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Under Discussion: Why Are Jews Liberal? By Norman Podhoretz. Doubleday (2009), 337 pages.
Continued from Part I
In Commentary's symposium on Norman Podhoretz's Why Are Jews Liberal? historian Jonathan D. Sarna calls attention to the fact that "outside the United States liberalism is nowhere near so dominant a faith among Jews. In Israel, to take an obvious example, Jewish liberals and Jewish conservatives are fairly evenly matched."
Actually, Israelis who might remotely be described as liberal are a distinct minority -- the old Labor Party founded by Zionist socialists is on its last legs, accounting for only around 10 percent of the Knesset and functioning mainly to provide a fig leaf of respectability for the dominant ethno-nationalist Right.
Identification with the left is not a general characteristic of Jews; it is, however, a definite phenomenon within countries in the Jewish Diaspora, indicating that in searching for an explanation of the attraction of American Jews to the left, one must also look to this Diaspora experience in Europe and other European-derived societies.
Thankfully, Podhoretz does not try to explain the Jewish attraction to the left as resulting from a moral imperative stemming from the very nature of Judaism itself.
Such a self-conception remains strong among many Jewish liberals, including Deborah Lipstadt who opines, "The Torah repeatedly instructs us to care for the 'widow, the orphan, poor, and the stranger.'" Jewish advocates for non-White immigration sometimes use this rationale -- Gideon Aronoff's Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, for example:
Drawing strongly on Jewish tradition, we provide services to Jewish immigrants, refugees, and others in need -- without regard for their religion, nationality, or ethnic background. We are guided by our Jewish values and texts. The Torah (Hebrew Bible) tells us 36 times in 36 different ways to help the stranger among us. This, and our core belief that we must "fix the world" (tikkun olam, in Hebrew), are the driving principles behind our work.
But the idea that the Jewish religion makes Jews into altruistic world-healers is an obvious non-starter, and not only because, as Podhoretz notes, the highly religious Orthodox are less prone to liberal attitudes than the rest of the Jewish community. More decisively, even the most out of touch among us are now becoming aware that Israel is an apartheid state dominated by the most extreme religious and ethnocentric factions of the Jewish community. The Palestinians are treated brutally and are dependent on the largesse from the rest of the world.
The morally uplifting Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, and pretty much the entire organized Jewish community in the U.S., aid and abet Israel as an aggressive, racialist ethno-state, or at least they turn a blind eye to it. Whatever else one might say about it, the Jewish religion does not make Jews into moral paragons or champions of the oppressed. And it certainly doesn't make Jews into champions of religious and ethnic diversity.
Podhoretz's explanation is that liberalism has become the religion of American Jews -- an irrational set of beliefs resistant to disconfirmation. As he notes, the same was true of the long Jewish love affair with Marxism, and it was certainly true of Jews in traditional societies.
Liberalism is not a "substitute for religion": it is a religion in its own right, complete with its own catechism and its own dogmas ... obdurately resistant to facts that undermine its claims and promises.
The idea that Jewish political ideologies and behavior have religious overtones is attractive. My book Separation and Its Discontents has two chapters on rationalization, apologetics, and self-deception among Jews, beginning with a quote from a famous Talmudic scholar describing the ideology behind an example of classic Jewish religious writing: "Things never are what they seem because they cannot be." In traditional societies, Jewish scholars interpreted any and all historical events as conforming to the messianic hope of a return to political power and worldly riches in a restored Israel.
All religious thinking tends to be impossible to refute, while at the same time it promises to explain everything. The interesting thing about Jews, however, is that they have dominated several intellectual movements that masqueraded as "science" while nevertheless having strong religious overtones.
Podhoretz is quite correct that the powerful Jewish attraction to Marxism was fundamentally religious in this sense. I have made similar comments, not only about Jewish involvement in Marxism, but also in psychoanalysis and other movements of the intellectual left. These movements were centered around charismatic rabbi-like leaders, and they were constructed in a way that allowed them to explain everything and be impossible to disconfirm. As in all religions, dissenters (heretics) were simply expelled.
Therefore, I have no problem agreeing with Podhoretz that there is a strong streak of religious thinking among Jews -- even among the "secular." In my view, religious thinking has been highly adaptive throughout Jewish history because it resulted in a powerful ideology of the ingroup. No matter what happened, the fundamental rationale for group cohesion would not be threatened. Whether in synagogues during the Middle Ages, in Marxist cells in the 20th century, or at conventions of psychoanalytic societies, true believers make good group members. Nothing can cause them to waver in their allegiance to the group.
But the fact that Jewish identification has always had religious overtones -- even among secular Jews in the 20th century -- does not explain why Jews in the Western Diaspora are liberal -- only that their belief systems are immune from conflict with empirical reality.
Moreover, contra Podhoretz, liberalism seems awfully compatible with Jewish self-interest. In America, both the Democratic and Republican parties are Israeli occupied territory. So it's hard to see that Jews are being "irrational," as Podhoretz claims, in not voting for Republicans. For rational Jews concerned only about Israel, it's pretty much a toss-up.
