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Mrs. CTL is resting comfortably B”H and is now scheduled for major surgery in about 6 weeks. I”H she will not require any additional emergency procedures, hospital stays and life support.
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I called the OP a troll and gave ‘1’ a single response stating I’d not reply to him/her further in this thread. That is my new policy, if I think a post is a troll, I’ll not engage in multiple responses. If any CR readers were offended by my response, I apologize and ask mechila.
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@AviK
Civics lesson time:
Voting rules vary by jurisdiction. I functioned as Asst Registrar of Voters in the 2018 elections. Here in CT a voter may only write in the name of a candidate who registered with the Secretary of the State as a ‘write in candidate’ one who failed to get a party nomination or enough signatures to petition his/her way onto the ballot with a name printed position.
Voters may not cast a vote for anyone else, including dead, non-citizen Stalin. This saves countless hours in tabulating votes at the end of the evening for non-legitimate names such as Mickey Mouse. It allowed out town to complete counts by 10:30 PM when it used to take until 2 or 3 am. Our rules require that all totals be read aloud in each polling place to the public and press before ballots and machines/tabulators can be transported to the Town Clerk’s office. Before this rule change, I remember an election where a group of 200 high school seniors all wrote in nonsense names for 20 positions. We were at the polling place until 4am,Sorry, I don’t have time for this narishkeit today. Mrs. CTL had unexpected surgery and I have been at hospital all day. I will try to respond to a few posts when I have time. Her attention is more important than this diversion
I don’t know what could have been more straight than my only reply to the OP
“There were no primaries in the USSR, there was one party.I would vote against any candidate for public office in a non-theocracy who promised yeshiva funding, or Catholic school funding or any other money for religious education at taxpayers expense, and YES, I oppose school vouchers.”
The OP posed a physical impossibility To vote for a dead non-US citizen who was also a non-member of the Democrat Party in a primary. I pointed out the physical impossibility and clarified that I’d vote against politicians wanting to use public funds for religious education.
@NevilleChaimBerlin
I have no commercial connection with YWN. In fact, I am an old school lawyer who does not advertise or have a website. I am winding down towards retirement and it children want to grow the firm it will be their decision.
Yes I received an email from a Modrator a couple of years ago seeking assistance for someone in a CT hospital. It went to a blind e-mail address that does not have my real name attached to it and by the time I saw it the patient was no longer in CT
@RebYidd23
Social Security is a tax on most working people: Rich, Poor, White and non-White
The difference is that most who reach the wage point where Social Security has met the maximum deduction for a given year are white.Not all working people are covered by or subject to Social Security Tax. Public School Teachers here in CT are not part of the system and pay into their own retirement scheme. My late mother collected her CT Teachers Retirement Board check for 31 years in retirement. Actyion by the Reagan regime made her ineligible to collect a spousal benefit on my father’s Social Security. Had she been a housewife she would have rec’d more than a quarter million dollars in Social Security Benefits in retirement.
@Mangoes
“Tikkun olam is a non orthodox concept. There is no such concept in the Torah. Well, at least not how you mean it”
Sorry, Chesed is a Torah concept, you don’t like the appellation I attached.
The Republican party currently benefits the extremely rich and hurts the rest.Stripping the guts out of the Affordable Care Act is not Chesed.
Threatening to Cut Social Security and Medicare is not Chesed
Separating children from parents and incarcerating them in camps is not chesed (ask any shoah survivor).
Doing away with or loosening clean water regulations so that we can’t eat domestic lettuce farmed with filthy water doesn’t help the populace.Forcing people to have back alley abortions doesn’t help anyone. Better not to abort, but if it is done it should be done ion a safe and clean medical center. As the parent of an adopted child I am not pro-abortion, but would not put my religious beliefs into secular law.
There is a big difference between enabling legislation than forcing someone to do something by law.
The fact that abortion and same sex marriage is legal doesn’t mean anyone in the CR will partake; which is why I don’t see these things as a threat.
I am more likely to suffer a gunshot than be affected by a legal abortion, so I support gun controls.@lakewhut
The NY politicians you mentioned are an issue only for NY residents until they choose to run for a nationwide office.
We must separate local parties and their platforms from national parties and their platforms,
I live in a Town that has been run by Republicans for many decades, I was a minority elected local official. About 10 years ago a dozen members of the local Republican Party got fed up with the mean spirited way their local party was running the town and jumped ship to the Democrats. They are observant Catholics, pro-life, conservative etc. That said, in order to have a say in the way the town was run they had to join the opposition party and run for office as Dems. They don’t have to support the state or national platform. They receive no campaign financing from those entities.
