Video: Despite the biblical language, and his frum looking beard, Dan Le Sac (vs Scroobius Pip) is not an Israelite, or is he?

Despite the biblical Thou Shalt Nots, and his frum looking beard, neither talents Dan Le Sac nor Scroobius Pip is an Israelite, or are they? Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip 'Thou Shalt Always Kill' available as a digital download now http://www.lexrecords.com/Lesacvspip.htm


Lyrics by Scroobius Pip -
Thou shalt not steal if there is direct victim.
Thou shalt not worship pop idols or follow lost prophets.
Thou shalt not take the names of Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer, Johnny Hartman, Desmond Decker, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix or Syd Barret in vain.
Thou shalt not think that any male over the age of 30 that plays with a child that is not their own is a paedophile - some people are just nice.
Thou shalt not read NME.
Thall shalt not stop liking a band just because they’ve become popular.
Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry.
Thou shalt not judge a book by it’s cover.
Thou shalt not judge Lethal Weapon by Danny Glover.
Thall shalt not buy Coca-Cola products.
Thou shalt not buy Nestle products.
Thou shalt not go into the woods with your boyfriend’s best friend, take drugs and cheat on him.
Thou shalt not fall in love so easily.
Thou shalt not use poetry, art or music to get into girls’ pants - use it to get into their heads.
Thou shalt not watch Hollyoaks.
Thou shalt not attend an open mic and leave before it’s done just because you’ve finished your shitty little poem or song you self-righteous prick.
Thou shalt not return to the same club or bar week in, week out, just ’cause you once saw a girl there that you fancied but you’re never gonna fucking talk to.
Thou shalt not put musicians and recording artists on ridiculous pedestals no matter how great they are or were.
The Beatle - were just a band.
Led Zepplin - just a band.
The Beach Boys - just a band.
The Sex Pistols - just a band.
The Clash - just a band.
Crass - just a band.
Minor Threat - just a band.
The Cure - just a band.
The Smiths - just a band.
Nirvana - just a band.
The Pixies - just a band.
Oasis - just a band.
Radiohead - just a band.
Bloc Party - just a band.
The Arctic Monkeys - just a band.
The Next Big Thing - just a band.
Thou shalt give equal worth to tragedies that occur in non-English speaking countries as to those that occur in English speaking countries.
Thou shalt remember that guns, bitches and bling were never part of the four elements and never will be.
Thou shalt not make repetitive generic music, thou shalt not make repetitive generic music, thou shalt not make repetitive generic music, thou shalt not make repetitive generic music.
Thou shalt not pimp my ride.
Thou shalt not scream if you wanna go faster.
Thou shalt not move to the sound of the wickedness.
Thou shalt not make some noise for Detroit.
When I say “Hey” thou shalt not say “Ho”.
When I say “Hip” thou shalt not say “Hop”.
When I say, he say, she say, we say, make some noise … kill me.
Thou shalt not quote me happy.
Thou shalt not shake it like a polaroid picture.
Thou shalt not wish your girlfriend was a freak like me.
Thou shalt spell the word “Pheonix” P-H-E-O-N-I-X not P-H-O-E-N-I-X, regardless of what the Oxford English Dictionary tells you.
Thou shalt not express your shock at the fact that Sharon got off with Bradley at a club last night by saying, “Izzit”.
Thou shalt think for yourselves.
And thou shalt always …
Thou shalt always … kill!

CNN on the Pelosi Syria Trip: Carter Says it is Good - therefore it is bad

This is easy. If Jimmy says something is good, then we know it is bad. In four years as president that guy nearly destroyed America.