The clincher is that, as Podhoretz himself notes, citing an academic study, Jews "back Republicans only so long as they adopted the liberal position on 'such bellwether issues ... as immigration, abortion, gay rights and the separation of church and state."
In other words, Jews have been opposed to the traditional culture of America and the West and are strong advocates for the displacement of Whites via immigration.
In attempting to understand this, a good place to start is John Murray Cuddihy's classic, The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss and the Jewish Struggle With Modernity:
With the advent of Jewish Emancipation, when ghetto walls crumble and the shtetlach begin to dissolve, Jewry -- like some wide-eyed anthropologist -- enters upon a strange world, to explore a strange people observing a strange halakah. They examine this world in dismay, with wonder, anger, and punitive objectivity. This wonder, this anger, and the vindictive objectivity of the marginal nonmember are recidivist; they continue unabated into our own time because Jewish Emancipation continues into our own time.
In psychological terms, Jewish identity in the Diaspora is based on psychological mechanisms of between-group competition. A strong sense of Jewish identity has always been accompanied by negative attitudes toward non-Jews -- ranging from the laws of cleanness in traditional Judaism (according to which anything associated with non-Jews was unclean) to the revolutionary hatred of the non-Jewish power structure by Jewish Marxists, to the adoption of values in opposition to the traditional culture of America and the West. These negative perceptions are exacerbated by the lachrymose theory of Jewish history accepted by Podhoretz and the mainstream Jewish community: It is not simply that Christianity is evil, but that Western culture itself is poisonous to Jews.
The implication therefore is that Jews will be much more likely than non-Jews to have negative attitudes toward the traditional culture of America and the West. Importantly, Jewish voters are liberal on all issues, from government power to welfare. But as Podhoretz notes, it is especially on social issues where Jewish liberalism becomes "unmistakable and undeniable." A 1996 poll of Jewish attitudes indicated that
Jews are firmly committed to permissive social codes, sexual codes in particular. The gap between Jews and others in polls regarding non-marital sexual behavior, marijuana, and divorce laws is quite substantial: 58 percent of Jews had liberal responses on these items as opposed to just 31 percent of non-Jews. In like fashion, huge gaps separate Jews from others on abortion (86 percent vs. 44 percent) and control of pornography (71 percent vs. 45 percent).
There are similar differences even when controlling for socio-economic class. Not surprisingly, support for gay marriage and for Roman Polanski are good career moves in Hollywood.
Moreover, Jews are dead last among all American groups in "confidence in the military," but they favor gun control laws more than any other American group. And Jewish antipathy to the culture of America and other Western Diaspora societies extends to hostility against the formerly dominant White Protestant elite. Podhoretz quotes sociologists Mark Lipsett and Earl Raab, noting that Jews "are more at ease with the kinds of people they find in the Democratic Party -- their fellow ethnics with whom they grew up in America -- than with the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants still predominant in the Republican Party."
So it's not just Christianity that keeps Jews away from social conservatism. Latino Catholics, Black Southern Baptists, and Asian Christians are much preferred to the formerly dominant WASPs, who represent the traditional American culture and erstwhile ruling class. It's not really about religion but ethnicity and race.
Nevertheless, it is indeed the case that White Christians are an object of special Jewish hostility. In the Commentary symposium, Michael Medved describes Jewish atavistic phobia about Christianity as the religion of the outgroup: "Jews fear the GOP as the 'Christian party.'" And Jewish hostility towards Christianity unites the most Orthodox and conservative Jews with the most secular and liberal.
It is the hostility of the outsider against the culture of the White majority. As a result, expressions of hostility toward Christianity have a special place of pride in the contemporary culture of the West. A good recent example is Larry David pissing on a picture of Jesus in HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm -- an event which evoked yawns from the rest of the media.
The Moral Status of the Outsider
This status of being an outsider with deep historical grudges has grave moral implications. As Benjamin Ginsberg notes, the social marginality of Eastern European Jews made them useful instruments for the imposition of Soviet rule over reluctant populations, not only in the first genocidal decades after the Bolshevik Revolution when they acted as Stalin's "willing executioners," but also during the post-WWII period in the USSR's satellite states (Czechoslovakia, Poland, East Germany, Hungary, and Romania). Throughout Eastern Europe after WWII, because Jews were outsiders and dependent upon Soviet power for their positions and even personal safety, they could be trusted to remain loyal to the Soviet Union.
This has been a pattern throughout Jewish history. Jews as outsiders in traditional societies allied themselves with elites -- often oppressive alien ruling elites engaged in exploiting the people under their control. In the Commentary symposium, Sarna gives a rather tepid version of this, quoting historian Ben Halpern, "They depended for their lives on the authorities, on the persons and groups who exercised legitimate power." Quite correct. Jews were protected by the government, but their outsider status also made them more willing to engage in unpopular activities, such as collecting taxes for rapacious elites with no allegiance to the people they ruled.
The self-conceptualization of Jews as outsiders certainly should not make the European-descended population of America confident about the Jewish role in future governments when they are a minority.
