By Debbie Schlussel

I used to call the Simon Wiesenthal Center, “the Rabbi Marvin Hier Retirement Annuity.”  But, now, a more apt name should be “Jew-Haters & Nazi Lovers Buy Absolution Club.”  The latest Israel-hater and Islamic terrorism lover to be embraced by the Wiesenthal Center is Ben Kingsley, an open supporter of Palestinian terrorism and frequent critic of Israel’s legitimate security mechanisms.  More about him, below.

Courageous Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal’s Name Being Used to Legitimize Islamo-Sympatizer Ben Kingsley

The late Simon Wiesenthal was a courageous man who sacrificed much to chase and bring Nazis to justice when it wasn’t hip and no one cared.  But Hier and his self-perpetuating bureaucracy are embracing Jew-hating and Nazi-embracing scum in exchange for money and big names.   And Wiesenthal is probably turning over in his grave.

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By Debbie Schlussel

This might be a higher-tech case of “video killed the radio star.”  But, whether the Internet is to blame or not, I lament this story–if true–about the death of stamp collecting among American kids.  As a kid, my dad got me interested in stamp collecting a/k/a philately.  I still have my stamp collection, even if I damaged some of the stamps and most of them aren’t worth so much.  They were fun and beautiful to look at, and they helped my father give me a background on the historical figures, events, and cultural phenomena depicted on them.  They were a great educational tool.  And the “First Day of Issue” special envelopes were cool, too.  Plus, my father got me books on stamps and coins from Israel and enrolled the two of us in the Biblical Numismatic Society.

I’ll bet numismatics (coin collecting) is probably not as dead, due to the heightened value of many gold and silver coins.  But collecting American stamps and coins, with my father’s active encouragement, taught me a great appreciation for America, our founding fathers, our great inventors and entrepreneurs, etc.  And many of the stamps overlapped with our pop cultures loves:  Frank Sinatra, comic books, etc.  The Israeli coins and stamps depicted centuries of Jewish history and events in Israel, none of which had anything to do with the politically correct group of invaders now called, “the Palestinians.”

Stamps also helped develop my pride in being an American. You can send e-mail anywhere in the world. There are no national borders (except maybe when you send to some Muslim and communist nations, who block you). There is no nation-specific currency or postage to send e-mail messages. America had its own, unique stamps, which were emulated and collected all around the world. It was a big deal to get “stamphood,” which in my view was more prestigious than knighthood (heck, Tom Jones and Paul McCartney got that). The stamps exuded a brash, unapologetic pride in the great things, people, and happenings that are uniquely American. Maybe the death of stamp collecting correlates with the lessening of pride and patriotism in America and the rise of apologism against it, in our younger generations.

Modern day kids will lose out on all of that–on all of the stimulation of curiosity and learning that I got through stamps (and coins).  It’s yet another aspect of the dumbing down of America and its escalation with each generation . . . and each generation of technology, from dumb videos on MTV in the ’80s to obnoxious reality shows that began in the ’90s, to texting and Facebook today.  None of these will replace what I got from collecting stamps.

The advent of self-adhesive sticker stamps, mass production (neither of these are mentioned in the story, but I know they are two of the reasons), and e-mail all contributed to the aging demographic of stamp collectors and the lack of interest among younger generations.  I’d bet the dumbing down of who and what is depicted on U.S. postal stamps probably contributed, too, though that’s not mentioned in the story.  Ditto for the fact that the U.S. Postal Service allowed you to go online and make your own stamps, putting any pictures you wanted on them.  That makes it all too commonplace and devalued stamps, in my view. (So did “Forever Stamps,” but I like those.)

And with today’s premium placed on sex and violence, I guess stamp collecting is considered too geeky and unhip. You won’t be able to keep track of which sperm donor the Kardashian skankubines are sleeping with this week. It won’t clue you in on what the Jersey Shore morons are doing. And the day any of these glorified nothings are on a U.S. Postal stamp is truly a sad day . . . a day I fear might be coming soon because it’s probably the only thing that will get the interest of the young ignoramuses populating America.

The public’s growing fascination with wireless devices and sports could spell the end of stamp collecting, a hobby noted for its slow pace. . . .

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By Debbie Schlussel

I’ve said it many times over the years:  when a Muslim gets a paper-cut or blows his/her nose, it’s not only mainstream media news, but an example of “Islamophobia.”  Is there nothing that doesn’t outrage Muslims?  No.  Everything is a source of hyper-sensitivity for Muslims.  Everything.  Even the utterance of the word, “ham,” in front of a Muslim student. A teacher, Jose Reyes, in Trevelez, Granada, Spain, has been criminally charged because he dared utter the word in his classroom, in front of a Muslim student, named Larby.

