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“A possible case may be made that trade will make life of Cuban people better”
That’s really the entire case. Sanctions cause that innocent civilians to suffer. Usually the regime is living in luxury despite the sanctions. And sanctions have historically NOT effected regime change. That much is proven. So what exactly IS gained with the sanctions?
R: Cruz, Desantis
D: Joe Manchin
To huju: Congress codified sanctions against Cuba into US law. The president is powerless to discontinue them. Congress are mostly non-experts.
Asperger’s is normal. There’s no more reason to share that he or she has Asperger’s than he would share that he’s colorblind, has an ingrown toenail, a toothache, he’s a lefty, he’s underweight, he had his gallbladder or wisdom tooth removed, etc.
1. It isn’t limited to Jews or Orthodox. Non-Jews with the condition don’t usually purposely wear it on their sleeves.
2. You could ask the exact same question about lack of “openness” regarding those diagnosed with schizophrenia, depression, bipolar, psychosis, anorexia and any number of other conditions.
Two more days, popa.
CA: What does that mean?
Because BLM demanded Democrats go soft on crime and handicap the police.
Are you anti-Torah and anti-nature? Both dictate women should not be placed in a position requiring they be armed.
Jack, when you utilize rhetoric such as “the blue wall of silence”, you display an antagonism towards law enforcement and opposition to law and order.
Let us not forget the fact that this deceased individual was a criminal who was resisting arrest at the time of his death, thereby bearing a large portion of responsibility for his own demise.
huju: Your misplaced sarcasm is duly noted.
Women shouldn’t be in any position that requires arms. This is independent of how effective or ineffective they may be in a fight with a male.
huju: Sanctions are imposed by politicians, not by diplomats, high-ranking armed forces personnel, or even by foreign policy experts. Politicians on both sides of the aisle crave for the Cuban-American vote (to take one example.) The Cuban-American man on the street demands sanctions. He is no foreign policy experts and neither are the vast majority of the 535 Congressmen and Senators who coded the Cuban sanctions into US law.
Politics wins over the best foreign policy any day of the year.
Philosopher, you’re a bit over five years late in your welcome. Indeed, sparkledout hasn’t even shown back up in this neck of the cyber-woods in over five years.
Getting back on topic, can anyone share what sort of topics are found on the site discussed in the title here?
AAQ: What third-rate product would you expect from Ukraine?
Commonsense1, my apologies, I mis-remembered. The other fellow I was thinking of uses the screen name “commonsaychel”; so I don’t think there’s a conflict with your name.
What kind of posters does the site attract?
Women have no business being police officers.
Commonsense1, what happened to the old commonsense?
It does not work. Cuba has been under US sanctions for the last almost 70 years in order to attempt to get rid of the Castro regime. Total failure. The same with North Korea. And virtually all other examples.
AAQ: If there’s a third, fourth, fifth, etc. set of witnesses, Beis Din still accepts the last set of witnesses.
So if there’s a fifth set of witnesses, Beis Din will execute (all 4 people of) the fourth and second sets of witnesses.
Can Beis Din execute Edim Zomemin as soon as they receive testimony that they were, in fact, Edim Zomemin, without even giving the alleged/accused Edim Zomemin the opportunity to rebut the testimony against them?
Beijing and Taiwan both claim to be the legitimate government of China. In fact, while Beijing calls the country the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan calls itself the Republic of China. They both agree that Beijing and Taiwan are part of the same nation and country.
I remember in camp one of the popular theme songs was “Alef!, Ches!, Daled!, Vov, Suf!, we’ve got Achdus and that’s more than enough!!”
“Not you or me, that’s for sure.”
So if the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah decide to make a Torah world event (Siyum, Asifa, rabbinic meeting, protest or whatever else) unifying the various segments, kehilas and communities in Klal Yisroel including Litvish, Chasidish and Sefardic, but there’s no official MO leadership participation or invitation, then we can presumably assume the Tzadikim on the Moetzes made an informed decision resulting in the inclusion that was selected.
The US has no national interest in spending significant American blood to defend Taiwan. Taiwan and Beijing both agree they are part of the same nation. They only disagree who should govern it. This isn’t America’s fight. Just like we’re not going to send American troops to defend the Ukraine from Russia, we shouldn’t pretend we’re going to go to war with a nuclear armed China to defend Taiwan.
