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Gross! Oprah’s “O” Magazine picks “The Real Sexiest Men Alive” (“Real” is underlined in the mag) in its October 2006 issue. And all we can say is: BLECHHHHHHH!
Among her top 16 of allegedly “sexiest” men alive are far-left moonbat-in-chief blogger Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. Eeeuuuuwwww. What is sexy about him? Conspiracy theorists are sexy? Who knew? He’s number 7. Gushes annoying O Contributing Editor Aimee Lee Ball:

His wildly popular Daily Kos blog is arguably the most exciting new place for discourse about public policy issues like stem cell research and privacy that concern us all, or should. A little self-deprecation is so appealing (he calls himself a loudmouthed nerd), as is his mastery of his domain.

Uh, sorry, but the only mastery of any domain that Moulitsas reminds us of is that of the infamous “The Contest” episode of “Seinfeld” dealing with that “topic.”

And there are others of his ilk. Number 3 is testy, anti-Bush NBC White House correspondent David Gregory, he of White House press conference eruptions. Number 5 is leftist Senator Barack Obama. Number 10 is leftist economist and U.N. advisor Jeffrey D. Sachs–the Harvard academic who, along with Bono, wants U.S. taxpayers to forgive trillions in debt owed us by terror-host states like Sudan. Not sexy. Just absurd.
At number 14 is liberal, pan-Islamist Muslim commentator Fareed Zakaria. Because you always have to have your token unsexy Muslim apologist on any sexy list, right? Otherwise, CAIR will protest you. And finally, at number 16, is Patrick J. Fitzgerald. Why do the ambiguously gay chicks at House of Oprah think he’s sexy? Take a guess.

As special prosecutor investigating the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame, he insisted on questioning George W. Bush. Being unafraid to speak truth to power and playing a mean game of rugby is an unbeatable sexy combination.

Uh, no it isn’t . . . except maybe to “women” like Oprah and Gayle, who don’t like men. And by the way, how did indicting Scooter Libby “speak truth to power,” when Fitzgerald knew all along that lib Richard Armitage outed Plame? Apparently railroading an innocent “neo-con” in Federal Court is extremely sexy in the World According to HOprah.

NOT HOT
Here’s the complete list of geekiest liberal, er . . . “real sexiest” men alive:
1. Cory A. Booker–liberal Newark Mayor and Yale lawyer.
2. Larry Page and Sergey Brin–Google founders.
3. David Gregory
4. Albert Pujols–St. Louis Cardinals First Baseman (he should sue Oprah for listing him among these geeks; very uncool)
5. Barack Obama
6. James Nachtway–photographer of the African AIDS crisis
7. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga
8. Robert Egger–founded D.C. Central Soup Kitchen
9. Dr. Drew Pinsky–hosts sex radio show, used to host MTV sex show
10. Jeffrey D. Sachs
11. Larry Norton–Breast cancer researcher (also needs to sue Oprah)
12. Johann Olav Koss–Olympic gold medalist who uses sports as tool for kids in third world
13. Michael Arad–Architect designing politically correct Ground Zero Memorial with artsy fartsy pools and waterfalls and “living park” devoid of noting what really happened there
14. Fareed Zakaria
15. Alton Brown–Food Network chef
16. Patrick J. Fitzgerald
If these men are “sexy,” sex is dead. Sexiest men alive? More like, squirreliest. Yet another reason why Oprah Sucks.

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This weekend, the main offerings are both re-takes on movies from the ’80s:
* “The Guardian“–You’ve seen this movie before in a million incarnations. First, it was “An Officer and a Gentleman.” Then it was “Top Gun.” And now, it’s “The Guardian,” the Lite Beer version.
In this case, the military organization is the U.S. Coast Guard, but not the guys guarding the shores on ships. This one focuses on the little-known elite swimmer’s unit of the Coast Guard, in which rescuers perform amazing, death-defying feats in stormy seas to rescue Americans about to drown in the great hydro-abyss.
And in the case Ashton Kutcher is the Richard Gere/Tom Cruise lite. Kevin Costner plays the Louis Gossett, Jr./Kelly McGillis tough-teacher role (though, thankfully, unlike McGillis and Cruise, he doesn’t sleep with his student, Kutcher).

