Friday, January 22, 2010

Discussion With My Date 4

This is my favorite song.

Here’s a rambling late night conversation with my date.

I discuss about my dreams of playing running back for Bill Walsh and the San Francisco 49ers during the 1980s.

I talk about my favorite movie of 2009 — “An Education.” It’s about a 16yo British schoolgirl who’s courted by a Jewish playboy twice her age and distracts her from her preparations for Oxford.

The Torah does not recognize a difference between a 14-year old girl and a 16-year old girl and an 18-year old girl. They are all adults.

But the Jew in this movie is rather naughty, picking up this innocent girl and flying her to Paris, oy vey!

 

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A Rambling Late Night Discussion With My Date III

This is my favorite song.

Here’s a rambling late night conversation with my date.

I discuss about my dreams of playing running back for Bill Walsh and the San Francisco 49ers during the 1980s.

I talk about my favorite movie of 2009 — “An Education.” It’s about a 16yo British schoolgirl who’s courted by a Jewish playboy twice her age and distracts her from her preparations for Oxford.

The Torah does not recognize a difference between a 14-year old girl and a 16-year old girl and an 18-year old girl. They are all adults.

But the Jew in this movie is rather naughty, picking up this innocent girl and flying her to Paris, oy vey!

 

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Late Night Discussion With My Date II

This is my favorite song.

Here’s a rambling late night conversation with my date.

I discuss about my dreams of playing running back for Bill Walsh and the San Francisco 49ers during the 1980s.

I talk about my favorite movie of 2009 — “An Education.” It’s about a 16yo British schoolgirl who’s courted by a Jewish playboy twice her age and distracts her from her preparations for Oxford.

The Torah does not recognize a difference between a 14-year old girl and a 16-year old girl and an 18-year old girl. They are all adults.

But the Jew in this movie is rather naughty, picking up this innocent girl and flying her to Paris, oy vey!

 

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A Rambling Late Night Discussion With My Date

This is my favorite song.

Here’s a rambling late night conversation with my date.

I discuss about my dreams of playing running back for Bill Walsh and the San Francisco 49ers during the 1980s.

I talk about my favorite movie of 2009 — “An Education.” It’s about a 16yo British schoolgirl who’s courted by a Jewish playboy twice her age and distracts her from her preparations for Oxford.

The Torah does not recognize a difference between a 14-year old girl and a 16-year old girl and an 18-year old girl. They are all adults.

But the Jew in this movie is rather naughty, picking up this innocent girl and flying her to Paris, oy vey!

 

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American Airline Security Checkers

I always feel like I’m rubbing up against the bottom of America’s barrel when I go through security checks at an American airports. The people doing them appear bored and incompetent.

They appear a lot dumber than any of their peers around the world. Those doing the checking in Europe and Australia appear a ton smarter.

So why do we get the dregs in America? I don’t know. It appears that affirmative action plays an important role in hiring. I don’t see people being hired for their merit. They get hired for acting like sheep.

Rob Eshman writes in the Jewish Journal:

At Israel’s airport counters, personnel are college students or graduates who have also completed army service. They are uniformly intelligent and well trained. That is often not the case with Transportation Security Administration employees.

“The TSA should be hiring talented and skilled people; it should not be an alternative to Welfare.,” said Israel-based security consultant Marc Prowiser.

 

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Sunday, January 17, 2010

Big Boy Rules: America’s Mercenaries Fighting In Iraq

Despite a stomach bug, I interviewed by phone Washington Post reporter Steve Fainaru Wednesday evening, Jan. 13, 2010, about his 2009 book Big Boy Rules.

Luke: “Tell me about the impact of 9/11 upon you personally and professionally.”

Steve: “It had a profound impact. When it happened, I was in Washington. I was covering sports… That job became immediately obsolete. I was tasked to cover terrorism. It took me to New York. Then the [Iraq] war started and I got caught up in the war for the better part of three years.”

“There were several books I could’ve written about Iraq. This story, both personally and professionally, resonated with me the most… The whole private security madness going on over there, the hidden quality of it, it just made it a rich topic.”

Luke: “Why do you think there was a lack of journalistic investigation of the Bush administration’s claims of WMD in Iraq in the run-up before the Iraq war?”

 

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Author Steve Fainaru Of Big Boy Rules

Luke: “Why do you think there was a lack of journalistic investigation of the Bush administration’s claims of WMD in Iraq in the run-up before the Iraq war?”

Steve: “The country was in a fever. Nine-eleven changed the dynamic in the country. Newsrooms, like the rest of the country, got caught up in it and we lost sight of our accountability function as a counterweight to the government.”

“The coverage of the [Iraq] war has been quite good. A lot of it was the result of the lessons of going into the war and things that the news media certainly missed.”

Luke: “How would you describe the emotional tone of your book?”

Steve: “In what sense?”

Luke: “It seemed to be very strong emotions driving the book?”

 

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