I’m Live On My Cam!

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Luke Ford

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Emma: Is it peaceful in shul?
guest85:  its only peaceful when suntanning in the back yard of ones house
Emma:  He looks peaceful when he is sunbathing…
russiandragon:  Bringin’ On the Heartbreak
guest85:  nude sunbathing is the ultimate in peacefullness
russiandragon:  ok guys c u later (perhaps)
russiandragon:  byeeeeeee
russiandragon:  i’ll try to make it quick and painless
Emma:  What?
russiandragon:  it has been nice meeting you all
User HollyRandall entered the room.
HollyRandall:  omg luke you look… um…
HollyRandall:  crazy? homeless? not sure how to put it
HollyRandall:  actually you look perfect for your upcoming portrait
YourMoralLeader:  hey
YourMoralLeader:  thank you
YourMoralLeader:  smooth talker
YourMoralLeader:  you always could charm my pants right off me
YourMoralLeader:  I cut my own hair this week, Holly.
YourMoralLeader:  I’ll do yours for $20.
HollyRandall:  haha
HollyRandall:  yeah right
YourMoralLeader:  Holly, I’d like you to meet my future wife — Emma.
YourMoralLeader:  Emma, this is Holly.
Emma:  Hi Holly
HollyRandall:  you poor dear
YourMoralLeader:  Try to hide your jealousy, Holly.
Emma:  lol
YourMoralLeader:  I’m sorry Holly, but I had to trade you in for a younger model.
HollyRandall:  riiiight
YourMoralLeader:  Holly, meet honorable wife #2 — Gina.
YourMoralLeader:  Holly, Emma and I would like to hire you to photograph our wedding and do the catering. How much would that be?
Gina:  always a bridesmaid
Emma:  Hey Khun
KhunDiddy:  Hi Kids
YourMoralLeader:  Hey pops, meet Holly.
KhunDiddy:  Holly? Hi Holly
HollyRandall:  i only shoot the consummation, not the actual wedding
KhunDiddy:  Holly I know you love Luke but he’s smitten with Emma now
Gina:  your late then
KhunDiddy:  do you feel rejected
Gina:  lukes connsumated emma many times…
Gina:  in his mind
KhunDiddy:  heart to heart….hands accross the water
HollyRandall:  rejected? more like i dodged a bullet
Emma:  lol
KhunDiddy:  love knows no bounds
Gina:  thats about the size of it
KhunDiddy:  don’t give Luke up Emma
HollyRandall:  luke’s only bounds is that he won’t take his socks off
Gina:  but luke’s a good shot
Emma:  Nope
HollyRandall:  is that still true?
Emma:  lol
HollyRandall:  cause that just kills me
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HollyRandall:  mismatched ones, too
KhunDiddy:  Emma won’t mind if Luke keeps his socks on….it’s cold over there in Old Blarney
Gina:  safe socks?
KhunDiddy:  Emma will you make love to Luke if he has his socks on?
HollyRandall:  hey Luke when my photo book comes out i’m going to send you a signed copy, but i’ll put black tape over all the naughty bits so you don’t relapse
YourMoralLeader:  Thank you
YourMoralLeader:  I’ve always loved the way you shoot green beans.
KhunDiddy:  we all want to se those photos Holly
YourMoralLeader:  Your book is coming out this decade?
HollyRandall:  yeah i’m getting a late start on my veggie garden this year
HollyRandall:  yes
KhunDiddy:  naturally we don’t want to pay for them though
HollyRandall:  i’ve submitted the last of my images
HollyRandall:  signed the contract
YourMoralLeader:  I heard you got busted on federal obscenity charges, Holly? I’ll visit you in prison.
HollyRandall:  it will be out before the end of the year
Gina:  hows your patch?
KhunDiddy:  great
KhunDiddy:  sens me a copu….gratis
YourMoralLeader:  Who’s publishing? Will you be writing anything in there or is it just all flesh?
HollyRandall:  nah i don’t shoot girls doing enemas and shooting them into other people’s mouth
KhunDiddy:  Luke should write the intro
HollyRandall:  mouths
HollyRandall:  all flesh baby
YourMoralLeader:  publisher?
HollyRandall:  Goliath Books is the publisher
YourMoralLeader:  they’re faves of mine
KhunDiddy:  Luke will you write a forward to Holly’s book?
YourMoralLeader:  If Emma says that’s ok>
KhunDiddy:  Emma?
YourMoralLeader:  Mazal tov, Holly.
KhunDiddy:  are you jealous?
KhunDiddy:  Emma
KhunDiddy:  will you be jealous if Luke writes a forward to Holly’s book?
HollyRandall:  Luke why do I have a feeling Emma is another keyboard next to the one you’re using?
YourMoralLeader:  Because you have a cold cynical heart, Holly.
KhunDiddy:  I’ve sen her   she has a great eye
HollyRandall:  that’s true
YourMoralLeader:  what’s your favorite boy band, Holly?
russiandragonsghost:  strange the heartache is still the same
russiandragonsghost:  strange since i technically don’t have a heart
russiandragonsghost:  peacefull here
russiandragonsghost:  i see a man with a beard
russiandragonsghost:  it’s not luke
russiandragonsghost:  it’s G-d i think
YourMoralLeader:  All we need is Rev. Des.
Emma:  Why g-d
Emma:  aha luke
russiandragonsghost:  we cannot pronounce his name
Emma:  Icing on the cake
russiandragonsghost:  he says i was stupid
Emma:  Why?
russiandragonsghost:  to committ suicide
Emma:  Why can’t you say his name
YourMoralLeader:  is there no one who you fear to say their name, emma?
YourMoralLeader:  Like your fave IRA leader?
Emma:  I don’t fear God
russiandragonsghost:  lol
YourMoralLeader:  the ones you hide in your basement
Emma:  No interest in the IRA
russiandragonsghost:  mm
Emma:  I don’t have a basement
YourMoralLeader:  Do you have a workman’s entrance?
Emma:  lol
Emma:  No
russiandragonsghost:  i think there are warts there
Emma:  warts are gone!
Emma:  lol
Emma:  All burnt off
Emma:  As of today
russiandragonsghost:  it’s peacefull here
mee:  HI Luke
YourMoralLeader:  hi
Emma:  Hiya Mee
HollyRandall:  you know what sucks about this chat thing?
YourMoralLeader:  what?
HollyRandall:  if you try to scroll up to read what you’ve missed, once someone writes in something new you get pushed back down to the bottom
YourMoralLeader:  Holly, is it ok to dress up like a Nazi for sexual reasons?
mee:  Whats with the thing  coming from your ears????
Emma:  Yep
YourMoralLeader:  Holly, just go to lukeford.net and I have the best bits there.
Emma:  lol
YourMoralLeader:  All the naughty bits.
KhunDiddy:  have to say GOOD DAY wifey wants to watch her Thai programs on the computer..Be Well Friends
YourMoralLeader:  I have to work on my social skills.
Emma:  Why
russiandragonsghost:  he has none
Emma:  Don’t we all
Emma:  From time to time..
YourMoralLeader:  into the file
Emma:  Getting bigger..
YourMoralLeader:  when I look at you
Emma:  lmao
Welshdragon:  not very moral boss!!
Emma:  shhh
Welshdragon:  just out of interest how big you planning on growing ya beard?
YourMoralLeader:  Emma, when you were a little kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Emma:  Guess
diedfromheartache:  singer
YourMoralLeader:  singer
Emma:  Correct
Emma:  My teachers couldn’t get me to shut up
YourMoralLeader:  What crowd did you hang out with in high school?
Emma:  I sang everywhere
Emma:  I had a few frineds
Emma:  The unpopular crowd
Emma:  And I always said to myself
Emma:  I will be somebody one day….
YourMoralLeader:  what do you love and hate about yourself?
YourMoralLeader:  Funny, I said that same thing over and over. Look what happened.
Emma:  lol
Emma:  You are someone Luke
Emma:  Special
YourMoralLeader:  🙂
Emma:  🙂
diedfromheartache:  🙂
diedfromheartache:  let’s all smile
diedfromheartache:  🙂
Emma:  I hate that I care so much about people sometimes
Emma:  Even when they don’t care about me
YourMoralLeader:  Dragon!@
diedfromheartache:  what
Welshdragon:  ffs i’m off to get a tissue!!
Emma:  I love…
Emma:  lmao!
Welshdragon:  i was popular-no worries!!
Emma:  I love that i’m different…
diedfromheartache:  i care too much
Emma:  lol welsh
Welshdragon:  over the moon!!
Emma:  And far away..
YourMoralLeader:  from me?
YourMoralLeader:  I was told to introduce myself to Emma: There’s no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but there’s this.
WELSH:  thisd one time at band camp-emma had this itch!!
Emma:  Ok this one time… at band camp
Emma:  I had this itch
Emma:  lol
WELSH:  she went to the gp’s
Emma:  I did
WELSH:  and the doc said..
