{"id":18410,"date":"2013-05-13T21:11:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T01:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=18410"},"modified":"2013-05-13T21:12:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T01:12:14","slug":"the-daily-gouge-tuesday-may-14th-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=18410","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge, Tuesday, May 14th, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Tuesday, May 14th, 2013&#8230;but before we begin, it&#8217;s worth noting how The First Marxists marked Mothers Day:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-11-at-2.12.15-PM1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18469\" alt=\"Screen-shot-2013-05-11-at-2.12.15-PM1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-11-at-2.12.15-PM1.png\" width=\"471\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-11-at-2.12.15-PM1.png 471w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-11-at-2.12.15-PM1-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Free&#8221; birth control; after all, isn&#8217;t <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span> what Mothers Day is all about?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, a President who&#8217;s been MIA his entire life is finally confronted with the consequences of making a career of voting &#8220;present&#8221;:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cpvRIxr4QwE\" height=\"235\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Same song&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sh163n1lJ4M\" height=\"235\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KiIP_KDQmXs\" height=\"235\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;different tune!\u00a0 In the meantime, as the <em>WSJ <\/em>notes, The Anointed One&#8217;s attempts to revise history continue:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;Keep in mind, by the way, these so-called [Benghazi] talking points that were prepared for <span class=\"topicLink\">Susan Rice<\/span> five, six days after the event occurred pretty much matched the assessments that I was receiving at that time in my presidential daily briefing. And keep in mind that two to three days after Susan Rice appeared on the Sunday shows, using these talking points, which have been the source of all this controversy, I sent up the head of our National Counterterrorism Center, Matt Olsen, up to Capitol Hill and specifically said it was an act of terrorism and that extremist elements inside of Libya had been involved in it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">So if this was some effort on our part to try to downplay what had happened or tamp it down, that would be a pretty odd thing that three days later we end up putting out all the information that, in fact, has now served as the basis for everybody recognizing that this was a terrorist attack and that it may have included elements that were planned by extremists inside of Libya.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Who executes some sort of cover-up or effort to tamp things down for three days?\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">(Other than someone who thinks his absolute control of the MSM permits him to do so?!?)<\/span><\/strong> So the whole thing defies logic. And the fact that this keeps on getting churned out, frankly, has a lot to do with political motivations. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>We&#8217;ve had folks who have challenged <span class=\"topicLink\">Hillary Clinton<\/span>&#8216;s integrity, Susan Rice&#8217;s integrity, <span class=\"topicLink\">Mike Mullen<\/span> and Tom Pickering&#8217;s integrity. <em>It&#8217;s a given that mine gets challenged by these same folks<\/em>.<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>That&#8217;s because, in the words of our dear, departed Dad addressing one of his sons&#8217; numerous transgressions, &#8220;One of you would lie and the other would verify it!&#8221;\u00a0 They&#8217;re either lying, Mr. &#8220;Voting Presentdent&#8221;, or they&#8217;re gullible to the point of ignorance; take your pick.\u00a0 And need we mention it was Hillary who coined the phrase &#8220;vast right-wing conspiracy&#8221; in defense of her husband&#8217;s patent prevarications and dubious denials?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>One thing&#8217;s for certain: when the music finally stops&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/050813.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18447\" alt=\"lo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/050813.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/050813.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/050813-300x104.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/A-Stain-on-her-Record.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18448\" alt=\"Long-Story\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Long-Story.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Long-Story.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Long-Story-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18451\" alt=\"A Stain on her Record\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/A-Stain-on-her-Record.gif\" width=\"462\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;neither The Obamao nor his compliant shills in the MSM plan on The Dear Misleader being the one left standing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Though as Joe Curl suggests in <em>The Washington Times<\/em>, courtesy of the <em>Drudge Report<\/em>, Langley doesn&#8217;t appear prepared to play the part of the sacrificial lamb: <\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"mb min entry-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a title=\"Watch out for Petraeus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/may\/12\/curl-watch-out-petraeus-benghazi-scandal\/?page=all#pagebreak\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Watch out for Petraeus in Benghazi scandal<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/petraues.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18472\" alt=\"CIA Director David Petraeus, testifies b\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/petraues.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/petraues.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/petraues-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>&#8230;Despite protestations by the White House, this scandal is just beginning.<\/strong><\/span> And the White House has picked a very bad scapegoat: the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA follows RFK\u2019s edict: \u201cDon\u2019t get mad, get even.\u201d And when the CIA gets even, it isn\u2019t pretty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">With the White House putting all blame on the agency, expect push back this week \u2014 nuclear push back. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Gen. David H. Petraeus, the former director forced to resign after a sex scandal, is a dangerous man to the Obama administration.<\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Mad and intent on getting even, he\u2019s already talking, telling one reporter the talking points were \u201cuseless\u201d and that he preferred not to use them at all.