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For those inquiring, working men marry after about 5 years. Most of my family members go on to college, work and pay their way and then marry. It’s silly to think that the average 19 yo can earn enough to support a family. Take some time and view the public areas of Imamother. Women are shopping for multiple gowns for siblings and relatives of the bridal parties. And at the same time others in bungalow colonies are begging for food and $$.
As to the number of children I married off, I’m infertile due to cancer. My husband and I met when we were both in chemo (and graduate school). I have always been generous with wedding presents to relatives. In our family cash gifts are not used to pay off wedding costs since our weddings are simple affairs usually paid for by the brides and grooms. No gowns no makeup artists etc.
The tradition in my family is young adults work and save. Most purchase their first homes prior to being married. Our weddings are simple and small, we don’t provide newlyweds with homes, furniture or furnishings. They are adults and if they cannot support themselves prior to marriage why even marry?
And I paid .29 gal for my father’s chrysler in ’69. LoL
Average prices mean that in some areas prices are higher and in some places they are lower. I saw $3.69 on a sign yesterday.
1 I’m sorry you think the sky is falling.Words have meaning and your hyperbole is humorous.
Democratic marxism, now there is an oxymoron for ya!!
WR:”not talking of disabling a population or army, talking about eliminating specific individuals at will and without being obvious.”
If you reread my post you will see I mentioned targeting individuals.
I think that if there is a true recession, folks in urban areas will get hit hardest. I live in a breadbasket and buy local in season. I’m not experiencing higher prices at my local Farmers Market or my food co-op. Women on Ima are all talking about huge price increases on basics and lack of available foodstuffs. Gas prices are hitting the commuters, and carpoolers hard. Combine that with high tuition, many yidden are struggling.
Did we listen to the same radio show? Well they are entirely possible. But why needed, unless for head of state. I think that sonic and ultrasonic weapons are the way to go if you want to disable a population or enemy army.
CS I will agree with you there. It’s not a traditional cholent that’s for sure!
I’d say buy the DO stateside. I’ve had shabbos in the woods many a time while the fire pit held numerous dutch ovens. I neither eat nor cook cholent but I make an amazing white bean stew with lamb in a DO in the coals.
Sure, I grew up in NJ not far from Lkwd.
Yup. The New Irvington Hotel was the winter residence of Tammany Hall back in the day.
Hey it’s not like Liz will have to work for a living. I give her credit for swimming against the tide. She is doing an admiral job with the hearings. It’s a pity she wasn’t gonna stick around and help fix the current Republican party.
Heck even his own kid knew he was lying and did nothing.
Godolhadorah, Hydro power is ultimately cheaper here in the PNW. That being said there are fees for protecting salmon in everyones power bill, that’s what makes some of our power spendy. We also have large wind farms in the gorge and some potential good news about wave generated power in our not so distant future. Our state govt. was very positive when it came to things like window upgrades and home solar.
ujm, AC is not very common here in the PNW although in the recent past we have been shown a need for it. New construction and developments do feature AC. Many of the older homes aren’t suitable to convert to central heat and air. Some of those homes don’t have the wiring necessary to deliver power to a or multiple window units. I’ve lived in the PNW for over 30 years and hadn’t planned on AC initially when my current home was being built. I’m glad I made the choice to have it installed.
Rightwriter, libraries are also used as cooling places for the public during heat waves like we’re having. I got notice that our library hours will be extended to provide cooling relief to those without AC.
The public libraries in my state of Oregon have embraced electronic media. I can go online, check out an e book and have it delivered to my chosen device, I can also download any number of legal documents, ie rental leases, name change forms, basic pleading forms). I can also check out films on CD. If I want to go to the library I can check out any number of specialized items, i.e. cake pans suitable for baking a tiered wedding cake, food dehydrators, hand cranked equipment that separates seeds and skins from tomato pulp.) My library also delivers FOC.
CS, I don’t dispute that, actually I”m too lazy to research your claim to see if it is accurate. That being said, without an autopsy COD is hard to claim unless there were diagnosed comorbidities. Some, not all, comorbidities can be diagnosed after death.
Lacking the evidence that an autopsy would provide, sudden death among frum jews is just that with no medical evidence to prove its cause.
Wow a whole new style of trolling. May I suggest you take it to Imamotherdotcom? Those yentas will argue about anything.
