No Enemies On The Right?

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Luke Ford

The Alt Right has no power, so there’s no rational reason to fear them right now.

On the other hand, the major American Jewish organizations such as the ADL do have power, and they are all united behind pushing for immigration amnesty and for restricting free speech.

If you found poisonous snakes in your bedroom, who would you hate? The snakes or the people who put them there? The major Jewish organizations, including the Orthodox Union and Agudas Yisrael, support immigration amnesty. They want no limits on the numbers of refugees America accepts. In other words, they want to flood my bedroom with poisonous snakes. Their own bedroom are safe because they are rich and can afford to live in good areas with plentiful security. But for ordinary people, an influx of low IQ types means life becomes more dangerous and unpleasant.

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These Jewish organizations all demanded amnesty for undocumented immigrants in the United States, invoking the language of the Torah about our obligation to do kindness to the stranger in our midst. They have largely remained silent, however, in the face of Israel’s rounding up and forcible deportation of African asylum seekers. They should all be held to account for their hypocrisy – especially because the Torah was referring to how we treat non-Jews in Israel, not the United States.

National Organizations
American Forum of Russian Jewry (AFRJ)
American Jewish Committee
Anti‐Defamation League
Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice
B’nai B’rith International
Bukharian Jewish Congress of the USA and Canada
HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society)
Jewish Council on Public Affairs
Jewish Federations of North America
Keshet
National Council of Jewish Women
Orthodox Union
Rabbinical Assembly
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Tikkun Olam Commission of the Jewish Reconstructionist Movement
T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
Union for Reform Judaism
Uri L’Tzedek
Women of Reform Judaism

Local Organizations
AJC Cincinnati
AJC Cleveland
AJC Houston
AJC Los Angeles
AJC New York
AJC Philadelphia/Southern New Jersey
Anti‐Defamation League of Eastern PA and Southern NJ
Congregation Meor Hachaim of Luna Park (New York, NY)
FEGS Health & Human Services (New York, NY)
Greater Philadelphia Jewish Coalition on Immigration
HIAS Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
Indianapolis Jewish Community Relations Council
Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action (Boston, MA)
Jewish Community Action (St. Paul, MN)
Jewish Community Center at Starrett City (New York, NY)
Jewish Community Relations Council of Philadelphia
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs (Chicago, IL)
Jewish Family & Career Services (Atlanta, GA)
Jewish Family & Children’s Service (Pittsburgh, PA)
Jewish Family & Children’s Services of the East Bay (Berkeley, CA)
Jewish Family Service of Buffalo & Erie County New York
Jewish Family Service of Western Massachusetts, Inc.
Jewish Family Services (Ann Arbor, MI)
Jewish Labor Committee Western Region (Los Angeles, CA)
Jewish Social Policy Action Network (Philadelphia, PA)
Jewish Vocational Service of MetroWest (East Orange, NJ)
Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (New York, NY)
Massachusetts Board of Rabbis (Newton, MA)
National Council of Jewish Women ‐ Greater Philadelphia
National Council of Jewish Women Texas State Policy Advocates
UJA‐Federation of New York
Women of Vision (Philadelphia, PA)

By pushing for immigration amnesty, these groups are trying to pour poison into my bloodstream, so I react strongly against these people who are trying to kill me and my country.

Let’s talk about the Eucalyptus Question.

I am not opposed to all non-native species. I think many of them benefit us.

On the other hand, I want there to be places in Southern California with only native vegetation. I don’t want invasive species wiping out all of the natives. I only welcome non-native species to the extent that they can be controlled and used for our benefit. And I think the same way about human immigration. I don’t want so many immigrants that America loses its heritage. I don’t want organized elites to strangle native cultures and replace them with massive immigration.

Some immigrants are an excellent fit with their new country. For example, I think all historically Anglo-Saxon countries such as the United States, Canada, England and Australia should reclaim their Anglo-Saxon heritage and have easy immigration and trade between fellow Anglos. When it comes to Jews, those from Western Europe are going to be a much easier fit for Western countries than Jews from Eastern Europe and the Middle East. German Jews, in particular, have been an enormous blessing to the world.

