The fruits of Obama the Iranophile

State Department says Iran looking to capture Americans ". . . The coming influx of American businessmen looking to initiate commercial ties with Iran now that the sanctions are lifted must have dollar signs dancing in front of the eyes of Iranian authorities.  This will be Obama's major foreign policy legacy: an opening to Iran so one-sided and so dangerous that the government has been forced to advise Americans not to travel to that country.

"The administration continues to insist that the ransom wasn't a ransom.  Allow them their delusions.  Everyone on the planet who has two working brain cells knows differently.  The precedent set by this bumbling fool of a president will have [repercussions] everywhere that Americans are at risk of being kidnapped and held for ransom."

Ransom, the Law, and the Obama Administration . . . "Secondly, Iran can and is developing and also buying heavy long-distance missiles delivery systems that, among other things, can carry nuclear weapons. German Chancellor Angela Merkel herself, on July 7, 2016, declared that Iran’s missile program continued “unabated,” and that Iran was developing its rocket program." . . .

Obama administration causes trouble for Americans abroad

A Clinton Presidency Would Be the Political Equivalent of an Extinction-Level Event

Don Feder  "Forget the arrogance and corruption -- $153 million in Clinton family speaking fees from 2001, mainly bribes during her State Department years. Forget the lies, the lies about lies, and the perjury. Forget the security breaches. Forget enabling America’s most prominent sexual predator. Forget the trail of bodies stretching from Little Rock to Benghazi. Forget every scandal from Whitewater to deleted e-mails. Forget all of it.

"Instead, focus on coming attractions -- what a Clinton presidency would mean for America. It would be the political equivalent of an extinction level event. Obama began the process of transforming America. Hillary will finish it -- and us too.

"On the Supreme Court, Scalia’s replacement will be a judicial activist on steroids. This will give the left what it’s dreamed of since the Warren Court -- a 5-4 majority to rubber-stamp statism and Cultural Marxism. Hillary will replace decrepit justices, like Ginsberg (83) and Breyer (78), with their young and vigorous clones who’ll be there for decades.

"The Second Amendment will be repealed, even the most modest restrictions on abortion ended, and a green light given to the assault on religious liberty. As early as 2014, Democrats had appointed a majority of federal appeals court judges. Hillary will expand the left’s domination of the second most powerful courts in the land." . . .

Missing: FBI files linking Hillary Clinton to the 'suicide' of White House counsel Vince Foster have vanished from the National Archives

"FBI agents' reports of interviews documenting that Hillary Clinton's stinging humiliation of Vince Foster are missing from the National Archives, Daily Mail Online has learned "

UK Mail  "FBI agents' reports of interviews documenting that Hillary Clinton's stinging humiliation of her friend and mentor Vince Foster in front of White House aides triggered his suicide a week later are missing from where they should be filed at the National Archives, Daily Mail Online has learned exclusively." . . .

. . . "After filing a Freedom of Information request with the National Archives, Martha Murphy, the archives' public liaison, reported that she directed a senior archivist to conduct a more thorough review of the relevant FBI files, including those that had not been previously made public in response to FOIA requests.

" 'He examined all eight boxes but found no interviews by any investigator that detail either a meeting between Hillary Clinton and Vince Foster or the effects of a meeting between Hillary Clinton and Vince Foster on Vince Foster's state of mind,' Murphy reported in an email. "

. . . 

"In interviewing Clinton White House aides and Foster's friends and family, the FBI found that a week before Foster's death, Hillary held a meeting at the White House with Foster and other top aides to discuss her proposed health care legislation.

"Hillary angrily disagreed with a legal objection Foster raised at the meeting and ridiculed him in front of his peers, former FBI agent Coy Copeland and former FBI supervisory agent Jim Clemente told me. Copeland was Starr's senior investigator and read the reports of other agents working for Starr." . . .

As Dallas Faces High-Risk Threat, Police Department Slams Journalists for ‘Making Jobs More Difficult’

Independent Journal Review  "While the Dallas Police Department faces another alarming scenario from a ‘real deal’ threat that caused police headquarters, law enforcement are fending off another aggravating factor: False reports in the media.

