By Debbie Schlussel
Today, the Chicago Sun-Times reports on the Tony Rezko-connected donations that Barack Obama accepted and later returned. As you’ll note, most of them–the ones listed below–are from Muslims and Arabs:

Tony Rezko
Dec. 31, 2002, $1,000
March 31, 2003, $500
Oct. 3, 2003, $10,000

Tony Rezko, Obama’s Middle-Eastern Connection

Michel Malek
June 30, 2003, $10,000
Elie Maloof
Dec. 30, 2003, $10,000
Fortunee Massuda
Jan. 26, 2004, $2,000
Imad Almanaseer
March 12, 2004, $1,000
May 24, 2004, $2,000
Anthony Abboud
March 27, 2000, $850
June 30, 2003, $500
March 5, 2004, $250
March 5, 2004, $250
June 25, 2004, $1,000
Ali Ata (Tony Rezko’s co-indictee)
June 30, 2003, $5,000
Al Chaib
June 30, 2003, $5,000

By Debbie Schlussel
As a practicing attorney and avid newspaper reader, I’m well aware that many courts in my area prohibit even bringing a newspaper into open court. And it’s kind of stupid to read a newspaper in front of a judge anyway. It’s disrespectful and will turn them against you when it’s your turn in front of the bench.
But, it’s really clueless to bring a racy magazine like Maxim into court and start reading it. It’s a “Hello . . .?” moment, especially when the woman on the cover is topless. Apparently not so for Todd Paris, a Salisbury, North Carolina lawyer. Some might say the judge over-reacted in this case. But as my former University of Wisconsin law prof Stewart McCaulley used to say, “You pays your money, you takes your chances.” The lawyer should have known better. You don’t bring that magazine to church . . . or to court.:

This is the Magazine Cover the Judge Objected To

SALISBURY, N.C. — Court documents show the attorney was reading a Maxim magazine that featured a topless model on the cover. The attorney was held in contempt of court for interrupting court by holding the magazine “in a manner unavoidably clear to the presiding judge.”
The February issue of Maxim magazine was apparently captivating enough to cause an attorney to disrupt an open court session. . . .
Court documents show attorney Todd Paris told the judge [DS: Judge Kevin Eddinger] he did not think the magazine was pornographic and was sorry for his actions. The magazine is available on regular magazine shelves, and many people we spoke to do not find it pornographic.
The judge . . . stated the attorney’s actions were “grossly inappropriate, patently offensive, and violative of the general rules of practice.”
Mr. Paris himself declined to comment Friday, but in a written statement told us he is conferring with the local state bar counselor.
When we went to his office it was no surprise what we found in his window — another issue of Maxim.
Paris was fined $300 and sentenced to 15 days in jail. That jail sentence was suspended in lieu of one year of probation.

Remember, if the cover of the mag looks like the cover of Playboy, probably not a good idea to be reading it in court in view of the judge.

By Debbie Schlussel
Where are 100 missing Nepalese workers who came here on visas to work at an Alabama DVD company? They suddenly just disappeared, just like the 11 missing Egyptian students did a couple of years ago. About 5%of the Nepalese population is Muslim.
Is DVD production one of those jobs “Americans just won’t do”? And why is it that 100 foreign aliens can just disappear en masse? I can, at least answer the second question. We simply don’t track or keep an eye on visa holding aliens in this country. It’s a true national security risk. Yet, The ICE Princess, Immigration and Customs Enforcement chieftess Julie L. Myers, is focusing on scant roundups of employee in worksite enforcement matters.
And that’s why we get stories like this (thanks to reader Matt for the tip). ICE agents are now looking for them. But ICE agents need to be allowed to be proactive, NOT simply reactive:

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – About 100 people who came from Nepal to work at a north Alabama factory seemingly vanished from a pair of apartment buildings, along with a lot of furniture and appliances, and can’t be located, officials said Tuesday.
Immigration agents are trying to determine what happened to the Nepalese workers, among hundreds brought to the United States to work at a DVD factory operated by Cinram Inc., said Lauren Bethune, a spokeswoman for the Alabama Department of Homeland Security.
“We do not in any way consider it a security threat, but we do think it is important,” she said.
A Huntsville television station, WAAY-TV, first reported on the missing workers.
Cinram’s human resources director, Peter Hassler, did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment. But a spokesman for a company that recruited the workers for Cinram said a contact in Nepal believes many of them have returned home. [DS: Fat chance.] . . .
Mary and Tim Snopl told the TV station they rented apartments in two buildings last fall to about 240 workers from Nepal. But Mary Snopl said scores of the workers are now missing, along with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of furniture, televisions and kitchenware.
“I don’t know if they’re living in Huntsville or somewhere else, I just know they aren’t living with us and they aren’t working at Cinram,” she said.
Wilson said his company was seeking a list of items believed to be missing.
Reports last fall said Cinram had hired about 1,350 foreign workers to package DVDs at its plant in Huntsville. Cinram – which describes itself as the world’s largest maker of pre-recorded multimedia products – said it turned to foreign workers because the area job market couldn’t fill its needs.
Bethune said about 100 immigrants were believed to be missing. Agents are trying to determine exactly what type of visas they used to enter the United States.
“It’s possible that they had work visas, they expired, and they went home,” she said. [DS: Again, FAT. CHANCE.]
The workers can earn $8 an hour working 12-hour shifts packing DVDs in boxes. Besides Nepal, Cinram has used foreign workers from Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Ukraine.

The problem is that it isn’t just these 100, it’s hundreds of thousands of workers around America on worker or student visas that have expired. They abscond into the great American abyss and most are never found.
Good luck, America. Forget Monday Night’s phony “State of the Union.” This is the real State of the Union.

By Debbie Schlussel
Since Superbowl Sunday is the busiest day of the year for retail pizza purveyors, you could be waiting for a few hours until your delivery arrives. But many pizza chains are now taking advance orders for Sunday, so you don’t have to wait when the big day arrives.
That’s one thing.
But now, Domino’s Pizza is offering online pizza status tracking. That’s a bit absurd. Are you that anxious for your pizza that you’ll be checking its current state on your computer, like you would a Fed-Ex delivery of important documents or financial instruments? The online info even gives you the name of each worker that touched your pizza. Is that really necessary?

Pizza: Emotional Roller Coaster?
Here’s what you might find (and please don’t say I’m an elitist against pizza store employees–I worked at Little Caesar’s Pizza in college):
* 8:32 p.m.: Pimply-faced teen, Luke, takes order for pineapple mushroom anchovy pie.
* 8:37 p.m.: Dough tossed in air by Sunshine. Accidentally falls to floor.
* 8:37:30 p.m.: Dough returned to counter by Sunshine. Sauce slapped on.
* 8:39 p.m.: Joaquin sneezes. It’s all good. Cheese spread around surface to cover germs. Toppings added, pizza put on oven belt.
* 8:41 p.m.: Annoying customer calls back, decides no anchovies. Call taken by annoyed Luke.
* 8:42 p.m.: Pizza dude, er . . . Joaquin, pulls anchovies off, but fish juices remain on the ‘za. Pizza put back on oven belt.
* 8:47 p.m.: Pizza emerges from industrial oven conveyer belt. That mushroom looks good enough to taste. Yum . . . it was good enough to taste. Tasting by Sunshine and Tina.
* 8:52 p.m.: Fast cooling pie inserted into microwave for re-heating by Todd. Hope it’s not chewy.
* 9:02 p.m.: After make-out session with girlfriend in backseat of car, delivery guy Rob starts on his way to your home.
* 9:17 p.m.: Signed for delivery. Cheapo gave bad tip to Rob. Must play for the Detroit Lions. Was it Roy Williams?
The point is: Do you really need to see what is going on with your pizza every step of the way? Is your life that uneventful?
More on this absurdity of TMI (Too Much Information):

