I Agree That "Illegal Alien" Is Not A Pejorative

Since "alien" does indeed mean "foreigner" or "not belonging", "alien" is not a pejorative. In fact, Tanakh uses "alien" several times. For example:

1. Deuteronomy 14:21 (Torah)
   “You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your gates, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
   
2. Deuteronomy 23:7
   “You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were an alien in his land.

3. Ephesians 2:11-13 (Hadashah)

   ¹¹ Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands— ¹² that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. ¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Also, documents— including draft cards— used the term "alien" in the 1900s. For example:

"Alien, Declared [For Naturalization]"

My Sister Is Actually Thinking About Converting To Catholicism....

In the words of Link from Hyrule to the casual gamers, "Really, [Michelle]?" In all seriousness, though (besides "Really, Michelle?"), Michelle may want to search up on Roman Catholicism on Google, my blog, etc.. Besides, the only reason that my dad and his family is or was Catholic is because they were or are Anusim Katolim-- they weren't really Catholic--; and now my sister wants to become a Katolit-- an Evangelical Catholic, but a Catholic! Oy vey!

Part of the reason she wants to convert-- to observe Lent without feeling pressured as a Protestant to not observe Lent. She may as well convert back to English-American Catholicism-- Episcopalianism-- if she's going to convert. But to remain just a plain old Jewish Protestant would be better for her-- and Protestants, Jewish and gentile, observe Lent all the time; whether or not they've never been Catholics or they are Ex Catholics.

How Just A Simple Shower Can Change A Look

I am wearing makeup in neither picture.

Example of What I Draw Besides Political Cartoons

Why a Romney White House Is Possible in 2012

Among other reasons:

1. The "establishment" (Non-Far-Right) GOP will be able to convince Independents and Democrats who voted for Scott Brown over Martha Coakley in Massachusetts that Mitt Romney, besides having been a successful-enough governor of Massachusetts, is a Scott Brown equivalent in many respects.
2. Former Governor Romney will be the first Hispanic president-- since George Romney was born in Mexico-- and the first Evangelical Mormon president, which will appeal to those who want novelty in this election cycle.
3. 2009-2011 were Democrat legislative and executive years. Wanting change by way of having Republican congressional and legislative years, many will vote out Senate Majority Leader Reid and President Obama as they voted the Republicans out of having the Senate Majority leadership in 2006 and the presidency in 2008. 

Is This The Miracle That I Prayed For?

Let's see: whether intentionally or not; whether or not meant to be tagged as Esther, I'm tagged as Haman in a photo. I get an e-mail from a Jehovah's Witness from the Jews for Jesus forums asking me to delete her name from a post which is archived (Thus, I can't remove her name.), I get spam from one person on Twitter, and two other people get hacked and send me spam on Twitter; and I could go on. Am I just getting a rub in the face again, or could I be like Esther?

Nicole Czarnecki

39 minutes ago near Baltimore

: If the big miracle that I prayed for is persecution & nothing else good with few exceptions right now, that's what I'm getting.

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    Dennis Czajka You might be being prepared. It can take a while. Look at some of the Biblical persons.

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    Nicole Czarnecki I know, but it's still hard.

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    Dennis Czajka Yes, it is. If it were easy, you wouldn't need G-d.

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    Nicole Czarnecki That's a point taken.

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Maybe I'm Anticipating That Big Miracle I Asked Everyone To Pray About...

Whatever is going on, though, I can't sleep. I was tired but I couldn't sleep. I was going to have breakfast with my sister at the UMBC dining hall, but my Facebook status now reads, "[I] can't sleep. By the way, Michelle, forget breakfast in the morning." My status before read "Pray for a miracle for me; in particular, one that opens doors for me & lets me tell the world "How do you like me now?!" Laila tov."


Should I just ask "Who cares [about me]?!", by the way?

Graceless Gingrich and Sort-of Supercilious Santorum

By Former Speaker Gingrich's speech last night, one can easily judge that Newt Gingrich won't take his opportunity to graciously drop out of the race-- after all, he thinks that his home state (even though Georgia is only one of 10, and of two out of 50, states) will be enough to help him win.

