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@Health you are delusional and wrong
Trump lost the election by millions of votes
He also lost the Electoral College Vote.BTW….I live in a small Republican Town in Fairfield County. The last time it voted Democrat for President was in 1964 (LBJ over Goldwater), It voted overwhelmingly for Biden, Trump lost. All the other Republicans on the ticket running for state offices won in our town. The voters split their tickets to REJECT Trump
@CoffeeAddict
I am not scared he will become President again. I don’t think it will happen
I am more scared of the Qanon crazies being elected to Congress from Trump loving districts.I don’t believe Democrats are afraid of Donald Trump. We are afraid of his actions and of the lunatics he attracted. These ignorant fools with guns are a threat tp public safety.
As for those who can not accept that he lost the election, all I can say is you/they are delusional.
@Health
Civics Review Time
The First Amendment is NOT a law, it is part of the Constitution, the framework of our Government. Only the Legislative Branch of government, in this case the Congress can enact a law.
Executive branch agencies may enact/impose regulations with civil and criminal penalties, but they are not laws.
Free Speech Rights, as guaranteed in the First Amendment ONLY apply to government action. So, if a social media platform, news outlet, etc. wants to silence a particular viewpoint on its platform it doesn’t violate the First Amendment.
In the old days, before Cable TV, networks broadcast over the public airwaves. As a condition of their license and renewals, that had to allow for presentation of opposing opinions. Often aired in the wee hours of Sunday morning when advertisers weren’t interested in buying time. The Fairness Doctrine of the FCC was eliminated in 1987 under Republican Ronald Reagan.@lakwhut
Why must you constant LIE?????????????????
Did you fail arithmetic in second grade?????Grenel was nominated in September and approved by the Senate in April. SIX months is NOT over a year.
Yes,
As much as I enjoy the savings from having installed solar panels for electricity, I value the savings in Carbon Dioxide emissions, so my descendants will breathe cleaner air.In the past 2.5 years we have produced 92.1% of our electric needs from solar (in our personal home, we have solar on all our properties now). Estimated savings on Electric bill $9301, BUT most important to me: CO2 emissions avoided 36.9 tons..
@smerel
So, typical of the right wing Trumplicans. You can’t dispute my post, so you attack me personally.McCain is DEAD of Covid 19 contracted at a Trump Super Spreader event
Rafael Cruz, Senator from Texas is a Latino, born in Canada to US parents who courts the extreme right wing and fought Trump for the 2016 nomination. He encouraged the mob who cane to DC and will provably seek the 2024 nomination, playing up to the white supremacist garbage ion the Trumpilcan throng.
“Ben Carson and Herman Cain are also very popular in the Republican primaries. My guess is that the next Republican nominee to WIN will be someone like one of them.”
#1 There have been no Republican Presidential primaries in more than 4 years. They ARE not very popular, maybe they WERE years agoi.
#2 Someone like them?????
A dead Black man who was foolish enough to attend a Trump super Spreader event without wearing masks, contracted Covid and died or a former Brain Surgeon who was totally incompetent to run HUD?#3 The white Supremacist Trump wing of the Republican Party will not nominate an old Black male to run in 2024.
Watch out for the reactionary Latinos from the deep south such as Cruz who think thye South shall rise again and the Civil War has not yet ended.
@littleYou Know
WHO appointed you to speak for the rest of US?????
You do not have permission to speak for me.” He has brought waves of liberalism that we all find as points of suffering. ”
We ALL don’t find liberalism suffering. Some of you may feel that way, some of us don’t.
@Participant
The Speaker of the House is next in line after VP for Presidential Succession, followed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate. the Senate Majority leader is NOT in the lone of successionIt is better to buy the Lottery Ticket than steal it.
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That said, I have never bought one.
That is not to say I do not enjoy occasional gambling such as a card game (back before Covid, when some friends would come over for a Sunday supper, then the men would play cards and the women would play Mah Jongg.
The amount gambled would be part of my entertainment budget, not money taken from bills or tzedakah or planned savings.You may doubt there is enough time to impeach Trump by the 20th.
There is plenty of time for the House to vote a bill of Impeachment. There is not enough time for the Senate to try him and convict him by the 20th.
BUT, Speaker Pelosi can send the bill of Impeachment to the Senate at her leisure, long after Trump is no longer President.
