By Debbie Schlussel

Much has been made by Mitt Romney of Barack Obama’s significant shrinking of America’s military. And he’s right about that. But another very serious problem is the feminization and chickification of the U.S. Armed Forces, which makes us even weaker. Of course, Romney would never point that out because he’s 1) not a conservative and doesn’t care about that, and 2) he doesn’t want to be accused again of a “war on women.” What we really have here is the women’s war on America’s military, and now, that’s the case with the feminist war on the U.S. Marine Corps. But the women failed.

I’ve written about the many successful attempts to feminize the U.S. Armed Forces and other attempts that haven’t been successful . . . yet. These includes the push to allow women to become Navy SEALs and to force U.S. Army men to wear fake breasts and wombs to “identify with” women in the military. And, now, there is the case of the women who tried to become Marine infantrymen but dropped out because they failed. The U.S. Marine Corps is considering lowered, “gender neutral standards” so women can pass. That’s how it always works, or rather, doesn’t work, but is put into place anyway. In the long term, this is as bad as shrinking the military because it means that the non-shrunk portion won’t pass muster under the normal standards.

The Marine Corps’ effort to evaluate whether more combat jobs should open to women marked another milestone last week when the second of two female volunteers washed out of infantry officer training. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Disappointed that Donald Trump’s “bombshell” about Barack Obama was a nothing? If so, then you haven’t been paying attention to Trump’s antics. Everything he does is for self-promotion and for largely a decade, it’s been about promoting his crappy reality show, “The Apprentice,” a new season of which is starting soon. On Monday, a very smart and astute reader (whom I respect a great deal), sent me a link to a Washington Times story on Trump’s announcement that he was gonna make another announcement today that will really turn people against Barack Obama (the reader didn’t say he believed it, just sent me the link). Here is my response to the reader:

From: Debbie Schlussel writedebbie@gmail.com
Date: Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Donald+Trump+says+he’ll+drop+political+bombshell+on+Obama+-+Washington+Times
To:

I saw that and don’t believe it. He’s a blowhard who needs ratings and attention for his latest “The Apprentice” show. If he had a bombshell, he’d drop it without warning.

And I was right. Not exactly Einstein or Nostradamus stuff here if you’ve followed Trump’s “boy who cried wolf” antics for virtually his entire career. He’s the biggest tease in America. Or, rather, the biggest tease in America with a yellow bird’s nest growing on his head and an ego that even Kryptonite wouldn’t dent. He has a new season of the low-rated “Apprentice” to pimp. And he’ll say anything to remain in the public eye to promote it, since “The Apprentice” is really his only successful business. The guy is an attention whore. Period.

And the same goes for Gloria Allred, who is even more predictable than the extremely predictable Trump. Frankly, the greatest reality show ever would be to drop her and Trump and Rosie O’Donnell on a deserted island and turn off the cameras forever. I think of them the way I think of Shi’ite and Sunni Muslims. Let them kill each other and let allah sort it out.

Allred’s claimed bombshell that she predicted would hurt Romney in a big way was some nothing attempt to unseal some testimony that Mitt Romney gave, backing his friend in a divorce case. So what? I’m not a big Romney fan, but I admire anyone who backs his/her friends in troubled times. It says a lot about him, and we know that, while he’s definitely not the ideal candidate, personally Mitt Romney has a record as an adult of being a decent guy to those in need. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

I’m not sure why so many on the right are bragging that Mitt Romney “won” last night’s Presidential debate, which mostly centered on foreign policy. While whether he won or not is in the mind of the beholder and his/her partisanship, if Romney won it was because he uttered plans and statements so absurd, so ridiculous, and so to the left of Barack Obama (or mirroring him), it reached the point of absurdity. These same people cheering his alleged “winning” are the same people criticizing Obama for being too pro-Muslim and too pro-Arab Spring and choas in the Mid-East. But Romney outdid Obama in that category, last night. It was ridiculous. No surprise to me, since I’ve noted all along that Romney’s views on the Middle East are hardly different from Obama’s and neither has embraced a foreign policy good for American interests. Were any of these people cheering Romney’s performance last night actually listening to the crap he said? He was not only to the left of Obama, he tried to outdo him in his Arab Springiness. He outpandered Obama in “reaching out” to Muslims. Disgusting. Disgraceful.