"A Dallas News source reported that a “masked man” was seen near the police department. It was also reported that headquarters were sent into “lockdown,” and speculation caught on like wildfire. Another source claimed it was a possible “radio hoax.”

"Police had to warn the public it was the “real deal” and to move away from the garage." . . .

American Woman Earns Olympic Medal Only 17 People Have Ever Received After Her Fall On Track

Weasel Zippers

"The real spirit of the Olympics.

"Via IJR:

American runner Abbey D’Agostino didn’t realize how badly she was hurt when she stopped to make sure that fellow runner Nikki Hamblin (New Zealand) would be able to get up and keep running after a fall on the track.

But when D’Agostino went down in pain just a few seconds after helping her competitor, Hamblin stopped and returned the favor.

Both were granted spots in the final, but due to injuries sustained in their crash, D’Agostino was pulled from the race entirely and Hamblin finished last. Despite the fact that they would leave Rio without fulfilling their Olympic dreams, both remained surprisingly positive:

D’Agostino: “This whole time here [God] has made clear to me that my experience in Rio was going to be about more than my race performance — and as soon as Nikki got up I knew that was it.”

Hamblin: “You can make friends in the moments that really should break your heart.”

But on Saturday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that the exemplary sportsmanship both women had displayed would not go unrecognized: D’Agostino and Hamblin became the 18th and 19th recipients of the Pierre de Coubertin medal.

Keep reading…

2nd LT Sam Kendricks stops mid-run to stand at attention when he hears the national anthem.

Olympics were so much more than swmmers in a gas station.
More Olympics in September:
Sept 7-18, the world’s best athletes will descend on Rio for the @Paralympics: http://bit.ly/2bFiyAz 

Harry Reid Brags About Personally Threatening Coal Executives With Financial Ruin

This is no longer the Democrat Party we knew for a lifetime  "Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid told reporters he personally threatened energy company executives who were planning on building new coal-fired power plants in Nevada nearly a decade ago.

"Reid, Nevada’s Democratic senior senator, told NV Energy executives he would “do everything to hurt investments in your company.” The threat apparently worked as no new coal plants have been built in Nevada since.

Here’s what Reid told reporters at a luncheon Wednesday, according to KTNV’s Jon Ralston:

"But here in Nevada we don’t even have—NV Energy has not been the biggest help. We had companies come here wanting to spend money [inaudible] but they ended up pulling away [inaudible] they lost large amounts of money. [inaudible] is doing the accounting now and he’s doing a lot better now, but there’s still a lot they need to do. They announced that they—because you know, I came out there—but a number of years ago and I learned they were going to build four to five new coal fire generating plants in Nevada. Why? Because it’s pristine. Out there, nobody complains. I complained. My staff and everybody said “why are you doing that? You’re going to hurt yourself.” And maybe I did. But I won, they lost.

"I called two of the companies that built plants there and I told them go ahead and do it, but I am going to do everything to hurt investments in your company. So they decided perhaps—decided to get rid of the coal plants. We don’t have a coal fire generated plant open since Reid-Gardner. And it was 40 years [inaudible]. Yesterday, they announced they announced it is going to close a year early. There’s only one coal fire plant left in Nevada and that’s on its way out too. So we’re making progress in Nevada." . . .

"Facts favor conservatism, which is why the mainstream media works so hard to hide them."

Bookworm Room  "How hard does this media work to hide facts? This hard: Larry Correia minces no words when he describes how appalling the American media is when it comes to reporting the news. He sees them as engaged in a four step dance of information death:

• First, is there anything we can milk from this story to bolster our worldview? Y/N
• Second, is there anything in this story which could potentially make democrats look bad? Y/N
• Third, is there anything in this story which will make republicans look stupid or evil? Y/N
• Fourth, does this event in some way affect us personally? Y/N

"This algorithm explains why, when George Bush waited three days during Hurricane Katrina before making an official visit, so as not to disrupt rescue efforts, every outlet painted him as an out-of-touch racist. Meanwhile, when Obama refuses to leave the golf course, only to announce that, in the face of the worst Hurricane since Sandy, he’ll visit sometime next week, the media is utterly silent. Go here and read exactly how Correia’s questions play out in real time.
. . . 

