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It’s pumpkin season. And people are making my favorite (pumpkin pie), as well as carving Jack-o-Lanterns for Halloween.
Perhaps, the most creative (and tasteless) pumpkin “sculpture” comes from Tom Nardone, author of “Extreme Pumpkins: Diabolical Do-It-Yourself Designs to Amuse Your Friends and Scare Your Neighbors.” One of his unusual “creations” is below. But there are many others equally as “innovative” that he’s created, like a Medusa pumpkin, cannibal pumpkin, etc. He calls his creations “subversive”. More interesting pics here (Click on “Photo Gallery” on upper left-hand side). Visit Nardone’s Extreme Pumpkin website.

Nardone gave an interesting interview to USA Today. Did you know that pumpkins in some states are naturally bigger than in others? An excerpt:

Q: You talk about certain qualities a pumpkin has to possess to work as good Halloween design. What are they?
A: If you want it to be funny, you can’t tell anyone about it. If you tell all your friends you’re going to do a pumpkin being eaten by a squirrel, it’s not funny when they finally see it. It needs to be a surprise. For it to be cool, it has to be universally accepted as cool. Go for the gross. If it gives someone the heebie-jeebies, it’s a great pumpkin.
Q: What’s your favorite pumpkin in the book? I see the cannibal pumpkin made the cover.
A: I like the cannibal pumpkin, but my favorite one is the property defender. It’s got old rotten pumpkins at its feet. It’s a traffic-stopper. It’s dramatic. I like when I do a scene on the lawn.
Q: What’s your favorite tool to carve a pumpkin?
A. It’s almost all done with the jigsaw. I experimented. What’s the best way for a manly man to carve pumpkins, I asked? I tried all the different tools. I’m a tool kind of guy.
Q: What’s the biggest mistake pumpkin carvers make?
A: Just making an everyday pumpkin probably. Making the same old triangles they do. And then some try to get too in-depth. They try to make George Bush’s face, for instance, and fail. They try to make it too complex. What’s the point? It’s a pumpkin.
Q: So, how do we get that Halloween attitude back?
A: Think of your fears. What’s truly scary. Are you afraid of heights? Get a pumpkin that just fell off the roof. What really grosses you out? Are you afraid of rats? Do one with rats. Casper the ghost is not scary.
Q: Why are pumpkins larger in Wisconsin and Ohio, as you say in your book? And do you need a different saw there?
A: They just are. For the big guys, you need something more. Blade length is important. If it’s not long enough, you won’t get the chunks out of it. Sometimes a jigsaw won’t go through. The kits in the store aren’t that good for taking the top off. You have to go at it with a steak knife, but you can’t make art with a steak knife.
Q: Tell us a bit about the mooning pumpkins.
A: Me, being the wise guy that I am, we had neighbors who were in a bit of a feud. So I put the mooning pumpkins (two pumpkins peeking out of the top of jeans) on one neighbor’s lawn and pointed it at the other neighbor’s. They were infinitely amused. It was a big hit.

Happy carving.

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**** UPDATE: Guardian columnist Steven Wells writes to tell me that he didn’t call me gay. Instead, he compared me to Hitler. Well, that makes it so much better. See update below. ****
The Guardian Unlimited (which I still remember as the less conceited “The Guardian of London”) has reached a new nadir. Guardian music and pop culture columnist Steven Wells is upset that I apparently have made it “in vogue” to attack far-left superhero movies.
I’m glad he recognizes me (in a very backhanded way) for the very positive (he hates it) trend I started. But he does so with a not-so-veiled, low-class lesbian reference to Ann Coulter and those who’ve followed my lead:

Guardian UK:
Attack PC “Superman” & Bingo! – You Are a Lesbo

Carpet-chewing Ann Coulter wannabes have attacked the superhero community en masse ever since right-wing critic Debbie Schlussel suckerpunched Superman for the hideous liberal crime of not flying to Fallujah and kicking islamofascist ass in the movie Superman Returns (in her essay entitled “”).

Yup, attack Superman and Islamic fundamentalism, and . . . you is a butch ho’ lesbian. Very obvious logic. Oh, and by the way, Mr. Wells, the correct term is carpet-munching, NOT carpet-chewing. If you’re going to make a baseless insult against me, you should at least get it right.
Because everyone knows that if you criticize others for not attacking Islamic fascism and fighting terrorism, you’re a female gay. Not brushcuts, WNBA season tickets, lunch dates with Hillary, and a thing for the Dinah Shore Golf Classic. Those aren’t cues. But being upset that Superman is a girlie-man–that’s what indicates you are a female fruity pebble.
I can assure you, Steven, I’m very straight. Though, you for certain will never get the chance to find that out, and I promise I will never try to determine whether you’ve had backseat travails with Elton John and George Michaels (a strong likelihood given your whimpering over Superman–hello . . .?).
For the record, Steven. I don’t like English men because they are, well, very like you . . . wimpy and effeminate. I like red-blooded, macho American men who own guns and punch people like you out for sport. And I don’t make apologies for it. Yes, there are some American men left who haven’t become girlie-men–your Islamo-pandering country’s new national icon.
But I can see why you like the new, girlie, burgundy-caped Supe and are very bothered that I’d insult your new boyfriend.
“Truth, Justice, and All That Other Stuff.”
**** UPDATE: Guardian columnist Steven Wells writes, saying that he didn’t say I was gay. Instead, I’m like Hitler for attacking Superman:

Hey Debbie,
Steven Wells here.
Thanks for the mention. I have to admit the lesbian angle never occurred to me (isn’t that carpet munching?)
Carpet chewing is a reference to that other right wing demagogue, Adolf Hitler, whom, it was rumoured, used to chew the carpet (an actual carpet, one assumes) when ever he got too right wing.
I think the carpet chewing was invented by British propagandists. I don’t think they were saying Hitler was gay. But it’s great to see that your own standards are so high when it comes to detecting homophobia.
Keep it up!
A quick look on Google will set you right.
Steven Wells

Touche. You didn’t call me gay. You called me Hitler. So much more comforting.

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Julie L. Myers, America’s top immigration enforcement official, will host an event at a Hezbollah club well known for it’s anti-American, anti-Christian, and anti-Semitic speeches and vitriol. The club is host to Hezbollah rallies and planning. The event is headed up by “former Islamic terrorist Imad Hamad, a known marriage and immigration fraud perpetrator, with whom Myers will share the stage. The government tried to deport Hamad–an open supporter of Hezbollah and HAMAS–for more than two decades.

ICE Princess Honors Hezbollah Club on Our Shores
(Julie Myers Diet Coke by David Lunde)
This is truly sickening.
If you thought incompetent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) chieftess Julie L. Myers a/k/a “The ICE Princess” couldn’t get any more despicable, you were wrong.
On October 16, Myers–the nation’s top immigration official–is scheduled to host an event at Dearbornistan’s well-known Hezbollah Social Club a/k/a The Bint Jebail Cultural Center. You’ll remember my column on this despicable place: “.” As I told you, the club is well known for its most common use as a frequent meeting place for Hezbollah supporters and a locale for Hezbollah rallies that frequently feature anti-American and anti-Christian hate, not just anti-Semitism.
As I told you:

Haj Mohammed Turfe, Founding Chairman of the Bint Jebail Cultural Center, gleefully and repeatedly spoke of how “only a few thousand Jews will survive Armageddon.” This mantra, repeated often throughout the event, got raucous, deafening applause and cheers.

As I also documented:

In 2004, the year of its last tax return on file, the club spent over $85,000 on “cultural and religious seminars and lectures,” most of them extremist. The decor of the club is elaborate, if you like the Saddam Palace/Donald Trump Apartment style of gaud. The extremists who founded the club apparently think paradise looks like Liberace-land.

This was in a speech to 3,000 of the usual patrons of the Bint Jebail Cultural Center, while Hezbollah flags were waving. Others spoke about how Americans, Christians, and Jews are “diseased” to racuous applause by Club officials and the rest in attendance.
Now, this moron-ette who “runs” ICE is speaking at this club and legitimizing this modern day Third Reich satellite office. In my view, it’s even worse than Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at Columbia University, last week. He came here. She’s going to them at their club and kowtowing to these blatant anti-Semites and Hezbollah and HAMAS supporters.
Worse, the event is hosted by FBI award revokee and “former” Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist , a man who engaged in a sham marriage–YES – MARRIAGE FRAUD!–to stay in this country. The government tried to deport him for over two decades until Clinton liberals gave in. Hamad openly supports Hezbollah AND HAMAS. He whines and bitches whenever a scant few Muslims are deported or rounded up by ICE fugitive teams.
Hamad’s group, the Michigan Chapter of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (of which Hamad is Executive Director), is openly pro-Hezbollah and pro-HAMAS. Hamad famously told The Detroit News he wants to be able to wear a Hezbollah T-shirt. I only hope he’d have the guts to wear it with Hezbollah’s new Veruca Salt, Julie Myers.
Worse, the President of Hamad’s ADC group, Ihsan Al-Khatib, is General Counsel for , which the FBI recently raided for funding HAMAS and Al-Qaeda insurgents in Iraq. By delivering the Keynote Address at this event, she’s feting him and his organization (officials of which will attend this event and have already RSVP’ed) as well.
She is supposed to head the agency that is rooting out terrorists and marriage fraud scammers, NOT PARTYING WITH THEM! Now, this nitwit-ess with a retired General uncle is feting these people?! Disgusting. Sickening. Words can’t even express what an outrage this is. Yup, the head of immigration enforcment is checking into the bigot spa of the poison mind.
Please tell me how a Clinton appointee could do worse. Not possible. This woman is kissing so much Islamist ass, her nose is brown with digested hummus. No doubt, she’ll be accompanied by her sleazy friend, ICE Special Agent in Charge Brian Moskowitz a/k/a “Abu Moskowitz.” Most recently, local ICE agents told me how outraged they’ve been when the few times they were allowed to arrest Muslim illegal aliens, Abu Moskowitz telephoned Hamad to apologize for his agents doing their job.
Now, I know why ICE agents have been told they can’t round up illegal aliens in Dearbornistan and very few Muslims are deported. It’s not just Abu Moskowitz. It’s Sheikha Myers. She’s drunk the Halal Kool-Aid. Apparently, she’s not just stoopid and incompetent. She’s traitorous stupid and incompetent.
Myers’ nomination has not yet been voted on by the full U.S. Senate. PLEASE WRITE YOUR U.S. SENATOR and tell him/her that we cannot have our nation’s immigration enforcement headed by a woman who hangs out at an anti-Semitic, anti-Christian club feting a marriage fraud perpetrator who was a terrorist.
If this idiotette was around in the 1940s, she’d be supping with Goebbels. And that’s no hyperbole. Bet on it.
Here’s the official announcement from Imad Hamad’s group:

DHS Assistant Secretary to Keynote Judges Night Reception – October 16, 2007
ADC Michigan is pleased to announce that Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Julie Myers will give the keynote address at its 6th Annual Judges Night Reception on Tuesday, October 16, 2007, at 5:30 PM at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center (6220 Miller Rd.) in Dearborn. . . .
These Judges are being recognized for their honorable commitment to civil liberties in their courtrooms. ADC is pleased to honor such distinguished members of the bench. . . .
The event will include dinner, along with an award’s presentation, and is by invitation only.

FYI, these Judges getting awards are being honored for making Myers’ ICE Agents’ jobs harder and ruling in favor of those they’re trying to deport. Way to go, ICE Princess.
Gee, I wonder why it’s “by invitation only.” Maybe she’ll say things she doesn’t want us to hear. You can bet they will. It’ll be like Suha Arafat whispering sweet nothings into Hillary Clinton’s ear . . . about how the Jews infuse the Palestinian’s water with cancer.
I am glad my father didn’t live to see this extreme outrage by a complete dumbass in a skirt.
ICE Sheikha, You’re Doin’ a Heckuva Job. . . for the jihad.
File Under: “Women We’d Like to See in a Burqa.”

Thanks to David Lunde/Lundesigns for Technical Assistance w/this image

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Even the Rosie O’Donnell “glamour shot” in USA Today is scary.
But the review (by a liberal) of her new book, Celebrity Detox: The Fame Game, and disclosures of what’s in it match the photo’s fright factor.
Just remember, this is the 9/11 Truthers’ spokes-celeb . . . and the poster girl for a whole lotta liberals:

In her new book, Rosie O’Donnell says she and Barbara Walters are friends who have found “a way to love” each other. . . .
[O’Donnell suggests] Walters, 78, is too old to keep up with the demands of The View. . . .
As the warring co-hosts tried to make up, O’Donnell told her mentor: ” . . . you did not defend me. And I have been a good, loyal daughter to you. And I want you to be a good mother to me. Don’t let the bad man hurt me.”
Paging Dr. Freud.
Reading Celebrity Detox is like having a patient on the couch without the necessary medical degree to sort through what’s insightful and what’s just nutty.
This is a train wreck of a book – part self-help psychobabble, part searing memoir – by a grown woman who lost her mother as a child.
It’s baffling and . . . some stories defy logic.
As a child, O’Donnell says, she broke her own hands and fingers with a wooden coat hanger and a small baseball bat. And nobody noticed?
She also has fuzzy recollections of a man climbing in through her window as a child to molest her — until her mother cut down the tree.
Too-much-information is not a concept O’Donnell embraces. You will learn how fame affected her bowel habits, that she “inseminated” her partner, Kelli, and that her son once told her, in the bathtub, that he didn’t like her fat belly. (She told him she didn’t like it either.)

And people wonder why O’Donnell cancelled all media interviews for the book?
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FYI, when we were mourning our father’s death, one of my sisters told me about her fight with Rosie, a week before the big Rosie-Elisabeth deathmatch. My sister was in the audience of “The View” (don’t ask me why), and during the commercial breaks, Rosie lectured the audience on her far-left views. My sister said these were even more radical and gasp-inducing than what she said on air. My sister said she asked Rosie a question, and Rosie responded by coming within inches of my sister and shrieking out anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian comments (airhead Elisabeth Hasselbeck said nothing). Then, Rosie wagged her finger in my sister’s face lecturing her how she’s had enough of far-right blonde women (my sister’s blonde).
Good riddance, Rosie.

