By Debbie Schlussel

There are several crimes of which–whenever the schemes are foiled by the feds–I can almost always bet that the perpetrators come from a certain religion, culture, and region of the world, whose greatest export (other than extremism) is its brazenness in working the system and screwing the infidels. Credit card fraud, mortgage fraud, Medicaid fraud, Medicare fraud, food stamp/Bridge Card fraud . . . these are the crimes whose perpetrators are overwhelmingly members in a religion that is still just a tiny percentage of our population but dominates these scams and rip-offs. And so it goes with yesterday’s announcement that the feds busted what is either the largest or one of the largest credit card fraud rings ever busted in U.S. history.

As soon as I heard the news, I immediately figured out who’d be involved, and yet most news reports didn’t give names. I think we know why. It’s the three monkeys (none of ’em the Iranian space monkey) when it comes to this particular religion, while Christianity is constantly raked over the coals. The scam here, called “busting out,” is frequently used by those tied to Islamic terrorism (including convicted Hezbollah terrorist Nemr Ali Rahal). Guess the religion:

An international credit fraud ring racked at least $200 million in fraudulent charges to acquire luxury cars, gold and high-end goods, and funnel millions in cash overseas, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The elaborate scheme — one of the largest ever uncovered by the U.S. Justice Department — started small but eventually spread to 28 states and eight countries. Prosecutors revealed the charges in a criminal indictment against 18 alleged conspirators and say they supported a massive network of co-conspirators that’s expected to lead to more indictments. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Meet Callius Moon, rapper and criminal (but, then, I repeat myself). Moon, age 26, who threatened to kill his girlfriend, made an appearance yesterday via jailhouse video in the suburban Detroit courtroom of Judge John Chmura. The only thing more annoying than a guy who raps instead of speaking in court has to be a judge who allows it to go on, instead of finding this clown in contempt of court and demanding respect. I guess somebody forgot that the term, “court jester,” doesn’t–and shouldn’t-apply to America’s courtrooms. Watch the video (sorry for the horrid sound, but the TV station pulled the report . . . not sure why):

Now that rapper Moon has been granted a court-appointed attorney, hopefully he’ll have someone speaking on his behalf who doesn’t rhyme. Good thing Johnny Cochran is no longer available. More info on his hip-hop arraignment session here. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

As you probably know, last week, Iran claimed it sent a monkey into space. But a number of news sources say it’s a hoax, based on the photos Iran presented which obviously used more than one monkey. In any event, today, Iran announced that within the next six years, it will send the first Iranian human into space. Hopefully, they’ll send Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollahs and leave ’em there, though Ahmadinejad will soon be term-limited out of the Iranian Presidency (yes, they have term limits there). Ironically, today, one week after this video, below, aired, Ahmadinejad volunteered to be the first Iranian astronaut. Life imitates art . . . or something. Whether or not that will actually happen and whether or not the monkey story is a hoax, this video is pretty funny. And you gotta watch until the end for the bonus classy “CNN Headline News Segue of the Day.”

Reader Peter R.:

While they’ve demonstrated the ability to have one of their monkeys survive a trip to space allegedly, they’ve never had one survive air combat against an American. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Is it just me . . . or did you also find it odd that Jeep chose anti-war Oprah Winfrey to voice an overwrought reading about welcoming our troops back to America? It’s strange to see Oprah quoted as saying, “We wait. We hope. We pray. Until you’re home again,” since Oprah attacked our troops and their efforts every step of the way when it mattered. Now suddenly, she’s telling them, “We’re a family. We are a nation.” Whatta phony. Now you know why I call her, “HOprah.” Cha-ching! This is the same “chick” who refused to visit our troops when they were over there. Who needs her “welcome home,” now? What–Hanoi Jane wasn’t available?

The ads for the Super Bowl seem to get worse with each year, whether it was the disgusting, low-class GoDaddy ad featuring Israeli draft-dodger Bar Refaeli, or the Coke ad calling graffiti vandals of public property, “Peace Warriors,” or the other Coke ad, a dhimmi deal in which the Westerners competing in the Coke Chase are creeps, and the ultimate winner is the classy Arab with his camel. The only ad I really liked was the patriotic Paul Harvey ad tribute to the American farmer for Dodge Ram. But the Oprah Jeep ad really bugged me.

