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“the most Important part about Eisenhower
When he was in the White House Americans felt safe.”
NO, we were scared to death of Atomic or Nuclear attack from the Russians. WE grew up with regular ‘Duck and Cover’ drills in grade school years.
My father actually had a bomb(fallout) shelter built and stocked below our back lawn. By the 1980s, my kids used it as a playhouse when visiting Oma and Zaidy (a mixed marriage).
Huju….
The Yeshiva high school was Ashkenaz, however, we attended Latin, math and science classes 3 evenings each week from 6-8:30 with instructors from Yale
Lightbrite……….
People don’t put II or Junior on their driver’s licenses, the employees at Motor Vehicles Dept (agency name in CT) do.
When getting a driver’s license you must present your certified birth certificate, US Passport or Alien Registration card. The ‘legal’ name on that document will be the named placed on the driver’s license.
When our youngest went to get her license at age 16, we discovered that the Probate Court had added the letter ‘A’ before her name when the issued a US birth certificate (she was born in China). Motor vehicles would only issue a license with that ‘legal’ name on it.
I went back to court and filed papers for a name change, we had to appear before the Judge of Probate (a neighbor and friend in this small town) and the request was granted and a new birth certificate issued. Then we had to go to Motor Vehicle and file for a new license with a name change, such as a woman might request upon marriage.
Court costs were approximately $200, motor vehicles did not charge for the change. This wasted approximately 6 hours of my time. As an attorney, my daughter did not have to pay any legal fees. A typical client with such an issue, which could be handled by a junior staff attorney and still require an appearance in court and paperwork by a paralegal would have had to pay approximately $350 to fix the problem.
Moral of the story, check all documents when issued to make sure they are correct or it will cost time and money to change them later.
Lightbrite…….
When you open our refrigerator the eggs are on the extreme left of the third shelf, stacked 3 trays high.
HOWEVER, they could be viewed as facing you either vertically or horizontally, as we purchase them in 30 packs from Shop-Rite which are square plastic containers. (back when we bought them in cardboard dozen boxes they went in the long way…vertical).
We remove the container form the refrigerator before using the eggs. If using to cook and eat we take from the rear of the container. If for baking we take from the front as they are not as cold and will come to room temperature faster.
Yehudayona,
You bring back memories of 8th grade and my LatinII class.
‘OMNIA Gallia in tres partes divisa est’ the opening lines of Caesar’s Gallic Wars.
All of Gaul is divided into three parts. I fear that Trump will cause real divisions in the USA.
Winnie……….
The initials were used for practical reasons, as well as in campaigns.
In my generation and those before me it was not unusual to have many monogrammed items…with your 3 initials.
In fact, my shirts are embroidered with my 3 initial monogram, on the right hand cuffs.
Yes, JFK was known as Jack. This is similar to boys named Yaakov being called Yankel. Since his maternal grandfather Fitzgerald was once mayor of Boston, the Fitzgerald middle name had great political value to JFK and RFK.
I often mentor foreign students in their legal writing and reading. I always explain to them that authors/editors choose their words carefully. Ink and paper cost money and extra words are not included. If the word is not necessary for clarity, it should be omitted.
My use of CTLawyer is to identify myself as an attorney in/from Connecticut. As laws vary greatly by jurisdiction it is important to identify where I practice and that the laws/customs/decisions I quote may apply here but not in other places.
Winnie…….
The slogan was used in early Senate campaigns in Texas. No need to differentiate a living Senate candidate from a long dead VP/President of the 1800s from Tennessee.
No, I don’t wear them, they are part of a collection of 20th century US political items I put together for a political science class in college some 45 years ago or so.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson were all people who used their full names in everyday life (many Gentiles honor the mother’s family by including the name as a middle name). These names took too much space in newspapers, on letterheads, advertising, etc. Ink and paper cost money, so Initials were used. Dwight David Eisenhower’s initials DDE were too close to the now banned pesticide DDT, especially for an Army general, so he used his child nickname IKE in politics.
Carter and Clinton used diminutives of their first names: Jimmy and Bill. Reagan couldn’t use initials, because RR is the abbreviation for RailRoad,
Geordie……………….
