By Debbie Schlussel

If you’re reading this, you’re either not watching the Super Bowl, or you’re as bored as I am, so far, with the game, the commercials, and every hyped-to-death aspect of it.  I’ve said this about previous Super Bowls:  I just don’t care much about it or who wins.  The commercials are usually overrated, except maybe one decent one.  And, this year, most advertisers have already released their ads, and I’ve already seen them a million times.  Boooring. Elton John as a King in a dumb Pepsi ad. Not funny.  The only fun is in counting how many convicted criminals are playing on each team or how many kids each has fathered out of wedlock and left you to pay for. And then there are the specific teams and the people involved.

I don’t have a dog in this hunt or any NFL hunt.  I’m not the team owner who stands to make more money in memorabilia sales or a player who stands to make bonus money and even more money from lucrative endorsement deals.  And even if my “hometown” team, the Lions, were playing, I wouldn’t care.  I have no connection to these people and neither do you.   They are mercenaries with little or no ties to where the home team is located.  Most don’t live there in the off-season.  And they go to whichever team is offering them the most money.  I don’t begrudge them that.  But I also have zero identification with them, nothing in common.  That said, I’m rooting for the Giants against the Patriots.  Why?  Well, as I’ve said before, I can’t stand Tom Brady.  I hate the guy, or as I called him on this site, “Woman of the Year.”

Brady is your typical hypocritical liberal girlie man.  I call him, “Tom Brady-ette.” Reader Ari calls him, “Jan Brady.” I think, maybe, he looks more like Marcia with brown hair. Yes, he’s a liberal Democrat.  But that’s not what makes me hate him.  It’s that he fathered a kid with a gorgeous woman, then dumped her and the kid for another woman whom he thinks is gorgeous, model Gisele Bundchen, then had a son with him.  Yup, he’s a baby daddy, and he has little involvement in son #1′s life.  We know that kids without a father in their lives–whether poor OR rich–are more likely to become problems. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Every year, I write about the tremendous amount of money wasted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)–the Department of Homeland Security’s largest agency–to spend Super Bowl week as the NFL copyright police.  And this Super Bowl weekend, this Super Duper Waste is happening again.  I’ve written about this repeatedly in the past (including here and here and here). ICE Michigan/Ohio Special Agent in Charge Brian Moskowitz a/k/a “Abu Moskowitz” even wasted tax dollars to make a special NFL ICE Super Bowl pin for the agents performing this important task of keeping us safe from the threat of t-shirts.)

As I’ve noted before, ICE agents are paid on your dime to roam the streets of Indianapolis as the private police force for the greedy gazillionaires who own NFL teams.  And, as I’ve also noted, they seize goods that are of questionable “copyright violation.”  T-shirts and sweatshirts bearing such First Amendment-protected phrases, as “New York Football,” “New England Football,” and “Indianapolis Big Game,” are taken by ICE agents with no legal basis.  NFL owners don’t own these words. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Only one of the new movies in theaters this weekend was semi-decent in my view.

*  “Chronicle>“:  I found this movie interesting, but be forewarned:  it is aimed at teens and 20-somethings and mostly at guys in that age group.  If you aren’t in this group, please do not complain to me later when you didn’t like it and went based on my recommendation.  You were forewarned.

Although I did not like the herky-jerky style of a movie videotaped by someone (hasn’t this been done to death already?) and I did not like the ending, I found the idea of high school boys who suddenly acquire superpowers to be creative and entertaining. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

I’m always asked what I think about the evergreen news story that “Israel will strike Iran by year’s end.”  It’s a story that’s been in the news for years and never happens.  And I always laugh at how self-styled “experts” on Israel, Iran, and the Middle East constantly elaborate ad nauseam, diarrhea-of-the-mouth-style about how Israel is going to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons “in the next few months.”  Yeah, whatever.  You keep tellin’ yourself that.  It’s like today’s ABC News story that Israel put its companies in North America on high alert.  That could be justa red herring to trick the media, Iran, and especially Israel’s worst enemy in high office:  Barack Hussein Obama.  And, frankly, Israel’s companies in America need to be on high alert at all times.  They’re hated by all things Muslim.  Here’s what I know for certain:

If and when Israel ever strikes Iran’s nuclear facilities and warheads–which I’m not sure is a certainty to happen–you won’t be reading in the news that the Israelis are about to do it.  These leaks are Obama’s way of trying to stop Israel from doing so.  And before that, they were Bush’s and Condi Clueless’ way of stopping Israel from doing so.  And I’m simply tired of hearing this BS story.

I also know that when Israel struck Iraq’s Osierak nuclear facility, it was a whole different ballgame.  There was only one place to strike.  It was in a well-known location above ground.  And Israel had it much easier than is the case now with Iran. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

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If you are like many Americans and millions of foreigners, on Sunday Evening your eyes will be glued to the Super Bowl on NBC.  But just after the Super Bowl, the Peacock Network’s “American Idol” rip-off, “The Voice” will air.  One of the hosts/judges of the show, tattoo-encrusted Adam Levine of the pop group, “Maroon 5,” recently announced his pride in boycotting a Mexican restaurant for contributing to the campaign for California’s Prop 8, the law which declares that marriage is between a man and a woman. (For the record, Levine is NOT Jewish, contrary to popular belief and a Jewish surname. Also, his uncle is extremely liberal journalist Timothy Noah, who is also not Jewish.)  Maroon 5 was recently nominated for a Grammy Award for the hit song, “Move Like Jagger,” and in connection with that, here’s what he told the February 6th issue of People:

ON GRAMMY NIGHT RITUALS:

We used to go to this Mexican restaurant to celebrate after the Grammys.  But the place supported the movement to make gay marriage illegal [in California] so we bailed on that. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

You all know the liberal mainstream media’s reaction, last week, to a heated conversation between Barack Obama and Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (whom he is suing over her attempts to secure the border and enforce immigration law, the job he won’t do).  She was called “disrespectful,” among other things.  And women on one of TV’s cackling hag-fests suggested the Secret Service should shoot off her finger.  But here’s the photo you’ll NEVER see the mainstream media trumpet.  That’s because it shows a different picture of Jan Brewer.

