Syag: We are talking past one another (so whats new?). Obviously, there are times everyone will run low on gas or not have funds to fill up the tank.
I’ll try one more time. If you can only afford to fill up the tank in small increments, do so against a 1/4 tank baseline versus empty. The cost for each small refill will be the SAME but you don’t do so playing Russian roulette with you personal safety and risking vehicle damage.
End of story.All I know is that when the geeks staffing our firm’s 24×7 tech support helpline are unable to solve a problem, my default option is to call the grandkids
Sensiblyd
“i think i’ve seen his picture used as rat deterrence”Really? So you saw an old photograph from pre-war Hungary with a wagon with a sign reading “Shayala’s pest control”. Not sure if you are joking or not but this wouldn’t seem to be respectful of the Rav.
You miss the point. Its not telling them to “eat cake”. Even for a “poor” person, the financial risk of damaging his/her vehicle by letting the gas tank run close to empty would outweigh concerns for the few dollars “saved” by keeping the tank at 1/4 full. Most people need their car to get to work and don’t have the option of using a second car or rental vehicle while there car is in the shop. Just ask any dealer as to the charges for replacing a damaged fuel pump which is the most frequent damage they’ve been seeing as people let their fuel tanks run down to empty.
Just make believe 1/4 tank is the new “empty” and fill up in small increments above that level if that is all you can afford. For many people, their car is essential to their parnassah.AAQ: If you review the archives, I’ve never been a big Biden fan although I clearly prefer him to his predecessor. With Netanyahu, its a lot more than a few cigars. While he is wildly adored by a large segment of the right, there is a substantial and growing body of politicians across the right who simply revile him and won’t serve in a coalition he heads. Thats not to say he won’t find 61 votes since he historically has been able to buy off individual politicians with promises of cabinet positions, subsidies to their constituents etc.
CA: More likely than not some misguided clerk for one of the liberals or even some jerk in the IT division that has access to the SCOTUS document library but I wouldn’t entirely rule out someone on the right fearful that Roberts could peel off ACB to a middle-ground position tightening Roe to 12 weeks or something like that. Then, of course, there was some whaacko on OAN Wednesday am who asserted that the new Justice KJ (who doesn’t even have a building pass yet) and won’t be sworn in to July had somehow breached security and leaked the draft Alito opinion.
AAQ: Other than selling ad space for some prtizus media, there is no reason why a yid should not be able to engage in media marketing given that virtually all marketing sales are migrating to online platforms which can micro-target the intended audience and in some cases also measure positive response rates. I don’t think the Chofetz Chayim (sorry, but the acronym is a bit odd) had contemplated selling ads for doggie beds to the “My Pillow Guy” on OAN or something like that).
AAQ’s point is well-taken. While every family needs to make their own decisions based on their beliefs and hashkafah, today’s kids run circles around their parents and will more likely than not find ways to circumvent most filtering or otherwise find that filters are dysfunctional in terms of blocking legit sites need for their work. We were fortunate that our kids grew up without ever getting hung up on what AAQ refers to as the “crazy stuff” and used computers responsibly and are now instilling the same values and practices in their own kids.
And of course, you know that it wasn’t a clerk for one of the conservatives who was worried that his/her boss might change their mind and work with Roberts to find some compromise.
In any event, at least have the common sense to learn the meaning of “treason”. In the worse case, the legal violation here might be the theft of government property. There were no “national security” implications to a leak of a draft opinion on a social policy issue. The leak was stupid, a breach of trust and contrary to legal ethics, whether it was from the liberal or conservative side of the issue.“Chas v’shalom. A man should never answer amen to a woman’s brachos, because it could lead to mixed dancing….”
So true. I recall an episode several years ago where this guy responded with a geshmak “uumein” to a woman he heard benching gomel outside of the Empire kosher market on Empire Blvd and within 2-3 minutes they were seen doing the electric slide in the parking lot.
