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Yesterday, I screened the upcoming propaganda release, “Rendition,” which has a didactic message against torturing of “alleged” Muslim terrorists.

Artwork by David Lunde/Lundesigns
Like I’ve said about so many other of these propaganda films coming out of Hollywood these days, this one, too, is high quality Bin Laden cinema. Wouldn’t be surprised if the writer, producers, and director are all card-carrying members of the ACLU Politburo. It stars Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal (whose homely sister, ), his “brother-in-law” (not sure what you actually call the person who fathered a kid out of wedlock with your sister, other than “scumbag”) Peter Sarsgaard (he’s the same guy who ), Meryl Streep, and Alan Arkin.
Gone is the cute Reese Witherspoon of “Legally Blonde” days. She’s no longer the strong but feminine woman of “Sweet Home Alabama” and other films. Now, she’s a dhimmi (the status of a non-Muslim in a Muslim society)–the blonde apologist for Islamic extremists and Noam Chomsky types by lending her name and acting to this propaganda-fest. Shame on her. I thought the “Rendition” movie name and poster were not accurate. I liked my ideas far better and asked David Lunde make these two above (can’t decide which one is more accurate). Of course, since they (Muslims) hate dogs, maybe we should have shown a beheaded Chihuahua.
The gist of the movie is that an innocent Egyptian Muslim living in America is wrongly accused of being a terrorist, kidnapped by the CIA, and tortured (waterboarded, beaten, electrocuted). The Egyptian is married to Reese Witherspoon in the movie.
And she tells all who will listen that her Egyptian Muslim husband (who still is not a U.S. citizen after 20 years here) could not possibly be a terrorist because “he coaches [his son’s] soccer team, has a green card, pays his taxes.” Because terrorists would never do that, right? I’m sure all those HAMAS soccer teams in Gaza are associate with HAMAS the peace group, instead of HAMAS the terrorist group.
Terrorists love this kind of movie because it makes their job easier. It softens the Oprah-cized American public and makes them scowl at torture of what are almost always real terrorists who want to kill us. Of course, in this movie, there is no not-so-innocent Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. As we know, he is not an innocent Muslim living in America. He was Al-Qaeda’s top director of terrorist planning and operations for Bin Laden who was tortured by waterboarding and other means, and because of it, we learned of terrorist plots and plans that were stopped.
The real “Rendition” movie poster, below, reads: “What If Someone You Love . . . Just Disappeared?” But it should really say: “What If Someone You Love . . . Was Just Murdered by An Islamic Terrorist Who Didn’t Disappear?”
But you won’t see that in this movie, which debuts October 19th. It’s a little too close to Halloween then to tell the real story. So instead they bring you costumes and costumed reality about innocent Muslims tortured for nothing.
We know the real story. It’s a shame Hollywood won’t tell it.

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Here’s a story for whining feminists who claim men have it better.
Meet Ashley Qualls. She’s everything that’s great about America and our free enterprise system.
Well, almost everything. Despite a 3.9 GPA, she dropped out of high school during sophomore year to concentrate on her business.

Ashley Qualls: Teen Millionaire is Success Because of Risk, Hard Work,
NOT Feminist Whining
But in Qualls’ rare case, her dropping out paid off. After an $8 dollar investment in a website domain name–WhateverLife.com–Qualls (of the Detroit area) now has a business that is bringing in millions and owns her own home (which she bought when she was 16). And she’s only 17. Her website is ranked #825 in traffic, out of the entire Internet.
The best part: It’s ahead of (and gets more traffic than) Oprah.com . . . and, sadly, my site, OprahSucks.com, too. Her site has brought in over a million dollars in ad revenue, and her mother and best friends are now on her payroll. She even got legally emancipated to be able to legally sign contacts on her own (without a parent). She’s been offered $5 million for her business, but refuses to sell just yet.
Qualls will be on annoying anti-male yenta-fest “The View” on Friday and is in New York meeting with top ad execs for advertising on her site. She gets 250,000 unique visitors a day.
So what does Qualls have on her website that makes it garner so much attention: She is a web designer who creates designs to decorate MySpace pages. And it’s all free. Very soon, she’ll introduce a line of screens and designs for cellphones. Qualls taught herself computer programming, code, and other language and is a self-described computer geek.
Why do I like this story? Two reasons:
1) Because it shows that in America, anything is possible. Anyone from any background–even a teen from a low-income, working class area (from which Qualls emanated)–can make it big through risk (though I don’t recommend dropping out of high school), talent, and hard work.
The free enterprise system and entrepreneurial spirit is part of what makes America great.
2) While feminists and academics continue to whine about a “high-tech gender gap in computer science”–the subject of a Monday Associated Press story–Ashley Qualls isn’t whining. She’s showing that there actually isn’t a gender gap at all for those who work at it instead of whine.

