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I detest Trump’s actions, but that doesn’t mean I support Biden. In fact I shall not be voting for Biden or Sanders in the Primary or CT State Democratic convention. I have made my point in my local Democratic Town Committee that both of these men are too old to start a 4 year term as President. They have had their time in elected office and it time for new faces.
As to the accusations of the OP. Vice Presidents have no power except to break ties in the Senate. They stand in the wings, fill in for the President at funerals and inaugurations around the world but cannot hire or fire federal officials. I doubt there was an impeachable offense. Much of what Biden is accused of happened when he was not in office (after January 20, 2017 and therefore not subject to impeachment.
@Klugeryid
I don’t hate Trump
I hate his actions and words
Big difference@Syag
I never used the term deport………………
I said he should pack up his fractured family and leave the country.
Deportation is government action. I’m calling for all of them to go voluntarily, and not at taxpayer expense.Let his shiftless sons spend the rest of their days hunting in Siberia. Maybe Melania could finish that college degree she claimed she had and didn’t.
@huju
If Trump was convicted he would not be sentenced to prison. He’d cut a deal with Pence (as Nixon did with Ford) and be pardoned in advanceThe Adulterer in Chief, Liar in Chief wouldn’t know how to do an honorable thing. It is time for him and his despicable fractured family to pack up and leave the country. Let his buddy (puppeteer) Putin resettle them in Siberia
@RebbYidd23
I post that there is no such thing as a ‘true American’ because the term is one without an official definition. It changes to suit the speaker.
Does it mean citizen, native born, patriot, supporter of the current government?
These days I find it used to accuse non-followers of the political right of being less than ‘American’If one googles true American the responses are about a drinking game.
In the early 1970s when I was protesting the war in Viet Nam I was accused of not being a True American. I took my chances in the draft lottery unlike Private Bone Spurs or GW Bush pretending to fly jets in the Texas Air National Guard while not showing up regularly.
I am active in politics, have never missed voting since I was able to vote in 1972, pay my taxes and am not afraid to question government officials. Nowhere is it written that an Anerican has to have blind allegiance to any elected official
@RebbeDebbie
The Independent Senator Sanders is not a Communist, but you spread lies.
There is no such thing as a true American. That is white supremacist talk and they hate you (and me).
It is perfectly legal for a Communist Party candidate to run for office in the USA. This is not the 1950s Joe McCarthy era.
In the 1970s I hated my local war hawk Congressman and his other major party pro Viet Nam War opponent, so I voted for Joelle Fishman the Communist Party candidate in CT third district. i was anti-war, but a TRUE AmericanGround neck and skirt about 80% lean. Hand formed 6 ounce patty, season each side with coarse salt and freshly ground pepper. Cook 2 minutes each side on a 550 degree F grill (charcoal or gas if no charcoal is available)
Coffee Addict……………
Are you aware that you don’t have to be a registered member of a party to run on their ticket?In our area, this year the Dems ran 2 candidates for Board of Education and 4 for Town Council who are not party members. They all won seats. They may caucus with the Ds but are not beholden to vote the party line.
Senator Sanders is running for the D nominayion, but is an elected independent, not a Dem.
Coffee Addict
When one votes for a candidate on a minor Party line instead of the D or R lines, than the voter is saying I do not endorse the party or its platform. That is the important differenceBecause it is not anti-Semitism and a non-issue.
The crusaders were trying to take control of Jerusalem from the Moslems between 8 and 900 years ago. It was not capital of Israel at the time. There was no Jewish state with a capital then/Here in CT we have the:
Borough of Naugatick with a brand new Yeshiva
The Borough of Woodmont (part of the City of Milford) with a shul dating back to the 1920s, formerly a summer shul, now a year round Chabad shul
Other boroughs include Fenwick in Old Saybrook at the confluence of the CT River and Long Island Sound. Actress Katharine Hepburn lived there on the point. Stonington, Litchfield, Bantam and 3 others. Most are waterfront (lakes or coastal) and may also be consolidated with a town of the same name,For our British CR members in Gilbert ans Sullivan’s HMS Pinnafore, Sir Joseph Porter (First Lord of the Admiralty) sings a song which includes the line:
“I grew so rich that I was sent
By a pocket borough into Parliament.
