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Protest Rally

At the last minute, after dropping Cutie off at school, my friend an I ventured into the city to protest Iran's plan to destroy the State of Israel. President Ahmandinejad of Iran was scheduled to address the UN.

At first both Hilary Clinton and Sarah Palin were to address the group. Hilary pulled. The Jewish Organizations then cancelled Palin.

After dropping Cutie at school, my rally friend gave me an article to read. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017359617&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

This morning I read http://www.latimes.com/news/la-fg-iran23-2008sep23,0,1812871.story?track=ntothtml

I'm very worried.

What Hilary did was wrong. She shouldn't have pulled out because of Palin. What the UJA and Jewish council did was wrong. They shouldn't have disinvited Palin.

The women of the west should continue to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with with Planned Parenthood and teach the women of the world how babies are made AND how to stop them from getting or being pregnant.

The missed opportunity is what I've been saying - We should turn the tables on every country that treats women as slaves and deprives them with of control of their wombs and their faces, hair, arms. legs, minds and hearts. Any person that tells a women what she can't seek to end an unwanted pregnancy, especially in cases of violent acts such as rape and incest or against the advice of her doctor, is a form of slavery.

If the US stands alone in supporting Israel, the Jews are in trouble. The US needs to convince the world that the world will not tolerate countries that treat women as second class citizens. Jewish organizations must convince the world that as Jews we will not tolerate women as second class citizens (I'm sorry to say that we need to first convince some of our own first.) All western countries will agree with that statement. And if the christian, jewish, islamic and other "cultures" world comes around to this way of thinking - Israel may have a fighting chance.

As I see it the right for a women to do want she wants is not that far from the support of Israel in the face of Islamic extremeism. It's not about abortion - it's about the rights of women.

Let's get the world focused on the rights of women to diffuse the focus on Israel. It's a much easier sell. Now is the time with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni being a women.

What's happening in our old apartment on the UWS

We are still on the building email list. I just received this one today. So glad to be in the burbs!

Hi All,
We have new washers/dryers, Yeah!
However, there have already been problems with the cards being read correctly and the machine that refills the cards.
Unfortunately, computer error is notorious with these machines. Maybe we can nip these potential problems in the bud before a lot of aggravation.
How about owning our own washers and dryers outright with a good service contract. It would probably be a great deal cheaper when we consider the collective cost of what we spend on either cards/quarters over the course of a year. Not to mention all the potential aggravation of machines that don't read the cards consistently.
Warm Regards,
D&M #C

Cuties First Experience with Party Crashing

Cutie went to a Birthday Party at Chuck E Cheese. This was my first experience at the place. The only game I liked was skee ball and Cutie is pretty bad at it.

After we had cake Cutie joined another group that was running around with the Chuck E Cheese mouse. She joined them for birthday cake.

The best parties are the ones you crash. It's probably because you anticipate a party and it's usually a dud. But when you stumble upon one and go in - magical things happen.

Cutie didn't realize she was crashing a party. She thought everyone at the place was there for her birthday friend.

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni

A women Israelli Prime Minister. I wish Hillary was running.

The Tanking Dow

Who's short? Who's making money from this? Who will be buying stocks in the next few months? I bet friends of Bush are making out like bandits. If Hal was on the verge of bankruptcy, the US would be bailing them out.

Mad Men, Bill Gates and Seinfeld

I DVR the AMC series Mad Men. I love that show. I grew up with advertising in the 1980's. I was born in the 60's and if not for those women in Mad Men I would not have had the opportunities that I did.

With the DVR you fast forward through the commericals. But I stoped when I saw Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld in an ad. I watched the ad for Microsoft and marvel at the creative brilliance. You have no idea what they are selling until the end. Gates and Seinfeld are cultural icons on different sides of the spectrum.
Here's the commerical - it's brilliant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afR5J7eskno

http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&vid=df102345-4270-41be-8a0d-c6b284aeced7&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:d6ed1c4d-10e0-4774-885a-e19c5fba2e73%2Cf56728a6-b6c5-4620-a894-f546ab372298%2C763f96bd-cd71-47c6-8a8a-b8a6919763bd&from=msnweather&tab=m137&GT1=42003

I miss working.

