By Debbie Schlussel
As longtime readers know, I try not to listen to Sean the Plagiarist Hannity’s radio show (more on Vannity’s plagiarism here). I already know what I wrote, and it’s not fun hearing a proud high school grad read it aloud and pass it off as his own thoughts. And then there’s the fact that I already heard “The Rush Limbaugh Show” earlier in the day. Who needs to hear a substandard rip-off of it? And then, there’s the guy’s obsession with pandering to and promoting far-lefty Ted Koppel and the Goebbels of Our Time, Pat Buchanan.
But, today, as I was doing a chore, I turned on the radio at around 4:00 p.m. Eastern, and it was tuned to the inadequate, giant egomaniac’s show. A caller named Ruby called in to cheerlead and gush over her idol, Vannity. And she was useful, if only to show off her and Sean’s own special brand of ignorance and stupidity.

Attn, Clueless One: Ahmed Ressam Not Discovered by Waterboarding KSM
Ruby was calling in to tell Sean how her eight-year-old daughter is in love with him (in ten years when she’s legal, I’m sure he’ll give her a shout and make her one of his female only “producers” or get a guy in Bakersfield fired from his radio show, so that this woman’s daughter can have the job–Vannity has done both). Ruby wanted Sean to make sure he knew that Dick Cheney and the waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed during the Bush administration saved her life and made it possible for her to give birth to the eight-year-old with whom she was pregnant. Ruby said she was at the LAX airport on the Millenium and that waterboarding Mohammed saved her from dying at the hands of the Millenium bomber because KSM talked and the plot was uncovered.
And as she went on and on and on (not to mention, gushed on and on and on), fellow ignoramus Sean Vannity agreed with her on and on and on, never disagreeing even for a fleeting second.
Except there’s one problem. The Millenium was in 2000, and the President was Bill Clinton. And Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was not in our custody, nor did we waterboard him. That was many years later. In fact, Ahmed Ressam, the Millenium Bomber was caught in 1999 when he tried to cross the U.S. Border and smart U.S. Customs Service inspectors and agents stopped him and eventually looked in the trunk of his car, where a good deal of the explosives were contained. Waterboarding KSM had absolutely nothing to do with discovering and foiling the Millenium Bomber.
For the record, I’m all for waterboarding terrorists, and I agree with Dick Cheney on how to treat terrorists. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to make up a fake, alternative timeline of history to back it up. Sadly, for ignoramuses like proud high school grad Vannity and his fellow empty vessel, caller Ruby, they simply haven’t a clue.
And that’s your day in Sean Vannity disinformation.
As a good conservative friend notes, listening to that show is like meeting a time bandit. Hours of your life are stolen and eaten up by vapid nothing.
And you get fed disinformation like that repeated over and over in the Vannity-Ruby phone sex call.
Oh, and by the way, Vannity’s FOX News Channel show isn’t any less incorrect on the facts than his radio show. In fact, it’s probably more so. (He regularly has on fake “terrorism expert” Hanan Tudor, who goes by the stripper name, “Brigitte Gabriel,” and the woman regularly spreads clueless, false information like this.)
You’re a great ignorant American, Sean.

By Debbie Schlussel
Unlike most other critics, I actually like “Terminator Salvation.” As sequels go, it wasn’t bad. If there was one objectionable thing it was that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger apparently has so few problems to deal with in California, he apparently had time to work with filmmakers for his computer-generated, much younger-looking naked cameo in the film.
But aside from that, I found it entertaining. It wasn’t a great movie. But it was engrossing, if often a little slow, despite the action. It’s dark, gritty, and definitely a guy’s movie.
I liked it not just for its unwavering portrayal of good versus evil and man versus machine. I liked that the movie was full of heroism and respect for human life. And no-one wanted to go “negotiate” or “reason” with the terminator machines, like they do with Ahmadinejad or the rest of our enemies. They realized they were their enemies and they wanted to just flat-out destroy them.

The plot: It’s the year 2018, and an entity known as “Skynet”–run by computers–has taken over the world. It and its terminator robots and machines have destroyed most humans and most cities (and the desolate sets reflect that). But pockets of human resistance in Los Angeles and other parts of California are fighting back, so that the human race will survive.
John Connor (Christian Bale) is the grown man who was once the baby of the Linda Hamilton character in the original “Terminator” movie. He is leading the human resistance or sort of leading it and contending with higher ranking human commanders. Connor knows that he must find and save a kid named Kyle Rees, who is his real-life father. If he doesn’t, he will cease to exist and the human race will be defeated by Skynet and its terminator machines.
Meanwhile, Marcus Wright, a man who thought he was executed in 2003 awakens and finds himself helping the resistance. But is he really human or a machine?
Full of action and special effects, the real star of the movie was not Christian Bale, but actor Sam Worthington, who plays the heroic Wright–poignantly playing a wholly moral being torn between man and machine.
Yes, the movie is a doomsday flick. And, even though I like that genre, I’m getting tired of those. Aren’t we all?
Still, as a sequel and sci-fi movie complete with light escapist entertainment and a ton of action and great FX, this one isn’t bad. And it’s actually pretty good. Plus, you needn’t have seen any previous “Terminator” movies to see and know what’s going on in this one.
TWO-AND-A-HALF REAGANS