I always voted at my party’s call,
And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
I thought so little, they rewarded me
By making me the Ruler of the Queen’s Navee!”@1
Not all socialism is a bad thing
I like my Social Security Check, and Medicare coverage
I like public highways, schools, libraries, police and fire and EMS as wellCoffee Addict
Sometimes the candidates on the minor party tickets are D or R, sometimes they are not
I voted for a minor party candidate for Town Council this year#1
Your title is an ignorant slam of people who may have voted Democrat. HOWEVER, Cuomo and DiBlasio were on other party ballots as well. You didn’t slam those who voted Working Families, Independence or Women’s Equality parties line.
Your bias against Democrats is despicable. Your title should have been about these two men you don’t like.
BTW>>>>>Many of the CR readers don’t live in NYC and could not have voted for these two men, many don’t live in NYS and could not have voted for Cuomo. The world does not revolve around the 5 Boros.
@Joseph
The cadaver (I won’t use the word meis) was a 24 year old goy who was killed in a motorcycle accident (no helmet). The issur does not apply to goyim who are npot bound by halacha.@HolyMoe
Lev Yerushalayim only serves Breakfast daily and dinner on Shabbos and Yuntif by prior arrangement. It is not a traditional hotel, but a Timeshare and apartment rental venue with Kitchens in the units and plates/pots/pans available for rent.
When I go on vacation, I am not interested in a kuchelane, but for others with families and limited budgets it makes sense.I doubt any sales have been made at that price. There are millions of books listed on Amazon at huge prices that are never realized. The same book may be listed at $5 and $5000.
Offered at a price is not the same as having sold. Some sellers that do not own goods list items at high prices knowing that of someone pays it the seller can buy the item for much less, transship and turn a profitThe hotel has changed ownership and supervision in the intervening years so the name is unimportant.
@Gadolhadorah
Sometimes some of us travel with family members who have restricted mobility and a good hotel dining room is important.
The final time I took my mother to EY she was wheelchair bound and sleeping most of the day. The highlights of her trip were the dinners we hosted at our hotel each evening for relatives and friends she had not seen in years. There is no way we could have comfortably taken her out each evening to crowded restaurants with a wheelchair, walker, and other equipment, The hotel arranged a round table for 8 for our stay in a non congested area of the dining room with easy access. We had the same waiter and busboy who quickly learned our needs and wants and she had a wonderful final trip.@Akuperma
‘Muslim Ban’ was the term used by the poster I replied to.
I never claimed a Muslim ban was put in effect.Keep spinning and deflecting. as long as you continue to live outside the USA you opinion about US politics, politicians and elections is meaningless to me. Same as my opinion on Israeli elections, parties, politicians.
That said, I only vote in one country.
If you think theMuslim ban is a good thing then you are dangerous to the Jews as well. No minority is to be safe if a President can ban by religion.
“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
As usual Gadol is not so great. Alternate Facts rule, why check the real facts and figures? Better to waste everyone’s time posting falsehoods.
Polls are pretty meaningless. Questions can be skewed to elicit certain responses. Gadol posts no infor about these polls and the results, just innuendo, attempting to troll like stir the CR pot.
Time for Gadol to start drinking decaf.
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Learn to read. I wrote not yet a teen@1
the personification of a troll
shows up to aggravate me whenever I post.
Confused a post about Trump with support for a president who ran for office nearly 60 years ago1 should be ignored
@1
Keep deflecting
The post is not about JFK,
I was not yet a teenager when he was killed and the voting age was 21.@lowerourtuition
Town of just under 40,000
Growing up, I lived in a city of 150,000. We’s volunteer at the information desk of the local hospital (pre-HIPAA)My Nephew lives near Boston, He volunteers in the VA Hospital.
