By Debbie Schlussel
Do you believe there are alien life forms in the universe? Well, then, there’s good news for you, Jimmy Carter, and Dennis Kucinich (both believe in aliens–the extraterrestrial kind), coming out of a settlement between the team of the SciFi channel and freelance writer Leslie Kean and NASA, which they sued.
While I doubt this info will settle anything, once and for all. After all, they still have “Area 51” and Roswell, New Mexico to fantasize about:

The U.S. government says nothing of note happened in this small town in the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania at 4:47 p.m. on Dec. 9, 1965. A meteor may have passed by, but no alien ship or Russian space probe fell to Earth, as many here believe.
Still, Bill Bulebush, 82, says he knows what he saw, heard and smelled, despite the doubts of the government and others in this community 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
“I looked up and saw it flying overhead and it was sizzling,” said Bulebush, a retired truck driver. “I found it in the woods down there [in a valley] and I got to it 15 to 20 minutes after it landed. I saw it 10 to 15 feet away from behind a big tree — because I was worried it might blow up — and it smelled like sulfur or rotten eggs and was shaped like a huge acorn, about the size of a VW.”
Other people said that shortly afterward, dozens of Army soldiers and three members of the Air Force showed up; later that night a flatbed military truck took the object away.
Despite such accounts, the government has been “trying to make it out like we’re a bunch of liars,” Bulebush said. But now he and his fellow believers may have their best chance yet to prove their case.
A recent settlement in a 4-year-long Freedom of Information Act court battle requires NASA to meticulously comb its files for documents about the Kecksburg incident.
The lawsuit was filed in December 2003 in the District of Columbia by Leslie Kean, a freelance journalist, with financial support from the SciFi Channel, which ran a show that year titled “The New Roswell: Kecksburg Exposed.”
Kean was asked by SciFi in 2002 to find a UFO case with credible witnesses and possible physical evidence. She created the Coalition for Freedom of Information to support the effort and to look into other “unexplained aerial phenomena.”
Part of Kean’s own criteria, despite SciFi’s title for the Kecksburg show, was to pick a case as far removed as possible from the 1947 incident in Roswell, N.M. — thought by many to be a crashed alien spaceship but later revealed to be a top-secret research balloon.
“The types that go to Roswell and parade in the street in costumes, we try to stay far, far away from that,” she said.
Kean pressed the case after she filed a Freedom of Information Act request earlier in 2003 and NASA said it couldn’t find any documents related to Kecksburg. But Kean already knew the space agency, which had a program in the 1960s to recover and analyze space debris, had some documents. Stan Gordon, a UFO and Bigfoot researcher with whom Kean was working, had information he got in response to a request he sent NASA in the 1990s. . . .
After NASA turned over about 1,000 pages of documents that failed to adequately address Kean’s request, the case boiled over on March 20 for federal Judge Emmet Sullivan, who had tried to move NASA along for more than three years.
According to a transcript, the judge angrily referred to NASA’s search efforts as a “ball of yarn” that never fully answers the request, adding: “I can sense the plaintiff’s frustration because I’m frustrated.”
A settlement was reached Oct. 17 specifying how NASA will make a new records search and that both sides must report to Sullivan periodically, starting Dec. 17. NASA also agreed to pay Kean $50,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs.
In a statement, NASA would say only that it was “conducting another records search.”
This past week Kean and her attorney received the first batch of documents: 689 pages of Form 135s, which are inventory sheets that indicate what is in boxes and files in NASA’s archives.
Based on a first read of the documents — from which Kean will select files for NASA to review for any documents related to Kecksburg — Kean said she’s “cautiously optimistic” that they’ll turn up something.
“I asked my attorney if she found the ‘Kecksburg UFO Explained’ file,” Kean said with a laugh. “She said, ‘Not yet.’ But I’m still hopeful.”

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By the way, our insane friends, the Iranians–like Carter and Kucinich–believe in UFOs:

Iranian air force encounter, 1976: Two Iranian F-4 fighter jets chase a UFO above Tehran. One pilot says he tried to fire at the object but his equipment was inoperable.

Good info for future strategies in trying to stop Ahmadinejad. Send a fake spaceship.

