President Obama Said Pallet of Cash to Iran Because “Wire Transfers Not Available” – Records Indicate Wire Transfers Two Days Later…

File this next to the Iranian navy harassment of US ships.

The Last Refuge  "When the discussion of possible ransom payments to Iran surfaced, everyone was wondering why the U.S. State Department sent pallets of assorted cash currency, totaling $400 million to Iran on January 17th 2016.   The same day the hostages were released.

"On August 4th President Obama held a press conference to discuss the controversy and denied it was a “ransom payment” (see video).  Specifically, to answer the question of “why cash“, President Obama said:

"However, two days later, January 19th 2016, the U.S. Treasury wired Iran 13 individual payments for $99,999,999.99 , each with an independent MICR, totaling $1,299,999,999.87."
. . . 
"Source Link – Go to U.S. Treasury Search, enter Jan 01 -> Jan 31, 2016. Select “Department of State”, (expand optional search fields) and at the bottom enter $99,999,999.99 and presto, the above appears."

Need more proof that Iran doesn't respect the US?

This disciple of Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright has brought America nothing but embarrassment since the day he took office.

comicallyincorrect.com

American Thinker  . . . "Earlier this year, Iran captured a U.S. Navy boat and humiliated our sailors.  Upon their release John Vichy Kerry thanked Iran for releasing American sailors who should never have been captured and humiliated.

"This incident clearly shows the effects of Obama/Hillary's weak foreign policy of appeasing Iran and doing very little about ISIS.   Iran, and the terrorists whom Iran supports, view Obama and the U.S. as weak.  We did nothing when they captured our sailors, and we gave Iran $400 million to ransom four Americans. 

"Iran and the terrorists have seen that Obama/Hillary use the terrorist attacks in the U.S. to attack the Second Amendment rights of Americans instead of clearly identifying and destroying the terrorists.

"Iran and the terrorists do not fear or respect Obama and the USA."

Iranian patrol boats come within 300 yards of US warship

The incident is being characterized as "unsafe and unprofessional."

Attaboy, Obama; taunt them some more!

. . . "I've got news for CNN: The Revolutionary Guards don't lift a finger without permission from the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. They're his boys and are not independent actors in Iranian politics.

"The idea that this was some kind of rogue operation by the IRGC is absurd. It is, as the other incidents that Iran has engineered a message aimed at both the US and our allies in the region; America is impotent and a paper tiger. 

"Iran is fully aware that Barack Obama won't do anything to risk his precious legacy; the nuclear deal. So Iran will continue to push us, humiliate us, and challenge us until Obama is hiding under the bed hoping the deal will last until he leaves office. Then, if it goes south, he can always blame his successor.

"It will be left to the next president to do a little message sending of our own."  

An OPEN Letter To Milwaukee’s THUGS & Race Baiting City Officials

Why do we never hear from the victims of these bigoted thugs who live in their very neighborhoods? Let us hear of the terror and intimidation they have to live under. If the police, in their efforts to protect African-American families from these violent brutes intervene, they are called racists by "social justice warriors" and talking heads in the media, and the arrests they make are more cause for the demagogues to attack them. 
Where is justice for the victims of these people? TD.

Doug Giles   A tiny excerpt of the author's thoughts:
. . . "Of what, pray tell, do I speak?

"Well, my friend, it goes something like this.
"For me to care about your predicament, I’d like to hear less and less about…

– Your ghastly grades and riotous behavior in school– Your ridiculous dropout rates– Your colossal out of wedlock birthrates– Your embracing of a musical culture that celebrates the shooting of cops and jizzin’ in a girl’s face– Your love affair with drugs and alcohol– Your #hashtag campaigns aimed at white people and cops– Your flash mobbing and robbing places and people– Your audacity to blame everybody and their dog for your odious behavior– Your ginormous, misplaced racial chip on your shoulder

. . . "Another difficult thing that makes it hard for us to believe you’re just “poor, helpless victims of the machine” is when teens from your crew gun down an innocent, twenty-two-year-old, white, Aussie student just to spice up the inherent boredom which accompanies the dog-days of summer. That act of uncut evil helps us not."

Hillary Thinks A Phone Call To CNN Constitutes A Press Conference

Infowars  "Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton was riled and overly defensive during a phoned in appearance on CNN Wednesday when Anderson Cooper asked her why she hadn’t held a press conference in eight months.

"And judging from Clinton’s reaction, it appears that she considers phoning into CNN to be on the same par as fielding questions from reporters." . . .