There are plenty pf opportunities to volunteer in the general community on NN, even in big cities@Joseph
@Syag LchochmaNice tries, deflection doesn’t work and I’ll not take your bait.
The post was about the current President, not anyone else.As most years when the 24th is not a Friday, I worked the 11 pm to 7 am shift at our town’s 911 phone center, so employees could spend time celebrating their holiday with their families. It let’s them go to Midnight services.
It was B”H a quiet night. No fire dispatches, 2 ambulance/EMS calls, one to a local nursing home and another for a woman gone into labor. No 911 calls for police emergency on the overnight.
I went to shul on the way home and will go back for a noon to 4 pm mini shift this afternoon. Regular employees return for the 4-midnight shift this afternoon.
NOT ONE STEP…..
I don’t support the thrice married adulterer who spews lies every time he opens his mouth.I can’t still want him as I never wanted him.
@meno
A kidney donor can donate a second kidney as a cadaver donorMy BIL rec’d a cadaver kidney. His body rejected it after 20 years. By that time his son had become an adult with children of his own. 15 years ago my nephew donated a kidney to d=save his father’s life. B”H donor and donee are doing well.
A familial donor is always the choice for less chance of organ rejectionCalling 311 on someone blocking your driveway is not mesira, it’s useless when you don’t live in a city that has 311 service………………..
I didn’t not say I don’t use the driveway. I use it occasionally. I expect my private property to be available when W want to use it. I pay the taxes and insurance and have not given rishus to others to use it.
Your logic would say that when I am not in residence at my Florida home a stranger could use that. Nonsense!
BTW, I expect to use the Brooklyn house next Wednesday, as I prefer to be where businesses are open in 12/25 than in small town CT.@Mistykins
Try reading the OP.
Nowhere does it state that the offender is Jewish never mind a frum yid with 5 kids struggling to pay tuition.NO EXCUSES for bad behavior. Can’t afford a tow, don’t park illegally in someone else’s driveway. AGAIN, the OP says in the driveway, not on the street blocking the driveway.
I’ve posted before that we also have a house in Brooklyn (inherited from grandparents) that we use occasionally. We had to put a locked gate across the driveway because when we occasionally showed up to use the house someone else would be parked on our land. Neighbors on the block knew we weren’t there full time and the assorted relatives that were allowed to live there while attending college or yeshiva didn’t have cars.
@funnybone
If the offender was parked in the street blocking your driveway and you called the police who had it towed, then mesirah might be an issue.
BUT, if the car, as the OP wrote, is parked in your driveway on your private land, then you as the owner van call a tow company to have it taken away at the offender’s expense. You have not turned the offender over to a non-rabbinic authority (police, secular courts). The owner of private property has the right to have a car towed.AND, yes I have checked this out with my Rav. I am a property owner and have had problems with people parking on my land when they are not tenants, customers or guests. I have the right to tow, I don’t need to call the [police. The tow companies must report in a timely manner to the police so if the towed party calls in a stolen car report it can be checked against tow lists.
@thelittleIknow
I hope you never have to know much about divorce, but I am a family law attorney.
“Batei Din are not apt to accept a case that is not in their geographic area.”
Actually it happens all the time.
Outside major Jewish population areas there are not many Batei Din.
I live and practice law less than 75 miles from Manhattan. The nearest regularly establish Batei Din are
in NY. We often take the parties to Brooklyn or Long Island for a Jewish Divorce.
For uncontested Jewish Divorce, where everything has been worked out beforehand, I may import a
Dayan from Chabad in Brooklyn. The driver he works with is his sofer to prepare the Get and two
Rebbeim from the local Chabad day school serve as the other members of the Beis Din. My preference is
an established Beis Din that meets regularly and has an office and staff, especially if there is a chance
that the divorcing couple or their offspring may ever want to settle in EY and get married there.@lakwhut
Since when are you a Posek?
