Chaim Amalek: “Different ages have different sacred cows. The man who wants to dress in women’s clothes, wear makeup and especially cut off his penis and testicles is today’s sacred cow, placed on a moral pedestal by white liberal elites (and by no other). Once Islam takes over, this will end.”
REPORT: Yiscah Smith came to Israel in 1971 as a man. Today, she is an Orthodox Woman living in Jerusalem. Smith sees her journey not just as one of gender, but of a quest for spiritual understanding and a hunt for authenticity.
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Here is the New York Times headline on the Denmark terror attacks by a Muslim: “Terror Attacks by a Native Son Rock Denmark”
Since when is anybody named “Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein” a native son of Denmark?
NYT:
This weekend Ms. Thorning-Schmidt warned the usually placid nation — whose 5.6 million citizens regularly rank in opinion surveys as among the world’s happiest people — that “if a madman is willing to sacrifice his life, then we will never be able to guard ourselves 100 percent.”
…While most Danes responded with shock to the weekend shootings, the country’s security services have been on alert against Islamic extremism since 2005, when the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten published 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad and, several months later, a Copenhagen mosque sent a mission to the Middle East to rally hostility against Denmark. Danish diplomatic missions were attacked and Danish businesses boycotted across the Muslim world.
In an editorial to be published Monday, Jyllands Posten said, “Unfortunately, it is difficult to claim surprise at the attacks in Copenhagen.” Terrorism, it added, was “not a question of if, but when.”
Kurt Westergaard, who drew a cartoon for the newspaper that showed Muhammad with a bomb in a black turban, narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in 2010, fleeing into a safe room at his home in the port city of Aarhus to escape a young Somali armed with an ax and a knife…
In 2013, Lars Hedegaard, an outspoken critic of Islam and a defender of Lars Vilks, the Swedish cartoonist who appeared to have been targeted at the cafe, was shot at outside his Copenhagen home by a gunman disguised as a postal worker…
In its response to the threat since the cartoon crisis, the authorities have combined extensive surveillance of suspected militants and of radical mosques with efforts to “rehabilitate,” rather than punish, young Muslims who dabble in extremism but have not yet been implicated in criminal actions. While most European governments have sought to arrest or expel residents who have returned home after waging jihad in Syria and Iraq, for example, the city of Aarhus has set up a counseling program to help them reintegrate into society…
Mohammud Awil, who has lived in Mjolnerparken since emigrating from Somalia 26 years ago, blamed extremist self-declared preachers who “pick on young people who drink or use drugs because they are very weak.” Mr. Awil, a bus driver, said he knew several families whose Danish-born children had gone to fight in Somalia or the Middle East. “They get brainwashed,” he said.
Ms. Thorning-Schmidt sought to calm tensions after the attacks, saying, “This is not a war between Islam and the West.”
Denmark was a placid nation like all Scandinavian nations until they imported Muslims and other third-worlders.
Why on earth does Denmark have Somalis?
I wonder how that counseling of Muslims is working out?
Islam and the West have been fighting for about 1200 years.
So do you believe in love at first sight? What if you see someone across the room and she smiles and your whole being explodes? I’m not talking about lust. I’m not talking about seeing somebody and all you can think about is wanting to bed them. I’m talking about seeing someone and wanting to talk to them all evening. What if you have a type that you run into a few times over the course of your life, a type that speaks to you beyond reason, moves you in a primordial sense, someone who vaguely recalls your mother?
Is there something to be learned from staring at the photo of an acquaintance, someone who’s polite and you’ve had maybe a total of two hours of conversation with her, and writing out everything that she brings up? If I don’t really know her, then this must be about me. Then surely this is a process of self-knowledge.
I love the dark, demure, mysterious woman, the good girl, the shy one, the one in charge, the teacher’s pet, the lady in the business suit, the one who has what I lack. I want her to hold me while I cry my heart out. Then perhaps we may begin?
