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We’re not fans of ultra-liberal phony, U.S. Senator Carl Levin (D-Michigan), a/k/a “Millenium Comb-over Man.”
He is an enemy of America’s military, Department of Defense, and pretty much everything else good for America. Levin has been in office way too long, and his undue arrogance is without match. At a 1980 rally, Levin implied to infirm senior citizen Jewish voters (bussed in from nursing homes) that if Ronald Reagan was elected, Christians would take over America, and the Holocaust would happen again. So where’s that Holocaust, Carl? Levin’s demagoguery is disgusting, but incompetent Michigan Republicans (who also like to be liberal all too often) repeatedly fail to field a legitimate, conservative opponent who can beat him.
Now comes word that Levin and multi-millionaire Whirlpool heir, U.S. Congressman Fred Upton (one of the most liberal Republicans in Congress and definitely the most wimpy), are introducing a private bill to grant instant citizenship to Islamic terrorist Ibrahim Parlak.

Carl Levin: Helping Islamic Terrorists Become U.S. Citizens

Pretty in Pink:
Whirlpool Heir Fred Upton Also Helping Islamic Terrorist Become U.S. Citizen
We’ve covered Parlak extensively on this site and have engaged in a running debate with his buddy, film critic Roger Ebert–, here, and even in one of his syndicated movie review columns. Parlak is openly a member of PKK, an Islamic terrorist group that is tied to Al-Qaeda. He admits he trained in terrorist training camps in Lebanon.
It’s a no-brainer that Parlak should be outta here. But not in holier-than-thou leftist Carl Levin’s mind.
Immigration Judge Elizabeth Hacker, in a long, detailed, well-reasoned opinion, ruled that Parlak was an Islamic terrorist and that he should be deported. The , saying that he is, indeed, an Islamic terrorist, persecutor, and liar–and that he should be deported. The court said Parlak was guilty of these charges: committing or inciting to commit terrorist activities; soliciting funds for terrorist activities; and providing material support for terrorist activities.
But, apparently, someone at Harvard-hates-America Law School forgot to teach Carl Levin to respect the decisions of the courts–even when they do not reflect his far-left, anti-American attitude. Why won’t Carl Levin listen to the decision of a panel of three immigration appeals judges?
And why is Levin helping Islamic terrorists become citizens of this country? It isn’t the first time. Levin pressured the Clinton administration to stop trying to deport his crony, Islamic Terrorists , a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Bill Clinton and Janet Reno cracked and Hamad is not only now a citizen of this country, but has Levin and ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) official (a/k/a “Abu Moskowitz”) wrapped around his finger–stopping federal investigations into an Islamic charity laundering money to HAMAS and Iraqi insurgents (Moskowitz) and getting federal USAID funding (our tax $s) for the charity (Levin).
Levin is also trying to get a Canadian ice skater instant citizenship so she can represent the U.S. in the Olympics–also through a private bill.
Two Islamic terrorists and an ice skater. We’re glad to see that Carl Levin has his national security priorities straight.

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Belated notice that I was nominated and was a finalist for Jihad Watch’s “American Anti-Dhimmi of the Year,” for “the American who has displayed the most courage, heroism, refusal to blink, and steadfastness in telling the truth despite jihadist intimidation peaceful and violent.”
Wish I would have known, so I could have sent votes my way. But it’s an honor to be nominated by the great Robert Spencer who is the real, supreme anti-Dhimmi. And great company to be in (others were Tom Tancredo–who won, and the brave Andrew Whitehead who is being targeted by extremist Muslim group CAIR for absurd litigation designed to silence him. Out of six finalists, I was tied for third with Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
My favorite comment: “Debbie Schlussel. It would be a shame to see her covered up in a burka.”

Jihad Watch is the excellent site of Robert Spencer, author of many best-selling books on Islam–all of which I recommend highly, especially his latest one (a great holiday gift, especially for the ignorant about what Islam is really about), “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades)“. It has been on the New York Times Best-Seller List for some time–and deservedly so. Want to know what a “dhimmi” is? Read Robert’s excellent work to find out. (Hint: It’s what we infidels are considered and the way we are treated by Muslims in the societies they rule.)
Thanks, Robert, for nominating me. I respect your work tremendously.

