By Debbie Schlussel

As you know, it’s St. Patrick’s Day.  I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again.  The legend is that Patrick was sainted for chasing all the snakes out of Ireland.  But the reality is that, instead, Ireland is filled with extremist Muslims.  Here are the details I’ve written about in years past.  Note the old Irish joke I used to tell about Palestinian terrorists in Ireland, which has, sadly, now become reality.

Kiss Me, I’m Irish

Everyone’s Irish on St. Paddy’s Day

But St. Patrick’s Day gives another lesson in politics, this one not about Islam (yet), but about the nanny City of Detroit.  Every year, Irish-Americans and others in the Detroit area participate in a St. Patrick’s Day parade in the Corktown area, which used to be an Irish Catholic working-class neighborhood in Detroit.  The parade draws up to 100,000 people. This year’s parade was held Sunday.  But Big Brother stepped in to take away a lot of the fun:

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By Debbie Schlussel

Yet another Black actress is crying “racism” against Hollywood.  While I’m no defender of Hollywood, the cries of racism are growing a little tired, especially when this actress got major roles in last year’s two biggest movies . . . because she’s Black.

Zoe Saldana: Successful Actress Cries Hollywood “Racism”

Actress Zoe Saldana was cast in major roles in both “Avatar” (read my review)–last year’s biggest movie and the biggest of all time in terms of box office total–and “Star Trek” (read my review), the remake starring Chris Pine.  These are both movies in which any White actress/waitress would die to get a role as an extra.  And she had major roles in both, but yet still cries racism in the April 2010 issue of Glamour Magazine (on the cover of which she’d likely never appear . . . if she wasn’t Black).

Ethnic is a word that doesn’t exist in my vocabulary. In Hollywood, you hear things like, “Oh, they loved you but they want to go more traditional.” That’s the new N word.

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By Debbie Schlussel

You can thank Barack Obama and Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton for starting violent Muslim riots in Israel.  Alhamdillullah [Praise allah]. Palestinians are calling it the “Third Intifada” [Intifada means “uprising”]. And HAMAS is capitalizing on it. Yup, Obama/Biden/Clinton is the new inspiration for HAMAS (and Fatah) violence.

Blame Them . . .

. . . For This

The Third Intifada Brought to You By Barack, Joe & Hillary

These three stooges are personally responsible for the molotov cocktails being thrown, tires and garbage bins set ablaze and the heaviest clashes in months in Israel.  They lit the fire for this “Day of Rage” that will likely now turn into dayS of rage. They used as their faux-excuse the re-dedication of the Hurva Synagogue, which has been in Jerusalem since the 1860s and which was desecrated by Jordanian Muslims in 1948, after Israel became a state. We’re not even talking new homes, here. I guess it’s now a crime to refurbish a synagogue that’s been around for 150 years. But that’s the Palestinian way, and the synagogue is merely the pretext for a riot in conjunction with the Obama-Biden-Clinton “moral outrage.”

The Palestinians can’t be caught being “out-Palestinianed” by these three Evil Westerners from the Great Satan ally of the Evil Zionist Empire.  So, they had to take appropriate action.  Anyone who didn’t predict this simply doesn’t understand Arab pride and the ethos on the Arab street. And, now, we have explosives and rock throwing, violent protests, etc.  breaking out all over Jerusalem and other parts of Israel. The only good thing to come out of this is that Obama’s partisan Middle East Envoy, George Mitchell–an Arab who is very anti-Israel–has canceled his trip to pressure Israel. So sad, too bad.

It started out as a normal, regular announcement of new construction of homes in Israel . . . inside the Green Line.  It’s unremarkable, something that happens every day in Israel, just as it happens every day in most developed, Western countries around the world. And definitely not the outrage the Obamaniks wrought over it. Not even close.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Major job losses continue throughout America and a tough economy endures.  Companies continue to walk away and ship jobs elsewhere.  Unemployment in places like Michigan is up to 16% but in real unemployment it’s more like upwards of 20%, when you count those who are not looking anymore and have given up.  And the associated problems of lack of spending and, therefore, loss of more jobs.

Barack Takes Important Step to Save America

So, how does President Barack Obama address this?  Well, he takes the most important step in creating jobs and opportunity in America.  And that’s the real March Madness:

The Hoopster-in-Chief chose Kansas, Kentucky, Kansas State and Villanova to make the men’s Final Four.

