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Who took the “news” out of newspaper, news report and news coverage?Let’s look no further than just last Friday as demonstration of this sad state of affairs. Early Friday morning when Christiane Amonpour finally processed the results of the Brexit vote to “LEAVE”  she released a  venomous attack and condemnation of those who led and voted for Brexit. Not only did she blur the line between reporting and commentary, she veered into the advocacy lane and steered right into proselytizing. CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: So, this is a moment of destiny that many, many people, the overwhelming, the overwhelming preponderance of experts...

From Richard Fernandez, Forget the Lifeboat, It's the Iceberg that Counts: The rebellion is real and therefore the causes of the rebellion are also real. Yet even on the day after Brexit, the establishment still found ways to deny the vote was anything more than bigotry and xenophobia run wild. Perhaps the most damning example of its attitude comes from a Tweet by Sharyl Attkisson:Faced with the threat of an EU breakup, the foreign policy crisis of a lifetime, Obama sent a spin-doctor and gave a speech — Howdy Messina, spin-doctor extraordinaire and it didn’t work. . . . Don’t...

No thread. This is a YouTube video so folks can smile, just a little. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H3VLqLLWxbQ

There comes a time in everyone's life when you just have to do chores. My most onerous burden is washing dishes. I admit I have been lax in this lately so I've come up with a game plan. Step 1: Throw away all plastic containers recycled from former food items. In one fell swoop I eliminate 50% of cleanup today. Step 2: Get a dog and name it Prewash. Set dirty pans on the floor after they cool and Prewash does the rest. Ingenious! Step 3: After grocery shopping for the month, prepare bulk meals. Oven fry that 10 lb....

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” – Winston Churchill  Well go figure…apparently a good share of the people were really pissed off. Looks like they chose blessings. And freedom.So the good news is there will always be an England.The bad news is there will always be an EU too.Posted from: Michelle Obama’s Mirror

A man named Marlon Paul Alarez goes into a Florida pawn shop in broad daylight and attempts to steal an AK-47 by stuffing it down his pants. Not exactly smart by any standards. This was captured by the store CCTV camera. In the video, you can hear the judge run through his dumb plan and question the young man’s efforts. This is a prime of example of how far criminals and murderers will go to get their hands on weapons. Taking guns away from responsible citizens to protect themselves will only cause more harm to our society and the people...

Republicans could learn a thing or two from their Democrat colleagues – now they know how to not lose! Just say NO! Refuse to leave until you get your way.As is often the case with politicians, cats can best illustrate the basic differences.Republican cat faces its political enemy:Democrat cat, dealing with his political enemy:Butt now the conundrum: the 4th of July is coming up and many of these elected officials have parade commitments back in their districts. So don’t expect many of them to remain in the Capital Hill sandbox throughout the 4th of July break, I doubt that any...

We're about to start Round Seven. Here is a replay of the first six rounds... We’re at ringside folks and this should be a good one. Hillary’s backers assumed she’d take the crown without much of a fight, but Trump has other ideas. The Clinton Team is used to delivering hits without their opponents laying a glove on them. But they have never seen the likes of Donald Trump and his “Bum of the Month Club” where he beat sixteen rivals in nine months. He looks fresh. He looks ready. Against Hillary, he says he will “Float like a butterfly...

Loretta Lynch was dispatched last Sunday to tell us that we couldn’t presume to determine Omar Mateen’s motive for shooting up a gay club. And to advise all of us good little girls, boys, zes, etc. that we would be allowed to read the cleaned up version of Omar’s onsite brag. She reversed herself when even the Left was outraged by such blatant censuring of the 911 tape.Then Loretta went to Orlando to find out why Omar did what he did: Someday the U.S. attorney general hopes to establish a motive, but this is not the day: After meeting with...

Not compared to this girl Yes, this girl isn't dress down for a little shore fishing. Clad in a black dress and heels, she displays a fine form as she sits at the edge of a pond in a deck chair. But then it all quickly unravels. All anglers have experienced this once – dropping things in the lake, breaking rods, and even falling in. But can this girl’s luck get any worse? Her reaction to it all does certainly take the cake. Real or fake, you have to admit that clip is hilarious. If anything, she walked away with...

