{"id":105956,"date":"2022-12-20T19:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T00:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=105956"},"modified":"2022-12-20T19:02:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T00:02:26","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-december-19th-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=105956","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, December 19th 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Monday, December 19th, 2022&#8230;and fellas, there&#8217;s only 6 shopping days left until Christmas!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But before we begin, consider the following <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">411<\/span><\/em> that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>really<\/em><\/span> should serve as a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>911:<\/em><\/span> At the same time branches of the federal government, including but not limited to, the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5EiK17-slVY\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>FBI<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span>, (<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/a5a486dc5b6b86c54c01dd6a87985f41\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>again<\/em><\/span><\/a>&#8230;and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/fbi-botched-branch-davidians-negotiations-2014-3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>again<\/em><\/span><\/a>&#8230;and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ct\/pr\/fbi-attorney-admits-altering-email-used-fisa-application-during-crossfire-hurricane\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>again<\/em><\/span><\/a>!),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/universal-basic-income-hits-the-bay-area-if-youre-black\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>NIH<\/em><\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/cdc-removed-stats-defensive-gun-use-pressure-gun-control-activists-report\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>CDC<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/12\/13\/billionaire-ken-griffin-sues-irs-over-tax-disclosure.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>IRS<\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/military-officer-targets-mother-facebook-post-found-kids-school\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>United States Army<\/em><\/span><\/a> continue to commit brazen acts which are either against the law or Constitution without fear of anything <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/1995\/jan\/07\/fbi-punishes-12-agents-but-sharpshooter-who\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>but the mildest consequence or repercussion<\/em><\/span><\/a>, the Biden clown car\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/krf9JpfrLUo?t=72\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>refuses to release ALL of the documents relating to the Kennedy assassination<\/em><\/span><\/a>, only adding fuel to an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>already<\/em><\/span> ominously smoldering fire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: Absent a dramatic course change, sooner or later, life <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>will<\/em><\/span> imitate art, in this case, the words of Officer Davis:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CgHWwYQ3XSg?start=78&amp;end=86&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>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, writing at <em>The Patriot Post<\/em>, Emmy Griffin relates how a&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"text-3xl font-bold text-blue-600 leading-tight py-2\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patriotpost.us\/articles\/93467?mailing_id=7169&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=pp.email.7169&amp;utm_campaign=weekend_snapshot&amp;utm_content=body\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Detransitioned SEAL Fights for Children<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"leading-tight pb-4 italic\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patriotpost.us\/articles\/93467?mailing_id=7169&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=pp.email.7169&amp;utm_campaign=weekend_snapshot&amp;utm_content=body\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900; text-decoration: underline;\">The un-wokening of a retired Navy man is a cautionary tale against transgender ideology<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/01GM44MC3SS9YWJY0CGE5HKZSQ.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105943\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/01GM44MC3SS9YWJY0CGE5HKZSQ.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/01GM44MC3SS9YWJY0CGE5HKZSQ.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/01GM44MC3SS9YWJY0CGE5HKZSQ-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\">The transgender phenomenon (specifically the rapid-onset variety) is not particularly new, though it seems to be a constant in the news these days. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Ten years ago, a U.S. Navy SEAL shocked the country by declaring he was \u201ctransgender.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>His name is Chris Beck. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">In 2013, he made public his declaration that he was a woman whose name was now Kristin.<\/span> He has since detransitioned and is vehemently speaking out and trying to warn Americans in general and parents in particular that \u201ceverything that happened to me for the last 10 years destroyed my life.\u201d <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">He further notes: \u201cI destroyed my life.<\/span> I\u2019m not a victim. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">I did this to myself, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I had help<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Beck, a highly decorated and seasoned SEAL, bitterly recalled his experience with psychologists who were quick to put him on hormones and \u201caffirm\u201d his identity instead of doing their jobs and actually helping him address and work through traumatic experiences in his life. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/retired-navy-seal-made-famous-by-becoming-trans-reveals-he-has-detransitioned-destroyed-my-life\">Beck recounted<\/a><\/em><\/span>: \u201cI walked into a psychologist\u2019s office [and] in one day I have a letter in my hand saying I was transgender.<\/span> I was authorized for hormones. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">I was authorized all this other stuff.\u201d<\/span> He also apologized to the American public, confessing that the VA (read: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>taxpayers<\/em><\/span>) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>paid for much of this treatment<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Sadly, this tale of malpractice by ideologically motivated healthcare providers is not uncommon.