By Debbie Schlussel
My weekly movie reviews will be up, shortly (I LOVED “Drillbit Taylor”). But first, check out this Gelf Magazine feature about something I’ve been miffed about for some time–the misleading and false quotes movie posters and movie marketing materials use to promote movies. (Gelf Mag is a very interesting site with cool articles and features about pop culture and politics.)
As Gelf points out, movie studios often use “positive” quotes from movie critics that are actually from movie critics who HATED the movie. There’s a great rundown on the crappy movies that suck you in and how they do it by twisting critics’ words.
Not noted in the piece, but a warning from me: another hint a movie stinks–it has a comment praising it from “Earl Dittman, Wireless Magazine.” No joke, this guy is not a critic, but praises any and every movie. He’s like “Mikey” in the old “LIFE cereal” commercials. He likes it, no matter what.

In my view, you should never believe the movie critics anyway . . . unless, of course, the critic is me.
Also interesting on Gelf, Kosher Jordan Comes Home, an interview with the “Jewish Michael Jordan,” Tamir Goodman–hoops player extraordinaire . . . in a yarmulke.

By Debbie Schlussel
Well, whaddya know? Men and women are different, after all. And they prefer and consume different foods.
This isn’t shocking to me or to you. But to feminists, liberals, and the mainstream media, this story is fascinating news and all over the place. Why? Well, maybe the reason they’re surprised that men and women have different palates and different palate-pleasers, is that they keep telling us that men and women are the same, are equal in everything, and are equal suited to all of the same roles and jobs in society.
Of course, we know that’s false. That’s why this bit of science is just another piece of proof of the obvious to us:

The study of eating habits of adults – called the most extensive of its kind – was a telephone survey of 14,000 Americans. It confirmed conventional wisdom that most men eat more meat than women, and women eat more fruits and vegetables.
But there were a few surprising exceptions: Men were much more likely to eat asparagus, brussels sprouts, peas and peanuts. They also were bigger consumers of frozen pizzas, frozen hamburgers and frozen Mexican dinners.
Women are more likely than men to eat eggs, yogurt and fresh hamburgers.
Men also showed a little more of an appetite for runny eggs and undercooked hamburgers — two foods that health experts say carry a higher chance of contamination that can make you sick.
Women were more likely than men to eat only one risky food, raw alfalfa sprouts, which in the past 15 years have been linked to outbreaks of food poisoning.
The survey was done in 10 states, a collaboration between state and federal health officials. The results were presented Wednesday by Dr. Beletshachew Shiferaw, an Oregon health official, at a meeting of infectious disease experts in Atlanta.
Shiferaw said she could not explain some of the odder findings, like why men eat more asparagus than women.

Nothing surprising to me here. Men like man food–meat and potatoes. And women are more fussy and froofy with their food.
I wonder how this study would differ if gay men and lesbian women were surveyed. I’d bet that the lesbians–especially if they are the “man” in the relationship (like Rosie O’Donnell)–would show male tendencies toward meat and potatoes, and that the gay men–especially the effeminate ones playing the female role in the relationship–would tend toward yogurt and salads, like women.

By Debbie Schlussel
While today is Good Friday and the prelude to Easter Sunday for Christians, it is also an important holiday for the Jewish people.
Today, Jews celebrate Purim, the holiday in which we, yet again, escaped destruction at the hands of our enemies. In ancient Iran a/k/a Persia, King Xerxes (the king portrayed as some sort of transvestite in “300“) was a might, but not too bright, king who ruled over 127 provinces–the largest kingdom in the world at that time. His top advisor, Haman, did not like the Jews and got the king to sign a decree to destroy them.