The USA is not a Parliamentary system country. We don’t vote for party lists, Americans are not card carrying members of political parties, don’t day party dues and don’t read party affiliated newspapers@MDG
If you have read my many posts over the years you will find that Mrs. CTL and I do not come from privilege, but the middle class.
My parents afforded themselves of the free excellent college education offered by City and Hunter Colleges in the 1930s and bettered their lives. Yes, I went to an Ivy League University and Law School and paid for my education by working full time while in college.
We bought a 200 year old fixer upper and continually remodeled and added on, doing most of the labor ourselves. I built a successful private law practice, but still cut my own lawn, take out the trash, paint and do hone repairs and do virtually all the cooking and laundry (Mrs. CTL has been ill for a number of years).
The money we make is used for both tzedaka and ensuring our family is with us. All of our grandchildren are here for the summer, not away at expensive camps, as well as Pesach and all the Yomin Tovom, The amenities of the compound (as we call it, as MIL lived in the house adjoining us, and SIl a few doors down, and not married daughter and family there) cost far less than than camp and expensive vacations.
I drive a car that I bought new 15 years ago, My suits are made to measure, I’m not an off the rack size, but I am as likely to wear a suit made 12 years ago as this year. Good is good, buy the best you can afford and nothing that is a fad and it will last, sage words from my OMA.
To put it simply, we don’t waste or squander money. Mrs CTL and I having started and sold a number of successful businesses (and we had a few failures as well) has enabled us to contribute to Jewish and secular institutions for the betterment of the community.
As for being a Democrat, I find that political party is far more in accord with the concept of Tikun Olam than the Republicans. I vote candidate, not party. This past November I voted for 4 Republican candidates as well as 9 Democrats when I filled out my ballot.@Anon
To quote you from this morning:
“it’s called sarcasm.”If you (or anyone else) don’t like your elected officials, get involved in politics. Join your Town Party Committee, attend Board and Commission meetings, run for elected office. Become a delegate top state and/or national conventions and have a vote on the platform.
You may win or lose, but this is the only way to effect change when you are not happy with the local politics.
Democracy (even a republican model) is a participatory form of government.I have done all of the above for more than 45 years.
I am far from elitist, my social circles cross economic and ethnic divides.
I have had townspeople call me elitist because my children attended ‘private schools’. I dare say most CR readers/posters who raised children in the USA also did not send them to public schools., but that does not make us elitist.
Mrs. CTL and I worked hard for what we have amassed, it was not inherited. The compound grew with the sweat of our brows. Don’t ask how many nails I hammered, how many sheets of dry wall we both hung, etc.That said I’d gladly pay higher taxes to provide for the greater good in our society. America welcomed my forebears when they escaped the anti-semitism in mid 19th century Germany and Russia, and I believe in giving back and extending opportunities to newcomers.
I know what sarcasm is. #1 is but a right wing troll looking to stir the pot and I give him one response per thread at this point.
If he doesn’t like the Dems in control in the northeast move to the flyover zone. I ‘m sure he’ll find the red necks very tolerant of his ilk.
@AviK
You may interpret #1 the trolls post as you wish, but he did not ask the question you state. He was specific about 3 people, totally inaccurate about a dead Soviet and asked about acceptable levels of radical leftists. He NEVER mentioned anti-semitism. That is not acceptable from left or the right including Republicans inclusing Nixox (as long as were posting names of dead leaders).@Cessna172
Flights FROM Israel to USA on Thursday are not a big problem. The clock is with you as you fly west.
El AL leaves Ben Gurion Airport at 12:30 AM and Arrives non-stop JFK 5:25 AM EST. Even a 10 hour delay would not affect Shabbos if you were not making a connecting flight but staying in Metro NY.My 30 Year old just flew in from business in Shanghai. With the time changes, she left Shanghai Monday Jan 7 at 8:20PM C(china)ST and landed JFK after 14 hours in the air Monday Jan 7 at 9:30PM EST.
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There were no primaries in the USSR, there was one party.I would vote against any candidate for public office in a non-theocracy who promised yeshiva funding, or Catholic school funding or any other money for religious education at taxpayers expense, and YES, I oppose school vouchers.
Neither Omar or Ocasio-Cortez ran in my district or state, so I did not have to choose to acceot or reject them. BTW, get Congresswoman’s Ocasio-Cortez’s name correct, otherwise I’ll start referring to you as One-Half.
