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D. Porter April 13, 2013 at 05:38 pm
"Comprehensive immigration reform" = AMNESTY, plain and simple.
The absolutely,…Read More positively, honest to God final amnesty EVER was passed in 1986 and signed by Ronald Reagan, who later admitted that was the biggest blunder of his presidency. What we've had is one corrupt and treasonous regime after another who have failed to give us what Reagan promised; a secure border and strict enforcement in the workplace and elsewhere. The worst regime so far is that of tin pot dictator Comrade ObaMao. This crap has got to stop. I say build a wall and deport ‘em all.
Ann Darcy April 16, 2013 at 02:10 am
Hello Rabbi Huberman, Usually I give up TMZ for Lent, but then go back to it as it can be amusing…Read More at times. I don't even know who they are talking about, for example:. Ashley Tisdale.(?) Anyway, calling somebody a "rising nobody" is funny for a second but basically its just snark, or as you call it "dreque". You inspired me to give it up completely, forever. Thank you. Ann
P Shoshanamarie O'Hare April 14, 2013 at 04:09 pm
Ps: it also helps disabled girls have more confidence in themselves ..
P Shoshanamarie O'Hare April 14, 2013 at 04:08 pm
That is not true. Pageants open a door for girls/woman to speak out and help out. There are many…Read More different types of pageants to chose from. Not all are about beauty alone.
Miss Long Island 1997
Also a Lupus and domestic violence Survivor
Jen Thomas April 13, 2013 at 12:02 am
We should be teaching our daughters to love and respect themselves and pageants do not do that.…Read More Feel like a queen? How about a judge or an architect? As the mother of a disabled daughter, I am appalled by this.
Jeanne Falabella April 20, 2013 at 11:03 pm
"These are uncomfortable issues to be sure, but when I was elected I promised to tell you like…Read More it is. And this is like it is: corruption surely exists in Albany but if we’re not judicious in our approach, we will actually be making things worse."
Wow Jack! Let me tell it to YOU like it is. One of the very last things you did before you left for Albany was to create an exempt position in the Justice Court specifically for one of your campaign workers - this only a few months after you eliminated another unnecessary exempt position in the Building Department that had been set up by the Colbert administration - of which you were a part and a protege. This EXEMPT position requires no testing and as such, it should have been advertised in the local papers at the very least, and it should have been posted in the case at 155 Washington so anybody visiting our village hall could see it and perhaps pass the word on to someone who might be looking for a job or looking for a different job.
I was at the Work Session when the Village Clerk announced that the position was being posted to give our union employees the chance to apply. You weren't at all happy. You knew who you wanted to place in that position and while you had to suck up posting it for our village employees to see, you certainly weren't going to go any further than you had to. God forbid that you should actually do the honorable thing and advertise so others from outside the village could throw their hats in the ring.
Let's keep the dialogue honest Jack. ONE village employee from the Finance Department applied and was told she wouldn't be a good fit. Then, while the Court Clerk was out on vacation, your campaign worker was hired, without even giving the woman who would be her supervisor the opportunity to interview her.
So please - do tell us about audacity, and about people who get greedy when there is nobody to put a check on them. You certainly know from whence you speak sir, because you wrote the book.
SLJ April 13, 2013 at 12:47 am
Honest dialogue?? That seemed to be lacking when a certain someone was mayor a few years ago.
Rabbi Irwin Huberman April 10, 2013 at 02:37 pm
Interesting article. It reinforces the point of the blog which stresses the importance of ensuring…Read More that animal rights, labor laws and environmental respected when we slaughter and prepare our food. It's also interesting to note that the Noahide law of respecting animal rights appears in the Torah many generations before the laws of Kashrut.
Rabbi Irwin Huberman April 10, 2013 at 02:34 pm
The simple answer to your question is "the Bible says so." Leviticus 11:21 notes "you…Read More may eat all the winged swarmy things that will walk on all fours; all that have above their feet jointed legs to leap with on the ground" This includes bald locust, crickets and all varieties of grasshoppers.
As "counter intuitive" as this may appear to us living in the United States, especially during times of famine it was important set boundaries with regard to what people could consume. After all, Kosher actually means "fit" to eat. Although the Bible is vague on why it distinguishes between different types of insects, I am guessing that the law seeks to divide insects which spend all their time walking in the earth and dust, and those who were able to jump or fly.
It is interesting to note that last month, just prior to Passover, a rare infestation of locust occurred in the Middle East. The attached link documents the "invasion" and notes that this set off a fad of locust eating in various many countries.
http://news.yahoo.com/bible-comes-life-locusts-swarm-israel-190310435.html
Consuming locust may seem odd to us, but based on some of the fast foods or other items which we consume on the fly in North America, who are we to judge?
Thank you for the question.
