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• MUSLIMS threaten SUICIDE BOMBINGS against ‘Qur’an burning’ church in Florida.Islamic radicals are seizing on protests against a planned Islamic community center near Manhattan's Ground Zero and anti-Muslim rhetoric elsewhere as a propaganda opportunity and are stepping up anti-U.S. chatter and threats on their websites.One jihadist site vowed to conduct suicide bombings in Florida to avenge a threatened Koran burning, while others predicted an increase in terrorist recruits as a result of such actions. "By Allah, the wars are heated and you Americans are the ones who…enflamed it," says one such posting. "By Allah you will be the first to taste its flames."

• KUHNER: President's socialist takeover must be stopped.President Obama has engaged in numerous high crimes and misdemeanors. The Democratic majority in Congress is in peril as Americans reject his agenda. Yet more must be done: Mr. Obama should be impeached.He is slowly - piece by painful piece - erecting a socialist dictatorship. We are not there - yet. But he is putting America on that dangerous path. He is undermining our constitutional system of checks and balances; subverting democratic procedures and the rule of law; presiding over a corrupt, gangster regime; and assaulting the very pillars of traditional capitalism. Like Venezuela's leftist strongman, Hugo Chavez, Mr. Obama is bent on imposing a revolution from above - one that is polarizing America along racial, political and ideological lines. Mr. Obama is the most divisive president since Richard Nixon. His policies are Balkanizing the country. It's time for him to go.

• Football Coach Fired for Anti-Obama Song?A Tennessee middle school football coach said he got fired after he wrote a song that criticized President Obama.Bryan Glover, an assistant coach at Grassland Middle School near Nashville, co-wrote the country music song, “When You’re Holding a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail.”It was co-written by a parent who has a child on the team. Glover, 26, said he emailed a copy of the song to friends, family members and player’s parents through his personal email account.And that’s when all the trouble started for the self-described independent conservative.Do not question the great leader?

• Number of People Who Have Signed up For ObamaCare in New Jersey: 2 ,yes it's right TWO!Just two people in New Jersey will begin receiving coverage Monday under new plans created by federal health care reforms.NJ Protect plans are available to those who have been without insurance for at least six months and submit evidence of pre-existing health conditions.The state will receive $141 million in federal subsidies to cover claims that exceed the premiums paid by the beneficiaries.

• Poll: 48% of American Voters Think Obama’s Political Views are “Extreme”.Forty-eight percent (48%) of U.S. voters now regard President Obama’s political views as extreme. Forty-two percent (42%) place his views in the mainstream, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.By comparison, 51% see the views of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as mainstream. Thirty-five percent (35%) think Clinton’s views are extreme. Fourteen percent (14%) are undecided.

• Michelle Obama, Laura Bush plan joint 9/11 event.It’s a first for first ladies: Michelle Obama and Laura Bush will appear together next month on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in Shanksville, Pa., where United flight 93 went down after the crew and passengers fought back against terrorists. Administration officials said the event will build on Obama's focus on the heroes of Sept. 11 — celebrating their heroism, honoring their memories and supporting their families.Damage control or sneaking in another Mosque?

• New York mosque controversy worries Muslims overseas.Some can't understand the fuss over a house of worship and how a democracy promoting religious freedom could even be having such a debate. Others are offended at the conflation of the 9/11 attacks with all Muslims.The United States has historically been distinguished by its tolerance, whereas Europe, France, Belgium and Holland have been among those who have rejected the symbolism of Islam.Hmmmm were they not the main contributors to the Crusades also?Must be something genetic i guess?

• HT:WeaselZippers.Video: Communist Speaker at Pro-Ground Zero Mosque Rally Rails Against “Zionist Jews”.Note: Remarks about “Zionist Jews” starts at the 3:55 mark.The guy making the racist comments is the man in the blue hat and shirt. According to the press his name is “Comrade Shahid.” They messed up his name, it’s Shahid Comrade, and yes, he’s a commie.

