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@AAQ
The premise of a government provided basic education is not something in examined that crept into my mind.
In a non-Agrarian, post Industrial Revolution society which has long outlawed child labor a mandatory basic education is necessary to provide functional and employable citizens.Your premier of controls and testing has been shown to be unworkable by the yeshiva general education scandals in NY during the past decade.
As a taxpayer I oppose my tax dollars being spent in private institutions. Already in CT the municipalities have to pay the cost of the school nurse, special education and provide in town busing (under same mileage requirements) for private schools as public. I was in a commission that investigated and shut down a private school (not religion affiliated) that misclassified 80 students as SPEd over 6 years. All 80 were admitted to top universities upon graduation. No medical diagnoses could be produced for the. SPEd classifications just a school’s social workers notes.
$26 million was stolen from local taxpayers. The school has been put on probation by the accrediting agency and a lien placed. In another 16 months the town will likely foreclose and sell the property to satisfy the debt.Decades ago I was on the board of a Jewish day school. The students never received a fleishige lunch. This infuriated me because the freezers were loaded with cases of kosher chicken provided by the USDA (along with things like peanut butter, pasta, canned vegetables). I asked the school cook why she never served chicken to the students and was told the menahel sent chicken to his home and that of his assorted relatives teaching in the school each month while the students lived on pasta and fried matzo for lunch .
Unfortunately, life experience has taught me that private institutions cannot be trusted with public money. An administration that mishandles public funds can be voted out of office
No, names were NOT changed at Ellis Island (for all you latecomers who arrived there, my family came in 1868 and 1872).
Ships passenger manifests were compiled at the port of Embarkation in Europe and went from the ship to the immigration authorities at Ellis Island. Immigrants were processed with the names they used to board the ship.Many immigrants assumed Americanized names upon landing in Manhattan or elsewhere after leaving Island.
My late FIL, left Hamburg with his first name o. The manifest listed as Erich. As soon. As he settled in the US he Americanized the spelling to Eric (I not discuss family name whose ending changed from ch to ck). When becoming a citizen he was permitted to formally change his name without having to go to court and pay fees.
@CofffeeAddict
I read that article. No mention is made of an “assault” on Agudah by Democrats which is the claim #1 made and to which I responded.
The article talks about anti-Israel protesters.
My questions to #1 stand as not answered and no proof/evidence offered of such an assault on Agudath by Democrats.
@DovidBT
If you were a MLB player hitting .333 they’d pay you millions.
@UJM
Failing schools should be closed, their administration and staffed sacked.
I went to public school in the inner city during the race riots of the 60s but got a fine education.
Eliminate tenure, get rid of unfunded mandates and improve the schools .
This is a different issue than taxpayers paying for private education which I oppose.
I also oppose Charter School which lets the operators skim the first 15% of taxpayer money.
NYers are generally renters so don’t get the fact that out of town the better the public schools the higher your home value.@CoffeeAddict
Non-politicians speaking Tuesday at DNC included:Jack Carter (Grandson of President Jimmy Carter)
Jack Schlossberg (grandson of JFK)
Both possible future politicians
Kyle Sweetzer, firmer Trump voter who jumped ship
Stephanie Grisham, former White House Press Secretary for Trump (political appointee but not a politician
Nabela Noor (internet content creator)
Kenneth Stribling (retired Teamster)
Ken Chennault (business executive)
Ana Navarro (media personality)
The vast majority of speakers are politicians which is as it should be at a political convention. Speeches are aimed at delegates and guests who are supporting the party, not the general public.
I made a 2am charter flight back home this morning and was in court at 9. This may have been my last national convention, time gif the younger generation to take over
Can’t narrow to one, here are three:
I oppose school vouchers, if anyone wants to send their children to private schools then the taxpayer should not pay.
I am opposed to private gun ownership in the US unless a member of the National Guard (well organized militia in 2nd Amendment), law enforcement, correction officer, bank guard.