<\/span> Several detransitioners have testified that they experienced the same thing. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">They were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>dealing with trauma<\/em><\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>needed talk therapy<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Instead<\/em><\/span>, they were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unconditionally affirmed<\/em><\/span> and given harmful drugs. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>This cycle of affirmation without addressing the real issues<\/em><\/span> that these people are struggling with is the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>underlying pathology leading to higher risk of suicide<\/em><\/span> for this cohort.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong>Beck is also disturbed by this monetary motive,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/retired-navy-seal-made-famous-coming-out-trans-announces-detransition-destroyed-my-life\" class=\"broken_link\">saying<\/a><\/em><\/span>: \u201cThis is a billion-dollar industry between psychologists, between surgeries, between hormones, between chemicals, between follow-up treatments. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">There are thousands of gender clinics popping up all over our country.<\/span> And each of those gender clinics is going to be pulling in probably over $50 million.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Beck is\u00a0pleading\u00a0with Americans to \u201cwake up\u201d to this grift before they\u2019ve destroyed themselves or their children<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>And here we thought Progressives were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all<\/em><\/span> about the children&#8230;at least those who survived gestation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For those who missed it some years back, here&#8217;s Ben Shapiro&#8217;s encounter with another hulking, mentally-defective SEAL who mistakenly thought himself a woman:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fi9aDLAtVbw\" 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>As Jed Clampett was wont to say of his nephew Jethro, &#8220;That boy ain&#8217;t right&#8221;.\u00a0 And neither is anyone else who believes themselves to be a gender opposite of that which they were born.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of the mentally-impaired, who in their right mind would extoll the virtues of a harpy such as this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Will you commit to serving your full two-year term for the people of San Francisco?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NANCY PELOSI: &#8220;What is this? What is this? Don&#8217;t bother me with a question like that. Really. Really, ok? I said what I&#8217;m gonna do. Those kind of questions are such a waste of my time.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cINT3MWdQD\">pic.twitter.com\/cINT3MWdQD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1603427154267709440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Boehner crying in tribute to Pelosi while talking about how his daughters are Democrats is a pretty good summation of Republican leadership over the past couple of decades <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qccwcscgVU\">https:\/\/t.co\/qccwcscgVU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1603377619742900225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now you know why, despite having had control of Congress <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> the White House for a good many years in the past decades, Republicans have achieved nothing of a concrete, lasting nature.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Perhaps, as this next story relates, it&#8217;s because, until quite recently, Conservatives haven&#8217;t controlled the courts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/nc-supreme-court-rejects-voter-id-law-state-electoral-map-claiming-racially-motivated-purpose\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900; text-decoration: underline;\">NC Supreme Court rejects voter ID law, state electoral map, claiming &#8216;racially motivated purpose<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">&#8216;<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-headline speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><a style=\"color: #33cccc;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/nc-supreme-court-rejects-voter-id-law-state-electoral-map-claiming-racially-motivated-purpose\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #00ccff; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">North Carolina Supreme Court ruling affirms lower court decision that 2018 legislation is unconstitutional<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/aaa-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105971\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/aaa-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/aaa-5.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/aaa-5-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">The Supreme Court of\u00a0North Carolina\u00a0struck down a 2018 voter ID law on Friday, claiming it discriminates against the state&#8217;s residents.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The 2018 law, which requires residents to present identification before being able to vote, was previously deemed\u00a0unconstitutional\u00a0in 2021 by a lower state court.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">The state Supreme Court&#8217;s Friday ruling affirmed the lower court&#8217;s ruling that the policy &#8220;was motivated by a racially discriminatory purpose.&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The court also ruled that North Carolina&#8217;s state Senate map must be redrawn due to alleged\u00a0Republican\u00a0gerrymandering.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">The two decisions were passed along party lines 4-3 with\u00a0Democrats\u00a0supporting and Republicans dissenting.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The North Carolina Supreme Court is set for a massive upheaval in the new year.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Beginning in January, the court will consist of five Republicans and two Democrats<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Just so we&#8217;re clear, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>this<\/em><\/span> is what the Dimocrats on the Supreme Court of North Carolina just determined:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/court.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105972\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/court.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/court.