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Last Tuesday I woke up with a Mike Fitzpatrick for congress sign on my lawn, the Republican. I removed it, and sent a Mr. Fitzpatrick headquarters an email.

Today 余艾蕾 and I received a mailing paid for by the RNC. It called Mr. Fitzpatrick’s Democratic opponent, Ginny Schrader, un-American because she showed Michael Moore’s movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, at a fund raiser. I don’t know much about Ms. Schrader and I have not seen Fahrenheit 9/11, but calling free speech un-American in un-American. They are allowed to call it that, but it makes the RNC, um, un-American. Even Iran can distinguish between the actions of US citizens and it’s government, apparently Republicans can’t.

Both the Democrat and the Republican parties are liars and will do anything, not short of breaking the law and toppling government, to stay in power.

I’m going through some mini hell trying to make my phone be able to connect to my vodafone email and download it to my mobile. It shouldn’t be hard, right? Wrong. I keep getting SSL connection failed, no matter what I do. Of course, trying to log into my email over their per-minute charge wap interface gets me closer (at least there I’m asked for user id and pw). They don’t really make it clear which user id and pw you should use tho. I hate that. So I’m tryin all these different combos to make it work. Thankfully, I think I got a decent guy on the help line…who just told me we have to go to the shop to have them test my (2 week old) SIM card. Argh.

Zoë, just over four months old, is no longer the youngest person at day care. I’m happy a baby started there half her age. With us, wherever she goes she is the center of attention, up till now she was also the center of attention at day care. Maybe now she will be second seat for the first time. Can’t have a child with a big ego, you know.