For the record, readers know that I keep kosher and don’t eat ham (yes, Muslims ripped halal off from the Jewish kosher dietary laws, just like everything else in Islam is ripped off).  But I don’t get all excited when someone says the words, “ham,” or “bacon,” or “pig,” or “pork.”  I utter those words, myself. 
Anyone who can’t handle these words really needs to be locked up in a padded cell, not pandered to.  Incredibly, though, in Spain, a teacher, Jose Reyes–who told the student he must adopt to the other 29 in the class, and not the 29 to this one Muslim kid–is now being investigated by Interpol!  My response might be “un-frickin’-believable.” But, sadly, it is believable because we’re now at that point. . . the point of the ridiculous in pandering to Islam. Witness the continual death of the West in this video:

Next time you hear the phony, hackneyed narrative about Islamic tolerance or tolerance for Islam, remember that these people can’t even tolerate hearing the word, “ham.” That’s Islamic tolerance, as in . . . there isn’t any. It’s a myth. Hogwash. Oops, hogs. I uttered another word offensive to Muslims. Quick, call Interpol!

By Debbie Schlussel

First, Barack Obama told us there are 57 states in the Union.  Now, Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano says there are 364 days in a year.  It’s not just Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who are snickering at their utterly ignorant boss, it’s their young kids.

Yesterday, an ICE agent’s young child was watching ABC “World News Tonight” with his dad, and saw this video below.  The agent told me his child asked, “Dad, isn’t that your boss on TV?  Doesn’t she know there are 365 days in a year?” ICE is Homeland Security’s largest and most prominent agency, and as I’ve told you before, ICE agents are mostly demoralized and have no confidence in Napolitano. That she doesn’t know basic stuff that a young kid knows–like how many days there are in a year–just adds to it. The woman is a moron.

Says the embarrassed agent:

I have to report to someone who doesn’t know how many F-ING days are in a year. In the words of Charlie Brown, we’re doomed.

On the other hand, maybe there is one day when Islamic terrorists and other illegal aliens and weapons smugglers can do as they wish. Maybe there’s one day when her agents and employees aren’t on duty 24/7. But some would argue that’s actually the case 364, er . . . 365 days a year, due to her horrid, um, “leadership.”

Artwork by David Lunde/Lundesigns

By Debbie Schlussel

Since it’s Christmas-time, you’d think that local businesses and charities–especially the ones you forcibly fund through your tax dollars–would be sending Santa to give toys to poor kids who might otherwise not have anything for Christmas.  But you’d be wrong.  A national bank and a charity funded by your federal and state tax dollars sent Santa to give toys to devout Muslim kids in Dearbornistan, many of them illegal aliens or the anchor babies of devout Muslims. And it’s nothing more than a PR stunt, funded by you and your dhimmi bank–propaganda to claim that because Muslim kids in headscarves grab free toys from a guy dressed as Santa, they are somehow moderate and respecting of Christianity. Bull dung!

I’ve told you much about ACCESS–the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services–over the years.  With millions of dollars from the federal and Michigan governments and the United Way, it’s the Muslim-dominated Arab welfare agency that gave Islamic terrorists “job training” in how to get commercial driver’s licenses and hazardous materials hauling certificates.  ACCESS has been active in getting Muslim illegal aliens into the country and teaching them how to soak the system.  And ACCESS, which opposed laws making it illegal to donate to HAMAS and Hezbollah, helped pregnant Muslim aliens get phony Social Security numbers and defraud Medicaid, getting their kids U.S. citizenship and tax-paid delivery in one fell swoop.

Now, this organization, ACCESS–which you are funding–and Comerica Bank are providing kids who don’t even celebrate Christmas and whose parents mostly hate Christians and Christianity with Christmas toys.  As you’ll note, these kids attend Salina Elementary School, which “educates” mostly Muslim students who live on the South end of Dearborn.  Many of these kids’ parents are illegal alien devout Muslims from Yemen–Yay, Anwar Al-Awlaki/UndieBomber/Fort Hood Massacre Land!–and many of the kids are either illegal aliens or illegal alien anchor babies.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Reader and friend Mary sends this link to the world’s wackiest gingerbread houses.  The only one I really like–because it reminds me of a ton of houses I see driving through Detroit–is this one, below.  I can’t post the whole picture because of some of the graffiti, but you can go to the link and see the whole thing.

