Milhouse

I thought Republicans were proud that they were the anti-science party.

Where on earth could you possibly have got that idea? No Republican has EVER said such a thing. You are simply repeating Democrat LIES.

Yes, Dems are the anti-vaxx party. 90% of anti-vaxxers are Dems. Trump is hardly the typical Republican. RFK Jr is absolutely the typical Democrat. The Democrat Party panders to the anti-vaxxers, the astrologists, etc. And how do you not understand what all those other items are? They’re all examples of rejecting science in favor of mysticism and magical thinking.

what very wrong model?

The model of that fraud Neil Ferguson from Imperial College. All the shutdowns around the world were based on that model. Or the model that the Minnesota governor had some students whip up for him in one weekend, on which basis he locked up the whole state. You can read all about it on Power Line.

And no, there is no evidence that “average global temperature” (a meaningless and unmeasurable number) is rising, or that it’s higher than historical levels. Mann, Hansen, and the East Anglia crew have engaged in massive fraud, altering the historical record to make the past seem cooler than it was, so current temps can look hotter in comparison. “Hide the Decline.” That tells us everything we need to know. Read some articles on Watts Up With That.

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a. He was NOT “officially accused” of discussing sanctions with the Russians, since there would have been nothing wrong with that. He wasn’t “officially accused” of anything; in fact he had no idea it was even an official meeting. He thought the FBI agents had come to discuss the transition with him. Agav urcha they asked him whether he had spoken with Kislyak, and/or what he had discussed, and according to them he denied the conversation. We don’t know what was actually said, this is only the agents’ report, composed much later.

b. See above. The conversation was, eventually, about his phone call, and according to them this is how he described it. Their impression was that he was not intending to deceive them, he simply wasn’t being exact.

c. The lie he was charged with was this conversation. That he had denied discussing sanctions when in fact he had discussed them. Had the conversation been conducted according to protocol, it should first have been cleared with the DOJ, Flynn should have been told he was being questioned and had to tell the truth, he should have had a lawyer, and above all the transcript THEY HAD should have been provided to him to refresh his memory. They did none of this because the whole point of the conversation was to trick him into telling a lie so they could charge him with something.

d. It is literally maasiim bechol yom that people plead guilty to things they never did. It’s a huge scandal.

Search for “No Evidence That Flu Shot Increases Risk of COVID-19”

Jews are an insignificant minority of anti-vaxxers, and anti-vaxxers are an insignificant minority of Jews. The stats on the measles vaccine showed that the Orthodox Jewish community had a higher vaccination rate than the national average. Only a very few whackos within the frum community oppose vaccines, and it’s unfair to portray us as providing a fertile environment for such. It’s impossible and unreasonable to expect any community to be completely free of crazy people. Anyone who would be provoked to antisemitism by this is already an antisemite anyway, so we shouldn’t worry about them.

In January, when everyone was saying the threat was not great, Trump was already setting up a task force and taking measures to combat it, in case it turned out to be more serious than they were saying. He even announced it in the State of the Union address, which Pelosi ripped up declaring that there was nothing of value in it. So everyone stop lying about Trump.

n0m, I don’t understand what it is that you’re having difficulty with.

A thing is what it is and not something else. A king is a king and not a president, just as a cat is a cat and not a dog. The definition of “king” does not include “has a lot of power”. A king is the state. Louis XIV was France; there was no other definition. Elizabeth II is the UK, though in her case it’s a bit more complicated since the Glorious Revolution enshrined the principle that ultimately sovereignty rests not with the Sovereign or the Crown but with Parliament, and then the Act of Settlement separated the Crown from the person of the Sovereign. Still, it remains the case that she embodies the kingdom, all her subjects owe her loyalty and everything the kingdom does is in her name.

