Ex-CTLawyer

They accumulate no more dust than other surfaces and yes they must be dusted.
The chair rails in my office are natural wood with a clear stain and need weekly dusting, the chair rails in our kitchen are painted with a high gloss paint and only need dusting about once each month.

We have crown moulding in the living room and it is dusted weekly with an extended swiffer, this is no different than dusting the surface where the walls meet the ceiling so that no cobwebs, etc. accumulate

@mammele
Mrs. CTL ordered a Roomba last June. She wanted it for the room where we feed our dogs. There is always kibble all over the floor.
The Roomba was great at swatting the kibble and sending it flying into the corners, but not in sucking it up.
The vacuum was more than $600…it went right back for a refund

My local hospital of choice operates 7 of these centers. All of my doctors/surgeons have sold their practices to this same hospital.
So, when I have an occurrence that needs immediate attention, or I don’t feel like waiting for an appointment with my internist, I head there. They are open 7 days each week from 8 am to 8 pm.
They have access to all of my medical records.
I pay a $20 co-pay to see my primary physician, and $25 to use urgent care.
Why wait until Monday to try to make a doctor’s appointment if you think you have a sinus infection? For $5 more I can book an appointment on line, not have to wait when I show up and start a Z-Pak treatment that day.

Moot Point…………….
Here in Southern Connecticut, all we saw was Cumulus Clouds….no evidence of an eclipse

@lesschumras
I never used the term Jim Crow. I am an attorney, I specifically referred to legal discrimination in public education which was found legal by the US Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson (which stood for more than 50 years).

@Huju
Most white southerners did not own slaves. The average soldier in the Civil War was supporting his state. This was on both sides. The idea of fighting for the country really evolved much later. Soldiers didn’t join up to the US Army or the CSA Army, they joined units such as the 1st Illinois or Lee’s Army of Virginia.

The statues erected in the late 19th and early 20th Century south were rallying spots for those practicing discrimination, much of it legal. Plessy v. Ferguson (separate but equal) was the law of the land until the 1950s and Brown v. Board of Education, These statues were not rallying points for slavery which was no longer legal.
I don’t agree that a statue on a town green commemorating local boys/men who answered the call and fought for their state and country is a bad thing. This is quite different than statues of Generals on horseback used to foster ill feeling towards African-Americans and other minorities.

I live in a town settled in the 1600s. On Memorial Day American Flags are placed on the graves of deceased service men and women. We don’t skip those who served in the local militia under a Royal Governor before the Revolutionary War.
There is no reason to erase history, better to use it as a teaching tool.

Remember, here in the north, we call it the Civil War. Some in assorted places call it the War Between the States (which reinforces my point about soldiers joining up to support a state, not a country), BUT in parts of the deep south, especially those areas who suffered the carpetbaggers of Reconstruction, it is known as the War of Northern Aggression.

@huju
Hanging behind my office desk as I type is a framed $1,000 Confederate States of America Bond bearing coupons for six percent interest. Issued in late 1864, the purchaser was only able to redeem 2 interest coupons ($30 each) before the war was lost and so was his investment.
I don’t think of this as a tribute to the racist south, but an interesting piece of American political and banking history.
As for the statues, I believe that states are entitled to have statues of their sons who donned uniforms and fought to protect their states. This is fine from a historical perspective, but when they become rallying points for a return to a system of discrimination, their misuse is the problem, not the statues themselves.

Proud to have voted for Clinton. Hope you’re all satisfied with the offensive buffoon in the White House. Who will he offend next?

The only thing I’d thank Trump for is his resignation and his permanent leaving the USA.
Her certainly has provided no service to the American people.
He has cost us untold millions in expenses
He and his family are the epitome of trash
A thrice married adulterer is no role model
I’d like to see the whole clan in prison, but don’t want the expense.

After they finish tearing down Confederate statues, let them start tearing down the Trump name from buildings, golf courses, etc.

@Lightbrite
Mrs. CTL is a designer/builder/realtor
I asked her your question…………..
This is true of Generation Xers
She has found that Millenials:
#1 are less apt to buy, they are swamped with student debt
#2 tend to entertain at restaurants, not their homes and don’t want the large entertaining spaces
#3 find security in compartmentalization>>>goodbye Great Room and breakfast bar leading from kitchen to family room. Hello formal dining room, a kitchen that is closed off so guests don’t see the mess and smell what’s cooking while visiting

The days of the McMansions are over, house size has been decreasing for a decade. Millenials don’t want to care for 2-5 acres of land and a 5 Bedroom 5 bath, 3 car garage home.

Mrs. CTL and I have 5 children, all are married. No child has more than 4 children (so far). Only the youngest who just married is living in a house with an open floor plan, and she didn’t choose it, we gave her the use of MIL’s home next door, as we moved MIL in with us this year for health reasons. She is the almost millenial, born in 1997. She is already asking about renovating the house, closing off the kitchen and creating a formal dining room.

@Joseph
I believe that able bodied adults should lose welfare benefits if they refuse work (including work assigned by the government).
Last year, the city welfare office in the largest city near me required able bodied adults who were collecting city welfare benefits to shovel snow at city schools, parks, etc. Nothing wrong with that.

@Joseph
You are attributing words to me that never were typed by me.
“CTL, yet you do mind the even smaller amount of government entitlement benefits collectively given to “black hat” Jewish families.”
My comment asking about the difference between Black Welfare Queens and Black Hat Welfare Queens was to show the bias, prejudice and hypocrisy of some posters.

I have no problem with the truly needy receiving government benefits that they legitimately qualify for. I don’t tolerate lying, cheating and fudging applications to get the benefits.

I do believe in workfare. Able bodied adults must perform public work in order to receive benefits.

