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  • in reply to: Barack Hussein Obama, Will he Drop “Hussein” or Not? #1891183
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    To charliehall: So for guidance on democracy, we should consider … Germany? Actually, Germany has been well-behaved since 1945, but it still gives me the creeps, and lately, all of Europe and America has been dealing with rising right-wing politics.

    in reply to: Barack Hussein Obama, Will he Drop “Hussein” or Not? #1891136
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    To Health: Did you not learn about rhetorical questions in high school? Yes, I know the origins of the Electoral College. Do you think we still need it? One of the justifications for the Electoral College was to prevent the people from electing an idiot. Well, no system is foolproof.

    Would you oppose a constitutional amendment to allow the popular vote to choose the US president, as we choose governors, state attorneys general, senators, congressmen, state legislators, mayors, county executives, county prosecutors, sheriffs, tax collectors and dog catchers?

    in reply to: Socialism OTD #1891135
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    To nomesorah: I did respond to your questions to me, but YWN has either taken down my answering posts, or never put them up. Sorry.

    in reply to: Are the Chinese to blame for the covid-19 disease? #1891132
    huju
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    Skip the blame. Who is to credit/blame for Europe having such low counts, and the US having such high counts, with little sign of the decline of the pandemic?

    in reply to: Barack Hussein Obama, Will he Drop “Hussein” or Not? #1890529
    huju
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    Back in 2016, Barack Who’s sayin’ Obama’s former secretary of state won the popular vote for president. Why does no other democracy have an electoral college?

    in reply to: Minyan in hershy pa #1890523
    huju
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    There is a local minhag in Hershey that choclate Kisses can count for a minyan.

    in reply to: Socialism OTD #1890521
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    To nomesorah: My remark about the morals of socialist women was comedic, not anthropological. Apparently, it was wrong comedically and anthropologically.
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    in reply to: Is there still carona in the frum world? #1888501
    huju
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    To continue my stupid joke, all caronas (Spanish for automobiles) need transmissions, but that does not mean they transmit coronavirus.

    A new stupid joke is that corona, like most beers, is considered kosher even if it lacks a hechsher.

    As for coronavirus in the frum world, coronabirus can cross any border, as the folks in Florida, Texas, Georgia and elsewhere in the US have learned, the hard way. So long as there is coronavirus in most of the world, the frum world is at risk.

    in reply to: Tuition: Are We Paying Enough? #1888500
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    To Syag Lchochma: You raise some sound points. My proposal is not a complete plan, but something can be worked out so that frum students can attend public schools without breaching Halacha or compromising their education and religious values. It won’t be easy, and it will take a lot of political work. There will still be some frum who will find the arrangement unacceptable, but many frum parents will find this can work.

    in reply to: Tuition: Are We Paying Enough? #1888108
    huju
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    For the 10th time, I will give you the answer to the tuition problem: Send the kids to public school for secular subjects for half a day, teach the religious subjects in yeshivas. Regrettably, this will put a lot of rabbis and religious teachers out of work, but it will solve a crushing problem for many frum Jews.

    This will take a lot of politicking to accomplish, and many frum politicians have a stake in the continuation of the religious schools. It is, nevertheless, essential for the relief of many frum families. edited

    in reply to: Someone other than Trump? #1886344
    huju
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    How about a thread for Someone Worse than Trump?

    Hitler
    Stalin
    Mussolini
    Jeffrey Dahmer
    Charles Manson
    Boston Strangler
    Jack the Ripper
    The Joker
    Putin

    in reply to: What kind of police reforms do we need? #1886335
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    In the United Kingdom, police officers generally do not carry firearms. I would like to see some jurisdictions try that here. Anybody who shoots a cop would be shooting an unarmed person. That should carry long sentences and would sit well with juries. I think it is worth a try, but I am not a cop, so it’s easy for me to say.

    Maybe unarmed cops could wear a different colored shirt, so prospective shooters would know they are dealing with unarmed officers.

    in reply to: Socialism OTD #1886307
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    To nomesorah: Loose morals among socialist women do not have to do with socialism. But for socialist men, it is a happy coincidence.

    To “1”: A recent study found that left-leaning Americans give more to charity than right-leaning Americans. That does not conflict with your comment about capitalists’ charitable generosity, because most so-called left-leaning Americans are capitalists.

    in reply to: Does Anyone (Basically) Know (Like) How to Talk (Whatever)? #1886306
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    The US president uses “totally” like a US adolescent. That does not surprise me.

    in reply to: Socialism OTD #1886079
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    To nomesorah: I do not understand your question.

    in reply to: Yeshivish Clothing #1885945
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    To nomesorah: Not too worry, I’m relaxed. Wine with breakfast does that.

    in reply to: yeshivish vs. charedi #1885938
    huju
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    Yeshivish vs. Chareidi: Worst WWE wrestling match ever. Chairs are much better for head-bashing than volumes of Talmud.

    in reply to: What kind of police reforms do we need? #1885937
    huju
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    I think the key to improving police treatment of arrestees is an improvement in recruiting of police. The bully wannabees must be screened out before they are hired. I don’t know how you do that, but it needs to be done.