Impeached doesn’t mean convicted. The action of the House is the Impeachment. If McConnell’s Senate could ratify a SCOTUS nominee in a day, the House can impeach in a day
ujm
You are an ignorant fool and an embarrassment to anyone with a semblance of intelligence
“once to counteract all the dead Democrats who fraudulently vote from the grave”
Dead people cannot vote! Fraudulently or otherwise. A LIVE person who casts a vote in the name of a dead elector is committing fraud.You have stated here publicly that you would commit election fraud, a felony punishable by fine and imprisonment, You are a lousy role model for our Jewish youth.
I would like to see the Felony Murder Rule applied to these who breeched the Capitol at teh instigation of the LOSER, Donald Trump.
In our case it was cats. our children all drove Jaguars to High School once they were 16 and had a license. They got Mrs. CTL and my hand me downs.
I on the other hand brought a horse. I drove my 1966 Mustang to high school
@Always
The former employee who quit, then loses new job and files for unemployment….
You extend an offer of reemployment. His/her return would not be under duress. You were not unsatisfied with performance. You offer same level position as previous with same benefits. the return is not under duress.
You are not chaining the former employee as a slave. Free to leave at any time, but not to cause you an increase in your unemployment tax rate, when not fired or laid off.BTW…back 40 years ago I was the Director of Personnel for a multi state manufacturing company (CT, NY, PA and SC). I protested many an unemployment claim that I considered unjust, unfair, etc. I attended the hearings. Most employers don’t show and the ex employee collects by default. I never lost a case.
@Mammele
The employer is not powerless to fight it. Apparently the employer was happy enough with performance to not have fired the employee. So, upon notification of the potential charge against employer’s experience ratio, the former employer offers the employee the old job. If the offer ios refused, the former employee loses benefits and former employer is not penalized.@always
The key point that differentiates CT from other states is that no employee contributes to unemployment. ONLY the employer pays into the system.
I always laughed when an employee told me they were entitled to collect because they had paid into the system.
The employees in our NY and MA offices have unemployment tax deducted from their paychecks.@bored
I’m no troll.
Tired of UJM constantly posting lies.
Again, we have an acting AG, not an AG as UJN posted. He will not be acting as of noon on January 20, 2021.
After the recordings of yesterday’s phone call from Trump to the Georgia Secretary of State, no one in their right mind can profess to be a Trump supporter.Donny thinks he can be Dictator for Life like his buddies in Russia, North Korea and China.
It appears that he has broken Georgia law and no Federal pardon can save him from prosecution if the sovereign state of Georgia decides to proceed.As to the point of this thread, I suggest you ask the OP. I didn’t start the thread, but will not let ujm’s lies and inaccuracies go unchallenged.
ujm, your ignorance is showing again.
The USA does NOT have an Attorney General, Barr resigned in December. No nominee was sent to the Senate for Confirmation by Lame Duck Trump.
Even if there were an Attorney General, his/her term would expire January 20, 2021 at noon EST.B”H we don’t qualify.
Let it go to those who truly need the assistance.That said, I saw on a local online forum that money was already received in accounts on Friday morning.
Those who receive the checks by mail should expect a wait, especially with the way Trump and is inept Postmaster General have decimated the USPS.Hopefully the egomaniac in The White House won’t again waste government resources to send out letter with his signature, as if these funds came from him. It is our tax money being disbursed for the general welfare of the country.
Trump is an adulterer, grifter, deadbeat, racist, sexist, opportunistic thief.
We can still express disdain for the idiots who supported Trump and continue to support the buffoon, as well as his whole family of grifters and those criminals he pardoned.
NOTE: I did not use the word hate, I don’t hate anyone.
Trump is mentally deranged and needs serious help.In reality, The Trumplicans suing Pence are not Republicans any more. they are fringe lunatics who have chosen Scum over party and country.
You know very little
The President was impeached. FACT
Impeachment is a bill of indictment voted on by the House of Representatives
Trump was not convicted. the Senate voted in his favor during the trial of the House;s Impeachment papers.You can believe all the lies you want, but stop posting out and out lies in the CR.
