MFS - The Other News

                         Afternoon Posting.

• HT:AmericanThinker.America's First Black President Seriously Damaging Race Relations.Ironically, on February 18, 2009, America's first black Attorney General, Eric Holder, said the United States was a nation of cowards when it comes to discussions of race and racism.At the time, we didn't know Holder was really pointing his finger at the man that had just four weeks prior been inaugurated as our first black president.Now we do.

• BP prepares to plug Gulf oil well for good.BP Plc could start plugging its broken deepsea oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday night, more than three months after its rupture led to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.

• No survivors in Canada fire-bomber crash.A water-bomber plane fighting forest fires in western Canada has crashed, killing the two pilots and igniting another fire.

• Islam vs. the West: What you need to know.“Islamism is not a movement to be engaged, it is an enemy to be defeated.”Sharia, moreover, is anti-equality. It subjugates women and brutally punishes transgressors, particularly homosexuals and apostates. While our law forbids cruel and unusual punishments, Gingrich observed that the brutality in sharia sanctions is not gratuitous, but intentional: It is meant to enforce Allah’s will by striking example.”

• Hundreds of new wildfires break out in Russia.Hundreds of new fires broke out Sunday in Russian forests and fields that have been dried to a crisp by drought and record heat. Firefighters brought some of the wildfires raging around cities under control.

• Updated:Russia faces new wildfire threat.Forecasts of up to 40C (104F) for central and southern Russia next week are piling on pressure as the country battles its worst wildfires in decades.But more new fires erupted than were extinguished, and 438 were still burning on Sunday.To date, 10 different Russian regions have been affected with 1,257 homes destroyed and 5,200 people evacuated, the emergencies ministry said.

• Obama warns conservatives not to 'demagogue' on illegal immigration.Obama issued another one of his "warnings" to conservatives on Saturday, pretending that anyone other than himself is demagoguing the issue of illegal immigration.According to Dictionary.com, the definition of "demagogue" is "an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people."Yep that's about it!

• Mullen says US has Iran strike plan, just in case.Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff says military attack on Islamic Republic remains an option, although he thinks a strike is probably a bad idea.

• 'We will resume suicide attacks'.Islamic Jihad plans attacks from West Bank after IAF Gaza raids.Great peace plan Mr president,go's out with a bang!

• Iranian women's rugby team take to the field wearing modesty-preserving headscarves and tracksuits.If the rugby-playing women of Iran's national sevens team had cauliflower ears, no-one could tell.Kitted out in tight-fitting headscarves and full tracksuits to protect their modesty, the players caused quite a stir when they played in Europe for the first time.

• What to do with Ground Zero ?It's being reported that the former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has suggested that Ground Zero in New York City be declared a National Military Battlefield to bring to an end the debate of whether or not a mosque should be built there.

• U.S.-Canadian mission set to map Arctic seafloor.Alaska (Reuters) - U.S. and Canadian scientists are headed far north on a joint mission to map the still mysterious floor of the Arctic Ocean, as questions of sovereignty and mineral rights swirl around the region.Hmmm next on the list to do :"Start war with Russia?"

• Freedom of religion vs. freedom of worship: Georgia woman faces mandated re-education.Even though President Obama specifically mentioned “religious freedom” when he addressed the Muslim world in Cairo in June 2009, since then both Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have increasingly used the phrase “freedom of worship".

• Lawyer In Stoning Case Calls On Judiciary To Release His Wife, Brother-In-Law.Prominent Iranian lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei, who went into hiding more than a week ago, has called on the Iranian authorities to end the "hostage taking" of his wife and brother-in-law."If you believe in God, let them go" he said in an open letter to Tehran's prosecutor, Jafar Dolatabadi, adding that he would turn himself in if they were released and if he would be tried in a "just court."

• HT:American Power.Cancer Patient Nikki Phelps vs. Virginity Repairs in Britain — i.e., Islamic Hymen Replacement Surgery .Whatever the case, I find it astonishing that at a time when women are dying because they can’t get cancer treatment, other women are having their virginity repairs paid for by the State.Nikki Phelp's insurer was Britain's National Health Service (NHS), the model for Barack Obama and his hand-picked appointment for the head of Medicare, Donald Berwick.

• Campus Apostate: Former UC Irvine Muslim Student Union Member — and Former Muslim — Speaks Out.A woman describes what it was like to extricate herself from the most notorious MSU in the country.When I still wore the hijab, I took a class where there was no homework, tests, or anything. Just discussion and debate. This particular class included classmates with very different views, and I found myself having my mind opened on topics on which I thought I had set views. Once, the teacher touched my shoulder and said to me: “So young and yet you know what your whole life is going to be.” That little remark would come back to haunt me.

• Hariri hit suspect is Hizbullah bigwig.UN tribunal to announce "chief suspect" is Mughniyeh’s cousin.The UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon is reportedly set to announce that Mustafa Badr al-Din, a senior Hizbullah operative and close relative of the former Hizbullah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh, is the main suspect in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.

• 4 killed in Iraqi bombings, closing out deadliest month in 2 years.Four people died in a double bombing in Baghdad on Saturday -- the same day Iraqi authorities released monthly data showing the highest number of civilian deaths and detentions so far this year.The Conman in Chief: "Afghanistan may become a Succes like Iraq."

• Ethics trials highlight racial tensions in Congress.Proceedings slated for House members Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel could create a rift between the Congressional Black Caucus and other Democratic leaders.Kenneth Gross, an ethics lawyer in Washington, said the push against Rangel and Waters "fuels the racial dimension.""It's going to be so highly charged considering who the players are," he added.