MFS - The Other News

                         Afternoon Posting.

• HT:MichelleMalkin.The fishermen’s flotilla: Showdown at Martha’s Vineyard.Continuing my coverage of the revolt against the White House ocean grab, here’s the latest on today’s fishermen’s protest flotilla gathering at Martha’s Vineyard while President Obama plays Scrabble and golf with his Chicago cronies.

• HT"WeaselZippers.Muslim Cabbie Stabber Moved From Riker’s to Bellevue.Even MORE proof that liberalism is a mental illness?

• Mysterious Fire Destroys Voting Machines in Texas County with ACORN-like Voter Fraud.Another blow has been dealt to voters in Harris County, Texas just days after the Harris County Voter Registrar Leo Vasquez released a 72 page PowerPoint on voting irregularities from a local group similar to the infamous ACORN.

• Anti-Tea Party groups turn violent.On the eve of the massive 'Restoring Honor' gathering at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Saturday, anti-Tea Party groups have turned violent.Prudent Americans must not allow these tactics to thwart their efforts to take the nation back from extremist Leftwing operatives who have demonstrated a clear disdain for our Constitution. Dr. Alveda King's words are thus words to the wise.

• Pearl: Put the mosque elsewhere.Slain reporter's dad says Ground Zero mosque would prolong "illusion." Judea Pearl, father of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel murdered by Islamic terrorists in Pakistan eight years ago, says that permitting the Ground Zero mosque project would prolong “the illusion” that the American Muslim leadership can achieve public acceptance without confronting its role in allowing “victimhood, anger and entitlement” to spawn acts of terrorism.Read the full story here.

• Red Flag Warning EPA Ammunition Ban!There is yet another assault on an individual’s God-given right to bear arms. This one coming from of all places, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

• Obama Administration Apologizes for Florida Koran Burning.Even though Donahoe’s apology is dated August 5th and fully acknowledges and includes the OIC in her expression of “deep concern,” the OIC still demands that the Obama Adminstration“take appropriate steps to protect the sacred religious sentiments of Muslims of America and of the Muslims across the world.”

• Britain faces new terror wave.Britain faces a new wave of home grown terrorists as 800 radicalised Islamist prisoners are released from jail, a leading security expert warns.

• Kuwaiti MP wants state aid for men to get second wives.A Kuwaiti MP proposed Wednesday state-aid for male citizens to take second wives, in a bid to reduce the large number of unmarried women in the oil-rich emirate.

• Administration halts prosecution of alleged USS Cole bomber.The Obama administration has shelved the planned prosecution of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged coordinator of the Oct. 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, according to a court filing."After 10 years, it seems like nobody really cares," said Gloria Clodfelter, whose 21-year-old son, Kenneth, was killed on the Cole.

• 'Iran recognizes "Armenian genocide"'.Iranian nation accepts the historic truth, PAP member says.Iran’s Vice President Hamid Baghaei’s statement again testifies to the fact Iranian current political establishment headed by the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recognizes the 'Armenian Genocide' committed under Ottoman Empire in 1915, the MP from the Prosperous Party of Armenia (PAP) Aram Safaryan said.Erdogan must be ecstatic of joy?

• HT:PajamasMedia.Obama’s Electioneers: Documentary to Reveal the Extent of 2008 Voter Fraud.The New Black Panther case? That type of behavior didn't just happen on Election Day. It was rampant during the Democratic primaries.

• A Relativist, Wrapped in a Muslim, Inside an Agnostic.Why does a significant chunk of the American electorate think Obama is a Muslim? Let's count some of the reasons: he speaks of his "Muslim roots," says he hails from "generations of Muslims," was born to a line of Muslim males and given by them an Arabic name, went to a Muslim school in Islamic Indonesia, speaks glowingly of Islam whenever he gets the chance, holds a Ramadan dinner in the White House, tells his NASA head to turn the space agency into a Muslim outreach program, and last but not least insults doctrinal Christians routinely.

• The Ground Zero Mosque's Muslim Opponents.Defenders of the proposed Ground Zero mosque are quick to write off opponents as bigots simply out to stir up hatred of Muslims.While some of the rhetoric is excessive, the blanket dismissal hides a more difficult challenge for mosque advocates: A growing number of Muslims openly oppose the project too. Some agree it's the wrong place, while others are increasingly critical of what they see as tone-deaf and clumsy leadership from mosque planners.

• HT:AmericanThinker.President Obama's Compulsive Appeasement Disorder.With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, the U.S. became the world's only superpower -- Uncle Sam would say, "Jump," and the response would be, "How high?" This has not continued; if anything, on today's world stage, Uncle Sam increasingly resembles Rodney "I don't get no respect" Dangerfield. We cannot even kill off a few ragtag third-world pirates, let alone impose our will on Iran or make Hugo Chávez nervous.

• VIDEO: Michelle Malkin Slams Progressives on Muslim Cabbie Attack — Heads Explode at 'Think Progress'.Awesome commentary on the radical leftists who couldn't leap fast enough at the chance to smear the "evil" right-wing for the attack on the cabbie.

• HT:TheBlogProf.Sound familiar? DC police to use technology to predict who will commit murder in the future.

• At the Tomb of Tutankhamen.An account of the opening of the royal Egyptian sepulcher which contained the most remarkable funeral treasures unearthed in historical times.Photoseries.