{"id":103952,"date":"2022-08-18T15:09:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T19:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=103952"},"modified":"2022-08-18T15:09:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T19:09:53","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-august-17th-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=103952","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, August 17th, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, August 17th, 2022&#8230;but before we begin, it seems according to <em>CNBC<\/em>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><a style=\"color: #339966;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/08\/15\/starbucks-asks-labor-board-to-suspend-mail-in-ballot-union-elections-alleging-misconduct-in-voting-process.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Starbucks is asking labor board to suspend mail-in ballot union elections, alleging misconduct in voting process<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/t_5d0f0c8132234e4e81b6c3b3877d06fd_name_Starbucks_Store_Closings_transfer_frame_586.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103897\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/t_5d0f0c8132234e4e81b6c3b3877d06fd_name_Starbucks_Store_Closings_transfer_frame_586.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/t_5d0f0c8132234e4e81b6c3b3877d06fd_name_Starbucks_Store_Closings_transfer_frame_586.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/t_5d0f0c8132234e4e81b6c3b3877d06fd_name_Starbucks_Store_Closings_transfer_frame_586-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the kicker:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>In addition to asking for a pause on all scheduled mail-in elections at its U.S. stores, Starbucks is requesting that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all future elections be held in person<\/em><\/span> while the allegations can be investigated.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>And we&#8217;re to believe mail-in ballots for federal elections aren&#8217;t subject to massive manipulation?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1otTZq6UzLM?start=192\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Case in point, courtesy of <\/strong><strong>Los Angeles County, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/08\/16\/l-a-claims-27-error-rate-in-recall-signatures-1-error-rate-in-mail-in-ballots-2020\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>which reported Monday over 27% of the signatures submitted on petitions to recall District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n were invalid \u2014 after reporting that less than 1% of mail-in ballots were invalid in the 2020 election<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/la1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103959\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/la1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/la1.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/la1-289x300.png 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/la2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103960\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/la2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/la2.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/la2-300x256.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah,&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Hillary.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103961\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Hillary.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Hillary.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Hillary-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/yeahright.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103947\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/yeahright.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/yeahright.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/yeahright-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, courtesy of this meme from Balls, we wish good riddance to bad rubbish:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/liz.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103978\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/liz.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/liz.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/liz-279x300.png 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s hoping West Virginia voters show the same sense when Joe Manchin runs for reelection in 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next,<em> NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Jim Geraghty unequivocally states&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/its-about-time-cdc\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20220815&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">It\u2019s about Time<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"nr-heading\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/its-about-time-cdc\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20220815&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">The CDC Finally Updates Its Covid-19 Guidance<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/6q0lnm.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103903\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/6q0lnm.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/6q0lnm.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/6q0lnm-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Late last week,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7133e1.htm?s_cid=mm7133e1_w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">the CDC revised its guidance for responding to Covid-19<\/a><\/em><\/span>, taking a much-belated step to officially recognize the enormous change in how the disease spreads and the tremendous reduction in how deadly it is to those who contract it. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Among the major alterations:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>&#8211; The CDC no longer insists that it\u2019s necessary to stand six feet away from others in order to avoid getting Covid; instead, the guidance suggests that avoiding crowds and maintaining distance might be a good means of minimizing exposure, especially for those at high risk.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>&#8211; The CDC now states that individuals who have been exposed to Covid no longer need to take a Covid test if they don\u2019t show any symptoms.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>&#8211; Relatedly, the CDC is finally ready to abandon unworkable \u201ctest to stay\u201d policies, which required kids who knew they had been exposed to Covid to obtain a negative test in order to return to school.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>&#8211; The CDC is finally prepared to recognize that policies distinguishing between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals are unhelpful, both \u201cbecause breakthrough infections occur\u201d and because individuals who\u2019ve had Covid without being vaccinated \u201chave some degree of protection against severe illness from their previous infection.