As for sort-of supercilious (though more-or-less-openly-haughty) Former Senator Santorum, he's relying on 2012's Southern Strategy-- Oklahoma, Tennessee, and the southernly state of North Dakota; as well as the Trifecta of Colorado, Missouri, and Minnesota-- all quite southern in their Republican culture as well. The South, with few exceptions, tends to pick the Far Right (who are quite honestly RINOs and closer to the Southern Democrats) and the Far Left; the Southern Democrats of old (and speaking of "of old", the Classical-- 19th Century-- Conservatives, the 18th- and 20th-21st-Centuries Liberals).

In other words, the Far Right are really liberals and RINOs, better off as the Southern and other Democrats that they were, and best off not continuing to co-opt the Barry Goldwater play re the Civil Rights Act; and Rick Santorum-- as well as Newt Gingrich, might I add-- may as well drop out and join the Democrats and let the real and viable Republican, Mitt Romney, take the 2012 GOP nomination. But Santorum and Gingrich may be as the Democrats and RINOs-- too graceless and arrogant to take the quiet way out of a losing game for them; as Congressman Dennis Kucinich demonstrated that Democrats, with few exceptions, do, by the way.

At My Age And With My Health Status...

I'm 22. I need roughly 10-12 hours of sleep. Barring the Rapture, with the stomach bug that I've had for the past two days, I would be in the bed right now. But Ohio has yet to be called. So, until Ohio's called, my getting-old, with-health-issues self will have to wait and stay up.

Purim Is Tomorrow, And Thank G-d That Haman (Ron Paul) Hasn't Won...

But Newt Gingrich has a real Haman or Ahasuerus complex. He is arrogant, looks at the "elite" and "establishment" like Vashti (that is, Gingrich doesn't find having self respect and a little good kind of pride acceptable; just like Ahasuerus didn't find Vashti's self respect and pride acceptable), and has hutzpah-- Haman had hutzpah to step on the Jews, the blessings to the nations; Gingrich has hutzpah to step on the voters who are hoping to defeat Obama, and the voters (who include Jews like myself) could well be blessings to Israel (if we don't vote for arrogant Newt, Santorum, and Ron Paul-- the especial Haman-- anyway). 

The GOP will not be a party just for show and a party to be a crown jewel for both the Far Right (who do not speak for the Republican Party) and Obama (who would love to show a defeatable candidate as his weak, too-pretty Vashti; his prize)

By the way, how Vashti got kicked out of the palace of Ahasuerus:

¹⁰ On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus, ¹¹ to bring Queen Vashti before the king, wearing her royal crown, in order to show her beauty to the people and the officials, for she was beautiful to behold. ¹² But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command brought by his eunuchs; therefore the king was furious, and his anger burned within him.

¹³ Then the king said to the wise men who understood the times (for this was the king’s manner toward all who knew law and justice, ¹⁴ those closest to him being Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who had access to the king’s presence, and who ranked highest in the kingdom): ¹⁵ “What shall we do to Queen Vashti, according to law, because she did not obey the command of King Ahasuerus brought to her by the eunuchs?”

¹⁶ And Memucan answered before the king and the princes: “Queen Vashti has not only wronged the king, but also all the princes, and all the people who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus. ¹⁷ For the queen’s behavior will become known to all women, so that they will despise their husbands in their eyes, when they report, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought in before him, but she did not come.’ ¹⁸ This very day the noble ladies of Persia and Media will say to all the king’s officials that they have heard of the behavior of the queen. Thus there will be excessive contempt and wrath. ¹⁹ If it pleases the king, let a royal decree go out from him, and let it be recorded in the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it will not be altered, that Vashti shall come no more before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she. ²⁰ When the king’s decree which he will make is proclaimed throughout all his empire (for it is great), all wives will honor their husbands, both great and small.”

Jewish Sources On "HaSatan" or "The Adversary", or "The Devil"

BecomingJewish.org:


Satan

Satan, or more properly, HaSatan is an angel who resides in the heavenly realm. HaSatan means the accuser or the adversary. The term Satan or HaSatan is used in three different contexts within the Tanach.^[1]

First, as an enemy in war as seen in I Kings 5:18: And now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side, (there is) neither adversary (שָׂטָן) nor evil occurrence.^[2]

Second, as an accuser before the seat of judgment as seen in Psalm 109:6: Set a wicked man over him, and let an adversary (וְשָׂטָן) stand at his right hand.^[2]

Third, as an adversary in the general sense of the term as seen in II Samuel 19:23...

