I can’t get over how inadequately attorneys prepare their clients for deposition. Big bucks, reputations, lives are often on the line and people just go into depositions without sufficient preparation.
I can’t get over how inadequately attorneys prepare their clients for deposition. Big bucks, reputations, lives are often on the line and people just go into depositions without sufficient preparation.
Luke Ford writes: I knew this girl at school. She was super cute. Busty. Asian. Sweet. Shy. Christian! Just how I love ‘em! I thought I’d never have her. That’s how my life had been — that which I wanted most — a mother, health, community, stability, friends — was always out of reach.
Luke Ford writes: It was the Spring semester of 1988 at Sierra Community College in Rocklin, California. I stood in the parking lot talking with a friend of mine from Calculus class. He said that girls in Southern California were really loose. I was a virgin at the time and the prospect of loose girls seemed heavenly.
Luke Ford writes: The crash of 2008 destroyed $14 trillion in American household wealth. Who's to blame? I'm reading Paul Sperry's new book — The Great American Bank Robbery. He says that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac underwrote $1.8 trillion worth of toxic subprime loans and that KO'd our financial system. Why did Fannie and Freddie underwrite such loans? Because their HUD (Housing and Urban Development department) pushed them to. What was Wall Street's role? They sold the subprime securities that Fannie and Freddie underwrote and guaranteed to earn Affordable Housing Credits from HUD.
Amid a debate about free speech in the Internet era, UCLA announced Friday that it would not proceed with any investigation or disciplinary action against the student who produced a controversial online video in which she complained about Asian students’ behavior and crudely mimicked Asian languages.
“While we were appalled and offended by the sentiments expressed in the video, we have uncovered no facts to lead us to believe the student code of conduct was violated. The campus has no intention of pursuing the matter further,” UCLA spokesman Phil Hampton said in a telephone interview Friday.
I think this is the most loathsome thing Dannielle Berrin has ever published.
Until reading Danielle Berrin’s blog post, I had never heard of the filmMiraland I suspect that 98% of Jews have not heard of it either. Nobody has ever mentioned this movie to me.
Can you imagine a headline — “Blacks Can’t Handle XYZ”?
It would never be published, but apparently Danielle Berrin can dump on Jews in the Jewish Journal and get away with it.
The UCLA student whose anti-Asian video rant garnered millions of views online and intense backlash appears to have had aspirations of creating similar videos as part of a blog. Shortly after the earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan on Friday, Alexandra Wallace, 20, posted a three-minute video on YouTube in which she mocked Asian languages and expressed her annoyance with Asian students talking loudly in the library on their cell phones, including those calling Japan to check on relatives after the deadly tsunami. After the backlash, Wallace issued an apology Monday, saying she “cannot explain what possessed me to approach the subject as I did.”
THE movie offers may not be rolling in these days, but Lindsay Lohan is camera-ready and intent, it seems, on parlaying the traditional walk of shame en route to court into an image-boosting stroll of fame. In recent months her courtroom outfits — a succession of cleavage-baring shirts and clingy frocks — seem to have been deftly engineered to keep Ms. Lohan front and center in the minds of her fans.
On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: “You are the wife. You are doing work in the kitchen, washing dishes or in the garden gardening. There are no kids around. Your husband stops by to say something and he grabs your tush. Are you offended? Are you pleased?”
“The politically correct answer is that this is unwanted. That it is a form of marital sexual harassment.”
“When the couple loves one another, I hold that that is a good thing. I know that it is the last thing on the woman’s mind. So what? The more your husband who loves you wants to grab you, the better it is for both of you.”
“If your husband is still doing this after ten years of marriage, I think the two of you are blessed.”
Wallace contacted university police early Sunday evening after receiving numerous death threats via e-mail and phone, said UCPD spokeswoman Nancy Greenstein.
Police advised her to take a number of precautions and are currently working to ensure her safety, Greenstein said.
“If she’s received a death threat, I find that as deplorable as her original YouTube video. If this is the response of students on campus, we’ve got a lot of work to do,” said Robert Naples, associate vice chancellor and dean of students.
Within three days, the video provoked a tremendous response, both inside and outside the UCLA community.
Speaking Sunday night, a university spokesman called the video “repugnant.”
I’ve learned to my chagrin that eating disorders are increasingly present in the Orthodox community, though at a much lower rate than in the secular world.
