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This weekend’s new box office releases are ho-hum, which is why I recommend you go see “,” far better than the newer selections. (I missed the “Black Snake Moan” screening, but it sounds like I’d have hated it.) Here’s the fare:
* “Zodiac“–It must be the rule that when a set of serial killings is never solved, a ton of movies are made about it. So far, there have been five movies on “The Zodiac Killer,” who terrorized the San Francisco area beginning in the late ’60s, sending letters and codes to San Francisco newspapers: “The Zodiac,” “The Zodiac Killer,” “Zodiac Killer,” “The Zodiac Killer,” and “The Limbic Region.” This one, “Zodiac,” is the sixth version, and comes closest to solving it and identifying the likely killer. And it’s probably the best of the bunch.

Based on former editorial cartoonist Robert Graysmith’s book on the topic, “Zodiac” comes pretty close to solving it. Overall, it’s a good movie. But it’s almost three hours long, far too long to sit through any movie, let alone something that you know has never been solved for certain. Yes, I just spoiled it for you–but it’s not like the whole country didn’t already know the ending. There isn’t one.
The movie starts in the late ’60s. At the beginning of practically every scene, it says, “two weeks later,” “3 months later,” “1 year later,” and so on. It gets a little old, especially–again–with only a “sort of” pay-off at the end.
Jake Gyllenhaal does a decent job playing Graysmith, but miraculously–over two decades–his 20-something character doesn’t age a bit. Ditto for all the others in the movie, including the man believed at the end to be “The Zodiac.” This one won’t get the Oscar for best make-up. That’s for sure.
Also stars Robert Downey, Jr. playing an obnoxious San Francisco Chronicle reporter and something novel for him–a drug and booze addict who was good at his job but lost it all to addiction. Sound familiar? Mark Ruffalo, generally a weak actor, is consistent in his weakness playing police detective David Toschi who investigated the Zodiac murders. And, hey, actor Anthony Edwards–playing another police detective–got his hair back.
I learned something new, too: That criminal defense attorney, Melvin Belli, was in Star Trek. That was discussed in a funny part of themovie.
Bloody, creepy, and lots of killing (not for kids). But still entertaining and thrilling, overall. Gets a little too messy with so many twists and turns toward the end. Also, you must read three quick screens full of writing at the end. Movies are not made for such work. It’s supposed to be a lazy, relaxing, passive experience to go to the movies.
* “Wild Hogs“–Don’t trick yourself into believing this motorcycle joke of a movie has anything to do with “cool.” “Easy Rider,” it ain’t. One of the three worst movies of the year. It figures that Oprah would promote (on her show, today–she loves pandering to John Travolta) this absolute bomb and waste of almost 2 hours of your life you’ll never get back. Four fatso and/or geeky has-been, middle-aged actors (Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy) struggling to stay relevant, say to themselves: “Hey, let’s get together and make a movie about us on motorcycles. That’ll make us look cool.” And, predictably, it doesn’t. It just reminds us that they’re has-beens who aren’t funny and can’t act.
Four middle-aged yuppies hen-pecked or otherwise upset with the way their lives have turned out, decide to go on a cross-country tour on motorcycles. They encounter a gay police officer who thinks they’re gay and a tough motorcycle gang of ex-cons (headed by Ray Liotta–in the “novel” role of playing a criminal thug; gee, he’s never done that before), whom they singlehandedly manage to beat. Riiiiight.
This movie is dumb to the nth degree, gross, and–if you are a middle-aged male upset with your life or henpecked by your wife–will make you feel even more depressed, not less so. Shame on Peter Fonda more making a cameo in this movie. “Easy Rider” called–it wants its good name–and motorcycles back. This one is “Born To Be Mild.” Extremely lame.

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In the wake of three white Duke University Lacrosse players being falsely accused of raping a black stripper, Duke has recommended a more diverse and inclusive campus culture.
Given that these men being falsely accused of a crime they did not commit by a member of another race and ethnicity, I have some ideas on how to make this situation and culture more diverse:

1) Three Black athletes should be falsely accused of rape by a White stripper;
2) Three gay hairstylists and home economics majors can be false accused of raping three lipstick lesbian strippers;

D is for Diversity
3) Three carnivorous male students should be wrongly accused of raping three lacto-ovo vegetarian, environmentalist strippers who wear Al-Gore t-shirts before they take it all off; and
4) While they’re at it, they must change the color of the Duke mascot. It must no longer be the “Duke Blue Devils.” Because, after all, Blue is a dominant, majority color and not diverse enough. So, annually, Duke must start using some of the underrepresented colors of the rainbow, so they can get their due. For 2008: The Duke Magenta Devils; 2009: The Duke Periwinkle Devils; 2010: The Duke Amber Devils . . . . Think about changing the Devils, too. Think, the Duke Magenta Ferrets; The Duke Periwinkle Peonies; The Duke, Amber Waves of Diversity . . . .

