{"id":107324,"date":"2023-02-16T19:09:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T00:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=107324"},"modified":"2023-02-16T19:10:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T00:10:01","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-february-15th-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=107324","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, February 15th, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, February 15th, 2023&#8230;and today we begin with a question&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-8JtZi2qFq4\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;occasioned by Ohio police\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>arresting<\/em><\/span> a journalist reporting on the train derailment in East Palestine&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvanLambertTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EvanLambertTV<\/a>, a DC-based correspondent for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsNation?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NewsNation<\/a>, has been in Ohio covering the train crash. He was doing a live shot in the back of the room during a press conference-was told to stop by police, was pushed to the ground, cuffed &amp; arrested &amp; put in a patrol car. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RZv6nT7j8o\">pic.twitter.com\/RZv6nT7j8o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NewsNationComms (@NewsNationComms) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsNationComms\/status\/1623469856996659203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;an accident, <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/spencerbrown\/2023\/02\/13\/basically-nuked-a-town-more-chemicals-discovered-at-site-of-ohio-train-derailment-n2619499\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>the seriousness of which it&#8217;s become clear authorities have been less than forthcoming<\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Meanwhile, demonstrably unable to solve <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>real-world<\/em><\/span> problems, our hopelessly over-his-head Secretary of Transportation\u00a0<\/strong><strong>is lending his laser-like focus on non-existent issues such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/buttigieg-racist-roads-comment-america-guilty\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>structural highway racism<\/em><\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/buttigieg-white-construction-workers-taking-jobs-communities-color\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>construction workers who don&#8217;t reflect the color of the communities in which they toil<\/em><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Balls5-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Balls5-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Balls5-1.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Balls5-1-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s life imitating art, in this case, one of our favorite scenes from <em>Seinfeld<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mNxz-lq38k4?start=185&amp;end=189&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>All of which just goes to prove, in Mayor Pete&#8217;s case&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/pete-300x300.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107299\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/pete-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/pete-300x300.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/pete-300x300-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/pete-300x300-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s scarier still is the man was once considered, by at least some on The Left, as a serious candidate for President.\u00a0 Then again&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/7b1kho.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107302\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/7b1kho.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/7b1kho.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/7b1kho-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/7b1kho-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of the utterly ineffective and completely insensate, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/dianne-feinstein-appears-unaware-retirement-announcement-reporter-gaggle-reports\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>when you can&#8217;t remember you&#8217;re retiring<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span>,&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/7b70ue.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107341\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/7b70ue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/7b70ue.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/7b70ue-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;it&#8217;s high time you did so.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, following up on an earlier submission from The Boss, in his latest installment of\u00a0<em>The Blade of Perseus<\/em>, the great VDH details what <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>could<\/em><\/span> perhaps be&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/bombshells-landmines-and-nemesis\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">A Real Bombshell<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">?<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/NYPICHPDPICT000006346281-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107263\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/NYPICHPDPICT000006346281-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/NYPICHPDPICT000006346281-copy.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/NYPICHPDPICT000006346281-copy-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Image-2-13-23-at-1.33-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Image-2-13-23-at-1.33-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Image-2-13-23-at-1.33-PM.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Image-2-13-23-at-1.33-PM-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Octogenarian journalist\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/08\/seymour-hersh-claims-us-navy-behind-nord-stream-2-pipeline-explosion\/\">Seymour Hersh\u2019s recent allegations<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0that the United States blew up sections of the Russo-German Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines were scarcely covered by the media that otherwise runs with the usual Hersh-fed embarrassments to the U.S. government. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Oddly, in this case, it stayed mum.<\/span> The story was adamantly denied by the Biden Administration and most of the bipartisan foreign policy establishment.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The news media\u2019s neglect cannot be due to any journalistic standards, because a sloppy and corrupt media long ago swore falsely that Trump let Putin put kill-bounties on our soldiers in Afghanistan, and insisted the Biden laptop was authentic evidence of Russian disinformation designed to help Trump.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>So we have no idea whether the media suppression of the story was due to its usual warped ideology or a rare, disinterested standard of ignoring a conspiracy theory.