By Debbie Schlussel

“Out of the Furnace,” the new Christian Bale movie in theaters today, should have stayed inside the furnace and spared America. It’s horribly violent, incredibly depressing, long, slow, boring, and pointless. Oh, and did I mention that it’s dark, dreary, and every single person in it is miserable, dead, or soon to be one or both?

Bale’s a great actor–one of my favorites–but this movie is a waste of your ten-plus bucks and two hours. You’ll walk out of the movie at the end–if you aren’t smart enough to walk out in the middle and cut your losses–noting that a time bandit just robbed you of valuable life you ain’t gonna get back . . . ever. Life is simply too short to spend it in a dark theater subjected to this wonderless tripe. The rest of this review is filled with spoilers, so if you wanna be a dummy and see this crap anyway, don’t read on. You were forewarned. For everyone else, keep reading. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

**** UPDATE: Nelson Mandela Said WHAT?! ****

Only the good die young, as Billy Joel once sang. And so it goes with Nelson Mandela, Marxist leader, racist, Jew-hater, friend of HAMAS and Arafat, who died yesterday at age 95. (I was away at an annual all day film critics’ movie screening put on by the Hollywood studios–more on that in a later post, as I continue to detox from that junk food of the mind.)

We knew this day, when the over-hype-on-steroids regarding the myth that is Mandela was coming. But we underdiagnosed the amount of saccharin-sweet fiction about this man, Mandela, who famously sang, “Kill the Whites.” See the YouTube video below, in which he sings, “Kill the Ama–the Bhulu” (with several of his far-left White supporters). The “Bhulu” are the Whites in the Black South African language known as Xhosa. The Ama Bhulu is the White nation/the Whites in the South.

As I’ve written on this site many times, Nelson Mandela was extremely anti-Israel and a close friend of Yasser Arafat’s. Later on, he supported HAMAS in Gaza, participating in a Gaza march against Israel (along with Jimmy Carter) and in support of HAMAS after HAMAS kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2009 and stepped up deadly rocket attacks on innocent civilians. Mandela had a history of supporting Islamic terrorism against Jews and against Israel, and was also in solidarity with Muslims against other targets of Islamic terrorists, including Christians. Mandela’s close friend partner in ANC crime, Bishop Desmond Tutu, also has a long history of openly anti-Semitic comments, none of which Mandela ever condemned, disavowed, or distanced himself from. Check out the letter my late father wrote about Tutu, documenting all of this in a letter to the President of the University of Pennsylvania, when Tutu was the speaker at my brother’s graduation from the Wharton School of Business.

When Mandela and his Communist ANC took over South Africa, Jews left the country in droves. That’s because Mandela fostered an atmosphere of non-stop anti-Semitism/Jew-hatred and opened South Africa’s borders to PLO and other Islamic terrorists to train there. Yasser Arafat was a frequent, beloved guest of Mandela over the years and made more appearances in President Mandela’s lair than most real heads of state, including those of African nations. Mandela also praised Yasser Arafat as a “comrade in arms.” Look at the photos above for just some of the appearances. Google “Nelson Mandela Arafat” in Google Images and you’ll see they had a long-term man-crush love affair. And while you’re at it, google “Nelson Mandela Castro,” and you’ll see a whole lot more on the romantic relationship between Mandela and Cuba’s Castro. Yup, whatta stellar guy. His go-to buddies are Islamic terrorists and Marxist human rights abusers. Peacemaker? Only if you’re a complete dumbass and haven’t a clue. Or a damned liar. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

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The family of murdered Pennsylvania National Guard officer Gennaro “Jerry” Pellegrini, Jr. is outraged that the Obama Administration and its Justice Department kept them in the dark about the fact that their son/brother’s Iraqi Muslim killer was not only given U.S. citizenship but that they were not notified when the government indicted him. Dana Shearon, Army Spc. Pellegrini’s sister, contacted and spoke exclusively with DebbieSchlussel.com, as Mrs. Shearon’s husband is a regular reader of this site.

Gennaro Pellegrini at Home and In Iraq . . .

