By Debbie Schlussel
Whether or not you agree with it, this claim is not news: that a diet heavy in red meat–specifically processed red meat–can be unhealthy and possibly cancerous. It’s part of why I don’t eat more than a couple of burgers a year (the same with hot dogs).
But the food police–specifically the vegetarian food police–have filed a stupid lawsuit against the nation’s largest purveyors of hot dogs.
The plaintiffs call themselves, “The Cancer Project,” but that’s really a fake name for the far left vegan anti-war group, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which wants to impose its difficult and abnormal eating habits on the rest of us. This is the same group that wants to stop us from drinking milk.
The gist of their lawsuit is that these meat brands sould be required to use warning labels about cancer on their packaging. But if you don’t know about these claims of cancer, then you haven’t read a paper or magazine in ages, don’t pay attention, and won’t be reading a label on a hot dog or burger package.

Of course, the case will go nowhere. But it will be a complete waste of time and a money drain on the meat product manufacturers. And that’s clearly the goal of this suit.
In turn, it will increase the prices of inexpensive meats on consumers. But, hey, that’s the goal of the veggie food police.
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“Warning: Consuming hot dogs and other processed meats increases the risk of cancer.”
That’s the label that a vegan advocacy group wants a New Jersey court to order Oscar Mayer, Hebrew National and other food companies to slap on hot dog packages.

FYI, the suit also names, Kraft Foods, Inc. (maker of Oscar Mayer), Sara Lee, Nathan’s Famous, among others.

The nonprofit Cancer Project filed a lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of three New Jersey plaintiffs asking the Essex County Superior Court to compel the companies to place cancer-risk warning labels on hot dog packages sold in New Jersey.
“Just as tobacco causes lung cancer, processed meats are linked to colon cancer,” said Neal Barnard, president of the Cancer Project and an adjunct professor at the George Washington University medical school in Washington, D.C. “Companies that sell hot dogs are well aware of the danger, and their customers deserve the same information.” . . .
Efforts to put warning labels on hot dog packages are “crazy,” said Josh Urdang, 27, as he stood in line to buy two franks at Pink’s hot dog stand in Hollywood on Tuesday.
“It wouldn’t change how many hot dogs I eat. Not at all,” said Urdang, an information technology consultant from Hollywood.
His friend Joe Di Lauro, 31, called such a move “overpolicing. . . . At what point do you stop breaking things down? Unless we’re going to put a warning label on every single food and say what’s bad in it.”
Other consumers were skeptical of the Cancer Project’s agenda.
“Vegans complaining about hot dogs is like the Amish complaining about gas prices,” said Susan Thatcher of Irvine. . . .
Said Keith-Thomas Ayoob, a nutritionist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York: “There is speculation that nitrosamines can increase cancer risk when consumed in large amounts and frequently. Occasionally should cause no worry. The stuff people typically have with a hot dog may be a more immediate concern: too many calories from all the fat-laden potato and macaroni salads, sugary drinks and sweet desserts.”

Like I said, this suit will go nowhere. But it’ll be like a mini-Obama stimulus: providing make work for lawyers, clogging the court system, and leading to higher prices at the supermarket and restaurants, like Nation’s Famous, for everybody else.
Whether or not hot dogs and other processed meats are bad for you is not the issue. American freedom is. And that includes the freedom to eat whatever you want–good or bad. We don’t need the state setting our diets.
Fight back against the food extremists. Eat a hot dog for dinner, today.

By Debbie Schlussel
The biggest story in sports pop culture over the last few days is that of the peeping tom (do you capitalize the proper name “Tom” when it’s preceded by “peeping”?) who filmed ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, unauthorized, while she was naked in her hotel room.
I don’t really care about the story. To me, it’s: yaaawn. In a day and age when women sports reporters remain dumb and unnecessary, they are picked solely for their looks. Doesn’t bother me. But, given that, it’s no surprise that someone should try to film them nude. Most of ’em already post with most of their clothes off, anyway.
But it piqued my interest, when I learned that feminist USA Today reporter Christine Brennan (whose columns can be summed up, thus: dumb women’s sports like soccer, figure skating, and the WNBA–good; all men’s sports, especially football–bad) essentially tweeted that Andrews deserved it:

Women sports journalists need to be smart and not play to the frat house. There are tons of nuts out there.

And this second tweet:

Erin Andrews incident is bad, but to add perspective: there are 100s of women sports journalists who have never had this happen to them.

