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Endorsing the Socialist Workers Party in the 1980s did not make someone a Communist, There is a Communist Party in the USA established in 1919. Gus Hall was the Communist Party candidate for President in 1980 and 84 with Angela Davis as his running mate. No one cares what the SWP advocated in 1918, none of us including Sanders were alive then,
In 1973, at an age subject to the draft I was faced with a choice between a Hawk Democratic Congressman up for perennial reelection and a farther right wing Republican opponent or Joelle Fishman the Communist Party candidate. I and many similar aged draftable friends voted Communist as a protest against the major party candidates’ view on the war, We didn’t support Communisn and knew she had no chance of winning. Congressman Giamo won reelection and ended up serving 10 terms before he retired.
My vote for Fishman did not make me a Communist.
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My nominee?????????????/
Have I nominated anyone?
The nominee of the Democratic Party???????????
That won’t be decided until the National Convention this summer. No candidate is the presumptive nominee at this point in time when there has been only one primary and two caucuses.Communist?????????????????
There is a big difference between a Socialist and a Communist.
I support many socialist programs such as Social Security, Public Education, Medicare, Medicaid, Tuition free college (my parents went to CCNY and Hunter for FREE in the 1930s, my state has just made community college free for all in state high school graduates effective this June), etc.Private ownership of business, real estate, etc exists under socialism, not under Communism. I challenge you to show that Senator Sanders is advocating confiscation of all privately owned businesses and real property as was done in the USSR after the revolution.
You just spout lies and think that if repeated enough times people will think they are true.
@ResidentMortal
How foolish to quote nonsense about state bills in the NY Legislature to a CT resident/voter. The action of a state party and its party is not the current platform of the national [arty or the party on my state.
STOP your narishkeit……………..abortion is not the key issue in this presidential electioopn. It’s not even on most voters’ radar.fixed that for you
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TYPO? should read between a woman and her doctor, not forty. Don’t know where this came from. Since the vast majority of abortions in America don’t involve Jews, especially frum Jews, I did not add her Rav.@ResidentMoron
Abortion has been legal since 1973, there are no laws to be passed. The President doesn’t pass laws.
Abortion is a decided issue, not a platform item in 2020.
I am an adoptive parent and would never had gotten youngest child if her mother chose to abort. I am not in favor of unnecessary abortions, but feel it is a decision between woman and forty not government. I have stated before I am fiscally conservative but socially liberal. The Supreme Court says you can’t have an abortion, if you want one pay for it yourself.
@Coffeeaddict
I shall vote
It won’t be wasted, as it will be a vote against Trump
Since we use the Electoral College system, a third party vote by me (should I choose to cast one) won’t affect the election outcome, as Connecticut will go to the D candidate.Again, I have not committed to vote for Sanders or whoever the D candidate is. BUT, It doesn’t mean I won’t come election day. My first chance to cast a vote for a D candidate will be April 28th on Acela Day Primary here on CT. I look forward to seeing who is still in the race before casting my ballot. Right now it is all academic.
I am putting my current political energy into state legislative races right now, not the Presidential race. All politics is local and CT has too few D national convention delegate votes to be that important. In fact, I may even skip being a delegate to the national convention this year. Our Town Democratic Town Committee Chairman has never attended a national convention and has asked if I would consider giving up my seat.The choice will not be restricted to only 2.
That said I shall not vote for Trump.
This is a poorly veiled attempt to get me to put in writing that I’d vote for Sanders, when I have posted before that no one can find where I have said I’ll vote for him.
Nice try, but I didn’t fall for your trap.
@ResidentMortal
You have no idea what my personal moral beliefs are
I point out what is legal in these United States.
The fact that abortion is legal and is same sex marriage does not mean I would participate in either or recommend them or condone them.
I do believe that beyond the Noahide Laws we members of the Jewish Minoroty cannot expect the secular government to apply Torah principles and laws to control the behavior of non-Jews.I am a fiscal Conservative and a Social Liberal (in terms of government and the populace). If an adult female wants an abortion, that is her decision and she should pay for it herself.
If two adults want to buy a license so that their cohabitation has the same tax advantages and legal protections of any other married couple That is just equal application of the laws. No one is making me date or marry another man.The Supreme Court that decided Roe v. Wade was under a Republican President. Even if another conservative justice is appointed and Roe overturned, it will not stop legal abortion in NY, CT and many other states where it is either codified into law or been permitted by state courts. Same with Same Sex marriages. It might stop the pending of federal funds such as Medicaid to pay for abortions and stop federal income tax deductions for a same sex couple, In these northeastern states who had legal same sex marriage before the SCOTIS rule, couples files state taxes as married and federal as singles
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Your ignorant posts never cease to amuse me.
I have stated that I’ll vote against Trump.
