By Debbie Schlussel

Since Paul Ryan was picked as Mitt Romney’s running mate, two things have happened. First, P90X–the video fitness routine he follows in the tax-paid House gym he refused to cut from the budget out of selfish self-interest–has shot up in sales. P90X has been in the top Alexa search terms on the internet since Saturday morning’s announcement. And, then, there’s the other thing, which shows the vanity of most American women (and some gay men) and how they vote: the terms “Paul Ryan shirtless,” “Paul Ryan shirt off,” and other terms that betray the base ogling of America’s chicks, have been among Google’s top searches on Ryan. On Saturday Morning, “Paul Ryan shirtless” was the number one Paul Ryan search on Google. It’s still in the top ten–number seven on Google Images.

As we all know, many American women voted for John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton because of how they looked, not their positions on the issues. And poll after poll shows that American women are far less likely than American men to know the candidates’ positions on the issues. So, if Mitt Romney wanted to get the women’s vote, he was smart to pick Paul Ryan. Clearly, far too many of them are only interested in his pecs. Guys, remember that the next time you hear someone say men are sexist or chauvinist pigs. Ask the utterer–typically a woman–why “Paul Ryan shirtless” was the top search for his name on Google, why female voters don’t know the issues or which candidate stands for what (by a significantly larger precentage than the percentage of male voters), and why JFK won the Presidency by a single female vote per precinct in 1960. Even if you discount the gay men searching for “Paul Ryan shirtless,” the term is still up there. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

*** UPDATE, Sept 2, 2012: Suzanne Barr, ICE Chief of Staff, Resigns After Firestorm Started by Schlussel Story – Buh-Bye! ***

*** UPDATE, August 21, 2012: EXCLUSIVE: Explicit DHS/ICE Lawsuit Sexual Harassment Affidavits; More Harassment of Men @ Obama’s Homeland Security ***

Because of the firestorm that started last week, when I broke the story about Homeland Security’s top New York cop suing the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Chief of Staff Suzanne Barr a/k/a Suzy “Stripper Pole” Barr has “put herself on leave,” tonight. Translation: Barr was put on leave by her only real boss at the Department of Homeland Security, its chief Janet Napolitano (with whom Barr plays tennis every Tuesday). For years, I’ve written about Barr’s sexual harassment of male ICE agents. She thinks the place is the set of “Magic Mike” (read my review). But, after I announced the suit by ICE New York Special Agent in Charge James T. Hayes, detailing some of Barr’s sexual harassment, the story went international. And now Homeland Security and Members of Congress are investigating her. Today, two more affidavits were signed by ICE officials, detailing more graphic sexual harassment by Suzy Barr of male ICE agents. I understand more such affidavits are forthcoming.

Partners in Harassment/Discrimination: DHS Chief Janet Napolitano & Flamboyant ICE Chief John (Moron) Morton

The top Homeland Security official accused of cultivating a “frat-house”-style work environment has “voluntarily placed herself on leave” amid an internal review . . . .

Two more Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees came forward this week to complain about “lewd” conduct inside the agency, submitting sworn affidavits that depict graphic comments made by two top officials working under DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Can’t let the day go by without noting something that should make everyone of my generation feel old: the movie, “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” turns 30 today. It was a “coming of age” movie in many ways (none of them good), and it was rated “R” for a reason. Sadly, today, it would probably only rate a “PG-13,” if that.

I was just beginning my teen years when it came out, but it became a cult classic in my high school and college years. It was a revolutionary movie in in 1982, and not in a good way. While Sean Penn’s turn as the potheaded idiot, Jeff Spicoli, was funny, the other issues and themes the movie delved into were shocking in that more innocent time. Teen sex, abortion, drug-dealing, and other such behaviors were glamorized through characters played by Phoebe Cates, Judge Reinhold, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. In the downward-spiraling America 30 years later, we’ve lost the culture war, and the issues that once shocked are now old news on shows watched by kids, such as “Glee,” “Teen Mom,” and fare on the deceptively-named “ABC Family Channel.” Those shows are pushing gay relationships, single motherhood, and other things the makers of “Fast Times” didn’t dare portray at the time.