And as I noted, this star-struck, look-at-me-I’m-Prez cretin did the same thing, last year. And just like, last year, he made a big deal of spending time with ESPN to make his picks and present them in a special video, today. Maybe one day, he’ll make the American people his pick. Wishful thinking.

Oh, and in case, he didn’t waste enough time on this trivial matter, Obama also made his picks in the most irrelevant sporting event out there, the womens’ NCAA basketball tournament.

Priorities, shmiorities. We know he’s not serious. And, in case we needed more proof (we didn’t), this is it.

By Debbie Schlussel

If your daughter is a Girl Scout, you might hear about how horrible you are for serving meat for dinner. You see, meat is one of the new enemies of the Girl Scouts’ green zealotry. Ditto for toilets that only need to be flushed once.

As a kid, I was a Brownie and then a Girl Scout.  But our troop–which was made up of the girls in my class at a private Jewish school and was headed by my mom and her friend–wasn’t political.  We baked stuff, learned how to tie knots and build tents, and we visited sick people in hospitals and old people in nursing homes who had nobody else to visit them.

Sadly, as I’ve noted several times in the past, the Girl Scouts is no longer what it used to be . . . and not in a good way.  In the recent past, Girl Scout badges are given out to scouts when they “master” the feminist view that men and marriage are bad and learn how to live as a single mother.  In addition, the Girl Scouts have embraced goths and worked with Planned Parenthood to “educate” Girl Scouts about abortion and condoms (and sleeping around). I guess that’s consistent with the single motherhood badge.

Now, the Girl Scouts are embracing the global warming, climate change, and green baloney.  Not only that, but the organization is making the green junk science a central Girl Scouts theme in conjunction with the organization’s 100th anniversary in 2012.  It’s a desperate, politically correct attempt to stem the hemorrhaging of the no longer hip organization that is nearly dead and definitely brain-dead in the age of Facebook, Twitter, and texting. It won’t work.

Although the organization has always strived to create stewards of nature, today, Girls Scouts of the USA is stepping up its “green” efforts as it prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversary in March 2012.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Many times over the years I’ve written about the right of Jews to live (and buy property, if they don’t already own it, and build homes) anywhere in the world we want.  That includes when the Bush Administration was making the same noxious statements as the Obamaniks are now making about apartments and homes for Jews in the eternal Jewish capital of Jerusalem, the City of David.  My sentiments haven’t changed, though I think it’s interesting that many on the right said nothing when Condi Clueless and Colin Powell and other Bushies were pressuring Israel on this issue, and yet they’re yelling from the rooftops now that it’s Obama. I’ve already criticized Obama on this issue, several times.  And I’ve written, “Whose Jerusalem?” which has everything you need to know about the faux-history and apocryphal claims of the Muslims to Jerusalem.

“Jews Not Wanted Here”

Clearly, I find the Obama statements and actions on the 1600 Jewish apartments scheduled to be built in Israel to be loathsome–especially the hypocritical comments of Hillary Clinton who carpet-bagged from suburban Chicago to Arkansas and then to suburban New York.  She can move and build and run for Senator from wherever she wants.  And yet Jews aren’t allowed to do the same from where they’ve ALWAYS lived . . . for thousands of years?!  Hellooo . . . .? And FYI, those 1600 homes are to be built in a section of Jerusalem that is inside the Green Zone and was never going to be part of any planned, execrable “Palestinian State.”

Our friend, There Is No Santa Claus,has a great column–which is short but sweet, and very sharp–on this issue.  Here’s an excerpt:

Why is it that I can’t build a house in Jerusalem? I’m Jewish! Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish People.

Nobody questioned whether a black man could move into the White House, the capital of the United States. Certainly not Jewish-Americans, 77% of whom voted for Barack O’Bama to be our President.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Last week, Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens–who previously gushed over an extremist imam and other Hezbollah-supporting “protesters” in Iran–declared that Iraqis “embrace” democracy more than we Westerners do because they desire freedom more.  With their choice of the decidedly un-free Koran and Islamic law as the basis for their laws, Christians being unable to survive there (a Chaldean bishop was kidnapped and murdered by these, um, “democracy lovers”), and the fact that women of all sorts must now wear a hijab and can’t wear short sleeves in public, Stephens’ definition of freedom must be different than how the rest of us define it.

