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Congratulations, Jenna Bush. You, too, have joined the PC crowd. Wow, your parents really taught you well.
Presidential twin daughter Jenna Bush is publishing a new book she wants your young kids to read, and–surprise!–its heroine is a teen single mother with AIDS. So much for your kids having a childhood.
The partying, drinking Bush twin thinks your kids need to “put a face on statistics” of AIDS in Latin America. And take action. Gee someone’s been listening to too much Bono hypocrisy. And forgot about America.
And Bush has the audacity to tell USA Today that she envisions her teen-single-mother-with-AIDS book as having the same influence as Anne Frank’s The Diary of Anne Frank. She compares her book and its topic to two books on the Holocaust, including Frank’s. She even named her single-teen-mother-with-AIDS heroine Ana, a Latino version of Anne.

Jenna Bush:
The “New Anne Frank” Changes Underwear in Public, in Drunken State
Memo to Jenna: Get a clue. Anne Frank and most of her family were rounded up and murdered–NOT because they slept around as teenagers and had unprotected sex, but because they were born Jews. Period. To compare Frank’s murder in a concentration camp to a teenager who has sex, gets pregnant, and gets AIDS is a little absurd. As evidenced by her diary, her teen years were spent in a cramped attic hiding from Nazis. Sorry, Jenna Airhead, the AIDS and poverty in Latin America is hardly the same as the Holocaust, which was mass genocide.
Bush got the idea for this silly book from her time on a UNICEF internship. Proving again that no participant in UN programs goes uninfected.
Yep, another Presidential daughter bites the dust. I used to think she was unfairly criticized by the media, but now they’re predictably gushing over her–she’s taken up their causes in spades.
Jenna, we liked you better when you were the Paris Hilton of the Bush White House.
More on this exercise in the ludicrous from USA Today:

Jenna Bush, in a rare interview, says her forthcoming book for teens – about a 17-year-old single mother in Panama who is living with HIV – will end with a “call to action.”
HarperCollins announces today that it’s publishing Bush’s “Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope” this fall. . . .
The president’s daughter, 25, says the book is not political. It’s aimed at “getting kids thinking and involved,” Bush said Monday by phone from Panama, where she has worked since September as an unpaid intern for UNICEF.
Bush, a former public school teacher in Washington, D.C., says: “I’m aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I’m very lucky.”
But, Bush says, “there’s so much they can do” to deal with issues of “exclusion” – from research on HIV discrimination to “inviting new kids to sit with them in the cafeteria.”
The book grew out of her UNICEF job to “put a face on statistics” and document the lives of children in Central and South America who live in extreme poverty.
Jenna and her sister, Barbara (who works at a New York museum), have tried to avoid publicity and have been protected by the White House. But, she says, “I’m willing to give up some of my anonymity” to promote the book and “start a dialogue with kids.”
A book tour is planned in schools, libraries and bookstores. “This is not about me,” she adds, “but the kids I met here.”

PUH-LEEZE. It’s all about her.

Kate Jackson, editor of HarperCollins Children’s Books, says she was impressed by Bush’s “intellect, drive and passion.” A first printing of about 500,000 copies is expected.

Yes, teen single mother’s with AIDS as the new Holocaust. That’s real intellect.

Bush says she will donate her earnings to UNICEF. She says she “very, very modestly” hopes her book will have some of the influence of two books about girls caught up in the Holocaust: Lois Lowry’s novel Number the Stars and Anne Frank’s The Diary of Anne Frank.

And to think I used to defend this chick. Never thought I’d long for then-estranged Reagan Daughter Patti Davis’ “Homefront.”

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Today’s Wall Street Journal has a fascinating front-page story about the aftermath of the deposal of the Shah in Iran, the Islamist takeover, and Beverly Hills’ population.
If you’re like me and have frequented the Jewish areas of Bevery Hills, you know that Beverly Hills has a significant Persian Jewish population. That’s because most of Iran’s Jews saw the handwriting on the wall when Jimmy Carter ushered the Shah out and Ayatollah Khomeini and Islamist Shi’ism in. Many of Iran’s Jews re-settled in Israel and New York. But a significant number moved to Beverly Hills.
Now, for the first time ever, Beverly Hills is about to have an Iranian as Mayor–the likely result after tomorrow’s election, there. What’s interesting is that Jimmy Delshad will become the highest-ranking Iranian American, and he’s a Jew. I’m sure that will upset Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a huge bonus. (While Delshad is a Democrat, I’ve found that many Iranian-American Jews are right-wing and Republican, more so than in the general Jewish population.)