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Hersh\u2019s reporting was largely based on one anonymous source, but oddly marked by an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unusual level of detail<\/em><\/span> about the planning, carrying out, and purpose of the operation.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The Left had long deified Hersh for the consistently anti-American government themes in his sensationalized dispatches. His accuracy, however, is not always contested, given he was largely accurate in the disclosures about the My Lai massacre and the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuses. But in this instance, he has been met with ridicule rather than the usual adulation from the liberal media.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Still, there were a variety of circumstances that kept the smothered story breathing\u2014and for a multitude of reasons.<\/span> The only concerned countries with the operative ability to carry out such an intricate attack were likely Russia, the United States, and European Union countries.<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> The\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0in December concluded that, despite initial circumstantial evidence, there was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no reason to believe Russia blew up its own multibillion-dollar investment<\/em><\/span> that was deemed critical for future Russian foreign exchange revenues.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>While Hersh mentioned Denmark and Norway as cooperating with the United States, it is equally difficult to believe that any European Union or NATO nation would on its own attack the assets of another member, especially the shared investments of Germany that for some time has dominated the governance of EU and the policies of European members of NATO.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">More disturbingly, on the eve of the Ukraine war in January 2022, Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland quite indiscreetly boasted, \u201cIf Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another, Nord Stream 2 will not move forward.\u201d<\/span> She did <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not say what she meant<\/em><\/span> by \u201canother\u201d way.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">That was not an isolated threat.<\/span> Joe Biden reiterated the same warning a month later.\u00a0\u201cIf Russia invades,\u201d he said, \u201cthen there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2 . . . We will bring an end to it . . .\u00a0I promise you; we will be able to do it.\u201d <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">His choice of \u201cend\u201d implied more than voluntary German disconnection from an otherwise intact Russian pipeline.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>More recently, Nuland\u00a0<em>post facto<\/em>\u00a0expressed glee in an exchange with Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) that her earlier threat had been reified,\u00a0\u201cSenator Cruz, like you, I am\u2014and I think the administration is very pleased that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you say, a pile of metal at the bottom of the ocean.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Apparently, the position of the Biden Administration was not just belated official disapproval of the pipeline\u2014as President Trump had made abundantly clear during his own tenure with sanctions.<\/span> Rather, this government was pledged (\u201cI promise you\u201d) to \u201cbring an end to it,\u201d and had the ability to do just what it promised (\u201cWe will be able to do that\u201d).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">When the pipeline was actually bombed, the U.S. government expressed satisfaction with that violent act: \u201cVery pleased that . . . Nord Stream 2 is now . . . a pile of metal at the bottom of the ocean.\u201d<\/span> It would be hard to think Nuland was praising Putin for purportedly destroying his own multibillion-dollar investment, given that Germany did stop much of its deliveries of natural gas without the ruin of the pipeline.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Even if we put aside the question of who destroyed the pipelines (and they could be rendered useless if seawater continues to erode the interior linings), it was highly unusual for the president of the United States and an under secretary of State publicly to hint at a preemptive attack against a key asset of its ally Germany and a formidable power with over 6,500 nuclear weapons.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Nor do NATO nations destroy, preemptively and stealthily, the property of other NATO nations\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>especially given that Germany was facing the onset of autumn and winter, and did not have the wherewithal to keep its 80 million citizens warm without the full gas deliveries through the pipeline<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">There are no suggestions that the German government might have winked and nodded at the explosion\u2014given Berlin might have been otherwise afraid voluntarily to close down the pipeline given public support for the deliveries.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>If<\/em><\/span> the United States took extra measures\u2014alleged in detail by Hersh\u2014to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>evade<\/em><em> legal responsibilities<\/em><\/span> to apprise a select group of senators and representatives of a planned major covert operation, then that too <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>might well be an impeachable offense<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">As of now the story remains unproven, if not wild.<\/span> But unfortunately it dovetails with the prior statements of the highest American officials, and the apparent strategic agenda of the United States, better than do current competing narratives\u2014as the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0reminded us in the case of Russia.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>But even a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>slight chance<\/em><\/span> that the story rings true is terrifying in its implications\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>preemptively attacking<\/em><\/span> a nuclear power, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>destroying<\/em><\/span> the multibillion-dollar investment of an ally and its ability to bring fuel to its strapped citizenry, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>deliberately breaking federal laws to avoid congressional compliance<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Though we must note, if and when justice is ever served on Biden, an illegal attack on the Nordstream 2 would be one of the lesser charges he faces in this world&#8230;and the least of his problems in the next.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we mentioned &#8220;next&#8221;, <em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Stan Kurtz records how, in an ill-advised reversal&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/the-college-board-goes-to-war-with-desantis\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=30534405\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">The College Board Goes to War with DeSantis<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/newsom.