{"id":27665,"date":"2014-10-08T20:13:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T00:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=27665"},"modified":"2014-10-08T20:13:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T00:13:49","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-tuesday-october-7th-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=27665","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Tuesday, October 7th, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Tuesday, October 7th, 2014&#8230;but before we begin, yet another example of a campaign ad, the central theme of which the GOP should be rolling out across the country&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mEjqRLjP7Io\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;particularly as the message is applicable in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>every single tightly-contested Senate race<\/em><\/span>. \u00a0Why on earth <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>AREN&#8217;T<\/em><\/span> they? \u00a0You&#8217;ll have to tell <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>us<\/em><\/span>, &#8216;cuz we sure as hell don&#8217;t have the answer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Headlining today&#8217;s edition, two views of Team Tick-Tock&#8217;s latest debacle in the Middle East. \u00a0First, Victor Davis Hanson details yet another convenient case of Progressive selective recall:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Iraq Was Then, Syria Is Now\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/389094\/iraq-was-then-syria-now-victor-davis-hanson\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"article_title\" style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Iraq Was Then, Syria Is Now <\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Iraq Was Then, Syria Is Now\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/389094\/iraq-was-then-syria-now-victor-davis-hanson\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"article_subtitle\" style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">Obama hasn\u2019t a clue what he\u2019s doing, but at least he isn\u2019t George W. Bush. <\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/download1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27592\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/download1.jpeg\" alt=\"download\" width=\"350\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/download1.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/download1-300x215.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>&#8230;In sum, the only legitimate critique of George W. Bush\u2019s Iraq War is that the lives and treasure lost in the chaotic occupation of 2003\u201306 were not worth the removal of the monstrous Saddam Hussein and the ensuing establishment of a stable, consensual state in Iraq. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">And the only legitimate defense of Obama\u2019s subsequent policy in the region is that, <em>while he is bombing all sorts of groups in Iraq, Libya, and Syria, has abdicated leadership in a way that has led to mass killing and destruction in the region, has no plans to help craft postwar consensual governments, and does not quite know who his enemies are or what they are planning, he so far has not lost American lives in the process<\/em> \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>at least until the ascendant Islamic State flexes its global muscles<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Actually, we&#8217;ve already lost at least one American serviceman to the anti-ISIS effort, though not to enemy fire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Second, Andrew McCarthy reports the truth behind the latest Obamalie (pronounced &#8220;O-<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>balm<\/em><\/span>-ah-lee&#8221;, but defined as &#8220;another in an unending string of deliberate falsehoods told by an Administration concerned solely with politics&#8221;.):<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a class=\"article_title active\" style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/389270\/so-called-khorasan-group-actually-wolf-unit-al-qaedas-syrian-franchise-report-andrew-c\">\u2018So-called Khorasan Group\u2019 Is Actually \u2018Wolf Unit\u2019 of al-Qaeda\u2019s Syrian Franchise \u2013 Report<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Bynlx7tIQAA0h2Q1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27596\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Bynlx7tIQAA0h2Q1.jpg\" alt=\"Bynlx7tIQAA0h2Q\" width=\"300\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Bynlx7tIQAA0h2Q1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Bynlx7tIQAA0h2Q1-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>P<\/strong><strong>resident Obama and his subordinates take pains not to mention al Qaeda, particularly in the context of continuing plots to mass-murder Americans, because the president repeatedly and falsely claimed during the 2012 campaign to have \u201cdecimated\u201d the terror network and put it \u201con the path to defeat.\u201d<\/strong><\/span> The administration miniaturizes the continuing threat by breaking al Qaeda down into its components and speaking about them as if they were independent actors rather than a global jihadist movement unified by virulently anti-American Islamic-supremacist ideology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Some of the names Obama officials use for these purposes are simply made up \u2013 like \u201ccore al Qaeda.\u201d<\/strong><\/span> (See, e.g., Tom Joscelyn\u2019s <em>Weekly Standard<\/em> report, \u201cMisunderstanding al Qaeda\u201d, quoting Susan Rice\u2019s rationalization of \u201cwhat <em>we call<\/em> al Qaeda core\u201d [my italics] \u2013 what are actually just the network tentacles in Afghanistan and Pakistan). <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Other names may be appropriated from al-Qaeda\u2019s organizational divisions (internal ones like \u201cKhorasan\u201d or external ones like \u201cal-Nusra\u201d or \u201cAnsar al-Sharia\u201d) and then disingenuously used in a similar fashion to make the global terror network seem like a disconnected and trifling gaggle of \u201cjayvee teams.