As longtime readers may recall, back in June 2011, we first wrote about Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, the Iraqi Muslim terrorists who were granted entry into the United States and then granted citizenship, despite the fact that the United States had already caught them, years earlier, and they admitted at that time that they were involved in terrorist attacks against Americans on behalf of Al-Qaeda. But they were not only let go, they were allowed into the United States as “refugees” who successfully sought asylum in America. The U.S. government had even taken their fingerprints, at least one of which matched a fingerprint on an IED–the IED they used to murder Jerry Pellegrini, but this information was never checked until later on when Alwan and Hammadi, living in Bowling Green, Kentucky (one of them in public housing), attempted to help Al-Qaeda murder more Americans. The FBI was involved in the investigation and the two were indicted.

Dana Shearon, in e-mails and telephone conversations, told DebbieSchlussel.com that no one from either the Obama Administration’s Justice Department or from the FBI ever contacted her, her father or anyone else in Pfc. Pellegrini’s family to inform them that her brother’s killers were allowed into America, that they had been given U.S. citizenship, or that they were caught trying to help Al-Qaeda from their new tax-subsidized homes in Kentucky. The Pellegrini Family was never invited to attend the trial or speak as victims about the impact their dear brother/son’s murder has had on them. Instead, they learned about the indictment from DebbieSchlussel.com and the conviction from ABC News. You would think that given that their brother and son made the ultimate sacrifice in service to America, contacting and informing them about this is the least the Obama Administration could do. But Obama and his minions, while usually only doing the least, didn’t even do that in this case. The Pellegrinis still have yet to hear from anyone in the FBI or the Justice Administration.

The Islamic Schmucks Who Murdered Jerry Pellegrini . . .

And in connection with the story, I told you, back in July 2011, that the U.S. government finally discovered America and realized it hadn’t properly screened any of the 58,000 immigrants it let into the U.S. from Iraq and to whom it gave citizenship, like Alwan and Hammadi, and the government scrambled to find and re-screen them all (do you believe they actually did? I don’t).

Two weeks ago, ABC’s Brian Ross and Matt Drudge finally caught on to this story you read about on this site, nearly 2.5 years ago, and Ross noted that the U.S. government began re-checking (or rather, checking for the first time) the tens of thousands of Iraqi “refugees” we allowed into the U.S. and to whom we gave citizenship. But, as I noted back in 2011 when I first wrote about this, Alwan and Hammadi highlight what already is a massive problem with our immigration system–which will be amplified geometrically tens of thousands of times cubed under amnesty.

Currently, the U.S. government spends less than six minutes checking each immigrant seeking citizenship. And that doesn’t even account for the bathroom and smoking breaks the immigration benefits adjudicators (who “check”–very quickly–the backgrounds and essentially rubber stamp most citizenship applications) at Homeland Security’s Citizenship and Immigration Services take, which means the time spent check these immigrants is even less. Alwan and Hammadi are not the only ones who slipped through the giant sieve that is the system, despite what Brian Ross reported on ABC News. There many Islamic terrorists like them in our midst who’ve gotten through and are now citizens because we barely check them out and even if we did, the immigration applicants can make up any name and say they are whoever they want to say they are. We have no way of proving otherwise. I’ve written about Mr. X a/k/a Noureddine Malki a/k/a Almaliki Nour a/k/a Abu Hakim a/k/a Abdulhakeem Nour, a Muslim translator for the U.S. military, who was also an Al-Qaeda operative who got U.S. citizenship. We still don’t know his real name and who he really is (he gave a false name). And he gave Al-Qaeda our troops movements and plans, allowing the terrorist group to kill many Americans in Iraq.

Dana Shearon, Jerry Pellegrini’s sister, is disgusted by this whole thing because they had Alwan and Hammadi in Iraq, and, yet, America released them. They had their fingerprints, and yet America allowed them into the country. That America allowed the Muslim terrorists who murdered her brother into the country and gave them citizenship and public housing is insult on top of injury with regard to the murder of her brother. “How does this happen?!” she asked in a telephone conversation we had this week. Mrs. Shearon says that she is worried for her son, who is currently a U.S. Marine. She says he can even be attacked on U.S. soil because Islamic terrorists, like her brother’s killers, are allowed into the U.S. without much of a cursory check. The men who murdered her brother were only caught on American soil after they initiated plans to help Al-Qaeda again. And we were lucky that plot was intercepted.