However, the Jews-as-outsider theory does not adequately get at the role of Jews as a nascent elite displacing previously dominant non-Jewish elites. The Jewish identification with the left should also be seen as a strategy designed to increase Jewish power as an elite hostile to the White European majority of America. As I have argued, Jewish intellectual and political movements have been a critically necessary condition for the decline of White America during a period in which Jews have attained elite status.
All of these movements have been aligned with the political left. As Democrats, Jews are an integral part of the emerging non-White coalition while being able to retain their core ethnic commitment to Israel. Indeed, the organized Jewish community has not only been the most important force in ending the European bias of American immigration laws, it has assiduously courted alliances with non-White ethnic groups, including Blacks, Latinos, and Asians; and these groups are overwhelmingly aligned with the Democratic Party.
Whereas the Democratic Party is becoming increasingly non-White (the last Democratic president to get a majority of the White vote was Lyndon Johnson in 1964), 90 percent of the Republican vote comes from Whites. In the recent off-year elections, Democratic candidates for governor received only about a third of the White vote.
America will soon realize that it is at the edge of a racial abyss.
Because the Republican Party remains an important force in American politics, Jews are well advised to retain an influence there as well. Republican Jews retain their core liberalism on all the key issues like immigration and culture by aligning themselves with the "moderate" wing of the Party. Like Podhoretz, Republican Jews are motivated mainly to keep the Republican Party safe for Jews, in their estimation, and to promote pro-Israel forces within the party. In general, Republican Jews have acted to make the GOP as much as possible like the party they left behind and to influence it to eschew nationalistic attitudes, especially self-consciously White or Christian identities.
At the end of the day, Podhoretz's enterprise is an exercise in deception. He erects an image of irrational Jewish liberals who cling to liberalism as a set of religious beliefs completely beyond the reach of logic or empirical data. In fact Jewish liberalism is quite clearly a Diaspora strategy designed to obtain power for Jews at least partly by building coalitions with non-White ethnic groups.
Moreover, he erects an image of principled, rational Jewish conservatives as true conservatives, while in fact they are leftists who have been a prominent force in elbowing out true conservatives within the Republican Party in order to pursue their pro-Israel agenda and make the Republican Party into something they deem safe for Jews.
Welcome to the Alice in Wonderland world of Jewish political thought.


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Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Carol Bartz said the company would keep modernizing its online properties through the summer of 2011 as it strives to increase the time people spend on its sites.
Bartz told analysts at a briefing on Wednesday that Yahoo was focused on infusing its network of more than a dozen websites with additional social media, video, and local content. The network includes shopping, sports and finance sites.
She said Yahoo had no plans to follow competitors like Google Inc and Microsoft Corp by developing its own smartphone device or operating system software for smartphones.
"I don't want to have a handset. I don't want to be in that side of the business," said Bartz. "We want to have the best, best applications."
Yahoo has been reorganizing its business, shedding assets and acquiring new companies under Bartz, who began her current role in January 2009.
On Wednesday, Yahoo announced a partnership with Zynga in which Zynga social networking games, such as FarmVille, will be available across Yahoo's online properties.
Last month, Yahoo acquired Associated Content, an online publisher that offers articles and videos created by a network of freelancers.
Last July, Bartz signed a 10-year deal with Microsoft to save hundreds of millions of dollars a year in expenses by shifting Web indexing chores to Microsoft while Yahoo focuses on improving searching.
"Yahoo has its focus, it is excited about its future, and it has its pride back," said Bartz, who made headlines two days ago for using an expletive in a rebuke of a technology blogger who was interviewing her onstage at a conference in New York.
Yahoo is facing increasing competition from other Internet companies.
Since September, when Yahoo launched a $100 million advertising campaign, unique visitors to Yahoo websites in the United States declined 2.6 percent to 155.6 million in April and total page views declined 11.4 percent, according to comScore, an Internet analytics company in Reston, Virginia.
In contrast, unique visitors and page views increased in April at Google, Microsoft and Facebook.
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Let's be honest with ourselves for a minute. Whether or not we love the Texans, they have been extremely tough to watch lately. With Gary Kubiak committing to Matt Schaub for another game (and hopefully not another pick six), I'm just not sure any of us are ready to trust this team to be anything other than heartbreaking.
And why break your heart again? WHY? All it leaves you with is a broken remote control, terrified children and a wife who "just doesn't know you anymore." The Texans is breaking you and it's destroying your family. That's why, good sports fan, it's time to turn your eyes to other pursuits this Sunday. Give yourself a bye week and tend to happier matters. We have some suggestions.
Do Household Chores
These suck any day of the week, but they are so much more fun when the alternative is yet another soul crushing defeat. No one says you can't drink beer while you sweep the floor and do the laundry. Hell, have two! You deserve it for doing those tasks you meant to get to right before football season started. Plus, your wife will be super happy with you, which leads me to...
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Surprisingly, they make actual footballs and jerseys and helmets and stuff. Who knew? Run out to your local sporting goods store, stock up on gear, grab some buds and head to the park. You may have to visit your doctor on Monday, but the rugged activity will help burn off some of that fat you've acquired over the first few weeks of the NFL season, pudgy. No, stress does not burn fat, particularly when you measure your snack consumption in Family Size bags of chips.