By Debbie Schlussel
Barack Obama isn’t really going to do anything to bring illegal alien amnesty to encoded law until next year. But, just in case, his Hispanic supporters are restless, he’s having a giant, secret meeting on it . . . just to make it look like he’s doing something.
But the meeting is secret. So much for the “transparency” and “openness” Mr. Obama was promising us. What will they be saying at this meeting that we’re not supposed to hear?
Ah, the Obama smoke and mirrors. It would make the set of “Mad Men” blush.

President Barack Obama will gather congressional leaders at the White House next month to launch a policy discussion on immigration, according to an administration official, but legislative action isn’t likely until next year at the earliest.
The June 8 meeting is meant to show the White House is moving on the issue — which is key for Hispanic advocacy groups that helped Mr. Obama get elected in November. . . .
Unlike some other White House sessions on key issues, this one will be behind closed doors.

Thanks, Barack Hussein Obama

White House officials have made clear they don’t expect action on immigration this year. The administration official who discussed the meeting said it was aimed at having “an honest discussion,” and meant to identify points of agreement and “areas where we still have work to do.”

An “honest” secret discussion.

By Debbie Schlussel
Remember the “puffers,” the machines that used air blasts to detect explosives? I remember them because I had to go through one when flying out of Detroit Metro Airport. And it was annoying.
Well, not only were the machines annoying, they don’t work. Yes, the $36 million spent on designing this failed anti-terrorism device is yet another boondoggle and yet another waste of your tax money. Yet another example that government can’t do anything well or right.
Here’s a “stupid” question: Aren’t they supposed to test a device before they buy more than 200 of them, not after? Just asking.

A $36 million anti-terrorism program designed to detect bombs on airline passengers by shooting air blasts to dislodge explosive particles is being scuttled because the machines proved unreliable at airports.

$36 Million in Taxes Down the Drain

The “puffer” machines – glass portals that passengers enter for checkpoint screening – are being removed after the Transportation Security Administration spent $6.2 million on maintenance since 2005. Removing them will cost nearly $1 million, TSA spokeswoman Sterling Payne said.
Problems emerged after the TSA bought 207 puffers for $30 million starting in 2004. Ninety-four were installed in 37 airports. The other 113 machines stayed in storage.
Dirt and humidity in airports led to frequent breakdowns, Payne said. The TSA has removed 60 puffers and will pull the rest but has no deadline. The puffers, costing $160,000 each, attempted to identify bomb residue on clothing. They were used as added screening on passengers who had gone through metal detectors.

Wrong. On several occasions–when departing from Detroit Metro Airport–that’s the ONLY screening device I went through.

Some of the machines had trouble detecting bombs, said Hasbrouck Miller, a vice president of puffer manufacturer Smiths Detection. “It was a torturous four years,” Miller said, describing repair efforts. “The TSA finally got tired of pursuing that angle and moved on to something else.”

Hmmm. . . not so “torturous” that Miller and Smiths Detection didn’t cash the multi-million dollar checks for their defective products.

As a replacement, the TSA is installing body scanners that create images of passengers through their clothing. The TSA plans to have 250 scanners next year, costing $170,000 each, its 2010 budget shows. . . .
Security consultant Rich Roth said the TSA faced pressure in 2004 to improve airport screening, and puffers were the best equipment available. “We knew it didn’t work 100%, but we still used it because it gave you an edge over terrorists,” Roth said.

They knew it didn’t work, but somehow this gave an “edge over terrorists”? You keep telling yourself that.
And wasting more tax money.

By Debbie Schlussel
The “Religion of Peace” strikes–or tried to strike–again. Hmmm . . . so Obama (and six liberal Democrats) want to close Gitmo and put Islamic terrorists in American prisons . . . where they can emulate these fellow co-religionists.
Note that neither of these reports use the men’s real a/k/a Muslim names they took, which according to the fed press release, are: JAMES CROMITIE, a/k/a “Abdul Rahman,” a/k/a “Abdul Rehman,” DAVID WILLIAMS, a/k/a “Daoud,” a/k/a “DL,” ONTA WILLIAMS, a/k/a “Hamza,” and LAGUERRE PAYEN, a/k/a “Amin,” a/k/a “Almondo.”

The FBI and NYPD busted a four-man homegrown terror cell Wednesday night that was plotting to blow up two Bronx synagogues while simultaneously shooting a plane out of the sky, sources told the Daily News.