Jimmy Delshad Wanted English Ballots:
Beverly Hills’ Iranian-Jewish American Mayor-in-Waiting
But what I found most interesting was the contrast between Iranian Jews in Beverly Hills and Muslims in Dearbornistan and the rest of the U.S. While Muslims here insist on ballots in Arabic, so that illegal aliens and other non-English speaking malefactor co-religionists of theirs can vote. Beverly Hills’ Iranian Jews registered 300 complaints about their new Farsi ballots. They speak English and think of themselves as Americans. They’ve assimilated themselves into America, rather than insisting America bow to them.
Contrast that with Mid-East Muslims, who think of themselves as Muslims and insist we cater to them. Contrary to myths put out by the mainstream media, the Muslims have not assimilated, and expect us to assimilate to them (and, unfortunately, the many spineless have obliged).
Here are a few excerpts from the story, which I found very interesting, even though I’m very familiar with Beverly Hills’ Iranian Jews (and their great kosher restaurants–my fave is “Nessim’s”):

At a time when tension between the U.S. and Iranian governments is on the rise, Mr. Delshad, a 66-year-old Jewish immigrant, is on the brink of becoming one of the highest-ranking Iranian-American elected officials in the U.S. . . .
Roughly 8,000 of the approximately 35,000 residents of Beverly Hills are of Iranian descent — an influx that began in earnest nearly 30 years ago after the fall of the shah of Iran and has fundamentally changed one of America’s most iconic cities. The sensitivity of the situation was underscored recently when the city, for the first time, printed its entire ballot in English and Farsi — a move that prompted an outpouring of complaints, including a number from Iranian-Americans. (See a sample ballot.)
Six candidates in tomorrow’s election will be vying for two seats on the Beverly Hills City Council. Three are Persian. Mr. Delshad — who changed his first name to Jimmy from Jamshid when he became a U.S. citizen — first won election to the City Council in 2003. If re-elected, he would become mayor; council members rotate the job each year, based on seniority. . . .
Because Beverly Hills is so prominent, he’s also keenly interested in securing the city against possible terrorist strikes. He wants to increase video surveillance in public spaces and continue to add license-plate scanners to police vehicles.
At times, he has worried for his own safety. In 2003, during his first City Council campaign, Mr. Delshad hired three bodyguards after he received written death threats in his native Farsi language. He also carried a panic button that could summon local police. He says he never knew who was behind the threats or why he received them, but he kept the bodyguards for a few months even after he was elected. . . .
Mr. Delshad, born in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, came to the U.S. in 1958, following his brother, then a college student, to Mankato, Minn. Their father, a jeweler and goldsmith in Iran, would later join his sons in the U.S.
Mr. Delshad took university-extension courses and worked as a janitor to make ends meet. He and two brothers eventually formed the “Delshad Trio” playing the santur, a Persian string instrument. They moved to Los Angeles’s growing Iranian community, playing music as they put themselves through college.
After graduating with a degree in electrical engineering, Mr. Delshad joined a fledgling computer firm. For about two decades, he ran his own computer-hardware company, which he sold in 1999, when he became president of the temple. Married 38 years, he is the father of two grown children. . . .
City Hall has received about 300 complaints since absentee ballots went to voters at the beginning of last month, says Byron Pope, the city’s clerk, who decided to translate the ballots into Farsi. (A separate Spanish ballot is available, too.) Mr. Pope says he made the move in consultation with an outside election-services firm and was complying with the federal Voting Rights Act, which says that a jurisdiction that has more than 5% of its voting-age population in “a single language group” should have a ballot available in that language. In the 2005 city election, some information was translated into Farsi, but not the entire ballot, he says.