But, in many ways, as I noted earlier today with regard to Helen Gurley Brown and Cosmopolitan Magazine, “Fast Times” didn’t contribute positively to America’s future. Instead, it helped contribute to glamorizing teen sex and drug use. And the results 30 years later aren’t anything to brag about. They’ve dragged America down, with half of American kids now born without a father, most of them to teen moms. In “Fast Times,” sex was seen as something casual with a quick abortion to get rid of the consequences. And while the abortion scene in the movie isn’t light, the movie shows the price of the abortion to be the biggest issue, not the life being extinguished and the two teen high school students ill prepared for the entire situation. The movie also glamorized disrespect for authority, and parents were nowhere to be seen. The movie pushed the envelope and defined deviancy down. Sadly, America has far too many Spicolis and too few Mr. Hands (Mr. Hand was played by Ray Walston) doing anything about it. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

They gonna put y’all back in chains. He said he gonna do nothin’ ’bout stoppin’ the practice of outsourcin’.

–Joe LaMarcus JaRon Tyrone Cedric Biden (Da Veep Whoz Down Wit Da Struggle), August 14, 2012

On Election Day 2000, I had planned to throw my vote away on a Libertarian candidate for President and convinced my dad to do the same. We were disgusted by then-Governor Bush’s pandering to Muslims, which was so bad that he beat Al Gore to get the worthless Islamic endorsement. (He also said in the October 2000 Presidential Debate that he was against profiling Arabs and Muslims for terrorism.) But that morning my TV was on, and as I was getting ready to go to the polls to vote, I heard Barbra Streisand tell Rosie O’Donnell that if George W. Bush was elected, we would return to the Dark Ages and the days of the concentration camps (which–newsflash, Streisand–are two different time periods). I was so incensed at this absurd, patently false, inciteful uber-hyperbole for dummies, that I went straight to the voting booth and cast my vote for Bush (a mistake, as my earlier inclination was correct–he was an Islamopanderer when we least needed one). When I was in high school, my father and I watched as Marxist beak-endowed Carl Levin shamelessly told a group of Jewish senior citizens that Ronald Reagan would take them back to the Holocaust. My dad was proudly voting for Reagan anyway, but this energized us to work for his election that much harder. And, so, I was reminded of those moments when I watched today’s latest Joe Biden BS moment in which he tried to scare Black people into thinking Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will put them back in chains and take them back to slavery. I’m not enthused about Romney at all, but statements like that only encourage me to vote for him.

Only One White Chick Can Get Away With Talking Like That (& She Don’t Work Fo’ Obama, Ya Feel Me?) . . .

My question, though, is why Black people allow this. Why do so many of them have no problem with people who speak the Queen’s English (or close to it) suddenly patronizing them with this BS Black accent, dropping their “g”s at the end of “ing”-words and using ghetto-like improper grammar and “y’all”s? If Paul Ryan used a phony Yiddish accent at a Jewish event, I’d be disgusted (but he has more class than that, and a much larger brain than that of Joe Biden). I don’t like panderers. I don’t like when Sarah Palin wears a Jewish Star. Don’t pander to me. But, Black America, seems to tolerate this despicable fawning in a way the rest of us never would. Joe Biden isn’t the first to pretend he was raised on the set of “Good Times.” Another Obamanik, Hillary Clinton, did it, too. Remember her dumb Black accent at a Black church (in the video, above)? Sho’ nuff. See, I can’t get away with that. So why do they allow liberals to mock them? Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

I’m not sure why everyone is hailing Helen Gurley Brown, who died yesterday at 90, as someone to remember. She’s actually someone to forget. Sadly, the havoc she wrought on American society–and the breakdown of it that she caused–is everlasting and beyond repair. As author of “Sex and the Single Girl” and editor of “Cosmopolitan,” she did more to take down America and ruin American lives than Osama Bin Laden and any other Islamic terrorist could ever do. Her everlasting contribution to fashion is that she made it eternally fashionable and “glamorous” to be a skank. Yes, thanks to her, skankiness is now a timeless classic in America. Congrats, Helen.