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107250\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/newsom.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/newsom.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/newsom-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Facing a torrent of criticism from customary allies on the left for having caved to Ron DeSantis on the AP African-American Studies (APAAS) curriculum, the College Board issued an\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/allaccess.collegeboard.org\/our-commitment-ap-african-american-studies-scholars-and-field\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">attack<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0on Florida\u2019s governor at the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unlikely hour<\/em><\/span> of 8\u00a0<span class=\"small_caps\">p.m.<\/span>\u00a0Saturday night. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">What can account for so oddly timed a salvo?<\/span> Friday\u2019s\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><em><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/education\/2023\/02\/10\/ap-african-american-studies-fight-prompts-calls-college-board-ceos-ouster\/11228877002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">calls<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0from the National Black Justice Coalition, among others, for the resignation of College Board CEO David Coleman <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>may<\/em><\/span> have had something to do with it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Despite winning a considerable victory on the curriculum front, DeSantis has not yet formally accepted APAAS as a for-credit course in Florida.<\/span> The governor rightly wants to learn more about the College Board\u2019s newly announced plans to include and highlight critical-race-theory-based readings in APAAS\u2019s \u201cAP Classroom\u201d digital platform.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The College Board appears to have calculated that it has no further political leeway either to reduce the radical readings that will now be made available in its AP Classroom portal, or to balance them with more moderate and conservative voices. <\/span>Knowing that DeSantis is therefore unlikely to greenlight APAAS, the College Board has gone to war with Florida. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Attacking DeSantis is the College Board\u2019s best hope for downsizing the tsunami of outrage threatening to engulf it from the left. <\/span>Yet the College Board\u2019s attack on Florida\u2019s governor risks driving away the red states, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>particularly<\/em><\/span> states that have laws barring the promotion of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in K\u201312.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Against all appearances \u2014 and against common sense \u2014 the College Board continues to claim that several months\u2019 worth of expressions of concern by Florida about CRT-based content had nothing to do with the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/big-win-for-desantis-in-battle-over-ap-african-american-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">radical revisions<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0to APAAS announced on February 1.<\/span> These denials continue in the face of the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><em><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/desantis-exposes-college-boards-apparent-deceptions-on-ap-african-american-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">timeline<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0released by the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) detailing its contacts with the College Board.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The College Board <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>now<\/em><\/span> claims that those extensive communications with FDOE were merely \u201ctransactional.\u201d<\/span> Supposedly, all the College Board wanted from Florida was a \u201ccourse code\u201d that would have allowed students to take the pilot APAAS course for credit. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Yet by its own account, the College Board understood that Florida was withholding such credit until it was confident that the course did not promote CRT, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>i<\/em><em>n violation of Florida law<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The College Board\u2019s Saturday-night missive goes on to claim that Florida\u2019s concerns <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>couldn\u2019t possibly<\/em><\/span> have affected its February APAAS curriculum revisions. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">After all, Florida\u2019s feedback was \u201cvague\u201d and \u201cuninformed.\u201d<\/span> All Florida offered, according to the College Board, were questions such as \u201cWhat does the word \u2018intersectionality\u2019 mean?\u201d and \u201cDoes this course promote Black Panther thinking?\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Actually<\/em><\/span>, \u201cpromoting Black Panther thinking\u201d is an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>excellent summary<\/em><\/span> of the problems with APAAS.<\/span> As I\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><em><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/neo-marxing-the-college-board-with-ap-african-american-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">explained<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0in September, in my critique of the then-secret curriculum, the Black Panther Party\u2019s Marxist worldview and policy platform were the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unifying feature<\/em><\/span> of APAAS\u2019s controversial concluding unit. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The topic on the Black Panthers connected everything from radical psychiatrist Frantz Fanon\u2019s musings on the healing power of violence, at the outset of the unit, to Marxist professor Robin D. G. Kelley\u2019s meditations on the revolutionary history of black studies, at unit\u2019s end.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The College Board laughably pretends not to have understood what Florida was getting at. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">How could Florida have influenced APAAS\u2019s curriculum revisions when Florida couldn\u2019t even make its own concerns clear?<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Come on<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The College Board knew <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>exactly<\/em><\/span> what Florida was worried about.<\/span> It can\u2019t even maintain a consistent pose of na\u00efvet\u00e9 throughout the text of Saturday\u2019s letter. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Toward the end of that letter, the College Board actually makes fun of Florida for acting as though it needs to explain the controversy over terms such as \u201cintersectionality\u201d and \u201csystemic\u201d racism.