MFS - The Other News

                         Afternoon Posting.

• Barack Obama: The Naked Emperor.I am writing this in the last days of 2008 as I watch with dismay as vast numbers of people across the world, including many who should know better, have been duped by the mind-game called Operation Obama.Obama's wife, Michelle, who I wouldn't trust to tell me the date in a calendar factory, said that 'everything begins and ends with hope'. Utter nonsense. Hope is a meaningless emotion because its fruits are always in the future and, by definition, never in the NOW.A MUST READ!

• HT:WeaselZippers.During 1970s Shirley Sherrod Helped Run a Company That Exploited Black Workers and Paid Them Only 67 Cents an Hour.And who’s making this claim? — the evil Andrew Breitbart? Nope, it’s the ultra-liberal Counterpunch."The whitey with his uncle Tom mentality?"yeah whatever!

• HT:WeaselZippers.US embarrassment over racism charge as Worst Lady heads to Marbella.Like many governments, the US publishes travel advice for its citizens. And, until very recently, the advice for Spain warned that “racial prejudice may have contributed to the arrest or detention of some African-Americans traveling [sic] in Spain”.Tell me again, who are the race cowards in this country?

• Several dead in Connecticut work shooting.A worker at a beer distribution firm in the US state of Connecticut has opened fire on colleagues killing several of them, officials have said.

• US Senate delaying US-Russia nuclear treaty vote.A Senate panel is delaying a vote to recommend ratification of a nuclear arms treaty with Russia - a sign that Democrats are struggling to win Republican support for the agreement.

• FBI to Wikipedia: Remove our seal!The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has threatened Wikipedia with legal action if the online encyclopedia doesn't remove the FBI's seal from its site."In short, then, we are compelled as a matter of law and principle to deny your demand for removal of the FBI Seal from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons," the Wikimedia Foundation's general counsel, Mike Godwin, wrote in a letter to the FBI."The part that's hard to understand is why the FBI would seek to abuse the law in such petulant fashion," he writes, "knowing that it will be subject to public ridicule for its actions."

• I Am Outraged!Shohreh Aghdashloo, the Iranian-born star of The Stoning of Soraya M. and House of Sand and Fog, shares her horror over Iran’s barbaric decision to stone a woman to death for committing adultery.Welcome to A.D 613!

• Children Under Sharia Law Part 1: Foreign Girl Raped in UAE Could Face 80 lashes or stoning.A few days ago a court case came to the Sharia law court in Dubai. It seems back in April of this year, a 14 year old Brazilian girl was living in Abu Dhabi with her parents. While her parents went away to Dubai, a Pakistani-born bus driver in his mid to late twenties came to the young girl’s flat and had sex with her. The girl initially said that the man raped her by force. Her father called police and brought charges against the man.

• Obama sends Muslim envoy to India to bridge cultural gap between the US and Islam.And Obama AGAIN apologising for "America's ways"?It is true that US policies in recent times have contributed to the radicalisation of certain Islamic groups worldwide.

• IDF, Lebanese. Army clash on border: Lebanon War III?Latest updates!

• Video:Top Hizbullah Official in South Lebanon Nabil Qaouq: The Resistance Is Using This Period to Train and Strengthen Its Capabilities and Is Preparing for the Great Confrontation.

• 'Hizbullah unlikely to go to war'.Ayalon: Group won't attack Israel to deflect focus from Hariri probe.Not alone but maybe with Iran and Syria?

• Obamacare Flushes the Constitution.“I will — listen now — I will cut taxes — cut taxes — for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.”– Obama’s Bull acceptance speech at the 2008 Democratic convention.

• 900 More Days of Obama’s Demolition Derby.History teaches, however, that the damage a president can inflict often has long lasting effects, so the remaining 900 days require continued close attention and a constant effort to thwart this first and last Marxist president.

• Losing Turkey to the Islamists.A look at Turkey’s history shows how very un-Turkish is the mindset of its current Islamist rulers.“Democracy is like a streetcar. When you reach your stop, you get off.”— Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan .

• Sending Palestinian Student Delegation to USA.Three hundred and sixty two Palestinians studied in the United States during the 2009 academic year, a number which the U.S. Government hopes to increase significantly in the coming years in line with President Obama’s desire for increased cultural and educational exchange between the United States and the Middle East.

• Lethal clash: Senior IDF commander killed in border skirmish.Cleared for publication: IDF Lieutenant Colonel Dov Harari killed in border skirmish with Lebanese army Tuesday; another commander seriously wounded. Troops stepped into planned ambush, army says.