Carter backs Pelosi's trip, despite Bush's rebuke

Story Highlights

• Former President Jimmy Carter says he's glad Pelosi visited Syria visit
• Bush administration slammed trip, saying it would send mixed signals
• Syria is on the U.S. State Department's list of terror-sponsoring nations
• Pelosi is the highest-ranking American to meet with a Syrian president since 1994

Franken Closing the Gap in the Duel of the Frozen Chosen

The Barack v. Hillary fundraising contest is interesting. But there is nothing like a fundraising battle between two Jewish senate candidates - not in NY - in Minnesota - Al Franken v. Norm Coleman. Remember in this race Franken is the, "NY Jew who was born in Minnesota." We like Al.

Franken nearly matches Coleman in first-quarter fundraising
By Frederic J. Frommer, Associated Press

WASHINGTON — DFL Senate candidate Al Franken raised nearly as much money as Sen. Norm Coleman in the first quarter of the year, despite getting a late start, numbers released by the candidates show.

Coleman, R-Minn., said Wednesday that he had raised $1.5 million, compared with the $1.3 million Franken had raised. Franken didn't begin raising money until he announced his candidacy on Feb. 14.

Coleman still had a sizable cash advantage at the end of the period, finishing with more than $2.8 million, compared with more than $1 million for Franken.

Next year's Senate race is expected to be one of the most competitive in the nation.

The Onion on the Circumcision News

Monday, April 2, 2007

U.N. Urges Circumcision To Fight HIV

Citing studies that say that circumcision can cut the chances of contracting HIV by up to 60 percent, United Nations health agencies are urging heterosexual males to undergo the procedure. What do you think?

Raymond DeShaw,
Baggage Porter
"I don't like it. Governments should stick to telling women what to do with their bodies."

Lisa Ishikowa,
Systems Analyst
"Let's hope that Africans are more adept at outpatient surgery than they are at handling condoms."

Robert Galloway,
Loan Officer
"Unfortunately I have already been circumcised. Is there any benefit in cutting off even more of my penis?"

Video and Story of Rabbi from Brazil Saying he is Sorry for Stealing Designer Ties in Miami

Rabbi offers childish excuse: "The pills that I was taking without a prescription made me do it." See the TV video at the bottom of the page at Brazzilmag. What is the excuse for that hair?

Illustrious Rabbi from Brazil Apologizes for Stealing Expensive Ties in the US
Written by Elma Lia Nascimento
Monday, 02 April 2007

Rabbi Henry Sobel from Brazil Henry Sobel, 63, the renowned rabbi and president of the São Paulo Israelite Congregation, who was arrested, March 23, in Palm Beach, Florida, charged with stealing four big-brand-name ties, left the room in the hospital he has been admitted to in São Paulo to briefly meet reporters and apologize for his act.

Sobel has been hospitalized at the Albert Einstein Israelite hospital, a world-class institution, in the south side of São Paulo, since early Friday, March 30, the day after the Brazilian media reported on his shoplifting activities in the United States.

He was admitted to the hospital, according to the doctors, due to "an episode of mood disorder, represented by a lack of emotional control and altered behavior."

The health facility also informed that the rabbi had been taking large quantities of drugs to treat severe insomnia that "cause potential states of mental confusion and amnesia."

In his statement to the press Sobel said that the person who stole the ties in the United States "is not the Henry Sobel that you know." He also apologized for the distress he caused everyone and said that it was very difficult to explain the inexplicable.

The rabbi, who was born in Portugal, but moved as a kid to New York city, where he became an American citizen, was the head of the Congregação Israelita Paulista for the last 35 years. He temporarily resigned his post last Thursday, a few hours after his shoplifting activities were made public in Brazil.

Despite his enemies and detractors among the conservative Jews, Henry Sobel has become a celebrated character in Brazil for his fight against the military dictatorship's human rights abuses, between 1964 and 1985. He has also helped to establish friendship ties among Jews, Christians and Muslims.

In his brief press encounter at the hospital, the rabbi didn't go into the details of his Florida actions. He arrived at the Albert Einstein's press room a little before 5 pm and seemed very calm while greeting everyone who was waiting for him. It was his first public appearance since the news of his shoplifting was publicized in Brazil.

