Ex-CTLawyer

@Curiosity

I stated I’d not be responding to individual posts, BUT How DARE YOU misquote me and claim I lost you at “victim of serial adulterer.”

I NEVER wrote that Trump’s opponent was the victim of a serial adulterer. I wrote that Trump was a serial adulterer.

Save your false accusations for someone else, you are producing ‘alternate facts’ or ‘fake news’
It is reprehensible that you use a set of quotation marks to surround words that I NEVER wrote and attribute them to me.

Your apology and retraction of the false quote is due.

MODERATORS: please take note of this falsehood posted by Curiosity

@Golfer
From past posts I am aware that DY does not live in my area of small town Connecticut.
I know all of the frum people in my town, and most of the non-frum Jews as well (I’ve been active in local politics for decades).
The supermarket isn’t even in my town, but an adjoining smaller town with no shul and few Jews (but it is part of a major New England chain and stocks the Empire line to cover the Thanksgiving advertisements). I clean out the turkeys each year after Thanksgiving and the frozen roasting chickens after the Yomin Noraim. 99 cents is a great price to pay for kosher poultry. I also stock up on the canned fruits, etc when they mark them 50 cents a can/jar/bottle after Pesach because they have no corn syrup.

@Rand0m3x

I believe you mother is mistaken
American Gentiles do NOT celebrate all the holidays by eating turkey.
Dec 24th at night Italo-Americans eat a meal consisting of 7 fish/seafood courses
Dec 25th most American Goyim eat Roast Beef or ham
Easter is usually feasted with ham or lamb

It is the British who are likely to serve Turkey for xmas dinner, it has replaced the traditional goose.

I live in small town America and see what is promoted in the general supermarkets for each of these holidays.
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In the CTL home turkey is roasted almost every Sunday, it has been an important part of our fleishige diet since the anti-cholesterol warnings of the late 1970s.
Last night I went into one of the local general supermarkets as is my Motzei Shabbos post Thanksgiving custom and bought every single frozen Empire turkey which were marked down to 99 cents per pound and stocked our freezers in the garage. I was able to purchase 12 of the 14-16 pound birds and 8 of the 20-24 pounders. By next week they’ll again be about $3.79 per pound in the market.

@Joseph

The quick answer as to why NYC and most northern industrial cities were twofold>>>>
#1 White Flight in the decade after school busing and integration, the white middle class fled to the suburbs taking their tax dollars and small businesses with them.

#2 The 1971 Arab Oil Embargo and OPEC price hikes made to expensive to manufacture in the hundred year old northern factories. These buildings were fine when oil was 5 cents per gallon, not $1.00 or more
The rust belt was created and the south rode a new industrial wave to economic superiority. Others just oved their factories offshore.

I was involved in a major sewing manufacturer’s business in Waterbury, CT. We could not afford to heat our 1880s buildings. We moved all production to South Carolina. The buildings were let go for taxes. They remained vacant for more than 30 years

@NevilleChaimBerlin

Free tuition at CUNY ended in the 1970s because NYC was broike and the Financial Review Board insisted that CUNY chagre the same tuition as SUNY

@ZionGate
Free College Tuition is not a Socialist scheme and need not end up like Venezuela

My father went to City College, My mother went to Hunter College in the late 1930s-early 40s. They were FREE, not just tuition, but books. The only cost was subway fare. notebooks, paper and pens.

The entrance was by examination, unless you graduated Townsend Harris HS (for City) or Hunter College High School. My parents graduated those high schools at the age of 14. City and Hunter were predominantly Jewish in those days.
They churned out businessmen, future lawyers, doctors, teachers, etc.
NYC didn’t become a socialist state because of free tuition

@Ben L

ACA is different in each state, especially if there is a state run exchange. Connecticut has one, New Jersey doesn’t.
I buy my coverage through the exchange because I am self employed. I have the same level plan with the same insurance company. My premium is 60% less than before ACA and I am now 5 years older. I did not lose any doctors and had many more to choose from. Prior to ACA I was restricted to which hospitals I could use, now all CT hospitals must take the coverage.