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Watch a Different Game
Come on, you know this is what you are going to do anyway. If you want to avoid having to do chores and go antiquing, do this at a buddy's house or a sports bar. Having to do a bunch of bogus girl stuff on Sunday during NFL season is so wrong anyway.
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- 3 slices applewood smoked bacon
- 1 ounce bittersweet chocolate (71 percent cacao)
- 1 australian lobster tail
- 1⁄2 cup olive oil
- salt
- 1⁄2 jicama, sliced
- 5 spring onions
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In 2014, HTC will once again launch a practical high-end phone, dubbed the "HTC M8." It will be the legitimate successor to last year's hit device-the HTC One.
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The HTC One 2 would incorporate terrific dual frontal speakers. The device is expected to feature a microSD card too. As far as the design is concerned, the phone will look similar to that of its predecessor.
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In the days following the night that he had seen Chad at the restaurant and made him give him a blow job and then had gone to Grant's and fucked the hell out of him, Jake was in a funk. Even his parents were worried about him. He didn't go to classes, he had already stopped playing for the baseball team, and he just sat in the family room watching TV. His Dad tried to talk to him but Jake just kept shutting him down.
Jake's mind was just all jumbled. What had made him say to Chad that he'd never see him again? He knew he wanted to see Chad again. He knew that no one took better care of his cock than Chad did. Shit, he was even starting to like the guy, even though he was a fag.
Why had he been so mad and upset that he went to Grant's place and fucked him? It didn't make him feel any better, in fact, Grant was a lousy lay. He didn't know what to do with his ass to make him feel good. Why was everything falling apart around him?
After a couple of days and after a lot of nagging from his Mom, Jake got out of bed one morning and took a shower. When he was done he looked at himself in the mirror, as he often did, but this time it was somehow different. He didn't focus on how his muscles looked or how big his cock was. Instead he looked himself in the eye and tried to answer some of the hard questions that had been bothering him.
Though he would never consider himself a faggot, he knew that he cared more about Chad than he had for anyone else in his life besides his family. The guy was a pain in the ass but whenever he looked into his eyes he saw that Chad cared about him. There had even been a few times that Jake had kissed Chad in the heat of some of their sex. He'd never felt like this with any of his girlfriends throughout high school and junior college. Jake felt like his head was going to explode.
As Jake stood there and thought about Chad, thought about his mouth and thought about his ass, Jake started to finger his growing cock. He looked in the mirror as his dick got harder and harder. Is this what Chad saw? Just a hard body and a big dick? Or did he really see something more than that, is that why he would show up now and again and let Jake use him?
The more he thought about Chad the faster he stroked his cock. In his mind he could smell Chad's hair and the cologne he always seemed to have on. He saw his head swinging from his cock. He saw the small mole that was on his right shoulder that Jake could see when he was fucking him and how he had licked it a few time. He thought about how Chad's body felt when they were together. The heat that would come off of it. The way Chad's ass fit his cock like they were meant to be joined. Jake shot a load all over the mirror he was standing in front of. What the hell was happening? He just had to think about Chad and he'd blow a wad?
As his cock softened Jake's mind turned. Why wasn't he good enough for Chad? Why did Chad let other guys fuck him or let him blow them? What did they have that he didn't have? In his mind, nobody had a better cock than him.
As his anger built his thoughts turned to Grant, that piece of shit. He realized while he didn't enjoy fucking Grant he did enjoy making sure Grant knew that he, Jake, was #1 and not the other way around. He was the best baseball player. He was the better looking. He had the better cock. But most importantly, Chad had said he was the better fuck.
Jake didn't know what he was going to do but he knew he had do something. The first thing he had to do was go back to campus and try to find Chad. He had no idea what he would say or do but he knew he had to do something. Classes would be over in two weeks and after the ass he made of himself at the restaurant, he may never see Chad again. Even though they were both going to State it was a big school and their paths might not cross.
Jake finished getting ready and headed back to campus.
For the next week, every afternoon, Jake would go to the bathroom in the basement of the library hoping to find Chad there waiting for him, but he never showed up. A couple of guys even came on to him in the john wanting to suck his dick but he just walked away.
He thought Chad worked somewhere on campus but he didn't know where. He didn't even know Chad's last name to try to find him that way.
He knew, of course, that Chad was the assistant manager of the baseball team but he couldn't bring himself to show up in the locker room or at one of the games because he didn't want to run into Grant. He was afraid he might actually try to kill him.
Toward the end of the week, and after the baseball team had won the semi-finals, Jake ran into one of his buddies from the team. His friend told him about the deal Grant had made with the team, that for every one who got on base, Chad would give them a blow job, and for every homerun they could fuck Chad. Jake wanted to punch his friend but couldn't let on that he gave a rat's ass for Chad. He did say that Grant was an asshole and his friend agreed but that he had to admit that Chad did have a pretty fine mouth. Jake held himself back for the second time.