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/court-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item of egregious judicial misconduct&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/federal-court-rejects-challenge-female-athletes-connecticut-transgender-sports-policy\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Federal court rejects challenge from female athletes to Connecticut transgender sports policy<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-headline speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/federal-court-rejects-challenge-female-athletes-connecticut-transgender-sports-policy\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Federal appeals court &#8216;unpersuaded&#8217; by arguments against letting biological males who identify as female compete on girls&#8217; and women&#8217;s sports teams<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/74svtz.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105973\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/74svtz.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/74svtz.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/74svtz-300x184.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Four female athletes who sought to have a\u00a0Connecticut policy\u00a0that permits males who identify as female to compete in girls&#8217; athletic events have lost their case in the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>A three-judge panel of the federal court affirmed a lower court decision Friday dismissing Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools, Inc., in which plaintiffs argued that the\u00a0Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference\u2019s policy\u00a0allowing transgender students to compete on girls&#8217; teams put biologically female athletes at a disadvantage and deprived them of honors and opportunities<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Though, why should we expect Progressive judges to stop such insanity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/bill-ban-biological-males-from-girls-sports-teams-fails-ohio-general-assembly\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>when Republican governors are willing to permit it<\/em><\/span><\/a>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s this from\u00a0<em>American Military News<\/em>, courtesy of our old friend, classmate and rotorhead extraordinaire Breeze:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"singlePostTitle\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/americanmilitarynews.com\/2022\/12\/dead-navy-officer-likely-to-be-removed-from-arlington-cemetery\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Dead\u00a0Navy officer likely to be removed from Arlington Cemetery<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/RQIATCG4LQI6ZPBVVEOQVFESHM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105922\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/RQIATCG4LQI6ZPBVVEOQVFESHM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/RQIATCG4LQI6ZPBVVEOQVFESHM.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/RQIATCG4LQI6ZPBVVEOQVFESHM-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The cremated remains of a former Navy lieutenant, executed in 1993 for the brutal murder of a female officer, are likely to be removed from\u00a0Arlington National Cemetery,\u00a0according to\u00a0a provision quietly tucked into the military\u2019s budget for next year.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>It\u2019s the result of a several-years-long veteran-led campaign to relocate the killer\u2019s ashes, which was ignored and rebuffed by the cemetery and Pentagon before finding a sympathetic congresswoman, the Washington Post\u00a0reported.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Lt. Andrew Chabrol was\u00a0executed\u00a0via electric chair for the 1991 kidnap, rape and murder of Petty Officer 2nd Class Melissa Harrington, who had reported him for sexual harassment. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">He blamed Harrington for ruining his career and marriage, and plotted his revenge in a journal where he called her \u201cNemesis.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>He tied Harrington to a bed, wrapped her head in duct tape and strangled her with a rope. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Since then, his remains have been kept in a vault at the U.S.\u2019\u00a0premier\u00a0military cemetery<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Likely&#8221;?\u00a0 Were it up to us, Chabrol would have been cremated and his ashes strewn in a septic tank.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving on, here&#8217;s a sextet of special selections certain to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(1). In a victory for honest, hard-working mom-and-pop retailers across the fruited plains, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/oberlin-college-pays-bakery-called-racist-36-million-years-long-appeal-defamation-lawsuit\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Gibson&#8217;s Bakery and Food Mart finally received the $36.5 million judgment a jury awarded after finding Oberlin College indeed defamed the local market for racism<\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0when college administrators launched a boycott in response to the owner&#8217;s son tackling a Black Oberlin student who had stolen a bottle of wine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2). In a most compelling commentary at\u00a0<em>American Thinker<\/em>, Steve McCann suggests\u00a0 &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2022\/12\/controlling_the_department_of_justice.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">no Republican president or Congress will succeed in stopping this nation\u2019s relentless march toward one-party tyranny as long as the Department of Justice<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>, which has been systematically weaponized since its formation in 1870, continues to exist as part of the Executive Branch.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(3). Case in point, as <em>NRO<\/em> relates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/fbi-was-in-constant-contact-with-twitter-trust-and-safety-team-documents-show\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=30007929\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>b<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>etween January 2020 and November 2022, over 150 emails were exchanged between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety head Yoel Roth<\/em><\/span>, the individual\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/twitter-exec-who-suppressed-hunter-biden-laptop-story-calls-libs-of-tiktok-babylon-bee-dangerous\/\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">who led the team responsible<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0for suppressing what should have been a bombshell story about Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop.\u00a0 In a significant number of the emails, the agency demanded Twitter crack down on election &#8220;misinformation&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>As Florida&#8217;s Matt Gaetz notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The FBI is designing what u see so they can control what you think &amp; how u behave<\/p>\n<p>Even before <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TwitterFiles6?