By Debbie Schlussel
I keep kosher, so I can’t partake in the KFC free lunch (KFC only has a kosher location in Israel). But that doesn’t mean you (my gentile readers and friends) can’t. And I love directing my readers to free stuff. SWAG is king, especially in this struggling economy.
Kentucky Fried Chicken, in a bid to make you think of the place as a more healthful “Kentucky Grilled Chicken” is giving out coupons for two pieces of grilled chicken, two sides, and a biscuit–COMPLETELY FREE. PRINT OUT THE COUPON HERE. But hurry. You can only print it out until 11:59 p.m. Central Time tonight. Print out four of them.

Coupon available for printing from 9am CDT 5/5/09 to 9:59pm CDT 5/6/09. Coupon is redeemable at participating KFC locations in the U.S. from 5/5/09 to 5/19/09, excluding 5/10/09. . . . You are limited to 4 online prints of coupon.

Sadly, KFC is doing this in conjunction with one of my least fave TV hucksters HRHSBotU [Her Royal Highness Supreme Being of the Universe] Oprah. Yes, I remain steadfast in my view that OprahSucks.com. But you don’t have to be an Oprah fan to partake. In fact, I encourage my Oprah-hating like-minded readers to take advantage. A free lunch (or dinner) is a free lunch. In this case, there are FOUR free lunches–KFC lets you print out four of the coupons. Yes, Oprah is for the birds. But that doesn’t mean you can’t get a free bird on her and still despise her, like I do.
The only hitch is printing it out (they make you quickly download a “printer”–why do that when you have a printer? I think it’s designed to keep you from printing out more than four coupons).
Enjoy the chicken, and tell me how it was.
I know, I know–“Tastes Like Chicken.”
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BTW, our European friend Kenneth Sikorski of Tundra Tabloids notes that KFC in Britain is pandering to Islam and has converted its stores there to a halal-only menu. I’ve noted, over a year ago, that the company already did the same on our shores in Dearbornistan, the reason I call it “Islamo-Tucky Fried Chicken.” And they do the same at locations in Windsor, Ontario, Canada–just over the border from Detroit.

Finger Lickin’ Dhimmitude: Col. Sanders is Turning Over in His Grave
That’s sad, since I’ve always been a fan of the story of “Col.” Harlan Sanders, who never really made it until his early 80s. I’ve written about him and about PETA’s repeated absurd attacks on KFC. Sanders was a great American, and I doubt he’d support this halal stuff.
Still, that shouldn’t stop you from a free lunch, right?

By Debbie Schlussel
First, I must note that I have little sympathy for Coptic Christians, who are mostly found in Egypt but are also elsewhere in the Arabic world. When it comes to choosing sides, the Copts have been among the most anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and pro-Hezbollah/Muslim Brotherhood religious sects in the Middle East. In Lebanon, they haven’t been shy about defending Hezbollah against Maronite Christians, whom they see as rivals. In Egypt, they took part in the Islamic purge and of Egypt’s Jews from the country.
And since they sided with the Muslims, the Copts have reaped their just “rewards” from their Muslim allies, with a ton of persecution. Sorry, but I can’t feel sorry for them, since they had no problem persecuting others. As my Dad would say, “Cast thy sh-t upon the waters.”
Still, it bears noting that the absolutely intolerant Sunni Muslims who run Egypt are using this undue hysteria over swine flu to impose their religious mores and special brand of persecution upon the Christians. As we all know, the Egyptian Muslims aren’t really concerned about Swine Flu/H1N1. They’re merely using this as an excuse to impose their no pig, halal dietary rules on everyone else. Score yet another “tolerance” point for the “Religion of Peace.”
Here’s raw video of (mostly Muslim) Egyptian police clashing with Christian pig farmers as they attempt to slaughter the farmer’s pigs.