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Unfortunately, the new guidance <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>continues to insist<\/em><\/span> on the importance of wearing masks, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>even though there hasn\u2019t been a single control-group study showing that mask mandates prevented the spread of Covid<\/em><\/span>.<span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Karol Markowicz makes this point, among others,\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/14\/too-little-too-late-disband-the-cdc-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">i<span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">n a column today for the\u00a0New York Post<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/em>:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>When COVID first hit our shores, we naturally looked to the CDC for direction. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">The agency may have previously offered its thoughts on how we should cook our burgers (well-done) and whether we should eat sushi (no), yet it was primarily in the background wagging its fingers at us while we ordered our steak medium-rare (another no-no).<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>But with COVID, its <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">word became policy<\/span>.<span style=\"color: #333399;\"> In what should go down as one of the most disgusting moments in public health, the CDC allowed, with direction from the Biden White House, <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Randi Weingarten<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\">, American Federation of Teachers chief, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to craft school-opening policies<\/span> that forced classrooms across the country to remain closed in winter 2021.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">No one<\/span> has been fired for this dereliction of duty. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">No one<\/span> has even been openly chastised for allowing a special-interest group to control our health-care policy.<\/span> This <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">alone<\/span> is why the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CDC must go<\/span>.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #333399;\">And <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">then<\/span> there are the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">errors<\/span>.<\/span> \u201cWell, it was a pandemic, and obviously mistakes would be made\u201d only makes sense <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">if<\/span> those mistakes are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">quickly acknowledged and corrected<\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">That <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">hasn\u2019t happened<\/span> with the CDC.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>It took until May 2021 for the agency to recognize that COVID-19 spreads through the air. I<span style=\"color: #333399;\">t <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">continues<\/span> to push masking despite the fact <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">there is not a single study with a control group showing that masking mandates prevent COVID spread<\/span>.<\/span> And not a single real-world example of a country that has managed to control spread through masking. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">We masked toddlers because the CDC said to.<\/span> It was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">egregious<\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">It was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">damaging<\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>In a statement announcing the new changes, the CDC\u2019s Greta Massetti said that, \u201cThis guidance acknowledges that the pandemic is not over, but also helps us move to a point where COVID-19 no longer severely disrupts our daily lives.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">That\u2019s all well and good, and I suppose there\u2019s some wisdom in the stock phrase, \u201cBetter late than never.\u201d<\/span> I\u2019d much rather that the CDC catch up to and acknowledge reality very belatedly than that it remain intransigent forever in order to save face. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">But I\u2019m also not interested in pretending that this new guidance was anything other than <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">very<\/span><\/em> belated, and the CDC has yet to reckon with the fact that its recommended policies were nearly always <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>behind<\/em><em> the available data<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unnecessarily draconian<\/em><\/span>, and, for the most part, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>highly ineffective<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Why should we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ever<\/em><\/span> trust the organization <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>again<\/em><\/span>, let alone <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>allow its officials to dictate policy for the entire country<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Case in point, courtesy of Balls:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Balls-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103932\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Balls-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Balls-1.png 311w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Balls-1-222x300.png 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item also courtesy of <em>NRO<\/em>, Nat Malkus totals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/magazine\/2022\/08\/29\/covid-costs-for-kids\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>COVID&#8217;s costs for kids<\/em><\/span><\/a>, accurately asserting, &#8220;Officials made public-health bets that students will have to pay for&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of the evils perpetrated by teachers unions, as <em>FOX<\/em> records, a&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/minneapolis-teachers-union-agreement-stipulates-white-teachers-laid-off-first-regardless-seniority\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Minneapolis teachers union agreement stipulates White teachers be laid off first, regardless of seniority<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-headline speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/minneapolis-teachers-union-agreement-stipulates-white-teachers-laid-off-first-regardless-seniority\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The agreement, reached last spring, exempts teachers from &#8216;underrepresented&#8217; populations from seniority-based layoffs<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/302708_image_1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103970\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/302708_image_1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/302708_image_1.