The Black Lives Matter movement is part of a grander Leftist plan. Pastor Stephen E. Broden argues compellingly (lots of facts and analysis, the way thinking people should argue) that the Black Lives Matter is turning American blacks into pawns as part of a grand plan to turn America into a truly socialist nation. (And Venezuela’s travails tell us how that will turn out.)

The-Liberal-Media-Killing-America

Rape Wins

Mike Adams

"Author’s Note: The following story is sad but true. However, the names have been changed to protect the guilty. In other words, they are just too emotionally volatile to handle reasoned criticism."

 

"Dear Jason: I am sure this email comes as a surprise as it has been a few years since we’ve spoken. Nonetheless, I felt an urgent need to contact you concerning your recent “engagement” to your boyfriend Chad. Initially, I had not planned to contact you to express my disagreement over your decision to get “married.” I thought it would be a waste of time. However, your “engagement” has already put the lie to the bland assertion that same­sex “marriage” doesn’t hurt anyone. In point of fact, it has damaged a mutual friend of ours in a significant way. This is despite the fact that the “wedding” has not yet taken place.

"When you decided to hire a photographer to take your “engagement” photos you had literally hundreds of options before you. But you chose our mutual friend Chrissie because you know she has religious objections to same­sex “marriage.” You also knew that if she refused to shoot your “engagement” photos you could completely destroy her business and confiscate her life savings. Unfortunately, the law in your home state of New Mexico is on your side. I am sure you know the current state of the law but I will restate it since I will be sharing this correspondence with some of our mutual friends. 

"In the case of Elane Photography v. Willock, a Christian photographer was forced to shoot a gay “wedding” despite her religious objections." . . .

‘Republican woman for Clinton’ turns out to be healthcare lobbyist married to Clinton operative

"Today’s media — known here as the “Democrat-media complex,” is little more than the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party and has openly declared that its job is to keep Donald Trump out of the White House — truth and facts be damned."

Joe Newby

"If we had a media that actually did its job instead of promote the Democratic Party nominee, this would be common knowledge.  On Friday, the Washington Examinerreported that Jennifer Pierotti Lim, the woman described by the New York Times as “the founder of the volunteer group Republican Women for Hillary,” works for “the largest lobbying entity in the country” and is married to “an alumnus of the Hillary Clinton campaign.”

"Timothy P. Carney added:"

Cosmo and the Huffington Post, to their credit, mentioned Lim’s employer: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. None of these publications, in their positive profiles of the Clinton backer, mentioned her occupation: Lobbyist.

A lobbyist for the largest lobbying entity in the country gets on stage to praise a presidential candidate, and her job is basically omitted from descriptions of her. That seems odd.

A final detail that strikes me as relevant: Her husband is an alumnus of the Hillary Clinton campaign, and is a partner in a firm that has pocketed about $20 million from Clinton’s campaign and the DNC.

"Interesting.

"So why isn’t the so-called “mainstream media” all over this? . . .

"Her people have been trying to pin it on me," said Colin Powell. Much, much more here

The ultimate Clinton scandal   "The scandal of Hillary Clinton’s private email server is in a sense the ultimate Clinton scandal. It shows Hillary Clinton’s heedless treatment of national security for corrupt personal reasons. It shows her willingness to say anything to extricate herself from a fix.

"Indeed, the scandal shows her pathological approach to facts. She may believe her own lies. One has the impression that she could pass a lie detector test on her multitudinous misrepresentations. She lies like a criminal, without a conscience, to cover up her criminal wrongdoing." . .  .

Althouse  "The truth is, she was using [the private email server] for a year before I sent her a memo telling her what I did." You may appreciate the comments to this post. The only comment that remotely sided with Clinton was this:  

"But in the end Colin Powell will still vote for Hillary Clinton for President."

Powell: Clinton's team trying to blame me for email scandal "Hillary Clinton is trying to use Colin Powell as a scapegoat to vindicate herself over her private email server and her mishandling of classified information, Powell said over the weekend."  . . .