As he walked back to his Audi, Jake didn't even notice all of the girls that were trying to get his attention nor the couple of guys who were checking him out. Jake slumped behind the wheel of his car. He had no idea what to do.
Jake woke up the next morning with an idea. Since the baseball team was in the championship game that weekend he would go but stay out of sight as much as he could. Since Chad was the assistant manager he was sure he would be there and that he could figure out a way to talk to him without Grant or any of the other players seeing him. On Saturday morning Jake went out to his car for the two hour drive to the game feeling better than he had in days.
The closer he got to the game the hornier that Jake got. Not only was he going to see Chad, he was sure that Chad would want to fuck around. Jake couldn't remember the last time he had gone so many days without getting laid or having someone give him a blow job. He rubbed the growing bulge in his jeans for the last couple of miles.
Jake arrived at the field where the championship was being held after the game had already started. From off to the side of the field he looked for Chad but didn't see him. While the team was on the field, Jake snuck into the locker room to see if Chad was there, but he wasn't.
Jake went out and stood under the stands listening to the announcer call the game. He realized he may never see Chad again. His sadness grew into anger. Anger at Chad, at Grant and everyone else who had been with Chad. Then his anger turned on himself, how the hell could he care about someone who he hardly even knew and was a fag no less? As he had done so many times before he told himself that he didn't need Chad, that Chad meant nothing, that he could get whoever he wanted and that was exactly what he was going to do.
As Jake was getting ready to leave he noticed a guy come down from the seats and go under the bleachers. The guy dropped down on the ground Indian style. He looked at lot like Chad, same size, similar coloring and wearing what Jake considered Chad's uniform, a t-shirt and jeans that showed off his ass.
Not seeing Jake, the guy pulled out a joint, lit up and took a long drag. Jake was still so horny he wondered, since this guy was about the same size as Chad, if he ass would be similar. Jake walked over to the guy.
"How about sharing that joint?" The guy raised his eyes and let them move from Jake's face down to his crotch. He handed Jake the joint who took a long hit and then passed it back to the guy.
"What are you doing down here instead of watching the game?"
"Some of my friends who like baseball wanted to come to the game and talked me into coming. Someone just broke up with me and my friends thought it would cheer me up. Baseball is so boring." There was a lengthy silence as the two men passed the joint back and forth until it was gone.
Jake took a step forward and took a stance so that his package was prominent. "That sucks bro, but you're good looking, you should be able to find another chick soon."
The guy looked up into Jake's eyes. "It's not a girl I want." His eyes moved backed to outline of Jake's cock.
Jake had decided he wasn't going to just take this guy. He wanted this guy to beg for it, to love his cock as much as Chad did. "Gay, huh? That's cool. I know a couple of fags, uh, sorry gay guys." Jake adjusted himself.
The guy couldn't take his eyes away. "Have those guys ever given you a blow job?"
"Sure, when I let them."
"Would you let me, it's been a couple days since I've had some."
"Go for it, dude, glad to help you out."
The guy moved from his sitting position on the ground and rose to his knees. Jake didn't move making the guy have to move forward on his knees. Jake's arms hung by his sides, he wanted the guy to work for it.
The guy leaned forward and rubbed his face against the outline of Jake's cock, then he started chewing the denim covered outline. After the guy had done that he unbuckled Jake's belt, opened the button and then pulled his zipper down. The guy slowly pulled Jake's jeans down almost as if he was opening a present.
When Jake's cock popped free the guy just stared at it. He put his hand under it and seemed to be weighting it. "It's beautiful." Jake thought "damn right it is."
The guy wrapped his fingers around the shaft just below the head and pulled it toward his mouth. He kissed the tip of it then began to lap it with his tongue. Jake wanted to put his hands on the guy's head and force his cock past his lips but he held off. No, this was supposed to be like Chad worshipping his cock.
As the guy took the head of Jake's cock into his mouth, Jake closed his eyes and imagined that it was Chad. While the guys mouth was warm and his lips gentle against his cock it just wasn't Chad. Jake pulled his cock out of the guy's mouth and put it back in his jeans, zipped up with difficulty and buckled his belt.
There was a questioning look in the cute guy's eyes. "Sorry bro, I gotta go." Jake turned and started back to his car.
Jake slammed his hand against the steering wheel of his Audi. There was something seriously wrong with him. He just had some guy worshipping his cock and he walked away before getting off. It all came down to it not being Chad.
Jake leaned his head back against the backrest and closed his eyes. When he did he saw Chad's face in his mind, not just his mouth or his ass; no, it was he eyes he saw and his crooked smile and the way he looked at him. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
Jake didn't know how long he sat there but at one point he heard a cheer coming from the baseball stadium which indicated that the game must be over. He really didn't care who won. In the scheme of things, baseball just didn't seem important. He continued sitting in his car just thinking about his life and what the future may hold.
As he was just getting ready to start his car there was a knock at his window. He turned his head and saw it was that prick, Grant. Grant was moving his hand indicating that Jake should lower the window.
"What do you want, you piece of shit?"
"Whoa, whoa, I come in peace."
