By Debbie Schlussel

I’m tired of hearing about the world’s richest welfare queens, the British Royal Family, and the Christening of Prince George, the heir to the British throne. But I noted one ironic detail over and over and over in the many gushing news reports of this “important!” event: that Prince George, son of William and Kate, was dunked in water from the River Jordan.

Hmmm . . . guess where the River Jordan is? And guess where the water came from? Yup, Israel. Yes, the same Israel to which the British Royal Family has NEVER made an official state visit. And probably never will.

Uh-huh, the same country that Queen Elizabeth has deliberately NEVER visited. The same country William and Kate–who seem to have been to every G-d-forsaken Pago Pago and Walla Walla–haven’t been to, and probably never will for the same reasons as those of Wiliam’s grandmother. Yes, the same Israel that was “visited” only once by Prince Charles, and that was for a funeral of a head of state (former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin). Charles made sure that the world knew that he was not there–in the JOOOWISH state –in any official capacity as a Royal from the UK (in what capacity, then, pray tell, was he there?). Yes, the same Prince Charles who instructed America that he would be the “ambassador of Islam” to us because, in his words, we Americans and Westerners don’t understand what a peaceful and beautiful religion it is (which is why he’s Anglican). That was after he said he wished he was a tampon (yup, he really said that!).

Charles’ two senior aides also trashed Israel in e-mails on which they accidentally copied the Israeli Ambassador. Morons. They teased Israeli officials, saying they were entertaining a trip to the country, when they actually said in their e-mails that they had no such intentions, and so on. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

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I don’t know much about the politics of Lou Reed, who died today at age 71 (though I assume they were very left-wing, based on his strange sexual lifestyle and his strong presence in the ’60s and ’70s counter-culture music scene, plus he played “Farm Aid,” etc.). But I do know that he was very talented, both with the Velvet Underground and on his own. And I know that, in 2008, Reed–an American-born Jew–defied calls from the left to boycott Israel and played in the Jewish State along with his wife, Laurie Anderson. Perhaps that is part of the reason that scientists named a “velvet” arachnid native to Israel, the Loureedia annulipes, after him.

Lou Reed & Laurie Anderson Play Tel Aviv, Israel . . .

At times, I thought he was kind of over-rated, and most of his music wasn’t my type at all. But I’m kind of embarrassed to say that–despite its unfortunate references to oral sex, male prostitution, drugs, and transsexuals, all of which I had to tune out–I did like his “classic” 1972 rendition of “Walk on the Wild Side.” (The radio version has the most obvious reference–to oral sex–deleted, but I could not find that version, so beware when listening to the video, below). The song was apparently a tribute to the various hangers-on in Andy Warhol’s entourage. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

In case you missed this from the beginning of last night’s “Saturday Night Live,” SNL mocked the incompetence of ObamaCare and the crappy excuses made by Health and (Non-)Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. The video is below. The only thing missing was mocking Barack Obama on this, as the fish rots from the head down. Also, it could have been much funnier. But good enough.

By Debbie Schlussel

Only one good choice among the new movies at theaters, this weekend. Actually it’s a great choice. (I did not see Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa. Why? Obvious reasons.)

* “All Is Lost“: Absolutely terrific. One of the best movies I’ve seen this year. This is the smart man’s “Gravity” (read my review). It’s got a similar story, although in a different atmosphere, but the person struggling to survive is much smarter here.

And there’s much less dialogue. Whereas Sandra Bullock talks non-stop and does everything wrong in “Gravity,” Robert Redford’s character (who is a nameless solitary man) says almost nothing and does everything right. Yet, both are trying to stay alive in challenging atmospheres that threaten to end their lives. The most dialogue is about two or three lines uttered by Redford at the beginning of the movie, reading aloud some sort of good-bye note to family.

I thought I would find this movie boring and slow because of the lack of dialogue, but, in fact, the movie was riveting and I was on the edge of my seat the entire way through. The movie is spectacular, both in story/plot and visuals. Its attention to detail is terrific Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

“12 Years a Slave,” in movie theaters today, is yet another movie about which I had mixed emotions. It’s an interesting story, the main character is a fine, admirable, and incredibly courageous man, and it’s based on a true story. But it appears to have been made for pure propaganda purposes, especially when we see what’s going on today in a culture that Solomon Northup–this movie’s protagonist–would probably abhor. But race-baiting is hip in our Obama/Kanye world.