Last night, Romney attacked Obama for not pursuing strongly enough the establishment of a terrorist Palestinian State. Again, not a surprise to me, as I told you a couple of weeks ago that Romney made the same attack in a speech to Virginia Military Institute, declaring that he’d “recommit America to the goal of a Palestinian State.” Um, why the heck is that our goal? Why is it the goal of the Republican Party nominee? Romney, last night, attacked Obama because the Palestinians and the Israelis “haven’t been to the negotiating table [for a Palestinian State] in two years.” And this is bad because . . . ? Really? We really need to shove and force Israelis to a table to self-amputate some more for the Palestinians? Hmmm . . . what a “choice” we have here: between a President who is not pro-Israel, but doesn’t care too much about a Palestinian State to the point that he’s blown off the idea for the last two years versus a GOP nominee who claims to be Israel’s best friend in history and, yet, wants to shove the Palestinian State down Israel’s throat as quickly as possible. Yay, America.

He claimed, regarding Muslims in the Mid-East, “When there are elections, people vote for peace.” Really? I guess he forgot about the elections in Gaza, where HAMAS won. Yup, that’s “peace.” Or pieces. Or when Muslims voted in the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Yup, that’s a real peaceful group. Tell it to the gays they execute on a regular basis. Or the Jews and Christians they wanna kill. Tell it to the victims of HAMAS and Al-Qaeda, both of which were spawned by the Brotherhood. And remember that little election in Iraq (a series of elections) in which the Shi’ite masses voted for Iranian-backed officials and have made it so bad that Christians continue to exit the country en masse? Can’t wait until Romney’s “free elections” are imposed in Jordan, where more than 90% of the people are Palestinian Muslims who support Al-Qaeda and HAMAS. Or Saudi Arabia, where the masses are supporters of the Bin Laden crowd. Yup, Mitt, you keep tellin’ yourself that about how Muslims vote when they have elections. It’s hilarious that people like Rush Limbaugh claim Romney showed he knows foreign policy and “did his homework,” last night. Nope, he showed he knows how to sling the Arab Spring bullcrap. And we already have such a man in the White House. We don’t need more of that. We need to replace it. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Regular readers know that I’m not crazy about non-conservative Mitt Romney (the way so many fools who will be sadly disappointed are), not excited to vote for him, and feel I’ve been given no good choice in this election. That said, while I will not be eager about being forced to vote for Flip Flopney, some of the one-sided Obama stuff goes beyond what we’ve seen before in terms of even casting off all pretense of fairness and evenhandedness. We know that the mindless women’s magazines are liberal and always in the tank for the farthest left mainstream candidate, in this case Barack Obama. But they used to pretend they were giving both sides a shot. These dying publications that tell women to be independent (except when praising Islam, which they romanticize beyond all belief), how to perform strange sexual acts in 79 different ways, and what the latest trendy color of micro-mini neoprene skirt is, would usually give the Republicans a page or so in between mocking them. But no longer. I received my November issue of Elle in the mail, late last week. Beneath the cover, bearing the toothy neigh of Sarah Jess-equine Parker, was page 98–a full page consisting of “Letter From The First Lady,” by Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Hussein Obama Idi Amin Dada.

Mrs. Obama’s “article” is really a campaign commercial. Beginning with “Dear ELLE Readers,” the article gives us five detailed talking points about why we should vote for her hubby. And after that, the Elle editors tell readers how to vote and convince others to vote . . . presumably for Obama. Nowhere in the magazine is a letter or any “equal time” for Ann Romney on why we should vote for her husband. Since Mrs. Obama’s article talks about women’s rights, etc., this would be Ann Romney’s speed. (Remember her silly, pandering, “I Love You Women!” BS speech in which she told us that women work much harder, care more about families and feeding them, and care far more about sick relatives?) But Elle Magazine didn’t give Mrs. Romney that chance. They didn’t even pretend they were being fair. And, of course, this is the November issue, so even if someone complains, it’s too late now. Not that I believe anyone reads the pap in between the fashion and celebrity pages of the magazine. I think I’m the only one who does that. And it won’t make a difference. But it’s still galling that they don’t even go to the effort to give the Romney campaign a fair chance to compete. How do I know they didn’t? Because the Romney campaign has been bending over backward to win over women’s votes and fight off the “war on women” accusations of the left to the point of absurdity, such as Ann Romney’s convention speech. There is no way they would have passed up what is essentially a free page of campaign advertising tucked amidst expensive leather leggings and elaborate rhinestone necklaces and bracelets. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