All the loves of my life have looked like this:
Just her photo makes my heart ache. Should I talk in therapy why her photos move me so much? It happened the moment I saw her all those years ago. Why does the sight of her walking down the hall shake me up?
There was Cindy in sixth grade, then Denise in seventh, Rainy before 11th grade, Rachel in Australia, and then the two Lisas. Just talking to them, just thinking about them, made me high. I couldn’t hang with them for long. The feelings were too strong. I’d ricochet from frozen to chaotic.
OK, so they tap into my emotional hunger.
Blog: “Self-compassion is about approaching ourselves with caring, kind interest and a desire to help ourselves when we’re in emotional or physical pain, she said. It is about acknowledging painful feelings, allowing them and meeting our needs.”
According to Wikipedia: The concept of a lovemap was originated by John Money to assist a discussion of why people like what they enjoy sexually and erotically. According to Money, it is “a developmental representation or template in the mind and in the brain depicting the idealized lover and the idealized program of sexual and erotic activity projected in imagery or actually engaged in with that lover…
Money revisited the concept of ‘love map’ and expanded it to three categories, which are namely, ‘haptoerotic'(cutaneous), ‘morphoerotic’ (visual) and ‘gnomoerotic’ (narrative)…
Money describes the formation of an individual’s lovemap as similar to the acquisition of a native language, in that it bears the mark of his or her own unique individuality, similar to an accent in a spoken language. A lovemap is usually quite specific as to details of the physiognomy, build, race, color, temperament, manner, etc. of the ideal lover (p. 29).[1] Since its inception, the concept of “love maps”, applied to interpersonal relationships, has found apt acceptanc
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R. Kook argued that there is good reason to observe mitzvot even if one does not have a traditional view of the Torah’s authorship. On the one hand, there is nothing surprising in this. After all, would anyone tell a non-Orthodox Jew that it is OK if he eats on Yom Kippur?[1] R. Kook’s originality is therefore not seen in the bottom line, but in the argument he uses.[2] He notes that Maimonides and other medieval greats used arguments that they themselves did not accept in order to make religious points. For example, Maimonides used an argument that assumed the eternity of matter in order to prove the existence of God.[3] This was valuable in that those who accepted the former point would also be forced to acknowledge the latter point, i.e., God’s existence. Only then could he attempt to weaken the belief in eternity. Similarly, R. Kook is prepared to argue for the binding nature of Torah law even on the assumption that it was not given to Moses. This is valuable since, in his day at least, it was the acceptance of biblical criticism that encouraged people to give up the observance of mitzvot. If R. Kook can therefore show that even an acceptance of biblical criticism does not mean that there is no place for mitzvot, it will be a great achievement.[4]
R. Kook notes that traditional Jews observe rabbinic laws and even customs. His point is that these are regarded as valuable and help form the religious personality Yet no one believes that they were given to Moses by God. Why, then, should believers in biblical criticism not feel bound to other laws, which while traditionally seen as from Sinai, can also be regarded as rabbinic or even as customs (“folkways” in Mordecai Kaplan’s language). In other words, the mitzvot should be seen as having value regardless of their origin.
A friend who’s known me since childhood says: “You want everyone to love you. You want to be special to everyone. I so understand you. You have to have been unloved to understand this need.”
“As to NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder) you seem to have the background for it. I do not know if you treat people as things or manipulate them. You are unique if you are trying to overcome your lack of empathy and care. Most NPDs don’t recognize they have a problem.”
“Confusing sex and love is typical behavior for NPD.”
Attention is our substitute for connection, intensity for intimacy.
When I was bedridden with CFS between ages 22-27, I once complained to my stepmom that she wasn’t listening to me.
Her friend later explained to her, “Luke needs 500 people listening to him, and if he was well and at UCLA, he’d have that.”
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Preach equality to be socially acceptable, but practice supremacy (put your own group first).
Chaim: “In other words, talk like a Swedish WASP, but think and live like a Japanese. Unfortunately, today’s WASP talks and acts like a WASP.”
