By Debbie Schlussel
Sadly, the ACLU–the American Terrorists’ Liberties Union–is already on the case on this one and will probably seek gazillions in “damages.”
And Colleen Houglum, principal of northwestern Minnesota’s Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Junior High School, is already bending under the pressure. She suspended three eighth-graders for not standing up for the Pledge of Allegiance and took a stand against belligerent students who have zero sense of respect and decorum, which is unfortunately out of style at America’s publick skoolz. Now, she has no choice but to bow to the forces of Anti-Americanism:

Three small-town eighth-graders in Minnesota were suspended by their principal for not standing Thursday morning for the Pledge of Allegiance, violating a district policy that the principal now says may soon be reworded to protect free speech rights.
“My son wasn’t being defiant against America,” said Kim Dahl, mother of one of the students, Brandt, who attends Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Junior High School in northwestern Minnesota. . . .
Kim Dahl said the “punishment didn’t fit the crime. If they wanted to know why he didn’t stand, they should’ve made him write a paper.” She said her son has been declining to stand all school year, offered no reason for sitting and was not obligated to explain his actions.
The school’s handbook says all students are required to stand but are not required to recite the pledge. The same is true for all four schools in the district, a school official said.
“These three [students] didn’t, and they got caught,” said Mel Olson, the district’s community education director. He said he backs the punishment, “being a veteran and a United States of America citizen, absolutely.” Olson served in the Marines in Japan during the Vietnam War.
The head of the Minnesota American Civil Liberties Union said that the school’s actions against the students are unconstitutional, and his office informed the district of that today in a strongly worded letter. . . .
Colleen Houglum, the principal who suspended the three, acknowledged in a statement late this morning that the policy requirement that ” ‘all students will stand’ may need to be modified to address the protection of the individual’s form of expression.”
Kim Dahl said Houglum called her this morning and informed her of the possible accommodation. “I think they are handling it quite professionally,” Kim Dahl said, adding that Houglum told her that school officials “are taking some steps to take the [suspensions] off their records.”
That possible shift was met with disappointment from Olson. While he said he’ll fall in line with whatever change may occur, “I still have my beliefs.”

Oy. Visions of Michael Newdow, all over again.
This isn’t about free speech, as the kids were not required to say the Pledge. This is about behavior and conduct and standing up when required.
Well, these students could always transfer to the school of Dearbornistan, where the Pledge of Allegiance is rarely said. And where the principal of at least one high school hits students, Hezbollah-style.

By Debbie Schlussel
The Open Borders crowd–including the Wall Street Journal–were singing with glee that the illegal alien issue is “no longer an issue.” Since all three major candidates left in the Presidential race favor amnesty for illegal aliens, they said, America no longer cares about the 20 million-plus (and growing) illegal aliens in our midst.
Really?
Tell that to Tim O’Hare. Make that Mayor Tim O’Hare. Ditto for new Mayor Ron Branson. Oh, and don’t forget re-elected Irving, Texas Mayor Herbert Gears. All three made secure borders and cracking down on the illegal alien epidemic their main platform. And all three won.

O’Hare, Branson, Gears:
Three Cheers for Texas’ Secure Borders Mayors
On Saturday, O’Hare was elected mayor of Dallas suburb, Farmers Branch, Texas. And Branson was elected mayor of Dallas suburb, Carrollton. And both were elected for their tough stands against illegal aliens.
Not only that, but O’Hare beat a businessman who was against getting tough on the aliens and served as treasurer of a group opposed to clamping down on the alien problem. It was a clear race, and the man who took the stand against helping those who invade our country won handily.
O’Hare steered the Farmers Branch City Council to pass one of the most sweeping anti-illegal alien measures in November 2006, barring apartment rentals to illegal aliens. His opponent was an officer in the group opposed to enforcing the ban.
Tim O’Hare won the election, and that’s a lesson for John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. They might think the nation is willing to ignore the millions of illegal aliens in our midst who add immensely to economic pressures and tax burdens. But, in places like Farmers Branch, where residents are feeling the heat of the alien problem, they’ll have problems.
Both new mayors, O’Hare and Branson, say they intend to get tougher on illegal aliens in their cities’ midsts.
Incidentally, as with most cities that pass anti-illegal alien measures–Farmers Branch’s law was endorsed in a city-wide 2-1 vote–the ordinance’s enforcement has been tied up in court by open borders advocates and a federal judge who’s blocked its enforcement.
The trend is other than that the Wall Street Journal and others are claiming. There will be more and more Tim O’Hares elected in localities and on the state level, nationwide.
The problem is that it is already far too late.