Moreover, Mrs. Shearon worked for a U.S. contractor that does the fingerprinting of immigration applicants. “I don’t understand how they had these guys in custody over there and how they had their fingerprints from the IED that killed my brother, and yet they get to come to the U.S. and live free in public housing without anyone checking who these guys are. How does this happen?!” And, again, she asks why her dear father, Jerry Pellegrini’s only living parent has never heard anything about his son’s murderers, except through what she tells him about reports she’s read online. Where is the Obama Administration on this? No common courtesy for relatives of those who gave their lives for America. Just crickets chirping . . . . If the Pellegrinis were Muslim, perhaps Obama would be right over and bowing down to them or inviting them to Ramadan dinners at the White House.

Jerry Pellegrini, may he rest in peace, sounds like he was a really terrific guy–the kind you used to see in the movies but rarely get the chance to meet in real life anymore. He was a real American hero and a complete mensch. When he died at age 31 in Bayji, Iraq, he had just begun his winning career as a professional Welterweight boxer and was a Philadelphia police officer, just like his retired father (he even took his father’s badge number). He was a Golden Gloves star and was known as “One Punch Jerry” by the Philadelphia police because he once knocked out a violent suspect with one punch. Despite the way Muslims ultimately treated him, he collected hundreds of pairs of flip-flops from American schoolchildren to donate to Iraqi kids. This guy was one of the good guys. “There’s a kid that never gave up,” said Frank Talent, of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission, who watched Pellegrini, an amateur welterweight, win his first professional fight . . . . “He had heart to the end.”

How disgusting it is the way America has treated his family in response, while it treated his murderers with kid gloves.

More from Dana Shearon, Jerry Pellegrini’s sister:

From: DANA
Date: Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:43 PM
Subject: Sister to murdered National Guardsman Gennaro Pellegrini
To: writedebbie@gmail.com

Dear Ms. Schlussel,

My name is Dana Shearon. My brother Gennaro (Jerry) Pellegrini was a soldier in the Pennsylvania National Guard and was killed in action in Bayji, Iraq on August 9, 2005. My husband is a reader of your website, and when he told me about you I thought you would understand how I was feeling.

My family and I just learned today from an ABC News article and from a past article on DebbieSchlussel.com that our government had brought Jerry’s killers here to the United States as refugees in 2009 even after one was captured in Iraq in 2006 where he admitted to be an “insurgent”. We did learn about the FBI’s findings the same way we learned about this article and that was by seeing and reading it. No one has ever contacted us. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

What happens to a Shi’ite Muslim Arab who hangs American and Israeli flags at his home in Dearbornistan? He is subject to non-stop hate crimes from fellow Muslims in his Muslim-dominated city. That’s what happened to Hussein Dakhlallah, a Shi’ite Muslim from Lebanon, who made “the wrong gesture” in a strongly pro-Hezbollah “American” city. Dearbornistan today. Your city or town, tomorrow. This is what happens as Muslims reach critical mass.

The Islamo-pandering and PC taint to local news in the Detroit area is apparent when you note that this story was covered very briefly (and late on the Saturday night Eleven O’Clock news on Thanksgiving Weekend)–by only one local Detroit news station over the weekend, and then–poof!–it’s gone.

Terresa and Hussein Dakhlallah say it all started two years ago when they put an American flag and an Israeli flag up outside of their Dearborn home. Terresa is American, but she grew up in Canada. Hussein is from Lebanon. “They left Nazi signs in our front yard, ” said Terresa. “Two people were standing there, one with a lighter and one with a gas tank, telling us that they were going to burn our home down.” The couple has been taunted over and over again — even on Thanksgiving as Terresa began to decorate her home for Christmas. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Yes, it’s sad that Paul Walker, a very good looking actor, died in a fiery crash. I was shocked when I read about it in the newspaper, Sunday morning, mostly because it goes to show that life is short no matter who you are. I’m sorry he died and feel for his family. But the hype over his death and the beatification of this guy, as if he’s some sort of saint, isn’t just approaching excessive. It’s well beyond that. It’s ridiculous. And it’s all because of his looks, not his acting.

