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October 19, 2009 3:37 pm at 3:37 pm in reply to: Why is the White House Still Attacking Fox News? #662894mybatMember
As NYmom says there’s no bad publicity,the more they attack fox news the more people will tune in.
October 19, 2009 3:35 pm at 3:35 pm in reply to: Why is the White House Still Attacking Fox News? #662893mybatMemberEver since this president was elected he wanted change, since he is African American no one can talk against him and his policies without being accused of racism.
There is also a very big socialist movement going on in the world, look at Honduras, Venezuela. Brazil and Mexico were very close to having socialist presidents, Europe and China. If you were to study movements around the world you would see that its heading towards a socialist movement,
mybatMemberOr why don’t you tell them when you invite them that you are inviting both of them, and if they could please behave. They have to learn that since they share grandchildren you are not going to make 2 different parties (birthdays, bar mitzvahs,brit milas, engagement parties, weddings’etc) all the time. Otherwise there will be no end in sight.
mybatMemberDon’t pull hoaxes of this magnitude, otherwise you’ll end up in BIG trouble?
October 19, 2009 3:26 am at 3:26 am in reply to: Customers Go On Shoping Spree As Hoax Lottery Winner Offers To Pay #662678mybatMemberWell I guess there are crazy people out there! What’s crazier this or the balloon story?
mybatMemberEstherh what a beautiful and powerful message. Mazal what a nice mashal.
I feel that as religious, tzniut people we should try to improve in this area, so thank you. (including myself, its a very hard test)
mybatMemberGreat ronsr, imagine all the yeshiva bochurs with your ties!:)
October 19, 2009 12:31 am at 12:31 am in reply to: Tznius Support Group PLEASE WOMEN ONLY, even reading #665163mybatMemberAren’t opaque tights for the cold?
mybatMemberWe could always learn from everyone! No matter how they look or dress!
mybatMemberJphone, lol!!!
mybatMemberAm I really reading this? Why don’t we just make men neighborhoods and women neighborhoods with husbands and wives meeting in a neutral neighborhood, but only with a permission slip?
mybatMemberShtayger, I said before that I have seen situations like this one, I would just advise you to focus on the positive traits of the boy, compliment and praise him in aspects that he does well in. It is probably a phase and if you make a bigger deal out of it he will get more stubborn and pull away from you.
mybatMemberIf you make a big deal out of it and force him, it WILL backfire. I have seen it happen more than once.
October 18, 2009 8:08 pm at 8:08 pm in reply to: Talking With Members of The Opposite Gender #663142mybatMemberReally haifa? Wow! It happens a lot to my husband but its usually with people who work with/for him so if he’ll be seeing them a lot he will explain it to them and they won’t get offended. If its with someone he’ll only see once he will sneeze or cough. If he will have to receive an award or something and the emcees are expecting to shake his hand in front of a lot of people he will send someone else up in his place.
mybatMemberoutoftowner I also heard that story once, but a few details were changed. 🙂
October 18, 2009 12:50 pm at 12:50 pm in reply to: Labels – How Do You See Yourself? How Do Others See You? #662609mybatMemberThanx haifagirl, I don’t really know how that would work because the person who said that is someone very close to us and he says it with real innocence.
mybatMemberReally jothar? Hashem should send this girl her yeshuah (and all the others that need it) very soon!
October 18, 2009 3:50 am at 3:50 am in reply to: What Food Item Would You Like To See Get A Hecsher? #895393mybatMemberI was once in a kosher McDonalds in Argentina, wasn’t that great, kosher delight or Nathans (LA) is better.
If they make kosher KFC in NY you have to post it here! (otherwise how will I find out?)
mybatMemberWhy abx? What did you post?? 😉
Don’t worry I’m just kidding! 😉
mybatMemberUh….. Bev and hud, maybe its because I live in mexico and most people here are very well off that people don’t feel the need to put other people down with their material blessings. I know the Brooklyn community very well and I also know how people struggle to make ends meet, I know how people live on food stamps, are on Medicaid and receive rent subsidies from the government, while at the same time they feel the need to spend every extra penny they have to buy material possessions to fit in.
B”H and Bli ayin hara I am not in that position, like I said most people in Mexico are materially blessed. I feel no need to get into details because there is no point in me telling everyone my personal life and my husbands business.
mybatMemberSo what Dr Pepper is saying is that older girls compare potential guys to their friends husbands?
mybatMemberReally squeak? I myself don’t drink whiskey (or any liquor for that matter) but you know what my husband if really into, wines… Whenever we go on a trip anywhere he has to bring back a number of good wines.
mybatMemberYes, when my son was born someone brought a bottle of blue, but nobody even liked it!
mybatMemberYou are right mazca, a person who is wealthy never feels it. That’s why they don’t feel the need to show off.
mybatMemberCann you really tell the difference between red label, black or blue, (I think there is a gold label too)? My husband once bought 2 bottles of Johnny walker green, one bottle disappeared from my house and when he opened the remaining bottle my husband said he didn’t even like it so much.
mybatMemberMazca if someone wants to spend $1000 on shoes, fine but don’t show off to people who don’t have money for food, that’s right. That just reminded me I know a family that became very wealthy in recent years. , they were very poor before, well this guy has a brother who doesn’t even have food on his table and all the rich one does(and his wife and kids) is show off to the whole community, now do you think people look up at them or down?
mybatMemberJust a guy that’s exactly my point!
mybatMemberExample 1 I know someone that went to Europe and on a cruise to the Mediterranean last winter, they were very careful not show off to any of their friends knowing that most of them can’t afford such a trip.