<\/span> The idea that you have to explain this controversy to us is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ridiculous<\/em><\/span>, says the College Board. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Exactly<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> The College Board understood Florida\u2019s concerns <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>perfectly well<\/em><\/span> from the start. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">It needed no detailed roadmap to curriculum revision from FDOE.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The College Board <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>played dumb<\/em><\/span> with Florida for months because it understood <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>perfectly well<\/em><\/span> that FDOE would <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never approve<\/em><\/span> APAAS <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>if<\/em><\/span> it knew what was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>actually in it<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">APAAS is thick with advocacy for CRT and radical Marxism.<\/span> The trick is that this radicalism was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>buried<\/em><\/span> by the initial curriculum, which mentioned authors <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>without listing specific assignments or concepts<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">You had to read extensively in the work of various authors, and guess which essays and books would actually be assigned, to catch the drift of all the advocacy.<\/span> The College Board backtracked in February, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> because it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>didn\u2019t understand<\/em><\/span> Florida concerns, but because it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>understood them all too well<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The College Board\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>real problem<\/em><\/span> was its failed attempts at secrecy and deception. <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Only<\/em><\/span> when it realized that Florida wouldn\u2019t be fooled by a vague and confusing curriculum framework did the College Board <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">modify<\/span><\/em> APAAS<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kinda sorta sounds like the FBI disavowing it&#8217;s internal memo detailing the threat posed by orthodox Catholicism <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only after<\/em><\/span> it became public:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FSkbKKtBF5s\" 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>All of which is why, as Jeff Tucker writes at\u00a0<em>The Epoch Times<\/em>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/leviathan-must-be-stopped_5032634.html?utm_source=Opinion&amp;src_src=Opinion&amp;utm_campaign=opinion-2023-02-08&amp;src_cmp=opinion-2023-02-08&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;est=qaDCwUVMwqHe9A34jetb%2B0CpOkdaalMJcOl747EheTavPbOXrEX2HewL8fnyvEEScg%3D%3D\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">Leviathan Must Be Stopped<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/leviathan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107267\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/leviathan.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/leviathan.png 398w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/leviathan-284x300.png 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>In the sweep of history, the past three years have been the most successful exercise of power on a global scale ever seen\u2014if by successful, we mean dramatically intensifying the wealth transfer from the peasants to elites and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>control<\/em><\/span> of a ruling class over the whole population in the shortest possible amount of time.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">In that, what began in disease panic has been more successful than any heresy hunt in the Middle Ages, sedition purge in the early modern era, or war in our times.<\/span> It was brilliant and spectacularly effective.<span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Therefore, of course, they will try it again, building from this episode to do ever more.<\/span> Whatever victories we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>seem<\/em><\/span> to have won\u2014the rollback of vaccine mandates, the successful court cases, the opinion polls showing that people are angry\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>need to be understood in this light<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">There <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>will be more<\/em><\/span> and they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>will be institutionalized<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> The World Health Organization is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>working right now<\/em><\/span> to institutionalize and codify the worst of the lockdowns and mandates, adding global disease surveillance through technology. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">The world\u2019s central banks are working on a digital currency for the sole purpose of controlling all finance and economics.<\/span> The World Economic Forum is the open conspiracy to dismantle much of the progress of hundreds of years and replace it with a dystopian vision of universal despotism.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">As a result, the distance between what we see and what they see has never been more vast.<\/span> Back in the days of the Occupy Wall Street movement, protesters got some traction with the claim that most of the wealth in society is controlled by the 1 percent. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">The intuition was good but the specifics were wrong.<\/span> The problem <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>isn\u2019t<\/em><\/span> the wealth as such. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">It\u2019s the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>power over our lives that the very rich have<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> The people and institutions that seek to control the world today\u2014occupying our lives and liberties in every respect\u2014are the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>real<\/em><\/span> 1 percent<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Case in point, as\u00a0<em>FOX<\/em>\u00a0relates New York mayor&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/nyc-mayor-covid-mandates-return-blasts-people-i-want-do-whatever-i-want\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Eric Adams says COVID mandates may need to return<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/adams-cnbc-nyc-crime-nypost-cover-07-1-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107277\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/adams-cnbc-nyc-crime-nypost-cover-07-1-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/adams-cnbc-nyc-crime-nypost-cover-07-1-copy.png 376w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/adams-cnbc-nyc-crime-nypost-cover-07-1-copy-269x300.png 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>New York City Mayor\u00a0Eric Adams, during an interview with Caribbean Power Jam Radio\u2019s &#8220;The Reset Show,&#8221; defended the rescinding of a COVID vaccine for city workers and that there may be a time that mandates will be in place again.