By Debbie Schlussel

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Remember the good old days when haute couture–high fashion–meant style and class, dignity and elegance?  That used to be the way of the runways of French fasion week, when designers like Chanel and Givenchy, had their models strut the runways of Paris with beautiful ensembles–silk shantung suits and toile gowns.

Givenchy Fall, Um, “Fashion”

Sadly, as my friend–Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, the great, tireless warrior against Islamic extremism–noted to me in an e-mail, this fall’s fashion week, held last month in Paris, featured something entirely different.  Those same designers embracing the burqa, the hijab, the niqab, the abaya, and other signs of Islamic oppression of women.  It’s interesting:  designers who used to stand for the liberation of women, via mini-skirts and less complicated, cumbersome outfits, have now done a 180.  All of their liberal values tossed out the window in a  New York minute in order to embrace the chick-hatred of Islam. . . and to stick it to French President Nicholas Sarkozy (who is trying to outlaw this garb of extremism and she-slavery).

I’ve been following this (anti-)fashion trend over the last decade.  As I’ve noted, women’s magazines, like Marie Claire, told us how “sexy” the niqab (full face veil) and gave us several page spreads to show us models covered in all-Black sacks and ugly drapery.  And there have been several fashion shows like this in Britain and elsewhere.  But they usually didn’t feature the top of the line designers like Chanel and Givenchy.

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By Debbie Schlussel

The beginning of the speech, from 1984 at the White House, is very corny and doesn’t stand the test of time, even if it’s the great Ronald Reagan.  But skip all of that and fast forward to 4:35 in the video for the money quote about how Michael Jackson is proof of what a person can accomplish, free of alcohol and . . . DRUGS.  Ha!  How things change.

By Debbie Schlussel

I suppose the title of this entry isn’t entirely accurate, since Darwin’s theory regarded survival of the fittest . . . not the smartest.  But the MTV show, “16 and Pregnant,” is certainly not an example of the latter.  More like, survival of the dumbest.

On this site I’ve been critical of phony family values advocate Sarah Palin and her promotion and glamorizing of her teen daughter’s babymama-hood on the cover of and in an eight-page spread in People Magazine.  Glamorizing this–instead of shaming it–is the reason it’s so prevalent in America, today . . . and the reason for a lot of our crime, drug, and teenage drop-out problems.  Sadly, one of MTV’s most popular shows, “16 and Pregnant,” does more of the same.  Yes, most of the people on this disturbing show are stupid and low-class.  But kids watching MTV don’t see that.  They see the glamor of getting on an MTV show (just like Bristol Palin got on People’s cover for the monumental “achievement” of screwing).

With 40% of American babies now being born out of wedlock and mostly to teens, do we really need to promote more of this on MTV?

On the season finale of this broadcast annoyance, last week, one of the 16-year-old couples, Tyler and Catelynn gave up their kid, Carly, for adoption (Thank G-d).  Unfortunately, for the adoptive parents, sometimes nature–ie., IQ–can’t be fixed, despite nurture–new, responsible parents who are married.  And judging from the looks of Tyler and Catelynn (see above), this is one of those cases.  Sorry, but sometimes you can judge a book by its cover.  Unfortunately, these birth “parent” will have regular contact with the kid, via e-mails and phone calls.  To the adoptive parents, I say, good luck.  It’s hard to beat bad genes.

No offense, but snobbery–particularly moral snobbery–is vastly underrated in America.  We need more of it.

What’s up next for MTV–“12 & Pregnant”?  Don’t be surprised.  Maybe they can call it, “Yo’ My Baby Raps!”

By Debbie Schlussel

This is unfortunate news that hasn’t really been reported in the mainstream media and which–oddly–cannot even be found on the U.S. Census website.

On Friday, the U.S. Census Bureau and its parent, the U.S. Department of Commerce, announced that legally married gay couples (from California pre-Prop 8 and from other states in which it’s legal) will be counted as marriages in the 2010 U.S. Census.  But, strangely, you can only find out about this disturbing prospect in the gay media.

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By Debbie Schlussel

So far, Paramount–the studio behind “G.I. Joe:  The Rise of Cobra“–hasn’t scheduled a critics’ screening in my area, a sure sign it’s a dud.  Another sign it stinks:  it’s being released in the movie graveyard of August.  The movie opens Friday.

“G.I. Joe” Director Stephen Sommers Disses Vietnam Vets

But the dim prospects of this movie haven’t prevented the likely lackluster movie’s director from dissing Vietnam veterans as steroid users who aren’t “elite” and aren’t “the best” and saying his military-themed movie isn’t for Republicans (it’s for Obama-niks).

When it comes to selling “G.I. Joe” outside the U.S., the message is “this is not a George Bush movie — it’s an Obama world,” director Stephen Sommers said. “Right from the writing stage we said to ourselves, this can’t be about beefy guys on steroids who all met each other in the Vietnam War, but an elite organization that’s made up of the best of the best from around the world.”

