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, former Bush Energy Secretary, has made it official. He’s for sale to the Mid-East’s highest Islamist bidder.
John Harwood reported in his “Washington Wire” column in Friday’s Wall Street Journal that Abraham, who was Michigan’s U.S. Senator and is of Lebanese descent, just opened a “strategic consulting firm serving clients in Mideast and other markets.”

Spencer Abraham: Former Bush Energy Secretary, Current Pan-Islamist
As (and that column was quoted in The Washington Post), Abraham favored pan-Islamists from HAMAS front group CAIR and others from Islamic charities raided by Customs Agents for laundering money to Al-Qaeda. He invited a man tied to one of the Al-Qaeda-related charities to the Bush White House to give out post-9/11 “awards.” Abraham also took campaign contributions from Nijad Fares, the son of then-Hezbollah installed Deputy Prime Minister of Lebanon.
We’re glad that Abraham has now come out in the open and made it official that–as we’ve previously lamented–he can be bought by the highest Pan-Islamist Mid-East bidder. We only hope he does not share vital energy secrets with them.
Don’t count on it.
Full Disclosure: Spence Abraham, when he was Vice President Dan Quayle’s Deputy Chief of Staff, wrote a recommendation for me when I was applying to law schools. But that was the Spence Abraham I knew who was good and decent–before he became a whore to radical Islamic causes once he reached the U.S. Senate and to date.

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We’ve been doing “Men–the New Women–Alerts” on this site, but now we think perhaps we should do “Women–the New Men–Alerts” to document the increasing butchification or masculinization of women in our society.
The latest is a report by Paige Harrison and others on the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The number of women prison inmates is increasing double the rate of men. Women now comprise the subject of 1 in 4 arrests, and are increasingly participating in violent crimes.
You’ve come–or is that, regressed?–a long way, baby . . . . Ain’t feminism and “equality” great?!

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Yup, these Jewish holidays are killing me. Out for the next two days in the end of . Back live on Wednesday Night, but ’til then, my webmaster may post some new stuff I’ve pre-written.

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The agency that replaced INS and the Customs Service is being feminized.
No, I’m not talking about , the unqualified whom President Bush has nominated to take over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Although Julie Myers hasn’t even had her nomination sent to the full Senate for a vote, she’s already counting her chickens and thanking supporters, helpers, tutors, and assorted other catch-all valets always attendant to the woefully inexperienced future immigration chief-ette.
But before Myers gets her chance to further emasculate the aimless agency, the Lifetime Channel beat her to the punch.
That’s right. The damsel-in-distress network–full of aging Valerie Bertinellis, Cheryl Ladds, and woman-done-wrong Danielle Steele novel movies of the week from the ’80s–is home to ICE’s latest PR foray: a movie called “Human Trafficking,” starring Mira Sorvino and leftist Donald Sutherland. The two-part mini-series begins tonight.