Before she took the reins at Cosmopolitan, it had been a respected general interest magazine, around since the 1800s and the place for great writers to be seen. Under her tenure, it became a women’s magazine instructing women on how to give oral sex to the boss in 30 ways before 10:00 a.m. while answering his phone. Helen Gurley Brown’s legacy is sexually transmitted diseases, broken marriages, generations of children born to single mothers who will never have a father and will become sores on America. She told women they could do it all, have a career, sleep around, and, ultimately, like her have a career and be married. But she never had children. And for married women who do have children (let alone single mothers), you cannot do it all. Instead, they are tired, haggard, and constantly whining about having to do it all. But, because of the revolution she led with others, the economy adjusted and it’s now not a question of whether women “can” have a career. Now, they simply cannot afford not to. And someone is shortchanged, usually the kids, the husband (if there even is one in the Helen Gurley Brown-created world), the family, and/or American society.

Gurley Brown famously said, “Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere.” Actually, they go to the abortion clinic. Or, today, they have a reality TV show on MTV with their future loser kid or go on public assistance while they watch daytime talk shows and start an endless cycle of sad burdens on society. Today, because of influences like Helen Gurley Brown, over 42% of kids are born out of wedlock, and researchers say that in America, as nowhere else with this problem, there is rarely a father figure in those kids’ lives. That is Brown’s contribution to America: women sleeping around serially, forced to work to make ends meet, kids born who never had a father–and so they never knew how to act like a man or (if they are women) how to be treated like one. The slacker kids who live with their parents at age 35 are the natural progression of the sexual revolution and breakdown of marriage and family she led. AIDS, Chlamydia, Herpes . . . American didn’t have those in spades before Helen Gurley Brown told women to pretend they were rabbits. Girls aspiring to Playboy and other porn stardom–none of that would be possible without Helen Gurley Brown making it acceptable. Hey, they are career girls, too. Right? So is Monica Lewinsky under Bill Clinton’s Oval Office desk–a classic example of “Sex and the Single Girl.” Boys will be boys, but Helen Gurley Brown told American women to act like the boys, and not in a good way. And, in part because of her, now the boys are the women. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

At a time when the nation has over 8% unemployment and Homeland Security’s largest agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is broke, top ICE leaders–at the behest of its Obama-appointed leader are in Houston partying and living it up on your dime. As I write this most of ICE’s top officials, including its Obama-chosen director, John Morton, are either en route or are already in Houston for 2-3 days of partying to celebrate the retirement of Houston’s retiring ICE Special Agent in Charge, Robert Rutt. While Rutt is well-liked and respected by his agents and colleagues, many ICE officials I spoke with are wondering why ICE leadership is spending government funds to fund the airfare, hotel rooms for 1-2 days, and open bar and festivities for at least 20 ICE Special Agents in Charge, when ICE cannot balance its budget, is cutting 700 positions (including 500 ICE Special Agents), and is parking agents’ cars because it cannot afford gas, oil changes, and maintenance. One ICE Agent, Michael Unzueta, is being flown in from Rome, Italy, where he is the ICE attache. It’s a reverse “Roman Holiday” for him. Is it just a coincidence that this big party is taking place today–of all days–the 30th anniversary of “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”? Just askin’. I mean, these days, ICE has a Spicoli-style atmosphere.

Sources say that some of the ICE traveling party, including Obama’s Morton and Islamo-pandering Michigan/Ohio ICE Special Agent in Charge Brian Moskowitz a/k/a “Abu Moskowitz,” arrived in Houston yesterday. (He is leaving Detroit for Houston at summer’s end, and his demoralized agents are cheering from the rooftops that he will be leaving Detroit to demoralize agents, pander to extremist Muslims with terrorist ties, and seek extramarital chicks in Texas.) The big party with an open bar takes place tonight and the ICE officials–about 30 of them–will be staying the night and living it up, courtesy of you. The agents and officials will be chauffeured around Houston by ICE Special Agents in government vehicles, and government-reimbursed taxi service will be available at the end of the party for guests. The open bar begins tonight at 6:00 p.m. A number of career ICE agents who’ve contacted me about the event are dismayed at this party, which they aptly term, “waste, fraud, and abuse.” If Obama’s hand-picked ICE chief, John Morton, cannot balance the ICE budget, if he is cutting ICE agent positions, and grounding agents because he can’t afford to repair and gas up their vehicles, how can he afford this confab? Agents estimate that the event and all of the associated salary, travel, lodging, and per diem costs, could be close to $100,000. While you might say that’s a drop in the bucket, it could pay for car repairs, gas, and oil changes for the hundreds of government vehicles ICE grounds every day, due to budget constraints, making it impossible for agents to do their jobs. It could pay for an ICE Special Agent’s salary. View the invitation to the event. There is a nominal cost of $20 per person, which won’t even begin to cover the cost of the event. Hawaiian shirts are the encouraged attire!