By Debbie Schlussel
. . . a woman who proudly proclaims she’s embarrassed to be an American, and is the “mother” of thousands of Muslim anchor babies she helped get delivered here through Medicaid fraud.
That’s right, for its Mother’s Day program, last night, the Islamic House of Wisdom–Dar Al-Hikma–the 2nd largest mosque in North America, is honoring Najah Bazzy, about whom I’ve written a great deal.
Ms. Bazzy–the Muslim Nurse Ratched–is a very interesting candidate for Muslims to pick as their “Mother of the Year.” You see, as head transcultural nurse for Dearbornistan’s Oakwood Hospital, she was apparently very involved in Medicaid fraud, in which she served as translator and co-conspirator for pregnant Muslim aliens who used phony social security numbers to get Medicaid to cover the births of their babies (they also got U.S. citizenship for those babies–citizenship which can be traded on the open market, since there are no hard-and-fast identifying items on the birth certificate but for the gender).

Najah Bazzy:
Embarrassed to Be American; Not Embarrassed About Medicaid Fraud
In addition to that, Najah Bazzy told participants in a 2004 CAIR-Michigan political event, “I’m embarrassed to be an American.” As I always say, we’re embarrassed you’re an American, too, Najah Bazzy. Bazzy was excoriated by Republican Congressman Thaddeus McCotter who was shocked that any Muslim born and raised in America would say such a thing. I wasn’t shocked. That’s their usual proclamation when they think they are “among friends.”
And finally, Najah Bazzy, was the proud donor of an interesting “exhibit” at the Arab American National Museum–a propaganda videotape, which lies about Israel’s conduct in Jenin during the height of Muslim homicide bombings in Israel. As we all know, even the pan-Palestinian U.N. reports that only about 26 people died–not the 500 claimed on the baloney-tape–at Jenin, and most of those deaths were attributable to causes–natural and Palestinian–other than the Israelis.
And you might remember Najah Bazzy from her whining press conference, last year, demanding that Northwest Airlines reimburse Muslims who missed their flights returning from the Hajj (Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia), even though they arrived late. She and the other whiners, predictably, succeeded in getting Dhimmi Airline, Northwest, to reimburse them AND start a whole new round of Muslim sensitivity training taught by CAIR.
No shocker that the Islamic House of Wisdom is featuring her for its Mother’s Day event, since–as I’ve repeatedly noted–this mosque is headed by Imam Mohammed Ali Elahi, former spiritual leader of Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iranian Navy, and longtime buddy of Hezbollah spiritual leaders Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah.
Yep, this is the “Mother of the Year” for Shi’ite Muslims in America. Well they got one part right. She’s definitely, as they say, a “Mother” . . . . And, yes, sadly, she has kids who share her unique brand of hatred, phoniness, and anti-American politics.
Like I said, more Americans than Ms. Bazzy are embarrassed she’s an American.
I think I like the way Cosa Nostra celebrates Mother’s Day a whole lot better than the way Shi’ite Muslims do.

By Debbie Schlussel
Although Hezbollah’s largest base of supporters in America is in Dearbornistan, the fact is that Hezbos are all over America. And while we’ve caught some, the majority get away with it.
And while those supporting Hezbollah in Dearbornistan are primarily Shi’ite Muslims, plenty of ’em are Sunnis. And there are many Sunnis Muslims working for and with the Shi’ite terrorist group. As I’ve noted so many times before, these two groups who hate each other, love each other when it comes to the ultimate enemy . . . us, and they constantly work together for our defeat and destruction.
Here are a few Sunni Hezbollah supporters outside of Dearbornistan, brought to my attention by the vigilant Duane and Rochester reader Mary. Yes, Hezbollah supporters are all over America and will continue to sprout b/c we target few of them:

A federal grand jury has indicted three Yemenis on charges of money-laundering, alleging that they transferred more than $100,000 to overseas accounts they thought were controlled by the Islamic terrorist organization Hezbollah.
The charges were filed against Yehia Ali Ahmed Alomari, 27; Mohamed Al Huraibi, 41; and Saleh Mohamed Taher Saeed, 28, who ran minimarts and a restaurant in southwest and northeast Rochester.