Mira Sorvino: Lifetime’s Softer, Gentler, Emasculated ICE
Finally, ICE agents are getting the publicity they’ve longed for, but was always usurped by the FBI. Sadly, it’s on the Chick Channel amidst tampon commercials. Even more outrageous, the movie was done in cooperation with not just ICE’s PR team, but with a militant feminist group, an anti-American group that attacks our efforts to thwart terrorists, and a group that even raises money to help rebuild terrorist facilities. Maybe they should have called the movie, “ICE: Sleeping with the Enemy.”
More on ICE’s new “TV partners,” later.
If this were just a TV movie, it would be one thing. But unfortunately it’s symbolic of the neutering of the former INS and Customs that is manifest in ICE. The agency is now governed by the Lifetime Channel ethos.
“Human Trafficking” is about a female New York cop (Sorvino) who becomes an ICE agent and goes undercover to stop a Slavic female slavery ring. My favorite part of this movie is the AP story reprinted by ABC News, MSNBC, and other similar prominent media organizations, which states that Agent Sorvino goes to work for the “FICTIONAL” Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. While it demonstrates what a terrible job ICE spokeswoman Jamie Zuieback did in “working” on this movie, it’s wishful thinking that the law enforcement areas focused upon in this movie are fictional.
It’s, unfortunately, fact.
Today, ICE–whose former Customs agents used to be focused more on things like stopping terrorist money laundering, and whose INS agents lost their agency allegedly in a move to “improve” stopping potential terrorists from getting in or staying the country–is focusing on Oprah-style areas you’d see on a Lifetime miniseries. Sex tourism and child porn videotapes are the sexy real estate du jour where ICE agents’ priorities have been deliberately diverted.
But how many 9/11 hijackers used child porn videotapes to slit the throats of flight attendants? And how many of the terrorists were sex tourists returning from a sojourn to the Philippines? Which is more dangerous to America: laundering money for an operation that can immediately murder 3,000 Americans, blow up subways and bridges, and using fake IDs to easily get in and out of the country? Or a few girls who–yes, are physically abused and in harms way–but shouldn’t be the province of an agency called Immigration and Customs Enforcement?
The agency is in “Homeland Security” for a reason. It’s not central casting for the next scandal on “Desperate Housewives.” It’s supposed to 1) keep terrorists out, 2) stop sham marriages to illegals for the purposes of fraudulent citizenship, and 3) curtail money laundering to terrorists. Detroit is illustrative of the new, severely misguided agenda. Its ICE Special Agent in Charge, a/k/a “Abu Moskowitz”, is very tight with –a man who previously fit the first two categories and . (Becoming friends with a “former” terrorist. How very Lifetime-esque. “We are the World . . . .”) Moskowitz has shut down the investigation into that charity, as he has done with many such investigations. Instead, in the heart of Islamic America, his Oprah-fied focus is on sex tourism and kiddie porn.
Saturday’s New York Times cites Homeland Security’s newly released Inspector General report that vividly demonstrates the utter disaster of ICE’s Lifetime Channel approach to law enforcement.
Of 301,046 leads on visa violators in 2004, ICE pursued only 4,164 and apprehended just 671. Is pursuing just 1% of leads and apprehending just a fifth of a percent acceptable? Of those apprehended, only a minuscule few would ever be detained and face deportation–if they don’t successfully fight it. Millions of tax dollars for a few deportations of visa violators out of over 300,000 leads–that’s an outrage. How many of these visa overstays are from the Middle East or other hotbeds of extremist Islam? And how many of them are in the Detroit area? It’s clear .
While DHS’ Inspector General estimates that visa overstays constitute 3.6 million of 9-10 million illegals in the U.S., ICE assigned only 51 (!) full-time agents in 2004 to work the cases. How many full-time agents did Moskowitz assign to this in his Michigan/Ohio corridor that includes the heart of extremist Islamic America?
Michael J. Garcia, ICE’s director in 2004, uses the Lifetime Channel defense, telling the Times that ICE made it a priority to pursue only visa violators like the one “involving a violator who was also wanted in the rape of a 14-year-old girl.” Who is a bigger threat to America: a man who might have raped one young girl, or someone bent on flying planes into buildings because they hate infidel Americans and want to help murder another 3,000?
Then, there is ICE’s VERY questionable choice of partners in this Lifetime ICE Capade:
* Equality Now: This anti-male group served as the U.S. mouthpiece for an organization that sponsored the rebuilding of homes and buildings used to facilitate Palestinian terrorism. (The homes covered tunnels between Gaza and Egypt, used to smuggle weapons and homicide bombs.) Equality Now sent out press releases and organized press conferences for Bat Shalom, a feminist group which supported a boycotts of some Israeli products and sponsored and ran ads on its website for the rebuilding of the Palestinian tunnel-covering “homes.” Equality Now activists include Augusta National foe Martha Burk and Jane Fonda. WHY is ICE associating with this group?
* Amnesty International: The group that recently called the Guantanamo Bay prison facility, which serves terrorists who want to kill us Lemon Dover Sole and Halal Chicken Amandine, “the gulag of our time.” AI’s press kit for the ICE chick flick blames the U.S. troops (it calls them “international peacekeeping troops”)–who sacrificed and went into Kosovo to protect Muslims for no reason beneficial to the U.S.–for the increase in Kosovo’s sex trade. Funny, neither Bill Clinton (who sent the troops there) nor Wahabbist Islam (that has since overtaken the Muslim population there and apparently allows this to go on) are mentioned.
* Feminist Majority Foundation: The anti-male group founded and headed up by Eleanor Smeal, former head of equally anti-male the National Organization for Women (NOW). Is ICE trying to tell its mostly male workforce something?
With “friends” like these, who needs enemies?
ICE spokeswoman Zuieback calls the Lifetime ICE confab, “feasible fiction.”
With Julie Myers about to take power, illegal immigrants everywhere, and ICE focusing its resources on a questionable estrogen-laden TV movie, I really wish it were fiction.

