May 16, 2007, - 11:08 am

Immigration “Enforcement”?: ICE Creates Anti-Schlussel “Rumor Patrol”

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How do you solve the problem of 20 million illegal aliens, including criminals and Islamic terrorists, currently residing in the great American abyss? If you’re Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), you spend significant resources responding to my website.
You know your billions of Homeland Security tax dollars, many of which are supposed to go to enforcing immigration and customs laws?
If you thought that’s where the money goes, think again. It seems ICE “leadership” is upset that this site continues to expose waste, malfeasance, and lack of immigration enforcement per policy at the highest levels of ICE. And they’re upset I’ve disclosed how the agency is now about to lose its Customs functions. So what do they do?


ICE Princess “Fights Illegal Aliens” w/ Anti-Schlussel Rumor Patrol

(Julie Myers Diet Coke by David Lunde/Lundesigns)

They start an anti-Schlussel “rumor patrol” and dedicate resources to it–your tax-paid law enforcement employees. Yesterday, ICE “leadership” sent out a memo to all ICE Deputy Special Agents in Charge nationwide, announcing a “new assignment” for all Special Agents in Charge offices: to “gather and debunk . . . rumors” that are “floating around” and, which ICE claims are “destructive . . . and counterproductive” to the agency.
It’s pretty clear that this time- and resource-wasting “new assignment” is directed at me and the hundreds and hundreds of concerned, patriotic ICE agents who let me know what is happening at their sinking agency. ICE knows that virtually all the agents in that agency read this site and find out more about what’s going on from it than they do from their lazy, do-nothing, incompetent, destructive and counterproductive leadership.
In addition, the memo asks ICE Deputy SAICs to dispel rumors to their workforce–ie., write memos and hold meetings with their agents about what I’ve written . . . instead of spending that time on actual law enforcement and immigration problems. They’re asked to enlist all agents in this “new assignment” which has no end date and is ongoing.
If ICE powers-that-be were truly interested in stopping the destruction and counterproductiveness, they’d not just read my site, but address the problems, which should include resignations from most of them.
But, instead, this agency–which should be focusing on stemming the tide of the illegal alien invasion (and enforcing customs laws)–is, instead, on a witch hunt to stop America from being informed of their incompetence. You should be angry that this ICE New McCarthyism (with all due apologies to the late Senator, who–unlike ICE “leadership”–actually cared about America and its national security) is where your tax dollars are going, instead of those law enforcement missions.
And if ICE were so convinced that the information I have posted is wrong–and it isn’t, and they know it–they’d respond to a single prss inquiry from me. They haven’t, and they won’t. They’re not interested in stemming “rumors” “destructive” to the agency. They’re interested in stemming truth about their destruction of “their” agency.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement? Nope. Instead, the most bloated, misdirected agency at DHS (and the competition is stiff) is now SSE–Stop Schlussel Enforcement.
Your tax dollars at work.

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May 16, 2007, - 10:51 am

Incredible: Helmet Saves Man Whose Head Was Run Over by Truck

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If you ride a bike and don’t want to wear one of those nerdy-looking biking helmets, perhaps the miraculous story of Ryan Lipscomb will change your mind.
His head was run over by a truck in Madison, Wisconsin, Friday, while he was riding on a biking path. he left the hospital three hours later with nothing but a concussion. While the helmet was flattened with visible tire treadmarks on the cracked frame, Lipscomb has lingering headaches and a stiff neck, but is otherwise okay.
Ironically, Lipscomb is a graduate student in medical physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (my law school and business school alma mater). More from The Capital Times:

A white paneled delivery truck ran over a UW-Madison graduate student’s head on Division Street Friday afternoon and, except for a concussion, he wasn’t hurt.
Ryan Lipscomb, 26, said he was riding his bicycle pretty fast down the East Isthmus Bike Path where it parallels Eastwood Drive on Madison’s east side just before 3 p.m. Eastwood had a green light, so the crosswalk for the bike path showed a white walk sign, Lipscomb said.
He saw the large truck, the kind that usually makes deliveries to offices, coming down Eastwood, preparing to make a right turn onto Division Street. Lipscomb said he could tell the truck wasn’t going to stop. So Lipscomb slammed on his breaks, flipping his bike and throwing himself into the street. He landed right at the intersection of Eastwood and Division.
The truck ran over his head.
“I didn’t see it coming, but I sure felt it roll over my head. It feels really strange to have a truck run over your head.” His helmet, a Giro, was crushed, but Lipscomb’s head was fine.
Madison Police Department Sgt. Chris Boyd said the officer at the scene urged Lipscomb to keep the helmet. He did. It is all flattened and mangled and broken, unlike his head.

