I.S.I.S. DESTORYS IRAQI OIL REFINERY

ISIS forces have destroyed Iraq's largest oil refinery, located in Baiji.  "Many of the ISIS forces seem to have withdrawn," says Ben van Heuvelen of Iraq Oil Report. "But they've left behind a crew that appears to be on a suicide mission to cause as much damage and death as possible while the Iraqi forces try to clear the place." 

This news comes as the State Department and White House launch a fresh campaign to try and convince Americans that everything is peaches and cream in the Middle East.  

TALIBAN FIVE TO RETURN TO BATTEFIELD?

There appears to be some hand-wringing going on in Washington D.C. political circles as the day fast approaches, (Monday, to be exact), when the infamous five Gitmo Taliban prisoners who were traded for Army deserter Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl are slated to be released in Qatar.  They will now be free to rejoin the terrorist ranks on the battlefield.  That was the deal our pal Barry made.  

There are those in Congress who now, suddenly after a year has passed, are trying to pressure the White House to pressure Qatar to extend the time the Taliban is restricted from rejoining the battle.   I mean, so what if we break our word; nobody trusts it anymore anyway.  As far as I'm concerned, Obama made his bed and he can suffer the consequences; Congress is complicit because they allowed Obama to get away with it. 

To be perfectly candid, the illegal prisoner exchange which set the whole scenario up amounts to aiding and abetting the enemy, otherwise known as treason.  It's an impeachable offense which no one cares to address.  

I.S.I.S. COULD GET A NUKE

The Islamic State is now saying that it has enough money in its bankroll that it could easily purchase a nuclear weapon from Pakistan or through a nuclear black market.  At eh very least, they say, they can get their hands on thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate, the same explosive used in the Oklahoma City bombing.  It’s the sum of all fears for Western intelligence agencies and it’s infinitely more possible today than it was just one year ago.  

The cheese gets more and more binding every day, doesn't it?  In the meanwhile, Barack insists on keeping our southern border wide open, so that any suitcase-carrying terrorist can bring whatever he or she wants into the country. 

And Obama doesn't even have the fortitude to refer to them as radical Islamic terrorists?

THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL

Virtually anyone who has been keeping track of the disastrous and dangerous situation in the Middle East would agree that while it may have been a mistake to invade Iraq in the first place, it was definitely a mistake to bring all of our troops home; I mean, look at what a mess we have on our hands today.  

Our families gave American blood over there in an effort to secure peace and security in the neighborhood.  

Now, our so-called president has the unmitigated gall to announce on Memorial Day that we have no troops on the ground in any combat zone in the entire world and what a terrific thing it is that he has done.  

Never mind the American blood that was spilled there for naught; don't even worry about the American blood that will ultimately have to be spilled in order to deal with I.S.I.S.  Don't concern yourself with the thought that we have left the door wide open for terrorism here in the United States.  Just thank Obama for being the great guy he is. 

Amen, brother. 

WHEN OBAMA WILL DEFEAT I.S.I.S.

DISGUSTING

Here we have a guy who has allegedly distributed and possessed hundreds of images of child pornography and who has used his position at a summer camp to molest and victimize the children he was tasked with helping.  He has been charged with sexually abusing a 10-year-old boy along with distribution and possession of child pornography.  Yet, because he is also an illegal alien, he applied for and received deferred action under the DACA program.  

In other words, this scum is able to hold on to his job.  He was scheduled for deportation but approved for DACA and a work permit in October 2012. Further, it seems DHS was aware his heinous behavior and allowed him to stay in the country anyway, jeopardizing the safety and well being of the children he was working with.

And why is nobody, including you, doing anything about it? 

CANCER SCAM

FOX NEWS is reporting that over $187 million raised by cancer benefit foundations has ended up in the personal pockets of James T. Reynolds Sr., his ex-wife and son.  The Cancer Fund of America in Knoxville, Tennessee, and its affiliated Cancer Support Services; The Breast Cancer Society in Mesa, Arizona; and the Children's Cancer Fund of America in Powell, Tennessee were the principal "fronts" for the scam. 

Like you probably did, I donated some of my hard-earned money to one of these "charities" which hired telemarketers to collect $20 donations from people across the country, telling consumers that they provided financial aid and other support to cancer patients, including pain medication, transportation to chemotherapy visits and hospice care.  I was even shamed into it: "How can you turn your back on these unfortunate women during Breast Cancer Awareness month?"  I stopped donating last year after I learned that little of the organization's revenues were reaching the intended recipients.  

It's kind if like what has been going on with the Clinton Foundation, isn't it? 

WHERE ARE THE COPS?

