#FluffyFriday: ironically — or paradoxically —this ancestral native of Malta and “Puddle” hates water

And she’s mostly “Puddle”! PS That is literally where the word “Poodle“ originates — the German word for “puddle”! Also, Malta is an island. Additionally, her mother — you could say – is a Toy Maltese-Puddle!

What’s a little rain, then? Actually quite a bit to Camille!

#ThrowbackThursday: Reprising a jerk move...

More like because Reilly thought that “Momma“ was being a jerk, but anyway....

#SweetSunday Preview: Reisy and Rosie

Reilly Rosalita has a new teddy bear...and one that (sort of) shares a name with her.

This is an example of why Reilly’s greetings don’t tend to be live

PS Shabbat v’Chag Shavu’ot Haba Shalom, and mazel tov v’b’hatzlacha l’Bob Behnken v’Doug Hurley!

#WoofWednesday: Busted!

It doesn’t matter who started it; it matters that Cam’s picking up Ri’s bad example.

#SillySunday: how a natural light effect makes two puppies look

And then one picture in which the light did not distort their heads or necks:  

PS: Happy Homecoming Day, Reilly!

#SaturdaySurprise: picking up Reilly and Camille from their grooming appointment

PS “Momma”/“Auntie Nicole” finally got a way to embed the videos in Blogger entries from her iPhone after all!

#FluffyFriday: Camille Is Not a Night Owl

See https://youtu.be/ESUlt9-8ziY...as YouTube does not have an option for “Auntie Nicole” to get embed codes to embed the videos into her blog entries...at least in Chrome for iPhone.

To everyone whom is giving Governor Hogan‘s administration a hard time

The Preakness is a once-a-year event. In an average Maryland school year, or 180 days a year, there are way more people in way more crowded venues per day. Learning increasingly be done online, and not every kid does well in a traditional school setting, anyway (and especially students with disabilities do poorly in traditional schools settings compared to other students, mainly because their peers as well as those who are supposed to be their educators often try to  exclude them and otherwise bully them. That is thankfully much harder to do to a student when there’s a paper and/or a computer forensics trail, and authorities can get involved if someone needs to be held accountable for cyberbullying a student while he’s trying or she’s trying to learn.). Think about that before you criticize somebody whom has to consider 24 school districts state wide.

As for me, I still take Howard CC classes online, and last time I tried on campus was miserable – mainly because of an ablestic professor and one of her assistants. The worst part is that she knew that I  have disabilities in advance (She asked each student in the class on a form which she handed out if there were going to be any problems that might affect the student’s performance in the class. My cerebral palsy and men’s wellness is, including OCD/Anxiety, were not in known her. As for her assistant, that she’s another discussion is sufficient to say.).

I’ve also dealt with ableists at HCC even online—and one situation I was able to stop because I was able to threaten legal action and had an email trail (which I could’ve printed out if I needed to print it out) to help me (and even though I still can’t drive yet, someone would’ve hopefully done the right thing and given the paper trail to whomever it needed to be given should the situation have escalated to that). I can imagine, then, what the kids and adult students who don’t have that option – especially if they’re more vulnerable to something like COVID-19 — would have to endure if they didn’t have the online-learning option or another non-traditional option—and given the cases in the news, that might include their peers deliberately trying to infect them with COVID-19 or other viruses.

PS I will never forget when another HCC professor exclued me from an activity that involved tying shoes of all things—she didn’t even try to ask if I can do it – and even refused to help me up when I fell in the hallway one time—as she just walked right on by me, and she had seen me fall. That’s part (and what I subsequently endured is also part) of why I can imagine what kids and adult students who don’t have the options that I have might endure even worse than I endured — and anyone deliberately trying to infect them with COVID-19 might be among that.

#FluffyFriday: This is how Shabbat starts?

Reilly is not “Auntie Michelle‘s” choice of music at this time of night –especially because it’s not klezmer music on Shabbat😉.

To make up for it, “Momma” asked Alexa to play klezmer music—and the first song turned out to be one about Shabbat!

Busted! Reilly the chicken thief

Incidentally, Camille just got busted for biting “Mom-Mom“ when “Mom-Mom” was just giving them some chicken— and they’re not getting any more chicken for tonight as a result. Meanwhile, Reilly’s still trying to get food from the table!

