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  • in reply to: Prepare to Flee America! #1139083
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    let me rephrase the conclusion:

    “it was found that when people were shot with lead bullets they immediately developed very serious health problems as well as a high

    Interesting conclusion, but I found the same result in my study on the effects of using a guillotine blade containing lead.

    in reply to: Ushpizin- Amazing Jewish 100% Kosher Film… #624460
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    I think that the spending is in line and very realistic for many poor people. If you ask a financially sophisticated person what he/she would do with a windfall of say $250,000 the response would likely be to pay off debt, invest/save, use it carefully, or something of the like. Generally, the person would not try to use it to increase his/her standard of living – it is a one time windfall!

    Not so a poor person who is not financially sophisticated (which is not true for all poor people, but certainly is for these). The poor person’s response would likely be to get this or that and “live like a rich man for a while”, i.e. use the money extravagantly until it is gone. So he wasn’t buying the 1000 NIS esrog because he thought it was hiddur mitzvah, it was part of his mentality to use the windfall to live like a king for a while. The wife felt the same way (though buying an esrog wasn’t what fit her idea of “living like a rich man”.

    in reply to: Alcoholic Mixes #908398
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    Here’s an easy one for the winter:

    1 shot of Irish Whiskey

    1 teaspoon of lemon/lime juice

    2 teaspoons sugar

    6 cloves

    4 shots of hot water

    Add the water last; the other ingredients should be stirred together before adding water.

    Serve in an old fashioned glass – it looks like tea, tastes like tea, but has a nice zing.

    in reply to: The Hospital Bed…A Must Read!!! #624823
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    Why don’t we have a section for fairy tales on YW? We could call the section “Inspired by a Fairy Tale”. There seem to be alot of them here, and categorizing them could save people some grief.

    To Odysseus: I understand why you think the story took place in a psych ward, but I think that it only took place in someone’s _mind_ in a psych ward.

    in reply to: Is 3 Cups of Coffee a Day Too Much? #803367
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    Mazel Tov jewishfeminist! Now that you broke this barrier, finally you as a woman are no longer oppressed!

    in reply to: Special Education Services in Yeshivos Issues? #624156
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    Bait and switch? Offer high salaries to flood the field with people trained in special ed and then pull the carpet out from under them? Sounds possible. I mean, $50-$60 an hour is not the highest salary I’ve heard for special ed teachers but even that is quite high (if you compare it to what most jobs with equal amount of training pay – I don’t want to offend the myriads of B”Y girls and their husbands).

    $15 is ridiculously low, but supply and demand will enable them to get away with it, at least for a while. In the long term though, it’s dumb because no new teachers will go into the field. But there’s obviously a budget behind this agenda.

    in reply to: PETA #624675
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    And if you read it backwards, it means the same thing in Portugeuse!

    in reply to: Checking up on the Jews #624267
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    duvdl – your ridiculous comment just makes those who object to the new President for real reasons look stupid. He has no intention or ability to take away that right.

    in reply to: The Legacy of W #1115344
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    Do all the Beirut (and Cyprus) embassy bombings under Reagan count?

    in reply to: The Legacy of W #1115338
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    Timothy McVeigh too, right? Keep digging.

    in reply to: The Legacy of W #1115333
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    What is the proof that Bush stopped any future attacks? Because they didn’t happen. Therefore, that proves that Clinton (and all the prior presidents as well) managed to prevent the first attack.

    To Joseph: We’re talking about attacks on US soil. US boats and embassies are quite different and have certainly been attacked in the last 8 years!

    Blame the previous administration for your problems is an age old tactic. And try to remember how much you are doing that now and for the last 8 years. Because I GUARANTEE you that you will be seeing the Dems use that tactic for the next 4 (or more!) years. And I don’t want to hear you guys whining about it when they do.

    ‘Nuff said.

    in reply to: Obama Won….Oy Vey…Now What #859280
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    Oh, that makes sense, then <toungue in cheek>. Thanks illini. I was wondering about the birth certificate part – I don’t recall anyone ever making an issue of it with the president.

    in reply to: The Legacy of W #1115328
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    Nah, Joseph. If you are giving Bush credit for preventing the second attack, then let me add my spin to your spin: Clinton prevented the first terrorist attack, and Bush failed to do so. Bush did prevent a second terrorist attack, though.