It’s James Dean, the redux. They drove similar cars and died nearly the same way.

As a movie critic, I’ve seen many of Walker’s movies. Many of them went straight to DVD. And one of those that wasn’t straight to DVD, “Takers” (read my review), had a horrible message. The movie applauded violence by bank robbers (one of whom was Walker) against police. It was a “Yay, Cop Killing!” movie. Walker was an average, maybe even substandard, actor. And Hollywood caught on. Yes, he had model good looks (though he looked better when he was younger and was approaching haggard-dom). But good-looking guys are a dime a dozen there, and Walker was cast in the Fast and Furious movies, but little else that was a hit. And the most recent Fast and Furious movie was an absolute joke (read my review). Walker was a B-list actor at the most. He recently played a character called “Raw Dog,” in some movie called, “Pawn Shop Chronicles.” Probably a bomb.

And the way he lived his life wasn’t exactly stellar. Yes, he raised money for charity. That’s what celebs do to raise their profiles. But he fathered a daughter out of wedlock, never marrying the mother, and was “dating” (euphemism) a girlfriend who was just a few years older than his 15-year-old daughter. At 40, at the time of his death, Walker’s girlfriend was 23, and they’d been “dating” since she was a 16-year-old and he was 33. That’s kinda creepy and just a few months difference from sex offender/pedophile status. Just saying. Hmmm . . . where’s Chris Hansen when ya need him? Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

This past weekend, we had a stark contrast in how online businesses work versus how ObamaCare doesn’t work. And today, we’ll have yet another.

Over the weekend, the Obama administration gushed that it can now (barely) handle 50,000 users at one time on Healthcare.flub, the site for the (Un)Affordable Care Act. And even with this new 50,000 claim, CNN showed that it still didn’t work as touted. We’re told it won’t work fully like it should until perhaps 2017. Contrast that with Walmart over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend or Amazon today, Cyber Monday.

For Grey Thursday and Black Friday, Walmart reported it had over 400 million hits on Walmart.com to see and purchase its Black Friday doorbuster specials online (over the two days). That’s an average of 8,333,333 users per hour. And all of them seemed to have no problem purchasing things on the Walmart site. The only problem was when popular doorbuster items completely sold out, such as a $10 women’s Faded Glory jacket. (It’s warm and looks great on–I know because I bought one at the store). There’s no worry that health insurance will “sell out” on Healthcare.flub because, after all, it’s not a ten buck jacket. With the higher premiums and deductibles under ObamaCare, it’s far more pricey and not quite the same value.

Today, with Cyber Monday, it’s Amazon.com’s turn to show up the ObamaCare website. Last night, CEO Jeff Bezos gave an interesting interview to “60 Minutes.” Although all the hype in the news is over reports he’s seeking to use drones for half hour deliveries (and it is, indeed, cool to watch the footage of the drones delivering items to trucks at the shipping centers).

But, to me, the news was delivered at the beginning of the report, when Bezos and his people said they will process 300 sales transactions per second on their site today. That’s 18,000 transactions per minute and 1,080,000 per hour. For a 24 hour period, it’s 25,920,000 sales. And that’s not counting traffic from those who browse the site but do not make a purchase. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

These movies debuted in theaters on Wednesday, just ahead of Thanksgiving, but I chose to put up my reviews for the weekend. Nothing to write home about here. I’m beginning with the relative best first–the term, “relative,” being very key here. (I did not see “Frozen.”)

* “Homefront“: As a fan of Jason Statham, I generally like his movies a lot because they are almost always what you expect when you pay to see a Statham movie: stark good versus evil, lots of action, and the good guy (usually Statham) wins in the end. While those are all at play in this movie and it was entertaining, I found it slightly schlocky and cheesy in comparison to Statham’s usual fare. It’s not that tightly written (which could have something to do with the fact that Sylvester Stallone wrote the script) and less believable than even the usual Statham stuff. Still, it will do. But it is extremely violent and not at all for kids. Don’t bring them with you to see it.

