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Question: What do a fat Ben Affleck, a slimy and annoying Adrien Brody, and an aging Diane Lane (made to look even more aging) have in common?
Answer: The long and boring “Hollywoodland,” in theaters today.
I have a sleep test for movies: If I’ve had a good night’s sleep and I fall asleep during a movie, anyway, than it was too boring for words. During “Hollywoodland,” I fell asleep not once, but three times. And I still didn’t miss a thing. That’s how slow and unexciting this movie is.

It’s the story of George Reeves, TV’s “Superman” in the late ’50s, and his suicide because he is unable to overcome his superhero for kids image and get serious acting gigs. It also follows a sleazy detective overacted by Adrien Brody, investigating his death. The conspiracy theories into whether he was murdered and other scenarios turn out to be just as absurd and uninteresting as this 2-hour, 6-minute disaster. It’s more evidence that a bloated Ben Affleck will never overcome his atrocious “Gigli” gig.
Just goes to show you that great ’50s clothes, cars, hairstyles, and art deco sets don’t make a movie. The plot does. And there really isn’t one here.
This movie is just the latest manifestation of Hollywood’s dwindling creativity and bottom-barrell reaching for movie subjects. It’s just one of a few of these silly conspiracy theory murder movies, based on real-life, but with little connection to it. This week, it’s “Hollywoodland.” Next week, it’s the even more awful, “The Black Dahlia“–which also has the same great ’50s clothes, cars, and style, but not much else.
Why should we care about George Reeves, just because he once played Superman man decades ago? This movie doesn’t give us a reason. And we wonder what other unexciting, waste-of-time suicide of a semi-celeb movie is next for the silver screen. Can we expect, “Freddie Prinze: Suicide or Did Chico Kill the Man”?
Skip this and rent something far more exciting and relevant, like “.”

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Maybe Monique Buckner, a South African in England, should reconsider her conversion to Islam. If the disturbing story about her treatment by the man who converted her–her boss at a Muslim school–is any indication, sometimes Islamic piety is a sham. And women continue to be big airheads when it comes to instantly joining it without a second thought.
According to the Oxford Mail, Buckner’s boss at the Iqra School in Oxford, England, Hojjat Ramzy, convinced Buckner to convert to Islam when she passed by his Islamic proselytizing stand on an Oxford street. He then agreed to hire her to teach English at the Islamic school, so that she would not be deported back to South Africa.
But when Buckner, 33, began working at the school Ramzy, a married father of five, asked her whether or not she was a virgin and said if he were younger, he would marry her, too.

Monique Buckner: Islam’s Virginity Test Leads to Convert’s Job Loss

“This disgusted me as I considered Mr Ramzy to be a pious Muslim whom I trusted and respected,” she said.

Not long after, she was fired.
Is this kind of thing headed for America? Nope. It’s already here. And five years ago Monday, it was empowered and strengthened on the heap of almost 3,000 Americans’ bodies.
Read the whole article.

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Not long ago, we reported how at its famous former perch outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Here’s an excerpt:

Snooty Philadelphia Museum of Art officials and the Philadelphia Art Commission claimed it was not art because it was “commercial” in nature and had no “artistic worth.” Whatever. There are plenty of things in that pretentious art museum of less artistic value than Rocky. . . .
Rocky star Sylvester Stallone donated the 8-foot, half-ton statue of Rocky to the City of Philadelphia in 1982. But snooty Philadelphia Museum of Art officials and the Philadelphia Art Commission claimed it was not art because it was “commercial” in nature and had no “artistic worth.” Whatever. There are plenty of things in that pretentious art museum of less artistic value than Rocky. . . .

Snobby Philadelphia Park Commissioner E. Harris Baum was upset. He sarcastically asked AP:

If a film about Donald Duck in Philadelphia comes out, do we put a Donald Duck statue in our park?

