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Interesting this thread appears after I posted about this a week ago.
De-regulate. Gas prices are are higher at 50 bucks a barrel today than they were at 50 bucks a barrel 10 years ago. Why? Because of all those regulations they added during the Obama years. Source: Wall Street Journal study.

In other words, if you want the democrats to drop the price of gas, a commodity they campaign and ran elections on making expensive, you best just outlaw the party and deport them to Mexico and Canada. Gas prices will go down then.

Buy a newspaper, get a subscription.
You quickly learn which columnists don’t know what they’re talking about and which do. Now you will only focus on certain articles, instead of this internet reality where everything is believed just because it is online, with no reputation whatsoever.

Second advantage, once you finish, you finish, and you got to pick and choose what was worth reading. Without instant 24/7 access online, and in paper form, once you’re done you’re done.

Third Advantage. I get to read so many more interesting things that the big google doesn’t consider “news”. All of those special interest stories, goofy things, and even LOCAL stuff. I point this out because, I can’t believe the amount of people who haven’t a clue what is going on anywhere at all, even at home, because their only outlet is the CNN website or otherwise. They’re clueless. The biggest local thing in the universe could happen, but it’s not national news, and an entire city doesn’t know of it.

Another problem with internet news, they all cut and paste from each other. There is no value-added, and a lot of it is quite trite. There is really no research, and on the net, and even in print, you get a lot of conflicting stories. Sometimes even on the same page if it’s not big publication.

Another way to get off being hooked on “news”? Watch these press conferences with the White House. If the top reporters have such low IQ’s, imagine the talent of the regular wire writers? Or even those “lectures” (as they should be called) on 60 minutes. That’ll cure you.

Emoluments clause means, simply:

You cannot ever have been in any type of business, ever.

Remember the problem with Dick Cheney. He used to work for Halliburton. Years after he left, the government Halliburton got a contract. They (you) had the same argument then for impeachment and citizens arrest calls.

Only community organizers who have never had a real job, nor understand the ways of the world or peoples problems are allowed to become President.

If this were an affluent area, and being South Florida, I don’t know exactly how many parents would pay to send their kids to a private school no matter the cost. But I could be wrong. But this has me thinking in the opposite direction. About how many of us would’ve been sent to a private school to get out of a really deplorable crime-ridden public schools if it were available, and maybe on a full scholarship. But none were available in my area.

Some of the comments here reminds me of an article I read last year during the JCC bomb threats. One day school in a smaller city (doesn’t go up to 12th grade) was about 30-40% non-Jewish. I infer this may have been for a kindergarten. The non-Jewish parents seemed to be up in arms, and wanted to have more inter-faith conversations and wanted politicians to speak more. They didn’t change their tune even after we all found out who the perpetrator is, which makes me think it was more about socializing and smoozing with the elected elites. But just that student ratio had me surprised.
But, again, I have to disclaim, I don’t know if that was the ratio up through all the grades, or just a kindergarten program. And secondly, our newspaper isn’t even the best, so I wouldn’t fret about 40% for the moment.

It’s interesting that we’re talking about costs and finance in a thread about doctors. Has anyone ever asked a doctor or dentist office how much something simple cost? Sometimes I can’t even get a quote. They bill a third party payer, who has the rates set, normally based off of Medicare set rates. Then if you are lucky enough to have worked in health insurance, you can discuss things with the rude and snobby receptionist who billed wrong, although she can do no wrong, although you were the professional who denies her bills for doing them clearly wrong.

If time = money, and no one knows the value of their services or money as it just gets typed into a computer with a code (that’s usually wrong), then who knows the value of time?

I know, or at least thought, that IKEA is family owned. However, for most other companies you talk about, they are owned by shareholders, and run by a board of directors. Then you have factories in America and China. They are really as diluted as can be. How many levels of people and generations do you have to go through to get to the original Nazi? Or even IBM? You mean Lenovo, a China company.
As for the goods at Ikea, I like going, it is like a mini trip to Sweden (at least the ones I get to see). The goods are international. I never see furniture imported from Finland, notebooks from Lativa, etc. at the Wal-Mart or Dollar General. It’s fascinating.

What about we focus on present day Nazi’s? There’s a good facebook story going on out there, you can have dozens of genders, but Israel doesn’t exist. Or what about Heinz? You have Kerry going to meet and reinvigorate Abbas to keep doing his old games and tricks, while he’s married to an anti-Israel activist right?
And so on down the chain.
Boycott Mercedes while we buy New Zealand wool? It doesn’t seem to be consistent.

I didn’t grow up this way, but my Chofetz Chaim a lesson a day says that Lashon Hora doesn’t have to be negative, it can be positive as well. And secondly, if it is just opinion and not an issue that should not be an issue after marriage, that is lashon hora too.
Sounds like it on both levels imo.

If the across from me at work makes .25 cents less an hour for having less experience than I, I need to make less money in the name of equality.

This sounds as brilliant as Sweden with their feminist snow plow routes that shut down the entire city.

According to my daily email:
“Happy Holidays [your name here]
‘Tis the Season
As the holiday season approaches, …
We hope that your holiday and New Year ”

Holiday is always singular and is never given any thought to being inclusive or broad. Holiday never includes “New Year”.
Other holiday emails seem to always be after Hanukah, and way after in some cases.
Ergo, they can call it whatever they want, but in context it always means the same thing. It’s just an insult to my intelligence when they use the singular “H” word instead of the “C” word.

Like others have said, I doubt there will be a Mass or anything remotely connected to a real holiday. Maybe if they exchange presents?

