By Debbie Schlussel

I like to collect stuff.  I collect way too much stuff, despite the fact that I don’t really have room for it (and am trying to downsize and get rid of some of it).  So, I understand those who collect coins, stamps, historical documents, etc.  What I don’t understand is those who collect and buy someone else’s sports trophies.  Why?

Kirk Gibson Winning the World Series w/ the Detroit Tigers: Why Would You Want His Trophies?

Over the weekend, an online auction of Detroit Tiger baseball great Kirk Gibson’s prized memorabilia ended.  Gibson, who auctioned the items for his charitable foundation, said he worried his stuff might one day end up destroyed by fire.  So, I guess he decided to give that worry to someone else and parted with his stuff, netting $1.2 million for the stuff. Almost all of his things put up for auction–a prized bat he used to hit a home run in Game 1 of the 1988 world series (which went for $575,912.40), his MVP plaque, his 1988 World Series players’ trophy, and his road uniform–were bought up by a father and son in California.  They paid $153,388.80 for a helmet Gibson wore hitting the World Series home run.

Can they really ever recoup what they paid?  Is it really worth that much?  During the same auction, the late Ty Cobb’s bat sold for only $75,330.  (FYI, I grew up right near Ty Cobb’s home, the one in which he lived when he played for the Tigers.)  What did they get out of it?

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By Debbie Schlussel

I always joked that post-Presidency, Bill Clinton would become a Hawaiian Tropic bikini contest judge.  The guy was made for that role.  And while I was joking, I was close.  Check out what Clinton was doing over the weekend.  No matter how awful a President George W. Bush was, I cannot imagine him lowering himself to this:

Bill Clinton . . . the former president [is] sharing screen-time with the fun-loving guys in The Hangover 2, now filming in Thailand, a Clinton source confirms to PEOPLE.

Clinton, who’ll play himself in the comedy, shot his brief appearance on Saturday in Bangkok, where part of the production takes place.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Why is the Jewish Community hosting an event (the latest of two) promoting a key supporter of the boycott on Israel? That’s a question you need to ask the Jewish Welfare Federation, now known as the United Jewish Communities, the self-appointed bureaucracy which acts as the voice and Politburo of Jewish communities across North America. And if you give to Federation, it’s a good reason to stop and never give again.

Jewish Community’s Robert Cohen Promotes Israel-Hating/Jew-Hating Muzammil Ahmed

Last week, the Detroit Jewish Federation hosted a free medical care event promoting Muslim doctor Muzammil Ahmed, a CAIR board member and the lead supporter of divestment from Israel on the University of Michigan campus when I was a student there. He led divestment from Israel protests on the center of the Michigan campus and shouted anti-Semitic slogans at Jewish students (including myself) from the top of his lungs. And now he’s on the board of an organization that raised money for HAMAS and is an unindicted co-conspirator in federal terrorism cases.

Dr. Ahmed recently wrote online asking people to condemn Israel for going into Gaza in response to repeated rocket attacks and the continued kidnapping of soldier Gilad Schalit (see above). He asked them to praise Imam Mohammed Elahi, who worked for Iran’s late Ayatollah Khomeini as the spiritual leader of his Iranian Navy. Elahi is vocally anti-Semitic and anti-Israel. He is well known as an agent of Iran and Hezbollah. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Why is the Jewish Community hosting an event (the latest of two) promoting a key supporter of the boycott on Israel?  That’s a question you need to ask the Jewish Welfare Federation, now known as the United Jewish Communities, the self-appointed bureaucracy which acts as the voice and Politburo of Jewish communities across North America.  And if you give to Federation, it’s a good reason to stop and never give again.

Jewish Community’s Robert Cohen Promotes Israel-Hating/Jew-Hating Muzammil Ahmed

Last week, the Detroit Jewish Federation hosted a free medical care event promoting Muslim doctor Muzammil Ahmed, a CAIR board member and the lead supporter of divestment from Israel on the University of Michigan campus when I was a student there.  He led divestment from Israel protests on the center of the Michigan campus and shouted anti-Semitic slogans at Jewish students (including myself) from the top of his lungs.  And now he’s on the board of an organization that raised money for HAMAS and is an unindicted co-conspirator in federal terrorism cases.

Dr. Ahmed recently wrote online asking people to condemn Israel for going into Gaza in response to repeated rocket attacks and the  continued kidnapping of soldier Gilad Schalit (see above).  He asked them to praise Imam Mohammed Elahi, who worked for Iran’s late Ayatollah Khomeini as the spiritual leader of his Iranian Navy.  Elahi is vocally anti-Semitic and anti-Israel.  He is well known as an agent of Iran and Hezbollah.

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By Debbie Schlussel

When Whoopi Goldberg–co-host of ABC’s yenta hag-fest, “The View”–walked out on Bill O’Reilly for saying Muslims perpetrated 9/11 (the wimp O’Reilly quickly apologized), her shoes were flashing on and off. I couldn’t get sharp enough video of it, but I was sure of what I saw. This overgrown child in a 55-year-old’s body was wearing shoes typically worn by a 2-year-old. Well, no worries. On Friday, “The View” hagster and defender of Mel Gibson’s and Helen tHAMAS Thomas’ anti-Semitism showed off her flashing kiddie shoes.  If you can stand it, watch this video up until 2:15. Goldberg shows the world her kiddie shoes, complete with the monkey socks of a little kid (and some stupid feather thing in her hair).

Dressing . . . & Thinking Like a 2-Year-Old (w/Apologies to 2-Year-Olds)

Yup, incredibly a middle-aged woman is proud that she dresses like a toddler. Since she acts like a bratty toddler, I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that she dresses the part. No surprise that she takes no offense when fellow airhead, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, says that’s why her young son likes Whoopi. Of course. They dress alike.

