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                          Morning Posting.

• The Root of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Classic Islamic View of Jews.From the day Israel was established, the Muslim world has been hostile towards the State of Israel. This has been increasing over the years, despite the efforts of so many to settle the conflict. Although Israel signed Peace Agreements with Egypt and Jordan, nevertheless, many leaders in the Arab world, including Egyptian and Jordanian officials, make anti-Zionist and even anti-Semitic statements, and oppose normalization with Israel. When asked why, they answer that this peace is between governments, and not between the people of their countries.Trying to find solutions to the Arab-Israeli conflict, politicians and statesmen have spent endless hours with experts on Islam to understand the roots of the conflict. They have usually heard two answers: "The root of the problem is territorial," and "The root of the problem is religious; it stems from the classic Islamic view of Jews as evil."Read the full story here.

• HT:LogisticsMonster.pResident Obama: “For However Long I Remain President Of The United States”.Meaning please elaborate Mr President?Is this like President for life?Video :Here.

• Did BP Just Blow Up The Obama Presidency?Forget about the new oil well explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. The big breaking news is BP's attempt to leverage its promised $20 billion Gulf Restoration Fund to get the US government to let it keep drilling for oil in the Gulf.Read the full story here.

• No Safe Harbor on Gulf Coast; Human Blood Tests Show Dangerous Levels of Toxic Exposure.Even as BP and US government officials continue to declare the oil spill over at Mississippi Canyon 252 and the cleanup operation an unqualified success, for the first time blood tests on sickened humans have shown signs of exposure to high levels of toxic chemicals related to crude oil and dispersants. Some of the individuals tested have not been on the beaches, were not involved in any cleanup operations or in the Gulf water -- they simply live along the Gulf Coast. Several of them are now leaving the area due to a combination of illness and economic hardship.As it evaporates and becomes airborne, the toxic compounds have moved on shore, creating health impacts that, although apparently large from the numbers of people affected, the full extent is unknown. BP and the US government have effectively been performing the largest chemical experiment in history on a civilian population without their knowledge or consent.Read the full story here. 

• BUSTED! Major Investor in Ground Zero Mosque Contributed Money to Hamas.Mosque Investor Was Terror Contributor.Fox 5 News reported Thursday that one of the financial backers of the Islamic mosque and cultural center project in Lower Manhattan once contributed to a terror group, although the investor says the contribution was made because he thought he was giving money to a harmless charity.Hmmm charity group like the....SS?Read the full story here.

• Army 'birther' loses ruling on evidence.Judge says line of argument can't be used to fight court-martial.An Army judge ruled Thursday that proof of President Barack Obama's eligibility to be president isn't relevant to the defense of an Army doctor accused of failing to obey a lawful order.Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin has been charged with disobeying orders after failing to show up for duty in Afghanistan and questioning whether the president has the right to order him there.Lakin had sought the release of school records that could include a copy of Obama's birth certificate. He as questioned whether Obama was born a U.S. citizen and therefore eligible to be president.The judge ruled Thursday that the records and any other evidence or witnesses pertaining to Obama's birth will not be admitted. Prosecutors have argued that Obama's birth certificate shouldn't be part of the case, especially since the order for Lakin to deploy to Afghanistan didn't come directly from the president, The Associated Press reported.Read the full mock story here. 

• Voter fraud already begun. Watchdog group reports thousands of fraudulent registration forms.As we near the mid-term election on November 2, 2010, the voter registrar in the states will have to live up to the responsibility of their office in weeding out fraudulent voter registration forms which could result in unlawful votes in the General Election; and even carry over to the 2012 Presidential election.Voter fraud could drastically affect democracy in this nation. While we have overseen elections in other countries to insure honesty at the ballot box, are we going to be put to shame with voter fraud here in America that will affect our free elections?Read the full fraud story here.