Trump is not the United States. He is merely the executive whom the USA has hired for a few years. The entire executive power is vested in him personally, so he can say “I am the executive branch”, but he cannot truthfully say “I am the United States”. We are not his subjects, or anybody’s. If someone were to kill him, they’d be charged with murder, not with treason. And the whole basis of the USA is the utter rejection of kings, to the point that we fought two wars against that concept, and would fight again to kill anyone who would try to bring it back. Therefore it is un-American to assert that he is a king.

I also don’t understand how you can not get my point about the posuk. The posuk says why you should not curse a king — because it’s dangerous. There is no other reason. Therefore since it is NOT dangerous to curse Trump, or even QE2, the posuk’s advice is irrelevant. On the other hand in a country like China or Russia, where there may not be a king but it is dangerous to curse anyone in power, the posuk’s advice does apply.

Who cares how he thinks of himself? He can think he’s Napoleon for all I care. The fact is he is not a king. We do not have kings here. We fought two wars to get rid of the kings and to keep them away.

The whole concept of a king is that he is not anybody’s servant, everyone else is his servant and owes him loyalty. In a monarchy the king is the state. “L’etat c’est moi”. That is why it is treason to plot to kill him or his heir, or to interfere with their wives. In this country the constitution specifically rules that idea out; even killing the president is not treason, because he is not the state, and no loyalty is owed to him.

But the whole question is irrelevant here, because in a country with freedom of speech one may curse even a real king without fear, so the posuk’s advice doesn’t apply.

n0m, it doesn’t matter how wealthy or powerful he is, he is NOT a king. He is just another public servant, just like any janitor in a government office. There is no reason to respect him, unless you happen to think he deserves it.

And even if he were a king, there is no danger in cursing him, so yes, feel free to do so.

And TKM, your father was wrong. The whole idea is unworthy of a republic.

Milhouse, is it your belief that the board of a co-op or condo can enact a bylaw prohibiting residents from praying in their home?

Yes, absolutely, unless the state has a law preventing it.

Can a co-op or condo permit Christian prayer but prohibit Jewish prayer? Could they only permit Christians to purchase a residence in the co-op or condo but prohibit Jews from joining?

No, that would violate the law against discrimination in housing.

One may also speak of a “soft petal”, though it’s redundant since as far as I know all petals are soft.

And of course petel is a soft drink.

No, it is not. It is called holding him to his own standards. Having enthusiastically supported the ruin of many people based on those standards he is morally estopped from mounting a defense that is contrary to them. He has made his bed, and now he must lie in it.

It’s also one of Saul Alinksy’s better rules: Hold them to their own rules.

Now do weather, whether, and wether.

Joseph, co-ops and condos are not subject to the first amendment.

Zoning boards are subject to the first amendment, but that doesn’t require them to treat religion better than any other activity; they can prevent prayer groups so long as they’re using a rule that applies equally to every comparable group.

Of more concern for zoning boards is RLUIPA, which does require special status for religion. Or if the state has a RFRA, that would have the same effect. Co-ops and condos are not subject to either of those. A co-op or condo could, in principle, ban you from davening in your own home, unless that state has a law that says otherwise.

Here comes Hall the liar. Nobody has said one word in defense of Erdogan. And not only did Flynn not admit lying to Pence, doing so would not have been an offense. It certainly wouldn’t have been false witness.

This isn’t about minyanim or safety, it’s about the rov’s authority. The community has a rov, and he made a public psak. Members of his community needn’t agree with him, but he cannot allow them to publicly defy him. They can either comply despite their disagreement, or they can find another community to join. If he allowed them to make choizek of him and did not take such action against them, he would not be a rov but a shmatteh. How could he ever pasken anything again? This had to be done.

No, huju, when General Flynn pleaded guilty he did not think he was actually guilty. And if he did at one point think so, it was only because he was given bad legal advice.

“-theres a difference when something is inside the body and once its expelled out it changes”

No, it doesn’t. What possible mechanism would change it?

