By Debbie Schlussel

Tonight at sundown, the Jewish holiday of Sukkot begins (and ends next week–it lasts seven days). I have a few newsworthy things I’ve written in advance, which will be posted during my absence on Thursday and Friday, and some more stuff I’ll put up, today. Also, my movie reviews will–G-d-willing–be posted on Friday, in my absence.

Although these Jewish holidays are killing me, I love celebrating them, and this one is one of my favorites.  Here’s some information about Sukkot, from a previous post:

Sukkot (also called Sukkos, Succos, or Succot) is called Tabernacles in English. It is one of the three Jewish harvest festival holidays, and we commemorate the Jews’ temporary existence (and temporary dwellings), while wandering in the Sinai desert [and subject to the will of G-d and the weather conditions imposed by Him].

Various Versions of Sukkahs/Sukkot

To do so, Jews build temporary huts (called “Sukkot” for plural) outside their homes. They decorate the Sukkah (singular of the word) and eat all meals there during the holiday. (My father used to sleep in it, too.) It is very fun for kids because they help decorate the sukkah, and also visit other Sukkot in the neighborhood, eating candy and other treats there, sort of like on Halloween (but no tricks or treats, and it’s way more spiritual).

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By Debbie Schlussel

Longtime readers know I’m not a fan of cheesy alcoholic, David Hasselhoff (and who is, unless you’re gay or live in Germany?), who blamed his crying at the “American Idol” finals on the Iraq War and the Bush White House, then went to “Palestine” and Dubai/United Arab Emirates, where he made videos, bragging about how great Muslims are and how misinformed we Baywatching Americans are for actually being down on Islam (‘cuz it was actually the Wiccans who murdered 3,000 Americans on 9/11 and tried to do it again in Times Square, Fort Hood, and with underwear on a plane, etc., right?).

And I loathe reality shows, including “Dancing With the Stars.”  However, it is a great sense of schadenfreude for me that “The Hoff” was the first one voted off the ABC dance show, last night . . . being beaten even by a 19-year-old chick named Bristol (whose only “Starriness” is having sex and becoming a single mom like many teen chicks named Lakisha and ShaQuanDa).  Gotta watch this hilarious video–the HILARIOUS part beginning at 57 seconds in–to continue to schadenfreude.

Buh-bye Baywatch IslamoPimp.

Bonus Video:

By Debbie Schlussel

A few weeks ago, KFC–the politically correct moniker now used by Kentucky Fried Chicken–decried the dying image of “Colonel” Sanders, also known as Harlan Sanders, the late, white-haired, goateed founder of the fast-food restaurant chain.  The company whined that surveys show most younger consumers, aged 18-25 couldn’t identify Sanders and those who can think he’s a made up character.  Worse, the company’s same store sales have fallen. So, how is KFC remedying these problems?

By paying college-aged girls to slap ads (which include Sanders’ image) on their asses.  Real classy.

KFC wants folks to watch its backside. Or, more precisely, the backsides of female college students it’s recruiting to promote its hot new bunless Double Down sandwiches.

Women on college campuses are being paid $500 each to hand out coupons while wearing fitted sweatpants with “Double Down” in large letters across their rear ends. . . .

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By Debbie Schlussel

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If you are outraged by Sean Penn’s consistently anti-American, pan-Marxist, pro-Iran behavior, you should be even more outraged by his latest movie role.  It’s textbook Vanessa Redgrave.

Holocaust Hypocrite: Pal of Holocaust Deniers, Sean Penn, Stars in Holocaust Movie

You may remember that in the late 1970s, Al-Qaeda supporter Vanessa Redgrave, to the protests of Holocaust survivors (including the one she played) and Jews worldwide, played a Holocaust victim in “Playing for Time.”  Jews were outraged because the anti-Israel Redgrave was a supporter of P.L.O. terrorism, hung out with Yasser Arafat, and compared Israel to the Nazis.  Today, that’s “old hat,” while still very outrageous.  But in those days, she was among the Western “pioneers” of this disgusting comparison.  Upon winning the Academy Award for another role (in “Julia”), Redgrave called Jews and Israel-supporters, “Zionist hoodlums.”  And, as you may recall from my previous postings of the video, the late, great writer, Paddy Chayefsky (a Jew and a WWII veteran) aptly told her where to go, live on the air.  (I’m not posting the video, this time, because YouTube removed all versions containing the Chayefsky response and only the versions with Redgrave’s unanswered BS remain online.)