Maybe I’m wrong, since the conventional wisdom is that her overly dramatic reading welcoming home our troops was “masterful.” Everyone is gushing over it. But not me. When our troops went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, Oprah used her daytime talk show to run frequent anti-War shows critical of them, aiding and abetting the enemy. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Over the last few days, we’ve been following complaints by those in the pro-HAMAS/Hezbollah Arab and Muslim victimhood outfits over the Coke Super Bowl ad featuring an Arab on a Camel in the desert. They complained that not only was the Arab a “negative stereotype” but that Coke didn’t allow viewers to vote for the Arab to win the desert race to get a Coca-Cola to drink. But, then, after whining by these groups, Coke caved and said it was giving the Arab a bigger role that had yet to be unveiled. Well, it was all a bait and switch, a big trick. You see, while Coke viewers voted among Cowboys, Showgirls, and “Badlanders”–and the Showgirls ostensibly won the Super Bowl viewer vote–the Arab (whom Coke has named “Kalaharian”) was the winner all along. He has a Coke in an ice chest. And while the others race past him and his camel, he has “The Last Laugh” in this video that Coke showed to the Arab victimhood pimps and which ran during the Super Bowl and was unveiled on YouTube the day before.

Hey, this is kind of like the Iranian elections. People vote for the other choices, and the ayatollahs’ choice gets “elected” anyway. Same deal in Egypt, where the Christians’ votes just aren’t counted by the Brotherhood. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

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I really couldn’t care less who wins tonight’s Super Bowl. I won’t get any bonus money or endorsement deals out of it. Doesn’t help me or make a difference in my life one bit. I once knew Jim Harbaugh, the coach of the San Francisco 49ers in passing. And it was literally in passing as he passed by on his way to the two girls he was “dating” (euphemism) on my hall, my freshman year at the University of Michigan, when he was a senior. I’m rooting for his team, though, for a good reason: I don’t cheer on murderers and baby daddies of six kids with four women they never married. And that’s the thug and Baltimore Ravens star Ray Lewis, in this case. Although it’s halftime as I write this and Lewis’ team is winning, things can change, and I hope they do.

Last week, I noted that the mainstream media was abuzz about former NFL quarterback and current CBS sports guy Dan Marino and the fact that he had an illegitimate kid with someone other than his wife. And, yet, there is no such buzz, ever, about guys like Ray Lewis, who has the six kids with the four baby mama chicks. Why is that? Does race and racism have something to do with it? And, for that matter, Dan Marino has never been charged with a felony, zero murder victims, and zero missing knives and bloody suits. He also never fled the scene of a murder in his limo. You can’t say any of that for Ray Lewis. Earlier today, I tweeted what I call “Ray Lewis In Numbers” (follow me on Twitter). I got the part about one felony wrong, as he was charged with two felony murder counts and then made a deal to plead guilty to a misdemeanor count of obstructing justice. But you get the point.

It sickens me that this guy is a big star and almost all of Baltimore and the mainstream media are gushing over him when this guy is a murderer. He took two members of his posse to a store, where they bought three knives, meaning they were planning to use them in what ended up being the murder of two innocent men outside an Atlanta night club. In the early morning hours of January 31, 2000, Ray Lewis and his two companions beat and stabbed to death Richard Jacinth Baker and Richard Lollar, leaving Lollar’s daughter India Lollar, then four years old, without a father. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano a/k/a “The Lesbionic Woman,” and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) chief John Morton are livin’ it up in N’awlins, this weekend, allegedly in the name of keeping you safe. The photo below shows John Morton with a ring that he claims was seized from street sellers and is a counterfeit New Orleans Saints ring. (He’s posing in front of an “HSI” sign, which stands for Homeland Security Investigations–ICE’s new branding name, which cost a ton of money to switch over to. But, hey, branding and style are more important to this Obamanik than substance.) Every year, I write about how ICE agents are sent to the Super Bowl to engage in the charade of pretending they are taking dangerous, counterfeit merchandise funding Islamic terrorists off the street. But they are doing no such thing.

Instead, it’s a hollow PR ploy on which the mainstream media eagerly bite while ICE agents–who aren’t enforcing immigration laws much anymore–act as the personal trademark police for billionaire NFL owners and multi-millionaire NFL players, while you foot the bill. As I’ve noted before, ICE agents will seize t-shirts from innocent vendors trying to make a buck to survive in this economy. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Told ya Coke would cave to the perpetual outrage of the Arab Muslim victimhood pimps. And I was right. It was so easy to predict. But now that Coke dhimmified itself for Al-Whiners, the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and tranny community is upset over the Arab on a camel in the desert in a coke ad because it’s wrong to “pit groups against each other.” Huh? I guess they’ve never seen “Battle of the Network Stars” or, more currently, “The Biggest Loser,” “Survivor,” “The Bachelor,” and NFL football.

