Another Deafening Silence From the Enemedia

From the NY Post:

Politico published a jaw-dropping, meticulously sourced investigative piece this week detailing how the Obama administration had secretly undermined US law-enforcement agency efforts to shut down an international drug-trafficking ring run by the terror group Hezbollah. The effort was part of a wider push by the administration to placate Iran and ensure the signing of the nuclear deal.

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Days after the news broke, in fact, neither NBC News, ABC News nor CBS News — whose shows can boast a collective 20 million viewers — had been able to find the time to relay the story to its sizeable audiences. Other than Fox News, cable news largely ignored the revelations, as well.

Most major newspapers, which have been sanctimoniously patting themselves on the back for the past year, couldn’t shoehorn into their pages a story about potential collusion between the former president and a terror-supporting state....

Read the rest HERE.

As long as this kind of media blackout is ongoing, Barack Hussein Obama will be "The One" to millions of Americans, and any criticism of the Obama Administration will fall on deaf ears. **sigh**

Remember Marie Harf? She's Back.

As of Tuesday, January 23, 2017, she is a contributor to Fox News Channel.

Marie Harf popped up on the 7:00 P.M., EST, show The First 100 Days, hosted by Martha McCallum.  Ms. Harf is now wearing glasses.  To make her look more intellectual?  To disguise her?

According to Wikipedia:

Marie Elizabeth Harf (born June 15, 1981) was the Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the United States Department of State, leading the Iran nuclear negotiations communications strategy. She previously served as Acting Spokesperson and Deputy Spokesperson of the State Department.

Just what I want to hear every evening: an Obama spokesperson. NOT!

We here IBA have previously posted about Marie Harf.

THIS IS FOX NEWS

ISIS Surging In Mosul

More evidence of Obama's epic fail in foreign policy and command of our military.

See Number of ISIS Left in Mosul Close to Original Levels at Start of Campaign (dated December 12, 2016). Note that Defense Secretary Ashton Carter is trying to put a good face on what's happening:

Defense officials confirmed that the Islamic State has been pumping reinforcements into Mosul during the battle that was launched in mid-October, but said the maintained level of militants there doesn't indicate a stalemate....

Trying to preserve Obama's "foreign policy legacy," which declared that the war in Iraq is over. Clearly, it is not.

Various members of the Obama Administration and their fellow Dems are carrying Obama's water with regard to other issues as well.

How this water-carrying really is:

More Of Obama's Hubris — And Lies

The bragging emitting from the mouth of the Narcissist In Chief just never stops.

Notice that one man rubbed his eyes after Obama's proclamation:


Money quote: “We should take great pride in the progress we’ve made over the last eight years. No foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland.”

From Few troops clap for Obama during final national security speech (dated December 6, 2016:

...As mild applause broke out, the cameras cut to the audience.

Of the roughly 20 service members shown at MacDill Air Force Base, only three were clapping.

Most sat with their hands folded or motionless. One man rubbed his eyes.

Most didn’t applaud likely because they remembered attacks being carried out in San Bernardino, California, and Orlando, Florida by jihadis vowing allegiance to ISIS.

And they likely remembered, too, ISIS claiming credit for the attack on Ohio State University by a Somali “refugee.”

Here is a full list of terrorist attacks in the world since Obama became president in 2009, courtesy of the Daily Wire.

The Extent Of Terrorist Activity Within Our Borders

No wonder FBI Chief James Comey just stated: “There will be a terrorist diaspora sometime in the next two to five years like we’ve never seen before”!

From Front Page Magazine...

Secret Report: Terrorists Running Wild Within U.S. Borders
Leaked document reveals the staggering breadth of domestic terrorist activity -- and the administration's cover-up.

... The government report itself is chilling.

“Known or Suspected Terrorist (KST) Encounters,” a Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) document obtained by Brandon Darby, editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas, states that there were an astounding 7,712 encounters between terrorists and law enforcement officials from July 20, 2015 through July 20, 2016. The report is labeled, “UNCLASSIFIED/LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE.”...