I Googled native vs non-native vegetation in Southern California and found this list. By the descriptions, I think it provides a good case against certain non-native vegetation and how at times a smart society will seek to prevent any importation of these invasive species.

* Alligatorweed, also known as pig weed, is a pernicious invasive plant that was first discovered in Alabama way back in 1897. It’s native to South America, but was transported to North America through ballast water. It forms dense, pervasive mats that make it hard for native species to thrive. It can also impact boating, fishing, and swimming.

* The water hyacinth is known among botanists as one of the worst aquatic plants in the world. While it’s native to South America, it has infested freshwater regions of California. It’s sold in big box and garden stores because of its beautiful flowers, but tends to grow and reproduce at astonishing rates, leading to millions of dollars per year in plant management fees.

* Another invasive aquatic plant, hydrilla probably originated in Asia before making its way to California around the 1950s. It came through the aquarium trade, escaping into local freshwater areas. It’s found in deserts, the San Francisco Bay Area, and even in more remote areas like Shasta. Typically, it forms mats like the water hyacinth above, blocking water flow and causing millions of dollars of damages.

* The Uruguay water-primrose is a noxious weed that invades the water ecosystems in California and many other areas of the western United States. Again, it is a mat-forming plant that has bright yellow-orange flowers. It’s been in California for over two decades, but is growing at an alarming rate, making it a growing concern for plant biologists and conservationists.

* Giant Salvinia looks kind of like floating mushrooms or heads of lettuce. It’s yet another plant that made its way to California from South America via the aquarium trade. As a serious threat to lakes, ponds, and rivers, it will completely cover water surfaces and create stagnant waters in once-moving streams. On top of that, these thick mats will often become havens for mosquitoes.

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The Case For Electric Cars

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* Gasoline cars transmit 20% of the energy in gasoline to forward motion, electric cars transmit 60%. So though the ultimate source of energy is oil, electric is more efficient. Gasoline cars throw away lots energy as heat.

* Right now the Tesla brand is valuable precisely because it DOESN’T have a track record. It is the empty vessel into which people can pour their high tech dreams. The actual cars – not so hot. The build quality on the Model 3 sucks and the blank dashboard with only a center screen is stupid and forces you to take your eyes off the road.

GM for example, by contrast does have a 100+ year record of building cars, but the problem is that the record sucks. People remember the dud Chevette that their dad bought and they vow never to buy a GM product again. If Tesla could take the Chevy Bolt and stick a Tesla logo on it , they could put another $10K on the sticker.

The “Buy American” thing is just a canard. Musk himself is an immigrant (S. Africa). I’m sure that once Tesla’s scale is big enough it will open factories in other countries (China) like every other auto manufacturer. In the end, an automaker is just a bunch of factories and Tesla, right now, has exactly 1 factory. In California, which is maybe not really the best location for a factory.

The Germans are relatively nowhere with electric cars. The Mercedes brand means nothing to consumers when it comes to electric cars. People don’t want sedans anymore period. Everyone wants SUVs. The Germans make them too, but at US factories.

An electric car is partly a car and partly an electronic device. Who is good at building high quality cars – the Japanese (and the Koreans are catching up fast). Who is good at building electronics? The Japanese and the Koreans (in Chinese factories).

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Rob Reiner Celebrates The Browning Of America

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Luke Ford

California is now 37.7% white.

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* Why don’t Rob Reiner and his ilk organize a huge Freedom Ride, buses and all, to Mexico City? You know, protest the continued subjugation of the native Mexico population by those white (but Mexican) descendants of the Conquistadores?

That would give him something to do…and he could, you know, free Mexicans from oppression by their rulers.

* On a technical note, Malibu is unincorporated. So is Montecito, recently in the news. If you live on the east side of the country you might not understand this. Malibu is located in the County of Los Angeles but not in the City of Los Angeles. Malibu is patrolled by LA county sheriffs. State troopers confine their services to the proximity of Highway 1.

From a libertarian perspective, the best place to live in Southern California is Silver Strand on the south side of Oxnard. There is no entrance for State cops. And county cops don’t go there without a warrant or 911 call. It’s very expensive.