As you’ve probably heard, there is so much anti-Semitism in France now that “a good Jew” (said sarcastically) and, now, “a dead Jew” have become the most popular trending terms on Twitter in France. That’s because, as I was one of the first to write about well over a decade ago (and then my best lines on this ended up shoplifted for “Mark Steyn’s” book), Muslims may now constitute a third of the population in France (and because of illegal immigration, etc., nobody actually knows how many Arabs–most of them Muslim–are in the country.) And, given this, I suppose it’s no surprise that this Arab Muslim French fashionista, complete with a high-fashion blog, sent me a tweet wishing for the return of the Holocaust, so that she could personally send me to the concentration camps (see below). With the Internet, the French Twitter pogrom/jihad against the Jews reaches all shores, including mine. When I retweeted this (follow me on Twitter) so that the world could see, this cowardly snake, aptly named Hissa Al-Buainain made her Twitter account private and blocked me (as if I would care to read a thing this typical Jew-hating Muslims) says. She also dropped her last name from her twitter account. Yup, this hateful, anti-Semitic Muslim thug-ette actually expects to get a job in international security. The Nazi guarding the henhouse. As the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors (my mother was born in Bergen Belsen concentration camp after it became a displaced persons camp), I know all too well what this French high-fashioned Muslim kalbeh wooskhah [“filthy bitch” in Arabic] wants to do to me, if given the chance.

THIS. IS. ISLAM. . . .

As you’ll note, Hissa Al-Buainain does not wear a hijab. She does not look like your typical ugly Muslim Arab woman. Nope, she’s dressed in Western clothing and has a blog filled with the latest in Western haute couture. And that’s typical, too. So, whenever, I hear morons publicly proclaim that, “if only the Muslims were exposed to the West, they’d dump their extremism,” I laugh. These are the same morons–many of them on the “right” and on FOX News, who gushed over Miss Hezbollah skank USA Rima Fakih because she wore a bikini, as if extremist Muslims never do that. I know that many of the most radical Muslims (redundant phrase) in the world look and act like Hissa Al-Buainain, all while they are wishing for the next opportunity to push me and my fellow co-religionists into the ovens. Hip hop and sparkly sequined tank tops won’t change Islamic hate and extremism. They just provide a more “hip” costume for it. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

**** SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATES – “Conservative” Morons at Breitfraud, FOX News pour on the praise for schmuck McGovern ****

Billy Joel sang that only the good die young. And that’s gotta be why former U.S. Senator George McGovern died today at the ripe old age of 90.

McGovern was an America-hating, anti-Israel, pan-Arabist, anti-Semitic hypocrite and fraud. Moronic, plagiarist websites, like Israel National News/Arutz Shevah (which has a record of plagiarizing this site, word for word, without credit, despite the fact that my family raised a ton of money for that site–and they shamelessly admitted to the theft) are merely plagiarizing gushing AP stories, drooling over this creep. It’s disgusting (though I’m sure they’ll quickly change it and rip me off some more after they read this). The Prince Al-Waleed News Network (PAWNN) a/k/a FOX News also gushed over this dead piece of crap. But here’s a reality check:

George McGovern was an anti-American fraud. He gave aid and comfort to the Viet Cong enemy, by speaking out against and protesting the Vietnam War, even though he voted for it (John Kerry-style, he was for it before he was against it or something like that). As reader Jon Grant of Grant Patent Services notes,

George McGovern is a phony. Not only did he vote for the Tonkin Gulf resolution, but he also voted for the appropriations for the war, over and over again, until the war was unpopular.

McGovern built his political career and Presidential campaign on the backs of the dead and maimed American boys who were winning in Vietnam until protesters and left-wing media, sympathetic to his hypocritical point of view, lost the war for our soldiers on U.S. soil by lying to and manipulating the American public.

