Gadolhadorah

“..there’s a lot of picky older girls out there,,,”
As there SHOULD be. You don’t get married for the sake of just being with someone by a certain age. If you decide to marry, it has to be with someone you love and respect and want to share your life with. If thats being “picky” than you are doing the RIGHT thing and you shouldn’t allow any edicts from a Rav, askan, poster on social media or family pressure to pressure you into a shidduch you don’t feel comfortable with.

While the data vary slightly from year to year, there are approximately 105 male births for every 100 female births in the U.S. The ratio does not seem to vary much by geographic region or ethnicity. The male/female ratio is even higher (118/100) in China and some other Asian countries where gender-based abortions are reported to occur.
I’ve read through many of the shidduch crisis past threads here in the CR but I still am not convinced there is any “structural” issue that must be addressed. All these debates end up doing is increasing the level of stress on single young women and make them feel more like “damaged goods”.

Silent Moishe makes an important point. If the Frum tzibur is increasingly viewed as a monolithic partisan voting block, there will be less effort by the other side to compete for their support and consider their perspective as they become viewed as “captive” to the other side.

Yasher koach to the many independent minded voters in Skver and KY (all 184 of you). I assume the local Boards of Elections have contacted the gabboim of your respective shuls so you get a special kavod at davening this Shabbos.

Since we are putting corporate names and advertisements on everything from football stadiums to bus stops, perhaps someone will start putting photos and logos on trash bags, rather than the bland white/black colors that currently dominate the market. It would lend a bit of color and visual interest to our curbsides on trash pickup days and would allow citizens to express their first amendment rights year-around, and not just for a few weeks prior to election day (when lawns signs are legal).

Just to be clear. FOX News, not CNN or MSNBC, just called Michigan for Biden and has him at 264 of the required 270 electoral votes. Either Nevada or Arizona would put him over the top. The Republicans might have a better chance of gaining credibility if they didn’t just put up Crazy Rudy at a news conference to suggest they are considering a NATIONAL lawsuit to throw out ALL mail-in ballots as part of a national conspiracy orchestrated by the DNC. There are some serious GOP lawyers with legitimate election law credentials so I’m mystified why Crazy Rudy has become the face of the Trump kvetching about voter fraud.

” Dumping a container full of cumin into everything does not make it better”

Yserbius123: That may be true for cumin but dumping several pounds of sugar into Ungarishe gefilte fish is entirely a different issue.

There are lots of “kosher” sites on the internet to research what is making you “unwell”, learn about possible remedies and find good professional assistance. Good luck and a refuah shelamah for whatever ails you.

” I just spent $2,300 on a sheite…”

You could have instead purchased a $19 tichel for your wife and used the remaining $2,281 to purchase a lovely Calabrian Esrog for each of the next 2 or 3 years. Everything is relative when it comes to your hashkafah and perspective on hidur mitzvah.

Charlie has been diverted to a top secret assignment to develop statistical efficacy criteria in preparation for the new public health policies that will be implemented on the afternoon of January 20th.

Trump engages in boorish, vulgar, racist and misogynistic speech and behavior which sadly seems to energize a certain portion of the electorate,, many of whom see their own inner thoughts and feelings “legitimized” because they are coming from the President. The toxicity he has introduced into our political system will take a decade to revers

Both parties know that targeted Covid relief is needed for at least another 6-9 months but neither side wants to let the other take credit prior to the election so the nation suffers. I’m not sure either losing side will be anxious to help the other AFTER the results are known so we may still be at an impasse until after the inauguration. Even then, a split congress will make it difficult to find consensus.

UJM? Not going to get into a debate on end-of-life medical directives. For another time.

Toi: I wouldn’t want your name on my amicus on a Roe case, whichever way you were to argue. Dems would like to consider Roe as “super-precedent”. Barrett and other conservatives (not sure about Roberts) will adhere to the litmus test Barrett offered and I noted above that a case cannot be “super-precedent” and thus immune from being overturned if there is still ongoing and widespread public debate over its legitimacy. I personally find ANY legislation mandating how we make our own medical decisions a violation of personal liberty while acknowledging that tethering Roe into a Constitutional right to “personal liberty” is likely to be back before the Court within the next year or two. Watch the Mississippi case where the AG is deliberately pushing a case that intentionally violates Roe as a test case for the new conservative court.

