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@SamKlein
Stop printing LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“NJ and many other states all voting with corruption based on only with mail in ballot ”From the NJ Dept of Elections website:
“Polling Place Locations
While the November 3, 2020 election is being conducted primarily with vote by mail ballots, with each active registered New Jersey voter receiving a vote by mail ballot, there will still be at least one polling location available in every municipality in the state and each county will operate at least 50% of its normal polling location capacity. Voters who do not receive a vote by mail ballot or who prefer to vote in person will cast a paper ballot at their designated polling location.”Any NJ registered voter can vote in person.
Enough with the Trump voter fraud conspiracy theories. It is not commonplace.
I have been an Asst Registrar of Voters for many years, voter fraud is extremely rare. If you are concerned about mail in ballots not being received on time, blame Trump and his vile Postmaster General appointee who has slowed down mail delivery and removed sorting machines.
Last spring during the height of the Pandemic we hosted our eldest grandsons’ wedding in our gardens. It complied with the state maximum outdoor social gathering rules. There was prerecorded music but no dancing, EVERY attendee wore a mask, social distancing was observed. Only those family members living in the CTL compound since early March were in attendance. The Kallah and immediate family arrived and stayed on the block 14 days before the ceremony and were tested (negative results) the morning of the marriage.
No outside catering help entered the premises, flowers, food, linens, etc were delivered to our driveway by contactless delivery and the younger members of the family did the schlepping and setting up. They also helped serve and cleaned everything up afterwards.
It was truly a family affair. The 125 maximum made for an intimate wedding.
This is not the first wedding we have made on our grounds, two of our daughters were married here, albeit without covid restrictions, and as a Justice of the Peace I have performed non-Jewish weddings here as well.
The couple is not interested in a large party in the future when that type of social gathering is possible. This size wedding actually allowed them to interact with all of the guests, something that doesn’t happen in weddings of 300-1000 guestsThe property in the Laurentians was a failed ski resort I bought in August 1972. It has been updated over the years. There is a main house and a number of 3 and 4 bedroom chalets. The lodge/dining room is suitable for a small school/shul. We’d be happy to have your family join us.
As for Herzylia Pituach, married eldest grandson has requested it if we don’t go
@CoffeeAddict
Hoping not to make a trip.As it stands now, Canada is far safer for my Imuno-compromised wife.
All my bags are packed
I’m ready to go
I’m standin’ here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breakin’
It’s early morn
The taxi’s waitin’
He’s blowin’ his horn
Already I’m so lonesome
I could die
So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you’ll wait for me
Hold me like you’ll never let me go
‘Cause I’m leavin’ on a jet plane
Don’t know when I’ll be back again………………………………………..‘Leaving om a jet plane’ John Denver
Do we go to our house in the Laurentians (bought when I achieved landed immigrant status in Canada to avoid the Viet Nam draft, but didn’t get called) or our home in Herzylia Pituach?
I’ll let Mrs. CTL make the decision, but we are not staying for four more years.Just to put this out there………………….
CTLawyer comes from a state where we don’t elect judges (excluding probate). They are recommended by the Bar association, appointed by the givernor and approved by the legislature.
They have a mandatory retirement age of 70.
they don’t have to kowtow to politicians to be chosen as a candidate, they don’t have to canpaign for office. they can afford to take a few years working for much less money than they make in private practice to serve the public good, because they can and often do return to private practice after leaving the bench.
The first change I’d like to see in the Federal Court system is to have term limits, no more lifetime appointments.
I’ve not posted one word about Federal judges being of either party. It’s about qualifications. I have great respect for some conservative judges and disdain for others. The same for liberal judges.
One of the worst judges to ever have been on the SCOTUS bench was Abe Fortas, an LBJ appointee.1
WRONG AGAIN………………..this is getting tiresome“After Trump is pres Twitter will lose whatever prominence it still has.”
Trump is President. You obviously forgot the words: NO LONGER between is and pres.
You just can’t accept that trump is likely to lose the election.This lawyer would be very happy to see a complete overhaul of the Federal Court system…Go Joe.
Shame 1 is too foolish to know things change in a 47 year span and so should opinions if need be.
47 years ago it was legal to drink at 18 and buy cigarettes at 16, as someone just under 21 I thought that was great.
Now I wouldn’t let anyone under 25 buy and concume alcohol and nobody should be allowed to smoke tobacco.