By Debbie Schlussel
Don’t say I didn’t warn you about this. And I was only joking when I predicted the North American Man-Roomba Love Association. America is declining faster than even I thought. I cannot believe this appears on the pages of a major American family newspaper. Why keep Hustler and Penthouse in plastic and brown paper bags, when this is available on America’s newsstand for kids of any age?:

Never thought of C-3PO as a sex slave? . . .

Starting with the basic truth that people fall in love with people, he moves to why people fall in love online, to why people love their pets, to why people love inanimate objects, etc. Then, why not people falling in love with robots? And, logically for Levy, why not people having carnal knowledge of their robot – and vice versa?
Whether you think that idea is creepy, amoral or aesthetically icky, or you think it sounds like a rollicking good time, if you don’t buy it as the inevitable future, Levy considers you a flat-Earther standing in the way of progress. . . .
Think robo-ho. . . .But look, some people are willing to boink anything.

Never thought I’d see the B-word “verb” in a mainstream media newspaper. Oy. And Eeuuww. No class. And like a bad episode of “The Outer Limits.” Thanks, McPaper. Three letters: T-M-I.

By Debbie Schlussel
It’s no secret–at least, not to me–that counterfeit and stolen merchandise not only funds Al-Qaeda, but Hezbollah, too. That’s especially true–the Hezbollah part–in the Detroit area.
And if you are buying merchandise at a Muslim-owned business, you should wonder where your money is going . . . and where the merchandise came from. This happens a lot in urban areas, where Muslims sell hip-hop clothing at lower prices to unsuspecting inner city customers.

Shi’ite Hezbollah Supporters/Criminals Mohammad Ali Aoun and Ibrahim Adbul-Hussein Aoun: Sold Stolen/Counterfeit Merchandise in Detroit
(Thanks to David Lunde for Assistance w/Photos)
Take Mohammad Ali Aoun, 22, and Ibrahim Abdul-Hussein Aoun, 35, of Dearbornistan. They stocked up with $300,000 in counterfeit and stolen Nikes, hip-hop clothing (including Sean John clothing and Coogi sweaters–didn’t know that was still in), and 42″ stolen LCD TVs for Christmas shoppers in their hip-hop stores, “Da Hook Up” and “Goodfellas” in Detroit. Wayne County, Michigan Sheriffs raiding their stores also found several guns . The Aoun brothers knew the merchandise was stolen (mostly from Macy’s Department Store) and counterfeit. And their profits were probably going to Hezbollah.
A little about the Aouns: The Aoun family is a Shi’ite Muslim clan of extremists hailing from Hezbollah stronghold Bint Jbeil in South Lebanon (the hometown of these two criminal brothers). It’s the city where Hezbo-leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah hid out during the Hezbollah-Israel war, and from which Hezbollah rocketed Northern Israel (and still does).
Of note, of all the Detroit TV stations reporting on this story, only the ABC affiliate reported the names of the men involved and showed their photos. The others completely omitted the Muslim Arab names and faces. Hmmm . . . I wonder why.
Watch the video. More:

Sheriff Warren Evans on Monday announced the arrest of two men who authorities believe ran a stolen clothing ring that sold items at two independent stores in Detroit. Mohammad Ali Aoun, 22, and his brother Ibrahim Abdul-Hussein Aoun, 35, of Dearborn face charges of receiving and concealing stolen property and distributing and selling counterfeit merchandise. Authorities said the brothers purchased goods stolen from Macy’s and resold them at Da Hook Up and Goodfellas stores. Evans said deputies seized 11 large-screen TVs, $80,000 in clothes, three handguns, more than 1,750 pairs of counterfeit Nikes worth $161,000 and counterfeit clothes worth more than $59,000.

Sadly, the FBI–the “lead federal agency on terrorism” cases–is not involved because they take the Alfred E. Neumann approach: What, me worry? Local authorities will not pursue the terrorism angle and look any further into where the money was going.
And then there are the “inexpensive” Nikes for sale in Arab Muslim-owned gas stations throughout the Detroit area. I told an ICE agent contact about it, and he confirmed they are fakes or stolen and probably funding terrorism.
Bottom line: If you shop at an Arab/Muslim-owned store or gas station, you should think twice about why the prices are so low and Nikes (and other merchandise) . . . and where your money will go after you pay.
Will it be used to blow up innocent Israelis or IEDs maiming and murdering our troops? It certainly may, and you can’t say for sure that it will not.
Why take the risk? Better to shop elsewhere at a reputable store owned by those whom you know won’t give Zakat (Islamic charity) to terrorists, and won’t steal and cheat the infidels to do it.