So, Unfortunately, Some Rumors About A Certain Singer Being Anti Semitic Are True

See https://youtu.be/RaDX1si_vC8 for more on why.

#TuesdayTrouble: Staredown From An-Angry-at-“Momma” Reilly

The Reason That “Momma” Is a Human Mom...

In pictures:

Happy Mother’s Day to all human moms, whether they’re moms of human or fur babies— And whether they’re moms biologically, adoptively, or otherwise!

#MaltipooMonday: Camille and...

her “Mimi”. “Auntie Nicole“ could not resist capturing the moment in a photoshoot!

#SillySunday and #SleepySunday: “I am trying to nap, and...

“It’s not easy when Auntie Michelle is listening to good music and Mom-Mom is cooking steak.”

On an incidental note, Happy Metcha Day, Reilly!

Commentary: A Call to Shalom—and Being Better Than “Best”

The future alone—and ultimately, the “I Will Be Who I Be”, the Creator of all time—will judge which was the true United States of America from 2016 to 2020 and hereafter, and who were the true Americans—those who subscribe to the more or less materialistic-mythical ethnic prejudices (not to mention other prejudices) of the day (for example, gender prejudices), or those Americans pure in heart, soul, and mind, heirs to the great Americans of the past whose tradition they revere and perpetuate.

....Actually, I just changed and added a few words. The original was the following quote from Edmund Husserl: 

“The future alone will judge which was the true Germany in 1933, and who were the true Germans—those who subscribe to the more or less materialistic-mythical racial prejudices of the day, or those Germans pure in heart and mind, heirs to the great Germans of the past whose tradition they revere and perpetuate.”

Every one of us needs to consider that this year as we vote, follow current events, and live our day-to-day lives coexistingly alongside fellow Americans and the strangers within our midst, even if we agree to disagree with them—especially if we ourselves are strangers because we are in various diasporas, and we can at least walk with others inasfar as we do agree with them.

This Might Explain Part Of My Facebook And Other Silence Of Late

I am tired of having my Jewishness questioned (and that includes that I’m still upset over the fact that I even was once accused of questioning someone’s Jewish heritage when I defended somebody for being a ba’al teshuvah when he was being treated like a convert instead of somebody who found out about his Jewish heritage and chose to reconvert to traditional Judaism—that kind of stuff hurts, especially when you haven’t been believed about your own heritage). I didn’t even expect that I would ever find it out, and I didn’t even know about it for the first 18 years of my life. That’s not just something that you say that you are. I have also received Anti-Semitic threats, so it’s not just something that I would just say. I could easily pass like many of my ancestors did. I am an Ethnic Jew—albe mixed blooded—and a bat Anusim— that’s why I’m not as lucky as I have the direct evidence that everyone else has, although I do have circumstantial evidence that should be enough.

I could also convert to traditional Judaism just make everybody happy. I choose to be a Jewish Christian for a reason. “Were I to please everybody, I would not be a servant of Christ.”

Multiple times – especially because of my Depression and other circumstances, with my Jewishness being questioned exacerbating all of it – I have thought about taking my own life just to be in Heaven and get the answers that way (I’ve also thought about coming back once I get those answers just to give them to everyone else, but who would believe me then? Besides, I wouldn’t want to come back), and there’s also that I wouldn’t have to suffer anymore. Yet, I know that Yehovah (B”H) has me here for a reason. “To live is Christ, and to die is gain.”

Also, I’m too much of a coward to try taking my own life— besides, what would happen if I survive an attempt? And what would happen to Reilly if I did take my own life? I’d like to think that part of my purpose is to help others whom have had their own heritage questioned so that they don’t have to suffer what I’ve suffered, but at least the thought of what would happen if I tried to take my own life and survived possibly being worse than not trying to take my own life at all as well as trying to be a good “Momma” for Reilly keep me living.

PS In case it wasn’t obvious, many of the people who are questioning my heritage are just being bullies because of my mixed blood and because of my beliefs. I should clarify that because I was trying to be charitable, though I realize that with some of them being on my Facebook block list, perhaps I should be clear and not as charitable— though that they’re on my block list is enough,  I avoided blocking them for a long time, and I will not name them.

