Quirky Mom, Quirky Family
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I’m sure you’ve read the story. If not, Google the subject, it’ll come right up. Basically, this family is up in arms because a food store refused to make a birthday cake for their kid who is named, you guessed it, Adolph HItler Whateverthelastnameis. They contacted the news and whatnot because the store refused to make the cake, but did offer a blank cake and some decorative icing so they could write the name themselves. The dad claimed he’d probably misspell the name. Um, what? You are going to misspell your kids name?
Of course, the family also claims they aren’t white supremacists, just proud of their German heritage. That’s why one of the other kids is Whatever Aryan Nation Whateverthelastnameis and the other kids middle name is Himler. WTFEver people. He also has swastikas all over the house and the whole thing is just creepy.
You can’t help but feel sorry for the kids. They are going to grow up to believe this or normal behaviour.
No, I don’t want people to forget about Adolph Hitler and the horrible things he, and Dr. Mengele, and Eva and all his cronies did. As soon as we forget, it will happen again. I don’t want to be rounded up and starved and worked and gassed and stuck in a mass grave. I don’t want to be torn away from my babies, my husband, my family. I also don’t want people who still believe in that bullshit to be allowed to breed. Then again, I suppose there are people who don’t think I should be allowed to breed, and I think my kids are smart and well adjusted, so it’s a stand off I guess.
Turns out there was a follow up to the story. Twelve children attended the birthday party, which had a cake, which was supplied by Wal*Mart. Well, good. The kids deserves a cake and a party. All kids do.
Seriously, please tell me why. I am actually physically ill right now with the copious amount of articles I can find with Jews supporting McCain/Palin and their disgusting ways. I am having considerably more trouble finding Jews for Obama type articles.
Maybe I am looking in the wrong places? I go to Chabad. It’s an ultra-orthodox shul. I am not ultra-orthodox, but they accept us, and we can’t afford to go to the reform shul. So SuperJew it is!
Why is SuperJew so incredibly not… super? Why is SuperJew anti-abortion, even when it’s rape? Why is SupoerJew up McCain’s ass?
I cannot find a single thing I agree with McCain/Palin on. Not a one.
I like to think I am a good Jew. I might not be as Jew-y as SuperJew, but the Torah teaches us there is no such thing as a bad Jew. The Torah teaches us love, compassion, understanding, and so many more things, I just cannot understand why SuperJew wants to keep so many of my friends from being married, wants to force women who have been raped (possibly by family!) from having abortions, wants to keep women who might die if they carry a child from abortion. Why does SuperJew want the shackles of religion controlling the government? If God is in charge of the US, can we start taxing God? Can we start repealing the commandments? We’ll take them, one at a time, to the supreme court. I bet if we get the right judge and jury we can have them repealed too, right along side Roe. Vs. Wade and so many other long standing, landmark cases, as well as some newer ones.
I google Jews & Obama. These gems are the first few entries:
http://jewagainstobama.wordpress.com/
http://jews4barack.com/mythfacts/?page_id=40
I am not even linking the creepy articles I’ve seen. Oh, sure I will. To get a good idea of how they think, read this one. Want satire? Try this.
Now before you think wrongly of me… I love being Jewish. I love the tradition. I love the comfort it brings me when I really need it and I love the freedom it allows me when I don’t. It is not my be-all end-all. It can’t be, because if there is a God, and s/he controls everything… I just don’t want to know. Too many things have gone wrong for me to be willing ot believe that. That said, I also do a lot of things that go against the teachings of the Torah. And that is OK by me, because I am not out to be SuperJew and I am not yet willing to devote my life to those teachings. Maybe I’ll never be. Maybe in another lifetime.
It frightens me just how many people are supporting McCain/Palin because they are “down home people” (they aren’t, he married money and she’s a gun-toting hockey mom in charge of a population smaller than the bottom half of Manhatten, nothing against guns or hockey, but not my image of a VP) and I wonder how many trully believe what they stand for… or even know.
I may not exactly be “for” Obama… but I am most definitely again McCain. I am not afraid of genuine, positive change. Change that I think Obama can start (and maybe see finish!) and that I know McCain will not even consider, and will start us in reverse. We certainly don’t need another four years of the Bush administration (or worse!), why elect someone hwo will be more of the same? Sure, the same might be comforting and familiar, but what have you been complaining about for the past eight years? SuperJew, it’s up to you to help do something different, and I have faith that come November 4, you will do the right thing, not choose blindly because it feels safe and familiar.
Who knows about a sensory diet? Our OT (who rocks) wants his daily schedule, both home and school, so she can make a sensory diet for him.
I can google, but they are all different, so who has experience with this? Is it going to be as “on 100% of the time” as I feel like it is? Are his needs about to take over my family? *sigh*
I am not borrowing problems, I promise. Here’s my problem, it already exists, and it existed loooon before I ever thought about having sex, let alone kids.
I grew up with OT/PT/ST things all around me. In my home, at E’s school, at her therapy appointments, you name it, it was always there. I have kind of a built in fetish for ortho stuff, probably because of the exposure I got as a kid. No, I’m not worried my kids will wind up with some weird fetish (I am not weird, and I have no problems with my fetishes, in or out of the bedroom. I also get a kick out of my odometer reading as a palindrome.) I am worried it will take up family money, take over family time, and push them out. Why? Because I’ve been there/done that.
I have no problem buying big, peanut shaped balls. No problem buying a soft mesh swing to hook up outside to play superman in. No problem buying special toys that maybe don’t cost extra but I normally wouldn’t buy only to satisfy his need for whatever (texture, sound, you know, whatever).
I do have a problem when it eats into our family, and the idea of a sensory diet, which, from what I can tell, is an all the time thing.
I totally googled – http://www.google.com/search?q=sensory+diet&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
I read almost three pages worth of results.
I just… I don’t want D & E to resent M like I did my sister. I love(d) my sister, but I totally resented her and what she took away from me for a long time.
I just got some more yarn in the mail from Midnight Sky Fibers. I ordered some more Doorjam. I won’t lie, it should be called Toejam. Someone asked me to define what colour it was, and I said, actually, it’s kind of vomit coloured. Don’t let that deter you from buying it. I adore it. It’s what I used for that dream swatch I posted about last week.
This is the description, verbatim, from the Midnight Sky Fibers sight:
Name: Doorjam
Weight: lace-sock
Yards: 50
Ingredients: wool
Description: Wool spun in stripes of miscellaneous colors- some with touches of mohair, alternating with a dusty purple stripe.
I bought about 90 more yards, to finish said dream swatch. It won’t be super long, but it doesn’t need to be.
When I first met up with Doorjam, it was in a sampler type box I ordered along with a yellow single skein. The yarns from Midnight Sky are always lovely. They have a great.. I want to say raw, but that’s not it, quality you just don’t get from a mass produced skein from a big company. I think a lot of it comes from being handspun (at least the stuff I buy) and not mass-spun. I couldn’t decide what to do with it, but it was begging to be something cute. I did a quick google, and remembered about the Dream Swatch and voila! That was it.
I even got a little surprise in this latest shipment, a free mini skein of Tangerine (which I cannot find on the site, so I am guessing it was an end) but it’s cute too. I am thinking another something small, a couple of change purses or something.
All in all, I have always had a great experience with Midnight Sky Fibers, and I absolutely would send anyone over there to buy yarns.
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