By Debbie Schlussel

By now, you’ve likely heard about the Muslim Arab stabbing of an American tourist in Israel, while she was hiking in the Jerusalem forest near the border of the so-called West Bank.  It’s tragic, and I pray for the family of Kristine Luken, who was murdered for daring to listen to Muslim Arabs “requesting water.”   She is the latest American victim of Islamic terrorism.  As you may also know, her friend, Kay Susan Wilson–a British immigrant to Israel–survived the terrorist attack by playing dead.  But, it’s important to note, that Wilson was wearing a Jewish star around her neck, which the murderous Islamic terrorists saw and pulled on.

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Kristine Luken, RIP: Latest American Murdered By Islam

Luken was a Christian missionary. (I do not know if Wilson was also one. She may be Jewish.)  Luken was one of those who did not heed the call of the anti-Semites and scumbags of the world, and voted with her pocketbook and her feet in visiting Israel.  And she didn’t die in vain, as she, hopefully, taught the world some important lessons:

*  There is no difference between the Islamic killers in the Israeli woods and the Muslims in the United States and the rest of the Western world.

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By Debbie Schlussel

As frequent readers know, I’m a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society.  Every major city has a film critics group, comprised of all the mainstream print and broadcast media movie critics, and they all vote and announce their choices for best film, best actor, etc., at the end of each year.  The studios hold a special day of screenings for us, and we are sent a ton of DVD screeners to view as well.  The Detroit Film Critics announced our choices, Friday, and I agreed with like two of them, which is a record for me in the three years I’ve been in it.

Below are my nominations, the final nominees, and then, the winners.  I’ve put in bold a link to each of my reviews of the movies in question, the first time each movie is mentioned.  There are a couple of movies, “The King’s Speech” and “True Grit,” for which I’m not allowed to post my review until they debut, this coming week (stay tuned), but since I nominated and voted for them, you do the math.  Many of you correctly guessed that I liked “The King’s Speech.”  I guess I’m either becoming predictable  . . . or I’m (hopefully) consistent and stable (or all of these).

I will be posting a separate list of my top ten best movies of the year in the next week or so, but our rules and constraints for this list are different.  In this case, we could nominate and/or vote for 1-5 choices, with the number 1 choice being worth the most (5 points) and the number 5 choice being worth the least (1 point).  So, here’s what I picked as a DFCS critic . . .

MY NOMINATIONS:

BEST FILM [Note that I’ve changed my mind on the order of these since the time that I submitted these nominations, but I still choose “The King’s Speech” as my #1 pick.  Like I said, you’ll see my full list of the year’s best flicks, later this week.]
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By Debbie Schlussel

The best two new movies, this weekend are “Tron:  Legacy” and “The Fighter.”  I did not see “Yogi Bear,” because it was screened at the same time as the “Tron” flick.

*  “Tron:  Legacy“:  This is THE MOST VISUALLY STUNNING MOVIE I’ve ever seen in my life.  I braved the worst Michigan storm weather and driving (and spent an hour getting to the theater) to see this.  That’s because I pride myself on delivering you the big-screen goods . . . and I’m a Tron-o-phile.

In this 3D sequel/reboot of the first “Tron” movie from 1982, the story is lackluster and slightly confusing, but the visuals, costuming, and soundtrack are phenomenal.  The movie went on a little long, at just over 2 hours.  But, oh, the eye candy.  It’s kind of like “Bladerunner” for kids.  So cool.  Lots of fighting, lots of action, and lots of high-tech cyber-motorcycle and fighter plane stuff.  I saw it on IMAX.  And, as I always say, once you go IMAX, you never go bax.  (In IMAX, it was very loud, and I wore industrial-strength air plugs for a good deal of the movie.)  Plus, the movie features a few scenes with my childhood crush, Bruce Boxleitner–the original Tron, who, even now at age 60, still has those movie star looks.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Hey, maybe John Mor(t)on and Suzie “Stripper Pole” Barr–the two dolts running Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)–can make Aerosmith’s “Dude Looks Like a Lady” the agency’s official song.

ICE: We Turn “Undocumented Workers” Into RuPaul

Because there’s such an excess of money for the federal government to waste and nothing to spend it on, why not pay for illegal aliens to get the same ugliness Chastity, er . . .  Chaz Bono has, right? Moron and Stripper Pole Suzie’s ICE prescribed a “transgendered” illegal alien, Jose a/k/a “Krystal,” sex hormones, including Premarin. Incredible.

Jose Centeno is proof. He just became a U.S. citizen, but in 2009, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detained him after investigating his immigration status and visa because of a previous felony drug conviction. ICE prescribed him sex hormones while he was locked up, because Centeno said it was medically necessary.

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