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May 16, 2007, - 10:25 am

False Alarm: Rush Limbaugh to Return to ESPN? USA Today Starts Rumor

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Have the PC powers that be at ESPN finally realized the mistake they made in persecuting Rush Limbaugh for making correct statements about NFLer Donovan McNabb?
Apparently not, but USA Today “Sports on TV” columnist Michael Hiestand starts the rumor. Today, he writes about new ESPN shows on the fall schedule, some are true and some are false–which you’d only know if you read the fine print. It’s a dumb quiz. Here’s the item on Rush:

Too wild to be true? At ESPN, sometimes it’s hard to tell

Follow Me to Freedom. In a twist on its Dream Job show – on which contestants try to win a job at ESPN – this new series allows current staffers the chance to win a job elsewhere. Viewers can vote online, via cellphone and at ESPN sports bars. With celebrity judges Keith Olbermann, Rich Eisen, Michael Irvin and, tentatively, guest-starring Rush Limbaugh.

This one is one of the false shows that Hiestand made up among other ideas that will truly be on ESPN’s fall schedule. As I said, the article only makes two tiny indications that the show is false, and if you skimmed, you’d have missed them, and thought Rush was returning for real. Too bad. Would love to see Rush back on the sports airwaves, and he’d bring them much-needed, increased ratings.
Hmmm . . . so since this wasn’t it, what was the subject of those “supersecret meetings” Rush was alluding to on his nationally syndicated radio show, recently?

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May 15, 2007, - 4:59 pm

Does David Crosby Know About This?: Sperm Donor to Lesbians Must Pay Child Support

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In one of the most bizarre cases yet, a Pennsylvania Appeals Court ordered a sperm donor to lesbians to pay child support. Oh, and by the way, the sperm donor is dead, so it’s his estate that must pay.
Apparently, the State of Pennsylvania does not have sperm donor shield laws, which protect donors from donating. On the one hand, it seems a bit unfair. But on the other hand, perhaps it will discourage the whole system of sperm donations to single mothers, lesbians, and other “arrangements” that endanger the traditional family in America. There are too many kids born without fathers in America, and it’s a terrible influence on society–engendering crime, substance abuse, and rampant, premature sexuality.
Another issue: The court has held three adults liable as parents to a single child. Could this be the pre-amble to legalized polygamy and other bizarre “family” configurations? You bet.


More from AP:

HARRISBURG – A sperm donor who helped a lesbian couple conceive two children is liable for child support under a state appeals court ruling that a legal expert believes might be the first of its kind.
A Superior Court panel last week ordered a Dauphin County Court judge to establish how much Carl L. Frampton Jr. would have to pay to the birth mother of an 8-year-old boy and 7-year-old girl.
“I’m unaware of any other state appellate court that has found that a child has, simultaneously, three adults who are financially obligated to the child’s support and are also entitled to visitation,” said New York Law School professor Arthur S. Leonard, an expert on sexuality and the law.
But Frampton, 60, of Indiana, Pa., died of a stroke in March, leaving lawyers involved in the case with different theories about how his death might affect the precedent-setting case.
Jodilynn Jacob, 33, and Jennifer Lee Shultz-Jacob, 48, moved in together as a couple in 1996, and were granted a civil-union license in Vermont in 2002. In addition to conceiving the two children with the help of Frampton – a longtime friend of Shultz-Jacob’s – Jacob also adopted her brother’s two older children, now 12 and 13.
But the women’s relationship fell apart, and Jacob and the children moved out of their Dillsburg home in February 2006.
Shortly afterward, a court awarded her about $1,000 a month in support from Shultz-Jacob. Shultz-Jacob later lost an effort to have the court force Frampton to contribute support – a decision that the Superior Court overturned April 30.
Jacob, who now lives in Harrisburg, said Frampton provided some financial support over the years and gradually took a greater interest in the children.
“Part of the decision came down because he was so involved with them,” Jacob said yesterday. “It wasn’t that he went to the [sperm] bank and that was it. They called him Papa.”
Lori Andrews, a Chicago-Kent College of Law professor with expertise in reproductive technology, said that as many as five people could claim some parental status toward a single child if its conception involved a surrogate mother, an egg donor and a sperm donor.

