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?
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