#StreamingSaturday: Reilly Being Bad, Superbowl Predictions, and a Groundhog(?)

Reilly predicted the Chiefs in the last livestream, by the way.

#SillySaturday and #SentimentalSaturday As Well As Belated #FlashbackFriday & #FluffyFriday Pictures Of...

A puppy in a Ravens scarf to wish her "Auntie Michelle" a happy birthday!

PS Reilly actually begrudgingly cooperated for this picture set, as "Momma" told her to "say" "Happy Birthday, Auntie Michelle!" if she wanted a treat.

For #WoofWednesday As Well: Tuesday Livestream With A Freshly-Groomed Maltipoo Named Reilly

And Without Revealing Reilly's New Look In the Beginning....



Or if you want the surprise spoiled, here's a set of #MaltipooMonday and #MemoryMonday photos (including Reilly the Paw-Poo(dle)-shka!):

#SuperbowlSunday? Reilly Made A Prediction Already?

Maybe. Maybe not. You'll have to watch this #StreamingSunday livestream to find out:



PS Reilly did correctly predict 2018's Superbowl winners.

#FluffyFriday: Reilly the Really-Gregarious Pup, and Winter Wishes From the Aforementioned Really-Gregarious Pup

PS Reilly's and Camille's snow-day book can be found at Amazon! 

Commentary (And A Shameless Plug): Part Of How To Promote Your Books, With An Example

1. Definitely state why you write books (and write in general) and why you want to continue to write books (as well as in general), especially if you want to become or continue to be a full-time author.
2. Suggest for what people should buy your books: e.g., for leisure reading, as belated holiday gifts, to support you as an author
3. Appreciate when someone does buy a book of yours, and even give him or her a shoutout.
4. Be persistent and timely in promoting your books, and "be persistent" does not mean "be harassing" or otherwise "be annoying". If others can and want to buy your books, they will. Likewise, "be timely" does not mean "be badgering" or "promote your books for every occasion and at every interval possible". In fact, being badgering and/or exploitative of every occasion will only be wasting your time and your potential audience's time.

Example:

PS Promoting the books four times on Facebook within five days was enough for now, especially with promoting them once today. 

#StreamingSaturday: Reilly "Knows What She Wants When And Why" Czarnecki

PS Yes, the scratches are still there. They don't hurt like they did before, though (Reilly hates sitting on "Momma"'s lap for livestreams!).

#TuesdayThoughts: An Example When "Momma"/"Aunt Nicole" Can Relate To Puppy Videos On Twitter

They are, and they are brats as well (Here, they received toys that a family friend got them for Christmas.). pic.twitter.com/jZLT8h2haG

— N.V. Mara Czarnecki (@Nickidewbear) January 8, 2020

The context of that tweet?

They are, and they are brats as well (Here, they received toys that a family friend got them for Christmas.). pic.twitter.com/jZLT8h2haG

— N.V. Mara Czarnecki (@Nickidewbear) January 8, 2020

"Momma"/"Auntie Nicole" personally thinks that Tucker the Golden Retriever just actually wanted to see the baby and say "Hi" to him or her, just like when Reilly and Camille get (though especially Reilly) gets excited when she hears any human sounds (e.g., voices, footsteps). To be fair, nonetheless, Tucker's owners know Tucker better than she does (and she doesn't even know him at all, and they'll still know him better even if she did).

PS Another video with the Reibrat and Cambrat:

A Blessing For Protection

בברוך יהוה אלוהינו, מלך העולם ואל אלוהי ישראל, יהוה צבאות ושומר ישראל מי מצוה המלאכי עליון  להגן ולשמור כל בני ישראל וכל הצדיקים מגויים.

Transliteration:

Baruch Yehovah Eloheinu, Melekh Ha'Olam v'El Elohei Yisra'el, Yehovah Tz'va'ot v'Shomer Yisra'el Mi Metzave hamalakei Elyon lehagen v'lishmor kal b'nei Yisra'el v'kal hatzadikim m'goyim.


Translation:

Blessed be Yehovah our God, the King of the universe and the God of Israel, the LORD of Hosts and the Keeper of Israel Whom commands His angels to protect and keep charge over all of the children of Israel and all of the righteous among the nations.

#MaltipooMonday: How 2020 Started Off For Reilly, Etc..

And, yes, Reilly is a proud MaltiJew even when she's too sleepy to give "Momma" kisses to acknowledge her Yiddishkeit.

