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  • in reply to: Crime in the good ole’ USA #1362885
    huju
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    And speaking of liberal media, The New York Times has an article on line (maybe also in the print edition) today about a black man convicted of murder of one white man and assaulting 2 others in Union Square, Manhattan, because he was mad at white people. He was sentenced to 25 years. Mark your 2042 diary to be careful when he gets out. Read the article – does it cheer you up that it was reported? Do you feel better informed?

    in reply to: Crime in the good ole’ USA #1362749
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    Reply to adocs and health: As we know from the OJ trial/circus, adocs is clearly wrong. As for why a murder in Philadelphia got no national coverage: lots of murders get no national coverage, usually for good reasons.

    According to an FBI web site which I just accessed, there were about 15,700 murders in the US in 2015, i.e., about 43 per day for 365 days. Do you really think we need to read about all of them? Or that they are not reported because the media is liberal and wants to cover up all those murders? Why not ask Breitbart to report them?

    in reply to: Being Mekarev an Intermarried Jew #1360897
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    I am shocked by the opening post: someone pays Joseph to do kiruv. I never would have guessed.

    huju
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    Re CTLawyer’s comment about Joseph’s citation of CTLawyer’s comment about marriage counselling: There is another factor (aside from the absence of clergy from compulsory marital counselling before divorce in Connecticut) that may skew the divorce rate among the maritally counselled in Connecticut: Because the counselling is compulsory in Connecticut, some couples may enter counselling only as a required formality, with their minds already made up, and with no intention of changing their decisions in the course of counselling. That does not reflect on the wisdom of voluntary counselling by seriously interested couples, but compulsory counselling may be an empty gesture.

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    Re CTLawyer’s first comment: Thank you for explaining to the opening poster the difference between apples and orange trees. If I weren’t lazy, I would also explain to him the need for citations when alleging “facts” like the divorce rate among the frum, or non-frum Jews, or gentiles, or salamanders. And I won’t even get into the need for specifying the period of time – 2015, 1996, 20th Century – he is talking about.

    in reply to: Questions for CTLawyer #1359598
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    In addition to the statute of limitations, in New York City, if you intend to sue the City, you must file a notice of claim within 30 days after the incident that is the topic of the suit. I have no idea whether any jurisdictions outside New York have similar requirements when suing government entities.

    in reply to: What is the proper relationship between spouses? #1354275
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    Is this thread dancing around those tasteless jokes about Arkansans?

    in reply to: loud music at weddings #1354266
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    CTLawyer has the right idea. I would think – probably wrongly – that a band would turn down the music if requested by the host, without a contract provision, but the contract provision is nevertheless a great idea, and probably sets a tone for softer music (pun intended).

    I’d like to hear from some professional musicians: what’s with the deafening volume? Is it a cover for the mediocrity of your musicianship? Or a way to keep guests away from you? Or have you already lost your own hearing.

    I’ll be attending a simcha next month where Mommy/hostess is an otorinolaryngologyst (ENT physician). Hope the music reflects her medical knowledge.

    in reply to: What is the proper relationship between spouses? #1354098
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    Best answer: CTLawyer’s.

    in reply to: Irma 🌀🌬🌩🌪🌊 #1352889
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    When did the oilam become meteorologists? And why would you check with anyone other than a meteorologist?

    in reply to: Life insurance #1352885
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    I have no familiarity with the Halacha of life insurance, so I have no basis for saying that the idea that Halacha prohibits the purchase of life insurance is nuts. But I will say it anyway: it’s nuts. If you have a family, the breadwinners need life insurance.

    in reply to: Price Gouging 🤑🤑 #1351930
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    To RebYidd23: The free market takes everything into account, including the extent to which the people in the market are affected by their ethics.

    in reply to: Obama’s Legacy 👳‍♂️💣🏌️‍♂️🗡 #1351377
    huju
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    Would Joseph please tell us how he gets his health insurance/healthcare?

    As for democracy, Joseph seems to think it is binary – you are democratic or you are not. America was democratic at its founding, but got more democratic with the end of slavery, the granting of the right of women to vote, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and other advances in democracy over the length of our history.

    in reply to: Misleading headlines 🇮🇱🌧️ #1351281
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    Journalism 101 teaches that headlines are not part of the articles. They might be clickbait, or “teasers” for those of us who remember the time before online news. The article is where the information is.

    huju
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    There are currently no less than 78 Coffee Room topics on shidduch crisis, and Joseph started no less than 79 of them. I think Joseph is lonely or needs a hobby.

    in reply to: How was the eclipse? #1348499
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    The eclipse, man … it was, like … the moon, the sun … it was outta sight.

    in reply to: Soap on a rope, where are you? #1344869
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    CTLawyer gets this week’s award for best comment.

    I thought soap on a rope fell out of use when it got confused with rope-a-dope.

    in reply to: Anybody know any False Prophets? #1343764
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    False profits? That would be Bernie Madoff.

    in reply to: Confederate Statues #1343607
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    Health: “If it was such an abomination – it should have been taken down during the time when we had a black president.”

