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@Always
My flying time on business is working time. Coach class on a budget airline does not have the space and quiet conducive to my work. If I stay over in Florida it is in my own home, the client does not get a bill for food or lodging.
This is NOT bragging, as you surmise, but the reality of a law practice taking place in 4 states. Back in the good old days circa 1970, there were tables in First Class and you could sit two facing two and conduct business, or really spread out your work. No laptop computers then.
As I wind down my activity in my practice with generation 2 assuming more of the duties, I fly less and less, which suits me fine. Covid precluded our spending last or this winter in Florida as we had all the extended family in the compound since last March. I”H next winter we’ll be able to spend in Florida where the weather will benefit Mrs. CTL’s health.@always-ask-questions
Thanks, but no thanks, I would not be flying Spirit.
When I (alone) fly domestically, it’s First or Business (if no first is offered) and I am flying on business on the client’s tab.I used to fly AirTran Business class between White Plains and Florida every week, but when Southwest bought them, goodbye Business class, then goodbye White Plains. I was an AirTran stockholder so I made money on the sale.
At this stage of my life I am not going to be flying any of the Greyhounds of the air.If I fly with MrsCTL, or more of the family we use my NetJets membership (due to her medical issues, we don’t fly commercial).
I haven’t flown internationally in 13 months due to the Pandemic.
@nisht
READ MY PODSTR before tearing it apart falsely.
I was specific about Republicans in our very Roman Catholic Town.
As an attorney who has practiced local family law for more than 40 years, I am in our town’s probate court regularly. I see all the adoptions recorded, because the local probate court issues the new birth certificates with the adoptive parents info. In fact about 15 years ago I served 2 terms as Probate Court Judge.
Small town, 12,000 registered Republicans, I’m active in politics and have up to date voter lists, easy for my to verify whose adopting and it isn’t white Republicans.
Amy the judge is not local to Fairfield County Connecticut. I don’t care for many of her decisions on the Federal bench but approve of her adopting children. She lives her life according to her beliefs, I don’t want to live my life according to her beliefsI find it interesting that many of the articles in YWN recently complaining about banning, anti-frum behavior, general anti-semitism have been about the low cost, low service carriers such as Frontier and Spirit.
@RebEliezer
We also have 2 converted from birth adopted children (plus 5 Mrs. CTL birthed).Our big mouth local Republican acquaintances who are anti-abortion and anti-birth control (we live in a very Roman Catholic town..our Democratic Town Committee opposes these issues in the party platform) don/’t adopt. If 100K fertility treatments don’t work they remain childless, but they won’t take a non-white or non-pedigreed child into their families.
In fact 80% of adoptions processes by Catholic Family Services in our area are to Jewish adoptive parents.@Ayiddeshekup
Since we were born and raised in New Haven, my BIL recommends hunting rifles by Winchester, Mossberg or Marlin (all nice local companies).We both learned to shoot rifles in summer camp some 60 years ago or so, but neither has handled one since.
@ujm
The US Congress hasn’t passed a budget in years. The government functions on continuing resolutions. Trump even let the government shut down a number of times.So the Republicans don’t vote to fund the social programs in their proposed budgets every year.
BTW>>>>spending bills originate in the House, not the Senate, so for the past couple of years the proposed budgets that have not been passed are not ‘their’ (Republican).
@torahvalues
No we don’t ALL agree about Guns.
Both I and my Republican Brother-in law believe that no private citizen should own hand guns, and that hunting rifles/shot guns should only be legal in rural areas where some Americans hunt their food.
No American private citizen should be allowed to own semi-automatic or assault style guns/rifles.@Yaakov doe
They erected a golden statue of Stalin in Prague, it was urinating ion the Czech people. It was torn down.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
To quote two nice Jewish Boys (Simon and Garfunkel)
and the people came and prayed to the neon G-d they made…………………….How I wish Trump would finally be silent
@Torahvalues
I composed a lengthy reply full of direct quotes of his bigotry about 7 hours ago and submitted it.
Somehow it has never appeared in this thread.I can’t imagine you are wondering why.