USA Today Sports Columnist Christine Brennan (right) (With “Special Friend” Billie Jean King)
This is expected from Brennan, who has written tons of columns over the years whining about the pretty, airheaded female sports reporters that dominate the airwaves. Welcome to showbiz, Christine. No-one wants to hear these women’s knowledge. They already have droners like Al Michaels and Chris “McCain Voters Are Racist” Fowler for that. The women are there for one reason: window-dressing. And this kills the very jealous Christine Brennan.
But here’s the thing: Getting taped through your hotel room wall without your knowledge isn’t a matter of “be[ing] smart and not play[ing] to the frat house.” It’s something beyond your control. And while Andrews’ status as a bim who was picked solely for her looks likely contributed to her becoming a target for the peeping tom, Brennan basically said she deserved it. And Brennan has, yet again, revealed herself to be a hypocrite. Her feminism doesn’t apply to pretty girls.
Do you think a male columnist for USA Today could get away with that and ever work in the sports biz again?
Think again. Yet again, a feminist–who whines that women don’t get “equal treatment” in sports–gets special treatment, solely based on the fact that she is a woman (only her gynecologist knows for sure).
If Brennan is familiar to you, that’s because, earlier this year, we wrote about how she whined when Barack Obama went on ESPN with his picks for the NCAA March Madness Men’s Basketball Tournament, but not the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament (about which no one cares).
(For the record, I was on ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” with her, a few years ago, and all she did was insult me because she didn’t have anything to say to back up her position that women should get special exemptions to play in men’s golf tournaments. She claimed I’m stupid–even though she couldn’t respond to any of my one-liner singers–to which I responded that I was a member of MENSA and she belongs to DENSA.)

By Debbie Schlussel
As you know, there is already one segment of American society that has government-run “healthcare,” the military and its veterans. It’s a shame how poorly our government treats those who served our country. And here’s a stark preview of what government “healthcare” will be like for the rest of us.

An airman lost parts of both legs and was in critical condition after routine gallbladder surgery at Travis Air Force Base went terribly wrong, his family said.
Airman 1st Class Colton Read was supposed to get his gallbladder removed laparoscopically – via a small incision – at Travis’ David Grant Medical Center on July 9.
During the procedure, surgeons nicked or punctured his aorta, a large artery that carries blood from the heart throughout the body, according to his wife, Jessica Read. The surgeons repaired the breach enough to save his life, but the repair began leaking and disrupted the blood supply to his legs, she said.

Read was flown to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, where doctors told the family that damage from the lack of blood required amputation. Family members say he’s undergone 10 surgeries to remove dead tissue from his legs, leaving him without much of his right leg and the lower portion of his left.
And Read still hasn’t had his gallbladder removed because of the surgery complications, relatives said.
Travis officials would not comment on specifics, only saying a “serious medical incident” occurred at the hospital.

Airman Colton Read is only 20 years old.
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Instead of immediately calling in a vascular surgeon to repair the damage to the artery that carried blood from the heart, doctors at the air base waited 8 1/2 hours before taking him to the UC Davis hospital.
By the time Read got there, his wife Jessica said, doctors told her, “Things don’t look good. He might not survive.” . . .
Jessica Read told KXTV that when she noticed during the surgery that her husband’s feet were turning blue and asked doctors about it, they said they were working on him and told her to go out to the waiting room.

Expect a lot of “serious medical incidents” like this under ObamaCare. Your life will literally be in his hands. And the hands of those become doctors. The best and brightest generally go where the money is, and under ObamaCare, they won’t be your doctors.
More of those like the ones who “took care” of Colton Read will be operating on you . . . if you’re lucky enough to live long enough to finally get surgery.
Pray for this American soldier. And pray that the rest of America isn’t forced into the “healthcare” system in which he found himself. In that system, health has nothing to do with it.

By Debbie Schlussel
Is there still racism in America? If you really look for it, you will find it. But in most of America–even its darkest corners–racism is frowned upon . . .unless it is anti-White racism, which tends to get a free pass. (A man who publicly talked about the “typical White person” is now not only President, but our national prognosticator on race.)
Unfortunately, however, many times–far too many times–in today’s America what is not racism is easily, quickly transformed into it by people with an agenda, and a shoulder chip of equal gargantuan size.
An in that vein, I’m getting really tired of hearing about the “blatant racism” of the police officer in question Cambridge trying to do his job, earlier this week. It got worse, last night, at an alleged press conference about Marxist state run Obama health care, when President Barack Hussein Obama basically called a cop a racist.
The cop we’re talking about here is Sgt. James M. Crowley, who arrested overrated academic Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., a Harvard prof (whose work focuses on race, racism, and slavery heritage), after the man became unruly and disorderly–practically goading police into arresting him.