Minimum wage effect? DC restaurants lost more jobs since January than any 6-month period since 2001 recession

American Enterprise Institute

. . . "As the Wall Street Journal commented recently, “Few ideas have been so thoroughly dismantled by reality as minimum-wage laws, which price some jobs out of existence and some workers out of jobs.” The evidence so far suggests that DC’s $15 an hour minimum wage experiment is already undergoing some major dismantling, with the stark reality that more than 1,000 restaurant workers have apparently been priced out of their jobs just this year since January." . . .

Todd Starnes: Officer Cleared in Military Bible Complaint

"The airman went on to say that he wasn’t just offended by the Bible – he was “outrageously offended.' ”

Todd Starnes

"An Air Force major, who was accused of civil rights violations for having a Bible on his work desk, has been cleared of any wrongdoing, according to military officials at the 310th Space Wing in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

"Maj. Steve Lewis, a supervisor at the Reserve National Security Space Institute, agreed to voluntarily remove the Bible pending a military review.

"The Military Religious Freedom Foundation had filed a complaint against Maj. Lewis -- accusing him of "harboring and encouraging a truly abhorrent example of First Amendment civil rights violations."

"But a public affairs spokesman told me late Tuesday that Maj. Lewis was well within his rights to have an open Bible on his office desk.

"We have concluded that no abuse of liberties has occurred," Lt. Col. David Fruck told me. 

"He said both the workplace environment and the major's behavior were well within the provisions governing the free exercise of religion and religious accommodation.

"Lt. Col. Fruck said the major is free to place the Bible back on his desk - should he desire to do so."

Weinstein claimed to be representing some 33 Air Force personnel who were frightened by the sight of the open Bible on the major's desk.
“We have 33 very scared Air Force families,” Weinstein told me.
One of the airmen who reached out to Weinstein complained that the officer’s Bible is a “blatant case of Christian defiance and Christian discrimination.”
“I am intimidated by the display, and I am a practicing Christian,” the unnamed airman wrote. “This open Bible is discrimination at the highest level.”
The airman went on to say that he wasn’t just offended by the Bible – he was “outrageously offended.”

Albuquerque Elementary Teachers Told to No Longer Address Students as ‘Boys and Girls’

Breitbart TV

"Teachers at Carlos Rey Elementary School in Albuquerque, NM are now being told they can no longer address their students as “boys and girls,” local NBC affiliate KOB reports.

"This comes after the new transgender bathroom policy for Albuquerque Public Schools, but it is now leaking into the classroom.

"A letter was sent to teachers at Carlos Rey this month titled “Gender Identity Procedural Directive.” It tells teachers they can no longer refer to their students as boys and girls, and they are to eliminate gender in their classrooms.

"Albuquerque Public Schools say it was a complete mistake by the assistant principal because nowhere in their transgender policy does it say to not call students boys and girls.

"Sources at Carlos Rey Elementary told KOB to continue with that policy."

Emails Show Chelsea Clinton Used Covert Name, “Diane Reynolds”

Weasel Zippers

WikiLeaksVerified account‏@wikileaks67 emails between Hillary & Chelsea Clinton under the latter's covert name 'Diane Reynolds' https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/?q=%22diane+reynolds%22&mfrom=&mto=&title=&notitle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=&noto=&count=50&sort=1#searchresult …

"Interesting. What were they trying to hide? Or was it she was involved in ways they didn’t want people knowing she was involved."

Wikileaks

Video: Destroyer USS Nitze Harassed by Iranian Patrol Boats

The ridicule of Obama continues.

US Naval Institute  "The following is Aug. 23, 2016 video of guided missile destroyer USS Nitze (DDG-94) harassed by four Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) patrol boats."

“ 'This is USS Nitze reporting from the Southern Arabian Gulf,” said a voice on the video reporting the ship’s location and speed.
“ 'We have visual contact with four Iranian… WPBs… Bridge to bridge COMMS were conducted but no response. Weapons uncovered… appears to be unsafe, unprofessional.”

"While the voice is making the radio report, the four patrol boats speed in a serpentine formation toward Nitzewith their deck weapons uncovered. Flares from the destroyer attempt to warn away the patrol boats as they close in on the ship.

"Nitze’s crew attempted to hail the fired 10 warning flares at the patrol boats and blasted the ship’s whistle to sound a maritime danger signal to no apparent effect, a defense official confirmed to USNI News late Wednesday.

"Two of the patrol boats came within 300 yards of the destroyer before slowing and breaking off their chase." . . .

Ann Coulter on, "Trump, The Great Unifier!"

Ann Coulter  "The modern Democratic Party is obsessed with voting blocs they call "Latinos," "Hispanics" and the "blacks and browns.” 

"But apart from ethnic pimps trying to get money from the government, no authentic person calls himself a "Hispanic." They're "Portuguese," "Cuban" or "Colombian" -- and they don't think of themselves as "brown.” 