    Another other key problem is blue omerta. When cops know that other cops won’t be witnesses against them, it emboldens the abusers to be abusive. The growing ubiquity of cellphone videos helps.

    Body cameras will go a long way to preventing unwarranted beatings. The cameras should be on all the time, and not under the control of the wearers. Something will have to be done to protect police officers’ privacy during bathroom breaks, but pointing the cameras at the ceiling would solve that problem. edited But it can be worked out.

    in reply to: Message from HaShem #1885635
    huju
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    To nomesorah: I was trying to be funny, nothing more, based on the similarity of the opening poster’s statement from Hashem, and certain words in that old song. What’s big H, small H? you are too cryptic for me to understand.

    in reply to: Socialism OTD #1884703
    huju
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    Socialist women and socialist female adolescents have loose sexual morals. That will get lots of frum men and boys OTD.

    in reply to: Message from HaShem #1884698
    huju
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    If Hashem said that to a mortal, I would say He has been listening to an old Beatles song, “I Am the Walrus,” from one of their last albums. It’s a catchy tune.

    in reply to: Yeshivish Clothing #1884711
    huju
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    To masivta alawyer: a. What does “chap” mean?

    b. I am annoyed – not upset – that frum bochurs in rumpled black suits and rumpled white shirts and unkempt shoes think they look more pious, and are more pious, than a Jew in properly pressed clothing. If proper attire is part of being pious, then they should be attired properly.

    c. I don’t think the Torah gives us much guidance on “proper attire.” Twenty years ago, when Microsoft was the world’s most successful company, Microsoft was the arbiter of “proper attire”, which was a button-down shirt opened at the collar, no tie, casual slacks. That style was set by its then president, a very nice gentile. (I know little about Microsoft’s business behavior, and so my characterization of its then president does not reflect Microsoft’s business behavior.)

    d. So what role do non-frum and non-Jewish society play in shaping “proper attire” for purposes of Halacha.

    in reply to: Yeshivish Clothing #1884091
    huju
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    To masivta aliyah: My point is: even a Jew in basketball attire can be frum, can lead a minyan, not just count for a minyan.

    Frankly, many bochurs, and Yeshivish Jews too old to be bochurs, dress in black suit and white shirt, but do not look respectable, because the suit is unpressed, the shirt is unpressed and even untucked, and the tie is loose. And yet they think I am not properly dressed in my well-pressed tan suit, white hat and properly pressed shirt, with no tie in summer.

    I think no tie is better than a loose tie. Discuss.

    in reply to: Why does the frum world have no clout? #1883244
    huju
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    To commons aychel: I respond to false accusations that I am anti-Semitic. I am not. I am not black either, but that does not matter to you.

    in reply to: Why does the frum world have no clout? #1883150
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    To commons aychel: Ok, I’ll try:

    Secular blacks control the economy and Hollywood. There’s not much left for frum blacks.

    I don’t get it – not your point, not mine about blacks.

    in reply to: Freedom of Speech #1882732
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    There is so much that is so wrong in these comments, but I have only one thing to say, to Ben Levi: I am a liberal, and a Jew, and I know way more American history than you know.

    Speaking of history, I remember when conservatives favored the prosecution of burners of the American flag, and a case went to the Supreme Court, and the court upheld the burning as an exercise of free speech. I remember when conservatives wanted to prosecute leftist wearers of shirts that looked like they were made out of American flags. I cannot remember whether there was a prosecution or Supreme Court case on the issue, but now you can buy such shirts on line, and conservatives wear them at conservative protests.

    So if you feel like burning a swastika flag, you have liberals to thank for bringing a case to the Supreme Court and affirming that right.

    in reply to: The black hat. #1882736
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    To Schnitzel Big: The president did not change his hair color, he changed his dye. He is a lie from head to toe.

    in reply to: Yeshivish Clothing #1882737
    huju
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    I remember Minchah years ago, when we needed two more Jews for a minyan. The rabbi went outside and came back with two adolescent Jews, dressed in basketball shorts and T-shirts. One of them acted as chazzan. A Jew is a Jew no matter how he or she is dressed. Let’s never forget that.

    in reply to: Why does the frum world have no clout? #1882738
    huju
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    Secular Jews control the economy and Hollywood. There’s not much left for frum Jews.

    I got an e-mail from the head Jew (secular), and he told me I get to set interest rates on my upcoming birthday. Any frum suggestions?

    in reply to: The black hat. #1882360
    huju
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    To Sam Klein, who asks: “Why do they charge so much for these black hats?” The answer is, because they can. The trickier question is, Why do people of modest means pay so much for these black hats?

    An interesting question is the history of the black hat over the last 100 years. Look at wedding photos from 50 years ago and you will see much smaller hats. Evidently, fashion infects even pious Halachic from clothing. Would anyone draw criticism for wearing a black hat of the prevailing size 50 years ago? Not where I daven, but maybe where my adult children daven.