Consider me a pro abortion woman, I only speak for myself.
On another related subject, hopefully these states that are making abortion illegal will also use the law to enforce child support laws from the moment of conception.
One simply has to google to get copies of testimony relating to these hearings and listings of evidence. Am I missing something?
Now what did I say about you that was hurtful? It’s true that you resist looking up the very sources you need for information. Again, there are transcripts and primary documents available online. Read them or don’t.
Syag clearly you don’t understand the purpose of these hearings or the process. Your unwillingness to access evidence (texts, transcripts prior testimony) tells me I’d rather be shaving my cat than trying to explain the functions and goals of the hearings. May you and yours have a good shabbos.
CS, please attempt to stay on topic. The convo was about the hearings and viewing the same.
I didn’t see any evidence that the stream I was watching was being edited while I viewed it. Or if there was some microsecond delay to accomplish such feats. I watched the hearing on a live stream, not a net work stream.
Certainly the video clips of the riot were edited. There has got to be hundred of hours of film of this devastation, it all cannot be played at a hearing or series of hearings. The committee did credit the sources of the videos and one documentarian was questioned. I’m sure there are complete transcripts of the hearing available online for those who wish to follow them without viewing the actual proceedings.
Syag, that’s what I saw, unedited feed from the hearing. Unless there was some sooper secret digital compromises happening that we mortals would not notice.
I watched the entirety of the Watergate hearings. I’ll do the same with these hearings. The big difference is today there is legal marijuana.
I live in a town that banned single use plastic bags over a decade ago. We have recycling for plastics metals and compostables. Styrofoam takeout containers and cups are also banned.You can pay for the disposal of packaging styrofoam at several locations in town. I live in a town the size of LKWD and we own our own dump that is managed by a waste management company. I’ve never had a problem with recycling, I’ve been recycling for over a half century. It does not impact my personal lifestyle. We also have 5 different diaper laundry services, which cuts back on disposable diapers in the landfill. It costs about $11.75 a month for a 35 gal trash can. Recycling bins, compost buckets and lawn and leaf bins are no charge to customers. Senior and veterans discounts are available. Trash pickup and recycling pick up is weekly.
I don’t produce a lot of trash, it’s just me, a housekeeper who comes in daily and my handyman who is here on a regular basis. I do not fill a 35 gal container on a monthly basis. I have friends with families with children(5+) and the majority of them do not fill a 35 gal container weekly. I think a lot has to do with lifestyle and values. Municipal surveys indicate if we were to pay to have our trash hauled and dumped in another area our costs per household would be at a minimum of $100 a month. Locally the disposal company sponsors shredding events (shredding paper for security purposes and making it easier to breakdown in a landfill) and commodity purchasing events several times a year. Life is very different when you don’t live in a suburb or a major urban area.
Kuvult, you may attempt to change the topic, but I’m not gonna take the bait. Factually M1 Garands are already regulated and .22’s are available for qualified target shooters. I don’t think I”ve said anything about banning a weapon. I was addressing the reality of mastering weapons used to kill and the cost of training.
Kuvult, ‘a standard hunting rifle’ was once a bolt action rifle. One had to reload a cartridge/bullet each for each firing. There were no clips or magazines. It was Colt Arms that sold the current AR version to America as a hunting rifle. I live in an area where I know several nonJewish subsistence hunters, all are old school hunters and are using bolt action weapons for hunting.
It takes more than ‘a few simple courses’ to learn how to handle an active shooter situation. I’ve been shooting guns since I was about 8 and for many years had a valid carry permit. I have literally thousands of hours of range time and hundreds of hours on interactive ranges. This equals thousands of dollars in range time, weaponry and ammo. Not to mention the cost of qualified instructors. I’m not trained to kill but I was trained to shoot with accuracy. Do I think I could disable an active shooter amidst the confusion of such a setting… No way. That kind of skill comes from someone who was taught how to shoot to kill. I have a dear friend who was a sniper in one of our gulf wars. He admits he was trained to kill, shooting was just part of it.
AAQ for many years bolt action rifles were the game (deer etc) hunters weapon of choice. Colt was responsible for marketing the AR (type) as a hunting weapon calling it ‘the sporter’.