• Claws for concern? 'Crabzilla' is 12ft across, 40 years old... and he's the BIGGEST ever to go on display.The scary-looking sea beast weights more than 30lbs, and at about 40 years old is one of the largest examples of his species yet captured.

• Oil spill dumped 4.9 million barrels into Gulf of Mexico, latest measure shows.The blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico gushed 12 times faster than the government and BP estimated in the early weeks of the crisis and has spilled a whopping 4.9 million barrels, or 205.8 million gallons, according to a more detailed analysis announced late Monday.Gulf Spill Is the Largest of Its Kind, Scientists Say"BP = Beyond prosecution"?

•  John McCain: President Obama 'small-minded'.Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) accused the president Monday of being "small-minded" and "bizarre" in his presentation of American military success in Iraq.

• Iranian Journalist Recalls Torture, Sharing Cell With Supreme Leader (To Be)."The image I have given of Khamenei and the image we have from him now demonstrate what power does to people, how it turns a tortured prisoner into someone who is in charge of hundreds of torturers," says Houshang Asadi.

• Indianapolis: Black Church Stages Fight to See How White Cop Would Respond.Welcome to Obama’s “post-racial” America.Relations between the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and some members of the African-American community are still a sore spot in the weeks since the Brandon Johnson incident.

• Music fails to chime with Islamic values, says Iran's supreme leader.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claims the promotion and teaching of the artform is not compatible with country's sacred regime.Only the sound of Torture, Suicide bombers and machine guns is allowed?

• FBI highlights similarities between al Qaeda, cartels.An FBI webpage quoted an agent calling Mexico's drug cartels more violent than al Qaeda -- a comment sure to grab attention, but which doesn't tell the whole story, the agency said.

• High court trims Miranda warning rights bit by bit.You have the right to remain silent, but only if you tell the police that you're remaining silent.You have a right to a lawyer — before, during and after questioning, even though the police don't have to tell you exactly when the lawyer can be with you. If you can't afford a lawyer, one will be provided to you. Do you understand these rights as they have been read to you, which, by the way, are only good for the next two weeks?

• NUGENT: It is us!We're the ones who allowed anti-Americans to take over America.This president's overtly destructive, clear-and-present-danger agenda is surpassed in transparency only by his ultra-leftist public voting record and overall lifetime conduct of consorting with the enemy as a child and student of Marxism, socialist and racist community organizer, congregant of the blatant America-hating black-theology- and social-justice-spewing Rev. Jeremiah Wright and close personal friend of convicted communist terrorists like Bill Ayers, and by his unflinching appointment of an array of communist czars, including Van Jones, Cass Sunstein, Anita Dunne, et al.

• Iran dismisses Lula's 'emotional' stoning asylum offer.Iran says the Brazilian president did not have enough information when he offered refuge to an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning.A foreign ministry spokesman said President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was an "emotional" person and that details of the case would be made clear to him.Islam is not "emotional" but "Stonecold"?

• Grizzly euthanized after fatal mauling that perplexes experts.A grizzly bear was euthanized Friday after a DNA test determined that it mauled three campers -- one of them fatally -- in a remote area of Montana, an attack that has perplexed wildlife experts.

• Iran to Launch Optimized Submarine in Days.TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian Army commander announced on Tuesday that the country plans to launch a new optimized submarine in the next 10 days. Nope it's not "A Yellow Submarine" no music allowed remember!

• Acting Solicitor General in Kagan’s Place Was Previously Counsel for Osama Bin Laden’s Driver During Gitmo Military Tribunal, Argued War on Terror Is Not Really a War.Anyone surprised? The Obama regime is infested with leftist radicals.Welcome to Obama's war on America?

• When Bambi goes bad-ass: B.C. cities search for solution to aggressive deer.A must see Video!

• Video:'Jaws' comes to a US beach.In a scene reminiscent of the film ''Jaws'', home video taken at Seaside Park Beach in the US state of New Jersey shows a shark causing a furore by coming ashore briefly before turning away and returning to open seas. Probably looking for the BP CEO?

• The sun sends a charged cloud hurtling our way.An unusually complex magnetic eruption on the sun has flung a large cloud of electrically charged particles towards Earth. When the cloud hits, which could be anytime now, it could spark aurorae in the skies around the poles and pose a threat to satellites – though probably not a particularly severe one.More on this topic in the morning posting.

• Web attack knows where you live.One visit to a booby-trapped website could direct attackers to a person's home, a security expert has shown.

• Russia drought, China flooding cause jump in food prices.Wheat jumped to a 22-month high in trading in Chicago Monday, following a 38 percent jump in July that was the biggest since 1973. U.S. farmers may benefit from the higher prices.