HaSatan is an angel who watches over the activities of humanity, searching for mankind’s sins and then appearing as their accuser to Hashem. HaSatan is not considered an opponent to Hashem as Christianity teaches. Monotheistic teachings are no more disturbed by the existence of HaSatan than by the presence of other beings that go before Hashem. This view is shown in Zechariah 3:1-2 where HaSatan is described as the adversary of the high priest Joshua....

Head Coverings By Devorah:

Ha-satan is Identified with the Yetzer Ra:

In Judaism, ha-satan (the adversary) is mostly identified with the yetzer ra, but also identified with one who leads astray, then brings accusations against man.  Its chief functions is those of temptation, accusation and punishment.  Under the control of G-d it acts solely with divine permission to carry out its deeds.

As we see in the book of Iyov, ha-satan's function is described as that of testing the sincerity of men's characters.  Ha-satan is at all times under the control of G-d and keeps within the limits which G-d has fixed for it.

In Talmudic literature, ha-satan's function is to strengthen man's moral sense by lending him into temptation....  

Orthodox Judaism: Purpose of HaSatan:

Firstly, "the Devil" and "Satan" are one and the same - I think this nomenclature is used interchangeably rather than to show they are different entities.  

Satan is indeed G-d's angel (messenger) sent with the explicit purpose of making us the best we can be - challenging us to do the right thing by presenting a not-so-clear choice.  Remember Deuteronomy 30 - choose between life and good, or death and evil - and we are perfectly capable of making the right choice.  Satan is sent to not throw you off the righteous path, but to help you walk it in a more confident way.  

Hashem gives us all our challenges in order for us to overcome them and become stronger. Only in adversity do we grow; otherwise, we would not advance at all.  It doesn't mean Hashem sends Satan to drive you into evil; He sends Satan so you could choose good and therefore become more like Hashem.  

The statement you quoted correctly states that evil is created only by the absence of good.  Speaking in more spiritual terms, G-d is the ultimate good, and everything is G-d, so evil appears with G-dlessness. We are constantly challenged to stay on the side of light, on the side of good, on the side of G-d - that way, we are actually active participants in the process of creation...


For more, see "HaSatan Judaism", Google search term.   

In Case You Were Too Tired Or Even Too Lazy To Read Some of the YNet Comments For Yourself...

• I reported this comment for hate speech against a religious group. "hey Paolo in Italy you sold us out to the Nazis so instead of killing Catholics who believe all the Jews are going to hell we just won't deliver their bs bubbemeisers :D"

This comment I concurred with except for the "ignorant" part

• Only ignorance + fear could drive such hatred
  			If it's nonsense, then what is there to fear? Why hate? Why not have compassion and educate the ignorant instead of making enemies of them?  Thinking Jew ,   real world   (03.05.12)

• i want to throw up
  			great done postmen!!!! im not going to express my real opinions about that heretic called "jesus" cause ynet wouldnt post my comment lol but u can imagine  esty (03.05.12) This was the highly-inappropriate comment that I referenced:

• 24.  A question to the Israel Postal company
  			Israel Postal Company officials responded: "The Israel Postal Company is a governmental company operating in accordance to the Postal Law, which obligates us to distribute any mail it receives. The Israel Postal Company has no right or ability to chose what it can or cannot distribute...". Now my question. Would they distribute Hitler's "Mein Kampf" translated into Hebrew or "The Protocols of the Zion Sages" - in accordance with the Postal Law?  Vladimir ,   Yerushalayim   (03.05.12)

  
  

There were other highly-inappropriate and unfair comments as well, some of which I still haven't read the full extent of or chose to originally not read the full extent of.

To Correct pboisei And Others About Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism

Reform Judaism does believe in Israel as the chosen people in the privilege-and-responsibility sense. Reconstructionist Judaism believes in responsibility chosenness. Mordekhai HaKohen (Moredechai Kaplan) specifically founded Reconstructionist Judaism on that principle and other principles: "Kaplan rejected several traditional Jewish categories, most notably Chosenness. He felt that the term was misunderstood and too often taken as a sign of Jewish superiority, when instead it was conceived as an expression of Jewish obligation to God and humanity. So, too, Kaplan rejected the idea of a personal messiah (that is, that God will send a messiah in the form of a human being). He wrote the "Sabbath Prayer Book" in which he expunged both notions from the prayers. Some Reconstructionist synagogues employ a different version of the Torah blessings to this day, avoiding the phrase "...asher bachar banu mi-kol ha-amim..." (...Who chose us from all the peoples...)."