• Australian Muslim hate preacher calls for Dutch MP Geert Wilders to be beheaded.Sound recordings of this call are owned by The Telegraph and the Dutch secret service AIVD." The call did Feiz during a speech at a secluded site of jihadists, in response to questions from Dutch radicals: "We see the evil filth of people like those filthy Dutch politician. Anyone who mocks our learning, laughs at Islam,must be killed, decapitated him, cut his head off.Read the full story here.(GoogleTranslate)

• BP Says Limits on Drilling Imperil Oil Spill Payouts.BP is warning Congress that if lawmakers pass legislation that bars the company from getting new offshore drilling permits, it may not have the money to pay for all the damages caused by its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.“If we are unable to keep those fields going, that is going to have a substantial impact on our cash flow,” said David Nagle, BP’s executive vice president for BP America, in an interview. That, he added, “makes it harder for us to fund things, fund these programs.” Read the whole story here.

• Federal government wastes millions on vacant, run-down buildings, including a pink monkey house.The Department of Veterans Affairs is spending millions annually on 314 run-down, vacant buildings, including a pink monkey house. “The buildings are home to rats, lead paint, wall-to-wall fungal growth, mold, radon, and spare tires,” notes the Washington Examiner.“Billions of stimulus dollars have been wasted on programs” highlighted by Citizens Against Government Waste, such as “$554,763 for new windows in a visitor’s center that closed in 2007 in Washington. In several instances, stimulus spending has actually reduced private sector employment; in Normandy Park, Washington, $3.8 million was spent on a ’streetscaping’ project that drove customers away from local businesses, causing a local restaurant to fire two employees.”Read the full stimulus story here.

• HT:IsraelMatzav.Arabs constructing fake graves on eastern side of Temple Mount.You will all recall that last month, some 300 fake graves were discovered in the Mamilla area and destroyed. Now, the 'Palestinians' are trying to do the same thing, this time outside the eastern wall of the Temple Mount.Read the full story here.

• Westerners Urged to Earmark Aid for Pakistan’s Marginalized Christians.Christians in Pakistan’s flood-hit regions are doubly affected by the disaster as a result of anti-Christian discrimination by government relief workers and Muslim aid agencies, according to representatives of the embattled minority.They are urging Christians to send assistance to organizations that will either help stricken Christians specifically, or at least ensure that Christians are not sidelined in the aid distribution.Islam a religion of tolerance?Read the full story here.

• Ahmadinejad says Abbas 'has no right to cede parts of Palestine'.During Al-Quds Day speech, Iranian leader says, 'Destiny of Palestine will be determined in Palestine, not in Washington.' Military official: We'll strike Israeli reactor if attacked." We ask: Who will conduct the talks. Who do they represent? Who gave him (Abbas) the legitimacy to negotiate on behalf of the Palestinians? Who has the right to cede part of Palestine to enemies? The region's nations will not allow anyone to give up even one centimeter of Palestine," he said.Read the full story here.

• RESTORING CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT....... HT:The Tundra Tabloids would also add that there needs to be an insistence on term limits as well as ending voting precincts that favor each parties candidates, such rigging of the voting sytem has in part, led to the current troubles and reduced the citizen's voting power, because it has allowed for party hacks to enjoy public office over more other deserving candidates.This end, I contended, can be achieved only if the Republicans appropriate for their own use a claim falsely but effectively advanced by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1936 which – thanks to our current President, his Chief of Staff, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Majority Leader in the United States Senate — now rings all too true: that today the American republic is threatened by a conspiracy, that “a small group” of individuals, lead by Obama, Emanuel, Pelosi, and Reid, is intent on concentrating “into their own hands an almost complete control over other people’s property, other people’s money, other people’s labor — other people’s lives.” If they wish to effect a realignment, I argued, all that the Republicans have to do is to complete the task of unmasking begun by Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and Emanuel and make it clear that they really do intend to repeal Obamacare, to balance the federal budget without enacting permanent tax increases, to roll back the scope and size of the administrative state, and to restore within these United States limited, constitutional government.Read the full story here.