Uh, this is way too much “Brave New World” for me.

In his written opinion requiring Frampton to help pay for the child’s support, Superior Court Judge John T.J. Kelly Jr. noted that Frampton spent thousands of dollars on the children, including purchases of toys and clothing.
“Such constant and attentive solicitude seems widely at variance with the support court’s characterization of [him] having ‘played a minimal role in raising and supporting’ the children,” Kelly said.
The children knew he was their biological father and attended his funeral, but Frampton opposed the effort to compel support from him.

So, the message is to sperm donors: Don’t be involved in kids’ lives and let them have a father. That’s a very bad public policy message. On the other hand, the better message is: Don’t donate sperm to single mothers.

“We made the argument that, according to Pennsylvania law as it stands, there can really only be two adult individuals that can be held liable for support in a child-custody case,” said Frampton’s lawyer, Matthew Aaron Smith.
Shultz-Jacob’s lawyer, Heather Z. Reynosa, wants Frampton’s support obligation to be made retroactive to when Jacob first filed for support. Frampton’s Social Security survivor benefits may also help reduce Shultz-Jacob’s monthly obligation.
It’s unclear how the child-support guidelines, which assume two parents, will be adapted to account for three parents.
“That’s what’s going to be interesting because there’s not a whole lot of guidance out there,” Reynosa said. . . .
About two-thirds of states have adopted versions of the Uniform Parentage Act that can shield sperm donors from being forced to assume parenting responsibilities. Pennsylvania has no such law.

Memo to David Crosby: You know those kids of Melissa Etheridge that you fathered with her ex, Julie Cypher? . . .

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May 15, 2007, - 4:20 pm

If You Fund Hezbollah, Steal $7 Mill from IRS, Make Sure You Have Kids

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If you want to give $20 mill to Hezbollah and not pay taxes on it, make sure you have kids . . . and that your sentencing Judge is U.S. District Court Judge John Corbett O’Meara.
Just ask Elfat El Aouar. She helped her husband, in the Detroit area. And El-Aour lived high on the hog from her tax-free money, too–taking lavish trips, enjoying servants, and a very nice house.
Unfortunately, today, O’Meara–who has time and again gone soft on mobsters, Islamic terrorists, and other malefactors, while denying law-abiding citizens due process and notice–sentenced El Aouar to only 18 months in prison. With time off for good behavior, she could possibly be out in less than a year.