If a Jewish Couple had a civil marriage then they need to get a civil divorce in many jurisdictions.
If they don’t…there are consequences that may prove to be expensive or worse.
#1 Remarry and get charges with bigamy…jails/fines
#2 Tax liability on your ex-spouse’s income
#3 Your ex-spouse’s income may be counted in determining social benefits (Section 8, SNAP, tuition assistance.
#4 You new wife goes to collect a spouse’s Social Security benefit and you find out your first wife is already collecting against you
#5 Your first spouse has a claim on your pensionEvery married couple needs not only a civil divorce but a properly executed QDRO…Qualified Domestic Relations Order. This spells out what happens with benefits such as a pension that may be many decades off.
I recently represented a Jewish Woman against her ex. He turned 60, retired and went to collect his pension from the State of CT. He filled out the forms electing to have wife #2 collect his pension after his death and taking a smaller monthly amount. SURPRISE!!!!!! 35 years ago when he was divorced from wife #1 I represented her in civil court (they already had a get from the beis din. I drafted the QDRO which was approved by the civil court judge. Wife #1 was entitled to one half the value of his state pension at its vested value at the time of divorce. His election to take a smaller pension so wife #2 could have a survivor’s benefit violated the terms of the QDRO. He was forced to take full monthly payments and wife #1 gets a check for 27% from the state each month, he gets 73%. If he had been allowed to take the reduced sum wife #1 would only be receiving an amount equal to 16%.Lakwhut, you are NOT an attorney and should not be giving legal advice or making legal pronouncements.
Dina malchusa Dina………………….
I don’t take Jewish Divorce Clients unless they agree to a get in a beis din in addition to the civil divorce for tax and other similar purposes.@rebbiedebbie
My late mother Z”L always said that the key to being a good mother in law was to keep your mouth shut and your refrigerator open.
My father said that for father’s in law substitute wallet for refrigerator.
@Akuperma
Making false generalizations about Democrats!
“One can not be Democrat unless one supports abortion on demand, without restrictions. ”I am a registered Democrat. I have held elected office as a Democrat. I do not support abortion on demand without restrictions. The Chairman of my Democratic Town Committee, as well as 6 members of its board are devout Roman Catholics who oppose abortion.
There is no requirement for being pro-abortion in order to register as a Democrat.
Your lies are not appreciated.
My brothers and I all had full beards from the age of 16. My 12th grade rebbe told me it was inappropriate for a high school bochur in his class. Mt father Z”L came in to see the menahel. He told the menahel that the baby raced rebbe was jealous that I could raise a full beard and he couldn’t. The menahel and my father had a good laugh and the subject was never brought up again.
@Kluger
I feel your pain. McCoun are hard to find, have a short growing season and often mislabeled. Our tree yields the nest apples in early October.
Supermarket staff have no idea about what variety of fruit they sell. I only like Santa Rosa Plums. BUT the supermarkets just mark plums as Black Plums or Orange. Last year, I found a display in Shop-Rite marked Santa Rosa and was all excited. Took one bite and spit it out. It had a orange interior. Santa Rosa have a dark red flesh.NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am a New Haven Native. We love Apizza. Pronounced ah-beatz…………………
Extra thin charred crust, baked in a coal fired oven. Crushed tomatoes, olive oil, a bit of dried spices and a dusting of grated Romano cheese. Mozzarella and other items are extras.At home I use a wood fired outdoor brick oven top make apizza
@knaidlach
There is no ‘usual’ in 12 step meetings. These organizations have meetings that pop up all over and are run by volunteers. there are virtually no paid staff, they collect no dues and do not run by a set of rules/regulations.They are easily hijacked by the beliefs of the meeting leader.