As I always say, beware of shopping at Muslim-owned businesses, especially of the all-cash variety. You don’t know exactly where your money is going, but it’s a sure bet it’s usually not going to a benevolent party. Assume the very worst, as this case bears out.

The indictment, handed up Wednesday, alleges money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
The three have been in federal custody since their arrest on the same charges in March 2007. They were indicted after plea negotiations failed.
If convicted, Alomari, Al Huraibi and Saeed face up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, said U.S. Attorney Terrance P. Flynn.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement began an investigation in January 2005 after banking records showed that a Social Security number assigned to Saeed was associated with 324 overseas currency transactions totaling $12.3 million from October 2002 through November 2004.
An undercover officer from the immigration agency allegedly arranged with Alomari, Al Huraibi and Saeed from April 2005 to February 2007 to send $107,430 to overseas accounts that the officer maintained were controlled by Hezbollah, the prosecution said.
The officer allegedly told the three that the money had been earned illegally through the sale of immigration documents, food stamps, prescription drugs and counterfeit goods, the prosecution said.
Prosecutors don’t allege that Alomari, Al Huraibi and Saeed had connections to Hezbollah but accuse them of knowingly sending money to accounts they believed were controlled by the organization. The accounts were actually controlled by the federal government, and none of the money reached Hezbollah.
No charges have been filed against Saeed in connection with the overseas transfers totaling $12.3 million.
Lawyers for Alomari, Al Huraibi and Saeed have denied any wrongdoing on their clients’ behalf. They said the three transferred money overseas as a service for fellow Yemenis in Rochester and took a commission on money they sent.

Congrats to the ICE agents in this case who foiled these men. Contrast them to the lazy ICE agents and superiors in Detroit who stopped cold in investigating a very similar, related money transfer operation to Yemen, conducted by Shi’ites in Dearbornistan, which continues to send millions of dollars a month to Yemen. The case had operatives and tentacles nationwide in at least 23 states.
An ICE superior told agents that he knew the money was funding terrorists, yet he and his boss, Brian Moskowitz, and subordinate agents stopped investigating because it was too much work. The money transfer of millions to terrorists in Yemen continues to date. I know about the case because ICE agents initially working on it sought my advice and knowledge of some of the players.
Lebanon, er . . . Hezbollahstan, today. America, tomorrow.

By Debbie Schlussel
Just before her tax-funded vacay to South America, looks like The ICE Princess has a big “Look at Me on FOX News” ICE show raid of illegal aliens in the works somewhere in Iowa.
You know the drill–millions of dollars spent to “round up” Hispanic illegal alien workers (never Muslim ones in these raids) for the cameras and newspapers, the aliens are then released into the Great American Abyss within a few days, and The ICE Princess, a/k/a Immigration and Customs Enforcement chieftess Julie L. Myers gets to go on FOX News and tell America how she means bid’ness (when she doesn’t) . . . all in a bid to convince Americans that we need to give illegal aliens amnesty and U.S. citizenship.

A newspaper in Waterloo, Iowa, reports that ICE has rented out a giant coliseum, the National Cattle Congress (NCC), and has brought in power generators, trailers, and other equipment. Illegal aliens and immigration experts believe that ICE is about to do one of its giant, phony show-raids and use the NCC as a staging ground for aliens. And, based on what I’ve read, I think their assessment is right:

The presence of immigration officials at National Cattle Congress has stoked fears of an impending raid and caused some in the Hispanic community to avoid workplaces and public areas.
Four days after The Courier first reported the installation of trailers, generators and ventilation equipment on the grounds, the presence of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement remains a mystery. Tim Counts, an ICE spokesman in the Twin Cities, refused comment on Tuesday. He said he didn’t know when, or if, the agency would explain its activities. [DS: Oh, they’ll explain them, as soon as Julie Myers decides it’s time to go on FOX News. This phony and attention whore won’t give that up.]
NCC officials said they were told the grounds were rented for a training exercise [DS: Riiiight.]. . . .
Neither NCC nor the federal government would confirm whether federal officials are using the NCC grounds as part of the national exercise. In response to an inquiry by The Courier, U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley’s office requested a briefing on the use of the NCC grounds, but was told ICE officials would neither confirm nor deny anything. Similarly, U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley’s office was unable to obtain additional information. [DS: If only Grassley has less ethics and traded his vote on Myers the way Senator Cornyn did to help his buddies at Pilgrims Pride, she’d tell him which Iowa biz she’s show-raiding.]
Mark Grey, an immigration expert and University of Northern Iowa professor, said the grounds at NCC appear to have a capacity similar to that the Iowa National Guard armory in Fort Dodge. That is where authorities held suspects after a 2006 raid of a Swift meat processing plant in Marshalltown.

Methinks he’s on the money.

But in that instance, he said, authorities kept their plans secret.
“I ask myself, ‘What are they planning, and why are they being so bloody obvious about it?'” he said.

Um, so The ICE Princess can pose on FOX News, again, and her boyfriend, Michael “Serpenthead” Chertoff, can make yet another big push for amnesty. That’s why.
Stay tuned, as I will be watching and following this story. And I’ll write about the recent Pilgrims Pride fiasco and what Myers’ many demoralized agents told me about that farce.

By Debbie Schlussel
This morning, former Bush campaign spokesman, John Truscott, went on a major Detroit radio station to flack and shill for Hezbollah agent and federally convicted insurance fraud perpetrator Ali Jawad, whom the John McCain campaign wisely and swiftly dumped as soon as they learned of his identity.
And it made me wonder on which parallel planet they were living. While this Hezbollah agent and Bush operative together told the pandering, ignorant radio host that Lebanon is controlled by many peoples of many religions who are living together in peace, Lebanon was actually being taken over by Hezbollah through blood, guns, and violence.
Yesterday, Hezbollah captured Beirut. And George Bush did nothing. They will soon have control of the whole country, and Bush will do nothing. In many ways, Bush is to blame for this fiasco, as is Israel.

