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@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@truebt
“the question is what are you trying to accomplish by knowing your ancestors names? You will learn far more about things that matter by interviewing relatives.”Genealogy involves far more than finding out your ancestors’ names. It can record where they lived, what trade they plied, Marriages, divorces, births, deaths, dates, criminal and armed forces records, etc.
I found out that a great-great grandfather’s 5 and 6th children were actually twins (born two days apart) and their mother died shortly after birth, he remarried and I am descended from the second wife. Both wive’s had the same name, so when I heard family stories growing up, I never learned their were two wives, or the great-great uncle and great-great aunt were twins.
I also had been told the family came to America from City X, whereas recorded records show City X was the seat of regional government where passports were issued (and appeared as place of origin on ship’s manifest), in fact they came from Town Y…30 miles away. I visited Town Y in the 1980s and was able locate the gravestones of my Triple Great Grandparents. Family stories would have never led my to this town, and previous searches for information in City X bore no fruit.@participant
YOU GOT THAT WRONG…..“”We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of …”
Preamble to the Constitution if the USA…….promote the GENERAL WELFARE, insure DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY, does mean keep us safe, from all enemies, foreign and domestic…this includes infection, pandemic, cyber attacks, not just people shooting guns or dropping bombs.
Proud
So you think I am the worst people…..
Send me a list of the organizations/yeshivos/hospitals your family uses and I;ll make sure they are not on my Tzedaka list.Your broad statement shows your ignorance and hatred.
BTW…learn to write proper English if you wish to be taken seriously. You are the worst, the situation could be worse. As it is time for my lunch, I’ll go grill some knockwurst
@2cents
The Post Office will deliver a letter for 55 cents
I dare you to get a rate even TEN times that from UPS, FEDEX, DHL…………………………….(for an individual not a contract commercial user).Commercial carriers are NOT a replacement for the USPS
Will the eventual closure of the USPO impact you?
It will affect me is a way much different than most in the CR.
It is no secret that I and our family trusts have real estate holdings. In Fairfield County we own two commercial properties where the USPO leases space for retail branches. They pay handsomely and on tile with long term leases. They have helped to educate my children and grandchildren.
I am far from the only American who is a supplier to the USPO and would be affected. Even the local gas station around the corner from my home has a contract to maintain the non-electric jeep tyoe delivery vehicles used in our town and supply the fuel. Our area POs use local janatorial companies to do their cleaning, snow removal, etc.
Every day (prior to Covid) there would be long lines of people waiting to get Passports. The PO is the the processing arm of the Dept of State Passport Service. They process the applications, can take your passport photos for a fee, sell you a money order to enclose in the envelope, etc.
In the inner city there is a dearth of banks. Poor people use the USPO as their bank, they buy money orders there and mail them to pay their bills. They also can get cash back when using a debit card, as opposed to using a commercial ATM with a few dollar fee.
Both the homeless and those traveling can have mail sent to Genera Delivery, Anytown USA XXXXX and pick it up at the PO.There are commercial companies that help. but you should look at Jewishgenealogy dot com for assistance with your quest.
Lots of helpful information as well as groups doing particular locations. translations of memory books from the alte heim, etc@Meno
What I suggested using Bill Pay for any vendor who will accept a check, works now. If the USPS closes down, the bank will not be able to issue and mail those checks to pay the bills.1
Keep your hate to yourself
You do not have a crystal ball, and POST HOC ERGO PROPTER HOC logic is FAULTYI suggest you troll elsewhere, it is very tiring. Don’t vote Biden, he’ll still win NY, CT, NJ without your vote. Harris will NOT be driving the bus, as you say, unless it is to take driving directions from Biden. I know Joe (met him many times over the decades that I’ve been involved in the party at state and national level). He is steady, works well with others (something Trump is not and cannot do) and if he is running as the candidate, the VP candidate is his supporter, not his boss.
I’ll not be touting a candidate during the next 70 days on YWN. It is obvious who the right wing Republicans are and who are the minority who support the Dems. Arguing is futile, YWN has a set political agenda as evidenced in their headlines and news stories.
I will leave you with one question?
Are you (and your family) better off in 2020 than in 2016?I and my family are not,neither are the 170,000 Americans dead from the Corona Virus, whose response was mishandled by Trump.
