MFS - The Other News

                 Afternoon Posting.

A Muslim Soldier.“We Muslims are one community.We are not divided.” His remarks highlight the danger that the Islamist ideology represents to the United States. The Shahzads of the world do not go to sleep one night a normal citizen in corporate America working for the Affinion Group and wake up the next morning a traitorous jihadist adhering to a radical ideology.

U.S. upgrades status of Palestinian mission in Washington.Though still short of full diplomatic recognition, move raises representation to level of PLO missions in many European countries and Canada.Is it clear enough on who's side Obama is?

BP accused of 'buying academic silence'.The head of the American Association of Professors has accused BP of trying to "buy" the best scientists and academics to help its defence against litigation after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Obamas Plan Brief Gulf Coast Vacation.Anyone taking bets on a hurricane that period?

Video:Matt Simmons Says Gulf Clean Up Will Cost Over $1 Trillion, Sees BP At $1, Says “We Have Now Killed The GoM”.

Explosive “No Mosque at Ground Zero” Video.

Some Internet porn sites in China now accessible.Word leaked out slowly, spread by Web-savvy folks on Twitter: Internet porn that once was blocked by Chinese government censors was now openly available.In short "Yu no longer Phukt".

Saudi man chains his son in the basement for six years because he is 'possessed by an evil female genie'.Real "Genius"!

Weather Channel warns residents as the hurricane moves INLAND it will pick up particles of oil; Oil on electrical wires and trees.

Obama approval at all-time low: imagine how low it would be if the media actually did their job.You would think this would be front page news because we were bombarded by the mainstream media with how poorly President Bush was doing in his second term. Of course a quick search of all the mainstream media’s web sites (CNN, MSNBC, CBS, and ABC) resulted in not one mention of the president’s dismal ratings.

Obama 'regrets' sacking of official Shirley Sherrod.President Barack Obama has called agriculture official Shirley Sherrod to express "his regret" over her recent sacking.

HT:Weasels Zippers.Stone Age Carving or Ancient Sex Toy?Sex toys have come a long way since the Stone Age -- but then again, perhaps not as much as we might think.Last week, an excavation in Sweden turned up an object that bears the unmistakable look of a penis carved out of antler bone. Though scientists can't be sure exactly what this tool was used for, it's hard not to leap to conclusions.

HT:Weasels Zippers.Sarah Palin’s Facebook Post Attacking Ground Zero Mosque Mysteriously Deleted After Leftist Campaign to Brand it “Hate Speech”…A spokesman for Facebook, Andrew Noyes, said the company was looking into the matter:

HT:Blazing Cat fur.Gay Zombies vs. Mohammed!Men are being forced into marriage because they are gay or bisexual, or because their families suspect that they are." (I bet QuAIA are right on this)

Homeland Security delays FOIA requests for political reasons.If this is what Barack Obama meant by transparency and openness, time for the president to invest in a good dictionary.In fact, the government agency has refocused the spotlight on the requesters themselves.The good old USSR practices?

Peres slams 'anti-Israeli majority' in UN.Israeli President Shimon Peres hit out at what called an "anti-Israeli" majority in the United Nations following criticism of Israel's recent raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship.

Gaza smugglers cut underground Egyptian steel wall.The smugglers who sneak consumer goods, cash and weapons into the blockaded Gaza Strip have cut hundreds of holes in an underground steel wall Egypt is building along the border to try to stop them, two Egyptian security officials said Thursday.

Canadian woman denied government job because of race.A stay-at-home mother trying to re-enter the workforce after nine years away says she can’t understand why the federal government would stop her from applying for a job simply because she is white.

Tropical storm warning for site of BP oil spill.BP workers in the Gulf of Mexico have stopped drilling a relief well and are preparing to evacuate the oil spill site as a tropical depression nears.As we already mentioned yesterday!

Desmond Tutu: George Bush Cared More About Black People Than Obama…HAVING met President Obama, I’m confident that he’s a man of conscience who shares my commitment to bringing hope and care to the world’s poor. But I am saddened by his decision to spend less than he promised to treat AIDS patients in Africa.

HT:Politico.Shirley Sherrod: I want to speak to Obama."I know he's African-American or part African-American and many of us are not totally black in our genes. I'm one of them. But when you get down to where the rubber meets the road, I think he needs to understand a little more of what life is like at that level."

White House Spent $23M of Taxpayer Money to Back Kenyan Constitution That Legalizes Abortion, GOP Reps Say.A Republican lawmaker is accusing the White House of “unconscionable” and “illegal” acts for its role in Kenya's referendum on a new constitution, which would legalize abortion in the country for the first time.“Under no circumstances should the U.S. government take sides,” Smith said at a news conference Wednesday. “Yet that is precisely what the Obama administration has done.”

Demjanjuk ordered to appear in German court.A German judge for the first time ordered John Demjanjuk to appear in court after the 90-year-old's health issues caused the cancellation of sessions in his trial over allegations that he was a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp.