Yes, federal law–inspired by illegal aliens–forces a city to produce ballots in Farsi, even when assimilated Iranian-American Jews don’t want it.
Only in America.

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With tax filing deadlines looming, did you know that illegal aliens can be claimed as “dependents” on taxes (thus, reducing a tax burden significantly)? Contrast that with the fact that, if you are a U.S. citizen, but have a dependent that is not a U.S. citizen or resident, you cannot claim that person as a dependent on your taxes.
CPA George Saenz writes about this on Bankrate.com:

In order to claim individuals, even children, as dependents, they have to be citizens or residents of the U.S. . . . A child can become a U.S. resident either by having a green card or by being substantially present in the U.S. Many illegal immigrants are considered residents for income tax purposes based on substantial presence even though they are in violation of their immigration status.

Both Graphics Created by Fred Taub/Boycott Watch

Substantial presence means that the individual has been present in the U.S. for more than 182 days in the current year. Alternatively, you can be a resident under substantial presence if you are in the U.S. for more than 30 days in the current year and if the sum of the current year’s days plus one-third of the previous year’s days plus one-sixth of the second preceding year’s days exceed 182 days.

Fred Taub of Boycott Watch developed this Department of Jihadist Security Illegal Alien Threat Level Color Chart, above. I’d say we’re at Red for Severe. And it’s well beyond reclamation.

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I’ve written a lot on this site about women’s fashion magazine’s promotion of jihad and Islamism. The latest is Jane Magazine–the vapid fashion mag that used to run an equally vapid monthly column by Silicone Valley, Pamela Anderson.
This month, Jane has an interesting reason for promoting Islamist Couture to your daughters, girlfriends, and wives: It’s inexpensive. And, in Jane’s view, it’s cool to dress like an Islamic terrorist. Writes Jane:

A few days of overpriced lattes or endless “Where’d you get that?” inquiries from strangers–the choice is yours. . . . Wrap one of these bad boys around your neck and you can legitimately say, “I’m with the band.”

Uh, no. You can legitimately say, “I’m with the Jihad.” In this rare case, the “overpriced lattes” are preferable. And no-one will be asking where you got that ugly jihadist scarf. Trust me.

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Much has been made about how Greg Craig, the former Clinton loyalist, has joined forces with Barack Hussein Obama’s campaign for President, forsaking Hillary Clinton’s. And in the press coverage, much has been made of Craig’s status as a Clinton impeachment attorney.
But that’s not the whole story. The whole story is that Craig, who once worked on the staff of Ted Kennedy, served as the lawyer who orchestrated the whole return of Elian Gonzalez to Cuba for a life under Castro’s Communist tyranny. He was chosen by assorted lefties and the Cuban government to “represent” the interests of Elian Gonzalez’s father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who was then under the thumb of Cuban minders in America. He kept father Gonzalez from defecting, too. And Craig’s legal fees, at the time, were paid by the National Council of Churches. And don’t forget, Craig also helped orchestrate the INS raid, kidnapping Elian from the home of his Miami relatives. That started the whole ball rolling.

Greg Craig:
Former Clintonista, Current Obama’ite, Helped Deport Elian to Castro Cuba
Craig has a very “interesting” background, which should tell us a lot about both Hillary, his former friend, and Obama, his current one. From my :

