By Debbie Schlussel

On Friday, while Northwest Flight 253 Islamic terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was arraigned at the federal courthouse in Detroit, outside the building a small protest took place.

Organizer of Muslim Protest Against Terror, Majed Moughni, Gets Death Threats

The protest by Muslims against terrorism was organized by Dearbornistan attorney Majed Moughni.  Sadly, while local media reports claimed that 150 or more Muslims showed up, it was actually more like 20 people waving the American flag and showing their patriotism, according to videos of the event.  Most Muslims in the Detroit area are not so courageous and won’t protest against terrorism.  Instead, the only time large masses of Muslims in the Detroit area show up in numbers as high as 10,000 to protest is when they are showing their support in favor of Islamic terrorism.  Most Muslims boycotted the event because most really aren’t against terrorism, and most are against absorption into American society.

And Majed Moughni, the attorney who organized the event, is now getting death threats from fellow Muslims for organizing the event.  WATCH THE VIDEO.  If you’ve heard his name before, it’s because Moughni also came out against the thugs in CAIR, when the group and a lying Muslim woman came down on a local judge for asking the woman to remove her headscarf in court, which she willingly and happily did.  He got attacked by extremist Muslims for sticking his neck out then.  Now, this:

A Dearborn attorney received a death threat after he led a demonstration against terrorism last Friday.

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By Debbie Schlussel

I probably should have labeled this as one of my “Girlie-Man Nation:  Men–the New Women–Alerts.”

Heavage: Please Make It Stop

“Heavage“–male cleavage and guys with unbuttoned shirts, showing their chest hair– is yet another one of those trends from the ’70s that should never make a comeback.  Sadly, it has.  And technically, it started toward the end of last year.  Either way, blechhhhhhh. Chewbacca called. He wants his look back.

Oh, and another thing: the words “male” and “decolletage” should never be placed together as respective adjective and noun. Sadly, now they are. I have a theory about this: as the gender lines are blurred more and more, as women continue to make up the majority of student bodies and graduates at colleges and grad schools, as men continue to bear the brunt of most recession job losses and lay-offs, and as men continue to adopt the social attributes of women, while women adopt the social attributes of men, men’s display of cleavage is for women to see, an emulation of women showing cleavage. It might have been macho and a sign of virility in the ’70s. But now, it’s just downright feminine, as are the “guys” who display it.

The guys who do this can work out at the gym all they want and have the most solid pectoral muscles, but in displaying their “man cleavage,” they’re acting like chicks. Remember, the guys who chose this “fashion” trend (and most fashion trends) are the men who “date” (euphemism) men, not the ones who date women.

Man cleavage — plunging necklines slit open to reveal chest hair, pectoral muscles, maybe more — is back.

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By Debbie Schlussel

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After the same flight to Detroit has already had two incidents, including the terrorist attack by Muslim Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, they know better than to act “unruly.”  But several passengers, whom a Detroit radio station just identified as “Middle Eastern men,” did it anyway, because they’re trying to see how much they can get away with, until we finally take them seriously (as in, not yet). Here’s the latest on Northwest Flight 243, a flight similar to Flight 253:

DETROIT — Authorities are on board a grounded Northwest Airlines flight after an incident was reported.Flight No. 243 from Amsterdam was taxied to a gate at Detroit Metro Airport and passengers are being let off.Local 4 has learned that there was a report of several unruly passengers on board.Detroit Metro Airport Spokesman Mike Conway told Local 4 they do not believe the incident is a threat.

Nope, not a “threat.” Just a dress rehearsal. WAKE. THE. HECK. UP. AMERICA.

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Sources tell Fox 2 that a flight from Amsterdam into Detroit Metropolitan Airport was held on the tarmac after landing because of unruly behavior by some of the passengers.

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By Debbie Schlussel

As I wrote recently, it’s no coincidence that in the last two months we’ve suddenly had all of these instances of Muslim passengers either testing the system or actually attempting terrorist attacks on planes over U.S. air space.  There have been numerous instances, all since mid-November.  And yet, each time, we’re told that these are drunk, mentally unstable, or unfairly accused passengers.