@Common You have no Saychel
NP RADIO…one cannot watch Radio, so don’t say I do the impossible.
@Catchyourself
Thanks. I am not a watcher of Saturday Night Live or much television besides news, weather, business channels@Catchyourself
Sorry, I’ve never heard of Michael Che.
A quick Google search shows him to be a stand up comedian, not a talk radio host@CommonSaychel
I don’t agree that Rush was talented, he was an offensive bigot. Larry King overnight was entertaining.
I still listen to talk radio….NPR.
No right wing for me.@Gadolhadorah
At these hospital owned practices (in this case Yale) the doctors have no say in how the office runs, they are merely employees. My primary care physician has told us he cannot stand the office help and is forbidden to tell they what to do, how to do their jobs, etc.
He hates the system, I have more than once offered to set him up in private practice, rent free for the first five years in a building I bought that was medical offices. He told me that he was afraid of going in his own, as the insurance company search engines for ‘find a doctor’ show all the hospital owned practices first.
In the past 5 years every single one of our doctors has sold their practices to either Yale or Hartford Health. Mrs, CTL wanted to change her doctor to one affiliated with a small suburban hospital but was told he does not have admitting privileges in the New Haven and Bridgeport which are all owned by Yale or Hartford Health.@Gadolhardorah
You seemed to have missed the point ywnjudy is making. This vent is NOT about medical caregivers, but the self important clerical staffs in the medical offices.On Thursday my primary care physician telephoned me to discuss some test results. He suggested I see a specialist (in his same hospital owned practice) to follow up with a further procedure. He told me he’d transfer the call and I should tell them to book the appointment. He transferred the call and got off the line. after a few rings, a young sounding female picked up, gave the name of the doctor with whom I wished to make an appointment and said This is Liza. I gave my name, the name of my primary care physician and that he had transferred the call so an appointment could be made.
Her immediate reply, NOT MY JOB. No offer to transfer the call or suggest another extension and she disconnected me. I called the office manager and played my recording of the call with Liza. I suggested strongly that maybe Liza shouldn’t have any job that involved talking to patients. The office manager commiserated and told me all the young clerks were terrible, but during Covid, no one over 30 is interested in working in medical offices for fear of contracting the virus. The manager made the appointment.@The Shady Chareidi
Always so sure, always so wrong.
Cruz had not booked this trip in advance, the evidence has shown it was last minute. (per his wife’s text messages among other sources).
His children has an unexpected school break because of the 2weather/power/water issues. He tried/lied claiming an excuse to take them and deliver them to Cancun and come right back, despite reservations for returning days later.
Certainly, mama Cruz could have taken the girls to Cancun without his assistance, they are not babies.
Rafael Cruz, just another Hispanic fleeing America because of ICE. As a Canadian he surely could have handled snow and cold weather…born and raised in Calgary.May not be3 a topic in your city shul or yeshiva, but in our area it is a serious consideration.
Many of the buildings have installed solar electric panels. Not just for the savings on the utility bills, but to reduce CO2 emissions that affect our climate/environment.I agree with you completely with the proviso that the individual yeshivos MUST be in compliance with local health department requirements.
Israel has a national system and has vaccinated a much larger percentage of population. Thuis it can institute such a rule.
The US has a different system in each state and different groups are eligible for vaccinations at different times.
How in good conscious could yeshivos permanently ban returning avreichim who are coming from a state not yet vaccinating their age group?@Gadolhadorah
Very few banks left subject to Federal Regulations.
Every single CT bank that had the word National in its name when I was growing up, changed name and to state regulations only.
I can only find one Federal Savings and Loan left in my county and it is based at a defense contractor.@RebEliezer
Lakewhut is lying when saying President Biden will bring in 11 million illegal immigrants.
If they are already here the President is not bringing them in. If the rules are changes to allow entry they are not being brought in illegally.
I never used the word vote or voting. The headline Lakewhut chose for his post is a LIE.Lakewhut is busy posting LIES. What a surprise, NOT.
11 Million illegal immigrants are NOT being brought in by President Biden. He is proposing a pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants who are already in the USA.IF, President Biden arranges it so additional immigrants can enter the USA, then those immigrants will NOT be illegal, they will enter legally.
