By Debbie Schlussel

Kevin Hermening was the youngest of the 52 Americans taken hostage in 1979 at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held for 444 days by Shi’ite Muslims in Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s revolution. Just 20 years old at the time, he was a Marine Sergeant. assigned to guard the embassy. Kevin was not on duty that day, but he was in the embassy and was taken by the Islamic thugs. (Thirteen women and Blacks were also taken, but they were released early on, because the Iranians said these minorities were “sympathetic” to the Shi’ite revolution. Another hostage was released after he became very sick. But others who got sick weren’t so lucky.)

I’ve been acquainted with Kevin Hermening since I was in college, when he was running as a Republican for the U.S. Congress from his native Wisconsin against liberal Democrat then-Congressman David Obey. I was a summer intern for NCPAC–the National Conservative Political Action Committee–which was then the largest conservative PAC in the U.S. and ran a week-long candidate training school for Kevin and a few other fellow conservative Congressional candidates. Kevin, a tremendous patriot, had all the positive attributes–movie star good looks, a brilliant mind, an articulate speaking style, conservative principles, and the charisma to be a star. And he was and is an all-around mensch. Sadly, the liberal Obey was re-elected. Kevin would have been a great Congressman and probably more. Today, Kevin Hermening is a successful financial adviser and CEO of Hermening Financial Group in Wausau, Wisconsin. I called him after seeing “Argo” (read my review) to get his thoughts and impressions on some of what I saw in the movie (he hasn’t seen the movie yet and has promised to give me his review after he sees it). And he recounted his days in captivity.

Kevin told me that while he was not scheduled to guard the embassy on that fateful day in 1979, he happened to be in the embassy because he was coordinating plans. His apartment, while not on the embassy compound, was right behind it. Had he not been at the embassy, he might have escaped, as the six Americans portrayed in “Argo” did. But he was not so lucky. In the movie, the compound, which contained several buildings including the U.S. Ambassador’s residence, doesn’t appear as large as it was in real life. Kevin said the embassy was a series of buildings on 26 sprawling acres. He said the main building had a large basement, as is depicted in the film. Kevin said that there were never any Marines assigned to guard the outside of the building. They were only on the inside. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

I liked three out of the four new movies debuting at theaters, this weekend.

* “Argo“: Check out my complete review.  A CIA agent rescues six U.S. Embassy employees from Tehran, Iran, by posing as a Canadian movie producer making a science fiction film. Again, read my full review of this riveting movie, which also came with needless anti-American “history” and Jimmy Carter whining.

THREE REAGANS (Would be FOUR But for Ben Affleck’s Anti-US History Lesson & Billy Carter’s Bro’s Whining)

Watch the trailer . . .

* “Sinister“: I’ve seen so many scary, creepy, violent, graphic movies that I’ve, unfortunately, become somewhat desensitized to this stuff. I rarely get scared by a horror movie anymore, and usually laugh at the obvious attempts by most of these movies to scare audiences with cheap stunts. But I found this movie very scary, very suspenseful, and even though I saw it at last night’s Midnight show so I could review it for you (the screening was on the Jewish holidays, so I had to miss it), I was awake and riveted the whole time, until the ending (the “whodunit” was a silly letdown). It’s a very, very creepy movie. On the other hand, it’s very bloody and the graphic violence depicted in it isn’t scary, just disturbing and unnecessary. It takes away from the movie. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

“Argo,” in theaters today, is a great movie sandwiched in between two bad far-leftist monologues. Director Ben Affleck tries to justify the Iranian revolution and the violent, deadly actions of Iranian Shi’ite Muslims supporting Ayatollah Khomeini at the beginning of this film. And he gives Jimmy Carter free reign to whine and take credit at the end. But despite Affleck’s best efforts at that, the movie is gold sandwiched between these two slices of crap. No matter what, it’s a great, unvarnished reminder of the Islamic threat that keeps repeating itself. And so I still recommend it.