Costner plays an elite Coast Guard swimmer who loses one of his rescue team and those he’s trying to save. So, he takes a break from swimming in swirling seas to become an instructor for those who vie to replenish the ranks. His arrogant, conceited, but most promising student is the smart aleck played by Kutcher. Just like “Officer,” he, too, has a local yokel-ette as his girlfriend, etc. And like “Top Gun,” there is the standard bar scene, complete with dare and pick-up of a female.
Not a great–or even good–movie by any stretch, but entertaining enough, if you want an escapist swimming adventure. Some of the rescue scenes in the water–which are far too few–are exciting. The Coast Guard swimmers do important rescue work, and the heroics come through. Still, it’s doubtful they’d want it reduced to this lame and cheesy flick.
Much of the movie consists of training scenes featuring Kutcher and other males without their shirts on–clearly orchestrated for his teen girl fan set.
* “School for Scoundrels“–This movie was hilarious. Absolutely funny. It’s basically a “Revenge of the Nerds” for the ’00s, when the nerds graduate from college and are still . . . nerds.
Jon Heder of “Napoleon Dynamite” plays a similarly geeky loser. A New York City meter maid, he gets less respect than Rodney Dangerfield. As a Big Brother volunteer, even his “Little Brother” wants a new Big Brother. He is in love with his kind, cute Australian neighbor Amanda (Jacinda Barrett, who once played herself, a mean Australian model in MTV’s “The Real World–London”). But he is clumsy and weird around her.
A friend sends him to the School for Scoundrels–a Tom Leykis-style school that teaches loser guys how to be pick up women and be winners (and not in a nice way). The school is taught by “Dr. P” (Billy Bob Thornton), who soon decides to compete with the hapless Heder for Amanda’s affection.
The scene stealer in this movie is Sarah Silverman, who is a riot as Amanda’s obnoxious, sneering, whining roommate. Also co-stars other comedians like Ben Stiller and Saturday Night Live’s Horatio Sanz (who just left the show) in smaller roles. Lots of frat-boy humor, bathroom humor, sex jokes–not for kids.
* “Jesus Camp“–In nationwide release, this weekend, see , of this horrid, anti-Christian propaganda. The few portrayed in this biased “documentary” do not represent mainstream Christian America. Skip it.

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Over the last several months, I’ve wondered why we haven’t heard a thing about who is running our ports, following the agreement that Dubai Ports World would not.
Well, the reason is that Dubai Ports is still running our ports. The company still has not sold its U.S. assets, according to a tiny blurb at the bottom John Harwood’s “Washington Wire” column in today’s Wall Street Journal.
Reports Harwood:

DUBAI PORTS WORLD still hasn’t sold U.S. assets.
Months after furor over port deal, lawmakers scramble to save efforts to tighten U.S. government’s foreign investment reviews. House leaders will seek compromise bill at lame-duck session.

For Dangerous Ports

They fear New Jersey Democratic Sen. Menendez, facing challenge, may block bill while advocating stricter scrutiny. An executive involved says sale of DPW assets may occur “a little beyond” six-month deadline set in March.
A senior U.S. official says the company has pared bidders to three.

Hopefully those three are American or Western in nature. We wonder what would comprise a “compromise” bill on control of our ports and other vital sites and infrastructure. Odd that, yet again, a liberal Democrat is tougher than the Republicans–on this issue. And sad.
Meanwhile, a WSJ editorial decries something equally disturbing:
Remember the powerful International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the AFL-CIO? The unions were instrumental in protesting the Dubai Ports deal. But they’re on the wrong side on another vital ports security issue.
The ILWU and AFL-CIO are lobbying Congress not to bar felons from working in sensitive dock security jobs.
As you may have read, the House and Senate are finalizing the port security bill. Reports the Journal:

A provision sponsored by Senator Jim DeMint (R., S.C.) would prohibit dock workers convicted of certain felonies — including murder, espionage or treason — from obtaining access to secure areas. Workers convicted of other felonies — say, extortion, smuggling, bribery, identity fraud or the unlawful possession or distribution of firearms — would be prevented from getting clearance until seven years after conviction. The Department of Homeland Security has issued a similar regulation, though it isn’t final.
Yet the longshoremen’s union — the same outfit behind the 2002 West Coast port shutdown — and its labor allies are muscling Congress to strike the DeMint provision. Larry Willis, the general counsel for the Transportation Trades Department at the AFL-CIO, says that the felonious categories that would bar workers are “too broad.”
Too broad? Some 750,000 workers currently have unescorted access to secure port areas, including longshoremen, truck drivers and rail workers. People with a criminal record would seem to be obvious candidates for recruitment by bad guys trying to infiltrate the docks. The felony standards Congress is considering are also similar to those that are currently enforced for airport workers or nuclear-plant guards.