The latest is an allegedly drunk passenger, who locked himself in the bathroom on Friday’s Air Tran Flight 39.  Oh, and his name just happened to be Muhammed.  And he was in the bathroom shaving his entire body as the 9/11 hijackers did on the morning of the attacks.

As the French would say, “Quelle Coincidence!”  Whatta coincidence!  This is the second Air Tran flight on which there has been a disturbance by Muslim passengers. (Details about the first one here.)

Muhammed Abu Tahir drank at least five small bottles of wine, demanded more alcohol on board an AirTran Airways flight and then locked himself in the lavatory, according to an FBI affidavit.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Longtime readers know that I like boxing, fights, and that one of my guilty pleasures is watching a good martial arts movie.  Sometimes, since I can’t do that stuff to get out my own stress, I like watching those who do.  It’s a vicarious thing for the non-violent and physically tiny and powerless (i.e., me).

Look For a Burqa to Veil Islamic Gulf-State Owned UFC

So, it really bugs me that even something as viscerally American as UFC–the Ultimate Fighting Championship–is now 10% owned by an anti-Semitic Gulf state, which has a policy of travel apartheid and won’t let Jewish Israelis into its borders.  Yup, the UFC is now 10% owned by the sons of the late Sheikh Zayed Al-Nahyan, whose Zayed Center funded anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying, anti-Israel, and 9/11 Truther speakers, authors, and books.

These Islamofascists are buying EVERYTHING.  Like I always say, remember the good old days . . . when the Japanese owned everything in America?

Flash Entertainment, an event management company owned by the Abu Dhabi government, bought a 10 percent stake in Zuffa LLC, owners of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and World Extreme Cagefighting as the sport grows in popularity.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Remember “Trading Places,” the 1983 movie starring Eddie Murphy and Dan Ackroyd as, respectively, a homeless man and a rich guy who are forced into opposite stations in life after two old wealthy men (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy as the Duke Brothers) make a bet?  A big part of the plot centers on trading orange juice futures, betting on whether or not the price of orange juice goes up or down, based on a secret insider report.  It’s one of my favorite movies.

(“Global Cooling” Photo of Florida Orange w/Icicles from Rev. Dr. Sam Sewell)

Well, now, with the coldest temperatures to hit Florida in years, and orange crops faltering under icicles and frost, the orange juice market has re-awakened, just like in the movie.

Orange juice futures trader Dominick Minervini spent years fending off comparisons to Dan Aykroyd in “Trading Places,” the 1983 movie that thrust the tiny market into the public consciousness.

“If I said I trade orange juice, everybody would say, ‘Oh, it’s just like the movie,’ ” said Mr. Minervini, who has been trading for more than two decades.

But while most days in orange juice trading are a far cry from the movie’s iconic scenes of double dealing and frenzied trading—for one thing, all futures trading is now electronic—the past few days have seemed eerily similar.

From “Trading Places”: Dan Ackroyd Explains the Frozen Orange Juice Concentrate Market . . .

As an arctic chill spread across the main growing regions of Florida, orange juice prices began a wild ride. After soaring 7% on Friday, they plunged on Monday to finish down 19.3 cents, or 13%, at $1.3185 a pound, causing big profits for some and losses for others. Early Monday morning, as crop damage appeared to be less than feared, prices dropped as much as 20 cents, their exchange-imposed daily limit. Prices quickly moved back up to trade down less than five cents, before again heading lower.

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By Debbie Schlussel

We may finally have conclusive evidence of the uselessness of the FDA.  Instead of investigating health claims on food and vitamins and insuring food and drug safety, FDA agents and investigators are wasting time investigating this small-time prank that doesn’t have much to do with the mandates of the FDA anyway, since there have been no reports that there is anything but Gatorade inside the bottles:

Gatorade says bootleg labels with a picture of Tiger Woods, the word “unfaithful” and the Gatorade name have been found on bottles in Colorado stores.