* Chaim Amalek: “Whenever a plane is hijacked, crashed, a temple is shot up, a cartoonist is murdered or dozens of school girls are turned into sex slaves, most everyone presumes a muslim is at fault.”
“I think you goyim need a special “Yeshiva for Noahide Goyim” to teach you how to survive in this world. And who better to be the Rosh Yeshiva of this school than Levy ben Abraham?”
“Won’t any Jew step up and teach the goyim who are not our mortal enemies how to make it in this world?”
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I tell a friend in Australia via Skype: “We thrashed the Poms by a hundred runs. I was telling everyone at shul about it but they thought I was a dago. They couldn’t care less.”
Mate: “I thought everyone in your area would be on the edge of their seats waiting for that result.”
Luke: “Not even the ones from Australia could care.”
Mate: “Yesterday, India beat Pakistan in Adelaide. It was the biggest TV audience for cricket ever, about 1.2 billion. They had tens of thousands of Indians fly in from India. Tell them that.”
Luke: “They all think a I’m wanker. It doesn’t matter what I say.”
Mate: “A game in the NFL wouldn’t have an audience of 1.2 billion.”
Luke: “The Super Bowl might.”
“I was trying to get anyone to listen to me in shul this morning about the cricket.”
“I must be like a stray dog that keeps coming around. They can’t get rid of me.”
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So when a car pulls up next door in 90035 and starts blaring the horn, is this person disrupting the peace of the community most likely:
* Seventh-Day Adventist
* WASP
* Mormon
* Buddhist
* Middle-Eastern
In my experience, Persians are the most likely group in 90035 to frequently use their car horn (and to bring the police in to settle down a domestic dispute).
I remember this Persian neighbor, when his teenage son wouldn’t immediately account for some money, began screaming, “My son’s a drug dealer!”
It was inconceivable in my Seventh-Day Adventist upbringing for any parent to scream, “My son’s a drug dealer!”, even if in fact the son was a drug dealer. Where I come from (Avondale College), we tried to keep that stuff quiet, along with the car horn. Growing up an Adventist, we’d go weeks without hitting our horn.
This girl on Tinder lied to me. Her profile says “24” but she’s only 19. What would we have in common?
Mark: “Plenty if she was a white supremacist, too. That’s a subject people don’t get wiser about with age. Doesn’t require a BA, either.”
Chaim Amalek: “Women are not for talking.”
“Tinder is a young man’s (and a young woman’s) game. Or at least that’s what the media would have you think. In fact, it is a waste of time for all sensible people. I believe that more relevantly (i.e., you will be asked to participate), the easy sex, drugs, and orgies of tomorrow will be held in America’s nursing homes, where aging boomers and gen-Xers will go to be cared for by angry Third World peoples full of triumphalism over having won the war.”
“Hashem wanted you to have procreative sex with many women from your previous life. That’s why he put them before you, that you might save them through sex and motherhood resulting from said sex. Fifty Shades of Grey is just goyishe nareshkeit that Yidden need not think about, ever, unless they can sell some related merchandise to the goyim and use that money to send their Jewish kids to yeshiva to learn talmud.”
“I never said Luke should have sex like a maniac. Luke is no maniac. Rather, I said Luke should have had sex like a man (e.g., a Mexican, or a Muslim), that is to say, without a condom or apologies, and with the long range purpose of procreating no matter the short term cost to his penis in terms of temporary painful lesions or the like. (I am not saying that would have happened, just noting the one reason often given for wearing condoms that also prevent procreation.) God set before Luke many women with whom he could have chosen one or two or three beautiful young women with whom to be fruitful and multiply, but Luke instead chose to blog. But Torah wants Jews to multiply, not to blog. Let’s get real here. I write these words with a heavy heart, not to hurt, but in the hope that someone fertile from Luke’s old life will present herself to him to follow God’s commandments.”
“Luke knows (or at least he knew) many women. There for the picking. This is not a matter for rabbis to resolve, nor can they. Instead, his best options are on the fringes of society, if he would but be bold enough to exercise them.”