Terror supporters from the Islamofascist world running our ports is an unacceptable condition. But so is having American crminals involved in crimes like espionage and treason in the ports’ secure areas.
Both are equally ridiculous, if we have any intention of protecting our borders . . . and our shores.

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While we still don’t have tougher immigration laws–with the Senate refusing to go along with House legislation to do so–even the Swiss get it.
You remember the Swiss? They claim to be neutral, but helped the Nazis every step of the way to make sure Jews and others were murdered and their property seized. You know the Swiss? They claim to be neutral, but, today, side with Islamofascists every step of the way.
Well, now, they are getting a taste of what their absurd immigration policies have wrought–Turkish and Iraqi Muslims are the largest groups of those seeking asylum in Switzerland. And even they are sick of it.
Sunday, Swiss voters ratified laws making it more difficult for refugees seeking asylum to receive government assistance of any form–something WE need to do, but won’t. They also voted to do something we “Ugly Americans” and “nativists” have never done. They voted to block non-European unskilled workers from entering the country.

Even “Neutral,” Lefty Swiss Get it on Immigration Reform
67% of Swiss voters chose the stricter laws which make it easier to imprison and deport phony asylum seekers. Just ask the Detention and Removal Operations agents and officials (part of ICE–Immigration and Customs Enforcement) in the U.S. how difficult it is to do that here. We help these people get aid, legal help to fight us, etc., etc. ad absurdum.
Swiss Justice Minister Christoph Blocher said fewer than half of asylum requests there are valid. But here in America, far more petitions for asylum are phony. Just ask some of the better Immigration Judges, like .
The new law is one of Europe’s strictest, so strict that the UN High Commission on Refugees (which–along with UNRWA–usually only denounces Israel) denounced it. But the law is a response to the fact that 20% of Swiss residents are foreigners, one of the highest rates in the world. For now.
Is America next? Will we do something before it is too late?
Or will we be like the Swiss who are too late to do something?

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On this site, we’ve lamented the fact that PETA (or as we like to call it People for the Unethical Treatment of Animals and humans–PUTAh) has already won.
In “,” we summarized how Americans treat their pets better than they treat other humans. We blame Paris Hilton and other vapid celebutantes for splurging on $1,200 Burberry rain coats, $300 aromatherapy sessions, and gazillion dollar plastic surgeries for their metrosexualized dogs. And we blame vapid Americans who copy the vapid celebs’ every silly trend.
Today’s New York Times details the latest such absurdity, Country Clubs for Dogs. No, these are NOT kennels. Check out the pics below. They are actual country clubs and spas for dogs.
Here are some of the excerpts from the article, “A Dog’s Life, Upgraded.” Has America gone mad?:

Club Med for Dogs

When Top Dog [Country Club]’s owner, Jean Beuning, hired a contractor three years ago to install a tiled, in-ground, heated swimming pool for dogs, the builder initially told her that she was out of her mind, she said.
But Ms. Beuning had heard that kind of comment before, particularly in the fall of 2000 when she left her job as a regional vice president for ExecuStay by Marriott to open a dog kennel, which she describes as a “Club Med for dogs.” . . .
Depending on the kennel – or hotel or spa or resort – a dog’s activities can include hiking, swimming, listening to music, watching television, dining on gourmet meals and getting a pedicure, complete with nail polish. . . .
Heated tile floors and high-tech ventilation systems are de rigueur. . . . And even as the prices for such pampering rise – in some instances well beyond $100 a night – dog owners are lining up to give their pets what they view as the perfect vacation. . . .
If a dog stays in the $50-a-day “ambassador suite” at Club Bow-Wow, a staff member sleeps overnight in the room. Dogs that opt for the “presidential suite,” also $50 a day, spend the day in the office of the center’s owner and manager, though they aren’t quite interns.
Other luxury kennels offer services from pedicures to parties for pets, charging as much as $185 a night. . . .
Inside the suites [at Top Dog] are custom-made wrought-iron beds with orthopedic mattresses and tapestry covers. (And just like the beds in some hotels for humans, the dog beds can be bought for home use.) . . .
And before lights-out, around 9 p.m., Ms. Beuning or one of her employees reads a bedtime story over the sound system. The stories, written by local schoolchildren, may tell of dogs “chasing kitty cats in their dreams,” she said. . . .
“The priority here is always about the dogs,” she said. So her center plays soothing music – classical, with a good helping of Frank Sinatra mixed in . . . .

