He told them they had to stop eating pork.
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I’ve heard that and seen those books. They are also all over China.
It’s not a good idea to study the Talmud without guidance and a sincere interest in Judaism as a whole, and a good understanding of the underlying Torah. So much of it is allegorical and intentionally conflicting – the purpose being to teach the process of peer education, not the actual subject matter. Bit like a debate club.
By cherry picking the Talmud, they lose its actual purpose.
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I’ve had mixed responses over the decades.
Recently, I’ve been saying that here was no secret, but that G-d blesses those who follow His commandments, the chief of which is “Love your neighbor as thyself, and the rest is commentary” (to quote Rabbi Hillel, who was then famously paraphrased by a controversial itinerant rabbi from Nazareth).
If they do this, not only is it good business and good life, your “karma” will be good.
It’s generally taken as quite profound, if disappointingly hard to do.
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My bad, @pat.
I try not to judge (regrettably Trump, and Trumpublicans, can bring out the worst in me…)
Hypocrisy is also a bad one for me…(especially if I see it in myself…)
I guess that’s why I ended my statement with “To each his own…”
Yeah she’s trying really to hard make top the 10 hypocrites in Washington list. Which is an achievement.
Damn brazen also, “entered the wifes home while she was away” met the 13yo old son and took him to family’s favourite neighbourhood restaurant!
…Hopefully that goes down a treat with Minnesota soccer moms
All the while she’s still in full union with her estranged husband under islamic law
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You do know those are all claims by the wife and not proven facts?
I wasn’t picking on you, actually. It was a general statement and I have been guilty of it myself. Everybody is a hypocrite sometimes.
Just for a broad example remember that Google conference on climate change and the invited guests showed up in 114 private jets and mega-yachts, that’s hypocrisy at its finest. Everybody, but these special people need to change their behavior and be more green.
Well, I did find it. It will allow private insurance under certain conditions. Conditions which pretty much guarantee they cannot compete, or be so expensive that it’s impossible to have. I would tell you which page it’s on, but since you did me no favors, I won’t do you any. You can find it like I did.
This bill would be a bi-partisan shut down. No way under its current form would it pass.
Okay, what kind of documentation would you like a link to?
Reading it does that.
You clearly didn’t understand the part you read to think it pretty much guarantees they cannot compete.
Why would I need to find it. I’m already aware private insurance is allowed under the bill.
Agreed. As I said upthread I prefer a version like Biden’s. Bernie goes too far.
I have no idea, you’re the one saying you could do it. Seemed like a weird statement, so I called the bluff 
Oh I understood it just fine. It’s lip service to private insurance, the rules they have to follow pretty much eliminates any chance to compete against the government plan, hence they get weeded out.
Allowed, IF they meet impossible criteria. If you read it you would know that.
You throw a 120 page document and go, ‘see I am right!’ not expecting me to look at it. I didn’t read the whole thing, but I did find the part about private insurance. Private insurance would become as theoretical as Dark Matter, under this bill.
So here is a mammoth GOP health care bill. I decided to keep it on topic. I didn’t read it, I am just rebutting your bluff.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1628/text
This is pretty contradictory, considering the concept of Bernie’s plan is such that private insurance won’t be allowed to offer competing coverage, but will be able to cover things not covered by the govt.
WOTTTTTTT. YOU??? COMPLAINING ABOUT IMPOSSIBLE CRITERIA LOLOL.
That’s not how I interpret it, nor how the bulk of legal minds reading it interpret it.
It wasn’t an attempt at a gotcha moment. I was just actually read up on something, and you clearly weren’t.
I remember this bad boy. The GOP adopting, but not perfecting, the art of passing a bill without reading it.
Woulda been interesting to see what woulda happened. This was the one where those 2 senators fell on their sword on principle because they weren’t able to read it first right?
I could be confusing it with another one.
It’s called Single-payer for a reason.
“Private insurance companies are also currently a part of the Medicare system. That wouldn’t be the case under Sanders’ plan.”
You are confusing it with the ACA, which Nancy Pelosi famously said something to the effect of ‘We have to pass it in order to know what’s in it’.
Nah it’s this one too. Hence the comment about adopting
And as I’ve said many times (this time for the last)
Have a good night
Yeah I see people saying stuff like this a lot but I don’t think it’s true. When people are like “once you pass an entitlement (whatever that means) you can’t get rid of it!”
What type of laws could be passed that once enacted we could never change? It seems like with our representative democracy if we voted people in that would change the law it would happen correct?
Also imo a lot of the reason some “entitlements” don’t go away (I hate entitlement because I don’t know what it means. Medicare’s one but police aren’t? Roads? Veterans payments?) is because they are popular. I’m not sure if K-12 schools are an entitlement but most people don’t push to get rid of them.
The drunkenness is the excuse they use to ask questions that would be impolite or out of bounds otherwise. The Chinese are called the “Jews of Asia”. The Jews imo are the Jews of The World; you guys are at the top, who better to learn from?
…same goes for getting those high grades in class…LOL
Absurd statement. A system of healthcare similar to one pushed by Republicans in the 90’s and enacted by a Republican governor became socialist the minute a Democrat did it.
In America if a Dem calls for it it’s always socialism! If it’s a Republican it must be a free market solution.
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That’s not what the NPR article said. They said it ain’t there.
How about public education? Try and pry that out of the hands of the gov.? Or welfare? Or social security?
3 things with out even trying that will never be pried from the government until it falls or gets taken over.
If its a Republican his name was Nixon. He had a lot of bad ideas, like the war on drugs and trade with China and government healthcare. At least one bad idea didn’t make it.