Read it all HERE.

Obama's legacy, which Hillary Clinton will continue if she is elected:

Trouble! Our Courts System

I read THIS from the Daily Signal, and my heart sank (emphases mine):

How Liberal Judges Took Control of 70% of US Appeals Courts

On the campaign trail in 2008, Barack Obama promised to fundamentally transform the United States of America. After nearly eight years as president, he has delivered on one front by reshaping the federal judiciary.

That revolution has been comprehensive, dramatic, and under the radar.

When Obama entered the Oval Office, liberal judges controlled just one of the 13 circuits of the U.S. Court of Appeals. Fifty-five successful presidential nominations later, liberal majorities now control nine of those appeals benches, or 70 percent.

Outside of legal circles the transformation of the influential federal appeals courts has gone largely unnoticed, though.

“The Supreme Court grabs the spotlight, but it hears fewer than 100 cases a year,” Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett said, “while the 13 federal courts of appeals handle about 35,000.”

More than one-third of the 179 judges on federal appeals courts owe their seat to Obama, Willett told The Daily Signal. “That’s a legacy with a capital L.”

Obama also has left his mark on the U.S. District Courts, which are the lower federal courts, successfully appointing 268 judges—seven more than President George W. Bush.

Obama didn’t push federal courts to the left by himself, though, since the Senate must confirm a president’s judicial appointments. And some conservatives complain that Senate Republicans handed over the keys to the judiciary without a fight.

“These nominees can’t be characterized as anything but radical liberals, and the senators knew that when they were voting,” said Ken Cuccinelli, a former attorney general of Virginia who is now president of the Senate Conservatives Fund, a political action committee.

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“When Americans vote in November, they’re choosing not just a president but thousands of presidential appointees, including hundreds of life-tenured judges.”

Read the whole thing HERE.

Article III judges are appointed for life. Article III judges include nine on the Supreme Court, 179 on the courts of appeals, nine on the Court of International Trade and 677 for the district courts.

Non-Article III judges include United States magistrate judges and judges of the United States bankruptcy courts, United States Tax Court, United States Court of Federal Claims, and United States territorial courts.

Damn to hell those who twice voted for Obama. His legacy is entrenched in ways we can only begin to imagine!

Rainbows And Unicorns

From the Fox News Reporter DESTROYS Obama In Best Moment EVER During WH Press Conference:

During a news briefing at the White House on in December of 2015, President Barack Obama’s mouthpiece, press secretary Josh Earnest, doubled down on calls for stricter gun-control laws, despite knowing by then that the FBI had begun to investigate the San Bernardino shooting as an act of terrorism.

This rhetoric from Earnest inspired Fox News reporter Peter Doocy to step up to the plate and ask the question on everybody’s mind.

“The president thinks that if there are potentially two terrorists sitting around planning a mass murder, they may call it off because President Obama has put in place common-sense gun laws?” Doocy asked.

But Earnest, well-trained by Obama at concocting phony narratives, quickly fired back, claiming that all four weapons used by the shooters were obtained legally and that a terrorism motive had not yet been confirmed.

.@pdoocy to Josh Earnest: "Does the President really think that common sense gun laws would deter terrorists?”https://t.co/5Y0N3iWdDC

— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) December 4, 2015

BEYOND SURREAL!

I'm actually starting to look forward to major surgery so that I will be so sedated that I don't have to be aware of this batshit crazy stuff.

Why Aren't We Hearing More About This?

Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil

Z's post today reminded me of this February 5, 2016 article, which I've cited numerous times in comments but possibly not in the body of a blog post: DHS ordered me to scrub records of Muslims with terror ties.

In a national address on June 14, 2016, Barack Hussein Obama evinced more ire directed at Donald Trump than toward the murderous jihadists who slaughtered 49 people and wounded many others in Orlando's Pulse Nightclub on June 12, 2016.

Meanwhile: ISIS propaganda video exploits Orlando nightclub murders and calls for more attacks on US.