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8220;I know what COVID looked like, and I know that if we didn\u2019t have those mandates \u2013 I take my hat off to Bill de Blasio.<\/span> That was a tough call, because you know New Yorkers\u2026No New Yorker wants anyone telling them anything,&#8221; Adams said during the interview. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8220;That\u2019s who we are.<\/span> We don\u2019t want to be mandated. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">We don\u2019t want anyone to tell us to put on a mask.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The mayor continued to talk about a cultural mind shift of fighting a dangerous and deadly virus, adding that he went to the hospitals and saw trailers of bodies.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">He also said <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he saw<\/em><\/span>\u00a0nurses and doctors at hospitals\u00a0wearing makeshift masks and plastic bags to protect themselves.<\/span><picture><\/picture><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>&#8220;This was real. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">If we didn\u2019t have that vaccine and we didn\u2019t have those mandates, we would have lost so many more lives,&#8221; Adams said.<\/span> &#8220;And so, those who made the determination that, no, I still want to come into a work environment and I\u2019m not going to be vaccinated, no, I want to still ride the trains. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">I want to do whatever I want.<\/span> That just wasn\u2019t right. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">That wasn\u2019t right.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice in response to Adams&#8217; assertions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0xHe1zkABYo?start=87&amp;end=89&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>Power does indeed corrupt, but something tells us Eric Adams was rotten to the core long before he was elected mayor of the Big Apple.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s this from\u00a0<em>Townhall.com<\/em>, as Derek Hunter cautions&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/derekhunter\/2023\/02\/12\/conservatives-need-to-stop-embracing-leftists-who-say-something-right-n2619455\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">Conservatives Need To Stop Embracing Leftists Who Say Something Right<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/7b09vd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/7b09vd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/7b09vd.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/7b09vd-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>It happens all the time: someone famous, either fully or mildly, says something remotely conservative and the conservative establishment goes absolutely crazy for them, then it all falls apart. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">It\u2019s time to stop.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">That brings us to Joe Rogan.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\">He\u2019s the world\u2019s most popular podcaster, a comedian and MMA commentator. <\/span>He\u2019s also <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not a conservative<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Yet, on the occasions he says something we like, the establishment rushes to cheer and hype him, which makes everyone look like morons or puts our movement on the hook <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>when he says something stupid<\/em><\/span>. <\/span>And he has exceedingly long conversations with liberals <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>while stoned<\/em><\/span>, so he\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>going<\/em><\/span> to say something stupid <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>often<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Like <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>last week<\/em><\/span> when he defended Ilhan Omar\u2019s anti-Semitism with a little of his own.<\/span> <\/span>While insisting she said nothing anti-Semitic, Rogan said \u201cThe idea that Jewish people are not into money is ridiculous. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">That\u2019s like saying Italians aren\u2019t into pizza.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/derekahunter\/status\/1623374026503602176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">But he wasn\u2019t joking, and his left-wing guest went further without any protest or pushback<\/a><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">How many times have you seen people sucking up to Rogan over a 30 second clip from a 3-hour show?<\/span> You <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>own all of it<\/em><\/span> when you kiss the rear end the way they do, all because they hope to get on his show <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>to sell their books, pimp their shows or simply raise money for themselves<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>I\u2019m not saying the occurrences of some celebrity or liberal \u201cgetting it\u201d for a moment, or saying something right (if only by accident) shouldn\u2019t be highlighted, but you can point out what someone said that is correct <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>without touting the person saying it as some kind of messiah<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>It\u2019s true that a stopped clock is right twice a day, but it\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>wrong<\/em><\/span> the other 23 hours and 58 minutes. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">The conservative movement would be better off with leaders less interested in lining their bank accounts than they are in advancing conservatism, but until that can happen maybe they could stop elevating the wrong people or building up leftists simply because they accidentally told the truth for a minute.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>And in today&#8217;s installment of the <em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">EnvironMental Moment<\/span><\/em>, a forward from the <em>Cowboy State Daily<\/em> via Speed details&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"post-title single-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #008000;\">Why Modern Civilization Isn\u2019t Possible Without Fossil Fuels<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/book-review-how-the-world-really-works-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107280\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/book-review-how-the-world-really-works-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/book-review-how-the-world-really-works-copy.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/book-review-how-the-world-really-works-copy-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>A Wyoming map of carbon dioxide emissions in the state shows what one would expect to be the primary sources of greenhouse gasses \u2013 coal mines, coal-fired power plants, oil refineries and airports.