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Today is a great birthday

5 November 2008 By Leave a Comment

Last night I watched the news. I watched the coverage on CNN of the election. I thanked technology that we can see who won so quickly, and not wait for the Pony Express to make it’s way across hill and dale to report who won in the western most states.

I cried last night, well, teared up at the least, because President Elect Obama’s grandmother wasn’t here to see him be the choice of the people. Because he was overwhelmingly the choice of the people. This wasn’t the “too close to count” race of 2000. This wasn’t the disappointment of 2004. This was an overwhelming outpouring of support.

He gave a speech worthy of ID4, a speech I hope they will be replaying for days, weeks, to come.

I haven’t written much on him. I truly believe he is our every man. We’ve elected someone who is young and has most of America’s interest at heart (most, because obviously, not everyone wants what he wants, I’m OK with that).

I am bowled over with happiness that McCain/Palin did not get this honor. Why? Their politics scare me. Their belief in god (big G, little g, it matters not) scares me. No god should be in charge of America. Look where it’s gotten us.

We may not see positive change this term (I would be shocked), but it is being set into motion. As early as today it is being set into motion.

I woke Dorian up last night because he wanted to stay up, but I knew it would be too late. I told him Mr. Obama won and will be our next president. I feel a little bit safer, better, more secure for my children’s futures today. It’s a little bit brighter outside. My heart is a little bit lighter.

Sure, sure. We as a people helped make history last night, but frankly, that would have happened either way (by way of a not 100% white man being elected, or by way of someone with a uterus being elected). What our country did was put aside most of it’s differences. What our country did was really take a look around and understand that we can’t keep on the path we’re on. So we’re going to veer a little bit now. We’ll head in the right direction yet.

My generation looked past the colour of that man’s skin. I cannot wait to what change the next generation brings, and the one after that.

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Palin hits Obama for ‘terrorist’ connection – CNN.com

8 October 2008 By Leave a Comment

ENGLEWOOD, Colorado (CNN) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday slammed Sen. Barack Obama’s political relationship with a former anti-war radical, accusing him of associating “with terrorists who targeted their own country.”

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lashed out at Sen. Barack Obama’s ties to controversial figure William Ayers.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lashed out at Sen. Barack Obama’s ties to controversial figure William Ayers.

Palin’s attack delivered on the McCain campaign’s announcement that it would step up attacks on the Democratic presidential candidate with just a month left before the November general election.

“We see America as the greatest force for good in this world,” Palin said at a fund-raising event in Colorado, adding, “Our opponent though, is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.”

Palin made similar comments later at a rally in Carson, California. CNN Fact Check

Obama’s Chicago, Illinois, home is in the same neighborhood as Bill Ayers, a founder of the radical Weather Underground, which was involved in several bombings in the early 1970s, including the Pentagon and the Capitol, and the two have met several times since Obama’s 1995 campaign for a state Senate seat.

Palin hits Obama for ‘terrorist’ connection – CNN.com.

How does that not reflect poorly on the McCain group? I mean, really, how does it not?

Obama is over here saying “look at his record, he did this, this and this” and McCain is over on the other side saying “when he was 8, he lived in the same neighborhood as an accused, but not convicted bomber.” They are grasping at straws and I cannot understand how so many people can’t see this.

I also didn’t realize how young Obama was (48 whenever that statement was made!) and I would think that more people would vote for someone younger. I mean, I can see the seniors voting McCain, he’s their age, supposedly on their side (ha!) but…

As I said a few posts ago, I want someone who is going to inititate the change we need, not bring us four more years of decline. I don’t need the US to be a world supoer power, but I certainly don’t need it to become a third world country either, where our children are broadcast on European televisions as needing a few pennies a day for rice. In my world, we get that country, we send them food, and while I have always believed we should help our own homeless, our own hungry, I have never in my life thought that our country as a whole would turn into that hungry little girl.

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The Palins’ un-American activities | Salon

8 October 2008 By Leave a Comment

Oct. 7, 2008 | “My government is my worst enemy. I’m going to fight them with any means at hand.”

This was former revolutionary terrorist Bill Ayers back in his old Weather Underground days, right? Imagine what Sarah Palin is going to do with this incendiary quote as she tears into Barack Obama this week.

Only one problem. The quote is from Joe Vogler, the raging anti-American who founded the Alaska Independence Party. Inconveniently for Palin, that’s the very same secessionist party that her husband, Todd, belonged to for seven years and that she sent a shout-out to as Alaska governor earlier this year. (“Keep up the good work,” Palin told AIP members. “And God bless you.”)

The Palins’ un-American activities | Salon.

I’ve been eerily quite these past few weeks on McCain/Palin and Obama/Biden. Why? There was just so much, I couldn’t pick just one! So I give up. I’ll be inundating with links to blogs, stories, you name it, and my prattle about it (even though I am neither foolish nor inconsequential, I know there aren’t that many listing to my go on about it).

Palin jsut scares me. My take? McCain has her saying all sorts of nonesense that he knows he can’t smile and “you betcha” his way out of.

Vogler wasn’t just a blowhard either. He put his secessionist ideas into action, working to build AIP membership to 20,000 — an impressive figure by Alaska standards — and to elect party member Walter Hickel as governor in 1990.

Vogler’s greatest moment of glory was to be his 1993 appearance before the United Nations to denounce United States “tyranny” before the entire world and to demand Alaska’s freedom. The Alaska secessionist had persuaded the government of Iran to sponsor his anti-American harangue.

How could the fact that Palin’s husband was associated with this party go unnoticed by McCain? How did the McCain campaign think it wouldn’t matter if they did know about it?

I obviously do not understand Joe Six-Pack (can you get more offensive? really, can you? From any interpretation, it’s offensive) can want this team in office. I can’t understand why he can’t pick up a paper or read something other than Fox news online. I’m really stumped. I’m not a graduate from Harvard. I went to Art Institute. You know, where they take you as long as you can pay them.

I think the difference is, I read. I want the status quo to change. I want my daughter to have the same rights my mother had, not a throw back to the rights my great-grandmother had.I want my children to grow up not afraid of the climate or going outside or that the energy is going to run out. I want them to know the value of a dollar, not the value of an inflated dollar that you can’t but a pack of gum with. I’m not saying Obama is the answer, but he’s more of the answer than McCain is, who really is just more of the same.

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Why is Judaism synonymous with McCain?

18 September 2008 By 2 Comments

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.

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Sensory Diet?

10 September 2008 By Leave a Comment

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.

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