{"id":32180,"date":"2015-07-12T21:06:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T01:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=32180"},"modified":"2015-07-12T21:06:52","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T01:06:52","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-july-10th-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=32180","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, July 10th, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Friday, July 10th, 2015&#8230;but before we begin:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><a style=\"color: #ff00ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-latest-hacking-toll-1436482613\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Now the feds says 19.7 million background checks were stolen<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For those still counting, that&#8217;s up from 4.5 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZFz6XNHMaeE\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, writing at <em>The Blaze<\/em>, Matt Walsh hits the nail on head:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"post-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/contributions\/its-ok-that-illegals-murder-americans-as-long-as-they-vote-for-democrats\/\">It\u2019s OK That Illegals Murder Americans, As Long As They Vote For Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/obama-voters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32048\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/obama-voters.jpg\" alt=\"obama-voters\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/obama-voters.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/obama-voters-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;Killer Juan Lopez-Sanchez\u00a0admitted to the\u00a0deed, telling\u00a0a local news outlet that he specifically chose to go to\u00a0San Francisco because it\u2019s a \u201csanctuary city\u201d \u2014 meaning, it doesn\u2019t enforce immigration laws.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Department of Justice has allowed these cities to openly defy federal law, which makes me wonder whether\u00a0Alabama can call itself a \u201csanctuary state\u201d and refuse to recognize the legalization of gay marriage. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Something tells me the Obama administration\u2019s respect for local discretion only extends to open borders advocates.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Anyway, Sanchez says he killed\u00a0the young woman while\u00a0hopped up on sleeping pills he\u00a0found in\u00a0a trash can. Giving different versions of the story at various times, he first said he shot the gun at sea lions, and then said he accidentally discharged it three times in the direction of Ms. Steinle. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Those explanations are difficult to take seriously, <em>but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">whatever<\/span> the case<\/em>, <em>as\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">other<\/span> countries look to assimilate\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">only the best, brightest, and most morally upstanding into their ranks<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">we open our arms to convicted felons\u00a0who scavenge in dumpsters for discarded prescription pills before shooting our neighbors to death<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>According to &#8220;our&#8221;\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>government&#8217;s own statistics<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>71% percent<\/em><\/span> of foreign citizens in federal prisons are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Mexicans<\/em><\/span>!!! \u00a0Columbians are a distant 2nd at 4%. \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Mexican<\/em><\/span> criminals, i.e., <em>citizens of Mexico <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">illegally in the United States<\/span><\/em>, represent <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>16% of all convicts serving time in the federal prison system<\/em><\/span>!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Not to mention, as <em>Breitbart<\/em> accurately reports:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2015\/07\/07\/illegal-immigrants-accounted-for-nearly-37-percent-of-federal-sentences-in-fy-2014\/\">Illegal Immigrants Accounted for Nearly 37% of Federal Sentences in FY2014<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/illegal-aliens-flip-the-bird-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32107\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/illegal-aliens-flip-the-bird-1.jpg\" alt=\"illegal-aliens-flip-the-bird (1)\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/illegal-aliens-flip-the-bird-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/illegal-aliens-flip-the-bird-1-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the bottomline on immigration, illegal or otherwise:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/10922652_954155601311236_4557432876404487858_n.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31597\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/10922652_954155601311236_4557432876404487858_n.png\" alt=\"10922652_954155601311236_4557432876404487858_n\" width=\"462\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/10922652_954155601311236_4557432876404487858_n.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/10922652_954155601311236_4557432876404487858_n-300x295.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Not just &#8220;11 million illegals&#8221; (or whatever the actual figure might be); <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>11 million illiterate, unskilled, non-English speaking burdens on America&#8217;s economy<\/em><\/span>. \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Here&#8217;s<\/em><\/span> a radical idea; before granting amnesty to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>any<\/em><\/span> illegal Mexicans or Central Americans, prior to relocating a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>single<\/em><\/span> additional Somali cab driver to Minneapolis, we offer every able-bodied welfare recipient a simple choice: get to fishin&#8217; or start swimmin&#8217;&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>on your own<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hells bells, we&#8217;ll even bus you to the jobs; you just have to\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>WORK<\/em><\/span>!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But unfortunately, as Matt Walsh so eloquently observed in our opening item:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">whatever<\/span> the case<\/em>, <em>as\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">other<\/span> countries look to assimilate\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">only the best, brightest, and most morally upstanding into their ranks<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">we open our arms to convicted felons\u00a0who scavenge in dumpsters for discarded prescription pills before shooting our neighbors to death<\/span><\/em><\/strong>.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><b>And we&#8217;ll continue to do so as long as American Marxists continue to draw breath.