Despite Bret Stephens’ Fantasy, Iraq’s Faux-Democracy is For Muslims Only

But even these facts aside, in Stephens’ rush to declare Shi’ite Muslims who now run Iraq as the greatest Patrick Henrys and Jeffersonian thinkers ever, Stephens missed a few facts.  First, there’s that tiny little detail he apparently forgot:  that Shi’ites running the elections continued to try and were somewhat successful in forcing out many Sunni candidates and parties from the elections.  Perhaps he missed even his own newspaper’s coverage of this inconvenient fact.

And then there’s this news we learned over the weekend:  that the Shi’ites in Iraq decided to throw out 30% of the ballots cast by mostly Christian (and some Sunni) Iraqis living in the United States–who can’t live in their once native land or that of their parents (the elections allow the kids of at least one Iraqi parent to vote).

About 30% of ballots submitted by Iraqi-Americans are being rejected in Arbil, Iraq’s headquarters for the Out-of-Country Voting (OCV) program. The U.S.-based Iraq Elections marked the third-largest OCV voter turnout worldwide.

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By Debbie Schlussel

You’d think the clueless mother of a daughter who converted to Islam and plotted jihad with terrorists would finally wake up about Islam.  But you’d be wrong.

Jihad Jamie’s Mom, Christine Mott, Still Doesn’t Get it on Islam

Christine Mott, the dhimmi mother of Jihad Jamie a/k/a Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, still thinks Islam is swell.  And not only that, she thinks blowing up people and buildings has “never been Islam.”  Really?  Where the heck was this idiot on 9/11?  Or any other day of the week, month, year, or decade?  This woman is like the idiots with the “true Scotsman” fallacy.

When she discussed Jihad with her stepfather, George Mott . . . she told him “she’d strap a bomb for the cause,’’ Christine Mott said.

“To go blow somebody up?,’’ said Paulin-Ramirez’s mother, who is not Muslim. “That’s never been Islam.’’

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By Debbie Schlussel

I probably shouldn’t have used the term “local” in the title of this post, since there really aren’t many local banks anymore.  But there are, in fact, plenty of national ones that pander to shakedowns by ethnic minorities.

Sadly, Comerica Bank is one of those.  Comerica has a specific department catering to Muslims, and it’s headed by an extremist.  Amal Berry-Brown is Vice President and National Arab and Chaldean Affairs Manager for Comerica Bank.  I’m not sure why a bank would need one of those, other than to placate minorities interested in a shakedown.  I checked, and Comerica doesn’t have an Italian Affairs Vice President and Manager, nor an Irish Affairs Vice President and Manager, nor one for any other ethnic group.  And to be honest, Berry-Brown is really the Vice President for Muslim Affairs at the bank.  Her title is just a euphemism for that.  Does your bank have a VP for Catholic or Evangelical or Jewish or Hindu affairs?  Not likely.

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By Debbie Schlussel

I received this extremely disturbing e-mail, forwarded to me by the family of a federal agent whom I know and who is deployed to Afghanistan. I know who the person is and have had contact with him in his capacity as a federal agent. He’s spoken out about this before and gotten into trouble over it, not because it’s not true . . . but because it is.

The soldier wants this story to get out:  Our soldiers are sitting ducks!  They don’t have enough bullets with which to defend themselves.  You don’t send people into greater Jihadistan without rounds.  But that’s what we’re doing.  Read this disturbing letter.  I’ve redacted or changed some things to protect this person’s identity. To those who don’t shoot and are not familiar with the terms, “rounds” are “bullets.” Yes, that’s right, this soldier was sent to the middle of nowhere in Afghanistan with JUST NINE BULLETS, TOTAL! Some of his men had zero bullets. How the heck are they supposed to protect themselves, much less fight a war with no ammo?

I am currently deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. I am on my second deployment. This time however, I noticed something VERY different. They sent us OUTSIDE the wire WITHOUT a full combat load. If you were to do a Google search of emergency landings of Military aircraft in Afghanistan, you would come up with numerous results. Include John Cut and Run Kerry and Joe Biden who had their chopper make a unscheduled stop. So, why in the world would we be sent out withOUT a full combat load? I have now reached my FOB [DS: Forward Operating Base], and it has been 18 hrs and I still have yet to receive it. I was sent out with 9 rounds, others had anywhere from 0 to 30 rounds. The basic combat load, 210 rounds. I am a Special Forces soldier, working with the Vermont Army National Guard.

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