Last week, I noted the Arab (largely Muslim Arab) conniptions over a Coke Super Bowl ad featuring a number of movie characters, including a keffiyeh-garbed Arab on a camel in the desert, “Lawrence of Arabia” style. The characters were racing in the hot sand to reach a giant coke bottle (and presumably get a drink). Arab groups–particularly, the pro-HAMAS/Hezbollah ADC (American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee), whose President, Warren David, makes his living shaking down companies to pay for his sensitivity training baloney–were upset over an Arab in the desert on a camel because there would never ever be an Arab in the desert on a camel. Never ever ever. Also, they were upset that the video ad directs viewers to a stupid website where they can vote for one of the groups to win the race, and yet, one cannot vote for the Arab on the camel. But, now, after a lot of whining and grandstanding, Coke caved, saying the Arab on the camel will have a huge role which will be unveiled in the middle of the Super Bowl, and his character will be developed later on in TV ads and on the Internet. Alhamdillullah [praise allah]!

It’s the most ridiculous act in grievance theater yet. But it always works.

[It] drew charges of racism from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and Muslim Institute for Interfaith Studies. But Thursday, key critics backed off their complaints after Coca-Cola explained the back story of the ad and plans to develop the character on TV and the Internet. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

I was surprised that I liked two out of the three new movies at theaters, this weekend.

* “Stand Up Guys“: Although I could have done without the extended penis, Viagra, and hooker line of jokes and parts of this movie, I actually found this Fisher Stevens-directed movie enjoyable and charming to some extent. Plus it features three actors I like: Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, and Alan Arkin. They play aging gangsters who get together for what seems like it might be the last time.

Pacino gets out of prison after serving a 28-year sentence for the murder of the son of a mob boss. When he exits, he’s met by his former partner in crime, Walken, who acts like his friend, but has been ordered by the mob boss to kill Pacino by the next morning. But Walken’s reunion with Pacino rekindles their old friendship, and he doesn’t want to pull the trigger. We next see the two of them go to their old haunts, including an Italian restaurant and a brothel, with Pacino trying to relive the past and Walken saying he’s too old for that stuff. Then, they reunite with the third of their gang, Arkin, who is now living in an old folks’ home. They steal a sports car, go for a joy ride, re-visit the brothel, and engage in other exploits. And, with this, Walken again pleads with the mob boss for mercy on his old friend. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

As you may know, former New York Mayor Edward Koch died today at age 88. While, for much of his career, Koch was an unabashed liberal, for a good amount of time in his later years, Koch was actually a conservative. And he was always a proud Jew. We cannot skip over the fact, however, that he twice endorsed and voted for Barack Obama or that he helped anti-Israel Tony Kushner get an honorary degree from a New York college–actions that were neither good for America nor for the Jews. But prior to that, he actually did and said some good things, including his valiant fight for the freedom of Soviet Jews from the tyranny of Communism and his work in support of Israel and tax reform, while he was in Congress. Like me, he was the son of Polish Jews.

When I was a kid in elementary school, my parents took us to New York for winter vacation. We stayed at The Essex House hotel, which is now called the “Jumeirah” Essex House and is owned by Gulf state Muslim Arabs (but wasn’t then). Our first night there was the first night of Chanukah, and my parents took us to see Ed Koch light the giant Menorah on the edge of New York’s Central Park. That was my first introduction to the then-Mayor of New York.

It was after that, when I was in college, that I heard Ed Koch was coming to speak at the University of Michigan. His speech was sponsored by all the Jewish and liberal groups on campus. When I told my father about it, he said, “Oh, you have to go to his speech and congratulate him for his very conservative review of a book by James Q. Wilson in a recent issue of Commentary Magazine. It will make all the liberals mad because they clearly don’t know that he’s kind of conservative now.” (In those days, Commentary was a very intellectual, excellent publication. Now it’s run by morons for morons and constantly pushes the Arab Spring BS and amnesty for illegal aliens. For that reason, both I and my father stopped reading it years ago.) My dad read me parts of the article over the phone, and I took notes. Read the rest of this entry »