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If you’re one of the NFL groupies who will do anything for a “date” (euphemism) with a pro football player, if Roy Williams is your guy, don’t expect a fancy dinner before the main act.
And if you’re a pizza delivery man, you might want to skip over Roy Williams residence, as well.
The guy is cheap–VEEERY cheap!:

Roy Williams: Most Frugal NFL Player?

On being cheap:
I am cheap, I’m a cheap date. Get you some McDonalds, with some cheese on it and I’m just really cheap, man. I’m very low key, I like to stay home. I like to go bowling on Monday nights and I go to the casino every once and awhile. Other than that, you won’t see Mr. Williams out at all. . . .
You do tip the pizza guy?
There’s no such thing as a tip. But I am really polite and I say ‘Thank you sir.’ . . . The pizza man knows, when he comes to my address, he’s coming for free.
If you’re on a date and she wants to go to a nice place, what do you do?
I might just take her to the casino and get her a free buffet. If I did take a date out to a nice place, I’d take her to a nice place, like a Red Lobster or something. It wouldn’t be Morton’s or nothing like that.

And they say Jews are cheap. Attention, anti-Semites, you might want to change your endearing “Jewed me down” phrase to “Royed me down”. “Stop being so Royish.”
Hmmm . . . Maybe he’ll actually be one of the pro athletes who doesn’t spend his millions into bankruptcy.

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I’ve written ad nauseam about the various crimes Muslims commit while using the burqa and/or niqab as a cover for disguise. (FYI, the burqa is a long robe that completely covers the face, also. Sometimes there are slits for eyes, but not usually, as in Afghanistan. The niqab is the complete face veil with slits for eyes. I call it “the full Ninja.”)
Muslims have used burqas in the following activities I’ve detailed on this site:
* To steal jewelry;
* To flee the country when wanted for Hezbollah weapons smuggling;
* To flee the country when wanted for a terrorist plot in London;
* To get away with lying in court; and
* To hide from co-killing charges.
Now, there is a new crime. Well not so new, actually, but more frequent (and now that it’s happening outside Israel, people suddenly take notice): Muslim women using their burqa to hide a homicide bomb, then detonate.
I’ve coined a new word for this: “burqa-cide.”
In the latest burqa-cide bombing, yesterday a woman in Pakistan blew up 15 people and injured 22 more. It was Pakistan’s first female homicide bombing attack. In true burqa-cide fashion, she was wearing–what else?–a burqa.
“Religion of Peace” . . . and Burqa-cide.
If Klansman aren’t allowed to wear hoods or masks in New York, what about burqa wearers?
Beware of Potential Burqa-cide Bombers . . .

Remember: “Women of Cover” are covering something up. And it’s not always their hair or their sexy dirty toenails.

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Executive Summary: A top U.S. Immigration official has been accepting bribes from Hezbollah operatives in America for years. But the U.S. Attorney–Stephen Murphy III, the Justice Department’s top official in Eastern Michigan–delayed indictment for FOUR Years(!), while he quietly allowed the Hezbollah criminals involved to flee the country.

: Hezbollah’s U.S. Attorney Sat on Indictment for FOUR Years so Hezbo Suspects Could Flee
Remember ? He’s the former INS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Field Office Director for Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) I wrote about. As , he’s been collecting a full salary plus benefits while not working for four years. As I also told you, he owned a Dodge Viper and lived the high life–at least, a life much higher than his ICE salary could reasonably support. He was accused of taking bribes from aliens to stop their deportations and of taking property from aliens once they were in detention and on their way out.
Well, Roy Bailey was finally indicted (the indictment was unsealed this morning), for taking bribes from Hezbollah-affiliated Shi’ite Muslims. But it is years–at least FOUR YEARS–too late, and all of the key Hezbollah suspects have been conveniently allowed to flee the country. As I’ve noted many times before, this is standard procedure for pan-Islamist Murphy sat for two years on an indictment of Hezbollah cigarette smugglers from the Hammoud family and and getting the fanfare for pushing meaningless paper (which indictments against fugitives in Lebanon are–meaningless).
Abu Porno has it both ways. He gets to pretend that he is fighting corrupt federal agents and terrorists from groups like Hezbollah, while it’s all a sham. At the same time, , and he gives them a wink and a nod as they leave, finally indicting them when they are gone. Such has been the case with (whom Murphy raided several times but ), with , and now, with those Muslims who bribed Roy Bailey.
If I were Bailey’s defense attorney, I’d be screaming from the rooftops that a Black man (who is completely corrupt) is taking the fall while the racist prosecutor (and, yes, Murphy is a racist and has ) lets all of the Arab Muslim Hezbollah co-conspirators leave the country and live in comfort. In fact, Hezbollah financier Chahine is a co-defendant in Bailey’s indictment. Yet, Murphy a/k/a Abu Porno allows him to continue to draw from his Detroit-based bank accounts and restaurant chain, none of which have been frozen. Bailey, on the other hand, is Whit [no, not a typo] Out of Luck.
And Chahine’s fate is the same as another Bailey co-defendant, Mohammed Bazzi. Even though he was well know as a member of Hezbollah and authorities strongly suspected him in various Hezbollah money-laundering activities, including cigarette smuggling and other fraud, U.S. Attorney Murphy allowed him to flee America.
And U.S. Attorney Murphy continued to allow Bailey to draw four years of $140,000 annual salary and full benefits while he vacationed at home. Why? Because Murphy had to wait until his friend Chahine left the country.
Frankly, it’s not just Bailey’s assets that should have been scrutinized. It’s Murphy’s. Just how much is Hezbollah paying Abu Porno? A lot, it appears.
The questions is: Is Murphy really the United State’s of America’s Attorney or Hezbollah’s? I know the answer. And it isn’t the former. Incredibly, the Bush Administration continues to pimp this man for Federal Court of Appeals Judge.
Here’s more (with my commentary and corrections of bad Detroit Newsistan “reporting”):