That’s a change of opinion based on lefe experience, not as you say, a flip flop.It’s no secret you hate Biden, I”H he will soon be our President and the charlatan will be out of office and power and hopefully in prison.
Already did….last week.
In fact the Secretary of State’s (CT) website confirms my Town Clerk has received and logged my ballot envelope. It cannot be opened until November 3 at 6 am when the polls open/@1
Always so sure, always so wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!“EVERY CHILD GETS…………………”
You have no universal knowledge and post a lie.
My parents never once spanked their children, Mrs. CTL and I have never spanked our children, and to the best of our knowledge, our children have NEVER spanked our grandchildren.
@1
The ambassador killed in Benghazi was NOT VP Biden’s he served as the Ambassador from the UNITED States appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
Vice Presidents have no real power except to break tie votes in the Senate.
If you wish to blame the then President, do so, but this attack is baseless and deflection,@Ben Levi
Stop living in the past
Clinton is NOT running for office
Former Presidents are routinely asked to speak at political conventions.
In Trump;s case, the living former Republican President refused to have anything to do with his candidacy and would not speak, had he been asked.Stop deflecting and deal with reality. The candidates are Biden and Trump
I posted over a month ago that I would not get involved in any of this CR back and forth about the election, as no one will be changing their minds based on the comments here.
My absentee ballot arrived today in the mail (they were mailed on 10/2 in my Connecticut town). I voted and have already deposited in the collection box at Town Hall.
I voted Biden.
I expect he will win my state.
Most of the arguing here is useless, as Biden will win CT, NY and NJ.Most members of the CR don’t live or vote in states that Trump may win.
I will make my comments about the election after voting has ended and the counts are in.
And, I don’t expect the voter fraud that the fool in the White House predicts. He is looking for any excuse fir being beatenI have voted by mail for over 40 years, why should I change now?
I serve as Asst. Registrar of Voters in my town on election day (not at my [polling location) so am qualified for an absentee ballot under CT’s strict rules (in all other years but this).Today, Town Clerks in CT can start mailing ballots to those who applied for absentee ballots. I expect ours will arrive tomorrow, My family will fill them out, sign and seal the envelopes and I’ll drive to Town Hall or the Police HQ and deposit them in the Ballot collection boxes.
I’ll not entrust them to the poorly run USPS to make timely delivery.
On Primary Day in August, I supervised Absentee Ballot counting. CT requires the ballots arrive on or before election day. We started at noon and finished at midnight.
Based on the number of applications for absentee ballots received, we trained/engaged three times the number of ballot counters we had on primary day.
I expect we’ll finish in about the same amount of time.As for BLM rallies, I attended one on the Town Hall green in our little town many months ago. There was total social distancing with spaces marked on the lawn and small family areas roped off. No one was permitted in the area unless wearing a mask. The organizers has booths set up at the entry to provide free masks and hand sanitizer if anyone needed them.
Approximately 1% of the town;s population showed up, There were 90 minutes of interesting speeches, all were orderly, and all wore masks. Water bottles were made available on the hot afternoon at no charge. I stayed after the rally to help clean up, but not one bottle or cap was left behind.
Since then, BLM rallies in town have been Virtual, because we have a 100 person outdoor event limit in effect.I have nothing to apologize for…………………………
If NYS government employees are inept, it’s a civil service issue, not a political party issue
As reported on WCBS Radio 880AM
Mayor D will work the furlough days without pay@Health
N95 not availableHow many would you like?
I have 800 sitting in a carton not 3 feet from my desk.@avrah
I would have turned and walked out and spent my money elsewhere.I don’t know where you are located, but here in CT not wearing a mask in a retail store (employees and customers excluding small children) can bring a $1000 fine. Repeated violations by staff can lead to the store being closed by the authorities.
I will also assume that the customers were not social distancing, the store was too crowded to allow 6 foot separation, they allowed multiple members of a family to enter and shop together, there was no employee at the door counting those entering and leaving to ensure the leagl reduced occupancy was not exceeded and they think they are above the civil law.
Dina Malchusa Dina………………….
@Health
Wikipedia is not a credible source.
I grew up in a large city whose BOE is NOT elected.
Boards of Education hire the Superintendent, but do not micromanage the schools. Superintendents are generally contract employees and tend to outlast the terms of the BOE.
Our town’s new Superintendent has a three year contract, the BOE is elected for a two year term. The term is up in 2021, the Super will be here until at least 2023.BTW, our BOE is split 1/2 R, 1/2 D
@Health
Political parties don’t run public schools.