Those who’ve looked into its historical accuracy say that this movie hews quite closely to the book of the same name, written by Solomon Northup, a free man from New York, who was kidnapped and sold into slavery for 12 years. However, the New York Times reports that many believe Northup embellished his story to tailor it to the former slave narrative from the time. It also reports that Northup’s book appears to have actually been written (and story embellished) by a White abolitionist with an agenda. We might have a hint of the movie’s own agenda when we note that one of the movie’s consultants is Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. (the man who accused the Cambridge police officer of being “raaaaacist!” for arresting him–and then they both had a beer with Obama, after he said the police “acted stupidly”).

My beef with this movie is that it was heavy-handed, and I feel like I’m being hit over the head with repeated two-by-fours of racism movies, when we have a Black President, Black reparations (affirmative action, minority set-asides, ObamaPhones, ObamaCare, welfare, etc.). This is like the fifth or sixth racism movie we’ve been subjected to this year, and that’s too bad, because this was probably the best by far of all of them . . . and the most honest in terms of historical accuracy and truth (maybe–read the New York Times link above). Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Two Arab soldiers–one of them Muslim and the other Christian, and both of them from the Hezbollah-controlled Lebanese Army–tried to kidnap and rape a 12-year-old girl from Missouri, near Fort Leonard Wood, where they are undergoing military training.

The soldiers are here with the military of some unnamed Muslim country and are being trained by our military. Judging from the name of the Christian Arab, Antoine Chlela, it’s quite clear these guys are FROM LEBANON and from the Lebanese Army. WHY are we training the Hezbollah-controlled Lebanese Army? And why is it such a secret which country they are from? Oh, yeah, Hezbollah–that’s why.

Two men training at Fort Leonard Wood are in custody after deputies say they tried to abduct a 12-year-old girl in Pulaski County Friday afternoon. Mohammed Mahmoud Omar Mefleh, 34, and Antoine Chlela, 31, were charged with enticement of a child and harassment. The victim told police she was playing with a sibling in her yard when Mefleh and Chlela approached her several times and tried to lure her into their vehicle. She told officers they kept asking for sexual favors. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Remember the good old days, when parents could pack their kids’ lunches without worrying about running afoul of the food police? Those days are over. And it’s not just that parents can’t give their kids a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich (this will raise the hackles of the Peanutzis and their treasured, “special” peanut-allegic kids AND it’s in a plastic bag, which isn’t biodegradable–another “crime”). Nope. Parents who pack a candy bar or a sugary drink in their kids’ lunches–or whose lunches have non-100%-biodegradable packaging–will get in trouble. And so will their kids, who are accompanied out of the lunch cafeteria like criminals and forced to eat the sugar-laden contraband in purgatory. Not kidding.

Get a load of this:

With food allergies on the rise, many schools have barred all nut products, not just peanut butter, and sometimes other foods like soy and dairy. More schools also have candy and soda bans. A growing awareness of childhood obesity and nutrition means more parental anxiety around choosing the “right” foods . . . . “I pack [my son] a lunch every day and I hate it,” says Amy Hood, a stay-at-home mother of three from Charlestown, R.I. . . .

In January, she tweeted that she had slipped a Kit Kat into her 11-year-old’s lunch: “This is (voice of doom) AGAINST THE RULES. Told him to eat the evidence if confronted.” Her son’s school has a no-candy policy. And while Ms. Hood says she generally packs a healthy lunch, she says she doesn’t “see the problem in a little fun stuff.” . . .

Her son’s charter school also has a no-nut policy and encourages a “zero trash” lunch. It’s one of a number of schools sensitive to the environmental impact of tossing out hundreds of plastic baggies per lunch period. . . . The Post Oak School in Bellaire, Texas, a Montessori school that goes through 12th grade, instituted a no-waste lunch policy in 2011. Disposable water bottles, plastic bags and milk cartons are no-no’s. The school also has its own compost pile. Parents can ask that their child’s lunch leftovers be placed there instead of being sent home. The school has a no-candy policy, too. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Last night on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Kimmel did a pandering interview with Al-Jazeera Global Warming Gore. That was skipworthy. But before that, he sent his staff onto Hollywood Boulevard to interview many of the morons who believe in the “global warming” fiction–and most of whom voted Obama. Listen to them talk about the extinction of “Solar Bears” (there is no such thing) and about how global warming caused polar bear attacks on Vermont (where there are no polar bears unless they are in captivity in a zoo). It would be funnier if the reality weren’t so sad (the reality that our country has been overtaken by idiots).