I am against legalized marijuana, I don’t want someone high behind the wheel if a motorized vehicle.
@1
Verbal assault?
Physical assault?
On the organization or an individual?I have read no details, please enlighten me.
In the past I have been in Opposition to son of their demands/policies and my opposition could be considered verbal assault when in attack mode
@CoffeeAddict
Do you really dislike me deeply?@AAQ
President Biden made no such announcement and as he had previously released his delegates, he could not win the nomination.
I am in Chicago through tonight’s session, but must be in CT tomorrow on legal business. I will tender my proxy and not vote in the roll call later during the convention.I got to see many long time friends and this is likely my final convention. A far cry from 1968 in Chicago which was my first (flour pass a a teen, not a delegate).
Not all shuls allow this overindulgence regarding alcohol.
As CR members know, I remarried and moved to NY.
My new shul does not allow alcohol at Kiddush. The shul Rav makes the public Kiddush on grape juice.
I asked about this policy when I wanted to make a Kiddush to celebrate my marriage. I was told that since this was a personal simcha I was permitted to bring in one bottle of alcohol and had to have an official pourer to make sure no teens or children had any.
After the Kiddush the shammes tied what was left of the bottle in a plastic grocery bag and told me to take it home (there is an eruv) no alcohol is allowed to remain in the shul.Not all states allow write in votes or gave restrictions.
In CT (where I have been an Asst Registrar of voters for decades) you can only write in a name that has previously registered with the Secretary of State as a write in candidate. If you write in a name that has not been preregistered and qualified, your ballot will not be counted by the tabulating machineI saw this last year for the first time and thought it inappropriate.
I also grew up in a shul where we sat on faux wood grain cardboard boxes that the funeral directors use to provide for those in aveilus.
In the shul I attended yesterday the long cushions were removed from the pews and placed along the walls. I sat on the 3” high cushion with my back against the wall for support.
The only one who brought in a low beach chair was the 80 year old Rav, he explained that he needed the arms on the chair in order to be able to get up at chatzos.@Sam Klein
Sorry to burst your bubble, but China is NOT a complete Communist country. It is totalitarian but has much privately owned property and business.
Don’t know how many times you have been to China, I have made more than 20 trips on the past dozen years and derive a great deal of my income from wealthy Chinese entrepreneurs who send their sons to be educated in the USA. The pay about $100k per year for high school then full costs for university here.
There is untold private wealth in China and that is not Communist.
China is a Socialist Totalitarian country@Ari Knobler
My paternal side left Suwalki for the USA in 1872 but I remember my great grandfather using that pronunciation.
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As for Yiddish being jargon, that is a polite word.
My Oma (maternal side came from Germany in 1868) called it a ‘gutter tongue’
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When I was in high school 54 years ago Yiddish was offered as one of 12 foreign languages. I signed up and took the first week of classes.
Zaidah asked me what I learned and I gave a few examples.
He said, your teacher is a Galitzianer, drop the class.@AAQ
I am saying the VP could/should not have received info on POTUS medical state unless he approved the release to her by the medical professionals.
If his agreement to release info to her did not include permission to share with others, she should not.I would not ask a third party for this info, but given the opportunity I would ask Biden.
You ignored my question about adding Harris’s husband’s last name to hers
@AAQ
First why do you call the VP Harris-Emhoff, a name she does not use.
My new wife did not take my last name, my daughters do not use their husbands’ last names in their professional lives.Second,
I would not pose the question you ask.
There is the law of the land called HIPAA and unless the President chose to share medical information with the VP, it could not legally be disclosed to her.
Even if legally disclosed to her (by his consent), she could not legally share the information with me@CoffeeA
Being Pragmatic, Biden got the overwhelming majority of votes in the Democratic primaries last spring.
Voters knew they were voting for Biden/Harris and that she would take over if he could not complete a term.
Voters who were opposed to Harris could have voted for another candidate or uncommitted.The Rules of the Party are published and not a surprise, but many people Don other to discover what they say until something unusual pops up.