They are run by Superintendents of Schools who hold such a license.
Governments fund the schools.@Health
The Secy of HUD may have been a brain surgeon, but is titally unqualified to run HUD.
Like many, who become wealthy, he became a Republican to separate himself from the community from which he sprang.
He was a street thug as a teen who should have spend his life in prison for attempted murder, but the social programs that the ‘defund the police’ advocates want kept him out of the system and got him an education.
BUT, that horribble piece of garbage Besty DeVos, wholly unqualified to be Secy of Education would do away with all the educational programs that help minorities and the poor rise from their lowly beginnings.
In the Black community, the HUD Secy is laughed at and known as an Uncle Tom or worse edited. A word I don’t use or condone, but have seen and heard being used to describe himI know many Indian-Americans who are Anti-Trump, starting with the Democrat Running for the CT House in my area.
The Times of India reported on Mat 12, 2020 that:
“Indian-Americans most likely to be Democrats of any Asian-or ..”50% support or identify as Democrats and on;y 18% as Republicans.
Mrs. CTL has been a RE Broker for 40 years. Area sales are up and closings the past 60 days have been 25% buyers coming from NYC.
@Shady
Inside Information means you can’t comment on the state of mind or thought process of someone who has not made a public statement, not that the opinion is being held secret, and only some insider know what it say@AviK
I don’t expect an attack on the compound, which is not as privileged as you think. I am not in one of the wealthier Fairfield County suburbs down county, but bordering Bridgeport in a mixed community.We own homes in EY, and I”H will visit after Covid. For medical reasons, retirement full time to EY is not an option for MRS. CTL.
@1
I don’t have to revisit my German History.
My maternal great grand parents moved from Bavaria to NY in 1862
There was NO country called Germany then. Unification under Bismark happened in 1871.My family left what is Now Germany long before Trump’s grandfather left to become a saloon keeper and brothel operator in Canada. Canada tossed him out and Germany would not let him back in and we got stuck with the family in the USA
We have been very satisfied with Maytag. Currently have six sets in the compound, with all the grandchildren, etc here since March, they have had a workout.
We bought the house behind us about 6 months ago. There was a three year old LG Pair. My niece hated them and we’ve replaced with Maytag.
Until 2 years ago, always bought Gas dryers, they usually cost $100 more than electric, but dry faster and gas is cheaper than electricity. But since we have installed solar on our home and the house next to us that was MIL’s (2 3 BR units) we ave been buying electric appliances and water heaters and letting the sun power them for next to no cost.
as usual making pronouncements with no facts…….
You have absolutely no inside information as to what President Biden might do about riots occurring after January 20, 2021
@Sam the small minded one
“If ,,,,, Biden and Harris win the election. Then all yidden will have to make Aliyah immediately. There will be no other choice.”
Who put you in charge? Some Yidden will rejoice at Trump’s defeat and not be moving (including the CTL family).
@Commonsaychel
In 1980 when the Polish Government and Lech Walesa led Solidarity were fighting it out at The Lenin shipyards in Gdansk, my eldest son asked my father Z”L who we supported. My father replied the groups are all Poles, anti-semites, let them kill each other………………………………..no need to take sidesMygreat-great grandparents left Suwalki, Poland for America in 1872…we were lucky B”H
I don’t classify her as African American, she self identified. I used the Census standard to explain this choice as acceptable to our government.
I didn’t use the term Trump Census, sop I could not be repeating it.
I did not accuse anyone of being a Nazi or an advocate for Apartheid, I said those regimes identified race and its standards and put it on identity papers.READ WELL, before you make false accusations
NO, I was calling out 1n and his claim about Communists hijacking the party
Sorry for my typos earlier, on phone, not computer keyboard.
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I will donate $50 to the tzedaka of your choice if you can validate your claim (with names) of Communists who have hijacked the Democratic Party.Socialism is NOT Communism.
Many people did not come through Ellis Island. My family arrived before that existed.
Foreign ships came to Boston, New Haven-and other ports. Sailors jumped ship or overstayed leave and melded into the population. They didn’t bother becoming citizen, they married a citizen and kids born here were citizens. Prior to 1980 it was easy to get a SS card. You could look at death notices in the newspaper archives and pick a baby or toddler of your sex who died. File for a SS card just by getting a birth certificate at town hall for 59 cents, didn’t have to show IF, get card, assume identity, use C and SS card to get license and even a passport.@anonymous Jew
Under the race choices presented by the Decennial Census (an arm of the Trump Executive Branch of Government.