Craig was Bill Clinton’s personal attorney in the Lewinsky/Impeachment matter. The same Bill Clinton who wants to open up trade to Cuba. And this little fly, called Elian, is in the ointment. Craig was also a director of policy planning to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, one of the top positions setting foreign policy at the State Department. The foreign policy at the same State Department that’s crawling with Castrophile bureaucrats who’d love to open trade with Cuba while its people suffer in tyranny. Craig also serves on the board of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The same Carnegie Endowment that wants to end the embargo with Cuba, so that its wealthy, elitist members, like Craig, might freely smoke a Cuban cigar. . . .
Isn’t Craig’s bill being picked up by the government of Castro . . . oops, I mean the National Council of Churches(NCC)? Yup, that’s the problem. Nobody’s coming clean about who’s paying Craig’s bill. Probably because, as it’s been rumored, Castro’s been giving the money to the NCC and using the organization as his willing shill. Either way, these two despicable entities–Castro and the NCC–have an agenda. An agenda that’s anti-freedom, pro-tyranny, and 180 degrees from what’s in the best interest of Juan Miguel. And it’s clear that Craig is taking his direction from them, not his client. . . .
While working for Ted Kennedy, he pushed the world to divest from and impose sanctions on South Africa. But Cuba, what a great country to trade with! In coordinating Clinton’s non-policy on Tibet, Craig “smoothed over” Tibetan protests over oppression by the Chinese, so his Boss-in-Chief could hold two garish summits with the Chinese oppressors. This is the Craig-Clinton version of justice.
Craig makes much of his representation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. But lifting an old guy from tyranny does not allow you to dump a young kid back into it. Solzhenitsyn would never support sending Elian back. And Castro would never support guys like Craig on Cuban soil. Castro threw lawyers who represented pro-democracy Cubans (whose only crime was speech) into the same torturous Cuban prisons with their clients. And Craig represented John Hinckley, Jr., Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin. Can you imagine what Castro would do to a man who represented his attempted murderer?
Shakespeare said: First, we kill all the lawyers.

They say you can tell a lot about people from the company they keep. And we can tell a lot about Hillary and, now, Barack Obama, from their latest, prominent friend.

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On Valentine’s Day, I told you of former Duke Lacrosse player, . He had job offers, a full scholarship to law school, and many opportunities. But he gave them up and life with his fiancee in order to serve our country in the War on Terror. He served double tours of duty in both Afghanistan and Iraq, earning a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart and several other medals.
Sadly, he was killed in action in Iraq. Jimmy Regan’s uncle, Terry Desmond, contacted me and gave me permission to share his e-mail with you:

Hi Debbie,
I want to personally say what a great job you did on the on Army Ranger Sgt. James Regan, who was killed in action on February 9, 2007 in Northern Iraq.

Sgt. James John Regan, A True American Hero

“Jimmy” was my nephew. I am the younger brother of Jimmy’s mom, Mary R. (Desmond) Regan. He was a real “people person.” He never wasted a minute. He was always doing something, a highly motivated person.
I am so glad that all the posts I have read were positive about his bravery and commitment to serve as an Army Ranger. I will remember Jimmy as someone that if you met him, you really couldn’t help but like him.
I thank you for writing a very positive article. He was a great young man. And brought that out.
Sincerely,
Terry Desmond

Sgt. James John Regan, Rest In Peace.

By Debbie Schlussel
**** UPDATE: The Judge in this case, who imposed almost no punishment for this disgusting, warped crime, is New Jersey Superior Court Judge Frederick DeVesa of Middlesex County Courthouse in New Brunswick. Thanks to the many readers who sent the info. ****
This story is absolutely sickening. But what’s even more sickening than the crime is the “punishment.”
Muslim doctor, Ahmed Rashed, MD, who now practices medicine at Maimonides Medical Center in New York (Hello, Maimonides? Anyone home . . . ?), severed a hand from a cadaver in New Jersey and gave it to a stripper as a gift (how romantic). In response, you’d think he’d get some jail time and certainly lose his license to practice medicine.
BUT YOU WOULD BE WRONG. No, for stealing a dead person’s hand, he got a slap on the wrist. Actually, not even that. The idiotic New Jersey judge (**** UPDATE: he’s New Jersey Superior Court Judge Frederick DeVesa ****)–who AP unfortunately declined to name; why?!–set aside sentencing for 15 months, and told Rashed he will drop all charges if Rashed stays out of trouble. And he can still practice medicine. All he got was a $5,000 fine. It’s absurd. Beyond absurd.

