By Debbie Schlussel

Today, I went to the funeral of Sam Offen, a Holocaust survivor and friend of my late grandfather, Isaac Engel, also a Holocaust survivor. They were landsmen (Yiddish for Jews from the same part of the world, primarily Europe). Like my grandfather, Sam Offen was born in Poland and lost almost everyone in his family while he survived the Nazi concentration and death camps. He and my grandparents knew each other as they were all Holocaust survivors from Poland who settled in Detroit. I used to see Sam all the time at the cemetery when I went to visit my father’s grave and he was there to visit that of his wife.

I’m telling you about this because I was proud to know Sam Offen and his funeral today was very uplifting because it was not about a man who lost his life. It was about a man who triumphed over tragedy and lived the American dream. Sam Offen, after coming to America with his two brothers who survived, lost a leg when he was hit by a drunk driver in 1959. But he didn’t let that get in the way just as he didn’t let the Holocaust steal his life or his will. As his relatives pointed out at today’s funeral, it’s a big deal when a man dies at age 91, and his funeral is packed, and packed with people of all ages.

I’m one of the many people whose lives he touched with his story of survival and success as a great American entrepreneur. I heard him speak and also talked to him at length for my Detroit-based CBS Radio show. He’s the author of the very moving book, “When Hope Prevails: The Personal Triumph of a Holocaust Survivor,” and traveled across Michigan, America, and the world to tell his story. This happened at the encouragement of my cousin, the late Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig, also a survivor and the founder of the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan.

When Nazi war criminal and Mathausen guard Johann Leprich (of the SS Waffen) was caught sneaking in and out of the Detroit-Windsor, Canada border, Sam Offen spoke out. He was also rightfully disappointed that neighbors, who I interviewed on my radio show, felt bad and expressed sympathy for the Nazi who murdered many Jewish prisoners, while Sam Offenwas a prisoner at Mathausen. Leprich helped murder more than 150,000 people at the death camp. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Actor John Cusack’s day has come and gone . . . a long time ago. The last good movie he was in was 1999’s “Being John Malkovich,” and I liked him best in 1985’s “Better Off Dead.” You can say that movie title applies to his showbiz career, too. But he can’t take the hint. His failed leftist, anti-American movies, such as “War Inc.,” went nowhere. But he’s back and up to his old tricks, including a plan to play Rush Limbaugh in a predictably hateful “biopic.”

I asked Jedi Master of Photoshop Art David Lunde of Lundesigns to show us what Cusack would look like as El-Rushbo by putting his face on Rush’s head, and this is what he came up with, below. As you can see, Cusack as Rush ain’t exactly convincing. Probably the same deal with the script. You know it will be a hit piece flick, since liberal Cusack is developing the film as a vehicle for himself. It’s set to be directed by Betty Thomas, who directed Howard Stern’s love letter to himself, “Private Parts.”

Check out David’s pic of Cusack as Rush . . . Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Yesterday, I was shocked to see a new low for even Hollywood: the depiction of a past American President getting masturbated by his girlfriend. In low-class slang, what was happening onscreen is referred to as an “HJ,” as opposed to what Monica Lewinsky performed on Bill Clinton (known as a “BJ”). I saw this while attending critics’ screenings of several upcoming major motion pictures. (And since I can’t think of any appropriate pics, I’m posting the one below of Gloria Allred with a baseball bat.)

I’m forbidden from naming the movie (or the President involved) until the movie comes out, but there are a few upcoming movies featuring past American Presidents, so you can take a guess. It’s safe to say the President involved is a White male and isn’t Bill Clinton. Hollywood would never disrespect Clinton or Barack Obama at whose alters showbiz elitists worship. I don’t even like or respect the politics of the President in question. But that’s beside the point. The point of this was to take a well-respected American President down. It’s just the latest in Hollywood’s attacks on authority, achievement, and American institutions. That’s long been Hollywood’s contemporary agenda. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

I’ve already told you that Showtime’s “Homeland” and its actors and producers are sympathetic to Islam and Islamic terrorists. They’ve said so. Now, the Iranian Muslim actor who plays the major Islamic terrorist leader on Showtime’s “Homeland” says that Islamic terrorists are “heroes.” No wonder it’s Barack Obama’s Favorite TV show.

When “24” was still on the air, the Greek actor who played a major Islamic terrorist leader during one of its last seasons praised and sympathized with PLO and other Palestinian terrorists, saying he “understood their plight.” That counterterrorism series was produced by a lot of the same people, all of them liberals. And, so, it’s no surprise that Navid Negahban, the Iranian Muslim who plays Abu Nazir, “Homeland’s” version of Osama Bin Laden, thinks that Islamic terrorists are “the heroes.” Yup, this is the world we live in: we give awards, high ratings and huge salaries to Iranian a-holes who think Islamic terrorists are heroes. Schmuck.

