By Debbie Schlussel
. . . @ The World According to Carl.
Also, Loren Baker of Search Engine Journal asks, why doesn’t Google honor Memorial Day?
That’s a great question, given the fact that Google honors Halloween, St. Patrick’s Day, Earth Day, etc? You’d think that the country that made so many Google-ionaires and those who died to protect the right to Google would at least merit a drawing of a lowered American flag or the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the Google search engine.
But you would be wrong.

By Debbie Schlussel
With Hollywood’s spate of anti-American war movies over the last several years (all of them bombs), my friend Mike Church (on whose Sirius Patriot Channel 144 show I do movie reviews and talk politics, every Friday) has a great list of great movies for Memorial Day. These movies–selections of the KingDude Memorial Day Movie Guide–honor our troops and celebrate their greatness, heroism, courage under fire, and sacrifices throughout American history. I agree with all of Mike’s choices (though I haven’t yet seen “The Crossing”) and add two others:
* The Great Raid (click to read my review)
* Saving Private Ryan
What movies would you add to Mike’s and my lists?

By Debbie Schlussel
I don’t think I can add to my Memorial Day post, last year, remembering and honoring our fallen troops, so I’m reposting excerpts of it, below. I wrote it just after I learned that my late father, a proud U.S. Army veteran, was dying of cancer. (Blessed Be His Memory.) He was always proud of our American troops and instilled in me that lifelong appreciation of those who made the ultimate sacrifice so that his family, my family, could be free, after having escaped the anti-Semitism of Europe.

U.S. Army Sgt. Chris Moore @ the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
(Photo by H. Darr Beiser/USA Today)
I’d also like to draw your attention to this EXCELLENT USA Today cover story from Friday, “Friends, Comrades Live on in Hearts of Iraq Veterans: Memories of Fallen Friends–Americans Remember Comrades Lost in Battle in Iraq and Afghanistan,” detailing a few who gave their lives and sacrificed in the service of our country. All of them are impressive people and men and women of incredible courage.
Among the nine heroic stories are those of Army Reserve Sgt. James “Ski” Witkowski, who blocked a grenade with his body to spare the lives of three soldiers in his Humvee; and Army Col. Brian Allgood, a doctor and rising star, who died in 2007, when insurgent terrorists shot down the American Black Hawk helicopter in which he was riding to go treat more American wounded; and Army Staff Sgt. Fernando Santos, killed in the 14th month of his third combat deployment of Iraq.
Read all of their touching stories of heroism and the ultimate in American patriotism.
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Natl Guard Staff Sgt. Duane Dreasky is Buried in Arlington Natl. Cemetery
It’s trite but true: Today is a day that’s much more than hot dogs and picnics. It’s far more important. It’s about remembering those who gave their lives (and limbs) so that we could be and remain–to this day–free. Freedom isn’t free. For or against the war? Either way, they gave their lives so that you could travel, gather, associate, and speak your mind.
They’re great Americans, like Michigan National Guardsman Sgt. Duane Dreasky (my posts about him here, here here, here, here, and here), who volunteered to go to Iraq, even though–after a year serving at Guantanamo Bay–he was assigned to stay here in comfort as a recruiter. He died, last year, after a valiant 8-month fight to survive wounds from a terrorist attack near Habbaniyah, Iraq. The heroic Dreasky suffered burns over 75% of his body, but still tried to salute President Bush when he visited his bedside.
Today, I think not just of those who gave their lives, but those who’ve returned home missing physical parts of themselves–the many amputees and other war-wounded, who were lucky enough to survive, but who also made a great sacrifice.

Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke, Jr., Iraq War Vet, Hugs Pearl Harbor Survivor/WWII Vet Houston James (Graunke Lost a Leg, Hand, and Eye Defusing a Bomb in Iraq)

But many of us don’t think about the troops much. You might be on a plane, reading the paper or a magazine, and not know or appreciate that one of our first-class American Heroes is riding beneath you . . .

. . . . In the media, my friend, Peter Collier, writes in an excellent must-read Wall Street Journal piece, about how the New York Times spent 32 front-page days screaming and whining about Abu Ghraib, but not a single front page and hardly a mention to our military heroes who gave their lives in battle. Ditto for the rest of the media:

Once we knew who and what to honor on Memorial Day: Those who had given all their tomorrows, as was said of the men who stormed the beaches of Normandy, for our todays. But in a world saturated with selfhood, where every death is by definition a death in vain, the notion of sacrifice today provokes puzzlement more often than admiration. We support the troops, of course, but we also believe that war, being hell, can easily touch them with an evil no cause for engagement can wash away. And in any case we are more comfortable supporting them as victims than as warriors.
Former football star Pat Tillman and Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham were killed on the same day: April 22, 2004. But as details of his death fitfully emerged from Afghanistan, Tillman has become a metaphor for the current conflict — a victim of fratricide, disillusionment, coverup and possibly conspiracy. By comparison, Dunham, who saved several of his comrades in Iraq by falling on an insurgent’s grenade, is the unknown soldier. The New York Times, which featured Abu Ghraib on its front page for 32 consecutive days, put the story of Dunham’s Medal of Honor on the third page of section B.

Read his whole article, in which he details the bravery and courage of some of our Medal of Honor recipients.
But despite what American officials and institutions do at the top, the American people care about you, our soldiers, our fighting men and women. To all of our American soldiers, living and dead, we salute you, we pray for you, we appreciate you, and we thank you for fighting for our freedom and the continued existence of our beloved country. To those for whom Memorial Day is meant, thank you for making the ultimate sacrifice so that we may be free. Rest in Peace.

