Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
Did lakewhut learn about the French Revolution?
Auto leasing disguises the interest rate and the cash purchase price of a vehicle. Before leasing, one should consider the cost of purchasing a car, and the interest rate one would pay on an auto loan. A leasing company that discloses these alternatives would be a good one.
So this Jewish immigrant to America has the good fortune to become wealthy and he buys a Jaguar automobile. He goes to a Conservative rabbi and asks him to make a bracha on the Jaguar, and the Conservative rabbi says he does not know an appropriate bracha for a car, ask an Orthodox rabbi. So the guy goes to an Orthodox rabbi and asks for a bracha on his Jaguar, and the Orthodox rabbi asks, “What’s a Jaguar?” So the guy goes to a Reform rabbi and asks for a bracha on his Jaguar, and the Reform rabbi asks, “What’s a bracha?”
My kid got a scrape on the knee. I spanked him and the scrape healed in a few days.
It helps to have obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Can you make the same Bracha in a Toyota?
Borsalinos look better than other black fedoras. Are they $200 better? I don’t know.
To CHOOSID: Yes, Korg was the key springboard that sent my ancestors to America.
My great grandparents fled korg because of the pogroms.
Trump won. And … it’s April Fool’s Day.
To ujm: Young Mr. Kligman is being considered for a $10 million contract. Who among us can honestly say that they would not consider breaching Shabbos for that much money? And Major League Baseball may accomodate him, or cut his pay for the extra days off and the related travel expenses.
Would you turn down a major donation to your shul from Sandy Koufax, because he pitched on Shabbos?
There are a number of YWN commenters whose screen names end in MD. Are they purporting to be physicians or residents of Maryland?
To lakewhut: I am not a hack, just a liberal. (Which do you think is worse?) I have never made apologies for corruption by Democratic politicians.
Yes, Israel had the world’s best vaccine rollout, and Bibi surely deserves some of the credit. But surely in a population of nearly 7 million Jews, there are several qualified persons who could serve as Prime Minister and are not under indictment.
To lakewhut: Is one of Netanyahu’s qualifications the fact that he is under indictment for corruption?
And consider this: Israel’s system is the most accurate reflection of the net collective state of mind of the country, more so than any other democracy. The fact is, the Israeli public is divided, and the election results accurately reflect this.
To common saychel: This may be my first negative post on Cuomo, but I have had qualms about Cuomo for many years. I voted for his Republican opponent at least once. He is too much of a crony capitalist for my political sensibilities. Ironically, one of his supposed masterpieces, the Mario Cuomo Bridge – replacement of the Tappan Zee bridge, which was designed to last only 40 years but in fact lasted 70 years – was built with Chinese steel, which a knowledgeable friend of mine says is notoriously faulty and will fail in a matter of a few years. And if I were governor and wanted a bridge to be named after a prior governor who was my father, I would have left it to my successors to do the naming.
There may be some worthy successors in the New York Congressional delegation, e.g., Gerry Nadler, Hakeem Jeffries, or Sean Maloney.
We all agree: Cuomo must go. But who yuh gonna call? Can someone name some names – Democrats and Republicans, who would be good candidates for governor. And how are they going to get through the primaries and win the nominations of their respective parties.
If you want lots of options, you have come to the right place. If you want a correct answer, well ….
And if you want a single correct answer, don’t ask me.
To charlieha II: I have one footnote to your comment about Republicans who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, including Reagan, Nixon and Goldwater. Barry Goldwater said, more than 10 years after his vote against the Civil Rights Act, that it was his biggest regret about his actions as a senator.
To torahvalv: You have trouble understanding what I say, so I will say it slowly. The filibuster, talking or lazy non-talking, can be used for good or evil. In your opening post, you said that the filibuster rule has nothing to do with racism. It does: it was promoted by senators of slave-holding states to strenghthen their ability to prevent the federal government from making slavery illegal. That is the connection of the filibuster to racism.
As I said, I am not sure the filibuster is good or bad for democracy or protects any particular political point of view. But the origin of the filibuster rule is tied to the protection of slavery in the early American republic. Do you think slavery is unrelated to racism?
Try to become a partner with Donald Trump. That will show you that investing in real estate is not something any jerk can do.
How about: “Buy an English sefer – stop pretending you are fluent in Hebrew”.
To torahvalv: You clearly do not know the history of the filibuster rule.
I am not sure whether the filibuster is good or bad – for the Jews, for Americans, for blunjet – but, yes, the history of the filibuster is tied to racism. Learn some American history.
Chabadniks put on Rashi tefillin first, then, near the end of Shachris, put on Rabbeinu Tam tefillin. I know this practice as encouraged by Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, but I do not know whether it started before he became Rebbe.
To ujm: I have seen restaurant kitchens. Many look filthy. But the fact is, very few people get sick from eating in restaurants. In the US, restaurants don’t make people sick. In fact, the only restaurant that ever made me sick was a kosher one in Israel. But I got over it and, when in Israel, continue to enjoy Israeli restaurants.
All commercially prepared foods, i.e., everything we don’t grow, havest, kill and gut ourselves, has low levels of impurities. Any kashering authority who does not understand this is kidding himself. Any Jew who doesn’t understand this is kidding him/herself, or is ignorant.
I don’t completely agree with Sam Klein, but of the first 8 posts, his is the only one that is not substantially stupid.
