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Re: Interesting Articles...
« Reply #560 on: February 07, 2013, 03:20:05 PM »
If/when this happens then you will be correct. Let’s remember the government has stolen from USPS over the years. Use your Google skills on USPS overfunding pensions and the government keeping the money because they already spent it.

I meant fully bailed out. The $15 billion in loans is also a tax acc. to me, and still a partial bailout.
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« Reply #561 on: February 07, 2013, 03:23:05 PM »
I meant fully bailed out. The $15 billion in loans is also a tax acc. to me, and still a partial bailout.
I don't consider loaning someone money that is already theirs a tax. This is in dispute but the figure is as high as 85 billion.
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« Reply #562 on: February 07, 2013, 04:05:35 PM »
I don't consider loaning someone money that is already theirs a tax. This is in dispute but the figure is as high as 85 billion.

Which number is in dispute- the amount loaned or the amount of money stolen by the government?
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« Reply #563 on: February 07, 2013, 04:06:18 PM »
Which number is in dispute- the amount loaned or the amount of money stolen by the government?
Stolen.
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« Reply #564 on: February 07, 2013, 07:46:52 PM »
Let’s remember the government has stolen from USPS over the years.
This is in dispute but the figure is as high as 85 billion.
Sounds to me like yuneeq is right about it being a tax if the government is stealing all the money :)

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« Reply #566 on: February 11, 2013, 11:07:51 AM »
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« Reply #567 on: February 11, 2013, 12:52:14 PM »
If you don't care why would you comment?
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« Reply #568 on: February 11, 2013, 12:55:49 PM »
Women detained for wearing prayer shawls at the Western Wall
Anyone else find this strange?

They return and get arrested every rosh chodesh. Nothing new here.
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« Reply #569 on: February 11, 2013, 02:01:52 PM »
They return and get arrested every rosh chodesh. Nothing new here.
Just for wearing a talis?
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« Reply #570 on: February 11, 2013, 04:22:02 PM »
Just for wearing a talis?

Yep. The kosel has special rules to preserve the sanctity.
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« Reply #571 on: February 11, 2013, 04:23:38 PM »
I never understood why they let people walk around there wearing totally immodest clothing yet they arrest Hoffman and her friends every Rosh Chodesh. Let the freak show go on a couple of times and they'll stop coming

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« Reply #572 on: February 12, 2013, 03:33:58 AM »
I never understood why they let people walk around there wearing totally immodest clothing yet they arrest Hoffman and her friends every Rosh Chodesh. Let the freak show go on a couple of times and they'll stop coming
in your dreams, once they succeed with talis theyll move on to bigger things. hoffman was once arrested for carrying a sefer torah to the womans section...

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« Reply #573 on: February 12, 2013, 04:44:25 AM »
in your dreams, once they succeed with talis theyll move on to bigger things. hoffman was once arrested for carrying a sefer torah to the womans section...

Kosel is a freak show already. Can't get much worse

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« Reply #574 on: February 12, 2013, 05:14:02 AM »
Kosel is a freak show already. Can't get much worse

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« Reply #575 on: February 12, 2013, 11:39:43 AM »
in your dreams, once they succeed with talis theyll move on to bigger things. hoffman was once arrested for carrying a sefer torah to the womans section...
I understand the need to draw lines, but wearing a talis really doesn't seem like a big deal.  It's not against halacha (unlike carrying the torah) 
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« Reply #576 on: February 12, 2013, 12:13:16 PM »
I understand the need to draw lines, but wearing a talis really doesn't seem like a big deal.  It's not against halacha (unlike carrying the torah)
What about kli gever?
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« Reply #577 on: February 12, 2013, 12:24:29 PM »
Once its widely accepted (at least within the reform movement) its no longer an issue of kli gever, (for a Reform Jew at least).
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« Reply #578 on: February 12, 2013, 12:27:49 PM »
Once its widely accepted (at least within the reform movement) its no longer an issue of kli gever, (for a Reform Jew at least).

Not acc. to my understanding of what kli gever is.
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« Reply #579 on: February 12, 2013, 12:33:35 PM »
Not acc. to my understanding of what kli gever is.
What is kli gever about a shawl?  Just because it has strings?
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