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Graves of Some of Our Fallen Heroes at Arlington National Cemetery
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Look up your relatives’/family’s military history (war records, draft cards, gravestone info) from 1607 through the end of the Vietnam War on Ancestry.com’s U.S. Military Collection, free until the anniversary of D-Day, June 6th. It’s very cool. I found a lot of my Schlussel relatives’ military info dating back to the 1800s, including Col. Albert H. Schlussel of the U.S. Air Force, who served in WWII and Korea and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. (FYI, the Ancestry.com Military Collection is not complete, as I noticed many members of my family, who were drafted (or enlisted) and served, are missing from the list.
(Thanks to the MySpace page of USMC 03 Curt, from which I got some of the photos on this page and where you will find many more touching pics of our brave men and women.)

By Debbie Schlussel
Recently, I noted Academy Award winning actor Jon Voight’s trip to Israel to celebrate its 60th birthday and visit victims of HAMAS terrorist attacks in Sderot.
Joe Gelman of Neocon Express found this video from a May 18th Israeli newscast, in which Voight talks about Israel, its constant siege by terrorists, and his visit to Sderot–the working class city, where Jews, whose families escaped persecution in Arab countries, are under attack. (Yes, he stumbles on the figure of 3,600 years, but it’s probably jet lag. The guy knows his stuff.) He also discusses why he moved “to the right”. If only his daughter Angelina Jolie Voight a/k/a “Skankelina” would learn from his wisdom.
Watch the whole thing–this guy gets it!!!!:

Voight was also in Israel to visit child victims of the Chernobyl nuclear accident brought to Israel by the Chabad Lubavitch group of Orthodox Jews.
“Please fellas, there’s evil afoot.” Right on. Like I said, this guy knows his stuff.

By Debbie Schlussel
Since I’ve already reviewed this weekend’s new release, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” and since I’m often asked which movies I’d recommend for rental, I thought I’d take this opportunity before a long Memorial Day weekend to recommend a couple of movies I like that are either out of the mainstream or older. Given my interest in thrillers and homeland security issues, I liked both of these thrillers a lot:
* “Right At Your Door“: This movie, made in 2006, was only released in a handful of theaters in 2007 for a couple of nights. And that was it. It’s hard to tell why, because it’s well done and very timely.

What would you do if a dirty bomb or some other sort of chemical weapon is detonated in your area? Do you go outside and try to find your wife? Do you let her in after she returns and you’ve decided she’s probably already afflicted with the fumes/chemicals?
This movie, starring little-known actors, asks those questions and shows how unprepared we are for such an attack and how little we know. An unemployed man kisses his wife and sends her off to work. Not long after a chemical attack on Los Angeles takes place. By the time she gets home, he won’t let her in and has insulated his house. What happens next is interesting and surprising.
It’s a must see.
* “The Parallax View“: This 1974 movie is a masterpiece, which stands the test of time. Everything from the way it is shot to the clever, unexpected ending is magnificent. While I don’t generally believe in conspiracy theories, especially when it comes to the shooting of JFK, etc., this thriller–which buys into that–plays it well. (Again, for the record, I find movies like “JFK” and theories that the Warren Commission was covering up for some massive conspiracy, to be extremely loony and wacked.)
The story: One by one, those who witnessed the assassination of a rising star U.S. Senator die in mysterious circumstances atop Seattle’s famed Space Needle. One witness, a journalist played by Warren Beatty (no, I don’t like him or his far-leftism, but he’s good in this), starts investigating and finds a mysterious shadow corporation of assassins.
Thrilling, exciting, and with some great action scenes, I hope they don’t “remake” this movie and ruin it. Only some video rental chains have this movie. Blockbuster and Netflix both have it, but Hollywood Video does not.

By Debbie Schlussel
More evidence (as if we needed it) that the Department of Homeland Security is a big mess that has nothing to do with actual “homeland security.”
In 2002, DHS was ordered by Congress to tighten security at our nation’s ports. They were ordered to issue high-tech IDs to all port workers. Six years later, the program is finally being “implemented,” if you can call this implementation. Better to call it Screwed Up Beyond All Apparent Relief, or “How America Adopted Anachronistic Practices of the Former Soviet Paradise“:

A Homeland Security Department program to tighten port security by issuing high-tech identification cards to more than a million workers is riddled with problems as it’s getting underway, according to barge company owners, union chiefs and some members of Congress.

The program was ordered by Congress in 2002 amid fears that terrorists would try to sneak weapons and operatives into the country through its seaports. People such as truckers, dock workers and deck hands are required to submit to fingerprinting and background checks before they are issued a new ID allowing them access to the ships, cargo containers, docks and equipment used to move millions of tons of cargo each year.
Workers trying to sign up for the cards face jammed phone lines, crowded enrollment centers, redundant background checks and more as they try to navigate the program, critics say.
Maurine Fanguy, the chief of the identification program, says the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) vastly underestimated the number of workers who would need cards.

Hmmm . . . TSA “understimated” something. Shocker.

This month, the Homeland Security Department announced an extension of the Sept. 25, 2008, compliance date to April 15, 2009 — the latest in a series of delays.

Heckuva Job, Chertoff.