Abdul Rahman (slave name: James Cromitie)

The idea was to create a “fireball that would make the country gasp,” one law enforcement said.
Little did they know the plastic explosives packed into their car bombs and the plane-downing Stinger missile in their backseat were all phony – supplied by undercover agents posing as Pakistani militants linked to Al Qaeda. . . .
The suspects – three U.S.-born citizens and one Haitian immigrant – at least three of whom were said to be jailhouse converts to Islam, were angry about the deaths of Muslims in Afghanistan, sources told The News.
“They wanted to make a statement,” a law enforcement source said. “They were filled with rage and wanted to take it out on what they considered the source of all problems in America – the Jews.”

Hey, these dudes have a lot in common with Mel Gibson.

The group’s alleged ringleader, James Cromitie, according to the complaint, discussed targets with an undercover agent. “The best target [the World Trade Center] was hit already,” he allegedly told the agent. Later, he rejoiced in a terrorist attack on a synagogue.
“I hate those motherf—–s, those f—ing Jewish bastards. . . . I would like to get [destroy] a synagogue.”
The men allegedly parked car bombs wired to cell phones outside the Riverdale Temple and nearby Riverdale Jewish Center. They were also heading to Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, Orange County, when the law swooped in on them.
Sources said their plan was to shoot down a cargo plane headed to Iraq or Afghanistan with a surface-to-air guided missile while simultaneously calling the cell phones and blowing up the Riverdale synagogues.

More:

Cromitie was the first to approach the informant, authorities said. He told the informant he has ties to the terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad. Authorities said Cromitie had 27 past arrests and had recently been working at a nation-wide discount retailer, authorities said.
Several of the suspects have previously been arrested on drug charges and may have converted to Islam in prison, authorities said.
The four men allegedly would meet in a safe house in Newburgh, which authorities said they had bugged with audio and video equipment.
The suspects said they wanted to get their hands on stinger missiles to shoot down planes at the nearby Air National Guard Base at Stewart Airport, according to a criminal complaint unsealed late Wednesday. The suspects also received what they believed were two stinger missiles which they intended to use to shoot down military planes, the complaint said. They also bought cell phones to allegedly use in the plot.

They caught these guys, but they won’t catch everyone. Do we really want more of this in America? Well, as long as we let Muslims connected to CAIR and ISNA roam our prison system as chaplains, we’ll continue to have them.
And adding terrorists from Gitmo, well, that’s a powder keg.
But, what the heck am I talking about? Islam is a religion of peace.
Right?

By Debbie Schlussel
Res Ipsa Loquitur [The Thing Speaks for Itself].

Just gimme the damn traffic report.

By Debbie Schlussel
I debated whether I should post this video of the brainless local TV anchors in Detroit getting punked and p3wned in the most low-class and tasteless of ways (thanks to Jason Brown of Public City PR for the tip). But I’ve decided to post it to point out, yet again, how easy the mainstream media are fooled into repeating anything they’re fed without using the tiniest of fact-checking, or in this case, common sense and brains. You didn’t have to be Einstein to catch this filthy prank.
And what’s worse is that I’ve pointed out how this same exact “news” operation, NBC’s Detroit affiliate, WDIV, has done this before, merely repeating false press releases (from groups on the left) as fact, as they did when WDIV repeated as fact the false press release from the Muslim-dominated, pro-HAMAS/Hezbolah American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee claiming that an Islamic charity, LIFE for Relief and Development, had been cleared by the FBI of all ties to terrorism (the local FOX-owned affiliate did the same thing). The group was never cleared. But WDIV never checked with the FBI, just like they didn’t think twice that there just might not be a guy with this name who just turned a certain age . . .

Yes, the prank is juvenile, low-class, and tasteless. But it worked because these people are totally brainless.
For the record, the brainless anchorwoman is Rhonda Walker. She works out at the same gym as I do and is a complete airhead. Shocker. (Her husband is former NFL player Derek Walker.)
Also for the record, these birthday segments are stupid. Unless the person turned 90 or 100, who cares?

By Debbie Schlussel

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This morning when I read this story, I thought to myself, Yeah, and the Gitmo Islamic terrorists won’t do this when they get to our jails? Riiiight.

Yes, Harry Reid and the Democrats are now reversing themselves and refusing to fund the closing of the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay because they now claim that they don’t want terrorists on U.S. soil. But that wasn’t their position for the last 6 years. It changed quickly, and it can change back just as quickly.

And if terrorists do get to U.S. soil and our prison system, they won’t be any different than the convicted Islamic terrorists in SuperMax, who recruited terrorists from their jail cells. And they won’t be any different from the Bloods (okay, so there are no Crips in this story, but same difference). If the Bloods can do this, so can the Islamic “Bloods,” formerly of Gitmo.