• Angelina Jolie Plays Humanitarian Role In Bosnia.Angelina Jolie has visited Bosnia in her role as UN Goodwill Ambassador as she prepares to shoot a film in the country.She met with Bosnian leaders in Sarajevo over the weekend to speak on behalf of refugees displaced after the 1992-1995 conflict."I hope that there'll soon be practical steps to improve these people's lives," Jolie said in a statement.

• White House Visitor Logs Suggest J Street Contributed To U.S.-Israel Diplomatic Crisis.J Street representatives met with the Obama administration frequently during the flare-up resulting from Joe Biden's visit to Israel.Last month the White House pulled out the red carpet to welcome Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, but the charm campaign is a new phenomenon. Less than six months ago, the U.S.-Israel relationship was in deep trouble.

• Iran To Raise Baby Girls As Basij Members.A female commander of the pro-government Basij militia, Zohreh Abbasi, has said that her unit has introduced a special program that allows baby girls to be registered as members of the force and receive training.Abbasi, who heads the Hossein Haj Mousaee unit, said that in the past six years 23 baby girls had been trained as Basij members through "Koranic, cultural, educational, and military" classes."In this regard Basij mothers register their baby girls 40 days after they were born at the Hossein Haj Mousaee unit by presenting documents and IDs," Abbasi was quoted as saying by Iranian news websites.Ok that's probably something like the Evian baby ,but instead of roller skates machine guns?

• Covert Operations.The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama.On May 17th, a black-tie audience at the Metropolitan Opera House applauded as a tall, jovial-looking billionaire took the stage. It was the seventieth annual spring gala of American Ballet Theatre, and David H. Koch was being celebrated for his generosity as a member of the board of trustees; he had recently donated $2.5 million toward the company’s upcoming season, and had given many millions before that.One dignitary was conspicuously absent from the gala: the event’s third honorary co-chair, Michelle Obama. Her office said that a scheduling conflict had prevented her from attending. Yet had the First Lady shared the stage with Koch it might have created an awkward tableau. In Washington, Koch is best known as part of a family that has repeatedly funded stealth attacks on the federal government, and on the Obama Administration in particular.

• The Barack Obama Project: An Over-Budget Horror Flick.Sometimes, non-supernatural events can evoke worse fear and dread than any ghosts, gore or monsters.This past week as Americans heard their leader speak at a Ramadan dinner, as they heard Obama bash his own Democrat-ruled Congress in the driveway of the White House before leaving for Blue Heron Farm, and as they witnessed his support of building a mosque near sacred ground in New York, their previous anger may well be turning to terror.James Joyce defined terror as “the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant…and unites it with the cause.”We are there. The threat of sharia, the decimation of capitalism through Marxist policies and the disintegration of social paradigms are indeed “grave and constant.” And polls show that almost 51% of the American people have identified the immediate cause-the policies of Barack Obama.

• Muslim festival on 9/11 canceled!Muslims fear backlash as festival falls near Sept. 11.Citing a growing atmosphere of distrust, especially since the issue of the Islamic center near Ground Zero erupted, some plan to tone down celebrations of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan."We thought it might be misunderstood and create a wave of attacks on our faith and community," said Imam Seyed Ali Ghazvini, the center's religious leader. "It's really just a community celebration that happened to occur on 9/11. …The way some local media outlets are attacking our faith and community created a serious fear among members of this community."Yeah Christians are renowned for committing attacks with suicide bombers and jihad?

• Jewish groups slam American woman in charge of Ground Zero mosque for saying treatment of Muslims is 'anti-Semitic'.Miss Khan - the wife of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the driving force behind the mosque project - also claimed she was being subjected to ‘metastasised anti-Semitism’ by those who oppose their plans.Her comments drew fire from the two leading bodies which represent Jewish people in America.The Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee said she was wrong to make the comparison and accused her of being ‘inappropriate’.But Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said: ‘There is no question in my mind that there are some bigots who are using the mosque as an excuse for Islamophobia. But to compare this to anti-Semitism is an inappropriate comparison.

