From the Star Ledger:
Hey Ted Cruz: We’ve got your New York values, right here
Ted Cruz rarely comes to New York, other than those occasional visits to Goldman Sachs, where this man of virtue drops his hat on the ground and juggles lemons for campaign donations.
But his attack on Donald Trump’s “New York values” strikes us as fatuous on so many levels, starting with the fact that such a construct is impossible to define.
It’s a lazy way to characterize a melting pot that defies stereotypes: Life in TriBeCa is not like life in Sheepshead Bay. The culture of Rego Park is not the culture of Harlem. The accents of Riverdale are unlike the accents of Astoria. The rhythms of Citi Island bare no resemblance to the rhythms of Flatbush. The politics of New Dorp are nothing like the politics of Battery Park City.
Perhaps Cruz simply values homogeneity, though it’s doubtful he likes any word that begins with those four letters.
But we get it: Attacking diversity, especially the kind that exists in a city where they speak 800 languages, appeals to the feeble-minded denizens of flyover states. Their political heroes do not celebrate New York as the birthplace of immigration, industrialization, and multiculturalism, because it is easier to slander its progressivism.
And New York represents what Cruz fears: an exhilarating laboratory of life, where the rest of the country can learn something about tolerance and the marriage of disparate elements.
Continuing with the theme, from the Post:
NYC property values surpass $1 trillion
For the first time ever, the total assessed value of Big Apple properties has topped $1 trillion — spurred on by Brooklyn’s surging real-estate market.
The tentative assessment roll released Friday by the Finance Department shows that assessed property values jumped 10.6 percent to $1.072 trillion for the 2017 fiscal year, on top of a 9.1 percent bump last year.
“I would say it has to be the most valuable [city in the US],” said veteran property-tax attorney Eric Weiss.
The change has been even more dramatic in Brooklyn, with properties climbing 16 percent, compared with a rise of 7.4 percent last year.
While the citywide numbers didn’t surprise Weiss, he saw the Brooklyn figures as noteworthy: “That reflects the fact that Brooklyn has become a very hot market,” said Weiss.
FRIST…..you cheated
Last night Donald Trump said,”Swarthy foreigners are sneaking across the border and trying to take over America, but enough about Ted Cruz”
“…to the feeble-minded denizens of flyover states.”
Pot Kettle
Glass houses / stones
etc
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/fund-manager-whos-been-right-on-oil-has-a-depressing-new-prediction-2016-01-15
Grim, check your mail.
Lib,
Yet another post Zapped by Grims filters. I think we need a GTG to discuss kids sports.
I had “The Chat” with my kid about Hockey. There are three teams in this area and she was given the choice of two. She sided with her mother.
http://tinyurl.com/MyKidsChoice
Fabs, tried to post something hockey related the other day.
Got eaten. Didn’t even show up under review.
Will try to re-type.
Mclellan says: Uptrend from middle of this week until the end of February, then back down again. Bear bottom in October when long term investors will have their entry point.
Me: Maybe a good year to dollar cost average into T, VZ, XEL, ED, NEE, etc.?
http://finance.yahoo.com/video/bearish-trend-continue-until-october-200300496.html
Fab, totally second Stu’s comments on hockey. Will add that right now the most important items are skating, skating, skating, and more skating.
Hockey is unlike other sports, where a good athlete can with some training use his existing skills to excel at a new sport. Before one can develop and excel at hockey an entirely new skill must be learned – skating. You can have the best hands and the best shot in the world, if you are a bad skater it doesn’t matter.
To develop skating skills kids need a ton of ice time blended with some instruction. Once she is ready get a good instructor for even just a few lessons to build the correct base and technique (proper stride, etc) and to point out and avoid bad habits. Always, spend as much time as you can find anywhere just letting her skate. My sons are extraordinary skaters. They would skate on any ice they could find anytime, anywhere. We brought skates to ski slopes. To grandma and grandpa’s house. When they were young I would take them for development to a local rink and play ‘football’ on the ice with them. One boy was the receiver, one was the defender, I was quarterback. They would go long and I would hit them with a pass using a hockey glove. It is impossible to explain the skating skills developed by two kids racing, bumping, turning, heads up, and pivoting down the ice time after time. (They never knew it was a ‘skating lesson’, to them it was just pure fun). That specific activity will also get you tossed off most rinks :) Point is, good hockey players develop their skating skills outside of structure with a ton of time on the ice. NJ’s climate unfortunately does not cooperate (although any year we could we built a backyard rink). You have to create your own opportunities for skating time here.
Regarding skating instructors understand you are looking for very specific instruction, not labels. The rink’s hockey director, head c0ach, etc may not be the best *skating* instructor, especially for a beginner. One of the best hockey c0aches in the state I know well is on the lower end of pure skating instruction, and he would admit so. Lessons won’t be cheap and lay the basis for her development, so purchase wisely. I could give you some pretty bad anecdotal stories here.
Lastly, on labels and teams, AAA in this State outside of a few specific circumstances is a farce and specifically for girls does not really matter until she is older. Keep her in boys hockey – it’s now non-checking until age 13 – she will have better competition, teammates, and spend less time in the car. I’m from a traditional hockey area and scratch my head how kids here can possibly develop by spending 2.5 hours a week on the ice and 6+ hours in the car. You want a high level hockey player, get 10 hours on ice and 2 hrs in the car.
Good luck. Great sport.
This can greatly reduce the time your kid spends in the car vs ice time…
http://goo.gl/nQ7VaP
Anybody following the controversy over the Netflix series Making a Muderer ? The controversy is over whether it is a documentary, bad journalism, infotainment, etc.
I didn’t know anything about it until late last night. If I can’t fall asleep late I turn on “Coast to Coast AM” on the radio, which grew out of Art Bell’s old program featuring consipiracy theories, Area 51 crap, etc. It usually puts me right to sleep. Anyway, I guess the program was new and had compelling guys weighing in on both pro and con from the slant of the Netflix series, and though I dozed and re-awoke several times, it was all first-rate radio. Here’s the link:
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2016/01/16
So today I am watching the series on Netflix, while I stop to look up information on the other side. Here’s a compelling video that takes away from the series being pure documentary:
http://www.hlntv.com/shows/nancy-grace/articles/2016/01/13/steven-avery-s-former-fiancee-jodi-stachowski-exclusive-interview
And here’s just a real fun side story involving the last prosecutor getting his law license suspended in a sexting scandal:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-da-ken-kratzs-law-license-suspended-in-sexting-scandal/
I loved these texts:
“Are you the kind of girl that likes secret contact with an older married elected DA … the riskier the better?” Kratz, 50, wrote in one message. In another, he wrote: “I would not expect you to be the other woman. I would want you to be so hot and treat me so well that you’d be THE woman! R U that good?”
“I’m serious! I’m the atty. I have the $350,000 house. I have the 6-figure career. You may be the tall, young, hot nymph, but I am the prize!”
Anybody following the controversy over the Netflix series Making a Muderer ? The controversy is over whether it is a documentary, bad journalism, infotainment, etc.
I didn’t know anything about it until late last night. If I can’t fall asleep late I turn on “Coast to Coast AM” on the radio, which grew out of Art Bell’s old program featuring consipiracy theories, Area 51 crap, etc. It usually puts me right to sleep. Anyway, I guess the program was new and had compelling guys weighing in on both pro and con from the slant of the Netflix series, and though I dozed and re-awoke several times, it was all first-rate radio. Here’s the link:
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2016/01/16
So today I am watching the series on Netflix, while I stop to look up information on the other side. Here’s a compelling video that takes away from the series being pure documentary:
http://www.hlntv.com/shows/nancy-grace/articles/2016/01/13/steven-avery-s-former-fiancee-jodi-stachowski-exclusive-interview
And here’s just a real fun side story involving the last prosecutor getting his law license suspended in a s-exting scandal:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-da-ken-kratzs-law-license-suspended-in-sexting-scandal/
I loved these texts:
“Are you the kind of girl that likes secret contact with an older married elected DA … the riskier the better?” Kratz, 50, wrote in one message. In another, he wrote: “I would not expect you to be the other woman. I would want you to be so hot and treat me so well that you’d be THE woman! R U that good?”