. . . "Powell added that he "has no recollection of the dinner conversation" where Clinton alleged he advised her to use her own system for emailing, though he said he did send her "an email memo describing his use of his personal AOL email account for unclassified messages and how it vastly improved communications within the State Department."

Hillary Clinton Email Archive   "On March 16, 2016 WikiLeaks launched a searchable archive for 30,322 emails & email attachments sent to and from Hillary Clinton's private email server while she was Secretary of State. The 50,547 pages of documents span from 30 June 2010 to 12 August 2014. 7,570 of the documents were sent by Hillary Clinton. The emails were made available in the form of thousands of PDFs by the US State Department as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request. The final PDFs were made available on February 29, 2016."

Bet Wikileaks knows about these, ya think?  Even People Magazine gets in on all this!

The 14,900 emails are just part of thousands the FBI has turned over, after it took control of Mrs. Clinton’s secret email server.
The State Department said it will begin to process them and release them, though it could take months to put them all out, leaving the public in the dark about some of them until after the election.

FBI found nearly 15,000 new Clinton emails, review likely to take months

Rick Moran has this perspective on Clinton-Powell:  . . . "The media blackout on this revelation is extraordinary. A candidate for president lied to federal investigators and the mainstream media yawns and shrugs its shoulders. By all rights, the FBI should open another investigation into this and other possible falsehoods Clinton gave during her interview. The feds certainly pursued Scooter Libby with vigor. They should do no less with Clinton."

How's this for "she said-he said" ?

Hillary Throws Colin Powell Under The Bus During FBI Interview  . . . "Needless to say, Powell did not set up a private e-mail server as Hillary did. But no matter. It would appear that endorsing Barack Obama twice doesn’t get you very far with Hillary Clinton" . . .

Colin Powell Throws Hillary Clinton Under the Bus over Email Scandal
. . . "But Powell made clear to PEOPLE that he is not involved in Clinton’s mess." . . .

Judge Grants Texas-Led Injunction, Freezing Obama’s Transgendered Bathroom Policy

"At a hearing on the injunction in Fort Worth on Aug. 12, lawyers for Texas said the guidelines usurp the authority of school districts nationwide. They said they were at risk of losing billions of dollars in federal funding for education if they did not comply."

Legal Insurrection

"In May, Texas, joined by twelve other states filed suit against the Obama Administration who’d recently issued a national transgendered bathroom use policy for publicly funded schools.

"A mixed bag of states joined Texas in legal action, those states included: Alabama, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Tennessee, Arizona’s Department of Education, Maine Gov. Paul LePage, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Utah, and Georgia.

“ 'This represents just the latest example of the current administration’s attempts to accomplish by executive fiat what they couldn’t accomplish through the democratic process in Congress,”said Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton.

"Late Sunday, a federal judge granted the temporary injunction. Reuters reports:" . . .

The Fascinating Story Behind Why So Many Nail Technicians Are Vietnamese

Celeste Hoang
"Many got their start in the field thanks to Hollywood star Tippi Hedren."

Photos added by TD

"Most Americans recognize Tippi Hedren for her starring role in Alfred Hitchcock’s horror film The Birds—but among the Vietnamese American community, her reputation is for something a little more serious: being a cornerstone of the immigrant community's economy.

"Forty years ago, the Hollywood actor traveled to Hope Village, a Vietnamese refugee camp near Sacramento, California, to meet with a group of women who had recently fled the takeover of South Vietnam by the armed forces of Communist leader Ho Chi Minh. Hedren was aware of the difficulties the refugees had faced and had been trying before her visit to think of a skill or trade she could help the women learn so they could support themselves in their adopted country. When she met with the group, she was surprised to find they were enamored with her manicure.

“We were trying to find vocations for them. I brought in seamstresses and typists—any way for them to learn something,” she told the BBC. “And they loved my fingernails.' ” . . .More. . . 

Tippi Hedren with the first Vietnamese manicure class receiving
 their cosmetology licenses in 1975. (Photo: Thuan Le)

Hat tip to Sue Fulton Robinson; Garibaldi, Oregon