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Hank Williams, Jr.’s (a/k/a “Bocephus”) rendition of “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight (Are You Ready for Some Football?)” was so popular that the one season ABC tried to replace it with popular acts like Aerosmith and KISS, it didn’t work.
But now, ABC’s Monday Night Football is gone (to ESPN). So the premiere prime-time football event on broadcast TV is NBC’s new Sunday Night Football. You’d think that NBC would pick something on the level of Hank, Jr.’s legendary theme song. But you would be wrong.
Instead, NBC–in a bad attempt to attract more female fans (and a good attempt to turn off the majority male fans)–has recruited pop star Pink to sing the Sunday Night Football theme. Worse, Pink is remaking ’80s has-been Joan Jett’s “I Hate Myself for Loving You” in to “Waiting All Day for Sunday Night.” (Memo to NBC: Actually, real football fans are not waiting all day. They’re watching games all Sunday afternoon on FOX and CBS.)

Pink: The New Hank Williams, Jr.?
And you won’t just have to hear Pink every Sunday Night, you’ll have to watch her, too. Says a press release:

As Pink’s voice serves as the signature welcome to viewers each Sunday Night, the accompanying video features Pink.

Pink as the new Hank Williams, Jr.? What’s next: frosted-hair Ryan Secrest as drooling NFL sideline reporter-babe?
We predict her theme song fails and only lasts the season . . . if she’s lucky. A better choice would have been someone male and masculine, like Toby Keith or Sammy Hagar, to sing some sort of football theme updated from “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight (Are You Ready For Some Football?)”
You be the judge. Here are the lyrics to Pink’s new Sunday Night Football theme:

“Waiting All Day For Sunday Night”
All right Sunday Night where are you?
Just kicking back from the things that you do
You want the Big Game, we want it too!
Hey Jack it’s a fact, the best show in town,
Sunday Night Football we ain’t messing around
Al and John will make you crank up the sound …
The NFL’s best have come to play
For every fan there’s just one thing left to say, ay, ay, ay …
I’ve been waiting all day for Sunday Night
The tough get rough in a primetime fight
The last one standing gets to turn out the lights
Cause I been waiting all day for Sunday Night
Sunday Night Football on NBC
The only game that you have to see
Don’t need a ticket, all you need’s a TV
Cause the NFL rocks on NBC

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All of the mainstream press is abuzz with praise over the extremist Islamic Society of North America’s (ISNA) choice of a woman to lead the group. But the choice of Ingrid Mattson–a female Canadian convert to Islam–as the first woman president of the pro-terrorism group is merely cosmetic.
We’d call the choice of Mattson, “lipstick on a pig.” But since Muslims don’t like being compared to pigs–they just like comparing Jews and Christians to them–out of respect and in the interest of accuracy, we’ll call Mattson’s appointment what it really is: lipstick on cancer.
The fact is that the Saudi-funded ISNA–which has taken over most of America’s mosques and Islamic private schools through it’s affiliate, Saudi-funded North American Islamic Trust–is an apologist for the most extreme, repressive treatment of women in Islam. Under ISNA’s growing influence on and “leadership” of Muslims in America, more and more women are under attack.

The New Feminism?: Ingrid Mattson is New Chief Apologist-ette for Islam
ISNA refuses to condemn these Islamic behaviors that take place against women in the Muslim world, every single day:
* female genital mutilation
* sex-selection abortions of female fetuses
* honor killings of women
* forced honor suicides
* rape of women not a criminal act; women honor-killed for being raped
* women not allowed to get divorced
* women not allowed to own property
* polygamy for Muslim husbands
* temporary Muslim sex marriages, where the woman has no rights to alimony or support
* women not allowed to vote
* women not allowed to drive
* women not considered human; just property
* women not allowed to own property
* women not allowed to leave Islam;
* forced arranged marriages;
* women forced to wear hijabs and face-covering niqabs and burqas;
* women recruited as homicide bombers;
etc., etc., etc., ad nauseam.
ISNA’s new president Ingrid Mattson–as is ISNA’s policy–won’t condemn these practices against women. So her position as ISNA’s president is meaningless. It’s merely cosmetics applied on top of a growing extremist cancer.
Welcome to the new Islamic “feminism.”
Then, there is ISNA, itself. When American convert to Islam Azzam Al-Amriki a/k/a Adam Gadahn surfaced over 2 years ago in FBI wanted lists, I wrote about ISNA , who left his leadership position only recently. Here’s an excerpt:

In 1995, Siddiqi praised jihad and martyrdom in the Kansas City Star. “Those who die on the part of justice are alive, and their place is with [Allah], and they receive the highest position, because this is the highest honor.”
Siddiqi wants the United States to become a Muslim country through “gradual change,” and that shariah (Islamic law) should become our law. “Allah’s rules have to be established in all lands, and all our efforts should lead to that direction,” he wrote in 1996.
He opposes Muslims serving in the U.S. military or defending the U.S. “Islam will not allow a Muslim to be drafted by non-Muslims to defend concepts, ideologies, and values other than those of Islam . . . . A Muslim shall defend non-Muslim lands not,” Siddiqi said in an article entitled, “Basic Principles of Involvement in War in Islam,” in 1991.
“America has to learn,” Siddiqi said at an October 2000 protest outside the White House. “If you remain on the side of injustice, the wrath of God will come. Please! Please all American, do you remember that, that Allah is watching everyone . . . . If you continue doing injustice, and tolerating injustice, the wrath of God will come.”
In 1989, the L.A. Times asked whether he agrees with the death sentence fatwa issued by Iran against author Salman Rushdie. Instead of saying no, he said that it would have to be determined by Islamic law.
Siddiqi is one of the most prominent Muslim leaders in America. Until late 2001, he headed the Saudi-funded Islamic Society of North America. . . .
ISNA is at the forefront of promoting extremist Wahhabi Islam and often uses extremists to take over and seize control of relatively moderate mosques. Sometimes that involves violence, such as a May 1987 scuffle at a Tampa mosque by the family of the now indicted, alleged Islamic Jihad frontman, Sami Al-Arian. In a letter, Al-Arian refers to an official at an ISNA conference agreeing to donate $20,000 to his terror efforts.
While Siddiqi headed the ISNA, the group aided Hamas Political Director Musa Abu Marzook, by giving his legal defense fund a platform at its conferences around the U.S. In an open letter published in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Marzook thanked ISNA while he was in prison awaiting extradition. Marzook was unsuccessfully fighting deportation. Now in Syria, the United States has indicted him.

This is the organization that new woman President Ingrid Mattson takes over. While the human plumbing of its leader may have changed, its extremism is increasing exponentially.

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When I first read about a San Francisco motorist who deliberately drove into lots of people and murdered at least one, critically injuring many others and ending in front of the Jewish Community Center (JCC), I wondered what the man’s name was. Was it a Muslim name?
Yes, it was: Omeed Aziz Popal, an Afghani Muslim. The BS reason given by his relatives for his attempt at mass murder of non-Muslims: He was upset over the start of his stressful arranged Islamic marriage. “Religion of Peace” displaying yet more “Peace.” Hate of American Infidel victims had nothing to do with it, right? That’s why he drove far from his home in Fremont to the San Francisco JCC.
And, uh, wouldn’t the stress be on the Afghani bride shipped here to become his instant sex- and house-slave?
It’s not surprising that he turned out to be a Muslim, because Popal’s method isn’t new, in terms of Islamic terrorism in America.
In fact, it’s the third such incident of Islamic Terror by Auto in the last year. You’ve heard of “Driving While Black,” and the alleged “Flying While Arab”? Welcome to Living/Walking While Infidel (or trying to live, anyway).

Islamic Auto Terrorist Omeed Aziz Popal
In March, , an Iranian Muslim–inspired by Allah and hatred for America–purposely drove his Jeep into students at the University of North Carolina.
And in December, , a Palestinian Jordanian Muslim, drove his car into a Home Depot in Arizona, for the purpose of mass destruction of the store and those in it. He wanted to set the place ablaze. He, too, inspired by his anger toward America and his Koran in his trunk.
And then, there are the other incidents of Dr. Wameeth Fadhli, a Muslim medical doctor in Texas, who did a drive-by, “random” shooting of a bicyclist (tip from Sue Bob’s Diary). A Muslim in Baltimore, Mujtaba Rabbani Jabbar, shooting and murdering a Jewish guy at a movie theater. A Pakistani Muslim, Naveed Haq, in Seattle shooting women at the Jewish Federation, murdering one.
But these are all lone, random guys. And all of them just happen to be “mentally unstable” Muslims who deliberately target non-Muslims. Right, ? The latest one ended, by “coincidence,” at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, where he mowed over two people–7 are now critically injured, one dead. But it and the Seattle incident and the Baltimore incident (and the before that) have nothing to do with Islamic anti-Semitism.
Right, ? Just asking.
**** UPDATE: KTVU-San Francisco video reports that Omeed Aziz Popal declared himself “a terrorist.” But police say he isn’t. Whatever. Thanks to reader Jeff for the tip.
**** UPDATE #2: Reader Kenneth H. writes:

I know my way around SF very well. The SF
Bay Area news channels and politicians are
being intentionally vague about where/why
the Driver attacked.
A few stations reported that he struck in “Laurel
Heights”. What they are *not* reporting was
why he chose that location. He drove along
the front sidewalk of a new, prominent JCC.
One station rolled video of the crime scene.
The camera showed bicycle wreckage with
a brick wall in the background. The wall was
cut off at the top of the frame – slightly higher
than the mangled handle bars. Actually, the
wall rises two stories. It’s the front of the JCC!
A few stations reported that he also struck
at “California & Fillmore”, a yuppie area.
Unfortunately, none are reporting the precise
spot where he jumped the curb. Two doors before
that intersection, on the same side of Street
the criminal was driving on, is the front of a
rather large, ornate Refom Synagogue (Cong
Sheerith Israel).
The Mayor of SF is saying that the path of
destruction was “random. The reporters are
telling me that the Driver was mentally unstable
(they used the same spin to excuse the Muslim
fellow who shot up the Seattle JCC a fews ago).
I am so sick of obfuscation.
Back in the old country the criminals are not called
deranged. They are called martyrs.

AMEN to that last statement.
**** UPDATE #3: Reader Kenneth H. writes again to correct some of the above:

in a previous e-mail i wrote that Cong Sheerith Israel was
only 2 doors away from the intersection of California & Fillmore.
actually, the Synagogue is a BLOCK from the intersection.
according to yahoo! maps, the block distance is 0.10 miles.
i *believe* that the Synagogue is currently closed due to
seismic concerns. next door to the sanctuary (on California St.)
is the Cong’s social-hall/classroom building. i do not know if
that building was “Open for Biz” yesterday.

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Real humanitarians don’t need to announce from the mountaintops what they’ve done to help others in need. But not Oprah.
HRHotU (Her Royal Highness of the Universe) Queen Oprah broke out of re-runs, today, to bring you an hour-long special on what HRHotU Oprah has done for the people of New Orleans affected by Hurricane Katrina. Yes, HRHotU Oprah single-handedly saved the people of New Orleans. Ya hear that?
Never mind that HRHotU Oprah is a gazillionaire, and yet she demanded that her less fortunate viewers and major corporations foot a lot of the bill. Never mind that a year ago, HRHotU Queen Oprah treated the world to a in which she, Lisa Ling, interior decorator Nate Berkus, and Dr. Mehmet Oz showed us dead bodies and bodies of the dying–their decaying bodies exploited for the special selfish needs of Oprah TV.

(Islamofascist Oprah by Preston Taylor Holmes/Six Meat Buffet)
Never mind that the week while the Katrina disaster flooding was happening, HOprah was showing her viewers .'” Never mind that the week after–after we saw a week long of this on CNNMSNBCFOXNews–Oprah “News” needed to show it to us all over again . . . accompanied by HRHotU Oprah’s fake crying, fake rage, and fake anger (all complete with real make-up artist).
Never mind all of this because, hey girlfriend, Oprah started a whole neighborhood in New Orleans, unveiled this week. After all this, the only thing we’re surprised about is that she was so modest as to call a street, “Angel Lane.” After all, we thought it should be more appropriately called, “The Magnificent Kingdom of Oprah, Master Humanitarian & Eternal Queen of the Universe.”
Maybe we were wrong about one thing, though. She’s really not Queen Oprah. She’s King. Her adoring Queen is Oprah sycophant Gayle King.
Check out OprahSucks.com.

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Yet another sign that our society is pushing men to be the new women. Welcome to the “man glossary.”
The St. Petersburg Times has a distressing piece that details the “new” feminine male vocabulary.
New words, detailed in the article, include these from the Urban Dictionary (proof that in many cases country and middle American settings are far superior to urban ones):
* “guyliner“–eyeliner worn by “men.” FYI, if you wear eyeliner (or “guyliner”), you aren’t a guy.
* “man blouse,” defined as “shirt with a pattern or style that gives it a feminine quality. Again, if you wear it, you ain’t a guy.