There. That’s diversity. And that should do it to satisfy this absurd recommendation that Duke address a crime that never happened by attacking the Whiteness and uber-plain Johnness of the wrongfully accused.

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When was indicted, last year, news coverage focused on him, but not the completely under-reported story of Chahine’s son’s murder conviction.
As I wrote, , because Hallis was engaged to be married to a Muslim woman. It was an honor-killing.
Chahine was convicted in 2005. On Tuesday, the Michigan Court of Appeals upheld that conviction.
Paul Hallis, Rest In Peace. Khalil Talal Chahine, Rot in Jail (and, after that, Hell).

Muslim Khalil Chahine Honor-Murdered Arab Christian Paul Hallis

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In a very important story that got almost zero press coverage, relatives of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command were convicted in 2004 for various counts of fraud.
Ahmad Musa Jebril, and his father, Musa Jebril, engaged in all sorts of fraud in renting apartments and attempting to purchase property. Musa Jebril’s uncle is Ahmed Jebril (also spelled “Jibril,” “Gebril,” and assorted other ways), the founder and chief of the terrorist group, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), a splinter group from the PFLP. Ahmed Jebril still runs PFLP-GC from Syria. Also, of note, the Jebrils were in possession of HAMAS posters and are related to other terrorist group leaders and founders.

Ahmed & Musa Jebril
Since it was quite obvious, they were engaged in the fraud as a form of economic jihad and money-laundering to support terrorism, the story is also illustrative of how lazy and PC-agenda-oriented the Justice Department and U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit (headed by former Bush Federal Appeals Court Nominee Stephen Murphy III a/k/a “Abu Porno”) are in dealing with terrorism cases. They simply pursue the easy charges and don’t pursue terrorism charges that would impose longer sentences.
As used to be common for mobsters in Cosa Nostra, Ahmad Musa Jebril tried to bribe jurors in his fraud trial. He was sentenced, this week, to almost 6 1/2 years in prison for attempting to bribe a federal juror. From a tiny blurb in the local section of today’s Detroit Free Press:

During jury selection, Ahmad Jebril recruited three others to approach a seated juror at her place of business. There, they spoke with the juror’s boyfriend and offered to pay for the couple’s wedding and buy them a house if she could get the jury to acquit the Jebrils.

Hmmm . . . where was that wedding money going to come from? Apparently, the PFLP-GC. That’s why it’s of note that the Freep didn’t mention pere and fils Jebril’s close relation to Ahmed Jebril or PFLP-GC. No surprise, given that the paper–like all Detroit media–is largely coopted by our growing Islamist community. The PFLP-GC connection is something I happen to know from my own personal knowledge and investigation.
Also, interesting to me, is that this sounds similar to my own encounter with accused Al-Qaeda terrorist Omar Abdel-Fattah Al-Shishani. In 2003, I attended a dinner with him, posing as a member of military intelligence’s girlfriend (I call it “My Date With a Terrorist”).
Shishani who was convicted of a non-terrorism charge (again, the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s laziness and PC-agenda), was awaiting sentencing. He offered me and my pretend-“boyfriend” a $100,000 honeymoon in Bali if we could get important politicians to write letters to the Judge urging a lenient sentence. Since he claimed he had no money, where was that going to come from?
Muslim terrorist-sympathizers trying to bribe jurors in America and improperly and illegally influence the results. Gee, whatta surprise.

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This one is just over 5 minutes long, but a great video. The pay-off is at the very end, so you must watch the whole thing. Thanks to reader Ari and Hot Air for the tip. The video director, Michael Shepard, calls the short “Jihad,” but I’d call it, “Insha’Allah,” Arabic for “If it’s the Will of Allah” (or god-willing). If I picked the Oscars, this one would have been my pick for Best Live Action Short, instead of the absurd “” (which, after viewing, I found to be worse than I’d earlier diagnosed):

