By Debbie Schlussel

Who was hardest hit by the government shutdown? Not families of fallen soldiers, whose death benefits have only just been allowed to go forward by Congress. Not military veterans threatened with arrest for entering national monuments. Not people denied a Social Security card, even though the Social Security offices are fully staffed, funded, and open for service. Nope. Why, it’s Barack Obama’s White relatives, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Oh, and the Journal reporter, Jim Carlton, “just happened” to run into the Obama kin “at random” while surveying a closed national tourist attraction. Uh-huh. Sure he did. The odds of running into Obama relatives shut out of a government-run tourist spot somewhere in America have to be similar to winning the Powerball lottery or worse. It just doesn’t happen to a reporter for one of America’s most read national newspapers. This was a clearly planned Obama White House maneuver. As the French would say, “Quelle coincidence!” Whatta coincidence!

Check out the Obama family sob story (or, rather, crocodile tears story. So sad, too bad:

On Wednesday, a random canvassing of spurned visitors outside the Cliff House—a tourist spot perched above the Pacific Ocean at the city’s [San Francisco’s] western edge—revealed that even those related to President Barack Obama aren’t immune. Two members of the president’s extended family were denied entry to the historic dining establishment, which is privately operated but has been ordered to close because it is on national park land. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

It’s incredible that Islamic terrorists continue to conduct many dry runs on our airplanes–TWO in one day on the same flight out of DC, and yet Barack Obama couldn’t even do one dry run on his malfunctioning $80 Healthcare.gov website. Yes, Muslims continue to test the system and conduct dry runs, and we do nothing about it.

Last week, I was having a discussion with my friend, radio talk show host Brett Winterble, about all the sudden incidents by “crazy people” that happened one after another in Washington, DC: the Naval base massacre by Aaron Alexis, the driving incident with Miriam Carey between the White House and the Capitol (she seemed to be a graduate of Al-Qaeda driving school, eluding police until she got the to Capitol), and then the dousing himself on fire by a man on the Mall. It seemed a weird “coincidence” to me that all these people suddenly did these things one after another and they were all conveniently mentally unstable. It reminded me of all those “mentally unstable” Muslims who just happened to do things on planes that appeared to be dry runs or testing the system. And, as I’ve noted, Al-Qaeda’s handbook instructs jihadists to recruit the mentally unstable, so that if and when the plot is uncovered, the plausible deniability of “oh, they’re just nuts” takes place.

I’ve written about many of the dry runs on planes over the years on this site, and have been ridiculed for it. But flight crews and Federal Air Marshals agree with me that something’s going on. I’ve also warned about ground crews and other airport employees who are NOT screened and can easily get on planes and hide things for hijackers (I’ve noted Somali Muslim sex ring criminals who, because of airport credentials, got into a plane’s cockpit and a set of airline ticket agents who smuggled drugs and weapons on planes).

And, now, there’s this:

Orlando, Florida — It was a flight bound for Florida, and some airline pilots believe it also may have been a dry-run for terrorists. The 10 News Investigators have obtained an internal memo that details a frightening incident that brings back memories of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. . . . A memo obtained by the 10 News investigators from the union that represents pilots for US Airways says that “there have been several cases recently throughout the (airline) industry of what appear to be probes, or dry-runs, to test our procedures and reaction to an in flight threat.” Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

More smoke and mirrors and public relations scheming over the shutdown from the Obama Administration. A reader who works for the federal government sent this photo below of a sign that is apparently posted at all Social Security Administration offices. Since SSA is considered essential, it is fully staffed and open as usual, and yet, it is not performing many of its duties “Due to Congressional inaction to prevent a Government shutdown.” (Translation: “Due to the Evil Republicans!”)

Huh? It doesn’t make sense that a fully staffed, fully funded agency would not be able to function during the shutdown . . . unless the decision was made by a crafty, dishonest President who wants people to hate the Republicans in Congress because of the shutdown and wants to make the shutdown seem more drastic than it actually is or should be (we’ve seen it at the monuments and with the military vets, but not with the prized illegal aliens). And that’s exactly what’s going on here, as with all the other selective furloughs and closings associated with the shutdown.

The reader writes:

Hi Debbie:

Here is a copy of the sign at all the social security offices. They are considered essential, so no one has been furloughed nor have their hours been reduced. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

This is a sick, sick individual. But, on the other hand, in our Kardashian/Miley Cyrus whacked out country, I guess he’s just a nice, classy, normal guy. Right?

