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I was a spelling bee champ. But ever since I began posting regularly to this site, I’ve become the queen of typos, especially homophonic typos. It’s because my mind thinks and works much faster than I type (and I type quite fast). And there is a disconnect, especially with my rush to get things up on the site quickly. But I’m only one person (and have a great friend and reader who helps edit me after he proofreads what I’ve posted, as well as other sharp-eyed readers who let me know when I screw up–please always feel free to alert me to my mistakes and typos).
So what’s the Detroit Free Press’ excuse? When they’re not busy ripping off stories I’ve broken (such as the one about the All-American Muslim cast member caught with illegal drugs at the U.S.-Canada border) and pandering to Islamic extremists, you’d think the paper’s top-heavy staff of editors would notice a major homophonic typo on the inside front page. But no. Below is the headline I spotted at the top of Page 2A of yesterday’s Detroit Free Press print edition. It’s kind of amusing, even if the topic–Wade Michael Page’s tragic massacre at the Sikh Temple–is very serious and very sad. Read the rest of this entry »
If you see one new movie, this weekend, make it BOURNE! It’s the movie I really liked of the new releases in theaters today.
* “The Bourne Legacy“: Jeremy Renner does not disappoint in this latest installment of the “Bourne” movies. In fact, I like him far better than loathsome lefty (but good actor) Matt Damon. If you like a good thriller with semi-believable, fantastic stunts and non-stop, heart-pounding action, this is your movie. It’s my kind o’ movie. Although it’s a little confusing at the beginning, you quickly learn what’s going on. And I liked it a lot despite the fact that I don’t like Rachel Weisz (mostly because you can tell she’s a Brit faking an American accent in every movie she does, and it grates on me, plus I don’t buy her acting). You don’t have to have seen any of the previous Bourne movies to see this, although there are brief references to characters and happenings in the previous Bourne movie, “The Bourne Ultimatum” (read my review).
Renner plays a government-created agent, who was previously a U.S. soldier who “died” in the Iraq or Afghanistan war (I forget which). He’s training and going through tests in the cold wilderness in the middle of somewhere, when he runs out of the government-supplied pills that keep him alive and is suddenly being targeted by drones. Soon, he seeks out the scientist (Weisz) who works in the government lab where he was undergoing tests and blood work. She’s the lone survivor of a mysterious massacre at the lab. Read the rest of this entry »
As readers know, two days ago, I broke the story about New York’s top Homeland Security cop James T. Hayes’ explosive employment discrimination lawsuit against Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano. Today, two of New York’s three major newspapers published the story. Both of them got it from me (the New York Post was considering an op-ed I wrote about the matter, and I gave permission to the editor to forward it to the news staff), and both of them ultimately gave me credit and links to my site. But only the New York Daily News’ reporters did the ethical thing and made sure I got credit within the article in the print edition. I called and e-mailed the New York Post reporter, Bruce Golding, and his editor to complain, and in response, they belatedly gave me credit within the online article at 10:47 a.m., after the article had been published online for over 10 hours and the print edition cuts me entirely out of my story. They’ve promised to “make it up to me,” but I’m not holding my breath (since I don’t know how you can possibly make up to someone breaking their big scoop and cutting them out of it, now that the cat is out of the bag and already old news, by their doing).
NY Daily News, NY Post Credit Schlussel for Breaking Napolitano Discrimination Lawsuit Story
I work very hard on this site and on the stories I break here. Getting written recognition and credit in the mainstream media when they use my work and tips from stories I break is the lifeblood of the site, as it helps generate more traffic this way. There is no incentive to work hard to research and break stories, if I’m just going to be ripped off without credit. Everyone at the Department of Homeland Security knows I broke the story, as they’ve been coming in droves to this site to read the story for more than two days. I would like to particularly thank New York Daily News reporter Reuven Blau, a top-notch investigative reporter and a real mensch, who made sure I got credit for my scoop. Today’s New York Daily News notes in its story, written by Reuven Blau, Joseph Straw, and Rich Schapiro:
ICE Director of Public Affairs Brian Hale blasted the suit, which was filed in May and first reported by the blog, debbieschlussel.com.
