UPDATE — yep:

We really do need a special word for the sort of lower-class, often-welfare-supported, yet overfed, over-supplied with unnecessary material goods like brand-name shoes and clothes and electronic equipment, under-educated and ill-mannered ranks…

“He was bum-rushed by 200 people,” said Jimmy Overby, 43, a co-worker. “They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down too…I literally had to fight people off my back.”

The unidentified victim was rushed to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:03 a.m., police said.

The cause of death wasn’t immediately available pending results of an autopsy.

A 28-year-old pregnant woman was knocked to the floor during the mad rush. She was hospitalized for observation, police said. Early witness accounts that the woman suffered a miscarriage were unfounded, police said.

Three other shoppers suffered minor injuries, cops said.

Before police shut down the store, eager shoppers streamed past emergency crews as they worked furiously to save the store clerk’s life.

“They were working on him, but you could see he was dead, said Halcyon Alexander, 29. “People were still coming through.”

Only a few stopped.

“They’re savages,” said shopper Kimberly Cribbs, 27. “It’s sad. It’s terrible.”

The comments at the Daily News are, er, fascinating.

I’m guessing this is the first time some of these people have been up at 5AM…  

(KEEP READING...)

UPDATE 12:15 EST:

Very upsetting.

Rabbi Simcha Weinstein, one of my writing clients, is part of the same Chabad community in Brooklyn, where Gavriel Holtzberg grew up.

He tells me today via email that they are “rocked” by the murder of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29 and his wife Rivkah, 28 in India:

His last known phone call was to the Israeli Consulate to report that gunmen were in his house. In the middle of the conversation, the line went dead.

The Holtzbergs joined the more than 125 people who were killed in the Wednesday night through Friday attacks, which saw dozens of suspected Islamic terrorists come ashore in Mumbai near the Gateway of India monument. The terrorists, carrying assault rifles and grenades, quickly fanned out to a central train station, the Chabad House and other tourist locations, including several popular hotels.

According to security services, the Chabad House was a pre-selected target.

Simcha tells me the Holtzberg’s son, Moshe, who survived the attacks, will turn 2 tomorrow. He was unharmed but covered in blood after being secreted out of the building.

They are asking for donations at Chabad.org and at ChabadIndia.org.

Donations are also invited to ZAKA (see below)

***

Fox News reports:

An Israeli-based rescue service run by Orthodox Jews says staff members sent to Mumbai to help at the siege of the Chabad Lubavich Center are indicating the hostages inside are dead.  

(KEEP READING...)

The great Robert Spencer succeeds in both humbling me and guaranteeing that my already swollen head will no longer fit through the door…

Kathy Shaidle is a great warrior of free speech in Canada, where that fundamental right is already largely lost — as she chronicles in her book The Tyranny of Nice (which she wrote with Pete Vere). The book is “excellent, superb, rollicking, harrowing, much needed,” as I told her in an email.

And her weblog Five Feet of Fury maintains the same level of excellence as it chronicles, among other things, the demise of sanity and pusillanimity before Islamic supremacism in Canada in the most wildly entertaining fashion, full of Swiftian savage indignation, making it a daily must-read.

Hello, American Thanksgiving shoppers — thanks to the kind readers who purchased some very expensive computer and electronics items through my Amazon.com links yesterday.

I’m a full time writer/editor/blogger, and every purchase makes a big difference!

Thanks again! You guys are the best.

Yes, it IS still a mortal sin to hit a priest…

A senior Vatican cardinal has thanked Muslims for bringing God back into the public sphere in Europe and said believers of different faiths had no option but to engage in interreligious dialogue. (…)

“It’s thanks to the Muslims,” he said in a speech printed in Friday’s L’Osservatore Romano, the official daily of the Vatican. “Muslims, having become a significant minority in Europe, were the ones who demanded space for God in society.”