For those who don’t know, Chris Brown is the 24-year-old R&B singing star, who used to beat up his ex-girlfriend, Rihanna. He’s also the jerk who dressed up with his posse as their fave Islamic terrorists for Halloween, last year. Sadly, he’s a major pop star and very successful. Tragically, kids–especially urban kids–look up to and will imitate this kind of warped behavior, about which he brags in this interview with The Guardian:

Brown was born in 1989 in a small Virginia town called Tappahannock, with a population of just 2,000. . . . His parents divorced when he was seven, and before long he and his sister and mother were living with her new husband in a trailer park, where in the past he has described lying in bed listening to his stepfather beat his mother. I ask him to tell me a bit about his childhood. . . . .

He lost his virginity when he was eight years old, to a local girl who was 14 or 15. Seriously? “Yeah, really. Uh-huh.” He grins and chuckles. “It’s different in the country.” Brown grew up with a great gang of boy cousins, and they watched so much porn that he was raring to go. “By that point, we were already kind of like hot to trot, you know what I’m saying? Like, girls, we weren’t afraid to talk to them; I wasn’t afraid. So, at eight, being able to do it, it kind of preps you for the long run, so you can be a beast at it. You can be the best at it.” (Now 24, he doesn’t want to say how many women he’s slept with: “But you know how Prince had a lot of girls back in the day? Prince was, like, the guy. I’m just that, today Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Hey, another example of why Detroit is bankrupt.

I just returned from a Detroit City Council meeting, which I attended for a client on legal business before the Council. While I was waiting for that matter to be heard, the Detroit City Council–only two members of which were in attendance–discussed a contract the City had with Compuware for $11.7 million, a total waste of money since the money went for a useless computer system that was never used.

The contract with the City’s Buildings Safety, Engineering, and Environmental Department, was only just discovered by Detroit officials because it was under the radar and approved and paid outside of the regular ways the City does business, for reasons that were not clear. The contract for “information technology services” paid Compuware $11.7 million for some kind of computerized database or system that didn’t work and that, because it didn’t work, nobody used. Councilwoman Brenda Jones, who was chairing the meeting, exclaimed repeatedly what an incredible waste of money that was. Sure was. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Apparently, U.S. military commanders believe Muslim lives are more important than American lives.

You know the “botched” Navy SEAL raid on Somalia over the weekend? The one over which Al-Shabaab is now claiming “victory” against the United States? Yes, that one. Well, it turns out that the SEALs could have carried out the mission and gotten their man, Al-Shabaab terrorist Abdikadir Mohamed Abdikadir a/k/a “Ikrima.” But, in the middle of the mission, their commander called off the raid because the SEALs were kicking terrorist butt, and the commander didn’t want any Muslim Al-Shabaab-supporting civilians and children harmed.

Yup, let’s hear it for putting Muslim lives–the lives of Muslims who support Islamic terrorists that murder Westerners–above American lives! Yay, America. Muslims always see this as a sign of weakness. And this corrosive “value for Muslim terrorist families’ lives” has afflicted America to its detriment since Clinton, through Bush, and now to Obama. We didn’t capture Bin Laden when we had the chance before the 9/11 bombings because he was with women and children and Arab Muslim princes. We didn’t carry out several necessary operations in Iraq and Afghanistan to save American soldiers’ lives because Bush and Petraeus were obsessed with capturing Muslim “hearts and minds” (how did that work out?). And now this.

Remember, this guy was involved in bombing the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. And he wouldn’t hesitate to murder more Americans and attack more American sites. Al-Shabaab has already said they would not hesitate to commit terrorist attacks on American soil, and they are already here in our midst in great numbers, thanks to our wonderful immigration system (several hundreds Al-Shabaab operatives gamed the system and disappeared into America, according to government documents).