I used to label posts of mine about Mitt Romney as “Mitt Happens.” But now I gotta have a new label: “Shameless Pimps of Mitt Happen.” And so it goes for many of the conservatives, particularly Ann Coulter, who have loudly pimped us non-stop on Mitt Romney. It’s hardly news that Mitt Happens was the creator of RomneyCare and that ObamaCare was not only modeled on it, but that Romney sent his healthcare advisers to the Obama White House to help them create ObamaCare, the same ObamaCare he now claims he’s absolutely against. So, when a Romney spokeschick, Andrea Saul, screwed up by reminding us of that great feat–RomneyCare–conservatives are going ballistic. And I ask them, huh? What did you expect? The dude’s a liberal. The Etchy-Sketchy Man for a New Generation. Watch this video below of Coulter and a number of other Romney Pimps now getting all upset over the real Romney and the real Romney team (which will be his staff in the White House). Welcome to America. Now, the Daily Kos folks are eating this up, because conservatives embrace morons and frauds like Erick “My Parents Couldn’t Think of Another First Name” Erickson who embrace crappy candidates like Flip Flopneycare. Ignore everything that overrated, lying schmuck says and writes. I don’t like Lawrence O’Donnell or MSNBC, but they have the video compilation of all of these dumbass conservatives suddenly having a moment of lucidity on Romney, far too late.
As I always say to every conservative who tells me this is “the most important election in U.S. history” (which they say as often and as casually as the host of “The Bachelor” says, “the most important rose ceremony ever!”): then, why the heck did you give us the weakest candidate possible? Did you really forget that Romney did dream up RomneyCare? Do you really want to stick your head in the sand and pretend otherwise? If mention of it makes you go ballistic, then maybe you should have gone ballistic about the idea of Romney as your candidate. It’s hilarious that you want people to evade who this guy really is and what he really did the last time he was at the reins of government.
Since yesterday’s New York Post cover article about it, many readers and friends have been sending me the story about U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist gymnast (and Jew) Aly Raisman’s statements in support of an official Olympic memorial for the slain Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics by Islamic terrorists. Plenty of mindless conservatives are calling her belated statement “brave.” Some people contacting me called it “courageous.” In fact, it is neither of these. While Raisman’s meek, lukewarm statement is nice, it is too little, too late. And frankly, at this point it is irrelevant . . . except as smart marketing for future paid speeches and appearances before Jewish groups. And all she said was that if there was a moment of silence she would have respected and supported it. That’s hardly a strong statement calling for one. It’s very tepid, in fact, not the “chutzpah” the New York Post claims. Not even close.
Where was Aly Raisman when it counted? Where was she BEFORE the Olympic Opening Ceremony, where any fitting memorial to the Israeli athletes and coaches needed to be? Why didn’t she speak up then, if it was so important to her, as she now claims? Now, with the Olympics almost over, it’s meaningless. Useless. Perhaps she felt that, if she made a statement in solidarity with those seeking a memorial to the slain Israeli Olympians, Olympic judges and officials might have taken out on her in scoring for her Olympic events. But that’s why her speaking out now isn’t brave or courageous. Courage and bravery involve doing what is right when times are tough, when there’s a risk to you for your actions. And she said nothing then, when others were crying out for the Olympic memorial in the Opening Ceremony. Now, it costs her nothing. She’s already won her gold and silver medals. She has nothing to lose. It’s not like Ahmed’s Falafel Hut was considering her for an endorsement deal. But it will enhance Raisman’s image with the group that has a lot of money to spend to hear her speak–the only group in American Judaism that still cares that she is Jewish and identifies with her for being a Jewish-American: middle-aged to older American Jews.
And to them, I say, while Aly Raisman could have ignored the Israeli athletes’ memory by choosing not to respond to a reporter’s question, she was put on the spot by a reporter and her statements now are almost as if she did blow off the question. It might have made a difference–and it certainly would have gotten more attention–had she said something when it mattered, before the Olympic Games opening ceremony.
And she was strangely silent at that time. And not just strangely silent. Deliberately silent. As deliberate as her sudden lack of reticence on the topic now. And, yet, even now, her statement isn’t exactly anything to write home about. It’s a passive response to a reporter’s question, not an active statement in support that you’d get from Muslim athletes in support of their comparatively unworthy causes.
That doesn’t get any applause or cheers from me. Just a ho-hum and sigh. And a, “is that the best you can do?!”
New York Post columnist Leonard Greene claims that Raisman “loudly shocked” observers by paying tribute to the slain Munich Eleven Israelis. But in fact, it was neither shocking nor loud. More shocking and loud is that anyone calls waiting until no one notices or cares to say something on an issue whose time–at least for this Olympic Games, the meaningful 40th anniversary of the Munich Massacre–has come and gone, “brave” and “courageous.”
If this truly “needed to be said” as she claims, she should have said it two weeks ago, not two weeks too late.
