Readers sound off on eating out, attacking Russia and Daniel Penny’s chokehold

Hit up your section diner and assistance support it alive

Great Neck, L.I.: This vacation season, betwixt Thanksgiving and New Years Day, if you are excessively bushed to cook, wherefore not see sharing a repast with neighbors, friends oregon household and patronize your section diner oregon restaurant? I person enjoyed galore fantabulous meals for decades erstwhile frequenting immoderate 1 of galore section diners.

Diners person been portion of my beingness from my teenage years to today. Eating retired is simply a periodic ritual with friends oregon family. Portions are generous. Who ne'er took a doggie container location with leftovers to devour the adjacent day? Between the customary soup, salad, rolls, coleslaw and pickles on with the main people — meal could fulfill the heartiest appetite. Many times, we bagged our desserts to go.

Many neighborhoods person seen changes implicit time. New migrant groups sometimes favour their taste foods and restaurants. Diners person besides mislaid customers implicit clip to galore accelerated nutrient restaurants. Many of their menus person expanded to besides see meal items and a greater assortment of items to prime from for luncheon oregon dinner.

Remember, these radical are our neighbors. Our section entrepreneurs who ain and run diners person continued to put successful our community, creating caller employment opportunities. They enactment agelong hours, wage taxes and supply section employment. If we don’t patronize our section restaurants, they don’t devour either. Why not grant the fond memories we had astatine immoderate of our favourite diners that person travel and gone by continuing to patronize our remaining diners? Here’s hoping they don’t spell the mode of the dinosaurs into imperishable extinction. Larry Penner

Detrimental DA

Brooklyn: Re “Removing thoroughfare scaffolding helps combat crime” (op-ed, Nov. 26) by Alvin Bragg, Keith Powers and Mark Levine: Actually, removing Bragg would bash overmuch much to combat crime. Joe Altamura

Host with the most

New Windsor, N.Y.: I was saddened to perceive of Chuck Woolery’s passing. Politics aside, dissimilar different crippled amusement hosts, Woolery did not person an ego and laughed astatine himself erstwhile helium made a mistake. Tall, handsome and personable, helium seemed to bask himself connected immoderate amusement helium hosted. Personally, helium was the amended big of “Wheel of Fortune” than Pat Sajak. He called the spins similar a play-by-play sportscaster. Despite being fto spell aft 7 years, helium inactive carved retired a terrific hosting career. Rest successful bid to the “Love Connector.” Todd Schuster

Too overmuch for excessively little

Brooklyn: Voicer Charles O’Connor wrote successful saying helium went to 2 musicals, “The Book of Mormon” and “The Outsiders,” and saw lone a fistful of non-white radical astatine some of them. He recovered this perplexing and surprising. I don’t cognize why. These musicals outgo a batch of wealth to be and unfortunately, galore radical of colour can’t spend them, and the ones who tin astir apt don’t person interest. I could spend to spell to a philharmonic but would alternatively acceptable myself connected fire. Dennis Burge

Alarming escalation

Fresh Meadows: Recently, the authorization to occurrence Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) long-range missiles into Russia by President Biden has enactment the U.S. connected the brink of atomic war. Several of these missiles were fired into Russia. According to erstwhile UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, lone U.S. subject technicians person the quality to occurrence ATACMS. The usage of U.S. subject unit against Russia is an enactment of war. Only Congress is authorized to state war, according to the U.S. Constitution. We should interaction our congresspeople astatine their offices successful Washington, D.C. Vytautas Vileniskis

Offensive funding

Queens Village: Does anyone retrieve erstwhile Donald Trump was moving for president for his archetypal word successful 2016, his remark astir playing golf? He stated, “I volition not beryllium playing play similar different presidents earlier me. I volition beryllium serving the federation full-time.” Well, the latest tab for the taxes we each person been paying to money his play outings is up to $80 cardinal and counting! Frankly, I person been much acrophobic with the Ukraine warfare ending successful 24 hours, arsenic Trump stated! Lawrence Krasner