What you may consider radical others might not. Since you are not a registered Democrat it is none of your business who the members of that party choose to run for office, you only get to vote for or not for the candidate on the ballot.
I would not have voted for either one. I am fine with Congressman Jim Himes, reelected in the Connecticut 4th district.
Here in New England there is not a single Republican representing our 6 states in the House of Representatives. No one will call most New Englanders radical we are far too traditional for that,.I suggest you troll somewhere else. This is you one response in this new thread
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Winnie,
The cleaner is an employee because you set the terms and conditions of employment and give direction.
You tell the cleaner that you will work Wednesdays from 9-1. Y, clean bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen. On alternate weeks clean inside of refrigerator or oven, etc. You supply the cleaning products you want used.The plumber responds to your call about the leaking toilet and says I can be there on Tuesday between 11 and 4. he brings his own tools and supplies.
Why would performing basic life duties be offensive?
I mow the lawn, shovel snow, do painting and home repairs.That said, Mrs. CTL is not well enough to do housework. She has been in ICU since Friday and has had 10 surgeries in the past year.
Until three years ago and the onset of ill health she cleaned our house.
I do the kUndry and cookMust be nice to live in an area where cleaning help is only $15 per hour. In our area the going rate is $30 per hour with a three hour minimum visit. Homeowner supplies all cleaning supplies and equipment
@Chatzer
“Which would you rather fly with.
A licensed pilot who flies small planes who only learned in a real plane, or a pilot who is flying a plane for the very first time, who only trained on a very realistic computer game?”Your scenario is false…………………….
The licensed pilot who flies the small plane is likely the only pilot (unlike the TWO pilots on the Citation X I flew back and forth to Boca Raton Airport yesterday).The licensed pilot flying the first time with passengers in that B787 is not in the captain’s seat. In the captain’s seat doing the training is a licensed pilot with many thousands of hours in large commercial jets. To be perfectly honest, I’d rather fly with that 55 year old captain with 20,000+ hours commercial jet experience and 10 years military flying than someone with your limited hours.
Joseph has claimed to work for the NYC Public Schools. It’s winter vacation so he has lots of time on his hands
It’s a good thing Joseph works in the NYC Public Schools and can’t legally hit students.
For those concerned about his children, don’t be. Joseph is all talk and no action.
His daughter has spent the past two summers with us and he is a loving and gentle father. His bark is worse than his bite@Avram
Tomorrow I’ll be flying private, with professional pilots to take Mrs. CTL to Florida. She had more surgery last Friday and its time for her to recuperate in warmer weather. I’m flying right back as year end is busy at the office.
I cannot spare the time it would take to fly r/t commercial with holiday period delays and crowds, and she needs the comfort.@akuperma
The reason I asked is that I know a number of people/businesses who employ a private chauffeur for their vehicle(s). These have a full time career driving but don’t hold a public service or hack license.
They are privately employed professionals. Same with boat captains and plane pilots.I think a better term for one who only flies his/her own plane might be a recreational pilot (even if he/she flies on business).
@Akuperma
I believe you may be conflating ‘private’ and ‘professional’ in regards to pilots.
I regularly fly private (NetJets or charter). The Pilots are definitely professional, but operate private planes. This is different form the recreational pilot who pilots small prop planes for joy.
Most of the charter pilots I’ve encountered in the USA have many years of experience and like the pay scale compared to those of the regional jets used by many airlines.As for maintenance, many airlines cut corners and outsource maintenance to 3rd world providers. The US charter fleet is well maintained, many by the mfg (such as Embraer in Florida).
@chatzerstrauss
And what type of plane are you rated for and what do you fly?
I wouldn’t be interested in flying a Piper Cherokee with you at the controls, but if you had the rating and a G3, G4, G5 or G6 or a Phenom 300 I might consider it.
My Key-man life insurance policy held by my form prohibits my flying in single engine private aircraft or private/charter jets without 2 pilots.
Living in small town Connecticut, where Jews are the minority, I spend Nittel Nacht (on non-Friday nights) performing community service for the safety of all the townspeople.
For the last 20 years, the CTL adults man the 911 dispatch center. We take calls and dispatch police, EMS and Volunteer Fire Companies. There is a group of Russian Orthodox (they celebrate on January 6th) who takes over at 6AM. When the 24th falls on a Friday they also cover the night shift.
B”H last night there were no fires. Police were dispatched as backup for an automobile accident on a state highway. We dispatched 4 ambulance calls, 3 to senior housing locations and one to take a woman in labor to the hospital, but she was so far along that the EMS personnel delivered the baby en route.
