{"id":28274,"date":"2014-12-07T19:49:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T00:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=28274"},"modified":"2014-12-07T19:49:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T00:49:36","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-december-5th-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=28274","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, December 5th, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Friday, December 5th, 2014…but before we begin, two brief thoughts. \u00a0First, Hope ‘n Change<\/em>\u00a0truly speaks for us when noting:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“…And finally, regardless of race, creed, or color, we believe that anyone who showboats with the “Hands up, don’t shoot” gesture is a complete and total race-baiting idiot<\/i>. Even (or perhaps especially) if they happen to be members of the entirely segregated Congressional Black Caucus.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>“<\/p>\n

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Second, you may noticed a little extra money in your pocket at the end of the week of late:<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s Official: $1.99 Gas Shows Up in Oklahoma City<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

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Which is great…until you realize $1.99\/gallon, the lowest price in the country<\/em><\/span>, is still 25 cents a gallon higher<\/em><\/span> than the nationwide average<\/em><\/span>\u00a0when the Marxist-in-Chief took office. \u00a0And<\/em><\/span>, the dramatic price drop occurred despite<\/em><\/span> B. Hussein’s best efforts to drive the cost of gasoline even higher<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Most importantly, As Townhall.com<\/em>‘s\u00a0John Ransom reminds us, America needs to…<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Remember this is a guy who told us we could not drill our way out of our energy problems<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong> <\/span>And then was promptly backed up by those phony fact-check fascists at TV and newspapers around the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what does this mean for America?\u201d said Obama even as late as 2012 when he ought to have known better. \u201cIt means that anyone who tells you we can drill our way out of this problem doesn\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about \u2013 or isn\u2019t telling you the truth.<\/span> The United States consumes more than a fifth of the world\u2019s oil. But we only have 2% of the world\u2019s oil reserves.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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(Note: These \u201cfact check\u201d stories supporting Obama on energy in 2008 have been removed from the award-winning FactCheck.org site. Wow! Another triumph of transparency!)<\/p>\n

In other words, Liberals lie like rugs; and they don’t care who has to foot the bill for their fables.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, here’s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leading off the last edition of the week, a couple of commentaries in support of our personal appraisal of The Obamao; namely, he’s a truly Manchurian candidate dedicated to the overthrow of the Constitution and free-market capitalism. \u00a0Exhibit “A”:\u00a0Townhall.com<\/em>‘s John Ransom details the inevitable result of The Dear Misleader’s deliberately divisive policies:<\/strong><\/p>\n

After He, Racism<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

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“For the first post-racial president we\u2019ve ever had, this is working out about just as I expected. The candidate Obama acted responsibly during the election of 2008 when he had to reassure white voters that he was really one of them. Since then [he’s] become a radical black activist, parroting the worst features of the cold, racial war that is an ugly and unfortunate feature of American life.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The contrast tells us that Obama knows what he\u2019s doing<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

He exploits race in the same way Elizabeth Warren has, in the same way Al Sharpton has. If Tawana Brawley had been \u201craped\u201d last month– Brawley you\u2019ll remember was the black teen who a grand jury believed may have invented a story about being gang raped by white men to avoid being punished by her mother and first brought Sharpton to fame– I think we\u2019d know where Rev. Obama and his high priest Eric Holder would be standing (right next to her).<\/p>\n

And they\u2019d be standing next to her demanding justice without due process\u2014also known as lynching<\/em><\/span>\u2014in the same way they did in Boston, MA, in Sanford, FL and in Ferguson, MO.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And if Reverend Wright, Obama\u2019s advising clergy from Chicago, says \u201cG*d damn America\u201d for her sins on race, then I think the rest of us can say \u201cg*d damn Obama\u201d\u2014figuratively, not literally\u2014for his<\/em><\/span> sins on race.\u00a0(We’d prefer literally…quite<\/em><\/span> literally!)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Personally, I would like to see everyone saved. But I think I can say salvation for this country on race issues has become harder not easier thanks to Obama<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I would like to see racial issues talked about in this country. (As would we…assuming they’re legitimate!)\u00a0<\/span>I just hate seeing them lied about.<\/span><\/strong> So, yeah: g*d damn Obama.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Then there’s Exhibit “B”, courtesy of The New Media Journal<\/em>‘s\u00a0Nancy Salvato, who suggests America pay attention to what have heretofore been voices crying in the wilderness:<\/strong><\/p>\n

21st Century Sentinels Desperate to Change the Narrative<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

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“…I know it’s hard to imagine that there might be nefarious forces at work, conspiring to bring down the United States of America, but think for a moment about the Cold War and the vast human and other resources it took for the Soviet Union to strategically place spies posing as average American families raising their children in DC and Virginia.<\/strong><\/span> No one could have believed it if evidence wasn’t available to prove such acts of war against our country.<\/p>\n

