Yom Kippur

Tonight is erev Yom Kippur. Hopfully everyone has an easy and meaningful fast. Jonny and Alberta will both be able to partly fulfil this Mitzvah. Alberta needs it. Here are her latest transgressions. She wanted to put up the pictures from her class zoo trip. She borrowed Jonny's camera and deleted all the pictures. Then she asked Jonny for help copying them to her facebook account. Some of her '14 friends as Alberta is graduating from high school in 2014 are called are calling themselves '10's. Outrageous, Angelina and Jonny agree on something. This morning she broke a butter dish. Yes don't sweat the small stuff and it is all small stuff. Those were pictures form the summer, including video of Jesse playing soccer, Lorraine's birthday party, Jesse's birthday party. Gone. The rules are a quick dinner and then possibly a walk to kol nidre service. Afterwards, no water, no snacks. Maybe a shower and teeth brushing. In the morning showers and teeth brushing. No snacks, no water, no breakfast. There is no child care service for Kol Nidre. So Jonny and Alberta will go alone. Lorraine is 10 and doesn't want to go anyway. Hard to make her when Angelina and Jesse will be home doing homework. By 1 PM Jonny and Alberta will be famished. Almost there for a short 23 hour fast. Fast ends at 4:15 or whenever dinner is served whichever comes later. Jonny has class at 5:30 so after Lucy is walked it will be another Yom Kippur in the history books, just like last night's debate. It was quite a dissapointment. The debate was a tie. But a tie like a 3-3 score in a football game. Lots of good defense. Not lots of good offense. No high balls. No 300 yards passing. And no fumbles, no interceptions. No penalties. Come one admit it, it was pretty boring. Same old stuff on both sides. The key was no one got their mind changed. Come on Ohio, Barak Obama needs your vote. Jonny read the political platforms of both parties. They seem pretty even. Both want a two state solution with Israel. But McCain is the party that: lied to get the US into war, couldn't get Bin Laden, gave up on Afganistan, let people die in Darfor, didn't help in Katrina, deregulated the press to the point where there is no liberal bias, there is a huge right wing press monopoly, spied on the american people, tortured prisoners, encouraged illegal immigration, tax breaks to the wealthy, shipped jobs overseas, got a corrupt monopoly for the expenses of the war in Iraq, wants raped women to have their babies, wants republican style health insurance. All Jonny wants is internet voting. he doesn't really care about the rest of that stuff above. But in the meantime those are good enough reasons to let the democrats have a shot at the white house. Besides, McCain pulled out of Michigan. Angelina will vote for McCain anyway. Jonny has about 1000 reasons not to vote. Thank Hashem he has a job, that doesn't care if you're late for work to vote, has a job in the same town where he works.