Example 2 I know someone who is very very wealthy and has a garages filled with antique cars, nobody has to know the wife drives around in a Toyota camry.
Example 3 I know new rich who have to show off to the world, I know people who have more and don’t feel the need to show off.
Bottom line if you want to wear 1000$ shoes go ahead, but you don’t have to tell everyone how much they cost, and where you bought them, what to you have to prove?
mybatMemberBaking is for your family, your husband, your children, your guests, to make them feel good and to welcome them to your home. Wearing designer clothing to try to prove that you’re better ………
mybatMemberWell in mexico there was a little problem because nobody was giving to the organizations here and the rabbis had to ask people to remember their city when giving tzedaka. (there is no government help like in the states the organizations are 100% self sufficient -with tzedaka of course)
mybatMemberGood idea mazal!
I just don’t understand how people complain about ayin hara and they don’t realize that they are causing it by showing off.
There is a saying in Spanish that says “the louder the box sounds the emptier it is” it means that the more a person has to prove, the less he has. And a box filled to the top won’t make noise. A person who doesn’t have to prove anything is usually because he has more.
mybatMemberHow about going into debt leasing cars you can’t afford to buy?
mybatMemberThe wealthiest person in the world is a man named Carlos Slim. He lives very near by, and his house is one of the simplest houses in his neighborhood (its big but its not ostentatious) he doesn’t have to prove anything to anyone.
October 16, 2009 1:09 pm at 1:09 pm in reply to: What Food Item Would You Like To See Get A Hecsher? #895385mybatMemberMark levin isn’t the dairy batel be shishim?
Now that you mention the wonder bread in mexico it actually is kosher but DE. But for some reason whenever I go to a supermarket in the states the only bread that I can find that is kosher are bagels, why?
mybatMemberI was wondering, doesn’t it say that the order of giving tzedaka 1st your family
2nd your community and your city
3rd eretz yisrael.
I am not saying that the poor people in eretz yisrael are not important but since they are number 3, who should we give to first?
mybatMemberJphone, the difference is when you buy a brand just to show everyone the tag that says Hugo boss or you buy it and don’t feel the need for anyone to see it and you don’t look down on people who can’t afford it. Because I know plenty of people that only buy certain labels so people should see them.
mybatMemberWe are all affected by the marketing of expensive, luxurious items, it could be cars, clothes, etc.
Many times we “have to” have a certain item because its the norm in the society that were living in.
My opinion is that if a person can afford expensive items they should buy it- however they should be very careful not to show the brand name(even if its very expensive) nobody has to know what brand your purse is and how much you spent on it.
For example, I see people wearing certain shoes and purses that have certain little CC’s on them, its not like they are the cutest shoes they just wear them for the brand, then I know other people who wear probably more expensive shoes and you’d never know.
mybatMemberMaybe times are very difficult and these ways are very affective. A lot of people like the whole glamour aspect of giving tzedaka, there are different levels of giving .
October 16, 2009 1:03 am at 1:03 am in reply to: What Food Item Would You Like To See Get A Hecsher? #895374mybatMemberIn mexico kellogs cereals aren’t kosher, imagine! The other brands are (the equivalent of GM)
mybatMemberYou’re right oomis, the coffee grinds need to be “cooked”. Sorry for the mistake!
October 15, 2009 10:40 pm at 10:40 pm in reply to: Dunkin Donuts & The Heter Of Oleh Al Shulchan M’Lachim #662732mybatMemberIn mexico there are krispy kreme stores and if you don’t keep chalav yisrael the rabbis say its fine even for sephardics. (all ingredients are imported with hashgacha and they are bishul goy)
mybatMemberMaybe it could be similar to the halachot of a crock pot?
mybatMemberEstherh maybe the lady in the parking lot was running late and had to pick up her kid somewhere.
October 15, 2009 3:52 am at 3:52 am in reply to: What Food Item Would You Like To See Get A Hecsher? #895358mybatMemberWhy am I getting hungry just by reading this? 🙂
Mmmmm entenmanns……
mybatMemberBecause before a girl goes out with a guy, her family investigates everthing. From who were his teachers in kindergarten, who his friends were in 3rd grade, what grade he got on a test in 9th grade, what type of families his siblings married, what he ate for breakfast on Tuesday, what type of toothpaste he uses, etc (I think you get the point)
If something doesn’t convince you from the list, they’ll move on to the next shidduch. We have to realize that there is no perfection, thinking and expecting to find it can end up being fruitless.
mybatMemberEstherh Hashem should send you a complete refuah shelema!!
mybatMemberMy husband and have actually made 2 shidduchim, so far, and its never even crossed our minds what we will get paid with. They actually didn’t give us anything and B”H. If you make 3 you get straight olam haba- I’m not willing to sell it for some cash.
mybatMemberSheindel I never heard of those sites but ill recommend them to someone I know who would be interested. 🙂
October 14, 2009 11:23 pm at 11:23 pm in reply to: What Food Item Would You Like To See Get A Hecsher? #895348mybatMemberAll the imported kosher items here are all overpriced and expired.
Another problem is that the items that are on the kosher list are not all mehadrim, whatever that means…. Or for ashkenazim its not even permissible. I guess like in the states where all the meat isn’t chalak bet yosef and everythings bishul goy for sephardics.
mybatMemberThe whole shadchan system is obviously flawed. Maybe there’s a different approach.
Just out of curiosity, what’s considered a bottom of the barrel boy, girl or family?
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