"What do you mean?"
"I saw you come out of the locker room, so I knew you were here somewhere. We lost by the way. Probably would have won if you had been playing."
"Seriously dude, don't you think it's time we buried the hatchet? For the last two years we've been at each other's' throats and for what? To prove we were better than the other guy. Shit man, we've tasted each other's cum because we are assholes. We're going our separate ways in a week, why not just end the bullshit."
Jake just stared at Grant.
"Come on, its time. Some of the team have decided to stay the night at a hotel near the highway. We just want to drown our sorrows and have a few laughs. Join us."
"I don't think so."
"It's just a couple of beers, what have you got to do that's more important to spend one last time with the team?"
"What the fuck, ok."
"Follow me."
Jack followed Grant's car to a convenience store. They went in and got a couple of cases of beer and then headed back out ending up at an old Holiday Inn that still had exterior doors to the rooms. Jake noticed the cars of some of the players as they walked up to the room.
Grant knocked on the door with his foot since he was carrying some of the beer. One of the players that was more a part of Grant's crew than his own opened the door. He took the beer and stepped out of the way. As Jake walked into the room he saw four other guys that were all close to Grant.
"Where's the rest of the team?"
"They went back, only we stayed."
Two of the guys grabbed Jake's arms. Jake kicked out but their grips were too strong to break free.
Grant spoke up "If you make any noise, I swear I'll cut your balls off." Grant got up in Jake's face. "You've been a pain in my ass since the day I met you. I can't fucking stand you. I told these guys that you weren't really the stud that you play that you are. I told them you were just a faggot just like Chad. Now that the season's over you can't go running to the coach."
"If I'm a faggot then I'm just the same as you." Looking at the other guys Jake said "Did he tell you I've had my cock up his ass and he liked it."
"Don't listen to him, he's a fucking liar. Get him out of his jeans." While still being held tight by two of the guys, two of them got to work on removing his jean. Jake struggled but they finally got his jeans off.
"What should we do first boys?"
"I think we could all use a blow job."
"Tie up his wrists and ankles. We wouldn't want him to leave before we've had our fun." The two guys who had pulled his jeans down got some rope and tied his hands behind his back and then trussed his feet together. They pushed him to his knees. Jake tried to get back up but his balance was all screwed up because of the ropes.
Grant was the first one to pull out his cock. "I've wanted you on your knees in front of me since the day I met you." he moved closer and swung his cock, smacking Jake in the face. "Now you are going to suck my cock and be the little faggot that we all know you are." Jake clamped his lips shut. "Oh come on you pussy, take my cock or we could just mess up your face a bit. Jake opened his lips and gagged when Grant shoved his cock in. "That's it, doing just what a good cocksucker should do."
Grant put one hand on the top of Jake's head and pulled his mouth farther down his cock. The other guys had taken their cocks out and stroked them while they watched their former captain impaled by Grant's cock.
"I think it's only fair to share." Grant pulled out of Jake's mouth and one of the other guys shoved theirs in. Jake thought he had each guy in his mouth two times before they all had pulled back. "Just like we talked about guys, cum all over his face. They all picked up the pace of their stroking and one by one they shot their loads all over Jake's face. The cum burned his eyes. Com was dripping from his nose and stuck to his hair. "Someone get a picture." Cell phones came out and Jake could hear the clicks of pictures being taken.
"What now guys? Do you think we should fill his ass with our cum? Mark him our bitch?" The rest of the guys mumbled their approval as they all continued to finger their cocks. "Untie his feet but keep his hands tied." When that happened Jake tried to kick out again but it just resulted in them pushing him onto the bed. It was uncomfortable to be on his back with it pushing down on his hands. Two of the guys had grabbed his legs and were holding them tight.
Grant turned to two of the guys and said "move him so his ass is on the end of the bed and then pull his legs up and back". Grant's boys did what he told them to do without question. Grant stepped closer and spit on Jake's ass and in his own hand. He used his spit to lube up his cock and then he rammed his cock into Jake's ass. Jake started to yell but one of the guys put a hand over his mouth. Jake kept moving his head but the guy kept his hand just where it was.
"How does it feel to be fucked by a man, faggot?" As Grant hit Jake's prostate over and over Jake's cock started to get hard. "Look boys, he likes it, Jakie likes it." Grant had a cock almost as big as Jake's and he was so rough that Jake didn't even care when the other five guys dumped their loads in his ass.
When they were done, the six guys sat around and talked about how hot Jake's ass was. Jake just laid there, he didn't want do anything that would make them do it again.
After a while Grant untied Jake's wrists and said "I hope I never see your sorry ass again. Feel free to stay in the room, it's already paid for." The six guys took what beer was left and exited the room laughing.
Jake lay in the bed wondering if this is what Chad felt like when he treated him rough. If he ever did see Chad again he would have to apologize. Jake closed his eyes and fell into a troubled sleep dreaming about Chad and what had just happened to him.
When he awoke in the morning he jumped in the shower and then dressed in his dirty clothes. Jake went down to his car and headed home. It hurt to sit in the car. Even with everything that had happened, Jake realized he was hungry and needed some coffee. He noticed a truck stop and he pulled in. He took a seat at the counter and placed his order.
