By Debbie Schlussel
You have to wonder who greenlights the movies that debut this weekend at the movies. They’re so awful, you have to wonder which Hollywood fools have so much money to burn. I did not screen “Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins.” Why not? Three words: Martin Lawrence, Monique. ‘Nuff said. The others:
* “Fool’s Gold“: You’re a Fool if you spend your Gold seeing this awful movie. It’s on the level of a ’70s or ’80s sitcom. Sorta like an episode of “Three’s Company,” in which Jack and Chrissy get in a fight, then get confused, and are chased by Don Knotts and the Ropers to the Bistro. Really awful. “Fool’s Gold” is filled with stupid, “mad-cap”, goofy jokes and stunts, all of which fall flat. A lot of groans while watching this one.

The anti-American Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaghey star as a newly divorced young couple. He’s a loser treasure hunter who never pays his bills and is on the run from a murderous Black rapper who funded his failed treasure hunting. She’s a steward on the yacht of an English billionaire (Donald Sutherland, complete with bad accent–everyone has a bad foreign accent in this horrid “film”). McConaghey stumbles on a secret treasure he and his ex-wife once wanted to search for. They spend the rest of the movie fighting and making up and searching for the treasure, while bankrolled by the billionaire, putting up with his airhead Paris Hilton-esque daughter, and being chased by the Black rapper and his hitmen.
Oh, and guys, don’t be mislead by the movie posters with a photoshopped Kate Hudson on a body double’s sculpted, bikini’ed body. She is mostly fully-clothed, surly, and bitchy in this movie. No-one ever said movie posters are about truth in advertising.
The only upside to this movie is that in the dead of winter, this takes place in the warm, balmy Caribbean. But even that ain’t enough to warm anyone to this stone cold waste of time and exercise in on-screen stupidity.
To paraphrase Elvis, wise men sing: Only Fools rush in to see “Fool’s Gold.” Beyond Terrible.
John Ritter is turning over in his grave. And Suzanne Somers is wondering how someone got so successful ripping her off on film.
* “Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show – 30 Days & 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland“: Aside from having the longest, most pretentious title of any movie ever, this so-called “documentary” about four remarkably unfunny “comedians” is long, boring, and a waste of time.
It’s no surprise that such an awfule movie with a marked agenda–an unfunny Muslim comedian shows us how nice and oppressed he is in America–would be made by “West Bank Story” movie-maker and self-hating Jew, Ari Sandel. I previously interviewed Sandel (who, of course, won an Oscar for his short film morally equivocating Jewish Israelis with Palestinian terrorists), the son of an Israeli man. At that time, he felt that there would not be a problem making a musical equivocating the Nazis and their victims, too.
So, it’s no surprise that Sandel made this absolute piece of tripe. A fellow movie critic, who is a liberal, said to me:

Wow, if I were Bin Laden, I’d use this film as a recruitment tool because it shows everything that Bin Laden keeps saying in his video attacks on America.

I wholly concur.
Vince Vaughn, who is remarkably conceited and self-important in this movie, decides that since he’s had such success uttering lines that others crafted for him in funny movies like “Wedding Crashers,” he must be funny on his own. So he decides he’s going to share some of that “funny” with the little people all over America. He takes for extremely unfunny, self-important “comedians” on a bus tour throughout the little towns (and some bigger ones) in America. We get to watch these groanworthy, no-name comedians–who confuse comedy with uttering the F-word–talk about how

With our credentials, back in the day, we’d be headlining like the Rat Pack.

Sure you would. You keep tellin’ yourself that.
We watch the comedians whine as they’re asked to go visit victims of Hurricane Katrina. Mr. Vaughn, apparently, is too important to go with them. He’s a big star, after all. You can “entertain” the little people, but don’t get too close to them. We watch as the movie consistently looks down on the Katrina victims and the rest of “hickish” America, in Sandel’s and Vaughn’s eyes.
Then we meet the families of these incredibly uninteresting comedians. They are equally as uninteresting, although in the case of the Muslim comedian, the Egyptian Ahmed Ahmed, we do get to see two of the ugliest, transvestite-looking women on the planet–his sisters.
But other than that gawker factor and being forced to sit through Ahmed’s various “comedy” claims of highly-exaggerated post 9/11 American oppression of Muslims and Arabs, there’s nothing noteworthy about this long, boring yawner. And occasional laugh in two hours of dull groans does not a “comedy” make. Nor does seeing how uncharming the cute child actor, Peter Billingsley, turned out twenty-odd years later. As Vaughn’s “best friend”–which there seem to be a lot of in this flick–he makes several unnoteworthy appearances in the movie.
There’s nothing worth “documenting” here. Save yer ten bucks, little people.