There's a huge riot going on in town and people are being killing, raped and beaten.  Stores are being looted and burned.  Where are the cops?  

Oh, they're back at the station house.  

Why?  

Obama took their riot gear. 

THE RAMADI DISGRACE

Forget the argument over whether or not we should have gone into Iraq in the first place.  I will say that I was for the invasion, but with a caveat:  I was totally against waiting, and waiting, and waiting before we did it.  We destroyed any element of surprise we might have gained and we gave the enemy the opportunity to hide chemical weapons before we got there. 

But, once there and having secured the battlefield, eliminated Hussein and begun the process of developing a stable government, we totally evacuated and left a vacuum behind... a vacuum destined to by filled by what has been so eloquently described as "The J.V. Team."  

Now, we have the fall of Ramadi, a city described by a top general as being of no importance, as if to piss on the graves of our troops who lost their lives there at the direction of our country, which had sent them on a nearly impossible mission and with their hands tied behind their backs.  And what does our illustrious Secretary of State have to say about the I.S.I.S. flag now flying over that city?  "Well, no big deal.  They didn't really win anything.  It was just a moment of opportunity." And besides, "The Iranians will chase I.S.I.S. out for us."  

It makes me puke when I consider what we, you and I, have allowed our country to become.  And it scares the hell out of me when I consider where we are headed. 

ONE TRACK MINDS

Much has been said about how spending more money on infrastructure would have prevented the recent Pennsylvania train crash.  Of course, we all know that was not the cause of that accident. 

But, there's another move on by the feds in Washington that doesn't make any sense, either.  Supposedly, there's this new type of tanker car that is much safer than the tanker cars of today and years past.  One of the associated arguments for building the XL Pipeline is that transportation of oil by train is more dangerous; indeed, that seems to be the case.  Part of that hysteria is due to the fact that transportation of oil by train has increased from 9,500 carloads to over 450,000 carloads per year over the last few years; and, the explosive volatility of oil being transported has increased as there has been a shift to oil from developed from tar sands and fracking.  

But, the federal government is once again trying to throw money at the problem by making a mandatory upgrade to these newer and "safer" tank cars.  Newer tank cars have already been involved in train accidents and have proven to be more susceptible to leaks of crude oil which result in more explosions.  

It seems to be that the fundamental issue in Pennsylvania and in the oil tanker problem is the same: safety.  The answer is to slow down the trains, take more care to ensure braking systems and signals are working properly and to have more frequent,  and meaningful, safety training sessions with train operators.   

To that extent, the current failures can be blamed on the railroad operating companies. 

BACK OFF, QUICK!!!

We need to distance ourselves from any association we have with John Kerry.  He's on his way to Peking to tell the Chinese off.  Yes, siree.  

Maybe his visit with Putin taught him how to act tough?  As in, "Don't mes with ME!  I'm John Kerry, President Obama's Secretary of State!!!    

Please pass the General's Chicken.   

OBAMA LOSES FAVOR

Obama is ticked off at Senator Elizabeth Warren because she is against his proposed trade deal.  The other day, he more or less said that she doesn't know what she's talking about.  “The truth of the matter is that Elizabeth is, you know, a politician like everybody else. And you know, she’s got a voice that she wants to get out there. And I understand that.” 

Well, the radical left-wing of the Democratic Party has come unglued at the seams.  Now... HE'S the exist and the racist.  

Gosh.  Gee whillikers. 

Not, by the way, that he doesn't royally deserve it. 

BLACK MAN'S HATE CRIME

A Fontana, Califormnia man has been charged with a hate crime after allegedly beating a man in the head with a baseball bat in nearby Rialto, police say.  Jeremiah Bell, 22, is accused of assaulting 54-year-old Armando Barron repeatedly with an aluminum bat on Sunday.  Surveillance video shows Bell running from the area shortly after.  “From his confession, he admitted to leaving his house with the intention to kill somebody with a bat,” Rialto Police Det. David Patilla said.  Police believe he was targeting anyone who was not black. 

But, Bell is not to blame; it's the system.  There's high unemployment among blacks and he probably doesn't even have a college education.  And, since you can't carry guns in Rialto, he had no choice but to resort to using a bat.  

Hasn't our country really become lovely? 

OBAMACARE: HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY BITES THE DUST

Assurant Inc. announced last week one of its subsidiaries, Assurant Health, an insurance company, will either be sold or shuttered after losing tens of millions of dollars this year. The decision comes 18 months after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, and industry watchers argue Assurant Health’s end can be attributed to the new health care law.  

In a letter to its shareholders, Assurant Health said it lost money because of a reduction in recoveries under Obamacare’s risk mitigation programs and increased claims on the health care law’s 2015 policies.  

