By Debbie Schlussel

I have a theory about heroes and heroism in America, today.  And a few heroes–most of them brave men–at Saturday’s shooting in Tucson by an anarchical nut don’t change it.

They’re “Heroes” Only in Our Hero-Inflation Age

Not only are there fewer heroes in America, today–fewer people to live up to the moment and fight and do what is called for to save life and limb–but there is tremendous hero inflation.  Barack Obama’s narcissistic pep rally in Tucson on Wednesday Night is a great example.  He’s a “hero” for delivering a speech.  And in that speech, he tells us how we have to live up to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’–“Gabby,” in Obama’s “magic healer” parlance–expectations and vision of what America should be like.

Uh, no, we don’t.  I’m sorry she was shot and that six others were murdered, and I pray for “Gabby’s” recovery.  But none of this makes her a hero or in any way requires me to “live up” (or, rather, down) to her liberal views of a porous American border and socialized medicine.  She’s just a person who got shot who happened to be an elected official.  She’s not a hero for surviving a massacre.  If she were, then I would also be worshiping James Brady because he survived getting shot . . . and every Tupac and Jawan who gets shot in the hood and survives must, by that, definition also be a hero I’m supposed to live up to.  And I would also worship every single person who ever survived anything because of the grace of G-d.  And while I have tremendous sympathy and empathy for most of them, not a single one is a hero for getting shot and living.

The heroes, Saturday, are the men (and supposedly a woman, though I think that’s trumped up for feminist political correctness’ sake–another aspect of hero inflation) who instantly risked their lives to finally foil Jared Loughner and hold him down, so that he could not shoot any more people than those he had already maimed and killed.

The thing is that, now, not only is “Gabby” a “hero” (for being shot and no other reason), but EVERYONE–or at least a pretty high number of people–in America are now “heroes.”  A new study took a sample of 4,000 adult Americans and found that 20%–that’s one in five!–were heroes.  I think that’s a bit high.

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By Debbie Schlussel

In a marked 180 from the standard Obama Islamo-pandering world view–and the Hillary Clinton parroting of it–and a marked 180 from the standard Bush/Condi Clueless Islamo-pandering view before that, Secretary of State Clinton told the Arab world, yesterday, that the U.S. is disturbed by the lack of reform in the Arab world (translation:  MUSLIM world), and that the U.S. cannot get involved in and resolve every single whine the Arab (read:  MUSLIM) world has with Israel.

I wish I could say this is “refreshing,” but it’s a tiny baby step for PR purposes, and we all know it’s not a sincere expression of Hillary’s/Obama’s true world view.  Instead, it’s a stark, if diplomatic and politically correct, way of expressing that the U.S. has given up, somewhat on constantly pressuring Israel because there’s rarely fruit in it, and that now the pressure is finally on the deserved party:  the hypocritical, extremist, repressive Muslim world. And it’s kind of delicious that she said this stuff in both a speech to the Emirs and in an interview with Al-Jazeera, the Terrorists News Network, itself. That must’ve stung the Muslims. Criticized on their own soil.

(Unfortunately, she also mentioned the Palestinian State BS again. Someday, maybe Western leaders will realize that the Muslim world is not Pavlov’s dog. They are animals, yes, but a lower form than the dog, as they won’t learn to change their behavior for a carrot or reward. They’ll just take the reward and keep doing the same thing.)

DOHA, Qatar — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that the Arab world needs to change its political systems and not expect the United States to solve all of its issues with Israel.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Islamic terrorist Underwear Bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and Anthony Chambers, the lawyer now assisting Abdulmutallab in his legal defense, have an absurd new defense to trying to blow up a plane full of people.  It’s hidden in a motion to get Abdulmutallab’s former lawyer, the execrable Miriam Siefer, to turn over his complete file to him.  Check out the statement in item #6  in the latest court filing by Abdulmutallab & Chambers. And therein, I think we’ve finally found an accurate definition of the oxymoronic phrase, “moderate Muslim”: the bomb wouldn’t have worked.

Definition of Moderate Muslim: “The Bomb Wouldn’t Have Worked!”

