By Debbie Schlussel
Congratulations to the Netherlands/Holland for finally entering civilization . . . 18th Century civilization.
While the country still bows to Islam at every step and still has legalized prostitution, live sex shows, and euthanasia, our friends the Dutch have, at least, decided to finally outlaw bestiality and porn involving animals, er . . . “interspecies erotica” as over-rated, depraved Hollywood director Kevin Smith likes to call and sanitize this depravity in “mainstream” movies.
What brought on this sudden tinge of civility and humanity? Well, since these acts were previously allowed in the Netherlands, the country became a mecca (double entendre intended) for bestiality devotees and addicts:

Civilization?: Dogs Had to Organize a Protest to Stop Bestiality in Netherlands (Signs say: “We Are Not Sexual Objects”)

Sex with animals and the making of animal pornography now will carry a punishment of up to six months in jail under the measure.
Current Dutch law forbids bestiality only when animals are found to have been mistreated.
Animal pornography is explicitly forbidden in 80 countries and pornographers had lobbied fiercely against a Dutch ban, said lawmaker Harm Evert Waalkens, who introduced the measure.
“The Netherlands is now a magnet for perversities and we don’t want that,” Waalkens said.

Um, does he think the legalized pot, prostitutes in store windows, live sex shows, and a government bowing to the most extreme whims of Islamists, are not also a “magnet for perversitites”?
Question is, what will happen to all the Muslim bestiality mavens who came to the Netherlands for both its softness on extremist Islam and its animal policy?
My guess is they stay and claim that it’s a religious practice, which many would say it, in fact, is.
Islamic religious practices go over very well in the Netherlands, so it will all work out to Allah’s content.
Once the lamb is inhumanely slaughtered and cooked for Eid Al-Fitr supper, no-one will be the wiser that the lamb was also the blow-up doll for the master of the house, the night before.
Sorry, Netherlands or Holland or whatever you are, but your country is still the world’s Sodom and Gomorra.
The Frank family knew it, Theo Van Gogh knew it, Ayaan Hirsi Ali knows it. And we all know it.

By Debbie Schlussel
More evidence that Julie L. Myers a/k/a “The ICE Princess” is still practicing Catch-and-Release with illegal aliens as the incompetent chieftess of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). An illegal alien from El Salvador whom her agents detained and who was ordered deported in February served as a hitman in a suburb near where I live, this week.
Two Salvadorian aliens residing in Texas murdered an older Indian couple living in suburban Detroit, this week. One of them was here legally, the other an illegal alien.
Both traveled to the Detroit area by car and shot to death Brij Chhabra, 65, and his wife Aasha Chhabra, 56, Tuesday Night. Mrs. Chhabra was bedridden with Multiple Sclerosis.

Brij & Aasha Chhabra Are Dead Because . . .

. . . ICE’s Julie Myers and John Torres Failed to Deport . . .
(Julie Myers Diet Coke by David Lunde/Lundesigns)

. . . Hitman Miguel Angel Servando
Miguel Angel Servando, an illegal immigrant, and Nelson Oswaldo Mendoza, were caught, when they were stopped by police in a traffic stop in another Detroit suburb:

The couple was found shot to death in their home Tuesday night. The men were arrested in Taylor after a routine traffic stop when police found paperwork belonging to the couple, a handgun and bloodstains in the car. . . .
“They came from out of state to kill two people in Oakland County,” said Ken Frazee, an assistant prosecutor with Oakland County, after the arraignment.
Mendoza, according to prosecutors, does not have a criminal background. But Servando has been in trouble with the law. In 1999, he was caught illegally smuggling immigrants into the country and, in 2005, he was found in possession of drugs, said Kelly Chard, assistant prosecutor for Oakland County.
In February, she said, he was ordered by a judge to be deported to El Salvador, since he was living in the country illegally.

Julie Myers and her deputy, John P. Torres–who was in charge of deporting Servando (but didn’t do so)–have the blood of the Chhabra’s on their hands. One of their murderers should have been out of the country.
Instead, he was here . . . performing two hits on an innocent couple whose lives he snuffed out.

By Debbie Schlussel
Unfortunately, I could not review “Horton Hears a Who!” as the only screening for critics was held on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. “Doomsday” was not screened for critics, usually a sign that it’s a bomb (may see and review later). But here’s what I did screen:
* “Never Back Down“: So, a guy in high school moves across the country with his working-class single mom to a new town in a sunny environ, where he and mom live in an apartment and his classmates are rich kids in mansions. He sees a blonde girl he likes. But she’s dating the cocky, most popular fair-haired jock in high school, who is a martial arts champion and keeps beating the new guy up. So the new guy trains with an immigrant with a foreign accent on how to fight back and beat the nemesis and win the girl.
Sound familiar? If it sounds like the plot of “The Karate Kid,” you’re right. But it’s also the plot of “Never Back Down,” an updated version of the charming 1980s hit movie.