I anybody paying attention to the details? 

CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL TIED TO SCAM?

Police in Los Angeles arrested three people in connection with operating a fictitious police department they said was 3,000 years old and had jurisdiction over 33 states and Mexico. Los Angeles County sheriff's officials told The Associated Press that Brandon Kiel, 31, David Henry, 46, and Tonette Hayes, 58, were arrested last week on suspicion of impersonating officers as members of an organization they called Masonic Fraternal Police Department. 

The website lists Henry as its chief of police. The AP reports that Kiel is on administrative leave from his job as deputy director of community affairs at the California Department of Justice. The Los Angeles Times reports that he's a "low-level aide to California Attorney General Kamala Harris."  A police spokeswoman told the AP that deputies found ID cards, uniforms and vehicles "that appeared to look like law enforcement vehicles along with other official police equipment during their search of a home and office linked to the group." 

The Grand Masonic Lodge of California denies ever having heard of them. If they had not been arrested, their next move may well have been to start erecting fake cornerstones.  

SAUDI ARABIA GOING AFTER NUKES

Saudi Arabia has announced that, should the U.S. strike a nuclear "deal" with Iran, it will proceed to develop its own nuclear program.  

That means the price of uranium will go up and the Russian owners of the U.S. uranium stockpile will get rich.  

Isn't this all just so lovely, Barack? 

CORRUPTION: ANOTHER POLITICIAN BITES THE DUST

We've all known for a very long time that politicians are generally born corrupt. The cesspool that is New York politics is continuing true to form as Dean Skelos (R), leader of the New York State Senate, and his son have been arrested on corruption charges. 

PATRIOT UPDATE is reporting the pair faces federal charges for fraud, bribe solicitation, and extortion. The charges against them were detailed in a six-count criminal complaint filed in United States District Court in Manhattan that details a five-year scheme to “monetize” the senator’s official position by extorting payments through a Long Island-based real estate developer and from an Arizona environmental company, with the expectation that the money paid to Adam Skelos,  nearly $220,000 in total, would influence his father’s actions.

Now is the time for all good Americans to come to the aid of their country and out a stop to "business as usual" in state houses across the country. 

MOHAMED BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA?

Two Phoenix Muslims, now dead, were responsible for the attack in Garland, Texas on a Mohammed cartoon drawing contest.  I.S.I.S. has now claimed the men were part of their Caliphate.  

Well, don't fret about it.  They were, after all, only "Junior Varsity" and Mohamed Obama has everything under control. 

Doesn't he? 

OBAMACARE DILEMMA

When it was originally in the process of being touted to skeptical Americans, one of the many propositions being put forth by the framers was that in the process of guaranteeing health insurance to millions of uninsured Americans, the number of visits to hospital emergency rooms would decrease.  News is now out that the actual number of visits to the ER have increased. 

Nearly half of the 17 insurance marketplaces set up by the states and the District under President Obama’s health law are struggling financially, presenting state officials with an unexpected and serious challenge five years after the passage of the landmark Affordable Care Act.  H&R Block now figures that two-thirds of ObamaCare enrollees who got subsidies had to pay at least some of it back. And the average payback was $729. So roughly 5.5 million ObamaCare enrollees had to return, on average, almost a quarter of their premium subsidies. There may be just $1 in the piggy bank to cover every $10 in claims at an Obamacare program designed to spread risk among insurers, Standard & Poor’s says.

But, to hear Obama and his entourage talk about it, everything is soooo... rosy.   They insist that not only is ObamaCare working, but that it is proving critics wrong.  "We're not to blame," they trumpet.  Increasingly, however, their music is playing on deaf American ears. 

SAY WHAT?

A spokesman for U.S. Central Command (Centcom), which oversees American-led airstrikes against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), told reporters that that the jihadist group was on the defensive and losing territory in Iraq.  

No sooner were those words out of his mouth than reports came that ISIS has seized most of the Baiji oil refinery, the largest in Iraq, located north of Baghdad in Salahuddin province, and the price of gas in the United States jumped by over 30 cents a gallon.  

We're to blame for believing anything, and seemingly everything, the Obama Administration tells us.

CIRCUS SUPREMUS

In the oral arguments presented this week in the Supreme Court regarding the question of whether the U.S. Constitution guarantees two people of the same sex the right to marry one another, Justice Samuel Alito asked whether, if two people of the same sex have a right to marry, then why not four people of opposite sexes... or four lawyers, for example?

 

Gosh, maybe Bruce Jenner could marry him/herself.  

We are to blame for this circus, you know.