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">There\u2019s one exception.\u00a0<\/span>According to Climate Trace, the Laramie cement plant produces 792,000 tons of carbon dioxide, about the same as the Rapid City cement plant in South Dakota.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #003300;\">While there are efforts to shut down coal-fired power plants and replace them with non-carbon energy sources, it would be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>virtually impossible<\/em><\/span> to power a cement plant with wind and solar.<\/span> The same is true of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>plastics, ammonia and steel<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all<\/em><\/span> necessary for modern civilization, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all<\/em><\/span> require the burning of fossil fuels to produce.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u201cThere\u2019s no credible path, no physical chemistry or energetics, to significantly replace that energy\u201d with non-carbon sources, Mark P. Mills, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, told Cowboy State Daily.<\/span>\u00a0Vaclav Smil, distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Manitoba, explains in his new book \u201cHow the World Really Works,\u201d that modern societies require the four pillars of civilization: cement, steel, plastics and ammonia.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>\u2022 Ammonia is the basis for all nitrogen fertilizers. Without the food produced with modern fertilizers, billions of people would starve.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>\u2022 Plastics are found in everything from computers to furniture to clothes. As Smil explains in his book, they are also indispensable in nearly every aspect of health care \u2014 from incubators to artificial hearts.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>\u2022 Without steel, there would be no skyscrapers or cars \u2013 including electric vehicles.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>\u2022 Cement is the key ingredient in concrete, without which there are no modern cities, tunnels, dams, roads, runways or ports.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>No viable replacement exists for these materials, at least not in the near future or on a global scale, Smil explains<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a second shot of the juice in video form, as California Republican (talk about an endangered species!) Tom McClintock offers one of the most reasoned assessments of the insanity that is green energy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nZZH3aNl5ZE\" 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>Again, replacing these critical components of life as we know it wouldn&#8217;t just be hard, not merely difficult, but absolutely and totally&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KzgaqB2hFio?start=10&amp;end=12&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>Moving on, here&#8217;s another octet of items specially selected to sate the curiosity of inquiring Conservative minds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(1). Like her idol The Donald, we&#8217;re no particular fan of Kari Lake.\u00a0 But we must question whether she &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/photo-goes-viral-kari-lake-refusing-stand-during-black-national-anthem-super-bowl\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>refused&#8221; to rise for the playing of the MSM-desginated &#8220;Black national anthem<\/em><\/span><\/a>&#8221; in the run-up to the Super Bowl, or simply saw no reason to do so.\u00a0 We sure as hell wouldn&#8217;t.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2). <em>FOX<\/em> reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/republicans-call-fauci-top-biden-officials-testify-covid-origins-investigation-heats-up\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic is ramping up its investigation into\u00a0COVID-19 origins\u00a0by renewing a series of documents requests and demanding transcribed testimony under oath from top current and former Biden administration officials<\/em><\/span><\/a>, including but not limited to Dr. Faux Chi, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, DNI Avril Haines, White House Science Adviser Francis Collins and Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FRMkiZD42tw\" 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;the group which helped funnel Collins&#8217; and Faux Chi&#8217;s funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for gain-of-function research.\u00a0 Republicans have indicated refusals to attend voluntarily will be met with compulsory subpoenas.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(3). <em>NRO<\/em> revealed 46* has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/biden-fires-architect-of-the-capitol-amid-unethical-behavior-allegations\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=30540460\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>fired the\u00a0U.S. architect of the Capitol<\/em><\/span><\/a>, in part because he impersonated a police officer and regularly misused government vehicles to take personal trips.\u00a0 This after Joe taking Hunter for no apparent reason to China&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/191004-joe-hunter-biden-china-se-1227p.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107308\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/191004-joe-hunter-biden-china-se-1227p.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/191004-joe-hunter-biden-china-se-1227p.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/191004-joe-hunter-biden-china-se-1227p-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;and impersonating the President for over two years?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Seriously<\/em><\/span>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(4). <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/next-dems-hit-list-suburbs\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">FOX informs us<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">&#8220;<em><strong>I<\/strong><strong>f you&#8217;ve worked hard to\u00a0afford a suburban house\u00a0with a patch of lawn where your kids can play, you&#8217;re under attack.&#8221;\u00a0 The\u00a0Biden administration and Democrats in New York, Connecticut and other states are <span style=\"color: #000000;\">f<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ighting local zoning laws in order to build high-rise apartment buildings with &#8220;affordable&#8221; units in tree-lined, single-family neighborhoods<\/span><\/span>. All in the name of equity, meaning everyone can live in a tranquil suburb, whether they&#8217;ve earned the money to pay for it or not.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Thus inflicting precisely the same havoc in suburban neighborhoods they&#8217;ve wreaked in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis and every other decaying urban enclave which has been subject to 50+ years of uninterrupted Progressive policies and governance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(5). The <em>New York Post<\/em> revealed that in a recent fundraising email New York Dimocrat\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Jamaal Bowman\u00a0said a Memphis man who was fatally beaten by Black police officers was &#8220;killed by white supremacy&#8221; and &#8220;America&#8221;:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>&#8220;<em>Tyre Nichols should be alive today. Instead, like so many others he was killed by police. Killed by white supremacy. Killed by America.