Domino’s, (DPZ) the pizza-delivery kingpin, on Wednesday will unveil a technology, Pizza Tracker, that lets customers literally track their pizza from the moment they place the order until it leaves the store en route to them. What’s more, Domino’s vows that its online tracking system – for phone or online orders – is accurate to within 40 seconds.
“We’re filling that black box of uncertainty – ‘Has my pizza been forgotten?’ – with information and entertainment,” says Chris McGlothlin, technology chief at Domino’s.
The system goes up Wednesday at 3,400 Domino’s outlets and will be in all stores by June 30, he says. It even gives folks the first names of the workers who take their phone order and deliver their pizza – and asks customers to rate them. . . .
In a nation ever eager to track delivery of everything from FedEx packages to Amazon.com orders, it’s now come down to tonight’s pizza. The move by Domino’s is aimed at its youthful target: consumers under age 30 who spend gobs of time online.
Sadly, there are probably a bunch of people who will be enamored of this, says Christopher Muller, director of the Center for Multi-Unit Restaurant Management at University of Central Florida. “I guess they’ll sell a ton of pizzas to people with no social life who are sitting in front of computers.” . . .
“It’s technology in search of a problem,” says Brian Kardon, chief strategy officer at Forrester Research, a technology researcher. “I don’t know how many consumers are twisting and turning over the state of their delivery pizza.”
Domino’s says plenty are. “It’s an emotional roller coaster when you order,” McGlothlin says. [DS: HUH?!] . . .
With the new system, after an order is placed, the customer can go to dominos.com, click on the Pizza Tracker icon and follow the progress of the order. The site confirms that the order has been received, when the pizza is in the oven, when it’s been boxed and when it’s left the store.
Alas, a key part of the pizza’s journey cannot be pinpointed: the drive from Domino’s to your home. . . .Rival Pizza Hut is unimpressed.

Ordering a pizza is now “an emotional roller coaster”? Did I miss something? Or maybe this is a new problem introduced on a day I missed “Oprah”.
I liked it better when pizza was just a cover for Islamic terrorist illegal aliens.

By Debbie Schlussel
I love that ABC and Baba Wawa have decided that conservative means you love Al Sharpton, Affirmative Action, Title IX, and sensitivity training on the transgendered for kids. Those are the views of fake “conservative”/eternal airhead Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who appears on ABC’s anti-male hag-fest, “The View.”
Today, in talking about last night’s televised Republican Presidential debate, she said:

It’s a shame that the two most conservative candidates couldn’t talk. . . . They couldn’t get a word in edge-wise.

And to whom was she referring? Romney and McCain? Uh, no.
Don’t you know that the two most conservative Republican candidates are Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee?

“View” Hot Air & Cluelessness Not in Short Supply After Rosie Departure
Well, at least in the world according to clueless one, Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Yup, that’s the ticket: Ron Uber-Libertarian PaulNut and Populist Mike Huckabee are the most conservative. Someone hasn’t the slightest clue and never read a paper.
Well, of course, they wouldn’t allow a real conservative who actually has a clue on that network.

By Debbie Schlussel
I’ve written extensively about Arcapita, formerly known as First Islamic Investment Bank. The sharia-compliant company is based in Bahrain, but its shareholders are dominated by Saudi Princes and nobles (some of whom are believed to have donated to Palestinian homicide bomber telethons) and a Qatari Prince whose family owns and runs Al-Jazeera. It’s the company that still owns about 60% of Caribou Coffee (don’t shop there).
As I wrote in the New York Post in 2002 (and have written several times since on this site and elsewhere), Arcapita formerly employed the David Duke of the Islamic world, Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, spiritual leader of the Islamic Brotherhood, as one of its top execs. He is on the no-fly list and no longer allowed entry into the U.S. He’s called for Muslims to blow up American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan and to create rivers of Jewish blood in Palestine. He was “fired” when my reporting and national TV appearances on this caused Caribou to experience its worst sales quarter ever. But he was replaced by two men who also work for one of Al-Qaeda’s top Saudi financiers. At the same time, the company changed its name from First Islamic Investment Bank to Arcapita shield its Islamic nature.

Arcapita: Islamic Bank Now Owns Important Texas Power Plant

Meet Texas Power Plant’s New Owner, Arcapita CEO Atif Abdulmalik
I’ve been watching Arcapita, as it slowly acquires important businesses throughout America. Many of its purchases are disturbing, but perhaps none is more so than its just-announced purchase of the Bosque power generation facility in Texas. It’s Arcapita’s largest asset-based investment in North America to date:

Located in Laguna Park, Texas, the Bosque facility commenced operations in 2002 as a natural gas fired power plant, and is currently undergoing conversion to a more efficient combined cycle facility with a capacity of over 800 megawatts. Bosque sells its energy and ancillary services into the Texas power market, where increasing demand is leading to tightening reserve margins.