While not sharing the same beliefs as our non-Jewish neighbors, it greatly contributes to harmonious living to give of our time so they can be home with their families on their special night.
@AviK
Engel v. Vitale
said that the schools/government could not compose or have an official prayer to be said in public school. It did not ban organized prayer. I did not forget about it, It was not on point.Furthermore, it doesn’t matter who file amicus briefs, only the court could have banned the organized prayer in response to the suits, not organized Jewish secular groups.
Rockstar gets an F.
It would be far more likely that organized secular groups could influence legislatures to change laws, than the court to rule something unconstitutional.You may be a star in Yeshiva, but when it comes to American history you have rocks in your head.
Secular Jewish organizations didn’t ban religion in public schools. The US Supreme Court found prayer in public school to be unconstitutional in the case brought by Madeline Murray O’Hare and the US atheists, not Jews.
@coffeeaddict
My initial response was because you used the word all, which I know to be false……………………I know many white males who voted in 2016 and did not vote for Trump.
You can not use absolutes and paint them as accurate, they are too easy to refute
@freddyfish,
90% of Jews did NOT vote for Trump
the percentage you mention might apply to frum Jews, not unobservant Jews@NevilleChaimBerlin
We don’t know that the 2020 election will be about Trump. It;s likely, but many things could occur that change the focus of an election.
Who knows, he might be out of office by then………………
@Coffeeaddict
Youguys? Who?
I have never said all Trump voters are white males,
I live in a little Republican dominated town. I know many females who voted Republican in 2016Your logic is warped
I am not sorry, I am thrilled that there is little chance of Trump having 8 years in office.
I laugh at most of the comments in this thread.
The majority of posters live in the northeast where the 2016 vote had nothing to do with Trump. WE, the voters of these districts, continued to elect and reelect Democrats as we have done for many years.
Our civil rights and protections in the USA have been brought to us by Democrats (Civil Rights Act of 64-LBJ and a Dem Congress).
Post WWII Republican administrations have brought us economic downturns.Changing the plaque on a consulate to read embassy is meaningless when we harm Israel by removing US forces from Syria.
The sooner Trump is gone from the White House the better off the country will be.
“ALL” the libs would say…………
NONSENSE,this lib is a white male who voted against Trump, as did his sons, brothers and sons-in-law
Don’t use absolutes that are FAKE NEWS and ALTERNATIVE FACTS, that’s Trumpian…open your mouth and spew lies
You are not totally accurate in your comments.
The 13th and 14th amendments superseded the Dred Scott decision of 1857,BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Supreme Court overruled it in part in Kieppe V. New Mexico (1976)
This was about state ordered protection of wild horses on federal lands within a state.
“the Court said that Congress may enact legislation governing federal lands pursuant to the property clause and “when Congress so acts, federal legislation necessarily overrides conflicting state laws under the supremacy clause.”
This writing by Justice Marshall in the decision overruled part of Scott. States could not rule what happens on federal land in their boundaries. Sometimes something that is moot can still be overruled@Coffeeaddict
Charity is tax deductible….up to a limit.
“Wages mean more money to pay to taxes” ????????????????????????
Wages are a direct expense and the higher the wages a business pays the lower the taxable profit will be.
Yes, the recipient may have to pay taxes on the wages, BUT if frum with 8 kids, he probably doesn’t have to pay income tax. There is a cap on Social Security Tax and Unemployment tax, it is not on every dollar earned. Again the employers Social Security Tax and Unemployment taxes are direct business expenses lowering the net taxable profit of the business.That said, many frum Baalei Batim pay salaries through their businesses (as I do) but give Tzedaka from personal funds, so it is not a choice to have the business expenses go up so the personal expenses go down.
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Non union wages are individually negotiated and a business can pay different employees different wages for similar jobs as long as the reason to do so isn’t discriminatory to a protected class. I can’t pay Chaim more than Susan because she’s a woman, but can if it’s because I think he has better knowledge of the business and my needs,#1
Why do you always choose to start an argument?
You asked if I hated Football because it’s an American game, not if I played football or anything about salaries.I gave you an honest answer and you should learn to accept the fact that opinions are personal preferences, not subject to your rebuttal.
I din’t like playing football as a child, I don’t think it is a safe sport.
For every professional player being paid millions, there are thousands of college and high school players being paid nothing, but still exposed to injury.