Purim Hamantashen Pastry, Queen Esther, Tomb of Mordechai/Esther
But in this great story, which is a real-life soap opera, a beautiful woman–the Jew and his Queen, Esther–risked her life and succeeded in overturning that decree. Originally, Xerxes had Vashti as his queen, but she refused to show up at a party the king was holding for all of the men in his kingdom. His advisors warn the king that if he does nothing and allows Queen Vashti’s disobedience to him stand, then news will spread throughout the kingdom and wives throughout the kingdom will disobey their husbands.
Because of that, he got rid of her (some say she was beheaded, others say that she was “sent away”), and held a beauty pageant for all of the young virgins in his kingdom. Out of them, he picked Esther as his queen. Her uncle, Mordechai, advised her how to deal with Haman’s plot and decree to kill the Jews, and she confronted Haman in front of the King at a banquet she held for him. The King got angry and sent Haman and his ten sons to the gallows. And he armed the Jewish people to fight for their survival.
Can you see why feminists would hate this holiday, and I love it?
Much more interesting stuff on Purim from my previous writings on the holiday, here and here. Purim is a true story, and, as I’ve noted previously, Queen Esther and Mordechai are buried in Hamadan, Iran, where their tombs were a huge tourist attraction under the Shah of Iran (when Jews could freely travel in and out of Iran without fear).
I–and many others–see George W. Bush as the modern day Xerxes. . . not too bright, but very powerful. Sadly, instead of being swayed by a modern-day Esther, he’s been won over by Haman (a combination of Mahmoud Abbas, Condi Clueless, James A. Baker, etc.), in forcing Israel to construct a terrorist state in its midst and looking the other way as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arms up. One more year of him and then on to other Xerxes figures, like Barack Hussein Obama.
Today, we celebrate Purim (the holiday started at sundown, last night) by hearing the scroll of twice (once, last night and once, this morning). We use noisemakers whenever Haman’s name is read. It is sort of like a mix between Halloween and St. Patrick’s Day, in that kids dress up in costumes and for adults, it is a commandment/a good deed to get so drunk that you can’t tell the difference between the hero, Mordechai, and the villain, Haman, or the Purim story. In addition, we are also commanded to eat a big feast and to give food or money to the poor, as well as baskets of ready-to-eat foods to friends and neighbors. And we eat three-cornered/triangular pastries, meant to resemble the ears of Haman.
So, to my Jewish friends and readers, a Happy Purim to you!
Thanks to all my readers and friends–Christian, Jewish, and even Druze Arab–who sent me Purim holiday greetings and best wishes.
* Read my “Debbie’s Notes” version of the Purim story.
* Read the entire Scroll of Esther in English. It’s very entertaining.
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To my many Christian friends and readers, I respect your religious observances and traditions a great deal. Enjoy your Easter. And, while we have different religions and some different beliefs, we actually have a lot of similar values. To those of you who observe Easter, I am glad you do, because your strong Christian faith is what prevens this country from falling to Islam and becoming another Eurabia (a term coined by author Bat Ye’or and the title of her book). That you have a strong Christian faith is an important bulwark for me as a Jew, so that I can continue to freely practice my faith–and celebrate Purim–in our great country, America.
Thanks.
Related: Inventor Spot features the Five Most Tacky Easter Inventions.

By Debbie Schlussel
I once made the mistake of writing for the nutjobs and phonies at World Net Daily, more aptly called World Nut Daily. But I got fed up with their horrid treatment and sabotage, in addition to Editor-in-Chief and bizarro Joseph Farah’s warm embrace of Hezbollah Congressman Darrell Issa and Anti-Israel, Anti-Semitic Neo-Nazi Justin Raimondo. And the site–under Farah’s “leadership”–published the anti-Semitic rantings of Jude Wanniski, a Louis Farrakhan advisor. By reading that site, you enable all of this.
Since then, World Nut Daily has repeatedly–and admittedly–plagiarized my writing and this site. And it has ripped off many other writers. Even after I called the site on it, Joseph Farah–a huge phony on Israel and terrorism (quit being so gullible and buying his carefully-calculated act–had the gall to beg me to return to his lackluster site. I told him where to go. And the site has kept on ripping me off.