@ALWAYS
Ct CT government funded laptops and/or tablets for every student who needed one (including those in private schools). Problem is the laptops are Chromebooks and the Tablets are iPads, nether has ports to work with ethernet cables. Free WiFi Hotspots have also been provided for those who cannot afford or didn’t have internet service. Cable providers such as Optimum have free emergency WiFi access in one hour increments in most CT cities (not in the little towns such as where I live). This Zoom and WiFi are an eveil match for many schoolchildren@Always
There are a good number of Chabad Shluchim whose children are enrolled in the BY on line school. Those who want their kids to get a college education, have found these are far more recognizable and accepted for college credit/admissions, as well as state required testing for high school diplomas.
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Re: on-line classes, listening in or participating
Over 10 years ago I taught a section of Family Law that met Tuesday and Thursday nights. It was limited to 20 students in the class live and 20 on live. The on line students watched a live stream, but could not interact during the lecture. They were encouraged to email questions. During the 10 minute break, I reviewed the emails and attempted to respond during the second hour.I taught a 3L level wills and trusts specific to CT (school was in MA, but many students were from CT and would practice here. This was a small class of about 12, so we used Skype with full interaction with those in the class and those participating remotely.
Zoom classes in our area have been a failure, too much freezing and bad wifi in area of a small town. Our Public schools are using Google Meet with better success. Those attending in person go either Mon/Thursday or Tuesday/Friday in order to keep class sizes down and observe social distancing. No in school students on Wednesday…the buildings are deep cleaned then. Requiring teachers to deal with in school students and remote at the same time has been a failure. So there are time periods when in school students have specials (music, art, gym) that the classroom teacher interacts with the children at home. After the year end break, grades 2-5 are expected to resume 4 day in person learning. Middle school and high school cannot resume this because there is not enough space to establish more classes for social distancing.
@Always ask questions
Just catching up on this thread
Nov 1, you wrote that they can’t find school bus drivers, they all left to Amazon or Unemployment.I don’t know where you live, but here in CT if you quit a job, you don’t collect. If you are called back (such as when in person school restarted) and refuse you no longer can collect.
Unlike other states, no employee in CT contributes to Unemployment. Only the employer is taxed and the government also pays a share.
@OrechDin
Having ALL Citizens who travel abroad in hotels is NOT a waste of resources.Here in Connecticut during phase 1 of the Pandemic, hotels and motels were ordered closed. Workers lost their livelihood. So the government used hotels and motels to house essential medical workers so they did not go home and infect their families.
Other hotels and low end motels were used to house the homeless, shelters did not have separate spaces required for social distancing and usually forced the homeless out on the streets from 8 am til 8pm. Now they could be confined to safe spaces and be fed three meals a day.
The government is trading payments to the hotels to provide, food, housing and quarantine space, while providing employment for those hospitality industry workers who would otherwise be laid off and earn nothing.
This is a good use of government funds
@always
The grandchildren, etc.
Are not all enrolled in the same schools.
We have three whose school is running in-school classes full time. Along with a few others (helps that I am on the board) insisted that classroom lessons be streamed live. Don’t want them returning to that school in the future and find they are not doing things by the method thee school uses/prefers.
Because we have so much space and multiple dwellings in the compound, we don’t suffer issues of music interfering with study. One piano and the electric keyboards is in the studio over the garage building. The other is in our living room in a wing with out bedrooms or study area. We divided my late MIL’s home next door into classrooms, study areas and a lunchroom. we don’t want the kids studying in their bedrooms and claiming they need doors closed/locked for ability to concentrate.
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I disagree with your premise about educated/intelligent as opposed to income level. If a highly intelligent poor person has to absent him/herself from the house 12 hours a day in order to put food on the table, keep lights and heat on, etc. The children don’t benefit as much as with a moderately intelligent parent who can afford to be at home and nurture.
MRS. CTL. has been a designer/builder/Realtor for 40 years but always maintained a home office (with a separate entrance for clients from the outdoors). She was always home when our children were home from school. Any appointments at job sites, showings, vendors were made during school hors or at times I could be home. Thus she has a successful career while being a stay at home mother. Could she have made even more over the years working full time in an outside office, yes, but money beyond a certain amount isn’t going to change our life.