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TwitterFiles6<\/a> we knew they:<\/p>\n<p>Altered evidence (Clinesmith)<br \/>\nLied under oath (McCabe)<br \/>\nTargeted Trump (Strzok\/Paige)<br \/>\nSuppressed evidence (Thibault)<\/p>\n<p>The Bureau needs a serious reshaping <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IGGZBafGVO\">https:\/\/t.co\/IGGZBafGVO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattgaetz\/status\/1604110649071648769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>A serious reshaping <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>indeed<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(4). In a brief whiff of reason from a city of insanity, <em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Ryan Mills relates\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/eric-adams-is-defying-decades-of-hands-off-homeless-policy-the-pendulum-swung-too-far\/?bypass_key=MkQrSkNNWTF6ZTAzNDFScEJsYVZzZz09OjphVlpzTjJwV1NVNWlXbE14V0VseFNHUndSVEJZUVQwOQ%3D%3D?utm_source%3Demail&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=30001796&amp;utm_source=Sailthru\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>New York mayor Eric Adams&#8217; attempt to address one of the two primary causes of homelessness<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: Sure, some people in America <em>are<\/em> genuinely homeless, the vast majority temporarily.\u00a0 But as any <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>honest<\/em><\/span> individual with personal experience will tell you, America isn&#8217;t faced with a &#8220;homeless&#8221; crisis, it&#8217;s confronting an out-of-control epidemic of drug abuse and mental illness involving a group of individuals unwilling to obey rules or submit to any type of controls, and who have been enabled by decades of Dimocratic indulgence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(5). How can you tell when Joe Biden&#8217;s lying?<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">PRO TIP: People in America aren\u2019t getting thrown out of restaurants for being gay. But in just the last couple years, they HAVE been thrown out for being Christian. And they have been thrown out for being unvaccinated. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nmhHgHKhgK\">https:\/\/t.co\/nmhHgHKhgK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JesseKellyDC\/status\/1602784950985580550?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"broken_link\">December 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Joe Biden says after he was elected VP, he awarded his Uncle Frank with a Purple Heart he earned at the Battle of the Bulge.<\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence any of that is true \u2014 and Biden&#8217;s uncle died in 1999, while Biden wasn&#8217;t elected VP until 2008. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FlJLjFAE4A\">pic.twitter.com\/FlJLjFAE4A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1603959244578951168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today, Joe Biden said he has been to &#8220;Afghanistan and Iraq and those areas&#8221; twice as president.<\/p>\n<p>He has been to neither country as president.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mVDbfev8yL\">pic.twitter.com\/mVDbfev8yL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1603955038631907328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>His lips move.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s be clear: These aren&#8217;t &#8220;gaffes&#8221;, they&#8217;re out and out patent prevarications.\u00a0 Like his father Satan, the truth just isn&#8217;t in Joe Biden.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(6). Why should anyone doubt the accuracy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/twitter-ceo-elon-musk-blasts-adam-schiff-deleted-tweet-your-brain-too-small\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Elon Musk&#8217;s assessment of the size of Adam Schiff&#8217;s brain<\/em><\/span><\/a>?\u00a0 After all, a neck that size&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/adam.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105962\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/adam.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/adam.png 196w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/adam-140x300.png 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;can only support so much weight!<\/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\/12\/Picture1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105939\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Picture1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Picture1-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Picture1-1-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Picture31-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105940\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Picture31-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Picture31-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Picture31-1-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Picture21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105941\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Picture21.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Picture21.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Picture21-300x238.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/afb121322dAPR-800x0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105917\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/afb121322dAPR-800x0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/afb121322dAPR-800x0.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/afb121322dAPR-800x0-300x214.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MC_Amnesty_web-800x0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105916\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MC_Amnesty_web-800x0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MC_Amnesty_web-800x0.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MC_Amnesty_web-800x0-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Picture41.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105936\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Picture41.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Picture41.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Picture41-300x217.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/a-9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105918\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/a-9.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/a-9.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/a-9-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cb121422dAPC-800x0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105919\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cb121422dAPC-800x0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cb121422dAPC-800x0.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cb121422dAPC-800x0-300x227.