Having been Rules Committee Chairman in the CT State Democrat Party and on the national Party Rules Committee in the past I am more aware than the average voter.
If delegates chosen by the state parties do not want to vote for Harris, they are not bound to do so. However, the vast majority of delegates will vote for what is best for the Party in order to retain the White House. At this point that seems to be to nominate Harris as the Democrat Presidential Candidate.
This has been the consensus of the many conversations, texts, emails that I have had with colleagues across the country.As I often preach and point out, America is not a Democracy and does not operate as one (with the exception of a few small New England Towns still run by Town Meetings). America is a Republic. Voters elect representatives (in this case delegates) to represent them and the representatives are empowered to cast votes based on current information and developments at the time of the vote. No delegates were elected based in an unwavering commitment to vote Biden. In fact in most states delegates are not elected, but the State Party appoints them based on the results of the primary vote. Again there are also Super Delegates who hold voting rights based on office and may not reflect the results of a primary.
I am not here to electioneer, my explanations are here as an educational service to CR readers. I never try to persuade anyone here to vote for or against a candidate or Party. I have voted a split ticket in virtually every election since 1972.
@Coffee A
It is not about the will of the people, it is about Party Rules which govern who is and how they are chosen to be the party’s nominee.To quote am Old American Express Commercial: “Membership has its privilege”
If you are not a member of the Democrat Party you have no right to determine who the nominee should be (I oppose open primaries).Many of us worked log and hard for our party investing time and money and were wiling to support an incumbent and not show him the door for younger, less experienced people. The President was not convinced to step aside by young bucks, he listened to the reason and experience of senior party members, such as 84 year old Nancy Pelosi ( ho has spent about as many years in Government as Biden).
Many delegates were willing to accept a weakened, aging incumbent as our candidate because it was believed he could defeat EX-President Trump. When it became apparent that was no longer the case it was time for a change. I for one, would rather have had a President Biden running on 5 cylinders than another term of Trump destroying what little is left of our personal liberties.
I don’t know how old you are, or your schooling. I am old enough to have rejoiced when the Supreme Court ruled the forced Christian Prayer I was forced to endure in public elementary school Unconstitutional back in 1962. I was thrilled when President Johnson and the Dems passed the Civil Rights Act. and we could not be legally discriminated against because we are Jews
@lostspark
I do not expect the President to resign and let Harris ascend. The backlash would be too great in a close election.Beshear is a fine choice, but I am not eager to remove a winning D governor who could be the one to choose Mitch McConnell’s replacement if necessary mid term
Coffee
Harris will get the nomination. The phones have been worked and she has more than enough pledged delegates to secure victory in the roll call vote.
BTW, I received a call asking for my vote, I said that my proxy should be called as I have not revoked it yet.The possible alternatives have come out and endorsed her, so as to preserve their Presidential hopes for the future.
The big question is who she will pick as a running mate and how fast?
The sooner the better for her campaign.The current arithmetic says that I should not revoke my proxy and attend in person.
@skripa
You are correct that the money donated to the Biden/Harris Campaign Fund can be used by a ticket that has on of them in it.
It won’t happen, but if someone else (John Doe) got the nomination for President and chose Harris as running mate, that campaign could use the funds.AAQ
If I go, I’ll post
What is interesting is that the D Parties of NC, SC and TN have stated their delegates will vote Harris.
However, state laws and rules don’t apply at the National Convention of a political party. It is decided law that only Party Rules apply. The rues of the Democrat Party state that the delegates at the convention decide the nominee, they are not bound by the state party or primary results (after first ballot or if the candidate is no longer running).
I have sat on the Rules Committee in the past, this will be an interesting year
Whitmer says she will not run, but in the past non-candidates have been drafted.