By Debbie Schlussel
Muslims are such loyal, anti-terrorist Americans that they repeatedly file nuisance lawsuits to help terrorists and negate law enforcement on a regular basis.
The latest is the lawsuit being filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Asian Law Caucus, and two “civil liberties” groups to force the government to diclose its policies on border searches, so all Muslim terrorists and drug and alien smugglers will know how to get around those policies.
The suit, which is really on behalf of Muslims, was inspired by the case of Nabila Mango, a Muslim Arab, whose cell phone was taken by Customs officers when she was detained for a search at the border, after returning from a trip to the Middle East. Since she and other Muslims have been subject to this “treatment”–along with ALL OTHER U.S. CITIZENS–they feel they need to scratch that litigation itch. They are upset that their phones and computers are taken at the time they are searched.
The fact is that EVERYONE who is selected for a secondary screening–whether at random or for specific reasons (like returning from the terror-friendly Mid-East)–must turn over their cell phones and computers. How do I know that EVERYONE must do this? Well, because I had to do so. In fall 2005, while I watched many Muslims in hijabs speedily waved through the Detroit-Windsor border without any search–Muslims who we know routinely engage in alien and drug smuggling in to the U.S.–I and my car were thoroughly searched four times. The fourth time, I was ordered to get out of my car and turn over my cell phone.
There’s a very important reason for this. Often people engaged in crimes like smuggling work in rings. The feds don’t want them phoning or e-mailing their fellow co-conspirators to notify the rest of their gang, “Ahmed, I got caught. Go away. They’re watching for you.” That’s why this is done. It was done to me, and I had no problem with it. My only problem was that I watched the real terrorism supporters being sped through the border in the name of PC, while I was the one repeatedly searched.
It’s time for Muslims to stop whining and stop suing. If they really are loyal Americans who oppose terror and want peace–which we know isn’t the case–this is hardly the way to show it, regardless of how Ms. Papaya, er . . . Mango was “treated.”

By Debbie Schlussel
Tens of Mafiosi (or is that, Mafioso?–my Italian ain’t too good, capiche?) were arrested today in both New York and Sicily. It was the biggest round up of Gambino crime family members (the second largest American Mafia family still in operation–Genovese is #1). Among their crimes:

the slaying of a court officer, drug trafficking, robberies, extortion at a failed NASCAR track and other crimes dating to the 1970s.

Good luck finding witnesses not sleeping with Luca Brasi for the stuff from the ’70s.
Reading the first four pages of the 169-page criminal indictment is fun if only for the nicknames. One of ’em, Robert Epifania, is “Bobby the Jew.” Judging from his surname–which you really can’t do with any degree of certainty, these days–it doesn’t appear that he is, in fact, a Jew.

But the fact is that while some people think of the mob as Italian, Cosa Nostra is not a strictly Italian operation (only its leadership and made men hierarchy is purely Sicilian). While the mob is a dying enterprise, the complaint lists a virtual U.N. of western ethnicities. There are Italian, Greek, Irish, German, French-Canadian, WASP, and Jewish surnames among the 60-odd indictees (over 80 were arrested today).
Included is even a “Lance Moskowitz”. Cousin of ICE Michigan/Ohio Special Agent in Charge Brian Moskowitz a/k/a “Abu Moskowitz”? Although the surname is common in Judaism, I wouldn’t be surprised if the completely dishonest and untrustworthy New York native Abu M is related. Right now, he has his own criminal conspiracy, protecting extremist Muslim terrorist fundraisers and illegal alien smugglers in Michigan and Ohio. Question is: How much protection money is he getting? Michael Corleone, he ain’t.
Not arrested today, John “Junior” Gotti, Jr. He claims he’s now clean and straight. Tell that to my friend, Curtis Sliwa.
Authorities are saying this shows the mob, contrary to my view, is not a dying breed:

The probe’s scope shows the mob “still exists in the city and the state of New York,” said New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. “We like to think that it’s a vestige of the past. It’s not.”

But they are prosecuting crimes that date back to 30 years ago and more. I’m not saying they shouldn’t. Murder is murder, and it must be punished.
However, the mob is simply not what it once was. My friends in federal and local law enforcement tell me that, for example here in Detroit, the drug, counterfeiting, and stolen merchandise rings are all operated by Arabs and Muslims, not Italians or other mob-connected figures. Some of their profits are funding terrorists.
I’m even told the guy who is now running the Black Mafia Family (a drug ring) is believed to be a Muslim Arab.
They are the new mobsters. Alhamdillullah [Praise Allah].
No “Al-Sopranos” in the hopper, though. Because while it’s kosher to portray Italians in a bad light, it ain’t halal to do it to Arabs and Muslims.
“Bobby the Jew”? Fuhgedaboutit. Meet “Mohammed the Muslim.”