Outside of the biggest cities they usually meet in churches. The attendees have addictive personalities. What the 12 step leaders do is substitute one addiction for a another harmful addiction. Many local church leaders see these meetings as a source of new recruits into their congregations.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I often limit just how much I say about myself and am open about my opinions. My adult children are approaching the point where I plan to retire from the active practice of law in the not so distant future and they will take over my firm
In anticipation of this, and having seen so much heartache while practicing family law, I went back to school part time a couple years ago and have completed a degree and certification in couseling. As part of my required practical hours and internship I attended many hours of 12 step meetings as an observer and worked with addicts/alcoholics who attend. My comments here are anecdotal, but the details of the push to yoshke in these meetings is chronicled in my degree thesis with documentation.
Life outside the self imposed ghettos of the frum world is quite different. Most American Jews live outside these ghettos and we have an obligation to see that they are not led to yoshke while attempting to fight other demons.@knaidlach
There is a big difference between theory and practice.
The 12 steps as laid out in print and as applied in these meetings vary by the person running the meeting. They are all volunteers with addictive personalities.
Most of these Rabonim and frum therapists (unnamed by you) have never attended such a meeting as they are not open to the general public.
My initial involvement in court was because a client came to me about his 18 year old grandson who got a DUI ticket and was sentenced to 9 moths of meetings. The grandson kept coming home with these saint/prayer cards and saying the leader kept trying to convert him. Since they have the higher being premise it is not the place of a civil US court to order attendance.In Brooklyn there may be frum 12 step meetings, but in most of America there are not.
Klugeryid,
He doesn’t scare me.
I would love to see Trump out of office and if it takes Bloomberg to beat him so be it,This is NOT an endorsement of Bloomberg. I’ll not make a choice until the CT State Democratic Convention in 2020 when I know who will be on the primary ballot. That said, I’ll not be voting Harris, Sanders, Buttegig, Booker, Yang….and the list goes on.
Virtually all 12 step programs are yoshke based. They all talk about following a higher power, but most have distribution of pocket sized cards with pictures of xtian saints and payers on them.
In the 1980s I went into the CT courts with two other Jewish lawyers to ban judges from ordering attendance at 12 step programs for drunk driving offenders. Now they are ordered to attend group therapy.
Personally, I do not believe group/public confession and absolution is a good thing and the sponsors can become too intrusive in an attendee’s life. They mean well, but are not trained professionals@working on it
I was in the retail business for many decades.
Your theory about the carts that cost a quarter to use as being a great expense because current carts have to be replaced is not correct. The locking device that takes the quarter and attaches to the cart ahead is an add on for standard carts.
Way back in 1980, my father had them added to our carts at our Danbury, CT store as so many carts were disappearing. At that time our standard metal carts cost approx $165 each and the locking mechanism was $28 installed. It was well worth it. When we sold the store at the end of 1987, only 2 of 150 carts had gone missing.@Billywee
It doesn’t matter what the name means in Romanian, because it is from an old Hungarian name hundreds of years before there was a Romania.More than 1000 years ago it was known as castrum Zotmar (Zotmar’s fort), a defensive position named for a prominent individual or family. Castrum has the same Latin root as Castle, a fortified building used for defense.
@Gadolhadorh
The shopping carts with chips that lock the wheels when trying to leave the store are a terrible idea. One needs the shopping cart loaded with a week’s groceries for a large family to get the bags to the car.
Here in the suburbs some stores have set the carts to lock at the edges pf the parking lots and it works. But stores such as Moisha’s depend on on street parking and shoppers need to be able to wheel the purchases all the way to the car.Other models that work successfully in non-urban markets include:
A system where your purchase is placed in a bin on a conveyor in the front of the store, you drive up, hand the box boy your ticket and they load the car.
A system used by the Market Basket Chain in Massachusetts and New Hampshire: they hire mentally challenged young adults who wheel the carriage out to the car for every customer, help unload and then return the carriage to the store.
These cost money and do raise prices slightly.