MFS - The Other News

                          Morning Posting.

• Is The American Middle Class Disappearing?This is bad stuff, folks. This means that the America dream is slipping away from most Americans. And if that happens then America itself has slipped away from us. We need to start slashing the power and reach of government at every level before its too late.

• Spotlight on Iran.Iran issues threats and plays down likelihood of attack as calls for military action step up.

• Immigrant Maids Flee Lives of Abuse in Kuwait.With nowhere else to go, dozens of Nepalese maids who fled from their employers now sleep on the floor in the lobby of their embassy here, next to the visitors’ chairs.

• More Racist Teabaggers: Black Support for Obama Drops 9 Points, Hispanic Support Drops 12 Points -- All In Just 4 Months.I wonder what the race-baiters at the NAACP will say when they see the latest support for President Obama among blacks and Hispanics.

• Iran's Ahmadinejad calls for TV debate with Obama.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday to face him in a televised one-on-one debate to see who has the best solutions for the world's problems.

• La. fishermen wrinkle their noses at 'smell tests'.Even the people who make their living off the seafood-rich waters of Louisiana's St. Bernard Parish have a hard time swallowing the government's assurances that fish harvested in the shallow, muddy waters just offshore must be safe to eat because they don't smell too bad.

• Video:BP Exec: I Would Serve Gulf Fish to My Family.BP's chief operating officer says he would eat fish from the Gulf of Mexico and would let his family eat it, too. Doug Suttles took reporters on a boat tour of beaches and marshes Sunday about 25 miles south of Venice, La.

• HT:MotherJones.Obama's War on Churchgoers."What I've gotta say is not gonna be politically correct, but it's gonna be the truth. Nothing's gonna save America, unless we turn back to Holy God," says Gail. "And when I say that, I'm talking about Jesus Christ."Under Obama, things may be worse than they've ever been: "I don't know if we're gonna be arrested for going to church. I don't know!"

• Krauthammer Hammers The Chevy Volt: “It’s a Disaster”.“The only people who are going to buy it are going to be very rich people who are going to park it outside their townhouse for ostentatious show of how virtuous they are while they drive around in their Cadillac Escalade.”

• Jihadi Work Accident: House of Hamas Commander in Gaza Explodes Wounding 33 People.An explosion in the house of a Hamas commander in the Gaza Strip has wounded 33 people.No word if free virgins were involved.

• Hot Post in the Feminist Hawks’ Nest: “Normal” Domestic Violence in Morocco is a Crime in the United States.On November 1st of 2008, “acts of domestic abuse” commenced. The young girl finally called the police who, on November 22, 2008 (three weeks later) were still able to photograph numerous, visible bruises all over her body, including on her breasts. Her first punishment session lasted for one hour, during which time she cried all the time. This did not stop her husband. He said that he was doing this “to correct her.”I'm starting to wonder if men turn to Islam as an opportunity to beat up their spouces without concequences?"

• Suspected Islamists Shoot Five Christians to Death in Pakistan.SUKKUR, Pakistan, July 29 (Compass Direct News) - A dozen masked men shot five Christians to death as they came out of their church building here on July 15, two months after a banned Islamic extremist group sent church leaders a threatening letter, relatives said.Islam a religion of peace?

• CIA, Google both invest in 'future' of web monitoring.Wired.com has made an interesting find: that the investment branches of Google and the CIA are both investing capital in Recorded Future, a company whose mission statement is to “goes beyond search... looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events.”Google obviously is investing to improve its search technology, but why is the CIA?

• HT:Islamo-Nazism.Israeli Defence Minister: Turkey might be supplying Iran with intel on Israel.“Turkey is a friendly country, a strategic ally, but the nomination in recent weeks of a new chief of the Turkish secret services who is a supporter of Iran worries us.” Once again i'm saying get Turkey out of Nato.

• Obama Visits Atlanta, Local Dems Run For The Hills.Democrats Scatter Monday as Obama Comes to Town.Talk about a toxic guy.

• Alan Greenspan: Extending Bush Tax Cuts Without Paying For Them Could Be 'Disastrous'."I'm very much in favor of tax cuts but not with borrowed money and the problem that we have gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money."

•  Hurdles Deter Obama’s Pledge to Double Exports.Now, as officials complete a plan of action due in September, the hurdles before Mr. Obama’s ambitious goal are getting clear.

•  Pig’s Head left at Finsbury Park mosque – oh, the horror!Islamophobic thugs stuck a pig’s head on to the gates of an Islington mosque – offending hundreds of worshippers.Strange when Muslims behead Christians in the streets no newspapers in the West cover it?

• Jordanian man dies after five rockets hit Aqaba and Eilat.Rockets apparently launched from Sinai days after Katyusha and Qassam strike Negev, and after IAF retaliatory bombing of Gaza.Great peace plan Mr President.

• HT:Redstate.President Obama, Shamelessly and Hypocritically Lying. Again. Before preaching to everyone else, I suggest you learn the meaning of the words and the accusations that you toss about willy nilly. I also suggest Hypocrite, Heal Thyself.

• Marriage for Minutes Forces Children into Prostitution in Iran.According to Shia version of Sharia law, marrying a girl [either adult or infant] is legitimate in Iran. Any male can marry a girl or woman in that country, which is under the cruel grips of Mullacracy for decades, simply by performing a religious ritual, which takes less than a minute. In most cases, such 'Marriage for Minutes' or 'Mut'ah Marriage' take place to meet mere sexual desires of the men.

• Congress questions BP's use of dispersants in Gulf.BP's use of dispersant chemicals on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is sparking questions from a U.S. congressional panel, which says the company used more of these compounds than the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had directed.

• Trouble in Islamic Republic Paradise.Awesome. Mahmoud Ahmadinnerjacket is looking more like the Islamic Jimmah Carter every day. (Remember the good old days of “Odd-Even”?)

• 12 Juicy Jolie Revelations.A new biography of the star has hit bookstores and The Daily Beast gives it a quick read for biographer Andrew Morton’s take on her wild teen years, Mick Jagger’s infatuation with her, and other revelations from this explosive bio.

• Top Ten Islamist Fails.If you thought radical Islam and rabid Jew hatred were not conducive to comedy, think again! I present to you, in descending order, a list of the finest Islamist fails the Internet has to offer.