The scream from Poltergeist (1982):

Willful Blindness

(with thanks to commenter Anonymous here at IBA)

Click on the graphic to enlarge it:

Flashback to February 2016: DHS ordered me to scrub records of Muslims with terror ties.

Our Economy Is On The Brink

Ron Russell opines:

Obama has been trying to pad the economic numbers to put his failed economic policies in the most favorable light. However, most of the public are just not buying it. All people have to do is ask themselves a simple question, "Are you better off now than when Barack took office?" The truth is there and not in the spin on the actually numbers the White House puts out!

The Transgender Movement Is About The Destruction of the Sexual Distinction, The Foundation of Family

From The Public Discourse:

As usual, tyranny comes disguised as “civil rights.” 

The latest exhibit of this general rule is President Obama’s directive that seeks to force a transgender bathroom, locker room and dorm policy on the entire nation, starting with schoolchildren. 

Many of us are taken aback by this news, but we really shouldn’t be. The order is merely the latest incarnation of a long line of social engineering. The goal, as is always the case with such movements, is to remake humanity. 

What the people behind this latest version won’t tell you is that their project requires each and every one of us to deny our own humanity. Let me explain. 

The transgender movement has never been about “gender.” It’s all about sex. Sex is the real target. “Gender” is merely the politicized linguistic vehicle that facilitates a legal ban on sex distinctions. 

There aren’t a whole lot of dots to connect to uncover the logic of where this leads: if you abolish sex distinctions in law, you can abolish state recognition of biological family ties, and the state can regulate personal relationships and consolidate power as never before.

GO READ THE WHOLE THING.

AND THEN THERE'S THIS:

New York City Lets You Choose From 31 Different Gender Identities

"Bathroom Wars" Not Limited To The Bathrooms — Or To Locker Rooms

Fitting rooms —  now hunting grounds for sexual predators

Fitting rooms, too, including those in retail clothing stores, are now a dangerous environment.

From ABC News in 2011:

Texas Macy’s Employee Fired for Allegedly Violating Store’s LGBT Policy

A Texas woman claims she was fired from her job at Macy's for telling a transgender customer that she could not change in the women's dressing room, according to ABC News' San Antonio affiliate KSAT.

The woman, Natalie Johnson, has filed a complaint with the Federal Employment Commission, saying that her religious beliefs prevent her from recognizing transgender people, according to KSAT.

Johnson, 27, was employed at the River Center Macy's in San Antonio until last week. She said a teenager caught her attention because the teen was shopping for women's clothing, but Johnson was convinced the shopper was male.

When Johnson spotted the teenager in the women's dressing area, Johnson told her she could not change there.

"I had to just be straightforward and tell him, 'You're a man,' and of course that … really got him steamed," Johnson told KSAT.

The teenager's friends argued with Johnson, reportedly telling her that Macy's allows transgender people to change in the dressing room of the gender they identify with.

"I made my choice the other day," Johnson said. "I refuse to comply with this policy."

Macy's did not answer ABCNews.com's request for clarification on its policy regarding transgender customers and where they can try on clothes, but Macy's senior vice president of corporate communications and external affairs Jim Sluzewski issued the following statement:

"Macy's is very proud of our philosophy of diversity and inclusion, and we welcome all customers into our stores. This includes customers of all races, ethnicities, ages, genders, faith traditions, countries of origins and lifestyle preferences. We strive to ensure that each customer is able to shop in a discrimination-free environment."

Asked if she would handle the situation the same way if given another chance, Johnson said she would.

"There are no transgenders in the world. A guy can dress up as a woman all he wants. That's still not going to make you a woman," Johnson said. "If you're a man going into the women's fitting room, I will kindly escort you to the men's fitting room."

I will no longer be using the fitting rooms in retail clothing stores. Too easy for sexual predators to stroll right into those fitting rooms, which typically no longer have a store employee stationed at the door of the bank of fitting rooms.