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Aly Raisman made quite a statement yesterday by winning a gold medal and invoking the memory of the Israeli athletes killed 40 years ago in Munich. Read the rest of this entry »
Many of the key allegations are stories I’ve broken on this site over the years, and the federal civil rights lawsuit gives more details. The 21-page federal federal complaint was filed in late May by New York Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) James T. Hayes, New York’s top Homeland Security official. He was previously the ICE Director of Detention and Removal Operations, in charge of the deportation of illegal aliens around the country. It’s not every day that a federal official at that level files a lawsuit against the head of his agency.
NY ICE Special Agent in Charge Jim Hayes (top left) Sues Homeland Security Chief Napolitano Over Sexual Harassment by Suzanne Barr (bottom left) and Anti-Straight Discrimination in Favor of J-No Girlfriend Dora Schriro (bottom right)
Partners in Harassment/Discrimination: DHS Chief Janet Napolitano & Flamboyant ICE Chief John (Moron) Morton
The lawsuit further elucidates several stories reported on this site about discrimination against straight male Homeland Security officials in favor gay officials, including Napolitano’s girlfriend, Dora Schriro. As I noted, Schriro had zero experience in law enforcement, and yet, she was appointed ICE Policy Director and set the current Obama immigration enforcement policy of not enforcing immigration laws. (Schriro, who made a mess of Arizona’s prisons and empowered violent prisoners against prison guards, is now making a mess of New York’s prisons, a cushy job Napolitano got her so she could be close to a sick relative in New York.)
The suit also contains confirmation of another story I broke on this site, the sexual harassment of male Homeland Security Agents by ICE Chief of Staff Barr, who is known as “Suzy ‘Stripper Pole’ Barr” because Ms. Barr jokes that a building structural support in her office is a stripper pole, and she constantly harasses male agents in the vicinity of the “stripper pole,” including, sources say, dropping items and demanding the agents bend down to pick them up. Barr was brought to the Department of Homeland Security from Arizona by Napolitano and installed as ICE Chief of Staff. She was previously Napolitano’s Chief of Staff in the Arizona Gubernatorial office and has absolutely no law enforcement experience. Agents say that this bimbo, Barr, is the person really running ICE (the Department of Homeland Security’s largest agency), not Obama appointee John Morton, whom Napolitano didn’t want in charge of ICE. The “Fifty Shades of Grey” books ain’t got nothin’ on this pervert-ette. The suit states,
Barr humiliated another male employee by calling that male employee in his hotel room and screaming at him that she wanted ‘his c-ck in the back of [her] throat.
It goes on to say,
Barr covertly took an ICE blackberry [sic] device assigned to a male Special Agent in Charge and set a Blackberry Messenger message to his female supervisor indicating that the male employee had a crush on the female supervisor and fantasized about her. These actions and others . . . were all taken to humiliate and intimidate male employees. . . . Barr promoted and otherwise rewarded those male employees who woulod play along with her sexually charged games including the three male employees whose office she relocated to the men’s bathroom at ICE headquarters. Read the rest of this entry »
Allen West never disappoints. You gotta love his spunk and chutzpah. Wish this guy were Prez! Wish he was on the ballot instead of Flip Flopney.
A Democratic lawmaker says Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) offended the entire Congressional Black Caucus by delivering Chick-fil-A chicken and biscuits to their weekly meeting — and then walking out — when it was his turn to provide the group with a formal lunch.
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) told The Huffington Post that the incident happened about six months ago but is now fresh in his mind given West’s recent comments in support of the fast food chain, which is run by a well-known Christian and backer of anti-gay religious organizations. Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy last week sparked a nationwide response from gay rights activists after publicly denouncing marriage equality. Read the rest of this entry »
In Judaism, when someone Jewish dies, we do not say, “Rest In Peace” or RIP. We say, “Zichrono LiVrachah” [Hebrew for “Blessed Be His Memory”] or “Z”L.” And with the news of Marvin Hamlisch’s death, yesterday, at age 68, I say Zichrono LiVrachah about one of the great American musical composers of contemporary times. An extreme talent, it’s notable that he was the son of Austrian Jewish immigrants because he was one of many Jewish contributors to the great soundtracks of Broadway and film, especially in the 1970s and ’80s. Hamlisch began Juilliard at the incredibly young age of seven and his extensive body of work and tremendous talent were unmatched. He was a composer, conductor, pianist, lyricist, and writer. He was principal pops conductor with several major American cities’ orchestras. And he was one of only two people to win Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony, and Pulitzer Prize awards. He also won two Golden Globes. I don’t know what Hamlisch’s politics were (which is how it should be)–I assume he was liberal like many of his showbiz friends, including Barbra Streisand. But there is no denying the great lyrics and musical arrangements he contributed to soundtracks, the theme song from “The Way We Were” and “The Spy Who Loved Me’s” “Nobody Does It Better” (as sung by Steven Tyler’s twin, Carly Simon) to Broadway’s “A Chorus Line’s” “One” (which became a film).