Dr. Ahmed Rashed:
Gets Zero Punishment for Stealing Hand of Cadaver for Stripper
More of this disgusting story:

Rashed gave the hand to exotic dancer Linda Kay, 31, during a visit to the club where she worked. He got to know her while he was a first-year medical student in 2002. She wanted a cadaver’s hand, authorities said, and he complied.
Geist said his client removed the hand from a cadaver at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark that was scheduled for cremation, and was unaware that what he did was illegal. He graduated in 2005.
Authorities said the hand was found in a jar on Kay’s dresser in her home last summer. Friends have said she called it “Freddy.”
Kay was charged with unlawful disposal of human remains. She enrolled in a counseling program, and if she complies with its terms for one year, her criminal record will be erased.
Rashed had been in a residency program at Martin Luther King Hospital in Los Angeles, but will continue his residency at Maimonides Medical Center in New York.

If you live in the New York area, I’d say it’s probably not a good idea to use as your doctor a man who thinks it’s okay to sever infidel cadavers’s body parts as gifts for infidel strippers.
But I’m sure it had nothing to do with his religion or the barbarism often accompanying it. Because Infidel doctors sever hands of dead bodies for their stripper friends all of the time all over America. Right?
Stay tuned. . . . There’s a lot more to this story.

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Recently, I wrote about how self-anointed World Humanitarian Whiner, Bono, denounced the U.S. during a concert in Australia. The pop rocker with his silly tinted glasses .
Well, yesterday the Pentagon charged Bono’s precious, “innocent” terrorist with providing material support for terrorism and will try Hicks a/k/a Abu Muslim al-Austraili a/k/a Mohammed Dawood as the first terrorism defendant in a military trial under legislation passed by Congress, last year.
Here are the details about Hicks that Bono decided to overlook when calling for Hicks’ release:

Bush’s Friend Bono Hearts Islamic Terrorist David Hicks

David Hicks, 31, a former kangaroo skinner, was in league with Al Qaeda at the time of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, met with Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and joined Taliban and Al Qaeda supporters who were fighting U.S.-allied forces near Kunduz, Afghanistan, on Nov. 9, 2001.
Hicks fled the fighting as U.S.-allied tanks roared through trenches, the charges claim, and was captured as he was trying to flee to Pakistan.
Under new procedures, which Congress approved after the Supreme Court ruled an earlier Pentagon trial scheme was illegal, Hicks must be arraigned within 30 days. His trial must be within 90 days after that, meaning he will go before a military commission by July.
It would be the first U.S. war-crimes trial since World War II.
Prosecutors initially also had charged Hicks with attempted murder, alleging he directed “small-arms fire, explosives or other means and methods with the intent to kill diverse persons.” The Pentagon offered no explanation for the change.

FYI, David Hicks is the Aussie version of John Walker Lindh and Adam Gadahn, etc., etc. ad nauseam. Let this be a lesson to you about Bono. As I’ve detailed on this site, the man is a hypocrite who wants to , while he escapes Irish taxes and won’t pay his own. He tells us that Americans are stingy, while , and yet he . He gives very little, but .
And now he’s demanding the release of a hardened Al-Qaeda terrorist. Call him Paul David Hewson or by his pretentious self-given “Bono” moniker. Either way, he’s a total phony.
As , at least, Australian Prime Minister John Howard told Bono where to go. Contrast that with President Bush, who keeps kissing the Irish rock star phony’s rather exposed rear.

“Lovin’ You is Easy Cuz’ You’re Beautiful. La, la, la, la, la . . .”
It’s a shame a leader of a country half way around the world is more willing to defend Bush policies and the war on terror than Bush himself, who’d rather sup with rockers.
Ditto for Talk show host Laura Ingraham, who slobbered over Bono on several occasions, which she brags about on her site–more than once (even though she wrote, “Shut Up & Sing,” she apparently thinks it’s okay if Bono Doesn’t Shut Up & Sing).
Time for those who claim to be for fighting terrorism to be consistent. Or shut up.

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Today’s Wall Street Journal “Washington Wire” column reports that apparently the extreme, wall-to-wall Anna Nicole Vickie Lynn Hogan Smith Marshall coverage is what Americans want. Those that follow her story are much more satisfied than those watching the War in Iraq and the 2008 campaign for the White House:

Pew Research Center survey finds 64% approval for press coverage of Anna Nicole Smith exceeds positive marks for journalists on Iraq war or 2008 presidential campaign.

