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Mercury, perhaps you should change your username until after the baby is born

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/238547/fda-pregnant-women-should-eat-low-mercury-seafood.html

Welcome back to my welcome thread.

The cold never bothered me anyway. But even so, it’s nice that the brutal winter is finally over.

Tbontb wrote:

Question is, does he represent the opinions of OO, or are these just his twisted, delusional,( apikorsish) views?

We have here someone claiming to be a Rabbi with smicha from YCT writing apikorsos in a very public forum. The WSJ is portraying him as an Orthodox Rabbi. Rabbi Hoffman took umbrage to this and therefore wrote his piece in order to try and publicize the fact that not all Orthodox Jews consider this man to be Orthodox. If YCT truly feels the same way then they too should be making a public machaah and should also revoke his smicha. From the fact that they haven’t, we can see that they obviously agree with him and feel that he represents their views.

Was Sandy a male or female Superstorm?

In honor of the Rangers winning, my shul is skipping tachanun until after Shavuos.

R’ Moshe Feinstein ZTL was short. Moshe Rabeinu on the other hand, was 18 Amos tall.

Nice story.

Lyrics to Yagga, written by Eli Schwebel, Gadi Fuchs, Zach Salsberg

The song can be downloaded free from Eli’s web site

Waterpik Ultra Water Flosser

Don’t be so frum, cholov levi is good enough.

The day of the chasana is a personal Yom Kippur for the chosson and kalla.

If you are talking about one of the guests rather than the kalla herself, that is also an inyan as the chuppa is supposed to be an eis ratzon.

Either way, davening is generally a good thing and you shouldn’t make fun of people who do it (unless of course they are doing it in a way that is disturbing others or at a time when they shouldn’t be for whatever reason). Better to daven during the chuppa then sit around speaking lashon hara.

Did you get over it yet?

Or we can just get a pet troll. Wait, we have those already…

THE “STATE” OF IDAHO: THE CASE FOR

OPEN DEBATE

If you would ask any schoolchild how

many states there are in the United

States, you will get the same answer: 50

— fifty states in the Union. It is simply an

accepted “fact.” If you would disagree

with this supposed “fact,” you would be

branded insane or worse. However,

mounting evidence shows that there are

in fact only 49 states in the US, and the

“state” of Idaho is a baseless myth.

We have been trying to distribute and

publish this information for over *two

years*, but our scholarship has not been

given any respect. We have been

censored, vilified, ridiculed and spat

upon by the “traditional” geographers

and historians, but WE WILL NOT BE

SILENCED!

All we ask is that the existence of the

state of Idaho be debated, as every

other historical and geographic “fact”

can be debated. Time after time, our

opponents have refused to debate us on

the FACTS. This alone should tell you

something about the people who support

the “existence” of this “43rd state.”

Please read the following evidence VERY

CAREFULLY, and you will be astonished

at the veracity of our cause.

THE POPULATION MYTH:

Do you know anybody from Idaho? Do

you know anybody *who knows

anybody* from Idaho? According to the

1990 “census,” there are over one

million (1,000,000, or 1 x 10^6) people

living in Idaho. But if there are so many

Idahoans, where are they?

Some people have come forward and

claimed that they were born and raised

in “Idaho.” But *every single person*

who made this claim have been shown to

be frauds and charlatans. These

“Idahoan wannabes” are invariably

inconsistent with each other about the

size (in square miles or square

kilometers) of “Idaho,” about various

town and village names, and even about

the names of “Idaho’s mighty rivers.”

THE SIZE FARCE:

According to traditional geographic

sources (created entirely by people who

believe in the existence of Idaho, and

probably the Tooth Fairy, also) the

“State” of Idaho is more than twice the

size of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire,

Rhode Island, Connecticut and

Massachusetts *combined.* Isn’t it

strange that a state with such vast land

resources has so few people? And even

of you look at a map, (created by the

Idaho-centric cartographers) the “State”

of Idaho is dwarfed by its much larger

neighbor, Montana.

SATELLITE EVIDENCE:

Recently declassified weather satellite

information, showing the entire

continental United States, shows

absolutely *no evidence* that there is

any state where “Idaho” is supposedly

located. Noted experts in the field of

interpreting these pictures unanimously

agree that, from outer space, it is

impossible to determine the borders of

this elusive “state.” Yet meteorologists

and cartographers routinely overlay

these satellite pictures with the outline

of states that would seem to indicate

Idaho’s existence.

PHOTOGRAPHIC “EVIDENCE”:

Many people, skeptical of the clear

evidence that Idaho does not and never

did exist, point to photographs that

they’ve seen in encyclopedias and

postcards seeming to show parts of the

state of Idaho.