At Holiday Barn Pet Resorts, dogs are offered

special events like turkey barbecues for Thanksgiving and weekly tailgate parties during college football season. . . .
At Mazzu’s Canine and Feline Hotel in Philadelphia, Jenee Mazzu offers a luxury pet hotel for “the discriminating pet owner.” A night in a suite costs $155 to $185, depending on the size of the room. (The largest is 7 feet by 7 feet.)
The daily rate includes the “personal suite, platform bed, comforter, toys, TV/DVD, two walks, one 40-minute jaunt to the dog park, feedings, unlimited bottled water, climate-controlled facility, daily maid service, 24-hour on-site care,” the Mazzu’s Web site says. For an additional $25, Mazzu’s will serve the dog a filet mignon dinner.

Don’t these people know that the dogs are animals? “Stepford Dogs”? “Canine Feng Shui”?:

A Dog’s experience in a boarding kennel depends largely on the dog’s personality, said Mr. Cohen, the pet behaviorist. “People are trying to push dogs into Stepford dogs,” he said, noting that many dogs enjoy socializing with other dogs but that some do not. “I think they’re individuals.” . . .
Carol Boerio-Croft, who has two locations in the Pittsburgh area for her Cozy Inn Pet Resort and Orchid Spa, has built her kennel business on what she calls canine feng shui. “Cozy Inn’s mission is to create and provide a loving, sensitive, healthy, safe naturally controlled environment for our guests; take care of them completely: mentally, emotionally, medically, spiritually and physically,” she says on her Web site. . . .
With that in mind, she offers an indoor swimming pool and whirlpool, a choice of full-body, Swedish or sports massages, and hot-oil treatments.

We were right. Pets are the new humans. Humans–the new pets.

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Today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription only) has an interesting piece on anti-illegal alien activists, particularly Joseph Turner–who deserves our kudos.
In June, we wrote about how (captured on video) when he tried to get anti-illegal alien measures on the ballot in San Bernardino, California. Turner’s one-man anti-illegal alien shop has managed to spur laws in localities and states, nationwide, to make it harder for illegal aliens to live among us. (Check out Save Our State’s excellent website.)
The Wall Street Journal article reports that Turner alone has spurred 10 towns across America to pass anti-illegal alien ordinances. And, because of him, dozens of other towns are considering such measures. But the article is interesting for what it doesn’t say as well as what it does say.

Secure Borders Activist Joseph Turner Fights Home Depot
First, there’s the falsely-named Southern Poverty Law Center’s creative new definition of a “hate group.”

The law center defines a hate group as on that singles out and promotes hatred of another group, based on . . . immigration status.

Yes, you and I–and any American who wants secure borders–are vessels of “hatred.” My friend, Dan Stein, who leads the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), leads a “hate group.” Incredible.
The ), which claims it tracks “extremist groups,” tracks groups like FAIR, the Center for Immigration Studies, the Minutemen, and a host of other groups that are doing the vital job that some Americans (like ) just won’t do.
In case you are one of those people who still donates to the SPLC in the name of stopping racism and anti-Semitism, this is what you are actually contributing to–the weakening of our borders and the illegal alien invasion. (We’ve already detailed .)
The newspaper reports that neo-Nazis and White supremacists appeared at Joe Turner’s anti-illegal alien rallies and waved Nazi and Confederate flags. Turner did not invite them, and his group left when they showed up.
Now to what the Journal article doesn’t say: The SPLC is notorious for planting its undercover personnel deep inside neo-Nazi and White supremacist groups for one purpose–to defame legitimate secure borders advocates, like the Minutemen. Minutemen activists have identified spies in their ranks that were planted by SPLC and others in neo-Nazi groups who came to their events for the purpose of defaming and de-legitimizing them.
What’s disturbing is that the FBI has been working with the SPLC to do this. Your tax dollars at work. We wonder whether the neo-Nazis and White supremacists who showed up to wreck Turner’s anti-illegal alien rally consisted of some SPLC spies who brought them there.
We’d say it’s a sure bet.
It is well known and documented that organizations like the ACLU and SPLC had double agents working for them also working with Timothy McVeigh. The ACLU and SPLC were working with the FBI on this, and have been working with the FBI against the Minutemen. We wonder if they’re also working with ICE and Border Patrol.
Then there is the portion of the WSJ article that mentions the Archbishop of San Bernardino and Auxiliary Bishop Rutilio del Riego, who’ve tried to counter Joseph Turner’s effective secure borders activism:

As fear spred in Hispanic-heavy communities, the Archbishop of San Bernardino called an emergency meeting of all parish priests and dioceses to discuss how to counter the measure. . . . We wanted to portray this as a human issue, not a political or religious issue,” says Auxiliary Bishop Rutilio del Riego.