Shopping for bras — a shopping trip I was planning on in a few weeks — has now become problematic.

Does my level of comfort not matter? 

 Does my personal safety not matter? 

Do MY RIGHTS not matter?

I spit on all those who twice voted for Barack Hussein Obama!

Obama: Funding Programs For Refugees (among others)

From this source (dated May 17, 2016):

Obama spending millions to find summer jobs — for refugees

The Obama administration wants to make sure Utica, New York’s young refugees aren’t without a job, so he’s spending millions to make sure it doesn’t happen.

The project spends a total of $21 million on a variety of programs in 11 communities nationwide with the focus of helping young people find summer work, and permanent part-time jobs, the White House and U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday.

At least $2 million of the total will be set aside to help 400 refugee students in Utica, New York get to work through the New Americans Career Pathways Project, the Utica Observer-Dispatch reports.

“The New Americans Career Pathways project will provide in-school youth with summer jobs and academic support for 400 students in the refugee populations of Utica, NY,” according to a White House Fact Sheet. “The students will receive summer job work experience and academic tutoring in English and Math, and support in finding part-time jobs.”

The multi-million refugee employment program is, however, only one among many that will receive a helping hand from the government over the summer.

“Since 2009, more than fifteen Federal agencies have launched dozens of initiatives and partnerships with over 1,800 rural, tribal and urban communities,” according to the White House statement Monday. “Building on that work, the White House and 16 federal agencies announce an effort today to provide tailored support from the federal government to 16 Summer Impact Hubs to upgrade and expand their summer jobs, learning, meals, and violence reduction programs for young people this summer and year-round.”...

Read the rest HERE.

Read about New American Pathways HERE.

Who is paying for all this?

Blatant Inconsistency

Or, if you prefer, outright lies (with a hat tip to Old NFO):

From Refugee Resettlement Watch (dated April 8, 2016):

The Obama Administration is looking to resettle 85,000 or more refugees this year from around the world and for Obama’s last opportunity to submit a proposal, he is aiming for 100,000 in FY2017.

Read the rest HERE. Much more information!

Prosecutorial Discretion To Give Illegals Social Security Benefits?

Part of Obama's new world order, no doubt.

From Obama Claims Power to Make Illegal Immigrants Eligible for Social Security, Disability (dated April 6, 2016):

Does the president of the United States have the power to unilaterally tell millions of individuals who are violating federal law that he will not enforce that law against them now, that they may continue to violate that law in the future and that he will take action that makes them eligible for federal benefit programs for which they are not currently eligible due to their unlawful status?

Through Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, President Barack Obama is telling the Supreme Court exactly this right now.

The solicitor general calls what Obama is doing "prosecutorial discretion."

He argues that under this particular type of "prosecutorial discretion," the executive can make millions of people in this country illegally eligible for Social Security, disability and Medicare.

On April 18, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case....

Read the rest HERE.

The Words Which Must Not Be Uttered

1984's Newspeak in 2016

From WH Censors French President Saying ‘ISLAMIST Terrorism’:

The White House website has censored a video of French Pres. Francois Hollande saying that “Islamist terrorism” is at the “roots of terrorism.”

The White House briefly pulled video of a press event on terrorism with Pres. Obama, and when it reappeared on the WhiteHouse.gov website and YouTube, the audio of Hollande’s translator goes silent, beginning with the words “Islamist terrorism,” then begins again at the end of his sentence.

Even the audio of Hollande saying the words “Islamist terrorism” in French have, apparently, been edited from the video.

According to the official White House transcript of Hollande’s remarks, Hollande refers to “Islamist terrorism.” The audio of the bold text in brackets is missing from the video – the only point in the video [where] the audio is absent

Here's the video, with Hollande's comment censored:


The translation of the words which disappeared from the audio translation of the video:

Islamist terrorism, is in Syria and in Iraq. We therefore have to act both in Syria and in Iraq, and this is what we're doing within the framework of the coalition.

