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Would someone with influence at NCSY tell them their name-change from “National Council of Synagogue Youth” to NCSY is, to oversimplify, stupid. NCSY is not a word and has no meaning, unless you know that it used to be an abbreviation.
Putin is a better president for Russia because Russia is an undemocratic dictatorship, and he is very undemocratic and dictatorial. So, that said, is this the stupidest issue ever addressed on YWN?
To bention: How many journalists and opposition politicians should Putin kill before you consider him worse than Obama, who (with lots of help) killed Bin Laden, John Boehner and the US generals (except for Boehner and the generals).
Used car salemen – about the same as new-car salesmen.
Guernica.
There are lots of cheap and short-term dental fixes that wind up lasting a long time, but the majority of short-term dental fixes wear out more or less when the dentists expect. If you get lucky with a short-term fix that lasts for years, it does not mean that your dentist gave bad advice or was dishonest – he/she is probably following the collective wisdom of a learned profession. My spouse settled for a cheap short-term fix, and a few years later she lost the tooth. A permanent, more expensive fix whould have saved the tooth and the costs of some extensive oral surgery.
To huju: If you use your brain once in a while, you would realize that reliable data on budget deficits is at the Congressional Office web site, which confirms that in the years 1998, 1999 and 2000, the federal government had budget surpluses.
To coffee addict: You referred to information posted at “polidiotic”. The information posted there is not well presented, not clear, and purports to report only debt, not annual budget deficits.
I found a web site called davemanuel.com, which shows budget surpluses and deficits for 1940 – 2014, and shows surpluses for the last 3 years of the Bill Clinton presidency.
As Rudy Giuliani said, if you want to know that Hillary Clinton is a criminal, just google Hillary Clinton.
It would be libelous to call CTLawyer a “criminal,” because he/she is not a public figure. But I believe that persons in the public arena – particularly candidates for high political office – are not entitled to the same protections under the libel laws as CTLawyer, Health and me. And the libel laws are generally not criminal laws, so jail is not a punishment for committing libel. Calling Hillary a criminal, or calling Dopie Donnie a fraud, are not actionable under the laws of defamation because of their status as public figures.
Working people are the worst. They pay their bills and make the Kollel guys look bad. And they make donations to shuls and yeshivas and expect thanks in return. The worst of them even pay the kollel guys’ bills. We would be better off without those creeps.
To Happygirlygirl: So you like Trump as a TV host? What, if anything, does that have to do with being president of the US? Bob Barker was a good TV host, but I would not consider him for president. (Have you, Happygirlygirl, ever heard of Bob Barker? Not that there’s anything wrong if you have not.)
And while you’re at it, try a little punctuation when you write. Hashem did not use punctuation in the Torah, but the rest of us ought to in our daily written lives.
To Health, re “I don’t like your posts….” There is no need for a smell test. I am quite open about being a registered Democrat and a liberal. But you asked me what I know about the national debt. Here’s what I know:
1. It currently stands at about 19,000,000,000,000. That sounds like a lot of money.
2. The best way to evaluate the level of the national debt is to express it as a percentage of gross domestic product. I am not sure what that percentage is, but I understand that it is well within historical levels.
3. One source of national debt is federal budget deficits year after year. Do you know the name of the last president who ran a budget surplus, rather than a deficit? (Hint: Bill
).So, Health, please explain to me what else I need to know about the national debt, and why Hillary is not the best candidate to deal with it.
Re “health” reply to the brilliant huju: If I were to respond to your incorrect comment like Donald Trump, I would call you an unclever name (e.g., “Hopeless Health,” or, if I knew you were a woman, “Hideous Health”), but that would make me sound like Dopey Donald. Donald Trump is so utterly unfit to be anything than what he is (a rich kid who inherited a successful business, and a con, as real business success Mike Bloomberg calls him), but it is too late at night for me to explain it to you slowly. He went bankrupt several times (don’t tell me what he said about not him, just the companies he ran), tried to sell a vodka when he himself does not touch the stuff (maybe you want to buy his Trump Tefillin), and is tied into the Chinese government in one of his over-leveraged investments. And he thinks the way to evaluate Brexit (or any other serious issue) is by how it will impact his golf courses.
Yes, Hillary’s got baggage, and conflicts of interest, but Dopey Donnie has put his money and neck in a Chinese noose. Who you gonna trust? Someone who may have made some promises in exchange for money (Hillary), or someone who can be financially ruined by foreign powers if they don’t like his decisions as US president (Dopey Donnie)?
It is indeed unfortunate that I have to vote for Hillary Clinton. What makes it unfortunate is that she has many drawbacks as a candidate (catalogue omitted). But what is more unfortunate is the Republican nominee, who leaves me no choice but to vote for Hillary. And don’t tell me about the Libertarian or Green Party candidates – a vote for those folks is a non-vote. I threw away my vote on John Anderson in 1980, it felt good for a day or so, and then Ronald Reagan ruined America. What’s worse, I betrayed the one US president who made the greatest positive impact on the security of Israel since Truman recognized State of Israel at the time of its founding: President Jimmy Carter, who brokered the peace ageement between Egypt and Israel and still stands to this day.
When the dust settles from the 2016 election, the first question Americans should consider is how our two major parties nominated two such minor candidates – one barely acceptable, and one utterly unacceptable.
Diamonds are overrated, but so are basherts. That’s why men give diamonds to women. If a man does not overrate his bashert, he should not marry her.
Diamonds as a investment are a terrible idea, except for knowledgeable diamond merchants, which, contrary to the prevailing anti-Semitic view, most of us are not.
Am I the only one who thinks that Joseph’s words are not exactly Joseph’s own words?
Most important thing: be sure to take your kids with you when you leave.
At what age should someone be self-supporting? And by self-supporting, I mean self and spouse and children.
To lilmod ulelamaid: You should stop supporting terrorists now, before you are elected.
Second Amendment?
To kaganys: In one of your posts you said the Donald is the most successful businessman around today. Says who? Where did you read that? If he wants to show us his business success, he could release his financial statements, but he won’t because, I suspect, his business performance has been mediocre. His casinos all went broke, his mortgage company entered the mortgage market on the eve of a colossal bust, he has not built anything in years, and his answers to questions about his net worth imply that he has no clue about accounting principles. And if you drive over the Whitestone Bridge, from Long Island to the Bronx, you will see the world’s ugliest golf course, with the Trump name on it.
Real business successes, like Mike Bloomberg and Warren Buffet think Trump is a colossal phony.
Free money is always a scam.
Yidden know that being the best is a judgment that only Boruch Dayan Emes can make. The rest of us should not worry about being the best.
A spider in a dream is Hashem telling you to buy that expensive silk tallis before Rosh Hashanah. Alternatively, it is you telling yourself to buy that expensive silk tallis, even though you told your wife you could not afford that expensive silk dress she wants.
To the opening poster: You have a short memory. When Barack Obama was running for president in 2008, many posters on YWN (and others in the rest of America) warned us that he was determined to destroy America, or too incompetent not to destroy America. When America was still standing in 2012, those same warnings were repeated. And here it is, 2016, America is still standing, and some people, including you, are making the same unfounded warnings we heard in 2008 and 2012.
There is a lot I do not like about Hillary Clinton, but she is a far better candidate than that spoiled child who got the Republican nomination. So, please, when 2020 rolls around, please remember what you warned us in 2016, and ask yourself how wrong you were.
Since nobody liked my fabulous joke, I will tell you the truth about Las Vegas. I was there, once, about 10 years ago, for a non-frum friend’s child’s wedding (which ended in divorce, if that means anything).
There is nothing to do but gamble or see non-tznius entertainment – dirty comedians and women in skimpy costumes. My spouse and I went out for a walk one morning, and there were baseball-card sized flyers all over the sidewalk, advertising and picturing prostitutes. My spouse said of the cards: “This is some town. They have trading cards for prostitutes.” So why any frum Jew would go to Las Vegas (other than for a wedding of a non-frum friend) is beyond me.
Re sparkly’s first response to nightdaygesheft: teacher is anti-Semitic if he/she deducts more than half a grade for using “their” when you mean “they’re”. But the teacher is not anti-Semitic if he/she also deducts half a grade for using a contraction in formal writing.
I don’t think a girls’ seminary should have the same name as an non-tznius bathing suit.
So, Little Froggie is the fool that climbed Trump Tower?
Which is more scary: Brooklyn Heights, Roslyn Heights, Hasbrouk Heights or Shaker Heights?
To VM, the OP: you have nothing to worry about, as Los Vegas is fine. You are just confused, you are thinking of Las Vegas.
Re RebYidd23’s comment “The real problem ….” Maybe the real problem is that we are forced to choose between two genders – the one we are born with, or the other one.