The CT State Dem Committee seems to be united behind Harris, but cannot direct delegates how to vote. Biden won all the delegates decided by primary and they are now free. The general population does not realize that in addition to primary chosen delegates, each state has a number of super delegates, Senators, Congressmen, etc.The madness has begun………………………….
I had not planned to attend this year’s Democrat National Convention and had tendered a proxy.
I had stated earlier in the CR that if Biden dropped out I might withdraw my proxy and attend.I have had more than 50 phone calls. emails and texts this morning seeking my support for various candidates.
I do not support VP Harris, although I have explained why it would be very hard to remove her from the ticket.
I do not support Newsom
I like Whitmer, Pritzker, Shapiro but think Harris will get the nd.The first Democrat National Convention I attended as a floor guest was 1968 in Chicago when Mayor Dailey’s goons attacked demonstrators in the streets. I attended as a delegate 5 times and thought I was through. It is tempting to attend this historic convention. Each state has different rules regarding those Electoral College Members who have been hosen based on pledges to Biden. Lots of horse trading will be going on
Your comment makes no sense.
Why should the Democrat or an US political party care about “Achenu kol Beis Yisroel?”If you mean Jewish members of the Democrat Party, say so! It is not the party’s place to take stands on items of a religious nature.
This Jewish D does care about Achenu Kol Beis Yisroel and I vote by the individual candidates not a party line. As the 2024 Democrat Party Platform
Will not be adopted until August I cannot say if I will support or oppose it.AAQ
You could not have voted for a Vice Presidential candidate if you wanted.
Only the Presidential Candidate appears on the ballot and is voted for. The VP choice of the party gets a free ride with the winning Presidential candidate.No voter was able to cast a vote for that person since the VP position had no place in the ballot.
I still am an Asst. Registrar of Voters and know election laws and procedures
@AAQ
I am not saying the masses are racist (I don’t apply that word broadly). I am saying that groups have ethnic and other preferences and extend them to voting.Being honest:
We like to live amongst our own kind
We vote for Jewish candidates
We look for and use Jewish professionals (medical, legal, accounting, etc.)
We shop at Jewish owned businesses.Does this make us racist? Not unless we refuse to do any of these things because the person is not of our own kind.
@AAQ
Black support is a real thing, it does not matter that Obama was half white and Harris half Indian.
They sell in the urban ghettos and Black churches. I have seen the voters whipped up by the cleverly and the grassroots get out the vote effort.The descendants of slaves idea is one only considered by the elite, not the masses
@Coffee
There is little or no support for Jeffries. In general members of the House are not nominated for President@CA
Properties are in Trusts, haven’t been in personal name for decades@AAQ
The CT Presidential Primary was in April
The August Primary is for state officesYour named suggestions are interesting but create a huge problem for the Democrat Party (Disclosure: I have been a delegate to the national convention many times).
The heiress apparent (whom I do not support) is Kamala Harris.
The party cannot push her aside for a white male or female candidate without losing what is left of the Black support for the party. They would sit the election out and the candidate chosen would loseGadolhadorah
You are quite wrong about the mechanics.
If a candidate releases delegates, they may vote for others at the convention.
It is not Biden who has a place on the 50 state ballots, but the official nominee of the Democrat Party and that person is not chosen until the convention in August.In most states absentee ballots can be mailed 30 days before Election Day, not soon after the August Convention.
Replacing a named candidate on the ballots after the convention can be tricky.
FYI, I still hold my position as Asst. Registrar of Voters back in CT and have to keep up on the laws. I will be overseeing the August 13 primaries this year.
@CoffeeAddict
I have not yet changed my legal address. Still have a CT driver’s license, own property and pay taxes there.
At this point I still get to CT several times each week@Reb Eliezer
As my mother , the strict grammarian, A”L always said:
Dogs get mad, people get angry.@Coffee Addict
Harris is far from a shoe in for the nomination should Biden release his delegates.
I have already been contacted by operatives for four other contenders interested in the nomination seeking delegate votes and contributions.I had not planned to attend this year’s convention with Biden having the necessary delegates, but depending if and when he withdraws I may revoke my proxy and attend to vote and participate in the deal making.