Egypt pressed ahead Monday with plans to kill all pigs in the country, amid rising concerns there that the animal considered unclean by Islam may cause a swine-flu epidemic.
Officials in the majority Muslim nation say they are targeting the estimated 250,000 pigs raised by Egypt’s minority Christian community as a public-health measure, despite international scientific opinion that the animals don’t spread the disease to humans. But what was intended to be a vigorous response to the global flu scare has instead highlighted gaps in Egypt’s public-health policy and acted as a lightning rod for religious tension.
Egypt ordered the slaughter of thousands of pigs amid concerns about the flu outbreak, despite evidence it isn’t spread by animals to humans.
On Monday, government veterinarians visited Christian neighborhoods to mark animals for the cull, a process that could take a year due to the lack of slaughterhouses authorized by religious authorities to handle pork.
“I don’t see the logic in the government decision. Our pigs aren’t sick but they want to kill them anyway,” said Hala Morcos, managing director of Maison Morcos, one of Egypt’s largest pork manufacturers. “They are killing our capital.”
Egypt hasn’t diagnosed any cases of A/H1N1 . . . More than two dozen Egyptians have died of bird flu since it hit the country three years ago.

Gee, and yet, they aren’t seizing and slaughtering birds. Hmmm . . . .

The order last Wednesday to kill the country’s pigs . . . came on the heels of a health conference held outside Cairo by Islamic scholars, who likened swine flu to heavenly retribution against an unfaithful world. . . .
Egypt’s response to the flu crisis has been mirrored in other Arab [DS: MUSLIM] nations. . . .
“There is a misconception, fueled by religion, that pigs are to blame. What people need to realize is that if people fall ill, then it will be governments, not animals, that will be responsible,” said Kareem Gohar, a Coptic Christian who runs a consulting business in Cairo.

PUH-LEEZE. There is no misconception. Muslim leaders aren’t stupid. They’re brilliant. They know that pigs aren’t to blame for this disease. They’re hijacking this timely hype as a convenient excuse to kill pigs and harass non-Muslims. That’s how they operate. It’s not a new phenomenon.

Last week, Egypt’s [DS: ISLAMIC GOVERNMENT-RUN] daily press started a media war against pigs . . . .
On Sunday, hundreds of Christians took to the streets when police moved to start the cull. In two Cairo neighborhoods, security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets into crowds of protesters, arresting dozens of Christians, according to witnesses. In a third neighborhood, five police were injured by rocks thrown by the pig farmers, according to the state-run news agency.

Funny, I didn’t see anything about this on any major newscast or in most of my major newspapers. I guess if it’s not the “evil” Jews/Israelis fighting Arab Muslims, it ain’t news. When it’s Muslims attacking Christian farmers, definitely NOT news.
Oh, how Alexandria has fallen. The ironic thing is that this latest violent persecution of Egyptian Christians by the Muslim ruling majority there won’t wake the Copts up. They’ll still continue their disgusting alliance with Muslims when it comes to those “dirty Jews.”
So, they get what they deserve. I shed a tear only for the pigs here.
Can’t wait until there are dromedary and bactrian flus, and Christians have an excuse to kill Muslim sex partners.

By Debbie Schlussel
Yup, it’s as predictable as clockwork. Every time I dare criticize the perfect St. Sarah of Palinistan, I get articulate, classy e-mails like this, which include very strong arguments refuting the facts about their brilliant candidate of enormous worth:

From: Mike & Pat pavey@citlink.net
Date: Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:08 AM
Subject: Sara Palin
To: writedebbie@gmail.com
just read your article on Sara Palin, and all I can say go fuck yourself!!!!

Well, of course that’s all they can say. There aren’t any facts on their side. You know what I always say about e-mails with four letter words and obscenities: they–not patriotism–are the last refuge of a scoundrel . . . and an idiot who has not a single argument on his/her side.
Note that I generally get this kind of e-mail from three groups: Muslim fanatics, Obamamessiah fanatics, and Palinmessiah-ette fanatics.
You stay classy.
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BTW, in Palin Baby Mama Bristol Palin’s appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America” appearance, this morning, the Palin single mother daughter said that abstinence is the only thing that works 100%. This is a few months after she told FOX News Channel’s Greta Van Susteren that abstinence education doesn’t work.
But, hey, now she’s getting gazillions from the Candie’s Foundation, so just like another Palin, she can turn on a dime.