“This has been a real nightmare,” said Steve Golding of Golding Barge Line in Vicksburg, Miss.
He says only five of his 75 employees, most of whom applied months ago, have gotten a card back.
The slow pace is widespread: At the Port of New York/New Jersey, 13,000 of 125,000 workers have a card.

Six years to implement this program, and they’re only just starting it now. Six years to implement this program and it’s slower than Soviet-style bureaucracy.
And you expect this same incompetent bureaucracy–run by an incompetent lawyer–to catch terrorists? Think again.
Almost seven years after 9/11, our ports are still not safe. And guess who was President for all seven of ’em . . . .
Too busy pressuring Israel and sending Condi Clueless to hang with Assad. Glad he’s got his priorities straight. Even gladder that it’s T-minus-7.5-months.
Heckuva Job, Bushie.

By Debbie Schlussel
It’s no surprise that–even with his gargantuan record of pandering to Islamists, terrorists, anti-Semites, and America-haters–Barack Obama is leading John McCain by at least 2-1 in poll after poll of Jewish voters in America.
That’s because the GOP has had–for over a decade–people like Matt Brooks, Executive Director of the so-called Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC), running their lackluster campaign. Instead of speaking on behalf of Jewish interests–like Israel and terrorism (which are, frankly, American interests, not just Jewish ones)–Brooks and his RJC pander to anti-Israel, pan-Islamist Republican politicians.
My friend, the great Yehudah of New York, has a name for the Jews Jews like Matt, who claim to represent Jewish interests to the Republican party, but actually do vice versa: RINO-JINOs (“Rhyno-Gynos”), which stands for

Republicans In Name Only, Jews In Name Only.

You know the type. They are the typical “congenital GOP,” Republican for business or family reasons and zero conservative reasons. The same goes for their connection to organized Judaism or any sort of Jewish interests.
In over a decade at the helm of the RJC, Brooks never did increase the Jewish Republican vote much beyond 25%. In most national elections, even Blacks vote Republican in higher percentages than Jews (though with Obama atop the ticket, that’ll likely be different, this year). That’s a pretty sad performance, considering that the Democratic party is full of anti-Semites who hate Israel. While the party is rife with Jacksons, Sharptons, Farrakhans, McKinneys, and the like and has been for years, the only things that have increased under Brooks’ Republican Jewish “leadership” have been his rotundity and his salary.
In 2005, the last year for which RJC taxes were filed, Brooks made about $350,000 in salary and benefits, a large chunk of RJC’s total budget. That includes the salary and benefits he earns from the RJC front-group posing as a Jewish think tank, the National Jewish Policy Center, a quarter of whose budget goes to Brooks’ salary. In contrast, Ira Forman, Brooks’ counterpart at the National Jewish Democratic Council, made less than $122,000 in salary and benefits, according to the group’s 2006 taxes. Also in contrast, Brooks makes more than Wayne LaPierre, who heads the far bigger NRA, and Howard Kohr, who heads the much larger American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
And while Brooks’ salary has grown, the list of anti-Israel speakers and guests he’s featured at RJC events has grown, too:

* In 2003, after I wrote a scathing piece against anti-Israel, pro-Hezbollah Republican Congressman Darrell Issa a/k/a “Jihad Darrell” in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal, the RJC hosted an even with Issa to “answer Debbie Schlussel.” (Debbie Schlussel was not invited, FYI.)
This was after RJC’s then-California chief, Bruce Bialosky (a wealthy Beverly Hills accountant), called me and insisted to me that, despite Issa’s open support for Hezbollah and hatred of Israel, I “need to sit down to lunch with Darrell Issa,” and that he would “facilitate” the “peace conference.”
Issa has consistently supported Syria and feted father and son Assad, called Israel “an apartheid” state, Hezbollah a “group of farmers” who “do humanitarian things,” and Yasser Arafat a kind man with small hands who lets you eat the food off his plate and has a good sense of humor. In 2002, at the height of homicide bombings against Israelis, Issa went to do some Arafat food-tasting by hanging with him during the Ramallah siege. Read more about RJC poster boy, Issa a/k/a “Jihad Darrell,” here.
Despite the fact that RJC’s Bialosky knew Issa’s record well, he told me, “He is a Congressman, and he might be California Governor. And we need to be nice to him.” Issa would pay for my trip and meal, he told me. I don’t do peace conferences, I oppose them, and I told him I would not even accept one greasy falafel ball from Jihad Darrell.
* In 2005, the RJC was set to host Tom Campbell, one of the most anti-Israel members of Congress, and one of two Congressmen who marched in Florida to protest the jailing of Islamic Jihad chief Sami Al-Arian and his brother-in-law. (The other Congresman was David Bonior.) Campbell’s Chief of Staff, Suhail Khan, was the son of a top Al-Qaeda fundraiser and brought Islamists and anti-Semites into the Bush White House (in his next job). After I wrote about it and the RJC got tons of angry phone calls (and dissed me in reponse–kill the messenger), they were forced to “replace” Campbell as the speaker.
* In 2006, the RJC was set to host Christopher Hitchens, whose comments about Israel are consistently disgusting. They “postponed” it indefinitely, after the Washington Jewish Week’s astute reporter Eric Fingerhut covered it and reported on my and other Jewish leaders’ rightful outrage.
* In 2006, when a new Texas chapter of the RJC was set to kick-off in Austin, they invited me as their speaker. Just prior to the event, RJC demanded that their name be taken off the event, even though it was a packed house. Sadly, I helped good Jewish conservatives get involved in RINO-JINO, Inc.
* At a 1999 or 2000 National Jewish Policy Center (which Matt Brooks also heads as RJC chief) in Arizona, all of the speakers (except the great Ruth Wisse) called for Jonathon Pollard to rot in jail for life. Rabbi Daniel Lapin, Mel Gibson’s rabbi and a rabbi with zero congregation or pulpit, made the outrageous statement that Congressmen know American Jews are loyal, but they just don’t know which country (Israel or America) they are loyal to. Way to go, RJC, questioning Jews’ loyalty to America. I question RJC’s loyalty to America.