A person such as Harris could legitimately answer race choice as Black-African American (if she so identifies) and answer the follow up question. National Origin? African, Jamaican, etc. and choose Jamaican.Alternatively, she could have answered as Asian, with follow up as Indian.
Or…………………
She could have chosen none of the Races listed and chosen, other and entered Mixed.The US Government allows its residents to self identify race. This isn’t Nazi Germany, or South Africa under Apartheid, where the Government decides race and puts it in your ID papers.
@n0mesorah
The Republican Party has changed greatly in my adult lifetime. Gone are the northeast liberal wing (Rockefeller, Keating, Lindsay, Weicker, etc). It was hijacked to the right by the evangelicals (Moral Majority) and the gun toting white supremacists. Today they leave no room in the party for differing viewpoints.
I sit on a Democratic Town Committee, which doesn’t lean to the left. Most don;t support, women’s abortion rights, school vouchers, forcing low income housing into the suburbs, affirmative action. 100% support a national health plan, social security, medicare, medicaid, SNAP, WIC, DACA.Many members had parents or grandparents who arrived illegally and made a life in the US, but as white Europeans, it was easier yo pass., marry a citizen and remain.
@Proud
It;s important to point out mistakes. There is a huge difference between a Building in Washington DC and the seat of government of a country…much more than the choice of a vowel. The rest of his statement was incoherent.While we are talking about Accuracy…DJ Trump was a Democrat for years. He may have run on the R ticket, but most don;t view him as a Republican, but an opportunist
@1
You are an ignorant fool, who prints lies wiht no basis in truth.I am a lifelong Democrat, a Baal Tzedaka. I have never given charity toi support whales or abortion, neither have many Democrats I know.
Besides Jewish organizations, I donate to our local Volunteer Fire Company, EMS, Food Pantry, Senior Services, College Scholarships for the poor, The local Catholic Hospital that saved Mrs, CTL’s life and where some of our grandchildren were born.If you were to take a poll of the 70 some odd members of my Democratic Town Committee, you would be hard pressed to find more than a dozen who have ever given a nickel to support abortion. The vast majority are Catholics whom oppose abortion, but don’t believe their religious beliefs should be civil law.
Remember the First National Fundraiser for Planned Parenthood was Prescott Bush, father of President George HW Bush, Grandfather of President George W Bush, and US Republican Sentator from CT@1
“CTL but as the democrat you are who supporrs criminal justice reform for black people you must admit in that case threat he got too harsh of a sentence. You know it.”If this was written in coherent English I might craft a proper reply………………………………
BUT, I’ll attempt to understand your gibberishI support Criminal Justice Reform for ALL people, not just Blacks. I don’t believe in mandated minimum sentences, or three strike rules.
I have no idea what a ‘case threat is’ and who got too harsh of a sentence.
BTW>>>>I also would not restore Voting Rights to convicted felons, or allow those in prison serving time for felonies to vote.
I don’t believe that the sole purpose of prison is to re-educate and make the prisoner ready to re-enter society. I believe a prison sentence should be punishment for having committed a crime.
@Mammele
It is NOT a hoax.
Unit numbers come from assorted government records.
Way back when, your home may have been part of a subdivision of land and the plot records showed it as unit #4. These would predate the municipality and Post Office assigning street addresses.this is the Decennial Census, an every 10 year count ordered in Article One of the US Constitution. The Bureaui of the Census conducts many other surveys each year for economic and statistical purposes. Last year they ran a 4 month program trying to verify address accuracy, to make this years’ count be more accurate.
DovidBT……………………………..
You mean well, but could get in trouble. The ONLY information you may leave on an NOV is the 12 character case number. If the respondent is hesitant to have the interview close up, you may write your Census Phone number on the NOV an ask that the respondent call your phone when you retreat to the edge of the property or your car and you will conduct the interview over the phone.How do I know this? My nephew, off from college (in person learning) since March 10, is a Census Field Supervisor. We donated space in conference room (unused due to Covid) for training sessions of both CFS and Enumerators. I heard so many hours of Orientation and Training, that I could conduct the sessions myself.
A local Enumerator was terminated for leaving business cards when he got live responses. Another was written up for handing out voter registration info,Do your job, enjoy the income. The rate is quite good for a short term job.