A top immigration official in Detroit has been indicted by a federal grand jury for accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to release aliens who were supposed to be deported and facilitate other immigration frauds.
Part of the scam involved a fraud whereby LaShish Restaurants employees were able to stay in the country through fraudulent marriages to other LaShish employees, according to federal officials and a grand jury indictment unsealed today.
Talal Chahine, 52, owner of LaShish and already a fugitive on criminal tax charges believed to be living in Lebanon, is one of five defendants named in the indictment.
Roy M. Bailey, 54, of Romulus, who was assistant director for the Immigration and Naturalization Service field office in Detroit and director for detention and removal operations, is charged with accepting bribes, conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit extortion by a public official, conspiracy to defraud the federal government, failing to report a felony. . . .
Bailey was placed on leave in 2004, officials said.
It was not clear how much in total bribes Bailey is accused of accepting, but officials said it exceeds $50,000 in cash, jewelry, home improvements, landscaping and casino chips.
[DS: Not a surprise. We know that Talal Chahine . Since we also know that new was just as in bed with Chahine and voted for an inflated property purchase to benefit Chahine with millions, how much in bribes did O’Reilly get from Chahine?]
In addition to releasing and adjusting terms for aliens who were supposed to be deported, Bailey brought a gun across the border from Windsor for a local businessman, identified as “Samir L.” who gave him more than $10,000 in bribes, the indictment alleges.
Bailey, who accepted free meals at the businessman’s restaurants worth more than $5,000, also allowed an associate of Samir L.’s to enter the U.S. from Syria based on fraudulent documents, the indictment alleges.
Bailey is also accused of failing to report the theft of more than $300,000 from aliens housed at a deportation center in Monroe. Patrick Wynne, a former detention officer there, was sentenced to 57 months in prison in January 2006 for his role in those thefts.
[DS: The U.S. Attorney’s office has known about this activity for more than FOUR years. But DID NOTHING. Why? To allow the Hezbollah actors in this case to flee the country.]
Antonio “Tony” Ivezaj, 39, of Milford, a criminal alien who was subject to a final deportation order, is charged with bribery and conspiracy to commit bribery.
Ivezaj, who was released by Bailey, had a Ferndale construction company, TMI Construction Co., which did more than $5,000 in free residential construction work for Bailey, the indictment alleges. Ivezaj also obtained $50,000 in 2003 on behalf of another person in immigration custody who was released by Bailey at about the same time, the indictment alleges.
Chahine is not accused in the indictment of paying bribes to Bailey [DS: WHY NOT? Throw the whole book of charges at him. Thanks to Murphy, he’s not here to face any of them], but of conspiracy to commit extortion by a public official.
The indictment alleges Chahine obtained more than $250,000 in cash and real estate from the family of a Lebanese man through extortion.
Also named in the indictment is Mohamad Arzouni, 59, of Dearborn Heights, identified as a LaShish employee, and Mohammad Bazzi, 61, a relative of Chahine’s and a LaShish employee from 2001 to 2005. Bazzi, formerly of Detroit, is not yet in custody and may be in Australia, officials said.
[DS: U.S. Attorney Murphy let Bazzi flee the country. Hello . . .?]
Arzouni and Bazzi are each charged with conspiracy to defraud the federal government.
Murphy said the case is serious but he believes it is an isolated incident and he does not believe there is widespread corruption in the federal immigration service.

