{"id":26444,"date":"2014-07-24T14:46:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T18:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=26444"},"modified":"2014-07-24T14:55:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T18:55:50","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-july-23rd-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=26444","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014&#8230;but before we begin, we&#8217;d like to call your attention to a recent installment of\u00a0<\/strong><strong><em>Day by Day<\/em>, which addresses the glaring hypocrisy of those who&#8217;d like us to believe The Obamao&#8217;s been subject to venomous hatred and unreasoned opposition the like of which has never been visited upon a sitting White President:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/072014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26334\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/072014.jpg\" alt=\"lo\" width=\"575\" height=\"903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/072014.jpg 575w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/072014-191x300.jpg 191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: the spurious claims of the Administration and their MSM shills to the contrary notwithstanding, we&#8217;ve never seen a single Tea Partier ever holding similar signs. \u00a0And if you were wondering, the signs shown above are\/were not only real, but we&#8217;ve thrown in a few more for good measure:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stopbush-3222-20nov03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26335\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stopbush-3222-20nov03-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"stopbush-3222-20nov03\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stopbush-3222-20nov03-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stopbush-3222-20nov03.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_2416.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26336\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_2416-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2416\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_2416-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_2416.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bushbeheaded.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26337\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bushbeheaded-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"bushbeheaded\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bushbeheaded-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bushbeheaded.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/imheretokillbush.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/imheretokillbush.jpg\" alt=\"imheretokillbush\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bush_is_the_disease.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26339\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bush_is_the_disease-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bush_is_the_disease\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bush_is_the_disease-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bush_is_the_disease.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bush_knife.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bush_knife-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"bush_knife\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bush_knife-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bush_knife.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_9676.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26341\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_9676-135x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9676\" width=\"135\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_9676-135x300.jpg 135w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_9676.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/theworldneeds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26342\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/theworldneeds-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"theworldneeds\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/theworldneeds-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/theworldneeds.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, writing at <em>CNN Opinion<\/em>, Newt Gingrich explains&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"The tranquillity of Obama's mind\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/07\/18\/opinion\/gingrich-obama-mind\/index.html\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">The tranquillity of Obama&#8217;s mind<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ObamaRemainCalm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ObamaRemainCalm.png\" alt=\"ObamaRemainCalm\" width=\"350\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ObamaRemainCalm.png 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ObamaRemainCalm-300x229.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Remain calm&#8230;all is well!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph9\" style=\"color: #000000; padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>&#8230;The self-image of Obama as a bear is so delusional that it brings into question the degree to which he is simply out of touch with reality.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph10\" style=\"color: #000000; padding-left: 30px;\">Which brings us back to Earnest&#8217;s quote about tranquillity in the international community. What he&#8217;s channeling is Obama&#8217;s personal tranquillity. From his perch in the amazingly Obama-centric world in which our President lives, look again at what the rest of us think of as serious problems:<\/p>\n<p class=\"cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph13\" style=\"color: #000000; padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><em>Have any of the 1,000-plus Hamas rockets been aimed at Obama? <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">No<\/span>. That is why Obama is tranquil.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph14\" style=\"color: #000000; padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><em>Have any of the thousands who are crossing the border tried to move into the White House? <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">No<\/span>. That is why Obama is tranquil.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph15\" style=\"color: #000000; padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><em>Is ISIS an immediate threat to the United States <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">that is likely to blow up the next golf course the President is playing at<\/span>? <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">No. That is why Obama is tranquil.