Amir's First Self Spoon Feeding Experience...

Trip to the DMV...

On October 30th 2008 I took Amir to the DMV so I could renew my drivers license. So I suited him up and - for the lack of a better word for it - I put his leash on him. We went into the DMV and luckily there weren't that many people there. I filled out my paper work - babe in arm. I went to the counter and got my number then went and sat down. As soon as I got situated with Amir in my seat my number was called. So I went up to the window and went through the routine.. I took the eye test, babe in arm... I finally put him down so I could sign everything and then the lady informs me that I have to take a "quick" 25 question, open book test on the other side of the room.
I took the paper that I needed to go get that and stood in line for about ten minutes. When I got up there it was super crowded. They only have ten computers to take these tests on and its in a small corner. I just happened to be on computer number eight. Nightmare. It was right inbetween two people - A younger boy who was probably only about 17 years old and on the other side of me was a man who was in his mid twenties and looked extremely angry and he looked like he had been there for a while. I quickly took my test without looking at the book and passed.
I went up to double check my age, weight etc and got my new picture taken... In my picture I look like the fattest pig in the world. I hate it. I was going to ask him to try again but as I went to ask him Amir puked all over the floor.. Thats when I decided it was best to go. So I took my temp license and walked out the door. Leaving whoever to clean up the mess.

And this is what I ended up with.....

Arabs

Real Time with Bill Maher - 10/17/08 - Ben Affleck, Martin Short. Socialism. John McCain and Barack Obama.

If you don't want to watch the whole thing atleast go to where Ben Affleck talks about Arabs (about 5 minutes into it) It is hilarious and amazing.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL6YS-8rBnE.

Amir, 11 months

Today started out as what I thought would be a pretty normal day, Amir woke up around his usual time and went down for his first nap at his usual time. This is where things got a little weird. Amir usually stays asleep at least an hour and a half, two hours at most for each nap. But this time he only slept for forty five minutes to an hour. I was tempted not to go in there in case he was going to go back to sleep. But after standing by the door for a minute listening I could tell something wasn't right.. I went in and a wall of poopy smell hit me. I found him standing in the crib without pants or a diaper. His pants were on the other side of the crib from where he was standing and the diaper was around his ankles. He had somehow managed to get his overalls off and his diaper. He had also somehow managed to get poop everywhere on him but nowhere on the crib.
Needless to say that I will never underestimate that kid ever again!

700 Billion Dollar Bailout?

Boy, President Bush really does wanna go out with a "BANG"... a 700 billion dollar bailout? wtf? Who is to say by NOT doing this that it will get worse? They are trying to feed us this crap about if they DON'T do this that the global financial system will pretty much self destruct. In my opinion: NOT true.

In reality, congress has to decide between:

• Voting NO and allowing the free market to liquidate bad debts and unviable companies through allowing market prices to prevail; or
• Voting YES and empowering the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve to provide bailouts for troubled financial institutions with $700 billion (more likely trillions of dollars) created out of thin air, leading to rampant inflation of the dollar at best and the destruction of the dollar at worst.

Here is a fabulous video to watch: Ron Paul a few days ago on CNN -