MFS - The Other news

                         Afternoon Posting.

• Muslim university students trying to impose burqa on woman lecturer in West Bengal.Shirin Middya is a lecturer at Aliah University, a Islamic institution. The local student union wants her to wear a burqa if she wants to teach even though the university has no dress code. Syed Ali Mutjaba, a journalist and peace activist, warns about the rise of radical Islam in Indian society.

• Israel launches Gaza Strip air strikes,more here.Israel has launched air strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip, reports say.Palestinian witnesses reported numerous explosions in Gaza City, and several people were reported to have been injured.

• 25 dead as forest fires rage across Russia,more here.Putin on Friday visited the ruins of Verkhnyaya Vereya, where all 341 houses were burned to the ground and five residents died in the blaze. The village was one of three destroyed around Nizhny Novgorod, Russia's fifth-largest city located 300 miles (475 kilometers) east of Moscow."Before winter, each house will be restored," Putin told a crowd of distressed villagers, most of them women. "I promise - the village will be rebuilt."

• Obama planning amnesty for illegal aliens without consent of Congress.The President, in a bold example of egomaniacal behavior, has decided that he does not need Congress to address immigration reform after all. This is a slippery slope to travel upon. Once President Obama takes such an obvious route around congressional authority, further abuses cannot be far behind.Are we are observing a dictator in his natural habitat?

• Sarkozy threatens immigrants who target police.President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday that he wants to revoke the French citizenship of immigrants who put the lives of police officers in danger as part of a "national war" on delinquency.

• U.S. Immigration Fight Widens to Native-Born.A U.S. senator and a state lawmaker in Arizona, both central players in the battle over immigration law, separately proposed this week that "birthright" citizenship be denied to the children of illegal immigrants.

• U.N. rights body tells Israel to end Gaza blockade.Israel must lift its military blockade of the Gaza Strip and invite an independent, fact-finding mission to investigate its raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a United Nations rights body said on Friday.

• Senate cutting food stamps to pay for Medicaid and teacher funding.It's the Sophie's choice of budget decisions: Should we cut Medicaid? Fire teachers? Or slash food stamps?How about all three?

• Dell Tech Support Grabs Nude Photos From Customer’s Computer, Publishes on Web.A Sacramento woman says a tech support engineer in India managed to expose her secrets and make charges to her credit card after she called him with a desperate request.

• The new Nessie? Mystery 'sea creature' spotted off British coast.But a photograph showing what appears to be a long-necked sea creature has got marine experts scratching their heads.Mystery: The 'sea serpent' was spotted stalking a shoal of fish just yards off the Saltern Cove in Paignton, Devon. The fish were apparently so scared that they beached themselves.

• HT:AmericanThinker."Obama's Mean Streak".The body count of Obama's ambushes will grow in the years ahead. How does this help to bring about the civility that Obama preaches should be part of our civic discourse? Of course, it doesn't. Hypocrisy is Obama's trademark. His style of ambushing and humiliating people is a sign of something deeper and darker in Obama's psyche, in his emotional makeup. He is vindictive and enjoys the spectacle of belittling people in front of others and in front of cameras.The milk of human kindness does not flow in this man's veins, but rather something bitterer -- a type of personal poison that he enjoys spraying on others.This does not dignify the office or the man. But he doesn't seem to care, and the courtier press that covers him with glory doesn't, either.In one word he's "Evil"!

• The Flotilla Farce. Whether they are from Turkey, Ireland or Cyprus, those that participate reek of hypocrisy.

• Sarah Palin slams President Obama for 'The View' appearance (video).Palin tweeted: President w/no time to visit porous US/Mexican border to offer help to those risking life to secure us,but lotso' time to chat on The View?Of course everything turns around his person.

• Moms Keep Up Fight To Free 3 Held In Iran."We Can't Just Keep Doing This. But Of Course We're Going To": Hikers Near One Year In Iran Captivity.And Mr Obama plays golf or go's on holidays?

• NY Congressman Calls for Probe of Funding for Mosque Near Ground Zero and Its Promoter.King, ranking Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, made his remarks at the conservative Heritage Foundation at an event entitled, "Keeping America Free, Safe and Prosperous: Counterterrorism in the Obama Administration."

• Another Christian abducted in Kirkuk.A 50-year-old man was taken last night from his office. Crime is up in the city because of the power vacuum in the country. For the past four months, politicians have failed to form a government. For Christians, it is a time of martyrdom.

• Video:Grim task of China's oil spill clean-up operation.Now an army of volunteers and fishermen's been mobilised to clean up the pollution, but conditions for those involved are grim.

• France infanticide mother's 'relief' after confession.A French mother who admitted killing eight of her newborn babies is relieved that her secret is finally out in the open, her lawyer has said.

• USCIS Draft Memo Leaked Discussing Ways to ByPass Congress on Amnesty.Basically they claim that the Draft memo is just a way to “internally” discuss Ideas and that they have no intention of doing Deferred Action on the entire Illegal population.The Key Word there is …..”Entire”!The trouble with dictators is they have tendency to stay...forever!

• Alleged Mexican drug cartel puts price on Arpaio's head.The so called “America’s toughest sheriff” has never been secretive about the many death threats he continuously receives.

• Saudi, Syrian Leaders Visit Beirut In Bid To Ease Sunni-Shi'ite Tensions.The leaders of Saudi Arabia and Syria, King Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, are visiting Beirut today in a bid to calm tensions over possible indictments by a UN court against members of Hizballah for the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.

• China’s claims in South China Sea cause sparks with United States and Vietnam.After conducting a major drill, China’s Defence Ministry reiterates Chinese claims to sovereignty over the disputed sea. Washington says it is open to cooperation with Beijing in the area but not at any cost.

• Obama's EPA strongly defends the greatest scientific fraud in human history.The petitions to reconsider EPA’s Endangerment Finding claim that climate science cannot be trusted, and assert a conspiracy that invalidates the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

• Top Ten Things Women Can Do (That Men Can't).A lot of sexually secure, liberal minded straight men have to adhere to insane standards that just aren't right for this day and age. So, here are ten things that are socially acceptable for heterosexual women to do, but not heterosexual men.