By Debbie Schlussel
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Are officials of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Tampa (a good number of whom read this site) asking Allison Keyes Browne of the Tampa area about her “marriage” to terror-suspect Karim Moussaoui?
Investigator Bill Warner confirmed that Browne married Moussaoui, the third man charged in the terrorist scheme of the Smiling “Just Fireworks” Islamic Terrorists, on January 3, 2002. Moussaoui illegally possessed firearms and practiced target shooting with Youssef Samir Megahed and Ahmed Sherif Abdullatif Mohamed, the “Just Fireworks” terrorists. They were found in August driving around late at night with pipe bombs on an obscure South Carolina near a military installation, where nuclear weapons and enemy combatants are kept.

Terror Suspect Karim Moussaoui Committed Marriage Fraud

Mohamed and Megahed:
Smiling “Just Fireworks” Terrorists
Browne and Moussaoui were divorced just over a month ago. Moussaoui is a student at the University of South Florida, here on a student visa. And it appears Moussaoui married Browne to stay here after his student visa would expire. Why are they divorced now? Well, FBI agents found the Moroccan national Moussaoui “on vacation” in New York, shortly after the arrests of Megahed and Mohamed near Goose Creek, South Carolina. It appears his “vacation” may have included fleeing home to Morocco–the flights to which depart from New York, according to investigator Bill Warner. It’s not every day the FBI has such “luck” in finding a man on vacay in New York among about ten million others.
Since New York FBI agents caught Moussaoui (he’s probably now on the no-fly list and will be flown home only with the escort ICE Detention and Removal Operations Deportation Officer), he must have realized that the jig is up and that he would not be able to further scam the immigration system. And he was probably advised by his lawyers not to get charged with marriage fraud, in addition to the weapons possession charges.
Or perhaps Moussaoui and the feds worked a deal, where they’d let him divorce his “wife” without pursuit on their part. Moussaoui’s student visa would expire just after his scheduled graduation from the University of South Florida, Saturday. If he divorced before then, it would be harder to prove criminal intent–ie., a sham marriage to adjust immigration status to “legally” overstay a student visa. **** UPDATE: And as Bill Warner points out, it was Moussaoui, not Browne, who initiated the divorce, on September 10, 2007, not long after the New York FBI caught up to Moussaoui on his sudden August New York “vacation.” And probably not long after Moussaoui likely consulted one of CAIR’s army of freelance attorneys specializing in advising terrorists and Muslim illegal aliens how to beat the system. ****
Moussaoui will likely be deported over a federal criminal complaint for illegal possession of firearms in violation of his visa and immigration status. But while the feds are getting him on this “small potatoes” issue, they know he is a terrorist who trained with terrorists.
Bill Warner says there is no indication that of the 12 addresses at which Ms. Browne has resided since her “marriage” to Mr. Moussaoui, not one is the same address occupied by Mr. Moussaoui. He has lived separately at his University of South Florida student housing address–4200 Fletcher Ave, Tampa, FL 33613–for the entire “marriage.” That’s a sure sign this wasn’t even a “booty call” relationship. It was most likely a business arrangement between a terrorist alien here on a student visa and a transient American female loser who bounced around.
So, will Allison Keyes Browne be one of the few U.S. citizens in a long while who has been charged with perpetrating a sham marriage and engaging in marriage fraud for the purposes of immigration fraud?
I wouldn’t count on it. As I’ve noted, our government rarely prosecutes these American criminals who engage in treasonous sham marriages to help terrorists and other illegal alien criminals stay in the U.S.
And that’s why they will keep doing it.
I’d love to see the bank and spending records of Allison Keyes Browne. I’m wondering how much she got from Karim Moussaoui, Islamic Jihad, and Al-Qaeda for helping Moussaoui and his friends who are tied to these terrorist groups.
Selling out America comes very cheap, unfortunately. The pay. And the consequences.
**** UPDATE #2: I wondered above how much money Allison Keyes Browne got paid for this quite apparent fraudulent marriage. Bill Warner points to these interesting facts:
Browne was charged by the State of Florida with passing bad checks on or about February 26, 2001. (Case Number 01-CM-007302.) “Someone” paid off her bounced check with $131.00 in late September 2001, and the whole case against her goes away without criminal conviction. Suddenly, on January 3, 2002 she’s married to Moussaoui in a fake marriage. Hmmm . . . I wonder who that someone is who paid the money for the bad checks.
That’s actually a good scheme if you’re a Muslim alien terrorist looking for a sham marriage co-conspirator U.S. citizen. Go to the local court. Look for any U.S. citizen of the opposite sex who’s been charged with writing rubber checks and offer to pay it all off . . . in exchange for a little visit to the state for a marriage license. For $131.00 to the American, it’s a pretty good deal for the alien malefactor. As Bill Warner says:

Marriage made in heaven, bad check writing female who is a US citizen and rich Moroccan National USF student looking to stay in the USA.

Exactly. And it’s even more “heavenly” because ICE investigates so few of these case and, again, our “Justice” Department prosecutes even fewer of the American sham marriage “spouses.”

By Debbie Schlussel
I’ve said it before and it applies eternally: scramble the letters of NANNY STATE, and you get NEAT ‘N’ NASTY.
When I was in school, we had soda machines, ice cream and junk food vending, and cake for people’s birthdays. But I–and most of my classmates–didn’t get fat. I played tennis, ran track (and did cross-country/distance running, too), and went on walks outside with my dad. And I didn’t eat junk food all the time, just ‘cuz there was a machine down the hall at school.
In the good old days–not too long ago–we didn’t have a chubby, McDonald’s-and-Monica addict former President (and future male First Lady) getting on the high horse and convincing companies and our schools to do away with food sources, so that we wouldn’t have to learn how to exercise self-control . . . and exercise, period.

Nanny State Food Police: No More Cupcakes for Kiddies in Chicago-Area
But that’s all changed. Bill Clinton strong-armed soft drink companies to take their machines out of schools. Ditto for candy and ice cream vendors. Now, there are boring fruit and peanut choices all of the time because kids are taught not to use sound judgment and will power any of the time.
The latest casualty is cupcakes in Chicago-area schools, including the hifalutin’ mansion-encrusted suburb of Lake Forest and the upper-middle class Naperville. And no more Chrismas cookies either. They’re using Christmas cookie cutters to cut wheat bread” instead of cookies:

“The kids don’t notice they are not getting to decorate a cookie. They just like to decorate something,” said Pam Salm, a Lake Forest mother who oversees almost two dozen partent volunteers at Cherokee Elementary School.

Uh, kids not noticing their cookies are being taken away and replaced with whole wheat bread? Who are you kidding, lady? They notice. And not only are cupcakes and cookies off-limits, the food Nazis are telling teachers what they can and cannot bring to school for their own lunches and snacks. Talk about statism. This is the first legit issue for a teachers union I’ve heard of in a while:

The once ubiquitous cupcake, iced to perfection and colorfully sprinkled, may be slowly fading from the school landscape.
As elementary classrooms prepare for holiday parties this week, some schools plan to ban the treat in the steady push to improve nutrition with in schools statewide.
What began with strict dietary guidelines for cafeteria food and a soda pop-ban in grade school vending machines increasingly extends to the last beachhead for sugar-laden food in schools: classroom parties and holiday treats.
Across the Chicago region, districts from Naperville to Gurnee are clamping down on the types of food that parents can bring for class snacks and parties, requesting veggie trays or bread sticks with marinara sauce in lieu of sweets, and water rather than juice boxes. . . .
School districts nationwide fashioned wellness policies last year after a federal law required schools to develop a kindergarten-to-high school plan for nutrition and physical education. Confronted with rising rates of child obesity and a surge of youth allergies, many local schools seized the moment to take a firm stand against junk food served anywhere and any time in the building — including fare offered by parents for classroom parties, bake sales and club meetings.
But changes to cafeteria food and vending machines did not affect parents as this round of changes will. In some schools, this holiday season could test the new nutritious bounds.
Pam Salm’s phone started ringing just after Thanksgiving.
The Lake Forest mother oversees nearly two dozen parent volunteers at Cherokee Elementary School. The role thrust Salm to the front line of questioning from parents who wondered how to make parties festive, but also nourishing, as required by Lake Forest School District 67’s wellness policy hammered out by educators, parents, nurses and nutritionists and approved in June. The policy put a premium on nutrition lessons, physical activity and healthy food choices by students and parents who volunteer to feed them during school parties and meetings.
Cheese and crackers, dried fruits, baked chips, low-fat pudding cups or other healthful snacks are served. Offerings must be nut-free, a concession to child allergy concerns, and void of saturated fats and high-fructose corn syrup. That means no juice boxes, no cookies and no pizza. That is, unless it’s of the whole-wheat, fat-free cheese pie variety.

