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To coffee addict, who quoted me: First of all, the US, i.e., the federal government represented by the Stars and Stripes, provides very little police service. Local and state governments provide most of the police service. And most of the objectionable police shootings have been committed by local or state police. And I clearly did not condemn all police, I specifically said “some” police have engaged in wrongful conduct.
The handful of times that I have been at a ball park, stadium, court or ice rink where the US National Anthem is played, I stand, voluntarily. If the US started rounding up Jews or Yazidis, or local police started shooting us or the Yazidis, I might sit in protest. Is it OK with you if I stay here in America? Not that I would leave if you say “no”.
So, Joseph, when Halachic slavery is revived, do you want to be a master or a slave? And do you already have a pierced ear?
Reply to Curiosity: I am not familiar with the statistical evidence that racism does not exist. Where and by whom was it published, who collected the data, who analyzed the data. And if the statistics say what you say, well, good, racism problem solved. That gives me more time to worry about health care, tax reform for the middle class, and neo-Nazism.
I’m a liberal, I cannot stand our current president, I agree with Kaepernick’s original reason for kneeling – to protest trigger-happy behavior with black Americans by some police officers – and I ain’t leaving America (except for my sister’s wedding in Israel, but then I will come back).
One of the great things about America is that you can demonstrate your concern for public issues any time, anywhere in public. If the bosses of the NFL players want them to stand during the National Anthem, they could do so, but they have chosen not to. If you don’t like that, watch a golf tournament, but there is much less risk of brain injury to the players, and nobody runs very fast or ever, ever catches a ball.
To the opening poster: Would you please explain the meaning of this portion of your comment: “the current obamacare which offers more coverage but is democrats & might not be the best versus trumpmcare that might not cover enough for the middle class frum family.”
In particular, what do you mean when you say Obamacare “offers more coverage BUT IS DEMOCRATS.” If you want more coverage, and you know that Obamacare offers more coverage, what is the relevance of the political party that gave more votes in Congress for Obamacare?
Re CTL’s comment: Yes, the proper name of Obamacare is Affordable Care Act, or ACA. Republicans started calling it “Obamacare” because they thought it would stigmatize the proposal before it was enacted. But the Obama name has stuck and will wind up as a tribute to the man that so many Republicans vilify. I’m OK with that.
Why would you want to fit 14 newborn opossums on a tablespoon? To make opossum soup, obviously. (It’s not kosher, fyi.)
The longevity of this topic is disturbing. Clearly, a lot of YWN readers subscribe to misguided notions about the relationships between nationality and behavior.
What does an omgosh bird look like, and is it kosher?
Meno is dead right.
I have had my doubts about RY23 for a while. The opening post has eliminated the doubts, and not in a good way.
Supply and demand. Any yenta can be a shadchan. Only a yenta with a psychology degree can be a psychologist.
You should seriously consider the longest-term storage facility: throw it out. The cost of long term storage should not come close to the value of what you are storing. I stored stuff after my home was damaged in a natural disaster, and I am pretty sure I wound up throwing away money instead of useless, worthless furniture.
And speaking of liberal media, The New York Times has an article on line (maybe also in the print edition) today about a black man convicted of murder of one white man and assaulting 2 others in Union Square, Manhattan, because he was mad at white people. He was sentenced to 25 years. Mark your 2042 diary to be careful when he gets out. Read the article – does it cheer you up that it was reported? Do you feel better informed?
Reply to adocs and health: As we know from the OJ trial/circus, adocs is clearly wrong. As for why a murder in Philadelphia got no national coverage: lots of murders get no national coverage, usually for good reasons.
According to an FBI web site which I just accessed, there were about 15,700 murders in the US in 2015, i.e., about 43 per day for 365 days. Do you really think we need to read about all of them? Or that they are not reported because the media is liberal and wants to cover up all those murders? Why not ask Breitbart to report them?
I am shocked by the opening post: someone pays Joseph to do kiruv. I never would have guessed.