Well, now, Sean Penn is in my home state of Michigan, taking advantage of the wasteful tax incentive (filmmakers pay no Michigan tax and get a 42% rebate on all stuff done in Michigan), and he is shooting “This Must Be the Place.”  The movie is the story of a retired, wealthy rock star, who is the son of a Holocaust survivor and tries to track down the Nazi who tormented his father in Auschwitz.  Check out his effeminate get-up for the movie, pictured above. Michigan doubles for the upstate New York setting of the film.  What’s particularly outrageous is that Sean Penn has repeatedly hung out with Holocaust-denying Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  He even traveled to Iran to cover one of its fake elections, lecturing Iranian college students about how bad America–which has made him millions and where he still lives–is.  And, of course, there are Penn’s repeated confabs in Venezuela with Ahmadinejad-enabler and Hezbollah-shelterer Hugo Chavez.

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By Debbie Schlussel

As you may be aware, Indiana Republican Congressman Mike Pence trounced so-called conservatives like Sarah Palin in a Presidential straw poll at the Value Voter conference, over the weekend.  While that doesn’t mean he has a shot at getting the Republican nomination (these straw polls are usually meaningless), it’s something.  And it’s heartening for people like me who don’t see any other real conservatives in the mix for 2012 who excite us.  I like Pence, and he is someone I’d happily support.

Mike Pence is principled, unlike so many on the right who went along with most of the bloated Bush program for eight years.  He led the unsuccessful opposition to Bush’s elephantine Medicare bill, which cost us trillions.  Pence doesn’t come off as a phony, but, rather, as a down-the-line social and fiscal conservative, as well as saying the right things on foreign policy, including on Israel.

And, unlike Palinmessiah, he actually can utter a complete sentence, several of them in a row, and knows what he’s talking about without hiring a gazillion foreign and domestic policy consultants to tell him what’s going on in the country and the world (Palin spent most of her hundreds of thousands of dollars from SarahPAC for that, and spent the remainder mostly on nutcase, Gitmo-opponent, and Iran-fan Rand Paul).

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By Debbie Schlussel

I’ve written about Arab convenience store and gas station owners stealing winning lottery tickets from customers, before.  Most of them are Muslim, though some are Christian Arabs.  Third World values of ripping off “dumb American infidels” die hard.  And, as many state and federal law enforcement officials have told me for years, a good deal of the winnings is suspected of going to Islamic terrorist groups “back home,” in addition to lining the store owners’ pockets. If they can find a way to rip off non-Muslims and make extra money to finance terrorism, it’s what they do. It’s called “halal money.” And it’s one of the many reasons I’ve given you for not patronizing Muslim-owned businesses (read my tips for deciphering which business are owned by Muslims).

Muslim Store Owners Ripped Off Many Lottery Winners, Including Milledge McCassell

Here’s the latest of many, many more such scams to come–another reason NOT to buy a lottery ticket (from a Muslim), this one in Jamaica, New York.  In many cases, as in this one, the lottery winners ripped off by the Muslims are Black.  There is tremendous racism in the Arabic and Islamic worlds, and they feel extra-empowered to take advantage of Black people.

The deli clerk who tried to swindle a grandfather out of a $14 million lottery ticket was the shopowner’s son – and he claims it was all a mistake, a source familiar with the case said Saturday.

“‘It was just an accident! It was just an accident!'” clerk Salem Al Saidi, 18, told investigators, according to the source.

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By Debbie Schlussel

I did not see “Alpha and Omega,” and “Devil” was not screened for critics, usually a sign it’s a bomb.  Here’s what I did see:

*  “The Town“:  I hate to say I really liked this movie, since I loathe its director, co-writer, and star, uber-leftist egomaniac Ben Affleck.  But it was good, despite his crummy acting.  That’s because he had a stellar cast including the very smokin’ hot (and also annoyingly uber-liberal) Jon Hamm, as an FBI agent on the trail of Affleck’s gang of Charlestown-based Irish bank robber thugs.  (Charlestown is the underclass White, bad neighborhood of Boston.)  But the movie was pretty good, except for the ending which departs from the book from which it is taken, in which all the bad guys get theirs in the end.  Not so here, and it irked me.  Also irksome was that the audience I saw it with was rooting for the bad guy violent thugs and against the cops, a phenomenon I’ve seen a lot of, recently.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Tonight, the Jewish fast day of Yom Kippur begins (and ends on Saturday Night). It’s a day of atonement for our sins and a day full of prayer to G-d*, asking for forgiveness and a good year. (I’ll try to post my movie reviews before it starts, so stay tuned.)