@Nevillechaimberlin

Just because I said something made sense, does not mean I agreed with it. It was a radical proposal by a very Conservative talk show host who wanted to be mayor of NYC.
His point, knowing that this could never be an enforcable law, was that after 2 out of wedlock children a mother would receive no additional welfare benefits for more kids.

Sorry,
in America, most youngsters have to struggle to learn Chumash and Rashi in a language they do not understand>>>>>HEBREW. My first year of elementary yeshiva we had three books: Raishis Daas to learn the aleph beis, sfer B’reishis to learn Chumash, and a Shilo Siddur (because the print was large. More than 60 years later I still remember that the Shma was on page 59 and the Shemona Esrai began on page 64.
I did not encounter any Yiddish being used for instruction until I was in High School and my rebbeim were all born in pre-war Europe. It was not a language I ever heard used by my parents or grandparents. BUT, I was fluent in Hebrew and German (Oma taught me) and I got by.

@Joseph
I haven’t seen any thread where such a comment would have been appropriate for me to make.

Remember the Bob Grant proposal for mandatory sterilization of welfare moms after 2 out of wedlock children (1970 or so). It was extreme and unconstitutional but made sense

BTW>>>>what’s the difference between the black welfare queens you mention and black hat welfare kings besides prejudice?

The halachik difference is that one is a group of Jews.

@niceJewishboy
A reality check is NOT an attack.
Too many yungermen have terrible secular educations. They have been sold a bill of goods about short cuts to college degrees. Degrees that are meaningless in the real (secular) world.

I’m an employer in a sophisticated field (law) that required multiple degrees. I also teach law. I know the difference between a real degree and a scheme.
There are many holding degrees who lack good writing skills, they are not to be hired by me or my colleagues.

It is not just Yeshiva grads who have bad English grammar and composition skills, most college freshmen in the US require a remedial course.

These are two quite different questions…………………………..
excised

#2 Should we view Satmar anti-Israel Indoctrination as a concern.
Yes and No
Yes for those in the USA who register and vote and support anti-Israel funding. Whether we agree with the secular Zionist government or not, Israel is America’s only true ally in the middle east and neccessary to protect our interests and safety (the Mossad and Shin Bet supply invaluable information about situations worldwide)
No for those who live in EY and demonstrate against the government. They are viewed as a crackpot minority, they are too small in number to have any real effect except to make Jews a laughing stock in the world media. They have proven that they can’t get along with themselves (split into 2 groups hating and suing each other) why would we expect them to get along with other ‘normal’ Jews?

@Joseph
If a babysitter were to be left alone in our home and expected to feed the children, yes we’d use only Frum babysitters.
In an instance such as watching the grandchildren at a chassunah we’re hosting and are both present and providing all food and drink, there is no reason for the babysitter to even be Jewish. In fact I’d rather a non-Jew than have a non-frum Jew as a role model or person in authority,

@DovidBT
You are sounding like a socialist…you want me to give up 80% of my land…………..
OTOH world peace sounds good

I was in family court this morning to file a motion for a client. A self represented couple was there filing motions for custody of a 12 year old girl. The mother was dressed in see through cotton top that did not reach her pants waistline. The pants had cut slits at the thighs and behind. The father was in an old, but clean black suit with a white shirt and red tie.
The bailiff came to the mother before the judge entered and offered her a shawl to wrap around her top, the mother refused.
The judge entered. The couple was the 3rd motion to be heard. When the names were called the judge (female 60s) asked the wife if she thought her dress was appropriate for court, the wife replied ‘it’s summer’
The judge asked the wife if she’d let her 12 year old appear dressed the same way. The husband said the wife brought the daughter for supervised visitation and daughter was in the hall. Judge had daughter brought into the courtroom, Daughter was wearing a halter top, short shorts and flip flops.
Judge lectured wife that this might be appropriate for the beach, but not court or city streets.
Arguments continued for about 20 minutes. Judge awarded custody to the father, saying mother did not comprehend what is acceptable for a 12 year old to wear in public and questioned the mother’s judgment in general.

It’s not problematic, it’s just that none of these things were done for ‘babyproofing’

A child does not equal a baby…(going into the kitchen to get a serving piece, etc.)
I locked chemicals in my home when I was a single based on my parents’ methods. They started doing it when the youngest was already Bar Mitzvah and no grandchildren.

The fact that a baby might be safer because of these methods does not make it babyproofing.
For example, we never had gates on the stairs

A problem avoided OOT. Communities generally have one school and all are welcome. The greater Jewish community (non-frum) supports these schools though allocations from the local Jewish Federation.

By using the volunteer match portal…it’s a dot org
you can get to: Jewish Community Services offers the opportunity to serve your community through “Jewish Big Brother Big Sister Program”.

We never ‘babyproofed’ our home.
Setting and teaching boundaries early and watching the children closely avoids most problems.
That said there are certain safety items that are now building code. We just pulled an electrical permit for a little remodeling work. We were forced to bring the existing work to 2017 code requirements. Think meant that all electrical outlets had to be childproof. They are made so that a child can’t just stick something such as a paperclip into the socket and get shocked/electrocuted or start a fire.
Our kitchen has locking doors, and we keep them locked so no child or non-immediate family adult enters on their own,
We keep cleaning supplies and other chemicals (wasp/hornet spray for example) in locked cupboards.
Having 4 dogs we don’t keep breakable items out on tables

@bored
Where’s here?
I live in Connecticut and the Jewish cemeteries are not controlled by unions.
We have a family cemeteries on my Paternal side in both Queens and Suffolk counties that have union workers.
Decades ago when the cemetery workers were on strike in NYC, my cousins and I dug a grave in Mt Hebron Cemetery (Flushing) so a relative could be buried without being held in a morgue until the strike was over.