“Argo” is the story of the six Americans at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, who escaped when Shi’ite Muslim followers of Ayatollah Khomeini overtook our embassy and held everyone inside hostage for 444 days. The six found refuge in the Canadian Ambassador’s residence (the English and the Australians, it should be noted, turned them away to what could have been the Americans’ deaths). The movie is a thriller detailing the mission by CIA agent and disguise and forgery expert Tony Mendez (played by Ben Affleck) to get them out and safely back to America. To rescue them, Mendez pretends he is a Canadian movie producer of a science fiction film, called “Argo.” He goes to Hollywood and recruits Jewish producer Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) and “Planet of the Apes” make-up man John Chambers (John Goodman) to help him with his ruse, setting up an entire fictional production, complete with movie posters, actors doing read-throughs, and a studio office. I wondered why they recruited a Jewish guy, given that the Khomeini’ist Shi’ite Muslims (and all Sh’ite Muslims) hate Jews. I researched this, found no real-life producer named Lester Siegel, and learned that the character is a “composite” character and I wonder if the real producers involved were actually Jewish (I bet not). I also wondered why they featured scantily clad women on the movie posters and at read-throughs. And I was on to something as that issue of modesty comes up later in the movie, as you’ll see. And, finally, I wondered if the nail-biting, thrilling climax of the movie actually happened that way in real life. And, it turns out, my suspicions were correct–that’s the only part of the movie that isn’t true to what happened in reality. I enjoyed the movie, which is thrilling, well-told, and entertaining, BUT . . . and a big BUT it is. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

**** UPDATE: I forgot to mention (and thanks to astute reader and author Stephen Schochet for reminding me) how disgusted I was with Paul Ryan’s constant pandering to and support of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood/Al-Qaeda terrorist “rebels” as “freedom fighters.” His criticism of Biden and Obama for calling Assad a reformer is accurate, but PUH-LEEZE, does he believe these scumbags will be better? They will be worse. Also nauseating to me was Paul Ryan’s PC answer that he agreed with the decision to court martial members of the U.S. Armed Forces who risked their lives and saw many of their friends die, merely because they pissed on the bodies of Afghan Muslim terrorists who tried to murder them. Where is this guy’s balls on these issues? ****

I think last night’s night’s Vice Presidential Debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan was a wash in terms of “who won”–meaning changing the existing polls in any way. But I think the photo below captures much of what happened. Okay, it doesn’t say everything because there isn’t one of Joe Biden’s gazillion obnoxious, arrogant, Al-Gore-Annoying smirks in the photo. I have a word for it, a “Smirkin” (as in merkin), ‘cuz that’s what Biden constantly wore last night, to cover up his inadequacy. I listened to the beginning on my car radio while I was driving, but when I got home and saw the rest on TV, it was night and day because of the smirking and other obnoxious Biden facial expressions that you don’t hear or know of on a radio broadcast. The pic is a nice encapsulation of what a nutjob this is. Below are some of my tweets from last night (follow me on Twitter). I must give credit to my friend Ben P. for the tweet about the sub sandwich–a comment he made in the the Sukkah during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, last week. And by the way, I refreshed my Twitter followers’ memories on my photo comparison of Joe Biden pre-plugs in 1988 and post-Barbie-plugs 2008. They laughed and one of my followers, “Patykayks,” said he went from scalped to “Chia Joe.” Spot on.

Who won last night’s debate in your mind and why?

More Tweets . . . Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Conservatives are up in arms about a top Obama campaign official’s statement that security at the Benghazi Consulate in Libya is only an issue because of Romney-Ryan. But there is a good deal of truth to that. And it’s belied by conservatives’ disgusting embrace of Islamic terrorism supporter Darrell Issa a/k/a Jihad Darrell, who is running grandstanding hearings on the issue. That’s because Issa is an unabashed supporter of the two parties who murdered more U.S. diplomats at American embassies than any others. For Issa, a big fan of Hezbollah and an unabashed close friend of Yasser Arafat, to suddenly feign concern about the security of our embassies from Islamic terrorists is a farce, if only people weren’t such ignoramuses and blind partisans and if they knew even a modicum of information about their false hero, the utter hypocrite Darrell Issa. He called Israel, an “apartheid” state and called 9/11, “just a plane crash.” And you think this schmuck really cares about the Benghazi Consulate’s security?

Jihad Darrell’s Crying Game: Pro-Hezbollah Rep. Darrell Issa Cries for Islamic Terrorists & Barack Obama, Not Embassy Security

As I’ve noted on this site, Jihad Darrell has repeatedly praised Hezbollah and attacked Israel. And yet Hezbollah, as he well knows, murdered over 300 U.S. officials and Marines in coordinated attacks on the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983. He is also suspected of leaking classified intelligence to Hezbollah terrorists. If he’s so concerned with Americans being safe from Islamic terrorism at our embassies in the Islamic world, why does he continue to support an Islamic terrorist group that murdered so many Americans at the Beirut embassy? In many interviews with Arabic media, in a press release his own office sent out, and even in his own comments in the Congressional Record, Issa repeatedly praised the Islamic terrorist group that murdered U.S. diplomats and said Hezbollah was engaged in “legitimate resistance.” You really think this a-hole cares about the Benghazi Consulate victims, when he didn’t care about the Beirut Embassy victims? Only if you’re a complete dumbass, who can’t recognize grandstanding, even if it punches you in the face. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Roger Waters of Pink Floyd thinks Jews have too much power in America. If you are still a Pink Floyd fan–even after his anti-Israel activism and pro-Palestinian, pro-Islamic terrorism diatribes, as detailed on this site–then his new bigotry, not just against Israel, but specifically against Jews, might not bother you since we know that most Israel-haters are really just Jew-haters with a more “high-brow” pretense. Likewise, it’s no surprise that this aging friend of the jihad is now an admitted Jew-hater.