The photo shows Brewer consoling and comforting Josephine Terry, the mother of Brian Terry, the Border Patrol agent who was murdered as a result of the Obama Administration’s “Fast & Furious” gun operation designed to further restrict the Second Amendment.  The photo was taken at the Peace Officer Memorial in Arizona and the photographer gave permission for me to post it here. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

I’ve said it before.  I’ve said it again.  And now I’ll say it yet again.  I’m sickened by the attention the GOP candidates–and therefore, the media–have been giving reality show clown, Donald Trump.  And, today, the clownfest side show continued, with Trump’s endorsement of Mitt Romney, after he was first going to endorse Newt Gingrich.  Talk about sloppy seconds.  I’m more interested in which florescent orange Oompa Loompa hair-coloring he endorses for next Halloween.  I don’t care that it’s just one rich kid born rich who’s had as many wives as Newt Gingrich endorsing another rich kid born rich.  It’s just that I don’t care what a mega-ringmaster thinks, period.  To me, he will always be what he is:  a shamelessly self-promoting ringmaster.  If you think otherwise, you ain’t been payin’ attention.  And that’s not to mention his shameless pandering to the Islamic world by orchestrating the Miss USA win by a Hezbollah Muslim, Rima Fakih, along with a sponsorship of his pageants by his good friend, Jew-hater and Palestinian pogrom supporter, Farouk Shami.

I’m not sure why anyone on earth would care who Donald Trump endorses.  I care about his endorsement as much as I care about the endorsement of Snooki, J-Wow, the Situation, and whoever the doofus-esque, desperately fame-seeking “The Bachelor” is this season.  And I care about his endorsement as much as I care about the Kartrashians’ endorsement or the endorsement of the cast of “Celebrity Wife Swap,” but less than I care about the little people’s endorsement and that of the men who catch catfish with their hands and the “American Pickers.”  At least, they are doing something semi-worthy. . .  far more worthy than business fraud Trump. Hearing Romney thank “Mr. Trump,” as if he’s a contestant on “The Apprentice,” rather than a candidate for President of the United States, is embarrassing. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

There’s something about a person wearing a mask to a gas station that understandably makes them a little nervous.  Like, say, the high possibility of armed robbery. But leave it to the whiners from HAMAS CAIR to make a big stink about it, so that in the future, gas station robbers will know exactly what to do:  dress in a Muslim niqab (the full-ninja face face veil many Muslim women wear because their ugly mugs might turn on some Muslim guys who, unlike normal Western men, can’t control their impulses and might be forced rape them).  I’ve already written about several crimes committed this way.  And then there’s “burqa-cide.”Oh, and why is it that these whiners are always women with a troubled, criminal past–as in this case, where the whiner-ette beat her daughter over a cell phone and was hauled off to jail.

La-Fleur Mohamed, a Muslim for the past 12 years, says a Chevron employee humiliated her by barring her from a gas station because she wouldn’t remove her head scarf.

Um, it was a FACE scarf, not just a head scarf. See the photo above.

“You can’t come in here dressed like that,” Mohamed said the clerk told her inside a station store west of Boca Raton in October. The clerk allegedly tossed Mohamed’s gas money back at her and instructed her to leave. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

One of the biggest stunts teens and 20-somethings are doing these days is trying to swallow a spoon full of cinnamon a/k/a “The Cinnamon Challenge.” Finally something less malignant than the usual stunts involving the disgusting, the dangerous, the illegal, or all three. This is actually pretty funny. And remember, there are significant health benefits to cinnamon, as discovered by Israeli scientists.

Check it out . . . Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

As you probably know, Don Cornelius, host and producer of TV’s “Soul Train” for decades, died today of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.  I have to laugh as I read the tributes to Cornelius from the rappers and the rest of the hip-hop crowd.  That’s because, while he was considered by many to be the father of “urban culture” and is credited with making it mainstream in America, Don Cornelius had mixed views on rap.  In fact, he was one of the driving forces behind what became a ratings system for records and felt that even this did not go far enough.  And, yes, he became a Republican.  I know–it doesn’t fit with the Al Sharptons and other bandwagon-jumping shakedown artists and race merchants of the urban world.

And it’s a fact that Don Cornelius was the ultimate American capitalism success story. When he died, it was in a stately mansion. He was an entrepreneur who created, produced, and hosted a successful product. And he became very wealthy from it, without government subsidies or affirmative action preferences. If his success wasn’t the epitome of the free enterprise system, I don’t know what is. When I was a kid, and I saw that show come on in re-runs after I got home from school, I quickly turned the channel. Some of the dancing on that show was really ridiculous, not to mention, slutty and way-too-suggestive. Today, it would be tame, and that’s partially because he bears some responsibility for bringing this negative aspect forth to dominate American pop culture. But I wasn’t the target audience, and he gave a lot of terrific, talented Black artists, like Whitney Houston and “The Jackson Five,” great exposure which helped launch their careers. Read the rest of this entry »