Re CTLawyer’s comment about Joseph’s citation of CTLawyer’s comment about marriage counselling: There is another factor (aside from the absence of clergy from compulsory marital counselling before divorce in Connecticut) that may skew the divorce rate among the maritally counselled in Connecticut: Because the counselling is compulsory in Connecticut, some couples may enter counselling only as a required formality, with their minds already made up, and with no intention of changing their decisions in the course of counselling. That does not reflect on the wisdom of voluntary counselling by seriously interested couples, but compulsory counselling may be an empty gesture.
Re CTLawyer’s first comment: Thank you for explaining to the opening poster the difference between apples and orange trees. If I weren’t lazy, I would also explain to him the need for citations when alleging “facts” like the divorce rate among the frum, or non-frum Jews, or gentiles, or salamanders. And I won’t even get into the need for specifying the period of time – 2015, 1996, 20th Century – he is talking about.
In addition to the statute of limitations, in New York City, if you intend to sue the City, you must file a notice of claim within 30 days after the incident that is the topic of the suit. I have no idea whether any jurisdictions outside New York have similar requirements when suing government entities.
Is this thread dancing around those tasteless jokes about Arkansans?
CTLawyer has the right idea. I would think – probably wrongly – that a band would turn down the music if requested by the host, without a contract provision, but the contract provision is nevertheless a great idea, and probably sets a tone for softer music (pun intended).
I’d like to hear from some professional musicians: what’s with the deafening volume? Is it a cover for the mediocrity of your musicianship? Or a way to keep guests away from you? Or have you already lost your own hearing.
I’ll be attending a simcha next month where Mommy/hostess is an otorinolaryngologyst (ENT physician). Hope the music reflects her medical knowledge.
Best answer: CTLawyer’s.
When did the oilam become meteorologists? And why would you check with anyone other than a meteorologist?
I have no familiarity with the Halacha of life insurance, so I have no basis for saying that the idea that Halacha prohibits the purchase of life insurance is nuts. But I will say it anyway: it’s nuts. If you have a family, the breadwinners need life insurance.
To RebYidd23: The free market takes everything into account, including the extent to which the people in the market are affected by their ethics.
Would Joseph please tell us how he gets his health insurance/healthcare?
As for democracy, Joseph seems to think it is binary – you are democratic or you are not. America was democratic at its founding, but got more democratic with the end of slavery, the granting of the right of women to vote, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and other advances in democracy over the length of our history.
Journalism 101 teaches that headlines are not part of the articles. They might be clickbait, or “teasers” for those of us who remember the time before online news. The article is where the information is.
There are currently no less than 78 Coffee Room topics on shidduch crisis, and Joseph started no less than 79 of them. I think Joseph is lonely or needs a hobby.
The eclipse, man … it was, like … the moon, the sun … it was outta sight.
CTLawyer gets this week’s award for best comment.
I thought soap on a rope fell out of use when it got confused with rope-a-dope.
False profits? That would be Bernie Madoff.
Health: “If it was such an abomination – it should have been taken down during the time when we had a black president.”
Really? White politicians cannot fix abominations? Did Germany need a Jewish prime minister to pay reparations to victims of the Holocaust?
And, as I pointed out, the US president does not have jurisdiction over statues in a state or municipal park.
We have shomrim to protect the streets and the people in Jewish neighborhoods. Maybe we should have shomrim auditors to protect yeshivas and Jewish charities from financial misconduct.
To CTLawyer: I certainly would not think that a Confederate government note is intended to be a tribute. I do think you have understated the problem with the Confederacy: “discrimination” was a relatively minor problem, but the bigger problem was slavery. And a statue memorializing a soldier who fought to defend that state is an abomination.
Re akuperma’s first comment: There are so many spectacularly wrong bits of information in this comment that I will focus only on the first paragraph:
1. There is no evidence that the building of statues of Confederate soldiers was part of any reconciliation effort. The statues were generally erected by Southern state and local governments, in the period from the 1890’s to the 1940’s, and were intended to assert the white supremacy at the start of the Jim Crow era and the nascent civil rights movement of the 1930’s.