• Muslims Resume Building on Christian Graveyard in Pakistan.Hard-line cleric defies local officials’ order to stop construction.SARGODHA, Pakistan, September 1 (CDN) — Muslims led by a hard-line cleric on Friday (Aug. 27) resumed building on a Christian cemetery in Mandi Bhawaldin, desecrating more graves in spite of a local government order to halt construction, according to the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance.Islam a religion of tolerance?Full story here.

• Former Car Czar Rattner Rats on Obama.Former Obama administration car czar Steven Rattner is coming out with a new book that depicts him swashbuckling through the financial crisis and also shows Obama as "out to get" the car companies and the administration making political decisions about how to deal with bankrupt automakers GM and Chrysler.Read the full story here.

• An Interview With David Limbaugh About His #1 Best Selling Book “Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama”.First question, in your mind is it fair to call Barack Obama a socialist?In a word, yes. I think it’s fair almost to call him a Marxist. John, he has a visceral contempt, an abiding contempt for capitalism, and while he holds himself out as a fierce advocate of the market, he’s constantly badgering and bullying capitalism. He calls bankers “fat cat bankers.” He resents legitimate profits made in the private sector. He talks about insurance companies’ “obscene profits” when they, of course, were making modest profits at the same time he was characterizing them. He wants to radically redistribute wealth.Read the full story here.

• PA official: Hamas will strike again.Commander in Palestinian security organizations says latest terror spree an attempt by Islamist group to disrupt peace talks, warns Hamas' terror effort will increase as negotiations progress.Hamas will try to execute more terror attacks against Israelis in the West Bank, a Palestinian Authority source told Ynet on Thursday night.General Adnan Damiri, a commander and spokesman for the Palestinian Security and Police Forces, said that the PA's security forces were "on high alert." Our premise, he added, is that Hamas "will attempt to launch more attacks and that the settlers will try to expand their retaliatory acts, as well." Read the full story here.

• Jihad At The Cordoba Cathedral: Halfway To A Whole Mosque?As noted in Andrew Bostom's essay debunking the just-can't-shake-it myth of Islamic "tolerance" in Muslim Spain, by the middle of the 8th century, the cathedral in Cordoba dedicated to Saint Vincent had been "converted" to a Muslim mosque. However, as 19th-century scholar of Muslim Spain (and Islamophile) Reinhart Dozy writes, this was "clearly an act of spoilation as well as an infraction of the treaty" between Cordoba Christians and the invading Arab Muslims.A must read!Read the full story here.

• 'Servants sometimes need a slap - and we don't let ours out of the house': Council worker provokes storm with outrageous Twitter comments.A senior council officer has sparked fury after claiming that it is acceptable for employers to slap their servants.Rehana Mohamed made the comments on her Twitter account after watching a TV debate on the abuse of foreign domestic workers exploited by wealthy families.'That b****y maid needs a good slap. Some ppl [sic] here have no idea what it's like having servants. 'I'm sorry but being on call 24/7 and not having a day off for months and not being allowed to leave the house DOESN'T make you a slave.No?.....What does ?Read the full story here.

• Iran's Human Rights Lawyers Increasingly Facing Their Own Days In Court.Nasrin Sotoudeh has made a career fighting the good fight, defending numerous rights activists and others facing trumped-up charges by the Iranian regime.Now the prominent Iranian lawyer finds herself in a similar situation. Following raids on her home and office over the weekend of August 28-29, she has been charged by the judiciary with undermining national security and disseminating propaganda against the Islamic establishment."These charges against me are ridiculous," Sotoudeh told RFE/RL's Radio Farda, "as are similar ones that have been brought against my clients. [Some of them] are in jail based on these charges.""I was referred to the taxation bureau and while there I noticed that, in addition to my name, they are conducting special investigations into 30 human rights lawyers,” Sotoudeh told the rights watchdog. She added that while human rights lawyers commonly take cases on a pro-bono basis, authorities use bogus tax charges to prosecute them.Read the full story here.