\u00a0This is Black terror. We feel it everyday. We feel it more today. Too many victims to name. Too much hurt to explain. Too many tears, too normalized, too numb. From 1619 to the present day we live in a constant state of terror<\/em>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>No, Jamaal: in a scene played out every day in decaying Dimocratic-controlled cities across the country they were killed by other Blacks raised in a culture of anger, resentment and violence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(6). <em>Best of the Web<\/em> offered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/washingtons-sleepy-six-weeks-ebd53988?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>this little gem from the Annals of Unintended Consequences<\/em><\/span><\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><strong>A study from researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of California Berkeley\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"css-1h1us5y-StyledLink exk4ewm0\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/system\/files\/working_papers\/w30934\/w30934.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferer\" data-type=\"link\">reports<\/a><\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"css-oqk0mc-Blockquote et9s80n0\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\" data-type=\"blockquote\"><p><strong><em>This paper estimates consumer demand for firearms with the aim of predicting the likely impacts of firearm regulations on the number and types of guns in circulation&#8230; we find that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">bans or restrictions<\/span> that specifically target \u201cassault weapons\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">increase demand<\/span> for handguns, which are associated with the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">vast majority<\/span> of firearm-related violence.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Gee&#8230;whooda thunk it?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(7).\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/americans-dont-need-to-worry-about-aliens-white-house-says-after-shooting-down-three-unidentified-objects\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=30539595\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Pentagon propagandist John Kirby assures Americans we don&#8217;t &#8220;need to worry about aliens<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span>&#8220;.\u00a0 Yeah, only uncounted millions of&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1235366915.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107294\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1235366915.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1235366915.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1235366915-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/CB_MigrantsGroupCrossing-19-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107293\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/CB_MigrantsGroupCrossing-19-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/CB_MigrantsGroupCrossing-19-copy.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/CB_MigrantsGroupCrossing-19-copy-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/210917_DelRio_Greenlee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107292\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/210917_DelRio_Greenlee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/210917_DelRio_Greenlee.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/210917_DelRio_Greenlee-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/CB_MigrantsGroupCrossing-28.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/CB_MigrantsGroupCrossing-28.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/CB_MigrantsGroupCrossing-28.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/CB_MigrantsGroupCrossing-28-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>illegal<\/em><\/span> aliens!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(8). Then again, at least Kirby lies in cogent sentences.\u00a0 The first Black, lesbian who-identifies-as-a-woman White House spokeswhatever, on the other hand, can&#8217;t even describe the nature of NORAD without help&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Karine Jean-Pierre says the U.S. military shot an object over Canada &#8220;because it&#8217;s part of NORAD. There&#8217;s, uh, the NORAD is part of like a, part of a\u2014it&#8217;s a, it&#8217;s a, what you call, a coalition, a consortium.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We did it clearly in step with CANADIA.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X1CmWnR2ns\">pic.twitter.com\/X1CmWnR2ns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1624801253598593027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2023<\/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>&#8230;let alone pronounce the name of our neighbor to the north.<\/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\/2023\/02\/IMG_0366-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_0366-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_0366-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_0366-800x0-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/a-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107251\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/a-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/a-3.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/a-3-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/a-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107318\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/a-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/a-4.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/a-4-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/aaaa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107252\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/aaaa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/aaaa.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/aaaa-300x250.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/aaa-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107254\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/aaa-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/aaa-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/aaa-1-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/aa-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/aa-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/aa-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/aa-1-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/afb021323dAPC-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/afb021323dAPC-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/afb021323dAPC-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/afb021323dAPC-800x0-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_0364-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_0364-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_0364-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_0364-800x0-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Image-2-13-23-at-7.54-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107248\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Image-2-13-23-at-7.54-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Image-2-13-23-at-7.54-AM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Image-2-13-23-at-7.54-AM-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And is there anything more worthless in the world than this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Aftermath.