{"id":29545,"date":"2015-02-12T18:02:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T23:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=29545"},"modified":"2015-02-12T18:02:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T23:02:26","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-february-11th-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=29545","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, February 11th, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, February 11th, 2015&#8230;but before we get started, (a) we don&#8217;t give a rat&#8217;s behind <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>where<\/em><\/span> Jon Stewart goes or <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>what<\/em><\/span> he does, and; (b) let&#8217;s begin with a little splash of Socialism, courtesy of <em>The Daily Caller<\/em> and America&#8217;s unelected Nutrition Czarina:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Michelle Obama \u2018Confident\u2019 Kids Will \u2018Eventually\u2019 Be Brainwashed Into Liking Crappy School Lunches\" href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/02\/10\/michelle-obama-confident-kids-will-eventually-be-brainwashed-into-liking-crappy-school-lunches\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Michelle Obama \u2018Confident\u2019 Kids Will \u2018Eventually\u2019 Be Brainwashed Into Liking Crappy School Lunches<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/dblstandard-michelle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29478\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/dblstandard-michelle.jpg\" alt=\"dblstandard-michelle\" width=\"350\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/dblstandard-michelle.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/dblstandard-michelle-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;In a hard-hitting interview for the March issue of Cooking Light magazine, first lady Michelle Obama promised that the deeply unpopular Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act she has long championed is a \u201cgenerational\u201d effort that America will eventually see as an historic dietary triumph.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u201cI\u2019m confident that the school lunch changes will eventually be embraced by kids,\u201d the first lady told Cooking Light.<span style=\"color: #333399;\"> \u201cBecause we\u2019re really thinking about the kids who are kindergartners today.<\/span> If all they know are whole grains and vegetables, by the time they\u2019re graduating from high school, this will be their norm; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>they won\u2019t know anything different<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Obama\u2019s strategy is to start food indoctrination at a very young age.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u201cThese kids are starting from nursery school, getting whole grains and fish and brown rice,\u201d she declared.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u201cWe\u2019re looking at that kid going through high school and then entering college with a whole new set of habits and taste buds,\u201d the first lady also proclaimed.<\/strong><\/span> \u201cThese kids will be acclimated to different tastes, and then they\u2019ll go into college with that set of information and those skills and those norms. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>And hopefully they\u2019ll become the voices of their generation for how to eat and live and build a quality life<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>All of which is simple, unadulterated&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c4psKYpfnYs?start=3\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>All<\/em><\/span> the evidence (aka, for the politically-impaired, &#8220;<em>facts<\/em>&#8220;) clearly indicates whatever Moochie&#8217;s sellin&#8217;, kids of every age, ethnicity and socio-economic status ain&#8217;t buyin&#8217; it&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Thanks-Moochie1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29479\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Thanks-Moochie1.png\" alt=\"Thanks Moochie\" width=\"400\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Thanks-Moochie1.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Thanks-Moochie1-296x300.png 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Thanks-Moochie-21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Thanks-Moochie-21.png\" alt=\"Thanks Moochie 2\" width=\"400\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Thanks-Moochie-21.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Thanks-Moochie-21-300x242.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Thanks-Moochie-31.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29481\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Thanks-Moochie-31.png\" alt=\"Thanks Moochie 3\" width=\"400\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Thanks-Moochie-31.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Thanks-Moochie-31-292x300.png 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;perhaps because children recognize rank hypocrisy when they hear and see it. \u00a0Case in point: submitted for your perusal, the luncheon bill of fare enjoyed by Sasha and Malia at the exclusive Sidwell Friends School:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">December 9, 2014<\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">MS\/US<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Potato Sausage Soup<br \/>\nFirecracker Slaw<br \/>\nCalifornia Chef&#8217;s Salad<br \/>\nAll Natural Jamaican Jerk Chicken Wings<br \/>\nSweet Potato Black Bean Bake<br \/>\nSaut\u00e9ed Local Greens<br \/>\nGemelli Alfredo<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sliced Pineapple<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yes&#8230;whole grains, fish and brown rice for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>thee<\/em><\/span>, not for&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/michelle-obama-pigging-out-a-third-time.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29484\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/michelle-obama-pigging-out-a-third-time.png\" alt=\"michelle-obama-pigging-out-a-third-time\" width=\"400\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/michelle-obama-pigging-out-a-third-time.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/michelle-obama-pigging-out-a-third-time-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;mine or ME!\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<b>Which at least explains the extended-cab dimensions of Moochie&#8217;s daunting derriere!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mo2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29485\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mo2.jpg\" alt=\"mo2\" width=\"205\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mo2.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mo2-175x300.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>And which furthermore proves certain animals, particularly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>pigs<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/pigs_walking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-29489\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/pigs_walking-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"pigs_walking\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/pigs_walking-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/pigs_walking.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;are more equal than others.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>We lead of the mid-week edition with the <em>WSJ<\/em>&#8216;s Jason Riley, who observes how the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan is&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Still Right on the Black Family\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/jason-l-riley-still-right-on-the-black-family-after-all-these-years-1423613625\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #993300; text-decoration: underline;\">Still Right on the Black Family After All These Years<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Still Right on the Black Family\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/jason-l-riley-still-right-on-the-black-family-after-all-these-years-1423613625\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">The warnings that Daniel Patrick Moynihan sounded 50 years ago have come true. Will liberals ever forgive him?<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ED-AT269_riley_J_20150210174728.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29482\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ED-AT269_riley_J_20150210174728.jpg\" alt=\"ED-AT269_riley_J_20150210174728\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ED-AT269_riley_J_20150210174728.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ED-AT269_riley_J_20150210174728-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Will liberals ever forgive Daniel Patrick Moynihan for being right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Next month marks the 50th anniversary of the future senator\u2019s report on the black family, the controversial document issued while he served as an assistant secretary in President Lyndon Johnson\u2019s Labor Department. <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Moynihan highlighted troubling cultural trends among inner-city blacks, with a special focus on the increasing number of fatherless homes.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cThe fundamental problem is that of family structure,\u201d wrote Moynihan, who had a doctorate in sociology. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u201cThe evidence\u2014not final but powerfully persuasive\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is that the Negro family in the urban ghettos is crumbling<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For his troubles, Moynihan was denounced as a victim-blaming racist bent on undermining the civil-rights movement. <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Even worse, writes Harvard\u2019s Paul Peterson in the current issue of the journal Education Next, Moynihan\u2019s \u201cfindings were totally ignored by those who designed public policies at the time.\u201d <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Great Society architects would go on to expand old programs or formulate new ones that exacerbated the problems Moynihan identified.<\/span> Marriage was penalized and single parenting was subsidized. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In effect, <em>the government paid mothers to keep fathers out of the home<\/em>\u2014<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and paid them well<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cEconomists and policy analysts of the day worried about the negative incentives that had been created,\u201d writes Mr. Peterson. \u201cAnalysts estimated that in 1975 a household head would have to earn $20,000\u201d\u2014or an inflation-adjusted $88,000 today\u2014\u201cto have more resources than what could be obtained from Great Society programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>History has proved that Moynihan was onto something.<\/strong><\/span> When the report was released, about 25% of black children and 5% of white children lived in a household headed by a single mother. During the next 20 years the black percentage would double and the racial gap would widen. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>Today more than 70% of all black births are to unmarried women<\/em>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>twice<\/em><\/span> <em>the white percentage<\/em><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Which is itself far higher than it would be absent the manifestly misguided ministrations of modern Progressives.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>The Left also remains in steadfast denial of yet <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>another<\/em><\/span> irrefutable truth Moynihan recognized: entitlement to one&#8217;s opinion does <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> constitute license to manufacture one&#8217;s own facts!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/B9KJHi6CcAEjBLS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29483\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/B9KJHi6CcAEjBLS.jpg\" alt=\"B9KJHi6CcAEjBLS\" width=\"325\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/B9KJHi6CcAEjBLS.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/B9KJHi6CcAEjBLS-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By the way, these weren&#8217;t mistaken recollections resulting from fatigue, age or any other innocent origin; they were bald-faced, calculated, self-serving lies in which these two charlatans were caught.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And don&#8217;t look for Brian to return to his anchor seat in six months:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"NBC Suspends Brian Williams for Six Months\" href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/christinerousselle\/2015\/02\/10\/nbc-suspends-brian-williams-for-six-months-n1955721\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900; text-decoration: underline;\">NBC Suspends Brian Williams for Six Months<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/resize.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-29488\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/resize-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"resize\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/resize-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/resize-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/resize.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The man is damaged goods; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>irreparably<\/em><\/span> damaged goods. \u00a0The sad part is, Williams is being thrown under the bus <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> because of his lies, but because his deliberate deceptions are symptomatic of a greater problem <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>endemic<\/em><\/span> to anything <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>remotely<\/em><\/span> connected to Liberalism in general and the Dimocratic Party specifically.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, writing at\u00a0<\/strong><strong><em>NRO<\/em>, Andrew McCarthy relates&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Why Obama Needs to Pretend the Taliban Aren\u2019t Terrorists \" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/397626\/why-obama-needs-pretend-taliban-arent-terrorists-andrew-c-mccarthy\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"article_title\" style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">Why Obama Needs to Pretend the Taliban Aren\u2019t Terrorists <\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Why Obama Needs to Pretend the Taliban Aren\u2019t Terrorists \" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/397626\/why-obama-needs-pretend-taliban-arent-terrorists-andrew-c-mccarthy\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"article_subtitle\" style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">The administration makes a desperate and indefensible claim. <\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/091008-taliban-coin-300x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29447\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/091008-taliban-coin-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"091008-taliban-coin-300x300\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/091008-taliban-coin-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/091008-taliban-coin-300x300-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;In the United States, Obama is operating in a political environment where the public \u2014 based on longstanding prudential American policy \u2014 believes we should not negotiate with terrorists because that encourages and legitimizes their savage methods. Similarly, the public strongly believes international terrorists are enemies who must be defeated, not defendants who must be indicted. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Obama knows he is negotiating with, intends to settle with, and eventually will leave Afghanistan to the tender mercies of, the Taliban. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Therefore, t<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">he administration is desperate that you not look at the Taliban as terrorists<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>But they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\">are<\/span> terrorists<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>And no amount of obfuscation, disinformation or misrepresentation will ever alter the fact; or the public&#8217;s perception, for that matter. \u00a0A significant number of Americans may be slow&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20campaign-articleLarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29486\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20campaign-articleLarge.jpg\" alt=\"20campaign-articleLarge\" width=\"400\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20campaign-articleLarge.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20campaign-articleLarge-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;but the majority aren&#8217;t stupid.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In two related items, both brought to us again by <em>NRO<\/em>, the great Victor Davis Hanson explores&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"The Roots of Obama's Appeasement\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/397914\/roots-obamas-appeasement-victor-davis-hanson\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #333399;\"><span class=\"article_title\">The Roots of Obama\u2019s Appeasement <\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"The Roots of Obama's Appeasement\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/397914\/roots-obamas-appeasement-victor-davis-hanson\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff00ff;\"><span class=\"article_subtitle\">The president\u2019s disastrous foreign policy is as much a product of his own vanity as anything else. <\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pic_giant_020515_SM_Obama-Chamberlain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29444\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pic_giant_020515_SM_Obama-Chamberlain.jpg\" alt=\"pic_giant_020515_SM_Obama-Chamberlain\" width=\"400\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pic_giant_020515_SM_Obama-Chamberlain.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pic_giant_020515_SM_Obama-Chamberlain-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;The architect of appeasement \u2014 for example, Neville Chamberlain, former prime minister of Great Britain \u2014 was predictably a narcissist. Chamberlain believed that his own powers of oratory, his insights into reason, and his undeniably superior morality would sway even a thug like Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>President Obama currently is convinced that his singular charisma and rare insight into human nature will convince the Taliban to peacefully participate in Afghan politics. <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Obama will supposedly also win over the Iranian theocracy and show it how nonproliferation is really to everyone\u2019s advantage.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">\u00a0<\/span>\u201cReset\u201d diplomacy with Putin was supposed to lessen tensions \u2014 if, after the 2012 election, Putin just had more exposure to a flexible statesman of Obama\u2019s wisdom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Throughout history, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">without the vanity of the conceder<\/span>, there would <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">never have been appeasement<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Appeasement also always subordinates the interests of vulnerable third parties to the appeaser\u2019s own inflated sense of self.<\/strong> <\/span>When Chamberlain and the French prime minister Edouard Daladier signed the 1938 Munich Pact, they worried little about the fate of millions of Czechs who lost their country \u2014 and less about millions of Poles who were next in line for Hitler\u2019s Blitzkrieg.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Reset diplomacy with Russia in 2009 was not much concerned about the ensuing danger to Crimeans or Ukrainians. <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em>When the Taliban takes over, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">hundreds of thousands of reformist Afghans will die<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Obama sees a deal with Iran as a way to cement his legacy as a breakthrough statesman.<\/span> In comparison, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the long-term consequences of a nuclear Iran on the security of tiny Israel or on the stability of the largely Sunni Arab Middle East are future and more abstract concerns for others<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and then <\/strong><strong>details regarding:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\"><a class=\"article_title active\" style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/397992\/still-more-president-obamas-moral-equivalence-victor-davis-hanson\">Still More of President Obama\u2019s Moral Equivalence<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Meditation-Sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29445\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Meditation-Sm.jpg\" alt=\"Meditation Sm\" width=\"500\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Meditation-Sm.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Meditation-Sm-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;Slavery was outlawed in the U.S. in 1865.\u00a0Jim Crow ended officially a half-century ago. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Indentured servitude, however, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>continues<\/em><\/span>, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">almost exclusively<\/span> among some Islamic groups in the Middle East and Africa<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> The caste system and ethnic and religious tribalism that institutionalized discrimination and second-class status, quite akin to Jim Crow, persist in places in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>I doubt today whether a Jew of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><em>any<\/em><\/span> nationality would be allowed to immigrate and buy real estate in too many corners of the Islamic Middle East.<\/strong><\/span> Outside of the West, women and homosexuals are often treated no differently than in the Seventh Century.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Areas of Central and Latin America are as poor as the Middle East, <em>but Christian liberation theologists, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">unlike the Islamic State<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">are not beheading and burning prisoners alive to advance their redistributionist cause<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This &#8220;man&#8221;&#8230;and we use the term <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>very<\/em><\/span> loosely&#8230;is sowing the wind; unfortunately, it will be the rest of us who reap the resultant whirlwind.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a similar vein, courtesy of\u00a0<em>PJMedia<\/em>&#8216;s Roger Simon&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"first_headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/rogerlsimon\/2015\/02\/05\/a-jew-examines-why-obama-never-names-islam\/\">A Jew Examines Why Obama Never Names Islam<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gmc12753520150205025200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-29418\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gmc12753520150205025200-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"gmc12753520150205025200\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gmc12753520150205025200-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gmc12753520150205025200.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;Nevertheless, Obama can blacken Christians and name them in a speech, but not Muslims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The reason is not complicated. \u00a0Obama is not a religious person. \u00a0He rarely appears in church, except for political purposes. \u00a0He is titularly a Christian, but identifies emotionally, from his youth in Indonesian madrassas and from his ideological predisposition, with Third World Muslims. \u00a0But now he is confronted with those same Muslims behaving like barbarians across Africa and the Middle East and sometimes into Europe and America.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What would be his reaction to that? \u00a0Pretty much what it is for most throughout the Islamic world \u2014 shame. \u00a0As many have noted, Islam is a shame culture (the kind of society that will go berserk over cartoons) and, like it or not, our president is part of it culturally. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>That does not mean he is stoning adulterers or cutting off the hands of thieves or treating women like chattel, but it does mean he is genuinely and quite deeply ashamed of the religion he, in part, came from. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">He cannot adjust to or accept the calamities it is causing.<\/span> \u00a0Unlike the president of Egypt, \u00a0he cannot name it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>This also explains Obama\u2019s determination to whitewash the behavior of Iran and make a deal with the Islamic Republic that will jeopardize the entire world. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">It also helps make more clear his ambivalent (at best) relationship to the state of Israel and its leaders.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It grieves me much to write this, because it is a horrible situation. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Obama is not a Manchurian candidate and never was. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>He never <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">had<\/span> to be<\/em>.<\/span> \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>He is just absolutely the wrong human being to be leading the West at this point in history<\/em><\/span>. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Heaven help us.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>With all due respect to Mr. Simon, Barry would be the wrong human being to lead the West&#8230;or any <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>other<\/em><\/span> organization&#8230;outside of ACORN&#8230;at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ANY<\/em><\/span> point in history!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us to an item from the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>&#8216;s Sean Higgins, who reports how an Administration supposedly dedicated to the plight of the working class is, quite literally,&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"hd-font entry-title color3\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Regulating people out of jobs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/regulating-people-out-of-jobs\/article\/2559860\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">Regulating people out of jobs<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/606x404-4539293007ade41164c222c400427ec1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/606x404-4539293007ade41164c222c400427ec1.jpg\" alt=\"606x404-4539293007ade41164c222c400427ec1\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/606x404-4539293007ade41164c222c400427ec1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/606x404-4539293007ade41164c222c400427ec1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Single mother Tameka Stigers figured that she could use her skill at braiding hair to support her family. She soon discovered it wasn\u2019t that easy: Missouri required that she get a cosmetology license before she could do it professionally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>That required getting a degree from a cosmetology school, which would cost Stigers at least $5,000 in tuition and require 1,500 hours of classes. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The schools don&#8217;t even teach hair braiding<\/em><\/span>, she adds.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Alternately, she could be apprenticed under an accredited professional, but she would have to rack up 3,000 hours working there \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>a year and a half&#8217;s worth of 40-hour work weeks<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>By comparison, Missouri requires 23 days of training to be licensed as an emergency medical technician<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;An EMT comes to your home and maybe saves your life. \u2026 Why in the world do I need 1,500 hours [of training] to cut and style someone&#8217;s hair?&#8221; said Stigers, who is involved in an ongoing court challenge against the license requirements.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>It&#8217;s not like Missouri is worried about how people&#8217;s hairdos look, Stigers added. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">&#8220;You can cut and style someone&#8217;s hair for free, no problem.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It&#8217;s only [an issue] when you charge a fee<\/em><\/span>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>No worries, Tameka; while the Obamaos continue to dine at exclusive restaurants on fare declared unhealthy for the unwashed masses, and enjoy taxpayer-funded luxury vacations beyond the means of anyone but the uber-rich, rest assured they&#8217;re <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>always<\/em><\/span> focused on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>your<\/em><\/span> best interests.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Though how inviting untold millions of illegal immigrants willing to undercut whatever price your services demand helps working stiffs like you remains a mystery!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of the inevitable consequences of government overregulation of the free market, courtesy of <em>Best of the Web<\/em>, James Taranto reveals how&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #003300; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Expensive Labor Yields Cheap Shelves<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/clip_image004_thumb3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29454\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/clip_image004_thumb3.jpg\" alt=\"clip_image004_thumb3\" width=\"400\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/clip_image004_thumb3.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/clip_image004_thumb3-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cSan Francisco\u2019s outstanding, world-beating science fiction bookstore, Borderlands, will shut no later than March 31,\u201d reports BoingBoing.net\u2019s Cory Doctorow:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>In an open letter, the owners Alan Beatts and Jude Feldman explain that they can\u2019t pay San Francisco\u2019s new $15 minimum wage (a minimum wage <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">that they support<\/span>).<\/strong><\/span> <strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">That increase will raise their payroll costs by 39% and their overall costs by 18%\u2014and since they can\u2019t raise the cost of their books (because they\u2019re pre-priced, and retail priced books are already a tough sell in the age of Amazon), <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the only way they could cover the increase would be to stop paying themselves, or fire almost everyone and work insane hours<\/span>.<\/span> The cafe attached [to] the store will stay open for the foreseeable [future], <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">since those prices are flexible and can be raised to account for their increased overheads<\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>It sounds like a hopeless situation, and it\u2019s certainly bad news for bookstores as a category.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It reminds us of Glenn Reynolds\u2019s favorite Heinlein quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><em>Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded\u2014here and there, now and then\u2014are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people.<\/span> <\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty<\/span><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">This is known as \u201cbad luck<\/span>.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>But bad luck for Beatts, Feldman and their soon-to-be-erstwhile employees is good luck for you, if you need shelves<\/strong><\/span>: \u201cWe\u2019re also going to be selling all our shelves and other fixtures. It would make us very happy to know that our hand-built shelves were going to sit in the living room of someone who was a customer of ours and who appreciates their history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>If ignorance is bliss, these knucklenoses are experiencing Nirvana.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Environmental Moment<span style=\"color: #000000;\">, <em>The Telegraph<\/em>&#8216;s Christopher Booker offers more proof (as if any were really needed) the Environazis aren&#8217;t playing with a straight deck:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/earth\/environment\/globalwarming\/11395516\/The-fiddling-with-temperature-data-is-the-biggest-science-scandal-ever.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">The Fiddling with Temperature Data is the Biggest Science Scandal Ever<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/polarbearschilling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29442\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/polarbearschilling.jpg\" alt=\"polarbearschilling\" width=\"400\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/polarbearschilling.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/polarbearschilling-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"firstPar\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<\/span><strong>When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records \u2013 on which the entire panic ultimately rested \u2013 were systematically \u201cadjusted\u201d to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"secondPar\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p>Two weeks ago, under the headline <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/comment\/11367272\/Climategate-the-sequel-How-we-are-STILL-being-tricked-with-flawed-data-on-global-warming.html\">\u201cHow we are being tricked by flawed data on global warming\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, I wrote about Paul Homewood, who, on his <em>Notalotofpeopleknowthat<\/em> blog, had checked the published temperature graphs for three weather stations in Paraguay against the temperatures that had originally been recorded. <span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>In each instance, the actual trend of 60 years of data had been dramatically reversed, so that a cooling trend was changed to one that showed a marked warming.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"thirdPar\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>This was only the latest of many examples of a practice long recognised by expert observers around the world \u2013 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>one that raises an ever larger question mark over the entire official surface-temperature record<\/em><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Unless of course, you&#8217;re a truth-denying, anthropogenic-global-warming-disciple like Slate&#8217;s Phil Plait, who lamely attempts to explain&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>\u201c<em>This is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nonsense<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>The claim is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">wrong<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> The scientists didn\u2019t <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>manipulate<\/em><\/span> the data, <em>they\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">processed<\/span> it<\/em>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/yeahright11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29487\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/yeahright11.jpg\" alt=\"yeahright\" width=\"240\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the Lighter Side&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lb0210cd20150209101727.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29465\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lb0210cd20150209101727.jpg\" alt=\"lb0210cd20150209101727\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lb0210cd20150209101727.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lb0210cd20150209101727-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz020615dAPC20150206124549.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29466\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz020615dAPC20150206124549.jpg\" alt=\"mrz020615dAPC20150206124549\" width=\"462\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz020615dAPC20150206124549.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz020615dAPC20150206124549-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cb021015dAPR20150210015433.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29471\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cb021015dAPR20150210015433.jpg\" alt=\"cb021015dAPR20150210015433\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cb021015dAPR20150210015433.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cb021015dAPR20150210015433-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz020915dAPC20150209054515.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29467\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz020915dAPC20150209054515.jpg\" alt=\"mrz020915dAPC20150209054515\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz020915dAPC20150209054515.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz020915dAPC20150209054515-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gv020815dAPR20150209124513.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29470\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gv020815dAPR20150209124513.jpg\" alt=\"gv020815dAPR20150209124513\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gv020815dAPR20150209124513.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gv020815dAPR20150209124513-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/payn_c12756220150206120100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29468\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/payn_c12756220150206120100.jpg\" alt=\"payn_c12756220150206120100\" width=\"462\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/payn_c12756220150206120100.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/payn_c12756220150206120100-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/12_15979520150210095858.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29469\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/12_15979520150210095858.jpg\" alt=\"12_15979520150210095858\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/12_15979520150210095858.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/12_15979520150210095858-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/81_15970120150206111510.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29472\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/81_15970120150206111510.jpg\" alt=\"81_15970120150206111510\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/81_15970120150206111510.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/81_15970120150206111510-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29473\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image009.jpg\" alt=\"image009\" width=\"462\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image009.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image009-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29474\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image013.jpg\" alt=\"image013\" width=\"462\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image013.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image013-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with yet another useless exercise in expert assessment:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"study pinpoints 8 signs death is nigh\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2015\/02\/09\/cancer-study-pinpoints-8-signs-death-is-nigh\/?intcmp=obmod_ffo&amp;intcmp=obnetwork\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\">Study pinpoints 8 signs death is nigh<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uhhh&#8230;make that&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/18j25w5406kgzjpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29464\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/18j25w5406kgzjpg.jpg\" alt=\"18j25w5406kgzjpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" 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