I found James Franco as a “scary” drug dealer to be absurd. The guy is very doofus-istic in this movie and seems no match for the taller, tougher, more sophisticated Statham. And some of the movie feels like it was weirdly edited and left on the “cutting room floor.” For example, the movie twice foreshadows the appearance of poisonous snakes and, more than once, hints at alligators, but then we never see any (not that I minded this). The only “gator” is the nickname of the meth kingpin played by Franco. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Happy Thanksgiving, America! And Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American friends and readers.

American Thanksgiving Used to Look Like This . . .

What Thanksgiving Will Look Like in a Few Generations if We Continue with Biz as Usual . . .

Halal Thanksgiving Artwork by David Lunde/Lundesigns (& Norman Rockwell); Design by Debbie Schlussel (& Norman Rockwell)

On this Thanksgiving, I’m thankful I’m still free and that I live in the greatest country on earth. And while many workers complain about having to work on Thanksgiving for early Black Friday (or Brown Thursday or Grey Thursday–or whatever dark color they are using) sales, I’m thankful for those who really have no choice in the matter and are working today and every other day, the men of the U.S. Armed Forces, many of whom are overseas and away from their families, and a good number of whom are still risking life and limb for Muslims who hate us in Afghanistan. Let’s give thanks for them today and hope they are brought home to American soil very soon.

I’m thankful that I still have enough money to eat and sleep in shelter that I can afford to heat in the winter and cool in the summer. For many Americans who’ve lost jobs and wages to illegal aliens and lost full-time jobs to ObamaCare, that is no longer the case. Let’s pray for them and hope these twin Obamaconomy and ObamaCare debacles end soon. I’m thankful that I’m healthy and in one piece. Sadly, for many American middle-class families, come January, that may not be the case, as their
insurance policies are canceled and their healthcare premiums soar far past the point of affordability, with deductibles well out of the realm of the reasonable, all due to the implementation of Obamacare. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Tonight, at sundown, the first day of the Jewish holiday of Chanukah begins. (Yes, it’s also spelled Channukah, Chanukkah, Hanukah, Hannukah, Hanukkah, and in several other ways as a result of Hebrew-to-English transliteration which isn’t an exact science, something I’ve covered on this site.)

Jewish U.S. Combat Unit Soldiers in World War II Celebrate Chanukah in the South Pacific Battlefield (Photos by U.S. Army Private Mack Gould) . . .

As you may have heard, it is also the first time since 1888 and the last time until the year 79811 that Thanksgiving and the first day of Chanukah coincide. That’s led to an, at first, cute and, now, totally annoying marketing gimmick in which several companies and some (mostly secular) Jews are pimping products bearing the name “Thanksgivukkah.” To me, it’s a stupid thing, especially since most of the people touting this are Jews who are far left, very secular, and know very little about Judaism, nor will this increase that. One kid invented a “menurkey,” a menorah (the Jewish candelabra we light on Chanukah) that is shaped like a turkey and isn’t even a kosher menorah, so it would not fulfill the Jewish requirement of lighting the menorah candles on Chanukah.

I’ve been asked by various readers and friends how I will celebrate “Thanksgivukkah,” and my response is that I don’t celebrate that fictional holiday. I celebrate both the Jewish holiday of Chanukah and the American holiday of Thanksgiving. But they are separate holidays marking separate and different things. One, Chanukah, is a religious, spiritual holiday, celebrating many miracles, including the incredible Jewish military victory of the Maccabees against the Assyrian-Greeks, who vastly outnumbered them, and the fact that a jar of oil to light the menorah candles in the Jewish Temple lasted eight days when there was only enough oil for one day. The other, Thankgiving, is a national holiday in thanks for the existence of our great country, its freedoms, and the many blessings bestowed upon us as Americans. If anything, the Pilgrims modeled Thanksgiving harvest celebrations on the Jewish Sukkot (or Tabernacles) celebrations.