I was not and am not a Harris fan.
@UJM
I was asked to comment on experience in the past when I was a lawyer in CT
I am now an Ex-CT lawyer as I surrendered my license, but still licensed attorney in NY, MA and FLI just can’t legally identify as a lawyer in connection with the word Connecticut
@AAQ
Absolutely no difference based on insurance
My mother was Title XIX Medicaid
MIL was traditional Medicare
Late wife a Medicare Advantage Plan through State ExchangeThree different hospice companies providing care
All at zero cost to patient providing a equipment and personnel
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Please look at ematai on line or Facebook
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a childhood friend is director of the accociation of Hospices of the USA and has been invaluable proving guidance and law over the years@anon
Different hospices, different rules.
The hospice agency we used in CT for in home, provided all the equipment and found the click arms, billing health insurance.
We hired no one and paid nothing out of pocketMy experiences were at a Catholic hospital (hospital of choice where we lived in CT). No Jewish or government hospitals in the area and far better care than the university affiliated hospital.
As a family law trust attorney I dealt with hospices and associated issues for decades and did not run into what you experienced.
Certainly at the Catholic hospital every effort is made to keep the patient alive as long as possible.It is terrible to be put in the position to discontinue further medical procedures. It happened to me with the late Mrs. CTL. After coding three times in a few years, 140 surgeries, a dozen long term ICU stays in comas in life support, we were presented with one final medical procedure that could be attempted. Both the surgeon and nephrologist agreed with my observation that she could not survive the procedure. 100% medical opinion that she would die on the table in pain.
Decision made to start hospice care in ICU, remove artificial life support and let her die with me and daughters in dignity. Small doses of morphine to handle pain (not hasten death), she passed in two hours with no further suffering.The medical establishment would have been happy to keep billing insurance for things that could not have saved her life. Hashem had a way of let us know her time on earth was up
@JDF007
You got it all wrong.
It doesn’t mean doctors don’t want to do anything. It doesn’t mean a move to another facility in many cases.
It does not mean the patient is not fed.We had Hospice care at home for my late mother, and mother in-law.
Their bodies were worn out and they could not have survived any more medical procedures. They were allowed to pass in dignity in familiar surroundings with family present.
My MIL passed at 10 PM on the third day of hospice care. She actually had a light meal at 6 pm. She was given light doses of morphine to ease her pain.
My mother’s body gave out at 98. Her cancer had eaten away her intestines and free gases were killing her. There was no additional procedure that could save her. We brought her home to die with hospice care. She fell into a deep sleep an Hour after the transfer and died two hours later.Look for the group Ematai on line. They hold on line and in person events in assorted Frum communities dealing with these issues.
Having run a family law and estate practice for decades, I found them to be an invaluable resource in this area.
I skipped high school, undergrad, MBA and Law School graduations.
Nothing more boring than to be in the heat in a polyester gown and mortarboard listening to endless speeches@Chaim87
What was offensive about your June 6 reply was the false statement you made that I copy and paste ….,
I am a septuagenarian who does not copy and paste. I choose my own words carefully.
Anyone who has read my comments and/or posts the last 15 years can see that they are my own words.
I also don’t call names when disagreeing with another viewpoint.That said, I oppose government censorship of the press. The First Amendment to the Constitution which protects us from a government sponsored religion also guarantees this freedom.
I only believe in certain limitations as they apply to national security or protecting privacy ( such as not posting names of rape victims).Back in the day newspapers had political ideology and one bought and read the one you agreed with. Today you chose an online news source you identify with.
I grew up in New Haven and the Jackson Family who owned and published the two local papers were staunch republicans. We didn’t read the editorial pages for this reason, but it was the only source of local news and advertising.
