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A respected economist (formerly of MIT and Princeton, now of CUNY, Nobel laureate) says he is skeptical of Bitcoin in part because its primary users (i.e., not investors or speculators) are people who want to hide their transactions, which means they are drug dealers, smugglers, tax cheats and others of marginal trustworthiness. Should a synagogue or Jewish charity accept or spend Bitcoin? Let’s hear from a Halachah maven.
To lakewhut: Crime rates among illegal immigrants are lower than among US citizens. More immigrants means lower crime rates. Sorry to confuse you with facts.
To ujm: An 8-year old immigrant takes about 10 years to become eligible to vote. And 18-year-old eligible voters take several more years before they actually exercise their right to vote.
Does anyone have reliable data on voter participation by new immigrants? I am sure that lakewhut does not. Is it possible, maybe, that immigrants, even Hispanic ones, have something valuable to contribute to America. And, lakewhut, how far up your family tree must we climb to find immigrants?
Fixed that for you. Must be your autocorrect is broken.-29
Name-calling is the first resort for some Coffee Roomers. I wear those names proudly, so, please, keep it up.
A. I have not noticed.
B. Why do you, opening poster, think there are too many bank branches?
C. In the browner minority neighborhoods, their political leaders complain of not enough bank branches, too many low-quality high-priced financial service shops (e.g., check-cashing services), and too many liquor stores.
Correction: COVID-1
I thought she died in a skiing accident in what is now Turkey.
I misunderstood the title of this thread. I thought it was an argument about whether or not Senator Lindsey Graham is stupid. I don’t think he’s stupid. I disagree with him about Trump, but that does not mean he is stupid. I do think that he is being black-mailed by Trump or Trump’s allies.
Have you considered Helvetica Schlemiel?
I know that one member of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s secretariat went to Boston Latin, a public school in Boston (!) for outstanding students. He said he could not have performed his job for the Rebbe if he had not attended that public school.
To Yt: Sorry, I misread your post. I guess I’m the fool.
Problems with Covid vaccinations is a topic for discussion among epidemiologists, physicians and similar experts, unless, of course, you want to hear yentas and kibbitzers offering bubbameintzers, in which case the YWN Coffee Room is the ideal place.
And, Yt, what kind of fool drinks alcohol before any medical procedure, whether it’s an injection, a routine check-up, or surgery.
Thank you, charlieha II, for finding and posting a Democratic response to Omar’s anti-Semitic comments.
Greene has at least two fundamental problems: 1 – anti-Semitism, and 2 – she thinks Jews control lasers in outer space. Omar has only one: anti-Semitism, which she denies, thinking that her opposition to the State of Israel and support of a Palesinian state are not anti-Semitic. Omar’s problem is grounded in the real world. Greene’s problem is in outer space.
And speaking of Jews and lasers, the only person I know who actually does research on lasers, and controls them, is a Jew and Israeli. Hmmmm ….
To smerel: The persons responsible for impeaching (or not impeaching) a president and removing (or not removing) her/him from office are all elected politicians. Politics is built into the process. That means that responsible citizens must figure out, for themselves, whether or not impeachment and removal are appropriate. Based on what I know, I am certain that impeachment and removal are warranted and necessary.
There are at least 100,000,000 Americans who are old enough to be president. Would it really matter if there were only 99,999,999?
If you know the facts, which most Republicans don’t, you would know that it is unlawful for someone who led an insurrection against the US government, such as Trump did on 1/6/2021, to run for president.
To jackk: My mixup about Trump/Garland was facetious. Take everything I post with a grain of salt, unless you’re under doctor’s orders to cut down.
To Health: I did not purport to identify any US allies, and there is absolutely no basis for what you think I “obviously” think. Since you asked, some US allies at the present time or within the last 10 years are United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Germany, Canada, and Czech Republic. If the US wants to come to the defense of Israel, militarily or politically, it will be more effective if the US has allies.
To the opening poster: Your question is tautological (or, perhaps, a clever play on words). A better question would be, what does it take for a US president to be good for the Jews.
Here are some things that are not good for the Jews:
1. Stirring up anti-Semites and making them think they have the support of the US president.
2. Alienating US allies.
3. A do-nothing response to a pandemic that sickens Jews, and others, and weakens the US economy.
4. Encouraging an armed assault on the US Capitol.
5. Attempting to overthrow the results of a US election.
To lakewart: Betsy Devos was unqualified for the position of Secretary of Education. But those awful Democrats would not even consider Merrick Garland, Trump’s nominee for the US Supreme Court.
