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The Lakewood Scoop has a letter today from a woman complaining that cleaning ladies are now asking for $20 an hour. Respondents are all complaining that these folks are illegal and basically don’t deserve the $20 an hour requested. Labor can ask for the salary they deem appropriate. The potential employer has the right to say no. My local credit union offers to process payroll for one domestic employee (nanny/housekeeper) per household. Here in the west I pay $25 hr. My payroll for the handyman and cleaning person are all handled by my accountant.
In families where two adults are working household help is a necessity if the couple has children. It’s not an exclusively frum practice.
Yakov, unfortunately 16 yos can get married with their parents permission in many states.
The beta release of Pravda was hacked in less than 24 hours. No idea when it’s gonna go live again.
Futile care laws were first instituted in TX by former Gov. Bush, they expanded to other states. Now there is a move to remove them in TX and CA (one other state as well, but I can remember which). Do you know if you live in a state with FC laws?
Having faced catastrophic illness personally ( myself and husband) it’s really important to have detailed advanced directives for adults. If you live in a state with electronic medical records these can directives can be included in your file and ‘pinned’.
Powell was immunocompromised due to his treatment for multiple myeloma. A cold could have killed him at this point.
I read non Jewish writing. Primarily non fiction. I had watched a film about a master watchmaker (The Watchmakers Apprentice). This led me to read a book that explains the determination of longitude (called Longitude, by Dava Sobel). Which led me to reading Mercator (Nicholas Crane), which fits the trajectory perfectly.
I’ve long given up fact checking YWNs headlines, which many times (including this one) are deceptive or just meant to put a spin on a story that reflects their editorial POV, or what their readership likes to hear.
FWIW I don’t see how ANY president can impact most crime stats (aside from not encouraging illegal acts). That’s not their job. If you live in an area where increasing crime is an issue address it locally, to your council members, LE or state reps.
Binoculars work wonders for viewing the night sky. Next time you are star gazing use your binocs.
What a delightful thread. Thanks to all who have contributed.
Didn’t Zablon Simintov refuse his wife a divorce for decades?
dugi, did you not study geography in school? It is both a nation and a continent. I don’t have time to look up the definitions of both, since you obviously don’t understand them. You can google.
My town hasn’t charged library fees/penalties in about 10 years. The annual report shows that there are less than $1k in lost books per year. With so many of their services offered online and free pickup and delivery of books, online account activity (i.e. extending check out time) it’s easy to stay on top of things. Right now I’m waiting for the cd release of John Coltrane live in Seattle, A Love Supreme. When the library gets the recording in I’ll receive an electronic file of the music. I will have access to that file for 10 days. After that the file gets turned off for me. Or I choose to be on a longer waitlist for the CD, and have it delivered to my door (with that weeks delivery of books) and have it picked up when my return books are fetched.
The problem here is lack of information. The family attending were unaware of the highly publicized restrictions in NY.
AAQ has a good point about oil changes. Where I live the issue is disposal of used auto oil, that’s why I do have my oil changed by a local shop. It costs me $30.
I grew up with a Father who worked on cars (so did my bros). I also learned how to lay brick, vinyl, formica, hang tape and texture drywall and do repairs on vehicles. I drive a 20 yo Volvo and have only needed a mechanic once. (Last week.) I’ve replaced alternators, door activators, AC fans and fuel pumps. YouTube is a great way to learn how to fix things, so are vehicle owner groups.
I’m still waiting to hear about the other guys planned retreat from Afghanistan. Hard to know without a national security briefing prior to the Biden administration coming into office.
In the worst of all flu seasons our local ICU and infectious disease isolation wards are never filled. Today we have zero isolation beds in hospitals for 3 counties and zero ICU beds.
So when you refer to robotic appendages do you mean the high tech prosthetics that some folks need to live and function in this world?
Someone up thread mentioned testing of the polio vaccine. The Salk vaccine was given an early release. There were loud complaints about the design of the testing of the vaccine. And because it was so new, there were no longitudinal data studies as follow ups with the recipients. (Now we all know about Post Polio Syndrome.) And apparently many of our parents thought that the vaccination gave their children a chance of a life outside an iron long or crippled. Where I grew up not far from Lkwd, 6 kids had polio, one died, the rest were physically crippled for life. (The March of Dimes has a good history of polio and the vaccines.)
I’ve had two Moderna shots, I’m a cancer survivor.
Take care, wishing you a speedy medical solution. You will be missed.
Care for yourself as others care for you.
So what if the trail goes back to the Speaker? I’m far left of any progressive on this forum but if Pelosi had a part in rallying the mob and assisting the terrorists we need to know.
