Anti-Gay, Anti-Recycling Rabbi implicated in Indian Casino Scandal

[Ian David]

Is there a Jewish equivalent of "Karma?"

Indian Affairs panel hears 'tale of betrayal'
By Josephine Hearn

Embattled lobbyist Jack Abramoff was an avatar of greed and contempt who betrayed his friends and associates, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) asserted yesterday.

McCain, presiding over the third of four scheduled hearings by the Indian Affairs Committee on Abramoff’s questionable business dealings with Indian tribes involved with gambling, turned the spotlight on Abramoff client the Mississippi Band of Choctaws, which he represented from 1995 to 2004.

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Another e-mail, apparently unrelated to the rest of the hearing, showed Abramoff asking a Daniel Lapin, a prominent Republican rabbi, to give him an award to help him gain entry into an exclusive Washington social club.

“I hate to ask your help with something so silly, but I have been nominated for membership in the Cosmos Club. … Problem for me is that most prospective members have received awards, and I have received none,” Abramoff wrote. “I was wondering if you thought it possible that I could put that I have received an award from {Lapin’s group} Toward Tradition with a sufficiently academic title, perhaps something like Scholar of Talmudic Studies. … Indeed it would be even better if it were possible that I received these in years past, if you know what I mean.”

More:
http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/062305/indian.html


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[donco6]

1. So, how do you justify anti-recycling anyway?

That's sorta like hating cuddly puppies. WTF?

[Ian David]

2. Daniel Lapin: God Hates Recycling

Rabbi Daniel Lapin "has denounced recycling as "The sacred sacrament of secularism." "Why? Because if we are animals then there is a shortage in the world. God doesn't take anything from us and God doesn't create and therefore there is a shortage ... Do not feel guilty for using what God has provided us. Enjoy it!"
http://quinnell.us/politics/rww/individuals/index2.html

[donco6]

3. I guess my response to him would be:

"Hmm, well, if you find that that response has some logical merit, then you are simply too seriously deluded to carry on a useful conversation. See ya!"

[whalerider55]

4. is that name...

pronounced lapin as in crappin' or lapin as in rapin'?


the sacred sacrament of secularism? is this guy a spiro agnew/bill saqfire wannabe, or what?

whalerider

[Ian David]

5. Crappin' Lappin' ? n/t