Gatorade spokeswoman Karen May said Monday the labels were fakes. She declined to say whether the bottles contained real Gatorade.

She says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating.

Can’t wait to see what these are going for on ebay.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Sad news from Europe.  Miep Gies, a heroic Dutch woman who risked her own life to hide Jews during the Holocaust, passed away at age 100.  You are probably familiar with her name because Ms. Gies hid the family of Otto Frank, including his daughter, Anne, from the Nazis.  And she’s the one who found Anne Frank’s Diary, which lives on worldwide as an important, moving memoir of a young teen girl in hiding.

Miep Gies, RIP

I always paid extra attention to the Anne Frank story and what happened to those who helped the Frank family because my own Holocaust survivor grandfather, who was a concentration camp inmate at Bergen Belsen (where my mother was born), remembered seeing the gaunt, anorexic Anne Frank when he was there toward the end of the Holocaust. This woman, Mrs. Gies, was a saint on earth.

Gies was the last survivor of a group of co-workers who hid the Frank family and four other Jews in a secret annex of an Amsterdam office building owned by Anne’s father, Otto. From July 6, 1942, until Aug. 4, 1944, Gies, her husband, Jan, and the other helpers risked arrest and possible death by providing the Jews with food, supplies, news and a link to the outside world.

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By Debbie Schlussel

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In a statement to AP and a teary-eyed interview with Bob Costas today, Major League Baseball’s Mark McGwire admitted he used steroids.  Currently a batting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals, he admitted it in an apparent attempt to get into the baseball’s Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.  But it’s hardly news to anyone with eyesight, as McGwire looked like an NFL player during his pro baseball career, plus his head and hat size grew significantly.  Still, I give credit to former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer for the masterful way he coordinated the admission and press coverage of it.  He and McGwire are playing these guys in the mainstream sports media like Stradivarius violins.

As longtime readers know, I’m not exactly up in arms about steroids use in adults, and I don’t think it’s the end-all that others do.  McGwire’s and others’ suspected steroid user Sammy Sosa gave us a home-run race that baseball fans loved, coming to Major League Baseball stadiums and ball parks at record numbers.  I don’t support asterisks next to baseball record setters who used steroids because players use many performance-enhancing vitamins and pills that can be equally effective in improving hitting records.  In many cases, increased muscle mass from steroids may even make it more difficult to swing the bat correctly and connect with the ball.

I’m actually more troubled that McGwire–a grown man–cried on national TV than by his admission that he juiced up.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Sunday Night marks the debut of what is supposed to be the last season of “24.”  As longtime readers know, I long ago lost interest in this show.  It jumped the shark, and it’s grown tiresome to watch the stupid plot twists as writers and producers do a myriad of script contortions to avoid making Muslims the terrorists.

“PC 24” by David Lunde/Lundesigns

As I’ve noted, after the first few seasons, “24” went out of its way to make sure we knew that every Islamic terrorist is really just the puppet of the evil White man.  Yup, even Jack Bauer’s father and bro were the terrorists.  Because that’s more believable than a guy with a name like Mohammed Atta or Nidal Malik Hasan or Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab actually being the terrorist.  That would never happen in real life, right?  And I’ve noted how the “24” gang capitulated to CAIR and MPAC (Muslim Public Affairs Council), and had star Kiefer Sutherland read us some BS warning about how all American Muslims are peaceful and support our efforts in the war on terror.  Uh-huh.  Sure they do.  He sounded like a trained monkey who didn’t really believe it, but wanted to collect his banana.

So, enter this season.  The good guy in this one is an Islamic leader who is a peaceful man–a good guy, who out of the goodness of his decent heart supports a “two-state solution” a/k/a amputating Israel into a Palestinian State and out of existence.  ‘Cuz ya know–at least in the minds of “24” writers and producers–that’s a “moderate,” “peaceful” thing to support.  Blechhh.  Didn’t we already see this plot on “24” just two seasons or so ago?

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