On Yom HaSho’ah, We Must Remember Way More Than Six Million Jews Murdered In 12 Years

Truth be told, the Holocaust actually began in 1922 under Stalin in Soviet Russia and did not end until 1994 when the last Chief Rabbi of Aleppo, Syria left Aleppo. Too often, the Holocaust in the Soviet Union – including the “Doctor’s Plot”—is overlooked because Stalin fought as an Ally, and the Holocaust in the Middle East—including the razing of Jewish cemeteries and the Constantine Pogrom—is simply chalked up to Anti Semitism in the Arab and Arabized World. Until we recognize that the Holocaust in Europe did not end until the gulags were closed in 1960 and that the Holocaust in general did not end until October 1994, many more than half of American adults will be unaware of how many Jews really died in the Holocaust and how many Holocaust survivors there are.

Also, there were likely way more than 6,000,000 Jews—some of whom were not known and/or counted as Jews—murdered by the Nazis. Until we begin to remember the forgotten and count the uncounted and unknown Jewish victims—as well as the forgotten and uncounted gentile victims—of the Nazis, we can’t fully begin to remember Stalin’s forgotten, uncounted, and unknown Jewish victims or the Arabocentrists’ and Arabizationists’ forgotten, uncounted, and unknown victims.

If we forget to remember the way more than 6,000,000 Jewish victims as well as gentile victims of the Holocaust as well as the countless Jewish and gentile survivors whom were able to live to tell what they endured, may we be forgotten and left with nobody to tell about anything that we’ve endured—much of it quite small compared to what Holocaust victims and survivors endured (and what many survivors continue to endure—e.g., PTSD, loneliness due to having lost family members and other loved ones—including fellow survivors—over the years, poverty).

#SentimentalSunday & #SillySunday: This Photo Captures Reilly and Camille Perfectly....

And it'll (finally, Yehovah willing) be Reilly's page's new cover photo soon (and it made "Momma"/"Auntie Nicole" laugh just now).

#SillySaturday: “Get out of my face!...And you!..

“Give me belly rubs.”

#FlashbackFriday and #FluffyFriday: Antics for the camera

Knowing that jealousy can be cute if you’re a certain Maltipoo name Reilly

Trying to get Reilly into trouble by barking at other puppies and their people

#MaltipooMonday and #ManipulationMonday: how to manipulate the camera like a paws.....uh, boss!

Option one: Momma loves giving belly rubs, and therefore belly rubs are perfect to try to score to distract her from recording a Facebook livestream – which she also saved on her phone. Whatever the case, try to distract her from recording a video for any social media, let alone Facebook and Blogger, by begging for belly rubs. 

Option two:  Momma is putting away the leftover pumpkin that Mom-Mom open. Even if she tries to get a picture in exchange for giving you pumpkin, let her take the picture and do not share any pumpkin with the rat – the one whom they call “Camille”. PS Since Camille knows me as “the brat”, I have the right to call her “the rat”.

#SillySunday and #SentimentalSunday: video of Reilly that Google Photos automatically compiled

A.k.a., “The Rei-luctant Celebrity”

Part Of Why Camille Should Not Trick When She Doesn’t Have to “Go Potty”!

In other words, she knows that she’s busted when she tricks!

#WoofWednesday: They Tolerate Reilly’s “Momma”

This Only Reappeared Once, BTW

And it faded just about a minute ago and hasn’t reappeared since. When I recorded this video, it had been there for quite a while. It reappeared for a short time.

Then again, just as I was uploading these photos...



PS God can absolutely use objects that are already around and light to make shapes like that — it’s not random coincidence.

I also took some other video, and you can see it at:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7oRvbS79jkM

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o8zNFR7v2xM

Phenomena actually just keep coming in, too—Next time that I access to my computer, Yehovah willing, I’ll post all of the picture and video that I took, and I did not capture everything.

#SillySunday: Vitamin C and Pumpkin

PS This really did happen.

From T-R-E-A-T-S to Praise: How’s It Working?

So far, so...

So, How Did Reilly React To “Momma”’s Singing, Darling?

“Momma” herself recorded Reilly’s reaction. PS YouTube won’t let iPhones allow its users to copy embed codes, thus the link instead of an embed.

Of Puppies and Baby Talk

Example A...or C(amille)