Multiple MKs in Likud, UTJ and other right wing politicians state that they will never again serve in a coalition headed by Bibi, not because he eats treifus,is mechalel shabbos, etc. Its because he is an unprincipled chronic liar, is abusive to those who disagree with him and arguably enriches himself and family at public expense. And thats coming from those who share his right-wing policy positions on most issues.
Was he also wearing a fedora?
No. It may have been a Borselino……actually, just the beekeeper “hood” that drapes over the shoulder, not the full protective long-sleeve coveralls that I would have imagined was required to work anywhere near a hive.Huju: Maybe its a varbeshe thing but running a $50,000 vehicle on a near-empty gas tank demonstrates real empathy with your local dealer’s service department since running on fumes doesn’t provide a means of lubricating the fuel pump (which also uses fuel) increases the chances of the engine overheating and assuring that dirt and sediment at the bottom of the tank will get drawn into the gas pump. Otherwise its a great idea.
Even if cost is a concern, fill it up halfway and generally don’t let the tank go below 1/4 full. Totally separate is the risk factor of her running out of gas on the Belt Parkway late at night or driving around yenavelt searching for an open gas station.Average (regular) gasoline prices in the NYC metro area last week were $4.12. An older Toyota Corolla gas tank capacity is about 12.8 gallons. Assuming you were not one of those nitwits who lets the tank go to 99 percent empty before filling, the price should have been closer to $50, not $70.
UJM: Beneath that gruffy exterior you still retain a sense of humor….I was speculating whether it might have been the posek ha’dor but thanks for the confirmation.
As Common Saychel noted, you are either the world’s worst troll or you need to have an up close and intimate encounter with your local Toyota dealer. Alternatively, you are a great baal tzadakah to benefit some ehrliche yid running an overpriced gas station on Central Avenue.
Further, as Wolfish noted, in a global market for crude oil and distillates, no President really has any significant ability to affect gasoline prices on a national level, although certain policies (e.g. EPA rules on seasonal ethanol blends) could have short-term localized effects.While hiking in the Pacific Northwest last summer, the hiking trail took us along a heavily wooded ridgeline that came out into a open grassy meadow with rows of “boxes”. It turned out to be a fairly large commercial bee hive operation run by a frum couple that both produced honey as well as renting out their hives to local farms for pollination purposes. At least at my end, the first time I’ve seen a beekeeper in a Tallis katan.
There seems to be a global phenomena in favor of “strongmen” with lots of political and moral baggage. In EY, the anti-netanyahu coalition overplayed its hand and belatedly discovered that even the secular population still had a strong preference to retain certain iconic elements of “yiddeshkeit” in the governance of the medinah.
“she [the Sommelier] got a heter that she can hold yayin nesech in her mouth and spit it out as long as the purpose is for work and not enjoyment…”
Could you share the name of her Rav??
I think RvW/abortion was a unique decision for the conservatives on the court given its fundamentally weak constitutional foundations. However, the moment there is any sign of extending Alito’s logic to Obergeffel etc., you will see action to either legislatively lock in certain outcomes or perhaps even “pack the court”.
“The wife automatically becomes and adopts whatever her husband is…”
Of course, UJM is correct IF the wife chooses to do so. There are many “mixed” marriages where the couple retain elements of BOTH haskafahs, generally outside of the nusach of their teffilos. I suspect others have been to shabbos and yom tov dinners, as I have, where the cuisine could be best described as “yiddeshe fusion” . Its NOT a binary choice.
‘ Indeed the right formula is needed to reach out in a caring and effective manner, to save these wonderful Yidden…
Tothepoint: Having re-read this thread several times, it appears you are the one most in need of intervention, not the over 100,000 yidden directly affiliated with Chabad.
When you watch in real time a once “never Trumper” politician who appears to be of sound mind and not suffering from dementia assert at a MAGA ralley that “millions of illegals” were transported by the Dems from state to state in November 2020 to vote for Biden by impersonating niftarim or otherwise engaging in election fraud, you gotta wonder whether even a Ministry of Truth would be a waste of taxpayer funds. Let the unwashed masses believe whatever they want.