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Now comes a corroborating <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaan.tv\/news\/world-news\/114998\/khorassan-group-is-in-fact-the-wolf-unit-of-nusra-front-documents-show\" class=\"broken_link\">report<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span> from Jenan Moussa of al-Alan TV, on the ground in Syria. Ms. Moussa got access to a headquarters of al-Nusra \u2013 the aforementioned Syrian tentacle of the al-Qaeda network \u2014 bombed during the U.S. airstrikes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Again, <em>there is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">no<\/span> \u201cKhorasan Group\u201d terrorist organization<\/em>.<\/span> It is just a small group of high-level al-Qaeda operatives who were sent to Syria where they were fighting and plotting <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>as members of al-Qaeda\u2019s Syrian franchise, al-Nusra.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of lying Liberals, (as if they come in any other variety!), as <em>The Heritage Foundation<\/em>&#8216;s Thomas G. West and William A. Schambra relate, deliberate distortion and deception have been <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the<\/em><\/span> indispensable tool of the Progressive movement since its inception:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"The Progressive Movement and the Transformation of American Politics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/research\/reports\/2007\/07\/the-progressive-movement-and-the-transformation-of-american-politics\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">The Progressive Movement and the Transformation of American Politics<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/images.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27590\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"images\" width=\"400\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/images.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/images-300x141.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;The Founders believed that all men are created equal and that they have certain inalienable rights. All are also obliged to obey the natural law, under which we have not only rights but duties. We are obliged &#8220;to respect those rights in others which we value in ourselves&#8221; (Jefferson). The main rights were thought to be life and liberty, including the liberty to organize one&#8217;s own church, to associate at work or at home with whomever one pleases, and to use one&#8217;s talents to acquire and keep property. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>For the Founders, then, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>there is a natural moral order<\/em><\/span> &#8212; rules discovered by human reason that promote human well-being, <em>rules that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">can<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">should<\/span> guide human life <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> politics<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Progressives rejected these claims as naive and unhistorical. In their view, human beings are not born free. John Dewey, the most thoughtful of the Progressives, wrote that freedom is not &#8220;something that individuals have as a ready-made possession.&#8221; It is &#8220;something to be achieved.&#8221;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> In this view, freedom is not a gift of God or nature.<\/span> It is a product of human making, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>a gift of the state<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong> <\/span>Man is a product of his own history, through which he collectively creates himself. He is a social construct. Since human beings are not naturally free, there can be no natural rights or natural law. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Therefore, Dewey also writes, &#8220;Natural rights and natural liberties exist only in the kingdom of mythological social zoology.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Since the Progressives held that nature gives man little or nothing and that everything of value to human life is made by man, <em>they concluded that t<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here are no permanent standards of right<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> Dewey spoke of &#8220;historical relativity.&#8221; However, in one sense, the Progressives did believe that human beings are oriented toward freedom, not by nature (which, as the merely primitive, contains nothing human), but by the historical process, which has the character of progressing toward increasing freedom. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>So the &#8220;relativity&#8221; in question means that in all times, people have views of right and wrong that are tied to their particular times, but in our time, the views of the most enlightened are true because they are in conformity with where history is going&#8230;<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thus Conservatives and Tea Partiers can be painted as &#8220;standing against the tide of history&#8221;, the United States Constitution considered a &#8220;living, breathing document&#8221; rather than the immutable law of the land and hundreds of years of American culture and tradition, not to mention Judeo-Christian values\u00a0which have stood the test of time over <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>thousands<\/em><\/span> of years, be\u00a0discarded, quite literally, overnight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item of Progressive policy run-amok, courtesy of\u00a0<em>EAGnews.org<\/em>, it appears one more group of peasants are revolting:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"School board slams Michelle O lunch rules: \u2018Her children go to private school\u2019\" href=\"http:\/\/eagnews.org\/school-board-slams-michelle-o-lunch-rules-her-children-go-to-private-school\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff; text-decoration: underline;\">School board slams Michelle O lunch rules: \u2018Her children go to private school\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Michelle-Obama-shock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27609\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Michelle-Obama-shock.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle-Obama-shock\" width=\"337\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Michelle-Obama-shock.jpg 337w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Michelle-Obama-shock-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;More schools are pointing out the emperor has no clothes, or in this case, isn\u2019t eating the \u201crabbit food\u201d being given to everyone else. New York\u2019s <span class=\"paragraph-0\">North Tonawanda Board of Education<\/span> is the latest to lash out at the new school lunch rules championed by First Lady Michelle Obama.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"paragraph-2\">\u201cWe left thinking, what are we feeding these kids?\u201d school board president Colleen Osborn, said at a recent meeting, according to the Tonawanda News.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cWe have students of all different shapes and sizes. Some of these kids have lunch at 10 a.m. and then they\u2019re limited and can\u2019t buy other things. It\u2019s a broken system.\u201d The paper reports the board is concerned students may be going hungry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/michelle-o.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27616\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/michelle-o.png\" alt=\"michelle-o\" width=\"350\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/michelle-o.png 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/michelle-o-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">After taking comments from parents, <span class=\"paragraph-5\">\u201cSomeone in the audience made a good point.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>She added, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Michelle Obama put these things into play, but her children go to private school and they don\u2019t have to follow these standards<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The board is evaluating the program because the restrictions are having an adverse effect on students, particularly athletes, and the portions and quality aren\u2019t what they used to be&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of hypocritical Liberal nitwits with no qualifications for the position they&#8217;ve attained, let alone <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>any<\/em><\/span> idea what they&#8217;re doing&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LsNszjQ_Nk4\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Turning now to the &#8220;Your Tax Dollars at Work&#8221; segment, the latest rendition of a tiresomely-old refrain:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Colorado welfare recipients withdraw money in Hawaii, St. Thomas, Vegas\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/10\/06\/colorado-welfare-recipients-withdraw-money-in-hawaii-st-thomas-vegas\/?intcmp=latestnews\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\">Colorado welfare recipients withdraw money in Hawaii, St. Thomas, Vegas<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20140119-165932-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27588\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20140119-165932-1.jpg\" alt=\"20140119-165932 (1)\" width=\"350\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20140119-165932-1.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20140119-165932-1-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;A Watchdog.org analysis of a Colorado Department of Human Services welfare ATM withdrawals database shows that $3.8 million was withdrawn by Colorado welfare recipients outside the state in the past two years. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>There were withdrawals at out-of-state liquor stores and tobacco outlets, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">as well as vacation destinations like Hawaii, Las Vegas and even the Virgin Islands, data shows<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">State Rep. Tim Dore, R-Elizabeth, who has urged limitations on where welfare recipients can use their electronic benefit transfer cards in Colorado, was shocked taxpayers are apparently funding some exotic travel. \u201cI wasn\u2019t even aware of that,\u201d said Dore, who promised to try to address the misuse of cards at liquor stores, casinos and marijuana shops in the next legislative session after Watchdog asked him about those items for previous stories. <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>\u201cThat\u2019s an additional issue we need to look into it.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Sure &#8220;we&#8221; will; in the meantime&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/money-toilet-768359.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-27615\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/money-toilet-768359-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"money-toilet-768359\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/money-toilet-768359-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/money-toilet-768359.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in today&#8217;s installment of the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Environmental Moment<span style=\"color: #000000;\">, what&#8217;s a dedicated anthropogenic-global-warming-disciple-masquerading-as-an-impartial-scientist <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>do<\/em><\/span> when existing hopelessly-inaccurate-and-utterly-dysfunctional-computer-models aren&#8217;t in your favor? \u00a0Why, as the UK&#8217;s <em>Independent<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><strong>&#8220;reports&#8221;, create some <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>new<\/em><\/span>\u00a0hopelessly-inaccurate-and utterly-dysfunctional-computer-models&#8230;which will deliver their erroneous data even <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>faster<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Scientists to \u2018fast-track\u2019 evidence linking global warming to wild weather\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/climate-change\/scientists-to-fasttrack-evidence-linking-global-warming-to-wild-weather-9773767.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">Scientists to \u2018fast-track\u2019 evidence linking global warming to wild weather<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Scientists to \u2018fast-track\u2019 evidence linking global warming to wild weather\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/climate-change\/scientists-to-fasttrack-evidence-linking-global-warming-to-wild-weather-9773767.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #003300; text-decoration: underline;\">Aim\u00a0is to thwart sceptics from dismissing extreme event as &#8216;natural weather variation&#8217;<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/climate-change-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27584\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/climate-change-21.jpg\" alt=\"climate-change-2\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/climate-change-21.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/climate-change-21-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Scientists are to challenge the climate-change sceptics by vastly improving the speed with which they can prove links between a heatwave or other extreme weather event and man-made changes to the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>It typically takes about a year to determine whether human-induced global warming played a role in a drought, storm, torrential downpour or heatwave \u2013 and how big a role it played.<\/strong><\/span> This allows climate sceptics to dismiss any given extreme event as part of the \u201cnatural weather variation\u201d in the immediate aftermath, while campaigners automatically blame it on global warming. <span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>By the time the truth comes out most people have lost interest in the event, the Oxford University scientists involved in the project say.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>They are developing a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>new scientific model<\/em><\/span> that will shrink to as little as three days the time it takes to establish or rule out a link to climate change, in large part by using highly accurate estimates of sea surface temperatures rather than waiting for the actual readings to be published \u2013 a process that can\u00a0 often take months.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ah, yes; a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>NEW<\/em><\/span> scientific model. \u00a0You know, like the ones which <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>still<\/em><\/span> can&#8217;t explain why, in direct contradiction to their forecasts and despite continuously increasing levels of man-made greenhouse gasses, the planet hasn&#8217;t warmed <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>for the last 20 years<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item, as James Taranto details, whenever Liberals can&#8217;t refute the opposition&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>facts<\/em><\/span>, they invariably seek to change their <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>feelings<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"The Climate Couch\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/the-climate-couch-1412366906\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">The Climate Couch<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"subHed deck\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #003300; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #003300; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"The Climate Couch\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/the-climate-couch-1412366906\">Can psychologis<\/a>ts make global warmists of us all?<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/global_warming.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27610\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/global_warming.jpg\" alt=\"global_warming\" width=\"400\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/global_warming.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/global_warming-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Global warmists have a problem, which they hope to solve through therapy&#8211;for others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cIf there weren\u2019t such a stark divide between American conservatives and almost everyone else on the question of the existence and importance of climate change&#8211;a divide that can approach 40 points on some polling questions&#8211;the political situation would be very different,\u201d writes New York magazine\u2019s Jesse Singal. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Warmists need a way of \u201cconvincing a lot of conservatives that yes, climate change is a threat to civilization.\u201d <span style=\"color: #003300;\">Achieving that objective \u201chas more to do with psychology than politics.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">How many psychologists does it take to change a conservative\u2019s light bulb? Only one&#8211;<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>but the conservative has to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>want <\/em><\/span>it to change.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Our reference to therapy was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. <span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>What Singal has in mind isn\u2019t individual treatment but mass psychology&#8211;i.e., propaganda.<\/strong><\/span> His argument is that \u201cthe climate activist community\u201d has \u201cfailed to understand\u201d that \u201cmessages targeting conservatives\u201d should be \u201cradically different\u201d from those aimed at liberals. He advises warmists to draw on frameworks from social and political psychology, such as \u201dmoral foundations theory\u201d and \u201csystem justification.\u201d That ought to make it possible for them to develop methods to promulgate correct beliefs&#8211;or, as he puts it, \u201cto nudge conservatives toward recognizing the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>We\u2019d say all this is unlikely to amount to anything&#8211;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> because we doubt that the underlying psychological theories have some merit, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">but rather because Singal and the psychologists he quotes are laughably biased in their understanding of the \u201cproblem<\/span>.