Sgt. James Crowley, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

You all know the basics of the story. Gates arrived at his home after a trip. He tried to enter but the door was stuck and thereafter appeared to be breaking in. A neighbor called police, thinking a burglary break-in of some sort was occurring. Crowley responded to the scene.
That’s all we know for sure. The rest is a matter of whose side you are on and whether you are a racism paranoiac and tend to believe police are evil . . . or someone who believes that underpaid Cambridge cops are generally decent working class stiffs trying to do their jobs and were treated like crap by an unduly deified Harvard academic.
Despite the overwhelming mainstream media verbal defecation on the cop–and now the President chiming in with his own version of #2–I tend to vote with the cop.
Gates and his army of “all White cops in America are RACIST!” minions insist that, because the arrest was in the middle of the day and Gates showed his identification and pictures of his family, Officer Crowley must be a racist for arresting him.
Uh, not so fast.
It appears that Gates lorded his Ivy League status and overrated academic credentials over the cop, refusing to cooperate with the investigation or show identification. It appears that, instead, Gates went into a tirade and deserved to be arrested. It appears that instead of an “I am a Black man in racist America” chip on his shoulder, Gates was lugging a “Black man in racist America” boulder on his.

Police say Gates yelled at the officers and initially refused to show his ID. Gates allegedly yelled “this is what happens to a black man in America” and “you don’t know who you’re messing with” before he was arrested, and police said he was uncooperative.

Read the Full Arrest Report, in which the “classy” Gates told Officer Crowley, “Ya, I’ll talk to your mama outside.”
Hmmm, President Obama, I think we know who “acted stupidly,” and it was the Harvard Ph.D., not the cops.
(I bet none of this gets into the documentary about racial profiling in America Gates now says he will produce as a result of the arrest.)
This is what happens when, despite your Harvard credentials, you are trained–and train others–in a culture of shoulder-chips/boulders and “everyone is racist, but I’m important.” That’s Gates’ culture. He is close friends with Whoopi Goldberg and Barack Hussein Obama, both of whom are wealthy and successful beyond their wildest dreams (due in large part to their White consumers and constituents)–and beyond the wildest dreams of most White Americans. . . and both of whom continue to cry racism, anyway (even against–in Obama’s case–his “typical White person” granny).
Both of these people who have come out to defend their friend refuse to acknowledge that he would behave as they have behaved–self-important and rude to “the little people.”
But here’s a newsflash about this alleged “racist White” cop, James M. Crowley:

Nearly 16 years ago, as a Brandeis University police officer, Crowley desperately tried to save the life of Reggie Lewis after the Boston Celtics star collapsed while practicing in the school gym.
“It bothers him terribly that he couldn’t save him,” Crowley’s 74-year-old mother, Verina Crowley, said yesterday, speaking of her son and the famous basketball player.
Crowley was a certified emergency medical technician when he performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Lewis, to no avail, after the player’s heart stopped on July 27, 1993. In a Globe interview later that day, Crowley said he rushed to the university‚Äôs Shapiro Gymnasium, confirmed that Lewis had no pulse, and frantically tried to revive him.
“I just kept on going,” he said. “I just kept thinking, ‘Don’t let him die – just don’t die.'” . . .
People who know Crowley were skeptical or outright dismissive of allegations of racism.

I woke up in the middle of the night and heard some airhead anchorette on ABC News Now–the network’s overnight show for insomniacs–blame that on “racism,” too. Yes, that’s what racists want to believe: that this White cop wanted a Black pro athlete to die and so he “didn’t try hard enough to save him” as the ABC anchor-bim alleged.
I feel for this guy, Crowley. He tries to do his job. And he apparently can do no right. He can do no right, despite trying to do his job for only one reason: he is marked by the pale color of his skin.
And now even a President has marked him as dastardly, not because of the content of his character, but because of the color of his skin . . . and the gold of his badge.
Is there still racism in America? Yes. But, sadly, a good deal of it is exercised by those with darker complexions against those with paler pigmentation.
If a guy is a White cop versus a Black Harvard academic, no matter what the Black Ph.D. must be the “victim” of the “typical White blue collar racist,” right? That’s the real racism here.
Here’s a little tutorial for those with jerking knees:
This is NOT an example of racism: the arrest of a self-important man (his importance measured by pieces of paper he received from the Ivies) by police with whom he became angry, indignant, and invoked the dumbest line you can utter to police just trying to do their dangerous job on America’s streets: Do you know who I am?
That’s not too smart, whether you’re a Ph.D from Harvard or a drop out from Hard Knocks. Regardless of your complexion.