Movies I want Paul

New Jeans and Lord & Taylor

I'm picking Cutie up at school and I notice that I have a huge rip in my jeans exposing my butt. Yes, I think it's time for new jeans. But those were perfect summer jeans (so thin you could see through them) and only 10 years old. Then I realized. I haven't bought jeans in a very long time. My youngest pair is eight.

Off the the Mall. First to H&M. Hate shopping for jeans there. It's a pain. Nothing is organized. All the styles and sizes are mushed together. Then to Lord & Taylor. I love L&T. Everytime I go to L&T I find something. Earlier this summer is was three pairs of sandals. Now two pairs of jeans. I told a friend I bought new jeans and she asked me what kind. I really didn't know so I answered the kind that fit.

I have to remember to tell her they are Lucky Brand (wide leg - size 25/0) and BCBG (size 27). I'm not sure that's good or not. I don't trust the size thing anymore. So I went to look at my other jeans. My youngest is Seven (8yo - size 28) and my 10yo twins (2 pair the same - size 4) are Deisel. I have a Gap in there - but the're not that comfortable.

Regarding the sizes - they are a big lie. I'm a size 40 European and that translates into an 8. They like to make fat Americans feel better by making smaller size larger than they should be. Gotta love marketing.

Three Kinds of Right

We're in the car and I like telling Cutie what we are doing.
"At the corner we will be making a right".
She said "mommy, there are two kinds of 'right' - the kind when you write and when you make a right."
"You're right!"
"Mommy there's three kinds of right.
Clever girl.
now, if I can only get her off mermaids.....

You Tube and Mermaids

Cutie discovered YouTube and we added Disney Little Mermaid Hebrew to our web page. She then watched Mermaid in Swedish, Chinese, and languages I really never thought of. There was even a Mermaid with compilation of different languages. How's that for world peace. Eventually she came upon a "How to Make a Mermaid Tail" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtwnOQg_KH8

For days now she's been begin me to make a Mermaid Tail for her. We are renovating our house and learning from mistakes. My personality is such that I want something and people are sometimes afraid to say no. Hence, I told the contractor I wanted the bathroom to be close as possible - almost touching to give it a smooth sleek look. In the tile store they are touching. He did this. The problem was that it looks like it's touching but there's really a small grout line - 1/16-inch. We have to do the floor tile again and when I reordered the tile Laura from Fuda Tile in Ramsey (gotta go to NJ for the good stuff) gave me her guy. We have to do the tiles again.

On the way home I stop at JoAnns and bought mermaid fabric. Yes, just ask the salesperson for mermaid fabric and she pointed me in the right direction. Paulo made the costume since he didn't go to work because of his knee (first his Achilles in May, then the knee issue in July - I married him to have a sports partner - so not happening). OK - he made the costume because I can't. I knit the sea blanket!

Pinkalicious and a Trip to Fire Island

Last Sunday Cutie and I went with A to see Pinkalicious the Musical. She was mesmorized the entire time. After the show there's an opportunity for autographs and photos.

Then we went to Fire Island. We invited friends for the day and I was concerned that parking would be a problem and their mood would be crappy. This was not the case. They were great guests. Love FI as much as we do.

Palin Did A Great Job Delivering a Message. But She Needs Talmud

Talmud. The great teacher of logic. You don't spend money on something that will cost you more money. You don't not spend money if you will get a bigger reward if you do. That's the secret of the rich.
The hungry in Africa who have lots of children cost me money. I want birth control education for all. It will lift people up in one generation.

So here's an article by Gloria Steinem that sums it up.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-steinem4-2008sep04,0,7915118.story

Palin's an idiot

A 17-year old pregnant daughter!!! Ms Palin - you can't even manage your family and you want to manage the world. Are you insane? If your 17-year old daughter or son is having a child you haven't brought them up well. You didn't do a good job managing the governorship and being a parent. Even your husband is a moron for not helping you. Therefore you are a double moron for picking a partner who is useless and being usless yourself. And the moronic republicans are saying Where are the feminists? Voting against this stupid mother who married a useless man and both useless people managed to forget to educate their children.
It's how I see it.