MFS - The Other News

                         Afternoon Posting.

• Israel and Palestinians cautious on peace talk invite."We are waiting to see the formulation of the American invitation draft. Our position remains that we don't want preconditions," an Israeli official said.A Palestinian official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said: "If the statement meets what we are calling for, we will say yes of course."If they don't agree i will "Impose" a peace plan Obama said!talks on Sep 2 one day after Turkey takes the presidency of the UN Security Council.Petraeus (Obama's) plan to put UN troops in Israel looks suddenly a lot closer?

• Obama has himself to blame for Muslim problem.In 1985, Barack Obama had just arrived in Chicago for his new job as a community organizer when he headed to Smitty’s Barbershop, a tiny storefront on the South Side. As Smitty cut his hair, Obama listened to the men in the shop talk politics and racial grievance. When the barber finished, he handed Obama a mirror and said, “Haircut’s ten dollars. What’s your name, anyway?”“Barack.”“Barack, huh,” Smitty responded. “You a Muslim?”“Grandfather was,” Obama said.

• HT:MichelleMalkin.And now: The stealth Obama ocean grab.It’s not enough that the White House is moving to lock up hundreds of millions of acres of land in the name of environmental protection. The Obama administration’s neon green radicals are also training their sights on the deep blue seas. The president’s grabby-handed bureaucrats have been empowered through executive order to seize unprecedented control from states and localities over “conservation, economic activity, user conflict and sustainable use of the ocean, our coasts and the Great Lakes.”

• They won't build it! Hardhats vow not to work on controversial mosque near Ground Zero.A growing number of New York construction workers are vowing not to work on the mosque planned near Ground Zero."It's a very touchy thing because they want to do this on sacred ground," said Dave Kaiser, 38, a blaster who is working to rebuild the World Trade Center site."I wouldn't work there, especially after I found out about what the imam said about U.S. policy being responsible for 9/11," Kaiser said.The grass-roots movement is gaining momentum on the Internet. One construction worker created the "Hard Hat Pledge" on his blog and asked others to vow not to work on the project if it stays on Park Place.

• Dearborn Hosts Rep. Conyers and Special Envoy to OIC Rashad Hussain.Dearborn–August 15–The presidential appointment of a hafiz-Qur`an was, by itself and independent of any other facts, completely unpalatable to many on the extreme right.Judge Keith said of Mr. Hussain in introducint him, that he is of course brilliant, but also that in the year he had worked with Mr. Hussain he had seen him to be “a great man and a great human being–he is like a son to me.”He introduced Hussain to the audience with an emotional invitation: please welcome Rashad Hussain, “he is my son.”Hussein said:“America and Islam share principles of common humanity–the relationship with Muslism is not defined by only one framework, by Al-Qaeda. No religion accepts killing of innocent men, women, and children,” he said. OMG!!!! Go tell that to the 9/11 victims!

• Obama and the Socialist Bourgeoisie."I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." --Benjamin Franklin. While I don't know what October Surprise the Demos have up their collective sleeve for this fall's election cycle, I am gravely concerned that, given Obama's arrogant vacation schedule, it will be more devastating than the mischief they arranged in 2008. However, I remain altogether confident that American Patriots, like our forebears, will defend our Essential Liberty and persevere through whatever trials and foibles arise.

• HT:IsraelMatzav.Iran test fires a new surface-to-surface missile.Iran launched a new surface-to-surface missile called the Qiam 1 on Friday. According to Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi, the missile is better able to avoid anti-missile systems because it has no wings.

• Weekend Wager!Since I’m in a gambling mood, I’ve got $10 that says President Obama makes a high profile trip to worship at a Christian church somewhere on the Vineyard this Sunday morning.HT:DougPowers.