Clintonista Judge John Corbett O’Meara is Soft on Hezbollah

O’Meara gave the excuse that El-Aouar is the sole caregiver to her children. But so are many other criminals–who are not Islamic terrorist funders, and who don’t get such a break. And she wouldn’t be the “sole” caregiver, if she hadn’t helped her husband evade the law and flee the country.
Clearly, Judge O’Meara intends to send a message to those who help Islamic terrorist from American soil that–even if they get caught–not much will happen to them.
Additionally, and his underling, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth Chadwell, share a good deal of the blame. They simply . They refused to charge either Chahine or his wife, El Aouar, with providing material and financial support to terrorism, even though the proof was there. And they allowed Chahine to flee the country–raiding his home, office, and other property several times over a year, but allowing him to travel outside of the country and flee–never seizing his passport, as is traditionally done.
And they continue to allow Chahine to live high on the hog as a fugitive in Lebanon, because they refuse to shut down his chain of 14 restaurants and to freeze his assets. Chahine continues to collect money from his Michigan-based businesses from Lebanon, because they allow him to.
18 months–and likely less–for stealing $7 million from the IRS and sending $20 million to Hezbollah. All because she has kids.
If only Al Capone would have known.
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In 2005-2006, Lee Mroszak a/k/a “Crazy Cabbie”–a Gulf War veteran and New York-based radio disk jockey–served a year in prison for not paying taxes for a year. He got caught because he bragged about it on the Howard Stern show, and IRS agents heard him. Cabbie–who earned $100,000 that year in a promotional fight–did a full year, while this multi-millionairette terrorist funder may do much less.
Sickening.
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Full disclosure: I have personal experience with Judge O’Meara, and he isn’t bright. Like I said, he only cares about the rights of criminals and Islamic terrorists and their financiers. In my own experience, he didn’t even understand the most basic of legal concepts you learn in the first year of law school, like Notice, Due Process, and Equal Protection–and he denied me all of those without even the slightest thought.
Thanks, Bill Clinton. More of that to come with President Hillary.

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May 15, 2007, - 3:28 pm

HILARIOUS: Homeland Security’s Muslima Supermodel Shows the Real Deal, May Not Be American

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Remember in its Friday recruitment ad for a career “Expo” in the Ronald Reagan Federal Building?
Yesterday, I told you she’s getting in extremist Sharia (Islamic Law) advertising. But, it gets worse. Reader Raymond located other photos of Sawsan and Mohammed in a real display of what Islamic marriage and homelife is all about. We think the new photo we located makes a far better pic for Homeland Security ads, given the Department’s new uber-PC mentality and its desire to recruit extremist, religious Muslims as agents.


(Thanks to David Lunde/Lundesigns for Technical Assistance)

And get this, the descriptions associated with some of Sawsan’s modeling implies that she is a citizen of India–NOT an American!–and that the photos were taken there or in Mali. GREAT!–Homeland Security is recruiting illegal alien extremist Muslims as agents and using them in recruitment ads. Why not just give a bad and a gun to Bin Laden, himself (if we ever find him)?:

As Raymond writes:

She doesn’t look quite so happy [as in the DHS recruitment ad]. Some of the keywords listed for [looking up] this photo are “respect” and “behind.”

Here is what appears to be Sawsan at the Djenne Grand Mosque in Mali. Is that where she’s from? Just askin’.


BTW, here is Sawsan’s hubby, Mohammed, in full observance. Gee, why wasn’t this in the DHS recruitment ad?

DHS Muslima Supermodel’s Hubby Reads Koran & Prays to Allah

And Raymond also notes that for her modeling for the tax-subsidized Muslim LARIBA (no interest) loans, there was a little Faux-tography involved:

Her image has been mirrored and placed over the man’s shoulder.
I guess in real life women are not aloud to get that close to their man.

Indeed. Here’s the original ad I showed you yesterday:


Here are the real photos which have been “doctored” and put together:

I think this is going to be my new DHS icon-and-pic of choice:

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May 15, 2007, - 1:43 pm

Rev. Jerry Falwell, RIP: Patriot, Founded Important Anti-Islamist Political Movement

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Sad news today that Rev. Jerry Falwell, founder of the Moral Majority and Liberty University, died this morning at age 73.
Jerry Falwell was a patriot and loved America. He loved its Judeo-Christian values, and he did his best to preserve them. And contrary to the constant, unfair vilification by liberal Jewish figures, Jerry Falwell loved the Jewish people and the State of Israel. Dr. Falwell helped inspire thousands of Christian tourists to visit and donate money to Israel, when it was in the worst economic doldrums of two Intifadas (Muslim uprisings). I met and heard him speak at a small dinner in 2000 and enjoyed it immensely. He was a vital part of the Reagan Revolution.