I long for the days when I’d fly in and out of Jan Smuts Airport. O.R. Tambo has no appeal to me.
Neville….
Unfortunately you are wrong in your assumptions.
I’m a family law attorney and dealing with non-Jews who have many juniors, IIs, IIIs, etc. I have to be up on this.
A junior is named for his father with exactly the same name. It is not enough that the first and family name be the same.
II and III are people named for the same person, not juniors.
So, if there is a John Doe and a grandchild is named for him, that grandchild is John Doe II. If II’s child is also named for original John Doe, the child is III, but instead if the child of II is named for II, the child will be a junior.
GW Bush does not carry his father’s second name…Herbert, thus he is not a junior.
Winnie…the LBJ tag came from his campaign strategists. I still own political lapel buttons that read: “All the way with LBJ”
Neville
GW Bush is NOT a Junior. The first President Bush is George Herbert Walker Bush. The Walker for his mother’s side of the family. GW is not named for the Walkers.
Joseph………….
Nixon was a lousy Jew Hating Senator and VP before he was a dishonest Jew Hating President. He had terrible judgment in picking his VP Spiro T Agnew of Maryland…thus giving us the only President of the US who had to resign also having a VP who had to resign.
His domestic policy was terrible, his foreign policy was often brilliant, but he was POTUS not Secretary of State and as such he was a loser
Yehudayona………
Generation gap time. When I was school age, the Interfold toilet tissue was the only type one found in the stalls. Somehow, generations of American students, and the public as a whole, managed just fine with it.
I mentioned Amazon for those who don’t see it in local stores. It is also available thru Staples and Office Depot.
Winnie……….
I’m no fan of Carter, I don’t trust evangelicals in general.
That said, Carter did not give away the Sinai, Begin did. Carter hosted and facilitated the Camp David meetings and accords, but he did not have to power to give away land that did not belong to the USDA or was not under its control.
Did he exert influence? Yes, but the decision in the ed was that of the Israeli and Egyptian governments and their respective leaders.
Health………….
LU can NOT be her own sibling. She stated that every one of her siblings got married. Not that all per parents children got married.
Lilmod Ulelamaid…………..
The first US President I remember was Dwight Eisenhower.
He was also one of the worst and most ineffective Presidents in my lifetime.
He was a war hero who was courted by both parties and sold out to the Republicans. He brought us that vile right wing VP Tricky Dick Nixon…the only US President to ever have to resign the office.
Eisenhower enriched the Military/Industrial complex at the expense of the ordinary citizens. He spent major periods of time playing golf and/or recuperating from heart attacks at his farm while the Dulles brothers led us to ruin.
He got us involved in French Indo-China (Viet Nam) allowed screwball Senator McCarthy to ruin the lives of countless American Jews (among others) with his blacklists and the kangaroo court HUAC hearings.
Nothing good came out of his administration.
The Presidency of Bill Clinton was the best I’ve lived through. I admit my bias having known both Clintons personally since their days at Yale Law School. There was great prosperity in the land. Minorities made major achievements socially and economically. There was general peace, our troops had little active engagement overseas. I liked his judicial appointments and other policies.
It was the last time our government operated for a year with a balanced budget.
Personally, I never lost so much money and had such lousy business experiences as in both Bush administrations. These Republicans were not good for business, as opposed to being good for their WASP elite friends and the Saudi Royal family. They used brother Jeb to steal the 2000 election and always hide the fact the brother Neil cost US taxpayers millions in the bailout of Siverado Savings and Loan. Laura was a drunk who committed vehicular homicide and was then first lady, so how can we complain about what Trump is bringing in as the next first ‘lady?’ I am embarrassed to be from the same hometown as GW Bush..both born in Grace New Haven Hospital during the post WWII baby boom.
We have always used ‘Interfold’ toilet tissue for Shabbos. This is the type of toilet tissue that fits in the rectangular dispenser in public stalls. It is readily available from Amazon or local Janitorial supply houses.
We also use this type of paper towels for Shabbos
Torah613Torah
I listen far more than I speak. Many threads are of interest to me, but I am not qualified to post a quality opinion.
My father A”H was a man who used as few words as possible to get his point across. I learned from a ‘pro.’