I have just signed up for Medicare to start this winter and will lose my primary care physician.

BTW…… I have posted about this before. Mrs. CTL was on life support in 2016 for 27 days and had 10 surgeries. The bill was 2.5 million dollars. Our policy had a one million dollar cap before ACA, caps were done away with by ACA and our out of pocket was $16.

Jackk………………..
Medicare and Social Security are NOT entitlements…please stop repeating that lie.
They are self funded through workers’ and employers’ contributions.
The Congress has raided the Social Security of Trillions of dollars, now McConnell and company want to complete the theft instead of repaying the loan by reducing benefits not paid by the government.

Happy to see Charamut was trounced by Lesser.

Exit polling showed this anti-Semitic advt was a major cause of former supporters voting against the incumbent

Yes, we have different racks, but the sinks are in different counters

13 Amendment to the US Constitution made sale of humans illegal. It was called slavery

I want Republicans OUT and Democrats IN.
Here in CT, I’ll be content to KEEP Democrats in.

@Joseph
When they learned in Brooklyn after high school in CT and before college/Law school their Yeshiva dorm was less than 3 blocks from my paternal grandparents’ home and those of Grandma’s three sisters. These were the only homes they ate in while in Brooklyn. Zaidy and his brothers in law were more apt to be giving the boys bottles of booze and cash and the women gave food goodies to take back to yeshiva. The boys would run errands for these elder family members, do chores in the homes and drive them to shopping, etc.
Both went to college and Law school at Penn and if going to a family for Shabbos they took a bottle for the adults and candy for the children. I don’t think any hosts were regular stops. They did not have Friday classes and came home most Thursday nights. If they had reason to stay in Philadelphia they generally ate in their own apartment. They were/are competent cooks and bakers.

@lakern
Then I’m glad my 215 year old home is far from the largest and most fancy and most expensive in my town.

@Takes2
Christians are NOT victioms of Anti Semitism, they may be victims of Hate crime

@JNN
Most anti-semites I’ve encountered in 60+ years in the USA do not base their anti-semitism on antic of Israel. It is about being jealous of how well Jews have done in America. They want our money, belongings and perceived power. Their evengelical churches are pro-Israel and teach hatred of Jews in America.

The Pittsburgh Shooter was after Jews and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society who settles and aids non Jewish immigrants in America. He didn’t go after JNF or organizations aiding Israel.

You place far too much importance on Israel in the hateful minds of American White Trash

What Joseph doesn’t want anyone to know is that in addition to hosting his daughter for the summer, he has stashed his in-laws for elder-care in our ‘rest home’ in the country. Those are the antiques he refers to.

and….
The 13th Amendment prohibited the sale of humans in the USA, human remains are merely chattel and may be sold, thus the reference to an auction sale.

@Joseph
Since your daughter lives here all summer, we have few secrets

@DovidBT
Yes a mailed thank you not is required. Make sure your full return address is on the envelope.
This accomplishes a number of things:
#1 It hows your good breeding and manners
#2 The host/hostess may file these away (my mother, MIL and wife always did/do) and they actually record remarks such as who was there, what was served and about the guest.
These files are used both for inviting for a return visit and more importantly in the Jewish mothers matchmaker service.
#3 Sometimes only one of the couple is there when you leave and receives the oral thanks, this way both know you appreciated being hosted.

@Ubiquitin
Actually it would apply to having been hosted for Shabbos in a 3 room illegal basement apartment in Boro Park as well.

This is the Yekke side of my parentage speaking.
I’m 5th generation American. My parents Z”L were married 65 years when my father died. I only heard them have a verbal altercation once…my mother called my father a ‘peasant from the east’

@ytvalumNUS
Not everything that involves race is hateful.
In fact using the term racist to refer to Jews is not accurate, Jews are NOT a race, there are Caucasian, Asian, Black Jews that I know. Jews are a people, were once a nation and adhere in different degrees to a religion.