They claim that the bomb–if it had worked–wouldn’t have actually blown up the plane.  Abdulmutallab admits that he attempted to destroy the plane, but says that since it wouldn’t have worked, he should go free.  If this were a successful legal defense, every failed bank robber, murderer, etc. would go free, and our jails would be empty. Regardless, intent, which he admits, is the key element here–NOT whether or not the bomb was dysfunctional.

The alleged attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas day in 2009 may have been impossible, according to a new court filing in U.S. District Court in Detroit.

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By Debbie Schlussel

I don’t think I need to comment on Barack Obama’s speech, yesterday, at the Arizona Massacre Love-In, other than to say it was a shameful display in uber-egotism and hijacking of a tragedy caused by a single nut. But check out this photo, below, of Arizona peacenik moron Vera Rapcsak, who joins all of Obama’s comrades on the left in blaming the First Amendment–our most basic right–for the actions of a single crazed nutjob. Jared Loughner, as those who knew him best make clear, didn’t shoot these people at Safeway because of any alleged “hate speech” (which is the way dumb hippies, like Rapcsak, describe any thought in the center or to the right of it).

She’s apparently peace-sign-challenged, since her incongruous peace sign looks more like a swastika or a target than an actual peace sign. Or, perhaps, that’s deliberate, given what she and the other left-wing fascists are saying in their cheap blame-game tactics.  Here’s a tip, Vera:  you wasted your time.  Your silly signs–and your intent to silence the free speech of the rest of us, while you squander yours–won’t save a single life.  It won’t change–and never would have changed what happened on Saturday at Safeway.  The only thing that “= Murder” is your attempt to silence my First Amendment rights.  Oh, and by the way, the late 1960s are over.  Deal with it.

Um, the early ’70s called. They want their ugly outfit and headband back.

By Debbie Schlussel

Despite many conservatives who gushed profusely over him when he first explored running for California Governor, I never supporter Arnold Schwarzenegger and knew he’d stink as “Caulifornia’s” CEO.  And, of course, a lib Republican like him brought the state an even more horrible liberal governor like Jerry Moonbeam Brown.  But, after he exited office, Schwarzenegger reminded us once again why he should never have been governor.  This is pretty funny. Buh-bye, RINO dude. Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out. Actors and celebrities should never be governor (Ronald Reagan is the exception to the rule). Especially this actor.

(Arnold Drawing from My Wacky Packs Collection)

By Debbie Schlussel

Is it just me . . . or are you also tired of the hero-worship and strange new respect bestowed on Ted Williams, the homeless man and drug addict with a golden radio voice?  Sorry, but I don’t celebrate this man, the new (Black male) Snooki.

Ted Williams: “Golden Voice” is Moldy Choice for America’s Hero Worship

American loves its successes and loves seeing those successes torn down.  And then it likes to see them rehabbed and successful, again.  How else can you explain the fact that Donald Trump is still listened to about business of any kind?  The guy was, at one time, the world’s largest debtor.  He was among the first who was deemed “too big too fail,” and that’s the only reason he still has a cent to his name.  Creditors had so much invested in his failed real estate, hotel, and other ventures that they couldn’t afford to let him fail, which is why he was never forced to file for bankruptcy.  But he’s a (rich) failure nonetheless, with casinos he’s mismanaged and lost, etc.  His only successful venture is his absurd reality show on NBC, “The Apprentice,” in which his son and daughter–whose greatest and only real business “achievement” is coming out of the right vagina (one which was copulating with Trump)–have the chutzpah to lecture and judge actual, real business people.

So, now, we have another success-failure-success, albeit on a much smaller scale.  But I still don’t see why Ted Williams is so worthy of admiration or even happiness and pride now that he’s off the streets of Ohio.

The man–unlike many homeless and otherwise downtrodden Americans, today–was a drug addict.  He chose that life.  There’s a reason the Net is chock-full of mugshots of Williams with various cheesy hairstyles.  He led a life of crime and was repeatedly arrested.  He also was a serial baby daddy, fathering nine kids and leaving them without a father or any means of support, growing up.  The American taxpayers probably helped pay to feed and clothe them because he shirked that responsibility after wantonly spreading his seed.  He chose that, too.  And while some of his kids who’ve appeared on TV seem like they were actually better off without this slob in their lives, we know what generally happens with kids without a father:  more likely to commit crime, to do drugs, to drop out of school, to have sex and become a parent as an under-aged teen, etc.