It has nothing to do with being an American Game, I don’t like Rugby for the same reasons.Go pick a fight with someone who’s interested, I shall be ignoring you in the future.
@1
I hate football because of its roughness and injuries caused, especially concussions and brain injuries.
I love baseball and basketball which are also American games. In fact we have a basketball court and a Little League sized baseball diamond here in the compound (along with a swimming pool and tennis) my kids and now grandchildren and siblings’ kids and grandchildren spend their summers and holidays here, not shipped off to sleep away camp.As a follow up to my comments in this thread November 25, 2015.
“Dr. Mark Schwartz, 76, of New Haven, died Dec. 2. He was the husband of Heni (Borenstein) Schwartz. Born in New York City, he was the son of the late Solomon and Eleanor (Applebaum) Schwartz. In addition to his wife, he is survived by his children, Peter Schwartz and his wife Elisabeth of Englewood, N.J., Ari Schwartz and his wife Ruth of Sharon, and Yoav Schwartz and his wife Pam of Raanana, Israel; his sisters, Sheila Rubin of Los Angeles, CA, and Libbe Rosenthal and her husband Paul of Phoenix, AZ; and his grandchildren, Mollie, Alexandra, Betzalel, Brooke, Ellie, Hillel, Andrew, Elon, Avi, David and Nachshon. He was also predeceased by his grandson Ezra.”
I attended the funeral. Ezra’s grandfather Z”L was our family doctor for 40 years@Joseph and others
Politicians are not stupid, although they do some stupid things.
They know that Hareidi children will nor be entering public school en masse, even if they are registered to do so.If 10,000 Hareidi children register for the 2019-2020 term this coming spring/summer (in a school district), the district will not build schools and hire many staff.
The first thing the district will do is send transfer notices to the current yeshivos, telling them buses, health services and free lunch (in form of money or food stuffs) has been cut off effective the first day of school. If the Hareidi kids re-enroll in the yeshivos it will take months to restore these services.If some Hareidi kids actually show up for public schools they will be put in empty seats where available, not their closest neighborhood school. Similar to the baby boom days, some schools could go on double sessions,
7:30-12:30 and 12:30-5:30. That afternoon session would not be appreciated by Hareidim on winter Fridays.
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Not all states treat parochial schools the same way. Here in CT we not only provide transportation within the district, but secular textbooks, school nurses, psychologists, social workers and Special Education for secular subjects. All of this to the bsame extent that public school children receive them within an individual district. So, if the district only buses kids who live more than one mile from public school, the same rule applies to parochial school. Our public schools are closed on RH and YK, but the district still provides bus service to the parochial school on those days. Our district (one town) has an Orthodox Day School and Catholic and Protestant schools from K-12.“the Supreme court has no juristiction over State laws. ”
WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When a state law abridges rights conferred by the US Constitution, the US Supreme Court can and does act to make the state law unconstitutional.
We have seen this with abortion and same-sex marriage in recent times.@NevilleChaimBerlin
“Mueller has ruined tons of lives in the past convicting innocent people. ”WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Prosecutors don’t convict anyone, only the judge or jury (if there is one) can do that.You may not like prosecutions brought by Mueller, but don’t make false accusations.
@Joseph
If you read my post carefully I wrote about citizens who are residents in the USA.
AviK may be a citizen, but he does not reside in the USA.@AviK
You don’t live in the USA. Let us resident/citizen/voters handle who we vote for and you can deal with your own mess in the Knesset.Republican Party, who brought us garbage such as Trump, Harding, Hoover, Reagan, McConnell, Ryan, Hatch, Gingrich, Guiliani…………is not something to be touting.
Vote individuals not party…it’s not a parliamentary system where you have to vote the party list…thank G-d!
@laksern
NO, The Lubavitcher Rebbe did NOT graduate the Sorbonne. He enrolled in 1937 to study math, but left in 1939 when war broke out. In 1940 he fled to Vichy and then on to the USA in 1941.Tonight we had very special latkes, and yes they were served with applesauce on the side.
We are fortunate to have a separate Pesach kitchen on our second floor. Every Chanukah we follow a very old tradition of using the Pesach kitchen (In Europe they would kasher for Pesach) to prepare a roast Goose for a Chanukah dinner, and render jars of goose schmaltz for Pesach. We use enough of the goose schmaltz to fry one night’s worth of latkes for the family. Truly a unique taste…………..@Milhouse
My 30 year old daughter is a carbohydrate queen.
She loves mashed potato sandwiches and would eat a latke sandwich