Given all this, it’s rather hilarious that RJC claims this–on its tax returns–as its “mission”:

PROGRAMS SEEK TO EDUCATE AND ADVOCATE SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL AS WELL AS OTHER FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DOMESTIC ISSUES OF IMPORTANCE TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY.

And the RJC has lofty, right-wing sounding official positions. But who cares? It’s all bunk, when you see who they’re supporting and breaking bread with.
Today in RJC history is more of the same.
This afternoon, in Michigan, the RINO-JINOs are holding a kick-off event. And their choice of guest of honor is most interesting, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, who badly wants to be Governor.
But Cox has a history of pandering to Islamists and refusing to prosecute them for serious crimes such as mass Medicaid fraud. His schedule features regular appearances at openly pro-HAMAS and pro-Hezbollah organizations, where he offers his help to extremists. Here’s a brief summary of Cox’s achievements, from my column about federal insurance fraud convict Ali Jawad, an open supporter of Hezbollah and one of its most important agents in America. Jawad was kicked off the McCain campaign. But Cox was a major recipient of Ali Jawad’s campaign contributions and hasn’t returned them. And Jawad has a habit of only giving to pro-Hezbollah Republicans:

So, how did Jawad formerly come to be one of six members of John McCain’s Michigan campaign finance committee in the first place? . . .
[P]erhaps he was tapped because he was a major donor to Michigan Attorney General Cox. Cox was McCain’s Michigan campaign chairman, but resigned last summer, when it looked like McCain’s campaign wasn’t going to succeed. Now that McCain is the presumptive nominee, though, fair-weather friend Cox is back on board and has his name on the invitation. As a Jawad donee, Cox–who is running for Michigan Governor–played both sides of the war on terrorism.
After he appeared and spoke at a pro-Israel rally, during the 2006 war with Hezbollah, Cox then campaigned at the dinner of the extremist, openly pro-Hezbollah/HAMAS Council of Islamic Organizations of Michigan dinner. [The keynote speaker at the event was a man who said Israel comitted the 9/11 attacks.] And he visited the offices of Jawad’s friend [FBI award revokee, “former” Islamic terrorist, and marriage fraud perpetrator] Imad Hamad–the openly pro-Hezbollah/HAMAS Michigan ADC–asking what he could do for them. That’s not to mention that he lied about and refused to pursue millions of dollars in Medicaid fraud by pregnant foreign alien Muslims perpetrated by the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS).
Cox waited for the last of the Medicaid defrauders to leave the country before he filed a few toothless, token warrants for their arrest, sending out press releases and going on national TV to brag about it. When Cox was contacted by Michigan Republican legislators, upon ACCESS chief Ismael Ahmed’s nomination to head the Michigan Department of Human Sevices (overseeing billions in Medicaid), Cox declined to give them any information and was suddenly mum, unlike his effusive “O’Reilly Factor” appearance regarding the topic.

And last, but not least, Mike Cox allowed illegal aliens to drive from all over America to get driver’s licenses here in Michigan. He sat by for five years, despite complaints from many Michiganians. Once he decided he was running for governor, he suddenly changed course and cited 9/11 and how the hijacker’s easily got IDs. Well, guess what? 9/11 happened before Cox was ever elected Attorney General in 2002, but he looked the other way for over five years.
Ironically, Mike Cox will speak to Michigan’s RINO-JINOs about “The Importance of the Jewish Vote in 2008.” But a better topic might be “The Importance of the Jewish Vote in 2010,” when Jews can exercise their importance and vote against Cox’s bid for Governor.
So, why is Cox the “main event” for Michigan RINO-JINOs? Well, Matt Brooks told me the obvious. His new, Deputy Chief of Staff at RJC, Stu Sandler, organized the event.
Who is Stu Sandler? Well, until this year, he was Mike Cox’s Girl Friday and “cleaner.” The unimpressive Sandler’s official title was “Assistant Michigan Attorney General for Foreign Affairs.” And since Michigan doesn’t have foreign diplomacy to speak of (especially from the Attorney General’s office), it can only mean one or all of three things, since he really hasn’t practiced law to speak of. He’s not even a licensed member of the State Bar of Michigan, so one wonders how he could parade around as an “Assistant Attorney General” of anything in Michigan.
Sandler’s name and testimony are all over a Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission case involving an attorney who was involved in Cox’s attempts to keep his extramarital affairs secret and to keep Geoffrey Fieger from talking about it during a failed Cox investigation of Fieger. Yup, Foreign “Affairs” of the heart and the libido. Michigan taxpayer dollars at work.
Then, there’s Sandler’s involvement in stopping the prosecution of the Medicaid fraud by the foreign Muslim aliens. He was intimately involved in that, and he contacted me regarding it. The Medicaid fraud continues to this day, thanks to Sandler and Cox. Oh, and Sandler was in charge of sending Cox to both the pro-Israel rally and then the HAMAS/Hezbollah Islamic dinner. He sent me a curt e-mail because I dared write about Cox’s sickening attendance at the Islamo-confab.
Uh-huh, the guy who is 2nd in command of the Jewish campaign for McCain and against Obama only recently was answering to “Slut clean-up in Aisle Eight!” and “Hezbo Falafel-Fest Aisle Five!” That’s why McCain is losing the Jews to Obama.
RJC’s Matt Brooks constantly complains that I don’t go to him first with complaints about his constant parade of anti-Israel, pan-terrorist speakers and guests of honor. That’s not a valid complaint, but I called him a couple of weeks ago. First, he pawned off my call on the “Cleaner”/”Assistant Attorney General for Foreign Affairs” Sandler. Then, he called. When I told him about Cox and that there were many Jewish high-dollar Republican McCain donor friends of mine who were disgusted by Cox as the guest, he responded:

But are they high dollar donors to the RJC? Are they on our national board? If not, then we don’t care.

Translation: “No Dollah, No Hollah.” [For you RINO-JINOS, that’s, “No Dollar, No Holler.”]
That’s your Republican ambassador to Jewish America . . . and actually, all of America.

Mazel Tov: RINO-JINO-in-Chief Matt Brooks
Fetes Michigan’s Top GOP Pan-Islamist Mike Cox
And finally, there is the other name on the invitation for the Michigan RJC RINO-JINO event, Ambassador Ron Weiser–the King of RINO-JINOs.
When I first learned that federal convict and Hezbo was on the invitation to a John McCain fundraiser that took place two weeks ago, I contacted Weiser, as his name appeared atop the invitation. I noted that he had zero involvement in any Jewish organizations whatsoever (google him and you’ll see). He’s simply out of touch with our community. When I told Weiser about Jawad’s federal conviction and open support for Hezbollah, the shocking conversation went like this:

Ron Weiser: Well, we don’t care about the Hezbollah stuff.
Debbie Schlussel: What?! John McCain doesn’t care about Hezbollah, while he’s saying we’re fighting terrorists over there in Iraq, so we don’t have to fight them here?!
Ron Weiser: Well, what I mean is that everyone in America has a First Amendment Right to support whatever group they want, even Hezbollah terrorists.
Debbie Schlussel: Yes, but they don’t have a right to be atop the McCain campaign in Michigan. If that’s the case, why not invite Jimmy Carter to host the event? And one of Ali Jawad’s convicted co-defendants in the insurance fraud is from the Makki family that sold and were convicted of Hezbollah cigarette smuggling.
Ron Weiser: Look, just give me the case numbers of his insurance fraud convictions.

Yes, this is the RINO-JINO who is king of Michigan RINO-JINOs and on the national board of RINO-JINO, Inc. a/k/a the Republican Jewish Coalition. And he’s also a big Bush donor, the reason he was rewarded by the Bush campaign with ambassadorships. He’s also the guy McCain would pick as an ambassador. Great to hear, “We don’t care about the Hezbollah stuff,” from a U.S. diplomat. Well, at least he’s saying publicly what they all think privately. Thank heaven for small favors.
This isn’t a new phenomenon regarding RINO-JINOs in Michigan, the heart of Islamist America and the heart of Hezbollah, USA. The woman organizing and helping fundraise for this RJC Michigan event is the daughter of a high-dollar Mike Cox donor. She’s also the former fundraiser for indicted, corrupt liberal Democrat Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. When I once confronted her on this, this daughter of multi-millionaires said she had no allegiances. “I made money. That’s what I do.” So did the woman who serviced “Client 9.”
This woman was also the organizer of a “Jewish Republican” event hosted at the home of Orthodox Rabbi with no pulpit or congregation, E.B. “Bunni” Friedman, pimping pan-Arabist, failed Michigan Republican Gubernatorial candidate, Dick DeVos. Despite advertising the event as a question-and-answer event, she and Rabbi Friedman tried to keep me from asking questions of DeVos, regarding his relationship with ACCESS, the anti-Israel, pro-Hezbollah/HAMAS welfare agency that got millions in Federal and Michigan tax funds and which is engaged in ongoing Medicaid fraud.
Normally, an Orthodox rabbi believes in “Negiyah,” the Jewish concept of not touching a woman who is not his wife or immediate family member. But in grabbing me and in pulling me away from DeVos (to keep me from asking questions), he suddenly forgot about that. Rabbi Friedman and his son, Mo, ran the “Jews for George (Bush)” ’04 campaign. More RINO-JINO-ism.
And RJC’s forever chief, Brooks, surrounds himself with similar minds. He’s tight with Dan Senor and has been friends with him since Senor shilled as press secretary for Hezbollah-financier, Arafat-supporting then-U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham. Senor–another prominent RINO-JINO (whose family is extremely liberal)–is responsible, with Paul Bremer, for the failed de-Ba’athification of Iraq, which has lead to a Shi’ite government that puts in place the full pan-Hezbollah Shi’ite crescent in the Mid-East. Senor is now married to Campbell Brown, who as an NBC reporter gave a gushing interview to then HAMAS leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi. (She was the girlfriend of Saudi spokesman and Ambassador to the U.S. Adel Al-Jubeir.) Senor recently wrote a clueless (or deliberately false, not sure which) Wall Street Journal article praising former Argentinian President Carlos Memem as anti-Iran. But Menem was not only pro-Iran, he halted the investigation into and covered up the Hezbollah’s and Iran’s involvement in the bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish Community Center and Israeli Embassy in the mid-’90s. Menem covered it up because his family is Muslim and because he was paid $5 million, the New York Times reported.
That’s the RINO-JINO movement for you.
Once headed by conservative columnist Linda Chavez’s husband, Chris Gersten (and at that time called the National Jewish Coalition), the RJC was then a force for the interests of the Jewish people. Its newsletter was regularly critical of Republican President George H.W. Bush and his man James Baker for pressuring Israel and Yitzchak Shamir. It stood up for the Jewish community of Nicaragua, which was under attack by Daniel Ortega’s Sandinistas.
Sadly, it’s no longer a Jewish organization or an American one. It’s just a well-funded PR machine with a giant prostitution dynamic going on.
As my friend Yehudah says,