Reform Judaism "views the idea of the Chosen People as a metaphor for the choices we make in our lives. All Jews are Jews-by-Choice in that every person must make a decision, at some point in their lives, whether or not they want to live Jewishly. Just as God chose to give the Torah to the Israelites, modern Jews must decide whether they want to be in a relationship with God."

AKA, "How Antimissionaries Lie All the Time"

I honestly don't know how this guy with no conscience sleeps at night. As I told him, he can lie about me, the Foczkos, Rusznaks, Uszinskys, Gajdoszes, Chernetskis, etc. all that he wants. But he's serving only to get my YouTube video more views and to make my family history known, not to push his Self-Hating-Jewish cause-- since, if you don't love Yeshua (Jesus), you can't possibly love yourself or anyone else. 

These Blog Shabbats Have Been Useful...

Meanwhile, I could tell that in that moment between David McArthur and Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney was trying not to break down and cry himself. As for the timing of the elections, one could argue that these election cycles are short since past presidents didn't become presidents until later than January 20 (e.g., Lincoln in March). However, election cycles also started later back then. So, I agree with the "Special Report" panel in that unless some miracle for good or bad happens (since a miracle for Santorum would be bad for the rest of us-- e.g., if he won the Super Tuesday states), Mitt Romney's going to be the nominee. So, Super Tuesday should've been the day that the rest of the states (including Maryland) voted-- why drag the election out to April 3rd and all the way into June, even though I have time to get my absentee ballot application in?

I Lied When I Said That "It's [only] the Depression again."...

For example, when dogs and cats (like Moki, Mishka, Laika, Skeen, Winston, Cassy, etc.) are more famous than me, that's not only depressing; that's also (or so the situation seems that) G-d seems to be rubbing in my face that dogs and cats are more famous and loved than me. Then there's that (and I've blogged about all this before; but there's still that) sense of loneliness, injustice, etc.. I know that others are going through worse (which is another way of G-d rubbing my pain in my face-- "You know, there are people going through worse than you.")-- but my pain is not mitigated or taken away from.

I know why I'm lonely-- I'm an OCD/Anxiety-, Depression-, Cerebral Palsy-diagnosed, also ADD and IBS-afflicted, Anusi-born Messianic Jew with divorced parents and (with few exceptions) a Hell of a meshuga family and family history on both sides-- and I've already given you the megillah of my dad's family history (with yet more for me to find out and give, I'm guessing-- and the roadblocks in finding out the family history, including my meshuga family being deliberate roadblocks-- is depressing).

I've also given you a little of my mom's family history with the roadblocks in finding more out about it-- and, for example, try being cursed because your great-great-great-granddad was a Confederate veteran; and I've discussed how inquity visits the third and fourth generations continually, even to the thousandth-- the 250th of fourths of-- generations.

I mean, let's face very clearly that Pop-Pop Farrell's daughters and granddaughters, among others, suffered post-partum depression because "‘The LORD is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.’" By the way, if you think that having to know that many in your family suffered terribly under post-partum depression is just another facet of life, you're meshuga-- and you don't understand that one begins to suspect that the post-partum depression was just a manifestation of depression within the family or genepool.

In conclusion, I lied when I said that "It's [only] the Depression again."... es mi pinche vida y mi historia que puede me deprimir.

A Response To the Following "Devil's Advocate" Argument

"Just an apologetic argument for the Mormon side:

"The belief is that you are giving the deceased a second chance to enter Heaven by performing a proxy baptism. They are then given an audience with God and allowed to pledge allegiance, even if they had not done so during life."

