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 In further bizarre news, Daniela reports that her school has cats in the ceiling of the beit-midrash (study hall).  Somehow they crawl into the suspended ceilings and can't get out.  Because they can't get out, they meow and sound like human babies trapped in the ceiling.  So the maintenance people managed to trap some of them and remove them, but alas! the smell remains.
-Even more bizarre is that the Arabs [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202742144027&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull expect us to protect them] from a nuclear Iran.  Excuse me?  We have a government which can't even protect its citizens from two-bit thugs with model-rocket building skills.  Well now there is a truly [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202657415879&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull proportional response] being discussed.  Let's hope the citizens of Sderot take the advice.
+Even more bizarre is that the Arabs [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202742144027&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull expect us to protect them] from a nuclear Iran.  Excuse me?  We have a government which can't even protect its own citizens from two-bit thugs with model-rocket building skills.  Well, now there is a truly [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202657415879&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull proportional response] being discussed.  Let's hope the citizens of Sderot take the advice.
-Some of you may think my approach to the "palestinian" conflict is extreme.  This week Esther pointed me to [http://bogieworks.blogs.com/treppenwitz/2008/02/and-that-your-h.html this blog].  I couldn't have said it better, he almost duplicated my thoughts.  Despite it all, [http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/141297 Peace may be possible] - if only Hamas, Hizbullah, Iran, Syria ... will let such people continue to breathe.
+Some of you may think my approach to the "fakestinian" conflict is extreme.  This week Esther pointed me to [http://bogieworks.blogs.com/treppenwitz/2008/02/and-that-your-h.html this blog].  I couldn't have said it better, he almost duplicated my thoughts.  Despite it all, [http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/141297 peace may be possible] - if only Hamas, Hizbullah, Iran, Syria ... will let such people continue to breathe.
 On the more sane front, the company I work for is presenting in [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1202742134959&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Barcelona at the 3GSM conference].  Well, by now I guess it's "has presented".  Hopefully good things will come of it.
 Shabbat shalom!

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 Hi again!
-I have to preface this week's edition by telling you that, like [http://www.davebarry.com/ Dave Barry], I am not making ''any'' of this up.  My mind isn't that twisted, despite what you may have heard.
+I have to preface this week's edition by telling you that, like [http://www.davebarry.com/ Dave Barry], I am not making ''any'' of this up.  My imagination isn't that fertile, despite what you may think...
-On Sunday, a collections agent from the city came to our house, and gave us a notice of "imminent collection", letting us have 48 hours to settle our debt with the city before they come back and repossess our belongings.   The problem is that the debt they are concerned with is not our debt, but the previous renter's debt (now the landlord's debt).
+On Sunday, a collections agent from the city came to our house, and gave us a notice of "imminent collection", giving us 48 hours to settle our debt with the city before they return and repossess our belongings.   Of course, the debt they are talking about isn't  ours, but the previous renter's.  We told the collector that, but he said that since we are in the house, we were the ones who had to pay up!  So that afternoon Esther and I went to City Hall, to talk to the head of the department -- with whom we are now on a first-name basis.  As we were waiting for him, the clerk (who also knows us on a first-name basis) motioned me over and asked if she could help us.  I explained the situation, and she said, "but that's not your debt!".  "Exactly", I told her, "which is why we're here now".  She told me to hold on, while she called someone in the collections branch and gave them our landlord's address and phone.  There is justice, after all.
-* gas mask collector
+That night, as we were at home trying to calm down (my blood-pressure was elevated for hours that day), we hear another knock on the door.  We open the door, and some guy starts speaking very quickly -- and all I understood was the first few words, "I'm here to collect ..."!  Both Esther and I were pretty wiped out and asked him to repeat himself a couple times.  Finally I understood that he was coming around to collect [http://www.israelnewsagency.com/israelwarcivildefense.html gas-masks].  He was collecting them because they need to be recharged periodically.  We don't have any, though.  So the guy goes on, "oh, you're new immigrants? OK, bye.".  I guess we don't get gas-masks in case the {{wiki2|Scud|SCUDs}} start falling.
-* [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202657415879&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Proportional response]
-* [http://bogieworks.blogs.com/treppenwitz/2008/02/and-that-your-h.html I couldn't have said it better]
+In further bizarre news, Daniela reports that her school has cats in the ceiling of the beit-midrash (study hall).  Somehow they crawl into the suspended ceilings and can't get out.  Because they can't get out, they meow and sound like human babies trapped in the ceiling.  So the maintenance people managed to trap some of them and remove them, but alas! the smell remains.
-* [http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/141297 Peace may be possible ...]
-* [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1202742134959&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Barcelona 3GSM]
+Even more bizarre is that the Arabs [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202742144027&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull expect us to protect them] from a nuclear Iran.  Excuse me?  We have a government which can't even protect its citizens from two-bit thugs with model-rocket building skills.  Well now there is a truly [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202657415879&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull proportional response] being discussed.  Let's hope the citizens of Sderot take the advice.
-* [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202742144027&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull even our enemies love us]
 Shabbat shalom!

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 On Sunday, a collections agent from the city came to our house, and gave us a notice of "imminent collection", letting us have 48 hours to settle our debt with the city before they come back and repossess our belongings.   The problem is that the debt they are concerned with is not our debt, but the previous renter's debt (now the landlord's debt).
 * [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202657415879&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Proportional response]
 * [http://bogieworks.blogs.com/treppenwitz/2008/02/and-that-your-h.html I couldn't have said it better]

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 * [http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/141297 Peace may be possible ...]
 * [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1202742134959&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Barcelona 3GSM]
 Shabbat shalom!
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 * Incredible but true: city wants to repossess our stuff
-* [http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/12092/25982304 I couldn't have said it better]
+* [http://bogieworks.blogs.com/treppenwitz/2008/02/and-that-your-h.html I couldn't have said it better]
 Shabbat shalom!