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/aa-7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105920\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/aa-7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/aa-7.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/aa-7-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Image-12-17-22-at-10.44-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105933\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Image-12-17-22-at-10.44-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Image-12-17-22-at-10.44-AM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Image-12-17-22-at-10.44-AM-288x300.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s these from Balls Cotton&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Balls4-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105928\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Balls4-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Balls4-2.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Balls4-2-168x300.png 168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Balls2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105929\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Balls2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Balls2.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Balls2-263x300.png 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Balls3-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105930\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Balls3-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Balls3-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Balls3-1-300x260.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Balls2-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105931\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Balls2-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Balls2-2.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Balls2-2-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Balls1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105934\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Balls1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Balls1-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Balls1-1-300x291.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image000000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105951\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image000000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image000000.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image000000-300x291.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and the lovely Shannon:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Shannon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105935\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Shannon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Shannon.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Shannon-239x300.png 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with a cross between <span style=\"color: #003300;\"><em>News of the Bizarre<\/em><\/span> and another titillating tale torn from the pages of <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The Crime Blotter<\/em><\/span>, as we learn the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/maine-tsa-finds-hatchet-homemade-gun-passengers-carry-on-bag\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Maine TSA finds hatchet, homemade gun in passenger&#8217;s carry-on bag<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/TSA-Maine-II-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105963\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/TSA-Maine-II-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/TSA-Maine-II-copy.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/TSA-Maine-II-copy-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>A passenger was caught last week attempting to board\u00a0a flight in Maine\u00a0with a hatchet and a homemade gun in his carry-on bag, according to TSA.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #003300;\">TSA officers at the\u00a0Portland International Jetport\u00a0in Portland, Maine, discovered the items on Tuesday.<\/span> Portland Police responded and confiscated the firearm, New England TSA spokesman Daniel Velez said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Velez\u00a0told MassLive\u00a0that the passenger was a 50-year-old man headed to Philadelphia.<\/span> He was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>allowed to keep the hatchet but had to move it to his checked luggage<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Assuming there had to be more to the story (as we were unable to believe what we read), we tried, unsuccessfully, to unearth additional facts.\u00a0 So, we&#8217;re left with three incredulous questions: (i) Sooo&#8230;they let the guy catch his flight?!?; (ii) The TSA didn&#8217;t find a guy trying get a hatchet and a zip gun worth their time to interrogate a little further?!?; and, (iii) Did they even think to suggest Philadelphia authorities to keep an eye on this guy?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ll allow Sigourney Weaver to express our feelings knowing the TSA is on the job:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BguoQO1XN2o?start=171&amp;end=173&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>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>Notice at no point in this report does anyone suggest aggressively pursuing and incarcerating the perpetrators of these brazen crimes. How bad do things have to get before Californians rise up and throw pandering Progressive politicians out on their useless asses?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=11340816\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/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>The great VDH explains why Gavin Newsom&#8217;s vision for California, which is the Progressive model for America, simply ain&#8217;t sustainable.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bWUWKs0dkFQ\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>On the Lighter Side<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>As the <em>Morning Jolt<\/em> noted, when it came to FTX, Larry David was actually right.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_-FQqo46CJQ\" 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 Monday, December 19th, 2022&#8230;and fellas, there&#8217;s only 6 shopping days left until Christmas! But before we begin, consider the following 411 that really should serve as a 911: At the same time branches of the federal government, including but not limited to, the FBI, (again&#8230;and again&#8230;and again!),\u00a0NIH,\u00a0CDC,\u00a0IRS\u00a0and\u00a0United States Army continue to commit brazen acts [&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-105956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105956","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=105956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106025,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105956\/revisions\/106025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}