Emma:  its
Emma:  Low Lunar Orbit?
WELSH:  every time there a low lunar orbit emma gets the itch, now i won’t go into where i think thats for emmas discrection
Emma:  All over Welsh
Emma:  It’s crazy!
YourMoralLeader:  do you get violent before your monthly emma?
Emma:  lmao… yes
Emma:  I go green and turn into a monster
Emma:  Start smashing things
ChaimAmalek:  OMG, I missed out on chatting with the woman I wanted to marry, back when I wanted to marry a woman, Miss Holly Randall
ChaimAmalek:  But Luke insisted that I back off.
Emma:  Do you want to marry a man now?
ChaimAmalek:  I am asexual now
Emma:  aha
ChaimAmalek:  I am thinking about the priesthood
Emma:  hmmm
ChaimAmalek:  This music makes me want to sell all of my earthly possessions and move to a monastery
ChaimAmalek:  And chant, light candles, chant some more.  Maybe bury the victims of plague
Emma:  lol
ChaimAmalek:  The robes of a monk favor my figure
Emma:  lol tut tut
ChaimAmalek:  Emma, the next time you see a rainbow, imagine that the far end of it leads to Luke’s pants
russiandragon:  ewwwwwww
russiandragon:  now i won’t sleep 4 sure
ChaimAmalek:  I need to try that.  But the homeless in NY are not at the same level as what shows up in your shuls
ChaimAmalek:  I’m thinking of going to Eliot Spitzer’s temple, or the one he would go to if he went to one, Temple Emmanuel.  Its the one for billionaire reform jews
ChaimAmalek:  I will drive the money changers from the temple in my monk’s garb
User guest122 left the room.
ChaimAmalek:  Some, where, over the rain-bow, skies are blue
Emma:  lol
ChaimAmalek:  And Luke’s pants will await you there for a taste in shul
ChaimAmalek:  Christians have all the best music.
Emma:  I agree
ChaimAmalek:  Jewish liturgical music is terrible old man coughing up phlegm music
Emma:  lol lovley
russiandragon:  ok bk
ChaimAmalek:  Who is this Jew?
Emma:  lol
Emma:  wb
ChaimAmalek:  He sounds like the sort who pollute our culture.
ChaimAmalek:  Typical semite.
russiandragon:  you like the new guestbook entry emma
ChaimAmalek:  This is what it sounds like when Jews get together.  Emma, are you up for this?
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ChaimAmalek:  That, and haggling
Emma:  Say again Chaim
Emma:  Russian you turned me greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen
ChaimAmalek:  This is what it sounds like when jews get together.  Emma are you up for a lifetime of listening to this?
russiandragon:  you said you turned green
Emma:  Lol Chaim
russiandragon:  i wanted to see that for myself
ChaimAmalek:  Jews.
Emma:  I don’t wanna be green 🙁
ChaimAmalek:  Jews that make  it hard for decent Jews like me.
russiandragon:  well by your own admission
russiandragon:  you turned green
ChaimAmalek:  I try to live an unobjectionable life,yet I am called to task for the cultural pollution of others
russiandragon:  and become a monster
russiandragon:  :p
russiandragon:  now we can see
Emma:  Yeah it was a joke
russiandragon:  mm
ChaimAmalek:  New Nuremberg laws would begin with denying Jews access to the internet
russiandragon:  i guess i better go to bed
ChaimAmalek:  If we could but Christianize our television and blogs and the like, all would be well
ChaimAmalek:  rd, where do youlive?
russiandragon:  in belgium
russiandragon:  chaim
ChaimAmalek:  so it is late.
russiandragon:  yes very
ChaimAmalek:  Lots of Muslims there plotting your doom
ChaimAmalek:  day and night
russiandragon:  yes i know
ChaimAmalek:  Women in veils, and white men in retreat
Emma:  its not funnnnnnnnnnnny
ChaimAmalek:  Who can say what this fellow cackles at?
ChaimAmalek:  What’s not funny?
russiandragon:  they won’t blow up the place where they live
ChaimAmalek:  New Nuremberg laws would begin with denying Jews access to the internet
ChaimAmalek:  If we could but Christianize our television and blogs and the like, all would be well
ChaimAmalek:  rd, where do youlive?
russiandragon:  in belgium
russiandragon:  chaim
ChaimAmalek:  so it is late.
russiandragon:  yes very
ChaimAmalek:  Lots of Muslims there plotting your doom
ChaimAmalek:  day and night
russiandragon:  yes i know
ChaimAmalek:  Women in veils, and white men in retreat
ChaimAmalek:  Who can say what this fellow cackles at?
ChaimAmalek:  What’s not funny?
russiandragon:  they won’t blow up the place where they live
ChaimAmalek:  but they will blow up their subways and the like
ChaimAmalek:  There have been plots
russiandragon:  yup
russiandragon:  they have all been foiled
ChaimAmalek:  I saw that movie short from the Netherlands on Islam before it got pulled.
ChaimAmalek:  Scary stuff.
ChaimAmalek:  words you don’t want to hear on a subway:  "Aluahu Akbar!"
ChaimAmalek:  As the sun sets over LA, Luke prepares to greet his sabbath queen
russiandragon:  he washes himself
russiandragon:  great
ChaimAmalek:  This music makes me want to go to church
russiandragon:  once a week
russiandragon:  before the sabbat
Emma:  You can hear music?
russiandragon:  yes
ChaimAmalek:  When’s the next big Christian holiday?
russiandragon:  i hear angels
ChaimAmalek:  Christians need more holidays
russiandragon:  no seriously  i hear piano
ChaimAmalek:  Asdo I
ChaimAmalek:  nice Christian-composed music
russiandragon:  have you ever been in belgium chaim
Emma:  I must be deaf
ChaimAmalek:  Nope
russiandragon:  you should visit antwerp
russiandragon:  jew capital of b elgium
ChaimAmalek:  Belgium should have been partitioned in 1915 to end the war. part to France, the rest to Holland,and the colonies to Germany
Emma:  You ever been to Ireland Chaim?
russiandragon:  i bet he would like to
ChaimAmalek:  No, but if you invite me and promise to fix me up with say, a classmate, I might go
Emma:  lol
Emma:  I’ll think about it………
russiandragon:  the irish touristboard will thank you emma
ChaimAmalek:  I promise to behave, as I have no sexual impulses to taint a simple shared cup of tea
russiandragon:  since you are here
Emma:  Of course
russiandragon:  everyone wants to go and visit ireland
ChaimAmalek:  The problem is that the dollar is soooooo weak now
Emma:  Indeed!
ChaimAmalek:  We get screwed with paying for things in Euros
Emma:  True
russiandragon:  yup
ChaimAmalek:  Stuff that used to cost us a dollar is now, what, $1.60?
russiandragon:  people go and buy tgheir iphones in the states
ChaimAmalek:  Our economy is increasingly pathetic
Emma:  Ridiculas
ChaimAmalek:  How much is oil in Belgium/Ireland?
russiandragon:  bloody expensive
Emma:  Not sure…
russiandragon:  brb
Emma:  What age are you Chaim?
ChaimAmalek:  Very old
Emma:  How old is very old
russiandragon:  lukes age
ChaimAmalek:  Well, I could be Luke’s dad
russiandragon:  that makes you very very old
ChaimAmalek:  But age is just a number, so if you have any 18 year old friends who want to hook up with me, well, I would, but I can’t and I mean that literally
Emma:  Your only as old as you feel
ChaimAmalek:  I feel around 65 these days
Emma:  lol
russiandragon:  yup try
ChaimAmalek:  Hence, my answer
ChaimAmalek:  Luke further prepares for the shabbos queen
ChaimAmalek:  Excitedly wondering what mitzvas he will do
Emma:  Indeed
ChaimAmalek:  Soon, this channel will end
russiandragon:  sniff
ChaimAmalek:  His shabbos best.
russiandragon:  i will become even more depressed
Emma:  You look good Luke
ChaimAmalek:  I am too old to go to my temple, Young Israel
ChaimAmalek:  And that is saying something
ChaimAmalek:  I wonder how far he must walk to get to temple.
ChaimAmalek:  And do the neighborhood children tug on his fringes?
Emma:  I dont have sound
russiandragon:  maybe the homeless do
ChaimAmalek:  Luke, is there an eruv in your community?
russiandragon:  yippy skippy
ChaimAmalek:  Got an eruv?
russiandragon:  do boald people have to wear a yarmulke
ChaimAmalek:  Not if they wear a toupe?  I don’t know. this luke can discuss in temple tomorrow
YourMoralLeader:  I give the kids brachas wherever I go
russiandragon:  if so, do they stick it on
YourMoralLeader:  Yes, there’s an eruv
ChaimAmalek:  So you get to carry things
ChaimAmalek:  Like you keys

