MFS - The Other News

                         Afternoon Posting.

• Obama Outdoes Bush in Saudi Arabia.Why is the President pushing a huge arms deal with a regime that tramples on human rights and shouldn't be trusted with a toothpick?

• HT:Gollygeeez.OINK! This is HUGE, folks...Sherrod and Breitbart; a NEW SLANT.“In 1997, 400 African-American farmers sued the United States Department of Agriculture, alleging that they had been unfairly denied USDA loans due to racial discrimination during the period 1983 to 1997.”But then.... in 2008, a junior US Senator got a law passed to reopen the case and allow more black farmers to sue for funds. The Senator was Barack Hussein Obama.
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• Video:'England Is A Small Island In West Africa,' Says Ahmadinejad !OK.... can you imagine the debate between him and Obama without teleprompter?

• IT’S OFFICIAL: Barack Obama Is Worst Jobs President Since Great Depression.I don't know if this qualifies as "news"?

• Briton held for wearing a bikini in Dubai shopping mall after fight with Arabic woman.The woman was buying clothes and gifts in the Dubai Mall, fully dressed but in a low-cut top, when she was accosted by an Arabic woman and criticised for wearing 'revealing clothing'. The pair then became embroiled in a heated row in front of hundreds of bemused shoppers.Incensed by the Arabic woman's comments, the British woman told her to 'mind her own business' before stripping out of her clothes and 'taunting' the locals by walking around in only her bikini, it is alleged.Hooray for Brittain!Just say NO to dictatorships!

• Google loosening rules on online ads in Europe.Google Inc. is loosening restrictions on using brand names in its lucrative European advertising business, a move that puts a greater burden on big-name retailers to protect their trademarks online.

• Americans reject Obama in record numbers.According to a new USA TODAY/Gallup poll, Obama's approval rating has now reached an all-time low of 41%. Support for President "Change" is bottoming out on virtually every issue, from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the economy.84% of Mainstream Americans, on the other hand, grasp that Obama and his Constitution-trampling war on the free market is destroying this country.

• Sharron Angle: Obama and Reid are making government our false "God"."And these programs that you mentioned -- that Obama has going with Reid and Pelosi pushing them forward -- are all entitlement programs built to make government our God. And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government."

• Iran lawyer in Ashtiani stoning case now in Turkey.A lawyer who defended a woman sentenced to be stoned to death in Iran is now in Turkey, according to the UN refugee agency.Mohamed Mostafaei was detained in Turkey because of passport problems but can apply for asylum if he wants to, the agency said.Considering the love cooperation between Turkey and Iran it wouldn't surprise me they hand him over to Iran.

• 7 puppies die after flight to Chicago.Seven puppies have died after being transported on an American Airlines flight to Chicago Tuesday morning, the Chicago Tribune is reporting.

• Malaysian state chided for allowing under age marriage.Officials in Malacca state said the move was aimed at reducing the number of babies born outside wedlock.But Minister for Women Shahrizat Abdul Jalil called the decision - which would allow Muslim girls under 16 and boys under 18 to get married - "morally and socially unacceptable"."We're turning back the clock when there's ample evidence to show that we should not condone child marriages."Welcome to A.D. 613.

• HT:WeaselZippers.Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Wants You to Send Obama a Birthday Cake.Brewer rocks!

• HT:BreibartTv.Video:Did Iranian President Just Survive Assassination Attempt?Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, is surrounded by bodyguards as he arrives to address a public gathering, in Hamedan about 204 miles southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday. A hand-made grenade exploded close to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's convoy in western Iran but the Iranian president was not hurt.Later, the government denied it was a grenade and called the device a "firecracker".

• Video:Naked stag party fishing trip caught on camera.There is an unwritten but unbreakable rule about stag dos - what goes on tour, stays on tour.

• U.S. State Department lifts warning to African Americans about 'racist' Spaniards... just as Michelle Obama jets into Marbella.Mrs Obama's trip now risks being overshadowed by a row about institutionalised racism.The State Department advice sat alongside information about ETA and Islamist terrorist attacks in the country.

• Giant rubbish islands threaten China's dams and bridges.Rivers choked with islands of debris after recent floods, threatening to block floodgates of dams and topple bridges.

• Video:Space: Solar Flare Triggers Eruption on Sun.A solar eruption sends a wave of plasma hurtling towards Earth on August 1st, 2010. The event was captured by NASA satellites and explained by Discovery News Space Producer Ian O'Neill.A Must See!

• Parasailing donkey to settle in UK after treatment near Moscow.The Sun and Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp said earlier that they intended to purchase the donkey.The donkey from southern Russia forced to parasail as an advertising stunt will spend the next month at the Kremlin stables near Moscow and then settle in the United Kingdom, Russian media reported on Tuesday.

• Fires, Heat Bear Down Further On Russian Capital.The state agency that monitors pollution says that at night the concentration of carbon monoxide is almost six times the acceptable level.Late on August 3, due to thick smoke, six planes were unable to land at Domodedovo Airport in Moscow and were sent to an emergency airport.

• “Moderate” Muslims Are Calm As Ex-Muslims Are Killed.Who would attack a person for leaving their religion? Who would attack a person for defending the right to leave one’s religion? These seem absurd questions. But they’re not — it seems that “moderate” Mohammedans in America have been attacking an organization for defending even the right to leave the Mohammedan religion.Islam a religion of tolerance?

• “JournoList” – the Soros, Google, Free Press and Obama Connections.The organization in question, the Washington DC based New America Foundation has close ties to the Obama Administration, stretching back to Obama’s alma mater Occidental College in the early 1980s.While claiming to be non – partisan, New America clearly leans left.

• Dead Sea Scrolls Mystery Solved?The recent decoding of a cryptic cup, the excavation of ancient Jerusalem tunnels, and other archaeological detective work may help solve one of the great biblical mysteries: Who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?

• Russian protesters go online to outwit authorities.New Russian protest movements are using the web to mobilise support, bringing together older generations and young radicals

• Pakistani man on student visa raped teenager.Muhammad Hanif, 25, has admitted to police that he raped a 16-year-old boy on Saturday night in a dorm at Northamptom Community College in Bethlehem, PA. Both Hanif and his victim, were attending summer courses at the college.

• Rav Amnon Yitzchak: Bloody War Will Break Out.“Wars do not happen during winter,” said Rav Yitzchak. “The Iranian nuclear threat is ticking, and the military will not drag the war into the winter, so as not to drown in the Lebanese mud.”

• In Dhaka, Salesian nun saves thousands of women from persecution and physical/mental torture.Sister Zita belongs to the Order of Salesian Sisters of Mary Immaculate. She has helped thousands of Catholics from the Garo tribe who have moved to Dhaka in search of jobs, often ending in the clutches of unscrupulous Muslim employers who persecute and torture them.