The sin known as blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is the following:

"The blasphemy of the Spirit today, which is the same as the unpardonable sin, is the state of continued unbelief. There is no pardon for a person who dies in unbelief. Continual rejection of the Holy Spirit’s promptings to trust in Jesus Christ is the unpardonable blasphemy against Him. Remember what is stated in John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” Further on in the same chapter is the verse “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him” (John 3:36). The only condition wherein someone would have no forgiveness is if he is not among the “whoever believes in Him,” for it is he who “rejects the Son.”"

Once a person dies in blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, he or she will not want an audience with G-d:

"Death freezes the moral compass. People will remain in the fashion they enter. Revelation 22:11 seems to emphasize hell's unrepentant evil: "Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy" (RSV). The God-less remain ungodly."

"I don't think it's that big of a deal. If the Mormons are correct and, say, Anne Frank was not allowed into Heaven, she now is. If they are incorrect, then they've done absolutely no harm to her."

The Mormons have desecrated Anne Frank's memory, and Anne Frank was known to have died in peace despite her circumstances-- read the epilogue to her published diary. Also, the Mormons have done harm to themselves and others by preaching Joseph Smith's "gospel":

"I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, ⁷ which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. ⁸ But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. ⁹ As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed."

"Since the Mormons believe that this is the only way for the deceased to enter Heaven, according to their theology, it's hard to condemn them for caring about those in the afterlife. Because what we're really saying is, "Don't you worry about the fact that they're burning in Hell for eternity, with no chance of escape, simply because they had never converted during their lifetime. Leave them be!""


No Christian ultimately, even if initially he or she, wants for even the vilest of beings to die-- even if he or she struggles with wanting the vilest of beings to die for the rest of his or her life:

"Say to them: ‘As I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’"
"What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin."

Mitt Romney the Evangelical Mormon

According to the liberal "The Daily Beast", which is partnered with "Newsweek" and is in no way friendly to Evangelical (Born-Again, real) Christians:

 "When asked by Newsweek if he has done baptisms for the dead—in which Mormons find the names of dead people of all faiths and baptize them, as an LDS representative says, to “open the door” to the highest heaven—he looked slightly startled and answered, “I have in my life, but I haven’t recently.” The awareness of how odd this will sound to many Americans is what makes Romney hesitant to elaborate on the Mormon question."

Also,

"Nothing is more politically vexing or personally crucial for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney than the story of his faith. Raised in a devout Mormon family by parents who were both principled and powerful, Romney has downplayed both his religion and his own family history. Instead, he has talked up his résumé as a private-sector "turnaround artist" who reversed the fortunes of troubled companies and the faltering Salt Lake City Olympics and now can come to his party's—and country's—rescue. Mindful of the sway of evangelical Christians over the GOP base, he has positioned himself as the candidate with conservative principles and strong faith, even adopting evangelical language in calling Jesus Christ his "personal savior" (vernacular not generally used by members of the Mormon Church). But when he's pressed on the particulars of his own religious practice, his answers grow terse and he is quick to repeat that his values are rooted in "the Judeo-Christian tradition.""


Clearly, Mitt Romney has rejected the twisting of the following verses and is (so to speak) between a Rock (Jesus) and a hard place (the Mormon Church, which he is slowly moving away from or staying in to reform):


"²⁹ Otherwise, what will they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? Why then are they baptized for the dead? ³⁰ And why do we stand in jeopardy every hour? ³¹ I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. ³² If, in the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead do not rise, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”"

Part of Why Legalistic "Messianic Judaism" Is Not Jewish (Or Messianic Jewish)

Looking at Parshot Terumah and Tetzaveh, at least for me, the following comes to mind: "Some institutions are considered to be a product of the cultural milieu and societal norms of the ancient Near East when the Hebrew Scriptures were written down, and do not speak to our lives today." (Amy Scheinerman, URJ.org) While they do not lessen my belief in the inerrant and infallible Word of G-d, they do point out that "Some institutions... do not speak to our lives today" but for that they were instituted when chen (grace) was not habrit l'Yisra'el. 

Besides, the Mishkan (which took a lot of time, effort, and resources to build) and HaBeit Mikdash are both gone. So, how can one possibly expect to keep all 613 mitzvot, some of which relate to the long-past Mishkan and the yet-to-be-rebuilt Beit Mikdash?

Hi, Mia; I'm Not Afraid Of Your Lawsuit or Other Threats...

