By Debbie Schlussel

The new offerings this weekend are nothing to write home about . . . or on which to waste ten bucks.  I did not see Disney’s animated 3D version of “A Christmas Carol.”  Of what I did see, all three had a paranormal/science fiction element key to their plots, and all of them were lackluster:

*  “The Box“:  I was really looking forward to this creepy science fiction/moral dilemma thriller, which appears to be based on a past “Twilight Zone” episode.  But “Twilight Zone” it isn’t.  Where TZ episodes were tight half-hour programs that were masterfully begun and finished with a specific point to them, this was not.  It began, like many movies, as an enjoyable promising story with a great premise.  But it quickly degraded into endless dead-end plotlines that went nowhere and had little to do with the main story, itself a mess.  You’ll be disapointed that you wasted two hours and ten bucks on something pointless that goes nowhere.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Earlier today, I posted must watch video of professional psychobabbler and fake doctor Dr. Phil and former military cook, Shoshanna Johnson, and their OUTRAGE that anyone dare (in their case, former soldier Tom Kenniff) suggest that Islam might have something to do with a Muslim guy screaming allahu akbar and mass-murdering American soldiers. Yup, Nidal Malik Hasan was just a “stressed out victim of Islamophobia.” Uh-huh. Sure, he was.

The “Loyalty” of Muslim Soldiers In the U.S. Military

And here are some more “loyal,” “stressed out” U.S. military men I wrote about almost three  years ago (there have been plenty more Muslim U.S. military members just like them, since, including Hassan Abujihaad), for whom I’d love to hear the new age excuses from these two bloated frauds. Yes, these are the “victims,” not the men and women they killed:

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By Debbie Schlussel

As you know by now, the “experts”–including fake doctor, Dr. Phil, and Mark Cuban’s brother (on Twitter)–are lecturing us that  Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan, didn’t kill at least 13 American soldiers and injure at least 31 other soldiers because he’s a devout Muslim.

Must Watch Video Quote of the Day: “I Need to Take a Giant Step Back From All the Psychobabble . . . .”

Or because he apparently wrote sympathetic, anti-American messages online approving terrorist attacks on American soldiers.  Or because America spoiled him with free college and medical tuition courtesy of taxpayers, which he repaid by hiring a lawyer and killing soldiers.  Or because he yelled “allahu Akbar” [allah is the greater or greatest (meaning greater than the Christian or Jewish deities)].  Or because he allegedly handed out Korans before the attack. Or because he was a member of the extremist, pan-jihadist Islamic Society of the Washington Area, which was trying to help  this pious Palestinian Muslim find a devout Islamic wife (and had no luck in doing so).

But none of these things are the reason that this guy perpetrated a massacre on U.S. soil, right?  That’s the view of Dr. Phil and assorted other New Age psychobabblers.

First, there’s the “Democratic Underground” website, which is upset we’ve learned the man shouted “allahu Akbar” and proved our point that it’s Islam, stupid.  The DU headline:

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By Debbie Schlussel

. . . Barack Hussein Obama uses the Islamic terrorist killer of at least 13 U.S. soldiers on our soil as a reason for ObamaCare? . . . Barack Hussein Obama uses it to appoint an “Islamophobia Czar”?

Don’t Worry:

Dr. Obama Has the Cure for the Islamophobia That “Caused” the Terrorism

After all, it’s America’s fault–in the way we treat these peaceful, nice, loyal members of the “Religion of Peace”–that caused the murder of at least 13 and the maiming of at least 31 others.  Riiight?

Religion of Peace – The Cancer Has Metastasized:

Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan, Islamic Terrorist

Don’t put either of these things past him.  We’ve already seen the ridiculous claims that this Islamic terrorist–who clearly planned this in advance and clearly had strong thoughts sympathizing with Islamic terrorists and against the U.S.–did it because he was afflicted with “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder,” or because he was allegedly called a “Camel Jockey.”

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By Debbie Schlussel

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***  UPDATE:  Nidal Malik Hasan is  Palestinian.  Figures.  ****

Born and reared in Virginia, the son of immigrant parents from a small Palestinian town near Jerusalem, he joined the Army right out of high school, against his parents’ wishes. The Army, in turn, put him through college and then medical school, where he trained to be a psychiatrist.