* Mexicans and Central Americans must be frightened to death of brown people. Why else are they so desperate to flee their own brown nations to come to a less brown America? And why do illegals react with abject terror at the prospect of being sent back home to be with fellow brown people? Why is their ‘dream’ staying away from their own nations than being returned to them?

And non-whites must be frightened to death of their own non-white nations. Why else do they try so hard to move to Europe, Canada, Australia, or America? Why do they come here to have babies? Every year, countless non-whites apply to permanently move to white majority nations.

Most of these non-whites lack the will and determination to reform and fix their own nations. The West made great advances because of the agency of individuals to make a difference. They had the gall to face their own problems and fix them. Most non-whites lack such will and are incapable of fixing their own societies that remain corrupt or backward. So, their shortcut to a good life is moving to white nations and enjoying the fruits of what whites struggled so hard to achieve.

Jews like Reiner are frightened to death of any solid gentile majority. That’s why they used Nakba to get rid of Palestinian majority that was replaced by a Jewish majority, and Jews have allowed only Jewish immigration and pro-Jewish natal policies to maintain Jewish majority in Israel.
Nothing frightens Israeli Jews more than becoming a minority like whites in South Africa. Palestinian majority had to be destroyed for Jews to turn Palestine into Israel, a Jewish state.
In the US and European nations, Jews cannot hope to become the majority. So, how do they break the power of the gentile majority? Via diversity of Mexicans in the US and of Muslims in Europe. Former white societies are then divided between white and non-white. More crucially, they are divided between white conservatives who are wary of demographic changes and white globalists who embrace diversity and love to virtue-signal by rules of PC. No more white unity. Those wedges make for further penetration of Jewish power.

As for whites who grew up in postwar era, they inherited the good life made possible by their predecessors. Because they didn’t have to struggle to make the world better, they failed to appreciate all the hard work that went into making the West. If anything, the cult of ‘white guilt’ mislead them into thinking white success owed to nothing more than exploitation of non-whites.

Also, the positive drive for improvement turned sclerotic and began to attack itself. In a world with lots of problems, the will for reform and improvement wages war on problems and produces results. But once those changes have been achieved, the reformist zeal may remain. Since there are no great problems to tackle anymore, the energy turns into PC and begins to attack imaginary monsters within and deludes itself into thinking worshiping something like Diversity. Meanwhile, good times drive others to decadence and debauchery. What is Disney but a whore factory for young girls?

Globalists understood this mindset among Northern Europeans especially. Northern European success owes to passion and courage for reform. But the spirit remained even after the necessary reforms have been achieved. It still wants to do ‘good work’ and is restless for the next great struggle. So, why not manipulate that spirit into serving PC?
This puritanist zeal is also susceptible to debauchery since hyper-moralism is hard and repressive. All great moral struggles require sacrifice and commitment. Work ethic and Reform ethic requires sobriety and seriousness. Great things are achieved, but people feel cheated of fun and pleasure. So, it is no surprise that northern European types have taken to homos and blacks as objects of their sympathy and admiration. Blacks and homos sure know how to have fun.

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Stephen Miller, Steve Sailer & John Podhoretz

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Luke Ford

According to StatusPeople.com, 26% of John Podhoretz‘s 121,000 Twitter followers are fake and 29% are inactive.

According to the same site, 19% of Steve Sailer‘s followers are fake and 37% are inactive.

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* Miller stands accused of being a self-hating Jew, by virtue of his failing to support perpetually open borders, thereby putting the interests of his fellow Americans above those of his fellow Jews.

* Mr. Miller is clearly an American who is Jewish and is trying to do the best for the country and his fellow citizens.

Over the years it’s become impossible to ignore the exaggerated sense of grievance and paranoia so common among American Jews that sees so many things as antisemitism or provocation or even as an existential threat to their very existence. This is sad because the intolerance, aggression and authoritarianism they advance to fight these phantom menaces occupying their paranoid fantasies will inevitably fuel their existence in reality.

Their paranoid dreams could be giving birth to their worst nightmares.

* Ethnocentric, patriotic, it’s all very complicated with Jews.

Jews like Podhoretz could say their pro-diversity immigration position is neo-patriotic and anti-ethnocentric because they believe American is an Idea that should be open to all the world.

In contrast, Trumpers cling to vision of white-majority America.

However, it could also be argued that Jewish globalists push to increase diversity in the US to further Jewish ethnocentric interests, i.e. as the ruling minority elite, Jews feel more secure in a nation without an overwhelming gentile majority.

* JPod has so little to offer as an intellectual nemesis. His entire repertoire of attack revolves around appeals to an arbitrary, volatile moral code that has existed for perhaps half a dozen years and will probably be vastly diffferent in half a dozen more. In that sense, he has no moral base and thus no real understanding of right and wrong – just a set of views that morph to whatever his intellectual superiors proclaim is socially pious. His sole motivation for engaging people on Twitter is to read the electronic canon of his evolving religion and outcast those who question that orthodoxy as “reprllant filth.”

That noted, it must be mentally tiresome for leftists like him to constantly have to redefine what “Nazi” means.

* Jpod’s tactic is dirty, but it works a lot. Jews and blacks know it’s the kryptonite they can use on the white gentile anytime to put him in his place.

Jews also see themselves as the ultimate arbiters of who qualify as Good Whites and who don’t. But I wouldn’t worry about it too much Steve. It’s kinda hard to “Goy, Bye” an independent blogger.

Do you and Mr. Podhoretz have any mutual friends who can help mediate this fracas and nip it in the bud? Lawsuits are ugly.

Steve Sailer is a veteran pundit who has battled in the trenches for decades but I can imagine this is still very hard on him. Just imagine a 19-year old white man from flyover country entering university for the first time. Do you think he gets to benefit from a healthy exchange of ideas and his ideas will be given a fair hearing? Especially on questions like immigration, race relations, crime, etc. If he deviates out of line just a little bit, he will be shunned and be the subject of Jpod-style vitriol.

Another reason to bring back all-white colleges.

* I miss the days when these people at least tried to follow the first corollary to Godwin’s Law.

So, now that Podhoretz the Lesser has linked to this post, are any of his fans here, reading the comments? Would any of them like to defend this buffoon? What value do you get from reading him, if any?

* JPod at Wikipedia:

At The Weekly Standard, one staff member said, Podhoretz’s “arrogance and egotism had a psychological effect people can’t quite believe.” At The Washington Times a colleague reported, he was “permanently frozen in juvenalia.” Glenn Garvin, the Central American bureau chief of the Miami Herald, once said that at the Times, Podhoretz “constantly complained that his brilliance wasn’t appreciated.”

* I’d like Podhoretz to explain, in detail, what policies he supports and what policies he opposes in regards to American immigration policy, and then give the his same take on Israeli immigration policy.

From what I can tell, Donald Trump’s immigration policy wish list is well to the left of actual, current Israeli immigration policy; but somehow Trump’s policy is racist but Netanyahu’s is not.

It would be hard for Podhoretz to argue that he’s American and therefore Israeli immigration policy is none of his business, given that he happens to think that the policy of every other foreign country on pretty much everything is his business.

And if you’re bothering to read this JPod (and we know you are) feel free to add some comments in your defense. Sailer has shown the willingness to fight on your turf. When are you going to show the courage to fight on his?

* JPod is the living embodiment of regression to the mean, although it’s incredible that there could that much in only one generation. He would never post on here. His fat corpulent head would explode trying to explain how Steve is a loser when Steve’s strategy won Trump the Presidency, the same guy who is now is staring down and making blink Schumer and the Dems in Congress and the RINOS in his own party. This is something the Bushes never managed to do in 12 years in the White House, among other facts like ones you mentioned.

* JPod taking out his daddy issues on Steve.

* Looking over JPod’s recent twitter I see he called Paul Nehlen a Nazi, and also said “Paul Nehlen is so annoying I think Himmler would have had him killed just to shut him up”. I found that Howard Stern is also occasionally repellent. Hogan Gidley was “a loathsome little careerist pipsqueak”. That Twitter should have a talking stick to get Seth Abramson to shut up. All this just in the last day. So it looks like Steve Sailer merely walked into the firing range of a mass shooter.

* I have no inside knowledge, but the first time I became aware of Mr. Podhoretz’s intense feelings was a sequence of exchanges in summer 2005 triggered by discussions of birthright citizenship and Hurricane Katrina:

7/11/2005 – JPod triggered by Derb’s criticism of birthright citizenship

http://www.unz.com/isteve/pod-lesser-birthright-pundit/

7/13/2005 – JPod calls Sailer “a scum”

https://www.unz.com/isteve/please-keep-attacking-me/

7/17/2005 – Sailer cites Norman Podhoretz contra JPod

http://www.vdare.com/articles/podhoretz-junior-vs-steve-sailer

9/3/2005 – Sailer commits an act of Unauthorized Noticing

http://www.vdare.com/articles/racial-reality-and-the-new-orleans-nightmare

9/5/2005 – JPod triggered; early use of “point ‘n’ sputter”

https://www.unz.com/isteve/thou-shalt-know-him-by-his-enemies/

9/7/2005 – Sailer cites Commentary and AEI contra JPod

http://www.unz.com/isteve/john-podhoretz-averts-his-maidenly/

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How Your Politics Can Change Your Physiology

Posted on January 21, 2018 by Luke Ford

Left-wingers and right-wingers not only see the world differently, as Jonathan Haidt explains, they experience the world different. Much of our political orientation comes from our biology.

I wonder if your politics can change your physiology?

When I think back over my life, I don’t recall getting offended, but when I push my introspecting, I recall getting upset much more offend when I was experimenting with the Marxist worldview (from ages 19-22). Then racism and blaming the poor would often cause a heartfelt emotional reaction in me, much like what women have. I’d get a major case of the feelz.

Aside from those three years, I’ve been right-wing. In recent years, I’ve moved further to the right — meaning even more against equality. I’ve come to see conflicts in Darwinian terms — that different forms of life have different interests that often place them in life and death conflicts with other forms of life. Along with a Darwinian worldview comes reduced belief in the capacity for freedom of choice. As one reduces one’s belief in free will, there’s less reason to get upset about other people’s choices.

So, for me, I find a right-wing perspective leads to me rarely if ever getting offended, while a left-wing point of view led to me constantly getting offended. The feeling of offense triggered changes in my body chemistry while the feeling of being beyond offense creates a feeling of solidity. That’s why I wonder if a worldview might change your physiology down to the cellular level.

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Trump’s jargon is infectious

Posted on January 21, 2018 by Luke Ford

Virginia Heffernan writes:

Donald Trump’s triglycerides are 129. His fasting blood glucose is 89. His alanine transaminase is 27. He’s fine. He seems to be hewing to norms, for once.

But to hear the presidential physician tell it, Trump is bionic. In a news conference, Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson hailed Trump’s health as “excellent” eight times. He padded his encomium with steroidal intensifiers. Incredibly. Exceptionally. Hands down. He sounded awestruck: “He has incredibly good genes, and it’s just the way God made him.”

It was chilling to hear a doctor underscore Trump’s oft-expressed faith in his own genetic superiority. When Trump himself gives this “good genes” spiel, it often dovetails with his broader ideology of white supremacy. But more shuddery still was hearing Jackson pipe Trump’s special brand of overheated self-congratulation.

We know this plot by now: A man of apparent self-possession disappears into an examining room or a golf cart with the president — and comes out hollow-eyed, body-snatched and programmed with Trump’s own pieties.

Earlier this month, the journalist Maggie Haberman tweeted, “Three Trump advisors have commented privately at various points that people around him/close to him begin to act like him.” This phenomenon goes for the media too. As Katy Waldman wrote in Slate: “Trump’s tics continue to seep into the way we write and speak, whether we think we’re being ironic or just can’t help ventriloquizing the man on everyone’s mind. We’re all the puppet.”

Sure, there are those lost souls who take up the full bow-and-scrape routine: Vice President Mike Pence, attorney Michael Cohen, Don Jr., some in the Cabinet. Hope for them is gone. But what of the less likely Trump imitators who have forfeited actual dignity to act like him? One year ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, no one’s idea of a pushover, threw over his establishment Hebrew in favor of Trump’s cloying imbecility. “President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel’s southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea.”