And what galls me is that most of the Jews pimping me on this Thanksgivukkah baloney are liberal Jews and Obama voters and who have said and done nothing in protest of Obama’s absurd deal with the modern day equivalent of the Assyrian-Greeks: Iran. We live in a time of darkness, and they don’t get it. We have the greatest technological advances, cheap and easy clothes and accoutrements, plentiful food, and conveniences galore. But those are all window dressing when most of the world’s powers have made a deal with the devil, a one-sided deal in which we get nothing and the Iranians get everything. And there are no Maccabees to do anything about it. These Thanksgivukkah Jews are the modern-day Hellenist Jews, whom the Maccabees would slaughter in great numbers as they did the Hellenists. What most Jews don’t realize is that the Maccabees, while they killed the Greek soldiers and defeated King Antiochus Epiphanies, fought for years–more than two decades!–to reclaim Judaism and Israel and Jerusalem and the Temple, and most of those whom they had to fight and kill were Jews. These were the Jews who’d turned against Judaism and embraced the Greek materialistic lifestyle and idol worship. The Maccabees slaughtered tens (and maybe hundreds) of thousands more Jews than Greek soldiers. And they would have slaughtered these Thanksgivukkah Jews for the most part. These are the Jews In Name Only (JINOs) who like Jewish culture and foods, but they have no spiritual connection to me or the Torah. They need gimmick Judaism, just as they fell for a gimmick President. Style over substance on steroids. And that is the very definition of the Hellenism that was the antagonist and evil in the Chanukah story.

I guarantee you the father of that kid who trademarked and invented the non-kosher Thanksgivukkah menorah, the “Menurkey” (and the father paid for all those expenses), voted for Obama. And I guarantee you that he and his family would have been beheaded by the Maccabees. All of these Jewish groups–including to my great distress, the Orthodox Union, which is supposed to be the lead organization representing Orthodox Jews–have resigned themselves to this horrible agreement with Iran and refuse to oppose it, vehemently or otherwise. Yup, no Maccabees they. In fact, they are the modern-day equivalent of the anti-Maccabees. Wimps. Wusses.

We’ve made an agreement with Iran which forces them to do nothing. They are allowed to continue funding Hezbollah, which murdered hundreds of American Marines and U.S. Embassy workers and officials as well as Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem, and to continue to refuse to apologize to America for these murders or for holding our Americans hostage for 444 days in Tehran in 1979-1981. They are allowed to continue torturing and murdering political prisoners and Jews and Christians whose “crime” is practicing faith. The Iranians are allowed to continue executing gays and to financing Shi’ite terrorist fighters in Lebanon, Syria, and elsewhere and to fund Shi’ite rebellions from Dearborn, Michigan to Saudi Arabia’s Qatif Peninsula to Bahrain and elsewhere in the Gulf. Iran gets to continue its proud funding of HAMAS. And Iran continues building its Hezbollah satellites throughout Central and South America and throughout Africa. And Iran has said it will continue to enrich uranium and build plants which can only be used to complete its nuclear weapons aim. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

When I was General Counsel for Ward Connerly’s Michigan Civil Rights Initiative–to end race-, gender-, and ethnicity-based affirmative action in admissions, hiring, and promotions by public institutions–we were met with nasty (and sometimes violent) opposition every step of the way from a group called BAMN. It’s the acronym for “By Any Means Necessary.” You get the point: any means, including violence (it’s taken from a Malcolm X quote). That’s how terrorists work. Well, now, BAMN has turned to kidnapping Black kids and indenturing them into a new kind of slavery: protesting.

BAMN kidnapped Black Detroit teens and took them to Washington, DC for more absurd protests. This was done without parents’ knowledge or permission, and it’s a crime. One mother came home to find her two teen sons had disappeared, and she had no idea what happened to them. Here’s what happened to them . . . .

Asha Clay says her 14- and 15-year-old sons have been spending time with a group called BAMN, which stands for By Any Means Necessary. “All I know is that [BAMN is] a group that protests and they recruit these children around here,” Clay tells Fox 2′s Alexis Wiley. Read the rest of this entry »