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Jewish News
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I’m Live On My Cam!
Palestine4ever: “It was your destiny to be the noblest pornographer and the poorest Jew.”
palestine4ever: when orthodox and conservatives and reforms were feuding, there was this full page ad put in the newspaper by a jew charity with a picture of a little girl, probably just a bleached ethiopian, saying “she doesn’t care about politics. she’s jewish and she’s hungry”. My friend, a lefty, categorically refused to believe there was a poor jew on this earth. He was like THAT’S BULLs**t MYANNNNNNN
palestine4ever: i don’t know how you can economize more =(
palestine4ever: of course, you could get a website of a different nature up in a day and get some immediate cash…
palestine4ever: honestly that sounds like a plan: nvm this orthodox biznis, go back one last time and use it to pay for alex technique
guest64: Do you miss your porno days?
guest64: The beard becomes you. Now you look like a real Jew! Why don’t you establish a harem or a cult like Israeli Goel Ratzon?
guest65: Do you get laid anymore?
guest65: Why good is it to be religious unless you are the king, president or prince of the Jews?
guest65: If you’ve no wife or kids, you must make up for it by becoming more than just a blogger.
guest65: Do you make a living?
guest65: You were more famous as a porn king.
guest65: Go back to porn. But only make porn for Jews. No shiksas.
guest65: These are the end days, worship means nothing. The smartest Jews believe there is no God.
guest65: Do you miss your porno days when you used to fornicate with the smut sluts?
guest65: Oh, Immoral Leader. You have fallen astray. Go back to porno.
guest65: False religion has turned you into a recluse. Your heart is not in it like it was in the sex trade.
guest65: Where love and sex is concerned, there is no such thing as evil. Only guilty repressed minds.
guest65: What will be left of Luke Ford if he passes away of sedentary pedant inactivism? Bits and bites of blogs? No flesh and blood? No tie to the afterlife for reincarnation? Just these websites?
guest65: At least go donate your seed so that a lesbo Jewess can be with child.
guest65: The Jewish community deserves better than to be saddled with hermit web scholars, vagina allergic queers and barren women. Fruits and freaks cannot multiply as the Lord says…
guest65: You were once a fine young man. As youthful and vigorous as many of the Aussies who have made it as actors in Hollywood. What happened to you?
guest65: To be a good productive Jew is to start a family and have a zest for life. Not dwell in a netherworld of lonely intellectualism and self deprecation.
guest65: Stop living in your head and get a life!
guest65: Did I scare away the goim?
guest65: Or the false Jews like you?
guest65: Who waste their lives feeling sorry for themselves.
guest65: You require the teachings of kabbalah.
guest65: For positive energy and renewal.
guest65: This is useless unless you write the great American novel.
Khunrum emails: “A trip to Luke’s Cam can be a cheerless and creepy encounter. What we see is a physically unfit middle aged man with a Rip Van Winkle beard either snoozing or typing on the computer. There are other “guests” but they are not identified (even by an alias) and rarely speak up. Guest 17….Guest 34….Guest 26……silence. It has the appearance of Peeping Tom’s staring through the window. It’s like a silent wake with a somewhat movable corpse. Luke rarely acknowledges his “guests”. Maybe a quick hello and that’s about it. There is an air of depression emanating from both directions…Luke inside and those outside who seem to have a morbid fascination watching a person who is rarely doing anything. Gone are the days when a cheerful Emma was around for an uplifting chat. Her father wisely put an end to that. Last we heard Sweet Emma had met a “Nice Catholic Boy” and was in love. Good going Father of Emma, you did the smart thing getting her away from such morbidity. Luke, I suggest you are the Jack Kavorian of the Internet. An hour or so on your Cam…a quick call to Jack and then the Gas Pipe.”
Bob emails: “It’s what I imagine Hitler’s bunker would have looked like if he had a web cam.”
Chaim Amalek emails: Except that there is no Army Group Steiner on his maps to pin hopes on.
Now if you really want to depress yourselves, consider the Luke Ford of ten years ago, who had national media attention and was on an upward ark. Had he put some effort into it, he’d have found others willing to help him for free to become one of those media people who rise from nothing to get paid millions a year (e.g., Rachel Ray). But he did nothing. He was content to drift, and play the twink.
Or you might consider the Luke Ford of five years ago, who still had some clout in popular culture, was supported by Cathy Seipp, who introduced Luke to all of her smart-set writer friends (not “bloggers” but real writers). Even four years ago, Luke could have pulled his fat from the fire by knocking up/marrying Holly Randall, the woman he was meant to marry. She’d have been perfect for him — the right family (“Yichhus”), an upbringing that taught her that a wife is for supporting a writer-husband monetarily, and real estate holdings. Plus, did I mention that Holly was tall, funny, bright, tolerant, spent her days in the company of beautiful women, and quite pretty to boot? But he failed to close a deal that was sitting in his lap.
And now? A beggar. Alone, except for the occasional evening with some forty-something Jewess who loathes his religious practices. Essentially no remaining media power. Advancing ever deeper into middle age, and dependent on his hard working family to support him. The Seipp circle has long since turned its back on him. And now, as before, he just does not care. The world has moved on.
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What Is Life Like In North Korea?
Thursday, February 18, 2010 Radio Show
H1: The Well-Behaved Child
Prager H1: What is the secret? Dennis talks to John Rosemond. The child psychologist writes a nationally syndicated column on parenting and has authored 14 books. His newest book is The Well-Behaved Child: Discipline that Really Works.
H2: Biden and Ash Wednesday
Prager H2: Two British TV reporters can
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I’m Getting Hot Flashes
I think I’m going through menopause.
