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Popa still thinks that health care will continue to cost more and more as we make new technology which will always be more expensive.
As with all commodities which are not unlimited (like air), health care will always be rationed. Currently, it is rationed by ability to afford it. The health care bill’s ultimate object is to make it rationed by a governing body who will decide who needs it most.
I would rather it be rationed by money.
B. There are ways we could lower the cost, by using last years technology. That will ultimately be done. When the government is paying for all care, it will simply not pay for new technologies. That is already happening in other countries, although they have the benefit of buying our technology at cheaper prices since they simply say they will not pay the amount we pay. (That is why drugs are cheaper in Canada, we pay for the technology, once it exists, we may as well take what they will pay for it.)
Popa thinks by deregulating the health insurance market, we could allow people to but last years technology now,and at least those who can afford better will be able to get it.
Yes, take any potato kugel recipe, put in half as much potatoes, onions, oil, and eggs.
Delicious and half as many calories and fat.
Just what is the criminal act being alleged here?
Does the treaty someone mentioned make it a criminal act which can be prosecuted by the federal courts?
There are many people who do this. Even in non MO families.
I don’t think it is very nice to cast aspersions on them from your own 2 minute assessment.
If a tree is a tree because a tree is a tree, and a car is a car because a car is a car, then a tree is a tree and a car is a car. But, if a tree is a tree because a car is a car, and a car is a car because a tree is a tree, then a tree is not a tree and car is not a car.
I don’t understand this. What does it mean? Why would a tree be a tree because a car is a car?
Maybe I could understand if a tree was a tree because a different tree was a tree. But then, the conclusion would not be that it is not a tree. The conclusion would be that it should not be a tree.
Even so, I am I means nothing because while I can imagine a car acting like a tree, “car” and “tree” are both objects which something can become, however, “I” is a word which is used by a person to refer to himself- “I am I” is completely redundant.
All kidding aside, does this line actually mean anything?
Lobby’s are the best place for a first date. If she is boring, she is not for you.
Anyone who does not like shmaltz herring should look into their yichus.
Oh, from the girls perspective?
I wasn’t discussing that. If I was a girl, and felt constricted by the lack of intellectuality in my education, I would probably go to a serious university program.
If I thought I needed to learn torah to fulfill it, I would at least question whether I was really looking for something besides intellectualism. I would also question whether the torah I would be learning was actually going to be the real depth.
I once was on a date and the girl mentioned that her friends were at a gemara shiur. I asked why, and she answered they find it intellectual. They were learning arei miklat. Very intellectual, huh?
Still, if I really wanted to, I would do it.
oh yes, hashem put polio into the world and it’s a mitzva to get it. I see.
deizezooger:
That is correct. Chalav stam lasts for several weeks after you open it.
Cottage cheese is spoiled milk!
being stone drunk k’shikruso shel lot
I like a smoky scotch with herring. Like Springbank.
Liverwurst! I cut it into pieces and put them in the freezer because I’m the only one who eats it mostly.
What is a contract in halacha?
I’m sorry. Where did you go? Did you go?
Tanta is right.
This is junk science. Next think you’ll believe in global warming.
I would rather die like a man than live like a coward
A coward dies 1000 deaths a soldier dies but one
“This is not part of my value system”
-Popa
WADR, you have no idea what you are talking about. Have you ever met some of the women who have completed programs at Midreshet Lindenbaum, Drisha, Nishmat, or GPATS?
Why yes I have, a rather brilliant young lady who went to the one run by YU.
The BYs teach rashi by learning it in a very superficial way that has nothing to do with torah and is therefore not a problem.
This is how the womens gemara classes do it as well.
In NJ the parent can be liable if the parent failed to do reasonable supervision, and the kid’s action is willful, malicious or unlawful.
People get fine jobs out of Cornell.
(I figured once I’m being ridiculous, I shouldn’t stop.)
Poskim, especially Ashkenazic ones, will argue on *halachah* with rishonim, even when they don’t have a competing rishon to back them up.
No. They don’t. Some achoaronim were willing to, but there is no contemporary posek who will. And even when an acharon did, it was not with the glee of; “and B”H he has been proven wrong”.
Kal v’chomer on a matter of empirical fact.