By Debbie Schlussel
Recently, I told you how Nike and NBA star/Cleveland Cavaliers player LeBron James censored a tape at their basketball camp showing college player Jordan Crawford dunking LeBron. After James whined, Nike seized everyone’s videos and got YouTube to delete all the videos that were sneaked out and posted on the site.
Well, you can’t put the genie back in the opened LeBron bottle. TMZ posted the video. Check it out.

By Debbie Schlussel
A couple of pretty funny videos from Kimmel.

By Debbie Schlussel
My friend, the brilliant Brett Winterble of Covert Radio, lives in the Obama granola state–California. Fruits, Nuts, and Flakes.
And in a conversation, today, he pointed out the interesting–and frightening–set of dynamics going on in the state of Left Coast Obamaland.
As you probably know, California is basically bankrupt. The state has no money and is issuing IOUs, which it has been doing for some time. Because the state is in such desperate financial straits, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his Democrat cronies want to release 27,000 criminals–countless numbers of them violent–from its prisons in order to save money.

Obama-Style Terminator: Wants to Release 27,000 Violent Criminals
Onto the Streets; Then Limit Bullets to Defend Against ‘Em
(Arnold Drawing from Schlussel Wacky Packs Collection)
That’s 27,000 criminals on the streets–the faux Terminator releasing criminals. And Schwarzenegger is lying about it, claming he doesn’t call it “early release,” even though by any other name that’s what it is. (And don’t be shocked if some of these 27,000 make their way elsewhere . . . to other states in the Union.)
That’s bad enough. But, wait, it gets worse. A bill, AB 962–which would limit the number of rounds (bullets) a person can purchase or transfer within a family to 50 rounds/bullets per month–is making its way through the California Legislature, without any objection by Schwarnegger. Talk about statism.
Put 27,000 violent criminals on the street, then limit innocent, law abiding civilians’ ability to defend themselves against them. It’s ridiculous. And it’s gun control. As we all know, bullets–not just guns–are an essential part of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Without a bullet, a gun is useless (unless it’s being used to pistol whip).
DebbieSchlussel.com Exercise in the Obvious of the Day: Bullet Control = Gun Control
50 bullets per month is nothing. Most people use about that much in one practice session at a gun range. This will not only limit citizens’ ability to defend themselves, but also discourage them from being good, practiced shots (and lack of shooting practice usually leads to unrelated targets being hit by accident). If you only get 50 bullets per month, are you gonna waste ’em practicing to shoot . . . or save them for the real thing, when one of those 27,000 criminals comes your way? It’s a safety issue, as much as it is a gun control issue.
Yes, that’s California for you. They want to release tens of thousands of criminals onto their streets, and then limit their residents’ abilities to defend against those criminals. That’s in addition to the fact that California already laid off plenty of police, and the illegal alien ranks there continue to grow. It makes for a scary recipe, a powder keg that could easily explode into a lot of unnecessary crime and bloodshed.
I knew there was a reason that those surgically enhanced beautiful people who don’t want us to have guns, live behind heavily secured gates in the Hollywood Hills and on the beaches of Malibu.
Huge releases of violent criminals and major bullet control–Today, California; Tomorrow, the whole nation.

By Debbie Schlussel
St. Louis Area U.S. Congressman Russ Carnahan gets laughed at as he lies about the costs and effectiveness of Obama’s proposed socialized medicine. Just precious (thanks to reader Jim). Oddly, TheBlackSphere.net, the site of Kevin Jackson–the person who dared ask the last question, about why Congress won’t apply Obamacare to itself–is now “suspended.” Gee, I wonder why. Read my related previous post from June, “Will Congress Apply Obamacare to . . . Itself?”

By Debbie Schlussel
The story of Millie Hinkle’s quest to start a dromedary dairy (camel milk diary) is a hilarious and sad comment–on so many levels–of the sad state of affairs in our country.
It’s got everything: a nutty new age Southerner who wants to pander to Muslims by importing their backward ways and cuisine, and tens of thousands of extremist Muslims who’ve invaded America and you wonder how many are here legally (and which boneheaded bureaucrats let them in).
Here are the important–and very entertaining–parts of the story. (In the past, I’ve written about uncivilized Middle-Eastern Muslim delicacies like camel milk ice cream. I’m just glad it, and the camel milk itself, aren’t kosher. Blechhhhh.)