   

San Gabriel, California arrived from google.com on "The Nicole Factor: I Should've Mentioned This In My Last Video..." by searching for mia danilowicz.

20:20:20 -- 7 minutes ago

Let be known that as a fellow American, I have the right to call against you a boycott for your mistreatment of family members and others. I have called out your cousin and my granddad Jack Czarnecki for being a Self-Hating Jew who is not proud to have been an IRS Agent who brought down the Anti-Semitic Watergate causer, Richard M. Nixon. I have also called out Pop-Pop Czarnecki for the second-degree, malice-intent murder of his mother and my great-grandmother, Mary Trudnak Czarnecki. I also have called out our very distant cousins Kirk and Michael Douglas-- Kirk Douglas for his known rape of the late Natalie Wood, Michael for cheating on his then wife with his now wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones.

I will continue to call you for threatening me with a lawsuit over putting factually-correct information on UrbanDictionary.com that you merely did not like. I will continue to call you out for calling me  "fucking psycho". I intend to be no respecter of persons-- even myself-- whatsoever. Until you apologize for your mistreatment of me, I will continue to call for a boycott against you; and I will certainly reach no olive branch toward you until you extend to me a request for forgiveness for the way that you treated me.

As I've Blogged Before, I'm Not Going To Be Or Asking To Be Popular; Though...

I do want to be famous. However, I'm not asking or going to be loved by everybody-- case in point, many of my own family (including Matt Turner and Mia Danilowicz, and my dad and his parents) hate and/or want nothing whatsoever to do with me (which is part of why I want to be famous-- to show them; "How Do You Like Me Now", if you know what I mean. Anyway, if and when I'm famous, they'll probably even want to associate with me even if only because I'm famous.).

However, I'm not looking to fulfill the following:

"³ For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; ⁴ and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables." (From 2 Timothy 4, NKJV)


I'm not looking to lie to people. As my estranged cousin Kevin Miskell said, "I'm not selling my soul for money." In my case, I'm not selling my soul for money, family, etc.. In fact, in regards to my family, I love and hurt for my family so much that I refuse to sell my soul for and even to my family.


I'm not saying that seeing family un- and de-friend me on Facebook doesn't hurt. But I'd rather be hurt by family for doing the right thing than hurt myself and others-- including my family-- by not doing the right thing.

The Prayers For My Webcam Obviously Worked

Meanwhile, I was persecuted by at least four separate people on YouTube during the course of this Yom Rishon (Saturday evening to Sunday evening). I know that there is power in prayer for even shallow requests and that I was being persecuted by some force re the webcam, etc.. Thank you for your prayers.

Meanwhile, a more-serious prayer request: for my polytheistic friend whose family tried to proselytize incessantly to him or her. Please pray for him or her, that he or she will return to the Christian faith that he or she once had, and that his or her family members will not forcibly share their faith against the wishes of anyone-- whether a Non Christian, a struggling Christian, or even a strong Christian-- in the future. Toda v'Shav'ua Tov. 

Please Contribute If You Can (Not An Advertisement, Paid or Otherwise)

I finally read about JewishGen's Miskolc project. This is why part of why I donate what $10 I can to JewishGen each month or so (and I'd donate more, but Mom won't let me due to budgetary and other concerns). Please donate if you can for the sake of the Hanzoks and Fockos (Foczkos) to be found buried there; and for the Molnars, Filczaks, Rusnaks, and whoever else might be buried there (Remember that Diosgyor and Miskolc factor hugely into many Slovakia-born Jews' lives and the lives of their descendants.).

Illegal Aliens and Driver's Licenses

Remember this "bustup" that looked like a Jack and Greg Czarnecki fight (My family will get this reference.)? LAPD Police Chief Charlie Beck and Sheriff Lee Baca want to track illegal immigrants using drivers' licenses. How do this bustup and the LAPD plan connect? Alfredo Ramos could've easily been tracked this way in Virginia Beach (where at least two of my cousins and their sides of the family live, and I wonder how they were affected by the Ramos-caused tragedy).

As a Jewish and Latina descendant of illegal-immigrant Anusim, I might be about the only other Republican who agrees with Chief Beck and Sheriff Baca. In other words, yo acuerdo con Geraldo Rivera en eso sujeto respetando a inmigrantes ilegales.