Recipe for a crash

East Meadow, L.I.: In aboriginal 1930, a fewer months aft the Oct. 29, 1929 Black Tuesday banal marketplace crash, signs of an economical slump began to amusement astir the world. President Herbert Hoover, claiming to support American manufacturing and agriculture, signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, imposing 20-40% import duties. This was against the proposal of much than 1,000 starring economists. But Hoover signed it due to the fact that the Republican Party and his furniture wanted him to. Huge mistake. Canada and the British Empire imposed immense retaliatory tariffs, followed by Mexico, Germany and 8 different nations. That greatly accelerated the Great Depression. Following this came the illness of banking institutions and an summation successful unemployment from 8% to 23%. What’s past is prologue. However, Trump’s tariffs volition person a much devastating effect connected our system due to the fact that we import much goods present than we did successful 1930. Richard Skibins

Quit complaining

Massapequa Park, L.I.: It seems that the caller predetermination results person had small effect connected hard-left Americans, from wide governors and mayors to celebrities similar Alec Baldwin — similar helium has a imaginativeness of however misinformed the American radical are. He should support his rima unopen and beryllium thankful helium is not successful jailhouse for manslaughter. Raymond P. Moran

Responsibility each around

Itasca, Ill.: Everybody seems to cognize wherefore Kamala Harris mislaid the election. Maybe they’re right, but could we beryllium overthinking this? It wouldn’t beryllium the archetypal time. Pablo Picasso, frustrated implicit creation lovers incessantly analyzing his paintings, reputedly said, “Sometimes, a histrion is conscionable a tree.” Harris and Tim Walz could person done better. But what astir an electorate that reinstated a 34-time felon who tried to overturn a just election, was recovered liable of enactment abuse, repeatedly invoked dictator yearnings and admitted to writer Bob Woodward that helium downplayed COVID’s wellness threat? Democrats, it has been suggested, request to look successful the mirror. Maybe each voters should bash that. Jim Newton

Do the digging

Manhattan: Since the predetermination was truthful hotly contested, the modulation mightiness besides beryllium a problem. In the tone of cooperation, Biden tin assistance marque the modulation spell smoothly. It is unclear if Trump volition usage the FBI, backstage lawyers oregon immoderate different method to vet incoming furniture members. But Biden is president close now, truthful helium tin bid the FBI to bash the vetting instantly and people the results, thereby relieving Trump of this hard chore. If it’s considered portion of Biden’s authoritative duties to supply for a creaseless transition, past the caller Supreme Court immunity determination could beryllium utilized to warrant this unprecedented action. Nominees tin determine connected whether to cooperate with the FBI connected the process oregon fto the bureau trust connected third-party accusation that they are truthful bully astatine detecting. I americium definite Trump would greatly admit this adjuvant enactment by Biden. Alec Pruchnicki

Glaring example

Brooklyn: I privation that officials and newscasters would halt saying that nary 1 is supra the law. Every clip I prime up a paper oregon ticker a quality program, I larn that determination is 1 idiosyncratic who is. That idiosyncratic is Trump. Andrea Allen

Lethal measures

Bronx: Daniel Penny, the Marine seasoned charged successful the decease of Jordan Neely, is present connected trial. He held Neely successful a chokehold for six minutes, which, according to experts, was highly excessive. Even aft Neely was unconscious and defecating connected himself, according to witnesses, Penny would not merchandise the hold. He is inactive being hailed arsenic a leader by some. The NYC aesculapian examiner’s bureau says his actions led to Neely’s death. A defence witness, a Texas pathologist, says different factors, not the chokehold, led to it. I spot similarities betwixt this lawsuit and the George Floyd case, erstwhile the aesculapian examiner sought to blasted cause usage for Floyd’s death. Are we to judge that idiosyncratic kneeling connected a handcuffed person’s cervix for 9 minutes, oregon idiosyncratic being choked for six minutes, are usually survivable occurrences for steadfast people? It looks to maine similar racism is again rearing its disfigured head. Jonathan Solomon