So many restrictions, my head is spinning. It’s like going to dinner with a humorless, whining feminist. Everything is problematic and a downer.

With holiday parties looming, Salm and other parents have been digging for alternatives.
Rather than decorating cookies, some organizers plan to use Christmas-tree cookie-cutters on wheat bread, iced with low-fat cream cheese and decorated with sliced veggies such as shredded carrots, mini-broccoli or cut up red peppers. Fresh fruit skewers could double as reindeer antlers. Baked chips colored red and green lend a festive feel. . . .
Meanwhile, similar efforts to give classroom parties a healthful tune-up gain momentum nationally. Educators and parents increasingly try to make snacks and lunch fare reflect what is taught in health classes. Consistency is critical, child health experts said. The challenge comes as schools try to shift the focus away from food to games and crafts during classroom parties.
“If you’re preaching more fruits and vegetables and no soda, and then you have a bag of chips and a Coke on your desk, the students will recognize that,” said Christine Cliff, a dietitian with Illinois NET, a nutrition, education and training program based in Sycamore. . . .
A rash of child food allergies — an estimated 3.1 million U.S. children have them — and the cultural objections families may have to some foods also fueled the change, school leaders said. . . .
For the second year, Naperville elementary school principals have sent home a list of ingredients for each item that will be served at holiday parties, so families can alert school officials not to serve a particular snack to their child. Like Lake Forest, Naperville schools no longer permit food at classroom birthday celebrations. . . .
The change can be tough to swallow, educators and child nutrition experts acknowledge.

Some sports commentators call the NFL, the No Fun League. But I think that moniker stretches to the Nanny State moms of the Chicago-area, who’ve been swept up by this move to eliminate fun, choice . . . and any sense of personal responsibility from America’s kids today.
In other words, it’s unhealthy to always be so healthy. It’s NEAT for the PC Food Police. But it’s NASTY for you.
Cookies and cupcakes are part of the fun of being a kid. And part of learning how to impose your own limits on yourself when the Nanny State tofu-and-botox-set moms of Lake Forest and Naperville aren’t there holding your hand.
Taking away that training is what causes obesity in America, not the availability of choices, including sweets.
Cupcakes and cookies banned today. Persimmons and tuna melts, tomorrow.

By Debbie Schlussel
Wednesday is Eid Al-Adha, the Muslim festival of sacrifice, makring the end of the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Every year, hundreds of Muslims on the hajj (hajjis and hajjas) are trampled to death in this religious rite. Yet another mark of just how peaceful the religion is.
In January 2006, for example, 362 hajjis were trampled to death (the Saudi government claimed it was only 345) by their oh-so-“peaceful” fellow Muslims. So, how high will the total deaths be for this year, come Wednesday night? Taking bets. How high will the natural selection toll be?

Since their religion is THE “Religion of Peace”–implying that ours are not, please tell me how many Christians are trampled to death by other Christians at Christmas Mass, every year? How many Jews are trampled to death at Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur services?
Well, there have been Jews blown up at Passover Seders, as in the Passover Massacre of 2002 in Tel Aviv, Israel. But, then, the perpetrators of that were the usual suspects: the same religion that tramples its fellow co-religionists in Mecca.
Islam is often fatal. While that may be “peace” (of some sort), it’s “everlasting.”

By Debbie Schlussel
Fernando Vina was one of the many former Major League Baseball players whose name was on the Mitchell Report, released by over-rated former Maine U.S. Senator, George Mitchell.
Vina was an analyst on ESPN’s “Baseball Tonight,” last season. But, while he appeared on air commenting on baseball issues until recently, Vina hasn’t appeared on the netowrk since being named in the report as a steroid user (or, at least, buyer–guess he was buyin’ ’em for his dog?).
So, did ESPN fire Vina? Or is he just in self-imposed exile in light of the report?