    Why do all the Bush lovers feel the need to bash Clinton? I am not a Clinton lover, but I can knock Bush without brining anyone else up, and I can defend Reagan without comparing him to, say, Carter. BUSH IS STILL BAD EVEN IF CLINTON IS TOO!

    It’s also amazing how since there is no unified agreement yet amongst economists as to what caused the financial crises, everyone chooses to follow the economist/pundit whose sayings fit his/her political agenda. I wouldn’t take any financial advice from you, Joseph – why would you give me your opinion on the cause of the crisis? If you knew a little bit more, you wouldn’t talk so.

    in reply to: Obama Won….Oy Vey…Now What #859278
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    illini – you have to pay closer attention. havesomeseichel is correct – we do have the dumbest man as president. The president-elect is the man you are describing.

    in reply to: The Legacy of W #1115327
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    It’s not the sugar that kills you…..

    in reply to: Mozilla Firefox #623928
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    This is also the best thread on YW CR so far.

    in reply to: Prepare to Flee America! #1139055
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    I’m hoping that with everyone fleeing, I’ll be able to afford a house in Boro Park.

    in reply to: The Legacy of W #1115323
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    Yawn…

    Mayan, you are the one who is parroting talking points. Sorry, but blaming Osama on Clinton is ridiculous. Sure, Clinton might have given up a chance to get him, but it’s not like that was his agenda. W made it his agenda and still couldn’t get him. SO basically you are saying that Clinton could have saved W but didn’t, and therefore it’s his fault. Stupid, especially when you consider that no one thought of Osama then as we do now.

    I’m not going to speak patronizingly about your knowledge of the economic crisis, but suffice it to say that your line is just a convenient little blame game that your rabbeim (Rush and Sean, whom I used to listen to, so I know what they say) managed to make up to avoid putting the blame where it belongs. If you want to debate the economic crisis, I’m willing. Make it in another thread though, and make sure to bring your sources.

    This thread was intended to show how W’s failure brought to this country the potential for the calamities that he “worked so hard” to get rid of for other countries. Thanks, Dubbyah. At least YOU profited from all this.

    Please check the hechsher on your koolaid.

    in reply to: The Legacy of W #1115318
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    Sorry, but describing him as a man with his finger in the wind doesn’t excuse his folly. In fact, it compounds it.

    in reply to: Dont you think we should we should say tehilim #623762
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    the maskil is right. Our chachomim has already instituted a prayer for the country’s leadership. In it we ask Hashem to make the leader’s decisions good.

    Of course, if you’re a litvak you’ve never heard of this because it was cut out of the prayer books. G-d forbid someone should say it with kavana that it should apply to the medina!

    in reply to: Is 3 Cups of Coffee a Day Too Much? #803360
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    Sorry, shindy. I was completely joking – I have no idea “how much” is OK and I would imagine it varies by individual greatly.

    Yank the Aussie: I juice fruits all the time. When I have a cold I squeeze every citrus I can find into a cup and drink it. But that has nothing to do with coffee. And as for Ginseng and Guarana – I don’t care if the molecular structure is exactly the same as coffee – that is the same argument that splenda uses to substitute itself for sugar. If you want to quote me the Rambam on “being shomer the guf” then avoid these products. Coffee is much less of a problem.

    in reply to: Hot Water on Shabbos #623727
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    Also good because I sure wouldn’t want to drink what comes out of a hot water heater.

    in reply to: Obama Wins ;-( #1021809
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    Only negative promises made by politicians come true. Nothing is ever as good as they promise, so unless you’re expecting bad you won’t see it fulfilled.

    in reply to: Help a Frum Girl Win $100,000 With a Simple Vote #625109
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    Thanks, illini. That’s exactly what I meant. For that, you deserve to have had your candidate win.

    in reply to: Is 3 Cups of Coffee a Day Too Much? #803352
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    I forgot to ask – how big is the cup? As long as it’s not more than 20 oz at espresso strength, I think 3 cups a day is no problem. If it’s simple brew then an even dozen is OK.

    Ginseng? How can you recommend Ginseng, the effects of which are not even known? At least with coffee, it’s been around a while.