“I’m serious! I’m the atty. I have the $350,000 house. I have the 6-figure career. You may be the tall, young, hot nym-ph, but I am the prize!”
Anybody following the controversy over the Netflix series Making a Muderer ? The controversy is over whether it is a documentary, bad journalism, infotainment, etc.
I didn’t know anything about it until late last night. If I can’t fall asleep late I turn on “Coast to Coast AM” on the radio, which grew out of Art Bell’s old program featuring consipiracy theories, Area 51 crap, etc. It usually puts me right to sleep. Anyway, I guess the program was new and had compelling guys weighing in on both pro and con from the slant of the Netflix series, and though I dozed and re-awoke several times, it was all first-rate radio. Here’s the link:
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2016/01/16
So today I am watching the series on Netflix, while I stop to look up information on the other side. Here’s a compelling video that takes away from the series being pure documentary:
http://www.hlntv.com/shows/nancy-grace/articles/2016/01/13/steven-avery-s-former-fiancee-jodi-stachowski-exclusive-interview
And here’s just a real fun side story involving the last prosecutor getting his law license suspended in a s-exting scandal:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-da-ken-kratzs-law-license-suspended-in-sexting-scandal/
12. Phoenix, LOL, I remember that. He has a kid that skates out of a local rink. Haven’t seen any choppers in that parking lot yet.
Although a local hedgie or two have built private *facilities* on their land worthy of any prep school.
@SenSanders
When you’re sick, you should have access to health care. When you go to the hospital, you should not come out in bankruptcy.
@SenSanders
It’s embarrassing that 20% of kids in America are living in poverty, the highest childhood poverty rate of any major developed country.
crackhead
@FacetheNation
Rubio explains why he purchased a fire arm recently. Explains that it is the last defense between his family & ISIS
It’s official. It’s time to abandon Cankles. Watch how quickly the ultra-libs flip flop. Anon has already made the turn.
Otto?
When you’re sick, you should have access to health care. When you go to the hospital, you should not come out in bankruptcy.
This idea that people leave the hospital in bankruptcy is a fairy tale. Hospital sends patients an inflated bill, patients don’t pay. End of story.
For insured people, hospital sends patients an inflated bill. Insurance pays 10%.
We could really fix this whole argument of “rising healthcare costs” by outlawing accepting partial payment as full. The next step would be to force physicians to publish their prices.
20. This is her destiny. Keeping the seat warm for the next guy.
Ben, fairy tale??
Hospitals slap liens on houses , so do physicians.
Look in the foreclosure details.
Unless you have Cadillac health insurance aka Medicare.
Or you are renting…
Did you guys scare away pumps??
I am not only here and present, but I have some firm wage inflation in my pocket to show you. My wage inflations are very large and sturdy and will prop up and satisfy all of your markets!!!! Grandma always said she like my wage inflations the best!!!!!
^^^OK, I wrote that, but I thought it was funny
Glad someone found it funny. :P
[23] Raymond
So does the government. And they have a five or six year clawback period for asset divestitures. Fraudulent transfer presumption for bankruptcy is much less
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28.
I’m waiting for a “right to refuse/did not consent to” treatment v. a hospital or ambulance bill conflict.
Specific ambulances only go to certain hospitals. Others have certain protocols depending on the situation.
What if I refuse to go to the specific hospital the ambulance wants to take me, and I’m critical? Can first responders take me against my will? What if I am out cold? I wake up to a massive bill in a hospital in which I am not covered. I was covered ten further miles down the road. Is there an assumed consent implied in emergencies? Even if it bankrupts my family, drains my kids college funds and futures?