    And if fashion can affect frum clothing, why can’t comfort or common sense? I am the only davener who wears a white hat in the summer months.

    in reply to: Jeffrey Epstein – part 2 #1882050
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    Thank you, regularbochur, for pointing out the folly of many Torah Jews who embrace the Republican party too tightly. I would add that with respect to abortion, the Torah requires – requires – abortion to save the life of the mother. Many Christians would would forbid that.

    Here is an interesting problem: If abortion is illegal, would an exception be made in a case where the abortion is necessary to save a Jewish mother’s life? And if so, what about a non-Jewish non-religious Christian mother who needs the abortion to save her life?

    in reply to: Black Militia of the NFAC #1881468
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    To nomesorah: Thanks for trying, but ABM would stand for A Black Militia. What does NFAC stand for: National French Athletic Club?

    in reply to: Black Militia of the NFAC #1881256
    huju
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    Would someone please explain what these abbreviations mean:

    NFAC
    PNW
    HPN
    HNGC

    in reply to: Jeffrey Epstein – part 2 #1880160
    huju
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    Well, someone finally thought of someone worse than Donald Trump: Jeffrey Dahmer. And, to make it even better, Trump never socialized with Dahmer. Trump cannot say the same thing about Jeffrey Epstein.

    in reply to: Frum non profit organizations disclosing financials. #1878779
    huju
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    I continue to insist that there is no such thing as a “non-profit” organization. Profit is the excess of revenue over proper expenses. Excessive salaries, payments to suppliers which are kicked back to top executives, and no-show jobs for spouses or children are distributions of profits, no matter what the operating statements say. IRS Form 990’s are a good place to start evaluating the efficiency of a charitable organization.

    There have been some recent scandals involving Jewish charitable organizations, e.g., Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty. We must be sure that our tzedaka is used for tzedaka.

    in reply to: Bob Grant #1878079
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    To Goldilocks: I made no comment on David Dinkins’ performance as mayor. And if you don’t know the difference between calling an African American mayor a washroom attendant and calling a former farmer a farmer, you should attend the sensitivity class with Joseph.

    in reply to: Bob Grant #1878078
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    To commonsichle: I listened to WBAI for about 5 minutes. I think the “B” stood for “boring” and the “I” for ignorant. The “A” … never mind.

    in reply to: How was Daf Yomi studied originally? #1878077
    huju
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    Daf Yomi was originally studied weekly because the learners were Yiddish speakers but not fluent in Hebrew.

    in reply to: Right wing Ywn? #1878076
    huju
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    Thank you, Joseph. You actually clarified something for me.

    in reply to: Right wing Ywn? #1877930
    huju
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    I thought the right-leaning version of YWN was YWN.

    in reply to: Yeshivish Clothing #1877925
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    Brooks Brothers – you can’t miss.

    in reply to: NY-17 #1877868
    huju
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    I’m with Frumguy.

    in reply to: Blue States Coronavirus #1877353
    huju
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    Does anyone want to start a fund to give Joseph a one-way ticket to Florida or Texas, so he can be safe from coronavirus? (I don’t, because I understand that it would raise his risk of death.)

    in reply to: masks and antibodies #1876182
    huju
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    To add to what huju said: Nobody should try to fine-tune the guidelines that the medical experts recommend. They recommend masks, but did not make distinctions between those who have have antibodies and those who don’t, or those who are too short to spit in the average face, or so tall that their droplets go into the air and never come down. New York, and the Northeast generally, was hit hard and is recovering steadily. Let’s not press our luck. Yes, I would like to go to minyan, but the first mitzvah is to protect life.

    in reply to: 5,000+ School Busses to Albany #1876171
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    To Syag Chochma: Thank you for your apology.

    in reply to: 5,000+ School Busses to Albany #1875840
    huju
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    To Syag: a. What is a glimose?

    b. My online Merriam-Webster says the plural of bus is buses, but also lists an archaic plural – busses, as a less favored choice.

    c. My reference to yeshivas was based on my assumption that most people reading this website were yeshiva-educated. If I were an anti-Semite, I would go to some right-wing websites, many of which support Trump.

    d. “Misspellings” refers to words spelled incorrectly. Miss Pellings is the nurse in my doctor’s office.

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    in reply to: 5,000+ School Busses to Albany #1875747
    huju
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    Would someone in charge of teaching English in yeshivas please add to the curriculum the differences between buses and busses. The former are motor vehicles holding many people; the latter are expressions of love.

    in reply to: Bob Grant #1875754
    huju
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    Joseph: If you think David Dinkins was a lousy mayor, you are free to say so, with or without reasons. If you do not understand what is wrong with calling an African-American mayor a washroom attendant, you are remarkably … uninformed.

    in reply to: Shelach — Climbing the Ladder #1875753
    huju
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    I thought shelach was a clear coating for wood.

    in reply to: Bungalow Colonies #1875751
    huju
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    ant bungalow colonies are always open. Ants always live in colonies.

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