I have stated that I’ll willing pay more taxes to provide social programs to the populace.
What is selfish about that???
Have I suggested anyone else vote for the Democratic Party? I dare you to find me trying to sway a vote in the CR.You are just oppositional. If I say something you find the need to post in opposition.
Joseph and I disagree on many things but don’t feel the urge to attack that you have, I suggest you grow up and just scroll on by and don’t read my posts@ResidentMortal
Pull you head out of the sand and that this is 2020.Abortion is legal having been declared so in 1973 by the US Supreme Court
Same Sex Marriage is legal having been declared so in 2015 by the US Supreme Court.The party of which I am a delegate is not advocating these already legal things. They were made legal not by elected officials passing laws but by the Judicial Branch of Government.
Keep your false hatred to yourself.
I won’t vote Trump under any circumstances.
I’ll wait to see who the D nominee is before deciding if I am voting for him/her.
As a delegate to the state D party convention and assumed delegate to the national convention I have been contacted repeatedly by the D contenders including the Bloomberg campaign but have not committed by vote as of yet. Our state primary is in April, I’ll see who is left in the race before votingI have watched Mesivtos open and fold over the years here in CT. A few local parents decided they didn’t want to send their boys away after 8th grade. So they hit up the local Baal Batim and opened schools. In 6-8 years the schools would fail (usually after the first group of local boys had graduated and the original group of parents lost interest).
My older brothers went to Mesivta in Brooklyn, but did not live in a dorm, they lived with my grandparents who lived within 2 blocks of school.
I went to Mesivta in New Haven. My two sons went to Mesivta in Brooklyn, they dormed during the week and spent Shabbos with my grandparents.The only boys who I noticed being sent to Mesivta in New Haven during the 70s and 80s were those from troubled backgrounds, but whose parents could write a large check. The Litvish Mesivta (along with day school has closed down amid scandal and the RY is in a state jail cell for what was done to vulnerable students in the dorms.
I would never willingly send a 14 year old off to live in a dorm somewhere and attend Mesivta in these times. I might consider boarding with a family I have vetted, but would prefer they live with relatives. My grandsons of that age are Brooklyn and living in my sister’s home during the zmanim.
Feeling very old
About 50 years ago learned both COBOL and Fortran using mainframe computers with punchcardsYou have NO clue of what a communist is.
There is a HUGE difference between a Socialist and a Communist.Under Communism individuals own nothing. Capitalism is alive and well under Socialism, but the government taxes wealth and income to provide programs for the benefit of all members of society. One can still own private homes, businesses, stocks, bonds, etc. Under Socialism.
Social Security and Medicare are socialism in practice
Smart enough to know he didn’t have a chance
READ the OP. He wants to get a Masters Degree. Community Colleges offer 2 year programs and Associates degrees,
The reality is that a BTL is a pretty worthless piece of paper.
I don’t support Trump willingly, but he is being fed and housed on my tax dollars.
Always so sure, always so wrong.
You’d wager he’s no saint.Mormons are the Church of Latter Day Saints.
Senator Romney doesn’t need to take paper clips from the office, he is wealthy in his own right.
This is one Democrat who could comfortably have voted for Romney for Governor or Senator
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Why move?
I was just giving a historical perspective.I grew up in the retail clothing business. Until selling the business in 1988 we never used plastic bags for purchases, we used paper bags or boxes.
I live in a state of my choice. I supported the law change, In fact some towns such as Westport have had a plastic bag ban for years. It’s no big deal to use paper or reusable bags.
You just love to complain and be contrary
@Gamanit
I use the large heavy duty plastic bags with handles sold by Aldi for 10 cents. I get about 20 uses per bag.
In CT it is the flimsy t-shirt sty;e disposable plastic bags that can not be sold by the stores. Multi use heavy duty bags are available,@CoffeAddict
I can’t answer why she is using his account. She posted that info more than a year ago. I am not sure that he is even alive anymore.In our area, takeout food places have switched to paper or collect the 10 cent tax if the consumer wants plastic.
@bk613
The plastic bags are NOT sold, a tax is collected if a customer wants one. Therefore SNAP and WIC purchases are exempt because the purchase is paid fro by the state and the state doesn’t pay tax to itself.Years ago we were foster parents and the state gave us a card to buy for the child. The purchases of clothing and school supplies were not taxed because the state was the customer, not the foster parent…same with SNAP and WIC
@Millhouse
#1The Paper bags from Trader Joe’s have handles
#2 For a hundred years or more shoppers in Europe have had to provide their own bags and most used public transit or walked.
I always carried small net shopping bags when in Europe, cheap, easy to store in a pocket.It’s NOT all about you or NYers. The whole world is affected by the plastic mess in oceans, forests, etc
@Coffee Addict
Amil is a female using her husband’s CR accountHere in CT the ban went into effect last July 1. It has been an easy adjustment. I keep a bag full of bags in each car and take what I need into the store when I shop.