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By Debbie Schlussel

This is probably just temporary, as HAMAS is recalcitrant and will never go away, unless its supporters/members/enablers a/k/a the Palestinians go away.  However, despite all the criticism of Israel using missiles to target HAMAS terrorists, it is working.  It’s working so much so that HAMAS is begging its various factions and splinter groups to tamp down violence and stop firing rockets at Israel (not that that will ever happen–rockets are fired on innocent Israelis every day, but you just don’t hear about it, even in the Israeli media). This isn’t a result of “going to the peace table.” It’s a result of warfare, which Israel is forced to fight every single second of every day. Ronald Reagan called it, “Peace Through Strength” (though he, himself, sadly didn’t have the guts to practice it when we ran out of Lebanon, after Palestinian and Shi’ite terrorists murdered our troops and embassy officials).

Hamas rulers of Gaza appealed to other armed Palestinian groups in the territory Tuesday to halt a recent spike in violence, fearing an all-out Israeli invasion in response.

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By Debbie Schlussel

I guess the Spaniards forgot what it was like to be Al-Andalus and under Muslim rule.  Now, the Spanish government is sponsoring ads urging consumers to boycott Israeli products. Once a dhimmi nation, always a dhimmi nation, I guess.

From PMW/Palestinian Media Watch:

Last week Palestinian Authority TV started broadcasting an ad promoting the boycott of all Israeli products. The ad is sponsored by the Spanish government, the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and AECID – the Spanish governmental humanitarian aid development.

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By Debbie Schlussel

I’ve long been a critic of the Olympic Games for many reasons.  Among them is the repeated refusal of the International Olympic Committee to memorialize the Israeli Olympic athletes who were slain in cold blood in Munich in 1972, by Palestinian Islamic terrorists–terrorists who were paid for their “efforts” by current Palestinian Authority Prez Mahmoud Abbas a/k/a Abu Mazen.  Check out the video below of me on CNN during the Olympic Games of 2002, in which I voice my disgust.  The IOC doesn’t want to offend Arabs and Muslims.  This is the world we live in.  They don’t want to offend Nazis, just like they didn’t want to offend Nazis in 1936, during the Hitler Games.  Well, the organization has never evolved from its fascist, anti-Semitic bent.  But, hey, at least they are consistent.

This week, the city of Munich–where the Israeli athletes were murdered and the incompetence of the German and Munich law enforcement authorities was a huge contributing factor (including their refusal to allow the Israelis to take control of the situation)–announced its intent to bid for another Olympic Games.  But the Olympic Games, as I’ve repeatedly noted on this site, still refuses to memorialize the Israeli athletes who gave their lives for these money-grubbing, politically correct sports bureaucrats.  It’s disgusting.

President of the Israel Olympic Committee Zvi Vashaviak said “every Olympics we request a special ceremony [for the victims] and unfortunately they don’t answer our request. Every time we ask for it to be part of the opening ceremony and they tell us that if they hold such a ceremony the 40 Muslim countries will disrupt the ceremony.”

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By Debbie Schlussel

It’s strange how someone can be so spot-on about Islam and Israel, yet so wrong and so utterly loathsome on everything else.  But, hey, you know about the broken clock’s rate of correctness:  twice a day.  Everything Bill Maher says here is sooooo predictable and such complete BS. As we all know, the shooter at the Tucson Safeway massacre, Jared Loughner, was a lot like Bill Maher–an atheist who liked to watch MSNBC and say obnoxious things–not like any of us on the conservative end of the spectrum.

Don’t forget that this is the man who wants the working man to pay upward of $5 per gallon, so we’ll use less fuel . . . while he and all of his guests ride limos to the set of his HBO show. Wouldn’t be surprised if he owns a gun, too. But, even if he doesn’t, he lives in fancy digs in La-La-land, probably even in a gated community or with security the average American could never afford.