Check out the video . . . Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

How bleeping intolerant are Muslims? So intolerant that they go postal when Middle Eastern food (some of it, like hummus, invented by Jews in ancient Israel) is called an “Israeli buffet” by Harvard University chefs. How wimpy and spineless is Harvard? So wimpy and spineless that when even just one Arab whines about the Israeli buffet, the university apologizes. Sad. But no surprise.

Sara El-Yafi, the Sunni Muslim Arab granddaughter of former Lebanese Prime Minister Abdallah El-Yafi and a Harvard grad, let her intolerance and hatred for Israel and the Jews spur a tantrum over the food served at Harvard’s Business School. Don’t let El-Yafi’s sexy clothes (one of her pics is of herself in a mini-skirt and cropped “belly” shirt) fool ya, she’s as fundamentalist and hateful as the most devoutly garbed Muslims. As I’ve pointed out before, some of the most scantily clothed Muslim women are possessed by some of the most vile anti-Semitism. These are Israel’s neighbors to the north, and this is why there will never be peace: because these Arabs and Muslims are consumed with utter hatred even over menu. They hate the Jews that much.

Harvard Business School is “deeply troubled” for having offended Arab sensibilities due to the mischaracterization of various foods appearing on the menu of the dining room’s Israeli Mezze Station, Brian Kenny, chief marketing and communications officer of the school, was quoted by Al-Arabiya as saying Friday.

The controversy over the Israeli food station arose after Lebanese Harvard graduate Sara el-Yafi on October 28 posted to her Facebook page a letter of protest to the university describing the Israeli buffet’s menu as an affront to Arabs, as such foods as humous and couscous are not of Israeli origin.

This passage from the Jerusalem Post is even BS. In fact, as I’ve noted, hummus began in ancient Israel. And these foods were eaten by the near-million Jews from Arab nations who were expelled from their homes of thousands of years.

The only thing correct here is that Halloumi cheese is, indeed, a Muslim product, as I’ve noted previously on this site, which is why you should NEVER buy it. If you do, you are funding Jew-haters in Cypress who shielded Yasser Arafat and other Islamic terrorists for years. (Plus, for my Jewish friends and readers, it’s not kosher.) More: Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

While I was away over the weekend, news broke that police arrested and charged Kassim Alhimidi, an Iraqi Sh’ite Muslim, with the murder of his wife Shaima Alawadi in the San Diego area. I told you back in March, when news of Ms. Alawadi’s murder broke–and Muslims and the HAMAS CAIR crowd and all of the mainstream media were touting this as a “woe is us” anti-Muslim hate crime–that it was a hate crime hoax and was probably an honor killing perpetrated by her husband. And most of you, dear readers and friends, came to the same conclusion. It’s pretty obvious.

Since then, news came out that Alawadi was going to divorce her husband and move to Texas and that her daughter tried to get out of an arranged marriage. File this under “Yet Another Muslim Hate Crime Hoax”:

It has been nearly eight months since Iraqi-American Shaima Alawadi was found bloody and beaten unconscious in the kitchen of her suburban San Diego home. At the scene, police found a note reading, “Go back to your country, you terrorist.”

Alawadi, 32, died at the hospital three days later, and on Nov. 9, her husband, Kassim Alhimidi, 48, was arrested and booked on one count of murder. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

So, now, we’re learning that the reason disgraced former CIA Director David Petraeus’ extra-marital affair with Paula Broadwell (age 40) came to light is that she was e-mail harassing his younger female friend, Jill Kelley (age 37). Wow, this is gettin’ better than “Fatal Attraction.” Was Kelley another Petraeus concubine? She says no, and so does Petraeus. Whatever the case, we now know that the FBI knew about all of this back in the summer.

While it’s being reported that Kelley and her husband were close friends of the Petraesus, Broadwell certainly thought there was something going on between them, which is why Broadwell send threatening e-mails to Kelley. It begs the question: how many other chicks did this unscrupulous then-CIA Director have? He may turn out to be the White Kwame Kilpatrick . . . at least in the “dating” (euphemism) department.

What kind of CIA Director has multiple girlfriends other than his wife? Maybe this one. He does like Islam, and, hey, he’s got his own harem. Imagine the blackmail this doofus exposed himself to. If it weren’t so scary to U.S. national security, it would be comedy gold. I mean, is this guy Petraeus gonna turn out to have more mistresses than Tiger Woods? Don’t bet against it.