Keep spewing lies and hate and xenophobia. That’s what led to the refusal and death of Jewish refugees such as those on the ST. Louis.
All of us (in America) should remember that our families were immigrants to this country, some did not enter legally. Were we saved from the army of the Tsar, pogroms, famine, the Shoah?
@Common Saychel
I have full respect for how you have chosen to live your life, to the full extent of my knowledge of your life. I know of no criminal or other behavior on your part that might change my opinion,
The fact that I may not agree with your political beliefs in no way alters my respect for your life style.Branch bank location decisions are subject to state approval/regulation. The change of administration in Washington has nothing to do with it.
Sorry for all the typos. my hands are not working well today
@UJM
I have no idea what locale you are in, but th3e opposite is the national trend.
My town in Southern Connecticut has lost 7 retail bank branches in the last 5 years (in a growing healthy town,
Chase Bank has cut hours and days in Fairfield County branches still open. HSBC withdrew from the market and CitiBank closed 90% of CT branches.
I am on both the Town and regional Economic Development Commission. The internet, mobile apps and now the Pandemic has destroyed most in person retail banking.I don’t know when I last used cash for anything. If I receive a chedk, I taker a picture with my iPhone and deposit it that way.
Mrs. CTL and I just bought a property and handled the mortgage 100% by email and used esign to close. No trip to the bank needed.There is an application at our P&Z Commission tomorrow evening to turn a closed bank branch (closed 5 years ago and no other bank wanted it) into a pharmacy with a drive thru lane. Our town doesn’t usually allow drive thru window at businesses, but this will pass. We have too many empty bank buildings.
Last month People’s United Bank announced they would not renew leases for their branches in CT Stop and Shop supermarkets, Lack of interest caused by change of shopping habits@CommonSaychel
I dis not miss minyan the entire pandemic. Mrs. CTL and I had all the grandchildren, great nieces and great nephews and some nieces and nephews in residence at the CTL compound since about March 12th
We had regular minyanim, have our own sifrei tora, an Aron Kodesh, etc.
We were aware of the state imposed restrictions on indoor capacity and deliberately did not use our seats in shul, so those without a private minyan such as ours could attend shul.I haven’t traveled out of town and don’t intend to do so in the foreseeable future. Our home in Florida has been lent to close friends who wished to get out of New York last March. Our house in Herzylia Pituach is occupied by my niece and family who felt it safer than their apartment in a crowed area of Yerushalayim,
We made a chasunah in the compound late last spring for a grandson, Had full yomin tovim with the family in residence. Preparations for Pesach are underway in the Pesach kitchen upstairs as we will celebrate our second set of Covid Sedarim in the compound.
Buying the adjoining properties and building a family compound was one of the smartest things Mrs. CTL have done in our adult lives.@Mizmor
Vestry is a room attached to the sanctuary where clergy put on vestments or robes before leading services.
Here in New England many shuls were/are located in former church buildings. Since there was no need for a clergy robing room, the Vestry became the place for Kiddush. Luncheons dinners, etc, are held in the social hall,
For those of us over 60 who grew up in those shuls based in former church buildings the word lingers on. My children heard their grandparents using the word, and may have even attended a service at suck a place and heard the announcement that Kiddush in the Vestry following davening is sponsored by XXXX.
My grandchildren will not recognize the word and it will likely die out in 50 years.@Always
My going to shul was coincidental with having my first shot. During the past week CT Governor Lamont relaxed indoor restrictions for religious services.
Prior to this relaxation I stayed away from shul, as we have a minyan and sifrei torah at our home. My attendance after the easing of restrictions no longer might have kept someone out who did not have the availability of a private minyan.
Social distancing was observed in shul. Only every 5th seat was available for use. Our family row has 12 seats and only three could be occupied, unless we lived in the same household and were exempt as a cohort.
Again, so shul kiddush and gathering occurred in the vestry following minyan, all left the building promptly and headed home.Yesterday was my first time in shul since last March. The maximum capacity has been lifted by the state, many of the older members (including me) have had our first Covid-19 shot, so we ventured back,
When it came time for the Rav’s drasha, he announced, that non of us came to hear him, we should take the 15 minutes to talk and catch up with each other.