By Debbie Schlussel
You know my feelings about Sarah Palin. I was all for her at the beginning of her run as John McCain’s VP pick. But then, I discovered what an utter ignoramus, lightweight, and ideologically spineless person she was (she ain’t the conservative people claim she is, and she just hasn’t a clue on most of it). On top of that, we all discovered how this absentee parent put her blind ambitions way ahead of her own family and now has a baby mama daughter to show for it, not to mention a baby daddy who argues back and forth with her in the press.
Now, she’s parading her baby mama daughter, yet again, before the cameras. Just got the notice below from one of ABC’s publicists. And I’m beginning to feel sorry for the baby daddy in all of this, the much maligned Levi Johnston, who says he can’t even see his own kid. For all the criticism that those who criticize Sarah Palin are snobs, it seems the real snobs these days (and unduly so) are the members of the Palin family who publicly look down on him in this press release/TV show tabloid war between competing empty suits and lumberjack shirts.

Tomorrow, Bristol Baby Mama Palin will be on “Good Morning, America.” You know what’ll happen. It’ll be the continuation of Levi Johnston v. the Palins on TV. He said, she (grand baby mama, Sarah) and she (baby mama, Bristol) said. Yes, your dear, darling Sarah and her family are not above the fray. They are the fray. This family is quickly eclipsing the family of Brett Favre and anyone on Jerry Springer as the trashiest family in America. If that’s conservative, who needs the Democrats?

From: Maney, Bridgette
Date: Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:20 PM
Subject: Bristol Palin on GMA Tomorrow
Tune in to ABC News’ “Good Morning America” tomorrow for Bristol Palin, live and in-studio. She will talk with Chris Cuomo tomorrow on “GMA”
ABC News’ “Good Morning America” is co-anchored by Diane Sawyer and Robin Roberts. Chris Cuomo is the news anchor and Sam Champion is the weather anchor. The Emmy Award-winning morning news program airs live Monday through Friday from 7:00am to 9:00am/EDT on the ABC Television Network. Jim Murphy is the senior executive producer and Tom Cibrowski is the executive producer of ABC News’ “Good Morning America.”
Thanks.
Bridgette
Bridgette Maney
Director of Publicity
“Good Morning America”

Enough already of the Palin family scandals on TV. If Palin were truly the smart, articulate woman you all claim that she is, this appearance (and the gazillion press releases about her baby mama daughter) wouldn’t be happening. But that’s the problem, isn’t it? She isn’t smart. And that’s why this starstruck, media whoring family with sugar plums of a Presidency dancing in its eyes is continuing to self-destruct in the People Magazines and on the Good Morning Americas and Tyra Shows of American pop culture. And you think she can run a country? Hilarious.
Is “Springer” next?
Is this really conservatives’ best shot at regaining the White House four years from now? If you answered in the affirmative, I have some land under a Bridge to Nowhere to sell you. And if you’re right, then Sarah Palin is the Republican shadow on Groundhog Day–and it’ll be a long eight years, not four.
One other thing: please, you blind Palin follower clones of Obamessiah followers, spare me your hate mail (a good deal of which has been openly anti-Semitic). You really need to get some stronger eyeglasses.
If she’s the nominee in 2012, I will blame you for the eight years of Obama. And the blame will be well deserved.

By Debbie Schlussel
Not sure what’s in the water over at Rupert Murdoch’s various properties. First, his prized airhead Sean Vannity Hannity has a history of associating with known Neo-Nazi Hal Turner and makes it a habit to promote neo-Nazi Pat Buchanan, the Goebbels of our time, and his pro-Hitler/anti-World War II book.
Now, Philip Terzian, a top editor at Murdoch’s The Weekly Standard is standing up for Nazi mass murderer John Demjanjuk a/k/a Ivan the Terrible . . . on my Facebook page. Terzian is the Books and Arts Editor at TWS, which should tell you something: the most pretentiously cultured among us are the least human and decent. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that the former speechwriter to Jimmy Carter’s Secretary of State likes Nazis.
Under a link I posted about the Court of Appeals lifting a stay on Demjanjuk’s deportation order, Terzian posted a number of absurd defenses that we constantly hear from anti-Semites like him in defense of Nazi war criminals.

Weekly Standard Editor Philip Terzian
Sympathizes with a Nazi Mass Murderer


Nazi Death Camp Guard John Demjanjuk Then (Third From Left)

First, Terzian said that Demjanjuk was forced into becoming a Nazi. Uh-huh–they were all “forced.” Sure they were. Then, he said, well he was only a “concentration camp guard.” Yup, because we all know those concentration camp guards were soooooooo saintly. Tell it to the dead bodies of my family, Phil.
And then, in his piece de resistance, Terzian argues the same thing as his friend Der Uber-Fuhrer Buchanan–that the man is almost 90 and we have more important things to worry about. Can’t wait until Bin Laden turns 89. Because just as no-one should pay for their mass murder of 29,000 innocent people, once they manage to game the system long enough, the same goes for the mass murderer of 3,000 on American soil, right?
Phil Terzian, Weekly Standard editor and anti-Semitic apologist for Nazis:

Why are we deporting 90 yr old Ukrainian-Americans while we do business with, say, Chinese mass murderers, and Khmer Rouge executioners walk among us? . . . in 2009, it seems like a tremendous waste of resources to pursue a half-dead nonagenarian when there are more pressing human rights problems in the world.

Yes, more pressing human rights problems like . . . defending Nazis.
When I responded with the facts (and in disbelief), the anti-Semitic Terzian had no legitimate response. But as every scoundrel who can’t find his last refuge in patriotism does, he instead gratuitously insulted and attacked me personally. Yup, Phil, join the crowd of poser pop psychologists.
Not sure why this pan-Waffen clod asked to be my friend on Facebook, but apparently it was so he could defend Nazis and attack those who actually want them to pay for their crimes.
Hey, Philip, have fun at the next ODESSA reunion. Gee, I wonder why his career as a reporter and columnist failed and he’s now stuck editing book reviews. Actually, I don’t.
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This whole episode reminds of when an unduly revered alcoholic Detroit news anchor, Bill Bonds, expressed his anger when another fascist mass-murderer here in the Detroit area, Valerian Trifa, was caught and deported for the early 1940s mass-murder pogrom he led against the Jews of Bucharest. Bonds said on Detroit’s ABC affiliate WXYZ-TV:

Why don’t they just leave this poor man alone?

Yup, let’s forget about justice for Nazis and fascist mass murderers. They’re just nice old men, right?
Well, yes, according to Buchanan, Hannity, and now, Philip Terzian.
Hmmm . . . I wonder what Terzian would think if we said we should just forget about the Armenian Holocaust perpetrated by the Turks. Actually, I don’t give a damn what he thinks.
I just want you to be aware of who is working at The Weekly Standard these days and collecting a paycheck from Rupert Murdoch.

Wanted . . . But Only Until He’s 89

By Debbie Schlussel
You know it. I know it. We’ve discussed it a gazillion times before. Going “green” isn’t just stupid junk science and hypocritical behavior preached by elitists. It’s waaaaay toooooo expensive.
Glad to see that at least McPaper has the guts to mention it
, unlike most of the rest of the mainstream media, which wastes paper and energy, then lectures you about your energy “use” and “consumption.”

For two years, the city of Durango, Colo., bought electricity for all its government buildings from wind farms. The City Council ended that program this year, reverting to electricity derived from coal-burning plants and saving the cash-strapped city about $45,000.

“It’s very hard for us to lay off an employee to justify green power,” City Manager Ron LeBlanc said. “Those are the tradeoffs you have to face.”
Across the country, government agencies are either cutting or shrinking programs that use or fund renewable energy projects. Green power – from wind farms, solar power or other renewable energy sources – remains more expensive than traditional power sources.
As budgets shrink, some people have had to scale back their green ambitions. . . .
Blaine Collison, director of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership, said the number of government agencies voluntarily buying renewable energy has slowed in 2009.

The real Earth Day is the day we learn that Americans, their jobs, and their families are more important than the fantasies of hypocritical celebrities living in gated mansions on the shores of Malibu.
Green love equals death for the American economy. It’s an unrequited infatuation from a jilted lover.
Of course, a lot of the parties referred to in the article are waiting for the federal “stimulus” and “bailout” money to subsidize the over-hyped, more expensive green BS. And this cartoon, sent by my friend Ruth S. King says it all:

By Debbie Schlussel
. . . Yet another crappy movie. Can’t say what it is now, but you’ll see in my reviews, posted every Friday or hear it when I review movies, every Friday on the Sirius Patriot Channel’s Mike Church Show, between 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. Eastern.
Seems like such a shame to waste my life away in the middle of such a beautiful, balmy day inside a dark theater watching crap. Oh, the stuff I sit through, so you don’t have to . . . . : )
I know, I know–I’m whining about easy work. But trust me, seeing most of these movies ain’t fun. It’s work.

By Debbie Schlussel
Stardate 2009.05.05.
Last Night, I saw “Star Trek,” the latest movie incarnation of the famed TV series, which ran from 1966-69. I can’t post my review until Friday–it’ll be up at Midnight, just as Thursday ends. Check out Zachary Quinto, the new Spock actor, and how amazingly close he looks to Nimoy’s Spock from the ’60s.
Until my review posts–even though I’m not a Trekkie–here’s a little of my own Star Trek trivia.
My mother was a teacher in New York City Public Schools in the late ’60s, as “Star Trek” was on the air, and she taught Leonard Nimoy’s son. Even though the Trekkie phenomenon grew after “Star Trek” was canceled and into the rerun phase, at the time, the school had to hold separate parent-teacher conferences for Nimoy, away from the other parents. The fan-dom was that big already. My mother swore there was something weird about Nimoy’s ears. They seemed a little “bent.”

Old Spock, New Spock

The sign that Spock makes with his hand split, as he says “Live Long and Prosper” is ripped off from Judaism. It’s the sign the Cohen–the Jewish high priest–makes. When I was a little kid, and I didn’t know this, I made the sign with my hand after watching a “Star Trek” re-run on TV. My dad admonished me never to do it again. It’s considered a holy thing that only the Cohens are supposed to do.
And you know what? Even though “Star Trek” made a mockery of a holy thing in Judaism, we Jews didn’t riot all over the world, try to burn down Western embassies, and kill nuns in Africa. When they do something like that with a symbol or icon of Islam, well, you know what happens (which is why you’ll never see Star Trek or any show mock Islam like that).
And, hey, the fact that the two top guys helming the Starship Enterprise were both Jews–William Shatner and Nimoy–isn’t exactly a source of pride for me.
Leonard Nimoy has made something of a post-Trek career of mocking Judaism and unboldly going where no man should go before, now, or after. He is a photographer who publishes picture books of naked women–particularly his fetish of naked fat women–posing completely in the buff with Jewish religious paraphernalia. Again, imagine if he did that with Muslim religious paraphernalia–all the Vulcan know-how in the world wouldn’t protect him from not living long and prospering. But, here in the liberal-dominated Detroit Jewish community, they–a liberal schmuck named Hanan Lis, who married into a rich, leftist family–even invited Spock to show his disgusting nudie book at the Jewish Book Fair.
Yup, beam me up, Scotty, there’s no intelligent life in my community of fellow co-religionists, including Spock Nimoy.
Just a little off-the-beaten-path Trekkie trivia.
Again, stay tuned for my review at Midnight, Thursday Night/Friday Morning.
‘Til then, read (my site) long and Twitter (it).

By Debbie Schlussel
Socialism, giant chunks of the country on welfare, rampant Muslim immigration and imposition upon rational society, showers once a week–these are just a few of the many reasons we don’t want or need to be like Europe, despite Hollywood and the American left’s ever-growing push to get us there, via Obama.
And now, here’s yet another reason to remain un-“European.” Their opera stage–once the setting of high culture and civilization–has evolved into low-rent, live sex shows that would make Larry Flynt blush.

Expressions of sexuality on the opera stage have reached a fever pitch in Europe, where radical interpretations of standard repertoire — so-called “director’s theater” — have become the norm.
Full frontal nudity, simulated sex and debauchery, often marinated in violence, are omnipresent. Notorious Spanish director Calixto Bieito’s current production of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s “Armida” in Berlin includes rape, exposed male genitalia and what one blogger calls lipstick lesbianism. Bieito’s version of Mozart’s “Abduction from the Seraglio” included masturbation, rape, urine drinking and cutting the nipples off a prostitute.

Less Europe is More
And you know who thinks we Americans are too “unclassy” and “uncultured” to appreciate this display of “civilization” and “high culture”? Tax-funded Michigan Oprea Theatre general director David DiChiera. He thinks we need to be more like Europe.

DiChiera bemoans American reluctance to accept nontraditional staging, and a culture that accepts sex in films, TV and commercials but turns puritanical when it comes to the opera house. . . .
MOT productions have included nudity when DiChiera felt the decision was validated by the text. When Maria Ewing sang Salome, she didn’t even sport a G-string when she stripped off her seven veils. (The lights instantly went dark.) “Dead Man Walking” opened with naked lovers nuzzling before their murder.
Directors pushed the envelope in “Don Giovanni” and “Rigoletto” with mildly pantomimed sexual activities, though the evocation of oral sex in the latter prompted a sensationalized local TV news report and MOT nixed the deed from the remaining performances.

Hmmm . . . and the difference between this and what we here in Detroit refer to as “the Windsor ballet” (completely nude strip clubs)?
High culture, my friends. High culture. It’s “opera.” Yes, that’s what they’re calling it these days in Europe . . . and Detroit.
You stay classy, Europe.

By Debbie Schlussel
The annual running of the Kentucky Derby and the collapse of the Dallas Cowboys training bubble weren’t the only big sports stories over the weekend.
The other big deal was boxer Manny Pacquiao’s demolition of the then mostly undefeated Ricky Hatton in Vegas.
While boxing is not my favorite sport, I do follow it somewhat. And I love a good boxing movie. No matter how bad the plot is, a good fight is always fun to watch. But–this is not news or any revelation–boxing is a dying proposition. And not just in the ring. Boxing is not what it once was, and it’s becoming less and less popular. Only Mixed Martial Arts and Ultimate Fighting style boxing is growing, especially in the valued younger male demographic.
The boxing world is trying to use diminutive Filipino Pacquiao’s five-minute 59-second three-time knockdown (including a TKO) to hype up the sport. But it won’t work. While Pacquiao’s incredible tour-de-force in such a tiny body is something, he’s part of what proves my theory.

Boxing’s Newest Biggest Star Manny Pacquiao Defeats Ricky Hatton
My theory is that sports in which foreigner dominate simply aren’t as popular. Look at hockey. Its major stars are Canadian and European. It’s just not as popular. Yes, Major League Baseball has foreigners and so does, to some extent, the NBA. But their biggest stars–the favorites–are usually the American players. Vlade Divac and Hakeem Olajuwon were never as popular as players like Shaquille O’Neal, Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, and Larry Bird.
Some people claim that the reason boxing isn’t as big is that the champion fighters have been Black and that White audiences are not into Black fighters. But that can’t be true. Otherwise, how can you explain the appeal of the largely Black NBA and NFL to majority White audiences?
In my view, it’s the foreign factor that’s one of the many reasons boxing isn’t as popular as it once was. It’s not just the violence or that family-friendly major league sports eclipsed boxing years ago.
It’s that, in recent times, the bigger stars of boxing have been foreigners. People like Pacquiao, Lennox Lewis, Andrew Golota, Donovan “Razor” Ruddock. And the American stars of recent decades were nutcases like Mike Tyson or people with other problems like Evander Holyfield and his gazillion kids. (Am looking forward to reviewing the “Tyson” documentary, shortly.)
And this guy, Pacquiao, for all the hype over his incredible boxing win this weekend, is not going to bring fans back to boxing.
It’s gonna take a lot more than that.
Yes, Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao is the star of the moment in boxing. But he’s a big fish in an ever shrinking puddle.