Girlie-Men in the NFL?: Tampa Bay Bucs Defensive Tackle Anthony McFarland and Friend Jason Kimbler–Just 2 Girls Getting Their Nails Done
* “mansitive,” which is used to describe a man who is extremely sensitive. Uh, there’s already a word for that. It’s “girlie-man.”
If you must use any of these words, if any of them describe you, YOU ARE NOT A MAN.
The St. Pete Times deludedly claims otherwise:

“The man part of these words is designed to reassure men that they won’t lose their largely extraneous bits when they do things that women have traditionally done in the past,” said Mark Simpson, the British journalist who coined the term metrosexual. “Castration anxiety is at the root of much of this.”

Nice try. But, again, anyone wearing a man-blouse and/or guyliner is neither man nor guy. A rose is a rose is a rose.

Socially, this is a confusing time. . . . As a recent series in the New York Times suggests, women are catching up with, and in some cases outpacing, men on college campuses and in corporate boardrooms.
Gender roles, once clearly defined, are more blurred than ever.
No longer perceived as the clearly dominant sex, men have
to assert their masculinity in other ways. Language is one way. . . .
“We’re all struggling with life in an age in which the ancient and traditional gender roles are reversed and commingled,” said Robin Lakoff , a linguistics professor at the University of California at Berkeley. “Language, as always, gives evidence of social concerns.”

Yes, it is a confusing time, and blurring gender roles is a big problem. But, it’s not going to be helped one iota by new words and guyliner and man-blouses. Nor will it be helped by NFL linemen getting pedicures and manicures, and regular visits to spas:

Jason Kimbler thought it strange when his friend, Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle Anthony McFarland, invited him to the Difference, which bills itself as Tampa’s first man spa.
“I am a boy from the South,” he said.
Since that first invitation, Kimbler, 29, has returned to the South Tampa spa twice. In some ways, he still finds the experience odd. Around his boys, he fudges answers to questions about his whereabouts, so as not to seem soft.
“I’m going to get my feet done or my hands done,” he tells them. He makes it clear: “I’m not going to get a pedicure and a manicure.”

Uh, that’s exactly what pedicures and manicures are, dude (or is that dud-ette?).
Even the guy who invented the word “metrosexual” thinks this is all a bad thing and that the words are cosmetic band-aids on a girlie-man problem of epidemic proportions:

“The insistence on the masculinity of handbags and eyeliner or child care does sound counterproductive. Like a kind of denial of the fact that in traditional terms, these things aren’t masculine at all.”

G-d–ho is still a “he”–help us. Like Paula Cole sang, “Where have all the cowboys gone?”

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Despite all the media hype and bluster about the 6’8″ “Saudi” little leaguer (), in the end it was a team from the good ole’ USA that won this year’s Little League World Series.
Congratulations to the team of boys from Columbus, Georgia (and manager Randy Morris), which bested the Japanese team from Kawaguchi City, Japan, yesterday, and won the Series title.
This marks the second year in a row that U.S. teams have won the Little League World Series. That hasn’t happened since 1982-83. (In 1992-93 a U.S. team won both years, but the second year was won only because the Philippines squad was stripped of the title after using overage players.)
USA! USA!

Little League Champion Pitcher Kyle Carter and 2nd Baseman Josh Lester

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Why is the U.S. granting former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami a visa to visit Washington, next week?
Although he is the former President of Iran, he is very much in sync with the thinking of the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad government. When Khatami first became President of Iran, there were hopes that he was a moderate. In fact, he was and still is known as “the moderate.” But now, it’s said as kind of a joke.
Khatami never ended up being a moderate. It was more of the Iranian same-old, same-old. Iran under Khatami was hardly different from Iran under Khomeini. And hardly different than Iran under Ahmadinejad, but for the public rhetoric about the Holocaust and America. Privately, that rhetoric has been in Iran for decades, since the deposing of the Shah (with the help of Jimmy Carter). And it didn’t change under Khatami. He was NOT a reformer in any way.

Why Are They Laughing? Because Our “Leaders” Are Wimps
Iran’s Former Prez Mohammad Khatami & Extremist “American” Imam Elahi
The last time Khatami was in the U.S. (in New York to visit the U.N. so he didn’t need a special visa), he used the opportunity to meet with extremist imams here in the U.S., to encourage them. One of them was , pictured above, who is a strong, vocal supporter of Hezbollah and of Ahmadinejad.
So why are we letting Khatami in? Why are we granting him a visa to deliver a BS speech on “reconciliation” at the National Cathedral on September 7th?
Ask President Bush and his State Department. For all of their bluster against Iran’s totalitarian Islamofascist regime, granting this visa shows it’s all empty. We’re just wimps.
And it will be the death of us.