My favorite example was when we were placing our orders for dinner at a Catskills hotel around 1960. The waiter asked my father how he would like his steak.
My father replied: “Large”
As a family law attorney for some 35+ years I can say that the rise of divorce in the Jewish community has mirrored the Gentile community, but lagging by about 5 years.
I believe the OP meant to ask about the Hareidi community, not the Jewish Community as a whole. They have lagged the rest of the Jewish community by about 15 years.
The stigma of a divorce in the family no longer means inability for the children of siblings to make a shidduch, although it still takes effort and searching.
One reason that women, who previously would not have considered divorce are seeking it is that there is mandated reporting by health and other professional who suspect physical and other abuse in patients’ lives.
Once this is reported the social service system takes told, frum women are exposed to the mental health system. They are told that they are victims who must extricate themselves from horrible and possibly deadly situations.
Years ago, a frum doctor seeing a frum wife with a black eye or fracture might have called the husband in and read him the riot act, or notified the Rav to get involved. Today with Hipaa laws in place and mandated reporting, the doctor can’t make these calls, but may have to notify the local police precinct.
Thus, the secular system is interjected into the frum community and divorce rates rise.
Kapusta…
Thank you for your kind inquiry.
The best I can say is fair. She is currently recovering from her 11th surgery of 2016, done last Friday. It was not a complete success. It is only with complete emunah in Hashem that we manage to go on with our daily activities.
The CR serves for me as both a diversion and online support system. Mrs. CTL is a very private person and I cannot discuss in person her condition with friends and most relatives.
She is in our tefilos
Soporific is something that tends to induce drowsiness or sleep.
It could be a sleeping pill, but a particularly boring lecture or book can do the same.
huju…………
I often use the passive voice when I neither wish to make attribution or don’t have permission to do so. This is not necessarily weaseling or obfuscating.
I practice family law and often we have to leave the names and/or clues to the identity of minors or abuse victims out of what is written that it becomes habit.
huju………….
again you are attributing words to my post that are not written by me.
I never used the word ‘pretty,’ so to simply have written that my grandmother told me to find a pretty wife is a falsehood.
Grandmother’s admonition was to look at the girl’s mother for a view of what the girl would look like in the future and decide if it was acceptable as a mate.
Some women age more gracefully than others, if a ‘pretty’ 20 year old had a mother who presented herself as a washed out hag the warning signals would go off. OTOH if a plain 20 year old had a mother who presented herself in a well groomed and confident manner, the girl might be someone worthy of consideration as a lifetime mate.
Lilmod……………….
building and supporting institutions is quite different from directly supporting individuals who st and learn.
BTW…I’ve been in Asia many of times, there are fat Asians. The Chinese word for fat is WO. As their economy grows so have their wastelines.
South Koreans, under US auspices for the past 60+ years are substantially heavier than Cambodians, Laotians, Viet Namese, etc.
huju………..
If you read my post it says we were told. It does not say we were taught. I choose my words carefully (part of being a lawyer). In fact it was my grandmother who told my brothers and me this consideration.
I did not use it when choosing Mrs. CTL. Our mothers were friends who set us up. I can look at pictures of Mrs. CTL at 30, 40 50 and 60 and they are easilly confused with pictures of her mother at the same age…and all are pleasing to my eyes.
3L
3rd year law student
Follows
Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior years of College in most cases.
Some law schools have switched to a 2 year curricula.
My children did two years plus summers, or 5 semesters and one summer
Lenny1970
Thanks….
she and we are in no hurry. We marry later than many in the CR as it is expected that our children complete college and grad school first. She has 3 semesters left in college and then law school (coming into the family firm).
Her next older sister graduated law school last December, took the Bar exam in February, married erev Pesach and she and new SIL work for me. She met her husband in law school, set up by a Jewish professor who noted their absences for Yuntif.
Youngest expects to seriously start looking when she is in law school, but if something interesting pops up sooner she’ll consider it. She did a year of seminary between graduating high school a year early and college. Expects a husband to have either gone to college while in Yeshiva or spent a year or two learning full time before college. She will not consider supporting a husband who learns full time…not our minhag. We are the baal baatim of the world who make the money to support and build the institutions for those who sit and learn full time.
