MFS - The Other News

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• Why You May Not Want to Join the Shirley Sherrod Fan Club (Part 2).Judging by the smiles she gave during her NAACP speech, the $300,000 that she and her husband received for “pain and suffering” were remarkably effective in reversing the psychological damage inflicted by the USDA. Or perhaps she smiled because the USDA paid millions of dollars more than her land was worth. Or her buoyant mood may stem from another example of governmental largesse: hubby Charles announced that the FCC awarded them a license for a full-power radio station in Albany, Georgia. He lamented that they’d previously “had no means of communicating with our people.” In the context of his speech, “our people” means “black people.”

• Breaking News: Christina Romer, Obama’s Top Economic Advisor Resigns.Christina Romer, one of President Obama’s top advisers, plans to step down effective Sept. 3.Hmmm "Women and children first?"

• 'Michelle Obama is a modern-day Marie Antoinette': First Lady slammed for lavish Marbella holiday. ‘To be clear, what the Obamas do with their money is one thing; what they do with ours is another. Transporting and housing the estimated 70 Secret Service agents who will flank the material girl will cost the taxpayers a pretty penny.’And she accused the Obamas of hypocrisy for preaching the values of sacrifice and austerity to Americans while seemingly refusing to heed their own advice.

• HT:WeaselZippersCAIR Sues Michigan Police Over Imam Killing.Remember Abdullah Luqman Ameen, the so called Detoit Imam that was killed while resisting arrest during the course of an FBI investigation? (Seen above before he met his virgins.) He was nothing but a Muslim gangbanger using a mosque as cover, but to hear CAIR tell it, he was an upstanding citizen of fine repute. Furthermore, CAIR was affiliated with this thug- they knew what he was all about. You’d think a reputable Civil Rights organization would be running the other way – not CAIR.

• Kerry: Unemployed America Needs New Muslim Employees.WASHINGTON: US Senator and chairman of Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry, appealed on Tuesday for cementing US ties with the Muslim world with a two-way exchange of professionals like teachers, city planners, and public health workers. Kerry introduced a bill calling for a three-year pilot programme to draw such workers from Muslim-majority countries to be picked by the US State Department. “This legislation is designed to help build professional capacity, strengthen civil society, and improve ties between the United States and Muslim-majority countries,” he said in a statement. These citizens picked would be 21-40 years old and could also come from civil society, including journalists, leaders of religious-based organisations, or employees of nonprofit organisations, Kerry’s office said in a statement.This is needed since there are no unemployed in North America?????

• HT:WeaselZippers.Number of Times Obama Has Said “I” Since Taking Office: 16,000…According to the Associated Press, Obama will have dinner with friends and then settle down to a nice evening in his Hyde Park house. With his wife and children away, he’ll be “spending his birthday instead as a bachelor.” That’s the metaphor for the Obama presidency. He’ll be spending his birthday with his favorite person – himself.

• Attorney: Iran officials decide to execute woman facing stoning.A second attorney representing an Iranian woman whose death by stoning sentence was under review told a human rights activist Thursday that Iranian authorities have decided she will be executed.Mina Ahadi, spokeswoman for the International Committee against Stoning, said she had spoken to Hotan Kian, an attorney who attended a court session in Tehran Wednesday. He was informed that there would be no more appeals for his client, Sakineh Mohammedie Ashtiani, and that Iran's high court will decide within a week whether she will be stoned or be executed in another way.

• Google-Verizon Deal: The End of The Internet as We Know It.For years, Internet advocates have warned of the doomsday scenario that will play out on Monday: Google and Verizon will announce a deal that the New York Times reports "could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content's creators are willing to pay for the privilege."

• Fears for consumers as Putin bans Russian wheat exports after severe drought.It is among the world's largest exporters, and fears that it would cut exports had already helped drive up wheat prices by nearly 70 per cent since early June.

• A rare look at secretive Brotherhood in America.Over the last 40 years, small groups of devout Muslim men have gathered in homes in U.S. cities to pray, memorize the Koran and discuss events of the day."They have this idea that Muslims come first, not that humans come first," says Mustafa Saied, 32, a Floridian who left the U.S. Brotherhood in 1998.

• Video: “Welcome Obama Family: Thank you for choosing Marbella!”Andrea Tantaros rightly dubs Mrs. O a “modern-day Marie Antoinette.”Like Mrs. O’s old Chicago socialite pal Desiree Rogers liked to say before her profligate, negligent ways got her kicked out of the White House: Laissez les bon temps rouler.And we all know what happened to Marie Antoinette and her hubby?

• Air Canada leaves boy without wheelchair.The family of a boy with muscular dystrophy who saw his wheelchair destroyed while en route from Toronto to New York says Air Canada has left him stranded.Tanner Bawn, 10, his aunt and his mother arrived at La Guardia Airport on Wednesday and discovered the boy's $15,000 custom wheelchair in pieces.Bawn's family was planning to take part in a charity run called Tutus for Tanner in New York City on Friday.