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/302708_image_1-300x214.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The agreement, which was reached to end a two-week teacher strike last spring, says that starting this school year, &#8220;if excessing a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site, the district shall excess the next least senior teacher, who is not a member of an underrepresented population.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Excessing teachers is the process by which staff are reduced at a particular school due to a drop in enrollment, funding or other reasons.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The agreement further goes on to say that when reinstating teachers, &#8220;the District shall <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>prioritize the<\/em> <em>recall<\/em><\/span> of a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers in the district.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This brings to mind a line from <em>The Matrix<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4D7cPH7DHgA?start=164&amp;end=175&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is it any wonder there&#8217;s both a police and teacher shortage in Minneapolis?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then consider the mindset evident in this <em>Notable &amp; Quotable<\/em>\u00a0installment from the <em>Journal<\/em> taken from an\u00a0<\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>article at Time<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">helped<\/span> struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">It <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>worked<\/em><\/span> for the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>students<\/em><\/span>, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not so much<\/em><\/span> for the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>teachers<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> \u201cFor <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>seven years in a row<\/em><\/span>, Oakland was the <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">fastest-gaining urban district in California for reading<\/span><\/em>,\u201d recalls Weaver. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u201cAnd <\/span><\/strong><em><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">we hated it<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>The teachers felt like curriculum robots\u2014and pushed back. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u201cThis seems dehumanizing, this is colonizing, this is the man telling us what to do,\u201d says Weaver, describing their response to the approach.<\/span> \u201cSo we fought tooth and nail as a teacher group to throw that out.\u201d <span style=\"color: #333399;\">It was replaced in 2015 by a curriculum that emphasized rich literary experiences.<\/span> \u201cThose who wanted to fight for social justice, they figured that this new progressive way of teaching reading was the way,\u201d he says.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u201cWe <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>abandoned what worked<\/em><\/span> because <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">we didn\u2019t like how it felt to us<\/span><\/em> as adults, when <em>actually<\/em>, the social-justice thing to do is to <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">teach them explicitly how to read<\/span><\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>You know,&#8230;what their job <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>actually is<\/em><\/span>!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in the <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>EnvironMental Moment<\/em><\/span>, <em>Best of the Web<\/em>\u00a0does its best to explain reality to Progressives bent on destroying our economy in pursuit of, ironically, a pipe dream:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hunter-biden-10-16-20-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103928\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hunter-biden-10-16-20-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hunter-biden-10-16-20-2.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hunter-biden-10-16-20-2-300x158.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sorry, wrong pipe dream!\u00a0 We&#8217;re presenting this in full, as it provides a perfect primer for educating the ignorant and\/or misinformed:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-1hch5ce-StyledHeadline e1ipbpvp0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/democrats-great-fossil-fuel-bonfire-of-2023-11660602262?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #008000;\">Democrats\u2019 Great Fossil Fuel Bonfire of 2023<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"wsj-mosdo-Dek-Dek e1jnru6p0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><a style=\"color: #003300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/democrats-great-fossil-fuel-bonfire-of-2023-11660602262?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A hoped-for surge of solar, wind and battery production requires CO2-intensive mining and manufacturing<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/unbjgav0txdwtl6t2h4z-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103937\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/unbjgav0txdwtl6t2h4z-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/unbjgav0txdwtl6t2h4z-copy.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/unbjgav0txdwtl6t2h4z-copy-300x158.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Congressional Democrats and the White House seem to be planning to engage in a rare and fleeting moment of deferred gratification this week. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">John Wagner and Mariana Alfaro of the Washington Post\u00a0report:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>President Biden remains on vacation on South Carolina\u2019s Kiawah Island. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">He plans to sign the Inflation Reduction Act into law on Tuesday and deliver remarks, but the White House is preparing for a much larger celebration on Sept. 6, after Labor Day, when Americans are expected to pay more attention to what\u2019s at stake in the fall midterm elections.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>But what if Americans are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>already<\/em><\/span> paying attention? <span style=\"color: #003300;\">They <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>may<\/em><\/span> have noticed the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"wsj-1h1us5y-StyledLink exk4ewm0\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu\/issues\/2022\/8\/12\/senate-passed-inflation-reduction-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferer\" data-type=\"link\">Friday update<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0from the Penn Wharton budget modelers:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>The Act would have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">no meaningful effect<\/span> on inflation in the near term but would reduce inflation by around 0.1 percentage points by the middle of the first decade. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">These point estimates, however, are not statistically different from zero, indicating a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">low<\/span> level of confidence that the legislation would have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">any<\/span> measurable impact on inflation.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Democrats might want to go ahead and party now before they draw further attention to themselves. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">The Penn Wharton crew expects the act to make the U.S, economy <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>slightly smaller<\/em><\/span> over the next decade.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Like so many Washington budget plans, the Democrats\u2019 new tax-and-spending frenzy promises little or nothing to reduce deficits in the early years but is officially projected to improve the federal fisc and boost the economy in the more distant future, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>by which time some of its most ardent champions will have retired and therefore won\u2019t have to accept voter consequences<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">If the act works as intended, there will also be an <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">immediate<\/span><\/em> flurry of carbon-dioxide emissions <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>before<\/em><\/span> the promised glorious future of carbon restraint.<\/span> Most of the climate provisions take effect immediately or within a year or two, and the principal goal is to drive the production and deployment of solar, wind and battery power, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all of which involves heavy use of fossil fuels<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>The Journal\u2019s Allysia Finley\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"wsj-1h1us5y-StyledLink exk4ewm0\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/beijing-gets-a-great-leap-forward-from-congress-inflation-reduction-act-green-energy-subsidies-innovation-price-controls-capitalism-xi-jinping-11660502287?mod=opinion_lead_pos6&amp;mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferer\" data-type=\"link\">explains why much of this activity is bound to happen in a place that is already the world\u2019s largest emitter of CO2 and is ruled by people who are not particularly concerned about greenhouse gases<\/a><\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>The U.S. has become the world\u2019s top oil and natural-gas producer owing to its abundant natural resources, hydraulic shale fracturing and other technological advances. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">The Inflation Reduction Act, however, effectively concedes American energy supremacy <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to China<\/span> by turbocharging the government\u2019s green-energy transition with $370 billion in climate spending.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>Renewable energy requires <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">vast<\/span> amounts of critical minerals such as cobalt, nickel, manganese, lithium and graphite. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">China controls a large share of the world\u2019s supply of each and also maintains a chokehold on their refining.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Its near-total global monopoly extends to the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries, cells and components as well as solar cells<\/span>.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Ms. Finley adds:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>Democrats might reply that their bill\u2019s tax credits would encourage electric vehicle and renewable manufacturers to \u201con-shore\u201d supply chains. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">But subsidies that encourage mineral extraction in the U.S. won\u2019t help if the Biden administration <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">continues to block projects<\/span> such as a lithium mine in Nevada and a massive nickel, cobalt and copper mine in Minnesota.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Even if <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>some<\/em><\/span> of the mining surge is permitted to occur in the U.S., it will <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>still<\/em><\/span> rely <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>heavily<\/em><\/span> on fossil fuels. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">In theory, Democrats\u2019 big bonfire will be offset by future CO2 reductions, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but what if it isn\u2019t<\/em><\/span>?<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>What if<\/em><\/span> intermittent solar and wind power can <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never<\/em><\/span> be counted on to reliably and efficiently replace the fuels we need today?<span style=\"color: #003300;\"> Even those inclined to believe in the more pessimistic climate forecasts, even those who think that upending economies now is more sensible than relying on future technologies to address potential challenges, should consider the costs of expensive environmental belief.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>James Meigs\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"wsj-1h1us5y-StyledLink exk4ewm0\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/green-war-on-clean-energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferer\" data-type=\"link\">writes for City Journal<\/a><\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Because of their low energy density, wind and solar developments require <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">enormous tracts of land<\/span>, compared with other energy sources.<\/span> New York\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">now-shuttered<\/span> Indian Point nuclear power plant sits on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">just 240 acres<\/span>. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">Replacing its power entirely with wind power would require more than <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">500 square miles<\/span> of turbines.<\/span> That\u2019s a massive amount of land and habitat lost to energy production.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">People upset about carbon footprints may not realize just how large the allegedly non-carbon footprints can be.<\/span> And when inefficient alternative energy sources fail, people have to come back to the efficient sources that environmentalists have shunned. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">Mr. Meigs adds:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>&#8230;when Indian Point shut down for good in April 2021, all the wind and solar facilities in New York State <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">combined<\/span> were producing <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">less than a third<\/span> of the power churned out by that single plant. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">So, just as in other regions where nuclear plants have closed, grid operators turned to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">natural gas<\/span> to fill the gap.<\/span> Statewide grid-related CO2 emissions shot up by 15 percent.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">The Inflation Reduction Act does include <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>modest<\/em><\/span> incentives for nuclear power, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>nothing<\/em><\/span> compared to the subsidies that will be showered on solar and wind.<\/span> There are other contemporary examples of expensive investments in low-intensity energy sources that resulted in forced retreats to the energy sources that work. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">Mr. Meigs notes:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>Russia\u2019s Ukraine invasion slashed Europe\u2019s energy supplies and exposed the risks of relying too heavily on wind and solar power. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">Some experts warn of blackouts, gas shutoffs, and economic chaos.<\/span> Now European leaders are scrambling to get their hands on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">any<\/span> type of fossil fuel they can. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">Germany is reopening coal mines and has asked the EU to roll back plans to limit investments in overseas fossil fuel projects.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Writing for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Iris Crawford\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"wsj-1h1us5y-StyledLink exk4ewm0\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/meche.mit.edu\/news-media\/how-much-co2-emitted-manufacturing-batteries#:~:text=Currently,%20most%20lithium%20is%20extracted,are%20emitted%20into%20the%20air.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferer\" data-type=\"link\">makes the case that<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0\u201ceven the dirtiest batteries emit less CO2 than using no battery at all\u201d because over several years of use an electric car will result in reduced total carbon emissions compared to a gasoline-powered car. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">Still, she notes the significant upfront need to burn fuel:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>Producing lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles is more material-intensive than producing traditional combustion engines, and the demand for battery materials is rising, explains Yang Shao-Horn, JR East Professor of Engineering in the MIT Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">Currently, most lithium is extracted from hard rock mines or underground brine reservoirs, and much of the energy used to extract and process it comes from CO2-emitting fossil fuels.<\/span> Particularly in hard rock mining, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">for every tonne of mined lithium, 15 tonnes of CO2 are emitted into the air<\/span>&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Manufacturing also adds to these batteries\u2019 eco-footprint, Shao-Horn says.<\/span> To synthesize the materials needed for production, heat between 800 to 1,000 degrees Celsius is needed\u2014a temperature that can <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">only<\/span> cost-effectively be reached by burning fossil fuels, which again adds to CO2 emissions&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #003300;\">The vast majority of lithium-ion batteries\u2014about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">77% of the world\u2019s supply<\/span>\u2014are manufactured in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">China<\/span>, where <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">coal<\/span> is the primary energy source.<\/span> (Coal emits roughly twice the amount of greenhouse gases as natural gas, another fossil fuel that can be used in high-heat manufacturing.)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>If America ends up with the world\u2019s most expensive collection of solar panels, wind turbines and batteries but still can\u2019t rely on them to run our society, even ardent environmentalists may have to admit that the great fossil fuel bonfire of 2023 wasn\u2019t worth it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: We&#8217;ve said it before, we&#8217;ll say it again&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sIJBUZm1HoY?start=72&amp;end=75&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>And anyone who tells you different is either a mindless EnviroNazi or is personally profiting from the greatest scam ever perpetrated on the public&#8230;at least since the WuFlu lockdowns.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving on, here&#8217;s a septet of specially-selected items certain to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(1). Since we&#8217;re on the subject of certain Americans willfully empowering the Communist dictatorship of&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KnX_iWAG6W4?start=17&amp;end=30&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;despite the 46* clown car identifying <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"wsj-1h1us5y-StyledLink exk4ewm0\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/counterintelligence-head-narrows-focus-to-five-technologies-critical-to-u-s-dominance-11634907600?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferer\" data-type=\"link\">intensifying technological competition with China<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0as a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>top<\/em><em> national-security threat<\/em><\/span>&#8230;even greater than Trump&#8217;s purportedly purloined nuclear secrets&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-approves-nearly-all-tech-exports-to-china-data-shows-11660596886?mod=djemalertNEWS\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a Commerce Department-led process that reviews U.S. tech exports to the country approves almost all requests and has overseen an increase in sales of some particularly important technologies<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 With the Biden and Pelosi crime families getting their usual cut.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2). <em>Best of the Web<\/em>&#8216;s Jim Freeman insightfully inquires, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/merrick-garland-the-washington-post-and-the-nuclear-story-11660671636?mod=opinion_lead_pos11\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>if papers in former President\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s home represented such a grave threat to national security, why did the Justice Department take so long to act on it<\/em><\/span><\/a>?\u00a0 Hmmm&#8230;are Jim Freeman, Sean Davis and we the only ones sensing the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/doj.