End of Conversation. Until Nov 4, I will not answer or post anything else about the race
@Gadolhadorah
here in CT if I go on the Electric or Gas company (both owned by the same holding company) website and want to pay my bill I have two choices:
#1 MUST only receive electronic bill and can pay on line by checking account only
#2 Get paper bills and can’t pay on line by checking account
Otherwise, you are transferred to a third party payer system (Western Union) who will handle your debit or credit card payment and collects a fee of $3.95.That’s why I use my bank’s billPay system which is free.
AmilZola
I pay through my bank’s bill pay on line. I do not go to the vendor’s assorted websites as it takes too much time.
If a vendor is not set up to receive ACH transfers from my bank (and I have three like that). The bank issues a bank check and mails it paying the postage (no charge to me). I just know that when I pay bills, if I enter payment info by 7PM, vendors receive the payment the next business day. If a check has to be mailed, the bank BillPay will show me the day the payment will be received by the vendor.That said, as an attorney I use the USPS very often. Lots of documents that need to be delivered in hard copy, things requiring signed proof of delivery, etc. so much cheaper than UPS, FEDEX. etc.
@AviK
I have heard and read T Sowell and am not impressed.
You are in Israel, are you under the healthcare plan? I;d like everyone in America to have that option and am willing to pay more taxes to do so.
This is a representative democracy and we elect legislators to decide what to tax and how to spend. We can vote for others in the next election if we are not happy with their choices. I’d rather that than a parliamentary system with votes of no confidence and 3 failed elections and no government formed.We will never agree
@AviK
I think Trump has filled the courts with terrible judges who will set us back 100 years.
You, as a resident of Israel place far more importance on US support of Israel in evaluating a President than others who do not live in Israel. While important, it is not paramount in my criteria.Right now the damage he has done with Sino-US relations is crippling our economy and benefiting his buddy Putin. Trump never met a dictator he didn’t like. He follows the Hitler playbook and has been destroying our society.
I am far from Marxist, but like many social programs, such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and am happy to pay taxes to fund them. I 100% oppose school vouchers that fund parochial schools with taxpayers’ dollars.
When this all implodes Trump will be blaming son-in-law, Jared, the House Jew………They’re running a special at Brisk
A free case of Lipton Tea for all new students…………………………We need some levity in this time of Covid
@Gadolhadorah
No I do not have a drone over the compound. I do have a balcony outside the rear room in the attic of the main house that gives quite a view. I used the binoculars I received as a Bar Mitzvah gift more than 50 years ago for a quick survey of the damage.
Being do it ourselfers. I took out a two story ladder to check the garage roof. Today, grandsons got busy cleaning, debris, older ones cutting thick tree limbs with chain saws. Later they will be divided with the log splitter and stacked as cord wood to season for at least a year. Having 5 fireplaces in the original 1803 part of main house, we use a lot of firewood in the winter.When we had solar panels installed last year, the solar company used a drone to inspect our roof. Much safer than sending a man up there to the peak.
Didn’t lose electricity or get flooded, BUT
100 year old Oak tree came down on a corner of the garage and hit trunk of car
Limb from Silver Maple came down and took out 10 feet of pool fence and may have damaged pool liner.
B”H everyone was inside house and safe
Already notified insurance carriers, submitted photos and started claims process………………….@ Ben Levi
A googled definition without attribution……………..That said, I have no problem with regulation by the community as a whole. That means a representative government sets the rules. Things such as permits, OSHA, minimum wage, workers’ compensation insurance, Unemployment Insurance tax, EPA requirements, etc.
“Owned” is not really socialism, it is Communism, which I do not favor.
Someone in this thread keeps posting Communism/Socialism as if they are one and the same. NOT, also the OP’s question was about Socialism, not Communism.
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Obama is working very hard to elect Democrats because we have suffered great;y under Trump nd the McConnell Senate.
He is not working to salvage his legacy.I don’t know any rich Dems in my small town. I do know some comfortable people in both parties and unaffiliated, as well. None of us are patting each other on the back….DON”T YOU KNOW THERE”S A PANDEMIC?????????????????
The party isn’t shifting to Socialism. FDR started that in the 1930s with Social Security, Johnson in the 1960s with Medicare. I want single payer Universal healthcare like the rest of the civilized world. Mrs. CTL was in the hospital again last week…6 days in ICU. Her policy is through ACA, I’m on Medicare. If Trump had her way, she’d have no coverage because of preexisting conditions. Maybe you don’t care if you go bankrupt trying to pay medical expenses, I do.