Remember the now-cancelled Dubai Ports deal? This is just as bad, actually worse. Do we want to allow an Islamic bank, dominated by America-haters, anti-Semites, and those with ties to Al-Qaeda to control even one American power plant?
This is the first. But, sadly, it won’t be the last.
Arcapita already owns Northern Ireland’s largest utility, Viridium Group, PLC. Also raising questions is the fact that Arcapita bought the Texas Bosque plant with unnamed partners. Who are those partners (other than Houston’s Fulcrum Power Services, which was publicly disclosed)? Americans deserve to know.
DHS chief Michael “Serpenthead” Chertoff and a 12-member committee consisting of him and Treasury Department officials, the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS), were in charge of scrutinizing this deal (just as they were the Ports Deal). And they looked the other way, approving Arcapita’s acquisition of the Texas power plant, the latest in its $22.5 billion holdings. (As I’ve written, they only give a second look to 100 foreign acquisitions in the U.S. per year. That’s not enough.)

As a matter of full disclosure, you should know that a friend of mine hired me as his attorney, when Arcapita–last year–threatened to sue him. His crime? He repeated my previous statements about Arcapita and Caribou Coffee and added his own damning research on these entities and their ties to terrorists and Islamists.
In my response to Arcapita’s threatened suit, their lawyer withered away from litigation threats when I informed him of the kind of discovery we would seek: financial records of Arcapita’s shareholders’ donations to Islamic charities and telethons financing terrorism, etc.
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Sadly, no-one looked beyond the smoke (and mirrors) when Arcapita sought to buy the Bosque plant.
Now, it is too late.
As I repeatedly comment with regard to these reports:
Remember the good old days . . . when Japan owned America?

By Debbie Schlussel – Copyright 2008
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Responding to criticism by Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, Barack Obama declared his strong opposition to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan:

I decry racism and anti-Semitism in every form and strongly condemn the anti-Semitic statements made by Minister Farrakhan.

Obama also went on to condemn his Church’s award to Farrakhan and his minister’s tight relationship with him.
But a former Obama insider says that Obama’s sudden aversion to NOI and Farrakhan is belied by the fact that Obama employed and continues to employ several Farrakhan acolytes in high positions on his Illinois and U.S. Senate campaign and office staffs. I have verified that this person–who agreed to talk on the condition of anonymity–held a key position in the Obama campaign. The insider was so close to Senator Obama that they frequently personally discussed and exchanged direct e-mail messages on campaign and policy matters. This person is not connected with the Clintons and is not a disgruntled employee.

Barack Hussein & Michelle Obama with Palestinian Activist, PLO/Arafat Advisor Edward Said @ Arab Fundraiser
(Photos From Electronic Intifada)
The insider says he frequently objected to Mr. Obama’s placement of Cynthia K. Miller, a member of the Nation of Islam, as the Treasurer of his U.S. Senate campaign. When I contacted Miller, now a Chicago real estate agent, to verify whether she was a member of the Nation of Islam and whether she shared Louis Farrakhan’s bigoted views about Jews, she responded, “None of your business! Where are you going with this?” She said her resignation as Obama’s treasurer had nothing to do with her Nation of Islam ties. Then, she hung up.
The Obama insider says he also objected to Obama’s involvement with Jennifer Mason, whom he says is also a member of the Nation of Islam. Mason is Obama’s Director of Constituent Services in his U.S. Senate office and is also in charge of selecting Obama’s Senate interns. She did not respond to repeated calls for comment.
But it’s not just that he employed these individuals in positions of power in his office, it’s that when the former associate raised objections, he says Mr. Obama’s position was that he saw nothing wrong with the Nation of Islam and didn’t think it was a problem. If true–and the fact that Ms. Mason still holds her prominent Obama Senate staff position bears that out–Obama’s condemnation of Farrakhan, this month, is phony.
But the insider says there is more to it than that. Obama’s Illinois State Senate district consisted of prime Nation of Islam territory, including Hyde Park, home to Farrakhan’s mansion. It is not possible, Illinois politicos say, to win that district without the blessing of the NOI leader. NOI members, including consultant Shakir Muhammad, held important roles in the Obama state senate campaign.
How many Nation of Islam members will work in an Obama White House?
Then, there is the issue of Israel. When Obama first ran for the U.S. Senate, he gave militant responses to the Chicago Jewish News about Israel. Obama denounced Israel’s fence–which he called a “wall” and “barrier to peace”–to keep out terrorists and favored working with Yasser Arafat. When members of the Chicago Jewish community circulated his responses, Obama said that the answers were not his positions, but the work of a low-level intern. He submitted new answers. But that was a lie, the insider says. In fact, they were the work of Obama’s Policy Director, Audra Wilson. Moreover, Obama told the insider that he blamed the Mideast conflict on the Jews:

Barack told me that he felt that Jewish community was too inflexible, and that was why the situation in the Mideast could not be resolved.