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Australia’s Former Top Model Explores Her Jewish Heritage In Los Angeles

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Luke Ford

Kate Fischer now lives in Los Angeles.

Here she is on the Dingo Report.

She’s been spotted at Shabbat meals.

Kate has a dramatic personality. It’s almost as though she’s on something.

Here’s a video of Kate explicating Australia’s 1975 constitutional crisis.

Here’s a quick bio:

Australian actress and model Kate Fisher was born on 30 November 1973 in Adelaide Australia and is better known for her engagement to Australia’s richest man James Packer between 1996 and 1998. She is the daughter of Pru Goward, currently a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.

Fisher’s career kicked off when she starred in the film Sirens alongside actor Hugh Grant and Australian model Elle Macpherson. She also starred in the films The Real Thing and Foreigner. In 1997, a portrait of her was hung in the Archibald Prize by painter Paul William Newton, titled Kate and Barbie. Fischer hosted cartoon show Looney Tunes in the mid-late 1990s. In 2005 Fischer appeared on television show Celebrity Overhaul, a show in which celebrities try to regain their fitness through diet and exercise.

In May 2006 Fischer appeared as a guest judge on Song for the Socceroos and as a contestant on the television show It Takes Two. Since 2005, Fischer has been the face of the AMP group of shopping centers across Australia. In late 2006, Fischer hosted a weekly Top 40 countdown clip show.

Kate Fischer

Here’s her wikipedia entry:

Kate Fischer, aka Katie Fischer, (born on 30 November 1973 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian model and actress. She attended the Canberra Girls’ Grammar School, in Canberra.

She has appeared as one of the stars of the movie Sirens, and has also been in the movies The Real Thing and Foreigner. She is also known for having been engaged to wealthy businessman James Packer.

In 1997, a portrait of her was hung in the Archibald Prize by painter Paul William Newton, titled Kate and Barbie. She was host of Looney Tunes on the Nine Network in the mid-late 1990s.

In 2005 Fischer resurfaced on the Nine Network‘s Celebrity Overhaul, a show in which celebrities try to regain their fitness through good diet and exercise habits. In one episode, she showed she still has what it takes by pole-dancing.[citation needed]

In May 2006 Kate Fischer appeared as a guest judge on the SBS programme Song For The Socceroos [1] and as a contestant on the Channel 7 TV Show It Takes Two. [2]

She is the daughter of Pru Goward, currently a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

During 2005-2006, she was the face of the AMP group of shopping centres across Australia, before being dropped.

In late 2006, she became the host of a weekly Top 40 countdown clip show on Channel 7, a rival program to Channel 9‘s 20 to 1.

From May 2, 2007:

SHE is hoping to launch a Hollywood career as a comedy writer, but Katie Fischer’s latest effort is laughable for all the wrong reasons.

In the nonsensical nine-minute sketch Supermodel Hotdog, which Fischer wrote and co-stars in, the former Sydney socialite argues with a wannabe actress about which of the duo should dress up as a hotdog.