The Bloodz & the Gitmoz . . .

Bloodz Artwork/Photo Credit: BaileyBrothaz

Violent gangs are thriving behind New Jersey’s prison walls and the Department of Corrections isn’t doing enough to stop them, according to a report released today by the State Commission on Investigation.

Investigators said jails are like a “branch office” for gang members who are able to easily sell drugs, communicate by using smuggled cell phones and launder money with official inmate accounts.

The report says that incarceration is not an obstacle to gang members, who are able to easily sell drugs, communicate using smuggled cell phones and launder money using official inmate accounts.

“That is an intolerable situation for everyone with a legitimate interest in the safe and proper functioning of this system,” the report says. . . .

SCI Chairman Cary Edwards said the two-year investigation included field surveillance, document analysis and interviews with witnesses. The commission first examined street gangs in 1993, then concluded in 2004 that gangs were the “new face of organized crime” in New Jersey.

“They’re just as organized as the Mafia,” Edwards said.

And just as organized as Islamic terror cells.

Law enforcement efforts are succeeding in putting more gang members behind bars, the report said, but that has created new challenges for state prisons.

“The growing influx of convicted gang members has transformed the prison system into a breeding ground for gang-related criminal activity at a level far more expansive than ever before,” the report said.

And it’s a breeding ground for Islam, too. Whaddya know? They have a lot in common.

Prison staff monitor inmate phone calls, read mail and receive some training on how to deal with gangs. But, the report said, it is not enough. . . .

According to the report, a top Corrections official believes up to half of all state prison inmates are involved with a gang, either by choice or through extortion.

The SCI identified an East Coast chapter of the Bloods as the primary catalyst for criminal activity behind bars. During a November hearing, state investigators said the Bloods — which reportedly account for about half of all incarcerated gang members — exploit corrupt prison guards to smuggle drugs and other contraband.

Shawn Williams, president of the National Alliance of Gang Investigators Association, said the biggest problem is the proliferation of cell phones, which allows inmates to circumvent monitored prison phones.

“It’s a pretty regular thing for gangs who are in prison to use throwaway phones to run their criminal enterprise on the outside,” he said.

Hmmm . . . can’t they jam the signals?

Williams said gangs operate seamlessly in prisons, with members finding illicit ways to make money behind bars. “If he has any rank in his gang at all, he’s not going to stop once he gets locked up,” he said. “That’s his way of life.”

Hey, just like Islam. Same way of life, different name. And likewise, the American jails will be no obstacle to the jihadist drive.

**** UPDATE: Reader Errol sends this list of the Senate jackasses who voted to close Gitmo:

* Richard Durbin (D-IL)
* Tom Harkin (D-IA)
* Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
* Carl Levin (D-MI)
* Jack Reed (D-RI)
* Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

By Debbie Schlussel
The other day we all heard news that pitch Black actor Jamie Foxx (slave name: Eric Bishop) is being seriously considered to play Frank Sinatra in a bio-flick about “Old Blue Eyes.”
And so, in this vein, when I read that, yesterday, DreamWorks Studios announced plans for the “first big-screen portrayal of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” I was thinking of who should have a serious shot of playing him.
And I was thinking–of course!–it should be . . . OWEN WILSON. After all, we’ve moved beyond the race thing. And who better to play Dr. King than the very blond, very pale White Owen Wilson.

I Have a Dream
I mean, after all, Wilson looks as much like King as Foxx looks like Sinatra.
And, as we all know, the great Dr. King would have preferred that people be judged by the content of their acting chops and not by the color of their skin.
What’s good for the Foxx is good for the Wilson. So, I am starting a committee, “DRAFT Owen Wilson to Play MLK.”
Oh, and by the way, Jamie Foxx is slated to host the 2009 BET Awards show. And I think that he should quit defining himself in such a small category.
After all, as we all know, in the spirit of Sinatra, FOXX should be hosting the Italian American Foundation banquet. And play Rocky in Rocky VII. I’m sure it’s no coincidence that his first name ends in a vowel. So, it’s all kosher. Capisce?
Maybe you can come up with a paler, Whiter actor for the King role. Suggestions in the comments section.

By Debbie Schlussel
I’m really looking forward to “Public Enemies,” which comes out July 1st. It’s the onscreen telling of how the feds went up against John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Baby Face Nelson in the ’30s. I’m not a fan of Johnny Depp, who plays Dillinger. Not a fan of 9/11 truther nut Marion Cotillard, either. But I do like Christian Bale (regardless of the tape of him screaming at the guy on set of the new Terminator flick), who portrays Melvin Purvis, a member of law enforcement who went after these guys. And I like Channing Tatum, who portrays Floyd. Looks to be good. I love these kinds of movies. “The Untouchables” is still classic in my mind.