When I note that Hamlisch was Jewish, I also note that you never see (nor will you) Muslims contributing such a body of work, such a tremendous amount of musical talent to the former greatness of the America’s performing arts. Never has been nor will there ever be a Mohammed Hamlisch. Not even close (unless you count the “orchestra” of cellphone tones that set off IEDs.) When people attack “the Jews” in the entertainment industry, they also forget that many Jews of yesteryear and recent decades also brought us great things, as Hamlisch did with his enjoyable musical compositions. He was a great Jewish American talent.
Today, movies use established hits and background music, and it’s rare that original scores are written for movies, something that Hamlisch made a career of doing successfully. His songs regularly hit the top of the Billboard charts, and he scored over 40 motion pictures. Here are some of my favorite Marvin Hamlisch tunes. (I also like “The Entertainer” from “The Sting,” but that was really written by Scott Joplin.) What are yours? . . . Read the rest of this entry »
Shukran [“Thanks,” in Arabic]: Judge James Cacheris Grants US Citizenship to HAMAS Fundraiser Tied to Al-Qaeda
Over the years, I’ve written about the process of granting U.S. citizenship to applicants, and the fact that immigration adjudicators at U.S. Citizenship Immigration Services spend less than six minutes per applicant. That’s right–less then six minutes (and even less than that when you figure in the bathroom, smoking, and lunch breaks these government officials take) are spent scrutinizing whether or not an applicant for citizenship is a dangerous person–whether he or she has ties to Islamic terrorist groups, has a criminal record, and/or is otherwise undesirable as a U.S. citizen. Also, CIS immigration benefits adjudicators are urged to rubber stamp these applications for citizenship, and they get bonuses for the number of such applications they quickly get through (and approve). Given this system and these incentives, it’s highly unusual for USCIS officials to reject applications, especially for ties to Islamic terrorists. And, so, when USCIS rejects an application for citizenship based on that reason, it’s something to be taken seriously . . . and not to be overruled by a federal judge who hasn’t a clue.
Sadly, that’s what happened with the case of Jamal Abusamhadaneh (not to be confused with the late Palestinian terrorist leader Jamal Abu Samhadana–though same s–t, different day), an apparent member of the Muslim Brotherhood, parent organization of Al-Qaeda, Islamic Jihad, HAMAS, and assorted other Islamic terrorist groups. He found a dark angel in the form of U.S. Federal Judge James Cacheris, age 79 and long overdue for retirement (sadly, there is no forced retirement age for the federal bench).
A nearly five-year legal saga will conclude Thursday for Falls Church resident Jamal Abusamhadaneh when he takes the oath of citizenship at a federal courthouse, after a federal judge ruled that immigration authorities wrongly drew sinister conclusions about aspects of his Muslim faith. Abusamhadaneh’s naturalization follows last month’s unusual ruling that overturned the denial of his application by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
USCIS had denied the application and expressed concerns about Abusamhadaneh’s association with a prominent Virginia mosque and a purported link to the Muslim Brotherhood. U.S. District Judge James Cacheris, who heard three days of evidence at trial earlier this year and issued an unusually detailed 90-page ruling, will personally administer the oath Thursday. He said USCIS’ concerns on all counts were either unfounded or overblown. “Mr. Abusamhadaneh is a person of good moral character and meets the requirement for naturalization,” Cacheris wrote. . . .
A finding of good moral character is a requirement for citizenship, and that’s where USCIS contended the former IT worker with the Fairfax County Police Department fell short. Immigration officers contended that Abusamhadaneh lied by denying to interviewers his associations with the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in northern Virginia and the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group that is banned in some countries. Read the rest of this entry »
Especially in this tough Obamaconomy, I like to share free stuff with my friends and readers. And while there may be no such thing as a free lunch, there is indeed a free haircut . . . for your kids.
Do you have children, grandchildren, nieces, or nephews in Kindergarten through Sixth Grade? Do they need haircuts? Well, if you answered yes to both of those questions, take ’em to J.C. Penney for a FREE haircut through the end of this month of August. You have to book an appointment, by calling 1-855-JCP-KIDS or by stopping by your local J.C. Penney salon. Read the rest of this entry »