This one is more cheesy and far more violent and bloody than “The Karate Kid.” Ultimate Fighting/Mixed Martial Arts has replaced calm and “wimpy” karate here. Another big difference is that, instead of wimpy Ralph Machio, the new guy in this one is the steaming hot Sean Faris who is already a fighter and a tough guy in his original Iowa hometown, when he moves to Orlando with his mother and tennis champ brother. And his fights are all over Youtube, where all the new kids see and drool over him and the resident hometown tough guy yearns to beat him–and does, several times.
Also gone is the late Pat Morita and his Mr. Miyagi, with the instructions of “Wax On, Wax Off.” Instead, there is Djimon Hounsou, who runs and lives in an ultimate fighting gym 365/24/7. And in this case, instead of the hot blond nemesis, Billy Zabka, the less appealing unknown Cam Gigandet plays the violent antagonist.
The message of the movie, amidst the violence, is a good one: Our hero doesn’t want to fight, but now he must train to beat up the bully who repeatedly picks fights with him, so he won’t have to fight again. Yet, it’s not consistent, as Faris fights and messes up three innocent motorists who make the mistake of beeping their horn repeatedly.
While I liked this somewhat cheesy guilty pleasure–seeing this hot guy in various states of shirtlessness and undress, what red-blooded girl would not? (Studio reps asked me to interview Faris when he was in town recently, and I regret that I turned it down.)–I could have done without the excessive violence and the gratuitous lesbian kissing scene in a hot tub. This movie is marketed to young teen girls and guys, and that irrelevant act spoiled it.
“The Karate Kid” was far superior and original, but this updated version wasn’t too bad, though more for eye candy reasons than for substantive ones.
* “Funny Games“: In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, last week, German writer/director Michael Haneke–who already made this exact movie in German 11 years ago–said the point of this movie is

to show the viewer that he is an accomplice in the violence.

Um, no. The only accomplices to the violence in this disgusting, two-hour torture-porn fiasco are Haneke and stars Naomi Watts and Tim Roth.
Shame on Watts, who also produces this horrid, painful, violent movie that makes “Saw” look like Shakespeare in comparison. On her appearances, this week, on late night talk shows like “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Watts told Kimmel the purpose of the movie is to warn us against the violence in movies, but she seemed unsure as she tried to say so. That’s because this movie promotes and further escalates violence with no purpose and further depraves and desensitizes Americans. We didn’t need this movie, nor did we need these two foreigners to “warn” us about the act that they perpetrated against us by making this garbage.
The “plot”: An upper class couple (Watts and Roth) and their young son and dog are terrorized, tortured, and slowly murdered by two preppy, pseudo-gay young men in tennis whites. The end.
There’s nothing funny about “Funny Games.” The only joke is on you, if you shell out the ten bucks to see it.

By Debbie Schlussel
Yet again, it’s the Doctors, Stupid. The Muslim Docs. And–shocker!–they used an Islamic charity to money launder funds to Pakistan, probably to Islamic terrorists, er . . . “family members and friends”:

TALLAHASSEE – A Florida Panhandle doctor and a New York doctor illegally transferred more than $800,000 from the United States to Pakistan, according to a federal grand jury indictment announced Thursday.
Dr. Muhammad Ishaq Zafar, 63, of Chipley, and Dr. Mohammed Tariq Randhawa, 64, of Hornell, N.Y., used a tax-exempt, charitable organization, Pak-American Islamic Cultural Corporation Inc., as an unlicensed money transmitting business, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The men used the organization to transfer funds for the benefit of family members and friends who contributed to the organization, the indictment said.

First, Do Harm

The men also were charged with filing false tax return forms on behalf of the organization.
The money contributed to the organization was disguised as charitable donations, and donors falsely claimed the money transfers as tax deductions, authorities said.
The men face a total of 10 separate counts. Randhawa was arrested in New York, but Zafar remains a fugitive. If convicted, Zafar could face up to 33 years in prison and $2.1 million in fines, and Randhawa could face up to 20 years in prison and $1 million in fines. It was not immediately known if either man had an attorney.
Chipley is located approximately 45 miles north of Panama City.

Thanks to reader Duane for the tip.