Do frum Jews even have the money to dump thousands of dollars into a weapon, even more for ammo and range time? Interactive shooting ranges are spendy, left of the Mississippi I paid $100 an hour years ago, that’s not counting ammo. How. many hours of this type shooting experience make one qualified to shoot into a crowded active shooter situation? I had this discussion last night with a pal of mine who was a sniper in one of our gulf wars. He looked at me and said nothing replaces the training you get in the military or in a war zone. I’m guessing I’ll take the word of someone who was trained to kill and had experience in the field.
The gun lobby has worked hard over the years of mass shootings to promote AR15 type weapons as the perfect big game hunting rifle. They aren’t gonna walk that back in the near future.
Didn’t shuls, yeshivas and schools get federal money to enhance security a year or so ago? What happened to that $$. Did it just vanish like some of that money for tech upgrades did? I do know locally when our new shul was in the planning phases we hired security consultants who worked on design issues.
What happened to all the govt money allocated for security for private schools? Why couldn’t that money be better spent hiring trained and qualified armed services? What did I miss?
TY Gadol. Very well stated.
I cannot wait to read Cruz and Trump’s speeches at the NRA convention which begins Friday in Houston. FWIW guns will not be permitted at this convention.
Americans don’t really think about where their food comes from. I live in an area that is a breadbasket and use fruits and veg that are in season. I really think twice before I buy a lemon for $1 that has been shipped over 3K miles. For items like coffee, I buy locally roasted beans.
“they’d recoil in horror at the shattering of skulls…” Dilation and extraction abortions have been illegal nationally since 2003 . Many state our laws prohibited this procedure prior to 2003. This is US law.
Each of the 22 states that have passed these restrictive abortion laws has a web site. I choose to use the states links to their laws to read what the laws actually say. You are all free to do the same. I read the actual statues as adopted and not the legislative summaries.
Joseph, no need to lie, I understand you have very deep and sincere feelings on the subject but only 11 of those states who have passed restrictive abortion rights considers a mother’s health. If you will read the legislation in question you would know this.
Point of information. Or don’t let the facts influence your opinion. 11 of the 22 states that have currently enacted these restrictive laws have zero exceptions for incest, rape and maternal health. Unfortunately it is up to the woman to prove that incest/rape has caused the pregnancy in those states. Only two have very general exceptions for maternal health and none mention ectopic pregnancies or removing a dead fetus to protect the womans life and health.
Oh and FWIW, ‘partial birth abortions’ medically known as dilation and extraction, have been illegal in the US since 2003. Prior to that date individual states individual states enacted laws forbidding this procedure.
Seriously read the laws before you make some off the wall generalizations that have zero factual basis.
Less than 1/2 of the 22 states that have approved anti abortion laws have exceptions for the health of the mother, rape, dead fetus, incest or ectopic pregnancy. (Read these laws before making assumptions.) Factually on a national level dilation and extraction abortions were outlawed in 2003. Prior to this the majority of states (28) took it upon themselves to outlaw this procedure. It is estimated that 20% of all pregnancies result in a miscarriage or natural abortion. None of the states passing these laws made exceptions for legal dilation and curettage after a natural miscarriage. Fetal remains in a womans uterus after a natural abortion can put a woman at serious risk of sepsis, death or infertility.
I recognize that this is a very emotional subject for some. I think it’s also important to temper these emotions with factual info since it’s obvious most of the folks writing on this thread have not read these new laws.
I’m guessing frum in the IDF all have unusual jobs being as they are in the military which is unusual.
The leak. It’s disconcerting (to me) but not a criminal matter. You may choose to characterize the leak differently.
A disconcerting happening but not criminal.
BY1212. Thanks for the emotional response and your mis interpretation of my post. I asked an open question, I’m sorry you could not respond to it.
Over the years we’ve seen the abortion rates in the US decrease. Regardless of my personal and religious thoughts on the potential of RvWade being overturned I wonder what life in America will look like once abortions are forbidden. Yup there will be 25+ states where this will be legal, financially not all women will be able to access these services due to basic economics. That being said, lets say that we have only another 1m unwanted children born here in the US annually. Our foster services in most states are drowning in the number of children being cared for. Kids in most states foster care are kicked to the curb with zero resources and no homes or means to support themselves. Are we prepared to direct public funds to orphanages? To fixing the broken foster care system?
What will this new world look like?