And that is on top of John Morton’s and his Chief of Staff, Suzy Barr’s (of sexual-harassment-against-male-agents fame), many trips to England over the last few years on your dime. Agents say John Morton was born in Ireland, and sources say he uses the Great Britain trips to visit family.

Notes one agent:

On Tuesday, August 14th at 6pm at the Saint Arnolds Brewing Company, Second Floor, 2000 Lyons Ave. Houston, Texas a retirement party will commence for Robert P. Rutt the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Houston office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Expected to attend will be John Morton, Director of ICE, James Dinkins, Executive Associate Director for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Also expected to attend will be Janet Ayala, Assistant Director for HSI
who supervises all the Special Agents in Charge positions nationwide and various other SACs and law enforcement leaders. It is not known if Morton’s Chief of Staff Suzy Barr will attend. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Remember when Barack Obama, earlier this summer, announced he’d enforce DREAM Act amnesty for illegal aliens by Presidential fiat? Well, he’s not doing it alone. Investors in and founders of some well known brands are financing the illegal alien amnesty with money and other support to illegal aliens under age 30 who qualify for the program. The organizations are giving more than $1.5 million to illegal alien and open borders advocacy groups to help pay for immigration applications and other costs that would normally have to be borne by the illegal aliens getting this de facto amnesty.

The Owners of These Brands Are Financing Obama’s Latest Illegal Alien Amnesty . . .

The founder of Intel, the family behind Levi’s, and an investor in Welch’s are the financiers of Obama’s amnesty (and amnesty that Mitt Romney indicated he would not reverse but would “resolve” by giving these individuals outright amnesty). Remember this the next time you contemplate buying a computer with an Intel chip, a pair of Levi’s, or a Welch’s drink.

Homeland Security said it plans to hire 1,400 employees to examine the 3,000 applications it expects to receive a day. Ya think those employees are going to scrutinize 3,000 applications a day very closely? Good luck with that. As I noted, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spends less than six minutes a day (even less when you account for cigarette and bathroom breaks) examining each applicant for U.S. citizenship to make sure he or she is not a terrorist or hardened criminal, and there’s very little scrutiny. Plus the applications are rubber-stamped through, with immigration benefits adjudicators being rewarded for the number of applications they speed through per day. Think the process will be better for the DREAM Act amnesty seekers? Dream on.

The Obama administration Friday revealed details of its sweeping immigration program that could allow almost one million undocumented young people to remain in the country, an initiative that is prompting nonprofit organizations to ramp up efforts to help potential beneficiaries.

According to the rules of the program, which was first announced in June, applicant information won’t be shared with immigration enforcement except in cases that involve crimes. Applicants will be disqualified for offenses such as drunk driving, but not for driving without a license. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Remember when faux-conservative Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby railed against sexually-enhanced interrogation techniques on Islamic terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, lecturing us on “Islamic modesty,” which he insisted was superior to modesty in Christianity and Judaism, not to mention the security of American lives? Well, now, we have yet another example of this “Islamic modesty.” The Muslim country of Malaysia is the world’s largest condom producing country and is also home to the biggest condom manufacturer. The company, Karex Industries, stands to make a lot of cash in an upcoming condom IPO. The company makes condoms, lubricants, and “probe covers.” Karex’s website lets you know it makes condoms “to complete your demands: fruity, spicy, aloe vera, sweet, cool, contoured, assorted colour, assorted flavour, baggy, super thin, strawberry, duo colour, X large, slim fit, 3 in 1, power shot, dotted, and rough & tough.” The thing is, you are the company’s biggest customer . . . by force. The USAID is Karex’s biggest condom buyer after Congress said condoms bought by U.S. agencies no longer had to be made in the U.S. And USAID buys in bulk from Karex to give these condoms out in the Middle East and Africa. Yup, we’re getting screwed by them so they can screw each other. And, yes, this is Malaysia, the same country that gave a hard time (no pun intended) to Lady Gaga and Beyonce because they wanted to have concerts there but weren’t “modest” enough. But, hey, selling condoms to infidels and making bank on that–that’s “modest.” (Malaysia’s also the country whose leader openly called for the mass murder of Jews and said he supported homicide bombers.)

