This will be the last blog post until tomorrow night, after I break my fast. I am as crabby as a three-year-old when I get really hungry. You don’t want to be around me until I’ve eaten. Trust me on that one.

If I have offended or wronged anyone in the last year, I apologize, and ask your forgiveness.

This year, more than others, we should remember this:

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

May the words of freedom give heart to those struggling under tyrannies everywhere, but especially in Iran.

A team of Rabbis, Jewish Scholars, and Project Runway winner Christian Siriano were brought in to design the event.

At the beginning of the service a plate of traditional and symbolic foods will be at the head of the table. Fresh organic horseradish root will provide the bitter herbs symbolizing the bitterness of slavery, handmade adzuki paste will symbolize the mortar slaves worked with, along with three matzos symbolizing “slaves bread” made by Mario Battali and each costing $400.

To represent the tears of the Jewish slaves, there will be glasses of actual tears collected in Jerusalem from widows watching Yentl.

The Haggedah, the story of the Jewish exodus from slavery, will be read aloud by the President while behind him it is projected on a screen in a CGI animation designed by George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic studio and presented in 3-D. All necessary 3-D glasses have been blessed by a Rabbi and deemed kosher.

Here’s my favorite part:

For added effect, a 4 square foot section of the Wailing Wall has been brought in from Israel. Guests will pour small amounts of Manischewitz at its base in remembrance of those who have died along the way, while the Washington Men’s choir sings a Hebrew translation of the Bone Thugs ‘n Harmony song Crossroads.

I love the Weekly World News. It’s gotta go on my sidebar.

May the Holy One, Blessed be He, keep the modern-day Hamans of Iran from harming today’s Jews.

I’ll be back later.

This year, I’m going to enjoy my first New Year’s Eve in my new home. And at midnight, I’m going to open the door and listen to the absence of guns being fired.

Yes, my old apartment complex got that bad.

We had latkes, of course, and the roast chicken came out perfect. Sam brought his home-made chocolate chip cookies for dessert (very good. Unfortunately, Tig and Gracie hid upstairs. I got Tig out by bribing him with Fancy Feast, so Sam and Mara did get to meet him. Their parents met him last time. I think there were just too many new people for the cats to absorb. But Sam’s going to come over again tomorrow, and help me get the hard top on my Jeep, so it’s highly likely that Tig will come out for him.

In the meantime, the last virtual menorah picture until next year.

I’m off to bed. It’s been a long day.

And here’s the sixth light, which I forgot to post yesterday.

See, my orange boy can’t climb on this. Well, he could, but he definitely wouldn’t do it more than once.

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