By Debbie Schlussel
**** SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATE–The Case Gets Even More Interesting ****
Hmmm . . . . So, a Palestinian Muslim alien who uses an alias just so happens to be at a gas station (where he works) in the middle of the night and blows up in an explosion at the Tampa station. Accident . . . or Islamic terrorist whose bomb-making practice went awry?
The FBI is involved in investigating the case of Farid Yusif a/k/a Farid Karakra. And since the ATF is the agency that handles such cases–while the FBI is the lead agency on TERRORISM cases–you do the math.
Thanks to Bill Warner, investigator extraordinaire, for the tip on this very disturbing story:

Farid Karakra a/k/a Farid Yusif: Who Did He Really Mean to Blow Up?

Heavy equipment was brought in to take down an unstable wall and proper up the roof so investigators could get a look inside.

Bill notes:

Gas fires have an explosion value with concussion in a confined area, but not enough to almost knock down a cinder block wall and bring down the roof of a building, the bay doors and glass would be blown out to relieve the pressure. Gasoline is not stored inside the bays of an automotive shop, there are no natural gas lines in the automotive store.

At least Tampa media are asking similar questions, a good step for MSM:
The “Accidental” Handiwork of Farid Karakra a/k/a Farid Yusif . . .

Why was Karakra at a local Citgo mechanic’s garage at almost midnight? The garage was closed. He had just left friends at a local coffee shop and was en route to meet them at another location.
The FBI is asking all of these questions. But, they are tight-lipped on telling the media anything. They even refused comment on any connection of Karakra to 2 USF students who were recently arrested.
The question again is why. Have they established a connection? Are they looking into this as a matter of precaution? It would seem odd that a federal agency is involved in a matter left up to local fire investigators.

As readers know, Tampa is the home to the University of South Florida, terrorist Sami Al-Arian’s former place of employment. It is the home of the two “Just Fireworks” smiling Muslim terrorists caught with pipe bombs in Goose Creek, South Carolina, near an important military base. It is the home to two Saudi students who did a dry run on a kids’ schoolbus. And it is the home to a number of extremist mosques and Muslims who have been indicted in baby formula and other scams at party stores and grocery outlets they own.
So that a Palestinian mysteriously blows up in what appears to be preparation of explosives is really not a coincidence.
We’ve welcomed these people here. And this is just a taste of the consequences.
**** UPDATE: Bill Warner notes that the above photo of Farid Yusif a/k/a Farid Karakra is a MUG SHOT and that it was taken because the Palestinian has a criminal record. For what? Get this (from Warner):

Farid Yusif Karakra–The MSM is showing his mug shot. That photo was taken last July 2007, when he was arrested for UNAUTHORIZED USE OR POSSESSION OF FRAUDULENT ID a F-3 felony (Case Number: 07-CF-015528). He got it all reduced to traffic court and the case was closed in Sept. 2007.
Why did he need a phony ID last year?

Why, indeed. And why didn’t the mainstream media mention Karakra’s prior record? Trying to be nice to the dead?
Yup, this is how we let terrorists in our midst go free and further plan their “activities” against us. Fake ID held by a Muslim alien, and he gets traffic court treatment.
As I keep saying, it’s that Adam Ant song about our condition vis-a-vis Islamic terrorism:
Desperate But Not Serious.

By Debbie Schlussel
As a hardworking, dedicated, and proud medical doctor, my late father always complained that the organized medical doctor lobby was doctors’ biggest enemy, that it had helped the enemies of medicine destroy the practice of it. While individual medical doctors were fed up with rising costs of frivolous medical malpractice litigation, defensive medicine, and HMO middlemen phone jockeys setting their prices at 1970s levels, organized medicine was busy pursuing a left-wing agenda and bending over on the rest of the issues.
My father decades ago left the AMA (the American Medical Association) and wasn’t impressed with the do-nothing bloated bureaucracy known as the Michigan State Medical Society.