This is the man who says in a new campaign ad that Hillary Clinton will say anything but change nothing. Barack Obama will say anything, but change his answers.
Palestinian activist and Islamist Ali Abunimah, who was a close friend of Obama’s, attended an Arab fundraiser at which the late Edward Said–plagiarist, fabricator, and prominent PLO/Arafat advisor–was the keynote speaker, and at which the Obamas were notably in attendance. Pictures on Abunimah’s site, posted above, show Obama and wife, Michelle, sitting next to Said and engaging in conversation. Abunimah, in a must-read article, says the Senator has since “changed” his proclaimed views from those he expressed privately, in order to get Jewish donors and votes.
And he has succeeded in spades. Lee Rosenberg a top Illinois official of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the pro-Israel lobby is a big Obama donor. Ditto for former national AIPAC official Bob Asher. And Penny Pritzker of the pro-Israel family that owns Hyatt hotels. And there are so many others who have bought in to Obama’s newly pro-Israel views. The insider says Obama pulled the wool over their eyes.
Then, there’s Bettylu Saltzman, also Jewish and one of Obama’s first major supporters and donors. She is a major Peace Now devotee, officer of the far-left, pro-capitulation New Israel Fund, and wrote a letter to a Chicago newspaper praising Jimmy Carter’s book calling Israel an apartheid state. The Obama insider says she has Obama’s ear on the Mideast and “will be a major policy person for Barack. Very dangerous.”
The insider points to Mr. Obama’s changing views in Iraq as another area of uncertainty. He has highlighted his opposition to the War in Iraq. The insider says there is strong speculation that Obama attempted to get his crony, Federal Indictee Tony Rezko, a contract to build a nuclear power plant in the new Iraq. Rezko, a Syrian Arab who helped Obama in a deal to purchase his home, was in a partnership with NOI founder Elijah Muhammad’s son, Jabir.
Barack Obama can denounce Louis Farrakhan ad infinitum. But with supporters like Ms. Saltzman, high-level staffers who are Nation of Islam members, and constantly morphing views on Israel merely for donor appeal, a Barack Obama White House bodes poorly both for Israel and–far more important–for America.

By Debbie Schlussel
When the now-deported Elvira Arellano first took up sanctuary, well over a year ago, in Chicago’s Adalberto United Methodist Church, I warned that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was setting a dangerous precedent by refusing to raid a church in order to seize a fugitive alien ordered deported and in violated of that deportation order.
I warned that this made all churches, synagogues, and more important, mosques, into de facto sanctuaries for illegal aliens. Now, as reader H tipped me on Sunday, the same church has a new illegal alien, Flor Crisostomo, staying inside its doors and violating a deportation order. And ICE won’t touch her either, while she’s on the inside. It’s an organized effort by the church, which recruited her. And ICE is sending the message it’s okay.

It’s a sign of weakness and yet another symbol of ICE “leadership”‘s preferences for photo ops and good PR over enforcing the law. If illegal aliens and those all over the world saw ICE agents going into churches and wherever else aliens dare hide in the shadows of organized religion, they’d fear and respect us. They’d know we mean business in enforcing immigration laws.
Instead, they know we aren’t serious. And they laugh at the raids on meat plants and McDonald’s Big deal.
This is war–a war on the invasion of our country. But we are treating it like a day at the beach. In war, you often do things that look bad, in order to win the war. But we are not prepared to do that.
Exit question: How much money will ICE waste–as they did with Elvira Arellano–in tracking Cristomo’s whereabouts and assembling teams to capture her on the occasion that she might step out a year from now?
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

By Debbie Schlussel
Can’t let the day go by without commenting on last night’s phony State of the Union address by President Bush, thankfully his last.
There were so many lies in that speech and so many glaring omissions on the real state of the union. Here’s what he missed:
1) In six years since 9/11 and seven years since my Presidency began, America has more Muslim aliens, citizens, legal permanent residents, and travel- and student-visa holders in its midst. I helped engineer that. America is not safer, as I have chosen to bend over backwards to apologize to the religion of the 9/11 hijackers by pulling down my pants for them and bending over.
I created a giant bureacracy that has done nothing to make America safer and everything to waste taxpayer dollars, promote incompetents, and outreach to extremist Muslims. I’ve issued the same policy for all other federal law enforcement agencies. Joint falafel orgies of the absurd for the benefit of the religion of peace is standard.