• HT:WeaselZippers.Propaganda Minister Gibbs Says Glenn Beck ‘Ill Informed’ about Obama’s ‘Christianity’.President Obama is a “mainstream Christian,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday, questioning why Glenn Beck has said the president follows “liberation theology.”“People are entitled to their own opinion, as ill-informed as it may be,” Gibbs told reporters. “But they’re not entitled to their own facts.”What kind of ‘mainstream Christian’ attends a hate-infested Black Liberation Theology church for 20 years?Read the full story here.

• Those Who Hold Talks With Israel Are 'Very Stupid'.Iran doesn’t seem to be too happy about the Middle East peace talks that have resumed in Washington, D.C.Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has dismissed the talks, while the Iranian Foreign Ministry has described them as futile.Today, the head of Iran’s Basij force, General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, was quoted as saying that those who hold talks with Israel are "very stupid.""Those who hold talks with the Zionist regime are very stupid, as when this fake regime was at the height of its power and succeeded to advance to Lebanon's capital, these very people stood up to it...And now that Israel is experiencing maximum weakness, misery and siege, taking steps for holding talks is indicative of maximum imbecility and stupidity," Iran’s semi-official Labor news agency (ILNA) quoted Naqdi as saying today.Naqdi continued: "Today is the day when they should be hard on the occupying Israel and put an end to this row."The Basij commander said the talks will fail and added that in 10 to 15 years there will be no country called Israel.Read the full story here.

• Suing Repression's Service Provider.On the phone, Ali Herischi, a lawyer in Maryland, is talking tough: "Nokia's decision to give surveillance technology to Iran is like giving a gun to a person that you know wants to shoot somebody." His law partner, Edward Moawad, thinks about it for a moment and tries to firm up the analogy: "It's more like giving a bullet to someone that already has a gun." The two men have been so busy planning the case that they haven't yet had time to figure out how to most dramatically analogize the defendant's action.Read the full story here.

• Ron Radosh’s Elegant Challenge to Imam Rauf’s Naive Supporters.Pajamas Media’s great historian and blogger Ron Radosh and I have clashed a bit on the nature of Islam and its potential for moderation but on the now-notorious Ground Zero Mosque we’ve found few areas of disagreement. And I’ve appreciated the subtle, precise approach that Ron has employed on the issue — different than the flamethrower we usually employ at NRB.Ron has just published a fantastic new post responding to an intellectual who is struggling with the necessary Second Thoughts on the intent of Imam Rauf.Read the full story here.

• HT:IsraelMatzav.Obama abandons the Negroponte doctrine.In the 'bad old days' of George W. Bush, US veto policy at the United Nations was dictated by something called the Negroponte doctrine, which was named after then-US ambassador to the United Nations John Negroponte. The Negroponte Doctrine, which was explicitly posted on the website of the U.S. mission to the United Nations in 2003, says .We will not support any resolution that dodges the explicit threat to Middle East peace posed by Hamas and other such terrorist groups....Any Security Council resolution...must contain...an explicit condemnation of Hamas [and other] organizations responsible for acts of terrorism; and...call for dismantling the infrastructure, which supports these terror operations. But if the Obama administration's handling of the Mavi Marmara issue at the United Nations is any indication, the Negroponte doctrine may have gone the way of balanced budgets.Read the full story here.

• The Arab Peace Initiative, which Jordan’s King Abdullah mentioned last night, is an initiative that Saudi King Abdullah put together. Was he at all — was he invited to attend these talks, or was he consulted beforehand?MR. GIBBS: Yes, again, I believe they spoke Monday or Tuesday. I’m going to go — let me go back and find — and we will try to find a –Q — that would just be a day before the talks would take place?Read thefull story here.