Blog Heap of Links for the day 27 June 2016

…While reporting on Brexit CNN’s Amanpour said…

…narcissists aren’t just attractive to themselves. They are, at least superficially, attractive to other people; that’s why they’re overrepresented in fields where being at the center of attention is an asset, like entertainment, entrepreneurship, or politics. They also they have more sexual partners. And as a new study of speed dating led by Emanuel Jauk of the University of Graz, in Austria, finds, people rate them as more attractive and more dateable.…

…Even I, who follow the news closely, didn’t know this had happened (on June 22) until today, when I noticed an email about it in my Inbox. The fact that the GOP Congress actually did repeal Obamacare—a repeal that Obama then vetoed, of course—has been relatively unknown and unappreciated, as well.…

…‘OLD’ IS WHEN…

Your friends compliment you on your new alligator shoes and you’re barefoot.…

…Nasa's New Horizons probe flew close to Pluto last year, revealing clues the dwarf planet might once have had a liquid ocean sloshing around under its icy crust.

The ocean, which may have hosted alien life, was thought to have frozen over millions of years ago.

But new analysis shows the ocean beneath the surface is still liquid now - raising hopes that signs of life could yet be discovered on the dwarf planet.…

…A shooting outside a Walmart in Augusta, Maine was thwarted when two legally-armed bystanders intervened.…

That’s the Chicago Way: Drug Suspect Violently Resists Arrest, Released from Jail Without Charges…
The Muslim Takeover of the ACLU…
Collapse of Venezuela Accelerates — Armed Guards Now Riding on Food Trucks…

An “Australian” culture-enricher named Mustafa Kayirici chose to represent himself in a Sydney court after being brought up on a charge of raping a 13-year-old girl at knifepoint. Mr. Kayirici says that he thought his victim was of age, and besides, she consented to have sex with him.

In other news, the mayor of the Florida town where Trayvon Martin was shot to death by George Zimmerman was carjacked and robbed in front of his house. Police have arrested two suspects, one of them a minor, and are looking for a third.…

The news feed is light tonight. Maybe our tipsters are still out celebrating the Brexit vote. Or hung over…

One of today’s featured stories describes the trial of two culture-enrichers in Munich, who raped a woman in a flowerbed in the city’s botanical gardens after she asked them to stop making so much noise. In their defense, the migrants told the court that they had been having a bad day.…

Lebanon: Christian village hit by multiple suicide attacks…
Scores wounded in deadly Madagascar 'terror attack'…
California police probe violent clash at white supremacist rally…

Donald Trump, Andrew Jackson, and Tom Cotton…
New Rule Requires Doctors To Treat Trans Patients As Their Pretend Sex…
America Is Awash In Guns, And Crime Is At Record Lows…
Does Pluto have an ocean that holds alien life?…

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: IG Blames Obama Immigration Policy For Illegal’s Murder Of Connecticut Woman…
Joe For America: NBC Producer Praises Trump’s Would-Be Assassin…
Mark Steyn: “Steyn Was Right And I Was Wrong”, Continued…

Inside Silicon Valley’s Robot Pizzeria…
Narcissists Get More Dates…
Once Again Obama Argues We Need Illegal Immigrants Because They “Make Our Beds”…

I would say that the Brexit vote left me EUphoric, but that would be wrong. From now on, I’m just phoric. And for added phoria, some great political cartoons and a few just plain silly things…

…while we’re talking about the end of the world, here are some links you might like…

Obama delicately flips off Congress…
To Obama citizenship does not mean much…
Nothing good ever happens after midnight…

… On this day in 1985 Route 66 was officially removed from the United States Highway System as a designated highway.…

The death by barbell of disgraced UN official John Ashe could become a bigger obsession for conspiracy theorists than Vince Foster’s 1993 suicide.

Ashe — who was facing trial for tax fraud — died Wednesday afternoon in his house in Westchester County. The UN said he’d had a heart attack. But the local Dobbs Ferry police said Thursday that his throat had been crushed, presumably by a barbell he dropped while pumping iron.

Ashe was due in court Monday with his Chinese businessman co-defendant Ng Lap Seng, who is charged with smuggling $4.5 million into the US since 2013 and lying that it was to buy art and casino chips.… “During the trial, the prosecutors would have linked Ashe to the Clinton bagman Ng. It would have been very embarrassing. His death was conveniently timed.”…