While I don’t think we need to believe everything any rishon said when it does not relate to halacha, it is hard to consider psychology a matter of empirical fact.
Charlie:
Who are your views representative of? Do other modern orthodox have a similar attitude towards Rashi?
Feel free to chime in, any other MO posters; is it ok to argue with a rishon?
Minyangal, how about conservative, what do you say?
Only change the baby once a day. How often do you change your own clothes?
In spite of rain, in spite of snow,
in spite of all the winds that blow,
in spite of hail and biting frost,
take thyself and get thee lost.
– Popa’s friend’s adaption of Phillip Freneu
That’s ridiculous. People are getting fine jobs out of Penn.
Also, the halacha is stricter for goyim because they are governed by the sheva mitzvos and their murder is governed by the pasuk “shofech dam haodom…” in Noach, which includes fetuses.
neither is every billable minute working.
By the way. Lawyers need to bill 2000 hours per year. That works out to 8.4 billing hours per day on a 5 day workweek with 15 days vacation.
That is not an 80 hour week.
“Only live fish get caught with hooks and dragged to a boat and eaten.”
– Popa
There’s very little truth behind every “I’m not kidding”
There’s very little truth behind every “just wondering”
There’s very little truth behind every “I do know”
There’s no truth behind every “I do care”
In Hawaii you have to pay.
gavra; charlie; anyone else who dislikes Rashi:
That is not how it works. We don’t observe what is successful and decide a rishon was wrong. And if we happen to pasken like one rishon over another, we don’t call the other wrong.
I think sacrilege went to an international law school, and so is able to practice in NY if she takes the Bar.
Sac: I think some schools offer a 2 year JD program for international law students. You may want to consider that one day.
Dear mother burst the tyrant’s chain,
Virginia should not call in vain,
she meets her sisters on the plain
sic semper tis the proud refrain,
that baffles minions back amain,
Maryland! My Maryland!
Statistics show that guys who get married at eighteen have more years of a happy marriage on average.
That is because guys who get married at 18 are generally more mature than average guys. If they had gotten married at 23 they’d be even more mature and even better off.
It’s the same as the others. Just look at my comments on those.
I think you should go to BYA
And in parting from you now,
thus much let me avow,
you are not wrong to deem,
that my days have been a dream,
yet if hope has flown away,
in a night or in a day,
in a vision or in none,
is it therefore the less gone,
all that we seem and seem,
is but a dream within a dream.
If there is no compelling reason to dress up, it should not be done. The less dressed up a married woman is (in public) the better.
I disagree. There are reasons to dress nicely besides for making yourself attractive. A person should dress nicely for themselves, for their own self image.
Statistics show that guys who get married at twenty have more years of unhappy marriage on average.
good/bad jew/goy:
I/you deny/admit it/what.
shidduchim destroyer
Who says how good chassidishe bochurim are doing?
Whenever I see a yeshiva bachur with nice Middos, learning sincerely, etc, I “shep nachas.” However, the second he takes out a cigarette, my entire image of him changes.
Well, maybe it shouldn’t. Maybe you should use that to change your image of smokers. Why do you let your mental image of smokers change your view of people, in the face of evidence that good normal people, who learn torah and have good middos, do smoke.
“Rashi says that women’s minds are not meant for serious Torah learning. “
And B”H he has been proven wrong.
One who argues with a Rishon is not an apikores. However, most people think it is a foolish thing to do.
Why did you say this?
I don’t see any reason why a preschool teacher should dress up at all. You dress for the job you are doing. Engineers and architects wear overalls at a work site. Doctors walk around in clothes you wouldn’t be caught dead in.
Any girl or their parents in the parsha of Shuduchim should make it absolutely clear that they will not be interested in anyone who smokes or had a history or smoking.
I agree. We already got the boys to do a similar campaign regarding being overweight, and it was very successful.
It is even easier with smoking because there is no smoking equivalent of anorexia, so there is no side risk.
OK. Popa does not think he offended the OP. Popa was only making fun of “jobless” for writing an entire post in he/she.
There was no reason for anyone to think I was being unsympathetic to people with autism. I was perhaps being not nice to jobless.
jobless: I hope you did not mind. I would not mind if someone did it to me.