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Since the anti-Semitic, fraudulent “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” is outlawed in Germany, why is the country allowing the Iranian delegation to the Frankfurt Book Fair to sell it?
See all the disturbing details, photos, etc. from MY FAVORITE spy, Zombie. He’s got the goods on the latest manifestation of how the new fascism, Islamo-fascism, is flourishing in the “former” seat of Nazi fascism.

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Detroit Free Press Film Critic Terry Lawson quoted me in his “Entertainment at Large” column in Sunday’s edition of the combined Detroit News and Free Press.
Lawson quoted from critical of pro-homicide bomber movie, “The War Within,” produced by NBA brat owner Mark Cuban:
“Detroit-based conservative commentator Debbie Schlussel recently railed on her blog which purports to get inside the head of a terrorist radicalized by 9/11 imprisonment and torture as he plans an attack on Grand Central Station. Schlussel answered the above question this way: ‘No time is the right time for a movie sympathetic to terrorists and suicide bombers.'”
I strongly disagree with Lawson’s column, which claims–as Cuban and the makers of the movie do–that we need films from the terrorists’ point of view to “understand” them. We understand what they did on 9/11 just fine–without this and a host of other movies in the unfortunate new genre of “understand the terrorists” chic, like the upcoming, horrid “Paradise Now.” We don’t need movies sympathetic to the enemy, as is “War Within.” We didn’t need such movies to defeat the Nazis or the Communist Soviet Union. We don’t need them to undermine us, now.

Detroit Free Press Film Critic Terry Lawson
That said, even though I disagree with Terry Lawson on many things, I greatly respect him and regularly read his mostly spot-on reviews and cogent, interesting columns about pop culture. Although he is a liberal, he’s reasonable, not doctrinaire, and one of the few film critics of national prominence who is occasionally willing to shine the light on the liberal elite in Hollywood. Terry’s knowledge of pop culture throughout the decades is matched by few.
I’ve quoted Terry a couple of times with approval– (whom Lawson has always been able to see as the phony Moore is, while most movie critics gush all over him), and, more recently, in and now Al-Jazeera. The Lawson-coined description of Moore’s phony “blue collar bonhomie” is a great one–from a Lawson-penned column ripping Moore that is the best I’ve read on the bloated fake-umentary maker (can’t find an online link to it).
I like that Terry Lawson was not afraid to expose the lefty filmmakers and critics that surrounded him at Sundance, so orthodox that, Lawson wrote, they were “openly hostile” anyone who dared ask critical questions about Jazeera and openly hissed whenever Bush Administration officials appeared on-screen. Most other film critics wouldn’t dare do that.
This is the second time, this year, I’ve been mentioned by a major movie critic. Earlier, Roger Ebert mentioned me in his syndicated movie review column on “Turtles Can Fly” (because I to his opposition to deportation of PKK terrorist Ibrahim Parlak).

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For all of the hype and big money spent on feminist movie “North Country,” it was a miserable failure.
Not even two thumbs up by Ebert & Roeper fooled who didn’t want to see another “fiction based on fact” liberal propaganda film–Charlize Theron or not. The movie–about a female coal miner who sues to stop alleged discrimination against female miners–came in 5th, bringing in less than $6.5 million.
We’re happy to report that even a much bally-hooed “Oprah” show on the movie did not help.