Christoph Donnellan: “Or if she’s a Jewish Supremacist, you could talk to her about the glories of ‘Tiikun Olam’ and how Jews are a special ‘holy people’ who can never do any wrong.”
Damon: “As the saying goes, the first liar doesn’t have a chance. So go ahead and fight fire with fire – tell her you’re a world famous blogger/author and that you make lots of money.”
Nobody has offered me cocaine nor a threesome yet via Tinder. I fear that I’m doing it wrong.
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Before the big housing crash of 2007, it was conventional wisdom that home values could not fall across America at the same time.
Well, that was basically true. Home values during the great real estate crash of 2007 did not drop much for white and asian homes, but they dropped dramatically for black and hispanic homes.
Total U.S. data for home values; Key: Green=Hispanic, purple=Asian, orange=black, blue=white
Versus their peak, white neighborhoods in Greater L.A are currently down 1.6% in median home price, while Hispanic and black neighborhoods are still down over 20%…
Hispanics mostly live in very high home price states, such as California, or fairly high home price states, such as Arizona, Nevada, and Florida. (Texas is the exception.)
…I wouldn’t rule out a Red Chinese Housing Bubble in California. For example, California golf courses are selling for high amounts even though golf appears to be in long term decline. Early in the century South Korean money poured into California golf courses, only to get badly burned. Now Chinese money is pouring in, even though nobody seems to have a clue how to increase golf’s popularity, and it’s very hard to get the permits to plow under a California golf course to turn it into a shopping or housing development. But rich Chinese want something to own that can’t be taken away by Peking.
COMMENTS TO STEVE SAILER:
* An interesting analysis would be to look at the loan brokers that preyed upon the Hispanic immigrants. What are the characteristics, and how does the favorite question Cui Bono translate en Espanol?
* The fascinating thing about the MMM is that the ramifications of the economic disaster wrought – by mass immigration, as it happens – are still being felt profoundly in nations far away from the USA, which had no knowledge of and no control of American immigration and economic policy. For example, despite all the guff one might read, the UK, economically speaking, is still basically ruined. Likewise the genesis of the contagion that has destroyed Spain, Greece, Italy, Ireland and a whole host of other states.
From the rantings of American madmen – and libertarians – these being one and the same thing – insisted upon their ‘right’ to a one dollar box of strawberries, comes the destruction of the ancient Italian nation into a death spiral of deflation, demoralization and collapsed birthrates.
Fascinating, as I said, but also fascinating is America’s original sin, the importation of 500,000 odd west Africans, imported in order to satisfy the laissez faire lust for cheap cotton, but who eventual revealed themselves to be the avenging death angels of the jealous and capricious god, who cursed the States for the sin of having ‘too much of a good thing’.
The moral is ‘heed the words of Powell’.
* That Boston Globe article — which I read in full and much to my surprise was in the Business section — isn’t doing Hispanic immigrants any favors by making them out to be 100% victims. I actually agree that they are victimized — just not 100% victims.
For one thing the article points out: “People who were barely making mortgage payments before the recession went into foreclosure.” So even during the good times lots of these buyers couldn’t handle their payments.
Also their example family’s still in the house that was foreclosed on in late 2009. No mention was made of them making any payments.
It seems in this case a rough justice has occurred.
What will this family do when it is finally forced to leave — and to pay for housing again?
* It would seem the resilience of the housing market is proportional to the IQ of the region, with higher IQ regions such as Palo Also recovering the fastest and low IQ regions taking forever, if at all.
* L. posts: In my experience, all the homes I have seen for sale end up being bought by hispanics. It’s almost like no one else is buying homes but them. Then you end up like my old street, trying to study for my finals with Mexican polka music blasting through the walls every week, eaten corb cobs+old tamale corn husks thrown over the fence, clothes hanging to dry in the front yard or yelling and cursing at their kids all day long. It’s very rare to see a hispanic family who moves and who is not doing those things, unless they are second or third generation and fully Americanized. (Aka, English is the first language and not having the whole village living in the house or having the whole family visit every weekend).
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