By Debbie Schlussel

I thought the Super Bowl ads, this year, were particularly crappy and not funny, despite the star power and ever-escalating budgets for them and costs to air them.  Please make those animated Coke polar bears go away. Um, did they not get the message from the unpopularity of the polar bear cans and bottles? Make it stop. My favorite ad was the one for Pepsi Max, below, and even that wasn’t that great because Pepsi has done this “embarrass the Coke driver” stuff at several Super Bowls before, so it’s not original.  And truth be told, Pepsi Max tastes like gasoline.  Coke Zero tastes better.  Regis is the whole ad.  Without him, it’s crap.  Plus, Beth Littleford, the blonde chick playing the cashier is a raving leftist in real life.  The Seinfeld ads weren’t bad, either. He’d probably pull that in real life. What was your favorite ad?

Then there is the Clint Eastwood “It’s Halftime in America” ad for Chrysler that everyone is raving about.  Everyone, except me.  At least, I think I’m the only Detroit-area resident that isn’t gushing like a spittoon and falling for his rah-rah/”the people of Detroit have done a 180″ BS.  First of all, I had to laugh when I heard Clint Eastwood invoke “the people of Detroit,” and then say, “But we all pulled together.”  Huh? Who is “we?”  This dude lives in Carmel, California, where he was even the Mayor of the place.  The only “pullin’ together” he did was when he took millions in Michigan Film Tax Credits–a drain on Detroit and the rest of the State–pushing us further into economic ruin.

He came here for a few weeks, stayed at a fancy hotel and ate at fancy restaurants in the suburbs while he filmed “Gran Torino” (read my review), then skedaddled the heck outta here (and who can blame him?) while he collected his several millions in the Michigan taxpayer funded “bailout” of his movie, to the tune of 42% of its budget.  It was a silly program to give away money from Michigan businesses and taxpayers to Hollywood people.  It was dreamed up and supported by liberals, including the liberal then-Governor Jennifer Granholm a/k/a Governatrix Gran-HO (who high-tailed it outta here not long after Clint did).  And he took advantage of it, helping to further drain the Michigan economy.  So, I’m not quite sure what ole’ Clint means when he says, “But we all pulled together.” Nuh-uh. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Now that Super Bowl 46 (XLVI to those of us who can actually read Roman Numerals–can’t wait ’til Super Bowl L!) is over, is it just me . . . or is there something extremely disgusting about watching grown men–members of the winning team, the New York Giants–kissing a trophy?  That’s what they did with the Lombardi Trophy, which is one of the spoils going to the winning team.  My reaction is:  eeuuww.

First of all, it’s unsanitary.  All the touching and kissing on that thing–it might as well be a stripper pole, with all the germs.  Ick.  Where’s the disinfectant? How many diseases did they just catch? Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

If you’re reading this, you’re either not watching the Super Bowl, or you’re as bored as I am, so far, with the game, the commercials, and every hyped-to-death aspect of it.  I’ve said this about previous Super Bowls:  I just don’t care much about it or who wins.  The commercials are usually overrated, except maybe one decent one.  And, this year, most advertisers have already released their ads, and I’ve already seen them a million times.  Boooring. Elton John as a King in a dumb Pepsi ad. Not funny.  The only fun is in counting how many convicted criminals are playing on each team or how many kids each has fathered out of wedlock and left you to pay for. And then there are the specific teams and the people involved.

I don’t have a dog in this hunt or any NFL hunt.  I’m not the team owner who stands to make more money in memorabilia sales or a player who stands to make bonus money and even more money from lucrative endorsement deals.  And even if my “hometown” team, the Lions, were playing, I wouldn’t care.  I have no connection to these people and neither do you.   They are mercenaries with little or no ties to where the home team is located.  Most don’t live there in the off-season.  And they go to whichever team is offering them the most money.  I don’t begrudge them that.  But I also have zero identification with them, nothing in common.  That said, I’m rooting for the Giants against the Patriots.  Why?  Well, as I’ve said before, I can’t stand Tom Brady.  I hate the guy, or as I called him on this site, “Woman of the Year.”