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I planned to post a review of “Bareback Mountain,” . . . er, “Brokeback Mountain,” the gay cowboy romance movie, today. Only I can’t.
I went to the screening, last night, only to be turned away despite reservations. Why? Gay activists, gay non-activists, and other sundry gays had been camping out at the theater all day–for hours to see this movie. And they took my seat. This movie is apparently the Xbox 360-esque craze of the gay community, this season.
So, sorry, no review for now. Not that you care much for hearing about a gay cowboy romance. Do you? FYI, this is just one of several gay-centric or tranny movies, this month. It’s just a tad disproportionate compared to straight movies. No wonder box office receipts in 2005 are down.
Maybe that has something to do with the disappearance of masculine, straight cowboys–and masculine, straight men–from the silver screen.

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Last Shameless Vote Plea: As , this site is a finalist for Best Conservative Blog in the 2005 Weblog Awards. Today is the last day to vote.
PLEASE VOTE FOR THIS SITE one last time.

While you are at it, please vote for our friend, the Garet Garrett Blog (dedicated to the writings of the 20th Century conservative novelist and essayist) for Best of Rest Blogs (here).
And don’t forget our favorite humor blog, Six Meat Buffet, for Best Humor/Comics Blog, which definitely deserves the title, as an outstanding manifestation of Preston Taylor Holmes’ and other contributors’ excellent and imaginative sense of humor.
Don’t forget to check Preston’s “Twelve Days of Christmas” gift suggestions at Six Meat Buffet (today is Day Four). They’re hilarious. Our fave is the Ted Kennedy Chappaquiddick Bathtub Playset.

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Saddam Hussein’s lawyers should give a big wet kiss to the FBI, especially .
Roberts sent his buddy, FBI Agent John Ouellet to Iraq for the last three months to investigate war crimes involving Saddam Hussein. It appears the “work” of Special Agent Ouellet will be used in the trial of Mr. Hussein.
But if my own and others’ experience with the below-mediocre “work” of Mr. Ouellet is any guide (and it is), Saddam’s lawyers will have a field day. Ouellet is the Michigan FBI version of Inspector Clouseau and Arthur Anderson role into one. He’s a bumbling idiot and completely incompetent.
In 2003, when I received a very serious anti-Semitic death threat via e-mail (the second e-mail ), I had the misfortune of Inspector Clouseau-Ouellet being assigned to my case.

Agent John Ouellet: FBI’s Inspector Clouseau May Please Saddam Lawyers
In six months of being “on the case,” Agent Ouellet did nothing on my case, other than telling me that his daughter, a University of Michigan student and sorority member, didn’t like the Jews, especially the Jewish sororities, on campus. In my last call to him, he stated that the threat to me wasn’t important because “I get threats, everyday,” and hung up on me. The illegal alien Muslim who wrote the threat is still at large to date. I had to contact his supervisor and inform him I’d write about this to get a modicum of investigation done.
Then, there is the issue of Agent Oullet’s other improper behavior. Sources say he gave oodles of unauthorized cash to confidential informants, then lied about it. Yup, that’s the kind of thing that gets you promoted in the FBI–and the type of person the FBI puts on the job of investigating Saddam Hussein. Nice.
Who’s threatening Agent Ouellet? Not criminals, for whom Agent Ouellet is the ideal agent they’d want working on a case against them. . . especially Saddam Hussein and his lawyers.
So if Inspector Clouseau-Oullet’s work is used at Saddam’s trial–as it appears it will be–expect Saddam to be acquitted. Thanks, FBI.