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Look for spineless, easily charmed U.S. Senators of both parties to vote in favor of the confirmation of incompetent, unqualified joke and Immigration and Customs Enforcement chieftess at 10:00 a.m. Eastern, this morning. It will be yet more proof positive that incompetence and mediocrity are not solely the commodity of the Bush Administration and pandering Republicans, but the deceptively-named “loyal opposition”–the Democrats–too.

Clueless–U.S. Senate Edition . . .

U.S. Senate As Clueless As The ICE Princess
(Clueless Julie Myers courtesy of David A. Lunde)
Even liberal Dem Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon said he would spend last night “reflecting” on whether to press . You see, this is why I hate “sensitive men.” We don’t need male Senators who spend the night “reflecting” amidst scented candles and Yanni music. We need male Senators who are warriors and who don’t want incompetent Veruca Salts with connections running one of the most vital national security and law enforcement functions: immigration enforcement. Sensitive men always cave, and that’s why they get treated like Rodney Dangerfield: no respect. I’m hearing the Minnie Riperton song in the background of Wyden’s “reflection” on the Myers nomination, last night.

Lib Dem Senator Ron Wyden “Reflecting” Overnight
on The ICE Princess Nomination
And don’t look for immigration enforcement to get better in the lame duck days of this selfish mom whose kid is being raised by nannies while she and her husband remain in long-hours positions on the government dole. Look for it to get worse. During the hearings, The ICE Princess told Senators that the only way to round up and deport illegal aliens was for her to get a $94 billion budget. (I want a golden ticket and I want it now.) She already has $4 billion. That should be enough. But the $4 billion is squandered on things like week-long Tommy Lasorda parties and stuffed monkeys and keychains. $94 billion would only geometrically multiply that waste . . . and her and her top minions’ incompetence.
So, look for this morning’s vote to be more of the same . . . incompetence, inexperience, intransigence. Besides Myers, her husband, and her top incompetent subordinates (all of whom are laughing all the way to the bank), there’s a large group of 20 million who are laughing, too, and sitting pretty. . .

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Time and Tide Wait for No Man . . . or Sports Illustrated bikini model.

Cheryl Tiegs: Turns 60 Today
FYI, when the Sports Illustrated Saudi Arabia burqini model turns 60, there won’t be any note of it here. She looked 60 at age 30. Although SI’s swimsuit edition has turned in to lascivious softcore Playboy, with lots of nudity, the original idea–with women in tasteful, yet sexy swimsuits–was something that separated our society from their repression, where the sight of a toenail turns some would-be terrorist on and drives him to rape.

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It often upsets me when someone, commenting on a terrorism issue, says, “Well, I’m Jewish, and I think . . .” or “Well, so-and-so is Jewish, and it doesn’t bother him/her . . .” The fact is terrorism is NOT a Jewish issue. It is EVERYONE’S issue, especially all Americans.