While this is a close contest in moronism, one guy has self-mutilated large holes in his ears (yup, I know that fad is “all the rage” and it’s gross). It’s kinda symbolic of the hole in his head that isn’t readily visible. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Thirty years ago today, Hezbollah bombed the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut and murdered 241 Americans. As some Marines tried to flee the burning barracks, PLO shooters sent machine gun fire their way.

The Marines were there to protect pro-PLO Sunni Muslims from the Israelis and from Christians who finally fought back against the PLO mass rapes, mass murders, and other ravages of the country, its Christians, and its Shi’ite Muslim population. We had no business being there, but President Reagan decided to go there and protect Muslims anyway. And after he sacrificed the Marines, he pulled the Marines out, like a scared animal with its tail between its legs, and ran away. We never fought back. The Ronald Reagan that everyone remembers as tough really wasn’t so tough after all. Osama Bin Laden cited this wimpitude in Beirut as his evidence that America would be attacked by Muslims and wouldn’t do much in response. And he was right.

Thirty years later, Hezbollah isn’t just over there blowing up Americans. It’s here. We have tens of thousands of Hezbollah agents, operatives, and supporters who’ve created a beachhead in Dearbornistan and Dearbornistan Heights, Michigan, and it’s growing like a cancer. Arab businesses (including restaurants and bakeries), Arab newspapers (including the so-called Arab-American News), and elected officials (including two Hezbollah Judges) are backed, funded, and/or supported by Hezbollah. Money is laundered through Arabic supermarkets and halal meat shops–and used car dealerships–and sent to the “martyrs back home.” And Donald Trump even engineered the naming of an open Hezbollah supporter, Rima Fakih–whose family members are Hezbollah terrorists and “martyrs”–to win the Miss USA pageant in 2010.

And while these Muslims in the Hezbollahstan in America expand, they continue to take orders from Iran and South Lebanon. Despite that, our pan-Arabist President, Barack Obama, is now a frat brother with the ayatollahs who continue to run and direct Hezbollah from Tehran–the same ayatollahs who also direct Hezbollah’s illegal money-laundering and financing operations inside the United States, through illicit drug trafficking and counterfeit merchandise. And Walmart has built a store specially for them, making illegal price-fixing and purchasing deals with the Hezbollah businesses who compete. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Rasmieh Yousef Odeh is a strong, malodorous whiff of “comprehensive immigration reform” a/k/a amnesty and the types of people with terrorist backgrounds who will get U.S. citizenship under it.

Odeh is an Islamic terrorist who tried to blow up the British Consulate in Jerusalem in 1969. A Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist, she is also a naturalized U.S. citizen, whose terrorist background–even though she was convicted in Israel–our trusty INS background screeners didn’t catch. And they gave her a golden ticket into the U.S. That part of the INS now reconstituted as U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) now does even less of a background check on those seeking Green Cards and U.S. citizenship, today. USCIS will be in charge of doing the quickie/rubber stamp background checks if immigration amnesty is passed. They missed Odeh’s terrorist past because they didn’t do even a basic Google search. It’s laughable.

And if they didn’t catch Ms. Odeh’s conviction for Islamic terrorism in 1995 when she was allowed into the country–and again in 2004 when her citizenship was rubber-stamped, you can bet that they will not catch other Islamic terrorists like her if and when immigration amnesty is enacted. Odeh’s conviction in Israeli courts was missed by U.S. background checkers at least twice (and many other times when she failed to disclose it on various forms and applications). Her terrorist group, the PFLP, murdered Israeli Tourism Minister Rechavam Ze’evi.

A naturalized United States citizen who was convicted in Israel for participating in a terrorist bombing was charged with immigration fraud, [it was] announced today. . . .

[Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)] Special agents arrested Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 66, at a Chicago-area residence after the unsealing of an indictment filed in federal court in Detroit. The indictment charges procurement of citizenship unlawfully. The indictment alleges that Odeh was convicted in Israel for her role in the 1969 bombings of a supermarket and the British Consulate in Jerusalem, which were carried out on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated terrorist organization. Read the rest of this entry »