Fischer, who posted the skit on popular video share website YouTube, ends up donning a skin-tight red leotard and an oversized bun before joining her two castmates in a song about hotdogs.

In a bizarre moment, she also rubs her groin on her male co-star when he is dressed in the hotdog suit and tries to lick her female co-star on the face.

The sketch – which also stars unknown American actors Rena Riffel and Hoyt Richards – was filmed earlier this year in the dining room and courtyard of Fischer’s West Hollywood apartment in a ramshackle 1920s Spanish Colonial-style building.

Fischer’s apartment, which she bought following her split from former fiancee James Packer, is only 200m from famed celebrity hotel Chateau Marmont, which is a home-away-from-home of celebrities including Lindsay Lohan and Olivier Martinez.

Fischer, 33, has been trying to break into the LA acting scene for several years but her last role was a tiny appearance in the 2003 Steven Seagal movie The Foreigner.

From the Daily Telegraph May 4, 2007:

ONCE engaged to Australia’s richest man, Kate Fischer has confessed she’s distraught at being labelled a big-breasted party girl in an extraordinary video.

Kate confessed to two Aussie expats in Hollywood that she’s sick and tired of being portrayed as a party girl lost in LA in a four letter outburst on [the Dingo Report.]

She says she’s tired of being portrayed as the party girl with the boobs and jewellery, lost somewhere in the Hollywood Hills, and that it was time for her to be taken seriously as an artist.

Fischer shouts hysterically, swearing, smoking and flashing her ample cleavage in a cringe-worthy rant.

The former Sydney party girl agreed to be taped by Hollywood-based Australian blogger duo The Dingo Report – after meeting the pair at the Los Angeles dawn service for ANZAC Day on Sunday.

The duo, who purport to be from Broken Hill, said that Fischer had readily agreed to appear in an improv session the following morning.

"She said she was stoked to be asked," the boys wrote on their website.

"She confessed that she’s tired of being portrayed as the party girl with the boobs and jewellery, lost somewhere in the Hollywood Hills – and that it was time for her to be taken seriously as an artist."

Fischer, who swapped her hot dog costume for a breast-baring top and fur coat during the 70-second clip, takes the mickey out of her image but the joke appears to be on her.

"I am Katie f***ing Fischer – I am a big star in Australia," she screams.

"They all know me and love me down there.

"Just because I don’t get any work doesn’t mean they don’t know me anymore – I am still hot."

When The Daily Telegraph online called Fischer yesterday, she was less than happy to chat about her performance in the bizarre podcast.

"Can you not call me anymore – can you call my agent?" Fischer trilled in a sarcastic sing-song voice before hanging up.

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Bee Swarm Closes Down Leo Baeck Religious School

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Luke Ford

It’s a Reform temple on Sepulveda, near the Getty museum.

A swam of hundreds of bees closed the place one afternoon this week (Thursday?).

I hear there’s a severe shortage of kosher-for-Passover margarine in Chicago and customers are limited to two tubs each.

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Mirthala Salinas Interview In LA Magazine

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Luke Ford

Click here for Shawn Hubler’s story.

ERSNews writes:

Mirthala Salinas, the former TV reporter and Telemundo TV/KVEA anchorwoman in Los Angeles has finally broken her long silence.  In a feature interview in Los Angeles Magazine, the once rising star sat down with Shawn Huber, a former Los Angeles Times Reporter.  This is her first interview since her affair with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa became front page news last summer.
 
At the time the affair was revealed publically, Salinas and three KVEA executives were suspended and reprimanded for violating ethical and conflict of interest provisions while working for the station in relation to Salinas’ affair with the Mayor. Mirthala left the station in October, 2007 under cloudy terms both Salinas and the station still refuse to disclose.

 
Although Salinas claims otherwise in the just published Los Angeles Magazine interview, ERS News reported exclusively in 2007 that her penchant for dating high powered Latino politicians was nothing new.  In an exclusive report on July 3, the day the scandal and affair with the Mayor picked up widespread mainstream media attention, ERS reported that Salinas had a previous romantic relationship with Fabian Nunez, California’s Assembly Speaker. That relationship, prompted complaints from inside Telemundo about conflicts of interest at the time. Salina’s claims in the new Los Angeles Magazine interview that "it was never a big deal."

On July 3rd, 2007 Mayor Villaraigosa publicly confirmed the affair reports for the first time.  Before this time the Mayor had denied the reports of the demise of his marriage, even doing so in an interview with the LA Times.

In the interview published yesterday, Salinas claims her relationship didn’t get past the "friends" stage with the Mayor until after November 2006, but the LA Times reported that a neighbor in  November, 2005 had spotted the Mayor going to see her at her condo and used the instance to imply the relationship between the Mayor and Salinas was far more than "just friends."  Salinas says at the time of this sighting at the condo the Mayor was just one of many invited friends to a "potluck dinner" she was throwing at her place. The Mayor left later that evening on a charter flight to Detroit to attend the funeral of Rosa Parks the next morning (11/2/2005).


 

In the LA Magazine story, Salinas goes to great pains to try and distance herself from the claim that her "personal relationship" with the Mayor, either intimate or just friends, was not getting her any special access or special treatment.  The facts say otherwise as ERSNews reported back in 2007. Salinas told Los Angeles Magazine that the "romance" stage with the Mayor began in April of 2006.  Before that they were just "friends."   The Mayor announced his separation from his wife Corina on June 8th 2007 and confirmed his relationship with Salinas on July 3rd 2007. The affair, according to Salinas, continued on until October of 2007, when the media spotlight and relentless press coverage proved too much for the couple and they "broke-up.”
 

AppleMark

The interview which is scant of new reporting about the scandal makes some errors on the reporting of the story as it unfolded.  It shows a penchant for blaming the ills of the media on those dreaded "bloggers."  Most of the reporting on the scandal and the things claimed to have been reported only by "bloggers" where in fact reported by mainstream media outlets like the LA Times, Daily News and others.

 
The most serious error in the LA Magazine story is the claim that ERS News.com posted a picture (seen above) of the Lexus SUV Mirthala Salinas was driving at the time outside the Mayor’s Getty House mansion in August of 2007.  Not so, the picture was not posted or reported on until two months later in October 2007, when ERS broke the story that Salinas had used the oldest trick in the book; she fled Los Angeles under the media spotlight only to return in a new car purchased in Arizona during her time hiding out there with her family. with Arizona plates, we knew what she was doing but we didn’t publish the information until we felt it was confirmed that she was driving this new car to help avoid the media who were trying to catch up with her. We published our story (including the picture of her "new" car for the first time) on October 5th, 2007.

 

Whether or not Salinas can rekindle her career is anybody’s guess, but we think she should try learning before she attempts a comeback in journalism — "that the facts always get in the way of a good story."  It was reported today by the website CurbedLA that Salinas is engaged and headed off to get married in Mexico in May to Yanni Raz, who she dated before and after the affair with the Mayor of LA.

 

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I’m Live On My Cam!