Even more embarrassing, “North Country” trailed awful movies such as “Doom” (starring former wrestler “The Rock,” Dwayne Johnson), which was #1 and bad remake, “The Fog,” which came in at #4. Even more appropriate, kiddie movies, “Dreamer” and “Wallace & Gromit,” were ahead of “North Country,” at #2 and #3, respectively.
All evidence that Tinseltown may offer liberalism up, but movie-goers aren’t having it. Maybe Hollywood will finally realize it’s time to get out of the leftist propaganda business. Wishful thinking.

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Everyone’s up in arms about a TSA screener who stole $80,000 cash from a bag headed to Pakistan at JFK Airport. But the real question is: Why is a passenger taking $80,000 in cash with him to Pakistan (and didn’t declare it, either)? Funding terrorist operations? Money laundering? Whatever the purpose was, it’s not likely kosher (or is that, halal?).
But don’t worry. They are charging the TSA employee–and NOT pursuing the passenger. Don’t you feel safe?
***UPDATE: Here are some other questions a DHS agent friend sent:
“Is the US government just going to send the “stolen” money back to the guy in Pakistan?
He is the rightful owner of the money, right? Right?
Is the guy a US citizen? If not, how does a non-citizen acquire $80K, when he would not be allowed to work in this country legally? Shouldn’t the IRS at least check this guy out? Shouldn’t ICE? Shouldn’t the FBI?
Something smells here.”
Yes, it does. But don’t count on ICE, TSA, or the rest of the government to do a damned thing to address any of these questions.

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Remember this picture from the 1968 Olympics?

I wasn’t born yet, but like most Americans, I’ve been exposed WAY TOO MUCH to this photo of U.S. Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos protesting “American oppression” of Blacks while on foreign soil in Mexico.
What they did was wrong. It was incorrect. It was an outrage.
But instead of being remembered that way, Smith’s and Carlos’ black-gloved Black Power protest salute is now celebrated . . . WITH YOUR TAX MONEY.
Monday, San Jose State University unveiled a 23-foot-tall statue glorifying the moment. And $300,000 of your tax money footed the bill of this expensive outrage. Media reports say the “Associated Students” of the university footed the bill, but guess where their money came from? You.
New York Times sports columnist William C. Rhoden thinks this is a good thing. But Smith’s and Carlos’ protest was a shame, not something to be proud of. At the same games, Czechoslavakian gymnast Vera Caslavska used the Olympics to protest the Communist Soviet Union’s invasion and commencement of tyranny in her country.
Oppression is what the Communists did to the people of Eastern Europe in 1968 and beyond, NOT what Americans did to Blacks in 1968 and beyond. Too bad they didn’t know the difference. Too bad the administration at San Jose State in 2005 still doesn’t know the difference.
After their behavior, U.S. officials sent the two Olympians home from Mexico City. They–the Olympic officials–had the right idea. Today’s uppity sports columnists and University money-wasters do not.
***UPDATE: As my friend, author John Barnes, said so well: “Debbie: In re the John Carlos/Tommy Smith thing: I’ve always wanted to tell George Foreman (if I ever met him) that the bravest thing he ever did was walk around the ring waving an American flag after winning the gold at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. That took more guts at that time and in that atmosphere than any opponent he ever faced in the ring.”
Amen.

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We’ve profiled endless examples of absurd attempts (and, unfortunately, many successes) by the powers-that-be to feminize the men of America.
The latest–and most absurd–is an attempt to “soften” the features of a dead man on a coin. Yes, you’ve probably noticed the new nickel. The U.S. Mint has decided it needed to get away from harsh, “somber profiles” of our nation’s Presidents and show their “softer” sides. That’s why, for the first time, Thomas Jefferson is facing forward.

If it ain’t broke . . .
New, Feminized Jefferson vs. Old, Macho Jefferson
The new softer version of Jefferson was designed by Jamie Franki, an associate professor of art at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, chosen from 147 entries.
Feminizing Thomas Jefferson? We hate to ask what’s next.