By Debbie Schlussel
. . . America’s top CEOs would rather be bald than short. But in politics, baldness is a no go. USA Today did a survey of America’s CEOs to uncover the truth on the burning issue of our day. And not only that, the newspaper made this the cover story of its “Money” section. Yup, that’s the distinction between the Wall Street Journal and McPaper.
And while the topic and article are inane and useless in the scheme of things, it’s still interesting. USA Today claims that hair–or lack of it–affects political prospects, but not those in the business world. And you can’t miss this from 5-foot, ten-inch, bald Howard Behar–former president of Starbucks, North America:

I mean, look at Mitt Romney. Lots of hair. Tall and good-looking. Sure didn’t help him. Compare him to the Dalai Lama: short, no hair and not exactly a looker. Just call me the Dalai Behar.

Schlussel Flashback: Hair Club For Men Picked Romney

Height vs. Pate:
Height More Important in Business, Hair More Important in Politics
More:

CEOs say being bald doesn’t impede success and, given a choice, it’s better to be bald than short. So widely held is this conventional wisdom among top executives that when asked to choose, most CEOs say they’d take 2 more inches of height over a full head of Robert Redford hair.
Even most bald CEOs, including many who are both tall and bald, would choose to be taller. “Lack of hair can only mean the brain is busy with more important functions,” says Murray Martin, the 5-foot-8 CEO of $5.7 billion Pitney Bowes, who is being generous when he describes his hair as “thinning.”
[DS: Previous to this entry, reader Jonathan wrote me:

Grass doesn’t grow on a busy street.]

“I don’t believe it ever (affected) my career. But as I progressed, it became less and less of an issue until it is now a point of pride and a personal branding advantage,” says Steve Carley, the 6-foot-1 bald CEO of El Pollo Loco. “It encourages approachability.” . . .
It’s not that being short is a career launching pad. Plenty of studies have found that taller men make more money, gain more success and attract more women. In his book Blink, Malcolm Gladwell says 30% of Fortune 500 CEOs are 6-foot-2 and taller – vs. just 4% of all men.
Bald men are a much bigger slice of the general population. The International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery estimates that 50% of Caucasian men older than 45 and 60% older than 60 have clinical balding. Stress can cause hair to fall out, so all things being equal, the percentage of bald leaders might be expected to be a little higher than average. Yet:
* If elected, John McCain would be the first bald U.S. president since Dwight Eisenhower. [DS: McCain is bald?!] To be fair, baldness, unlike height, can be a matter of opinion. At 71, some might say McCain is doing OK in the hair department for his age group. But pictures of 42 presidents indicate that less than 25% were bald or balding, when statistically it should be at least half.
* There are 41 male state governors. Those who are bald or balding make up less than 20% and, yes, that includes the aptly named John Baldacci of Maine. The hair-loss club dropped a governor Wednesday when New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced he would resign after being linked as a client to a prostitution ring. He will be replaced by Lt. Gov. David Paterson, who is not bald. Only 10% to 20% of the 84 male U.S. senators are bald or balding.
* Among corporate CEOs, women run four of the largest 125 companies on the Fortune 500. USA TODAY examined photos of the men and considered about 25% to be bald or balding. Bald men running the nation’s largest companies include Chevron’s David O’Reilly, Home Depot’s Francis Blake, Morgan Stanley’s John Mack and Goldman Sachs’ Lloyd Blankfein. . . .
USA TODAY surveyed its panel of CEOs, retired CEOs and leading executives. There was a lower response rate than for surveys on other topics, but 95% of the 74 who responded said, if given a choice, they would rather be bald than short. More telling is that the 31 CEOs who identified themselves as bald or “headed in that direction” in the unscientific survey were unanimous in saying that being vertically challenged is more detrimental to an aspiring executive’s career.

I’m still focusing on the claim that “John McCain is bald.” Huh? He’s not exactly a member of the Hair Club For Men just yet. Then, there’s the issue this article didn’t address: How many female U.S. politicians and business world execs are going bald?

By Debbie Schlussel
Looks like seven soccer players from Cuba’s under-23 national team don’t agree with Barack Hussein Obama’s pastor of at least two decades.
As you’ll recall from my post, yesterday, in a Christmas 2007 sermon, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright (who married the Hussein Obamas and who was their religious mentor for at least two decades) said that America “demonized” that paradise called Cuba.
But almost half the Cuban soccer team seems to think their country isn’t such a great place, regardless of what America says about the Communist island nation.
Yesterday, Cuban sports officials acknowledged that at least seven of its soccer players were missing and had defected to America after Cuba tied the USA 1-1 in their opening game in Tampa at an international soccer qualifying tournament for the Beijing Olympics.