I heard one theory I found fascinating — an eating disorder is often a desire to avoid growing up.
On his radio show yesterday, Dennis Prager said: “Fascinating that we have heard of no reports of demonstrations in Syria. It gives you an idea of how effective the totalitarian state is. Even Iran has had massive demonstrations.
“When one looks at that part of the world, what do people blame for the lack of elementary liberty and rights on? It’s an important question and everyone who cares about the world ought to think about it. Ironically, if you care for Arabs, you have to think about it. What has prevented the development of human rights in virtually the entire Arab world and parts of the Muslim world outside of it?
“If you say colonialism, a lie that is so large that the only question I have with regard to it is — do you really believe it?"
The New York Daily News reports: A busty model and an angry snake together for a photo shoot – what could possibly go wrong?
Orit Fox’s attempt at seductive posing with a massive boa took a bizarre turn when the snake bit one of the Israeli B-Lister’s surgically enhanced breasts in the middle of a shoot for a Tel Aviv radio station, ABC of Spain reported.
All was going well for the silicone-addicted Fox until she tried to ramp up the sex factor by licking the snake. The move proved costly as she loosened her grip on the reptile, which went straight for the model’s left breast implant and latched onto it for several seconds before being pulled off by an assistant.
Luke Ford writes: I went to UCLA. I think we called it “United Caucasians Lost Among Asians.”
COEDMagazine.com reports: “Turns out Allie’s also a bikini model. Since her ModelMayhem, Facebook, Twitter, and every other page affiliated with her has been pulled down, we managed to scoop up a library’s worth of her modeling photos. How should UCLA handle this? Can YOU handle this?”
Report: Meet Alexandra Wallace. She’s a UCLA political science student with something on her mind. She’s got a problem with Asians — specifically, the “hordes” of Asians (and their families) in her apartment complex and the Asians answering their phones in “ching chong ling long ting tong” at the library. The original video has been taken down, but lots of cloned videos have been re-posted. You must see it for yourself:
Luke Ford writes: Here’s the key graph: “The people who tended to base their self worth on things like academic competence, family love and support, and being a virtuous or moral person spent less time online and showed less interest in attention-seeking through social media.”
Since the fall of communism in Europe, political Islam (think Iran, Saudi Arabia, the Taliban, Al Qaeda) has emerged as the biggest threat to human rights around the world.
Since the fall of communism in Europe, political Islam (think Iran, Saudi Arabia, the Taliban, Al Qaeda) has emerged as the biggest threat to human rights around the world.
On his radio show Wednesday, Dennis Prager said: “Those who want an Islamic government… We have the moral duty to judge an Islamic government the way we’d change a democratic government or a communist government or a fascist government. Then it is not just in the realm of religious faith. Once you want to establish a state, a government with many laws, then I have to judge you.”
In which countries — Dennis Prager asks — has Islam increased in political power in the modern age and personal liberty grown with it? I can not think of one example.
When countries are governed bySharia(such as Afghanistan under the Taliban), they become evil.
When countries are governed by religious law, they become evil.
I think that if Israel became governed byTorahit too would be evil.
I remember hearing Rabbi Steven Weil of Beth Jacob lambasting the Los Angeles Times as a "filthy rag" in 2001. That’s ludicrous. Like the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, it’s a gentle newspaper with a generally high ethical standard.
I’ve been examining dozens of photos of Ivanka to try to tease out her religious beliefs. It seems that tzniut is not among said beliefs. But perhaps I need to see more to make a definite psak.
Has Ivanka had plastic surgery or is she just naturally gorgeous?
Ivanka has been put through the gossip grinder today. I want us to remember Ivanka in happier times.
When you meet a woman and you have a nice chat or two, before you know it, she’s likely to give you this, “I just want to be friends” talk.
And if you put up with it, that’s all you’ll ever be!
The “Let’s just be friends” announcement is a putdown. She’s saying she has no romantic or sexual interest in you. That’s fine if she has no such interest, but why do I have to listen to her announce it to me like Martin Luther nailing his 99 theses to the wall?
I’ve never told a girl early on, “I just want to be clear, I’m never going to lend you money or give you a ride to the hospital or be there for you just before you menstruate and your other friends are sick of your whining.”
I’d never dream of making such an announcement because I am an old-fashioned Victorian gentleman. I believe too deeply in preserving people’s dignity.