Rev. Jerry Falwell, Rest In Peace

I didn’t agree with everything Jerry Falwell said–like his statement that America was at fault for 9/11 because of declining morals, etc.–a statement for which he quickly and thoroughly apologized. (We could have been the most moral country in the world, and 9/11 would have happened anyway.) And I didn’t care for his all-too-tight association with pan-Islamist money-launderer and Jack Abramoff co-conspirator Grover Norquist.
But Falwell was a very important man because he galvanized America’s Evangelical Christians to get involved in politics and take back the country. That’s important because it will be one of the things–if anything works–that stops Muslims from taking over and transforming the nation: the strong Christian traditions our country maintains and that Falwell helped protect by establishing one of the most momentous political movements of our time.
Additionally, overall, Falwell–among few others–understood the danger that Islam (and improperly projecting it onto our Judeo-Christian heritage) poses to America, well before 9/11. From my :

Last week, the Rev. Jerry Falwell told Beliefnet.com, a religion website, that when it comes to applying for federal funds under President Bush’s proposed faith-based initiatives program, “Islam should be out the door before they knock. … The Moslem faith teaches hate.”
Falwell was swiftly attacked by Muslim groups and was forced to apologize, explaining to USA Today that he meant that any group that is anti-Semitic, racist or in any way bigoted should be disqualified from the funds. He clearly told Beliefnet, “I think that when persons are clearly bigoted towards other persons in the human family, they should be disqualified from funds.”
But my experience with President Bush’s star Muslim recipient of the proposed funds — Imam Hassan Qazwini, religious leader of Detroit’s Islamic Center of America mosque — illustrates that Falwell was right.
When he held his January press conference announcing the issuance of an executive order for the faith-based funds, President Bush featured Qazwini front and center, among the 35 religious leaders on stage with him. He introduced Qazwini, the only Muslim and Michigan’s only religious representative at the White House press conference, as “my friend from Michigan.” According to the Detroit Free Press, Qazwini met with Bush in Texas in December “to advise him on formulating the pair of executive orders issued” for federal funding of faith-based initiatives. Qazwini’s mosque will certainly be a major recipient of the funds.
But Qazwini’s receipt of tax-funds, let alone his close friendship with Bush and attendance at the White House, should disturb all Americans. When I attended Qazwini’s mosque on Nov. 15, 1998, it was one of the most frightening, hate-filled occasions I’ve ever experienced. On that day, at Qazwini’s invitation, the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan spoke to the mosque’s congregants and was received with a hero’s welcome. Qazwini and Osama Siblani, editor of the Arab-American News, introduced Farrakhan as “our dear brother,” “a freedom fighter,” and “a man of courage and sacrifice.”
Farrakhan’s same old anti-Semitic, anti-White canards were no surprise. It was the cheers and fervor of Qazwini and his congregation that were so chilling. Watching the audience of more than 1,000 Arab-American and Black Muslims who surrounded me in the mosque rising up and hatefully screaming about “the Jews, the Jews,” I realized how my grandparents must have felt in Nazi Germany.
During his hour-long rant, Farrakhan spouted his usual pap claiming the Jews control the U.S. government, saying that the “core message” of his speech was “the evil power of the ‘Zionists.’ … [They are] forces of evil.”
But, clearly, “Zionists” was his euphemism for the Jews. He shouted out Jewish-sounding surnames of Clinton administration cabinet members and asked the crowd, “Rubin, who is he? Cohen, who is he?” The audience stood up and — in an angry frenzy — shouted, “A Jew, a Jew!” (Actually, former Secretary of Defense William Cohen is not Jewish. He’s a Unitarian.)
Farrakhan denounced the Jews as “forces of evil. … We should perform a jihad (holy war). [They are] frightened, and we must frighten them even more.” This garnered thunderous applause and cheers from Qazwini and his congregants. He continued to describe Jews as “these people in positions of power with a Satanic mentality … [who] deceive us.” More cheers and applause from Qazwini and the crowd. . . .
If Qazwini’s Islamic Center of America is any indication — and it certainly seems to be — of the behavior of Islamic recipients of federal funds for faith-based initiatives, Falwell is right. They should be ineligible for taxpayer-funded means of spewing such hate. . . .
While the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Public Affairs Council both denounced Falwell’s comments, neither they nor Bush’s “friend from Michigan,” Imam Qazwini, ever denounced Farrakhan’s bigoted, hateful comments. And President Bush’s strong ties to Qazwini are troubling, especially with the advent of federal funding of faith-based initiatives — and Qazwini as Bush’s star recipient of them.