Canada's First Female Pashtun Senator Seeks To Improve Women's Lives."The only thing that disturbs me is why the schools are being destroyed in the areas inhabited by Pashtuns, and why very few girls and women go out of their houses to study or work," Attaullahjan said."I am shocked to see people speaking against a girl's education or [people] stopping them from going to school," she added.

Boney M asked to cut 'By the Rivers of Babylon' out of West Bank gig .The disco group headlined a festival of several international and Palestinian artists and bands in Ramallah.So much for your peaceplan Mr Obama?

State of emergency in Russia, hit by the heatwave.Twenty-three members of the Russian Federation are now considered current "state of emergency" by the Ministry of Agriculture.9.6 million hectares of cereal crops have been destroyed by drought - a fifth of the total.(French article with Google translate.)

'Turkey needed a Constitution in EU standards'.All individuals living in Turkey must have a Constitution that embraces freedom and democracy.Tough if not impossible to accomplish with Islamic rule?

BBC asbestos report slams Canada. Major investigation questions Canada's commitment to chrysotile production.Canada's controversial asbestos industry was hit with a public-relations tsunami Wednesday, following a volley of damning international media reports that probed the use of the disputed building material in developing countries.I'm wondering why the BBC doesn't take a look at The World’s Asbestos Behemoth,namely Russia?

As U.S. suspends deep-water oil drilling, other nations move ahead.Norway is doing more to study lessons from the gulf than many other nations. But it is also pushing ahead with offshore drilling plans, including the kind of deep-water drilling that the Obama administration has suspended in the United States.You have a President who's more worried about votes then the actual well being off the economy!

AU Thought Police Complain About Prayer in Wichita.Sandell Stangl recently told Wichita City Council members, “There is no good reason to use public time to express private beliefs” as she used public time to express her private belief that prayer should not be allowed.

A Water Fight Over Luxury Showers.Regulators are going after some of the luxury shower fixtures that took off in the housing boom. Many have multiple nozzles, cost thousands of dollars and emit as many as 12 gallons of water a minute.

Jobless claims rise more than expected last week.Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 37,000 to a seasonally adjusted 464,000 in the week ended July 17, the Labor Department said on Thursday, more than erasing a decline in the prior week.

BP Cleanup Workers Gone Wild.My friend and I are going to the bar tonight to catch the "female oil wrestling" oil-spill cleanup workers have been packing in to see on Saturday nights.

More and more women are discovering after years of marriage to men, and having had children, that they are lesbians. Were they always – or is sexuality more fluid?

MFS - The Other News

                Morning Posting.

Obama Joins UN Effort to Dictate Acceptable Behavior on the Internet.Obama partisans — including members of the FCC — characterize conservative talk radio as hate speech and demand it be shut down. Obama’s regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, has argued that the government ban “conspiracy theorizing” and infiltrate “extremists who supply conspiracy theories” to disrupt the efforts of the “extremists” to propagate their theories over the internet.
The red herring of cybersecurity is now being exploited by the global elite in a cynical effort to tame and fully corporatize the internet and shut down the alternative media that has eclipsed the old dinosaur dead tree and televised corporate media.
The recent agreement at the United Nations signifies that the globalists are determined to take efforts to control and censor the internet to the next level.

HT:American Thinker.Race Played Role in Obama Car Dealer Closures.Decisions on which car dealerships to close as part of the auto industry bailout -- closures the Obama administration forced on General Motors and Chrysler -- were based in part on race and gender, according to a report by Troubled Asset Relief Program Special Inspector General Neal M. Barofsky.

IDF soldier goes missing during navigation training.Army and police have been looking for the soldier since he failed to rejoin his unit early Thursday morning.

Two Muslim women were ordered out of a swimming pool at a French holiday village because they were wearing 'burkinis'.They were told the rules stated only swimming costumes may be worn in the water.'The husbands became very irate that their wives were not allowed to swim with their bodies covered, and one of them threatened violence.'Police were called and he eventually backed down.'

HT:PajamasMedia.The Revolt Against the Supreme Leader Begins.First things first: so far as I know, the bazaars are still on strike. And yes, I know that the Los Angeles Times said it was over a couple of days ago, but for once I think they have it wrong.

British is the New Un-British, Islam is the New British.This is now. And now a Gurkha soldier from the 1st Battalion, Royal Gurkha Rifles, is facing charges for cutting off the head of a Taliban commander, took the head so it could be identified and left the body behind.

Taliban chief and helper 'die making bomb' in Pakistan.A Taliban commander and his assistant died when a bomb they were assembling blew up, Pakistani officials say.Does this entitle you to 72 virgins?

Gingrich latest of nat'l GOP to oppose NYC mosque.In a statement posted on his website, Gingrich, a potential 2012 presidential contender, said flatly, "No mosque." And he criticized Muslim leaders for suggesting the mosque's opponents are religiously intolerant.

'Famous athletes on next flotilla'.Organizers of 'Freedom Flotilla 2' reportedly in talks with leading athletes to take part in sail against Gaza blockade. Potential participants include Spanish national soccer team captain Iker Casillas, tennis star Rafael Nadal.What's next?The "Famous idiots "Flotilla? 