Micah Danney (Editor) April 10, 2013 at 01:49 pm
Thanks for this article. There was a NYT op-ed on the subject of animal treatment published Monday:…Read More http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/opinion/open-the-slaughterhouses.html?_r=1&. Could how we treat "food animals," maybe the most rights-deprived sentient members of our society, relate to our sense of compassion, or lack of it, in other arenas?
Right Here May 21, 2013 at 10:48 am
Maybe because once in the system, they see each additional baby as an additional check with more…Read More benefits?
The Soup Nazi April 21, 2013 at 09:18 pm
You should have moved your offense to defense and visa versa. e used to say no shots after 5-0 I…Read More think. It was a felony offense but it could have ben handled better. did you take your best players out.
Kristen Ferrari April 6, 2013 at 10:14 pm
David,
I do understand your point and I agree that at certain ages there is something to be said…Read More for keeping the score closer. Not all kids are natural athletes and getting beat into the ground by a better player isn't always incentive to get better.
There should be a balance and I'd like to be clearer than maybe I was in my comment that I'm talking about an older more competitive level. There is a lot of criticism about trophies for all and everyone getting and I think some of that comes from fear that as a country we are becoming more about feelings and less about competition. Again, there needs to be a balance. Sports are a great outlet for kids and they should be encouraged to play and discover that sense of accomplishment that comes from learning skills. But no kid especially on a younger level should be made to feel bad about themselves.
David Allen April 6, 2013 at 05:00 pm
I appreciate the feedback and I would like to address some of the comments.
The object of any game…Read More is to win and to play to the best of your ability.
If you can challenge yourself to improve by trying something new that's even better. By the way a mismatch is an excellent time to challenge yourself with something new.
It's not about playing to win, the issue is when you have the game won, when you have out played and continue to outplay the opponent and there is clearly no comeback in the offing. What do you do? These are not college or pro athletes who train year round and are a momentum changing play away from a huge comeback. These are youth soccer mismatches.
The LIJSL encourages sportsmanship by requesting that coaches don’t run up the score. Yet in the same season they reward teams that don’t honor their request by giving them the sportsmanship award. It doesn’t make sense and it devalues the entire sportsmanship concept. Why have a sportsmanship program if you’re not truly honoring sportsmanship?
Finally, I do not pretend to be qualified to determine the psychological effect on the winners and losers of these mismatches. But there seems to be a consensus among youth soccer leagues that a goal differential limit is a good thing. Some leagues will fine a club for running up a score. Does that make us a weaker culture? I don’t know. And I doubt that anyone using the term “wussification” is qualified to answer that question either.
John Rennhack April 8, 2013 at 09:38 pm
That's why a larger development around a new world-class venue would have been ideal.
The problem…Read More with always going for the "hi-tech, bio tech and pharam" is that you're looking at specialized advanced degree jobs. Nothing wrong with that but we need well paying blue collar jobs too. Bring back industry. Why aren't we a leader in next-gen products for automobile, home and aerospace? Have the white collar jobs but also many blue collar jobs in production.
And how about taking the empty commercial lots and vacant big box buildings and create jobs through vertical and greenhouse farming? Year-round agriculture and local access to fresh foods.
Again, instead of being a consumer suburb, become a producer suburb once again.
Frank April 8, 2013 at 07:26 pm
"hot dog and peanut vendors" are note my idea of well-paying permanent jobs.
When LI was…Read More the cradle of aviation, you had legions of scientists, engineers, machinists, mechanics, etc... REAL JOBS that pay REAL WELL...
That age is gone...
What Nassau needs is an industrial renaissance... Hi Tech, Bio Tech, Pharma... anything that will spur economic success.
BTW why hasn't Nassau explored the possibility of creating a food terminal in Uniondale? That alone would provide hundreds of jobs and reduce truck traffic!
sadeto April 4, 2013 at 03:06 am
National party platforms don't count for very much in local politics, nor should they. So forget…Read More about defining the GOP as the party of "limited government" and having that mantra apply to the Hub situation. As this morning's bipartisan arrests shaped, local politics is about money and access to the ballot. If the right palms had been greased, the right players involved, it would have happened.
Personally, I don't mind that Wang's plan failed, he has no development experience and he's a crook who relied on the statute of limitations to avoid jail. The fact is that his own firm turned around and tried to sue him after he stepped down.
By the way, the GOP is the party of massive government subsidies to industry. Exactly how do you reconcile that with this idea of limited government?
Bryan Korman April 17, 2013 at 06:22 pm
Well said, Rob. You hit the nail on the head! I would add that the Conservative Party is just as…Read More bad. They march in lockstep with GOP. There is no longer any noticeable difference between the two.
Marc April 10, 2013 at 01:55 pm
Knives...I just bought new steak knives...VERY good ones. Will you ban them as well?
JOHN HERLING April 9, 2013 at 02:22 pm
What do people use to shoot and kill people? Bows and arrows?
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