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103977\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/doj.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/doj.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/doj-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1otTZq6UzLM?start=192\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(3). The former Afghan president who once vowed,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>&#8220;No power in the world could persuade me to get on a plane and leave this country. It is a country I love, and I will die defending&#8221;, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/former-afghan-president-gives-reason-fleeing-he-wants-return-help-my-country-heal\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>recently told CNN he fled &#8220;because it became impossible to defend it<\/em><\/span><\/a>.&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0 Guess some countries&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/xYJmVMdcMZbMJWMXmUubz.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103895\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/xYJmVMdcMZbMJWMXmUubz.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/xYJmVMdcMZbMJWMXmUubz.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/xYJmVMdcMZbMJWMXmUubz-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;just ain&#8217;t worth dyin&#8217; for!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(4). Even though worries over COVID\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/how-democrats-and-republicans-think-differently-about-crime-and-gun-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">consistently being ranked towards the bottom<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0(just below contracting monkeypox!) when it comes to issues concerning Americans, the 46* clown car seems determined <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/rebeccadowns\/2022\/08\/16\/biden-administration-really-is-likely-to-extend-covid-public-health-emergency-until-after-midterms-n2611846\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>to extend the WuFlu public health emergency past the midterms<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(5). The <em>Morning Jolt<\/em> poses the rhetorical question, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/what-if-the-law-treated-all-politicians-the-same\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20220816&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>What if the law treated ALL politicians the same<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">?<\/span>&#8221;\u00a0 Our personal distaste for The Donald notwithstanding, he&#8217;d still be on the streets, while Nixon would have died in prison, and both Clintons, Obama, Eric Holder, all the Bidens, Lois Lerner, John Koskinen, Anthony Fauci, John Brennan, Jim Clapper and almost the entire senior leadership of the DOJ and FBI for the last 10 years&#8230;not to mention a significant percentage of the Pentagon Brass during the same time period&#8230;would be behind bars or just getting released, having forfeited their pensions or retirements.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(6). Waiting until <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>after<\/em><\/span> Biden signed his signature sell-out, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/manchin-admits-inflation-reduction-act-wont-tame-inflation-americans-anytime-soon\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Joe Manchin admitted the\u00a0Inflation Reduction Act\u00a0won\u2019t &#8220;immediately&#8221; temper inflation, telling reporters that the necessary investments needed to bring down prices would take some time<\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s hoping Manchin&#8217;s time runs out November of 2024&#8230;or sooner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us, appropriately enough, to <em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/cb081322dAPR20220813084505.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103909\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/cb081322dAPR20220813084505.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/cb081322dAPR20220813084505.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/cb081322dAPR20220813084505-300x227.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/afb081622dAPR20220816064505.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103964\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/afb081622dAPR20220816064505.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/afb081622dAPR20220816064505.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/afb081622dAPR20220816064505-300x214.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aa-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103910\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aa-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aa-5.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aa-5-300x229.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aaa-9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103913\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aaa-9.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aaa-9.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aaa-9-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aaa-8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103911\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aaa-8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aaa-8.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aaa-8-300x206.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/MC_Melting_web20220815120000.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103906\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/MC_Melting_web20220815120000.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/MC_Melting_web20220815120000.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/MC_Melting_web20220815120000-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-11.41-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103907\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-11.41-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-11.41-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-11.41-AM-300x266.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-1.05-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103917\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-1.05-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-1.05-PM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-1.05-PM-239x300.jpeg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-16-22-at-10.25-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103940\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-16-22-at-10.25-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-16-22-at-10.25-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-16-22-at-10.25-AM-300x189.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s these from Balls&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Balls.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103905\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Balls.