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Luke Ford

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guest2:  i have started the luke ford exercise regiment and i have officially lost 5 inches off my bust line. i am not too happy right now
YourMoralLeader:  oy ve
YourMoralLeader:  are you doing it right?
guest2:  shall i continue ? or should i try jack lalane
YourMoralLeader:  continue, it will grow back
guest2:  i hear you are a good leader (immoral of course)
YourMoralLeader:  of course!
guest2:  i also exercise my mind as well as my bod.. i am the total package
guest2:  i also keep abreast of things

YourMoralLeader:  B"H
guest2:  my sexuality is not in my breasts but between my shoulders
leeduf:  ffs..what??
YourMoralLeader:  thank the good L-rd
guest2:  unlike a man where is totally between their legs
YourMoralLeader:  how have you been channeling this powerful force, 2?
guest2:  only with men who i rate and value highly
guest2:  which is quite limiting
guest2:  my song is on…hooray
guest2:  time to exercise… with my jugs
guest2:  grapes or blueberries ???
guest2:  lemons ?
YourMoralLeader:  2, what’s your idea of a good first date?
guest2:  with a lemon ?
guest2:  it does not matter what you do…its all in the conversation which could lead to good foreplay
guest2:  making out with my honey at a good bench at the grove
guest2:  don’t stop the kangaroo song i am busy exercising to increase my breasts…my life is in your hands or your song
guest2:  grapes of your wrath
guest2:  i cannot exercise now…my breasts have now exploded into space
guest2:  major tom help me help you
guest2:  when life gives us lemons…we make green tea???
YourMoralLeader:  when life gives you AIDS
YourMoralLeader:  make lemonAIDS says sarah silverman
guest2:  that is so profound
guest6:  so what exactly makes you a moral leader?
guest2:  fyi …lemons damages the enamel of your teeth..so be careful my love…i’m tight with my dentist
guest6:  clearly it’s not your musical choice
guest2:  get thee to a good hairdresser & dentist while we are at it
guest6:  is that tefillin you’re eating?
leeduf:  lmao
guest2:  tefillin cannot be eaten but can be absorbed in the brain as food for thought
leeduf:  pardn my ignorance..as a mere..catholic..what is.."tefillin??????????????
guest2:  tefillin is what jews wear when they pray
leeduf:  that litle box on their heads??
leeduf:  always wondered what was in that!!!
guest2:  that’s right brother
guest6:  why is guest2 answering questions put to the guy calling himself our moral leader?
guest2:  you are right i will shut up as i am only a follower
leeduf:  so??..whats in the box????????
guest2:  holy stuff
leeduf:  stuff??
guest6:  old commandments
guest6:  for guys
leeduf:  ffs..just like in the catholic church…relics of the"cross’…ffs..they reckon..ther e is ..enough.."relics’..of the cross to make..100’s bloody crosses!!!!
YourMoralLeader:  2, you have my blessing to answer all my questions so I can concentrate on my work
leeduf:  sorry…i am..a jaded…CATHOLIC!!!!!
guest2:  thanks for the privilege of serving you
guest2:  that is what i live for
YourMoralLeader:  Preparing your sermon?
ElazarMuskin:  I am dusting off my resume
ElazarMuskin:  there is an opening coming up at Beth Jacob
ElazarMuskin:  I plan to apply
YourMoralLeader:  Why?
ElazarMuskin:  Beverly Hills for me
YourMoralLeader:  B"H
ElazarMuskin:  better health insurance
HarryPotter:  How about at Young Israel of Beverly Hills?
ElazarMuskin:  any openings there?
HarryPotter:  They have no Rabbi.
HarryPotter:  Only a president.
HarryPotter:  Lots of Persian…and a few askenazis……and other stragglers.
ElazarMuskin:  I’m not interested in being a "president"
swatteam:  are u sure about beth jacob & weil
YourMoralLeader:  yes
swatteam:  when will the new search start?
YourMoralLeader:  right away
YourMoralLeader:  already
ElazarMuskin:  it has already started
swatteam:  they are looking for a rabbi for the "young people" minyan also
ElazarMuskin:  some of us have been tapped by the committee
ElazarMuskin:  http://www.bethjacob.org/torah/asktherabbi.html
ElazarMuskin:  I am going to ask them if they are aware of your webcam luke
swatteam:  elazar would not last at BJ
ElazarMuskin:  you are doing G*ds work here
ElazarMuskin:  I’m going to submit your name, Levi
ElazarMuskin:  and tell them you would be willing to answer questions live for them
swatteam:  when will the ou news be made public
YourMoralLeader:  Great idea, Rabbi
YourMoralLeader:  in the next week or so, sawt
YourMoralLeader:  swat
ElazarMuskin:  I sent this:
ElazarMuskin:  I want you to be aware of the great service being rendered to our Jewish community by Levi Ford.
ElazarMuskin:  He is providing moral leadership, kosher exercise programs and interactive Q&A sessions about Torah.
ElazarMuskin:  See for yourself and I urge you to share this tremendous resource with the entire shul. He is found at: http://yourmoralleader.camstreams.com/
ElazarMuskin:  Thank You,Elazar Muskin
YourMoralLeader:  Thank you, rabbi.
GeneralRabbiCohenPhdMDCeo:  Elazar, is there any difference between Yicc and BJ?
ElazarMuskin:  yes, quite a bit I’d say
ElazarMuskin:  do you mean in the benefits they offer a Rabbi such as myself?
ElazarMuskin:  as I said before- insurance benefits at BJ are much better
ElazarMuskin:  Kaiser Permanente as opposed to Blue Cross Blue Shield
User MartinPoland left the room.
ElazarMuskin:  They provide Rabbis choice of Cadillac or Lincoln only at YICC
ElazarMuskin:  BJ allows Lexus, Mercedes and other foreign brands
ElazarMuskin:  Pay is better at BJ

GUAPO:  em please dont be rude to your nigga today
Emma:  I never am Guapo
GUAPO:  what it do russian
GUAPO:  yall made me cry last go round
Emma:  Why!
RussianDragon:  oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh
RussianDragon:  i’m sorry
RussianDragon:  non-commital hugs
GUAPO:  muf**kers making jokes and sying s**t .. im real cool but yall just hate
Guest23:  say hi to me guapo
GUAPO:  hi
RussianDragon:  * pat on the back
User Guest23 changed their name to Alexanderthegreat.
RussianDragon:  we are all love
RussianDragon:  rainbow children
GUAPO:  luke got his hair did
Alexanderthegreat:  lovers
RussianDragon:  mm
GUAPO:  em you real sexy today
GUAPO:  lookin good skywalker lookin good nigga
RussianDragon:  my groupies tell me that every day
RussianDragon:  the force is strong in him
GUAPO:  i see you took a piece of that g and got your suprecuts on
GUAPO:  russian you ever kill a man?
GUAPO:  how many niggas you murder?
RussianDragon:  heaps
RussianDragon:  i lost count
guest62:  not nice
GUAPO:  just for fun or for like beef?
RussianDragon:  amusement
jOHNtHEbAPTIST:  is it a sin for me to get an invoantaty erection when i see a really hot looking nun???
GUAPO:  emma when me and you going on our date?
GUAPO:  you musta not rolled accross real hard core niggas then
Emma:  I dunno about that Guapo
GUAPO:  yall gonna make me cry again em?
YourMoralLeader:  Hey Guapo, hands off Emma. She’s all mine.
YourMoralLeader:  She doesn’t do interracial.
GUAPO:  hand on em cause she mine
Emma:  I’m all Lukes
GUAPO:  luke old enought o be your grandpap