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B have high schoolers and are looking for acceptable credit courses at reasonable prices that can be started at any time and done at your own pace; I highly recommend you look at the online classes offered for High Schoolers by Brigham Young University. Because the Mormons require outreach journeys across the world of all members, they have devised a top notch fully accredited on line US High School. The credits are accepted all over and on transcripts by the best US colleges and Universities.@always_ask_questions
The following covers the 16 that are in grades 3-12
English up 25%
US History up 27%
I have been teaching/tutoring both of those subjects to supplement the school assigned work and zoom/Google meet teacher led lessons
Math up through Algebra 2 and Trig up 12%. I am no use with Calculus or Statistics, I never took Calculus and had one semester of Statistics 50 years ago and don’t remember much.
Science DOWN 15%, The children, especially 7-12 grades are suffering by lack of labs. Just reading the textbooks and watching videos, does not make up for the live experiments in labs. It is very boring without this. In discussion with a neighbor who is the Science department head at one of our town’s middle school, this is definitely consistent with results of public school students who are distance learning or in school 2 days a week this year under the hybrid model. None of our town’s public school students attend live more than two days a week.
Art and Music cognition are at grade level. Instrument instruction is lacking. We have two baby grand pianos and a couple of electric keyboards. Youngest daughter plays well and tries to teach a bit, but we have no ability to teach strings, horns or woodwinds or the desire to listen to endless hours of practicing scales….VBGthese academic gains seem consistent with those white, upper middle class students learning at home; who have professional, educated parents with the time and interest in teaching. The students suffering are those of limited means;
They have limited computer resources, no private study spaces, parents not educated and able to teach advanced subjects, adults having to go out to work leaving limited supervision during the school day.
I have been told the students with the lowest scores are often only children, starved for social interaction that comes at school.
We have made a family decision to keep the children in the compound this entire school year.@Always
We’ve had all the grandchildren, and asst Great Nieces and Nephews in residence since school shut down last March.
Our local Board of Education has made available all its standardized testing and scoring at no charge so we can see how they are doing in general subjects.
They can’t make this available to religious schools, but since the children are distance learning, they bundled our request in with other Home Schooling families,
Testing was made available for English, Math, Science, US History and a cognitive test for art/music@UJM
I dis not write that I was aware of the economic status of EVERY one of my students.
That said: I taught in a small law school
#1 I sat on the faculty scholarship committee and had access to applications
#2 I had students fill out a survey form with details as to if they were full time or part-time students, held jobs, what they did for a living, married, single, children.
#3 I taught my classes as a swing shift, teaching the same lecture in the morning and evening and students were free to attend either at will. We had many police officers attending Law School part-time, and as their shifts changed every few weeks they didn’t have to miss classes.
#4 The Registrar would send students’ financial aid applications to certain faculty members for review (I was one of those who reviewed them, based on my undergraduate work/degree from Wharton).
#5 The poor students didn’t have the $75-100,000 sports cars in the parking lot (this was 10-20 years ago)
#6 More than once, I advanced, loaned, gave students money for books, food, childcare and rent.
#7 I set up a textbook loan system where those who had bought textbooks and could afford not to sell them back at the end of the semester donated them to the lending library for students who found purchasing textbooks a major burden.RebEliezer
It is not a matter of the poor being at a disadvantage because your son could not afford the Kaplan course, yielding lower LSAT scores and no law school scholarship.
All 5 of my children went to law school, as did 3 of their spouses. Not one took the Kaplan or any paid course to prepare for the LSAT exams. Several bought used Kaplan LSAT books on eBay or Amazon for less than $50, just to get an overview of the LSAT exams.None of them took a Bar review course, after graduation before taking the Bar exam, and all passed on first try.
Rich or poor had nothing to do with it, intelligence, study ethics, hard work and ability to analyze and reason determined performance.I have taught law school courses over the years and saw no difference in performance by rich or poor students that good be attributed to their economic status.
Your observation is not valid. He could have taken the Kaplan Course and still have done poorly on his LSAT and not gotten a scholarship.
TGIShabbos
You cannot legitimately compare the numbers of pardons issued in a two term Presidency with those Trump has issued in a one term stint of office.
@CommonSaychel
Gigante didn’t just use Bob Grant as a stage name, he used it in his aborted run for Mayor of NYC.