Jew-hater Roger Waters @ the Fence that Keeps (Some) Islamic Terrorists Out of Israel

Flier for Mock Trial Against Israel, Featuring Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, Roger Waters & Palestinian Terrorist Huwaida Arraf

Sohrab Ahmari, an Iranian-American, pro-Israel, conservative assistant editor for the Wall Street Journal (he does excellent work, except for his support of the Arab Spring BS) attended a mock trial against Israel (the “Russell Tribunal on Palestine”–the first Russell Tribunal was an anti-American tirade on the Vietnam War) put on by a motley gang of irrelevant, far left whack jobs, including Waters, Alice Walker (whose anti-Israel, pro-Muslim crap I’ve detailed on this site), crazy Cynthia McKinney a/k/a Jihad Cindy (more about her here), nutjob Noam Chomsky, and murderous Marxist Angela Davis. Ahmari attended the event and wrote about it in yesterday’s Journal in an excellent op-ed piece. Here are a few excerpts, including the anti-Semitic “gem” from Waters:

Mr. Waters of Pink Floyd fame spoke up. “Sitting here as we are New York City,” he said, “it’s hard to ignore the elephant in the room—this elephant being the unfathomable influence in the corridors of power of the Israeli and Jewish lobbies.” Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Tomorrow’s Paul Ryan-Joe Biden debate on foreign policy may be meaningless in terms of substance because it’s the guys at the top who make the policy. And Romney’s ever-evolving policy on the Mid-East is now cross-dressing as Barack Obama’s.

While I was away for the Jewish holiday on Monday, Mitt Romney delivered a disturbing speech on foreign policy to the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). It’s not only just like Obama foreign policy, but probably worse. And it’s definitely a far cry (and almost a 180) from his speech in Israel a few months ago, just as I said. A few readers made comments about it while I was away, but reading the full text of the speech just reconfirms everything I’ve noted over and over again on this site about Romney and his Middle East policy. It will be no different, no better than Obama’s. The only difference is that Romney will have to run for re-election, and Obama can start tightening the vise in any way he wants against Israel. Romney told VMI that he will recommit the U.S. to the goal of establishing a Palestinian State (something Obama hasn’t done much of, thankfully). He also said he’d commit gazillions of dollars to arming and aiding the Syrian Al-Qaeda/Muslim Brotherhood rebels and put them in power. He committed to giving even more foreign aid to the barbaric Arab Spring “democracies” and delusionally told the audience that most Libyans want freedom and were against the terrorists that attacked our embassy (um, that was a nice PR stunt, and Romney fell for this Arabian Nights fantasy).

On Iran, Romney says only that he will impose more sanctions–the same useless, worthless, ineffective policy we’ve seen in 12 years of Obama-Bush. He also criticizes Obama for not supporting the Hezbollah-supporting Iranian “democracy protesters.” It’s the same old ignorant crap. Nothing new, and more important, nothing better.

Romney also says he will increase “cooperation” with the Arab Muslim Gulf states that continue to boycott Israel–the same states that aided and abetted the 9/11 terrorists and that, today, willingly and knowingly serve as shipping points for nuclear components headed straight to Iran. We are already sharing nuclear and other vital national security secrets with these states, per Bush and Obama agreements. How is that helpful to us? It isn’t. It’s just stupidity in the interest of future large donations to Presidential libraries.

Romney’s claim that he will attach “strings” and conditions to the foreign aid is a pipe dream. There have been such strings and conditions for decades. They are never enforced, and his administration won’t be different on this than the Bush, Obama, Clinton, and Bush administrations were before him on this. Bush didn’t stop gazillions in USAID money from going straight to Hezbollah. Don’t expect Romney (who is to Bush’s left) to do so. I found it interesting to read the supportive comments of Henry Kissinger, a Romney foreign policy adviser, praising the speech in the Wall Street Journal. This is the same Kissinger who gushed to the New York Post’s Cindy Adams that Israel won’t exist in ten years. The same Kissinger, whose major client is Saudi Arabia (and who helped negotiate Israel out of existence in the second “Transformers” movie).