Yes, Jerry Falwell was right. And he will be missed. He may be gone, but his contribution to maintaining decency and morality in America will be here for a long time. As will the Evangelical political movement he founded.
Rev. Jerry Falwell, Rest In Peace.
**** UPDATE: Reader David writes:

Reports are that Dr. Jerry Prevo from Anchorage, Alaska, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Liberty University will take over the church and university.

**** UPDATE: Even though I’m not a Christian, I like Rev. John Hagee of the Cornerstone Church of San Antonio, Texas, whom I think is a good replacement to emerge as the spokesman for the new generation of Evangelicals in America.

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May 15, 2007, - 12:01 pm

Illegitimate Nation: More Than 1/3 of American Kids Born Out of Wedlock

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2001 federal data–the most current available–shows that 37% of all births in the United States are to unmarried women, with 19% of the women in cohabiting relationships and 18% outside a union.
The figures–reported in the May 2007 “Child Trends” analysis of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study–certainly do not bode well. The percentage of births to unmarried, cohabiting couples is at an all-time high.
Well, it looks like Oprah is succeeding. The most influential woman in America (and, likely, the world) stated on her show several times that she opposes marriage: “We’ve evolved into a different species.” Not sure what species that is, but the last time I checked, we were still homosapiens. But, hey, my science ain’t got nothin’ on that of Gail King’s Husband.


She’s said of the decline of marriage in America: “I call that evolvement.” Actually, ain’t no such word, girlfriend. The word is evolution. And we are devolving, not evolving–thanks in no small part to the “values” spread by the poisonous HOprah.
It’s NOT a good thing to have more than 1/3 of America’s children born out of wedlock. And that was in 2001. Imagine where we are really at, now six years later. And how much of that is courtesy of illegal aliens and Muslims with multiple “wives” who live in our midst? A lot more than you think.

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May 15, 2007, - 10:14 am

Bionic Woman Returns to TV; But Her Era is, Unfortunately, Long Gone

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Hands down, my favorite TV shows as a very little kid were “The Six Million Dollar Man,” “The Bionic Woman,” and “Wonder Woman.” All were hit shows, in which good always triumphed over evil.
Now, NBC–in 4th place of broadcast TV networks in Prime Time–is seeking to revitalize its line-up. It announced that, this fall, on Wednesday Nights at 9:00 p.m., it will air a remade version of “The Bionic Woman” with a brunette British actress, Michelle Ryan.
I predict the series will fall flat on its face. Yes, the TV viewing audience likes its superheroes. NBC’s “Heroes” is its top-rated show. But there is no replacement for the blonde, beautiful, brave, and brainy Jamie Sommers–the government agent with artificial strength and electronic limb implants–as played by Lindsay Wagner in hip ’70s garb. And one wonders–in this age of special effects overload–how they will replace the “ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch” bionic movement sound effect.


Lindsay Wagner: This Bionic Woman Can’t Be Imitated or Remade

The series was really most appropriate for its time, the ’70s, when ugly bra-burning feminists were shown by TV heroines that you need not hate men and lose your femininity to make your way in this world. It showed young girls: You can be classy and gracious, and still have Steve Austin open the door for you and pay for dinner. It was cool to see her easily squeeze and crush a whole orange in one hand and yet wear a lot of skirts and act like a woman, not a man. Lindsay Wagner’s Jamie Sommers had dignity and strength, which came not from her superhuman limbs, but from inside.
Today, much of that is lost. Bionic women are WNBA players and tough-looking single mothers who are contestants (and even winners) on “American Idol”. They are often sluts who hate men (but can’t stop sleep with them fast enough)–and are, frankly, more manly and masculine than them. Or they are incompetent lawyers screwing up entire federal agencies charged with enforcing important federal laws like those concerning immigration and customs. Forget the artificial limbs. They are destroying America with a stroke of the pen.
There are no Six Million Dollar men, either. Even adjusting for inflation, Six Billion Dollar metrosexuals and girlie-men are all the rage. Steve Austin is largely unwelcome on television.