<\/span> The floodgates will open this week, and by the end of business Friday, the scandal will be full blown.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>And though the blame for Benghazi may not ultimately be affixed to Hillary&#8217;s ample arse&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mrz051313dAPR20130513094523.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18464\" alt=\"mrz051313dAPR20130513094523\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mrz051313dAPR20130513094523.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mrz051313dAPR20130513094523.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mrz051313dAPR20130513094523-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/aria_c10920720130512120100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18465\" alt=\"aria_c10920720130512120100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/aria_c10920720130512120100.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/aria_c10920720130512120100.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/aria_c10920720130512120100-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&#8230;the fallout may well spell the end of this toad&#8217;s wild ride.\u00a0 After all, Benghazi and Bosnia are bad enough:<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/image001.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18466\" alt=\"image001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/image001.png\" width=\"508\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/image001.png 508w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/image001-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/image001-297x300.png 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uHVEDq6RVXc\" height=\"235\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Put &#8217;em together with Whitewater, Filegate, Travelgate and all the other misstatements, scandals and skeletons littering Hillary&#8217;s history, and you have<\/strong><strong><strong> the stuff of dreams for political attack ads&#8230;from candidates of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>either<\/em><\/span> party.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PlBpNTEaRTI#t=36s\" height=\"235\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the meantime, as the <em>WSJ<\/em> reports, the plot thickens:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"The IRS Wants You\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324715704578480900591444118.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The IRS Wants You <\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"subhead\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The scandal over politicized tax enforcement is growing.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tea_party_scotus_AP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18487\" alt=\"tea_party_scotus_AP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tea_party_scotus_AP.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tea_party_scotus_AP.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tea_party_scotus_AP-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>And did we mention they&#8217;re now in charge of implementing Obamascare?!?<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">President Obama famously joked in a college commencement address in 2009 that he <em>could<\/em> use the IRS to target political enemies but of course he never would. <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong> It appears that people at the Internal Revenue Service didn&#8217;t think he was joking.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That&#8217;s become clear since IRS Director of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner admitted on Friday that the agency targeted conservatives for special tax-exempt scrutiny during the 2012 election season. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The story has already blossomed into the latest abuse of government power, as documents show the IRS targeted tea party types and groups that specifically opposed the Obama Administration.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>But trust him; like Sergeant Schultz&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/polls_obama_sgt_schultz_3707_86117_answer_3_xlarge.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18488\" alt=\"polls_obama_sgt_schultz_3707_86117_answer_3_xlarge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/polls_obama_sgt_schultz_3707_86117_answer_3_xlarge-300x293.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/polls_obama_sgt_schultz_3707_86117_answer_3_xlarge-300x293.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/polls_obama_sgt_schultz_3707_86117_answer_3_xlarge.jpeg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;he knew <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>NOTHING<\/em><\/span>!\u00a0 Maybe if he played less golf&#8230;?!?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As for any objections Dimocrats such as Max Baucus might voice, save your breath; you knowingly made a deal with the Devil&#8230;and Perdition awaits. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong>Speaking of career dissipation lights going into high gear, the glow in the corner of Eric Holder&#8217;s eye must be bright indeed:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" id=\"article-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Justice Department secretly obtained AP phone records<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/time-to-fire-holder-crook-politics-1322968806.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18477\" alt=\"time-to-fire-holder-crook-politics-1322968806\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/time-to-fire-holder-crook-politics-1322968806.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/time-to-fire-holder-crook-politics-1322968806.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/time-to-fire-holder-crook-politics-1322968806-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative&#8217;s top executive called a &#8220;massive and unprecedented intrusion&#8221; into how news organizations gather the news.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or the duration of the calls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In all, the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown, but more than 100 journalists work in the offices where phone records were targeted, on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>In a letter of protest sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt said the government sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation.<\/strong><\/span> He demanded the return of the phone records and destruction of all copies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters.<\/span> These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP&#8217;s newsgathering operations and disclose information about AP&#8217;s activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know,&#8221; Pruitt said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The government would not say why it sought the records. Officials have previously said in public testimony that the U.S. attorney in Washington is conducting a criminal investigation into who may have provided information contained in a May 7, 2012, AP story about a foiled terror plot. The story disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaida plot in the spring of 2012 to detonate a bomb on an airplane bound for the United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wethinks Mr. Pruitt doth protest too much, particularly for a man at the helm of a supposed news-gathering organization which has remained strangely silent about Benghazi, Fast &amp; Furious and any other of a hundred scandals involving Team Tick-Tock which would have sunk any Republican Administration.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But don&#8217;t hold your breath waiting for the <em>AP<\/em>&#8216;s indignation to take the form of any serious investigative journalism; after all, that would require some old-fashioned, hard-nosed reporting, not only on this Administration&#8217;s past transgressions, but sins they&#8217;re currently contemplating, as the <em>The New Media Journal<\/em> details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 25px; text-align: left;\">US Discussing Giving Russia Missile Defense Data<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/s1.reutersmedia.net_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18468\" alt=\"U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Korea\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/s1.reutersmedia.net_.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/s1.reutersmedia.net_.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/s1.reutersmedia.net_-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>&#8220;After my election I have more flexibility&#8221;&#8230;to sell out America&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The head of the US Missile Defense Agency says that the Obama administration has discussed declassifying key data on US missile defense in order to provide it to Russia. The administration has been exploring how to ease Russian concerns that the US missile defense shield is aimed at countering Russia&#8217;s nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Arms control advocates have suggested that revealing missile interceptor capabilities could provide a breakthrough on an issue that Russia says stands in the way of nuclear arms reductions.<\/strong><\/span> But doing so would provoke charges by Republicans that the administration is compromising national security to appease Moscow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Under questioning at a hearing on Wednesday, Missile Defense Agency director Vice Adm. James Syring said that he has discussed declassifying data, including the speed of interceptors, with senior Defense Department officials.<\/strong> <\/span>Missile defense has long been a contentious issue between the United States and Russia. The US has said that its capabilities are aimed at countering threats from Iran and North Korea. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It says that its interceptors would not pose a threat to Russia&#8217;s huge nuclear arsenal<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Obama has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>twice<\/em><\/span> altered US missile defense plans in Europe that Russia had stridently opposed.<\/strong><\/span> He has said the decisions were about better addressing threats. But Republicans have charged that they were aimed at soothing Russian objections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One doesn&#8217;t require the intellect of a rocket surgeon to appreciate a purely <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>defensive<\/em><\/span> missile system only threatens the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>offensive<\/em><\/span> capabilities of a potential aggressor.\u00a0 So until someone gives us a darn good reason an American President should kowtow to wishes of a decidedly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>un<\/em><\/span>friendly foreign power, we&#8217;re filing this one in the &#8220;High Crimes and Misdemeanors&#8221; file.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And since we&#8217;re on the subject of those dedicated to America&#8217;s destruction, it&#8217;s time for the Muslim Minute, courtesy today of Jim Geraghty and <em>National Review<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">One Big Reason America Is Ready to Ignore the Muslim World for a Long While<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Yes, the world has many wonderful Muslims in it. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>But it\u2019s time for all of us to stop pretending that the basic teachings of the faith don\u2019t frequently bring its practitioners into direct, often violent conflict with some of the basic concepts of Western liberty.<\/strong><\/span> For example, let this chart from The Economist depress the heck out of you:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/clip_image002.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18427\" alt=\"clip_image002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/clip_image002.gif\" width=\"595\" height=\"887\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>The freedom to choose your faith, and leave one you no longer find to be true or speaking to your soul, is a fundamental one &#8212; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and more than 70 percent of Muslims in Pakistan, Jordan, Afghanistan, and Egypt believe it should be legal to kill you for leaving Islam<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That might be one more reason that Americans are ready to wash their hands of the Muslim world and let those countries\u2019 inhabitants tear themselves apart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" id=\"article-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Lebanese man gets 300 lashes, 6 years for helping woman convert to Christianity<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/saudiwomen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18479\" alt=\"saudiwomen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/saudiwomen.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/saudiwomen.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/saudiwomen-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A Lebanese man was sentenced to 300 lashes with a whip and six years in prison for his role in helping a Saudi woman convert to Christianity\u00a0and flee the kingdom in the latest example of the religious intolerance that grips the region. The court in the Eastern Saudi city of Khobar &#8212; situated on the coast of the Persian Gulf &#8212; also sentenced a Saudi man to two years in prison and 200 lashes for helping the young woman named Maryam &#8212; who has been dubbed \u201cthe girl of Khobar\u201d &#8212; in her escape to Sweden to secure asylum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Maryam, whose case has been closely followed in Saudi Arabia, criticized Saudi Arabia\u2019s Sunni monarchy for instilling in her a hatred of Judaism and Christianity, according to the English-language Saudi Gazette.