@ 1
@n0mesorahJerusalem is NOT the CapitOl of Israel……………………………
It is the CapitAl of Israel.
The CapitOl is a building in Washington DC that houses the Senate and House of Representatives.BTW….Trump has released loads of criminals from Jail, both Jewish and non-Jews. This is not something I praise.
Time to review your history and geography.
Jamaica is in the Americas
Black Africans, were enslaved in Jamaica
Their descendants, even if mixed with indigenous peoples (Caribbean Indian) or Whites are considered Black (in most cases).
If they immigrated to the US, they are Classified African-AmericanThe current 2020 Census, being conducted by the Trump Administration, asks respondents for Race. If the answer is Black, it acts for origins. Jamaica is one of the choices.
Blacks in the Americas since before 1808 came as slaves. Their descendants are African-American if they end up in the USA (unless they CHOOSE to be known as Mixed Race).
Who is davening b’yedidus or outdoors? and not showing respect for those davening in a shul??????
I have an extended family of about 50 people davening in an appropriate indoor setting with an Aron Kodesh and Sifrei Torah (having belonged to my zaidey’s bungalow colony in the 1940s, 50s and 60s) every day since March 12th.
I show respect for those wanting to daven inside our local shul, by keeping my 50+- home so they can be in compliance with the occupancy limits ordered by our governor. I could say, we own those 50 seats and let those who don’t own seats stay home.As for respecting those who wish to daven indoors without masks>>>>if they are here in Connecticut, this would break the law; and I (an attorney) do not condone or respect law breaking.
I believe you attacked then wrong person.
BTW, we have had Yuntif minyanim at the CTL compound for decades. It is not something new. This allowed our late parents and grandparents to enjoy the company opf the whole family when the elders were no longer able to walk to shul. It is 4+ years since Mrs. CTL was able to make that walk. At least she will have a full minyan present here, surrounded by her family. I”H the weather will be beautiful and members of the shul will come by for an outdoor kiddush on their way home each day. We shall observe both indoor and outdoor limits set by out state.@Someone in Monsey
Far be it for me to defend Akuperma, BUT he posted this was the first election where NONE of the candidates….and delineates Trump, Biden, Pence, Harris.You incorrectly interject with JFK and conveniently leave out the other three: LBJ, Nixon, Lodge.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr, came from a family whose roots were in Massachusetts before the Revoluition. LBJ ancestor George Washington Baines was born near Raleigh, NC in 1809, Nixon’s Maternal line descends from Thomas Cornell who arrived in Boston in 1638.Don’t make accusations without reading and understanding a post, then check the facts.
You won;t be called out or embarrassed that wayNO, I and my family will not be in shul.
Since March 12 when all the grandchildren, great-nephews, great nieces came to spend the rest of school year and summer, Minyan has been held at the CTL Compound. B”H we have Sifrei Torah and all necessary items for daily, Shabbos and Yuntif minyanim.Although CT is is good shape, we have elected to keep our approx 50 family members out of our shul so other members may attend and not exceed the Covid mandated capacity limits.
@ProudR
There is NO question posed in the OP. He just rambles on and on in bad English.
I replied to the Inaccurate Headline used by the OP.I pointed out the reality of the office she seeks.
I;ll not get into any partisan politics between now and 11/3, I know most on YWN are Conservative Rs. I won’t change their minds, they won;t change mine. I will make factual corrections
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kamala Harris wants to be the VP of The UNITED STATES of AMERICA
Individual people don’t have VPsNice try, but your trolling doesn’t work
@CommonSaychel
Contrary to your belief, MOST Town Clerks are not Passport acceptance/processing agencies. As for County Clerks, I have no clue. CT has not had any County Government since 1960.I just entered my Zip Code in Travel.State.Gov
The nearest 250 locations that are Passport acceptance agencies are ALL Post Offices. In Fact, the US Passport Agency run by the Dept of State in Stamford and NYC will only take applications from emergency last minute travelers leaving the country within a few days who present their airline ticket with the application in person.‘As for Check Cashers, you don;t find these in small towns, and the UPS stire could be 10 miles away.
You use the KEY WORD: “SERVICES” The USPS is a service, the same as Fire, Police EMS, Public Schools, Roads, Libraries…..it is NOT supposed to break even or turn a profit. It exists to serve the taxpaying public.
That’s why things such as books, or recordings for the blind ship at reduced rates
That;s why there was established Rural Free Delivery