Yet Another Planned End Run: Iran Nuclear Deal Restricts U.S. More Than Congress Knew

And Barack Hussein Obama and John Fonda Kerry are getting ready to make another end run around our so-called elected representatives on Capitol Hill.  And never mind that Obama signed off on the December 2015 Omnibus Bill.

From Bloomberg (December 22, 2015 ):

Iran Nuclear Deal Restricts U.S. More Than Congress Knew

Members of Congress knew the Iran nuclear deal came with strings attached. They just didn't know how many.

When the administration presented the agreement to Congress, lawmakers were told that new sanctions on Iran would violate the deal. Now the administration is trying to sidestep a recently passed provision to tighten rules on visas for those who have visited Iran.

House staffers who spoke with us say Iran was included for good reason, because it remains on the U.S. list of state of sponsors of terrorism for its open support for Hezbollah and Hamas. The White House did not object until the Iranian government told the administration last week that the bill would violate the nuclear agreement, according to correspondence on these negotiations shared with us.

[...]

At issue is a provision that would require travelers who visit certain countries -- including Iran, Sudan, Syria and Iraq -- to apply at a U.S. Embassy for a visa before coming to the U.S., even if they are from a country for which such visas would normally be waived....

Read the rest HERE.

Get Ready For The Gun Grab

Obama's surrogates here in the Old Dominion are leading the way — via regulation, of course (December 22, 2015):

Virginia to stop recognizing concealed carry gun permits from 25 states

RICHMOND — Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring announced Tuesday that the commonwealth will no longer recognize out-of-state concealed handgun permits, part of a national push to circumvent legislatures opposed to tightening gun laws.

Herring (D) said 25 states have lax laws compared with Virginia, where a history of stalking, drug dealing or inpatient mental health treatment can disqualify someone from carrying a concealed handgun. The move is in step with actions governors and attorneys general are taking to address gun violence without going through Republican-controlled legislatures.

[...]

The states losing reciprocity are: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

Agreements will remain with West Virginia, Michigan, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah.

Six states will no longer recognize Virginia’s concealed-carry permits because they require mutual recognition of permits. They are: Florida, Louisiana, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Wyoming.

An end run around the principles of federalism as enshrined in the United States Constitution.

Obama DOJ Orders Schools To Let Boys Shower With Girls

Yes, that's right. It is now the law of the land that little girls have to look at little boys penises in co-ed gyms.

From the Daily Caller:

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has ordered a taxpayer-funded school district in the suburbs of Chicago to allow a male transgender student who dresses like a girl and otherwise identifies as female to use the girls locker room and shower on school premises. 

The feds delivered the edict against Township High School District 211 in Palatine, Ill. on Monday, the Chicago Tribune reports. The Department of Education has given the school district one month to let the student use the girls locker room. If the district does not capitulate, it risks losing federal funding. The Department of Education’s civil rights division made its Title IX ruling after a two-year investigation using a “preponderance of evidence” standard. President Barack Obama’s Department of Education — which manifestly is not vested with judicial powers — has taken to applying Title IX, a comprehensive 1972 federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, to transgender cases.

When young boys take pictures of themselves engaged in sex acts with young girls, and then post these pictures or videos on Instagram, they can be prosecuted for distribution of Child Pornography.

Given that such a charge is possible, does this new DOJ ruling mean that Obama has legalized Pedophiliac behavior in the United States?

If a boy (who is supposedly a girl) turns 18 while he is in High School, will he still be allowed to shower with underage girls?

Fuck Obama.

And fuck all those who ridiculed the concept of a slippery slope.

The slope is slippery because of the scum who advocated this downhill behavior.

Clock Boy's Award

CAIR's Muslim of the Year Award (2015) for Clock Boy Ahmed Mohamed. The award includes a gold clock on the right panel:

Clock Boy will be participating in Astronomy Night at the White House tonight by special invitation from Barack Hussein Obama. Astronomy Night honors top scientists.

Clock Boy's "invention" ("cool clock," according to Obama):