MFS - The Other News

                          Morning Posting.

• Food Stamps for the Masses While First Family Lives it Up."The cost of this economic crisis, and the cost of the war in Iraq, means that Washington will have to tighten its belt and put off spending on things we can afford to do without."The only tight belts we’ve seen since you took office are around the waist of your wife.The revolutionaries that fought against King George III certainly didn’t die so that 240 years later the servant of the people, the president of the most exceptional country in the world, could act like the U.S. Treasury is his own private piggy bank.

• 6 Americans on medical team killed in Afghanistan. Ten members of medical team, including six Americans, were shot and killed by militants as they were returning from providing eye treatment and other health care in remote villages of northern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the team said Saturday.Dirk Frans, director of the International Assistance Mission said five of the Americans were men and one was a woman. The Briton and German also were women.Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press in Pakistan that they killed the foreigners because they were "spying for the Americans" and "preaching Christianity."Islam a religion of Peace?

• Update:UK medic killed in Afghanistan shooting identified!A British aid worker among 10 people shot dead in Afghanistan has been named as 36-year-old Dr Karen Woo.Our correspondent said it has long been regarded as a safe area, although locals have complained about the growing threat from insurgents.Taliban spokesman: "They were Christian missionaries and we killed them all." There is no safe area from Islamic radicals.

• Turkey to continue to trade oil with Iran.Turkey sees no reason to curb a trade in petroleum products with neighbor Iran, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said.Kick Iran out of Nato now!

• Iranian facing stoning speaks: 'It's because I'm a woman.Exclusive: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani accuses authorities in Tehran of lying about charges in attempt to execute her in secret."The answer is quite simple, it's because I'm a woman, it's because they think they can do anything to women in this country. It's because for them adultery is worse than murder – but not all kinds of adultery: an adulterous man might not even be imprisoned but an adulterous women is the end of the world for them. It's because I'm in a country where its women do not have the right to divorce their husbands and are deprived of their basic rights."Where's the US?Where was the US representative when they gave Iran the seat for women rights?Where?.................silence?

• Is lying for jihad permissible by Islam?ActForAmerica displays a video, Taqiyya, explaining that jihadists lie to Americans in behalf of their cause. The video is presented by authorities citing clear-speaking authorities and original sources. “Taqiyya” means prevention. Under its Islamic doctrine, Muslims are forbidden to lie, except in certain circumstances. Those circumstances are ones preventing harm to:(1) Islam; (2) The believers’ society; and (3) their families. The video cites verses of the Koran and Islamic authorities and the history of Islam on circumstance.A recent example of Islamic deception was demonstrated by Arafat's aide and successor, Abbas. Abbas told U.S. Jewish leaders that he opposed Holocaust denial, incitement to terrorism, and ethnic violence. He neglected to tell them that his graduate thesis promoted Holocaust denial, he praises terrorists, and he threatened war if his diplomacy does not get the mortal concessions he demands of Israel. (I documented many instances of Abbas and his officials glorifying terrorism).

• HT:InfidelBloggers.Canada: "Halal Credit Cards" Give Money To Charity Which Promotes Trutherism and Anti-Semitism.The Director of the RS Foundation, Shujaat Wasty is a 9/11 Truther who has written and posted various online articles about the evil Americans and the "alleged" abuse of women in Afghanistan. In 2005 Wasty appeared in a panel at Concordia University where he said

1. The cartoon drawings of Mohammed should not be part of freedom of expression, that
2. Evangelical Christians belong to the "worst form of fudamentlism" and are responsible for a "genocide in North America,"
3. That Islamic governance is the only true form of democracy and where he argued for
4. Shariah based arbitration to be allowed in Canada. Oh and guess what.....according to self-listed credits he works for the Department of Foreign Affairs.
5. More on this National Post Shilled For "Blood Libel" Mastercard .

• HT:WeaselZippers.Obama Congratulates Kenya for Passing Constitution He Bankrolled, Implements Sharia in Non-Muslim Country, Liberalizes Abortion.The new constitution was approved by about 70% of voters. It permits abortion for the sake of the “health” of the mother – a term that opponents of unborn rights admit can be “broadly interpreted when need be” to help bring about abortion on demand.It also carves out legal space for Muslim khadi courts, which handle family issues in accord with Sharia law. Only about 12% of Kenya is Muslim.Follow up:Is the Putative U.S. President is being blackmailed by his homeland!?

• HT:WeaselZippers.Rumor: Queen Michelle Furious With Jill Biden For Not Respecting Her Enough.Yeah it’s from the Enquirer, but who cares, I’d say the odds are there’s some truth behind it. I mean, she is a Queen and all.The claws are out in the White House as First Lady Michelle Obama feuds with Vice President Joe Biden’s wife Jill, sources say.

• Mean Girls Love-Triangle Murder.Pitted against each other by a boy, two Florida teens seemed to lose their minds. Taunts became fist fights, fist fights became death threats—and then both of them snapped.From what i read the guy wasn't worth a wet tissue!