But, in fact, it is a political issue–one in which the Catholic Church, or any house of worship of any religion, has no business getting involved in. Somebody ought to get the IRS to look at whether the tax-exempt status of the San Bernardino portion of the Catholic Church should continue.
Turner and Save Our State hold a lot of anti-alien rallies at Home Depot, where illegals gather to get jobs. Read more on Home Depot’s incredibly outrageous role in aiding and abetting the illegal alien invasion.

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Michelle Malkin has been hot on the trail of Bilal Hussein, the AP photographer who has ties to Al-Qaeda, and who–as Michelle reported–takes photos from Al-Qaeda terrorists’ perspective.
Now, there is yet another reason not to believe what you see–and read–from AP.
Tuesday, AP reported that Paul Vance–the man who co-wrote the famous song, “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini“–was dead. But, to paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of his demise were highly exaggerated. And, in fact, not true at all.
Paul Vance is alive and well. The man who actually died, Paul Van Valkenburgh, was a phony who claimed to have written the song under the name, Paul Vance–a complete lie. Had the AP obituary writer done even the slightest of reporting–ie., investigating–the phony news would not have been reported all over the world.

When Paul Vance surfaced–after reading his obit–AP started the real investigating. The “news”wire made him provide royalty statements to show he’s the real deal–and not dead.
AP’s phony report also cost the real Vance. Two of the horses he owns were scratched from horse races because of his alleged death. And he had to field condolence phone calls from those who thought he died. Vance told the New York Times he was considering suing AP because its false report could stop his “Bikini” song royalties from being paid:

Believe me, if they think you’re dead, they ain’t going to send the money.

Other repercussions:

He was “kind of shook up” over reports of his demise. “What is happening is unreal,” he said. “My kids went nuts. My closest friends are still calling.”

Phony news about a guy who wrote a popular bikini song from 46 years ago may seem minor, but it begs these questions about the capabilities of AP to accurately report important, major news stories:
* If AP can’t even get right an obituary about a Z-list celeb who wrote a bikini song, what news can the news organization get right?
* How much other “news” reported by AP is similarly phony–and which alleged “news” reported by it can we, indeed, believe (if any)?
* Just how lazy are AP reporters, and how widespread is the affliction?
* How easily fooled is AP?
AP blames the false story on an obituary that ran in The News-Times of Danbury, Connecticut. But so what? Way to do your own “original” reporting and investigating, AP. Shows AP will just reprint anything in any newspaper, taking it as “the Gospel.”
We like Michelle’s new moniker for AP: “Associated–With Terrorists–Press.” But we have another, equally appropriate suggestion: “Associated Press–Report Now, Investigate Later.”

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Remember the allegations by liberals and Democrats that the 2004 Presidential election was rigged because of alleged electronic voting computer glitches and fraud in Ohio? How could you forget–since they’re still whining about it?
To put a face and visual scenario to the absurd allegations, Robin Williams stars in a very carefully timed (just in time for absentee ballots) movie, “Man of the Year,” about a cable talk show host/comedian Lou, er . . . Tom Dobbs, who gets elected President in just such a computer glitch, coupled with the fraud of the evil computer company execs.
Thank G-d, in real life, Jon Stewart will never be President.

I’ve seen the movie, but studio execs have prohibited me from reviewing it until the day it debuts (or right before)–October 13th (which is also Friday the 13th).
But nothing prohibits me from asking the obvious rhetorical question:
So, it’s just a coincidence that the movie debuts in mid-October of a heated election year, just 3 weeks or so before election day, RIGHT?

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Imagine if the shallow “Desperate Housewives” were a liberal Jew, a liberal Christian (who hates evangelicals)–both airheads–and their ostensibly modern Muslim buddy who attacks “fundamentalist Christians,” compares the Holocaust “with a century of Palestinian misery,” and calls Jews “arrogant” and Christians “smug.” Imagine if they gaze in admiration as she says these things.
Then they all put it in a moral equivalency book.
Three wealthy chicks–all vapid–bring us a silly book comparing the “Religion of Peace” with two of the major religions that are victims of it. Since none of the three qualifies, apparently, for the 72 virgins job, “Let’s all bake cookies and get along.”
Meet “The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew–Three Women Search for Understanding.” (Even the Oprah Book Club is more appealing.) If this is faith, count me among the unfaithful.