As you read this, ask yourself, which would be more profitable for Millie–a camel milk dairy for Somalian Muslims . . . or a one-way ticket travel agency for Somalian Muslims, like Shirwa Ahmed, headed back home to do their terrorist biz? That’s not to mention the 20 or so Somalian Muslims that were just indicted for Al-Qaeda activity.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Millie Hinkle first tasted camel milk in the United Arab Emirates about 10 years ago. She had no idea the salty drink, still warm from the camel and served in an ornate bowl with a side of walnuts, would become an obsession.
“It has taken over my life,” said the 57-year-old practitioner of natural medicine as she cruised down a tree-lined road here in her white SUV emblazoned with a camel.
Ms. Hinkle has drained her savings, slashed the number of hours she spends at her day job and started a company called Camel Milk USA. Her goal is to bring the milk, reputed to have healing and aphrodisiac powers, to the U.S. where it’s been hard to get mainly because camels weren’t listed in rules governing the sale of milk.
In April, Ms. Hinkle won initial approval from the National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments, a nonprofit group, to market the milk. Now, she’s awaiting approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on some final details.
But there are several humps to overcome before camel milk is widely available in the U.S. . . . Camels don’t much like to be milked. Camels can be cantankerous and persuading them to give up their milk can be part chore, part art.

Where is PETA when you need them?

Camel milk is a centuries-old staple for nomadic tribes across the Middle East and Africa. It is also drunk by elderly men to enhance virility; by the sick to treat a variety of ailments; and by those who believe it has magical properties.

Translation: The Middle East has no shortage of Junk “Science” (and want for Viagra). That’s not news, if you’ve been paying attention to decades of terrorist attacks, conspiracy theories, and uber-paranoia emanating from that region. Take it from an evil Zionist from the great Satan America (me).

Like I said, it isn’t kosher, and I haven’t tried it. But I’d bet there ain’t nothin’ “licious” about camels or their milk.

In a 2006 report, the United Nations recommended camel milk as an area for Middle East economic development, saying that $10 billion in global sales “would be entirely within the realm of possibility.”

Yeah, that’s the ticket: Once we wean ourselves off of oil, let’s help give our Middle Eastern buddies another revenue source to fund their terrorist attacks on us. Typical U.N stuff.
Here’s the money quote about this airhead:

Ms. Hinkle, who dons flowing white pantsuits and dangly gold earrings, sometimes tears up when talking about her quest. “I have to try to do what I can to help the most people,” she said. “And for me this is it.”
She said she was interested in becoming a physician as a young woman, but after being “poisoned” by lawn pesticides decided instead to study natural medicine. She opened her own clinic about 20 years ago in Raleigh, called Natural Health Resource Center. Here, from a second-floor office, she says she fields emails and calls from people who want camel milk as a health remedy and immigrants who crave the drink.
She gets a phone call almost every week from Abdirizak Mohamuod, a Somalian man in Minnesota who sells dried fruits and ethnic food. He says he has at least 70,000 Somalian customers in Minnesota who would buy it. “We would like to get the milk as soon as possible,” he said.

Um, yeah, how many of these 70,000 Somalian Muslims in Minnesota are here legally? And why are they here even if they are here legally? Do we have such a shortage of homegrown Somalian Muslims imposing their Islamic/sharia will on Target (where they refused to ring up pepperoni pizza), kidnapping, gang-raping, and forced-prostituting women, shooting up neighborhoods, and radicalizing each other to the point they fly home (like Shirwa Ahmed and the 20 Al-Qaeda indictees) to become homicide bombers?

Her drive sent her before the National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments, a nonprofit, industry-backed group formed in 1946 that oversees drafting of certain regulations that are then sent for FDA approval. She put together a proposal asking for camels to be included under the milk rules. The FDA recently gave tentative approval to cover camels, as well as reindeer, llamas, moose and donkeys under the rules.

Ah, donkey and llama milk–that’s what America is missing!!

An FDA spokesman said, “We wanted to improve the science basis in the definition” of milk coming from hooved mammals to include “species that may not have ‘true hooves,'” such as camels.

True hooves or not, looks like somebody–all these multi-cultural New Age idiots–needs a kick in the face.
Get a clue, America. If we make it easier and more comfortable for extremist Muslims who embrace violence and terrorism to live here, they’ll keep coming in droves.
Do we really want our country to be so backward that it’s “just like home”?
This camel milk thing is just the latest data point–the latest symbol–on the journey toward exactly that.

By Debbie Schlussel
In the past, I’ve written on this site about several national security and Islamo-pandering behaviors by Walmart (used to be “Wal-mart” but the store dropped the dash relatively recently).
I’ve written about how Wal-Mart pressured janitorial contractors to hire illegal aliens and how ICE let the retail giant get away with it with a tiny fine and didn’t prosecute the executives on tape urging the use of illegals. And I’ve written about how Wal-Mart sold Nazi Death’s Head T-shirts.
And don’t forget the stores two well known spokespeople who were (and remain) apologists for Islamofascism (here and here). Read the rest of this entry »