• Video: Rush Limbaugh accuses media of using First Lady's 'slave past' to cover up her trip to Spain.

• Special investigation: How predatory gangs force middle-class girls into the sex trade.‘Most of the men running the sex slave gangs in the north of England are Asians of Pakistani origin. But very few of the authorities will admit this.’‘Asian men in these gangs believe white girls have low morals compared with Muslim girls. They believe they wear what they describe as slags’ clothing showing their bodies, and deserve what they get.’I think the police are over cautious about this issue because they fear being branded racist. That they fear being branded racist. That is wrong. These are criminals that should be treated as criminals whatever their race.’

• Let Them Eat Arugula: Are the Obamas Disconnected From Reality?Analysis of "democratic" Presidential couple.

• Muslim group Minhaj ul-Quran runs 'anti-terrorism' camp.A Muslim group is holding what it calls the UK's first summer camp against terrorism.The three-day event in Coventry is expected to see more than 1,000 young Muslims at sessions teaching religious arguments to use against extremists.The event has been organised by the Minhaj ul-Quran to promote a fatwa, or religious ruling, against terrorism by its leader Dr Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri.Dr Qadri launched the fatwa in London in March.Perhaps a voice of reason in all this madness?

• Brigitte Gabriel: A Christian Survives Radical Islam.Her story is just amazing. Born in Lebanon as an Arab Christian she tells a horrific story of persecution at the hands of Arab Muslims during the Lebanese Civil War. For seven years her family lived in a bomb shelter, without running water, without electricity, but with plenty of anti-Christian violence.

• New hope for Afghan teenager mutilated by Taliban as U.S. hospital agrees to fund reconstructive surgery.The image of her badly injured face appeared on the cover of Time magazine under the headline What Happens If We Leave Afghanistan and she had hoped to travel to the U.S. for surgery paid for by a humanitarian organisation.

• Unique exercise to test US-Russia hijack response.The U.S. and Russia, which have more bluster than cooperation in their often-contentious history, will have their jet fighters take turns pursuing a civilian plane across the Pacific next week in a first-of-its-kind exercise to test their response to a potential international hijacking.

• Ground Zero Mosque on Fast Track, but Greek Church Waits.Too many Americans are sleepwalking when it comes to understanding Islamic policies during the last 1,400 years of what I see as its brutal history. No one talks about St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was crushed by the collapsing Twin Towers.Why is the mosque put on the fast track to construction when St. Nicholas’ reconstruction is being hindered by New York City bureaucracy?Wake up, America, before it is too late. The Greek Orthodox faithful of the Balkans were enslaved by Islam for 500 years. Ask me what it means to live under the laws of Islam, under Sharia Law and the Hadith. Call me and I will provide a history lesson on what can be like to live under Islam extremists.Fr. Constantine J. Simones Waterford

• The Left’s War on the Army Continued: Soldier in Uniform Refused Service in Supermarket.A mistake? Really? This wasn’t a mistake at all. They knew full well what they were doing. They were simply honest about their hatred for soldiers. Well, their hatred for British soldiers that is – something tells me they have less problems with soldiers from countries ruled by leftists and / or Islamists, but that as aside.

• HT:MotherJones.BP Fires 10,000 Cleanup Workers.New BP CEO Bob Dudley wasn't kidding when he announced last week that it was time for the company to scale back oil-spill cleanup operations. In fact, by the time he'd said that, the responder force had been drawn down by about 25 percent.The scaleback is set to continue. Supervisors say they're supposed to break down to just a "skeleton crew" by the end of September, so hopefully the media myth that there's no more oil anywhere comes true. "Everything still changes day to day," the supervisor told me. "You don't know when a bunch of oil's gonna pop up."

• 6 Million Fish Dead in Bolivian Ecological Disaster.Video:Over 6 million fish and thousands of alligators, turtles, dolphins and other river wildlife are floating dead in numerous Bolivian rivers in the three eastern/southern departments of Santa Cruz, Beni and Tarija. The extreme cold front that hit Bolivia in mid-July caused water temperatures to dip below the minimum temperatures river life can tolerate. As a consequence, rivers, lakes, lagoons and fisheries are brimming with decomposing fish and other creatures.

• Gem-encrusted gold tiger from throne of an 18th century Indian ruler found... in a Scottish house.The incredible tiger-shaped figure was discovered by experts in the possession of the family which has owned it for the two centuries since it was captured.Tipu Sultan - the Tiger of Mysore - was a thorn in the side of Britain's Empire-building in the 18th century and inflicted various humiliating defeats on his foes.

• HT:What'supwiththat.Oh no! Greenland glacier calves island 4 times the size of Manhattan.Greenland glacier calves island 4 times the size of Manhattan, UD scientist reports it last happened at this scale in 1962. Must have been climate change back then too. Watch the media now as this story is only about an hour old. BTW it fractured, not melted, and in case some people forget: glaciers calve to the sea there, it is what they do.

• In pictures: Discovering the wreck of HMS Investigator.