The others you cited were all just in Show Biz…..@crackers
A bubbeh Meiseh
I had chicken pox at 6 weeks old (my older siblings had it when I was brought home from the hospital) and voila 6 weeks later I had it. Good thing, a child that young can’t scratch.65 Years later I had shingles
Both my older siblings had shingles in their 60s
Mrs. CTL had chicken pox at age 4, she currently is suffering with shingles. Unfortunately the standard medication is contraindicated for he, so she suffers.Bob Grant…who called for forced sterilization of welfare moms. How many Frum families receiving public assistance would this have affected if it became law? Don’t worry, Grant meant the Blacks, not those wearing Black Hats
Sounds like Hitler to me
He was a racist, homophobe, self hating Italian who wouldn’t even use his real name, Gigante. This midget was no Giant,
UJM…….
Careful the men in the white coats are coming to take you to Bellevue
DELUSIONAL
BRAINWASHED@Goldilocks
Actually, it’s Harris who is part Indian.@Commonsaychel
Don’t give up your day job, learn to count.
There have been 10 Republican Presidents in the past 125 years, not 12
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
Eisenhower
Nixon
Ford
Reagan
Bush
Bush
and EIGHT Democrats for a TOTAL of EIGHTEEN Presidents.Trump
Torahvaluesoverparty post LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
90% of voters would NOT vote for Trump in 2024. Less than 50% of those voting voted for him in 2016 and 2020.Trump did not build the useless wall, and Mexico did NOT pay for it….big campaign promise.
He won’t be out campaigning for other candidates unless he can put a dollar, rouble or deutschemark in his pocket.
He showed America what a family of grifters can accomplish, when the grifter in cheiif has the power of the pardon. POTUS had a 4 year license to steal
@Goldilock
Even if he had won on November 3rd, Trump’s term will end January 20, 2021.That’s nice, despite being impeached he will have served a complete term/
UJM…….
The fat lady has already sung and returned to the stage numerous times for encores.
BUT, Because of Kol Isha, the Trumplicans (now known as LOSERS) in the CR haven’t heard the song.
TYPO….it reads social dating, should read social programs in my last post.
@UJM
You have absolutely no idea what you are posting
The Democrat Party is NOT Communist and never has been. It does not call for government ownership of everything.
It looks to expand government run and funded social dating back to the New Deal of 1933.
I like having Social Security and Medicare.Did you refuse your stimulus check this year (disclosure I don’t qualify based on income limits).
Do your kids benefit from USDA school lunch assistance.
Do friends and family get Section 8, SNAP Benefits, WIC, Medicaid, ACA?Perhaps you are a landlord, as I am and collect rents paid by the housing authority to holders of Section 8 vouchers. Maybe you are a doctor or dentist who can bill Medicaid for your patients…
Maybe you live in NYC and have a rent controlled or rent stabilized apartment, or use subsidized public transit.
Not all socialism is bad
The GOP is no longer a Party, it is now a cult based on Idol Worship.
Dogs (and cats)….
I have found ownership by frum people to be more of a city vs. country thing.
I have never not had dogs, neither has Mrs. CTL. Both Born in CT and lived in single family homes with land.
We both have siblings married to people who came from city apartment buildings who never owned dogs, one had a cat.
Currently we have 4 dogs and 2 cats. One dog died of old age last week, We have an area of our grounds under a large apple tree that is our pet cemetery. The dog was buried there (along side about a dozen other dogs and cats). A flagstone was placed over the grave and sometime next spring I’ll scratch his name and date of death into the stone. This was our second teen aged dog to pass in 6 months. Our grandchildren (along with us) miss them very much. They were very important for the children to have while all here since March due to Ciovid,Here, walking a dog on Shabbos is not an issue, we open the sliders to one side of our yard and the dogs have a half acre of fence land to run, play and do their business. No walking around with bags and pooper scoopers, just natural fertilizer for their grass play area.
Our shul Rav has two dogs. I don’t know many non-elderly shul members in town without dogs.
That said, If I lived in a high rise apartment building and had to take dogs out for a walk multiple times a day, I doubt I’d own dogs.
Cats, OTOH are lo maintenance. ours are inside cats, never go outside, but do control the field mice problem in the house. With a home more than 200 years old and a stone foundation we do get mice when the weather turns cold, so we have a downstairs cat and an upstairs cat for pest control