BEWARE OF THE RINO-JINOs!

By Debbie Schlussel
I’m always interested in who is reading this site. It’s quite a diverse group of people. So diverse that it even includes the very cool Nebraskan, Dan Whitney a/k/a “Larry the Cable Guy.” As you might expect, he’s a conservative and a patriot. Dan a/k/a Larry sent me these two e-mails, which he gave me permission to publish. And, yes, it’s really him. We had a nice chat on the phone, last night.

From: Dan Whitney
Date: Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:48 AM
Subject: git-r-done!
To: writedebbie@gmail.com

Hey Debbie. This is Dan Whitney A.K.A. Larry the Cable Guy. I just had a second from touring and I’m here at the house and figured I’d drop you an e-mail. I’m a huge fan of yours and have enjoyed listening to you on Howards [DS: Howard Stern] show back in the day and I hear you on Mike Church as well [DS: Sirius Patriot Channel 144–I’m on every Friday morning between 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. Eastern].
Your web site rocks as well, and it’s one of the few sites I ever visit that has great insight on things. I just wanted to let ya know I appreciate what you do and let ya know I’m a fan. I’m sure you catch a lot of s–t from left wing bloggers and I love your kiss my ass mentality. I gotta tell ya there’s not one thing I disagree with you about except maybe the fact that I liked Rambo. I actually sat so close to the screen I actually saw his face move a couple times!
Anyway keep doing what your doing and know that there’s
alot of entertainers out here that love ya!
git-r-done! Dan/Larry the Cable Guy
By the way my wife is also a big fan and we’d love to have ya out to a show sometime. Larrythecableguy.com See ya!

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Excerpted:

From: Dan Whitney
Date: Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: git-r-done!
To: writedebbie@gmail.com
My movie DVD release of “Witless Protection” comes out in June. [DS: He will be on “The Tonight Show” in June to promote it.]
Like I said, I really respect you and their no holds barred CORRECT view on things. But your web site really is doin’ good things and you have no idea how much of a positive difference you make in the fight against this socialist disease that has infested our country.You have helped me in my attempt to grow some thick skin. Believe me I need it. And I just tell goofy one liners!!! Anyway, keep doin’ yer thang!
git-r-done! Dan/Larry the Cable Guy

Thanks, Dan! Glad you like my work.

By Debbie Schlussel
In addition to what I said in my review, the new Indiana Jones movie, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull“ (try saying that five times fast) is missing the magical scenes from the first edition, “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” Like reader MarySJ and, I’m sure, many others, my favorite scene (actually, my favorite movie scene ever) is when the Nazis open the Ark and their faces melt because they looked at the image of G-d emanating from it. (This is a Jewish belief, and we even look away when the high priests deliver a special prayer, so as not to see the presence of G-d.)
As a reminder, here’s the scene (shorter version–first, followed by the entire scene, which you really need to see):

Bonus scene: Here’s the Nazi uber-aging scene from “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” . . .

Nothing even close to these scenes in the “Crystal Skull.” Sorry.

By Debbie Schlussel
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents first told me about their raid on the Agriprocessors plant, early last week, I asked them whether they’d ever raid the country’s largest Halal slaughterhouse or meat-packing plant.
“Hell, no!” replied one. “These raids have to be approved by the White House, and they’d never go for that.”
So, why exactly did the White House go for the extremely wasteful “raid” of the world’s largest kosher meat processing plant in Iowa? And why was $10 million spent to capture 349 illegal aliens?

ICE initially arrested a total of 389 aliens working at the plant, but let 50 of them go back into the great American abyss for so-called “humanitarian” reasons (meaning we’ll never catch them again), giving them Notices to (Dis)Appear. Many of those were prior deportees or those with Deportation Orders against them, and the release of aliens with these records for any reason–“humanitarian” or otherwise–is unprecedented. Not to mention, absurd ad infinitem.
Do the math. That means that ICE spent about $30,000 to catch each illegal alien in this raid.
The operation is being billed as “the largest single worksite enforcement arrest operation in U.S. history,” but it’s a distinction without a difference, since more aliens at multiple worksites have been arrested in one day. And almost all of those arrested in this case–even though many used fake IDs and social security numbers and others were repeat deportees–were given “time served” for the so-called criminal charges filed against them.
In this case, “time served” meant from a few hours to a couple of days on a cot in Waterloo, Iowa’s National Cattle Congress exhibition facility, before being deported back to Guatemala, where most of them were from. And the deportation cost goes beyond the $10,000,000 initial expense. Instead of chartering planes to fly the aliens back, each will be flown separately on a commercial flight at top last-minute-ticket dollar.
Oh, and not a single employer was arrested for harboring and employing these aliens. Not one. Another experienced ICE agent at the raid tells me:

We charge the workers and then try to spin it like we are making “criminal” arrests of the company officials. The number 90 officials arrested, is ALL low level employees, not even mid or high level officials.
The former INS would CIVILLY fine these corps for violations. ICE is NOT doing this. ICE puts this criminal spin BS out there and that is only lowly workers. NO CIVIL fines. ICE doesn’t want to hurt the real criminal, the employers. This is all POLITICAL Bush BS.
ICE could actually get much higher civil fines, since the amounts have been raised since we became ICE. But ICE does not levy ANY civil fines or penalties against Swift, Pilgrim or Agriprocessors. ICE does these BS “criminal” arrests which are really just laborers who are being deported and being used by ICE for phony criminal statistics. These are administrative arrests, being dressed up as criminal arrests for show only. No fines are being levied against the employers which could be done by ICE, using the administrative fines and penalties just like Customs and now CBP does in FP&F (Fines, Penalties and Forfeitures). These Immigration civil penalties (fines) are a powerful tool that ICE is not using to pop the corporations. Instead Myers lies and spins about criminal arrests (lowly Hispanic laborers) which she wants the media to believe are against the company and are in fact real criminal investigations. NOT.

As one high-level ICE agent with decades of immigration experience told me, this huge amount of spending on deporting a few harmless Guatemalans–none of whose countrymen or co-religionists were among those 19 guys hijacking those four planes–is laughable, especially if you’re aware that ICE is struggling for money and agents are begging for funds for oil changes and opening up new case files for dangerous criminals and visa overstays from the Mid-East.
That this was allegedly the “largest” ICE number of worksite arrests on a single site at one time is not the important distinction here. The ICE Agent correctly points out that this is the “distinction”:

The most expensive immigration case ever wrapped up. ICE spent $10 million on the Agriprocessors case. How outrageous is that? As if the Pilgrim’s Pride case [similar joke of a raid from April] weren’t bad enough at around $3,000,000, this one takes the cake. There were 700 ICE agents there plus Detention and Removal Operations and Federal Protective Service staff. If you total it up, the agents outnumbered the aliens 2 to 1 and each arrest cost $25K. [DS: More like 3 to 1, and $30K.] They could have sent my office $100K and not only could we have arrested over 1,000 illegal aliens in the course of a month, but we would have actually prosecuted 20+ employers by making good criminal cases.
This case is so much fluff. It will pad the criminal worksite numbers for the year and boost the administrative arrests to ICE’s all time high. Although I believe in doing worksite enforcement, which is rare in this agency, the cost of this one operation is obscene. That money could have funded hundreds of cases which could have REALLY made a difference around the country.
From the e-mails that I see Jules [ICE Chieftess Julie L. Myers a/k/a “The ICE Princess”] is starting to try to justify this massive joke. There have been at least 3 e-mails that I’ve seen asking offices to update worksite stats, etc. I even heard she’s making calls out to offices to berate them on why certain cases were coded as immigration fraud or alien smuggling and not worksite enforcement. I guess she’s getting ready to pull another smoke screen when Congress or the OIG [Office of the Inspector General] comes knocking. Unfortunately, by the time that happens she’ll be long gone and some poor career puke will have to take the beating.
The election can’t come fast enough.
Hope we have money to gas up our cars the rest of the year.

The 1,000 or so ICE agents and Detention and Removal Operations officials present for this mass boondoggle, themselves, knew this whole operation was a joke. Another agent on the scene:

There appeared to be 100% agreement among the “street agents” (and I talked to many) from all over the country assigned to the Operation CVJ (Cedar Valley Junction) circus and at least 2 group supervisors that this was one mucked up, unorganized goat rope! BIG waste of money, no bang for the buck!

That’s why many of them were seen surfing on this site from the National Cattle Congress, looking for my take. After all, far too many of them were ordered not to use their cell phones or Blackberries in this very poorly planned, mass-waste operation. Their boss–ICE Director of Investigations, Marcy Forman-Friedman, who couldn’t be bothered to locate herself in podunk Iowa for this “operation”–was livid that because of the strain on the single satellite ICE put into operation in Waterloo, Iowa, she couldn’t get minute by minute stats of aliens arrested.
Computers used to enter aliens’ information and agents’ cells in use for the purpose of conducting the operation, used up most of the energy and bandwidth available for the one satellite ICE used in the middle of Podunkville. Because of this, the signal was poor and struggled. Forman, therefore, ordered that some agents stop using their phones and computers–necessary to smoothly conduct and complete the operation–so that the most important part of the raid–sending her the minute-by-minute figures, so she could brag about the “success” of the operation to the press and her teenaged Valley Girl boss, Myers, “The ICE Princess.”
Then, there’s the issue of whether any of these aliens, on whom we’ve now spent $30K apiece will actually be sent packing. Myers pushed ICE agents to make sure that they don’t actually leave the country but, instead, overclog the already overclogged immigration courts.
Said a high-ranking ICE agent:

Jules [Myers, The ICE Princess] was screaming at the SAC [Special Agent in Charge] of Minneapolis/St. Paul, whose operation the Agriprocessors raid was. Seems Jules was playing case agent and over-ruling the SACs decisions on an hourly basis.
One stark instance of that related to a civil libretarian attorney who claimed he represented 140 of the aliens arrested. He filled out G-28 (Notice of Legal Representative Forms). The SAC looked at them and they were not signed by the detainees. We usually tell the attorney to pound sand as the policy has always been a “completed” G-28. This prevents attorneys from soliceiting clients, and it keeps the attorneys for alien smugglers from representing their victims. And in many cases, it keeps corporate counsel from the illegal alien employer from representing the illegal employees and coaching tjhem on statements. Despite decades of precedent, Jules overruled the SAC and demanded that any attorney could have access if they “claimed” they “represented” (claimed to represent) a detainee.
Reminds me of when the former Soviet consulate representatives would demand to interview detainees to threaten the crap out of them so they wouldn’t claim asylum and spill their guts to us.

And then, there’s the raid itself. Agents told me they were never shown the arrest warrant or search warrant. That’s a basic absolute requirement in police work. Some agents, who are former cops, told me they were shocked they were sent in to storm a business and arrest people, when they were never shown the basic paperwork authorizing them to do so. It puts their careers and lives at risk.
When the got to the Agriprocessors plant, it was mass chaos. The raid was not planned well, and doors and points of entry and escape were not immediately secured–again, basic police work. Many aliens tried to flee. And several of the Chassidic Jews who run the plant wanted to enter the facilities. One agent:

I can’t remember ANY government operation being more disorganized and rudderless. NO ONE was in charge. They are all too busy seeking camera time and telling lies about the size and scope of this operation.

ICE superiors who ran the several days of seminars regarding the raid, the week before didn’t make a basic, orderly plan for the operation. Instead, they held an hour-long seminar on meth labs for the 1,000 or so ICE personnel amassed in Waterloo. This was based on the false allegation made by an Agriprocessor informant that a meth lab was present in the middle of this kosher meat slaughtering and packing plant. Absurd.
It’s been said that–since Agriprocessors is the major kosher meat processor in North America (and, frankly, the world)–that this will cause a shortage in the kosher meat supply, something I surmised when I learned about the raid. In my book collection is the very interesting Stephen G. Bloom book, “Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America,” which tells how founder Aaron Rubashkin and his throngs of Chassidic Jews operating the Agriprocessors plant initially clashed with the smalltown Iowa culture, but became much beloved when it revived the dying rural American town. Agriprocessors is a mostly “Glatt” kosher meat plant. While animals with any visible defects or tumors are not kosher, Glatt goes an extra step: once the animal is slaughtered, per kosher requirements, a rabbi examines the lungs of the animal to make sure there are no tumors or abrasions inside them. If there are, the meat is discarded or sold as non-kosher meat.
And while I’ve eaten meat from that plant, which processes the Aaron’s bison pastrami that I like, I don’t have a problem with them going after illegal aliens who work there.
But, again, I wonder, why the kosher plant? And why never a Halal plant, where we know a lot more is going on? (The Mar-Jac poultry plant raided by customs agents just after 9/11 was a multi-million dollar money-laundering front for Al-Qaeda, for example.) Actually, I don’t wonder, because we know the answer. Islam is off-limits at ICE, the entire Department of Homeland Security, and the whole Bush Administration. If only Chassidic Orthodox Jews or Guatemalan meatpackers had hijacked those plans on 9/11, they’d be set.
In case you wondered, Agriprocessors and the illegal aliens knew ahead of time about the “secret” raid. That’s why ICE’s Myers originally bragged to others that she’d bring in 700 illegal alien arrests, but instead only 349 were actually arrested and kept in custody. Like I always say, the only party that doesn’t know ICE is coming is the public which watches the show raids on TV and doesn’t know better.
Oh, and the two rabbis with “expired” visas from Israel didn’t know either. One of them actually had a valid visa and was mistakenly arrested. The other, was told by his employer that the paperwork had been renewed. Accidentally, it hadn’t been. I’m sure these rabbis, who examine the lungs of dead animals for a living, are a huge, dangerous threat to America’s national security. Unlike, say, the thousands of “peaceful” Muslims here on phony religious worker visas (some of whom have been involved in terrorist operations). They pose “zero” threat, right?
Agents told me that one of the Israeli rabbis was asked why he was working here and not in Israel. “Because bombs are falling on my house, there,” he told them. Yup, bombs from Gaza . . . you know, the place that other failed American national security policies forced Israel to give up to the “peaceful” HAMAS Muslims who won Bush-sanctioned “democratic” elections.
While many agents sent to Podunkville to conduct the Agriprocessors raid in Postville, Iowa were experienced senior ICE agents, some were far too new. Some agents, I’m told, had only a few months experience in the agency.
And the reason they were sent–and why neither Julie Myers nor John Torres (ICE second in command) nor Marcy Forman were there to pose for cameras–is because they knew the operation was a bust and a joke before it even started.
Just like ICE, itself. One ICE agent at the Postville raid summed it up:

All this–and $10 million–for what amounts to NOTHING except, “I love me” press coverage and spin for those atop ICE.

Just one question: Where do we go to get our $10 million back?
Don’t ask ICE Princess Julie Myers. She’s busy spending your dimes on her tax-funded vacay to Argentina.