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MA: Do you have evidence of Parkinson’s or seizures from a reliable source?

I was reading an article about presidents who have covered up their medical conditions. It’s practically a tradition, dating back almost to the beginning of the republic.

Why do people who park by fire hydrants (and stay in their cars) think it’s better not to pull all the way to the curb? It’s just as illegal and it impedes traffic flow.

Folks, it’s just pneumonia. My 99-year-old MIL is recovering nicely from it, and she’s much more frail than Hillary. She’d probably also make a better president.

Apparently it took some skill to turn them back. Maybe you can find a “how-to” video on Youtube.

iacisrmma, according to my source, Sher is about the only honest used car place around. And I don’t mean around Baltimore.

I’m told that with the electronic odometers (as opposed to the old mechanical ones), it’s very easy to turn them back, so you shouldn’t assume that any odometer reading is correct.

The salaries of public employees are generally part of the public record.

Actually, given the quality of the major party candidates, we’d be best off if the winner died in office. Their running mates seem somewhat better than either of them.

Yawn. Wake me when Health and Ubiquitin kiss and make up.

Health, you made me work to find that. You said Trump is the lesser of two evils. So why vote for him? I believe you live in a state that’s solidly for Clinton, so your vote for Trump is meaningless. Why not vote for someone you actually respect?

One other thing… I find it amazing that any frum Jew can enthusiastically support either of the major party candidates. I can understand those who will hold their nose and vote for the candidate they consider the lesser of the two evils, especially for those who live in swing states. But they are both so antithetical to Torah values that I can’t see how any Torah Jew can be FOR either candidate (as opposed to against the other one). B”H I live in an uncontested state so I can vote against both of them.

I wear goggles when I use power tools. I wear sunglasses when it’s sunny.

DaMoshe, to clarify what R’ Salomon said, it’s not that Kupat Ha’ir is one of those charities with high fundraising costs as one might expect given the ubiquity of their ads. He objects to their claims that if you give them enough money, your troubles will be solved. He thinks they’re exploiting vulnerable people. My source is a 2010 article in Cross-Currents by R’ Yitzchok Adlerstein.

If we’re talking about buying limited-availability coins from the U.S. Mint and selling them to a dealer at a profit, DY is correct. As I explained above, this is a way the dealer gets around the n-per-customer limit. There’s almost no risk, since even if the dealer doesn’t buy it, you can sell it yourself at a profit as ZD did.

To the best of my knowledge, there used to be a single-gender beach in Boston. It was called the “nuns’ beach” or the “priests’ beach.” This was sometime in the mid to late 20th century.

Somebody needs to go on the rides with the blind boy. Participants are required to wear swimsuits, so his mother couldn’t accompany him.

Joseph, it was a while ago so I don’t remember the context, but I distinctly remember having to dig up our civil marriage certificate for some bureaucratic purpose.

… Nefesh B’Nefesh will have to expand their staff.

Sparkly, if an engagement ring is a sign of marriage, what’s a wedding ring?

I forgot to mention that despite the diamond cartel’s slogan “Diamonds are forever,” they’re not. My mother’s diamond got shattered internally when something fell on it. After that, it was basically worthless.

Akuperma, as you probably know, the difficulty of appraising diamonds (or any stone) is the reason that halacha doesn’t allow them for kiddushin.

We were married in my wife’s home state with a New York rabbi as mesader kiddushin. He was authorized to perform marriages in NY, but not in the state in which we were married. He performed our civil marriage a few days later when we returned to NY. His wife and son were the “eidim” on the civil marriage form. On the rare occasions when I need to put down the date on which we were legally married, I have to dig out the marriage license.

As I’ve mentioned before, my wife and I agreed that a diamond was a waste of money, and, at the time, ethically questionable (this was in the days of Apartheid). She was willing to forego an engagement ring entirely. Some years later she asked for a CZ solitaire, which cost less than $200, IIRC.

RebYid, goats will eat almost anything. Beach goers usually bring snacks.

Seriously, I know a totally blind boy who would love to go to a water park. There’s no problem of him seeing women who aren’t tznius, but who can go with him?

If you’re too young to drink coffee, you don’t belong in the coffee room.

Kreplach eyes?

Meno, they haven’t been genetically modifying tomatoes to look nicer, they’ve been breeding them to get traits that have nothing to do with taste. Mostly, commercial growers want tomatoes that look nice, ship well, and are slow to spoil. Tomatoes are advertised as “firm ripe slicing tomatoes.” I don’t want slicing tomatoes, I want eating tomatoes, so I grow my own. I just picked a whole lot for Shabbos.

To stay on topic, “tomato” is a rather old-fashioned slang term for an attractive girl, and my tomatoes don’t have hair (though the leaves and stems have hairs called trichomes, which I don’t dye).

Hooray for yichusdik! I wish I could write you in on my ballot, but I don’t think screen names are allowed.

It’s interesting that the change in the topic’s title isn’t reflected in the URL, which still uses the original phrase.