    Really? White politicians cannot fix abominations? Did Germany need a Jewish prime minister to pay reparations to victims of the Holocaust?

    And, as I pointed out, the US president does not have jurisdiction over statues in a state or municipal park.

    in reply to: Here we go again with alleged theft of public funds #1343202
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    We have shomrim to protect the streets and the people in Jewish neighborhoods. Maybe we should have shomrim auditors to protect yeshivas and Jewish charities from financial misconduct.

    in reply to: Confederate Statues #1343183
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    To CTLawyer: I certainly would not think that a Confederate government note is intended to be a tribute. I do think you have understated the problem with the Confederacy: “discrimination” was a relatively minor problem, but the bigger problem was slavery. And a statue memorializing a soldier who fought to defend that state is an abomination.

    in reply to: Confederate Statues #1342864
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    Re akuperma’s first comment: There are so many spectacularly wrong bits of information in this comment that I will focus only on the first paragraph:

    1. There is no evidence that the building of statues of Confederate soldiers was part of any reconciliation effort. The statues were generally erected by Southern state and local governments, in the period from the 1890’s to the 1940’s, and were intended to assert the white supremacy at the start of the Jim Crow era and the nascent civil rights movement of the 1930’s.

    2. The Confederacy crushed itself by borrowing money from its citizens to fund the Civil War effort, and when the war was lost, the debt was worthless. Another major source of Southern wealth was its investment in slaves, and losing the war destroyed that value. As for the Ivy League, there was no formal Ivy League until the early 20th Century. Before that, it was just a phrase tossed about by the general public. For all I know, there might be a similar phrase that was or is used to refer to the outstanding Southern universities. But the growth of Southern universities was indeed severely impaired by the wealth lost by the Southern elite in the Civil War.

    3. There are lots of well-recognized regional accents in the US, including the Archie Bunker New Yorker, the Hillary Clinton Midwesterner, and the David Brinkley/Douglas Kiker Southern broadcaster. These accents are spoken by the stupid and educated alike. Please do not hang your accent prejudices on the rest of us.

    in reply to: Eclipse! Freaking out about driving during the eclipse. #1342869
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    Wherever you have to go, wait 10 minutes and it will be over. And in New York, the eclipse will be partial. not total. Your headlights will do fine.

    And mms601 makes an excellent point – distracted drivers.

    in reply to: Let’s Hock About The Woman On The Bus Who Refused To Move #1342759
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    Without contextual information, this video is meaningless. Is it a public bus? Are there reserved seats on the bus? Was the chosid doing much of the talking correct that the woman was sitting in “his” seat? We do not have sufficient information to evaluate the conduct of the individuals heard on the video. So many of the commenters utterly overlook the lack of contextual information but comment anyway.

    in reply to: Complimenting what someone is wearing #1339854
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    If a toupee looks good, it does not look good enough.

    in reply to: The Casualties of Yiddish in Litvishe Chadorim #1339541
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    Yiddish is a language of Eastern Europe. It is utterly unknown to the Israeli Jews who came from North Africa, Iran, Syria and other Middle Eastern countries. There is nothing particularly holy about it. It was unknown to Rashi, Rambam, Ramban and many others. It was not spoken by the rabbis of the Talmud.

    English is the language of America and international commerce. It is taught in many nations, e.g., all the Iranian Jews I know studied English when they attended Jewish schools/yeshivas in Iran. It is more important for Jews, who need to be well-educated to have parnassah and political power, to be fluent in English than Yiddish.

    in reply to: Sweet 16 #1333322
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    To Joseph: See the fifth post for an example of the uninformed speculation about which I warned you.

    in reply to: Market hits record high under Trump Administration #1333067
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    The rise in the Dow Jones Industrial average started in the Obama administration. I do not recall Joseph or other Obama opponents praising him when that rise occurred.

    Stock markets rise and fall for lots of reasons. Government policy is only one factor, and generally not a big one.

    Joseph referred to “many economists.” Could he name one?

    in reply to: Sweet 16 #1333066
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    Joseph: Why not ask some goyim? Nobody here can give you anything but uninformed speculation.

    in reply to: Halachos of a bar #1330406
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    The mods took down 2 great jokes about Jews and bars that I posted. They – the jokes, not the mods – didn’t address the difficult halachic issues, but they were funny and appropriate.

    So these 2 moderators from YWN walked into a bar ….

    ouch!

    in reply to: do you support repeal & replace obamacare? 🚫🔀🤵🏿💉❓ #1330410
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    Most advanced industrialized nations have gone with some form of single-payer plan. The costs are generally about half of what the US spends on healthcare, and the care is just as good. Some products and services, e.g., healthcare, don’t work in so-called free-market systems. Stop worrying about nonsense and myths about the “miracle” of free markets. Look at what works and do it that way.

    in reply to: New Sqaure #1330325
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    They used to commercially package and distribute orange juice, but I do not see it in the supermarkets any more. The juice was good.

    in reply to: White kippah #1328763
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    I wear a white kippah to the gas station, supermarket, and shul. I don’t wear it at airports, because I don’t want the security personnel to mistake me for a Muslim.