I saw what my father meant firsthand in my 1998 race for the Michigan House of Representatives. I had previously lost a run for the same seat by just one vote. The seat was open, and I had a good chance of winning. I was not only an MD’s daughter, I was a militant on medical issues–whether it was ending the litigation explosion against doctors or fighting the HMOs in favor of doctors and their patients. (My views on medicine are here.) Yet, the Michigan State Medical Society and its top officials–Executive Director Kevin Kelly, then-Manager of Government Relations Greg Aronin, and activist Dr. Michael Sandler–worked against me every single step of the way.
They gave me a pro forma endorsement and a relatively few dollars. But behind the scenes, they not only actively sabotaged my campaign, but they actively helped my liberal trial lawyer opponent, Marc Shulman, who’d made his career by unsuccessfully suing medical doctors (and losing all his cases, while costing doctors millions in defensive legal fees). Shulman took thousands from the biggest med-mal plaintiffs’ law firms in Michigan.
But the Michigan State Medical Society worked behind my back to defeat me. This was even though many individual doctors donated to my campaign and really wanted me to win. It was extremely frustrating . . . but completely consistent with what my father had been saying. The organized medical doctor community works against medical doctors. They really don’t want to win, just complain and whine and pretend like they’re doing something.
Now, there’s more of the same–organized medical doctors working on behalf of left-wing causes and shooting themselves in the foot. Nationally, the AMA supports all kinds of green and environmental causes with little relationship to the practice of medicine. And the Michigan State Medical Society is concerned with . . . driver’s licenses for illegal aliens. They’re not against them. They’re for them.
In today’s Detroit Free Press, Michigan State Medical Society president, AppaRao Mukkamala, MD, wrote an op-ed column opposing the new crackdown against driver’s licenses for illegal aliens in Michigan. He says this will limit the number of doctors in Michigan because aliens won’t be able to easily practice medicine here.
On this site, I’ve already written about the many Muslim doctor immigrants–the vast majority of the alien doctors who come to practice in Michigan are Muslim–both here and in other Western countries. I’ve written about how they’ve deliberately murdered Jewish patients and others.
And how soon we forget last year’s Muslim doctor terrorist attacks in the UK. How soon we forget that some of those Muslim doctor terrorists tried to become medical interns and residents here in the U.S. and would have been successful had they followed through on it. And don’t forget Houssein Zorkot, the Lebanese Muslim medical student in Dearbornistan who was practicing with his AK47 in Hemlock Park and created a Hezbollah website.
But don’t tell any of that to Dr. AppaRao Mukkamala. Despite a horrible Michigan economy–the worst in the nation–and way too MANY doctors competing for less and less medical dollars to make a living, Dr. Mukkamala wants more Muslim and more foreign doctors in Michigan. And he wants them to be able to get driver’s licenses, no matter their immigration status.
The sky is falling according to the doctor. And if illegal aliens can’t get driver’s licenses, well Michigan citizens will be dying in the streets and bleeding a river:

Access to health care for thousands of Michigan patients will decline.
Health care will be adversely affected because many of Michigan’s medical residents-in-training and practicing physicians are from other countries. They are in the United States legally and have all of the appropriate J-1 and H-1 visa paperwork to prove that. Yet they are not literally “permanent” residents of Michigan and, therefore, do not qualify for a driver’s license.

And the esteemed doctor lies about the absolute lack of scrutiny of medical professionals we admit to the U.S.:

IMG physicians already undergo considerable scrutiny before and upon entering the United States.

As I noted, with regard to the MD terrorists in Great Britain, had they followed through on their initial inquiries, they’d be here practicing medicine–and jihadist explosions–instead of the UK.
Yup, in a Michigan economy where less and less people are going to see more and more doctors competeing in the marketplace–and where Muslim illegal aliens from all over the country came to Michigan to get an easily-obtained driver’s license–why argue in favor of what’s best for Michigan’s medical doctors and citizens . . . and ultimately, the safety and security for all Americans?
That’s just never been–and never will be–what the organized medical doctor community will do. They are their own worst enemies.
And that’s why fewer and fewer smart young Americans are going into medicine. The best and the brightest usually go where the money is. And organized medicine has done its best to cede away its marketplace to trial lawyers, left-wing causes, and now, illegal aliens.
No wonder the medical staffs of so many Detroit area hospitals are dominated by Muslim aliens with extremist views. Coming soon to a hospital near you.
While the Michigan State Medical Society sabotaged my campaign on the small scale, it is sabotaging all Medical Doctors . . . and all Americans, with its bizarre political positions.

By Debbie Schlussel
**** SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATE ****
In November of last year, I told you about CNN’s Freedom of Information Act request for photos of The ICE Princess, Julie L. Myers, posing and smiling with the black-faced ICE employee, to whom she had just given an award for “original” costume. I said it would be the nail in the coffin for Myers’ then flailing nomination to head up Immigration and Customs Enforcement. And it, likely, would have been. But ICE delayed and, in violation of FOIA, took months to give CNN the photos. CNN finally obtained the photos and posted them today (Thanks to Karl Fillipini of The Dan Stein Report and the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) for the tip). I’ve posted those below.

