{"id":29808,"date":"2015-02-26T19:33:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T00:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=29808"},"modified":"2015-02-26T19:33:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T00:33:16","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-february-25th-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=29808","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, February 25th, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, February 25th, 2015, but before we begin, two thoughts; first, another quote from the same Jonah Goldberg commentary sourced above:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/mrz022315dAPR20150223074520.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;The thousands of young men (and women) abandoning the West to join the apocalyptic project of the Islamic State are not doing so simply because they are murderers or petty criminals looking for a convenient excuse. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>No doubt people susceptible to jihadist appeals have their &#8220;issues,&#8221; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but trying to understand jihadists without consulting jihadism is like trying to explain why there are relatively few Amish nuclear engineers without referring to Anabaptism<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second, are we the only one struck by the fact the supposed Mall of America &#8220;threat&#8221; to the Heartland conveniently coincided with the DHS budget battle?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guys and Dolls, these people aren&#8217;t simply inept, they&#8217;re downright dangerous. \u00a0And this denial of reality isn&#8217;t just bad foreign policy, it&#8217;s outright lunacy; all of which only confirms the <em>greatest<\/em> threat to the national security in the history of the United States is&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Obama_with_a_joint.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29755\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Obama_with_a_joint.jpg\" alt=\"Obama_with_a_joint\" width=\"350\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Obama_with_a_joint.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Obama_with_a_joint-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>home grown<\/em><\/span>&#8230;at least to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>some<\/em><\/span> degree.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, meet pathological liar Josh Earnest&#8217;s new boss,&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zs0wGlCAN58\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;same as the old boss! \u00a0To borrow a phrase from <em>Moneyball<\/em>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zaQlAHptguM?start=46\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>But if you thought the unparalleled lies of The Dear Misleader and his preening pack of prevaricators posed a clear and present danger to the Republic, as this forward from George Lawlor and <em>Rasmussen Report<\/em>\u00a0relates, the <em>greatest<\/em> threat America faces today is the ignorance of her average citizen:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Should Obama Ignore the Federal Courts?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/february_2015\/should_obama_ignore_the_federal_courts\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Should Obama Ignore the Federal Courts?<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/payn110103_02_cmyk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29715\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/payn110103_02_cmyk.jpg\" alt=\"payn110103_02_cmyk\" width=\"400\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/payn110103_02_cmyk.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/payn110103_02_cmyk-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;President Obama\u2019s immigration plan and his national health care law both face legal challenges this year that could bring them to a halt. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>But one-in-four voters think the president should be able to ignore the courts if he wants to, and Democrats believe that even more strongly.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 26% of Likely U.S. Voters think the president should have the right to ignore federal court rulings if they are standing in the way of actions he feels are important for the country.<\/strong><\/span> Sixty percent (60%) disagree and say the president should not have the right to ignore the courts. Fifteen percent (15%) are undecided.\u00a0(To see survey question wording,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/questions\/pt_survey_questions\/february_2015\/questions_branches_of_government_february_18_19_2015\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But perhaps more unsettling to supporters of constitutional checks and balances is the finding that 43% of Democrats believe the president should have the right to ignore the courts. Only 35% of voters in President Obama\u2019s party disagree, compared to 81% of Republicans and 67% of voters not affiliated with either major party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Fifty-two percent (52%) of all voters believe, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>generally speaking<\/em><\/span>, that court challenges of actions approved by the president and Congress help protect the rights of U.S. citizens.<\/span> Thirty percent (30%), however, consider such challenges mostly nuisances that stand in the way of good policy.<\/strong><\/span> Eighteen percent (18%) are not sure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Thirty-one percent (31%) think it is more important for government to operate efficiently than it is to preserve our system of checks and balances<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> Nearly twice as many (59%) place more importance on maintaining checks and balances. Eleven percent (11%) are undecided&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>When a famous American humorist once observed&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/will.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29716\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/will.jpg\" alt=\"will\" width=\"400\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/will.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/will-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>THIS<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/vxuUgtS.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29717\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/vxuUgtS.png\" alt=\"vxuUgtS\" width=\"325\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/vxuUgtS.png 325w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/vxuUgtS-264x300.png 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;is who he had in mind! \u00a0We don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s more disconcerting: that Americans, regardless of political persuasion, would dismiss the wisdom of the Founding Fathers with such disdain, or that so many seem willing to sow the seeds of dictatorship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>To borrow a phrase from <em>A Christmas Carol<\/em>:<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l6MFN8yiVc0?start=33\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;This boy is Ignorance, this girl is want. \u00a0Beware them both, but most of all beware this boy!&#8221; \u00a0Dickens was right; for what we&#8217;re reaping today is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>intended<\/em><\/span> ignorance, sown by Progressives&#8217; purposeful dumbing-down of our public education system.