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Hi, again!

It was simply ''amazingly excellent'' to have five days in a row off work!  Even ''more'' amazing was that we ate all the food we prepared for ''shabbat'' and ''rosh hashanah''!  OMG, we ate everything and had no leftovers, unbelievable!  Fortunately, there was a fast day just afterwards to help us digest it all and recover.  Daniela is on the mend, though because of the holidays and her having started work, we haven't yet caught up completely.  We would like to thank everyone who expressed concern for Daniela; she is fine, and also thanks you.

Jeremy's sister stayed with us for ''shabbat''.  She's here for a year-long program, so we hope we didn't scare her off and she'll come back for more!  We then had one of Sarah's best friends staying with us for ''rosh hashanah''.  She's ''also'' going to be here for a year-long program (not the same program), and I think the house will never be the same again!

But getting back to the food: I feel sorry for the several billions of people who are not likely to ever taste Esther's food.  Really, I do.  The rib-roast was tender and tasty, the chicken was delicious.  But those are "regular" foods; the ''maʿamoul'' pastries were out of this world -- delicate, lightly rose-scented scrumptious ground-walnut delights.  <sigh>

Ah! but after the fun, work resumed; truth be told, having only two work-days this week was not something I felt like protesting too strongly.  And next week is ''yom hakippurim'' (the Day of Atonement), so two days off work again.  And the ''following'' week is ''sukkoth'' (the Festival of Booths) -- so really, almost no work is going to get done until the second week of October.  That's OK by me!  I look forward to relaxation with family and friends.

Since I was restrained last week, I'll take off the gloves this week!

Last week saw the savage attacks of "enraged Muslim crowds" (is there any other sort, I wonder?) against US embassy personnel -- including the brutal physical torture and murder of the US consul in Benghazi Libya, the storming of the US embassy in Cairo as well as a number of other such activities across the Muslim world.  All this, we are told, in reaction to an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgx1_JVxfZE extraordinarily amateurish video], "Innocence of Muslims", which was apparently produced ''months ago''.  The immediate reaction of the Dhimmicrat Administration in occupied Washington, DC, was to [http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-innocence-of-muslims-disgusting-2012-9 disavow any connection with the video] -- as if any sane person would think they had produced or funded it!  The predictable "spontaneous reaction" of the Muslim world (precisely, "spontaneously", on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11) was to engage in rampaging violence and mayhem.

Now [http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/googles-restricting-of-anti-muslim-video-shows-role-of-web-firms-as-free-speech-arbiters/2012/09/14/ec0f8ce0-fe9b-11e1-8adc-499661afe377_story.html Google is restricting the anti-muslim video], in a cowardly act of [http://www.dhimmitude.org/ dhimmitude].  I suppose the great throbbing brains at Google are not familiar with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution First Amendment] to the US Constitution.  Yes, I realize Google is an international company, but it is primarily based in the US.  More disturbing is the call by US Dhimmicrat lawmakers to pull the film and/or criminally investigate its creators.  

The film is terrible, really obnoxious and nasty.  That doesn't mean that Muslimes get a free-pass to contravene civilized norms outside of their Crapistan countries.  Wanna riot in Benghazi?  That's your right I suppose, as long as you leave diplomatic personnel alone (as per international law).  But don't try to dictate to more civilized countries whether or not they can express opinions regarding the "Religion of Piss".  Fortunately (and surprisingly) the Jerusalem District Court [http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=285703 denied a petition to force Google to remove the film], so for the moment at least, free-speech is upheld in the Land.

Odds and ends:
* Do you have any idea [http://www.muqata.blogspot.co.il/2012/09/do-you-have-any-idea-how-offensive-that.html how offensive that is]?
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GCXHPKhRCVg A word to rioting Muslims]
* Binyamin Netanyahu [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBTZ6SKIBQw&feature=shareo tells it like it is]
* Muslim "rage" seems to have [http://rjstreets.com/2012/09/21/muslim-rage-and-yom-kippur-in-jerusalem/ missed Jerusalem]

This week's another ''shabbat'' with guests: our Rabbi's wonderful daughter and her friend; but this time we'll be eating out for the evening meal, so we aren't putting together as big a spread as usual:
grilled ''kebab'',
''pareve cholent'',
''salatim'',
red cabbage salad,
yam salad,
''matboukha'',
roasted eggplant with ''ṭeḥina'',
and banana-nut-chocolate-chip cake

Until next week,<br>
''shabbat shalom'' and ''gemar ḥatima ṭovah''!

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