Isolated, my ass. This is regular practice for Muslims in America and those trying to get in.
And uh, no, Murphy doesn’t believe the case is serious, or he’d freeze Chahine’s assets and shut down his restaurants and bank accounts in America. And he wouldn’t have let at least two key Hezbollah defendants flee the country. On the other hand, he must have thought the charges were serious enough that he allowed his Hezbo buddies to flee the country.
Stephen Murphy III, Hezbollah’s U.S. Attorney. Your tax dollars and “Justice” Department at work.

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Wake up and smell the Jihad. Wake up and smell the Sharia.
Two Midwestern developments that should wake up all Americans because they portend of things to come for our entire nation:
* Illinois Muslims have succeeded in getting a public school district — Ridgeland School District of Oak Lawn, Illinois in suburban Chicago — to eliminate all pig products form the school cafeteria. And they’ve gotten the schools to eliminate Halloween and Christmas parties. Will you just stand by as this happens?:

So long, Halloween parade. Farewell, Santa’s gift shop.
The holiday traditions are facing elimination in some Oak Lawn schools this year after complaints that the activities are offensive, particularly to Muslim students.
Final decisions on which of the festivities will be axed will fall to the principals at each of Ridgeland School District 122’s five schools, Supt. Tom Smyth said.
Parents expect that the announcement is going to add to the tension that has been building since officials agreed earlier this month to change the lunch menu to exclude items containing pork to accommodate Muslim students. News that Jell-O was struck from the menu caused such a stir that officials have agreed to bring it back. Gelatin is often made with tissue or bones of pigs or other animals.
That controversy now appears to have been been dwarfed by the holiday debate, which became so acrimonious Wednesday that police were called to Columbus Manor School to intervene in a shouting match among parents.
“It’s difficult when you change the school’s culture,” said Columbus Manor Principal Sandy Robertson.
Elizabeth Zahdan, a mother of three District 122 students, says she took her concerns to the school board this month, not because she wanted to do away with the traditions, but rather to make them more inclusive. “I only wanted them modified to represent everyone,” she said. . . .
There’s just not time in the six-hour school day to celebrate every holiday, said Smyth, who sent the message to principals that they need to “tone down” the activities that he sees as eating too much into instructional time. “We have to think about our purpose,” Smyth said. “We have to think about our purpose,” Smyth said. “Are we about teaching reading, writing and math or for parties or fund-raising during the day?”
[DS: So glad he’s suddenly concerned about the “Three Rs”. Where was he on those before the Muslims whined?]
Robertson is hoping to strike compromises that will keep traditions alive and be culturally acceptable to all students — nearly half of whom are of Arab descent at Columbus Manor, she says. Fewer than a third of students districtwide are of Arab descent, according to Smyth.

* Muslims in Reagan Country a/k/a Macomb County, Michigan (which used to be home to the “Reagan Democrats”) are distributing anti-Christian and anti-Semitic literature and it barely gets a notice in a very tiny local paper (the low-circulation Macomb Daily). Interestingly, this happened just a few months after the opening of the first mosque in Macomb County. Hmmm . . . I’m sure that had nothing to do with this. It’s a “Religion of Peace”:

Police said anti-Jewish and anti-Christian fliers were found on cars parked in a lot on the northwest corner of 15 Mile and Ryan roads.
Sterling Heights police Detective Sgt. Paul Jesperson said three separate complaints were filed by residents Tuesday who found the fliers on their windshields.
He said the flier said: “Kill Jews and Christians if they don’t believe in Allah and Mohammad.”
It further advises people to “Fight those who do not believe.”
“I really don’t know what it means other than suggesting violence to Jews and Christians,” Jesperson said. “We certainly have no intentions of stifling someone’s religious beliefs but it is most certainly a violation of the law if you’re condoning violence with this hate literature.”
[DS: I’m sure the word “violence” has “many interpretations,” just like “Jihad.”]
Jesperson said police received three complaints and the fliers were seen on at least 15 other cars in the parking lot.
He said there was no damage to the cars and no one else filed a complaint.
“I would imagine many people thought this was some type of advertising flier and didn’t even read it,” Jesperson said.
[DS: Would he be this dismissive if it was an anti-Muslim flier?]
Sam Richardson, who was shopping at the Kroger store on Tuesday, saw the flier on his windshield while walking to his car and asked his 11-year-old daughter to remove it.
He said she walked toward him while she was reading the flier and then she started crying.
“She asked me what the flier was all about,” said Richardson, an electrician at General Motors. “I tried to explain to her what it meant and I then had to explain it to my 7-year-old son.”
The operators of the New Sahara restaurant, located near the Kroger store, said they are Chaldean Catholics and do not condone violence against others who have opposite religious beliefs.
[DS: Uh, Chaldeans (Iraqi Catholics, who are, indeed, Christians and are mostly friendly with Jews)) don’t do this. Muslims do.]
Jay, a longtime waiter at Sahara, said he was unaware of the fliers.
“These are touchy times and I don’t want my name used,” said Jay. “But we are peace-loving people who love the United States and feel all people can live here harmoniously.”
Richardson said it is hard for a parent to explain to his children why some people want to kill others simply because of religious disagreements. He told his son and daughter that regardless of their feelings about another individual, a person in the United States has a right to practice any religion.
“We try to protect our children but we cannot shield them from all of the hate in this world,” said Richardson, a Sterling Heights resident. “The person who put this flier on my car saying someone should be killed understandably upset my daughter and son.”
Police said they will continue to investigate the fliers.