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107313\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Aftermath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Aftermath.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Aftermath-300x258.jpg 300w\" 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\/2023\/02\/Balls2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107314\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Balls2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Balls2.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Balls2-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Balls1-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Balls1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Balls1-2.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Balls1-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Balls1-2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Balls.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107316\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Balls.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Balls.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Balls-300x294.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and the lovely Shannon&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_7617.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107335\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_7617.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_7617.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_7617-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_7617-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;as well as a few direct from <em>The Patriot Post<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Image-2-13-23-at-1.32-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107286\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Image-2-13-23-at-1.32-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Image-2-13-23-at-1.32-PM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Image-2-13-23-at-1.32-PM-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Image-2-13-23-at-1.33-PM-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107287\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Image-2-13-23-at-1.33-PM-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Image-2-13-23-at-1.33-PM-1.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Image-2-13-23-at-1.33-PM-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Image-2-13-23-at-1.33-PM-1-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Image-2-13-23-at-2.19-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107289\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Image-2-13-23-at-2.19-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Image-2-13-23-at-2.19-PM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Image-2-13-23-at-2.19-PM-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Image-2-13-23-at-2.19-PM-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call <\/strong><b>it a wrap with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The Crime Blotter<\/em><\/span>, courtesy today of a Wolverine state representative who didn&#8217;t bother learning the facts before issuing an asinine statement on the MSU shootings:<\/b><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800000;\">Michigan Democrat: F**k Your Thoughts and Prayers, We Need Gun Control<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ranjeev_Puri.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107317\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ranjeev_Puri.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>When\u00a0Puri\u00a0posted his &#8220;f**k your prayers, pass more gun control&#8221; statement, the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/juliorosas\/2023\/02\/14\/msu-school-shooter-had-a-criminal-history-with-a-firearm-n2619546\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public now knows<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0the 43-year-old college shooter was arrested for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>carrying a pistol without a permit in 2019<\/em><\/span>, with prosecutors <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>dismissing the felony charge<\/em><\/span>, which <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>could<\/em><\/span> have carried a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>five-year sentence<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">He pleaded guilty to a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>misdemeanor charge<\/em><\/span> and\u00a0completed\u00a0his probation in 2021.<\/span> Police had been called to his house for shooting out the back <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>multiple times before the attack<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">MSU is also a gun-free zone<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hey, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>someone<\/em><\/span> has to be the dumbest Asian-American in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a second shot of the juice: While we&#8217;re reticent to use a tragedy to make a political point, such failures to enforce existing gun laws have unfortunately become a recurring aspect of mass shootings, and this one was no exception.\u00a0 We&#8217;d challenge Mr. Puri to name a single additional <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>constitutional<\/em><\/span> gun control measure (e.g., a total ban and confiscation doesn&#8217;t count) which would have prevented a shooting Michigan authorities almost seemed to invite.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Video of the Day<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt Walsh calls a spade a spade&#8230;or in this case, correctly identifies Libtards as Libtards. And yes, purple hair, you ARE a Libtard!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JkXHVIDY8pE?start=0&amp;end=735&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=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>Tales of the Darkside<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jim Jordan hard at work. The real question is how he&#8217;ll manage to make meaningful changes to prevent such actual election interference again.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IRLxJCXuLws\" 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>Having just returned from a wheek in Mehico, where we enjoyed we many a plate of authentic Hispanic cuisine, we found this old SNL skit particularly appropriato!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nWMp_z7Jnxw\" 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, February 15th, 2023&#8230;and today we begin with a question&#8230; &#8230;occasioned by Ohio police\u00a0arresting a journalist reporting on the train derailment in East Palestine&#8230; BREAKING: @EvanLambertTV, a DC-based correspondent for @NewsNation, has been in Ohio covering the train crash. 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