There is no secret about Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals<\/em>, that Hillary Clinton herself wrote a term paper on his strategies to promote progressivism by fomenting revolution (as well as corresponded with him)<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0or that Cloward Pliven supporters were influenced by his tactics. Our president himself was a former “community organizer” advocate\/activist for the breakdown of the status quo.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Before legitimizing our president’s actions, one must look at motive<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> Let’s not forget Michele Obama’s famous words, “For the First Time in My Adult Lifetime, I’m Really Proud of My Country…because I think people are hungry for change” and that President Obama himself promised to fundamentally transform America. Van Jones, the president’s former Green Jobs Czar said to affect change, there needed to be pressure which he described as, “top down, bottom up, inside out.” It is imperative that we not forget that it is the ideas and rule of law written in our founding documents which unites us as Americans. At some point, citizens must stop disbelieving the sentinels who are trying to bring attention to information not covered by the mainstream media as conspiratorial and open their minds to the idea that perhaps all is not right with their world, after all<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>“<\/p>\n

Make no mistake about it: it’s been his plan…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In a related item, the great Thomas Sowell opines on Progressives predilection for…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Opinions Versus Facts<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

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Anything but the facts, ma’am!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“…Soon after the shooting death of Michael Brown, this 285-pound young man was depicted as a “gentle giant.” But, after a video was leaked, showing him bullying the owner of a store from which he had stolen some merchandise, Attorney General Eric Holder expressed displeasure that the video was leaked. In other words, to Holder the truth<\/span> was offensive, but the lie it exposed was not<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Many people who claimed to have been eyewitnesses to the fatal shooting gave opposite accounts of what happened. Some even gave accounts that contradicted what they themselves had said earlier.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the grand jury did not have to rely on such statements, though some in the media seemed to. What the grand jury had, that the rest of us did not have until the grand jury’s decision was announced, was a set of physical facts that told a story that was independent of what anybody said<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em>…”<\/p>\n

Further proof, as if any were needed, facts to Liberals are as deadly as…<\/b><\/p>\n

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Since we’re on the subject of Progressives creating facts to fit their preconceived narratives, Jonah Goldberg offers his thoughts on what may well be 2014’s equivalent of the Duke lacrosse debacle:<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Story Too Useful to Verify? <\/span><\/span><\/a>
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Rolling Stone<\/i>\u2019s UVA rape story has sent shock waves \u2014 and stretched credulity. <\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

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“…Erdely admits she set out to find a sexual-assault story at an elite school like UVA.<\/strong><\/span> She looked at lots of other colleges first, but \u201cnone of those schools felt quite right\u201d in the words of a Washington Post profile<\/a><\/strong><\/em> of Erdely. But UVA, which Erdely describes in Rolling Stone<\/em> as a school without a thriving \u201cradical feminist culture seeking to upend the patriarchy,\u201d was just right.<\/strong><\/span> As Worth<\/em> magazine editor Richard Bradley noted<\/a><\/strong><\/em> last week, the whole thing seems like an adventure in confirmation bias.<\/p>\n

…Erdely\u2019s story was reported uncritically for days as a powerful example of the \u201crape epidemic\u201d that is somehow taking place amidst a 20-year decline in reported rapes. News outlets repeated the claim that one in five college women are sexually assaulted.<\/span> This bogus statistic comes from \u201cThe Campus Sexual Assault Study,\u201d a shoddy online survey of just two universities that counted attempted (forced) kissing and the like as \u201csexual assault\u201d \u2014 and never even asked female respondents about rape<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>…”<\/p>\n

Angry, lying Liberals; do they…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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…come any other way?!? \u00a0Then again, Rolling Stone<\/em>‘s failure to get both sides of the story may be a blessing in disguise. \u00a0At least in this case the unfounded claims of a demonstrably unreliable victim won’t ruin the lives of the purported perpetrators before they’re afforded a defense.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But what can one expect, the\u00a0Washington Examiner<\/em>‘s\u00a0<\/strong>Noemie Emery notes, from god-like Progressive psychics…or perhaps more accurately psycho<\/em><\/span>s…who can plumb the depths of a man’s soul?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What evil lurks? The liberals know<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

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“…When voters turned on Dukakis, was it because they had ample ground to distrust his judgment after he vetoed a bill denying furloughs to convicted murderers? Not to the Democrats, who, like The Shadow, knew all.<\/strong> They sensed that the voters were moved not by your normal aversion to rape and murder, but by the fact that the assailant was black. Even though no one knew this until after Dukakis was sunk by the issue, they remained certain that behavior itself played no part in the outcome. <\/span><\/span>Had the villain been merely your typical snaggle-toothed redneck, the public would simply have shrugged and moved on.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

