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Apparently unfazed by her veritable Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade of glaring errors on the day of the Virginia Tech shootings ("The shooter's a 'Paki'!  Islamic Jihad has come to Blacksburg!"), D-List Righty Screamer Debbie Schlussel is still trying to pin random crimes on shadowy cabals of mythical Muslim terrorists.

TBogg:

Rhetorical bomb-thrower Debbie Schlussel is on John D'oh Watch in Michigan:

An unnamed 23-year-old man from Canton, Michigan–a Detroit suburb near Dearbornistan with a large Muslim population composed primarily of Pakis, er … Pakistanis–should be among this year's candidates for the Darwin awards.

He and his friends created homemade bombs using gunpowder and tennis and ping-pong balls. The unnamed man almost lost one of his hands from an explosion from one of the bombs, Sunday. He and his friends were throwing the bombs onto the road from the side of a truck.

Yes, based on absolutely nothing than her own hysterical prejudices and the number of "Pakis" she believes are living in the area (the bulk of the Middle Eastern population there are actually Lebanese and Palestinian), Schlussel has decided that any mullet-wearing moron who makes a homemade firecracker in certain parts of Michigan is an al Qaeda operative and a threat to national security.  Hysterical much?

But, oh, there's more.

Media Matters:

Asserting that "[s]ince Muslim terrorists are generally more clandestine — and occasionally more clever," Schlussel said that the alleged cherry bomb maker and his friends in fact "might not be Muslim." The only basis she cited for her speculation that they might be Pakistani was that, according to her, there is a "large Muslim Paki, er … Pakistani population" in Canton. As Media Matters for America noted when Schlussel used the term in an April 16 blog post, "Paki" is a disparaging term for a person of Pakistani descent. Schlussel used the term "Paki" twice in the May 1 post, and said in her second use of the term: "I would be remiss in not pointing out the large Muslim Paki, er … Pakistani population in Canton. After all, I wouldn't want to disappoint my friends from the deceptively-named, Nazi-funded Media Matters for America."

In describing Media Matters as "Nazi-funded," Schlussel linked to an April 18 blog post in which she falsely claimed that Media Matters was funded by philanthropist George Soros and smeared Soros as "a fake Holocaust survivor, who — instead of 'surviving' the Holocuast [sic] — helped the Nazis perpetrate it."

The goddamn Rightards parted ways with the truth so long ago that they don't even know where it lives anymore.  

But let's talk about who in this country has actually been funded by Nazis, shall we?

The Guardian

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

The debate over Prescott Bush's behaviour has been bubbling under the surface for some time. There has been a steady internet chatter about the "Bush/Nazi" connection, much of it inaccurate and unfair. But the new documents, many of which were only declassified last year, show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis' plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler's rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty.

(h/t to commenter DUDACKATTACK!!! at TBogg's.) 

And now let's talk about terrorists in America.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  —  Five members of a self-styled Alabama militia were denied bond Tuesday after a federal agent testified they planned a machine-gun attack on Mexicans. A sixth man accused of having weapons and explosives components in his home was approved for release.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Armstrong said he could not grant bond because of the agent's testimony and the large number of weapons — including about 200 homemade hand grenades and a launcher — that were seized in raids last Friday.

(snip)

Adam Nesmith, an agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, testified that the five men planned an attack on Mexicans in a small town just north of Birmingham, and went there on a reconnaissance mission April 20.

Nesmith said one of the men told an informant that the group, which calls itself the Alabama Free Militia, saw government agents as "the enemy" and had a standing order to open fire if anyone saw government agents approaching.

It's like Chris Rock says, "I ain't scared of al Queda!  I'm scared of Al Cracker."

We'll see if Schlussel decides to assert that this passel of Alabama Asshats are actually double super secret Muslims with names like Bubba "Allah Akhbar" McDuffy, Skeeter "Muhammed Hussein" Williams, and Jeb "Jihadi" Johnson.  I wouldn't put it past her.  Anyone whose blog prominently features a photo of themselves that's been as heavily photoshopped as Debbie's clearly feels no obligation to present anything even approaching the truth.

Tsk, tsk.  Kind of makes you sick, doesn't it?

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