Robert Cohen & Sharona Shapiro:
Ahmadinejad’s Jewish American Dupes
Jews have neither the monopoly on the issue–as one would hope the 9/11 attacks finally proved to those who thought it’s a Jewish thing-nor the sole expertise. In fact, as I’ve noted on this site, far too many of my prominent fellow co-religionists are witting enablers of terrorists and their supporters on our own soil. They call it “outreach.” And if they were around in the 1930s and ’40s, they’d be supping on wienerschnitzel with members of the Nazi fan club known as the German American Bund, while their co-religionists in Auschwitz became lampshades and ash.
These days, mainstream Jewish leaders who claim to represent me are claiming they are against today’s Hitler, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Yet, at the same time, they are helping his agents here in America. I’m not talking about the Neturei Karta rabbis, the small group of fringe rabbis who’ve hung out with Ahmadinejad at his Holocaust confab in Tehran and who have been denounced by all denominations of Judaism. They don’t count.
I’m talking about Jewish leaders–especially two emblematic ones here in the Detroit area–who have the big bucks of the Jewish Welfare Federation a/k/a United Jewish Communities behind them. In most Jewish communities in major American cities, that’s the unelected, self-appointed, left-wing-dominated umbrella group for most Jewish groups in town.
Specifically, I refer to and , two individuals who over the years have claimed–and continue to claim–to speak for me as a Jewish American. They don’t, nor do they speak for more than a handful of Jews. That’s why it’s distressing that, yesterday, Mr. Cohen–who is Executive Director of the Jewish Community Council (an organization my late paternal grandfather once headed)–helped lead a rally against Ahmadinejad at the Detroit-area Holocaust Memorial Center (founded and headed by my cousin) . . . while at the same time he’s breaking pita with Ahmadinejad’s well-known anti-Semitic American agents. The calorically-gifted Ms. Shapiro, until recently the headmistress of the local American Jewish Committee, also does the same.
Just after last summer’s Hezbollah war and accompanying Dearbornistan rallies of tens of thousands in support, Mr. Cohen stating that he will continue to reach out to Iranian-influenced Shi’ite extremist leaders in town because “Christians want us to” (which Christians?) and because we must do that “to keep our community safe.” Baloney. In fact, Cohen’s letter sounds ironically identical to the lecturing we heard over the weekend from Columbia Prez Dean Bollinger and Dean John Coatsworth about the need to “engage in . . . discussion” and “dialogue” with Ahmadinejad.
Ms. Shapiro spoke with the Detroit newspapers also stating that outreach was in order. On Passover, she even holds a joint Jewish-Muslim Passover Seder at her house in swanky West Bloomfield, Michigan. I guess she forgot that Passover is about celebrating freedom, NOT dhimmitude.
And both of them continue to reach out to Imams Hassan Qazwini and Mohammed Ali Elahi, both supporters and defenders of Ahmadinejad. They are the two most prominent Shi’ite clerics in town and also throughout North America. But both are not only extremists who support Mahmoudstock, but both have been photographed visiting their buddy, Hezbollah spiritual leader Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah. In addition, Elahi was sent here by the Khomeini government he once served as spiritual leader of its Navy (and Hezbollah officials), in order to radicalize the Shi’ite congregants at his former mosque (now Qazwini’s), the Islamic Center of America.
Despite all of that–despite their open, vocal support for Ahmadinejad, Hezbollah, HAMAS, etc.–both Mr. Cohen and Ms. Shapiro (whom I’ve appropriately dubbed the verbal Monica Lewinsky to extremist Islam) continue to send out missives and notes urging “dialogue” and “outreach” with these two imams, who are known agents of the current Government of Iran. Shapiro even offered to pay for minor damage to Elahi’s mosque, when a drunken person threw a bottle through a side-door window. When Showtime debuted its excellent series, “,” she The woman is an Islamist-groupie. In 1940, she’d have been a coppo at the concentration camp.
Yesterday, Cohen told the Detroit Free Press:

Iran must be stopped, must be deterred from acquiring nuclear weapons. It is the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism. It denies the Holocaust. It threatens the state of Israel and the whole world.