Lilmod Ulelamaid
Nature v. Nuture is always an interesting discussion.
Having 2 adopted children plus a number of birth children, I can say that the adopted children are thin (size 1) and about 5’8″ tall They are ages 20 and 28.
Mrs. CTL and I are heavy and 5’5″.
The adopted and birth children were raised together eating the same foods, so it’s not nurture, it’s genes.
All our children exercise, as do we. Full gym setup in the studio over the garage and our own in ground pool for laps, etc.
Whether or noty it should be an issue is another story.
When looking for a spouse we were told, don’t look at the girl and how she looks now, look at her mother and see if this is what you want your wife to look like in 30 years…………
Well, this backfired on a young man who was set up with our youngest daughter last year. He confided in the person setting him up that he wasn’t interested because Mrs. CTL was heavier than he wanted his wife to be at that age.
The fool needs to take high school biology, he didn’t understand that our daughter is Chinese (adopted) and carries none of Mrs. CTL’s genes.
Needless too say he would not have found favor in our daughter’s or our eyes.
Veltz Mshugener…..
“all posters on the Coffee Room, a 3L at Columbia Law School.”
Really, you must miss most posts, especially those looking for a post high school seminary.
This retirement age attorney hasn’t been a 3L in about 40 years and went to a different Ivy, not Columbia.
Lightbrite……….
Zucchini is just an Italian word that means little squash.
Zucca means squash.
Zucca del estate means summer squash.
Here in the northeastern US with large Italian population, who were the predominant vegetable farmers and greengrocers the Italian name came into everyday use.
Tonight (Sunday)we’ll be having turkey dinner in the CTL house as we do approximately 50 Sundays each year. In fact last night I went to one of the area general population supermarkets who had advertised a clearance on all frozen turkeys @ 79 cents per pound and bought every (22) Empire they had in stock. I filled 3 freezers in our garage with just over 400 pounds of frozen turkey.
I’ve been shopping this way for about 20 years. The store is part of a major chain that has many locations in Jewish areas. Therefore they stock all branches with Empire to cover their holiday advts. The small town 15 minutes from home has almost no Jews, the meat manager told me that the only customers buying kosher turkeys do so because they think they are pre-brined. Poor planning on the part of the chain, bargains for me
Veltz Meshugener
How fitting your name is………
There are Jews in Boston and many other OOT communities. That does not mean that there are sufficient numbers for a ‘decent’ kosher restaurant to be viable.
40 years ago I owned a kosher restaurant in a New England city that had 30,000 Jews. The politics of kashrut supervision were such that after a few years I sold the lease and equipment to a non-Jew for a treif restaurant. It was not possible to satisfy the kashrut requirements of each small group and make money. In a large city such as NY there are enough groups that hold by particular shitas for many restaurants to pick a group to serve and be profitable.
I’ve been in court all week, because the courts will close Thursday and Friday for a long holiday, judges scheduled trials on Monday….a day usually reserved for conferences and opinion writing. Judge told us that court would end at 1PM today so that she could fly off to California to visit her children.
Youngest daughter came home from college in NY noontime yesterday, her professors cancelled afternoon classes to get a jumpstart on the holiday. I sent a complaint to the college President…I’m paying approximately $150 for each classroom hour and I expect the classes to be taught, not have some lazy professor steal my money.
Local public schools close at noon today for travel, private schools are closed.
This is a far cry from when I was in school or university when he got Thanksgiving Day off, full day Wednesday and Friday.
All this time off from school jus keeps contributing to the dumbing down of America
We went to Probate Court in summer 1997 for a CT Birth Certificate, she had a Green Card issued in China. When the law became effective in 2000 she was automatically a citizen. She did not require Naturalization papers.
I have a printed copy of the law that I took to Motor vehicles when she got her driver’s license because they insisted she needed Naturalization Papers since she was born in China. Local branch clueless, faxed the copy of the law and her Ct Birth Certificate to legal dept in Hartford, they got on the phone with me and I read them the riot act (helps to be a CT Lawyer) and they issued her license. Now all branches have a memorandum explaining the law and how it works.