So Sad, Too Bad: Remaining Half of “Demonized” Cuba’s Soccer Team
Cries Over Loss to Honduras
What’s funny is that Cuba had to compete in the same tournament, last night, against Honduras. And with only 10 players left on its roster, Cuba lost 2-0 to Honduras. So sad, too bad.
Oh, and by the way, Cuban officials are “stunned”–stunned!–that almost half its team defected to the U.S. Are you “stunned”? Didn’t think so.
More:

CONCACAF has been notified by the head of the Cuban delegation that several players have left the team,” Blazer said. “CONCACAF has no information on the location of the players or the circumstances surrounding their separation from the delegation.”
Cuban sports officials and CONCACAF have not identified the missing players. Missing from Wednesday’s practice were: Jose Manuel Miranda, 21; Erlys Garcia Baro, Yenier Bermudez, Yordany Alvarez and Loanni Prieto, all 22.
“We feel really badly,” Antonio Garces of the Cuban Soccer Association told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. [DS: Uh-huh. Sure they do.]
The five men are expected to be in Miami by this weekend, said Marcos Ommati, a spokesman with professional soccer team Miami FC.
He said on Wednesday that he had not spoken with the players and did not know their whereabouts, but said he had spoken with someone who told him to expect the players.
Player Yendry Diaz told ESPN in an interview that he and forward Eder Roldan also had left the team, bringing the total to seven.

Bienvenidos to America, guys. If only we could say “Adios” to Rev. Wright and his most famous congregant follower.

By Debbie Schlussel
Attention, terrorists, in case you weren’t paying attention–and we know that you are–your trip into the U.S. just got a whole lot easier.
Today, Michael “Serpenthead” “Mr. Burns” Chertoff signed bilateral agreements waiving visa requirements for Hungary, Lithuania, and Slovakia. On Wednesday, he signed similar agreements with Latvia and Estonia.
This is part of the expansion of the Visa Waiver program, which I’ve repeatedly decried on this site. It allows citizens and residents of allies and “friendly” countries to bypass stringent visa requirements to get into the U.S. and disappear. Without visa requirements–which generally include an interview at a U.S. embassy and more stringent background checks against terrorism databases, etc.–it’s far easier for those of questionable backgrounds to pass into our borders.

It’s a stupid policy, since we well know–and even Mr. Chertoff has acknowledged–that Muslim extremists are all over Europe and they wish us harm and are seeking to enter America. How many Muslim terrorists are there in Hungary, Lithuania, Slovakia, Latvia, and Estonia? You’d be surprised–the number is far more than you know. And given this new policy, expect that number to grow even more rapidly. Now, they don’t need visas to get here. They can just travel here at will. Ditto for the Muslims in France, Britian, Belgium, and other Western European nations to whom we’ve extended visa waivers.
It’s absurd. And it’s well past time to scrap the visa waiver program altogether. As we all know, Islamic Jihad, Al-Qaeda, and Hezbollah are not nations, they are movements, whose members and supporters are global. Borders and boundaries of nations whose governments might be friendly to us are irrelevant to many of the individual people within those borders and boundaries. Many of them hate us and will do whatever they can to kill us.
And we just made it even easier for them to do it.
V.I. Lenin was wrong when he said that capitalists would buy the rope on which to hang themselves.
We didn’t buy the rope. We’re simply giving it away to our enemies.

By Debbie Schlussel
Watch this video. This is Barack Hussein Obama’s religious and spiritual mentor. Is this the kind of racist mentor whose President mentee you want or can bear in the White House?

Reader Sean who sent this video (which also appears on ZTruth), writes:

I thought you would be equally as disgusted as I was when I saw this little sermon of hate, racism, and blasphemy. According to B.O.”s spiritual mentor and adviser for the past 25 years Jesus Christ was a “poo black man” fighting the tyranny of the white oppressors of his country, just like Hussein Obama. (Every bible I’ve ever read, lists Jesus and his parents as Jew’s, not arabs, black, asian, or even White- He and Barack must be sharing the same crack pipe) This is just one sermon of 100’s that speak of Obama’s religious beliefs as a so called “Christian”. Someone needs to inform this man of hate that Jesus was a JEW, meaning a race of people, apparently he thinks JEW is just a religion not a separate indigenous people. The audacity of ignorance is astounding!
Thanks for all your information on the Hamas, Hezbo, crooks in the MN, Michigan area….who knew?!!