And, then, there’s the Middle East. McGovern made a lot of cash on the anti-Israel lecture circuit, bought and paid for by his Arab Muslim masters who paid his high speaking fees. McGovern was, for years, the president of the Middle East Policy Council, which changed his name from its more truthful original name, the “American-Arab Affairs Council.” The organization was very anti-Israel and pan-Arabist. As its chief, McGovern urge Soviet Jews–then under tremendous persecution from the Communist Soviet Union–not to go to Israel to live in peace and freedom, telling them there was “no real place” for them in Israel. Only a devout anti-Semite would do this. Obviously he said this because he’d prefer Jews to rot and die in captivity, rather than to live and multiply in Israel to the anger of Muslims who want to kill them. In McGovern’s view, Jews should be stuck in hard labor in gulags and Soviet concentration camps because he hated Jews and Israel. McGovern constantly attacked Israel, calling for the United States to impose trade sanctions on the country in addition to demanding an end to U.S. aid and loan guarantees to Israel, but not to the billions in aid to Arab Muslim nations. He demanded that Israel pull out of Jerusalem and return to pre-1967 borders. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Leon Alphonse Traille, Jr. tried to bomb the Ballston Commons Mall in Arlington, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, DC, yesterday. He had four explosive devices. And the more I read about him the more I think the life does, indeed, imitate art. In the first season of Showtime’s “Homeland,” an Islamic terrorist is living and posing as a homeless man (he’s actually a former U.S. Marine believed to be dead). And Traille, who tried to set off four explosive devices today, is “homeless,” according to authorities who say he has no address. That’s despite the fact that he worked as a software engineer for some of the top media and tech companies, including Bloomberg and Intel. And you can’t help but notice that the once shaven Traille now sports a beard, like many Muslims do when they commit violent jihad. Did Traille convert to Islam? Why did he try to bomb a shopping mall? And why–given his tech expertise–were his bombs so crude and ineffective? A lot of questions.

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Video of Leon Traille being captured by police at the mall . . .

While some may dismiss Traille as a crazy homeless man, it would be a mistake to do that. Jihadists deliberately recruit mentally unstable people, so that if they are caught, they can be dismissed as “just a crazy guy.” It’s in the Al-Qaeda playbook that authorities found after 9/11 in one of the hijackers’ cars parked at the airport. There’s something very weird here, and I wouldn’t be surprised if life imitates art. The FBI counter-terrorist team is working this case for a reason. You don’t bring four explosive devices to a mall just ‘cuz your “a crazy homeless guy.” Something more is going on. Bet on it. Look at Leon Traille’s LinkedIn page, which I’ve copied and posted below in case it soon “disappears.” As you can see, he’s no dummy. He’s a software engineer with a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. Does that sound like a “crazy homeless guy” to you. Or crazy like a fox? I vote the latter. Maybe it was a test to see what would happen if a mall in suburban Washington was bombed and how authorities would react to it. Had the explosives been good explosives, a lot of people would have been hurt before police arrived with guns and cuffed him.

Authorities released the mug shot of the man accused of throwing a lit Molotov cocktail inside a Washington D.C. area mall. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Nothing that great among the new movies at theaters, this weekend. Ironically (or maybe not), the low-budge movie is far better than the big budget one subsidized by the Michigan Film Tax Credit.

* “Alex Cross“: Absolutely awful. Just laughable, and not intentionally so. Tyler Perry assumes the role of police detective and profiler Alex Cross, previously played by Morgan Freeman in a couple of other, far better thrillers. The movie, paid for in no small amount by Michigan taxpayers, this movie is set in Detroit, and it stinks. The funniest part–which wasn’t meant as comedy–was when Cross’ wife isn’t sure she wants to movie to Washington, DC, because, she says, “I don’t even know what the public schools in Washington are like.” As if the public schools in Detroit are so shout-from-the-rooftops awesome. The audience at the screening I attended hooted and snickered with laughter.