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph16\" style=\"color: #000000; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>If you can reduce your presidency to a Starbucks visit, a man with a horse-head mask, shooting pool and visiting Joe Biden&#8217;s burger joint for lunch, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>you can have a successful presidency <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">as you have defined it<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>even if the world is disintegrating<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of disintegrating circumstances, courtesy of <em>Townhall.com<\/em>, the great Thomas Sowell describes a downward-spiraling situation&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"font-weight: bold; padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Bordering on Madness\" href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/thomassowell\/2014\/07\/22\/bordering-on-madness-n1864336\/page\/full\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">Bordering on Madness<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/US-border-notice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26379\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/US-border-notice.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/US-border-notice.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/US-border-notice-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Then again, you may <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span>!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>A country that does not control its own borders <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>does not have any immigration policy<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>There may be laws on the books, but such laws are just meaningless words if people from other countries can cross the borders whenever they choose&#8230;<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here, thanks to <em>Little Bonanza Productions<\/em>, is exactly how insane this Administration&#8217;s active support of illegal immigration actually is:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZnkSXosZhic\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>In a related item detailing additional pestilential Progressive policies,\u00a0<em>Gateway Pundit<\/em>\u00a0calls our attention to the fact&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #111111; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Elizabeth Warren\u2019s List for Progressives Is EERILY SIMILAR to Hitler\u2019s Nazi List\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2014\/07\/elizabeth-warrens-list-for-progressives-is-eerily-similar-of-hitlers-nazi-list\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Elizabeth Warren\u2019s List for Progressives Is EERILY SIMILAR to Hitler\u2019s Nazi List<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Warren-tribe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26380\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Warren-tribe.jpg\" alt=\"Warren-tribe\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Warren-tribe.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Warren-tribe-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Does this then make Warren a Fascist? \u00a0No, rather it&#8217;s further proof the political spectrum is a circle rather than a straight line&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/LibertyDial-Proto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26381\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/LibertyDial-Proto-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"LibertyDial-Proto\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/LibertyDial-Proto-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/LibertyDial-Proto-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/LibertyDial-Proto-144x144.jpg 144w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/LibertyDial-Proto.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and the thus Communists and Fascists share the same ideological characteristics and goals: totalitarian control over <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>every aspect of your life<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of pestilential Progressives seeking totalitarian control over every aspect of your life, they&#8217;re the subject of the latest offering from Richard Samuelson writing at\u00a0<em>NRO<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Tenured Partisans\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/383186\/tenured-partisans-richard-samuelson\"><span class=\"article_title\" style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Tenured Partisans<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"article_subtitle\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Tenured Partisans\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/383186\/tenured-partisans-richard-samuelson\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">The promise of employment for life has bred corruption in the civil service and should be eliminated.<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/lerner640sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26329\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/lerner640sm.jpg\" alt=\"lerner640sm\" width=\"350\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/lerner640sm.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/lerner640sm-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The law applies equally to all, regardless of their religious or political beliefs, their wealth or poverty, or their race. Moreover, it applies to government and the governed equally&#8230;<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The law can hardly be said to rule when it is applied or enforced in a biased manner, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>or when government employees exempt themselves from its reach<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;Granting tenure to clerical workers, mailmen, and others at that level of service is probably reasonable (although it might make sense to make it easier to fire people for misconduct or incompetence). <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>But that does not apply to the higher levels of government, where our laws are written, interpreted, and enforced.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; padding-left: 30px;\">Trust, once lost, is hard to regain. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For the good of the republic, therefore, we must fix our partisan civil service.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sk072114dBP201407180845141.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sk072114dBP201407180845141.jpg\" alt=\"sk072114dBP20140718084514\" width=\"350\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sk072114dBP201407180845141.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sk072114dBP201407180845141-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Along with, though we&#8217;re open to debate on the exact numbers, a two-term limit for any U.S. Senator, and 10 years for any member of the House.