By Debbie Schlussel
Emilio T. Gonzalez, the incompentent head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services–the agency that spends less than 6 minutes reviewing each request for green cards and citizenship–has resigned.
Gonzaleza, as you’ll recall, is the guy who gave himself an award he created for “Outstanding American By Choice” (an award that illegally discriminates against Americans on the basis of national original because if you are a natural born citizen, you couldn’t receive it). He’s also the guy who sicced federal agents on his former Director of Security Michael Maxwell, for daring to speak out against lax scrutiny of aliens seeking entry to and citizenship in our country. And he’s the guy who fired USCIS contractor Sultan Farakhan for decrying the fact that he (and all USCIS employees at the time) as not allowed to check immigration applicants against terrorism databases. Oh, and Gonzalez gave monetary bonuses to employees for speeding through (and approving) immigration applications.

Chertoff and Gonzalez (center) Give Self-Chosen Award to Gonzalez
At least one USCIS employee whom I respect disagrees with me, though, in applauding Gonzalez’s departure. The employee points out that Bush will simply nominate another incompetent to fill the job for the remainder of his last year in office, and that Gonzalez was a nice, if ignorant person (ignorance is bliss). The employee tells me that it’s better to have a nice incompetent than a creepy, vindictive incompetent (like Julie L. Myers and John Torres at ICE) running the agency. Because, after all, the USCIS employee tells me,

The whole entity is terminal and beyond repair.

Yup, that’s how bad things are. Good employees have given up on the system working. They’re at the point where they will merely settle for a nice guy idiot over a bad guy idiot.
Good luck, America.
***
Here is Gonzalez’s resignation missive:

To: USCIS Employees
From: USCIS Director Emilio T. Gonzalez
Date: March 13, 2008
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
I have recently informed the White House and Secretary Chertoff of my decision to resign as Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services effective April 18, 2008.
This was an extremely difficult decision for me but one that I had to make. Since 1999, due to my professional commitments and requirements, I have led a part-time family life. The time has now come for me to return to being a full-time husband and father. After taking my family on a well-deserved vacation, I will pursue other opportunities in south Florida.
I am very proud of the many accomplishments achieved by USCIS over the past two years. Those accomplishments are the result of the tireless energy and dedication of our 17,000 government employees and
contractors. Together we have taken this agency to new heights. Your commitment to the security of the United States is unparalleled and I am honored to have served as your Director.
I will continue to lead USCIS until my final day in office. In the meantime, I look forward to thanking as many of you as possible for your service, support and friendship.
May God bless you and your families and may God continue to bless the United States of America.
Sincerely,
Emilio T. Gonzalez

Nice letter. Too bad it doesn’t reflect the two years of increased corrosion of our borders and national security under Gonzalez’s lackluster “leadership”.
All of the extremist Muslims–many with ties to terrorists–that got green cards or citizenship during the last two years, blame Gonzalez for those.

By Debbie Schlussel
G-d, er . . . “Allah,” works in mysterious ways.
Not only is smoking a hookah pipe–popular among Arabs in the Mid-East and here in the West–exponentially far more dangerous to your health than smoking cigarettes, it’s also an effective way of spreading herpes and other diseases:

College students who opt for the supposedly safe smoke of a hookah pipe are sucking in the chemical equivalent of dozens of cigarettes and are risking mouth herpes and other diseases, a Colorado State University doctor says.
In the past couple of weeks, two CSU students, and possibly a third, developed mouth herpes shortly after attending their first sessions at Fort Collins hookah bars, said Dr. Jane Higgins, infection control physician at CSU’s Hartshorn Health Services. . . .

A typical session with a pipe at a hookah bar lasts 45 minutes to an hour and costs $10 to $20, the report said. The shisha tobacco used in hookah pipes often is soaked in molasses and honey.
Research has shown that one hour on a hookah pipe exposes the user to 100 to 200 times the volume of smoke of a single cigarette, according to the report, which is available at The Bacchus Network’s Web site, which is devoted to keeping college students healthier.
The smoke also has high levels of arsenic, lead and nickel, 36 times the tar of a single cigarette and 15 times the carbon dioxide.

In Michigan, state legislators are trying to regulate hookah use. But Arab Muslim institutions, like the pan-Hezbollah American Arab Chamber of Commerce are against it.
And this is one case where I agree with my nemeses at this phony “Chamber of Commerce” that includes as its members illegal aliens, like Faris Alami, who continues to defraud immigration authorities:

“We have to protect our young,” said Fouad Ashkar, vice chair of the board for the American Arab Chamber of Commerce. “At the same time, we don’t want to put rules and regulations on our members.”

I hope that all of my “Religion of Peace” “cousins” keep on keepin’ on with the hookah. Enjoy. Just don’t spread your herpes to the Infidel airheadettes with whom you conjugate. Or perhaps, you should. That’s natural selection, too.