And the story has shown us a lot of things: Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

While today we honor our American veterans for the service they gave to this country, it’s something we should do every single day. Without them, we wouldn’t be here. And we certainly wouldn’t be free. Every day, I try to remember, recognize, and honor those who served. And I always thank soldiers and those with VFW hats or other insignia indicating they served. I’ve posted the pictures, below, several times before on this site. But they bear re-posting because they show the sacrifice, the agony, the emotion of those who serve so we can remain free. Without them and the grace of G-d, we might all be stuck as colonists, slaves to Great Britain. Or we would be saluting Hitler’s grandson, and I and my people wouldn’t exist. Without our veterans and their service, today we might be forcibly wearing burqas and keffiyehs, right now. Despite all of their efforts, our dhimmi politicians, media, college professors, and Hollywood wackos would have us be in that position right now. Still, we certainly wouldn’t be free to say and do as we please, today, without our military. Without our brave men in uniform, there would be no First or Second Amendment and without those, no America. No freedom to speak of. Without our brave men serving overseas and on our own shores, America would be a scary place . . . if it even existed at all. Never forget that. Ever.

Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke, Jr., Iraq War Vet, Hugs Pearl Harbor Survivor/WWII Vet Houston James (Graunke Lost a Leg, Hand, and Eye Defusing a Bomb in Iraq)

Wounded American Marine Salutes President Reagan’s Casket

This year, since Veteran’s Day falls on a Sunday, it’s easy to forget that this day is different from other Sundays, that without our veterans, Sunday might be a day of forced labor like any other under tyranny. It wouldn’t be the casual, lazy day that it is for most Americans. And it’s easy for forget that it’s veterans day. But we all need to take some time out–even if it is just a moment of silence or reflection–of why we are all free to continue our business, our lives, our families, our ambitions, our freedom of speech, religion, and everything else every day of the week. And that’s because every single day, at risk of losing life or limb, our servicemen stand guard, so that we can continue our lives as we wish, without interruption or, worse, tyranny. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

No tears from me over the resignation of CIA Director and retired General David Petraeus, late today. Petraeus was and is a pan-Arabist, anti-Israel piece of crap, who built his career on expending the lives of American soldiers to build roads for and hand out candy to Muslims who hate us, as he constantly bent over for them. He blamed our problems with the Muslim world on our relationship with Israel.

As American Commander of Middle Eastern Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, Petraeus dressed up in Muslm garb to display the latest appeasement in uber-dhimmi chic dumbass fashion. Apparently, it did wonders in the bedroom for him. Oh, and don’t forget that he was part of the crowd who blamed the attacks on our embassies and the murders of four Americans on the anti-Mohammed video and condemned free speech.

And, yet, he had no problem jeopardizing America’s national security by having an extra-marital affair. Can you imagine the kind of blackmail he could have been subject to, had the FBI not discovered his dancing in the sheets? What a selfish idiot!

It’s truly incredible that this man was being touted as a Presidential candidate by everyone from FOX News chief Roger Ailes to New York’s grandstanding (but never doing anything) Congressman and Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King. All of them begged this schmuck to run. Whatta joke. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

When I returned home from the screening of “Skyfall,” earlier this week, I purchased the domain names BondIsNotBlond.com and JamesBondIsNotBlond.com. They’ll take you to my very first take on Daniel Craig as James Bond. My views haven’t changed. He’s puny, effeminate and way too thin in others. And he’s blond, despite the fact that Sir Ian Fleming’s James Bond was dark and swarthy.

And it doesn’t help that the villain in this latest Bond installment, in theaters today, manhandles Bond in a very gay way, unbuttoning his shirt, and putting his hand on Bond’s chest (to which Bond responds, “What makes you think this is my first time?”). It had an icky, in-your-face-political correctness vibe to it. But this is the new politically correct James Bond. I don’t care about race, but it’s not by accident that Moneypenny is now a Black chick and the villain is a weird, bleach blond gay freak (Javier Bardem), who looks like the Wikileaks dude on steroids. The only really cool part was when he removes half of his jaw from his face–not for the faint-hearted, but no biggie if you watch superhero movies. And like America and the rest of the West in this Obama era, the plot is dumbed down beyond the dumbing down you normally get in a Bond plot.

Bond has a scruffy goatee for about half of the movie, and it’s just not Bond-esque. James Bond is classy AND clean shaven. But not here. We’re forced to learn more of the sensitive, metrosexual man stuff, learning about what “makes Bond the way he is,” and it’s your typical Lifetime movie of the week deal in which his parents were killed when he was young. Oh, and their names were Andrew and Monique Delacroix Bond. Really? Is that what Ian Fleming wrote about? I don’t think so. Read the rest of this entry »