Remember these shoes and socks, the next time Goldberg defends the racism and anti-Semitism of Mel Gibson and Helen Thomas, the next time she questions whether or not we really landed on the moon, the next time she says that Roman Polanski’s rape of a drugged 13-year-old “isn’t rape-rape.”

Again, the woman who dresses like a 2-year-old thinks like one.

By Debbie Schlussel

I’m going to add to the trite saying about not judging a book by its cover.  Schlussel rule:  Don’t judge a book by its title. And I’m going to correct another belief in the worlds of publishing and writing:  not every interesting article or column is a book.  Sometimes, there’s just enough for a column or article, and anything more is ripping off readers to the tune of the cover price or whatever they paid.  Both of these are the case with, “Never Tell Our Business to Strangers: A Memoir,” by Jennifer Mascia, a New York Times copy editor.

Ms. Mascia wrote a short article in the Times about discovering her father, John Mascia, was a mafia killer, and she was encouraged to turn it into a book.  Big mistake.  Or, actually, the mistake was mine, buying the book and wasting several hours reading it.  I thought it would be an interesting, escapist read.  The title sounds cool.  The People magazine (and the source should have been a giant clue for me) review said it was a thrilling adventure into the life of a girl who discovers her parents are in the mob.  Wrong, wrong, wrong.  The only thing exciting here was the marketing, in which someone managed to sell the tale of your average American family of losers and scumbags as the life of the Sopranos.  Not even close.  The book lived up to neither its cover nor its title, except that Mascia should have listened to her mother when she told her never to tell her business to strangers, so innocent trees could have avoided being turned into this excrement.

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By Debbie Schlussel

**** UPDATE, 11/13/10, 10:10 p.m.: SCROLL DOWN FOR “Skyline” REVIEW, Just Added

“Skyline” was not screened for critics, generally a sign it isn’t good.  But you never know, and I’ll try to say it over the weekend and report back.  Here’s what I saw:

*  “Unstoppable“:  While this isn’t the greatest, most exciting action thriller ever made, it’s adequate, entertaining, and enjoyable.  It’s also predictable and decidedly anti-corporate America, with a CEO who’d rather risk people dying than ruin a multi-million dollar train (which isn’t realistic because any CEO knows he’d be in for millions more in lawsuits and bad publicity).

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By Debbie Schlussel

**** SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATE ****

I don’t know about you, but I long ago tired of the feminization of America.  Whether it’s a boy and the ACLU suing his school because he can’t wear  his breast cancer pink cleats as a member of Mississippi’s Mendenhall High’s football team; whether it’s Detroit-area police officers wearing pink for “national anti-bully day;” whether it’s the Sarah Palin family, where “Todd” is the name of the dutiful wife and men are the accessories if they even exist at all (other than as sperm donors, diaper changers, and child support payers);  or whether it’s this new book for kids, called, “My Princess Boy (A Mom’s Story About a Young Boy Who Loves to Dress Up),” the tolerance of turning America’s boys and men into pink-encrusted powder puffs, isn’t tolerance or “acceptance” at all.

It’s the absorption, the digestion of the absolutely absurd–the complete abnormal– into our definition of what is okay.  And it’s not okay.  It’s just the further defining of deviancy down that continues to afflict and destroy America.  I guarantee you that no one in Al-Qaeda is reading their kids anything resembling, “My Princess Boy.”  It’s a book now being pushed on America’s kids by People magazine and the hags of “The View.”  Cheryl Kilodavis wrote the book to help promote the “acceptance” among America’s kids of her 5-year-old son’s penchant for dressing up in sequined dresses, pink high-heeled shoes, yellow frills, tutus, and other girls’ and womens’ clothes.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Remember the Muslim Turkish government-produced “film,” “Kurtlar Vadisi – Irak?”  The movie starred scumbag Gary Busey as a Jewish-American Army doctor, who illegally, forcibly harvested Iraqi Muslims’ organs (killing the Muslims) to give them to Orthodox Jews in Israel, London, and New York.  It was absolute baloney–modern-day, high-tech blood libels against American Jews, including Jewish U.S. Army docs like my late father.  (And it was produced by Hillary Clinton fundraiser, Mehmet Celebi.)

Well, now we see who the real organ harvesters, the real illegal organ traffickers are, and here’s a slight hint:  THEY. WORSHIP. MOHAMMED.

PRISTINA, Kosovo — At least seven people, including a former senior health ministry official, are suspected of involvement in an international network that falsely promised poor people payment for their kidneys and then sold the organs for as much as euro100,000 ($137,000), according to an indictment . . . .

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By Debbie Schlussel

It was bad enough when U.S. taxpayers bailed out General Motors and were forced to put the Obama administration in charge of the American auto giant.  What’s even more disturbing is that after U.S. taxpayers bailed it out and built it back up, the government of Kuwait may soon own a large chunk.  In other words, the U.S. taxpayers were forced to “invest” in GM but Kuwait–and several other intolerant, bigoted Muslim nations–will get the return on investment. And don’t forget how American creditors of GM were forced by the Obamaniacs to “take a haircut” on what was owed to them.

Now Muslim nations get to reap the rewards. Apparently, GM approached Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Abu Dhabi about investing in the initial public offering.   The Saudi company which may take part is owned and run by the anti-Semitic, homicide-bomber-telethon donor (and FOX News owner) Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal.  Nauseating:

The Kuwait Investment Authority, Kuwait’s sovereign wealth fund, may participate in General Motors Co’s planned initial public offering if it is feasible for the fund, its managing director said Saturday.

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