    Thanks to those who gave me the info on the bulging eyes. Good to know that it’s not solely from a preventable habit.

    in reply to: Help a Frum Girl Win $100,000 With a Simple Vote #625105
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    http://www.10minutemail.com is a good source for email addresses

    in reply to: Hot Water on Shabbos #623724
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    I guess, but that’s not enough pressure to wash dishes in.

    in reply to: Hot Water on Shabbos #623720
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    PM, if you have any more information on this invention I’d like to hear about it. Because then I could use hot water from any hot water tank ( that was cooked before Shabbos) which would be wonderful. But if you shut off the intake, then you have no pressure to move the hot water out. Unless they pump air into the tank?

    in reply to: Poll: Who Wins? #623663
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    My money’s on Obama’s ticket too. By a big margin too. I’d say at least 300 electorates to them.

    in reply to: ROLL CALL – Did You Vote? #623679
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    aww, c’mon. If you’re not going to display my message with the white font then take it down!

    in reply to: Prepare to Flee America! #1139035
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    1) Joseph – you made me laugh in a way I’ve never laughed before on YW. Thank you!

    2) Guns: Many people have pointed out that the hype from guns and kids is mainly due to the shock value of it rather than the sheer statistics. Because if it was to go by statistics, then we’d be decrying people with kids and swimming pools (even fenced and locked ones, many kids die per year) or as someone else said, cars. The thing is, cars are too useful to ban around kids, i.e. the benefits outweigh the risks. With guns, it is easy to make the case that the risks outweigh the benefits. But that does not make the argument correct.

    3) Insurance: Amongst Jews, it is certainly a minority view (in today’s age) to oppose life insurance (I assume that this is all about life insurance, or should I extend the discussion to disability income, health insurance, liability insurance, property insurance, lost luggage protection, and all other forms of pooled risk?). If your Rav taught you to follow this view and you think that it is a majority opinion or one that you should debate with others, then your Rav only told you half a story. Life insurance IS prohibited by many other religions, since they see it as defying G-d’s will.

    I will assume that Queen of Persia is Jew and not an representative of another religion that opposes insurance. Therefore, Queenie should not try to “educate” everyone else about this minority view. I’m sure your Rav didn’t tell you to.

    in reply to: What Can We Argue About After Tuesday? #1123116
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    “YW Moderator

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    Just a suggestion – After Tuesday, why don’t we start discussions that are productive and might help people, instead of fighting and causing unnecessary Sinas Chinam.

    Then again – Just a suggestion! “

    Here’s a suggestion for you: Since you see that these forums cause so much fighting and unnecessary Sinas Chinam, why don’t YOU do something about it – like closing the forum down? The vote that you took some time ago (“Should YW start a forum?”) received an overwhelming “no”, yet you started one anyway. Now you are seeing what the forum is used for, and all you are willing to do is make a suggestion that you KNOW will not be taken seriously?

    Is the extra advertising money really worth this? If it is worth it to you, are you ALLOWED to create such a forum al pi halacha just for monetary gain? Did you ask THAT to your “Daas Torah”? I think not because in the past the “Daas Torah” remarks have always been Torahdig (even if not universal).

    in reply to: ROLL CALL – Did You Vote? #623676
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    not yet

    in reply to: Upcoming Election & Growth of Lakewood #623511
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    “Pontificate” is miloshon “Pontiff”. That may be why frum people don’t “Pontificate”.

    However, we do introspect, ponder, wonder, think about and discuss how a Jew should lead his (and even her!) life. But there are clearly defined boundaries that are not up for discussion, regardless of what some people post in black font.

    in reply to: Cancer is a Fungus? #896265
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    ulisis – in general I would have to advise you that dumping at this point may be a brocho levatolo. Then again, if it was “newly acquired”, that too may be a brocho levatolo.

    I just went to a “get rich quick seminar”. The guy taught us how to turn $100 into $1,000,000. For once, this wasn’t a scam or a Ponzi scheme.

    Simply invest $100 and 5% interest and wait 190 years.

    in reply to: PETA #624661
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    GMAB is obviously QUITE a talmid chochom. Ants are QUITE hard to see, and you are walking anyway. On Shabbos, this would incur the ptur of Psik Raisha Dlo Nicha Leh, or Misasek. After all, no one here said that it’s OK to walk as you wish during the week, but that you need to be extra careful on Shabbos. Apparently, it is only killing if it is a “Harigas Machsheves”.