As he sipped his coffee and waited for his food he noticed that there was a stream of guys that were going into the john but then coming right back out. The guy in the seat next to him turned to him and whispered, "Those are some disappointed guys."
"What are you talking about?"
"They probably heard about the two guys that were here yesterday sucking any cock that they could. They were pretty good too, never had a blow job like that before. I was lucky, I got mine before the cops showed up."
"Where did they take them?"
"Probably to the next town down the highway, they have a jail there."
Jake jumped up before his food arrived and ran out to his car and sped out of the truck stop.
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Nephrotic Syndrome—Adult
Nephrotic syndrome is a set of symptoms and signs of kidney damage including:
- Proteinuria—high amounts of protein in the urine
- Hyperlipidemia—high fat and cholesterol levels in the blood
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- Hypoalbuminia—low levels of albumin (a protein made by the liver) in the blood
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Nephrotic syndrome is caused by damage to tiny filters in the kidneys, called glomeruli. The glomeruli filter waste and excess water from the blood. This forms urine, which reaches the bladder via the ureters. Diseases that damage the glomeruli cause nephrotic syndrome.
Diseases that may lead to nephrotic syndrome include:
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Imaging studies evaluate the kidney and surrounding structures. This can be done with:
If your doctor suspects nephrotic syndrome, you may be referred to a kidney specialist.
Treatment depends on what is causing the nephrotic syndrome. Some cases are treatable with medications, while others lead to kidney failure despite treatment. The underlying cause will be treated, if possible. Steps will be taken to:
- Adjust your diet to replace protein lost in the urine.
- Use ACE inhibitors to reduce protein loss in some cases.
- Treat edema by restricting salt intake and taking diuretics.
- Lower cholesterol and blood pressure with diet, exercise, and medications.
Most conditions that lead to nephrotic syndrome cannot be prevented. However, the risk of type 2 diabetes may be reduced through exercise and weight control.
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This Is the Real Me is 53rd chapter of Kazue Katō's Ao no Exorcist.
Continuing with the recollection, Mike tells the group that Tamamo was captured by the Illuminati, and that she was subjected to a fate worse than death. Rin, after hearing what Mike had to say, concludes that they just need to barge into the Illuminati's base and save Izumo. As they leave, Mike recalls what happened after Izumo was brought to the base: her sister was smuggled out of the base and was adopted, Maria Yoshida was murdered for her treasonous act, and Izumo was blackmailed into being the replacement for her mother when she eventually has no use, causing her to lose faith in humanity. Back in the present, Izumo prepares for her physical examination with a look of anguish etched upon her face.
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The choice of breakfast was good - again, it makes a difference to have freshly cooked eggs. The breakfast room was a little crowded, but this is to be expected of a busy hotel at peak time.
The only snag I had was the free wifi was not a good connection in my room. But apart from that I was very happy.
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Such an interesting question, only because if you were to put an Italian and an Arab side by side, stripped down, and didn't hear them talk, they could look alike. In fact, I mistakenly asked a Jordanian man where in Italy he was from once, as even his accent fooled me.
Anyway, technically they are Caucasian. But the proudful folk that they are, usually just like to be referred to as Italians, even the dark skinned ones from the south. I guess it says it all. :)
Off topic, but sort of similar, I had a Greek friend who once told me that Greeks were "the first, original Caucasians". I suppose she means that after the great migration, the people who settled in Europe who lost the melanin in their skin and became "white" where the Greeks who went from being darker skinned to becoming more pale. Greeks aren't just dark, of course, there are blondes and redheaded Greeks, and as people settled throughout the Mediterranean over time, I suppose she was hinting that it was the Greeks who first became Caucasian over anyone else in Europe . If someone has any different information, I would be interested in knowing their thoughts on this. I am just going by one Greek friend's information/opinion. :)00|00|0
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Shosuro Chizaro was a Scorpion bandit and Maho-tsukai at Ryoko Owari Toshi. [1]
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In 1120 his bandits assaulted a merchant caravan, filled with some crates of things for the incoming Bon Festival, as costumes or masks. Chizaro sold the loot to several of his best buyers, Whisper, Shinjo Sanefusa, and Doji Juzo. This day Moon cultists met him and requested to find a specific box of the assaulted caravan, upon menace of death. [2]
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Chizaro feared for his life and bargained with an oni, Chizaro no Oni. He sent it to find the box. [2] The items the cultists were seeking were Porcelain Masks that could raise an undead army, [3] and between them also was the Fourth Mask of Iuchiban. [4]
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His hideout, an abandoned Shosuro warehouse, was discovered by a group of samurai who had been tracking down the appearance of the demon in the city. [5] Chizaro was a shadow of the man he once was. His sanity had been left him after the oni summoning, he was not able to remember his name, a name which soon would not be his own. [6]
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I've never been religious and all the crap in the world with ISIS etc puts further doubt on religion and a higher being.
Is this affecting peoples faith in a god?