russiandragon:  not much of spring here
RabbiGadol:  The California sun can toast flesh in fifteen minutes
RabbiGadol:  I worry .
Donnag:  i am jelous he is lying in the sun and i am listening to the rain and thunder
RabbiGadol:  What if a careless person comes along and mows the grass and there is an accident?
russiandragon:  does anyone smell the burnt flesh?
Emma:  I doubt he is that stupid to burn
RabbiGadol:  What if bees should descend from the heavens?  What if there are snakes in the grass?
guest85:  halevai luke could get another bris
RabbiGadol:  The outdoors are full of snares for the unwarry
RabbiGadol:  Emma, is it true there are no snakes in Ireland?
guest85:  luke hasn’t gotten to ireland yet
Emma:  It’s true indeed
RabbiGadol:  How do you keep them out?  Predators?
russiandragon:  i hope he never does :p
Emma:  St Patrick chased them out
Donnag:  theres no snakes in scotland either plenty haggis though lol
RabbiGadol:  But with all the immigration and trade, none sneak in?
RabbiGadol:  I’m trying to arrange a shidduch for Luke, but don’t know what sort of woman to pick
RabbiGadol:  I wish to marry him off before labor day
guest85:  someone tremedously zaftig will do
Emma:  When is labor day Rabbi?
RabbiGadol:  Early September
guest85:  he needs to marry a women of valor with much yichus  and of course zaftig
RabbiGadol:  For the right woman, the decision will be instantaneous
RabbiGadol:  I don’t know about zaftig
guest85:  since he is a ger tzedek
RabbiGadol:  I am thinking a woman with a much older father who runs a family business he needs help with
guest85:  he needs to be crushed in during sex… as he thinks he has all the power in bed
RabbiGadol:  This would give Luke an income
Emma:  And do you think you will find this women before september?
RabbiGadol:  Women have the power leading up to sex, men during and immediately after
RabbiGadol:  I don’t know
Emma:  It’s a bit of a long shot
RabbiGadol:  Do you know of one who would make Luke a proper wife?
RabbiGadol:  She must be a good housemaker and an earner
guest85:  he needs a chasideshe type of women who will take care of his physical as well as spiritual needs & not some rebba
Emma:  Indeed
RabbiGadol:  A good mother to be
RabbiGadol:  A woman who sees herself as pre-pregnant.
RabbiGadol:  Religion is not so important, as we are not sure of what Luke’s is.
Emma:  I thought he was Jewish..
RabbiGadol:  A woman who will help him blog
guest85:  any woman who takes on this man…i pity the fool!!!
RabbiGadol:  He mostly is.
Emma:  Yes
guest85:  his bottom is jewish but his top isn’t
RabbiGadol:  Emma, you seem to have the makings of a fine wife one day
Emma:  Other way around 85
Emma:  Thank you Rabbi
RabbiGadol:  Perhaps your mother has a friend for Luke?
Emma:  Sorry to burst your bubble
Emma:  All married
RabbiGadol:  Sigh . . .
RabbiGadol:  I look and I look
RabbiGadol:  This is my quest
RabbiGadol:  To see Luke marry
guest85:  i hope he is well greased up like my potato kugel on my blech
Emma:  And i’m sure you will one day
RabbiGadol:  I have given thought to running billboard ads for him
Jackme:  he ever been married?
RabbiGadol:  Nor even close
Jackme:  wow
Jackme:  maybe hes gay
RabbiGadol:  Not engaged, either
guest85:  he is saving himself for that special girl
Jackme:  uh hu
RabbiGadol:  I do not believe he is, although he is flamboyant
RabbiGadol:  Also, he needs a woman who will wean him off of vegetables
Jackme:  is that our fearless leader?
Emma:  Why
RabbiGadol:  A man must eat meat to be a man
guest85:  he is self centered & selfish but not flamboyant
guest85:  man meat
Jackme:  he kinda looks gay
RabbiGadol:  But the family business part is very important
YourMoralLeader:  greeetings
RabbiGadol:  A woman with a father who has no sons
RabbiGadol:  Maybe someone who works in publishing
RabbiGadol:  Or even photography
Jackme:  and has a big rack
Gina:  Hi Luke
RabbiGadol:  I don’t think Luke cares about such things much
Jackme:  your probably rite being gay
RabbiGadol:  He and I have discussed this at length, and a woman of honor is more important to him than a woman of this or that body
RabbiGadol:  Because all flesh decays
Emma:  Thats true
Gina:  what’s the temp today Luke?
RabbiGadol:  And in the darkness, who can see anyway?  It is the character that shines through to illuminate the darkness, not the flesh
Gina:  should I bring my bikini?
RabbiGadol:  A woman with a father in shipping would be good.
RabbiGadol:  Marriage to such a family would work out well
RabbiGadol:  She should be conversant with the domestic arts.
RabbiGadol:  But also be smart as a tack
Emma:  Whoa you have been doing alot of thinking Rabbi
RabbiGadol:  Indeed I have
Emma:  Indeed you have
RabbiGadol:  In prayer, while studying the Talmud, the Sayings of Our Fathers and More.
RabbiGadol:  I was Luke’s spiritual guide for many years
RabbiGadol:  I vouched for him before some very skeptical people, so I want things to work out
RabbiGadol:  Not as a child, but as a pupil
russiandragon:  aha ok
RabbiGadol:  A man with the heart of a child, searching
RabbiGadol:  Seeking knowledge and truth
RabbiGadol:  Many a time I fought with the Rabbenim of his community, who stubbornly refused his new blood
guest85:  Luke were you even remotely attracted to s**ta Lazar?
Emma:  Interesting
guest85:  Interview was pretty blah
YourMoralLeader:  85, shira lazar?
guest85:  questions were good…. answer eh
RabbiGadol:  He needs a woman who can arrange things so that Luke can study all day long, doing mitzvot
YourMoralLeader:  yeah, it was blah
guest85:  is she attractive?
RabbiGadol:  I would like to see Luke author a commentary on the Torah.
guest85:  or full of herself?
Emma:  Maybe Luke can tell you of what kind a woman he is looking for
YourMoralLeader:  she’s cute, she’s nice
YourMoralLeader:  someone who likes to laugh
YourMoralLeader:  just one woman for me, thanks
Emma:  lol
YourMoralLeader:  Bingo, you’re the winner
RabbiGadol:  I know who he is looking for, but who he needs can be another matter
Emma:  ?
Emma:  Well Luke what do you need?
YourMoralLeader:  Congratulations, Emma. You laughed. You won me, the prize.
RabbiGadol:  Emma, are you toying with this man’s heart?
Emma:  lol Luke
Emma:  Of course not
RabbiGadol:  State your intentions
Emma:  Only good
russiandragon:  lol
YourMoralLeader:  as pure as the driven snow
RabbiGadol:  I don’t want to hear that you are trying to use Luke for anything base, that you break his heart
Emma:  Nope
RabbiGadol:  Well then, what are they?
russiandragon:  mm
RabbiGadol:  Men and women are different in their ability to withstand romantic disappointment
Emma:  Only good intentions
guest85:  luke   you be the prize oi vey iz mir
RabbiGadol:  A young man has a heart of stone and a young woman a heart like a tulip.
guest85:  men move on women become suicidal
Emma:  Not stone
RabbiGadol:  But an older man is very vulnerable, especially to the putative attentions of a young woman
Emma:  Not all men
guest85:  rabbi shirley you jest
RabbiGadol:  I want you to declare yourself
Emma:  lol
Emma:  Oh dear
RabbiGadol:  There has been too much disappointment in Luke’s life.
russiandragon:  interesting
RabbiGadol:  Too many woman who used him
guest85:  there is too much ageism in here
Emma:  Oh I don’t think I will disapoint Luke
russiandragon:  whom he used
russiandragon:  as well rabbi
guest85:  i would like to chaperone this arrangement to make sure it is all kosher mehadrin
guest85:  like a virgin…touched for the very 1st time by emma
RabbiGadol:  I know I am asking much of you, but there simply is too much room for you to take advantage of Luke and abuse him.  One reads of foreign women coming here and marrying American men simply for a green card
Emma:  Not all women are the same Rabbi
RabbiGadol:  So society needs to be protective of him
RabbiGadol:  I know that.
Emma:  Surley you of all people know that
RabbiGadol:  But one must be careful. Luke is like a tender late-blooming flower, in need of a protective fence from all the dogs in the area
YourMoralLeader:  Don’t bring on the heartbreak.
Emma:  I love how you describe Luke
guest85:  use him then abuse him …all in the name of love
RabbiGadol:  Look and see how happy he is.  I do not want that to end in tears.
guest85:  de-flower him NOW !!
Emma:  Only happy tears
YourMoralLeader:  Emma, make me a man!
YourMoralLeader:  please!
russiandragon:  this is all depressing 🙁
guest85:  bring it on
RabbiGadol:  I will marry you, if you are both who and what you say you are.
YourMoralLeader:  Thank you rabbi.
Emma:  Thanks
Emma:  lol
guest85:  can i be an aid ???
Emma:  WEDDING IS ON LUKE!
russiandragon:  ok i’m going to hang myself :p
guest85:  the wedding will be at pico deli
RabbiGadol:  There will be love for you too, one day, if you are lucky
YourMoralLeader:  I’ve been saving myself for that special woman.
guest85:  from your mouth to gods ears
YourMoralLeader:  Sex will be special in a way that secular people will never understand.
russiandragon:  except for the free bj’s
Emma:  Ive been saving myself for that special Man
Emma:  Of course Luke
YourMoralLeader:  We’ll do it to libera.
Emma:  lol
RabbiGadol:  Then you are a woman of valor, with a price above rubies
Emma:  I am the day
RabbiGadol:  Emma, are you willing to be mother to his children?
Emma:  All 8 of them Rabbi
RabbiGadol:  May G-d grant you your wish
RabbiGadol:  You are young enough for this
Emma:  Amen
RabbiGadol:  And there is no more important work for a woman
russiandragon:  ok guys i’m going to hang myself
russiandragon:  bye
russiandragon:  goobye world
guest85:  hope you are well hung
RabbiGadol:  God will hear your prayers
russiandragon:  i’m too depressed to stay
RabbiGadol:  As God has heard Luke’s, sending him young Emma
Emma:  Why?
RabbiGadol:  Why should you be depressed by anything here?
RabbiGadol:  One man’s joy need not be your loss.
RabbiGadol:  Perhaps if you were less cynical, russiandragon, you would open yourself up to the ways of the Lord
russiandragon:  i’ll be back if the suicide doesn’t work out
Emma:  Don’t be silly
russiandragon:  the lord has delt me bad cards
RabbiGadol:  You know you will be invited to the wedding
RabbiGadol:  look at your cards
russiandragon:  only black snow
russiandragon:  even worse
RabbiGadol:   compare them to Luke’s and ask yourself, which of his beats which of yours?
Emma:  Don’t you work Fridays Luke?
YourMoralLeader:  yep, till time to go to shul
guest85:  he ain’t gonna work on saturday
Emma:  What time do you go?
guest85:  double trouble triple pay ain’t gonna work on saturday