Well, we’re happy to report that the elitists lost. Rocky is coming back. In a 6-2 vote, yesterday, the Philadelphia Art Commission voted to move Rocky out of storage and back to the steps of the Art Museum.
We’re glad. This is not about a 30-year-old movie. It’s about the Working Class America which the statue represents–the hard-working men and women trying to make a buck. Forget Renoir and Monet. Rocky represents the triumph of the American spirit against tough odds.
Philadelphia Art Commission member, artist, and art professor Moe Brooker was one of the uber-snobs who voted against Rocky, whining:

It’s not a work of art and . . . it doesn’t belong there.

But , when the controversy first erupted:

Rocky is . . . a character who represents everything great about America–a man who rose from nothing and triumphed, a man who rose from poverty and the underclass to great wealth and success. That is the opportunity that there still is in America.
And that’s why the Rocky statue has more merit than any anthropological find or old canvas gathering dust at any museum.

We stand by that statement and look forward to the return of Rocky to Philadelphia. Yo, Adrian!
Read Michael Smerconish’s excellent column about this in the Philadelphia Daily News. Amen, Mike.

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On this site, we read the women’s and celeb (is that redundant) mags, so you don’t have to. We spare you from the brain addling, but let you know what your wives, girlfriends, and daughters are subjecting themselves to, on a weekly basis. We present to you a summary of the celeb PC disease in pictures. These ones certainly are worth a thousand words . . . of absurdity and narcisism of the celeb left.
From In Touch Magazine, this disgusting Che Guevara onesie (made by shameless Appaman Clothing Company) was among the many gifts sent to Palestinian sympathizer Angelina Jolie for her and Brad Pitt’s new illegitimate daughter, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt. “What a Lucky Baby,” In Touch proclaims, regarding this and other nausea-inducing “gifts.”

Then, there’s this from Star Magazine–an obnoxious Menage A Muslim Madonna. It’s her “Forbidden Love” peace song and dance, the Madonna version of Rodney King’s “Can’t We All Just Get Along?” Didn’t her Kabbalah con-artist gurus inform her that it’s against Judaism to don a tattoo? And by the way, if she’s going to become a Muslim concubine, where the heck is her burqa? She’s one of the few women that belong in one . . . and everything that goes along with it.

OK! Magazine presents us this doctored publicity shot from the new NBC “Today Show” crew of Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer. Apparently, NBC cropped and photoshopped it because skanky Vieira’s hand was shown inching toward Lauer’s penis. Reminds us of CNN zipper sounds on ads promoting Paula Zahn. And it’s consistent with the we previously posted on this site.

While Bono is busy admonishing America to give more money to African nations that support Al-Qaeda (and to forgive their debts to us), US Magazine informs us that he wasn’t spending any of his cash on the cause. Nope. He and wifey, Alison Hewson, were busy crusing the Island of Lastovo, Croatia–fat and happy (as anyone spending U.S. tax dollars would be). The blind US editors call his paunch a “Hot Pic.” We say to Bono: Hit the gym, and stay away from our wallets.

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Usually, the e-mails I get from members of the “Religion of Peace” are frightening and disturbing. But yesterday, one of the many I received was also comical:

— Ahmad Fawaz safawaz@comcast.net wrote:
From: “Ahmad Fawaz” safawaz@comcast.net
To: dschlussel@yahoo.com
Subject: how is the clergy
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 22:08:44 -0400
Debbie
To bad your so evil because you look like you could be a wild one in bed.
I would have loved to have you for my 4th wife
P.S 4 wives is better then little boys (how is the clergy)
Love
Ahmad Youssef Mohamed Chebli Fawaz

Ahmad, Habibi:
Dream on. And, FYI, I’m not Catholic. But I, just as my Catholic readers and friends, do not appreciate your using of their religion to justify the many mass murders, tortures, and rapes conducted with the full approval of the clergy of the “Religion of Peace.”
As far as “little boys” go, you may want to examine your own religion, specifically the behavior of Abdel Mageed Fadl, who had sexual contact with several young boys at a Muslim youth program in Iowa (and photographed them naked). Apparently, some Muslims prefer that to the four wives.
Regards,
Debbie
**** UPDATE: One of this site’s many smart readers, Naarah, plugged in Ahmad Fawaz’s e-mail address and found his family tree website. Very interesting–especially the pic of his daughter Nena, the Islamic JonBenet. We wonder–if he truly has three wives–whether the FBI will go after him and other polygamist Muslims in the way that they went after Warren Jeffs. Don’t bet on it.
Note his family tree reveals that he is the first cousin, once removed of Ali Ajami, the Hezbollah-supporting Lebanese Consul General, who delivered an anti-American, anti-Semitic speech at the .
BTW, here’s Mr. Fawaz’s mug, below. Based on it, I think I made the right decision not to become Mrs. Fawaz number four. Does his wife, Salwa, know about this (not sure which number sex-slave, er . . . wife, she is)?
Unfortunately, since he has a link to The Detroit Newsistan, that must mean he lives in the Detroit area. Too close for comfort.

Islamofascist Ahmad Youssef Fawaz: Wants Schlussel as Wife #4
****UPDATE #2: Came across a short bio of my latest Islamofascist suitor. Scary. Ahmad Fawaz lives a little too close, in Troy, Michigan–a Detroit suburb. He was born in Lebanon (surprise! surprise!), but now lives here. He is Director of Marketing for Telecom Network. Wonder if his employer knows the kinds of scary e-mails he’s sending out to others.

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First, no Mohammed cartoons. And now, no questioning Mohammed’s parentage.
Just ask Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed. If he were still alive to tell you.
The editor of Sudanese newspaper Al-Wifaq was found beheaded (his head is still missing) a day after he was kidnapped from his Khartoum home. His “crime”: He published an article questioning the Islamic prophet Mohammed’s parentage.
It’s important to note that Mohammed was an Islamist and an active member and supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic terrorist group, so it’s hard to shed any tears for the guy. However, his murder is yet another example of how extremist Muslims can’t even get along with each other. So, don’t expect them to like us . . . ever.

Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed:
Muslim Hates Us, Other Muslims Hated Him, Now Beheaded
Reports say that in May 2005, protesters demanded Ahmed’s death for republishing the internet article about Mohammed’s parentage. And, by the way, his murder was prescribed by Sudan’s Islamic Sharia law, which says that blasphemy (of Islam only) is punishable by death.
Even though Ahmed apologized and his paper was fined $3,200, he was murdered anyway. The “Religion of Peace” shows its “peaceful” ways, yet again, toward one of its own. Imagine what they’d do to us.
Don’t hold your breath for the religion’s “peaceful” representatives in the States–CAIR, MPAC, ISNA, etc.–to denounce this outrageous murder of one of their own fellow co-religionists.

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When Ronald Reagan ran for President against Jimmy Carter in 1980, one simple question was the focal point of his campaign:

Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

Five years after 9/11, Reagan’s campaign question is a good template for the war on terror. On Monday, we should ask ourselves: Are we better off today than we were five years ago today?
The answer is no.

Guy Gabaldon: World War II Hero Would Be Vilified Now
Those who hate us are in our midst, and lax immigration laws have made their entry easier. Politically correct federal law enforcement officials, civil rights proponents, and judges have all made “sensitivity” to certain ethnicities the priority over security for all Americans. Those who share the same ideology, the same religious fervor, as the 9/11 hijackers are promoted as “peaceful” in Hollywood, in Washington, and every other center of influence.
Just looking back five years ago isn’t enough. Looking back at the last great world war, World War II, and comparing it to this– World War III against Islamofascists–the answer is still no. We are not better off than we were even decades ago when we fought the the first Nazis.
A good benchmark for that is the life of Guy Gabaldon. A World War II hero, he died last week at the age of 80. Gabaldon’s amazing feat in getting more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers to surrender was celebrated in movies and on TV.
But today, he’d probably be excoriated by the New York Times, the ACLU, and Chris Matthews. He’d be lambasted in Jay Leno monologues and obnoxious Jon Stewart soliloqies.
Just an 18-year-old Marine, Gabaldon persuaded the Japanese soldiers to surrender in the Battle for Saipan. He didn’t just shake his finger at them and say: If you don’t listen, I’ll get Kofi Annan to write a letter.
Gabaldon used brazen trickery and an elementary knowledge of Japanese. He bribed them with cigarettes and candy. He warned them, making up stories about encampments surrounded by U.S. troops. He coerced Japanese soldiers into abandoning their posts and surrendering.
Gabaldon’s scheme was so successful, he won the Navy Cross, the Marines’ highest honor. His story was told on the small screen in “This is Your Life” and on the silver screen, in the 1960 movie, “Hell to Eternity.”
But today, were he fighting the war on terror, Gabaldon would not be celebrated as the “Pied Piper of Saipan.” He would be vilified and likely court-martialed the way soldier Ilario Pantano was. His ethics and integrity would be challenged by MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. He’d likely be accused of violating the new Pentagon rules banning “abusive” treatment and interrogation of prisoners.
The 1,000 soldiers, whose surrender Gabaldon secured, would quickly get ACLU lawyers and gourmet meals according to their strictest Japanese diet requirements, a la Guantanamo Bay prisoners. Sean Penn might even go to visit them. And George Soros would fund websites supporting them and attacking the Allies.
Today, it’s questionable whether Guy Gabaldon would be regarded as a hero in America. But it’s certain his heroic efforts would be hotly debated and dragged through the mud over and over again.
This is the post-9/11 way. But is it really “Post”-9/11? We are not better off then we were five years ago on 9/11.
Today, we are promoting those from the same religion as the 9/11 hijackers on game shows, like this season’s “The Amazing Race.” Can you imagine putting members of the German American Bund on “Quiz Show”? It would have been unthinkable then.
But five years after 9/11, the unthinkable is not just Reality TV. It is reality.
During Guy Gabaldon’s time, the American mindset was shaped by the likes of Bob Hope and Superman promoting war bonds. Today, it is shaped by Oprah, who refused to visit young girls at schools in Afghanistan when asked by the President.
Yesterday, movies promoted our World War II efforts against the Nazis. Today, billionaire movie-makers, like Mark Cuban, make movies like “The War Within,” sympathizing with terrorists and siding against those fighting them. Yesterday, movies with Nazis as villains got Oscar nominations. But in 2006, a movie celebrating Palestinian terrorist homicide bombers, “Paradise Now,” got that nod.
During World War II, every effort was made to conserve supplies, funds, and resources to fight the war effort. Today, the Department of Homeland Security won’t spend adequate funds to update and unify an archaic set of terrorist databases for visa background checks. But DHS chief Michael Chertoff spends thousands in dollars on Daniel Sutherland, a high-ranking DHS employee whose sole purpose is to fly around the country consoling the most extremist Muslims who openly support HAMAS and Hezbollah.
Yesterday, our Justice Department hunted Nazi War criminals and prosecuted them. Today, there is no similar Office of Special Investigations to hunt Islamic terrorists. On the contrary, today, key Justice Department officials, like U.S. Attorney Stephen Murphy III in Detroit, sit on indictments of Islamic terrorists, until they flee the country and visit mosques to gush over extremist imams who incite those terrorists. And Presidents, like George W. Bush, reward efforts like Murphy’s with appointments to the Federal Bench.
Judges, like Gerald Rosen, don’t have the guts to uphold jury verdicts against Al-Qaeda terror cells. And Federal Magistrates, like Charles Binder, don’t have the guts to make Islamic men who illegally alter cellphones–for untraceable, unlimited use and marked for shipment to Lebanon–to stand trial.
Are we better off than we were five years ago? The answer is still no. And it’s getting worse.

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Yesterday, we presented you with regarding . Now, there’s a third. You’d think that if the company was going to lie, at least it could get its story straight–and stick to one.
The first claimed Miller did not sponsor the illegal alien rally, this past Labor Day weekend (when in fact Miller DID sponsor it). The second version did not disown the rally, and instead, not only admitted to it, but supported relaxing immigration laws for amnesty. Now, there’s a third version that claims Miller not only did not sponsor the rally, but did not authorize the use of its trademarks by the rally attendees.
Here’s the third version, sent to us by reader Kenneth R.:

(Artwork by David Lunde)

Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 01:34:18 -0400
From: Milleronline Milleronline@mbco.com, mnettles@mbco.com, Nettles.Michelle@mbco.com, Kaplan.Wolfe.Kristin@mbco.com
Subject: Miller’s trade marks Re: 12417387
Thanks for contacting us. . . . Miller Brewing Company does not support illegal immigration or any other unlawful act. We are not sponsoring this march and we did not authorize the use of our trademarks in associaton with this event.

But reader Kenneth R. is an attorney, who asks Miller–if it truly opposes the use of its trademarks for the illegal alien rally–why it does not take legal action (as it usually does in the slightest of cases) to protect against trademark infringement.:

If the use of your trademarks in association with the event was truly unauthorized, then perhaps Miller ought to sue the march organizers for trademark infringement.
It is noted that Miller has in fact actually sued its competitors for using the word “Lite” to market their beers [Miller Brewing Co. v.> Falstaff Brewing Co., 655 F.2d 5 (1st Cir. 1981)], and has claimed that a beer called “Highlite” would be confused with Miller’s own “Miller High Life” trademark [Miller Brewing Co. v. Carling-O’Keefe Brewing Cos. of Canada, 452 F. Supp. 429 (W.D.N.Y. 1978)]. Miller has even crossed the border, presumably legally, and gone into Canada to sue Labatt for its advertising slogan “All you want in a beer” because of feared confusion with Miller’s slogan “Everything you always wanted in a beer. And less.” [Miller Brewing Co. v. Labatt Brewing Co., 36 C.P.R. (3d) 400 (Canada Trade Marks Opposition Board, 1991)].
Miller’s contentions that it was not sponsoring the illegal alien march and did not authorize the use of its trademarks in connection with the event would be far, far more credible if Miller would send its attorneys to court to exact its due remedies from these nefarious trademark infringers.
Miller is talking the talk. The public needs to see Miller walk the walk!!

Amen! Kenneth R. sent that to Miller, and called the brewer’s bluff. We’ll see if the company responds. Don’t hold your breath. Miller–the Official Beer of Illegal Aliens.

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Islamofascists are the champions, my friend. No time for losers, ‘cuz Islamofascists are the champions of the world.
Remember Freddie Mercury, the very talented, late lead singer of Queen? He sang a different incarnation of the lyrics for “We Are the Champions.” But it seems, these days, that Sharia (strict Islamic law) is taking over the world.
Take Mercury, himself. The bisexual, often transvestite singer died of AIDS in 1991. He would have been 60, Saturday, had he lived. Well, Mercury’s case demonstrates the utter discrimination against gays and bisexuals in the Muslim world.

Freddie Mercury, Latest Target of Islamofascisti
In his native Zanzibar (Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar to Persian Zoroastrian parents), Muslim leader Azan Khalid criticized attacked plans to honor Mercury. Khalid, of the Zanzibar Association for Islamic Mobilization and Propagation, denounced a planned beach party in Zanzibar, held by Mercury’s fans, and he vowed to stop it. Khalid claimed Mercury violated Islam with his “flamboyant lifestyle.”
Hello? Mercury was not a Muslim. Well, Mercury was right when he sang, “Another One Bites the Dust.” In this case, the “One” would be freedom against Islamic tyranny, which seems to be the way the world–not just Zanzibar–is headed. His fans were celebrating his talent, not his sexual preference. But you can’t even celebrate talent if it doesn’t fit a narrow definition in the Islamofascist world.
Not a peep out of the usually vocal gay rights world, though, about the way the Islamic world treats gays–often with the death penalty.

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Playing in an office football pool or a fantasy league at work?
Uh-oh. You, too, may soon be the victim of the whining, no-fun Political Correctness police. Yup, they’ve found a reason to hate football pools and fantasy leagues, too.
USA Today details how sniffling lefties have used sex-harassment/workplace bias claims to attack employers over the football wagers at work.

Employers can face lawsuits claiming bias if office leagues exclude some workers, such as women.

Next, they’ll be sued for having all-male restrooms.
Also, employees fired for using their computers to view online porn sued, claiming discrmination since some office pools are posted on computers. They absurdly claimed it was unfair that they couldn’t look up porn, but other employees could look up the week’s office pool results.
Incredible.