TheEncogitationer

Jake,

Oh, I see.

Well thanks, but way better minds than mine have pointed up goalpost-shifting. It is found in several logical fallacies such as Tu Quoque, Mott-And-Bailey, and Whataboutism.

Jake,

I never deliberately shift the goalposts, so my brand does not belong on that.

I didn’t object to David’s question. I just thought it should have been directed to the North American members of the Forum at large. I sure didn’t invent Manifest Destiny and since Manifest Destiny has God as it’s foundation, I would never support such a…[Read more]

Davis,

Enco, would you support expelling most New Yorkers from Manhattan and giving it over to the Native American population of New York state, funding and arming them and supporting them when Manhattanites resist? I would be quite curious to hear everyone’s response to this (and some bullshit answer about how “it is not the same thi…

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Jake,

Wow, 20 percent for that service. That ought to be illegal. Or let the free market generate competition cuz that is beyond outrageous.

No, it shouldn’t be illegal. Remember, “usury” is just interest that the payer doesn’t like to pay. (I say that and I’ve paid it too before.)

The Free Market competition is the Sharper Image coin sorter…[Read more]

Jake,

Funny cuz i never remember usury laws coming up in my practice. I do however recall how some clients got in trouble with payday loans. Those rates will embarass lone sharks. Stay away from payday..hay hay hay.

Very true. I also have to remind my customers about the CoinStar machines.

CoinStar doesn’t charge a fee for converting coins…[Read more]

Unseen,

I hope you actually paid attention to that video on Jewish languages you presented.

It means that Jews wandered from “The Holy Land” to everywhere in Europe, Asia, and North Africa before they migrated back to “The Holy Land” and thus were not just “European Colonizers.”

Unseen and Jake,

I knew Yiddish had elements of Hebrew, German, and Polish, but I did not know about the Aramaic and Romantic influences as well.

The Aramaic was a natural, since it too is Semitic, and now knowing the migration itenary, the Romantic influence makes sense too.

I hope you enjoyed the Klezmer melody in the Supertramp song.

Jake,

So what’s the translation? Is it anything that serves up and pays for “Breakfast In America?”

Uneen,

“Usury”, of course, translates to “interest rates that someone on the giving end does not like, and which could be avoided if schools simply taught students about compounding, investment, and being on the receiving end.” 🎩💱💰💲

Jake,

I noticed something early on in the present Gaza-Israeli War:

Almost everybody was pleading and hand-wringing and screaming at Israel to “Cease-Fire! Cease-Fire!”…all the while Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad was calling for endless, bottomless, all-you-can-eat, multiple October 7ths against Israel.

Hamas Official Threatens Repeat of Oct. 7…[Read more]

Jake,

I remember a client told me before i negotiated on his behalf, “don’t let him Jew ya down.”

Everybody bargains, whether they are Jewish or Gentile, whether they acknowledge it or not.

When you leave a product on the shelf until it goes out-of-season or goes on closeout or clearance, that is bargaining.

When you buy in bulk to save…[Read more]

Davis,

I just said what you said about using the term “people of death”–in far fewer words, I might add–and yet you just said I was wrong. WTF???

And you said both of these at the same time and almost in the same breath:

You all need to get a grip and check your Islamophobia. It is outrageously hypocritical to, on the one hand rightfully…

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Robert,

One thing that gets me about this whole story is that these Ivy League Universities have disciplined, sanctioned, and expelled students, staff, and Professors for saying things that don’t even rise anywhere near to the level of advocating genocide.

Yet these University Presidents don’t have either the stoneage or the ovary-age to say…[Read more]

Jake,

Davis mentioned money-scrounging as one of many anti-Jewish tropes. I’m saying that in of itself, money-scrounging is not a bad thing, though not at the expense of investing it in capital and labor to make it grow in returns.

Jake,

Addressed to Enco but i will jump in and do it with feigned impunity.

People of death? Bad or good title? BAD. (Illustrates how racist it is to endorse people of color) It is directed at a group, a very large group at that. Blanket condemnation of an enormous group is not good. Money scroungers? Well it shares with people of death the…

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Unseen,

India and Pakistan’s disputes are not threatening world peace. Not even India’s and China’s border dispute seems to be threatening that right now.

Pakistan and India’s disputes are yet another theater in the larger Global Jihad between Dar Al Islam (“The House of Islam”) and Dar Al Harb (“The House of War”, which is the rest of Human…[Read more]

Davis,

I would say, this is little different than blanket calling members of an entire religion “people of death”, something that still utterly turns my stomach, when I think about it.

One can (rightly) call a religious worldview a “death cult” without calling every one of it’s professed adherents “people of death.”

All of the world’s liv…[Read more]