Tired Of My Friends Trying To Set Me Up With Hot Young Women

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Luke Ford

Luke Ford tells Rabbi Rabbs: All these women I meet in their 20s, yeah, they look good, but they don’t have the wisdom of a 50 year old with grandkids. They’re not wise Latinas like Elana Kagan. That’s what I want, but Jewish.

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I Wanted To Ask This Girl The Four Questions Of Passover

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Luke Ford

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Why Luke Never Visits Rabbi Rabbs On Shabbos

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Luke Ford

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What Have Kollel Guys Ever Done For Trayvon Martin?

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Luke Ford

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NYT: ‘In Hopeful Sign, Health Spending Is Flattening Out’

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Luke Ford

Why is it a hopeful sign? What’s so great about people spending less money on healthcare? I guess the Left knows the proper amount that people should spend on healthcare and will try to legislate it.

I want people to spend whatever amount they wish on their own healthcare. When it comes to the government providing healthcare, yes, there, as a taxpayer and a citizen, I have an interest in keeping expenditures down, but when it comes to private citizens, I have no interest in whether or not they want to spend vast sums on their healthcare or on their homes or cars or entertainment systems or educations.

The NYT reports: The growth of health spending has slowed substantially in the last few years, surprising experts and offering some fuel for optimism about the federal government’s long-term fiscal performance.

Much of the slowdown is because of the recession, and thus not unexpected, health experts say. But some of it seems to be attributable to changing behavior by consumers and providers of health care — meaning that the lower rates of growth might persist even as the economy picks up.

Because Medicare and Medicaid are two of the largest contributors to the country’s long-term debts, slower growth in health costs could reduce the pressure for enormous spending cuts or tax increases.

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Why We May Never Know Which 85 Ultra-Orthodox Men Were Arrested for Child Sex Abuse

Posted on April 27, 2012 by TheJewishChannel

This week on TJC’s Week In Review, the Brooklyn D.A. makes exception for ultra-Orthodox Jews accused of child molestation; is the shooting by two ultra-Orthodox men of a young black man in Baltimore another Travyon Martin case?; a new YU museum exhibit celebrates the Jewish contribution to modern medicine; one Jewish, Autism-awareness activist is leading a new anti-bullying initiative; and a new book called “The Men’s Section” examines the phenomenon of the Partnership Synagogue and the men involved in these congregations.

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What Is ‘Financing For Reproductive Health’?

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Luke Ford

The New York Times is talking about abortion. Quite a euphemism — “reproductive health”.

NYT: “Despite the busy national debate over contraception and financing for reproductive health, Sex Week at Harvard (and elsewhere) has veered away from politics, emerging instead as a response to concern among students that classroom lessons in sexuality — whether in junior high school or beyond — fall short of preparing them for the experience itself. Organizers of these events say that college students today face a confusing reality: At a time when sexuality is more baldly and blatantly on display, young people are, paradoxically, having less sex than in generations past, surveys indicate.”

Dennis Prager on his radio show yesterday: “The euphemisms that are used in the media for abortion are something to behold. It went from ‘pro-choice’ even though you never hear that the choice is to abort. Now it is ‘reproductive health.'”

“There are health issues in life such as what fatty foods you eat, exercise, and whether or not you have an abortion.”

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Responsibilities in uniform: zip up and pay up

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Luke Ford

Greg Leake emails: Hi Luke,

As a former military man who once wore the uniform during our VietNam campaign I confess I’m embarrassed and ashamed.

It is the responsibility of those of us in uniform to take American values of capitalism around the world. We represent something to the girls in Third World countries, and often what we represent is a free and equitable exchange between cash and services.

I would never have dreamed of trying to bargain down the price with a faithful prostitute. My policy, along with the policies of all my noble confederates, was to zip up and pay up. And sometimes with a tip of the hat and a quick “thank you, ma’am”.

So my feeling is that the Green Berets, the Marines, and the Secret Service personnel in Columbia should do more to show the flag, and if the girls ask for $46, make it an even $50. Give them a smile and part with a firm handshake. This is America we’re representing here, gentlemen. And we should not have our reputation sullied by some cheapskates who are not fully apprised of the American ideal.

So, men, zip up, pay up, salute the flag, and be glad you’re an American.

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Americanism VS. Leftism – Dennis Prager – Fox & Friends – 4-25-12

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Luke Ford

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I Was The King Of Kingdom Come

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Luke Ford

I was a spiritual being. I lived in a world of light. All day long, I wrote my blog without a care in the world. I studied the sacred text and I communed with angels. I was like Peter Pan.

Then one day, father came to me and said, “Son, I want you to go down to earth and live among men. Get a job for a Jew lawyer. Personal injury. Chase ambulances. Pay off credit cards. Do without health insurance. See how the other half lives. And take my message to them.”

And so I went down to earth and worked 9-5 as a secretary. Every day my boss would say to me, “Man, what are you doing here?” And I’d say, “I’m living the dream. I’ve never been happier.”

I worked among lawyers and I passed out my Alexander Technique business cards and did my best to embody observation, inhibition and direction.

One evening I was working late. There was a big party. We weren’t invited. A beautiful woman came by looking for the bathroom. I showed her. The boss had me revise documents multiple times. He said I looked tired.

The woman came back out and walked by.

“Nothing could make me happier,” I said to the boss as I did my final revision. “Well, maybe one thing.”

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