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Hot dogs and hamburgers off the grill with potato salad and cole slaw on plates. Potato chips as a substitute for buns
I have never bought either of them, I make my own
Crank up the music.
Cleaning is drudgery, it is not supposed to be fun,
Your kids have normal reactions.
Just remind them that they are part of the family and expected to do their share of the work. No work, no eat, no spending money, no use of the car, etc.As long as they don’t charge by weight who cares
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Many are laced with nicotine…highly addictive and dangerous to your health
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Many have the same chemical in them used to deice airplanes. It can cause major respiratory illness and affect hearing. Youngest Ms. CTL tried these in high school and ended up with serious ear problems.Two of my grandparents went to secular college
My parents went to secular college
All of them lived at home and went by subway
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My siblings and I all went to secular universities and graduate schools
My children all went to secular university and law schools
We all lived with relatives in undergraduate school and in apartments while in graduate school, never in a dorm
All of my generation and my children attended seminary or Yeshiva for a year or two after high school and before university.All of these people remained frum after secular college/university.graduate school
All of us held jobs during our college and grad school years as well……no time for bitul zman with the goyim@anonomousjew
My response was to Whitecar and the Reagan quote about being a former Democrat.
Not one of the people you mentioned left the party and were elected to office as Republicans.I did not make a list with the title you used. Read the thread before posting nonsense and making accusations.
@Whitecar
sorry for the typo….SAY, not day@Whitecar
and did Ronnie day that about wife #1 when he was taking up with Nancy Davis?@Habochur
You are showing your age and inexperience by making blanket statements without having read and digested all the previous posts.I explained that it makes sense for Mrs. CTL to lease her car because it is 100% expensed for business/tax purposes and an owned car would have to be capitalized and not have those benefits. I OTOH, own my car, not driving enough for the lease to be beneficial.
It is not about having the newest car, because B”H we can afford to have a new car every year should we so desire…we don’tSome of us do work.
I last posted at 9:11 this morning while waiting for my 9:15 client to arrive.
I was in court from 11-3 and now am taking some time off to be with Mrs. CTL.There are many threads that lose my interest as they diverge from the OP or the baiting and trolling starts, so I walk away.
BTW…how’s the mailbox holding up?
@Coffee Addict
Leasing doesn’t make sense for everyone, but does for others.
Mrs. CTL leases a car. She uses it for business and takes the entire cost of the leases as an expense against revenue when figuring taxable profit for the year.
If she purchased the car, she would be tying up 50K plus in funds and would have a capital item on her balance sheet and only the limited depreciation would be an expense each year. She gets 100% bumper to bumper maintenance, They come and get the car when it needs service and provide the same model loaner. They give 3 full detailings a year. The only thing she has to pay for is gasoline. And on our policy there is no difference in insurance cost between an owned or leased model.
Right now she is looking at a new vehicle as her lease is up May 1. She had 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016 editions of the same vehicle but it has been discontinued as of 2018 so she can’t just call her salesman and order the replacement on the phone.I do little driving. My car is 15 years old and has just hit 72,000 miles. For me leasing makes little sense.
Both my daughters drive leased vehicles (take after mom) none of my sons do.@writer
NO, they don’t all charge for everything.
We just returned my Late MIL’s Lincoln as her lease ends this month. All scratches less than 3″ long are not charged for. Normal wear and tear is allowed. After 3 years, no one is expected to return a car in showroom new condition, but stains, holes, rips, tears, gouges, scrapes are not normal wear and tear.Mrs. CTL drives a leased car (her choice, I own). In all the years we have never paid a cent for condition issues when turning the car in, only for being over mileage, once.
All leases are not created equal, as an attorney I caution you to read and understand the lease terms before signing, its not all about the monthly and down payments
@Joseph
Leaving flowers is generally a violation of the rules in most Jewish cemeteries. Carving a sentiment or endearing name is not against the rules.I remember taking the shamash of our heimische shul in New Haven to make the rounds of local cemeteries one August when he was too old to drive. He pointed out the Matzeva of ‘The lady with the baby carriage’ There was an engraving of a baby carriage, and a story in Yiddish about this woman who pushed a baby carriage through the poor Jewish neighborhood each erev Shabbos for decades delivering free food for the poor. She had no husband or children and the Matzeva was paid for and erected by the shul Rav who decided on the engraving.