If you truly believe this, Robert Cohen, then why do you pander to those who believe the same and live here in the Detroit area? Why do you pander to those who have openly stated that they are agents of this madman? Why?
Because you are a phony.
Frankly, while I am extremely troubled that the modern-day Hitler, Ahmadinejad, was welcomed to Columbia U and given a platform, I find the support these two unelected Jewish leaders give to Ahmadinejad’s U.S. agents to be far more troubling. Mahmoud and his entourage will go home to Tehran, but Elahi and Qazwini will not. They will continue to remain here and influence minions upon minions in the Iranian Shi’ite agenda of hatred, as they have been doing. And their congregants–like Hezbollah financier Talal Chahine and his convicted honor-murderer son Khalil Chahine–will continue to do Ahmadinejad’s bidding.
And these two super-duper dupes–Robert Cohen and Sharona Shapiro–will continue to legitimize them.
Given this, all the rallies in the world against Ahmadinejad at Holocaust museums don’t make a whit of difference.
In fact, they are just a charade. If you can’t connect the dots, get out of the playground.
These Jews don’t speak for me. And they don’t speak for you on terrorism, either.

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“Is this America?” That’s the question a sharp friend of mine asked after snapping this shot at the at the Dearbornistan Starbucks off Michigan Avenue, near Oakwood Blvd. That’s significant because this friend of mine is in the belly of the beast of Dearbornistan and has been for years. He’s seen all of the Islamicization of the area. So, if this piques his interest, it should certainly pique ours.
Coming soon–in a few generations–to the rest of America.

Dearbornistan Starbucks: It’s JihaDelicious
Wonder what Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz thinks about this, since he’s been . I’m sure he thinks it’s just great, since–as I’ve noted previously–he removed the Starbucks woman on the insignia in Saudi Arabia Starbucks stores, lest she turn on and offend sex-starved, repressed Islamic extremists there (and the Mutawa’in–the religious police).
I’ll have a Pumpkin-spiced Jihadi-ccino with whipped cream. How ’bout you?

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I’m all for personal restraint or self-restraint in diets. But there’s a reason the words “personal” and “self” come before restraint. You make the choice what you will eat and whether you will exercise. Not somebody else.
But that’s not the case with senior citizens at the senior center in Mahopac, New York. They had to organize a picket to demonstrate the seizure of their free donuts. Apparently, caregivers there think that the seniors cannot make their own decisions regarding nutrition and a healthy diet.
Them, now; you, next? More from AP:

It was just another morning at the senior center: Women were sewing, men were playing pool – and seven demonstrators, average age 76, were picketing outside, demanding doughnuts.
They wore sandwich boards proclaiming, “Give Us Our Just Desserts” and “They’re Carbs, Not Contraband.”
At issue is a decision to refuse free doughnuts, pies and bread that were being donated to senior centers around Putnam County, north of New York City. Officials were concerned that the county was setting a bad nutritional precedent by providing mounds of doughnuts and other sweets to seniors.
The picketers said they were objecting not to a lack of sweets but that they weren’t consulted about the ban.
“Lack of respect is what it’s all about,” said Joe Hajkowski, 75, a former labor union official who organized the demonstration. He said officials had implied that seniors were gorging themselves on jelly doughnuts and were too senile to make the choice for themselves.
“I’m 86, not 8,” added C. Michael Sibilia.
Inside, some seniors said they missed the doughnuts but others said they were glad to see them go.
“It was disgusting the way people went after them,” said 80-year-old Rita Jorgensen. “I think the senior center did them a favor by taking it away.”
Stan Tuttle, coordinator of nutritional services for the county’s Office for the Aging, said the program had gotten out of control. As many as 16 cases of breads, cakes and pastries were delivered, by various means, to the William Koehler Memorial Senior Center each day. Some were moldy and some had been stored overnight in the trunks of volunteers’ cars, he said.
Caregivers there and elsewhere say the doughnut debate illustrates the difficulty of balancing nutrition and choice when providing meals to the elderly.
“Senior citizens can walk down to the store and buy doughnuts. Nobody’s stopping them,” said Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington.
But he notes that older people have high rates of heart disease and high blood pressure and says senior citizen centers, nursing homes and assisted-living centers should not be worsening the health problems of seniors.

Unless you are mentally incapacitated, nobody else should get to decide what you eat. Just don’t make me pay for your healthcare after the fact.