Neither side is saying, though ESPN says it’s been trying to get Vina on the air to answer questions (as a target of inquiry, not necessarily as paid ESPN personality). Time will tell. We may have to wait until April to find out.
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By the way, Mitch Albom–with whom I don’t often agree–has a great, comprehensive “non-partisan” test for whether you are for or against steroids. It sums everything up nicely.

Major League Drugs by Fred Taub of Boycott Watch

By Debbie Schlussel
One of the great things about America is the genius and entrepreneurial spirit of so many of its citizens. Two of those, Orville and Wilbur Wright, took the first flight 104 years ago, today, at 10:35 a.m.
At the time, flying was a fantasy. But they willed it, and they achieved it:

Most of history’s great breakthroughs were made on days long forgotten.
But there is something about the image of Orville and Wilbur Wright on the windswept sands of Kitty Hawk, coaxing an awkward mechanical bird off the sand – and, with the shortest of flights, allowing humans the hope that they would not be forever confined to the ground.

It was 104 years ago today that the Wright Brothers achieved the world’s first powered flight of a heavier-than-air craft, and the anniversary will not be ignored.
Today, officials with the Wright Brothers National Memorial expect 500 to 1,000 people to gather to remember an achievement that was at once humble and world-changing. They will listen to patriotic music and speeches. Advertisement
At 10:35 a.m., the exact moment that the Wright Brothers’ glider lifted from the ground, a dozen military aircraft will soar overhead.
They hold a similar celebration each year to commemorate the first flight.
“The invention of the airplane is probably the greatest technological achievement of the 20th century,” said Darrell Collins, historian for the memorial. “It has touched and shaped the way all of us live today.”
But Collins acknowledges that it’s probably not just the import of their achievement that keeps people coming back to the Outer Banks every December. After all, the invention of the automobile and the telephone, the discovery of penicillin, also shaped modern life.
Collins said it is the story of two brothers, working together with few resources but their own hope and determination, quietly transforming fantasy into reality, that draws people to the memorial.
“In less than a minute,” he said, “they changed the world.”
Historians say the Wright Brothers, although born four years apart, had the emotional and intellectual bond of twins. They owned a bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio. They lacked college degrees, but shared a restless, vigorous intellect and became self-taught aeronautical engineers before there was such a profession. Wilbur was the visionary. Orville was the tinkerer and inventor.
Historians note the disputed claims of earlier flights but credit the Wrights with the first sustained powered flight by a heavier-than-air craft.

Americans have dreamed up and invented so many innovations that have changed lives around the world for the better. You don’t see any such developments coming out of the Islamic Greater Barbaria that is the Middle East. (Only that wonderful island amidst it, Israel, shares such a track record and its history is far shorter than ours.)
And despite America’s decline in so many ways–culturally, educationally, in the sciences, etc.–we are still inventing.
Today, for example, snowstorms are dealt with easier with . . . beet juice?!
These creations and innovations will continue . . . so long as we enjoy freedom and free markets.

By Debbie Schlussel
Fred Thompson’s choice of pan-Islamist Spencer Abraham first as his campaign manager and now as one of three “national campaign co-chairs” (there were four–but one resigned because of drug-dealing convictions) was far worse. But Mike Huckabee‘s choice of Ed Rollins as his campaign manager–though not half as bad as Spence Abraham–is pretty bad.
You probably remember Rollins as the brilliant Reagan campaign strategist. But I remember him as the man who ran Ross Perot’s insane Ron-Paul-esque campaign.
And now, I remember him as one of three Republican bizarros who participated in the October Arab American Institute national conference in Dearbornistan, sponsored by Hezbollah restaurant La Shish and populated by all sorts of Hezbollah and HAMAS supporters. As I first reported, the Arab American Institute had no problem accepting money and catering from and enlisting as a sponsor the restaurant that gave $20 million to Hezbollah and gave shelter to Muslim illegal aliens, including CIA/FBI agent mole Nada Nadim Prouty.