2. The Confederacy crushed itself by borrowing money from its citizens to fund the Civil War effort, and when the war was lost, the debt was worthless. Another major source of Southern wealth was its investment in slaves, and losing the war destroyed that value. As for the Ivy League, there was no formal Ivy League until the early 20th Century. Before that, it was just a phrase tossed about by the general public. For all I know, there might be a similar phrase that was or is used to refer to the outstanding Southern universities. But the growth of Southern universities was indeed severely impaired by the wealth lost by the Southern elite in the Civil War.
3. There are lots of well-recognized regional accents in the US, including the Archie Bunker New Yorker, the Hillary Clinton Midwesterner, and the David Brinkley/Douglas Kiker Southern broadcaster. These accents are spoken by the stupid and educated alike. Please do not hang your accent prejudices on the rest of us.
Wherever you have to go, wait 10 minutes and it will be over. And in New York, the eclipse will be partial. not total. Your headlights will do fine.
And mms601 makes an excellent point – distracted drivers.
Without contextual information, this video is meaningless. Is it a public bus? Are there reserved seats on the bus? Was the chosid doing much of the talking correct that the woman was sitting in “his” seat? We do not have sufficient information to evaluate the conduct of the individuals heard on the video. So many of the commenters utterly overlook the lack of contextual information but comment anyway.
If a toupee looks good, it does not look good enough.
Yiddish is a language of Eastern Europe. It is utterly unknown to the Israeli Jews who came from North Africa, Iran, Syria and other Middle Eastern countries. There is nothing particularly holy about it. It was unknown to Rashi, Rambam, Ramban and many others. It was not spoken by the rabbis of the Talmud.
English is the language of America and international commerce. It is taught in many nations, e.g., all the Iranian Jews I know studied English when they attended Jewish schools/yeshivas in Iran. It is more important for Jews, who need to be well-educated to have parnassah and political power, to be fluent in English than Yiddish.
To Joseph: See the fifth post for an example of the uninformed speculation about which I warned you.
The rise in the Dow Jones Industrial average started in the Obama administration. I do not recall Joseph or other Obama opponents praising him when that rise occurred.
Stock markets rise and fall for lots of reasons. Government policy is only one factor, and generally not a big one.
Joseph referred to “many economists.” Could he name one?
Joseph: Why not ask some goyim? Nobody here can give you anything but uninformed speculation.
The mods took down 2 great jokes about Jews and bars that I posted. They – the jokes, not the mods – didn’t address the difficult halachic issues, but they were funny and appropriate.
So these 2 moderators from YWN walked into a bar ….
ouch!
Most advanced industrialized nations have gone with some form of single-payer plan. The costs are generally about half of what the US spends on healthcare, and the care is just as good. Some products and services, e.g., healthcare, don’t work in so-called free-market systems. Stop worrying about nonsense and myths about the “miracle” of free markets. Look at what works and do it that way.
They used to commercially package and distribute orange juice, but I do not see it in the supermarkets any more. The juice was good.
I wear a white kippah to the gas station, supermarket, and shul. I don’t wear it at airports, because I don’t want the security personnel to mistake me for a Muslim.
If you think Muslims have it easy in America, try dressing like one for a day.
Joseph probably considers himself conservative. There is nothing conservative about having the federal government – i.e., Congress, as Joseph proposed – overrule or overturn state tort law. As CTLawyer correctly noted, tort law is, primarily, state law.
Ketchup and BBQ sauce are the preferred tastes of Southern gentile Americans. I like them, but I’m a Yenkee.
Go to aisle 5 at any Walmart for the best buy on happiness.
Do you think Trump married any of his wives with the intent of not getting divorced? Or does he plan to dump them when they lose their youthful beauty?
The opening poster, and most of the commenters (I have not read them all) suffer a fundamental misunderstanding of how medicine and all other science works. Here is a very simple summary of how it works:
When someone announces an idea about something, typically called a hypothesis, other physicians, engineers or scientists evaluate it and test it. If it’s right, many people announce it is right and the hypothesis is accepted and used in medicine and other science or engineering. If it is unproven (like the cancer-is-fungus idea) it is ignored and disappears from the discussion.
So everybody just wait awhile, and if Tough-actin’ Tinactin starts advertising itself as a cancer cure, and doctors start having success in treating cancer the way they treat other fungi, the opening post will turn out to right. But do not hold your breath, because it takes a while.