Ted Cruz: You namesake has vilified Trump as a “pathological liar”, “sniveling coward”, “utterly lacking in morality”, and “dangerous” to our national security. While I’m not a big Ted cruz fan, hew was RIGHT but he too succumbed to self-interest and has jumped on the train because it serves his near-term political interests. Sorry, but I don’t buy the “hakaras hatov” argument in relation to Trump’s photo-op, self-serving “gifts” to yidden.

Masks are not a “cure”, don’t prevent all viral transmission but they have been shown by multiple studies cited here by several CR posters to REDUCE the rate and risk of transmission, especially with respect to the aged and vulnerable population. Until we have widespread vaccines later next year, masks are among the tools we have to facilitate reopening of schools and businesses. There are no magic “cures” and the virus itself will not magically “just disappear”. Its crazy we are still having this debate but for having it become one of several proxies for the larger political polarization sweeping the country (e.g. the MAGA rally yesterday in Tampa where Trump mumbled something about “i’ve always been ok with masks” while the crowd a few feet behind him were told that “masks are optional” and virtually all were maskless)

“Roe is different because it’s an old case, a so-called “super-precedent.”

Well I’d like to believe that but our newest Associate Justice refused to classify Roe in her listing of “super precedents” such as Brown v. Board of Ed and Marbury v. Madison etc. To be a “super precedent” she argued that the outcome has to be one which is widely accepted, society has come to rely upon it and where there is no longer significant public disagreement. On the latter criteria, she separated out Roe from other cases as one where the Court might still reverse and find that it was “wrongly decided”.

“Kushner violated halacha by advising not to listen to doctors in April…”
Well, his father-in-law is still ignoring the medical and public health professionals. For the past few weeks, the Trumpkopf was a least going through motions of having those seated behind the podium at his MAGA rallies wearing masks while the 90 percent of attendees out front were maskless. If you go on to Fox right NOW and watch the ongoing rally in Tampa, the dozens of attendees seated and crowded together a few feet behind him are all maskless. “No more masks he cried out, we’re getting back to normal…I’m immune….you’ll all have vaccines and miracle cures in a few weeks..

se2015. Both the constitution as well as amendments thereto…many adopted decades later. I thought Barrett, at her confirmation hearings last week, did a really decent job of explaining the differences to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who frequently used the terms interchangeably.

Be careful what you wish for. Recall that in the employment discrimination case decided earlier this year ( Bostock v. Clayton County), the Court majority, including Gorsuch, ruled that federal law prohibits discrimination against LGBTQ workers. Gorsuch is probably the Court’s most vocal proponent of “textualism,” a bedrock conservative view that the meaning of a law turns on its words alone, not on the intentions of those who drafted the legislation. The Bostock case forced Gorsuch to decide between his own conservative social policy beliefs and following the broad language of a landmark civil rights law. Gorsuch didn’t simply honor his textualist approach in Bostock; he wrote the majority opinion
Specifically, that case required the Court to apply the language of the 1964 Civil Rights Acts, which literally forbids employment discrimination that occurs “because of [an employee’s] race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.”
Its fairly clear that the drafters 55 years ago had no intention of banning discrimination against LGBTQs (indeed that probably had no idea of what the Ts and Qs were even about) Gorsuch unabashedly ruled that only the literal text of the statute and NOT the expectations of lawmakers mattered. Thus, he and the majority (liberal justices) ruled that the words of the statute clearly prohibited employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
I’ll acknowledge this was an anomaly in is generally siding with the conservatives and he is no David Souter but there are other cases coming up where a similiar textualist approach may yield some very unexpected results.

Correction: Barrett didn’t formally “recuse” herself…..she didn’t participate in today’s orders because she “didn’t have sufficient time to review the pleadings”. That means she left open the option of participating should derivative litigation come back to the court after the election.