We did not want Naturalized Citizen status for her. When she applied to college/nursing school there were certain scholarship awards that were not open to Naturalized Citizens or Aliens. Not a public institution, so not subject to the Federal Civil Rights guarantees based on nationality and alienage.
Yehudayona……..
Yes, I replied to your first post
We adopted in China in 1997
The instant citizenship law (2000) was retroactive for children born after 1986
“Child Born Between November 14, 1986, and the Present
If at the time of your birth, both your parents were U.S. citizens and at least one had a prior residence in the U.S., you automatically acquired U.S. citizenship, with no conditions for keeping it.
If only one parent was a U.S. citizen at the time of your birth, that parent must have resided in the U.S. for at least five years, and at least two of those years must have been after your parent reached the age of 14.
I went into Probate Court with the adoption papers form China and our daughter’s Green Card and the judge ordered a CT Birth Certificate issued that listed China as place of birth. She was instantly a citizen. I used a copy of the law when she had to get a passport as the Post Office employees are clueless in the local branch.
Yehudayona…
BTW>>>>as adoptive US Citizen parents of a child born abroad, she gained instant US Citizenship under US law, even though the adoption took place a few months after her birth.
I practice family law and immigration law comes into play so I have to keep up on these issues
Yehudayona…
” I wonder what would happen with the grandchildren of those who were last domiciled in New York if the parents are U.S. citizens who never lived in the U.S.”
The grandchildren would NOT be US citizens!
If you look at the US Citizens and Immigration Services website section on ‘Citizenship through Parents’ you will find the law requires that the parent have had lived in the USA or its territories:
Both parents are U.S. citizens at the time of birth,
At least one parent lived in the U.S. or its territories prior to the birth.
One parent is a U.S. citizen at the time of birth and the birthdate is on or after November 14, 1986
The U.S. citizen parent had been physically present in the U.S. or its territories for a period of at least five years at some time in his or her life prior to the birth, of which at least two years were after his or her 14th birthday.
If the U.S. citizen parent spent time abroad in any of the following three capacities, this can also be counted towards the physical presence requirement:
Serving honorably in the U.S. armed forces;
Employed with the U.S. government; or
Employed with certain international organizations.
Additionally, time spent abroad by the U.S. citizen parent while the U.S. citizen parent was the unmarried son or daughter and a member of the household of a person who meets any of the three conditions listed above can also be counted.
AND…
The genetic or non-genetic gestational legal mother is a U.S. citizen at the time of birth, and the birth date is after December 23, 1952 The mother had previously been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of at least one year.
The genetic father is a U.S. citizen at the time of birth, the mother is an alien, and the birthdate is on or after November 14, 1986
A blood relationship between the person and the father is established by clear and convincing evidence,
The father (unless deceased) has agreed in writing to provide financial support for the person until the person reaches the age of 18 years, and
While the person is under the age of 18 years one of the following occurs:
The father acknowledges paternity of the person in writing under oath, or
The paternity of the person is established by adjudication of a competent court, and
The U.S. citizen parent was physically present in the U.S. or its territories for a period of at least 5 years at some time in his or her life prior to the birth, at least 2 of which were after his or her 14th birthday.
If the U.S. citizen parent spent time abroad in any of the following three capacities, this can also be counted towards the physical presence requirement:
Serving honorably in the U.S. armed forces;
Employed with the U.S. government; or
Employed with certain international organizations.
Additionally, time spent abroad by the U.S. citizen parent while the U.S. citizen parent was the unmarried son or daughter and a member of the household of a person who meets any of the three conditions listed above can also be counted.
Geordie613
I am a liberal Democrat, but I don’t speak for the party, I can only speak for myself. There are many accomplishments during the Obama administration that benefited the country and/or its inhabitants.
#1 Recovery from the GW Bush financial meltdown of 2007/8
Stock market and employment up, mortgage rates down, funds available for business and personal borrowing
#2 Affordable Care Act (often called Obamacare). I for one have had my monthly premiums go down $600, benefited from being able to have my over 18 and under 26 year old daughters remain on my policy and elimination of expense caps. Mrs. CTL just had her 11th surgery this year with another next week. Our policy has now paid out more than $2 million, it used to have a $1 million cap
#3 Normalization of relationship with Cuba. This is a benefit to both populations and business. I look forward to a visit there. I was last there in 1959. My wife has distant relatives there who couldn’t get US entry visas in 1940 but got into Cuba. It has been hard to get supplies and money to them for decades, now it is quite easy. I no longer have to get Canadian friends to handle this for us.