• ‘Catholics for Choice’ Throws Mother Teresa Under The Bus.Last year the Empire State Building shone in red and yellow lights to honor the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Communist revolution. Yet under its founder, Mao Zedong, the Communists killed 77 million people. In other words, the greatest mass murderer in history merited the same tribute being denied to Mother Teresa.

• Is President Obama a Christian?Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: “Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions.”Another MUST read.

• HT:Mitchell Langbert.Obama Lied About His Religious Affiliation.Because of recent poll findings (reported in Newsweek, for example, with factual errors) that as much as 31% of the public believes that Obama is a Muslim, there has been a spate of publicity concerning an issue that surfaced on my blog during the election campaign: whether then-Senator Obama was lying about his religious affiliation. the Trinity United Church of Christ appears to have made doctrinal adjustments to accommodate its constituents. They were African Americans who wanted a veneer of Christianity, which many of them had been raised with, to cover their newly acquired black nationalism and Nation of Islam inspired faith.So a new syncretic religion was born, Muslim Christianity.Read the whole story here! 

• Hostage situation Latest updated news Video:Seven dead after former policeman hijacks Manila bus.Philippine police have stormed a hijacked bus in Manila, ending a day-long siege in which a group of Chinese tourists was taken hostage.At least seven hostages died and officials said police marksmen shot and killed the gunman.A former policeman armed with an M-16 had seized the bus in an apparent attempt to get his job back.More on this story here,and here.

• Oriflame workers detained in Iran as operations shut.Iranian authorities have closed the Tehran operations of Oriflame Cosmetics and detained five workers, the Swedish firm has said.The reasons for the move were disputed, with Tehran alleging fraud and Oriflame saying the authorities disliked it employing women in certain roles.Last week, Iran's commerce and culture ministries called the company illegal and blocked its local internet site.Oriflame said the move could be because it employs women as sales consultants.Iran and women rights hmmmm?

• When It Comes to the Ground Zero Mosque: ‘Truth Is the New Hate Speech’.The left is dismissive of the grief and offense caused by the prospect of a victory mosque at Ground Zero. The left is contemptuous of how 9/11 families and the majority of Americans feel; they’re sick in their fierce rush to erect the mosque. They’re even trying to blame me for America’s natural and logical response to an Islamic supremacist mosque being built on a site that was part of the 9/11 attack. The Geller hit pieces have been coming fast and furious and obvious, as if discrediting me will make the pain and anger over the mosque go away.

• Video:CBS Anchor Blames Internet for Obama Religion Confusion.CBS News' Bob Schieffer decries the internet as the "only news delivery system that doesn't have an editor" and discusses the "nuts, perverts and those who are simply looking to validate their prejudices" who get their news from the web.CBS continues to prove why they remain the number one voice of this generation.

• Pope's UK visit to involve strict rules for pilgrims.The Catholic Church of England and Wales has published a guide for those attending events with the Pope during his visit to the UK next month.There will be strict controls over what can and cannot be brought into the three large public gatherings in London, Glasgow and Birmingham.Alcohol, barbecues, gazebos and musical instruments will all be banned as they "could pose a threat to others".However, picnics, banners and flags will all be allowed.The instructions appear on the official papal visit website.

• Tiger Woods and wife Elin Nordegren are divorced.Tiger Woods and his wife Elin Nordegren have divorced, the couple said in a statement posted on the world number one golfer's website."We are sad that our marriage is over and we wish each other the very best for the future," the couple said.They said the primary focus of their divorce negotiations had been their two children's well-being.Mr Woods, 34, had a five-month lay-off from golf after admitting a number of extra-marital affairs.

• Beer microbes live 553 days outside ISS.A small English fishing village has produced an out-of-this-world discovery.Bacteria taken from cliffs at Beer on the South Coast have shown themselves to be hardy space travellers.The bugs were put on the exterior of the space station to see how they would cope in the hostile conditions that exist above the Earth's atmosphere.And when scientists inspected the microbes a year and a half later, they found many were still alive.