@Joseph
Our family cemetery in NYC is years old. Many of the stones have Yiddish in addition to Hebrew on them.
My Zaidy’s stone has Zev in Hebrew and Wulf in the Yiddish.@yyoossii
The OP mentioned a Matzeva or footstone. I referred to a footstone. There usually is not an engravable rear side of a footstone. In fact the footstones for my parents’ graves are flat in the ground@a mamin
Slang is a word such as ain’t. A nickname is NOT slang, it is an endearment. In this case as the OP wrote it is the English verbiage which would have the endearing name, not the proper Hebrew inscription.
My father’s stone have the correct Hebrew name, in English it has his given name then a parentheses containing A/K/A XXX…….the name everyone knew him as for more than 90 years.
In the OP’s case the great grandchildren will go and visit the grave for many decades to come and be comforted to see that ‘Bubs’ is buried there. They do not know her by any other name.
My father Z”L was never called by his given name. No one except a few very close relatives knew what it was. In fact on my parents’ wedding invitations after his given name there was a parentheses with his nickname inside.
Therefore, it was a no brainer that his foot stone (we have a family plot headstone) would have his nickname on it.@Divrihayamin
NY is but one state out of 50.
The bunch of state assembly members you name are not major Liberals on the National scene.You need to take off your NYcentric glasses. The post I questioned did not say minor NY politicians, it referred to major liberals,
Our Rav was concerned about Maris Ayin, that the shul was participating in a raffle drawing conducted on Shabbos and the some might think attendance at the drawing was appropriate since the shul sold tickets,
By moving the raffle to a Mon-Thursday,no house of worship would have congregants tempted to attend the drawing instead of religious services.
Remember, OOT, many Orthodox shuls have a large percentage of their membership who are not observant but belong because of familial ties (names on the plaques, windows, cemetery rights and plots etc.).Disclaimer:
#1 I don’t buy lottery tickets
#2 I have set up trusts for clients who have won multi-million dollar lottery prizes
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That said, when purchasing a ticket for a lottery that has a Shabbos drawing, you are NOT buying a chance for a prize that will definitely be awarded on Shabbos. Very often there is no winner and the pool grows and the next drawing occurs on a weekday.
This is different than buying a raffle ticket with a set prize drawing on Shabbos…knowing that all prizes will
be awarded then.We had this discussion with our shul Rav when all houses of worship in our town were asked to sell raffle tickets to members to raise funds for a new ambulance for the volunteer corps. A Friday night was set for the drawing. Our Rav insisted that the drawing be changed to Monday so Jews,Christians and Moslems would not have issues with the date.
@AviK
Your reply addressed to me was not in response to anything I posted.
I think you should have addressed Charlie Hall.Meanwhile, you ignored my refutation if drinking age raised by the George W Bush regime some 35 years ago
@AviK
You paint with a broad brush but the wrong color
Liberals don’t want to raise the drinking age to 21. It happened way back in 1984 under that great Liberal President George W Bush in a Congress with a Republican Majority Senate and Democratic Majority House.Liberals have no united view on gun sales and age restrictions. I’d like them banned, period.
I know many LIberals and not a single one has publicly called for lowering the voting age to 16.
@Curiosity
We disagree. Liberal is NOT far to the left of center, that’s Leftist or Left Extremist or Liberal Extremist. Liberal is either centrist or slightly left of center but accepting/tolerant of views further left.Your supposed definition simple parrots the ideology of the Fox/Trump network.