• Will bacteria count beach Barack Obama?WEST TISBURY - Welcome to Martha’s Vineyard, Mr. President - but don’t go in the water!President Obama, who took a plunge in the Gulf last week to show Americans it was safe to swim the oil spill-plagued area, arrived on this supposedly pristine island yesterday in the midst of a rash of bacteria-induced beach closings.Portions of Tisbury Great Pond, the salt-water lagoon fronting the first family’s vacation estate Blue Heron Farm, were closed earlier this week due to high levels of enterococci, an indicator that the water is contaminated with fecal coliform bacteria.God works in Mysterious ways?

• Is Jack DeCoster to Blame for Massive Egg Recall?So Far 380 Million Eggs Have Been Recalled; 2,000 Report Illness.Jack DeCoster, the owner of the company at the center of one of the largest egg recalls in history, is no stranger to controversy.He's been involved in legal cases that have forced him to settle with the federal government for hiring illegal immigrants, for tolerating sexual harassment at his company, and has faced a litany of animal cruelty charges. DeCoster has also paid millions of dollars in fines and settlements over the years stemming from complaints about the health violations at his farms.Critics may say he's a bad egg .

• The Muslim Student Association’s Terror Problem.Why do top MSA leaders keep joining terror groups and involving themselves in terror plots?Since its inception, the MSA has chronically been a vehicle of extremism, hatred, and incitement to violence. Its chapters host a wide variety of extremist speakers and have repeatedly raised funds for Islamic groups that have later been closed by the U.S. government for funding terrorism. For this reason, the MSA was identified in 2004 as one of 27 Islamic charities and groups in the U.S. under investigation by the Senate Finance Committee for terrorist support.

• Bombing nuclear reactor in Iran to create radiation threat for Azerbaijan.News.Az interviews Adil Garibov, director of the Institute of Radiation problems of the National Academy of Science of Azerbaijan.Is the Iranian side sincere while saying that its nuclear reactor in Bushehr power station is peaceful?

• HT:WeaselZippers.Howard Dean Hits Fellow Dems For “Demonizing” Opponents of Ground Zero Mosque.He’s looking at you, Nancy Pelosi.

• Russian actions are aimed at denying US airspace and overflight options.“In Eurasia, Moscow is using its entire geopolitical toolbox to shift the balance of power in the region.The administration’s make-believe Realpolitik approach of "see no evil" encourages Moscow to expand its hegemony in the former Soviet space. Such policy inevitably will produce a massive loss of American influence in Eurasia that will take years, if not decades, to recover.These are hardly great accomplishment for the Obama "reset" policy.

• U.S. Iraq Troop Withdrawal 'In Name Only' As Country Faces Uncertain Future.Saddam may be long gone but -- contrary to the soldier's emotive claims -- who "won" is far from clear. And in contrast to the impression meant to be conveyed by the departure of U.S. fighting forces, Iraq today is far from secure. Militant insurgents remain ominously active.On 17 August, a suicide bomber killed 61 Iraqi Army recruits in central Baghdad, while five government employees were killed in roadside bombings and other attacks the following day. Iraqi officials say July saw the deaths of more than 500 people, including 396 civilians, making it the deadliest month for more than two years."I think for the next 18 months, the reality is that there is going to be a large formal American military presence," Rogers says. "You may call them advise-and-assist brigades, but they do have a combat function if need be.So much for Obama's "Succes" in Iraq!

• Holland Muslim group fined for publishing Holocaust-denying cartoon.Court calls cartoon 'unnecessarily hurtful' in appeal of a 2006 cquittal of the Arab European League.A Dutch Muslim group was fined 2,500 euros(3,200 $) for publishing a cartoon which suggested the Holocaust was made up or exaggerated by Jews, a Dutch appeals court ruled on Thursday.

• From Iran's Nuclear Ambitions to Online Hate.“Canada’s grassroots support is very loyal. I wanted to give them a perspective and update,” he said.One of Cooper’s biggest concerns at the moment is Iran’s nuclear program. He recently met with a senior official of the White House’s National Security Council to address a Congressional vote on the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty in which Israel was named for the first time, but Iran was not mentioned.