"I don't know where to start," he began. "I am taking relatively strong medications. Regarding what happened, it is very hard for me to explain the inexplicable. I do not have scientific and psychological knowledge to understand, explain and, much less, justify what occurred, but one thing I know: the Henry Sobel who committed that act is not the Henry Sobel you know."

"I want to close with an apology, and I also want to make a commitment. I want to apologize for the distress that I caused, especially for having taken medication without a medical prescription. I want to apologize for the distress that I caused everybody, and I want to make a solemn commitment: I intend to keep on defending all the moral and ethical values that I have always stood up for, as a Jew, a man and a rabbi."

He ended the short statement with a "nothing else," refusing to take questions from the reporters and going back to his room in the hospital's 7th floor.

The hospital is not saying when he is leaving the place. A bulletin released after his public appearance states that the religious leader will continue at the Albert Einstein being treated with drugs that should stabilize his psychic condition.

Flávio Huck, the neurologist who is taking care of Sobel, said that the rabbi is suffering from mood disorder. "These are situations," he stated, "in which the individual can have periods of sadness and periods of excitement or both things together."

According to the Palm Beach police, Sobel was arrested after a surveillance camera showed him stealing a tie from a Louis Vuitton store in that city. The police found four ties, all of them luxurious brand name articles in his car.

All of them, it was determined later, had been stolen from three different stores. Besides the Louis Vuitton he also grabbed a Giorgio's, a Gucci and a Giorgio Armani. Each tie costs about US$ 150.

Sobel spent the night in jail in Palm Beach, and only was free after seeing a judge, paying US$ 680 for the ties and posting US$ 3,000 in bail. He is expected back in the Florida court on April 23.

The rabbi receives a monthly salary of 25,000 reais (US$ 12,200).

Chocolate Jesus Now Wandering Jew

Daily News -

He seeks new home for 'Jesus'
Choc-statue artist sez offers abound

BY CHRISTINA BOYLE and NICOLE LYN PESCE
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

Artist Cosimo Gavallero with his controversial chocolate Jesus sculpture.

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The chocolate sculpture of a nude Jesus is being held in a secret location, but it could have a new home soon.

The artist who created "My Sweet Lord" said he's gotten offers from around the world to buy or exhibit the controversial figure booted from a Manhattan gallery.

"I've got thousands of e-mails of help and donations, people who want to support it, give money, even offer exhibition space, from Holland to Japan," Cosimo Cavallaro said yesterday.

"It's quite amazing."

While Cavallaro weighed the offers, the uproar over his work was causing problems for a fellow artist who also carves religious figures out of chocolate.

George Heslop displayed a chocolate Jesus on a crucifix in his native England last year and was hoping to reprise the show in the U.S.

"Now I'm having second thoughts," he said.

Cavallaro's 200-pound sculpture was supposed to be shown at the Lab Gallery in the Roger Smith Hotel on E. 47th St. during Holy Week.

But a Daily News story about the work - which presents Christ with his arms outstretched and without a loincloth - sparked complaints from some Catholics, and the hotel pulled the plug.

Now the dark chocolate figure is in a refrigerated truck in a secret location, living a "gypsy" existence "going around and trying to find a home," Cavallaro said.

"I don't want to disclose the location because of people, some people who are fanatics," he said, adding that he's received threats.

When Heslop exhibited his life-size Jesus last year, it also ignited a firestorm, but the show went on.

He now lives in Arizona and expected to submit applications to show the sculpture to U.S. galleries - a plan he is rethinking.

"I probably won't send it now," he said.

"Obviously the U.K. and America are very, very different," he said.

Heroic American who was killed in Lebanon

There is a film and a fund...or there should be a fund...