To CTLawyer: What??? Dodgers OOT??? When did that happen???
Seriously, folks, I have a friend from Southern California who was and remains a big baseball fan, and explained that he took a job in Brooklyn to be near the ancestral home of his beloved Dodgers. Dodger games against the Mets in Flushing are the hardest Mets tickets to get, and will remain so for at least another half-generation.
Re common saychel’s comment of 3/5/21, 1:04 pm: Nice to see a Coffee Roomer sourcing facts from the New York Times.
The “stimulus” checks are primarily intended as “relief” checks to help people who have lost income and businesses that have lost revenue. Better to call those checks “relief” checks.
To mobico, re post of 3/4/21, 12:10 pm: First of all, there are no “official” definitions of English words. There are lots of dictionaries, but none of them are “official.”
Second of all, “stereotype” in most contexts carries a negative implication.
Jews do not stereotypically study Talmud, any more than they are stereotypically liberal, or stereotypically smart, or stereotypically love money. I am liberal and love herring, for your information.
As for BJJ girls and Brisker Bochurim, ask them if they like being called stereotypical.
To lakewhut: Are you sure you want the government rounding up people with Covid? Do you want to start in Boro Park, or Williamsburg? Or Texas? Or Mea Sharim?
To the Mods about mobico’s comment of 3/4/21 at 9:36 am: Maybe you should not allow the posting of a comment by someone who thinks “non-derogatory sereotype” is a real thing.
And, on an unrelated note, could you consider numbering all comments, so that we can easily reference them. Some of us bigmouths make more than one comment on a single article or thread, e.g., me. And maybe “bigmouth” is the wrong word, since we do not make our comments with our mouths. Maybe “bigfingers” is more accurate.
Re charlieha the second’s comment: Never mind what they say about Rabbi Avi Weiss. Consider what some coffee roomers say about you, or, even more important, me.
The YWN article on the decision of the Seuss publisher to discontinue certain books did not report on the language and contexts that the publisher recognized as offensive. I read an additional report about the matter, and that report sited the portions of the books that the publisher deemed objectionable. I suggest everyone get more information before jumping to conclusions about the wisdom, or lack of wisdom, of the Seuss publisher.
People who cannot behave on airlines are a threat to the life and safety of all people on the plane, with or without a pandemic. I hope the airlines keep banning uncooperative passengers. If you have special requirements while in flight, e.g., kosher food or need to stand or face east to daven, make appropriate inquiries about the rules before you book the flight.
Well, bored guy, we know you have never suffered a flooded basement. If you are correct about the Talmud’s saying Hashem told the water not to go over the land, you have interpreted those words to mean that oceans cannot rise or cause flooding. Your interpretation is clearly wrong. Try living in Far Rockaway (Queens, New York) during hurricane season.
I would rule out green eggs and ham.
Sam I am? Shmuel the jewel.
Horton hears a Megillah?
For Pesach, did the Lorax clean with Borax?
The cat in the black hat?
One fish, two fish, red fish, gefilte fish.
Horton roasts an egg?
Biden has a sense of a lot of things, as distinguished from his predecessor, who had a sense of nothing except himself.
To MadeAliyah: Please post a list of Biden’s failures to date, and if you don’t mind, do so every month for the balance of his term.
And, if you can, make a distinction between political failures and policy failures.
To ujm: You want smarts, and experience? Consider that Clinton was a Yale law graduate, and served as Arkansas governor for many years. Obama was a Harvard law grad, president of the Harvard Law Review. Carter was an Annapolis grad in nuclear engineering. Listen to their public speeches, they all demonstrate the power to think. And to think about something other than themselves.
The last Republican nominee to run for president, i.e., one with the smarts to do the job right, was Gerald Ford, and he was not even a party-wide selection. Ford stumbled into the job because of Watergate and Nixon’s need to appoint a vice president who would sail through Congress. George HW Bush and John McCain, by themselves, had the smarts, but I disqualify them because they selected nudniks as their running mates.
To Gadolhadorah: You seem to think that the hypocrisy is excusable if others are also hypocrites. No one thinks Ted Cruz invented hypocrisy (or even hyporcosy, which the opening poster invented), but his hypocrisy is nevertheless bad. Lots of Jews drive on Shabbos (including a few otherwise frum), but I bet you don’t, and you would not consider it notwithstanding the Jews who do drive on Shabbos.
To ujm: How do you know why Che was hired?
I used to think Che was funny, but that joke got him kicked off my “funny” list. Let’s wait to see whether he apologizes properly.
To Shady Chareidi: Where did you get the information about the use of Bitcoin by people with nothing to hide?
To all you folks who think some Democrats are hypocrites: I agree, some are. But you evidently don’t need me to provide you with a list.
To Shady Chareidi: I gave Ted Cruz a pass based on the same information you cited. It turns out it was mostly untrue, as revealed by his wife’s e-mails and other information, like the ticket he first booked for a return from Cancun several days later than his arrival.
That makes him a hypocrite and a liar. Will it hurt his re-election chances in Texas? I don’t know, but I suspect it would not.
Someone – I think a US senator, said Cruz is so thoroughly despised by his Senate colleagues that someone could shoot him dead on the floor of the Senate, and not one US senator would want the shooter convicted.
If you don’t live on Planet Earth, climate change is not a problem. And a lot of Coffee Roomers seem not to live on Planet Earth.