Obama’s Church & “Uncle” Wright Embraced HAMAS
But now, WND is ripping off Tom Blumer of BizzyBlog, who has had a number of scoops. WND “reporter” Aaron Klein–who has famously plagiarized others and made up stories he’s later had to retract–labeled as a “WND exclusive” today, a huge scoop reported on Monday by Tom on BizzyBlog: that Barack Hussein Obama’s church published the HAMAS manifesto in its United Church of Christ newsletter, The Trumpet, in July of last year. As is well known–or should be by now–the HAMAS Manifesto calls for the murder of Jews and the elimination of Israel through extremely violent means.
If you look at this image from BizzyBlog of the newsletter and enlarge it, you will see that it is signed by Mousa Abu Marzook, HAMAS political director and federal indictee and fugitive. Marzook is living in Syria from where he helps run and direct HAMAS. Ironically, the bottom of the page says, “Sermon copyrighted by Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.” Clearly, even Rev. Wright can’t tell the difference between his own sermons and the HAMAS Manifesto.
Tom Blumer and BizzyBlog deserve full credit for this excellent scoop, the news of which Tom–not Aaron Klein or WND, phonies both–broke. Let this be a lesson: whenever you see, “Exclusive” atop anything at WorldNutDaily, that means they ripped it off from someone else. And whenever you don’t see that, they ripped it off, too. Or just flat out made it up.
And there’s more, Tom Blumer also reports, today, at BizzyBlog (expect to see this as an Aaron Klein/WND “Exclusive,” next week), that extremist Omid Safi of the falsely-named Progressive Muslim Union authored other material in the United Church of Christ newsletter. You can view that material here.
Congrats to Tom Blumer at BizzyBlog for breaking this important story that Barack Hussein Obama’s church endorsed the HAMAS Manifesto. Nauseating–but par for the course–that Aaron Klein and WND ripped him off.

By Debbie Schlussel
Many commentators and others are lauding the decision, yesterday, by the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations, that allows “Geno’s Steaks” owner Joe Vento to continue to allow him to post signs that say:

This is America: WHEN ORDERING “PLEASE SPEAK ENGLISH”

But, in fact, it’s no victory at all. That Vento and his restaurant were hauled before a government commission and told what they could and couldn’t say, is already a defeat. That he was forced to defend himself and that statement, in the very first place, is a stunning defeat. And that one of three commissioners on this Philadelphia city commission voted against Vento is a huge defeat. Vento was only “victorious” by one vote.

That this goes on, today, in 2008 America–that a man cannot demand that customers speak our standard language, because that is alleged to be illegal “discrimination”–is no victory. Again, make no mistake–it’s a huge DEFEAT.
More:

The owner of a famous cheesesteak shop did not discriminate when he posted signs asking customers to speak English, a city panel ruled Wednesday.
In a 2-1 vote, a Commission on Human Relations panel found that two signs at Geno’s Steaks telling customers, “This is America: WHEN ORDERING ‘PLEASE SPEAK ENGLISH,'” do not violate the city’s Fair Practices Ordinance.
Shop owner Joe Vento has said he posted the signs in October 2005 because of concerns over immigration reform and an increasing number of people in the area who could not order in English.
Vento has said he never refused service to anyone because they couldn’t speak English. [DS: That’s too bad. How did they communicate-charades?] But critics argued that the signs discourage customers of certain backgrounds from eating at the shop.
Commissioners Roxanne E. Covington and Burt Siegel voted to dismiss the complaint, finding that the sign does not communicate that business will be “refused, withheld or denied.”
In a dissenting opinion, Commissioner Joseph J. Centeno said he thought the signs did discourage some customers.
“The sign appeared immediately above another sign that had the following words: ‘Management Reserves the Right to Refuse Service,'” Centeno wrote.
Geno’s and its chief rival across the street, Pat’s King of Steaks, are two of the city’s best known cheesesteak venues. A growing number of Asian and Latin American immigrants have moved into the traditionally Italian neighborhood in recent years.
Vento had threatened to go to court if he lost. His attorney, Albert G. Weiss, said he was “pleasantly surprised” by Wednesday’s decision.
“We expected that this was not going to go our way,” Weiss said.
In February 2007, the commission found probable cause against Geno’s for discrimination, alleging that the policy discourages customers of certain backgrounds from eating there. [DS: Yes, the background of those who don’t want to live as Americans.]
The case went to a public hearing, where an attorney for the commission argued that the sign was about intimidation, not political speech. The matter then went to the three-member panel for a ruling.

Like I said, this isn’t a victory. It’s a defeat, and yet another step in the constant harassment of law-abiding, proud Americans by interloping America-haters.