Yeah, I wonder if that “Palestinian” town is actually Palestinian or part of the Islamic encroachment on Israel. Either way, he had every opportunity given to him by American taxpayers. And he murdered them anyway. This isn’t just the Palestinian way. It’s the Islamic way. And we expect Israel to make peace with guys like this? Even in the midst of the land of plenty, look at how they behave.

***  UPDATE:  Damn, this cretinous Islamic mass murderer is still alive. ****

*** NEW UPDATE: NBC News reports that mass murderer Nidal Malik Hasan was an Army DOCTOR (like my dad was, only he was a healer, not a jihadist killer). Remember what I told you about Muslim Docs (here and here)?  He was a psychiatrist. See here also.***

Ah, you knew this was coming.  And the name of the soldier who shot up his fellow soldiers at Ft. Hood U.S. Army Base and killed them is . .  .

MAJOR NIDAL MALIK HASAN.  ****  UPDATE:   NBC NEWS Says it’s “Nidal Malik Hassan or Hasan.”  ****

Religion of Peace – The Cancer Has Metastasized:

Muslim American Doctor-Soldier Committed Ft. Hood Massacre

Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan: Another Jihadist Muslim Medical Professional

Shock-a-lock-a.

Nidal Malik Hasan.  Sounds Wiccan or Fijian to me. How ’bout you?

12 dead, 31 wounded. Yup, another loyal, moderate American Muslim.  Another loyal, moderate American Muslim serving in the U.S. military. Nope, it’s not jihad at all. Why on earth would you say that? Islamophobia?

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By Debbie Schlussel

Next time you’re considering a vacation in Italy, you might wanna rethink that.  It’s not just that through mass immigration the country’s fast turning Islamic and could give pasta al dente a new meaning.  It’s not just that once mob-dominated Sicily is the most Islamic part of the country and growing (sorry, Cosa Nostra, it’s now Cosa Islamica).

Italy: Viva Islamic Terrorists!

It’s that, yesterday, an Italian judge convicted 23 American CIA agents in absentia for the 2003 kidnapping of an extremist (is there any other kind?) Egyptian Islamic cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr a/k/a Abu Omar, from a Milan Street.  No big deal that he was planning to blow buildings up in Italy via terrorist attacks and that we saved their cannoli-stuffed asses from it by kidnapping and interrogating the guy.  And who cares that he was recruiting terrorists to kill American soldiers in Iraq?  So what, right?  That was the attitude of “counterterrorism” prosecutor Armando Spataro, who went after America with the vengeance he never had against Islamic terrorists.

And as longtime readers know, I’ve decried the Italian release of two Achille Lauro Islamic hijackers (here and here) who helped murder U.S. citizen Leon Klinghoffer, just because he was a Jew and an American (and he was a helpless senior citizen in a wheelchair).

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By Debbie Schlussel

Normally, the U.S. embassy in any foreign country–whether ally or not–is supposed to be a high national security priority.  Not only are top secret conversations held and classified documents contained in American embassies, but they are frequently targets of terrorist attack because they symbolize American freedom and Western lifestyles.  Remember Al-Qaeda’s bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998?

So, you have to scratch your head and wonder what idiots in the U.S. government–particularly the State Department ( it figures)–were thinking when WE sold our U.S. embassy in London to the ever-more-extremist Islamic Gulf State monarchy of Qatar.  We owned it, but decided to sell it to them?!

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By Debbie Schlussel

Last night, I accidentally clicked my remote to NBC’s G-d-awfully boring “Jay Leno Show.”  When it was announced that Jenna Bush Hager, stupid, partying, Obama-voting, liberal daughter of former President Bush and now NBC “Today” show education “reporter,” was going to be on, I decided to tune in to see what stupidity this public school teacher was going to put forth.  And she didn’t disappoint. The chick CANNOT speak English.

OMG, NBC News Education Reporter Jenna Bush Hager “Like” CAN’T Speak English

Remember that this woman is not only a publick skool teacher, but also the “Today” show’s edyookayshun reporter.  And yet, she punctuated her interview with, “And she was like . . . ,” “And I was like . . . ,” “And he was like . . . ,” “And my mom was like . . . .” Like, like, like. An interview with this chick makes the script of “Mean Girls” sound downright Shakespearean. Attention, Jenna, I believe the word you were looking for was that high-flown English word, “said.” Apparently, a University of Texas degree doesn’t require the inclusion of that in a future teacher’s vocabulary.