Today almost every daily in CT is owned by Hearst and not worth reading, circulation is in the toilet tans I have no friends who buy the papers. I check obituaries free on line.It is not the job of government to protect us from populist/fascist candidates by censoring the press. That would make the government as evil as the candidate you want silenced.
Yes, the masses may be taken in by the populist, but that freedom of expression and the vote is the spine of our country.
Prosecutors only need to win elections in some jurisdictions. In CT neither prosecutors or trial/appellate court judges are elected
@Chaim87
Re: your June 6th reply.I don’t like lies posted about me.
You may not agree with my political views, I don’t care, BUT despite your lies, I have never copied and pasted liberal or any other arguments. My thoughts expressed are in my own words.
I don’t drink Kool-Aid and I don’t hurl personal insults at others in the CR just because I don’t agree with them.@Chaim
If people don’t buy the newspaper or watch the network, the business fails,
Most US newspapers have folded in the past 30 years.When I was growing up we had 5 newspapers delivered daily and there were three tv networks with a 15 minute nightly new broadcast.
Now news delivery is quite different.I never read a print newspaper as the news is state before it is delivered
The USA is NOT a Democracy, It is a Republic….big difference
Democracy, one person, one vote
Look at the US Senate: a Senator from Wyoming represents approx 290,000 people, one from California represents approx 19,600,000#2 Don’t confuse the Federal Judicial system and state systems. Trump was charged with 34 counts of violating NY State Law and prosecuted by the State. There are 50 states with different legal systems. It has nothing to do with the US system of Democracy. OJ and Cosby were tried for State crimes in Pennsylvania and California under their state legal systems,
#3 Free Speech/Freedom of the Press…this applies to Government action. Permits to protest are a local government issue, except if the protest is to be held on Federal land.
If you don’t like the lies told on a particular network, don’t watch. No viewers equals no revenue and they may go out of business, News organizations don’t have to prove truth of everything they report,
Being Devil’s advocate, why should American newspapers be restricted in what they print because hostages from another country are being held? You talk about ‘OUR” hostages and that applies to our unique status as Jews, but not to the vast majority of Americans.#4 GUNS, I don;t think any private citizen in the US should have one, Proponents of the Second Amendment conveniently forget that it talks about a well organized militia, That means the national Guard. I have no objection to Guard members, law enforcement, Corrections offices having guns. I even would allow private ownership of long rifles and shotguns for hunting purposes in rural areas, but no semi-automatics or bumpstocks.
For those that claim they enjoy target practice. I would allow ownership of guns that must be kept locked up at a licensed gun range and never allowed to leave the premises,
#5 ELECTIONS
see my first comments, get rid of the Electoral College that makes the value of the voter in Wyoming work XXX ties one in California, NY or Florida.
Then: States, not the Federal Government decide who can run for office and who can vote. There is not a countrywide standard.
In CT, which I just left after more than 70 years. Convicted felons lose their vote, BUT after completion of their sentence, probation, ordered restitution they can petition for restoration of voting rights. Once a registered voter they can run for office. This the CONVICTED Mayor of Bridgeport who served 9 years in FEDERAL prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the city got his vote back and was returned to office three times.
In some states, convicts can vote from prison, in others they never get their voting rights back.The Supreme Court ruled this year that Trump could not be kept off the Ballot in Colorado, despite states havings these rights. If Trump was not seeking a Federal position the decision might have been different.
How to fix this? Constitutional Amendments, bt most fail. Remember the ERA failed to be ratified by the required number of states and women to not have equal rights across America. The ERA was enshrined into the MA, CT, NY and NJ constitutions decades ago,
Disclosure: I have practiced law for decades, I teach Government and Law
I don’t politic in the Coffee Room, but will explain the system and correct misstatements of fact and/or law.Our US system has flaws not envisaged in the late 1700s, but it is ne of the best systems in the world.
@coffeeaddit
This Democrat never starts treads on political topics, whether or not based on current events. I only comment on threads.
In most cases I may eplain the law or how the system works under the constitution but don’t politic for a candidate