Ed Rollins: Mike Huckabee’s New Campaign Manager Hangs w/Hezbo, HAMAS Supporters

The only other Republicans appearing were 9/11 Truther Ron “America Created Monsters like Chavez” Paul and Grover Norquist (who received millions from Islamic charities linked to Al-Qaeda and got Bush Administration jobs for individuals tied to Al-Qaeda). And Ed Rollins, Huck’s new campaign manager, hung with them and a cavalcade of HAMAS and Hezbo cheerleaders. The Arab American Institute, run by James Zogby, refuses to denounce any terrorist group except Al-Qaeda. And even that “condemnation” is shaky. Rollins was on a panel with Zogby’s brother, pollster John Zogby, and Democratic strategist Peter Fenn.
You know what they say about “the company you keep.” And this is the company Ed Rollins–the new chief of the Huckabee campaign–keeps. Rollins well knew what the Arab American Institute is about. It’s hardly a secret. And the sponsorship of its convention at which he appeared by La Shish was all over the conference info and literature. Talal Chahine, La Shish’s owner, had long been a fugitive and federal indictee, and it was well known he’d laundered $20 million to Hezbollah through the restaurant. Yet he appeared anyway.
So, will Mike Huckabee denounce Hezbollah and HAMAS? He hasn’t explicitly done so. And the presence of Rollins atop his campaign says even more. If this is the kind of guy–who looks askance at terrorism ties and support–that Mike Huckabee hires to run his campaign, imagine what his White House will be like.
What was it that President Bush said (but didn’t mean) about how “you’re either on our side or the terrorists’ side”?
Mike Huckabee’s new campaign manager spoke and participated in the terrorists’ American front group’s national convention and encouraged them to become more involved in American politics.
I think that tells us on whose side he’s now on. I used to like and respect Ed Rollins. After October, that changed forever.
The question is: Once they learn about this, what will the many pro-Israel Evangelical Christians now supporting Huckabee do with this info?

By Debbie Schlussel
While there are several new releases at the movies, this weekend, the only one worth seeing is “I Am Legend.” And even that one isn’t as great as I expected it to be. The highly overrated “Atonement” is just that–extremely overrated. I did not screen “Alvin and the Chipmunks,” as the critics’ screening was held on the Jewish Sabbath (sorry). Here’s the rundown:
* “I Am Legend“: What if you were the last living human in New York City and perhaps the country or even the universe? That’s the situation Will Smith faces as Robert Neville, the genius Army scientist and doctor, in the year 2012. I liked this movie, even with its faults, because it’s like a modern day Noah’s Ark, where the main character thinks the world will end and loses his faith in G-d. But in the end, his belief is restored and G-d works his miracles.

A virologist, Smith/Neville finds himself in the aftermath of a cure for cancer gone awry. The vaccine turns humans rabid. And the rabid humans have murdered and/or eaten the rest of the population that hasn’t been killed by the vaccine. Dr. Neville, a virologist, is alive because he’s one of the rare humans immune to the virus caused by the cancer cure.
This movie is worth seeing for the special effects–with Will Smith racing a Bullitt-style Mustang across midtown Manhattan chasing deer he’s hunting for dinner. Times Square is barren of humans and bright lights. Instead, it’s infested with wildlife, including lions, tigers, and deer. Oh, and weeds. New York is overgrown with them. That includes Central Park, which now serves as a giant crop farm for Neville. He’s so alone–and lonely–that he’s placed mannequins at the video rental store he frequents, so he can talk to them. Other than that, he has his dog.
And that’s the interesting part. Then, there’s the part that ruins the movie. At night, Dr. Neville must steel himself and hide from the rabid zombies–the last remainder of infected humans–who feed on and kill humans. The movie is believable until they come in. The computer-generated images are like other rabid zombie and vampire movie–and those have done it better: “28 Days Later” and so many others. The zombies are uninteresting. And just not believable. They are a bad counterbalance to the genius of Dr. Neville and Will Smith’s very convincing acting job in that role.
Seeing Smith as this man alone on earth and how he deals with it is interesting. Except, if you were the last person on earth, the video you watch with your breakfast every morning would not likely be . . . Matt Lauer and Katie Couric on “The Today Show”?! Um, it’s 2012, and Meredith Vieira took over the boring liberal chick chair, long ago. But, hey, the KV Virus does silly things. Also of interest: In 2012, gas is $6.63 per gallon.
Again, the ending of this one is a positive message about those who have faith in a Creator.
* “Atonement“: This movie is getting rave reviews and all kinds of awards from film critics all over the country. And like most such movies, it’s highly overrated. I expected much more. Got very little.
The story: Robbie (James McAvoy), a young medical student of the non-aristocratic class, is in love with the daughter (Keira Knightley) at the mansion where his parents are the help. The daughter reciprocates and they carry on a love affair. But the daughter’s little sister, jealous and immature, makes up a story. She pins the rape of her young cousin on Robbie, who goes to jail for it.
But then the movie strays off into a a different story. Robbie is fighting in World War II in France. We see endless scenes of him walking around war-torn Europe. Then, finally, when we return to the main story, it’s too late.
Aside from that, the loud music and pounding set to go off in time with a typewriter, bombings, and other instances is maddeningly annoying. And, in addition, the last scene of the movie stars Israel-hater/PLO propagandist hag Vanessa Redgrave. The scene is kind of an afterthought, after the whole tangent that makes up the last two-thirds of this long, boring movie.
Skipworthy. And definitely not award-winning stuff. But, hey, it’s British. And if Jimmy Carter had a British accent, they’d give him awards, too. Oh, wait, they have, indeed, given him awards. But like this movie, he didn’t deserve them.
Most over-rated movie of the year. There’s very little “atonement” in this movie, except that your wife or other significant female other will have to do dragging you to this dreadful, high-brow chick flick (which isn’t even entertaining on a chick flick level, let alone otherwise).