Julie Myers Smiles/Poses With Blackface Costumed ICE Agent

Julie Myers Smiles, Awards Blackface Costume
Some of the photos, as I noted at the time, had been destroyed at the instruction of Myers in her successful cover-up attempts. As I also noted then, that constitutes deliberate destruction of evidence, a violation of the law and certainly grounds for Myers’ law license to be revoked. (If you know in which state bar(s) she’s licensed, please e-mail me, and I will initiate a grievance against her–as this behavior was and is criminal. It’s called “tampering” and “obstruction of justice.” If an agent did this and got caught, he/she would face jailtime. So should she.) CNN was only able to get the destroyed photos when DHS technicians were ordered to reclaim them. As you know, nothing on a computer is ever really “deleted.”
Now, we’re treated to various phony “I’m shocked–shocked!” comments from Democrats, like Senator Claire McCaskill and Congressman Bennie Thompson, whose House Committee oversees DHS and ICE. Um, what are they SHOCKED! about? They knew about the photos. A pic of the agent in his blackface costume was all over the Net. I posted it here. They knew it was a blackface costume and that Myers gave the totally incredulous lie that she thought the man was not in blackface but wearing bronzer. Hello . . .? They didn’t believe it, we didn’t believe it, no-one believed that, including Myers and her overprotective boyfriend, Skeletor Chertoff.
McCaskill–who initially put a hold on Myers’ nomination because of the photos and costume party award, but then famously wimped out–and Thompson claimed that had they seen the pics, things would have been different. Uh, NO, with these two, they would not have been different. Once again, they knew about the party, the blackface costume, the destroyed pics, etc. And they let her nomination go through, without so much as a record roll-call vote in the Senate. Why would actually seeing Myers standing next to the guy change their “I excuse racism” views that they had in November and December.
And they’re not the only reason Myers’ nomination went through. The White House and Republican and Democrat Senators–including Barack Obama, who claimed he’d oppose Myers over the blackface incident, yet voted for her–did nothing but make excuses for her and unanimously support her, without exception. A reason they did this was that Black activists–like shakedown artists such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton–were famously mum on the chief immigration enforcer in the nation, while they called for Don Imus’ firing.
Another reason she got away with this is the phony Black Homeland Security group, NAADHS, made up of two Uncle Tom ICE agents who want promotions from Myers, who went–at taxpayer expense and at Myers’ express direction–around Capitol Hill meeting with the likes of Thompson, Joe Lieberman, and other Myers’ blind champions, telling them how great Myers has been for Black ICE agents.
Many Black ICE agents contacted me, telling me how disgusted they were with Myers over the Blackface incident, over her lack of any basic competence, and that the NAADHS does not represent them. I have been told the group is an organization of two Black ICE agents–Gregory Thompson and Sjon Shavers–who will do or say anything to get promotions and advance their careers. Others have told me that both are experienced long-time agents who deserve, but were shut out of promotions, including by Myers. I have also been told that The ICE Princess has promised them both promotions, provided that they made the rounds on Capitol Hill telling Senators and Congressmen how Black ICE agents are not offended by the Blackface incident and totally forgive Ms. Myers. (In reality, they do NOT.)

Uncle Tom’s ICE by David Lunde/Lundesigns
Your tax dollars paid for their salary on the days they spent on the Hill in this important Immigration and Customs Enforcement task. And it appears that your tax dollars paid for these two Uncle Toms with zero self-respect to travel to Washington, DC to take part in this important national security endeavor. Mr. Thompson is based out of Atlanta, so his airfare, hotel, etc. was paid for not by Ms. Myers, but by you. So many self-respecting, dedicated Black ICE agents told me about this, and they were not happy about it.
I contacted both Mr. Shavers and Mr. Thompson about this. Neither would comment. But don’t be surprised if they get promotions–or have since November. On the other hand, when you play with a snake, you usually get bitten. So maybe the snake-ette won’t come through in her last year, anyway. If Shavers and Thompson truly deserve promotions and have been shut out, cheering on an incompetent woman who can’t see racism when it’s right in her face, is not the way to get them.
I cannot fault Black ICE agents for not standing up against NAADHS. The atmosphere in ICE is one of vindictiveness, revenge, and persecution for whistleblowers. Agents need to eat and support their families. A transfer to Pakistan (yes, ICE agents are there) can lead to divorce, or as it recently did for one talented agent, suicide.
I guarantee if the larger Black community and civil rights activists had made a big deal out of Myers, she’d have been toast by now.
I’ve previously published some of the many e-mails I’ve received from Black ICE agents in response to the whole Blackface incident, back in November. Here is another one, which sums up very nicely what so many of them have told me:

I have been a reader of your blog for a while, and although I have different opinions from time to time I find your column interesting nonetheless. . . .
I, too, was appalled at the story of the costume party. I too am not
represented by the National Association for African Americans in the
Department of Homeland Security (NAADHS) I have not been loudly
complaining because I feel that when it comes down to brass tacks, none cares what this woman does. When I say that I mean her record in general, before she had this position and since she has had it. This
last incident is just another in a long list of problems.
How can she go from not even having her confirmation voted on by the
full Senate 1 year ago to now being all but assured of a confirmation?
As sad as it sounds, I have no belief that this issue will hold up her
confirmation at all. There are probably promises that certain
congressional districts will not have any work site enforcement
operations for the near future as a result of her confirmation. We all know that no one really wants to fix Immigration, or there would be real talk on overhauling Title 8, not just guest worker visas.
I feel that if I have to explain to someone in 2007, almost 2008 that a white person showing up to a Government building on Government time, dressed in black/brown or any color that is not their true skin color, wearing a prison uniform and a dred wig is wrong, not politically incorrect, WRONG, then that is proof that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Mrs. Myers has done nothing to mediate the disputes between Detention and Removal (DRO) and the Office of Investigations (OI), not to mention the Federal Protective Service is swimming in red ink we all hear. So to hear that Mrs. Myers and two of her top staff felt that that was the most original costume does not surprise me at all, simple is as simple does. One would also question how that individual made it to the party, no less near Mrs. Myers dressed like that and none of the GS-15’s or SES’s in attendance stopped him and told him that at a minimum he was dressed inappropriately?
As far as the issue of all black agents being painted with the same
broad brush, powerful does not deal with powerless. In my office, we
have over 80+ 1811s [DS: 1811s are investigative agents]. I am one of two. In HQ the ratios are probably the same. So there probably is no one to take up the fight, besides those in position to say anything are not high enough to avoid adverse penalties on their careers, I am sure their families like to eat regularly as well.
At the end of the day, I do not believe that anyone cares if the black
agents are offended in any fashion. Many of our co-workers still feel
that we are all jst affirmative action hires anyway, and are not as
good as the rest of them. Some have even said to me and around me
that , ” The only way to get hired now is to be a minority or a
female.” One good thing about our job is that we all get academy class pictures, meaning we get to see who is graduating from the academies.
Trust me, there are more white males coming through FLETC than any one else.

While I’m no advocate of affirmative action, I am a fan of fixing ICE and promoting competent, talented agents and leaders (as the above Black agent clearly sounds like he is), regardless of color. Clearly, Ms. Myers is not a fan of that–her own current position is anathema to that view.
Sadly, because of a couple of Uncle Toms, we have an incompetentette at the top of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and our country is in deep trouble because of it.
Exit Question: Are Julie Myers and John Wood (her well-connected hubby) friends with John McCain?
If they are, hopefully the CNN publication of the pics today will come in the way of their friendship. Sadly, we all knew about the Blackface incident.
A picture really wasn’t needed for us to know the “thousand words.”
**** UPDATE: Yet another of so many very decent, honorable, dedicated, and, sadly, shut-out-of-leadership-opportunities Black ICE Agent responds. The agent makes excellent points.:

Debbie,
I’m a black agent and am more incensed than ever at the fact that this can happen in modern law enforcement without any consequences. It kills even the smallest bit of optimism that I have left as a law enforcement officer. I have spent an entire career making certain that in all dealings, particularly with respect to facts and evidence, that I’m truthful and consistent. Even if an agent appears to be untruthful, absent any facts to prove it, he/she could be barred from testifying for the rest of his/her career.
I have no doubt that these photos could have been accessed in a more timely manner. Moreover, aren’t we one of the few agencies that deals with computers extensively? We do child porn investigations where we have to recover data from hard drives, etc. We can get this stuff in a timely fashion, why not a few pics of some government hack in a wig and black face? It also begs the question as to why these two senators with all of their influence couldn’t have used their vast resources to demand the pictures be produced “yesterday.” To add to it, they could’ve demanded that Myers personally bring them (that would be fabulous). How embarrassing would that have been!? This clown Thompson behaves like he’s shocked and amazed. He should be ashamed of himself not only for being in his post, but being a black man in his post. He is a disgrace to say the least, devoid of any plumbs. This agency is not only off the tracks it’s in a ditch and smoking.
I like how the spin machine is still trying to convince the rest of us that this is all bad timing. If CNN is the driving force behind getting the pictures in the first place then we are truly in bad shape. Surely the power of these senators could have achieved more in less time?
As to the issue of black agents not standing up to those in NAAADHS, I think it truly is that most of us aren’t members and don’t know anyone else who is. After this huge failure, I don’t imagine there will be any new applications being submitted. Black, white, yellow or blue, I just wonder like the rest of my colleagues how it is that this woman felt it good timing to even host a ridiculous party when we are busy trying to be taken seriously by the rest of the law enforcement community. By the way, I think that the lady in the center is her Deputy Assistant Secretary. What a joke!
Your use of the term “Uncle Tom” albeit used by “Us” makes me cringe when I see it on your page. One objectively can’t argue with the facts though, sad but true. That these jokers went on a whistle stop tour to make things right for this crony makes me incensed with disgust. We owe her nothing, and her motivation needs to stem from leaving a legacy we can be proud of (too late for that), not doing her a favor because she’s in a “jam.” So long as an agency operates with two standards, one set for the back bone of the agency (us) and yet another for the aristocracy (Myers and Forman et al), this will continue to be a a sub standard low rate outfit that attracts weirdoes and freaks.
I’m amazed that 60 minutes has yet to do a piece on this scandal rife outfit, truly…