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Wal-Mart is notorious for employing illegal aliens. And getting away with it.
Last year, we detailed how , to keep costs down. Top Wal-Mart executives were caught on surveillance tape pressuring the contractors to hire only illegals and not to replace them with legal workers. But ICE didn’t do anything about it. They allowed Wal-Mart pay a few million (a drop in the bucket) and let them off the hook.
Later, Wal-Mart was again caught . Yet, again, ICE let Wal-Mart off the hook.

Judge Joseph A. Greenaway:
Wal-Mart’s New Savior Looks the Other Way on Illegal Aliens
Now, U.S. District Judge Joseph A. Greenaway Jr. of Newark, New Jersey–a Bill Clinton appointee–is letting Wal-Mart off the hook. A group of illegal alien janitors sued Wal-Mart in federal court saying Wal-Mart knowingly hired illegal aliens, forced them into involuntary servitude, and consipired with contractors to launder money. Transcripts of tapes in ICE’s possession and excerpted, last year, in the Wall Street Journal and a number of Arkansas papers, back up the claims in the lawsuit 100%. But Judge Greenaway doesn’t give a whit. Instead, yesterday, he ruled the aliens have inadequate proof to support these claims, and dismissed the important civil racketeering claims in the suit.
As a result of Judge Greenaway’s boneheaded decision, shares of Wal-Mart stock went up 55 cents a share, yesterday.
Although we are 100% against extending illegal aliens most rights that Americans have, we do support their right to sue employers because it is the only thing that keeps employers honest and gives them an incentive to hire legal American workers. ICE’s workplace enforcement is barely there. After the wimper of in , May, and , we haven’t seen much. And that has everything to do with the fact that Senate immigration legislation, containing a guest worker/illegal alien amnesty program, is DOA.
Jeers to Judge Greenaway for letting Wal-Mart, yet again, get away with employing illegal aliens. Double Jeers to ICE for never doing anything to Wal-Mart about it, either.
Talk about a company having nine lives in violating immigration laws. Wal-Mart is it.
More details on Judge Greenaway letting Wal-Mart off the hook from Bloomberg News Service.

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Even though this site is mostly about politics, national security, and Islam, it’s also about pop culture, including . And even though I usually skewer Hollywood, it was cool to see the three original “Charlie’s Angels” in last night’s Emmy Awards tribute to the late producer Aaron Spelling, who created the show.
When I was a kid, watching that show was one of my guilty pleasures. I had the Charlie’s Angels dolls, the doll clothes, the van, etc. So it’s odd to note that one is in her sixties and the others almost there. Despite that fact, they all looked good–with the exception of plastic surgery victim Farrah Fawcett. Fawcett is 59, Kate Jackson almost 58, and Jaclyn Smith is almost 61.

Original Charlie’s Angels Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson & Jaclyn Smith
Guess which one was my favorite “Charlie’s Angel”? . . .

(Charlie’s Angels cards from the Schlussel collection)
**** UPDATE, 08/29/06: Reader Susie B. writes:

Bless you! I just watched an old episode of the show last week (a rarity since I have two small children and a husband and never get the house to myself), and I loved every minute of it. I’m 35, and have many fond memories of the ultra fashionable, feminine but strong women. They rocked! Jaclyn Smith was my favorite too.

Reader Rona writes:

Regarding Charlie’s Angels, my favorite is Jaclyn Smith who still looks classy. I always said when I grew up I wanted to be elegant like Jaclyn Smith. . . .
Compared to the Lindsay Lohans and Paris Hiltons, these ladies were quite tame. In fact they were. They acted with much more esteemed actors such as John Forsyth, the late Dean Martin and countless others, plus there show was not about getting over on men for power and sex, which these current icons promote.
Who does this current generation have for examples? Well Britney Spears emulates Madonna. Guess that says it all.

AMEN! That’s why I liked “Charlie’s Angels.”

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Well, it’s a good thing that “Just Legal,” last season’s silly Don Johnson comeback vehicle was cancelled after just 2 or 3 episodes by the soon-defunct WB Network.
Here’s a TV listing for a re-run of the show that WB ran, last night, as a throwaway against the Emmy Awards. Note the episode description:

A wealthy young man rapes a Muslim woman.

Yes, wealthy American men raping Muslim women happens all the time. Doesn’t it? And yet there are never Islamic gangs raping non-Muslim women, right? I mean, that never happened all over Australia, did it?
That’s Hollywood for you: Americans, non-Muslims–evil. Muslims–poor, nice victims of evil Americans.