Israeli Soldiers & Other Jews Praying @ Israel’s Kotel (Western Wall)

Yom Kippur is one of the holiest Jewish holidays, at the end of which we believe our fate for the next year is “sealed” by G-d. We believe that on Rosh HaShanah, that fate is written by Him, and on Yom Kippur, he issues his final Judgment. This is Judgment Day.

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By Debbie Schlussel

I’m having a good laugh at the jaw-dropping hypocrisy of Sarah Palin, many of her Tea Party followers, and all of the conservative pundits who are now lecturing us on how it’s better to support a real conservative than a Republican who is electable and a likely vote with the GOP in the U.S. Senate.

While that’s always been my philosophy, it hasn’t been theirs in any other races. In fact, they supported establishment GOP candidates and betrayed real conservatives in most other races. For example, when I called out Sarah Palin for endorsing Jesse Jackson-friend, Islam fan, and Iran-enabling, previous Barbara Boxer donor, Carly Fiorina for the Republican nomination for California’s U.S. Senate seat, I was attacked at by screeching Palinistas, most of them Tea Party fans, who told me “Chuck DeVore didn’t have a chance,” and “Sarah Palin went with the Republican who was electable.”  The same thing happened on Tuesday, when–as I’ve pointed out–Palin and many of her Tea Party followers supported illegal alien-enabler Kelly Ayotte against Ovide LaMontagne for New Hampshire’s Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, the same thing happened.  Ayotte was the “electable” Republican establishment candidate.  If you believed in the anti-establishment, pro-conservative reasons given for supporting Christine O’Donnell against Mike Castle in Delaware, you should have also embraced those with DeVore and LaMontagne.  If you didn’t, you’re a hypocrite.

Apparently, if true conservatives don’t have vaginas (and, as far as I know, DeVore and LaMontagne don’t), they don’t count when it comes to Sarah Palin’s faux anti-establishment, “real conservative” endorsements.  In the 1970’s they called people with that kind of attitude a “chauvinist pig.”  And, make no mistake, that’s exactly what Sarah Palin is, nothing more, with her “mama grizzlies” BS.

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By Debbie Schlussel

One of my coolest friends from college–a handsome former pro athlete and very funny guy–is a parent of kids who attended Wellesley Middle School, the school that made kids pray as Muslims on a trip to a mosque, the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, in May.  We spoke yesterday, and he sent me this BS “apology” letter that was sent to parents by the Wellesley Public Schools Superintendent Bella Wong.  This guy, my friend, is the ideal of “Mr. All-American,” and needless to say, he’s not too happy about this very UN-American incident, as is the case with most sane parents.

But as I always say–and have been saying for more than a decade, there is only a separation of Church and State in America, NOT Mosque and State.  In the case of Islam, anything goes.  In fact, if parents had not taken and posted video of this, the half-assed apology letter  would never have happened.  And that’s the point.  The teachers, the principal, and the school district knew better and would NEVER have allowed–let alone forced–students to pray as Christians, reciting their allegiance to Jesus in a church, or as Jews in a synagogue.  It would never have gotten this far.  But teachers, principals, school districts, law enforcement, government, and other authorities in America all bend over backward–and forward–for Islam.  And that’s the larger problem here, a problem I’ve been writing about since well before 9/11.

And if the teachers claim they didn’t know better, they are far too stupid to be teaching children.  Watch the video, and read the letter linked above.  These kids are BEING PROSELYTIZED and propagandized for ISLAM.  I repeat:  they knew better, knew it was wrong to make kids do this, and they’d never do it at a church or synagogue.  But for Islam, anything goes.  If it were 1940, would they have these kids practice a “Sig Heil” salute to Hitler and the Reich?  Same difference.  Except the teachers were smarter in those days, they actually taught instead of taking kids on mindless, useless multi-cultural field trips, and they (most of them) actually were patriotic to America.  None of that is the case, today.

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