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Jew-Hating Christian Leader & Obama Supporter Attacks Philanthropist

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Luke Ford

Robert J. Avrech blogs:

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Daphna Ziman

Daphna Ziman is a Jewish philanthropist in Los Angles. Her work with the African American community is well known. Last night, she was supposed to be honored. Instead she was subjected to a vicious Jew-hating diatribe by a supporter of Barack Obama. It’s no secret: the black community is riddled with Jew-hatred. And with so many apologists for Jeremiah Wright on the left and in the Jewish community, well, Jew-hatred has found a comfortable home not just in the black community but in the Democratic party.

By Daphna Ziman

April 8, 2008

Hi,

I have to tell you of an experience I had last night that was so anti-Semitic and frightening:

Last night I was honored by Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, for my work with Children Uniting nations with African American children who are living out of home care. I have dedicated my life to saving these children from abuse, neglect and a life of crime. We created ‘adoption day’ and "Day of the Child" determined to recruit caring adults to be mentors and life savers for our at risk children in the inner cities.

The Mayor was present and City Council member Bernard Parks, assemblyman Mike Davis, Senator Mark Ridely Thomas etc. I was introduced as a children advocate and a leader in the Jewish community. I began my speech by talking about how I woke up in the morning and listened to Hillary Clinton’s speech, in the spirit of Dr. King from Memphis, that moved me so deeply. I expressed to the crowd how grateful I was to listen to Sen. McCain apologize to the community for mistakes he has made in the past. I acknowledged Sen. Obama’s speech from the campaign trail about Dr. King’s mentorship.

After I spoke and thanked the fraternity and their members, Rev. Eric Lee, pres. and CEO of Southern Christian Leadership Conference of greater Los Angeles, was introduced as the key note speaker.

He began his speech by thanking Jesus for Obama, who is going to be the leader of the world. He continued by referring to other leaders Like Dr. King, being that this was the moment of celebrating Dr. King’s spirit on the anniversary of his death, and Malcolm X.