I totally forgot to congratulate Hillary on the arrival of her second grandchild! So congrats: now your legacy is complete.However, I was alarmed when I saw her arriving to meet the new grandson at Lenox hospital in New York:I kept wondering: precisely what type of “Senior Care Emergency Medical Services” were required here?And, as RobinH asked the other day, who walks like that?And who swaddles themselves like that, in head-to-toe black during the summer solstice?Well, other than Muslims…And Big Foot? “Michelle is known for her clean and classic style and she loves to wear lesser known labels. On this ocassion...

Cultural relativity, it will be the death of us, literally:Because, you know, Islam is the religion of peace and is therefore as valid as Christianity. How did cultural relativism come to replace critical thinking in America? Maybe it started when the curriculum was dumbed down to the point of replacing math courses with “diversity studies.”  “What,” you say? “That would never happen? Certainly not at the 4th largest public university in the state of Michigan.” A faculty committee has proposed adding a three credit hours requirement in diversity to the general education curriculum at Wayne State University. It also recommended...

Tomorrow is SUPPOSEDLY Bernie Ban Day in DUmmieland. I say "supposedly" because Skinner chickened out at the last moment and delayed Bernie Ban Day last Thursday with the new target day being tomorrow. In any event, the Brock-paid Hillary trolls are already gloating over this shut down of any criticism of Hillary or any other elected Democrat politician. In effect, this bans Bernie supporters since their rights of free speech will be ABOLISHED in DUmmieland. The problem for Skinner is that he will be left with mostly Brock-paid Hillary trolls who are currently posting in DUmmieland strictly for the...

I see we’re wrapping up our 8 year tour of duty exactly the same way we launched it: with a taxpayer funded tour of several national parks out west. This time Barry warned that unless we do something about global warming, there will be no more National Parks! Recalling the first time he saw a moose in Yosemite,he said it changed him forever. Good argument against moose on the loose if you ask me.Anyway, I thought it might be fun to “reflect” back over the years and see how much we’ve all “changed” since that first “short” trip to the...

“No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don’t like their jobs, they don’t go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American Way.” “You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.” “Don’t eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them.” “Marge, don’t discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel.”

THE FOLLOWING RE-POST FROM LAST JANUARY IS IN HONOR OF YESTERDAY’S SENATE DEFEAT OF THE LATEST “NEVER LET A GOOD CRISIS GO TO WASTE” GUN CONTROL LEGISLATION: Obama’s Creative, Imaginary, Non-fiction Common Sense Gun Control CNN held a "Guns in America" town hall meeting yesterday to give el Presidente an arena to further discuss his common sense “gun safety” controls.. Things we learned: Barry has never actually been a gun owner (although he did play one on TV once): “I don’t have much experience with guns, butt that doesn’t mean I don’t know how to use one.”Big Guy, shooting...

If you’re into bass fishing or follow pro fishing, there are some derogatory comments about the sport from the "haters". Enter pro angler Fat Cat Newton rattling off in this video in response to the subject. Excerpt script from the video: To these people that think professional fishin' is not a professional sport, bless your heart. Apparently you've never been across the water runnin' about seventy-sixty miles an hour makin' that long run, when the weatherman says 'ah the wind’s gonna blow about five to ten miles an hour’ you get out there there’s thirty-four mile-an-hour gusts, you got three...

It’s that time of year again – graduation. And you all know what that means:  Costco is once again stocking their key lime pie.It’s Yuge!Now, if you don’t live near a Costco or just want to make your own you can follow the instructions of Judge Alex Ferrer who showed Fox and Friends hosts yesterday how to make your own key lime pie…without any key limes. Or any kind of limes for that matter. How does that work? Watch for yourself. Spoiler alert: even though it has no key limes, it self identifies as a key lime pie. Good enough...

Well, today is Bernie Ban Day and guess what? At the last moment, Skinner has CHICKENED OUT. Yes, when staring straight into the face of site suicide, Skinner just couldn't pull the trigger. Instead he is "delaying" Bernie Ban Day until June 20...or so he says. Here is Skinner's incredibly lame excuse about why he couldn't kill off DUmmieland today as you can see in his thread, DU's General Election Season postponed until Monday June 20. The Brexit vote will happen in exactly a week but the Berexit (Bernie Exit) on DUmmieland has been delayed because of Skinner's lack...

Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not… Jeremiah 5:21  H/T BlondeGatorNo, Jug-Eared O-man, you can’t buy a vowel, you can’t even buy a clue.Posted from: Michelle Obama’s Mirror