"Everybody else is from a country. 

"It's an insult to imagine that recent immigrants are all in a simmering rage at Trump's affront to the brown masses. Salvadorans and Guatemalans resent having to pretend they're Mexican -- much less Mexican illegal immigrant rapists. 

"Mexico is heaving Hondurans out of their country. El Salvador and Honduras went to war over a soccer game. But we're supposed to imagine that the moment they cross the Rio Grande, they all become blood brothers. 

"Has he heard of Compton? The city memorialized in the song "Straight Outta Compton," by the hip-hop group N.W.A. (modern translation: African-Americans With Attitude), is now majority Mexican. 

"This dramatic transformation didn't happen because "blacks and browns" came together in peace and harmony in our vibrant melting pot, but because Mexicans moved in and decided they wanted blacks out, which they accomplished with violent racist attacks and drive-by shootings. 

"Unlike white Americans, Mexicans are unguiltable. " . . .

Does political graft cause global warming?

"Hillary was telling the FBI that if they had problems with her email server, they also had problems with a black person. And that's racist!"

. . . "If, by some technological miracle, a way was found to use Hillary Clinton's inexhaustible lies as fuel to produce energy, our world would never run out of power. Forget oil, coal, and nuclear - we wouldn't even need the sun anymore.

"As the latest case in point, when explaining her private email server to the FBI, Hillary claimed that former Secretary of State Colin Powell told her at a party that she should use a private server, said that he used private email while in office, and it made everything better in every way!". . . 

comicallyincorrect.com

The Clinton Foundation and the comments it draws

Not A Joke: Satirist NAILS The Clinton Foundation In 35 Scathing Tweets   "Twitter user “ActualFlatticus” only needed 35 tweets to explain how exactly the Clinton Foundation spends all of its charitable contributions."  
"The user argues that despite claiming to provide direct aid to needy people around the globe, the “Foundation exists as primarily a clearing house for other people’s money” and “not one dime appears to go to actual goods.”

Doug Giles labels Hillary "Islam's whore"   "Here’s the breakdown:

• Algeria donated $250,000 to $500,000• The Nation of Brunei donated $1,000,000 to $5,000,000• Kuwait donated $5,000,000 to $10,000,000• Sultanate of Oman donated $1,000,000 to $5,000,000• Qatar donated $5.8 million• Saudi Arabia donated up to $50 million• United Arab Emirates donated up to $11.5 million• Morocco-owned OCP, a phosphate exportation company, donated $1,000,000 to $5,000,000

…"By taking this filthy Islamic lucre, Hillary has prostituted herself out to whatever these ‘donors’ desire, including shutting up our First Amendment rights, as she has been a proponent of the blasphemy law the OIC . . .  has been pushing at the UN…"

More than half Clinton non-government visitors were Foundation donors " 'Fuels perceptions that giving the foundation money was a price of admission for face time with Clinton"?  Are they kidding?  This is pure and simple pay for play.  You don't need to create any conspiracy theories.  You don't need to look for dots to connect.  It's as plain as day to anyone not totally in the tank for Clinton." . . .

Hillary’s State Department dealings as “seamy and seedy.” . . .  "Yes, and, let’s be clear about this. Clinton met with representatives of at least 16 foreign governments that donated as much as $170 million to Clinton charities. You know, again, there’s no quid pro quo that’s been proven, no quid pro quo has been asserted, but this is what the Obama administration was worried about when she became Secretary of State, and it now has the potential of being a huge distraction at a minimum for her going forward." . . .

Hillary Emails: More Documents Show Clinton Foundation Donors Asking for Favors  "Clinton Foundation executive Doug Band asked Hillary’s aide Huma Abedin to schedule a meeting with the Crown Prince Salman of Bahrain, reminding her the man is a “good friend of ours.' ”

Think this is all a one-off? This is what it was like to have the Clinton's in the White House

Hollywood personalities treating a national 
treasure  like a trampoline. This happened 
during the Clinton Presidency. 

Stay in the Lincoln Bedroom – Prices & Cost  . . . "But controversy over this very matter erupted during the 2000 presidential campaign when it was disclosed that the Clinton administration was offering a night in the Lincoln bedroom to big campaign contributors, entertainment celebrities, friends, relatives, and others. Obviously, politics being what it is, the outcry was instant and was used as a campaign issue by the Republicans who accused Clinton of “virtually renting out the Lincoln bedroom to big campaign donors.” In fact, of the more than 900 guests to the White House during the entire eight-years, the White House acknowledged that most of them were overnight residents of the Lincoln bedroom." . . .

The last time I recall agreeing with Obama: