{"id":26969,"date":"2014-08-19T19:51:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T23:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=26969"},"modified":"2014-08-19T19:52:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T23:52:54","slug":"the-daily-gouge-monday-august-18th-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=26969","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge, Monday, August 18th, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Monday, August 18th, 2014…but before we begin, two brief items which caught our eye over the weekend:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vet Kicked Out of Theme Park for Wearing Pro-Gun T-Shirt That Supports Military<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

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\u201cI saw him talk to two women in white shirts, who looked at me and then shook their heads,\u201d he told NJ.com. \u201cAnd then the man grabbed my arm and asked me to leave.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> I told them that it\u2019s not offensive, that it\u2019s a military shirt and that it means nothing. But they said: \u2018I don\u2019t care, get out of the park.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The Facebook Factor in the GOP’s Battle to Take the Senate<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

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“Politically active liberal Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Facebook is now blocking Republican candidates from his social media website Facebook in the GOP\u2019s bid to retake control of the U.S. Senate in November.\u00a0 Facebook deleted late Monday night an \u201cEvent\u201d this author created to ask for donations to Kevin Wade, running for U.S. Senate as a Republican in Delaware from his 4,937 Facebook friends.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

…Breitbart warned on June 3\u00a0that Mark Zuckerberg was likely to manipulate Facebook to influence tight elections in 2014 in favor of pro-amnesty, mostly Democrat candidates.\u00a0 In the\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span>New Republic<\/strong><\/span>, Facebook co-founder and former Obama campaign operative Chris Hughes revealed that Facebook actually manipulated voter turn-out in the 2010 elections, increasing targeted voter turn-out by 400,000 votes.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 That technique centered on influencing Facebook users to vote in response to their friends on Facebook having already voted.\u00a0 Harvard law professor and programmer Jonathan Zittrain then explained with Hughes how Mark Zuckerberg can \u201cuse what he calls \u2018digital gerrymandering\u2019 to actually tip a tight election\u201d by manipulating the massive Facebook audience.\u00a0 That is, by influencing higher turn-out in favorable locations, Facebook can control the outcome of the 2014 elections<\/strong><\/span>…”<\/span><\/p>\n

What’s the point? \u00a0Believe it or not, like it or not, Americans are at war for the heart and soul of the country. \u00a0Yet many otherwise right-thinking, Conservative citizens are aiding and abetting the enemy.<\/strong> We do it in the movies we see (with very few exceptions, the product of pretty much any<\/em><\/span> Hollywood studio, let alone starring Jane Fonda!), cable television we watch (can you spell “H-B-O”?), newspapers we read (USA Today<\/em>, NY Times<\/em>, WaPo<\/em>, ad nauseum),\u00a0the businesses we frequent (Costco comes to mind) and the products we buy (anything General Electric).<\/strong> Case in point:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hotel chain in Britain removes Bibles from rooms<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

Boycott Travel Lodge<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong> Businesses like Facebook and Six Flags, who by their actions stand in opposition to the values of the Founding Fathers, could not enjoy the profitability they do without the support of Conservatives. \u00a0Which is why we urge you to join us in boycotting any business, any service, any professional, be they lawyer, engineer, dentist or doctor, who doesn’t share a commitment to the Constitution…as written.<\/strong> This isn’t to condone in any way, shape or form discrimination, harassment, hatred or abuse of any<\/em><\/span> kind. \u00a0Indeed, what we’re supporting needs no public pronouncement of any kind; it’s more in the way of a shunning. \u00a0Think about it: why on earth would<\/em><\/span> or should<\/em><\/span> we want to provide funds to those voting to dismantle the Republic when there are others far more deserving of our support?!?<\/b> As for Liberals with who we’re personally acquainted (particularly those around who we cannot discuss politics), we’ve far<\/em><\/span> more friends than we’ve time to see half<\/em><\/span> as much as we’d like, so forgive us if we’ve better things to do than waste a minute with you.<\/strong> Please feel free to give us your thoughts in the comments section.<\/b> Now, here’s The Gouge!<\/strong> First up, writing at the WSJ<\/em>, Brendan O’Neill believes folks in the U.K. dislike Jews as much as anyone, but<\/em><\/span>…<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s Britain, So the Anti-Semitism Is More Refined<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

Cutting and pasting the old prejudice of Jews as infanticidal global masterminds onto Israel.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

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“…Alone among the states of the world, Israel is treated as perversely infanticidal, awesomely powerful and terrifyingly destabilizing. Thus are ancient prejudices updated and transferred from an apparently problematic people to an apparently uniquely barbarous state, so that it is now increasingly difficult to tell where anti-Semitism ends and anti-Zionism begins.<\/strong><\/span> Britain hasn’t escaped the anti-Semitism sweeping Europe\u2014the British have merely found new and subtler ways of expressing it<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span>“<\/p>\n

Such attitudes continue to amaze us,\u00a0<\/strong>particularly in view of the actual facts<\/em><\/span> as detailed by Noah Beck:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Israel’s Disproportionate Decency<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

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“…As of August 9, Israel\u2019s military has attacked about 5,000 targets in Gaza (4,762 during the first 29 days of Operation Protective Edge\u00a0and a few hundred since) resulting in 1,915 deaths (according to\u00a0the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health). \u00a0Even if this total were accurate and represented entirely civilian deaths, the strike-to-kill ratio absurdly implies that Israel\u2019s military needs about 2.5 attacks to kill one person. \u00a0But if Israel\u2019s goal were just to kill Gazans, it could kill well over 1,915 with a single airstrike.<\/span> \u00a0Why spend so much on intelligence-gathering and precision-guided bombs (or force Israeli citizens to endure so many costly weeks of war) when the IDF could raze half of Gaza in an hour? \u00a0The fact that the IDF has struck so many times with so few casualties shows the extent of its restraint and precision while destroying the terrorist infrastructure threatening Israelis.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Israel has made extraordinary<\/em><\/span> efforts to minimize civilian casualties \u2013 despite<\/span> Hamas\u2019s plan to maximize<\/span> them<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0Israel\u00a0aborts airstrikes\u00a0that will result in excessive civilian casualties,\u00a0warns civilians\u00a0to clear areas that will be targeted, and\u00a0loses ground troops\u00a0in densely populated areas like Shejaiya to avoid airstrikes that would kill far more Gaza civilians. Israel chose\u00a0not to target\u00a0Gaza City\u2019s main Shifa Hospital, even though it knew that Hamas leaders were cynically hiding there, and an airstrike could have substantially harmed Hamas\u2019 military leadership…<\/strong><\/span>“<\/p>\n

Those who fail to grasp this reality are either (1) ignorant of the nature of the warfare in which Hamas and Israel are engaged, (2) woefully uniformed, (3) selling some political agenda, or (4) all of the above.<\/strong> For those still a little fuzzy on the reality regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict, we offer this helpful primer, courtesy of Bill Whittle:<\/strong><\/p>\n