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And lest we forget, not too long ago a certain Northern European nation welcomed <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>another<\/em><\/span> group of Socialists touting the cost-free benefits of unrestrained Big Government&#8230;with open arms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up, a few thoughts on the Rudy Guliani &#8220;scandal&#8221;, as reported by the\u00a0<em>New York Daily News<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"a-header\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Rudy Giuliani clarifies Obama comments by claiming the President has been influenced by communism, socialism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/giuliani-claims-obama-influenced-communism-article-1.2123541\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Rudy Giuliani clarifies Obama comments by claiming the President has been influenced by communism, socialism<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/55233379.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29721\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/55233379.jpg\" alt=\"55233379\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/55233379.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/55233379-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/55233379-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Trying to explain his controversial comments that President Obama doesn\u2019t love America, Rudy Giuliani said Friday that he believes the President has been influenced by communism and socialism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u201cLook, this man was brought up basically in a white family, so whatever he learned or didn\u2019t learn, I attribute this more to the influence of communism and socialism\u201d than to his race<\/strong><\/span>, Giuliani told the Daily News.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cI don\u2019t (see) this President as being particularly a product of African-American society or something like that.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">He isn\u2019t<\/span>,\u201d the former mayor added. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cLogically, think about his background<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">.<\/span><\/span> . . The ideas that are troubling me and are leading to this come from communists with whom he associated when he was 9 years old\u201d through family connection<\/strong><\/span>s&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Color us confused; have The Obamao&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>true<\/em><\/span> politics <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ever<\/em><\/span> been in question&#8230;at least by anyone with half the sense God gave a goose?!? \u00a0Let&#8217;s see&#8230;his mother was a Communist, his father was an anti-Western Black Nationalist\/Socialist, his maternal grandparents were Communists, his mentor was a Communist, his hero was a Communist, his wife is a Communist, his pastor is a anti-White Socialist and his closest advisor is a Communist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Other than <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span>, how&#8217;d you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like the source of Miss Mona Lisa <\/strong><strong>Vito&#8217;s automotive expertise&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lw1maFxKYhU?start=129\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;the evidence of The Obamao&#8217;s Communist upbringing and politics is as undeniably obvious as the ears on his head.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is he a Christian? \u00a0Not no, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>hell<\/em><\/span> no; at least, not as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>we<\/em><\/span> understand the Scriptures. \u00a0Barry never attends church, instead choosing to golf every Sunday, and has yet to do anything but misquote the Gospel and mischaracterize Christianity. \u00a0And he clearly used even the &#8220;Reverend&#8221; Wright&#8217;s even nominally-&#8220;Christian&#8221; Church of the Holy Gospel of Hatin&#8217; Whitey only to gain traction with the Black community in Chicago and advance his political career.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is he a Muslim? \u00a0Though Islam is a far more likely possibility than Christianity given his upbringing, we doubt it. \u00a0<\/strong><strong>It&#8217;s our humble opinion there is only <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>one<\/em><\/span>\u00a0god Barack Hussein Obama worships:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/self-portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29723\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/self-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"liv rockwell 7.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/self-portrait.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/self-portrait-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In conclusion, as Jonah Goldberg states in our Quote of the Day above, &#8220;Is it really so crazy to think a guy who feels compelled to warn his own countrymen not to get on their \u201chigh horse\u201d about child rapists and slavers (who are also beheading, immolating and burying alive Americans, Christians, Yazidis, and Muslims) might subscribe to an, um, unconventional form of patriotism?&#8221; \u00a0Again, not no, but HELL NO!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which we guess makes us a racist!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>However, in interest of fairness and full disclosure, The Daily Gouge&#8217;s ever-roving reporters <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>did<\/em><\/span> uncover photographic evidence of The Great Prevaricator having approached a true Christian house of worship at least once:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/timedpics8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29742\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/timedpics8.jpg\" alt=\"timedpics8\" width=\"400\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/timedpics8.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/timedpics8-285x300.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we mentioned the wit and wisdom Jonah Goldberg, in this next item he suggests like every cloud, The Obamao&#8217;s&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" title=\"Silly Denials of Islamic Terrorism Bring a Silver Lining\" href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/jonahgoldberg\/2015\/02\/20\/silly-denials-of-islamic-terrorism-bring-a-silver-lining-n1959680\/page\/full\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Silly Denials of Islamic Terrorism Bring a Silver Lining<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Completely-Coincidental.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29709\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Completely-Coincidental.gif\" alt=\"Completely-Coincidental\" width=\"500\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;In an essay for the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, Secretary of State John Kerry asserts that &#8220;violent extremism can&#8217;t be justified by resorting to religion. No legitimate religious interpretation teaches adherents to commit unspeakable atrocities&#8221; such as those committed by the Islamic State, al-Qaida and other Muslim fanatics. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>For those who invest in John Kerry supreme religious authority, that statement is unquestionably true. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>The problem is that very few people take their religious cues from Kerry<\/em> &#8212; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>or Obama<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The White House repeatedly suggests that terrorism is like crime and that Islamic terrorists simply invoke religion as a convenient mask or marketing ploy. <em><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>But this is an otherworldly farce, intended to please the ears of those who want to deal with the world as they wish it, <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>not as it is<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/em>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>And as James Taranto details at\u00a0<em>Best of the Web<\/em>, notwithstanding the Administration&#8217;s idiotic claims to the contrary, it appears there are indeed&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Jobs Jihadis Won\u2019t Do<\/strong> <\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image-218x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29713\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"image-218x300\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cSix men detained for more than 12 years at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and then sent to Montevideo have upset Uruguay\u2019s government after officials offered them jobs\u2014and they said no,\u201d the Washington Times reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>President Jose Mujica agreed to help resettle the ex-inmates as a goodwill gesture, The Associated Press reported. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">But a labor union in the country said the men have turned down several job offers.<\/span> And now Mr. Mujica is characterizing them as somewhat lazy.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>He made a personal visit to the homes of five of the men to encourage them to accept one of the jobs they\u2019d be offered by a local union, but left disillusioned with their work ethic, telling a local radio station that they were about as different from hard-working Uruguayan nationals as they could get.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">If these people were humble people of the desert, poor people, they\u2019d surely be stronger and more primitive, but they\u2019re not<\/span>,\u201d he said, AP reported. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Through their hands, features and family histories, it seems to me that they\u2019re middle class<\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It\u2019s not every day that a social theory is put to such a quick and decisive test<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> Nice going,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a class=\"icon none\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1ELrWKC\" target=\"_blank\">Marie Harf<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who knew Uruguayans were so virulently racist and Islamophobic?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the Lighter Side&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29736\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bg021915dAPR20150219044517.jpg\" alt=\"bg021915dAPR20150219044517\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bg021915dAPR20150219044517.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bg021915dAPR20150219044517-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29731\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/mrz022315dAPR20150223074520.jpg\" alt=\"mrz022315dAPR20150223074520\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/mrz022315dAPR20150223074520.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/mrz022315dAPR20150223074520-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMclr-022515-unicorn-IBD-COLOR-FINAL-147.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29754\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMclr-022515-unicorn-IBD-COLOR-FINAL-147.gif\" alt=\"RAMclr-022515-unicorn-IBD-COLOR-FINAL-147\" width=\"462\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bg022315dAPR20150223044545.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29752\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bg022315dAPR20150223044545.jpg\" alt=\"bg022315dAPR20150223044545\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bg022315dAPR20150223044545.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bg022315dAPR20150223044545-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Foden20150224-Syria-Jobs20150223101107.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29753\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Foden20150224-Syria-Jobs20150223101107.jpg\" alt=\"Foden20150224-Syria Jobs20150223101107\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Foden20150224-Syria-Jobs20150223101107.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Foden20150224-Syria-Jobs20150223101107-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, 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width=\"492\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/download-4.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/download-4-300x277.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, courtesy of CBS Atlanta, a story just in from Memphis we don&#8217;t quite know <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>how<\/em><\/span> to categorize!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"column-header\">\n<h1 class=\"title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"News Mother Accused Of Punching Son In Face For \u2018Being Too Feminine And Gay\u2019\" href=\"http:\/\/atlanta.cbslocal.com\/2015\/02\/20\/mother-accused-of-punching-son-for-being-too-feminine-and-gay\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Mother Accused Of Punching Son In Face For \u2018Being Too Feminine And\u00a0Gay\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/download1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29705\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/download1.jpeg\" alt=\"download\" width=\"297\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;WMC-TV reports that Jacqueiline Alexander has been charged with domestic assault for the incident that happened Tuesday.\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Memphis police told WMC that Alexander\u2019s son was lying in bed when she punched him, telling him he was \u201cbeing too feminine and gay.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;Alexander was jailed on $1,000 bond. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>It is not known how old her son is<\/strong><\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>While we certainly can&#8217;t speak to the male in question&#8217;s sexual proclivities, one of two things is true: if the kid was a minor, this pugilistic parent deserves an extended stint behind bars. \u00a0But if he&#8217;s 17 or older, Alexander got at least the first part right!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Wednesday, February 25th, 2015, but before we begin, two thoughts; first, another quote from the same Jonah Goldberg commentary sourced above:\u00a0 &#8220;&#8230;The thousands of young men (and women) abandoning the West to join the apocalyptic project of the Islamic State are not doing so simply because they are murderers or petty criminals looking for 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