2) While I have been focused on “outreach” to extremist Muslims for post-Ramadan falafel gatherings at the White House, I have allowed Iran to establish a beachhead in Nicaragua, after I allowed Daniel Ortega to be re-elected. I have also done nothing to mute the influence and counter the behavior of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and his growing influence throughout the continent. I have completely squandered the Reagan victories in Latin America. Contras? Who cares if they are turning over in their graves.
3) I have helped encourage chaos and facilitated an assassination in Pakistan, after I pushed a criminal jihadist woman on the country’s leader after he took my side in the war on terror.
That’s just some of what he missed. Now here is the correction to the myths, Bush told:
1) “America’s students are achieving in math and reading and the sciences.”
Reality check: American students fell behind in math and science on all international exams. They stayed the same on reading over the last six years, and fell behind other Western industrialized countries. Stop lying, Mr. President. A Ted Kennedy education bill is exactly that: a recipe for disaster. But you pushed it anyway.
2) “We have spread democracy around the world to people who want freedom and peace.” Also, Bush commented about how the people of Lebanon protested and won free elections.
Oh, really. So HAMAS, Hezbollah, militant Shi’ites allied with Iran, and the Muslim Brotherhood–all of whom won control or increased positions of power in the Palestinian Authority, Iraq, Lebanon, and Egypt want freedom and peace? Thanks for the tip, dude. Glad those elections–which brought Hezbollah effective control of the country–in Lebanon brought peace and freedom. Oh, and by the way, glad you and Condi Clueless promoted free elections by sucking up to Assad in Syria. Waiting to here the election returns out of Damascus. Any minute, now. Bravo to your fantasies, Bushie.
3) “We will defend our vital interests in the Persian Gulf.”
Translation: I will pander to 9/11 hijacker enablers throughout the Gulf and defend my right to their future donations to my Presidential library and my speaking fees, just like my father did, and just like my loser brother, Neil Bush.
Our vital interests in the Gulf?: Well it’s not the Gulf, but pretty damned close, where Bush created a new country of HAMASastan, enabled Syria by sending Condi Clueless and Rep. Darrell Issa a/k/a “Jihad Darrell” to fete Assad.
Creating a greater Shi’ite revival and crescent of power for them from Iran to Lebanon? Yup, that’s our vital interest . . . if we want to commit suicide.
Helping enable the elimination of Christians and Christianity in Iraq? Yup, definitely in our interest, there. Uh-huh. ‘Cuz we need so many Christian refugees (and Muslims lying and claiming to be Christians) coming to America from the Mid-East. Mmm-hmmm.
4) “We must trust Americans to do the right thing with their money.”
Uh-huh. That’s why you’re bailing out all those who engaged in mortgage fraud in America or otherwise made bad home investments. Hezbollah mortgage fraudsters in the Dearbornistan area and elsewhere in Michigan have contributed to making Michigan one of the three highest states in terms of foreclosure rates on homes. Yes, we should stem a huge economic disaster, but within limits, not at the cost to responsible Americans.
5) “The Palestinian people have a leader, President Abbas, who is committed to democracy and opposes terrorism.”
Um, the same guy who, Sports Illustrated reported, was Arafat’s paymaster for the Munich terrorists? Yup, same guy. “Opposes terrorism.” Hilarious.
Committed to democracy? Then, he’d step down. HAMAS won. He lost. Yup, those damn elections for barbarians “who love freedom and peace” got in the way. Hello . . .?
Oh, and one last thing:
It’s still nuclear, NOT “Nookyuhler.” No President Left Behind reading skills, my friends.
And that’s the real State of the Union, George W. Disaster.

By Debbie Schlussel
Well, it didn’t win an award yet, but hit rap “song”, “Black Republican,” is one of the tracks nominated for a Grammy in the upcoming music awards show extravaganza.
The hip-hop screed, by Muslim rapper Nas and Beyonce boyfriend Jay-Z, is called “Black Republican,” because Jay-Z–as a record company executive–compares his life as a “corporate thug” (that’s how hip-hoppers see Black corporate execs, apparently) to being a “Black Republican”–selling out, while knowing better. I didn’t get that from this unintelligible piece of “wit”–it was explained on a hip-hop site. USA Today music “critic” Steve Jones calls the “song” an “incendiary political treatise.” I’d call this a lot of things, but “treatise” isn’t one of them. I’m not sure they know that word.