Commentary: Yes, She Was Around Him. What May Have Happened If She Weren't May Have Been Worse. Ask Salma Hayek, For Example

With Harvey Weinstein finally being held to account for the various rapes and other acts of sexual abuse that he committed, so, too, are his victims being held accountable...for being abuse victims.

For example (and being a survivor of childhood abuse, although thankfully not childhood sexual abuse, I had to reply when one person held Harvey Weinstein's victims accountable for something that they did not do):

Look more closely at the pictures. Rose McGowan and Meryl Streep, e.g., are clearly not comfortable being around Harvey Weinstein.

— N.V. Mara Czarnecki (@Nickidewbear) January 6, 2020

A common fallacy is, "If (s)he's around him (her), (s)he must not really be being abused." Many abuse victims stay around their abusers because they are Stockholmed and/or they dread what might happen if they don't.

— N.V. Mara Czarnecki (@Nickidewbear) January 6, 2020

Being an abuse victim is not a choice or in any other way something that an abuse victim does. After all, for instance, nobody chooses to be sexually abused or have their kneecaps broken, let alone have their taken altogether for that matter (as if rape isn't its own form of murder):

"“He told me he wanted to kill me,” Hayek told Winfrey. “He said to Julie Taymor [the director of ‘Frida’], ‘I am going to break the kneecaps of that ‘c-word’.”" (Brackets in the original)

"I had brainwashed myself into thinking that it was over and that I had survived; I hid from the responsibility to speak out with the excuse that enough people were already involved in shining a light on my monster. I didn’t consider my voice important, nor did I think it would make a difference...

"I don’t think he hated anything more than the word “no.” The absurdity of his demands went from getting a furious call in the middle of the night asking me to fire my agent for a fight he was having with him about a different movie with a different client to physically dragging me out of the opening gala of the Venice Film Festival, which was in honor of “Frida,” so I could hang out at his private party with him and some women I thought were models but I was told later were high-priced prostitutes.

"The range of his persuasion tactics went from sweet-talking me to that one time when, in an attack of fury, he said the terrifying words, “I will kill you, don’t think I can’t.”" 

Even Salma Hayek fell for the "Since I was around him, I wasn't really being abused" fallacy in light of all that, however:

"I had to say yes. By now so many years of my life had gone into this film. We were about five weeks into shooting, and I had convinced so many talented people to participate. How could I let their magnificent work go to waste?
"I had asked for so many favors, I felt an immense pressure to deliver and a deep sense of gratitude for all those who did believe in me and followed me into this madness. So I agreed to do the senseless scene."

She recognized this:

"It was soul crushing because, I confess, lost in the fog of a sort of Stockholm syndrome, I wanted him to see me as an artist: not only as a capable actress but also as somebody who could identify a compelling story and had the vision to tell it in an original way."

With the fallacy being, "(S)he wasn't being abused by him (her), or else she wouldn't be around him (her), the actual case is, "(S)he continues to be around him (her) because (s)he's Stockholmed and/or in dread of what (s)he might or will do."

If Rose McGowan's, Meryl Streep's, and Salma Hayek's cases don't convince you of that, look at the cases of Jerry Sandusky's victims (whom were male victims of a male abuser and, even though they are survivors, will never fully recover from what was done to them in this lifetime—and what sexual-abuse victim, especially any rape victim, ever really recovers from the abuse that she or he has to endure?).

If not even the cases of Jerry Sandusky's victims convince you, look at those of Michael Jackson's victims (notwithstanding that the cases of Wade Robson and one other person are apparently questionable). If not even those cases convince you, go back to looking at cases of male-against-female abuse and start with the case of Andrea Constand (By the way, yes, Bill Cosby also abused children, as then-teenager victims of his were obviously teenagers and obviously therefore children—and one of them was Nicolle Rochelle, whom was actually a preteen when she first had to be around him).

Either way, your choice to believe or disbelieve sexual-abuse (and other abuse) victims whom continue to be around their abusers will not change the fact that sexual-abuse (and other abuse) victims continue to be around their abusers because they've been Stockholmed and/or threatened within every inch of their lives by those whom'd they'd otherwise gladly escape. 

A Special Card From Reilly

Commentary: A Prophecy and Exhortation(? If So, Blessed Be Yehovah)

Keep in mind that this was all originally a thread, by the way. Please read every tweet if possible. Also, do not let this be to me. Let the glory be to Yehovah.