With this as their template, Democrats went on to many more years of assigning their own thoughts to their foes or the public, claiming they knew more of what others were thinking than those others knew of themselves.<\/strong><\/span> On a good day, about 80 percent of the content generated by left-leaning websites will be spent explaining why Republican positions on x, y and z are really expressions of their fear and loathing of non-white Americans, and how modern conservatives descend from John C. Calhoun, Jefferson Davis, the 1948 presidential campaign of Strom Thurmond and the Ku Klux Klan in its entirety in one straight and unbroken line.<\/strong><\/span> MSNBC frets over the threat of the “dog whistle,” by which one uses a commonplace phrase to send a sinister message to one\u2019s fellow bigots. Only their network\u2019s anchors are apparently able to hear them…”<\/p>\n

Next up, a truly excellent piece of investigative journalism from Heather Mac Donald, courtesy of the City Journal<\/em>\u00a0and G. Trevor, Lord High King of all the Vietors, describing in detail the latest PC rage sweeping college campuses. \u00a0The article is somewhat lengthy, but well worth taking the time to read:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Microaggression Farce<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

The latest campus fad, which sees racism everywhere, will create a new generation of permanent victims.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

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“I<\/span>n November 2013, two dozen graduate students at the University of California at Los Angeles marched into an education class and announced a protest against its \u201chostile and unsafe climate for Scholars of Color.\u201d The students had been victimized, they claimed, by racial \u201cmicroaggression\u201d\u2014the hottest concept on campuses today, used to call out racism otherwise invisible to the naked eye. UCLA\u2019s response to the sit-in was a travesty of justice. The education school sacrificed the reputation of a beloved and respected professor in order to placate a group of ignorant students making a specious charge of racism.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The pattern would repeat itself twice more at UCLA that fall: students would allege that they were victimized by racism, and the administration, rather than correcting the students\u2019 misapprehension, penitently acceded to it.<\/strong><\/span> Colleges across the country behave no differently. As student claims of racial and gender mistreatment grow ever more unmoored from reality, campus grown-ups have abdicated their responsibility to cultivate an adult sense of perspective and common sense in their students. Instead, they are creating what tort law calls \u201ceggshell plaintiffs\u201d\u2014preternaturally fragile individuals injured by the slightest collisions with life.<\/span> The consequences will affect us for years to come<\/strong><\/span>…”<\/p>\n

In other words…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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And in the Education Section, the MacIver Institute<\/em>\u00a0reveals how Wisconsin teachers really<\/em><\/span> feel about their unions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

100 Fewer Wisconsin School District Unions Seek Recertification Under Act 10<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

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“In elections that ended last Tuesday, government workers voted to decertify 25 school district unions that sought recertification.<\/span> Plus, 100 fewer unions than last year chose to seek recertification.<\/strong><\/span> Last year, 408 units sought recertification. This year, the number was down to 305.<\/p>\n

…While a majority of unions that sought recertification gained more than 51 percent of support in their elections, a large number of union members chose to vote against or not vote for their collective bargaining unit. In total, 14,820 union members did not vote in favor of recertification<\/strong><\/span>…”<\/p>\n

On the Lighter Side…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Turning now to the Sports Section, more news you really can’t use:<\/strong><\/p>\n

MLB umpire Dale Scott comes out as gay<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

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He’s either calling a player out…or signaling his boyfriend what he’d like after the game.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Scott said he made a deliberate decision to go public in a low-key manner without “some banner headline.” “That’s not how I operate,” he was quoted as saying by Outsports.\u00a0<\/strong>“It’s not a shock to MLB management because they’re well aware of my situation and it’s not a shock to the umpire staff. If it would have been, I don’t think I would have done it.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Soooo…he “made a deliberate decision to go public in a low-key manner without ‘some banner headline'”, ‘cuz “that’s now how” he operates. \u00a0Yeah…right! \u00a0Then why go public at all…other than to grab publicity, talk show appearances or a book contract?!?<\/b><\/p>\n

Finally, since we’re on the subject of sports figures who use homosexuality to make up for a lack of attention…or talent:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m Not in the NFL Because I’m Gay<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

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Michael Sam believes he’s not on a NFL roster because of the fact he’s openly gay — telling TMZ Sports he strongly believes he’s got the talent to play in the league.\u00a0Sam was at LAX this morning when he was asked if he thinks NFL teams are shying away from him because of his sexual orientation … or if it has to do with the level of talent he faced after college.\u00a0“I\u00a0think I was the SEC Defensive Player of the Year last year … so I don’t think it had to do with talent.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Translation — he believes he’s on the outs because he’s out.<\/p>\n

Yeah…like Tim Tebow’s not playing quarterback for the Broncos because he’s a devout Christian. \u00a0No Mike; the only reason you got a<\/em> shot<\/em><\/span> at playing in the NFL was because you’re gay!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

More accurate translation: Sam might also believe in the Easter Bunny, the Great Pumpkin and the existence of life on Mars; but they won’t give him the speed, quickness or strength necessary to make the transition from college to professional football.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the meantime, Sam might want to look what it takes to become a major league baseball umpire. \u00a0No doubt Dale Scott would be happy to act as his mentor; you know…look over his shoulder so to speak!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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