Don't Enable The Unhappy

Luke Ford writes:

On his radio show Friday, Dennis Prager says: You out there who enable the chronically unhappy should feel awful because you are making your own lives miserable and you are enabling the miserable to stay miserable.

Everybody does this. You have to be very strong not to do this.

If we did not enable the chronically miserable, they would change.

I’m talking about unhappy people who take out their bad moods on others.

I don’t think we enable friends as much, because we simply drop them if they’re too drippy.

You can’t make the unhappy happy. We have to tell the chronically unhappy people in our lives — I can handle your depression, but I can’t handle you taking it out on me.

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Let The Healing Begin!

Luke Ford writes:

I’m reading this New York Times article.

How come there are only calls for healing after minorities are attacked?

If heterosexuals are beaten by homosexuals, are there any calls for healing?

If whites are attacked by blacks or hispanics, are there are any calls for healing?

If men are attacked by women, are there any calls for healing?

Is there any media coverage when people in the majority culture are attacked by minorities?

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Torah & Lesbians

Luke Ford writes:

In his second lecture on Leviticus 20 in 2009, Dennis Prager said: Jacob Milgrom argues that the Torah does not care about lesbianism because lesbians don’t spill seed. But there’s no prohibition against the spilling of seed in the Torah. The sin of Onan is in his refusing to inseminate his wife. The Torah could’ve explicitly banned masturbation and the spilling of seed but does not.

I have been perplexed for a long time about why the Torah does not have anything to say about lesbianism. I think I have the answer.

The answer is — all of these laws presuppose the male as the actor in sex. So just as the Torah does not say to the woman that she can not sleep with her father or brother or son, though there is the bestiality issue. It is hard to imagine a woman initiating bestiality. It was probably a kinky practice that some men found alluring. Bestiality is the only time the woman is possibly pictured as the actor…

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Keeping Kosher On An Interdate

Luke Ford writes:

In his second lecture on Leviticus 20 in 2009, Dennis Prager said: “When I was in my bachelor days in my twenties, I went out with women of all backgrounds. I intended to only marry someone born Jewish or converted to Jewish. My one criteria was is it a woman?

“I kept kosher and still do. I was going to write a long article for Jewish publications titled, ‘Keeping Kosher on an Interdate.’

“I said this publicly at the time, I would tell Jewish audiences, ‘Folks, it is a little eery. When I am with a non-religious Jewish woman, she thinks that what I am doing by disqualifying many things on the menu because I am a Jew is absurd. Whenever I am with a non-Jewish woman, she has such respect for what I am doing. Every one has said, ‘I am not going to order anything like that either. What would offend you?”

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When The Right Gets Angry

Luke Ford writes:

Dennis: “When the right gets angry, do you notice there’s no violence? They clean up after their demonstrations. Who do you think is more likely to key your car if they don’t agree with your bumper sticker?”

Politico.com:

WEST NEWTON, Mass. – President Barack Obama said Americans’ “fear and frustration” is to blame for an intense midterm election cycle that threatens to derail the Democratic agenda.

“Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared,” Obama said Saturday evening in remarks at a small Democratic fundraiser Saturday evening. “And the country’s scared.”

Dennis: “Maybe people think more clearly when they are scared? Perhaps nothing concentrates the mind like the vision of a bankrupt America?

“A friend told my wife Friday night that he was just in Thailand and people refused the dollar. They preferred baht, the Thai currency.

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Happy Black Conservatives

Luke Ford writes: Dennis Prager said after interviewing black Republican candidate for Congress, Tim Scott: “When you meet conservative blacks… And I’ll compare activist to activist. The humor, the happiness, the freedom. When a black rethinks things, and this is true for anybody, but blacks in particular, when one realizes one can be the master of my life, which is what conservatism is all about, as opposed to I will wait for the government to save me, how can you not be happier as a conservative? Polls show conservatives are happier. We don’t want others to take care of us [if possible].”

“People want to be saved by government in France who are perfectly healthy and young. You are made worse by left-wing ideas.”

“You are not free at last when you depend on the government to hire you and to take care of you and to give you benefits.

“That’s why there’s a dour disposition whenever you talk to any of these black liberal politicians. Their whole personality is different.”

“Put Maxine Waters on one side and Tim Scott on the other. The woman radiates anger at America. She makes her constituents more bitter.”

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Journalist David M. Hoffman RIP

Luke Ford writes:

Drew emails: Hi Luke Ford: I just discovered David M. Hoffman via Alex Constantine publishing an article that is half composed of Hoffman’s OK City Bombing research.

I was reading your correspondence with David after he returned from Europe — and so I did a search on Peabody Massachusetts and I discovered that David M. Hoffman, age 48, of Peabody MA died in 2008.

Considering the depression he was suffering from and his suicide attempts — it seems he finally ended his life.