Similarly, as Trump was getting close to President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi of Egypt in the fall, the Egyptian government waxed Trumpian to mark a deadly attack on a mosque in the Sinai: “As usual, deplorable @CNN coverage of Sinai tragedy today. Anchor more interested in reporters access to Sinai than in those who lost their lives!!!”

Trump almost certainly counts the rhetorical subordination of these men as a win. After all, he devised his interpersonal strategies in the 1970s, when mentally dominating others was considered a fine art. The manual for “corporate warfare” in those days was “Power!” by Michael Korda, who ran in Trump’s circles.

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Is Trump Having An Affair With Nikki Haley?

Posted on January 20, 2018 by Luke Ford

From The Wrap:

“Fire and Fury” author Michael Wolff’s accusation that President Trump is currently having an affair set off online speculation Saturday about who the other party might be. Based on Wolff’s clues, it appears he’s making insinuations about UN Ambassador Nikki Haley.

A quick side note before we go further: This is gross on every level. We don’t have any evidence whatsoever to suggest that what Wolff is hinting at is true, so please consider this a story about an author making an accusation he admits he can’t prove.

That said, Wolff went on “Real Time With Bill Maher” Friday to provide some encouragement to readers who may have given up halfway through “Fire and Fury” when he said a passage near the end of his book hints at the affair.

“Now that I’ve told you, when you hit that paragraph you’re going to say bingo,” Wolff told Maher.

We’ve read the book. While there are icky descriptions about Trump’s behavior with his spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, they come before the book’s midway point. (“You’re the best piece of tail he’ll ever have!” Trump is quoted as telling Hicks about an ex, which Wolff says sent Hicks “running from the room.”)

The only passage we’ve found near the end of the book that references a Trump relationship with a woman who isn’t his wife or daughter is this one:

By October, however, many on the president’s staff took particular notice of one of the few remaining Trump opportunists: Nikki Haley, the UN ambassador. Haley — ‘as ambitious as Lucifer,” in the characterization of one member of the senior staff — had concluded that Trump’s tenure would last, at best, a single term, and that she, with requisite submission, could be his heir apparent. Haley had courted and befriended Ivanka, and Ivanka had brought her into the family circle, where she had become a particular focus of Trump’s attention, and he of hers.

Bingo? Wolff adds that Trump “had been spending a notable amount of private time with Haley on Air Force One and was seen to be grooming her for a political future.”

Wolff cited one “senior Trumper” who said the problem with Trump mentoring Haley “is that she is so much smarter than him.”

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Sundance film festival debuts dark tale of Jewish triplets split at birth

Posted on January 20, 2018 by Luke Ford

From Times of Israel:

The triplets, it turned out, were among a number of identical siblings split up as part of a dark 1960s “nature versus nurture” social experiment led by psychoanalyst Peter Neubauer of the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services in Manhattan.

Visits by researchers throughout their childhoods were explained away as a “child development study” when in reality Neubauer was scrutinizing the brothers’ personalities and relationships with their very diverse adoptive families.

“We really didn’t understand just how egregiously these people behaved,” said Kellman, who told AFP all six adoptive parents were angered that they too had been kept in the dark.

“As we got older, got married, became parents ourselves, we realized how impactful it was.”

…No one has ever apologized to Shafran or Kellman, and the Jewish Board declined to take part in the documentary.

A spokeswoman told AFP it was “committed to providing identified Neubauer study participants access to their records in a timely and transparent manner.”

It is not the kind of language that sits easily with the brothers, however.

“They refer to us as participants,” says Kellman. “We weren’t participants, we were victims.”

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Parasha Beshalach (Exodus 13:17–17:16)

Posted on January 20, 2018 by Luke Ford

Listen here and here.

According to Wikipedia: “In this parashah, Pharaoh changes his mind and sends his army after the Jewish people, trapping them at the Sea of Reeds. God commands Moses to split the sea, allowing them to pass, then closes the sea back upon the Egyptian army. It also contains the miracles of manna and clean water.”

Exodus 13: 17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, “If they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.”

War is rarely the Jews first choice.