* “The Perfect Holiday“: I’ll never understand why they make Black movies like this. It’s stupid, hokey, inane, and annoying. Frankly, it’s an insult to the Black audiences at whom it’s targeted, because it sends a message that the filmmakers believe this audience is just not sophisticated for anything better.
A single mother (Gabrielle Union) is telling her girlfriends that she is lonely for a man. She wants a man, any man, to just tell her she’s good-looking. Hearing this, her young daughter tells the part-time mall Santa, who just happens to be a very good-looking Black man with singing aspirations. He fulfills the young girl’s wish and, soon, her mother and Santa are dating, except mom doesn’t know he’s Santa. And Santa doesn’t know she is the ex-wife of a nasty rap star, with whom he’s trying to get a deal.
The withholding of info and madcap confusion is as advanced as a typical “Three’s Company” episode, in which Jack Tripper doesn’t tell Chrissy and Janet something important, and mass misunderstandings occur. Haha funny. It’s just absurd. And it’s the stuff of ’80s TV sitcoms, not 2007 silver screen fare. Worst line in this movie (among many bad ones):

Women love a coffee-bean-Black balladeer.

If there’s anything good about this movie, it’s that the rap star ex, J-Jizzy (played by Eddie Murphy’s bro, Charlie Murphy), is a creep and is shown as such. Diddy/Snoop Dogg-esque, he’s a complete dummy, talentless, and a blatant user of his kids for P.R. purposes, who doesn’t care about them. (His rap songs featuer titles like, “I Love Ho Ho Hos” and “I Saw Mommy Cappin’ Santa Claus.”) But that’s not enough to recommend this silly movie.
And it’s hard to believe that someone as kind, caring and smart as Union’s mom character would ever end up with an insufferable egomaniacal rapper like this guy. Also, it’s hard to believe a movie that has a mother and two kids who speak like they are from an upper class neighborhood in Beverly Hills, yet her other kid speaks with the accent of a Black Puerto Rican Barrio in New York. Doesn’t jibe.
Queen Latifah and Terrence Howard co-star as angels who make everything work out. They’re cheesy in this. This movie is about 20 years or more behind the times. And a complete waste of it.
Your Holiday will be far more Perfect without this.
* “Romance and Cigarettes“: It’s easy to see why this John Turturro-written and -directed “musical” sat on the shelf since 2005. It would have been better had it stayed there. And he should stick to acting. This is one of the worst movies of the year.
Starring Susan Sarandon as a wife cheated on by her working-class sleazebag hubby, James Gandolfini, I couldn’t take sitting through this. It’s boring and stupid. And no point in it. Gandolfini’s mistress, Kate Winslet, and his fellow ironworker buddy, Steve Buscemi, talk about some of the most disgusting things and sex moves. The C-word, etc., are most of the dialogue in this “film.” The music and singing just make it worse and even more silly.
Skip at all cost. YUUUUCK!