As one of the officers said yesterday (this is a paraphrase), testimony was political because the actions of the terrorists were political.Doesn’t anyone remember the purpose of seizing the capitol was to keep the electoral votes from being certified, certainly that is a political process in our country.
The level of violence was nauseating. I’ve been listening to some of the threatening phone calls that some of these officers are receiving for simply telling the truth.
His brother, Joseph was a well known rabbi in Central NJ. Joseph was the rabbi at Anshe Emeth in South River for many years prior to its moving to Highland Park. (Anseh Emeth was a conservative congregation.) Joseph helped establish several congregations in NJ including Union Hill and Young Israel in East Brunswick.
Those folks in Cuba are asking for medical help, access to medical care and medicine, a living wage, fare taxes for the worker, access to affordable housing, free and fair elections? The same stuff many Americans are asking of their own government today. Just something to think about.
I’d also add, that the people who entered the building did so as a means of stopping the election certification by VP Pence.
Health, now I’m genuinely curious. You are a medical professional who has been on Medicaid for years, how can you be so poorly paid to be qualified for Medicaid? That seems to be an indictment of the medical profession if they cannot pay you what you are worth and you have to be dependent on means tested programs. It’s kinda like those folks who work for Walmart but don’t make enough and depend on SNAP and Medicaid. Folks like you are just one of the reasons Im a tax and spend liberal. I don’t mind my tax dollars supporting you or anyone who qualify for a means tested program.
Ubiq, I made the clarification as a general purpose. I have through my working life, had gold standard health ins. provided by my employer at no cost to me. I’m now well over 65 and have medicare, and the necessary advantage plan.
I live in an area where a medical monopoly serves 3 counties through a regional medical center and hundreds of satellite offices. I’ve watched the monopoly buy out small and solo practices and replace them with an incredibly efficient system. They are poised for single payer, they had foresight. But for now they do one heck of a job delivering care and services.
Personally I’d like a single payer system, private health insurance is a legal racket. Who pays for a single payer? I’m a tax and spend lefty, far left of Mary Jones, I say tax the billionaires. Do I need to name names?
Point of information:
There seems to be some confusion here. Medicaid is for individuals who have limited financial resources but are under the age of 65 and are unable to afford medical care. It is a means tested program that provides coverage for those earning less than 130% of the federal poverty line.
Medicare is a federal program for those that are 65 or older, but in some circumstances will cover minors under certain circumstances or individuals experienced end stage renal failure. Medicare is not means tested for retirees. Retirees pay for medicare out of their Social Security benefits (and prior payroll deductions). Retirees will often purchase supplemental ins for additional coverage.
There is an updated drug formulary for Medicaid online if you or your physician are having difficulty determining if a certain drug is covered. FWIW if your physician is prescribing the off label use of a drug it won’t be covered by medicaid.
And Health no most of Europe doesn’t have siestas. Heck Spain outlawed them in the ’40s.
Reb elizer, Health doesn’t seem to have any interest in contributing to solutions, IMHO.
EC, why not discuss this with your peers in your religious community or ALOR?
Yikes, $300 for a magazine? I’ve paid that for quarterly professional publications and research journals but for a routine mag?
Kollelman, futile care laws are in place through out the US. They were championed by the Republican party and the first legislation of it’s kind was signed by Gov. Geo Bush of Texas at the time. They have nothing to do with the PPACA (Obamacare).
Many of our parents were willing to impact our future health by having us injected with the poorly tested Salk polio vaccine.
Vegas? Isn’t it the city that doesn’t sleep? Or is that NYC?
How long can one beat a dead horse?
Are you talking about your landline or a cell? I’ve got a cell and get a spammy text here and there but I just block the number.
I wonder how many parents today would have chosen for their children to have received the Salk vaccine like many of our parents did. Critics of that vaccine claimed that it was insufficiently tested and the testing was flawed.
“…but how can we trust the officers that X or Z is really needed, when we know that they’d love to do anything to make our lives miserable.” I will graciously opt out of your ‘we’. My preference is to live with limited paranoia.
UJM I would suggest that this is an issue you are powerless over. Lets face it, your influence over the reproductive rates of nonJews is pretty much zilch. You do have power over your own reproductive rate. Start there and keep it private.
This is a job skill for life. edited
Naturally I come from a different generation where studying in Israel wasn’t a given and people/teens worked if they wanted or needed money.
As has been pointed out many times, it’s expensive to be a frum Jew. If you don’t work for wages you have to figure out other ways to pay for the garb and the lifestyle.
The other fun thing my husband and I would do while reading the CR is apply the rules of debate to a thread.