But don’t worry about these Muslims getting prosecuted by authorities the way Christians and Jews would be if they did the same. Recently, anti-Muslim lit (which I think the Muslims fabricated for victimhood, as they often do) was a cause celebre when it was “sent to” (a/k/a probably fabricated by) the usual suspects, ADC’s “former” Islamic Terrorist-in-chief, Imad Hamad, and CAIR Michigan chief and Nation of Islam acolyte, Dawud Walid.
In both those cases, it was all over the TV, both of Detroit’s major newspapers, etc. Not the case in this instance. Because Infidels don’t count. Only Muslims do.
So, what is it that Muslims are always saying about how theirs is a “Religion of Tolerance”?
The only tolerance you get with Islam is that which they expect from you, as they take your rights, your religion, and your country away from you . . . while you watch.
Don’t expect any tolerance from them in return. Or you’ll be waiting an eternity.

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Interviewing Jerry Seinfeld, this afternoon.
It’s supposed to be about his new animated movie, “Bee Movie.” But they haven’t restricted what I can ask. Post your questions for him in the comments section and will try to get to to some of them.

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Several of my Dearbornistan friends and spies were at the preliminary exam of
Pathetic and predictable, my Deabornistanite Infidels tell me that the prosecutor was adamant that we can’t be sure what the word “jihad” means. That’s a typical Islamist line to cover up what we all know jihad actually means as it is used against America: Holy War involving violence. (Yes, I know that jihad means “struggle.”)

Houssein Zorkot:
Dearbornistan Hezbollah Terrorist Meant “Peace & Love” By Jihad
Why is that important? Well, on the day that Zorkot was arrested in camouflage with an AK-47 in Dearbornistan’s Hemlock Park, he had just posted on his site, “The Start of My Personal Jihad (in the U.S.)” with a picture of a man in camouflage pointing a machine gun at the viewer. Clearly, his jihad against the U.S. involved an AK-47 and violence.
Yet, the limp prosecutor–speaking in favor of upholding the $1,000,000 bond for Zorkot told :

Your honor, Mr. Zorkot posted information about jihad on his website that day. And your honor, we all know that “jihad” has so many interpretations. We all know that word has so many meanings and we’re still trying to find out just what he meant by that. We’re still investigating.

Houssein Zorkot’s “Personal Jihad (in the U.S.)”: How Many Interpretations Are There to This? . . .

Geez, with investigators like that, no wonder we’re in trouble. FYI, we’re lucky that Judge Hultgren has been charged (and awaits a formal hearing) by the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission for accepting bribes. Otherwise, Zorkot’s lawyers (which include Islamist lawyer for terrorists ) would be able to pay Hultgren off and get Zorkot freed. That was standard Hultgren procedure until now. And frankly, Hultgren should have been suspended from the bench until he is tried.
My Dearbornistan Infidel friends also tell me that the prosecutor announced that Zorkot’s mother lives in South Lebanon a/k/a Hezbollah Country and that Wayne State University told the medical student that he’s no longer welcome on campus.
The Dhimmi Dearborn Press and Guide, of course, did not mention the prosecutor’s pandering comments about jihad, but has some of the same and a little more, though not much more.
Of note, police found photos of Zorkot in front of the , which I wrote about . Who took the photos? Probably not him. This tells me that he has a partner in all of this Hezbollah activity. Are the FBI and Dearbornistan Police looking for that partner or trying to determine who took those photos? Don’t bet on it.
And, FYI, how appropriate that Zorkot was arraigned on September 11th. My favorite part of the police report is that he had a copy of the movie, “The Neverending Story” a/k/a “Tales from the Neverending Story.” Hilarious. It’s a kids movie, and watch for Zorkot’s attorneys (who read this site) to seize on that as evidence that he was disturbed, especially since it’s the tale of a kid whose fanciful imagination grows upon the death of his mother (again, Zorkot’s mommy is alive and well in Hezbo country).
Also of note, our favorite “former” terrorist/U.S. citizen, FBI award revokee, and ICE crony, , predictably stands up for the terrorist. Can you imagine a Christian or Jewish group demanding we not rush to judgment if we found one of their co-religionists training with an AK-47 in an American park after declaring war on America? Wouldn’t happen:

Zorkot was arrested about 8:04 p.m. Sept. 8 after police were contacted by three men who saw him carrying a firearm in the north end of Hemlock Park between Schaefer and Oakman.
Zorkot was allegedly dressed in dark clothing and wearing black face paint when officers approached his 2007 Ford Explorer, which was parked in a space near the tree line in the park’s west lot. The vehicle was already running, police said.
Officers approached the vehicle, which proceeded to pull out of the parking space and head northbound toward the park’s entrance. Police were able to block the vehicle in before it was able to leave the park.
When approached by officers, Zorkot opened the driver’s side door, but remained in the vehicle. He then asked officers why they had stopped him and said, “You guys are always harassing me.”
During the confrontation, officers saw Zorkot lower his right hand toward the center console, which was out of view. According to police reports, officers feared Zorkot was reaching for a weapon and grabbed his left wrist while ordering him to exit the vehicle.
An officer at the scene observed the AK-47 in the vehicle’s back seat, and alerted her fellow officers that he was armed. Zorkot was then forcibly removed from the vehicle through the driver’s side door ‚Äî although he initially refused to let go of the door.
When he refused to release the door, officers struck Zorkot’s arm once with a plastic flashlight; however, he still refused to let go.
Officers used a Taser, which struck Zorkot between his shoulder blades. The electrical jolt caused him to fall to the ground, where he began rolling back and forth while yelling “Ali Ackbed.”
When Zorkot refused to comply with officers’ orders, he was stunned again and taken into custody. As police placed him into the back of a patrol vehicle, he allegedly said: “You think this is over? This is not over.”
Evidence technicians then searched his vehicle and found two pairs of cloth gloves; a military combat belt with a canteen and two knives; boots with socks; a receipt for the AK-47 rifle and ammunition; a gunlock and keys; a list of metropolitan Detroit shooting ranges; numerous photographs of Zorkot standing in front of a briefcase containing a laptop; and a cell phone.
Two cameras, a portable AM/FM radio, a pair of binoculars, four computer CDs, an Army surplus bag, a camouflage face paint kit, a Lebanese flag, a VCR cassette of “The Never Ending Story,” and eight prepaid international phone cards were also found inside the vehicle.
Based on the statements he made at time of his arrest, and the materials found inside his vehicle, a search warrant was issued for Zorkot’s home. Dearborn police have partnered with the FBI in Detroit to examine the items seized during that search.
Zorkot was arraigned Sept. 11 in 19th District Court on two felony charges — including one count of carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent and one count felony firearm — as well as one count of possession of a loaded firearm, a misdemeanor. If convicted of the charges against him, Zorkot could be sentenced to up to nine years in prison.
Sept. 21, the Dearborn resident waived his right to a preliminary examination within 14 days of his arraignment. He is scheduled to return to court Nov. 9 after undergoing a psychological evaluation that will determine his competency and criminal responsibility in the case.
Calls to Zorkot’s attorney, Gerald J. Gleeson II, were not returned by the Press & Guide’s Friday deadline.
According to police, Zorkot does not have a criminal record and has not been identified as a terrorist. He has also not been linked to any terrorist group – including Hezbollah, which he openly supports on his Web site, www.zorkot.org.
“Expressing sympathy for something is not a crime and it does not make one a terrorist,” said Imad Hamad, regional director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. [DS: Uh-huh. Hamad is an example that this isn’t true. He was a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist and expressed it quite frequently in this country, while he helped the organization.]
“We are still learning the facts in this case and it is important not to rush to judgment. Clearly, this was an unfortunate incident perpetrated by a disturbed individual ‚Äî but I fear that some may try to use it to further anti-Arab and anti-immigrant sentiments. I pray that is not the case.” [DS: “Disturbed”? Riiight. As disturbed as Mohammed Atta.]
Zorkot is of Lebanese descent, but has resided in Dearborn for several years with his father. His mother resides in Lebanon. Zorkot previously attended medical school at Wayne State University; however, the school has severed its ties with him following his arrest.
“He is no longer welcome on their campus,” said Dearborn Detective Sgt. Ronald Beggs.
The university has declined to comment on the case.
Zorkot remains in custody on a $1 million cash bond. The bond, which Gleeson argued was excessively high given the nature of the charges against his client, was set Sept. 11 by 19th District Judge Mark Somers and upheld Sept. 21 by Judge William Hultgren.

Good luck, America. If this is the limp way we treat terrorists–and it is–we have already lost. It’s just a matter of slowing the complete growth of the cancer.
Too late to stop it.

Who Took The Photos?: Houssein Zorkot
Had Photos of Himself in Front of This Hezbollah Billboard in Windsor