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**** UPDATE: Tommy La-Whore-da’s lawyer is claiming he never met the “Hollywood Super Madam.” So, maybe he didn’t meet her, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t “meet” one of her “girls.” And FYI, the Super Madam claimed, today, on FOX News’ “The Big Story,” that she has the officially certified court documents showing La-Whore-da’s “invoice” for services, phone calls to her number, etc. And the L.A. Times viewed the court docs and independently confirmed that his name is on the records.****
Last summer, I wrote about how Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Director of Detention and Removal Operations, . All of the top ICE officials and Detention and Removal Operations Field Office Directors were there, while they could have been doing immigration enforcement and deportation work, getting rid of illegal aliens. The event was held with the full approval and attendance of ICE Chieftess
I also wrote how Torres a/k/a ICE’s own evil Costanza paid Major League Baseball’s Tommy Lasorda between $30,000 and $50,000 of our tax money to be the keynote speaker at this event–a huge hint that the week-long party (at which ICE DRO officials did NOT want to be but were required to attend) had nothing to do with immigration enforcement.

 

ICE’s Most Famous Johns: 

Homeland Security’s Tommy Lasorda w/ John Torres, Mikey Chertoff 

(Thanks to Fred Taub of Boycott Watch for the excellent photoshop)
Well, I was wrong. Besides having expertise in keeping aliens like El Duque in the States doing the work “Americans just won’t do,” it appears that Tommy Lasorda actually has a lot of experience with criminals and some of them might even be illegal aliens.
Hollywood Madame Jody “Babydol” Gibson (yes, she spells “Babydol” with only one “L”–everyone in Hollywood has to spell the wrong way on purpose, just to be noticed) just released the contents of her “little black book” of johns in a new book, “Secrets of a Hollywood Super Madam.” The L.A. Times reports that court records of her phone and payment logs and other records (from her 2000 trial and conviction for running an international prostitution ring) show one of her prominent customers was none other than newly-minted ICE Detention and Removal Ops expert Tommy Lasorda.
Since this info on Lasorda came out in a 2000 trial (and has been available to law enforcement since that time), that means that John Torres, formerly an INS investigative agent, could have investigated Lasorda’s background–and didn’t–before inviting him to speak. How embarrassing for an agency that is mostly involved in “investigations.” I guess that explains why The ICE Princess chose an investigator–with no experience in detention and removal of aliens–to head Detention and Removal Operations. Clearly, he wasn’t any good as an investigator.
And, as we’ve mentioned on this site, The ICE Princess and others have , etc. Perhaps Lasorda even “encountered” such an alien in his “patronage” of the “Hollywood SuperMadam.” Gibson was, after all, convicted of running and “international” prostitution ring.
Either way, one thing is for sure: While Lasorda paid her and her girls a thousand or so for encounter as their john, we–American taxpayers via ICE–paid Lasorda $30-50K as his john.
That’s a lot of money for very little “service.”
John Torres and Julie L. Myers ought to be ashamed–having one of America’s most famous johns as their keynote speaker (and paying him heftily for it). They pimped American taxpayers.
But unfortunately they aren’t. There’s no shame atop ICE. And that’s the real shame.

 

Hollywood Super Madam, Jody “Babydol” Gibson 

Knows ICE’s Tommy Lasorda

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I’ve had enough of the Anna Nicole Vickie Lynn Hogan Smith Marshall story as you have. But after seeing this funny portrayal of the past week’s mockery of our legal system by all actors, er . . . charlatans involved (including that dope of a judge), I couldn’t resist posting it. It’s a pretty accurate rendition of all of these phonies.
From the March 5th issue of Newsweek:

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This week, Israel’s acting President is an Arab Druze, Majalli Wahaba. Wahaba steps in to the job while Israeli acting President Dalia Itzik is on a trip to the U.S.
Can you imagine a Jew serving as acting ANYTHING of an Arab country? Keep imagining.

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If you drink a lot of soft drinks, it may interest you to note that caffeine content will soon be posted on their packaging. From yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, here is the caffeine content of some popular drinks:
Coca Cola Classic . . . 34.5 mg
Diet Pepsi . . . 36 mg
Pepsi . . . 37.5 mg
Diet Coke . . . 46.5 mg
Mountain Dew . . . 54 mg
Diet Pepsi Max . . . 69 mg
Full Throttle . . . 108 mg
Tab Energy . . . 108 mg

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More absurdity in the continuing follies of supposed immigration enforcement:
Today, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff a/k/a “Mr. Burns” and Commerce Secretary Carols Guttierrez were scheduled to testify at a Senate Judiciary Hearing on “Comprehensive Immigration Reform.” You know what that means–amnesty for illegal aliens.
Of note is that Chertoff, himself, is testifying and not his useless, incompetent little , Assistant Secretary of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). She is, after all, supposed to be in charge of immigration, but she’s not testifying because, well, it would be a laughing stock. That the Commerce Secretary is testifying on immigration matters tells us all we need to know–big business wants amnesty. Blah, blah, blah.