AMEN! It is now Black History month. And ICE’s Black History, today, is release of the Blackface photos, and that the woman who sanctioned them is still heading the agency.

By Debbie Schlussel
In the last few weeks, Saudi Arabia has made several announcements proclaiming that the country would expand rights and freedoms for women. For example, they would soon be allowed to drive and rent hotel rooms on their own.
I didn’t write about it, because I think it’s cosmetic baloney designed to enhance Saudi PR, at a time when the mainstream media is finally, belatedly covering absurd treatment and sentences for women who are gang rape victims, etc.
And even the women who may eventually get expanded rights don’t and won’t hate us any less. They aren’t less anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, anti-American, and pro-Bin Laden than their male Saudi counterparts. So what’s the point?
My thinking was, yet again, proven correct. Reader Aunti Dhimmi sent me this story from Saudi Arabia’s own government-sanctioned, official English-language daily newspaper. A Saudi businesswoman landed behind bars for the crime of drinking coffee at the evil Zionist-owned Starbucks with a male colleague who was not her hubby. Shocker.

Saudi 9/11 Flag by David Lunde/Lundesigns
Same ole’, same ole’ in good ole’ Saudi Barbaria, er . . . Arabia:

RIYADH, 5 February 2008 – A Saudi mother of three, who works as a business partner and financial consultant for a reputable company in Jeddah, didn’t expect that a trip to the capital to open the company’s new branch office would have her thrown behind bars by the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. [DS: Also known as the mutawa’een, or religious police.] . . .
Yara, who has been married for 27 years, said she spent several hours in the women’s section of Riyadh’s Malaz Prison, was strip-searched, ordered to sign a confession that she was in a state of “khulwa” (a state of seclusion with an unrelated man) and for hours prevented from contacting her husband in Jeddah.
Her crime? Having a cup of coffee with a colleague in a Starbucks. . . .
Yesterday Yara and her colleague found themselves in trouble with the commission. One moment they were sitting together discussing brand equity and sovereign wealth funds; the next moment she found herself in commission custody.
Shortly after they took their coffee and Yara opened her laptop, a member of the commission approached the two and demanded the man step outside.
“Then (the commission member) came to me and said: ‘You need to come with us. This man is not a relative,'” she said. . . .
Yara found herself locked in the back of the GMC. [DS: General Motors, The Official Vehicle of Saudi Exremism.]
“The next thing I saw from the window was that we were approaching a place with a sign written on the outside: Malaz Prison,” she said.
Inside the prison, Yara recounts being taken to a cell with a one-way mirror. On the other side was a sheikh. . . .
“They stripped me,” she said. [DS: Hey, I thought Muslims were so concerned with modesty of their women. Only when we Infidels are involved.] “They checked that I had nothing with me and threw me in the cell with all the others.”
Meanwhile, Yara’s husband Hatim, an executive director of a prominent company, was in Jeddah when he received a phone call. . . . He booked the next flight to Riyadh and, after some strings were pulled, Yara was out of jail. . . . “I know this has nothing to do with the country.‚Äù [DS: Riiiight.]
The Syrian colleague was still in custody by the time Arab News went to press. He is a senior financial analyst, who is described by acquaintances as a devout Muslim whose mother teaches Qur’an recitation to children.

In some ways, this is just desserts for these people who are so devout in this hateful, violent religion. Note that this woman was well-connected. If she weren’t, she’d be rotting in prison and we’d never know about it. Not that it matters. They’re apologists for this stuff, after the fact, anyway.
What a joke of a people, a country, a religion. And Gloria Steinem is where . . . ?