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Not to mention the &#8220;problem&#8221; doesn&#8217;t actually exist!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the Lighter Side&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMclr-100614-ebola-IBD-COLOR-FINAL-147.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27612\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMclr-100614-ebola-IBD-COLOR-FINAL-147.gif\" alt=\"RAMclr-100614-ebola-IBD-COLOR-FINAL-147\" width=\"462\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Foden20141002-@theSwitch20141003021930.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27613\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Foden20141002-@theSwitch20141003021930.jpg\" alt=\"Foden20141002-@theSwitch20141003021930\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Foden20141002-@theSwitch20141003021930.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Foden20141002-@theSwitch20141003021930-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sk093014dAPC20140930124603.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27579\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sk093014dAPC20140930124603.jpg\" alt=\"sk093014dAPC20140930124603\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sk093014dAPC20140930124603.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sk093014dAPC20140930124603-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/RAMclr-100314-irannuke-IBD-COLOR-FINAL-147.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27575\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/RAMclr-100314-irannuke-IBD-COLOR-FINAL-147.gif\" alt=\"RAMclr-100314-irannuke-IBD-COLOR-FINAL-147\" width=\"462\" height=\"323\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/RAMclr-100214-intrude-IBD-COLOR-FINAL-147.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/RAMclr-100214-intrude-IBD-COLOR-FINAL-147.gif\" alt=\"RAMclr-100214-intrude-IBD-COLOR-FINAL-147\" width=\"462\" height=\"323\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gmc12351320140930080000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27577\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gmc12351320140930080000.jpg\" alt=\"gmc12351320140930080000\" width=\"462\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gmc12351320140930080000.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gmc12351320140930080000-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/download.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27578\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/download.jpeg\" alt=\"download\" width=\"452\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/download.jpeg 452w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/download-252x300.jpeg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/download17.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27611\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/download17.jpeg\" alt=\"download\" width=\"452\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/download17.jpeg 452w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/download17-194x300.jpeg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with the &#8220;Just Desserts&#8221; segment, courtesy of <em>FOX News<\/em> and one very agitated gastronome in the Land Down Undah:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Australian chef kills girlfriend, cooks body parts in a pot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2014\/10\/06\/australian-chef-kills-girlfriend-cooks-body-parts-in-pot\/?intcmp=latestnews\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Australian chef kills girlfriend, cooks body parts in a pot<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ecardtoday-400x280.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27614\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ecardtoday-400x280.png\" alt=\"ecardtoday-400x280\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ecardtoday-400x280.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ecardtoday-400x280-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Which just goes to prove, pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered; she <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">should<\/span> have been happy with just the cleaning!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;An Australian chef reportedly murdered his girlfriend, cut up her body parts, and cooked them in a pot before fleeing from police and killing himself. Police responding to reports of a bad smell coming from an apartment in Brisbane Saturday found Marcus Volke, 28, in the residence. <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Volke tried to run from officers through a glass door, leaped over a balcony, and hid in an alleyway before fatally slashing his throat in a nearby garbage bin, Sky News reported Monday. \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The grisly scene inside the apartment included dismembered parts of Volke\u2019s girlfriend\u2019s body in a pot on the stove.<\/strong> <\/span>Other parts of the Indonesian woman\u2019s body were found in garbage bags in trash bins outside the apartment, local media sources reported&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good thing Volke refused to be taken alive; rumor has it members of Australia&#8217;s Green Party wanted additional charges lodged against him\u00a0for failing to observe local recycling ordinances.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Tuesday, October 7th, 2014&#8230;but before we begin, yet another example of a campaign ad, the central theme of which the GOP should be rolling out across the country&#8230; &#8230;particularly as the message is applicable in every single tightly-contested Senate race. \u00a0Why on earth AREN&#8217;T they? \u00a0You&#8217;ll have to tell us, &#8216;cuz we sure as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27666,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27665\/revisions\/27666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}