<\/strong><\/span> The Jeddah-based\u00a0paper wrote that she \u201cfell in love with the religions after she found peace in Christianity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Upon hearing the verdict, B. Hussein Obama praised the Saudi court&#8217;s leniency and tolerance, noting,\u00a0&#8220;After all, they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>could<\/em><\/span> have had them stoned or beheaded!&#8221;\u00a0 Okay&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span> we made up; but it&#8217;s what he&#8217;s <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">thinking<\/span><\/em>!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And back in Beantown, as we previously observed, the kudos initially heaped upon law enforcement in the wake of the Marathon Massacre were somewhat&#8230;premature:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Boston Manhunt \u2018Missed the Boat\u2019 as Police Skip Street<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ibgJgcm.mgnQ_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18425\" alt=\"ibgJgcm.mgnQ\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ibgJgcm.mgnQ_.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ibgJgcm.mgnQ_.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ibgJgcm.mgnQ_-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Sue Lund lives about five blocks from where police engaged in a wild shootout April 19 with the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects and about eight doors down from where the one who escaped alive was found 18 hours later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Yet, during the all-day manhunt, she said police never searched her Franklin Street home or garden shed in Watertown, Massachusetts.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Ten other neighbors had the same story and said they didn\u2019t know of any homes that had been searched on Franklin, where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was discovered by someone on the street about 30 minutes after an area lockdown was lifted.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/iivQ9Nx1WS50.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18426\" alt=\"iivQ9Nx1WS50\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/iivQ9Nx1WS50.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/iivQ9Nx1WS50.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/iivQ9Nx1WS50-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cA lot of people\u2019s lives were put in danger because someone in charge wasn\u2019t doing his job,\u201d said Lund, 61, as she stood on the wide front porch of her Victorian house. \u201cPeople could have been killed because after the lockdown ended everyone came streaming out of their houses and suddenly we were in a combat zone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It has been more than a week since police were hailed as heroes in Boston, eliciting cheers and hugs in the aftermath of the death of one suspect and capture of the other in the April 15 bombing that killed three and injured 260. <span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>As more details of the bombing and the subsequent search for Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother Dzhokhar emerge, some residents and officials are expressing skepticism about the police work.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>But then, the Boston Police were only emulating the example of ineptitude set for them by the DHS, CIA and FBI.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the Lighter Side&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mrz050113dAPR20130430114528.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18453\" alt=\"mrz050113dAPR20130430114528\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mrz050113dAPR20130430114528.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mrz050113dAPR20130430114528.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mrz050113dAPR20130430114528-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mrz050313dAPR20130503024515.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18454\" alt=\"mrz050313dAPR20130503024515\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mrz050313dAPR20130503024515.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mrz050313dAPR20130503024515.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mrz050313dAPR20130503024515-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/gmc10906720130503035500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18455\" alt=\"gmc10906720130503035500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/gmc10906720130503035500.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/gmc10906720130503035500.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/gmc10906720130503035500-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/RAMFnlclr-050613-mexico-IBD.jpg.cms_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18456\" alt=\"RAMFnlclr-050613-mexico-IBD.jpg.cms\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/RAMFnlclr-050613-mexico-IBD.jpg.cms_.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/RAMFnlclr-050613-mexico-IBD.jpg.cms_.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/RAMFnlclr-050613-mexico-IBD.jpg.cms_-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/12_13105620130501025649.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18457\" alt=\"12_13105620130501025649\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/12_13105620130501025649.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/12_13105620130501025649.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/12_13105620130501025649-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Untitled1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18458\" alt=\"Untitled1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Untitled1.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Untitled1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Untitled1-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/bg050313dAPR20130503034523.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18459\" alt=\"bg050313dAPR20130503034523\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/bg050313dAPR20130503034523.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/bg050313dAPR20130503034523.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/bg050313dAPR20130503034523-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/h590F8D8B.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18460\" alt=\"h590F8D8B\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/h590F8D8B.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/h590F8D8B.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/h590F8D8B-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/h68BD2CC2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18461\" alt=\"h68BD2CC2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/h68BD2CC2.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/h68BD2CC2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/h68BD2CC2-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in another titillating tale ripped from the pages of the Crime Blotter&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" id=\"article-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">NY ice cream truck operators accused of harassing rival vendor<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/bskyb_image_235734_v1_pic1_1_400x240.