Hip-hop’s “Genius” Laureates Nas & Jay-Z
Wax Anti-Lyrical on “Black Republican”
Read this and ask yourself if this was what Dinesh D’Souza was talking about when he wrote his book saying evangelical Christians and Muslims have a lot in common. Again, Nas is a devout Muslim, who is touted by CAIR, et al. Gotta wonder how this backs up D’Souza’s claim that Muslims have a right to hate America because of its course pop culture offerings, since here a Muslim is the one purveying the courseness. Reading these lyrics is a hilarious exercise in the same old absurdity that passes for “culture” in the ever declining America. Idiocracy is alive and well:

“Black Republican”
[Jay-Z]
I know you could feel the magic baby
Turn the muthaf**kin’ lights down
Esco, what up?
[Nas]
What up, homie?
[Jay-Z]
I mean
This is what you expected ain’t it?
Let’s Go
Turn the music up in the headphones
Yeah, that’s perfect
You gotta take your time make a nigga wait on this muthaf**ka
Make a nigga mad and sh*t like
Niggas usually start rapping after 4 bars nigga go in
I could start dancin’ in this muthaf**ka
Yeah
[Nas]
Yeah
[Jay-Z]
We just come out of nowhere
[Jay-Z]
I feel like a black republican, money I got comin’ in
Can’t turn my back on the hood, I got love for them
Can’t clean my act up for good, too much thug in ’em
Probably end up back in the hood, like f**k it then
[Jay-Z]
Huddlin’ over the oven, we were like brothers then
Though you were nothin’ other then the son of my mother’s friend
We had governin’ who would have thought the love would end
Like ice cold albums, all good things
Never thought we’d sing the same song that all hoods sing
Thought it was all wood grain, all good brain
We wouldn’t bicker like the other fools, talk good game
Never imagine all the disaster that one could reign
Could bring, should blame the game and I could
It’s kill or be killed, how could I refrain
Forever be in debt and that’s never a good thing
so the pressure for success can put a good strain
on the friend you call best, and yes it could bring
Out of the worst in every person, even the good saint’
and though we rehearsed it, it just ain’t the same
When you put in the game at age sixteen
Then you mix things like cars, jewelry, and Miss Thing
Jealously, ego and pride and this brings
It all to a head like a coin, cha-ching
The route of evil strike again, this could sting
Now the team got beef between the post and the point
This puts the ring in jeopardy
Indefinitely
[Jay-Z]
I feel like a black republican, money I got comin’ in
Can’t turn my back on the hood, I got love for them
Can’t clean my act up for good, too much thug in ’em
Probably end up back in the hood, like f**k it then
[Nas]
I feel like a black militant takin’ over the government
Can’t turn my back on the hood, too much love for them
Can’t clean my act up for good, too much thug in ’em
Probably end up back in the hood, I’m like f**k it then
[Nas]
I’m back in the hood, they like ‘Hey Nas’
Blowin’ on purp, reflecting on they lives
Couple of fat cats, couple of AI’s
Dreamin’ of fly shit, instead of them grey skies
gray 5’s, hate guy, wishin’ our reign dies
Pitch sling pies and niggas they sing ‘Why?’
Guess they ain’t strong enough to handle their jail time
Weak minds keep tryin’ follow the street signs
I’m standing on the roof of my building, I’m feelin’
The whirlwind of beef I inhale it just like an acrobat
Ready to hurl myself through the hoops of fire
Sippin’ 80 proof, bulletproof under my attire
Could be the forces of darkness
Against hood angels of good that form street politics
Makes a sweet honest kid turn illegal for commerce
To get his feet out of them Converse
That’s my word!
[Jay-Z]
I feel like a black republican, money keep comin’ in
Can’t turn my back on the hood, I got love for them
Can’t clean my act up for good, too much thug in ’em
Probably in the back in the hood, I f**k it then
[Nas]
I feel like a black militant takin’ over the government
Can’t turn my back on the hood, too much love for them
Can’t clean my act up for good, too much thug in ’em
Probably end up back in the hood, I’m like f**k it then

Ironically, this screed comes from a rap album, also nominated for a Grammy, entitled “Hip-Hop is Dead.”
If only.