U.S. “Immigration Enforcers?”: Like, Gag America With a Spoon
(ICE Valley Girl Artwork by David Lunde)
Meanwhile, The ICE Princess is up to her old tricks of wasting our tax money on things that have NOTHING to do with ICE or customs and immigration investigations. Remember her specious claim that she was going to bring fiscal accountability to ICE? Buffalo’s WGRZ-TV reports that millions of dollars that could have been spent on immigration enforcement were spent on official ICE Yo-Yos and chap stick . . . and a lot of other absurd items.
Read and watch (it’s MUST WATCH TV!) enterprising reporter Jason Boose’s enlightening report. (I feel sorry for Peter Smith, the agent who was forced to answer questions on this. This is not his baby. It’s that ICE Princess’ problem. And The ICE Princess should personally answer for this absurdity–the fish rots from the head down.):

Protecting our homeland; that’s the mission of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Cities across the country are vying for the money that comes from that department. But what we found Homeland Security money being used for may surprise you.
Pens, yo-yo’s, a change purse and a chip-clip. They all read, “Help secure our homeland.” The merchandise even tells you how to help, by calling a number listed on all the items. That’s where 2 On Your Side’s Josh Boose began the investigation.
It’s a voicemail. No live operator, no federal agents. The recording told us to leave a message about any suspicious activity, criminal actions we’re aware of or information we feel needs to be looked into.
Boose called the Immigration and Customs Enforcement press office. He was told any budget questions had to be addressed to Homeland Security. So he contacted them. But they directed Josh back to the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement press office.
A Washington spokeswoman for the agency explained the process to 2 On Your Side over the phone. We told her we needed to talk to someone in a phone interview or in person. She told Boose a phone interview wasn’t possible, but that she would get back to him. 2 On Your Side was about to get our questions answered. . . .
But how would a yo-yo help them track down sexual predators?
In the end, Boose requested nothing less than an on-camera interview. Only after he told the press office he was sitting down with New York Senator Chuck Schumer to discuss what he found did the northeast division call Channel 2 to set up an on-camera interview with Special Agent In Charge Peter Smith from the Buffalo office.
“We have a product line here with various levels of products that we are giving away at different sites when we’re out doing our public work, our public outreach programs,” said Smith.
When 2 On Your Side arrived for the interview, Immigration and Customs didn’t hide the fact they bought these things. They even showed us more items. There’s a piggy bank, a stuffed monkey, a mirror, a sunglasses holder, a Frisbee, a teddy bear, a stress relieving toy, a stress ball, a letter opener, a cd-dvd case, a travel mug, highlighter, notebook, travel bag, lunch pail, calculator, a wallet, toy plane, crayons, a water bottle, an orange water bottle, change purse, keychain, a flip-up mirror, a pad of paper, a light-up yo-yo, a bottle opener, a clip with two highlighters on it, a lanyard, an ice scraper, a mechanical pencil, another change purse, another key chain, a presidential ruler and a bottle of chap stick.
It’s intended for teachers, students and moms and dads. It’s a way to get the word about what the agency does. But the big question still, who paid for it?
Josh Boose asked Smith, “Let’s talk about cost. How much does all this cost here?” “This is all coming from the treasury forfeiture fund,” said Smith.
Here’s how it works; the homes, cars and drug money of criminals are seized by the feds, and then sold. That money goes into a fund. . . . Immigration and Customs Enforcement received $85 million from the fund last year. When we asked how much money was spent on the trinkets, the closest number he would say is less than five percent of that $85 million. [DS: That’s $4.25 Million!!!!] In Buffalo alone, Smith says $15-hundred was spent on things like yo-yo’s and chapstick.
“Is it really worth it, do you think, the cost of the teddy bear, the piggy bank, the yo-yo? Do you think it’s worth it,” asked Boose [to Smith]. . . . “What would you say to the people who look at this, the average Joe on the street who look at this and say, are you kidding me! Look at the cd case, the pens, the calculators, the crayons. Do you really stand by this?”

To the many ICE Agents who read this site, if you have any of these things, please e-mail me scans of the items, so we can post them here. I’m particularly interested in the stuffed monkey, teddy bear, and chap stick–all of which are certainly symbolic beyond what was intended, regarding our soft, fuzzy, stuffed-monkey-style, cosmetic immigration enforcement policy under Mr. Burns and The ICE Princess.
Does The ICE Princess really think she’ll get a Julie Chapstick endorsement ad?