Michael Levin (z"l)
A short film documentary has been produced to honor the memory of Michael Levin (z"l). This documentary, 'A Hero in Heaven', is endorsed by the Levin family and the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. The film tells of Michael's devotion to his family, his people and Eretz Yisrael in a unique and powerful way... Through the music of Naomi Shemer, the songs of Rachel, the poems of Shaul Tchernokovsky and the words of Michael's family, friends and fellow soldiers who loved him dearly. The film is approximately 40 minutes in length. Because of the plethora of lessons that can be taught from the footage, it was decided by the Levin family to have a curriculum accompany this film. The curriculum was expertly written by Jewish educator Yossi Katz of the Alexander Muss High School in Israel (AMHSI). A Hero in Heaven will be available for distribution as of mid-March 2007.

Newsweek will determine if God is Real

Yes that makes sense. A news magazine will settle the question of whether God is real - whatever that means - by asking a mega-church preacher and a pop-atheist to discuss the issue. Yes. Newsweek - you rule!

NEWSWEEK invited Sam Harris, the author of two best-selling books advocating atheism, "The End of Faith" and "Letter to a Christian Nation," and Rick Warren, pastor of the Saddleback Church in Orange County, Calif., and the author of the worldwide best-seller "The Purpose-Driven Life," to discuss the ultimate question: is God real?

Gmail goes hard copy with Gmail Paper

Still in beta, this promises to be the best Gmail feature ever...They will print out your gmails and mail them to you in land mail. This is real innovation and service.

Beta User Testimonials

	“Gmail Paper is a scrapbooker's dream. I paper archive all of my son's emails, cut them out in creative shapes, and paste them in my binders.” Anna-Christina D., Lifecoach
	“I've always felt uneasy about the whole internet thing. With the help of Gmail Paper, now I'm taking matters back into my own hands, literally.” Kevin S., CEO AdventaStar Inc.
	"Now that I have Gmail Paper, I understand the difference between labels and folders. I had one message with two labels, but when I tried to stick the paper version into two filing cabinets at the same time, it just wouldn’t go." Mayumi M., Associate

April Fools!

Bald Eagles Moving to Teaneck NJ

No. This is not an April Fool's Day story. With the revival of the Hackensack River comes the return of wildlife to the area. The Bergen Record reports:

Winged visitors amid the steel and concrete
Sunday, April 1, 2007

By MIKE KELLY
RECORD COLUMNIST

SOMETIMES we get lucky and see something extraordinary in the midst of ordinary life. As the sun rose recently on another ordinary weekday, I stumbled onto something extraordinary.

I saw a bald eagle.

In flight.

In Teaneck.

We can measure life's changes in many ways. Some of us monitor the ups and downs of gas prices, the stock market or home sales. Some of us look to sports seasons or a child's school calendar as benchmarks in the passage of time.

But what does the appearance of a bald eagle in a crowded suburb mean?

The nation's symbol of strength, with its classic white head and tail feathers and a black wingspan of up to eight feet, was nearly wiped out throughout America in the Sixties. The widespread use of pesticides, especially mosquito-killing DDT, caused bald eagles to lay thin-shelled eggs that were often crushed in the nest as female birds sat on them during incubation.

Also, too many American waterways had become polluted. Bald eagles simply couldn't find enough of their favorite food – fish.

By 1970, only one bald eagle nest remained in New Jersey. By 1974, the state Legislature passed a law listing the bald eagle as an endangered species. The federal government followed up with a national law four years later, declaring that America's symbol was in danger of becoming extinct in the lower 48 states.

But in the Eighties, things started to change. DDT had been banned in 1972. Polluted waterways, including the Hackensack River and many streams in the Meadowlands, became cleaner, and more fish spawned. Meanwhile, New Jersey environmental officials brought bald eagles from Canada and introduced them into New Jersey.

By 1988, New Jersey had its second eagle nest. Today, there are 60 nests, and almost 200 bald eagles have been spotted throughout the state, including six last year in the Palisades Interstate Park and four more near the Oradell Reservoir.