A good mystery/whodunit gives the viewers some sort of hint as to the murderer (or his handlers) and why the murders are being done. There is no such hint in this flick, until the man pulling the strings and his reasons are unmasked. And I really didn’t care. This movie is just that G-d-awful bad. Alex Cross’ sidekick, played by actor Edward Burns, has a perfect Detroit accent . . . if you come from the Brooklyn, New York borough of Detroit. And there are so many other ridiculous things about this joke of a horribly violent, gruesome movie, not least of which is that it’s rated PG-13, and misguided parents will actually think it’s a good idea to bring their kids to this movie chock full of brutally graphic scenes of people dying while on fire, a woman having all ten of her fingers cut off, and a woman having had her eyes gouged out, along with facial disfigurement. Yup, it’s an incredibly disgusting unbearable movie. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

I suppose it’s predictable that a nutty conspiracy theory movie about 9/11 would star left-wing nutjobs such as Martin Sheen, Woody Harrelson, and Ed Asner. The only one missing is Rosie O’Donnell. While it’s called “September Morn,” a better title would be “Three Angry Nutjobs, er . . . Men.”

I have a strong personal distaste for that zhlub Ed Asner, a proud member of Actors & Artists for 9/11 Truth. It goes back to a letter my late father wrote to him, which made national news. In the 1980s, Asner wrote a solicitation letter for the re-election campaign of far-left Democratic Jewish Congressman Howard Wolpe of Michigan. The letter stressed Asner’s Judaism and urged Jews to give Wolpe money. But Asner is an Israel-hating schmuck and JINO (Jew In Name Only), and my dad was incensed when he received Asner’s fundraising letter. My father made national news when he wrote a letter responding to Ed Asner along with an endorsement for and a contribution check made out to Asner’s opponent, Reagan employee and conservative Republican Jackie MacGregor. Mrs. MacGregor released my dad’s letter to the press and the story made national news. It was a great letter, and one of these days, I’ll dig it up and post it. My dad really told old Ed where to go.

I continue to share my late father’s disdain for Ed Asner, and this new movie only reaffirms that he was right about this a-hole. In those days, Asner was active in a self-hating group called, “New Jewish Agenda.” In those days, it was a fringe group, but these days, the New Jewish Agenda types are, sadly, running the organized Jewish community. G-d truly works in mysterious ways, given that my father died of cancer and, yet, this major scumbag is still alive at age 82.

Fleur De Lis Film Studios will produce September Morn, a dramatic look into the arguments of “Truthers,” those that believe the attacks of September 11 were an inside job fueled by the American government. The movie will attempt to find financial backers at this year’s American Film Market, but a name cast should make for an easy sell. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

I’m not surprised at all that would-be Federal Reserve Bank of New York bomber Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis came to the United State on a State Department-issued student visa. In 2011, the State Department issued 476,000 student visas, many of them to Muslims, including over 66,000 to Saudi-sponsored Muslim students. Do you think the U.S. government is keeping tabs on all of them or even a sufficient fraction? Think again. But this is part of the Obama-Push ever since 9/11 to increase student and other visas to the U.S. And I’ve written about many Muslim student visa holders also engaged in Islamic terrorism, dry runs, violent crimes, and terrorism recruitment, among other fatal shenanigans. But I’m also not surprised that Nafis had an accomplice in Sand Diego, who was arrested on child pornography charges. Hey, yet again, it’s that “Islamic modesty” that Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby told us about when he had a fit over U.S. interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay. The accomplice and Nafis were allegedly planning to murder Presidenti Obama.

Oh, and remember how Mitt Romney said he would end Islamic extremism by giving Muslims “the dignity of work”? Guess what? Nafis’ family is middle class and his father is a banker, who spent his life’s savings to send his son to school here in America. Not exactly a deprived child, was he? And yet he was ready to blow up plenty of Americans in a bank building and assassinate the President.

One other note: Nafis was working at a Manhattan restaurant. But that’s a violation of his student visa, which forbids employment. How did he get the job? What’s the name of the restaurant? And why did it hire Nafis? Can you imagine if Nafis had decided to poison the food instead (and didn’t tell an FBI informant)?

More:

A man identified as a co-conspirator in an alleged plot to bomb the Federal Reserve Bank of New York was taken into custody Wednesday but won’t face terrorism charges, people familiar with the matter said. Read the rest of this entry »