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Happy birthday to me! In honor of my birthday, [https://www.timesofisrael.com/rules-for-israels-new-lockdown-what-you-need-to-know/ Israel commenced another lockdown]! This one is “for two weeks”, and is “the last lockdown”. I do believe we’ve heard those phrases in recent memory.

Sarah has ceased her employment in the retail sector, and is now (as in ''just'' now) starting as an executive assistant in an insurance brokerage. Better conditions and pay, and not opposite the public all day! We wish her success in the new position.

On my birthday, I awakened to news of the rioting in Washington, D.C., and the needless loss of life there. The
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3IQ8v3Q7QA Hodge Twins comment] on that unrest better than I can. I just want to say that I am deeply saddened by what’s become of my birth-country, and I do believe we are witnessing the end of the Republic as we’ve known it. Perhaps I’ll explain why I’m pessimistic about the future of the US in a future blog post, but let’s just say that the system of “checks and balances” no longer applies.

Topics of interest:
* Intending to encourage Israelis to get vaccinated, and coincidentally have a great photo-op, Netanyahu posed with the one-millionth person vaccinated in Israel. He probably didn’t know at the time that the person [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/294177 had been convicted of murder]. N.B.: TOI [https://www.timesofisrael.com/kan-retracts-claim-millionth-vaccinee-was-murderer-toi-apologizes-for-citing-it/ retracts that claim].
* Remember when saying “COVID was leaked from a Chinese lab” was labeled a “conspiracy theory”? Well, [https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/01/the-wuhan-lab-leak-hypothesis-goes-mainstream/ it’s gone mainstream] now. Had to wait until after Orange Man was gone, though.
* On the specifically [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGrbRoLMkEw anti-Jewish polices] of Andrew Cuomo, ''et. al.''. Jews of the US, take note!
* FWEEDOM! Vice President-elect Kamala Harris invents an entirely [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fivr2suH13c fictional childhood story], lifted directly from a similar one by MLK. Did she always know how to plagiarize, or was that a skill acquired from Joe Biden? Here’s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7fiMWs8Bc4 Matt Walsh] with a humorous take on that topic.
* Congress (via Nancy Pelosi) goes [https://nypost.com/2021/01/04/sorry-pelosi-eliminating-official-use-of-mother-isnt-inclusive-its-waging-war-on-women/ full retard] by proposing to eliminate use of gendered words like ‘mother’ and ‘father’. Can I get an “amen”?!? Can I get an [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/03/rep-emanuel-cleaver-concludes-opening-prayer-amen-and-awomen/ “awomen”]?!? 
* And finally: “Cosmo” decides it makes sense to [https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/04/cosmopolitan-magazine-pitches-obesity-to-women-despite-heightened-covid-risk/ pitch obesity] for “body positivity”.


I’m sorry to tell you that so far, 2021 isn’t shaping up to be an improvement over its predecessor.

Also on my birthday, I made a [https://8th-dev.com/forum/index.php/topic,2248.msg13061.html new release of 8th], the first of 2021. So far no complaints, but it’s only been a day or so! This release includes a “constraint solver” as well as prototype-based OOP. 

We’ve had quite warm weather, like early summer, this week! The warmth is to continue until next Thursday! Very strange January weather, indeed.

This ''shabbat''’s menu includes:<br>
homemade ''ḥalla'',
[https://www.food.com/recipe/tom-yum-gai-thai-hot-sour-chicken-soup-271462 ''tom yum gai''] soup,
[https://www.winespectator.com/articles/adeena-sussman-passover-friendly-braised-short-ribs-with-roasted-kohlrabi-mash braised short-ribs with kohlrabi mash],
chicken stir-fry,
rice,
various ''salatim'',
and fabulous birthday cake.

Until next time,<br>
''shabbat shalom''!

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