@NevilleChaimBerlin
I do think highly of you and your opinions. I may not agree with you/them but they are always well thought out, well presented and not full of the current right wing vitriol that infects our country@AviK
##2 Shmittah
I NEVER mentioned Shmittah….I think you mean this for someone else#1 Eleventh Amendment did not violate Separation of Powers: i.e. It did not set new law overruling a decision of the court, It set Parameters of the Judiciary”s Power
Sixteenth Amendment..Federal Income Tax authority bestowed upon Congress, again this did not violate Stare Decisis, in fact the Lincoln Administration levied an income tax back in 1861 to finance the Civil WarNone of this has anything to do with the subject of this thread
@lakewhut
“Commissioner of the Superior Court” is an office/title granted to all attorneys admitted to the CT Bar. It gives certain rights and privileges. For example if you have a form that says the signature needs to be verified by a notary public, in CT it will also say Commissioner of the Superior Court. Any CT licensed attorney can sign and we don’t have to have notaries in our employ in our offices. It also subjects us to certain, rules, regulations and Ethical standards of the court.
At times we can sit as masters or magistrates in small claims court which is a division of Superior Court. Rulings by such a magistrate are not considered rulings that can be cited as decided law in other court cases,@lakewhut
What utter nonsense you post!
“Because if it came down to it you’d have to support abortion in a court of law”No, I would not have to support anything in a court of law.
#1 I am my own boss, owner of the firm and I get to take or reject cases, they are not assigned to me by a boss
#2 I don’t do any criminal law work
#3 Although I am admitted in the First, Second and Eleventh Federal Districts I haven’t argued a case there in decades (since I opened my own form and specialized in Family Law, Estates, Will, Trusts and contracts involving those clients
#4 There is no slavery or servitude in the US, I don’t have to do anything as you suggest.I’m a Litvak (paternal side)
We learned:
Me is Who, Who is He, He is She and Dog is Fish…………………………………Long before Country Yossi was in diapers
@lakwhut….
I am not part of any force, period.
I don’t allow or forbid abortion, it is not in my power.
I accept the rulings of the courts of this land. If I didn’t I would choose to live elsewhere.
I don’t support non-medically necessary abortion, but also support Separation of Powers
This is not mutually exclusive
Next time your shul or cemetery or Mikve or Yeshiva needs some representation you’ll be glad there are some Jewish Lawyers@bk13
I am not comparing, I am giving examples of doctors doing what is asked of them.
Medical decisions are opinions, doctors will not be dettered by review. The reviewer was not there and did not meet with the patient at the time. Don’t forget the mental health of the woman…Psychiatrists are MDs and could certify medical need.
Too easy to get around, doctors prescribed alcohol for nerves and other ailments during Prohibition@Joseph
I would not support such an amendment. I do not believe that the legislature should violate separation of powers by passing legislation to overrule decisions if the court.This is probably not the reason you thought would govern my opinion. The Court changes over time and state decisis is not absolute; Dred Scott, Plessey v. Ferguson are two glaring examples. If the country truly swings to oppose non-medically required abortion the court will react over time.
#2 It is very easy to get a doctor to say something is medically necessary and sidestep your proposed amendment.
I know many people whose doctors were happy to sign handicapped parking permit applications or excuses from gym class@Curiosity
“Being a kofer is against halacha – thus being a liberal, as defined colloquially, is against halacha.”Your conclusion suffers from the faulty Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc premise: after this, therefore because of this.
I am a Liberal, therefore I am Kofer and against Halacha.
Not every Liberal agrees with the items you post. There is no Liberal manifesto to which all Liberals subscribe. These items you call ideals, are not considered ideals by all who call themselves Liberal.
I am far more Liberal in terms of Civil and economic rights than abortion and Toeiva.
I was a Justice of the Peace until 2018, I never performed a Toeiva wedding ceremony and CT courts do not compel us to do so. I also never performed an intermarriage between a known (to me) Jew and an non-Jew. The few marriages I performed over the years with non-Jew to non-Jew, usually one participant having been a Catholic who had been divorced and was not free to marry again within the church.@Joseph
I don’t support abortion for economic reasons, period. The courts have determined that it is legal. As a licensed attorney I am a Commissioner of the Superior Court in CT. Therefore, I may not like a law or ruling, but recognize it as settled law.
I am not saying this to obfuscate or avoid a direct answer, but am bound by my office and license. This is not the same in all states.