By Debbie Schlussel
Yesterday, I broke the news of the attack by five Muslims on Rabbi Uria Ohana in Brooklyn, New York, Wednesday Night. Here are more accounts, today, from the mainstream media, which–in the case of the New York Post–ironically skips the beating the Muslims gave him. These men were not just Arabs–THEY WERE MUSLIM. And the JPost story gets the number of assailants and the words wrong–it’s “AllaHU Akbar”:
* Allan Gray/News Blaze:

After speaking with a friend of Ohana this Morning, NewsBlaze can report that he was not badly injured, even though the teenagers were hitting and kicking him. There were six teens at the subway, but only three were involved in the attack [DS: the other three were accessories to it]. A crowd of people quickly gathered and although they did not directly help Ohana, the growing crowd must have scared the boys and instead of helping their injured friend, they ran away, jumped into a car and fled the scene.

* Jerusalem Post:

A 25-year-old Israeli rabbinical assistant was assaulted by a group of Arab teenagers screaming “Allah akbar” in Brooklyn on Tuesday evening.
Uria Ohana, originally from Kfar Chabad, entered a subway station in the affluent Park Slope neighborhood in Brooklyn Tuesday evening, on his way to a lecture in Manhattan, when he noticed a group of Arab teenagers congregated on a bench in the station.
Ohana did not exchange words or make eye contact with the group, but proceeded upstairs to his train.
On his way, he felt someone grab his kippa from his head and then heard laughter. Ohana decided to chase the boys to retrieve his kippa.
The 18-year-old boy who grabbed the kippa left the subway station and ran into the street, where he was hit by a car, breaking his leg.
While Ohana chased the boy, the other teenagers began chasing him, screaming “Allah akbar.”
“They screamed at me, ‘Did you see what happened to him because of you?'” said Ohana, a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical assistant who works in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Two of the Arab boys then started kicking and punching Ohana in the face.
“As soon as they started screaming, I understood [the attack] was racial,” said Ohana.
The crime is being investigated as aggravated harassment and a possible bias crime, according to a New York Police Department spokeswoman. “I am almost sure it will be charged as a hate crime,” said the spokeswoman.
“I’m sad that this kind of attack is coming to New York after seeing this in Israel,” said Ohana. “An Arab teenager attacking a Jew for being a Jew scares me as a Jew.”
Ohana said one police officer brushed the incident off as a case of a teenager who “doesn’t know what ‘Allah akbar’ means.
“This scares me in a global context, Arabs taking national pride one step forward,” said Ohana.
The youth who was hit by the car was taken to the Lutheran Medical Center to be treated for his broken leg and was placed under arrest. The other two boys fled the scene and have not yet been apprehended.

* New York Post:

Uria Ohana, 25, a member of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, told The Post he entered a subway station alone at Fourth Avenue and Ninth Street in Park Slope at 6:20 p.m. Tuesday.
Ohana said he went through a turnstile and spotted a group of young Arabic men sitting on a bench.
“I wasn’t afraid of anything. I didn’t think anything would happen,” he said.
But something did.
Ohana said he felt a hand grab his brown yarmulke off his head.
He then spun around and came face to face with one of the men, Ali Hussein, 18, police said.
“There were no words exchanged. I decided to chase him to get my yarmulke back,” Ohana said.
Hussein’s friends joined in the foot pursuit, screaming “Allah-hu Akbar,” which means “God is great.” [DS: Um, actually, it means Allah is the GREATER or GREATEST, as in “greater” than your god and mine.]
They ran outside and Hussein darted into the street, where he was hit by a blue Volvo and toppled to the ground, cops said.
“He couldn’t move. He broke his leg. He was crying,” said Ohana. [DS: So sad, too bad.]
Hussein’s friends then jumped into a suburban GMC and sped away.
Police arrested Hussein for alleged aggravated harassment as a hate crime.

By Debbie Schlussel
Just in time for Good Friday/Easter Sunday and the Jewish holiday of Purim (which both fall tomorrow; Purim starts tonight at sundown), America’s chosen “peace” partner for Israel, Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinan Authority, broadcasts that Jews cook Palestinians in ovens and that there was no Holocaust, but that the Nazis. The broadcast was aimed at children.
Carl in Jerusalem has all the details, the video, and this very disturbing picture of a Palestinian model “crematorium” with “burning” Palestinian dolls designed to show children that Jews cremated Palestinians.
A few responses:
1) Um, FYI, humans are not kosher, so we wouldn’t cook ’em, much less eat ’em.