'Astonishing'

"The big picture is astonishing to us," said Kathleen Clark, principal biologist with New Jersey's Endangered Species Program and supervisor of the state's Bald Eagle Project.

But even Clark's meticulous surveys of "nesting pairs" and other eagles who just visit New Jersey for a few weeks or months don't tell the whole story.

This columnist is not a bird watcher -- unless you consider the Democrat and Republican vultures at the state Legislature to be a special species of wildlife. But experienced birders in North Jersey have been telling stories for months about the sudden appearance of a feisty squadron of bald eagles in central Bergen County – eagles that are comfortable amid the malls and highways and don't hide in thick forests.

Stiles Thomas, the founder of the Allendale nature preserve known as the Celery Farm and one of the area's most respected bird watchers, happened to be driving on the roller-coaster-like "flyover" exit ramp from Route 17 south to Route 4 east when he spotted a bald eagle in full flight heading northward.

"I never saw something like that before," said Thomas, who has been an active bird watcher since the Fifties.

22 sightings

Judith Cinquina, another well-regarded naturalist who teaches birding classes in Midland Park's continuing education program, said members of one bird-watching club have recorded 22 eagle sightings in Bergen County so far this year.

"Back in the Eighties, one bald eagle would have been exciting," Cinquina said. "It's a fantastic recovery."

Linn Pierson, a naturalist with the Palisades Interstate Park, spotted a bald eagle in Overpeck Park last year – an eagle obviously not bothered by the rush of traffic along nearby Route 95.

But a lone eagle does not surprise Pierson anymore. Several years ago, she counted 60 eagles in one day, all of them perched on ice floes in the Hudson River and heading toward the George Washington Bridge. On another morning, near Lake Tappan, Pierson found an astonishing 29 bald eagles, including eight in one tree.

Then, there are the sightings this year along what surely must be one of the most unlikely bald eagle habitats – the Hackensack River.

Michael Zahn of Hasbrouck Heights, who repairs Harley Davidson motorcycles but spends much of his free time photographing hawks and eagles, says he saw six bald eagles in the last few months along a stretch of the Hackensack River that runs from River Edge to Bogota. The landscape includes The Shops at Riverside, Route 4, the campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University, a car wash, several car dealerships, an indoor ice rink, a railroad bridge and a concrete factory.

"Breathtaking is the only way I could describe it," Zahn said.

He wasn't talking about the concrete factory, the car dealership, or Route 4. It was the eagles flying above all that.

"You're awestruck at how majestic they are," Zahn said.

The Record's Jim Wright, author of several environmental books as well as a new birding blog (find it at www.northjersey/owl), spotted two bald eagles along River Road in Teaneck – both of them juveniles, with mottled brown feathers that disappear when the eagles are full grown. They have black feathers and white heads. A few days later, Wright saw an adult bald eagle roosting in a tree in Hackensack's Foschini Park.

Moments later, the eagle swooped from the tree and flew south along the river and toward the concrete factory.

Late afternoon venture

Hearing such stories, I have set off to see an eagle – usually in the late afternoons. But after seeing nothing but blue sky and a few planes, I decided to look for them at dawn, near a spot in Teaneck where the Hackensack River bends.

As sunlight streamed through the trees, I drove my car slowly into a cul de sac off River Road. My eyes scanned the tree line across the river, near The Shops at Riverside.

Then, suddenly, in an oak tree only 30 feet away, I saw a flutter of black feathers.

The features expanded – at least six feet, perhaps seven feet – and a full-grown bald eagle slowly rose into the sky over the river, its wings slowly, gracefully swooping up and down to catch the wind.

I watched in silence for a few seconds as the eagle banked to the left and headed down the river – toward the mall and Route 4.

Then I smiled.

We live in a crowded world, full of predictable schedules and the omnipresent hum of traffic. Thankfully, there is still room for a bald eagle who just wants a little peace and quiet.