The Left: Talk Radio and the Internet Are Destroying the Children!You know the Left is desperate when they start using the kids.NHMC et al is extremely concerned with the negative impact of hate speech in media on society and particularly on children.

Anti-mosque protests on the rise, say Muslim advocates.Opposition to the construction of mosques has skyrocketed in cities and towns across the country, scholars and advocates of Muslim culture tell The Upshot.

Yad Vashem Visit Leaves Young Palestinians Deeply Reflective."A" was also criticized for initiating the visit. “People found it very difficult to accept,” he said. “Some said what, now you are working toward normalization with the Israelis?”

Obama is Stripping National Defense.There is no single duty that a President has as Commander-in-Chief that is more important than ensuring the nation's engines of defense remain at a level that will deter and defend against any attack upon America or its allies.

It’s Time to Put the Coffee Down and Eradicate Islam in the West.We are facing the totalitarian threat of our age. Islam is poised to replace civilization with Sharia dictatorships.

Hispanic GOP Group to Announce Support of Arizona Immigration Law, Filing Motion Against Obama Regime’s Lawsuit.ALRA will become the first group of Latino Americans to "put a foot forward legally" in support of S.B. 1070 by filing a motion to intervene against the Justice Department's lawsuit challenging Arizona's immigration policy, Klayman said."This is a way to tell the country that, 'Hey, we're Americans too and we believe in the rule of law."

Mainstreaming Hate.How media companies are using the Internet to make anti-Semitism respectable.

Yossi Melman / Iron Dome may not be as effective as the IDF thinks. Officials painted a rosy picture of the missile defense system after the recent successful test, but a number of unaddressed issues may shoot down their optimism.

Jan of Arizona is No Saint But She Fights Like One.Obama invited a small group of influential Latino activists to the White House and reassured them that he is committed to reform. But to succeed, he said they had to stop their public complaining about how slowly he was moving and instead direct their fire at Republicans.

BP oil well could shut down in weeks.The BP oil well that has been spewing millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico could be permanently shut down within a few weeks — if the weather holds up.

Get Real, Jeffrey.Islam is 180° out of phase with the values of Western Civilization. If it can't defeat us militarily, it will out breed us and defeat us demographically. Recent shootings, attempted bombings and vehicular assaults should be a clue for you.

Wamp says Sharia law a threat."I will stand as governor against any spread of Sharia law in this state or in this nation. It is a threat. It is a threat to our freedom."

Oil Firms Plan Rapid-Response Force.Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp., Royal Dutch Shell PLC and ConocoPhillips said Wednesday that they are forming a joint venture to design, build and operate a rapid-response system to capture and contain up to 100,000 barrels of oil a day flowing 10,000 feet below the surface of the sea.

Oakland votes to permit large marijuana farms.Oakland has moved closer to becoming the first city in the United States to authorize wholesale pot cultivation.With such a president for another 2 years we might need it!

Now Afghanistan too shows the limits of American power.British troops are paying the blood price in Helmand, as they did in Iraq, of a now officially subservient relationship.

North Korea anger at US-South Korea war games ,more here.The US and South Korea's plans to hold joint military exercises pose a major danger to the region, North Korea says.

Littwin: Norton's NASA remark kinda came outer nowhere."We need a NASA budget that doesn't cater to making Muslims feel good but that is strong on science . . ."

BP's Secret Ticket Request Line.Want free passes to NBA games and concerts? Just call the world's most hated oil company. (If you're a California politician.)"Beyond Prosecution?"

I Hate When This Happens.Saudi family discovers maid is a dude.

HT:JIDF.New Israel Fund Whistleblower Exposes NIF's Role in Demonization of Israel.The New Israel Fund’s role in funding and promoting anti-Israel campaigns, as documented in NGO Monitor’s research reports, is generating increasing criticism from Israelis.

Cold snap freezes South America – beaches whitened, some areas experience snow for the first time in living memory.The cold reached Amazon and temperatures felt to as low as 7C in towns in the Amazon Forest in the states of Acre and Rondonia.

Pimping: fastest growing crime in San Diego; nationwide.According to Special Deputy U.S. Marshal James Hunter pimping is the criminal activity with the fastest growth incidence in the San Diego area and nationwide; and the greatest recruiting fields for pimps are local shopping malls, middle and high school campuses, MySpace, and the whole internet.

HT:The DailyBeast.Who's Having the Most Sex?Do you have a Masters degree? Are you Jewish? How much do you weigh? Anneli Rufus on 15 ways to tell if you’re getting lucky more—or less—frequently than the rest of us.

Have you got gymnophobia? That's a fear of nudity - and one of our top ten most bizarre phobias.

Jailed Lohan Set To Have Sentence Slashed.Hollywood star Lindsay Lohan's 90-day jail term is likely to be slashed to just two weeks because of prison overcrowding, say police.

HT:WeaselZippers.Election slogan “NOT the whiteman’s bi#ch” banned.

Clinton wedding haunts another bride.It's a bridal nightmare.The wedding date was booked two years in advance, the dress purchased, the expenses covered. Nothing was going to rain on Emn Haddad-Friedman’s wedding day. Except Chelsea Clinton.