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By Debbie Schlussel

For most Americans, the alleged “racial profiling” incident involving Harvard prof Dr. Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. and Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley has been exposed as not a racial profiling incident at all.  Even a President, without delivering an apology, has backtracked from his original “acted stupidly” profiling comments.

And, more importantly, for most Americans, this story is so over.  But not for Gates.  He just doesn’t know when to shut up (which should have been when the police arrived at his Cambridge home).

Gates is continuing with his race-baiting diatribe–more proof that President Barack Obama’s beer summit was as successful as Middle East “peace” summits.  As in, not very and not at all.

Gates continued his victim-playing over the weekend:

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By Debbie Schlussel

**** UPDATE, 09/25/11: I Warned You: “Americans” Freed From Iran Are US-Haters, Attack America ****

Longtime readers know my point of view on this:  whether you are American or not, a “journalist” or not, if you go to Iran or North Korea, you knew the likely consequences, you assumed the risk, and I couldn’t care less about you.  I care far more about those held in these totalitarian states against their will, not dumb, left-wing Americans who went there willingly.

Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal:

Left-Wing Activist “Journalists” Detained “Hiking” near Iran

We have enough looming and present foreign and domestic policy problems to worry about.  We don’t need to add people like Laura Ling and Roxana Saberi . . . and now, three “hikers” who are really left-wing, pro-Syrian, anti-Israel “activist” “journalists” from Berkeley–two of whom chose to leave America and live in the Arab Muslim Mid-East.  They knew the risks when they went “hiking” on the Iranian border.  (Hint:  It’s not like vacationing in South Beach, and I don’t think they were really hiking.)  Two of them chose to live in the Middle East.  Tough luck that they got caught.

Oh, and if you think I believe the “they were just hiking” story, think again.  Here’s a little bit of info about these far-left “hikers.”  It seems that an Iranian prison might be a great place for them to spend some time.

*  Sarah Shourd is an anti-Israel “journalist” who lives in the Middle East (probably in Damascus, Syria, from which she’s written some of her articles), writes sympathetic pieces about terrorist-host state Syria, attacking Israel, and taking her Syrian patrons’ false point of view that Israel’s Golan Heights is “occupied territory.”  She also writes about how Israel oppresses the Syrians.  Hilarious.  I mean, no biggie that Bashir Al-Assad cuts his people apart limb by limb, like his father did to journalist Salim Al-Lawzi, that Syria has an atrocious human rights record and tortures dissidents, let’s concentrate on blaming the Jews.  That’s her strategy.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Over the years,  we’ve heard various media speculation about what happened to Navy pilot Capt. Michael “Scott” Speicher, who went missing during the first Gulf War in 1991.

USN Capt. Michael “Scott” Speicher, RIP

There was speculation that he was dead, a prisoner of war, or even, possibly left in Iraq to save face, according to a lying CIA agent who claimed he saw Speicher between 1993 and 1995.  A Pulitzer Prize nominee, Amy Waters Yarsinske, wrote a whole book based on this claim and others that have now proven to be pure baloney.  And she was nominated for this very fiction book–yet more evidence what bunk that award is.  Her book claimed Bedouin Arabs found Speicher after he escaped his plane, nursed him back to health, and that the Clinton Administration refused to pay the $1,800 to ransom him.  The liars at WorldNutDaily ran several articles pimping this completely false claim.

Well, now, the mystery has been solved, and sadly, it’s not the ending we’d hoped for.   Scott Speicher died, apparently when his plane crashed in the Iraqi desert.  At least, his family now has closure and some finality to the mystery, even though I’m sure they hoped for a different outcome.  Though it’s little comfort Speicher died in service to our country, the ultimate sacrifice.

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By Debbie Schlussel

We’ve already had at least one prominent member of the far-left like this in contemporary times–former top Ku Klux Klan official Robert Byrd (U.S. Senator from West Virginia).

Now, add another one to the list.  And beware of White liberals who go out of their way to support (in this case financially) and defend Black racists and terrorist groups, like the Black Panthers.  Sometimes they are, in fact, top officials of the Ku Klux Klan, living a secret double life.  Such is the case of  Jim Burwell.

A taste (though, BEWARE, it comes from the usually unreliable, fabricating Detroit Newsistan):

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By Debbie Schlussel

As longtime readers know, I’m a big fan of Monopoly, the board game. I’ve documented how  this timeless game even helped save Allies Forces soldiers during World War II.  (And I collect Monopoly tokens.)

But this has to be my favorite version of a Monopoly game.  Ever.  (To you humorless  lefties, I’m being sarcastic.  I feel sorry for the 56-year-old woman.)  You gotta admit it has sort of a microcosmic tone of what happened with the government bailout of those overextended in the mortgage crisis.

He Wanted These . . .

When He Should Have Sought This . . .

A friendly game of Monopoly turned ugly when a Fraser man hit a friend in the side of the head and knocked her off a chair, knocking off her glasses, when she refused to sell him Boardwalk and Park Place, Fraser police said.

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