Effectively, can you treat/transport me to a facility that would then bind me financially, all without my consent even if I were not able to give consent (unconscious) and a better financial choice of facility were ten miles down the road?
Where does the line between my health and my finances cross, and who is responsible for that decision and the associated charges? Every day thousands of people make unfortunate yet rationale decisions foregoing their health in favor of their finances (not filling prescriptions they cannot afford, splitting pills into half dosage, etc). If I wake up in a hospital with $200k of charges to what extent am I bound if I did not make the specific informed decision to go there? Can the mere fact of professionals acting in my health’s “best interest” bind me financially without my consent?
One may be inclined to answer “yes”, that a rationale person would give consent in a life threatening situation, even if he were not able to. Do assisted suicide and right to die laws change that? There are a whole class of people voluntarily choosing to die while life extending therapies and treatments exist.
Waiting for a creative lawyer here. Not much money in that kind of case, but the precedent would be outstanding and wildly disruptive to the entire healthcare system.
28.
I’m waiting for a “right to refuse/did not consent to” treatment v. a hospital or ambulance bill conflict.
Specific ambulances only go to certain hospitals. Others have certain protocols depending on the situation.
What if I refuse to go to the specific hospital the ambulance wants to take me, and I’m critical? Can first responders take me against my will? What if I am out cold? I wake up to a massive bill in a hospital in which I am not covered. I was covered ten further miles down the road. Is there an assumed consent implied in emergencies? Even if it bankrupts my family, drains my kids college funds and futures?
Effectively, can you treat/transport me to a facility that would then bind me financially, all without my consent even if I were not able to give consent (unconscious) and a better financial choice of facility were ten miles down the road?
Where does the line between my health and my finances cross, and who is responsible for that decision and the associated charges? Every day thousands of people make unfortunate yet rationale decisions foregoing their health in favor of their finances (not filling prescriptions they cannot afford, splitting pills into half dosage, etc). If I wake up in a hospital with $200k of charges to what extent am I bound if I did not make the specific informed decision to go there? Can the mere fact of professionals acting in my health’s “best interest” bind me financially without my consent?
One may be inclined to answer “yes”, that a rationale person would give consent in a life threatening situation, even if he were not able to. Do assisted su1cide and right to die laws change that? There is an entire class of people voluntarily choosing to d1e while life extending therapies and treatments exist.
Waiting for a creative lawyer here. Not much money in that kind of case, but the precedent would be outstanding and wildly disruptive to the entire healthcare system.
28.
I’m waiting for a “right to refuse/did not consent to” treatment v. a hospital or ambulance bill conflict.
Specific ambulances only go to certain hospitals. Others have certain protocols depending on the situation.
What if I refuse to go to the specific hospital the ambulance wants to take me, and I’m cr1tical? Can first responders take me against my will? What if I am out cold? I wake up to a massive bill in a hospital in which I am not covered. I was covered ten further miles down the road. Is there an assumed consent implied in emergencies? Even if it bankrupts my family, drains my kids college funds and futures?
Effectively, can you treat/transport me to a facility that would then bind me financially, all without my consent even if I were not able to give consent (unconscious) and a better financial choice of facility were ten miles down the road?
Where does the line between my health and my finances cross, and who is responsible for that decision and the associated charges? Every day thousands of people make unfortunate yet rationale decisions foregoing their health in favor of their finances (not filling prescriptions they cannot afford, splitting p1lls into half dosage, etc). If I wake up in a hospital with $200k of charges to what extent am I bound if I did not make the specific informed decision to go there? Can the mere fact of professionals acting in my health’s “best interest” bind me financially without my consent?
One may be inclined to answer “yes”, that a rationale person would give consent in a life thr3atening situation, even if he were not able to. Do assisted su1cide and right to die laws change that? There is an entire class of people voluntarily choosing to d1e while life extending therapies and treatments exist.
Waiting for a creative lawyer here. Not much money in that kind of case, but the precedent would be outstanding and wildly disruptive to the entire healthcare system.