{"id":29749,"date":"2015-02-24T20:35:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T01:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=29749"},"modified":"2015-02-24T20:35:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T01:35:10","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-february-20th-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=29749","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, February 20th, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Friday, February 20th, 2015&#8230;but before we begin, please participate in our latest poll, immediately to your right. \u00a0Next, a quick look at how the Network News covered Judge Andrew Hanen granting an injunction blocking the implementation of The Obamao&#8217;s unconstitutional executive action on immigration:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eRTBTSSUbHY\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nothing about the specifics of the judge&#8217;s findings; indeed nothing whatsoever about the law at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all<\/em><\/span>. \u00a0Just&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AnFxAnbJD8A?start=8\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Feelings are a great guide when dealing with your spouse; they&#8217;re an impossible, in fact disastrous basis for a system of government. \u00a0In fact, it&#8217;s the worst possible&#8230;except, of course, for&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dOOTKA0aGI0?start=128\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;strange women lying in ponds! \u00a0We mean, just because a watery tart threw a sword at you&#8230;; sorry, we just realized that&#8217;s too nuanced for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>you<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, as <em>CNSNews<\/em>\u00a0reports, just when you thought this farcical excuse for an Administration couldn&#8217;t do any more to threaten the homeland&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"page-title\" class=\"title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"U.S. Expects to Quadruple the Number of Syrian Refugees Brought Here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/susan-jones\/us-expects-quadruple-number-syrian-refugees-brought-here\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">U.S. Expects to Quadruple the Number of Syrian Refugees Brought Here<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Abdirahmaan-Muhumed.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29674\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Abdirahmaan-Muhumed.png\" alt=\"Abdirahmaan-Muhumed\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Abdirahmaan-Muhumed.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Abdirahmaan-Muhumed-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>After all, the policy&#8217;s worked so well with Somalians!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The United States has &#8220;a long tradition of welcoming refugees,&#8221; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>and it expects to welcome thousands more of them from Syria in 2015 and 2016, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">despite concerns about foreign fighters<\/span><\/em>, the State Department said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The United States has admitted 524 Syrians since 2011. We\u2019re likely to admit 1,000 to 2,000 Syrian refugees for permanent resettlement in Fiscal Year 2015 and a somewhat higher number, though still in the low thousands, in Fiscal Year 2016,&#8221; spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">But at a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee last week, Chairman Mike McCaul (R-Texas) said it would be a &#8220;huge mistake&#8221; to bring refugees from Syria and Turkey into the United States where they &#8220;could potentially be radicalized.&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Psaki told reporters on Friday that national security &#8220;is absolutely a priority&#8221; in the decision to admit refugees<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which begs a question we&#8217;ve asked before, and for which <em>PJMedia<\/em>&#8216;s Roger Simon offers a different answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"first_headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/rogerlsimon\/2015\/02\/17\/is-obama-a-manchurian-candidate\/\">Is Obama a Manchurian Candidate?<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/when-your-country-is-telling-you-no.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29676\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/when-your-country-is-telling-you-no.jpg\" alt=\"when-your-country-is-telling-you-no\" width=\"350\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/when-your-country-is-telling-you-no.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/when-your-country-is-telling-you-no-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Barack Obama is not the Manchurian candidate.<\/strong> <\/span>That\u2019s just an excuse. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The only problem is\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>He\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>worse<\/em><\/span>. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #333399;\">He\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>far<\/em><\/span> worse.<\/span> \u00a0<em>Barack Obama <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">doesn\u2019t have<\/span> to be a Manchurian candidate<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0He can and is doing more damage without being one. \u00a0A Manchurian candidate could be exposed (yes, and possibly could not). \u00a0Barack Obama doesn\u2019t need that. \u00a0He and the media and the brainwashed public that elected him are destroying our country (and the West) all by themselves. \u00a0They don\u2019t need any secret conspirators in the back room. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>They\u2019re all there in public view<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> And how.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Obamacare and the sabotaging of the immigration system were bad enough, but they are absolutely trivial compared to what is going on now. \u00a0We have the next thing to a jihadist in the White House. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>From the inability to name Islamic terrorists as Islamic, to the failure to name Jews as the objects of homicidal anti-Semitism at a kosher market, to the complete omission of the word Christian when 21 Christians have their heads cut off (simultaneously!) for being Christian, <em>we have in the Oval Office not only <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the worst president in the history of our country<\/span>, we have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the worst person to be president<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>And now he is opening the door to a huge number of Syrian refugees, who knows how many of whom may be members of ISIS, al Qaeda or some group we haven\u2019t even heard of yet.<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>If I were a Christian or a Jew or even some sort of wishy-washy Muslim, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I\u2019d make sure your door was locked at night and you had exercised your Second Amendment rights<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Advice we&#8217;ve followed but once, and that continuously!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item, the\u00a0<em>WSJ<\/em>&#8216;s Dan Henninger sees things in a similar light as he details&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Obama\u2019s Brutal Foreign Policy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/dan-henninger-obamas-brutal-foreign-policy-1424305250\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #333399;\">Obama\u2019s Brutal Foreign Policy<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Obama\u2019s Brutal Foreign Policy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/dan-henninger-obamas-brutal-foreign-policy-1424305250\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\">Left-wing realpolitik has no interest in the world beyond America\u2019s borders.<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Obama-doesn-t-have-time-for-your-shit-he-still-doesn-t_f27691_3763810.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29695\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Obama-doesn-t-have-time-for-your-shit-he-still-doesn-t_f27691_3763810.jpg\" alt=\"Obama+doesn+t+have+time+for+your+shit+he+still+doesn+t_f27691_3763810\" width=\"400\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Obama-doesn-t-have-time-for-your-shit-he-still-doesn-t_f27691_3763810.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Obama-doesn-t-have-time-for-your-shit-he-still-doesn-t_f27691_3763810-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;It is a mistake to think that Mr. Obama\u2019s passivity or indecision are sufficient explanation. What is on offer here is the American left\u2019s version of realpolitik. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The decision by the Obama White House not to deploy American resources is thought-out, brutal and unapologetic.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">President Obama in his Feb. 6 national-security statement explained what he is doing\u2014or not doing. He was precise and clear:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em>\u201cWe have to make hard choices among many competing priorities and we must always resist the overreach that comes when we make decisions based upon fear.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Short version: <em>He\u2019s not spending real money on any of this<\/em>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Get over it<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">There is an important difference between left-wing realpolitik and the conservative realpolitik normally associated with Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The <em>conservatives\u2019 <\/em>version was about making choices among competing uses of American military resources <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>abroad<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>Left-wing<\/em> realpolitik <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">has no serious interest in the world beyond America\u2019s borders<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(Unless it involves opposing Israel.)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The only realism the left admits to is what it sees as a U.S. beset\u2014forever\u2014by poverty, economic injustice and \u201cunmet needs.\u201d <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Thus Mr. Obama produces a $3.99 trillion budget to end \u201cmindless austerity.\u201d<\/span> The world beyond this is a footnote.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;d suggest repeating to yourself &#8220;less than 2 more years&#8230;less than 2 more years&#8221;; unfortunately, though Rome wasn&#8217;t built in a day, it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>fell<\/em><\/span> practically overnight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up, courtesy of Jim Gould and Lawrence Sellin writing at <em>Accuracy in Media<\/em>, same song, different tune:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"cufon single black\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"America is committing government-assisted suicide\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aim.org\/guest-column\/america-is-committing-government-assisted-suicide\/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&amp;utm_campaign=email021715&amp;utm_medium=email\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">America is committing government-assisted suicide<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/timthumb.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29679\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/timthumb.jpeg\" alt=\"timthumb\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/timthumb.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/timthumb-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;Obama behaves like a dictator not just because he is a narcissist, but because his political beliefs are, at their core, authoritarian. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>He represents a perfect anti-American storm, the amalgamation of twin totalitarian ideologies, Marxist-Leninism and Islamic extremism, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>both dedicated to the destruction of Judeo-Christian civilization<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Obama cannot counter threats from abroad <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">because he is sympathetic to them<\/span><\/em>, while simultaneously pursuing domestic policies that generate economic malaise, fiscal bankruptcy, and social chaos; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>conditions that undermine American democracy and are the foundation of his fundamental transformation of the country<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Obama would not be a problem, nor would he even be President, if we did not have a hopelessly corrupt political-media culture<\/strong><\/em><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>That about covers it! \u00a0Seriously, absent the MSM&#8217;s determined efforts to cover his sorry backside, he&#8217;d have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no chance whatsoever<\/em><\/span> of continuing in office <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>a single day<\/em><\/span> once he started peddling <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>this<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/B-LzfyXCcAAHRHZ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29698\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/B-LzfyXCcAAHRHZ.jpg\" alt=\"B-LzfyXCcAAHRHZ\" width=\"350\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/B-LzfyXCcAAHRHZ.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/B-LzfyXCcAAHRHZ-272x300.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;load of politically-correct, Islam-inspired insanity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He&#8217;d have been run out of town on a rail; along with his wife and entire anti-American Administration. \u00a0Which, at least in the case of Moochie, would require a mighty thick rail!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of Islam-inspired insanity, <em>The Washington Free Beacon<\/em> reports&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Saudi Cleric: The Sun Revolves Around the Earth\" href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/saudi-cleric-the-sun-revolves-around-the-earth\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">Saudi Cleric: The Sun Revolves Around the Earth<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/839624-Untitled-1424152028-540-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29670\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/839624-Untitled-1424152028-540-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"839624-Untitled-1424152028-540-640x480\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/839624-Untitled-1424152028-540-640x480.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/839624-Untitled-1424152028-540-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;The controversial cleric, Sheikh Bandar al-Khaibari, was caught making the comments in a short\u00a0video clip\u00a0posted to YouTube\u00a0on Monday.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>In response to a question posed by a student, al-Khaibari says the Earth is\u00a0\u201cstationary and does not move.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">While al-Khaibari\u2019s remarks have been mocked on social networking sites such as Twitter, regional experts say his anti-science stance is embraced and promoted by leading Saudi clerics in charge of the country\u2019s religious authority.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>\u201cIt makes perfect sense for a Saudi cleric to be arguing that the sun revolves around the Earth because this is the sort of message they are getting from on high,\u201d according to David Weinberg, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;Al-Khaibary\u2019s lecture on astronomy took place in late January, during a government-sponsored lecture in the United Arab Emirates,\u00a0according\u00a0to sources provided by FDD. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>He has given similar lectures sponsored\u00a0by the Saudi government.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>In addition to promoting the notion that the Earth is stationary in space, al-Khaibary\u2019s mentor cleric Fawzan has\u00a0claimed\u00a0that the Islamic State (IS) terror group is a creation of \u201cZionists, crusaders, and Safavids,\u201d according to Weinberg.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u201cThat\u2019s the sort of message that Saudi religious officials are receiving from the state\u2019s favorite clergy,\u201d Weinberg said&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further proof, as if any were needed, Islam is indeed \u201cthe religion which has produced nothing but religion\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>President Obama was quick to react to what he termed the Saudis&#8217; misunderstanding of &#8220;settled science&#8221;, pointing out that in reality, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>everything<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>including<\/em><\/span> the earth and sun, actually&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/obama-me-me-me.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-29671\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/obama-me-me-me-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"obama-me-me-me\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/obama-me-me-me-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/obama-me-me-me.jpg 423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;revolves around <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>him<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And on the Lighter Side&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz021915dAPR20150218074513.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29687\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz021915dAPR20150218074513.jpg\" alt=\"mrz021915dAPR20150218074513\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz021915dAPR20150218074513.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz021915dAPR20150218074513-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sk021815dAPR20150218024554.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29688\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sk021815dAPR20150218024554.jpg\" alt=\"sk021815dAPR20150218024554\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sk021815dAPR20150218024554.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sk021815dAPR20150218024554-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bg021815dAPC20150218050004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29689\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bg021815dAPC20150218050004.jpg\" alt=\"bg021815dAPC20150218050004\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bg021815dAPC20150218050004.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bg021815dAPC20150218050004-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gmc12795120150218035300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29690\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gmc12795120150218035300.jpg\" alt=\"gmc12795120150218035300\" width=\"462\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gmc12795120150218035300.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gmc12795120150218035300-300x221.jpg 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alt=\"mrz021815dAPR20150218012457\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz021815dAPR20150218012457.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz021815dAPR20150218012457-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Sweeping-Statement-Sm.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29702\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Sweeping-Statement-Sm.jpeg\" alt=\"Sweeping Statement Sm\" width=\"500\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Sweeping-Statement-Sm.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Sweeping-Statement-Sm-300x146.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sbr021915dAPR20150219025049.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29693\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sbr021915dAPR20150219025049.jpg\" alt=\"sbr021915dAPR20150219025049\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sbr021915dAPR20150219025049.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sbr021915dAPR20150219025049-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Conservative-Women-Sm.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29703\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Conservative-Women-Sm.jpeg\" alt=\"Conservative Women Sm\" width=\"500\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Conservative-Women-Sm.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Conservative-Women-Sm-300x146.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, courtesy of Jeff Foutch, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with funny but unfortunately all-too accurate bit of satire from Andrew Stiles, who lists&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Nine Fun Ways to Buy Access to The Clintons\" href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/blog\/nine-fun-ways-to-buy-access-to-the-clintons\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff00ff;\">Nine Fun Ways to Buy Access to The Clintons<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/149573_600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29694\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/149573_600.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Koterba cartoon for June 11, 2014 &quot;Clinton&quot;\" width=\"400\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/149573_600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/149573_600-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: we know this will come as a shock, but they all involve giving the Clintons money!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, February 20th, 2015&#8230;but before we begin, please participate in our latest poll, immediately to your right. \u00a0Next, a quick look at how the Network News covered Judge Andrew Hanen granting an injunction blocking the implementation of The Obamao&#8217;s unconstitutional executive action on immigration: Nothing about the specifics of the judge&#8217;s findings; indeed nothing 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