    Too bad only one person can be the kohen godol and wear bells on his hem…..

    in reply to: Presidential Pecking Order #684642
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    Oy, Joseph. Is negative media attention really such a key indicator of a good president? I doubt that even your beloved talk radio brainwashers would agree with you there. I find your list amusing, particularly the placement of JFK.

    This is why “for the people, by the people” scares me so much.

    in reply to: A Humorous Item #1171598
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    Arghhh. Thread hijacked.

    in reply to: What Should I Learn? #622934
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    Well, if you’re not allowed to kill animals, and you’re certainly not allowed to give them ritalin (as it has been tested on humans and shown to have detrimental effects), then what do you expect will happen with a wild shor?

    in reply to: Kapparos: Chickens, Fish, or Money? #660950
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    GMAB: yes they are insane, but feivel made a good point as to why. You say they are because you believe they are insane, but someone else can believe that they are sane. Or you could change your mind tomorrow. Without TRUE TORAH guidance everything becomes possible (as he put it).

    in reply to: An Impossible Wish #623901
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    To sum it up, Youth is wasted on the young.

    in reply to: To the citizens of the former US of A (humor) #1143478
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    Why would you want to?

    in reply to: PETA #624593
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    ah, dear mariner. always replying before understanding. at the seudas livyoson we eat the “shor-habor” (aka wild-ox, the livyoson is a fish), but we need animals in olam haboh too in case we get hungry. But yes, I was joking so there is no need to reply.

    in reply to: A Humorous Item #1171588
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    Jokes are your favorite subject? Do you even know what a joke is?

    in reply to: Barack Obama #624058
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    I think it is a direct quote from talk a radio host. That makes it intelligent, or at least right.

    in reply to: Time Releasing Nutrition Capsule For Yom Kippur #622852
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    ulisys, I think that question was directed to a posek.

    in reply to: Yom Kippur/ Tisha Bav Warning! (no mussar enclosed) #897600
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    I think he said, close to one gallon (since they don’t use liters in Queens County).

    in reply to: Yeshiva Mercaz Hatorah or Rabbi Senters #1214642
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    guys? from yeshiva?

    bochurim.

    in reply to: PETA #624585
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    Of course animals have an afterlife – otherwise what will WE eat in Olam Habo or at the seudas livyoson? Some after-world wild ox, right?

    in reply to: Paulson Plan – How It Will Mess up Our Economy For Good #622776
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    Mariner, be careful when you accuse someone of knowing nothing. Especially when you don’t stop there but continue to give your own little tirade – you opened yourself up for everyone to see your own ignorance.

    1) Economists in colleges are bi-partisan? I took a few economics courses myself (in a real college in case you were wondering) and my first professor announced that he is a communist. He is also a respected economist who holds a PhD and publishes frequently and who is allowed to sit in on open market operations. My other professors were not as extreme in their political views, but none of them were even centrists, let alone right leaning (or bi-partisan – itself a ridiculous assertion)

    2) Taking banks out of the free market is indeed idiotic, but that is what this bill does. So you confused my statement of the facts for a statement of opinion of what should be done. I also don’t know what you mean by saying that a socialized bank means that the governement decides who gets money. Do you mean who gets to borrow? Or who gets to access my savings?

    3) “The stupidest thing I have heard on this site ever” is a very far-out assertion, and I doubt that you meant that even in your moment of blind rage. Not to mention that I never even said what you were thinking.

    4) The biggest are falling? Are you sure? Ever heard of JP Morgan? Citigroup? Bank of America? Those are the banks that are left standing, and they will absorb all of the smaller banks as they fail or come close to failing. On the investment banking side, there is Goldman Sachs. These institutions are coming dangerously close to becoming government entities or extensions of the government themselves. Especially Goldman. So which “big one” failed? Washington Mutual? The biggest thrift is by no means a big bank. Wachovia? Give me some names, please.

    5) Do you work for a little bank? Your last statement seemed to indicate such. Sounds like a PR line for a mid size bank. But unfortunately, only the real mom and pop banks that were too small to get involved in CDOs and CDSs and other SIVs are going to be safe. And only the biggest ones (like the 3 I mentioned) are going to be big enough (or made big enough by our tax money) to survive.

    In the future, please just ask for information. I am always happy to share my knowledge. Just don’t attack. Especially not without cause.

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