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Iran admits its rocket blew up

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Devin Nunes warns Americans against ‘tech oligarhs’ censorship

London mayor mocks Trump for dealing with the hurricane ‘out on the golf course’

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Hurricane pounds Bahamas with record fury

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Mandatory evacuations ordered for Palm Beach, including Mar-a-Largo ...

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October 12, 1492

This is the date that Christopher Columbus first made landfall on San Salvador in the Bahama islands ... a little over two months after he had set sail for India (August 3rd) from Spain ... the start of over five centuries of massive change for both good and evil. Had he been more timid, I suspect we still would be here ... but he wasn't and so should be remembered. The progressives (really, regressives) who blame Columbus for all the bad and none of the good that followed this courageous act ... they clearly are the pitiable  slopeheads.

Frugal Is as Frugal Does

Michelle Obama is on another of her obsessive missions.  This time it is to save the U.S. taxpayers money.  This Spring break, instead of taking her daughters (Sasha and Malia) and an entourage of friends to Spain (or the equivalent) at a cost of (at least) a half a million dollars (like she did last August … see: Huffington Post Story) she, because she had $4,000 per night room coupons, sent her daughters to the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas (see: Breitbart Story).  Then, because these coupons were only good for four nights, she had them flown to Sun Valley, Idaho to finish out their vacation (see: Breitbart Story ... I would have referenced a main-stream media story if I could have found one) in a discounted $184,000 per week ski chalet.  And to further exhibit her frugality, she sent them both on the same Presidential jumbo jet.  (They will return to Washington next week in the same penny-pinching way.)  It is thought that she was going to accompany them, but she, because of government regulations, was forced to take a duplicate plane.

The reason that Sun Valley was chosen for this ski trip was that their previous junket to Aspen, Colorado a little over a month ago was not to their liking.  The people at Aspen were not willing to close off the Panda Pipe area for their exclusive use (see: New York Post Story).  In Sun Valley, for an undisclosed, but discount-bundled amount, they were given exclusive use of the mountain. Moreover, at both locales, Michelle had the White House chefs and food tasters flown out there too to save the cost of eating at the expensive local bistros. These chefs then could prepare their favorite waygu beef sliders and other apres ski snacks.  She also had White-House staff flown in to lay out their (cut-rate) designer ski wardrobes.

Now, aren’t we happy that our First Lady is so sensitive to the government spending sequestration and the current economic crunch in which we find ourselves … and is willing to cut back on non-essential  luxuries like the rest of us?
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