13:18: “The Children of Israel were armed when they went up from Egypt…”

So they weren’t pacifists. They didn’t just rely on God to take care of them.

* Ex. 14:5: “When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services!””

This reminds me of when you have a girl you’re sick of but you don’t want another guy to have her.

Keeping people around as slaves does not serve you because the slaves hate you and will want revenge. Instead, you want to take the approach of Donnie Azoff in The Wolf of Wall Street:

Donnie Azoff: “Well, basically, you know, if the kid was retarded I would… I would, you know, drive it up to the country and just like, you know, open the door and let it… say “You’re free now!” You know? Like, “Run free!” You know?”

* Ex. 14:17: “I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. And I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horsemen. 18 The Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen.””

Some people complain when God lets the wicked prosper. Other people complain when God punishes the wicked. Which do you want? A politically correct Torah would say that God, instead of punishing Pharoah, took him to therapy. (Dennis Prager)

The God of the Jews is the God that the Egyptians worship today (whether they are Christian or Muslim). Nobody today worships the gods of the Pharoahs.

The Torah proclaims that the world is run by a moral order coming from God that ultimately triumphs over evil.

Ex. 14:23: “The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea. 24 During the last watch of the night the Lord looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion. 25 He jammed[b] the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving.”

Sounds like what happens whenever you invade a country you have no business being in, like the US invading Afghanistan in 2002 and Iraq in 2003.

* I’m watching this National Geographic documentary series Chain of Command and it is so gay. The whole premise is that it is tracking America’s war against “violent extremism.” Was the Bombing of Dresden violent extremism? How about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? “Violent extremism” has no objective meaning. If you said, “War against Islam”, then the phrase would have meaning. If you said, “War against our enemies”, that would have meaning. Instead, the series feels like you are watching America drag its slimy tranny dick over the face of the world.

Women keep showing up in the program to remind you that they have no place in the armed forces except as secretaries and nurses. Instead, this series shows them carrying guns and carrying out drone strikes and lecturing military officers of human rights.

ISIS has done some bad things, but at least they’ve never allowed feminism, never allowed women to vote, and never allowed women to lecture their fighters on human rights.

On the other hand, I can view this series as showing America fighting bad guys to enhance freedom and prosperity around the world and as men and women have different gifts, enlisting women in this struggle allows them to make their unique contributions. For example, women often make better journalists and therapists because they’re better listeners and can often make more empathic connections with people.

* Bret Stephens in NYT: “A Modest Immigration Proposal: Ban Jews”

* NYT Deputy Washington Editor Jonathan Weisman’s New Book, (((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump: ‘The Jew flourishes when borders come down, when boundaries blur, when walls are destroyed, not erected.’

* Aziz Ansari story and the “Cat Person” New Yorker story.

Dennis Dale: “The public humiliation of Aziz Ansari marks the “me too” sexual inquisition’s escalation into prosecuting romantic and sexual disappointment.”

* A Jewish Prayer For The Confederacy. It was composed by Rabbi Max Michelbacher of Virginia. Ten thousand Jews served in the confederate armed forces while 8400 served in the Union.

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The most amazing thing to me is not that Ross Levinsohn (as a sales guy) would say and do the things he did, but that the LAT newsroom is both so sensitive and so gay

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Luke Ford

Read the embedded tweets.

The LA Times has about the most queer newsroom in the country, hence the hyperbolic super-sensitivity to this story. And if the Times reporters are so awesome, how come they didn’t have this story?

If I had to bet, when Levinsohn said he didn’t want to eat lunch with a bunch of ladies and fags, he both meant it as a joke and it was taken as a joke by those he said it to.

As far as hiring bikini models on a yacht off of France, I guess the reporters have no idea how high level sales guys get business. He is accused of kissing someone in front of them, but it was not someone he assaulted and forced himself on. He did rate women and speculated if some woman was sleeping with someone else and if someone was a part time stripper. This is very low level stuff, but we have moved into the cultural revolution (a la Mao Tse Tung) period of “criticism-self criticism” when it comes to sexual conduct. On the other hand, he has been sued for sexual harassment twice, so maybe he has done far worse than what made the NPR story.

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