Uh huh…

A tent situated next to the beautiful palazzo of the Archbishop on whose sidewalk they kept the shoes or sandals that are lined up outside the mosques in their countries. (…) Add to all this the yellow streaks of urine that profaned the marble of the Baptistry. (My, these sons of Allah sure have a long range! However did they manage to hit the target when they were held back by a protective railing that kept it nearly two whole meters away from their urinary equipment?) And along with the yellow streaks of urine, the stench of the excrement that blocked the door of San Salvatore al Vescovo: that exquisite Romanesque church (year 1000) that stands at the rear of the Piazza del Duomo and that the sons of Allah transformed into a shithouse. You’re well aware of this.

Jurassic Park meets Disney’s Hall of Presidents?

…seeding packs of baseball cards with hair harvested from dead presidents and other famous Americans is about the only thing keeping the baseball card category alive these days.

My co-defendant Ezra Levant in a new video:

Sleepy Old Bear is moved to write:

Whereas today has seen further terrorist activities in Mumbai, and …

Whereas the Muslim religion and the community, Umma, which it produces, is irremediably connected to hatred and violence, the time has come for (western) civilization to protect itself by separating itself from and defending itself against Muslim peoples and the political ideology which masquerades as a ‘religion of peace’.

No, I do not hate these individuals and I readily recognize their significant and enduring contributions to our society, but it is not possible to filter out the ‘bad apples’.

Whereas it is the first responsibility of the state to protect its own people, and whereas the state cannot guarantee the citizenry that Muslims in our midst are not either actively involved in subversive activities or at least willing co-conspirators by not exposing such dangerous people, the state must act to keep such people out of this sovereign country, and remove any who are already here whose loyalty to the state is in any way suspect.

 

Alas, Bear, most Canadians (and apparently, Americans) think it is the “first repsonsibility of the State” to give them “free” stuff for life…

Anyway, in his calls to halt Muslim immigration, he echoes Robert Spencer.

However, Deborah Gyapong disagrees.

Yesterday, Winter’s parliamentary immunity was lifted a unanimous vote in the immunity committee of the Austrian parliament, meaning that members of [her own party] FPÖ also voted for Winter’s immunity to be lifted. She will now be prosecuted for anti-Islam remarks she made during a provincial election campaign in January.

Winter said that she would welcome the lifting of her immunity since only court proceedings would enable her to clear her name. She called the imposition of charges against her an exercise in “political hatred by crazy, self-proclaimed thought-police.” It could not be, she added, that a person could be tried for expression of opinion in a democracy. There could be no political persecution in a country where the rule of law prevailed, she said, since such persecution could occur only in a “dictatorship of conscience.”

Blogger “The Mayor of Mitchieville” just spoke to disgruntled exotic dancer Kim Ouwroulis, the Canadian stripper fired for being too old, who is taking her grievance to the Human Rights Commission — your tax dollars at work, my fellow Canadians!

Mayor–What % of stripper watching men would you consider to be pigs? Can you give us some examples of bizarre male behaviour …?

*writing a book about it now* Seriously; most of my experiences with men are amazing.  I click with most of the guys I’ve danced for; and it’s all about a good time.!  Every single guy is different; but I just don’t think of guys as p.i.g.s….not even after 4 years!  I have to be thankful that these guys are in the bars…so bring them in….! Worry about the grab factor later..is my attitude.

Mayor–What about the guys on pervert row–you must have a story about those cats?

Mostly it is young guys who sit in the front row…they just want to have fun…so yes; they jump up on stage and lay on their backs; and then I do my thing…which is funny where I grab the cash with my boobs.  My new boobs;

Mayor–Don’t you think $20 is a ridiculous price for a lap dance?  

(KEEP READING...)

I’ve posted an excerpt at my Examiner.com page, so you can add your comments!

The piece features my exclusive mini-interviews with Robert Spencer, Phyllis Chesler and Anne Bayesvsky from EYE on the UN.

That popped into my head last night for no reason. It would be funny if we could spread this fake rumor around to the point where it became a real one!

Meanwhile: WWN might be onto something here, with their own proposed replacement for Ichabod “Skeletor” Crane…

While the Alien has never stated his personal politics, he has often sought the limelight in the last 28 years. His endorsements have been widely lauded across the country. But will he be man enough to take on Sean Hannity? Hannity holds no love for illegal aliens, and the Alien’s status has never been verified.