I’m sure the Navy SEALs who went on that mission and knew they could carry it out successfully are pissed and embarrassed by their “commander.” They should be, especially since their raid was painted by the Obamaniks and their media partners (including FOX News) as a “botched” mission. It was not. It was a called off mission. Called off right in the middle, putting the SEALs’ lives at risk for no reason. From today’s Wall Street Journal:

The U.S. commander on the ground called off the raid after an intense firefight that left several militants dead, officials said. A key factor in the decision was the presence of children in the compound and the determination that it wouldn’t be possible to capture Ikrima without inflicting civilian casualties, a U.S. official said. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, formerly Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi, died today at the age of 93. For those who do not know, Sephardic Jews are those Jews who primarily come from Asia, Africa, the Arab world, and Spain (“Spharad” means Spain in Hebrew). Jews from the rest of Europe (other than Spain) are generally Ashkenazic Jews, as I am (“Ashkenaz” is Germany). Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews have different customs and religious traditions and observances. The majority of Jews in Israel are Sephardic, and even those who were not religious and/or Sephardic respected Rabbi Yosef.

Yosef is generally considered a great and righteous man. He led the powerful Shas religious party in Israel. When Menachem Begin was about to enter into the Camp David Peace Accords with Egypt and give up the Sinai, Rabbi Yosef threatened to withdraw his support from the Likud/Herut government and Begin. But when the far more harmful and deadly Oslo Accords (negotiated in part by Caroline Glick) were on the horizon, Rabbi Yosef endorsed them, and that was his biggest mistake. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Say a prayer for the soul of Tevin Geike and for his grieving family. His death at the hands of racists doesn’t follow the preferred Trayvon Martin narrative of the Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton gang. The 20-year-old American soldier at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington State was murdered by a group of Blacks who shouted racial slurs at him.

LAKEWOOD, Wash. – A Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier was stabbed to death in a parking lot at the 12500 block of Pacific Highway Southwest around 2:30 a.m., officials say. 20-year-old Tevin Geike was walking with two other white soldiers along Pacific Highway SW when a group of black men drove by and shouted a racial comment toward the soldiers, the Lakewood Police Department said. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

File Under: “Will They Try This on Obama?”

The Islamic emirate of Kuwait claims to be developing a medical test to detect and keep out gay travelers. Not sure how a medical test can determine whether or not someone is gay, since scientists still haven’t found a “gay gene” or any factors that will, for certain, determine who is gay. And when you think of “world’s top scientists,” you don’t exactly think of Kuwait (or any Arabs or Muslims for that matter). You think of Israel, America, Jews, and Christians, who make the top scientific discoveries. (Frankly, given where it’s coming from, I think the “medical test” is a series of questions: are you an a male flight attendant, makeup artist, or hairstylist? And so on.)

New Kuwaiti Medical Test Will Figure Out These Are Gay . . .

But don’t expect gays to protest outside the Kuwaiti Embassy or make a fuss the way they do over Russia or the way they did over the Mormon Church’s financing of California’s Proposition 8. Gays don’t get upset when Muslims discriminate against them with deadly consequences. They just hate Christians and Jews.

A medical test being developed by Kuwait will be used to ‘detect’ homosexuals and prevent them from entering the country – or any of the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC), according to a Kuwaiti government official. GCC member countries – Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – already deem homosexual acts unlawful. This controversial stance is being toughened, with members of the LGBT community stopped at the border and banned from entering the country, according to Yousouf Mindkar, the director of public health at the Kuwaiti health ministry. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

I can’t let the day go by without noting that today is the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the Yom Kippur War, Israel’s victorious war against its Arab Muslim neighbors. On October 6, 1973, the Yom Kippur War began and concluded on October 25th. Israel won the war, despite being surrounded by a coalition of Muslim Arab nations bent on its destruction and led by Anwar Sadat, eager to fill the shoes of his predecessor (the leader of Arab nationalism, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt), with his friend Hafez El-Assad following close behind.

While we are constantly told that we must respect Muslim traditions, holidays, and religious observances, the Yom Kippur War was yet another example of Muslims’ lack of respect for ours, yours, and mine. They attacked on what is one of the two holiest holidays in Judaism, Yom Kippur (the other is Rosh HaShanah). And the attack also occurred during Ramadan, because Islam is always a warring religion, no matter what day it is. They want us to respect their religious observances, but they do not respect ours OR their own.

The attack is billed as a “surprise” attack (the CIA was clueless about it), but there were signs that it was going to happen. Golda Meir knew about Arab plans of impending attack because of the excellent intelligence of the Mossad. But she chose not to launch a pre-emptive attack, a mistake that cost more lives of Israel soldiers than would have been lost had she gone ahead with pre-emptive action. Read the rest of this entry »