By invading Iraq and handing it over to Shi’ites, Bush completed the mission that neither Khomeini, nor Ahmadinejad never could. By removing Saddam Hussein and the entire Sunni government structure from Iraq and giving it to Shi’ites who won’t hire Sunnis for any government and law enforcement positions, Bush ignited a Shi’ite revival–an extremist revival throughout not just the Middle East, but throughout the world. He created a contiguous, non-stop crescent-shaped Shi’ite region, ruled by Iran and its partner Syria–two terrorist states. And he did nothing to buffer or hinder it.
In one of its darkest days, when Israel wantonly pulled out of South Lebanon in 2000–in just an hour–it started the Shi’ite revival and began the handover of Lebanon, once a Christian Phoenician country, over to Hezbollah. Shi’ite moderates and others who helped Israel keep the peace in South Lebanon feared for their lives. Many left, many others were murdered, and still others were persecuted or had to move away from the South. It taught those peaceful forces of moderation and western influence a lesson: Don’t trust Israel, at least not the Israel of Ehud Barak, and since, Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert. They threw the good Lebanese to the wolves of Nasrallah and Iran and Syria.
Then, Israel did it again, in the summer of 2006, when the country haphazardly invaded Lebanon, under Olmert–the first Israeli Prime Minister with no real military experience. When a lawyer runs a war, you know you’re not in it to win. Olmert could have defeated Hezbollah, had he known how to conduct a ground and air campaign. Or had he even wanted to win.
But, tragically, none of those necessities of war applied to Olmert’s malpractice-ridden war. Instead of defeating Hezbollah soundly, which he could have done had he wanted to, he wasted Israeli lives–especially the lives of poor, religious settlers (the ones whose families’ homes he took away and continues to). And he emboldened and strengthened Hezbollah for decades and for its current successful bid in finally taking over Lebanon completely, once and for all.
Even under Ronald Reagan, who is given far too much credit for “fighting” terrorism, we were attacked–300 U.S. Marines and civilians murdered while they slept–by Hezbollah, and we did nothing . . . except pull out and run away from the country. We should have decimated Hezbollah then and allowed Israel to clean house.
But instead we ran, and we pressured Israel to do the same, which they ultimately did with the 2000 cut-and-run, now celebrated annually by Hezbollah over there and Hezbollah agents, Osama Siblani, Ali Jawad, and others here in Little Hezbollahstan a/k/a Dearborn, Michigan. The same goes for the Hezbollah torture-murder of Navy Diver Robert Dean Stethem on the plane it hijacked, TWA 847, in 1985. He was murdered. We did little or nothing in response.
When Bush pressured Lebanon for more free elections, just as he did in Gazastan, he got the mirror image of the resulting HAMASastan . . . Hezbollahstan. More Hezbollah Members of the Lebanese Parliament were elected where before there was just one, and Hezbollah literally married its alliance with the Shi’ite Amal militia, headed by Lebanese Parliament speaker Nabih Berri. Berri’s immediate family is married into Hezbollah. As a result of Bush-Rice engineered elections, Hezbollah gained control of most of the major government ministries, several seats in Parliament, and essentially the slow, complete emasculation of the Fouad Siniora Lebanese government that we now see essentially toppled this week, with the loss of Beirut.
So, now, will George Bush enter Lebanon to end the Shi’ite Hezbollah/Iran Revolution he started? With only 7.5 months left of his administration, not a chance. He blew his capital in Iraq, starting up the revolution that he now can neither stop or even put partially back into the bottle. For all the claimed “Texas swagger,” wimpitude and dhimmitude to the Shia Revival is all he shows the scared Cedars Revolution democrats in Lebanon who want to be free of Hezbollah.
While meeting with Assad of Syria and pressuring Israel to give in to terrorists and give them half the state, Bush and Condi Clueless missed the opportunity of a lifetime to finally free Lebanon of Iran and Syria by annihilating Hezbollah. He’d have enjoyed the support in such an effort from Lebanese Christians all over America–the largest and most patriotic group of Arabs in the U.S.–and from his Sunni, Gulf State oil buddies the Saudis and their neighbors, all of whom badly fear and want to put down this Shia rebellion and swath of takeover that now spans the Mid-East.
So, now, Beirut has fallen. And it’s long been only a matter of time until the entire Lebanon becomes Hezbollahstan.
But instead of fixing the problem he helped create and expand geometrically, Bush is coasting to retirement and high-paid speeches. And Lebanon is burning.
But this Hezbollah takeover, as I said, is not confined to the Mid-East. I see it on the streets of the Detroit area, where Shi’ite Hezbollah agents like Ali Jawad are neither embarrassed of their criminal records, nor do they shy away from their open support of Hezbollah–a group that willingly killed 300 U.S. Marines and embassy staff and blew up the Jewish Community Center and Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires.
And such is their power that a spineless radio talk show host sees no problem in that. Nor does he see a problem in Jawad’s claim that Hezbollah didn’t commit the Beirut bombings of Americans. That’s a settled question.
But the Shi’ite Revolution that Bush jump-started and which has reached its latest pinnacle, this week, with the takeover of Beirut, has unsettled all established fact.
And it will be a problem for America in the near future that we created and now ignore.
But we will soon learn that was a huge mistake.

By Debbie Schlussel
I don’t recommend any of the new releases at movie theaters, this weekend. All of them gave me a headache. I did not screen “Redbelt.”
* “Speed Racer“: This non-animated feature taken from the Japanimation series of the same name was more concerned with sets, costumes, and CGI backdrops than its substandard, boring, predictable story. Every second was manic dayglo and brightness everywhere. I was considering putting on my sunglasses in the dark theater. And it stars Susan Sarandon as Mom Racer. That’s annoying in and of itself.
Since there were many little kids at the theater and it’s being promoted as a kids’ film, I had to wonder why this movie contains the F-word, the S-word, and a little kid–Spritle Racer–giving the one-finger salute. Also hard to jibe that a movie aimed at little kids features bad guys putting a guy’s arm into a tank of hungry Piranhas to be eaten and a scene in which a man’s finger is eaten by them.