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If you want to teach your kids something other than “Do as I say, not as I do,” don’t buy them the latest issue (October) of National Geographic Kids.
The magazine’s first “Green Issue” not only bears environmental activist/actress Cameron Diaz on the cover, but she’s the “guest editor,” and inside, she offers your kiddies tips for becoming environmentally active:

Cameron Diaz on the Environment: Do As I Say, NOT As I Do

“I wash the plastic wrap after I use it, but I also do things like put a plate over the bowl instead of plastic wrap. I just try to figure out how to do things differently so it’s better for the environment.” Also making an appearance are Diaz’s Shrek the Third co-stars, who share what they’re doing to protect the planet.

Um, washing and reusing plastic wrap could actually be hazardous, as the polyphenols from plastic could leach into food with each re-use. No thanks, Cameron.
And the prob is, there are even better tips to saving energy, which she herself hasn’t thought of apparently. Therefore, I’ve compiled a list of environment-friendly rules for her:
1) Give up blow-drier use. Too much energy usage is bad for the environment.
2) The end of hair color and make-up. Harmful bleaches leech into the water AND the soil. Ditto for the make-up when you wash it off. Pollutes the water.
3) No more Hollywood movies. Those large studio sets use a lot of energy. And those lights and cameras. Oy, the energy they sap from our world.
4) You’re putting that manse up for sale. Right, Cameron? What? You mean there’s nothing wrong with heating and air-conditioning 5,000-plus square feet? And displacing those animals from their natural habitat in Malibu or Hollywood Hills or wherever? A big no-no, chickie. Time to move back to man’s original caves for you, my dear.
5) Must wear same gown or, at least, used clothes to every awards dinner/ceremony. Oh, I see. You didn’t realize the vast amount of energy used and environmental damage caused in order to create fabric, color your gowns? No more custom-made haute couture for you, hun.
6) No more condoms. Used latex pollutes the environment. They get into the sewers and water. So no more, whether it’s with Justin Timberlake or whatever flavor with which she’s sleeping, this week. In a giggly video interview on the National Geographic Kids site, Diaz urges all kids to follow her lead in donating their used running shoes in order to recycle the rubber in our world. Therefore, I urge her to follow suit with her used condoms. We hear she contributes her fair share to the Hollywood sewer and septic arena.
And that is anything but “green.”
And it’s a pollutant that surely contributes to global warming, child abuse, the War in Iraq, and every other malady in existence that she and her friends have blamed on conservatives. (You’ll recall that she told Oprah that if we don’t vote, rape will be legal in America; so, I’m just using her logic, though mine makes far more sense.)

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Since I’m not a hunter (my religion forbids hunting for sport and my religious dietary laws require food has to be slaughtered and killed in captivity, not by a bullet), I don’t know a lot about masking human scents from animals when you hunt. But I can a mile away.
Some hunters are suing a sporting goods maker because they claim that hunting clothing purporting to mask the human scent didn’t work. Like I said, I don’t know anything about hunting, but it smells a little fishy to me, since the hunters are suing at least 23 different parties, including all of the major hunting equipment retailers (Cabela’s, Gander Mountain, Bass Pro Shops).

Scent-Lok Hunting Gear Under Fire . . . From Lawyers
With or without their vests, I can smell the scent of sleazy lawyers looking to make a class-action killing from hunting down big hunting industry companies with deep pockets whom they believe will settle to get rid of it:

Four Minnesota hunters are suing a Muskegon Township clothing manufacturer and the nation’s largest outdoors retailers, claiming that clothing they bought to mask the human scent doesn’t work, and that hunters have been defrauded for years.
The lawsuit was filed this month in federal court in Minneapolis against ALS Enterprises Inc. of Muskegon Township, which produces and licenses “Scent-Lok” clothing sold under that name and others. The lawsuit says the company is the largest maker of such clothing and licenses it to at least 22 others, including Gander Mountain Co., Cabela’s Inc., Bass Pro Shops Inc. and Browning Arms Co. — which are also named as defendants.
The lawsuit claims the five businesses conspired to deceive consumers and suppressed and concealed the truth. “Consumers have been duped into spending significant amounts of money on a product that does not work as represented,” it says.
The lawsuit was filed by Mike Buetow of Shakopee, Theodore Carlson of Edina, Gary Richardson Jr. of St. Paul and Joe Rohrbach of Shakopee. Attorneys are seeking class-action status, saying “tens of thousands” of Minnesota hunters have been deceived into buying millions of dollars of odor-eliminating clothing.
A spokesman for Gander Mountain declined to comment. Mike Andrews, vice president of marketing for ALS, said the lawsuit is without merit and the company would fight it.
“We’ve done years of research … we have hundreds of testimonials from consumers over the years,” he said. “We know it works. And we’re excited about the opportunity to prove to the world once and for all how effective our product is.”
He added that the company has a written guarantee that says hunters will experience “unalarmed wild animals downwind.”
“You don’t build this kind of business on something that’s not true,” Andrews told The Minneapolis Star Tribune.
The products are tested by Intertek Testing Services in Cortland, N.Y., and ALS says the tests, and other studies, show the fabric works as claimed. ALS is a privately held company, and isn’t required to reveal sales figures.
Buetow, a bow hunter, said attorneys advised the plaintiffs not to talk about the case.
But the question of whether such clothing works has been the topic of Internet chat rooms for about a year.
ALS has created a new section on the company’s Web site to explain how its fabric hides human odors. . . .
ALS is a privately held company, and Andrews wouldn’t reveal sales figures, but some have estimated the activated carbon hunting clothing business may be worth $100 million annually, the Star Tribune reported.
Scent-Lok is a uniquely Muskegon product and local business success story. The company at 1731 Wierengo in Muskegon Township has been producing the activated charcoal hunting clothing since 1991. . . .
A Minnesotan — T.R. Michels, 57, of Burnsville, an outdoor writer, author, hunting guide and frequent hunting seminar speaker who has his own Website — acknowledges he is responsible for raising much of the stink about the products.

So, to those who read this site and hunt, what do you think? Does “Scent-Lok” clothing not work? It actually sounds to me like using it–if it does work–is cheating. Am I wrong?
What do you make of this seemingly undue litigation? I’ve written extensively about lawsuits like this. They end up getting certified as class actions and the only ones who make out in the end are the lawyers. The plaintiff “victims” get a coupon or a few scents on the dollar, the price of the product–in this case, Scent-Lok clothing–goes up for everyone.
And it’s a complete waste of time and legal system resources . . . for everyone except, again, the lawyers.

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Okay, so he’s not the real King of Pop, they just share the same name. And the same lack of any experience whatsoever in law enforcement. Instead, this Michael Jackson is the King of Flop–well, the Deputy King of Flop, anyway–at the Department of Homeland Security. He announced he’s resigning from his perch atop Homeland Security as the real-life Smithers to the real-life Mr. Burns.

Michael Jackson, Deputy DHS Secretary or Michael Jackson, Bizarre Muslim Pop Singer: Hard to Tell Which One was Running Homeland Security
He says he needs to make more money than the $200K-plus in benefits and salary that he already collected for doing . . . well, not much. He’s the guy that announced the . Also, the guy that sent out . Hung out with Chertoff when their eager subordinate . Stuff like that.
Hard to believe he can find more money and a better job than the phony one he occupied courtesy of Uncle Sam. Like all the other top dogs at DHS, he had zero law enforcement experience when he came there, and it showed in spades. He was a lobbyist and bureaucrat. That’s where he should have remained.
Michael Jackson, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, was the deputy overseeing so much incompetence at Homeland Security, it was really hard to tell which Michael Jackson was actually running the place: the Black-turned-White Michael Jackson from “Thriller” or the White-from-birth unthrilling Michael Jackson.
Frankly, I liked a whole lot better. And I bet that actor would have run the place a whole lot better than the actors that are there now.
Good riddance, Michael P. Jackson. Say “Hi” to Germaine and Tito for me on the way out. Now, if only you would take the Serpenthead and The ICE Princess with you.