File under: Islamic Modesty #788,137 (and How To Tell Mom When You Become a “Condom Consultant”):

Investors are ever on the lookout for the makers of products that keep selling well in a recession, like food, toothpaste or pharmaceuticals. Here’s another possibility: condoms.

That’s what Malaysian condom manufacturer Karex Industries Sdn. Bhd. is hoping, at least. The biggest condom manufacturer in a country that makes more condoms than any other, Karex has disclosed plans in recent weeks for an initial public offering and to double capacity over the next several years. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Perhaps I’m belated in adding my two cents on Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his Vice Presidential nominee, and I wasn’t going to say anything, but so many readers and friends are asking. It has its pluses and minuses. And perhaps its plus–that he invigorates a tired, boring ticket with youth and exuberance–is validated by the fact that ABC chose to run an hour-long “View Hags Verbally Fellate Obama” re-run this morning to try to blunt the lift in polls and fundraising that the Ryan pick gave Romney.

I don’t find Paul Ryan as exciting as some do, though with him on the ticket I’m now more likely to vote for Romney than throw my vote away on some third party with no chance. Romney could have done a lot worse, and Ryan is not a bad choice. I like him a whole lot better than I do Romney. Still, I’ve referred to him previously on this site as “the P90X Congressman” (P90X is a great, intense, trendy video workout Ryan and some Republicans do in the early morning in the free, tax-paid House Gym they won’t shut down and to which they won’t cut funding–the “they” headed by Ryan). While he is a conservative and not the “safe,” very boring choice Romney could have picked, there are some things about him that aren’t so conservative. Paul Ryan voted for TARP and has been in Washington for decades, first as a Congressional staffer, then as a Congressman. He voted for the Employee Non-Discrimination Act, which would forbid any workplace discrimination against gays, including with employee benefits for the partners of gays, putting them on par with married couples. He explained his vote by saying that he believed his gay friends were born that way, but the bill could force churches and religious schools to hire openly gay teachers, against their beliefs, etc. On the other hand, he twice voted for the Defense of Marriage Act. Ryan voted for the massive, bloated Bush Medicare prescription bill that cost over $400 billion in new taxes. Real conservatives opposed that. And as the Republican budget hatchet man, he didn’t hatchet much of anything–keeping in specific tax funds to Planned Parenthood, NPR, and PBS, which should have been no-brainers for the Republican ax. That’s a “Tea Partier”? I guess “Tea Party” means you support Republican wasteful spending, but not Democrat wasteful spending. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

The headline above should probably be “Religion of Peace Hate Tweet of the Hour” or “Religion of Peace Hate Tweet of the Moment” because I get them on that basis (follow me on Twitter). Keep in mind that this person who tweeted this at me does not live in Riyadh or in Tehran. He doesn’t live in Beirut or Cairo or Damascus. Nope, Saad Shahid lives in Staten Island, New York. Muslims in America are no less extremist, no less anti-Semitic and Jew-hating, no less intolerant than Muslims any other place in the world. They are just as radical and loony right down the street, whether or not they listen to hip-hop music and wear Levis or watch “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.” I suppose it’s no coincidence that his surname, Shahid, means Islamic martyr and is the term for suicide bombers and other Islamic terrorists. Remember:

THIS. IS. ISLAM . . .

That Was Then . . .

This Is Now . . .