Sad. And it tells us the obvious: No-one running for President is exciting, and we’re already fatigued by the race, almost two years away.

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To my Jewish friends and readers, I wish you a Happy Purim. The holiday begins at sundown, Saturday Night, and lasts until Sunday Night.
To all of my readers, especially those who don’t know what Purim is: Purim literally means “lots” or “lottery.” It’s one of my two favorite Jewish holidays (the other is Channukah). It’s a like a Jewish St. Patrick’s Day and Halloween combined. Read my previous post on the holiday is .

Purim Hamantashen Pastry, Queen Esther, Tomb of Mordechai/Esther
The holiday celebrates courageous Jewish heroes Esther and Mordechai, who risked their lives to save the Jewish people during the time of King Xerxes. It’s a very cool, true story. And it has special significance for today, because it occured in the land of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran. In those days the King was going to destroy the Jews (at the behest of his anti-Semitic advisor who spewed the same hate as Ahmadinejad), yet we survived. And we will survive similar calls, today, for our destruction by Ahmadinejad. It’s interesting to note that the gravesites of the heroes of the Purim story, Esther and Mordechai–located in Hamadan, Iran–are still marketed, today, as tourist attractions by the Ahmadinejad government of Iran.
Here’s my “Debbie’s Notes” version of the Purim story:

King Xerxes I, in the 5th Century B.C., was King of Persia, though he ruled most of the world, as his kingdom consisted of 127 states and provinces. He had a beautiful wife, Vashti, who refused to show up to his big, boozed-up party with the Kingdom’s men. He wanted to show her off, but she didn’t want to leave her own party. He was advised that he should behead her, or else all of the wives throughout his kingdom would take it as an example not to obey their husbands. So, Xerxes beheaded her and held a giant beauty pageant throughout his entire kingdom (the first Miss Universe pageant). Eventually, he chose the the beautiful, Jewish Esther as his queen. Esther hid her Judaism from the king and her uncle, Mordechai, once overheard a plot to kill the king, which he exposed. For that, he was honored by the King.
Haman, the king’s trusted advisor, hated Mordechai because he would not bow down to Haman (he would only bow down to G-d). Haman was henpecked by his ambitious wife, Zeresh, who was kind of like Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi. And he had ten sons who were equally pushy.
Soon, Mordechai found out that Haman wanted to annihilate the entire Jewish population of the world (and hang Mordechai), and he got King Xerxes to sign a decree ordering that. The Jews fasted and mourned over their impending destruction, and Mordechai beseeched Esther to appeal to the King to save the Jews.
One night, Esther approached the King (against protocol because only the King could summon the queen, not vice versa–and she could have been beheaded for this; it wasn’t exactly the days of Hillary Clinton wearing the pants). She invited him to a dinner, where she told him that she was Jewish and of the plans to annihilate her people. King Xerxes was angry when he learned of this and had Haman hung on the gallows prepared for Mordechai. He also agreed to try to stop this and arm the Jewish people so they could respond to the decree for their destruciton and live.
The holiday is called Purim because Haman literally conducted a lottery to decide in which month to mass murder the Jews.

On the holiday, we, Jews, celebrate the survival of our people from this order of mass destruction. It is a good deed to become so drunk that you can’t tell the difference between hero Mordechai and villain Haman. We also are commanded to give at least two ready-to-eat foods to friends (we deliver it to their homes) and to the poor. Kids dress up in costumes, usually as Purim characters. We eat pastries known as “hamantaschen” or ears or Haman (because he was evil and legend had it that he had vulcan-like, pointy ears). And we are commanded on Purim to have a giant feast. M
ost important, we listen to the reading of the Scroll of Esther (“Megillat Esther”), which recounts the whole wonderful story. I love reading it, because each time you learn and notice new cool things about the story.
So, to all of my friends who are Jewish, I wish you a very joyous Purim. And to those who are not Jewish, I suggest that you read the Scroll of Esther, as it is part of the Bible. And it is a great story about the commitment to faith, which I think you’ll find as interesting and inspiring as I do.
As I said, we survived Haman in ancient Iran. And we will survive his current incarnation in modern Iran, Ahmadinejad.