Palestinians Tell Their Children That Jews Will Cremate Them (Dolls), Via Carl in Jerusalem
2) I remember someone cooking someone. But it was the other way around. Anyone forgot the special Muslim SS unit which helped Hitler cook the Jews in the ovens of Auschwitz, Treblinka, et al? Or how ’bout Yasser Arafat’s ancestor, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin Al-Husseini, who met with Hitler–begging him to hasten the Final Solution and to bring it to the Middle East?

Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin Al-Husseini, Hangs w/ Hitler

Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Proudly Inspects Muslim SS Unit
This all reminds me of a few Purims ago, in 2002, when a Saudi government newspaper published a “report” that Jews used Palestinian kids’ blood in the pastry we eat on Purim–a triangular/three-cornered cookie, with fruit filling.
The blood libel of the anti-Semites never dies. It just reincarnates with more lives than a million cats.

By Debbie Schlussel
As readers know, I’m no fan of tattoos, especially on women, on whom it is the Official Mark of Skankdom. But this story shows us that tattoos are often the mark of natural selection . . .
When you’re accused of First Degree Murder, and you’re trying to beat the charges, what do you do to prove your innocence?
Well, if you’re the brilliant Ted Gipson of the Detroit area, you get a Murder One tattoo with a dead body under it.

Ted & Scott Gipson: Darwin Award Murdering Thugs
It’s a modern-day, dumbed-down version of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Telltale Heart”–a loser thug anti-Einstein and his Telltale Tattoo:

Prosecutors allege that murder suspect Ted Gipson wore his crime under his sleeve, and now, he’s trying to hide it.
Ted Gipson and his older brother Scott Gipson are charged with the beating death of neighbor David Witting last year in Warren. As the younger Gipson sat in Macomb County Jail awaiting trial next week, prosecutors say he received a tattoo from another prisoner on his bicep that read “murder 1” — slang for a first-degree murder charge — over the outline of a body. But when he learned that police and prosecutors were coming to look at it, he got a second tattoo to obscure the initial drawing, alleged Macomb Assistant Prosecutor Jamie Whittenberg.
“He tried to cover it with a bulldog on his shoulder,” said Whittenberg, who brought the issue up to inform the judge and other attorneys in the murder case about the tattoo.. “It has been altered while in the jail.”
The Gipson brothers are charged with felony murder in connection with the Aug. 13 beating and death of Witting, 50, who later died as a result of his injuries at Henry Ford Macomb-Warren Campus.
Ted Gipson, 27, and Scott Gipson, 34, are accused of beating and stomping Witting to steal pills and a few dollars that he had in his wallet. Scott Gipson had confessed to police to hiding behind a Dumpster, then hitting Witting on the back of his head with a beer bottle.

Scumbags AND stupid. Nice combo. Let’s hope these cretins rot in jail forever, telling tattoo or not.
And I hope we won’t be paying for their college classes in prison. Clearly, they’re not smart enough even for that.

By Debbie Schlussel
Hmmm . . . Why do Barack Obama’s speeches resemble a fictional “West Wing” Presidential candidate’s speeches? As I told you before, Obama’s already ripped off speeches from the script of the movie, “Malcolm X.” Now this. Even liberal “Slate” notes the “coincidences.” And even the unintentional coincidences in this race are eerily familiar:

By Debbie Schlussel
. . . is written by Ann Coulter, “Throw Grandma Under the Bus.” Every single word of it is solid gold. An excerpt:

Imagine a white pastor saying: “No, no, no, God damn America — that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people! God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human! God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme!” . . .
We treat blacks like children, constantly talking about their temper tantrums right in front of them with airy phrases about black anger. I will not pat blacks on the head and say, “Isn’t that cute?” . . .
Obama tried to justify Wright’s deranged rants by explaining that “legalized discrimination” is the “reality in which Rev. Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up.” He said that a “lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one’s family, contributed to the erosion of black families.”

That may accurately describe the libretto of “Porgy and Bess,” but it has no connection to reality. By Rev. Wright’s own account, he was 12 years old and was attending an integrated school in Philadelphia when Brown v. Board of Education was announced, ending “separate but equal” schooling.

Read the whole thing.