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Balls.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Balls-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Balls-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103941\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Balls-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Balls-2.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Balls-2-300x297.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Balls1-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103929\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Balls1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Balls1-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Balls1-1-252x300.png 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Balls3-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103930\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Balls3-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Balls3-2.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Balls3-2-300x297.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;G. Trevor&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-12.33-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103918\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-12.33-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-12.33-PM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-12.33-PM-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-12.33-PM-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-12.33-PM-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103919\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-12.33-PM-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-12.33-PM-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-12.33-PM-1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-12.32-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103920\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-12.32-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-12.32-PM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-12.32-PM-289x300.jpeg 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-12.31-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103921\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-12.31-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-12.31-PM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Image-8-15-22-at-12.31-PM-300x256.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and Ed Hickey&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hickey-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103942\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hickey-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hickey-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hickey-1-291x300.png 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/dont-trust-democrats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103956\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/dont-trust-democrats.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/dont-trust-democrats.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/dont-trust-democrats-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/give-a-damn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103957\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/give-a-damn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/give-a-damn.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/give-a-damn-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>as well as this from <em>The Patriot Post<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/01GA8X6X5HFH5JBH5PBDEMZM52.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103938\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/01GA8X6X5HFH5JBH5PBDEMZM52.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/01GA8X6X5HFH5JBH5PBDEMZM52.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/01GA8X6X5HFH5JBH5PBDEMZM52-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/01GA8X6X5HFH5JBH5PBDEMZM52-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a day with one more titillating tale torn from the pages of <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The Crime Blotter<\/em><\/span>, and news a&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/wanted-oregon-man-attempts-flee-arrest-slow-moving-excavator-deputies-follow-foot\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800000;\">Wanted Oregon man attempts to flee arrest in slow-moving excavator, deputies follow on foot<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J8TtYFQygHY\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Jesse B. Shaw, who had\u00a0three arrest warrants\u00a0and was wanted for stealing a car, was found driving an excavator on a property north of Banks in Washington County, the Washington County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Shaw allegedly ignored deputies\u2019 commands to exit machinery and surrender.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Shaw drove more than a mile and a half in the slow-moving excavator as deputies plodded behind the vehicle in pursuit, the sheriff\u2019s office said. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Shaw eventually stopped and was arrested for attempting to\u00a0elude police,\u00a0the alleged stolen car, and the three arrest warrants.<\/span>\u00a0The arrest warrants included\u00a0delivery of meth\u00a0in Clackamas County, eluding arrest in Columbia County and a state parole board violation, deputies said<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This guy traveled only marginally slower than Biden on a bicycle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Video of the Day<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Though somewhat lengthy, Tucker&#8217;s Thursday monologue deserves to be viewed in full.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/74lDvZ1IPj4\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>Tales of The Darkside<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Former FBI deputy assistant director of counterterrorism Terry Turchie calls it like it is. Scary thing is, the same could be said of our Thoroughly Modern Milleytary.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kBBKduPvyQ8?start=134&amp;end=215&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>On the Lighter Side<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Stossel reveals how your job is likely to predict your politics, meaning, if you&#8217;re a hard-working, productive, tax-paying American who adds value to the country, you&#8217;re likely voting Republican.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N9CphY9Zznc\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Wednesday, August 17th, 2022&#8230;but before we begin, it seems according to CNBC&#8230; Starbucks is asking labor board to suspend mail-in ballot union elections, alleging misconduct in voting process &nbsp; Here&#8217;s the kicker: &#8220;In addition to asking for a pause on all scheduled mail-in elections at its U.S. stores, Starbucks is requesting that all future [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104039,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103952\/revisions\/104039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}