By Debbie Schlussel\
Cats That Look Like Hitler a/k/a “Kitlers”. Someone has WAAAAAY too much time on his/her hands.
Der Furry?

By Debbie Schlussel
Remember the movie, “Kurtlar Vadisi-Irak” (“Valley of the Wolves – Iraq”), the anti-Semitic, anti-American Turkish film starring Gary Busey and Billy Zane? As I wrote, in accordance to the old anti-Semitic canard, the movie portrays Jewish American doctors as forcibly harvesting organs from Muslims to give them to Jews. It also portrays American soldiers as blood-lusty, deliberate murderers of Muslims. Busey played the Jewish doctor and Zane played the American soldier.
Well, Gateway Pundit reports that the Mehmet Celebi, the anti-Semitic Turkish nationalist who made “Kurtlar Vadisi” is not only a Hillary Rodham Cankles Clinton fundraiser, but has been appointed as one of her delegates. GOTTA READ the outrageous details, sent to me by the ever-vigilant Jeremayakovka.
Watch the Kurdish Media Video, some of the script of which comes, um, word-for-word (without credit–thanks, dudes) from my original post on this movie:

A flashback to when I first wrote about “Kurtlar Vadisi – Irak”:

In a new Turkish movie, “Kurtlar Vadisi – Irak” (“Valley of the Wolves–Iraq”) U.S. soldiers are portrayed as brutal murderers who “kill dozens of innocent people with random machine gun fire, shoot the groom in the head, and drag those left alive to Abu Ghraib prison – where a Jewish doctor cuts out their organs, which he sells to rich people in New York, London and Tel Aviv,” according to AP. Gary Busey plays the Jewish-American doctor.
Thanks, Gary. And congrats. You’re now an official member of the Anti-Semite club. In the grand tradition of Hitler, the authors of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, etc., etc., etc. So Hollywood, so “enlightened.” . . .
Then, there is actor Billy Zane. . . .
He defames American soldiers, portraying one of this nasty movie’s version: evil, brutal, cold-hearted murderers. According to an IMDB.com summary of the “fabulous” anti-American plot of this “film”, his character, Sam W. Marshall,

raids [an] Arabian wedding where everyone from the region comes together. He kills tens of people. All are civilians. Leila, the bride of the wedding, loses her future groom in the killings. Apart from the people who were murdered there, also a lot of people are declared terrorists and arrested.

Read my late father’s prescient words on the sickening propaganda called “Kurtlar Vadisi – Irak.”
Completely outrageous that even Hillary Clinton would have anything to do with the makers of this “film.”

By Debbie Schlussel
If you’ve been watching a lot of TV coverage of the Presidential race, you’ve probably seen footage of John McCain telling a lawyer joke (the video is posted below, and the lawyer joke starts at about 1:10 into it). It’s been bothering a lot of lawyers (not me, though).
McCain is proud of the fact that of the major, viable candidates, he’s the only one without a law degree. As a lawyer who readily admits that my professional colleagues contribute to a lot of the problems in America, normally I’d say that’s an asset. We had a lawyer–actually a husband and wife lawyer team–running the country for eight years, and I don’t wish a return to those days.

McCain Comedy Routine Needs a Lotta Work
The problem is that John McCain hasn’t exactly been against the lawyers in recent years. As you’ll recall, he was a strong supporter of ganging up on big tobacco. Who benefitted? The lawyers. And not just any lawyers, but the litigious lawyer fatcats who create an annual $10 billion plus tax on America. And he supported all kinds of other laws that help lawyers file more lawsuits . . . whether it’s campaign finance reform (a current lawsuit against people who made an anti-Hillary movie) or his opposition to Gitmo and torturing terrorists (that benefitted the ACLU and Islamist variety of lawyers).
So while John McCain–with whom I have many problems, but whom I’d much rather have than Cankles or Honorary NOI Minister Hussein Obama–may repeatedly use this tired, hackneyed joke to try to differentiate himself from both catfish and lawyers, his legislative career tells us otherwise: He’s in bed with the lawyers.
(President Bush also played the anti-lawyer game. But in office, he hired a bunch of incompetent lawyers to run important programs for which they were woefully inept–remember Michael Garcia and, now Julie Myers, at ICE? Michael Chertoff . . . Hello? You think McCain will be different? Or Romney?)
Let’s hope that this will change, once he’s in the White House. But don’t count on it. We basically have all lawyers–including honorary lawyer who doth protest too much, John McCain–running for Prez.
And that’s not a good thing. You remember what Shakespeare wrote about the first thing to do . . .