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[PhillyPhreak54]

Geriatric fight!!

[Diomedes]

A little help with Jewish culture here, please:

I'm late on the holiday cards this year.  Normally, I'd send a chanukah card to my jewish friends, but this year chanukah got past me.  It's over Monday night, can't get cards delivered by then.

..which is better:

sending a chanukah card late (as in, after chanukah is over)
or
sending a generic, winter scene, blank inside card with my holiday wishes, etc.

[Sgt PSN]

Send a late chanukah card.  Inside, pen a little note explaining that you wanted to wait until after the holiday when chanukah cards go on sale. They'll totally understand.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Send the Chanukah cards late.

Don't forget to send one to mds.

[Sgt PSN]

I just assumed that's who it was for.

[ice grillin you]

A little help with Jewish culture here, please:

I'm late on the holiday cards this year.  Normally, I'd send a chanukah card to my jewish friends, but this year chanukah got past me.  It's over Monday night, can't get cards delivered by then.

..which is better:

sending a chanukah card late (as in, after chanukah is over)
or
sending a generic, winter scene, blank inside card with my holiday wishes, etc.

if they are close friends send a hahnikah card and recognize your blunder on it....if its just a semi close friend send a happy holidays card

[Sgt PSN]

If it's MDS send a box of poo. Kosher, of course.

[rjs246]

Don't validate their religious choices by personalizing your seasonal cards, is the correct answer.

[Diomedes]

We can't all have smart friends; mine didn't choose their culture.

[rjs246]

We all choose what to believe. To think otherwise is to assume that we have no control over anything.

[General_Failure]

Martin Shkreli's Latest Plan to Sharply Raise Drug Price Prompts Outcry

Martin Shkreli is once again provoking alarm with a plan to sharply increase the price of a decades-old drug for a serious infectious disease. This time the drug treats Chagas disease, a parasitic infection that can cause potentially lethal heart problems.

"It's caused a lot of angst in the Chagas community," said Dr. Sheba Meymandi, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and director of a Chagas treatment center at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center. "Everyone's in an uproar."

The plan also is upsetting some organizations that supply drugs for neglected diseases because Mr. Shkreli has said he wants to take advantage of a federal program intended to encourage companies to develop such drugs. The program awards vouchers that can be sold to other companies for hundreds of millions of dollars.

Mr. Shkreli has said he hopes to obtain such a voucher by getting the Chagas disease drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration for sale in the United States. Critics say that it would be another case of the system being abused by awarding a voucher not for developing a new drug but merely for obtaining F.D.A. approval of a drug already used in tropical countries.

[rjs246]

That guy's a real douche.

[Rome]

I would love to see people like that drawn and quartered in the public square.    No trials.  No pleas for mercy.  Just hook him to to four horses heading in opposite directions and crack the whips.  One less monstrous scumbag.

[phattymatty]

this is also the same dick that bought the million dollar wu-tang album.

[General_Failure]

Report: CEO criticized for gouging drug prices arrested

Shkreli's detention was not related to drug prices but stems from allegations from federal prosecutors that he illegally took stock from a biotechnology company he started in 2012 to pay off unrelated debts, according to Bloomberg. That firm is called Retrophin. He was ousted as its CEO.

The arrest, which Reuters said it witnessed, also appears to be related to Shkreli's now-defunct hedge fund, MSMB Capital.