Khunrum emails: Who the hell is going to hire a middle aged guy with no marketable job experience and a Pelican’s Nest growing under his chin?
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Young Israel of Santa Monica Crew Rejoins Pacific Jewish Center
I understand that the half-dozen stalwarts of Young Israel of Santa Monica, a breakaway from the Pacific Jewish Center about 18 years ago, have rejoined the mother shul.
When Rabbi Daniel Lapin was in his prime, he kicked out a few people from PJC who went on to form Young Israel of Santa Monica.
It was long felt by some at PJC that it was a badge of honor that there had been two breakaway minyans — Young Israel of Santa Monica and Young Israel of Venice aka the Torah Learning Center, run out of Rabbi Hollander’s garage. It looks to go on forever. He often gets a minyan.
This breakaway was for the sake of Heaven. The founder of the school Ohr Eliyahu, Rabbi Goldberg, the former rabbi of PJC who succeeded Rabbi Daniel Lapin and tried to make it more religious, told some people that PJC without him was not religious enough.
Young Israel of Santa Monica was at the vortex of a cosmic accident. You go there and they speak about stuff that makes kaballah look like My Little Pet Goat.
It used to meet in the Levin Center, the Jewish Federation’s Venice center. I assume that when the Federation found out they were davening there, they said, no, no, no, this is a cultural center. There can’t be any praying here. Not even Reinhard Heydrich could get that to happen. He was the most merciless of the Gestapo who was killed by partisans in Czechoslavakia in 1942. If Rheinhard had lived much longer, there would not have been a single Jew left in Europe. He was brilliant. The rest were just pikers.
So they kicked them out. They went to the lobby of a retirement home. They got kicked out.
They rented a room at the Doubletree Inn. They got kicked out.
Who were these mystery Jews? About a dozen frum Jews who hated Daniel Lapin and PJC.
Eventually they decided it was better to bury the hatchet and return to PJC, where they were welcomed home.
You may well say: What’s wrong with Young Israel of Santa Monica?
YML: I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it, my lad. ‘E’s dead, that’s what’s wrong with it!
You: No, no, ‘e’s uh,…he’s resting.
YML: Look, matey, I know a dead shul when I see one, and I’m looking at one right now.
You: No no he’s not dead, he’s, he’s restin’! Remarkable shul, the Young Israel of Santa Monica, idn’it, ay? Beautiful plumage!
YML: The plumage don’t enter into it. It’s stone dead.
You: Nononono, no, no! ‘E’s resting!
YML: All right then, if he’s restin’, I’ll wake him up! (shouting at the shul) ‘Ello, Mister YISM! I’ve got a lovely fresh cuttle fish for you if you show…
You hit the shul.
You: There, he moved!
YML: No, he didn’t, that was you hitting the cage!
You: I never!!
YML: Yes, you did!
You: I never, never did anything…
YML: (yelling and hitting the shul repeatedly) ‘ELLO YISM!!!!! Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your six o’clock alarm call! It’s time for Shacharit.
YML: Now that’s what I call a dead shul.
You: No, no…..No, ‘e’s stunned!
YML: STUNNED?!?
You: Yeah! You stunned him, just as he was wakin’ up! Young Israels stun easily, major.
YML: Um…now look…now look, mate, I’ve definitely ‘ad enough of this. That shul is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not ‘alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein’ tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk.
You: Well, he’s…he’s, ah…probably pining for the fjords.
YML: PININ’ for the FJORDS?!?!?!? What kind of talk is that?, look, why did he fall flat on his back the moment I got ‘im home?
You: The shul prefers keepin’ on it’s back! Remarkable shul, id’nit, squire? Lovely plumage!
YML: Look, I took the liberty of examining that shul when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there.
You: Well, o’course it was nailed there! If I hadn’t nailed that shul down, it would have nuzzled up to those bars, bent ’em apart with its beak, and VOOM! Feeweeweewee! Kiruv!
YML: “VOOM”?!? Mate, this shul wouldn’t “voom” if you put four million volts through it! ‘E’s bleedin’ demised!
You: No no! ‘E’s pining!
YML: ‘E’s not pinin’! ‘E’s passed on! This shul is no more! He has ceased to be! ‘E’s expired and gone to meet ‘is maker! ‘E’s a stiff! Bereft of life, ‘e rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed ‘im to the perch ‘e’d be pushing up the daisies! ‘Is metabolic processes are now ‘istory! ‘E’s off the twig! ‘E’s kicked the bucket, ‘e’s shuffled off ‘is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-SHUL!!
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Luke Ford – Failed Alpha Male
Glenn emails:
Hi Luke,
A while ago I noticed you lamenting on your website about the difficulty of attracting women. It has to do with being or not being an alpha male. Alpha males attract women. There are some sub categories that do as well. However, in the human kingdom, failed alpha males are often gay. If you are a failed alpha male, and not gay, you will experience frustration at being unable to attract women usually reserved for alpha males.
Some guys know they aren’t alpha material. They marry or hook up with a woman in their own sub group. But a failed alpha male will still be attracted to alpha category women even though he can’t get them.
I’m not sure if this is a reversible situation or not. Once a guy fails in his bid to becoma alpha, there may not be opportunities to repeat the process, whatever it happens to be.
Failed alpha males can usually get women beneath them. They don’t really satisfy the needs of a failed alpha, however. This contributes to promiscuity.
Failed alphas can move into the spiritual world and become celibates, or try to. They can also pray for an exception to the norm, which is possible.
Some failed alpha males, after a period of promiscuity, realize that chastity is the best option. It certainly has to be better than being tied to a problematic woman.
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Heshy Fried Interview 14
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