As for the two major American political parties having “complete sets of beliefs”, that mystifies me. Both parties have a hodge-podge of beliefs, some of which overlap with the other party. What’s disappeared in the last 30 years is the recognition that compromise is a necessary part of democracy in our republic.
And for those of you wondering why we have only 2 major parties: I think the political scientists figured that out more than 50 years ago. It is because we elect our legislatures by single-representative districts in winner-take-all elections held at regular intervals. If we want more parties, we have to change our federal and state constitutions to elect our legislatures the way France, Germany, Italy, Israel and lots of other countries do it. And if you think that is better, take a look at Italy or Israel, and you will have a good laugh.
Health risks are risks, i.e., probablilities that something is harmful. Before pasteurization (which I think was started in the mid-19th century (Gregorian)), the risk of drinking milk was higher. Now it’s much lower.
To Abba_S: Get some term life insurance on your son-in-law when he is young, because his chances of getting old are not as good as your daughter’s.
If you cannot tell whether a teacher is anti-Semitic, why does it matter?
Why is anyone at this site interested in Reform rabbis?
Thank you, mw13. Do I get any extra points for being the shortest answer?
What about the mitzvah of chesed? If it is raining or cold or blazing hot, or the woman is holding a cane or using a walker or otherwise appears frail, there might be an appropriate exception to the rigid rule.
Niagara Falls? Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch …. [Strangle guy who said “Niagara Falls.”]
Hold it, folks. If there is no two-state solution effected in 10 years, Israel will be majority-religious, and the religion will be Islam.
Wasn’t there a Jewish leader of Egypt? Joseph something? Maybe he was not frum, certainly not Yeshivish.
Trump is thinking?
Joseph: Are you saying attractive sheitels are inconsistent with tznius? I think you are right.
Re akuperma’s item 4: Low schools have lowered their standards, because smart prospects see they have little prospect of employment after graduation. If you can pay the freight, most law schools will be glad to take your money.
My comment was meant to show the irony of someone – including me – who did not learn the word “shachris” until middle age and worries too much about the details. There are simple answers to these questions, and you can ask any rabbi for guidance. Some siddurs even provide a guide in the introductory texts, or print the most important portions in larger fonts.
Re health comment to flatbusher: The “dictator” we have now has deported more illegal immigrants than any prior president. Why are you so disconnected from the facts? Do you think that facts have a liberal bias?
To the opening poster: You skipped all of Shachris for years. Don’t worry about skipping the “right” or “skipable” parts now.
To the Moderators: Please take down the post by “charliehall”. It seems to be based on actual, accurate information rather than silly jokes or unsubstantiated paranoia about anti-Semitism. Clearly, it is out of step with the YWN commenters.
re miamilawyer’s comment about Cruz expediency: I think Cruz was trying to distinguish himself from the Republican herd of presidential candidates that may emerge in 2019, whether or not such distinction is expedient.
But something puzzles me about your comment: your suggestion that Cruz’s witholding of his endorsement would generate “sympathy” for Trump.
Trump has his own air force, supposedly has $10 billion (I don’t believe it, but that is irrelevant to the sympathy question), gets a new wife as soon as the old one turns 50, and inherited control of a $40 million business while in his 20’s. No one has “sympathy” for Trump. Envy, maybe, respect if you believe he has accomplished anything in life or think he makes sense (I don’t), but sympathy? He don’t need no stinkin’ sympathy.
“Good” cigars are like “good” whiskey – taste terrible, harsh on the tongue, but a somewhat socially acceptable to pretend you have more money than others. Wasting money on cigars and whiskey is much cheaper than wasting it on pricey cars or airplanes. And it occurs to me that the Donald does not smoke or drink, which shows you that his way of pretending to have lots of money is really inefficient. Not a good quality in a public official.
What Cruz was thinking:
1. I want to run for president in 2020, against the re-election of 73-year old Hillary.
2. Voters have very short memories.
3. Those few voters who do remember are going to think I look presciently smart after down-ticket Republicans go down in flames in 2016.
Is Cruz right about item 3? Time will tell.
Re zahavadad’s comment on the learner/earner balance: What portion of the Jewish people would Hashem like to see as learners? 5%? 50%? He fed us with manna for 40 years in Bamidbar, and so, if He wanted 100% of us to be learners, we would see more manna falling from the sky. Anybody seen any? Not me either.
And how do we know who should be the learners and who should be the earners? If we can’t keep our white shirts tucked into our pants, or can’t keep our ties pulled up for a full 8 hours of work, does that me we should be learners?