There are many more items, but I am not writing a treatise in defense of the President. All administrations accomplish things that some people like and others do not.
Bigdeal
It is not because of me that Trump will be President. Trump lost CT where I live and vote.
Coverage under the ACA is different in every state. Health Insurance premiums have been skyrocketing far longer than ACA is the law.
Here, I did not lose a single doctor’s care, or availability of any provider, in fact I have more . My coverage is with the same carrier as before ACA. I have individual coverage, not through an employer or a group.
I can not speak top coverages and changes in other states.
As for the comment about a story from some CPA posted earlier. I challenge the poster to examine the actual bills for the same individual/family with the same policy. NO carrier got approval for a 300% increase in one year.
iacisrmma
If you weren’t shown the insurance company invoices for the same person for the same coverage, you have anecdotal evidence.
Hearsay is not admissible (with a few stated exceptions) in a court of law for good reason.
yehudayona and Daas Yochid
I don’t know how old you are and whether you were an adult before Roe V. Wade.
I was. Before Rose v. Wade pregnant women in the US who wanted to terminate an abortion had 2 choices: an illegal procedure, often fraught with danger or go out of the country. When I was in high school if you heard a girl was going to San Juan PR for a weekend that was code for flying there for a legal abortion. Poor women suffered the illegal and dangerous procedures and if something went wrong and they ended up min the emergency room at the local hospital they were subject to arrest, prosecution and prison.
I, parent of adopted children am not in favor of abortion at will. That said there are times when it is medically necessary to save the life of the woman. I don’t want a law without exceptions.
iacisrmma………..
Don’t believe anecdotal evidence ‘somebody told me’
Health insurance increases have to be approved by each state.
The National Conference of State Legislators has published charts on line showing state by state increases for 2017
NY has a weighted increase of 17.3% That $1100 premium would be approx $1290 come January. No one is approving an increase of 300% as you relayed.
Mashiach Agent
The President can’t repeal Obamacare.
Only Congress can do that.
They would never repeal it effective immediately, they would enact legislation to end it at the end of a calendar year.
Since most are up for reelection every 2 years, chances are it won’t be repealed but drastically modified.
akuperma…….
in states with Healthcare exchanges, qualification for Medicaid is quick and easy determined by application for insurance…too low an income to contribute even a reduced fee, then you are enrolled in Medicaid. Medicaid is now part of Obamacare
NO INTERACTION with state welfare/social service dept/ No long waits, cards arrive in a week. No being forced to attend employment training, etc/
iacisrmma
Don’t generalize about costs doubling EVERY state is different.
Mrs. CTL and I have a policy purchased thru the Connecticut Health Care Exchange. I am self employed and always provided my own coverage. Our increase for 2017 will be 17%.
This is comparable for what other companies/plans are increasing in the group markets in CT.
Now for the benefits:
Preexisting conditions cannot prevent your from being covered
No more coverage caps.
Our policy is with the same carrier we had before Obamacare. It used to have a $1million annual cap, $3million lifetime, Those in the CR may know that Mrs. CTL spent a month on life support this spring and has had numerous surgeries, etc (another next Tuesday). Her bills have totaled more than $2million this year. That would have wiped out much of our equity and destroyed planned retirement,
If you have a life changing event, you can get coverage, even if it is not the annual enrollment period. Our 28 year old was working for a company who went belly up in 2014. Cobra was cost prohibitive as she was going from a good salary to unemployment compensation overnight. One call to the CT Healthcare Exchange got her immediate coverage with premiums based on her expected Unemployment Compensation income. Premium was only $35 per month. She had a new position within 3 weeks, but had to wait 90 days for company benefits…this took good care of her.
Our 20 year old is still covered on our policy until 26.
Our policy is with the same carrier as before and costs $600 less per month (and I don’t qualify for an income based savings).
Instead of losing doctors and hospitals, many specialists who didn’t take our policy before Obamacare, do now.