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18411\" alt=\"bskyb_image_235734_v1_pic1_1_400x240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/bskyb_image_235734_v1_pic1_1_400x240.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/bskyb_image_235734_v1_pic1_1_400x240.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/bskyb_image_235734_v1_pic1_1_400x240-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The chilly relationship between rival upstate New York ice cream truck operators got out of hand this season, with Sno Cone Joe trying to chase Mr. Ding-A-Ling out of the market, authorities said Wednesday. <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gloversville police told local media outlets two Sno Cone Joe operators face harassment and stalking charges after heated confrontations last month that included one of them yelling &#8220;This is my town!&#8221; at a Mr. Ding-A-Ling driver.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The driver told police that Sno Cone Joe owners Joshua Malatino and Amanda Scott followed his truck, playing their music at high volume and trying to lure away customers with promises of free ice cream. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Police said Malatino also called the suburban Albany headquarters of Mr. Ding-A-Ling and said &#8220;I own this town!&#8221; while claiming Sno Cone Joe controls the frozen treats market in Gloversville, a former manufacturing city about 35 miles northwest of Albany.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Organized crime comes to Gloversville.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, even further out in the sticks, we meet the subject of today&#8217;s Natural Selection segment:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">W. Va. Man Electrocuted After Shooting Down Power Line To Steal\u00a0Copper<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/4001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18444\" alt=\"4001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/4001.jpg\" width=\"217\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/4001.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/4001-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Police in Fayette County say a man was electrocuted<em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">when he picked up a live power line that he had shot down in order to steal copper from it<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> Fayette County Sheriff Steve Kessler says the man\u2019s body was found Wednesday in Thurmond. Kessler says the man and an accomplice planned to strip the line of its copper wiring to later sell as scrap metal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sorta like the guy who says&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Darwin-Awards-300x214.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18480\" alt=\"Darwin-Awards-300x214\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Darwin-Awards-300x214.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/strong><strong>&#8230;&#8221;Hey, ya&#8217;ll; look what I found!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a closely related item, we offer&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Stupid Drivers\" href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/50508\/8-drivers-who-blindly-followed-their-gps-disaster\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">8 Drivers Who Blindly Followed their GPS into Disaster<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/a98264_gps_1-sand-trap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18446\" alt=\"a98264_gps_1-sand-trap\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/a98264_gps_1-sand-trap.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/a98264_gps_1-sand-trap.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/a98264_gps_1-sand-trap-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And finally, <em>CNS News <\/em>provides yet another sign the Educated Idiot-induced Apocalypse is upon us:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"title\" id=\"page-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">California Bill Would Allow Students to Use Bathrooms &#8216;Consistent with His or Her Gender Identity&#8217;<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dreamstime_xs_11337675.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18413\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/-image11337675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dreamstime_xs_11337675-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dreamstime_xs_11337675-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dreamstime_xs_11337675.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A proposed law introduced in the California State\u00a0legislature\u00a0would allow public \u00a0school\u00a0children to use bathrooms designated for members of the opposite sex,\u00a0if that students&#8217; &#8220;gender identity&#8221; differed from the students biological sex. Assembly Bill 1266, introduced by Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, who represents a section of the city of San Francisco would:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>&#8220;<em>&#8230;require that a pupil be permitted to participate in sex-segregated school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, and use facilities\u00a0consistent\u00a0with his or her gender\u00a0identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the pupil&#8217;s record<\/em>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">While the bill does not specifically mention restrooms, restrooms and locker rooms are generally considered to be part of the &#8220;facilities&#8221; in schools\u00a0throughout\u00a0the country. <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The bill would apparently also require that biological males be permitted to try out for, and play on, girls&#8217; sports teams if they identify themselves as females.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gee; what could <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>possibly<\/em><\/span> go wrong&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mike_ron_thetalk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18481\" alt=\"mike_ron_thetalk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mike_ron_thetalk.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mike_ron_thetalk.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mike_ron_thetalk-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>&#8220;No&#8230;seriously&#8230;we&#8217;re women trapped in men&#8217;s bodies!\u00a0 Now which way to the girls&#8217; showers?!?&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>this<\/em><\/span> idea?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Tuesday, May 14th, 2013&#8230;but before we begin, it&#8217;s worth noting how The First Marxists marked Mothers Day: &#8220;Free&#8221; birth control; after all, isn&#8217;t that what Mothers Day is all about?!? Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge! 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