Claiming Supremacy is generally hateful speech. Show it in your actions, not in your words.

Uncle Ben
Joseph did NOT write ‘spiritual’ degeneration! He said the goyim have degenerated. That is spewing hate. I know many ‘spiritual’
My small town of about 35,000 has more than 12 churches (in addition to shuls and Chabad) 5 parochial schools, 2 Catholic High Schools, an Evangelical K-12 school, a Bishopric and seminary. It is mostly single family homes, most people know or recognize each other and boys still come to the parents house to pick up girl for a date.
People recognize each other’s cars (all of ours have vanity plates) and a young person driving or acting irresponsibly will elicit a call to the parents or a balling out by neighbors. It is common for families to be third or fourth generation to live here and for couples to have been childhood schoolmates to marry in their 20s or early 30s after college and starting a career.
Just as the Hareidi community is growing, so too is the observant Xtian community….albeit not in the large sinful cities such as NY.

There are some real misconceptions about the goyische world and dating expressed in this thread.
Since I live in small town CT I have observed much of what goes on in both goyische and not frum situations,

#1 Most single frum girls live at home until married. Thus the boy is expected to come to the house meet the parents and get parental approval before the girl goes out the door.

#2 In the non-frum and goyische world girls marry later and are generally living on their own before dating for marriage. No need for the boy to come to the home and get parental approval to go out.

#3 Non-frum and high school girls date in High School (or Junior High) for fun, not marriage. These girls live at home. The boys do come to the house and are subjected to the parents before the girls go out. I have seen neighbors inspecting not only the boy, but his vehicle…is it safe enough to transport their precious daughter?

Two of my daughters were either living at home or with a relative while in college when dating. The boys all had to come to the house and pass muster with Mrs. CTL and myself or my Sister In Law and her husband. The third daughter was introduced to her chasson by a law school professor. Both young people were living in graduate housing at the university. Neither kept a car in the city while in school. They would meet at the law library and go out from there. Neither would have permitted the other in their apartment while single. They had met in class, and the professor who suggested the shidduch was known to me and contacted me in advance for permission. I trusted the professor’s judgment. It was right, they dated, married, both are in my law practice and they have given us a grandson this year.

@AviK
ADAs get in house training to be prosecuting trial attorneys. They are expected to have a working knowledge of criminal law, and research specifics when needed.

Law schools do not teach students how to be trial attorneys. That is something learned under the tutelage of experienced mentors after passing the bar and beginning work.
Most attorneys never do trial work. The English system has two classes of attorneys: solicitors who do most work and Barristers who do trial work.
I don’t do criminal work as a rule. Anything more than an initial; appearance I help my client find an appropriate attorney who is skilled in the specific area of the law. A DUI lawyer is different form a white collar crime defense attorney.
This doesn’t mean I couldn’t research the law and defend a client if I had to. Sometimes you can’t get out of a pro bono assignment from the court

I am amazed at the vitriol being slung and the lack of knowledge in these posts.

#1 Just because a judge had a civil practice as an attorney doesn’t mean she doesn’t know criminal law. The Bar exam tests criminal law and she passed.
#2 The prosecutor is not a Judicial Branch employee, they ask for high bail. That is a request, it is NOT a bail recommendation. Some courts have employees who examine the defendant’s record and make recommendations to the judge.
#3 Not only does the judge have to answer to the voters, come re-election time (I think electing judges is absurd, we don’t do it in CT except for Probate), the judge has to answer to the chief judge in her district. The Chief judge may have set guidelines for bail amounts or even sent a message regarding this case. Too much variance from the wishes of the Chief Judge can lead to sanctions.

Judicial Discretion is limited by her superiors