(PS I call the New Testament both the B'rit Chadashah and Yigdal, thus why this blog entry is tagged as such.).

"And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes... https://t.co/04Lj50k7li

— N.V. Mara Czarnecki (@Nickidewbear) January 3, 2020

A Belated Card From Reilly

PS Reilly and "Momma" observed both on the night when most others were observing Zot Chanukah, anyway.

Final Commentary For 2019: The Recent Attacks On Jews Have Had Nothing To Do With Religious Bigotry...

They instead have had everything to do with ethnic bigotry. With the desecration of matzevot in the Žilna, Slovakia-area town of Rajec to the stabbings that happened in Monsey, New York (all with the ablestically-pulled "He has a mental illness" card to literally add insult to injury—despite that the attacker had bleach on his clothes) among the recent series of Anti-Semitic hate crimes, one can conclude only that those who have both hurt the living and attempted to disturb the rest of those whom have gone on to the 'olam haba are motivated by ethnic bigotry, not religious bigotry, against Jews. As World Jewish Congress Chairman & CEO Ronald S. Lauder stated, those who fire rockets into Israel "don't care what synagogue [their intended victims] attend." In fact, they don't care if they attend any synagogue at all!

One could be as nontraditional a Jew as, for example:

1.  A San-Francisco-residing Atheist Jew whom is a card-carrying member of Freedom From Religion and also a member of the LGBTQ+ community, despite that his or her parents were and are active members of Daly City's Egyptian Karaite community whom never thought that their son or daughter himself or herself would be anything but a devout Karaite
2. A Jewish Christian/Messianic Jew/Jesus-believing Jewⁱ of any given background
3. A Cochini Jew whom's a HindJew (Jewish Hindu) raising his or her kids in an interfaith (or intermovement/interdenominational¹) HindJew-BuJu home with his or her Kaifeinger Jewish spouse whom is a devout BuJu.
4. A Muslim Lemba Jew whom was able to make aliyah and is living with his or her Muslim Ethiopian Jewish partner in a sort of common-law-marriage arrangement, since he or she can't marry her or him for whatever reason.
5. A Cochini-Kaifenger Jew whom's in a HindJew and lives with his or her Muslim-BuJu partner, whose one parent was a Muslim Lemba Jew and whose other parent was an Ethiopan JuBu 
6. A Cherokee Jew whose Black father is a pastor in a Baptist church and whose mother practices Native American traditional religion, and whom identifies the most with his or her African-American heritage as well as practices a syncretic form of Baptist Christianity and Native American religion
7. An asexual Afro-Cherokee-Egyptian Jewish American whom practices a syncretic form of Baptist Christianity, Native American traditional religion, and Karaite Judaism, much to the dismay of each and all of his or her grandparents, each and all of whom also are dismayed that the grandchild in question has chosen to neither marry nor even have children through surrogates or by adoption.
8. A transgender sibling of the decidedly-single multiethnic-and-multifaith cisgender Jew whom is mentioned above, and whose own religious persuasion is ambiguous.

One could also be as traditional as, for example, the rabbi whom a hateful man attempted to murder on Hanukkah.

The point is, then, that any one of the kinds of Jews listed above and every other kind of Jew could be targeted by Anti Semites—none of whom care about our individual or shared religious beliefs and practices, sexual orientations and gender identities, or intra- and inter-ethnic lineages—or any other individual or shared factors but for our Jewish ethnicity.  

ⁱ Or however you identify yourself if you're a Jew whom believes in Jesus. I myself choose "Jewish Christian" to make unambiguous "ethnically Jewish and religiously Christian" and thus leave nothing to open to discussions, questions, debates, or word games by Anti-Messianic ("Anti-Missionary"/"Counter-Missionary") individuals and groups.

¹If one looks at the histories of Hinduism and Buddhism, they'll see that Buddhism could be called "Reform Hinduism" in at least some respects

#FluffyFriday & #FunnyFriday: A Serious PSA With Humor, Courtesy Of Reilly Rosalita the Maltipoo

No es Dos Equis—¡no obstante, beba responsablemente!

And To All...

We hope that you like our card. Merry Christmas and night nights. ~ Reilly and Camille

Since Kislev 25, 5779 Fell On December 21-22 on the Karaite Calendar...

The New Moon was sighted on the 27th of November.

And...the #ThursdayThoughts Livestream!