Brady is your typical hypocritical liberal girlie man.  I call him, “Tom Brady-ette.” Reader Ari calls him, “Jan Brady.” I think, maybe, he looks more like Marcia with brown hair. Yes, he’s a liberal Democrat.  But that’s not what makes me hate him.  It’s that he fathered a kid with a gorgeous woman, then dumped her and the kid for another woman whom he thinks is gorgeous, model Gisele Bundchen, then had a son with him.  Yup, he’s a baby daddy, and he has little involvement in son #1’s life.  We know that kids without a father in their lives–whether poor OR rich–are more likely to become problems. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Every year, I write about the tremendous amount of money wasted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)–the Department of Homeland Security’s largest agency–to spend Super Bowl week as the NFL copyright police.  And this Super Bowl weekend, this Super Duper Waste is happening again.  I’ve written about this repeatedly in the past (including here and here and here). ICE Michigan/Ohio Special Agent in Charge Brian Moskowitz a/k/a “Abu Moskowitz” even wasted tax dollars to make a special NFL ICE Super Bowl pin for the agents performing this important task of keeping us safe from the threat of t-shirts.)

As I’ve noted before, ICE agents are paid on your dime to roam the streets of Indianapolis as the private police force for the greedy gazillionaires who own NFL teams.  And, as I’ve also noted, they seize goods that are of questionable “copyright violation.”  T-shirts and sweatshirts bearing such First Amendment-protected phrases, as “New York Football,” “New England Football,” and “Indianapolis Big Game,” are taken by ICE agents with no legal basis.  NFL owners don’t own these words. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Only one of the new movies in theaters this weekend was semi-decent in my view.

*  “Chronicle>“:  I found this movie interesting, but be forewarned:  it is aimed at teens and 20-somethings and mostly at guys in that age group.  If you aren’t in this group, please do not complain to me later when you didn’t like it and went based on my recommendation.  You were forewarned.

Although I did not like the herky-jerky style of a movie videotaped by someone (hasn’t this been done to death already?) and I did not like the ending, I found the idea of high school boys who suddenly acquire superpowers to be creative and entertaining. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

I’m always asked what I think about the evergreen news story that “Israel will strike Iran by year’s end.”  It’s a story that’s been in the news for years and never happens.  And I always laugh at how self-styled “experts” on Israel, Iran, and the Middle East constantly elaborate ad nauseam, diarrhea-of-the-mouth-style about how Israel is going to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons “in the next few months.”  Yeah, whatever.  You keep tellin’ yourself that.  It’s like today’s ABC News story that Israel put its companies in North America on high alert.  That could be justa red herring to trick the media, Iran, and especially Israel’s worst enemy in high office:  Barack Hussein Obama.  And, frankly, Israel’s companies in America need to be on high alert at all times.  They’re hated by all things Muslim.  Here’s what I know for certain:

If and when Israel ever strikes Iran’s nuclear facilities and warheads–which I’m not sure is a certainty to happen–you won’t be reading in the news that the Israelis are about to do it.  These leaks are Obama’s way of trying to stop Israel from doing so.  And before that, they were Bush’s and Condi Clueless’ way of stopping Israel from doing so.  And I’m simply tired of hearing this BS story.

I also know that when Israel struck Iraq’s Osierak nuclear facility, it was a whole different ballgame.  There was only one place to strike.  It was in a well-known location above ground.  And Israel had it much easier than is the case now with Iran. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

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If you are like many Americans and millions of foreigners, on Sunday Evening your eyes will be glued to the Super Bowl on NBC.  But just after the Super Bowl, the Peacock Network’s “American Idol” rip-off, “The Voice” will air.  One of the hosts/judges of the show, tattoo-encrusted Adam Levine of the pop group, “Maroon 5,” recently announced his pride in boycotting a Mexican restaurant for contributing to the campaign for California’s Prop 8, the law which declares that marriage is between a man and a woman. (For the record, Levine is NOT Jewish, contrary to popular belief and a Jewish surname. Also, his uncle is extremely liberal journalist Timothy Noah, who is also not Jewish.)  Maroon 5 was recently nominated for a Grammy Award for the hit song, “Moves Like Jagger,” and in connection with that, here’s what he told the February 6th issue of People:

ON GRAMMY NIGHT RITUALS:

We used to go to this Mexican restaurant to celebrate after the Grammys.  But the place supported the movement to make gay marriage illegal [in California] so we bailed on that. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

You all know the liberal mainstream media’s reaction, last week, to a heated conversation between Barack Obama and Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (whom he is suing over her attempts to secure the border and enforce immigration law, the job he won’t do).  She was called “disrespectful,” among other things.  And women on one of TV’s cackling hag-fests suggested the Secret Service should shoot off her finger.  But here’s the photo you’ll NEVER see the mainstream media trumpet.  That’s because it shows a different picture of Jan Brewer.

The photo shows Brewer consoling and comforting Josephine Terry, the mother of Brian Terry, the Border Patrol agent who was murdered as a result of the Obama Administration’s “Fast & Furious” gun operation designed to further restrict the Second Amendment.  The photo was taken at the Peace Officer Memorial in Arizona and the photographer gave permission for me to post it here. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

I’ve said it before.  I’ve said it again.  And now I’ll say it yet again.  I’m sickened by the attention the GOP candidates–and therefore, the media–have been giving reality show clown, Donald Trump.  And, today, the clownfest side show continued, with Trump’s endorsement of Mitt Romney, after he was first going to endorse Newt Gingrich.  Talk about sloppy seconds.  I’m more interested in which florescent orange Oompa Loompa hair-coloring he endorses for next Halloween.  I don’t care that it’s just one rich kid born rich who’s had as many wives as Newt Gingrich endorsing another rich kid born rich.  It’s just that I don’t care what a mega-ringmaster thinks, period.  To me, he will always be what he is:  a shamelessly self-promoting ringmaster.  If you think otherwise, you ain’t been payin’ attention.  And that’s not to mention his shameless pandering to the Islamic world by orchestrating the Miss USA win by a Hezbollah Muslim, Rima Fakih, along with a sponsorship of his pageants by his good friend, Jew-hater and Palestinian pogrom supporter, Farouk Shami.

I’m not sure why anyone on earth would care who Donald Trump endorses.  I care about his endorsement as much as I care about the endorsement of Snooki, J-Wow, the Situation, and whoever the doofus-esque, desperately fame-seeking “The Bachelor” is this season.  And I care about his endorsement as much as I care about the Kartrashians’ endorsement or the endorsement of the cast of “Celebrity Wife Swap,” but less than I care about the little people’s endorsement and that of the men who catch catfish with their hands and the “American Pickers.”  At least, they are doing something semi-worthy. . .  far more worthy than business fraud Trump. Hearing Romney thank “Mr. Trump,” as if he’s a contestant on “The Apprentice,” rather than a candidate for President of the United States, is embarrassing. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

There’s something about a person wearing a mask to a gas station that understandably makes them a little nervous.  Like, say, the high possibility of armed robbery. But leave it to the whiners from HAMAS CAIR to make a big stink about it, so that in the future, gas station robbers will know exactly what to do:  dress in a Muslim niqab (the full-ninja face face veil many Muslim women wear because their ugly mugs might turn on some Muslim guys who, unlike normal Western men, can’t control their impulses and might be forced rape them).  I’ve already written about several crimes committed this way.  And then there’s “burqa-cide.”Oh, and why is it that these whiners are always women with a troubled, criminal past–as in this case, where the whiner-ette beat her daughter over a cell phone and was hauled off to jail.

La-Fleur Mohamed, a Muslim for the past 12 years, says a Chevron employee humiliated her by barring her from a gas station because she wouldn’t remove her head scarf.

Um, it was a FACE scarf, not just a head scarf. See the photo above.

“You can’t come in here dressed like that,” Mohamed said the clerk told her inside a station store west of Boca Raton in October. The clerk allegedly tossed Mohamed’s gas money back at her and instructed her to leave. Read the rest of this entry »