    If you think Muslims have it easy in America, try dressing like one for a day.

    in reply to: Tort Reform #1328760
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    Joseph probably considers himself conservative. There is nothing conservative about having the federal government – i.e., Congress, as Joseph proposed – overrule or overturn state tort law. As CTLawyer correctly noted, tort law is, primarily, state law.

    in reply to: Sefardim own Ashkenazim #1325029
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    Ketchup and BBQ sauce are the preferred tastes of Southern gentile Americans. I like them, but I’m a Yenkee.

    in reply to: Can money buy you happiness? 💲➡🤑❓ #1325014
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    Go to aisle 5 at any Walmart for the best buy on happiness.

    in reply to: Is it worth it to get married and divorced? #1323138
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    Do you think Trump married any of his wives with the intent of not getting divorced? Or does he plan to dump them when they lose their youthful beauty?

    in reply to: Cancer is a Fungus? #1322892
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    The opening poster, and most of the commenters (I have not read them all) suffer a fundamental misunderstanding of how medicine and all other science works. Here is a very simple summary of how it works:

    When someone announces an idea about something, typically called a hypothesis, other physicians, engineers or scientists evaluate it and test it. If it’s right, many people announce it is right and the hypothesis is accepted and used in medicine and other science or engineering. If it is unproven (like the cancer-is-fungus idea) it is ignored and disappears from the discussion.

    So everybody just wait awhile, and if Tough-actin’ Tinactin starts advertising itself as a cancer cure, and doctors start having success in treating cancer the way they treat other fungi, the opening post will turn out to right. But do not hold your breath, because it takes a while.

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    Re Health’s comment on huju’s comment: With respect to Trump’s “thought process,” I share the view of the poster (Rebyid) who immediately follows your comment. Trump and the Republicans have had more than 6 years to find a replacement for Obamacare, somethinge/o” to come up with a replacement. And for every day between repeal and replacement, people will suffer needless financial hardship, sickness and death, the the mitzvah of providing healthcare for all will be unfulfilled.

    in reply to: Yiddishkeit in the Appalachias #1322642
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    Can anyone think of a pun using kol/coal? If not, then this thread is a waste.

    in reply to: make a stop to the fake news media #1320595
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    The opening poster clearly has no understanding of the First Amendment. Period. He/she clearly never studied it in school at any level, nor in his/her adult life. It is a shame that so many Americans have so little understanding of the meaning of their/our freedoms.

    huju
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    There are a number of problems with the opening post, but I will focus on just one.

    Whether or not healthcare is a right under US law, under the Torah, healthcare for each person in a coumunity is a responsibility of the whole community. This is the opinion of the Rambam, and I am sorry that I do not have a specific citation for this view. The Torah speaks more of responsibilities and obligations than of rights, and so maybe Obamacare should be recast as the federalization and secularization of the mitzvah of providing healthcare for all. Repeal without replacement would mean death or severe illness for many people. Perhaps the opening poster owes us an explanation for what he would do for all the people whose health would be severely jeopardized by a repeal, or a faulty repeal-and-replace, of Obamacare.

    in reply to: Parnassah for kollel members. #1320479
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    Jobs at Goldman Sachs and other successful investment firms are not “cushie.” They work hard for their money. They may not be fully honest, or within the law, but they do work hard. And plenty of people get jobs at successful investment firms and get booted in short order, because they cannot do the work. If being a successful investment firm and making crazy big money were easy, everybody would do it.

    huju
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    If you were married at 18, had your last child at age 36, he/she marries at 18, you’re 54. Not old.

    If you were married at 25, had your last child at age 39, he/she marries at 25, you’re 64. You’re old. There is even a song about “when I get old and losing my hair …”

    in reply to: Bait & Switch #1316377
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    You are doing it wrong. Glasses generally impair rather than enhance one’s appearance, and looks matter to employers (and most others), especially if you are a woman.

    in reply to: How much should we help the poor? #1316425
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    cofveve

    in reply to: Ideas For Bachurim 💡👨 #1316334
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    Fidget spinners. Try to get 12 of them spinning at the same speed at once. (12 – one for each tribe.)

    in reply to: Alternatives to BMG #1315328
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    The goyim’s Ivy League has 7 colleges. Jews should have 8 elite yeshivas.

    in reply to: Yeshiva High School Graduates versus Public High School Graduates #1314835
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    Well, it’s good to know that so many Jews think yeshiva students are smarter than public school students. But 4 days after I suggested that someone present facts, this thread remains fact-free and opinion-heavy.

    in reply to: The Post Kollel Financial Crisis #1314795
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    I find this discussion sad and depressing. Grown, married men with children have no business “learning” until they have a clear and sound plan for parnassah. Yeshivas and kollels are partly to blame, and parents who let their sons think the Kollel fairy (tooth fairy’s frum brother) will provide for their families are the biggest threat to the future of frum Jews.

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