Thin plastic bags for produce, dairy, meat are still available free in stores, so one doesn’t have to worry about dripping into reusable bags.
Some stores have paper bags available at no charge (Trader Joe’s for example). In Costco or Aldi I just use cardboard boxes to pack up my purchases.
This is no big deal and much better for the environment and our grandchildren’s world
@5ish
When I grew up OOT there were no Chabad Houses (although they ran the day school).
The JCC ran vacation camps as well as programming on secular school holidays. It was a chance for us to meet the other Jewish children in town, not just those from our particular school or shul.@abbaS
Youe logic is faulty, no one is going to start buying all their milk and eggs on line because they don’t get a free cheap plastic bag in the local supermarket
@rightwriter
The problem isn’t the bulbs, it is your inadequate old wiring,
Three years ago we replaced 57 75 watt floods in our ceiling cams (yes we have a huge house) on our first floor. We could not use CFL in those recessed ceiling cans.
Our electric use fell substantially and the bill dropped about $100 per month. We have not had one burn out. I bought bulbs that had a MSRP of $14 in 4 packs at Ocean State Job Lot for $1.25/bulbSince then we have converted almost every other bulb in the house to LEDs, and have installed Solar.
@DovodBT
“why aren’t the Equal Rights Amendment supporters demanding that women be included in the Selective Service registration?”2 reasons:
1-they are against a draft
2-why waste time pushing registration for a non-existent draft? There are better uses for their political time@Yussel
NO, Reagan did NOT start up registration again. It was a Presidential Proclamation by President Carter in 1980 that restarted registration during the Iran Hostage Crisis.@Yaakov Doe
Just to be clear I did not say local boards do not exist, I wrote that they don’t exist as they were during the Viet Nam War era…our last active draft.
NYC may have one board per zip code, but here in the country a local board may serve a dozen towns. That said they are full of vacancies and do not meet in person or have in person training. Most do not have offices as the DofD is not interested in paying rent for useless space.Although there is no current draft in the US, registration at age 18 is required. It is not optional for males.
Local draft boards do mot exist as they did during the Viet Nam era.
However, Regional Draft Appeals Boards still exist and are staffed by volunteers in case a draft is implemented.
Both myself and another local Yid in my small CT town serve on the Regional Selective Service Appeals Board for Southern New England. We receive training materials several times each year.Students looking for Financial Aid for Colleges and grad schools and filling out the FAFSA form are asked if they have registered. If they have not, they are not eligible for aid, grants, subsidized and unsubsidized federal loans, etc.
As for the OP’s question: “Do you register your sons?” the answer is NO, Your sons must register themselves when turning 18.
@Coffeeaddict
after all, Trump is despicableI oppose Trump, but would defend anyone’s right to show their support.
I’ve posted before I don’t hate Trump, I hate his actions.
He cost my family more than 300K in unpaid invoices when he filed bankruptcy for properties in Atlantic City. Our telecommunications equipment company had supplied the phone systems for two casinos. He appointed Linda McMahon of WWE to a major post. She beat our company for 200K in her corporate bankruptcy.My brother started the company back in 1977. I was an investor and partner and shared in the losses.
Trump is an adulterer, liar, deadbeat, etc. That’s enough reasons for me to dislike his actions.@Lowerourtuition
I don’t care about Biden’s grandchild, it wasn’t fathered by Joe Biden
I think Buttigieg would make an excellent VP candidate. He needs more years and experience before being Presidential material….especially foreign affairsI put Bloomberg and Steyer’s names in my post to make people realize there are other candidates. Not one word appears in this thread about Senator Klobuchar…she has promise.
@1
Wrong as usual
Not a fan of Senator Warren……she has yet to show how she can fund her Medicare for All plans in a fiscally sound way
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That said, if she is the nominee and is running against Trump, I will vote against Trump
But…….
There are other choices besides, Warren, Sanders, Biden, Buttigieg……
Steyer, and Bloomberg are more to my liking. I don’t buy Yang’s $1000 month welfare for all.Millhouse……………
I do live in a hellhole…Trump’s America, but with G-d’s help his days are limited to no more than 8 years as specified in the Constitution.My family has lived here generations longer than the Trump family. My grandfather was not a saloon keeper and brothel owner as grandfather Trump in the Yukon. My wife did not come in on a visitor’s visa, work illegally and lie about her education. Mrs. CTL is a native born citizen with legitimate education credentials. I pay all my workers and contractors. I’ve had one wife and not committed adultery. My sons don’t hunt live animals. I haven’t been banned from running a phony charity and the list goes on and on.
If you think this thrice married adulterer, bankrupt liar is a proper role model for the country I feel sorry for your lack of morals.