(Bionic Woman/Six Million Dollar Man from the Schlussel card collection)

And when Bionic Woman was on the air, it had a synergy with Six-Million Dollar Man. They did joint shows, like my favorite–where they defeated the fembots. NBC is not in a position to do that anymore, as it now competes against so many mediums and entertainment outlets, not just two other networks and Aaron Spelling series.
A brunette with a snobby brogue won’t do the trick to bring viewers back to NBC in what is no longer the Golden Age of network television, but the Golden Age of non-network, non-television technology.
Supposedly, Jim Carrey will play Steve Austin in a comedic, movie version of “The Six Million Dollar Man.” Another silly destruction of the original, I presume.
I wish the Peacock Network luck. But come this time, next year, its doubtful that this edition of Jaime Sommers will still be alive, despite the artificial superhuman limbs.
Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch.

Michelle Ryan: Dull New Bionic Woman

(Full Disclosure: My first-cousin, once-removed, Scott, was involved in re-acquiring the rights to both “The Bionic Woman” and “The Six Million Dollar Man” and stands to profit, as a producer, from any new projects using either.)
**** UPDATE: I wondered to myself whether or not the “new” Bionic Woman will kick the butts of Islamic terrorists, but knew that PC-Hollywood would make that unlikely. It turns out, I was correct. And that’s another reason why this will be a dud. More of Hollywood whitewashing the real problems we face, ie. Islam and its many terrorists.
Executive Producer David Eick told Daily Variety:

Instead of focusing on terrorism and militarism, the new “Bionic” will explore the role of professional women in contemporary society and how they juggle their various roles.
“It’s using the idea of artificial technology as a metaphor for what contemporary women sometimes feel is necessary to do everything that needs to be done,” Eick said.

PUH-LEEZE. As one disappointed commenter, “kpicket,” wrote on IMDB:

I’m shocked that with the success of series like “Heroes” and “24” that the producers seem to want to take the “Bionic Woman” away from all of that and turn the show into social progressive commentary about what they think on women’s lives today. If Jamie Sommers was dealing with cold war issues in the 1970’s, then she should be dealing with post 9/11 national security issues/ and worldwide terrorism today…not about whether her supervising manager patted her in the butt the other day or if she packed the right “lunchables” for her children. The audience wants to see this character brought back to kick some major butt in terms of defense of this country. Get ready for a real flop folks, because these are the same guys who ruined Battlestar Galactica and gave us the “brilliance” of “Birds of Prey” ….good grief.

Yup, it’ll fail.

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May 14, 2007, - 4:58 pm

HUH?!: “Irritable Male Syndrome”

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Uh-oh. Jed Diamond–a less than masculine author and “psychotherapist” (who likely needs to be examined by one, himself)–has invented a new male disease to help the feminists out.
Since so many women use PMS as an excuse for anger and bitchiness–and so many other women get upset when men tell them they “must be PMSing,” Diamond comes to the rescue with a new form of psychobabblish:

“Irritable Male Syndrome” (IMS).

Can you really come up with an entire disease, just by studying Ted Kennedy and Harry Reid?
Apparently so. Well, Diamond actually ripped the idea off from Gerald A Lincoln, Ph.D., a researcher in Scotland.


Does Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah Have Irritable Male Terrorist Syndrome?

(Sheikha Hassan Nasrallah Girlie Man by David Lunde/Lundesigns)

Doesn’t he realize that a preponderance of girlie-men (and Muslims–which may not be mutually exclusive categories) live in the UK? Hardly a good sample.
Diamond formed Girlie-Men, Inc. to address the prob. Well, actually that’s my nickname for his business, the Northern California (read: San Francisco and Village People) men’s health clinic and online support network, MenAlive.com. Please check your testicles at the door.
Says Diamond:

In many ways, women suffered and relationships suffered. It’s the same thing with IMS. If you say, he is just an irritable, grouchy old guy, you don’t address the problem and it gets worse.

And we wonder why Al-Qaeda laughs at us and why we don’t have the cojones to show terrorists we mean business . . . .

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