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Environmental Moment<span style=\"color: #000000;\">, writing at <em>The Hill<\/em>, Benjamin Zycher gives us the latest on the most recent convert of financial convenience to the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #008000;\"><a title=\"He's explaining, and he's losing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/article\/energy-and-the-environment\/hes-explaining-and-hes-losing\/?utm_source=today&amp;utm_medium=paramount&amp;utm_campaign=072114\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">He&#8217;s explaining, and he&#8217;s losing<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/steyer2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26354\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/steyer2.jpg\" alt=\"steyer2\" width=\"400\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/steyer2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/steyer2-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444; padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8216;He&#8217; is Tom Steyer, fossil-fuel billionaire past and present, but now a global-warming activist with the zealotry of a convert, a major funder of politicians promoting the climate-change industry, <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>and a scourge of climate deniers, the Keystone XL pipeline <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and ordinary people for whom inexpensive energy is a central condition for economic advancement<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">For reasons simultaneously obvious and subtle, Steyer is a bit touchy about the genesis of his vast fortune \u2014 the upper-crust cocktail parties can become rather uncomfortable when the expensive booze releases the ire of the environmental lefties \u2014<span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and so he has offered any number of rationalizations for the yawning chasm between his past investments in coal and oil and his current investment in climate change politics<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/steyerpac.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/steyerpac.jpeg\" alt=\"steyerpac\" width=\"400\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/steyerpac.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/steyerpac-300x180.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Whadda ya mean flying on a corporate jet to give a climate change speech is hypocritical?!?<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Unsurprisingly, the rationalizations fall flat, as a billion-dollar coal-and-oil peg simply cannot fit into the apocalyptic hole of climate-change orthodoxy.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>And so Steyer now is making a virtue of necessity by framing his transformation as a quest for absolution, an effort consistent with the central nature of modern environmentalism as a religious movement.<\/strong><\/span> Consider Steyer&#8217;s recent essay in Politico Magazine: &#8220;How Climate Change Changed Me,&#8221; a title that calls to mind the vast and amusing number of real and imagined phenomena for which anthropogenic warming has been blamed. (Example: increased UFO sightings.) So: Is it the purported heat that has affected Steyer&#8217;s thinking? Or is it the contortions necessary to transform a fossil-fuels billionaire into a green superhero?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>The answer is less obvious than one might imagine, as the essay offers the kind of sloppy thinking typical of college sophomores writing an assignment the morning it is due&#8230;<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us, appropriately enough, to the Entertainment Section, where we check in on another bad Liberal actor with an over-inflated ego and under-developed grasp of basic economics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Sir Ian McKellen calls for a living wage for actors\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/theatre-dance\/news\/sir-ian-mckellen-calls-for-a-living-wage-for-actors-9619724.html\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Sir Ian McKellen calls for a living wage for actors<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SDCC13_-_Ian_McKellen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SDCC13_-_Ian_McKellen-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"SDCC13_-_Ian_McKellen\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SDCC13_-_Ian_McKellen-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SDCC13_-_Ian_McKellen-786x1024.jpg 786w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SDCC13_-_Ian_McKellen-600x780.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SDCC13_-_Ian_McKellen-900x1171.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-8939454 articleContent\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Struggling actors who scrape a living working in repertory theatres should get paid a \u201cliving wage\u201d, Sir Ian McKellen has claimed. <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong><em>The Lord of the Rings star said <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">actors deserved the same economic recognition as other low-paid workers<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> A recent report found just one actor in 50 earned more than \u00a320,000 a year. \u201cMost actors are not rich \u2013 they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job,\u201d Sir Ian told Radio Times&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>He&#8217;s right; they deserve exactly what they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>earn<\/em><\/span>! \u00a0Unless of course Sir Ian wishes to subsidize them <em>himself<\/em> out of his personal $55M fortune. \u00a0Heck, maybe Tom Steyer will help!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, on the Lighter Side&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bg072214dAPC20140722034527.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26382\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bg072214dAPC20140722034527.jpg\" alt=\"bg072214dAPC20140722034527\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bg072214dAPC20140722034527.jpg 462w, 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wp-image-26330\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/download-14.jpeg\" alt=\"download (1)\" width=\"450\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/download-14.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/download-14-246x300.jpeg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/download-22.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26331\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/download-22.jpeg\" alt=\"download (2)\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/download-22.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/download-22-300x240.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <a 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