• David Cameron accused by Labour of Iran nuclear 'gaffe'.Labour has accused David Cameron of committing a gaffe by mistakenly claiming Iran has a nuclear weapon.Well for sure he's no Winston Churchill!

• Michelle And Sasha’s Excellent Spanish Adventure…At Taxpayers Expense!The first lady’s four-day vacation includes reserving 60 rooms in a 129-room hotel. Accommodations start at $333.00 and go up to $6502.00 per night. You do the math.)Just think, this is the Obamas’ idea of restraint.Can you imagine the festivities in better economic times?They are definitely feeling our pain!

• Shirley Sherrod: How She Exploited Blacks-Charges Of Racism Again?Shirley Sherrod was an important figure in the NCI which was paying black workers an average of 67 cents an hour. These laborers were regularly exposed to sprayed insecticides while following behind the rigs as they applied the deadly poisons ahead of the crews as they worked the fields. These black laborers were harassed and intimidated according to Annie Hawkins, whose family was evicted from an on site house that they were promised, while ailing on her death bed years later from exposure to poisons present in the working environment, Hawkins gave her testimony that Sherrod and her husband were responsible for exploiting blacks working for the NCI.

• Blood diamonds? Supermodel thought they were 'dirty' stones.Naomi Campbell says she was told they were 'probably diamonds'.Yeah whatevah!

• Deadly Suicide Bomb Attack Caught on Video.A suicide bomber struck a vehicle carrying a senior paramilitary police chief in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing him and four others in an attack that ended a period of relative calm in the region.Islam a religion of peace?

• 1913 was a VERY Bad Year!A Hundred years running in the wrong direction.The 1st - 2nd and 10th Amendment initiatives underway in the states today are necessary due to the events of 1913. Reverse 1913 and most of the problem is easily solved.

• IDF reservists show they, too, can dance.Israeli soldiers on Jordanian border film their dance moves in guard tower, post it online.The written message at the end of the clip says "This is what happens in 40 degrees C (104 degrees F) heat."

• Muslim Protestors Surround Worshipers in Bekasi, Indonesia.Around 300 Muslim protestors and 300 police officers surrounded members of the Batak Christian Protestant Church (Huria Kristen Batak Protestan or HKBP) on Sunday (Aug. 1) as they worshiped in an open field in Ciketing, Bekasi, local sources said."There were many police on guard, but the attackers were able to get very close to the congregation," Theophilus Bela, president of the Jakarta Christian Communication Forum, said in a statement to international government and advocacy groups. "We are afraid that they will attack the church again next Sunday."Islam a religion of peace?"

• An August Surprise from Obama?Main Street may be about to get its own gigantic bailout. Rumors are running wild from Washington to Wall Street that the Obama administration is about to order government-controlled lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to forgive a portion of the mortgage debt of millions of Americans who owe more than what their homes are worth. An estimated 15 million U.S. mortgages – one in five – are underwater with negative equity of some $800 billion.Anything go's to stay in power?

• What's a conspiracy without the CIA?The struggle between the Turkish army, which safeguards the country’s secularism, and Erdogan’s Islamist party heated up this week."We do not know who is behind the attempt to frame Dogan and the other retired officers involved in the case," he wrote. "Some point to Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish religious leader based in the United States with a vast network of supporters, whom they suspect of fomenting anti-secular activities.And who would blow up mosques?Only radical Islam!Turkey is quickly going in the direction of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

• Mexico Finds Tunnel, Possible Tombs Under Ruins.Mexican archaeologists find 1,800-year-old tunnel, possible tombs under Teotihuacan ruins.Experts say a tomb discovery would be significant because the social structure of Teotihuacan remains a mystery after nearly 100 years of archaeological exploration at the site, which is best known for the towering Pyramids of the Moon and the Sun.No depiction of a ruler, or the tomb of a monarch, has ever been found, setting the metropolis apart from other pre-Hispanic cultures that deified their rulers.

• Polish court upholds extradition of alleged Mossad agent suspected in Dubai hit.The alleged agent, Uri Brodsky, must be extradited to Germany within 10 days to face forgery charges related to passports used in assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.

• The Navy's next-generation destroyer (photos).When someone says that a new Naval vessel will be "the centerpiece of seapower for the next 50 years," it's tempting to be skeptical. But with the U.S. Navy's next-generation Zumwalt-class destroyer, known as DDG 1000, it's worth keeping an open mind.

• Radioactive Boars Rampaging Through Germany.It sounds like the plot of a B-movie, yet it’s bizarrely true: Radioactive boars are on the loose and thriving in Germany’s forests.A succession of mild winters has left Germany scrambling to deal with a skyrocketing wild boar population. Tales of swarming beasts rampaging through city streets and attacking citizens occur with alarming regularity.The problem has been aggravated by the lingering effects of the Chernobyl disaster from twenty-five years ago; a large portion of the wild animals are contaminated by radioactivity.My caption:"It's probably due to the fact that wild mushrooms hold quite a bit of radioactivity and the boars feed on them."In forests in Belarus and Ukraine the population is advised not to collect and eat the mushrooms.