The story: Speed Racer, played by Emile Hirsch, grows up after watching his brother racer, Rex Racer, crash and burn and die. Or did he? Speed becomes a great racer and is offered a big endorsement deal by the evil Royallton Corp (always those evil big businesses). Will he take it? Will he win the cross-continent road rally? And who is the mysterious, masked racer helping him out?
More importantly, do we care? In my case, for the entire 2 hour, 10 minute movie, the answer was a big, fat, “NO.”
* “What Happens in Vegas“: What Happens in Vegas should stay off the movie screen, if this is any indication. This movie was stupid, formulaic, tasteless, and a waste of time. Plus, it features four of the most annoying actors in Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz. It was supposed to be a comedy, but the jokes–for the most part–weren’t funny. Groanworthy, more than anything.
Diaz plays a woman just dumped by her fiancee and Kutcher a juvenile, immature man just fired by his wealthy father. Both of them fly to Vegas from New York and meet each other on a fluke. They get drunk, get married, and win $3,000,000 at the slot machine, just as they were planning their divorce. Then, they are sentenced by Judge Dennis Miller (yeah, that’s believable, plus his name is “Judge Whopper”–haha, funny) to live together as a married couple for six months before he divides the winnings. While scheming against each other, they predictably fall in love. Schocking. The end.
A cheesy chick-flick not worth your time. Certainly wasn’t worth mine.

* “Then She Found Me“: This movie was directed by and stars Helen Hunt. But Hunt is so anorexically thin and gaunt, you keep thinking she just arrived from Auschwitz and can’t pay attention to the horrid story. While wishing she ate more than half a bean for dinner–and in her case, the camera simply didn’t add those ten pounds–you try to pay attention to the bizarre, way-too-quirky plot about a stereotypical Jewish woman whose biological clock is ticking and badly wants to have kids. She marries, then is quickly left by the immature Matthew Broderick. She meets and falls for an English man, but finds out she’s pregnant with the ex’s kid. She is adopted, and learns that her birth mother is the weird talk show host, Bette Midler. But wait, it gets worse. Her gynecologist is played by . . . Salman Rushdie? Hmmm . . . now, we’re getting close to the reason for the fatwah. (Just joking, no e-mails please–of course, I abhor the Muslim death-sentence fatwa against Rushdie.)
Skipworthy.

By Debbie Schlussel
Unlike his estranged daughter who openly cheered cries for Palestinian terrorism, Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight truly gets it.
Last year, I wrote about Voight’s on-target interview with Radar Magazine about Iraq, the War on Terror, and jihad. Voight gets it.
And he’s demonstrating that again, by visiting the poor, working-class residents of Sderot, Israel, who’ve repeatedly been hit with deadly rockets from Islamic terrorists in Gaza.
Most of these people from Sderot or their parents or grandparents are from Arab countries, from which they fled after much persecution. They are poor people who cannot afford to move from harm’s way:

Jon Voight: Skankelina‘s Father Knows Best

Oscar winner Jon Voight is coming to Israel next week for his first solidarity visit to salute the Jewish state in honor of its 60th birthday. . . .
Voight will welcome Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl’s (CCOC) 80th rescue mission airlifting children from irradiated regions in Ukraine, Belarus and Western Russia to Israel; visit Sderot, which has endured 7,000 Hamas missiles and numerous casualties; comfort terror victims; and, go to Yad Vashem [DS: The Holocaust Museum].
“I’m coming to salute, encourage and strengthen the people of Israel on this joyous 60th birthday,” said Voight. “This week is about highlighting Israel as a moral beacon. At a time when its enemies threaten nuclear destruction, Israel heals.
“Israel is a haven from nuclear horrors for thousands of Chernobyl survivors who suffer the consequences of the worst environmental disaster in history. I personally want to welcome the youngsters aboard Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl’s 80th Rescue Mission–it is a great honor to help save a child’s life.”
Giving back to society has long been a priority for Voight, having volunteered with and contributed to numerous charities and causes at home and abroad. His deep humanitarian values direct him to Sderot and to Chabad’s Terror Victims Project (CTVP).
“I want to meet the people of Sderot,” said Voight. “I want to tell them: ‘Every day you have rockets falling on your city. We care about you. We have not forgotten you!’ And I want to underscore Israel’s magnificent contributions to mankind.”