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Out for the morning and until now doing an interview with Christian Broadcast Network’s outstanding terorrism analyst and correspondent, Erick Stakelbeck, who is in town doing a piece on radical Islam in the Detroit area and supporters of Hezbollah here, on which I’ve written a great deal. It’s set to air in January, and I’ll let you know when it airs–on both the ABC Family Channel and Christian Broadcast Network.
What’s interesting is who refused to appear in the piece and what topics were “off limits” for others. Stay tuned.
Putting up more new blog-posts in a few minutes.

Why is the agency charged with enforcing our nation’s immigration and anti-money laundering laws inviting foreigners to see its operations?
The latest issue of “ICE Update,” an internal newsletter for agents and other employees of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), details a program, ICE International Visitors Program, which is very disturbing.
ICE-IVP hosted 840 foreigners representing 119 countries, this year alone, gave them “operational briefings” and showed them detailed information on ICE’s investigations, removal of illegal aliens, intelligence, and federal protection service (protecting U.S. Cabinet members and federal buildings). Is the leadership of ICE insane?
The photo, below, shows members of the Iraqi delegation that visited ICE in November. And while these newly installed military and law enforcement figures from Iraq are supposed to be our friends, some are “former” Baathists (Saddam Hussein’s political party).

Then, there is the matter of what other countries are among the 119 that have “visited” ICE. ICE’s in-house newsletter did not provide a list of the countries, and we wonder why. Unless all 119 are innocuous countries like Fiji and the Pharoah Islands (which we doubt), it’s safe to assume that some of them are not our friends.
So why is ICE conducting these “visits”? When he was Secretary of Energy, pan-Islamist Spencer Abraham gave similarly disturbing tours of our nuclear facilities to representatives of foreign countries, many of whom were our enemies. We were quoted in the Washington Post about it. We knew where his loyalties were, as he’s now opened shop as a .
Where do ICE’s loyalties lie? With compromised individuals like ICE Special Agent in Charge Brian Moskowitz (a/k/a “Abu Moskowitz”) still employed in key positions, we have some idea. And it’s not good.
“Business is booming for the ICE International Visitors Program,” reports the ICE newsletter. But this absurd program shouldn’t be booming. It should be out of business.

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We’ve noted the continuing anti-Christian doings by Target (, , and ). Well, apparently, America’s Christians and the blogosphere have had an effect.
Apparently, a couple days ago, Target retreated and began featuring “Merry Christmas” at the end of TV ads. We watched, yesterday, and four of five Target ads we saw did, indeed, have the proper holiday greeting.
Glad to see it. Finally Target realizes that the bottom line is the green, something lost on the chain until now.
Still, we note that Target still:
* Bans Salvation Army bell-ringers;
* Sells clothing made in terrorist state Syria; and
* Runs national ads favoring .

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A happy fifth anniversary to one of my favorite sites, Am I Annoying? The site has profiles of thousands of “celebs” and people in the news, with reasons why they may or may not be annoying. It’s a fun, tongue-in-cheek site, complete with interesting photos, funny lists, and items about many people whose names you probably know.
Here’s my profile. Unfortunately, starting a couple years ago, extremist Muslims and liberals have a campaign to vote me “annoying.” Please try to balance them out (you can vote 10 times per day).

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Don’t dismiss vapid magazines like People, Blender, and Vogue right off the bat.
If read the right way, they teach a lot about the hypocrisy and vast airspace occupying brainless celebrities in every area of pop culture. Problem is, most subscribers don’t read them the right way–with a jaded, critical eye. Americans who read these glossies absorb them like paper towel to water and believe what’s in them more than the Bible.
Then, there are people like you and me. We see through these pandering weekly and monthly tributes to the “Who’s Who” of the chintzy famous. Most smartly avoid the magazines. But I keep a keen eye on the latest Tookie-esque cause, so you don’t have to. Sometimes–actually, most of the time–the insanity in these wastes of trees is incredible.
Take the January 2006 issue of Ladies Home Journal (LHJ). The cover “lady” is Dr. Phil, honky-tonk king of TV psychobabble. He gives instructions on how to have a successful marriage. He’s had two–one not quite so successful, since he cheated on his wife and left her.