Waste product is expelled because it doesn’t belong in the body, at least not long term. It has to go, if only to make room for the new waste that is being created. The same could be said for mucus. But the bacteria you exhale are not waste product and they are not being expelled, they just happen to be in your breath when it goes out. There’s no possible harm they could do by coming back in. Millions of their identical siblings are still in your body, doing whatever they do, and a few thousand more or less makes no difference.

By the way, the home-made masks we’re wearing now are not medical masks anyway, so it doesn’t affect medical workers. The advice changed because of the emerging evidence from other countries that they are effective, not in protecting the wearer, but in protecting everyone else.

G, the third amendment is automatically suspended whenever the USA is at war, which for the last century has been more often than not. For instance it has not been in effect since Sep-11-2001. But this has little or no practical impact since the USA hasn’t had any need to quarter troops on civilians, even in war time. It was something the framers thought might be needed one day, but it never really was.

Another Yiddishism that people use incorrectly in English: using “what” to mean “a thing”, or “where” to mean “a place”, as in “I have what to do”, “I have what to eat”, “I have where to eat”. People without Yiddish or German in their background do not say these things.

Then there are Yiddishisms that have not crept into English, but are sometimes used by Yiddish-speakers with imperfect English. One of my teachers used to say “lime” instead of “clay”, because in Yiddish clay is ליים, while lime is קאלך. I was very confused until I figured out what was happening.

Another teacher would say things like “he gave him a gift”, which sounded very nice but from the context was clearly not supposed to be nice at all. I soon realized that he was using the Yiddish word גיפט, which means poison. I don’t think anyone else in the class ever figured out what he was talking about.

Moshe, the difference is that in Bridgegate the Supreme Court said yes, this was a corrupt act, but it wasn’t a crime, or at least it wasn’t the crime they were convicted of. That doesn’t vindicate them, it just means they’re merely dirty rather than criminal. Whereas with Flynn the evidence is that he was truly innocent.

1) The more I think of it the more I think “stop by my office” is correct, which inclines me to my second supposition, that it’s a form of “pass by my office”, where “by” is used in the sense of “near”. I’m still not sure about this.

It could also be influenced by the adverb sense, perhaps also with some influence from the German/Yiddish, so it is being used as a preposition in this one instance. Still, this usage is confined to a location, not a person. So even if one can say “by my house” with verbs other than “stop”, one could not say “by me”. That is just an anglicization of the German/Yiddish “bei mir”.

2) Again, that definition specifies that it is an adverb, not a preposition. “By” is the way in which you are stopping. Its referent is the verb, not a location. Its definition is “at or to another’s home”. So it’s not “please stop by my home”, it’s just “please stop by”, which automatically implies the location where the person is to stop by.

Right, yes, nazi propaganda. Many “proud Jewish radio hosts” aren’t above dabbling in such sources, or are dupes.

I threw my wife out the window the newspaper.

I think that usage comes directly from German.

Right, maybe this will explain it. All the predictions you are bringing up were NOT predicting anything as severe as what has happened. They were all referring to the normal kind of pandemic that happens regularly, which is often (Ibut not always) a coronavirus, and often (but not always) from China.

That’s why the Chinese were researching it in the first place. A Chinese lab researching coronaviruses is like a California lab researching earthquakes, or a Florida lab researching hurricanes. It’s something that happens regularly, it’s never good, and every once in a while it’s really really bad. So it makes perfect sense to research it and try to find ways to prevent it and to mitigate the damage when it happens.

Nobody could have predicted that this particular episode would be as bad as it has been, any more than anyone can predict that the next San Francisco earthquake will be The Big One. But everyone knows that some kind of earthquake will happen soon, and everyone knows that The Big One will come one day. So when it does come, will you point to everyone who was talking about earthquake preparedness and accuse them of having engineered it?!

There’s nothing wrong with it. Search for an NPR article titled “So, What’s The Big Deal With Starting A Sentence With ‘So’?”