It was right after the mention of Malcolm X that he looked right at me and started talking about the African American children who are suffering because of the “JEWS” that have featured them as rapists and murderers. He spoke of a Jewish Rabbi, and then corrected himself to say "What other kind of Rabbis are there, but “JEWS”. He told how this Rabbi came to him to say that he would like to bring the AA community and the Jewish community together. “NO, NO, NO,!!!!” he shouted into the crowd, we are not going to come together. “The Jews have made money on us in the music business and we are the entertainers, and they are economically enslaving us.”

He continued as to how now the salvation has come and the gates have open for African Americans to come together behind Barack Obama, because now is the time to show them (meaning the Jews).

He continued to speak about “White supremacy” vs. the talents and visionaries in the core of African Americans. He demeaned being given freedom, by saying “To what?” to a country that kills women and children.

I could no longer be polite and sit in front of the crowd, so I walked out.

Members of the fraternity ran after me as did my staff, I was not able to contain my tears and I cried. I cried for me and my family, who have tried so hard to help the African American community, because we adopted children from the same realities and wanted to give back to other children and people. We have been completely color blind, for us it was only helping those children in need.

This letter has been truncated for reporting purposes, as our sole interest in sharing this with you is to provide you with a first hand account of Daphna Ziman’s devastating personal experience of anti-Semitism at a recent event at which she was being honored.

From Stand With Us.

Fred emails:

I wonder whether Jewish efforts to reach out to the Black community are counterproductive. In particular, I wonder whether it telegraphs some sort of desperate need to be loved on behalf of the Jewish community, which in turn telegraphs extreme emotional vulnerability to everyone else, which people like Eric Lee exploit for their own purposes.

It would be better, perhaps, for Jews be less overly philanthropic to the Black community.

BTW, Luke, as a convert, when you read crap like this, do you feel personally attacked?

I rarely feel anything. If I was in the room, I probably would’ve been more sensate, particularly if an Air Supply tune was playing.

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Understanding Max Mosley’s Nazi S&M Orgy

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Luke Ford

Slate reports:

Max Mosley is facing calls to resign as president of Formula One after News of the World published an exposé about his sex life. In a video obtained by the British tabloid, a prostitute straps the 67-year-old Mosley to a bench and beats him with a cane; then Mosley switches roles: He shouts orders in German while he lashes prostitutes dressed in imitation death camp uniforms. Mosley’s bedroom habits may be distasteful, but are they pathological?

Not necessarily. The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual recognizes eight major paraphilias, or aberrant sexual urges: exhibitionism, fetishism, frotteurism (the desire to rub against a person), pedophilia, transvestic fetishism (attraction to the clothing of the opposite gender), voyeurism, masochism, and sadism. But the big eight aren’t considered diagnosable disorders unless the activity (or fantasy about the activity) is recurrent, causes significant emotional distress, impairs social functioning, or involves a violation of consent. So, consensual S&M that doesn’t lead to, say, crippling guilt is not classified as a disease.

As for the orgy’s Nazi overtones, Nazi costumes and other paraphernalia are not unheard of in the sexual role-play subculture. Like biker gear, SS outfits can heighten the sense of a "top/bottom" power differential, which, to some, is highly arousing. Mosley may have some demons to exorcise (his father, Oswald, was a known Nazi sympathizer), but his penchant for sinister playacting doesn’t demonstrate any form of psychosis.

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Should We Judge Other People’s Orgies?

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Luke Ford

Laura Frost is a professor of English at Yale University and the author of "Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism."

She writes in the Los Angeles Times:

Mosley’s marathon session with Mistress Switch is as British as the proverbial stiff upper lip. Not only has S&M had such an allure for generations of upper-class British men schooled in corporal punishment that it has been dubbed "the English vice," but the overtones of Mosley’s antics are also in keeping with past British aristocrats who found Hitler and Mussolini alluring alternatives to parliamentary democracy and the oh-so-dull rule of the mob. This is a country whose second heir to the throne dressed up as a Nazi for Halloween not long ago.

The Automobile Assn. of America, a member of the FIA, has questioned whether Mosley’s sexual behavior compromises his ability to serve as an international figurehead for "the interests of mobility and motor sport." The more important question is, should we require peoples’ sex lives to be consistent with the rest of their lives, or is sex an arena that is colored by — but can also be kept separate from — the ethical and moral imperatives of public life?

Mosley’s cup of tea suggests the latter.

Last year, a startling documentary debuted at the Jerusalem Film Festival. Ari Libsker’s "Stalags: Holocaust and Pornography in Israel" told the story of popular postwar pulp novels, known as "stalags," that featured busty blond female Nazis sexually tormenting Jewish men in concentration camps. (The Jews usually rose up and overthrew the Nazi vixens.) The books sold in huge numbers at Israeli newsstands in the 1960s, until a court case deemed them pornographic and banned their publication. All this unfolded alongside the awful testimonies of the Eichmann trial.

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A Jew Looks At Sex In Beijing

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Luke Ford

The New York Times blogs:

Someone named Anna Sophie Loewenberg, a onetime editor at Beijing Scene, has managed to flounce her way into China and join its social ranks as a Mandarin-fluent, boy-crazy and only slightly alienated Beijinger. (She’s from a Shanghai Jewish family.) Or at least she makes it look that way in “Sexy Beijing,” an online series, on a broadband channel of the same name, in which she plays the intrepid expat Su Fei, someone like Carrie Bradshaw and perhaps like herself.

She’s terrific in the role, and she keeps making episodes—I’m impressed by their sheer number—that recently captured the attention of PBS and The Atlantic Monthly.

But don’t let the mainstream attention put you off. These things are funny. Loewenberg is quick and has a light touch, and the things Chinese people tell her are quietly astounding.

Try to watch just one.

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Republican Jews Growing

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Luke Ford

Brad A. Greenberg writes:

For years, no respectable Jew would admit to being a Republican, even if they would vote for Ike or the Gipper. Today, this is no longer the case. The ranks of Republican Jews are swelling, something I discovered last summer and again this winter.

Why is this? Well, first let’s return to the e-mail from Jewish philanthropist Daphna Ziman that accuses the Rev. Eric Lee, a leader in Los Angeles’ black community, of espousing virulently anti-Semitic views. (Lee has denied her account and today apologized for any "misunderstandings.")

In forwarding this e-mail along, which has happened countless times now, Larry Greenfield, California director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, added this commentary:

"Daphna and Dick Ziman are friends of mine, and very partisan Dems and friends of Hillary.

They are respected citizens and honorable people.

If they are souring on Obamamania, this could be a good sign that realism is creeping into Jewish liberal minds. Anti Americanism, Anti Zionism, Anti Semitism mark todays left. THE POINT IS THE LEFT HAS TAKEN OVER THE DEMOCRAT PARTY. LETS ASK JOE LIEBERMAN."

The problem with that argument is that the Zimans aren’t just "friends" but are major supporters of Hillary Clinton, and Daphna previously questioned whether Obama is a safe vote for Israel.

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