#WoofWednesday Preview Of #ThursdayThoughts Livestream

1. So "Momma" and Reilly ended up not going to Tail Lights after all, and not by their choice—after all, "Momma" wanted, e.g., to have Reilly enjoy herself and see some of her friends there while her human family who would be with her (i.e., "Momma" and "Mom-Mom") would enjoy the lights.
2. (Re)Training Reilly is a work in progress—and sometimes feels like how training a dragon would probably feel!
3. Reilly was barking at someone or something tonight—only God knows what and Reilly knew what at the time (Pups have different kinds of memory retention than humans do.).

#MaltipooMonday: How To (Re)Train Your "Dogter"

#ThrowbackThursday & #ThursdayThoughts: Early Superbowl Prediction?, Reilly the Bad Example, and Camille the Not-So-Afraid One

#MaltipooMonday & #MemoryMonday In Re A #SillySunday: This Is...

An example of why Reilly and Camille do not often wear hats for pictures (Hint: they don't let their human family keep on the hats):




Saith the Roobear, "Never more" to hats.




Same for Camille, and "Auntie Nicole" couldn't help but laugh at how cute Camille looks in a Ravens Santa hat.

The Second Hanukkah & Christmas Gift For Reilly And...Fritz-mille!

A Special Card From Reilly

A Two-In-One Card From Reilly & Camille

Alternative version (though the blue section looked more gray than blue, even though the original picture was blue. "Momma"/"Auntie Nicole" tries to meticulously use the right colors.);

#ThrowbackThursday: Did Two Puppies Even Want "Momma"/"Auntie Nicole" To Come Home?

Commentary: I Almost Died This Weekend (Don't Let Anyone Convince You Otherwise!); So...

Three lessons:

1. As a family friend pointed out, I need to gradually withdraw from caffeine days before the surgery next time.
2. "I will not die; but I will live to tell what Yehovah has done": Interpretation Two happened. i.e., I had severe complications, though I did indeed live. (The other three interpretations: live without complications; die physically and at least be in Heaven, and live at the Resurrection; and die physically and at least be in Heaven, and live at the Resurrection as well as perhaps so-to-speak live through whatever writings of mine, etc. others discover after I die.).
3. There are people whom will take the low-enough action of unfollowing a person on Twitter just because he or she hasn't tweeted in a day, even despite that he or she made clear that he or she was having a surgery! Of course, I have to wonder how those people treat their loved ones and others will illnesses both online and offline!

Meanwhile, here's the long story short regarding how I almost died (and relearned to never assume that any surgery, including a Baclofen Pump-replacement surgery, will be successful without complications as well as to never take life for granted):

After coming out of anesthesia successfully, I gradually had an onset of severe caffeine withdrawal. The withdrawal, from what I understand and experienced myself, totaled 10 hours (I thought that it was way less before I was told otherwise! Anyway, I had 10 hours) of life-threatening headaches, vomiting (including throwing up coffee), and near-fainting dizziness due to a caffeine headache that was resolved by a caffeine IV (and then I held down coffee!) and caffeine pills (Irony!). 

I was held back for almost two days, having not come home (away from home) until Sunday (and I was scheduled to come home on Saturday morning, and was anticipated to come home perhaps even on Friday afternoon!). As for the present, at least I'm home (away from home [L'shanah haba'ah b'Yerushalayim, 'im yirtzeh Yehovah!]) and recovering step by step.

I'm also learning and relearning to never take life or uncomplicated success in surgery or recovery for granted, and I'm advising others to learn and relearn from someone whom almost died (namely, me) to never take life or uncomplicated success in surgery or recovery for granted!

#ThursdayThoughts: Are Two Puppies Ready For "Momma"/"Auntie Nicole" To Have Surgery?

#StreamingSaturday: Reilly the Brave Girl, Seasonal Wishes, Etc..

#TimeTravelTuesday: How To Get Into Trouble At Least Three Separate Times On #MaltipooMonday

1. Knock the lid off the recycling bin to try to get whatever may be in there in terms of whatever food could not be rinsed off of items, and also get a foil ball with which to play! Also walk away because you know that you're busted when "Momma" disciplines you for getting into the recycling bin in the first place.
2. Bark inappropriately at another pup while you're on your morning walk.
3. Be mean to "Auntie Michelle" when she's going to bring you downstairs from your evening nap and take you to go "potty". To be fair, at least you do apologize to her by listening to "Momma" and asking for a belly rub as a way to say, "Sorry, Auntie Michelle; and I know who rules" when all that "Momma" asked you to do is go over to her and give her apology kisses!