Here are some of the Romney speech excerpts I found of interest (and not in a good way)–if you think ANY of these are the way to regain “respect” in the Middle East and/or stave off the Islamic threat to America, you’re a moron:

Mitt Romney’s Re-Commitment Ceremony to the Ugly Palestinian Bride . . .

I will recommit America to the goal of a democratic, prosperous Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with the Jewish state of Israel. On this vital issue, the President has failed, and what should be a negotiation process has devolved into a series of heated disputes at the United Nations. In this old conflict, as in every challenge we face in the Middle East, only a new President will bring the chance to begin anew. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

How much you wanna bet that the designers of these “shoes” are dumbass liberals? Watching this woman try to walk in these ridiculous monstrosities is hilarious. The shoes were made by South African artist Leanie van der Vyver and Dutch shoe designer René van den Berg. How long ’til Whoopi Goldberg gets a pair? In our Lady Gaga world, expect more of this idiocy.

Watch the video . . . Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Just how bad are things in Detroit? Watch this incredible video news report, below. Heidi Peterson knows firsthand how bad things are, now that she’s been forced to share her home with a squatter who filed a lien on her home after breaking in and moving in illegally. Peterson bought a home for $23,000 in the Boston-Edison neighborhood of Detroit, and now she has an unwanted piece of home “decor”: squatter Tracey Elaine Blair. Boston-Edison was once THE chic neighborhood in Detroit, when the titans of industry, including Henry Ford and Sebastian Kresge (founder of what ultimately became Kmart) lived there. Mitt Romney’s brother-in-law (his sister’s husband) lived there, too. But, now, it’s the sight of boarded up mansions and old homes lost to vandals, drug addicts, and copper thieves. (I once went to an estate sale in a mansion in the neighborhood and got sick for a whole day from the mold in the old home, and that was after I saw drunks and addicts roaming the streets there.) A few do-gooders from the suburbs (who I think are stupid and wasting their time and money) have purchased homes in the neighborhood over the years, hoping to fix up the large homes and live in style. But, as Heidi Peterson learned, that’s now how it works out. This situation is a great analogy for the situation of the Jews in Israel, who are forced to live with Palestinian squatters.

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

By Debbie Schlussel

**** UPDATED with info on another Jewish Bond girl, Tanya Roberts – Thanks to the many readers who let me know. ****

Friday was the 50th anniversary of the first showing of the first James Bond movie, which is somehow supposed to be history of some sort in our age of such “historic milestones” as Kardashian weddings and births of illegitimate Honey Boo Boo nieces with six fingers on each hand. And to mark the occasion, AP entertainment writer Sandy Cohen told us that Bond Girls made progress because they are now more diverse (with Blacks and Asians, etc.) and a part of the plot, instead of just looking good. Not sure if Halle Berry was a Bond girl because she’s half Black and “a part of the plot” or, more likely, because she looked good in a bikini. Ditto for Michelle Yeoh.

But, if we’re to be honest, frankly, Bond girls are not diverse enough nor are their parts in the plot in our era of uber-political correctness. After all, there is no “sexy” jihadist Muslima and there hasn’t been one. While you might cite to me, the Moroccan actress Leila Shenna, it’s believed that she, like her cousin, Malika Oufkir, left Islam to convert to Catholicism. (Oufkir wrote, in her book, “Stolen Lives : Twenty Years in a Desert Jail,” “We had rejected Islam, which had brought us nothing good, and opted for Catholicism instead.”) In contrast, there have been at least six 100% Jewish Bond Girls (three of them Israelis), Jill St. John (real name: Jill Arlyn Oppenheim), Tanya Roberts (real name: Victoria Leigh Blum), Eva Green, and Israelis Aliza Gur, Daliah Lavi, and Dr. Saskia (Shoshana) Cohen Tanugi, as well as at least two Bond Girls with Jewish dads, Barbara Bach and Jane Seymour (if you count them as Jews, then three out of four Bond Girls from 1971-77 were Jewish, according to some sources).

And, so, in the interest of “real diversity” on steroids (literally), I propose to you several new Bond girls who are both diverse in their backgrounds and their roles in the plot, any one of whom could play the role of Mussy Galore.

“Diverse” Halal Bond Girls Coming Soon to a Theater Near You . . .

Diverse Bond Girl #1: Kissy 9/11 Halal Kandy . . .

“Kissy Halal Kandy” on Ramallah Street Cheers 9/11 Attacks

This sexy Miss Palestine passes out candy in celebration of the 9/11 attacks on America in 2001, but in 2013, she helps bond pass out poisonous exploding candy to all the evil Zionist and great American satanist confectionary executives who refused to attend the International Lacto-Ovo Animal-Friendly Candy Convention.

Diverse Bond Girl #2: Full-Ninja Niqab Najah . . . Read the rest of this entry »