The Witches of Jihadwick: Suzanne Oliver, Ranya Idliby, Priscilla Warner
USA Today, predictably, celebrates these Three Stoogette’s of Rodney Kingdom in a mega-slobber story, complete with jumped quotes of all three of these Yaya Sisterhood members attacking the Pope for Pope Jihad.
These three self-anointed Charlie’s Angels of “peace” set out to write a children’s book but ended up with Mein BS.
Ranya Idliby says she uses this book of pap to further her claim that the alleged media portrayal of the extremists who dominate Islam is not accurate:

“How dare you! Don’t tell me that is Islam.”

Uh, That. Is. Islam. I just dared.

“Nowhere in the Quran does it say, ‘Kill and you will be rewarded.'”

Lady, ever read the Hadiths? Ever hear the sermons? Ever learn at the madrassahs (Oops, you’re a woman, so you can’t learn there)?
Again, That. Is. Islam.
More:

Through the Faith Club Idliby says she has found a way to speak out about “plurality, diversity and flexibility among Muslim believers.”

What Islam is that? Islam on Mars?
This woman is not a good representative of the contemporary Islamic woman in America, since Islam has moved farther and farther to the right and more and more Islamic women–even in America–wear the hijab and even the niqab/burqa. This woman is uncovered.
Sorry, we’re also not impressed when the gushing liberal Christian chick uses the Yiddish word “mishegoss” [craziness] to describe “the worst fears and misconceptions and ugliest stereotypes” she had about Islam, that she has now abandoned.
The only mishegoss here is the written and spoken psychobabble put out by these women.
“Can’t we all just get along?” Don’t look for the answer in a book by three real-life Desperate Housewives. Look for it in Pope Jihad, Cartoon Jihad, Koran Jihad, etc., etc., etc., ad absurdum.

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You’ve heard of “Big Tobacco.” Now, meet “Big Spinach.”
We feel sorry for those who’ve gotten seriously ill or, worse, died from E. coli-afflicted spinach. But before they’ve even found the cause, legions of lawyers looking for a piece of the green are popping up faster than diseases in Paris Hilton’s underwear.
A headline inside today’s Wall Street Journal says it all:

How a Tiny Law Firm Made Hay Out of Tainted Spinach

Spreading far more quickly than the E. coli bacteria in spinach is the fervor of Marler Clark, a Seattle law firm that already filed its first “bad-spinach” lawsuit before health officials warned us not to eat spinach.

Sleazy Lawyers Attack Big Spinach
The firm is trolling for E. coli clients left and right on its E. coli blog and 32(!) other blogs and websites. They marketed their status as the anti-Big Spinach lawyers to reporters and now have garnered 76 clients. When the cause of the E. coli outbreak in spinach is finally found, look for spinach prices to rise so that growers can pay for a healthy settlement not only for Marler Clark’s clients and partners, but their on-staff epidemiologist and nurse.
If the CDC can’t figure out why E. coli was present in spinach and is not exactly sure about the sinach producer it pinpointed, don’t look for law firms to do it. They’ll just sue everybody. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents told us they believe the E. coli spread when unsanitary illegal aliens were harvesting the spinach. Why doesn’t the firm sue the President Bush, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and ICE chieftess a/k/a “The ICE Princess,” for not enforcing immigration laws effectively?
Marler Clark’s spinach litigators have a long history of suing restaurants and food purveyors. The firm has sued Jack in the Box, Odwalla, Inc., BJ’s Wholesale Club, and Chi-Chi’s. Wonder why your smoothie or burger went up in price?
Reports the Journal:
The firm has pursued an aggressive brand-building campaign.
Brand-building? These lawyers are no different than any other ambulance chasers (call these ones, bowel-movement, run-to-the-toilet chasers). Except in this case they are going to drive the price of spinach, sky high. The Journal documents Marler Clark’s sleazy race to the courthouse to file high visibility anti-spinach cases and garner more clients from the resulting press.
In typical lawyer sleaze, the firm has a consulting firm, Outbreak, which “consults” companies on how to keep food safe. We doubt they’d help companies stop doing something bad to food, when it would make them millions more for its customers to be poisoned and sue, first.
And you won’t be healthier from their suits, either. The money meant for that will go to the lawyers and their clients. David Ernst a defense lawyer who has opposed Marler Clark, said that most food reforms are not “lawyer-driven reforms.”