If there is a god, why is he letting this barinless vermin ruin his world?
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Where I come from there are 'protestant' terrorists like the UVF, UDA, and a number of other smaller organizations; and 'catholic' terrorists like the IRAs (plural!). In reality, the motivations for the conflict are not religious at all, and the sectarian divide serves to obscure a material one; the divide between the colonized Irish and the settling British.
ISIS do not take Islam more seriously than ulster's Orange Order take Christianity - a number of them are extremely serious preachers who go out to the people and speak of the Lord, even in the pouring rain or hail. However, the glorious reformation isn't what inspires these moving ascetics to take up arms and murder innocent people. I imagine it is much the same with ISIS.10|10|0
It is said that suicide bombers shout out god is great or similar just before they pull the cord and blow themselves and others up. Your answer was detailed, I'm guessing northern Ireland? I'm in England and have seen the destruction of IRA etc. So do you think all of this would happen if a god existed? I do not and that is my opinion and reason for not being religious. I get that people follow a god for comfort and forgive truly barbaric events, however, I cannot believe a gid would allow it to happen in the first place. Always an interesting debate and my feeling is, ISIS and other terrorist groups will push others away from believing. Especiall younger people and that would be devastating for the future, as billions of people rely on the comfort of their beliefs.
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the '50 virgins' thing is a myth, no one believes that. Anyway, I think what ISIS promise is moreso revenge for the atrocities comitted by U. S. imperialism than rewards in heaven. They can point to the millions of lost lives and destroyed cities and say, 'we need to fight back.' They are fascists preying on vulnerable and traumatized people, but the conditions that create the desire for revenge are an equally material factor.
Some ugly drugged up wannabe terrorist might be persuaded for 50 virgins. ;-)


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So parents and children can get to know exactly what is available in AISD, AISD Ombudsman Beverly Reeves said. One of the biggest concerns are addressed in the convention center is security.
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Everybody's favourite amateur Danish rocket group had another engine test quite recently – while not everything went to plan, nobody could say it wasn't spectacular. (more…)
Everybody's favourite amateur Danish rocket group had another engine test quite recently – while not everything went to plan, nobody could say it wasn't spectacular. (more…)
In the last couple of days there has been a bit of a storm surrounding the Danish amateur rocket group as CS founder Kristian von Bengtson announced that he is leaving Copenhagen Suborbitals following an apparent division of opinion with co-founder Peter Madsen.
Copenhagen Suborbitals posted this statement on their website:
We are sad to announce that Kristian von Bengtson, one of the two founders of Copenhagen Suborbitals is leaving the project.
Together with Peter Madsen, Kristian started the project in 2008 and has since then been working full time leading the capsule development team and mission planning. Kristian and Peter are both very strong personalities, and over the past 6 years, it has been more difficult to overcome their differences in opinion.
"Peter and I have had 6 great years – but the way I have been treated lately is simply too much and as a result of that I have now decided to leave," says Kristian von Bengtson.
Peter Madsen recognise(es) that he is to blame for Kristian's decision to leave Copenhagen Suborbitals: "I'm fully aware that my temper is to blame for Kristian's exit and I'm very sorry that it has come to this."
Kristian von Bengtson will be deeply missed by all of us and the team will continue his work – trying to reach our goal to be the first non-profit and non-governmental organisation to put a human being into space.
Neither Kristian von Bengtson nor Peter Madsen have said exactly what the argument was about, but Madsen did say in his regular article on Ingenior.dk that some tensions have apparently been building for a while before this parting of the ways and that CS now faces one of its worst crises ever as the organisation transitions to a new structure. CS recently moved to a new site that also probably adds some complications.
However, there has been a trend over the past year of KvB resigning or offloading roles onto other people as the organisation expands.
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As the english-speaking face of Copenhagen Suborbitals, Kristian von Bengtson was the face of CS outside of Denmark, writing a regular column about the progress CS was making at Wired, one of the largest technology magazines on the internet. CS has a mission of making its information publicly available, but KvB made it publicly accessible in a way that could be explained to virtually anybody and with a platform on Wired to shout from he certainly spread the message far and wide. As the man responsible for designing the capsule that CS are relying on to take a man to space his work now needs to be divided up amongst the technical members of CS.
The danger now is that CS stalls for lack of leadership and interest as the vacuum created by KvB is filled by a new organisation and new public representative.
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Yesterday Kristian von Bengtson of Copenhagen Suborbitals answered questions about the endeavour on Reddit. I took the opportunity to ask a bunch of questions about their custom built TM65 rocket engine.
A few days ago Kristian Von Bengtson, one of the founders of Copenhagen Suborbitals, announced his resignation as chairman on twitter in order to concentrate on designing their new crowdfunded space capsule.
Copenhagen Suborbitals had another test of their flagship TM65 engine on December 30th – but not everything went to plan.
Copenhagen Suborbitals, the small Danish outfit famous for not only homebuilding a fully working submarine but also a wide variety of capsules and rockets, have managed to fund their next step towards amateur spaceflight – the first amateur-built space capsule in the world.


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