After davening, the Rav made kiddush on the bimah and everyone left to walk home. there was no shul kiddush in the vestry for health reasons,
It was so nice to see many I haven’t seen for almost 11 months.
That said, I’ll be making Purim at home with the familyI had my first dose of Moderna Vaccine Friday at noon (CT opened to over 65 as of Thursday and I was able to get a choice of 12 time slots for Friday, with a confirmed 2nd dose Friday March 12 at noon.
The location was a Walgreen’s Pharmacy 5 miles from my home.The pharmacist who administered the dose told me that three side affects are likely. My upper arm will be sore from about 4 hours after getting the shot and up to three days. It is sore, but not painful. I might develop a slight rash and should treat it with over the counter Cortisone cream. I didn’t get the rash and I might develop a slight headache approx 24 hours after the dose. I got a headache this afternoon, so I took a nap and it was gone.
My 78 year old sister in law has had both doses with no side affects. My elder brother is getting the Pfizer vaccine tomorrow and we’ll compare our reactions. My 74 year old sister and her husband of same age are getting Moderna on Monday and we’ll also discuss after affects.
I would say the soreness in my arm is about 3 times how I feel after my yearly flu shot. The needle seemed to go much deeper into the muscle and the pharmacist said it is bot longer and a wider diameter than he uses for the flu shots.
@commonseychel
Jewish flunky to the extreme……Jared Kushner
Let’s just drop the last word in the title of this thread,
LINDSEY GRAHAM’S STUPID.He is also two faced, a liar and not to be trusted
@justlookin
There are many local businesses that are surviving the lockdown, Pandemic restriction by selling on Amazon.
I’m on the Economic Development Commission in our town. Amazon opened a local distribution facility here in 2020. It has provided more than 500 jobs to area residents with a starting wage of $15 hour. They buy local, instead of putting in fuel pumps, as FEDEX and UPS have done they buy from the local gas stations. They keep many local restaurants going with their food orders. They donate to local causes.Sometimes the corporate giant can be real gentle in the local areas.
I know a lot of people who have gotten divorced and some who are getting divorced and a few who are planning to divorce,
BUT, I have been a Family Law Attorney for decades and it’s part of how I make a living.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>My question for COFFEE ADDICT is are you asking why a few people are getting or have been divorced or why you have come to know about it?
The whys usually boil down to: money, incompatibility, familial interference (especially among younger couples) and infidelity.
Why you have come to know about it: There is less social stigma and shame in divorce than even 25 years ago and people don’t try to hide it from their friends and acquaintances.
@Ben Levi
I am explaining that something that is legal may be found Unconstitutional. Legal and Unconstitutional are not mutually exclusive.
Children used to be compelled to recite Christian prayers in public schools (by local regulation, statute, policy, depending on jurisdiction). It was a legal act that was ruled Unconstitutional by the SCOTUS in 1962.There are many more examples.
@Participant
This Impeachment is specifically about the events of January 6th. Read the Bill of Impeachment, the incitement of the insurrection/storming of the Capitol is the only charge voted upon by the House of Representatives. You can speculate all you want about other underlying factors.@Health
Ken Starr is NOT Judge Starr, he stopped being a Judge in 1989
He is Chancellor of a University in Texas@Smerel
Why can’t you post facts and accurate information?
Jurors and judges are not one and the same. Not all trials have jurors. In the court system, a judge can nullify the finding of a jury (not so in an impeachment).A little accuracy please.
Ken Starr, gave his opinion, other Constitutional scholars disagree with him
John Roberts is NOT Judge Roberts, he is Chief Justice Roberts. T are Justices, not judges. Please give him his due.The reason Roberts will not preside (it is in the future, not past as you wrote) is because the Chief Justice ONLY preside at the Impeachment Trial of the President of the USA. Not the former President, not a judge, ambassador, postmaster or other federal official. The Senate gets to choose one of its members to preside at all impeachment trials except of the President. Trump is NOT President, thuis no Chief Justice presiding at his trial.