To always aks questions: Mitt Romney was caught on tape saying some ungentlemanly things about 47% of the electorate. I don’t remember exactly what he said, but I think he accused them (or us?) of being schnorrers (not his actual word) who would never vote Republican.
Re coffee addict’s comment: The billions that Obama “gave” to Iran was Iranian money over which the US had no rights. I don’t know whether that was a good or bad idea, or was or was not legally required, but it was not my or your or any US taxpayer’s money.
To Gadolhadorah: You are being too clever by half. I was asking a hypothetical question: Is it chesed by a president if he pardons someone for money? All the stuff you raise is incidental.
To smerel, re his/her New York Times comment: The Sulzberger family is not Jewish today, and I am not sure whether they were Jewish in the 1940’s. (Actually, once a Jew, always a Jew; conversion does not change one’s soul.)
And there were radically more newspapers in the US in the 1940’s, many of them prestigious, and none of them printed more news about the Holocaust than the New York Times. Even as late as 1944, there were rabbis in Europe who did not encourage emigration from Europe because they did not understand the scope of Germany’s plans for extermination of the Jews of Europe. Roosevelt could/should have done better by the Jews, but the blame is his alone.
Trump’s loss is golden. I don’t care about the lining.
To ujm: Would your opinion that Trump showed chesed change if it were proven that he was paid for his pardons? If I practiced Trump’s epistemology, I would point to the rumors that he was paid for some (if not all) the pardons he issued. At this time, however, I have seen little proof in support of these rumors.
The Proud Boys, and lots of white supremist anti-Semitic groups, think Trump supports them. You Jews who think Trump is your friend, and those anti-Semites, cannot both be right.
Fortunately, Health, very few people think like you.
I thought this thread was about my wife.
As someone frequently accused of being a communistical socialist, or, worse, a socialistical communist communism lover, let we set some of you straight about the role of the owner of a grocery store in a free-market, and free, society. Stores have groceries because the owner contributed capital to the store to buy the groceries on the shelves, and pays the workers who put the groceries on the shelves. No owners, no groceries.
A similar example from the past: Stalin tried to eliminate farm ownership. He succeeded for a while, but then the peasants stopped growing the crops, and huge, ghastly famines resulted.
To ujm: It’s the only thing I can do during the Covid lockdown.
I call most Jews on the telephone.
1. YWN will be an important source of news for the frum community. (I am not just saying this to be sure my comment is posted.)
2. The rate of increase in ocean temperature from 2020 to 2024 will be triple the rate of 1990 – 1994.
3. Population growth of non-Jewish Israelis will prompt Israeli right wing to embrace a two-state solution for Palestinians in Gaza and most of West Bank. Palestinian leadership will reject generous proposals for independent Palestinian state.
4. UN will subsidize free ham sandwiches for all non-Christian citizens of Eretz Yisrael. Iowa Congressional delegation will support UN resolution.
5. Donald Trump will be living in undisclosed location in Russia.
To johnklets: Yes, some people will miss Trump. They demonstrated their mindless loyalty to him – not the US constitution or law or civility – by assaulting the US Capitol yesterday. Do you think yesterday’s insurrection, as Senator Mitch McConnell (Senate Republican leader) called it, is good for America? Good for Israel? Good for the Jews?
I have not heard about a proposal in the New York state legislature to put Covid-19 vaccine refusers into detention camps, except for the post by lakewhut. Detention camps (for anything other than prisons for properly prosecuted and convicted criminals) are utterly unacceptable to this Democrat, and surely many other Democrats, not to mention all democrats.
Black anti-Semitism is as real as Russian, Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, Austrian, Deutchlander, Dutch, French, English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish Catholic, Irish Protestant, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Iranian, Arab, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Senhalese, Klopstockian and … all other anti-Semitism. I’m not sure who invented it – it probably existed before these various national groups existed.
Don’t take charlieha’s advice. Always hide your yarmulke when you participate in racist rallies. That way, your fellow racists won’t beat you up.
To Curiosity: Jews have been punched in the face for 3,000 years. I don’t know exactly what we are doing, but it is working. So, calm down and find something else to rant about. Or kill some cats.