And who judges the level of adherence to Halacha of the community’s Rabbi?
I don’t keep up with the antisemites. But all the attacks on Soros I’ve seen have been well deserved and not antisemitic.
I’ve seen the left and media describing non-antisemitic attacks on Soros as antisemitic. It is one of the left’s tactics. They do the same things by falsely accusing their political opponents of racism.
CS: All the well deserved attacks on Soros, and they are all well deserved, are because they are well deserved and not because he is Jewish.
Just like the Democrat and left-wing attacks on Trump, Bush, Reagan, Limbaugh, etc. (Except, in those cases, they are mostly not well deserved.)
I can’t speak of any other SNs, but all I know is that this one was never used by Joe.
HaLeiVi, can you expound on how Yeshiva administrations during Covid demonstrated more than their usual selfless dedication to Chinuch under pressure?
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chiefshmerel: Is it anti-Christian to blame Trump, Bush or Reagan for everything you don’t like? Then Democrats must be almost universally anti-Christian.
“And if those two rabbis had accurately reflected the Torah perspective, I wouldn’t be either.”
Charlie: Just to reiterate, if the Torah supports slavery, then you don’t support the Torah.
Copy.
RW: Who said the Rambam said that?
AAQ: So if I’m keeping good count, you’ve got OO, Lev Tahor, Shuvu Bonim, Brisk, Peleg Yerushalmi, Neteurei Karta, Satmar, Lubavitch and Ponoveze included in the achdus but Conservative affiliated people are out.
AAQ: Why are you excluding OO, while including all the other groups? Where is your line being drawn — why is OO excluded? If you exclude OO, how can you object to others excluding other Orthodox claiming groups?
AAQ: Jewry presumably includes OO (which was founded by a YU rabbi and it identifies itself as part of MO), Lev Tahor, Shuvu Bonim, Brisk, Peleg Yerushalmi, Neteurei Karta, Satmar, Lubavitch, Ponoveze and even Conservative Judaism.
Are you similarly upset those Yidden were not included in the achdus of the event you’re discussing?
Reb Eliezer: Open Orthodox claim they’re Orthodox and uphold the mesorah. Other groups also claim to be Orthodox and follow a mesorah. Who should judge which Orthodox-claiming groups are really Orthodox and correctly observing the mesorah versus which are Orthodox claiming but really anything but, and thus excluded from your call for achdus?
CA: Are you trying to say “Love the sinner, hate the sin”??
Reb Eliezer, is Open Orthodox enough Orthodox? If not, when is it enough?
Soros is a lowlife scumbag. Anytime anytime criticizes or mocks that fool, the far left in the media and politics falsely call it antisemitism.
Achdus with whom? Conservative? Reform? Open Orthodox?
Yseribus, why are you opposed to the Torah and the Torah’s authorization of having Eved C’na’ani?
No one knew there would be trespassing. The official plan was to head to the Capital for a legal protest outside on public grounds.
Other aspects of nature that changed are there used to be extremely tall people, people at one time could live hundreds of years, etc. Historians, archaeologists and all the secular professionals deny these facts.
P.S. The moon landing doesn’t count.
Completely agree with the OP, Zaphod Beeblebrox. The claim that the moon landing really happened has been so thoroughly discredited that it is a bore to keep hearing about the conspiracy theory that a man actually went to the moon.
AAQ, there’s no need to try to feel superior. We are superior.
HaLeiVi, if you are making no gender distinctions then we are in agreement.
“George Washington is probably rolling in his grave at the total lack of slaves and the fact that Jews can be part of the government.”
George Washington was an Oheiv Yisroel.
“Do you think that the concept of slavery as it existed in the US 200 years ago resembles our concept of Eved C’na’ani?”
If it wasn’t then it should have been modified and corrected to bring it to the proper standards required by the principles of Eved C’na’ani.
Changes of nature that occurred during Yaakov Avinu’s lifetime aren’t documented by contemporary historian’s accounts. Another example is that there was kishuf (“magic”) by Pharoh’s time (which is after Yaakov Avinu’s time) and there was magic still in the world in much later times of world history, yet professional historians are in denial over these (and many other) facts.
Avi, did he go to the Mikva, too? Was he makpid on Cholov Yisroel?