@AbbaS
You are wrong on two points
“45 senators have already voted that it is illegal to impeach anyone after they are out of office”
45 Senators voted to table a vote saying the the impeachment trial of a former President was Unconstitutional.No vote took place to say it was illegal, Unconstitutional does not mean illegal. Illegal must be in contravention to a law, statute or regulation,
This is not the first time a former federal official has been impeached and tried after leaving office.This is NOT a free speech issue/
Free Speech as guaranteed by the First Amendment ONLY applies to government action. Amazon is not a part of or acting ion behalf of the Government.
Shop where you wish, or don’t
@smerel
Why don’t you go take a 7th grade civics class before spewing inaccuracies“at least 75% the judges needed for conviction are long time open enemies”
You don’t need a single judge to convict. In fact not a single judge is to be involved in the Senate trial. The members of the Senate sit as Jurors. Because this is not the trial of a sitting President, The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court will not preside, instead Senator Patrick Leahy will be the presiding officer.
75% of ZERO is ZERO….game, set, match.
@CoffeeAddict
I cannot confirm why Trump is being impeached. I am not inside the majority of House of Representatives minds who voted to impeach.
I believe/feel that since he cannot be removed from office at this point that precluding him from running for any Federal office in the future is important (and can be ordered in an Impeachment trial).Another important reason for the second impeachment is that with the Republicans no longer in control of the Senate there can be a trial with witnesses who are compelled to testify under penalty of perjury, contempt of Congress, etc, Without the trial some important information about June 6th and its planning may never come to light.
@Coffee Addict
I highly doubt the house would have voted a Bill of Impeachment for just the 2 pipe bombs, not directed at government and which did not go off.@Coffeeaddict
Don’t give up your day job“fbi-pipe-bombs-at-rnc-dnc-were-planted-night-before-capitol-riot.”
“fbi-pipe-bombs-at-rnc-dnc-were-planted-night-before-capitol-riot.”Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc (after this, therefore because of this) FALSE logic.
The pipe bombs were not planted at the Capitol and have nothing to do with Trump’s words to the mob on January 6th: Paraphrase by CTL…Go up to the Capitol and I will go with you.
Trump urged the mob to go to The Capitol, and of course he lied saying he would go with them.@eli lev
Sponsored content is NOT news. It is not journalism, it is NOT fact checked.
IT IS ADVERTISING. Someone or some organization with an agenda is putting forth a call for support or funds with their version of a story (which may or may not be the whole truth and nothing but the truth…you can tell I’m an attorney).Obviously NOT only weren’t those supposed state police from DC, they weren’t in DC.
So you viewed a video on an obscure news source and can’t verify the name of the state police force that was supposedly escorting 5 vans of Antifa to the US Capitol….which they could not legally do within the DC boundaries and you expect us to believe this is true?Get over it, Trump lost by more than 7 million votes.
The country has to move on.
If the Senate doesn’t vote to preclude it, he can run again in 2024. Grover Cleveland lost his reelection bid in 1888 and won a second term in 1892.Health
To put it plainly, you are a blithering idiot.
Trump LOST the popular vote in 2016 and 2020.
No proof of widespread illegal vote being counted has been presented in the courts. PROOF, not allegation.
What State police escorting 5 vans of Antifa to the Capitol??????? PURE LIES. There are NO State Police in the District of Columbia. It is NOT a state. State police from outside the district could not cross the boundary to escort anyone to the Capitol. The only time State Police can cross out of state on duty is in the HOT PURSUIT of a criminal fleeing a crime.We don’t vote by County in the USA, only popular vote and statewide Electoral College votes. Counties can have 1,000 residents or 3 million, so it doesn’t matter how many counties someone ‘wins.’
Connecticut has EIGHT Counties. The two largest Counties by population: Hartford and Fairfield have 1.832 million people. The other six combines have 1.6 million people. So win 2 lose 6 and still win the total popular vote for the state and all the Electoral College votes.Stop parroting the LOSER’s rhetoric and face pure facts, such as the county example I posted. You look like a fool, it’s unbecoming