This thread now contains that word “Christmas” or Xmas more than anywhere else in this country. I’ve only heard the “C” word 4 times on the television now. Zero times in Email which has been spamming me about some holiday since October 31st now.
In the emails I get, they tell me to get my “holiday gifts, under my holiday tree, by 12/25”
And on 12/24 every year I get the flood of politically correct, and cryptic emails about having a “Happy Holiday” “We wish the Holiday is good for you” yada yada, never mentioning what holiday they are talking about.

Congratulations for bucking this trend!

I don’t understand, if it is the late afternoon in the United States, what is the date in in “Biblical Israel”? considering that I thought the date changes at nightfall.
In other words, if it were not hte 19th of Kislev as I had previous though, am I going to light my “holiday candles” as they call them on the wrong day tomorrow too?

If he were standing elsewhere, and in response to Jeb Bush’s speeches about big families of another group some years ago, you wouldn’t be seeing any debates over free speech, you would see national press coverage of the one man and his tiny sign.
This is not about free speech. This is about double standards. Free Speech only applies when you are against certain groups of Jews.

I want to say that I’ve read that this tribe wanted to move, or they took the money and ran upstate. I remember something about Mohicans being connected. I thought I read this in the Wall Street Journal, but I can’t find it without doing some heavy duty searching.
Since everything I learned in Public School has turned out to be a lie, I wonder how long these concise and nonsense textbooks can circulate for.

I’m becoming more convinced everyday, as far as motive, that “59 reasons to ban assault weapons” was the reason and motivation of the shooter, and probably the quote he had in his head as well. Especially taken into account the killers profile, demeanor, and the really staged (fake) way his room appeared in photographs.
So at least some of you appear to be on the same page.

Wasn’t it, and still is, a bit near to the holiday for so many to argue based off of nothing more than heresay and web-blog gossip? I didn’t see anything in his 10 minute speech victory that is aligned with half of these posts. Nor did I see such things when I actually read some of his opinions, which are actually quite good on a religious freedom angle. Although I have not read ALL of his opinions, I’m not sure anyone has, but the ones I have seen were quite sound.

I’d like to have a job/license in something where the government mandates people to come to me. I wonder if there’s a wait-list or quality concern of the services at all.

I grew up non-observant, in a neighborhood that was probably the same. I always claim half of my public school, or at least my classes were Jewish, and all of my teachers were. We learned a lot of black history, and no Jewish history, just like any other regular Public schools.
I think the reason for intermarriage is twofold. One is, neighborhoods are no longer ethic based. I can go for years without ever seeing another Jewish person personally. Second, in typical American spheres everything is about “diversity”, without going further on this fetish.

I assume that my growing up, and my fathers growing up, was a lot like Europe. You didn’t have to be “orthodox” or hassidic, or religious. Everyone around you was Jewish. It would be natural that you marry Jewish. In 8th grade, everyone I sat near was Jewish, with maybe…MAYBE one exception.
It would have taken a lot of work, if one lived in such a situation, not to marry Jewish just naturally. Conversely, if I am the only one, or maybe the only 5 Jews out of 100’s of people, of course it’s going to go the other way. For example, my friend, of a Jewish mother and baptist father, was just re-baptized within the last few days I found out. I think his knowledge of Judaism was probably what mine was a few years ago. Nil. Religion and Jewish jokes on the television do not appear to give an accurate description of Judaism at all. So no wonder he doesn’t tip the other way. Plus, I might be the only Jewish person he knows in the area. Therefore, no exposure. Frankly, if I were younger, there would probably be no hope for me here. And I like this southern city.

I think the downfall occurred during mass integration and the downfall of the old ethnic neighborhoods like they used to have in the northeast. If you want the non-observant to meet and fall in love, they have to meet each other or even be around. It’ll probably have to be a watered down version of what you’re talking about. Summer camps, after school or weekend activities similar to what the churches did in the 1800’s or like what the Jews in Mississippi did many years ago since the community was spread out. They had chaperones too, so I wouldn’t call them that immodest. I don’t think anyone is really going to spend that much money, especially on private schools, unless the local public school is completely bombed out.

The President has an appearance to talk about rebuilding the infrastructure, so the trains aren’t falling apart, the roads aren’t crumbling, and people and goods can get around. The Press, always finding their political slant more important than American people, start yelling at the president questions about the “confederacy”! The President calls people with helmets and clubs being bused in as thugs, and pointed out that at least the original group had a PERMIT and were legally and constitutionally allowed to be there. However small that group is, I don’t care. I don’t follow alt-radical message boards of any persuasion. I didn’t follow the lead-up to the riot. I am not on leftist email lists or craigslists ads. The press missed the points about law and order, aka the rule of law, peace, and not glorifying violence. The same press that has called every riot, every car burning, every cop injured as “peaceful protests” for years. Now I see that, somehow, Trump is the bad guy, as framed by “journ-o-lists” (recall the email list of journolists who made it their mission to put Obama in a good light in all articles) who care more about party than principle.

So lets go see the alternative. Was it better with Hillary who had conferences with thugs and rioters and couldn’t go a speech without going on about race and prisons, not roads, schools nor jobs? Bernie who allows the thugs to rush him off stage and steal his microphone? Except he seems quick to single out one nation in the world for his ire! Or, I know, Kaisich, who goes to a matzo factory and teaches the staff there about whats really in the Bible! Maybe we can bring back Obama, and have the Muslim Brotherhood back in the whitehouse, blame the recent attack in Spain on Israelis living in apartments, while calling them just “random folks” that were not at all targeted for being in a kosher establishment. Remember Paris. Yea, let’s for the that tired old nonsense again.

The ease of this anti-Trump brainwashing, anti-any-Republican really, but especially anti-Trump over such nonsense is really enlightening about how things in history so easily occurs. Maybe I sinned myself here, but I didn’t mention anything that used 12 “anonymous” sources like the articles about Trump does. Record amount of leaks per day is happening I read. And PS. this has gone so over the line I created an account to post.