It is important to note that a photograph

without a caption is often meaningless. A

picture of people in boats surrounded by

mountains could have been taken in

Colorado or Nevada, but when the holy

*caption* says that this is a picture of

the “Salmon River” in “Idaho,” gullible

readers tend to swallow this information

whole *without any further

examination.*

We have examined literally hundreds of

these “photographs,” and the ones that

are not outright fakes are all clearly

taken in other parts of the nation.

ASK THE JAPANESE:

It is well known that Americans are

woefully ignorant about geography,

which is one reason why it is so easy to

fake an entire state here. Not

surprisingly, most of the effort to create

the illusion of Idaho has been expended

in the USA.

But if you would ask a typical Japanese

or French schoolchild about what he/she

knows about Idaho, you will usually get a

blank stare. People who are much better

at geography than Americans have

never heard of this “great state.”

THE POTATO MYTH:

Any given supermarket in the United

States has sacks of potatoes clearly

marked “Idaho Potatoes.” People make

the assumption, that when they are

buying these potatoes, that they were

*grown* in the “state” of “Idaho.”

Actually, “Idaho” is a type of potato, just

like “McIntosh” is a type of apple. The

FACT is that *many* states have potato

crops, as well as foreign countries, and

potatoes that say “Idaho” on them are no

more from Idaho than Baltimore Orioles

all come from Maryland.

SO, WHAT’S THERE?

Nothing. THERE IS NOTHING THERE. We

have been so brainwashed by the

traditional mapmaking community to

think that if Idaho doesn’t exist, then

there must be some sort of vacuum

there instead. This is nonsense.

The very shapes and positions of the

states, and indeed of every nation on

the planet, is only known through

“information” provided by cartographers.

It is akin to asking “if Santa’s house isn’t

at the North Pole, then what’s there

instead?”

THE CARTOGRAPHER CONSPIRACY:

The *only evidence* that there is a state

called Idaho comes from maps.

Everybody has maps, in almanacs, in

encyclopedias, and on the walls of every

elementary school classroom in America.

Astonishingly, *over 99%* of all maps are

created by *cartographers!* If any

clearly defined set of people would

control any other important industry to

that degree, everybody would be up in

arms about the undue influence given to

a meager few. However, for some

reason, Cartographers are immune to

such criticism. Any mention about the

Cartographer influence over the

mapmaking industry (and, as a natural

extension, OUR VERY THOUGHTS!) is

dismissed as “lunacy.”

As an indication of how insidious is this

influence, just think: have you ever

questioned a map? Maps, being

graphical objects, require much less

effort to assimilate into our very

psyches. Behavioral studies show that

people can much more readily

understand maps than printed

descriptions of geographical areas; in

fact, the images on maps tend to go

directly into the subconscious of Man

(Homo Sapiens) without the critical

thinking that accompanies reading. In a

very real way, Cartographers are the

*real* Thought Police.

But they do not work in a vacuum. There

are much too few of them to do their

real damage unaided. Mapmakers have

conspired with the editors of almanacs

and encyclopedias to create a fantastic

illusion of space where there is none,

people where there aren’t any, and ski

resorts where none exist.

ONLY THE BEGINNING:

This is only the tip of the iceberg. We

have much more material on this

conspiracy, and we have yet to uncover

one iota of evidence that Idaho has ever

existed. All of the so-called “evidence” is

a mixture of falsifications, coercions, lies

and exaggerations.

The Cartographers would like nothing

better than to silence us. If you do not

see any more postings on this subject,

then you have clear evidence that their

Conspiracy of Silence on Idaho has

succeeded, and that Freedom of Speech

has been curtailed by the Cartographical

Thought Police. What can you do? All we

ask is that you be open minded. Of

course, you cannot trust any of the

second-hand evidence that you would

find in libraries, maps (!), airline

schedules or street signs. All you can

trust is what we have written here. We

are confident that once you evaluate all

of the valid evidence, you will be

angered by this conspiracy, and

motivated to do something about the

scum who perpetrated this hoax.

Idaho does not exist either.

Then the ghost sets them up and they live happily ever after until one day, 19 years later, Aryeh is swimming in the lake and is eaten by a giant squid. The End.

Shouldn’t you be counting up the days to Lag baomer?

Are there acapela albums to run by during sefira?

Aristotle’s son and grandsons post on this forum. Of course, that is no proof that any of them are Jewish. (His granddaughters are definitely not Jewish)

Each rune represents a specific rune in the human alphabet. The spacebar is the same in my monkey alphabet as in the human one.

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(Anybody who can translate that wins a free banana)

147, Are you referring to. “V’yaazor” that is said to call up the kohein to the Torah? Because that is only said on Shabbos and Yom Tov, on weekdays we say “v’sigaleh”

Try shmura matzah balls without seltzer…

My imaginary pet rock’s name is Tzuri. She is generally even-tempered except on Purim when she gets stoned.