Hypocrite:
Bono’s Hat Flew First Class for $1,700, While He Spends Your Tax $s
Inside the issue, there is a “scintillating” interview with Barbara Walters, sounding more idiotic than we had earlier diagnosed.
In previewing her ABC News special on Heaven, airing next week, Walters says, “There were things that . . . amused me like the whole business of the 72 virgins who are created for men.” Barbara Walters is “amused” by men who murder thousands of innocent people? Time to put her out to pasture.
Even the editors of LHJ were apparently taken aback. They had to insert an editor’s note explaining that these were suicide bombers with whom Walters is “amused.” I’m sure the victims of these bombers aren’t amused, but most of them aren’t around to talk about it on Walters’ insipid “news” specials.
Walters then makes the false comparison of Christianity as a sexless religion (not true) to the 72 virgins in heaven for Islam. Huh? She seems to forget that there’s that little step of mass murder before Heaven. “And in the Christian religion, the idea is to have a pure life that’s happy and content without sex. According to Islam expert Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, sex for Muslims is part of the joy of heaven.”
I’m sure there are plenty of Christians who’d beg to differ with the Reverend Barbara Walters’ false portrayal of their religion, which believes in the Biblical commandment, “Be fruitful and multiply,” as much as any Abrahamic religion.
Then there’s Blender Magazine’s lists–always belying the righteousness of hypocritical rockers and other glitterati.
The magazine’s December issue features the “50 Dumbest Rock-Star Extravagances.” Except many of the extravagances aren’t just dumb, they’re hypocritical.
My favorite is Bono. The magazine ranks him at #12, but I rank him #1. In 2003, about to play at a charity show for Iraqis, he realized he forgot his favorite hat. No problem. Bono spent $1,700 to fly the hat in a first-class seat from London via British Airways.
Wait. Isn’t this the same Bono who constantly visits a willing Bush White House to pressure us “wealthy” ?
The bloody wealthy Irish rock star wants to spend your tax money to help relief for terrorist states. But he ain’t spending his own money on it. Nope. His money is going to first-class international airfare for a hat.
Then, there’s our other favorite, rapper Kanye “George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People” West. Remember him from the Katrina Hurricaid Telethon? Well, apparently, West doesn’t care about Black people so much either. At least, not as much as he cares about his ceiling. He’s Blender’s #10 on the list–for spending $350,000 to re-create Michaelangelo’s frescoes from Rome’s Sistine Chapel ceiling in his Hollywood Hills dining room. Gee, poor Black people or his ceiling–and the brother chose the latter. Imagine that.
“I’m the closest that hip-hop is getting to God,” West explains. “In some situations I’m like a ghetto Pope.” Puh-leeze.
Animal rights activists Paul and Heather McCartney? They’re really tough on persecutors of beasts–except for themselves. They recently spoke out against China and other countries for using fur from dogs and cats for coats.
But the former Beatle and his then-wife, Linda, also an animal rights activist, didn’t like herds of wild boar roaming on his 1,000-acre estate. They tore up trees and carried swine fever. So in 1999, they built a four-mile long fence to keep the boar out of their natural habitat, his land. The fence remains. So much for animal rights.
Tommy Lee, a/k/a the former Mr. Pamela Anderson, is another animal rights activist. He appears in a PETA ad in the same issue of Blender, naked but for his tattoos. But if he’s so much for animal rights, maybe he could have spent the $4,000 he wasted on a Starbucks coffee house replica in Pam’s house on saving some minks for a useless life as something other than a fur coat.
And finally, there’s Will Smith. He spends $2,500 per month on a “hound analyst” to serve as his four Rottweilers’ doggie psychiatrist when they are depressed.
At least, there is one celeb who made the list for something appropriate. Blues Traveler’s John Popper spent $10,000 for a Civil War cannon to add to his collection of daggers, samurai swords, and 80 guns. He strongly supports the Second Amendment.
And unlike the rest of those in this column, he’s not a hypocrite. He supports that right for ALL of us.