Unlike Skankelina Jolie Voight, father knows best yet again. Attention, Muslim, anti-Israel boycotters: Add him to your list. He’s on my list of people to support.
Thanks to reader, “There is No Santa Claus,” for the tip.

By Debbie Schlussel
I actually don’t need to ask what all the Gitmo Truthers–the liberals who say we should shut down Guantanamo Bay and that the men there are just innocent people, not terrorists–will say about Abdallah Salih Al-Ajmi.
They’ll probably say–in their usual know-it-all, anti-America tone–that we “drove him to do it,” that he was an “innocent man, whose hatred for America was bred by imprisonment at Gitmo,” or some such other BS. They’re so predictable.
Al-Ajmi was freed from Guantanmo Bay after being brought there in 2002 from Afghanistan and relesed 3.5 years later. On Wednesday, the U.S. military said he took part in a suicide car bombing in Iraq. Funny how this guy picked up in Afghanistan ended up in Iraq–even though he’s from Kuwait and that’s where we dumped him–huh? The military says that Al-Ajmi took part in one of three homicide bombings in the last month, which targeted Iraqi security forces in Mosul. At least he didn’t kill any Americans . . . as far as we know.

And we knew he wanted to kill Americans. He said so. A U.S. military document shows that, in August 2004, Al-Ajmi said that

he now is a jihadist, an enemy combatant, and that he will kill as many Americans as he possibly can.

Since these same Gitmo Truthers are always telling us how honest and sincere the kind Gitmo Muslim are, why didn’t we take Al-Ajmi at his word?
Al-Ajmi is one of at least 36 released Gitmo detainees have taken part in terrorist attacks on Americans. Just how many of these future killers of Americans are we going to continue to release before we finally admit they must stay at Gitmo ad infinitum to save lives.
Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon, a Pentagon spokesman, told AP:

There is an implied future risk to U.S. and allied interests with every detainee who is released or transferred from Guantanamo.

No kidding. When will the Pentagon listen to its own spokesman’s advice?
And when will their lack of alleged minor suffering be less of a priority than American lives?
We are fighting the war of our lives as if we were playing house.

By Debbie Schlussel
With gas here in Detroit now an average of over $4 per gallon, Chrysler made a brilliant move, guaranteeing gas at $2.99 per gallon for 2-3 years to new car buyers.
But for those who can’t afford a new car, or aren’t inclined to take up the Chrysler deal, here are a few places to check the cheapest gas in your area, the best fuel economy on cars, and other ways to save–courtesy of a Wall Street Journal graphic–on the poisonous Saudi Soda, which is holding America hostage:
– Cheapest Gas in Your Area:
* Gas Buddy
* Gas Price Watch

* Lowest Gas Prices w/ Maps
* From Your Cellphone – Cheap Gas
– Fuel Economy
– Fuel Cost Calculation
* Gas Prices
* Fuel Cost Calculator
– Alternative Fuels & Prices
The bottom line is that George W. Bush, who constantly whined about America’s addiction to oil in his State of the Union addresses, never did anything about it. He had almost 7.5 years to put together a “Manhattan Project” on alternative fuels.
And, instead, during that time, instead of doing that, he held hands with Saudi King Abdullah and kept the rest of the Saudi Soda purveyors at the top of their game. After all, his main priority now–and always–was never ending America’s dependence on OPEC oil. And now, it is primarily on getting Daddy’s friends to donate to his Presidential library like they did to Poppy’s and Slick Willie’s.
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Here’s a humorous take, sent to me by my friend, Boston Herald Business columnist Darren Garnick, “The Working Stiff’s Asinine Gas Saving Tips.”