And we wonder why kids come out of public school as illiterate ignoramuses who can’t speak proper English.

Yup, NBC News’ new education correspondent can’t speak English beyond the Moon-Unit Zappa Valley Girl stage. Ms. “was like like’s” interview begins at about 16:51 in the video, below.

By Debbie Schlussel

Recently, I read about an unemployed Texas lottery winner, Willis Willis, who is suing that state because a store-owner lied to him–claiming the ticket wasn’t a winner–and then cashed the ticket for himself and fled the country for Nepal.  (Whatchoo talkin’ ’bout Willis Willis?) I feel for this guy.  He beat the odds and won, but got jacked.  Still, given the fates of many lottery winners, maybe he did himself a favor by not actually winning his winnings.

Tina & Chris Crane Buck the Trend of Lottery Win Misery and Ruined Lives

Like many Americans, I occasionally play the lottery.  But like many smart Americans, I know the odds of winning are less than those of my getting struck twice by lightning.  And I view the lottery as the poor man’s voluntary tax.  You’re essentially willingly giving money away to the government, and the people who buy these tickets are generally those with low socio-economic status–those who can least afford to give spend that money down the lottery drain.  Still it’s fun to play occasionally and dream about “what ifs.”  But longtime readers know that I recognize that lottery “what ifs” coming true are usually disasters.

I’ve put up many posts about big lottery winners, who always seem to end up worse off than if they had never won.  It seems to be a curse for most of these people to have won piles of money.  Several of them died or went to jail for committing crimes against others.  Others have simply spent it all on stupid, wasteful purchases for themselves and assorted hangers-on.

The problem with winning a huge pot in the lottery is not just that the endless harassment bordering on stalking by friends, relatives, and complete strangers seeking a handout.  And it’s not just that most of these people never had money before and get out of control when they get a ton of it.  Even a West Virginia man, Jack Whittaker, who’d been a millionaire prior to winning had his life ruined by post-lottery behavior.  There is even a blog (which I can’t seem to find now–if you have the URL, please send it to me) that documents the disastrous post-lottery win lives of those who have the winning numbers.

Is it the lottery win that ruins these people’s lives?  Or is it their lack of education and critical thinking, coupled with the sudden huge infusion of cash, that makes them that way?  People who buy lottery tickets are generally people who throw away money they need for life’s necessities on a worthless peace of paper with numbers on it.  If they’ll take that uncalculated risk before getting a pot of gold, the pot of gold won’t likely end that kind of proclivity after the pot of gold arrives.

Why so many lottery winners’ lives are ruined would make a great topic for yet another useless, waste-of-money, tax-funded study by Ph.D.s at some college.

But, now, there is an exception to the death, taxes, and ruined lives of lottery winners inevitability.  Chris and Tina Crane won $42 million  in the Megamillions lottery.  And, while they haven’t bucked the harassment of moochers (they had to move and keep their new locale a secret), they seem to have bucked the trend of losing everything.  They’ve got the ethic that so many lottery winners did not and are passing it on to their kids:

After Chris Crane won $42 million in the Mega Millions lottery, his kids were thrilled.

“Dad, we are rich,” they said.

“No, dad’s rich,” Crane said. “You guys still have to work for a living.”

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By Debbie Schlussel

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Three sports stories in the news today make you wonder why there’s no outcry about them beyond the sports pages, the way there was with Rush Limbaugh’s attempt to become a minority NFL owner.

No Rush Limbaugh Treatment for Them . . .

Donald Sterling, Tom Cable, Gus Johnson

I mean, Rush was never a slum lord who redlined against Blacks, Hispanics, and kids.  Nor was he  a man who beat multiple wives and women he dated.  Nor did he say that Black NFL players ran fast “like they were running from the police.”

But these respective guys did these things, and there’s no outcry from anyone beyond the sports media, major league sports, the Reverends Jesse and Al, or players unions.  Gee I wonder why:

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