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of Manchurian Americans, they&#8217;re&#8230;or perhaps more accurately &#8220;he&#8217;s&#8221;&#8230; the subject of two must-read commentaries by the great Victor Davis Hanson; first, Hanson identifies the rotten root of the real problem:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/420802\/failure-change?utm_source=jolt&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=Jolt&amp;utm_campaign=New%20Campaign\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\">What Obama Has Taught Us<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/420802\/failure-change?utm_source=jolt&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=Jolt&amp;utm_campaign=New%20Campaign\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #333399;\">Obama has built a legacy, all right: appeasement, staggering debt, racial animosity&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Obama-Karl-Marx-Childrens-Book1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32083\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Obama-Karl-Marx-Childrens-Book1.jpg\" alt=\"Obama-Karl-Marx-Childrens-Book1\" width=\"400\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Obama-Karl-Marx-Childrens-Book1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Obama-Karl-Marx-Childrens-Book1-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;The Europeans are flummoxed. Why that is so is another Obama lesson. In just six years, Obama\u2019s defense cuts, his recessional from world leadership, and his abdication of a strong presence in the volatile Middle East \u2014 in other words, a changed foreign policy reminds our EU and NATO allies to be careful of the change you wish for. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Socialist pacifism in Europe was always predicated on the presence of America\u2019s friendly free-market military muscularity. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">What the Europeans <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>wanted<\/em><\/span> was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> change <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but the continuance of an America quite unlike themselves<\/em><\/span>, willing to subsidize their indulgences and to serve as a scapegoat for their fits of envious venting.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Instead, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>they got a president who is a fellow democratic socialist who likewise believes in reducing Western military power and influence<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Now they are baffled if not terrified about their wishes for change coming true.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Obama has taught us that the government can slash defense spending, hike income taxes, and still end up with half-trillion-dollar annual deficits, in a way unthinkable under the old Gingrich\u2013Clinton paradigm of budgetary compromise.<\/strong><\/span> For the next two decades, American presidents will be paying down what Obama has squandered through jacking up social spending and not addressing entitlement and tax reform. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Let us pray for continued near-zero interest rates \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the only thing that will have allowed Obama to reach $20 trillion in national debt by 2017 without a Greek-like implosion<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Obama\u2019s changes have managed to make the deficit-spending George W. Bush administration seem fiscally timid<\/strong><\/em><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second, Hanson correctly characterizes the danger posed by The Dear Misleader&#8217;s greatest contribution to the dissolution of the Republic:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/victordavishanson\/2015\/07\/09\/disregard-for-the-law-is-americas-greatest-threat-n2022875\/page\/full\" class=\"broken_link\">Disregard For the Law is America&#8217;s Greatest Threat<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/cicero-on-treason.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32122\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/cicero-on-treason.jpg\" alt=\"cicero-on-treason\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/cicero-on-treason.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/cicero-on-treason-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;The general public wonders why some are selectively exempt from following the law, but others are not.<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong> If federal immigration law does not apply to foreign nationals, why should building codes, zoning laws or traffic statutes apply to U.S. citizens?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Consider the immigration activists&#8217; argument that immigration authorities should focus only on known felons and not those who only broke immigration law. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>This is akin to arguing that the IRS shouldn&#8217;t worry about whether everyday Americans pay their income taxes and should enforce the tax laws only against those with past instances of tax avoidance.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>But why single out the poor and foreign-born? <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton once pocketed a $100,000 cattle-futures profit from a $1,000 investment, with help from an insider crony.<\/span> <em>A group of economists calculated the odds of such an unlikely return at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">one in 31 trillion<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Clinton then trumped that windfall by failing to fully pay taxes on her commodities profits, only addressing that oversight years later.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Why did Clinton, during her tenure as secretary of state, snub government protocols by using a private email account and a private server, and then permanently deleting any emails she felt were not government-related? <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Clinton long ago concluded that laws in<em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">her<\/span> <\/em>case were to be<em> negotiated, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> obeyed<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">President Obama called for higher taxes on the wealthy. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>But before doing so, could he at least have asked his frequent advisor on racial matters, Al Sharpton, to pay millions in back taxes and penalties?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Might the government ask that its own employees pay the more than $3 billion in collective federal back taxes that they owe, since they expect other taxpayers to keep paying their salaries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Civilizations unwind insidiously not with a loud, explosive bang, but with a lawless whimper.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oh,&#8230;and as Judicial Watch informs us, the illegal persecution of Conservative groups in support of The Obamao&#8217;s reelection <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>wasn&#8217;t<\/em><\/span> limited to Lois Lerner and the IRS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"page-title\" class=\"page__title title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthrevolt.org\/news\/judicial-watch-docs-show-doj-fbi-involved-irs-scandal\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">Judicial Watch: Docs Show <em>DOJ<\/em>, FBI Involved in IRS Scandal<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<div class=\"ds-1col node node-article node-promoted view-mode-full category-news clearfix\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<h3 class=\"field-tagline\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truthrevolt.org\/news\/judicial-watch-docs-show-doj-fbi-involved-irs-scandal\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&#8220;The Obama IRS scandal is also an Obama DOJ and FBI scandal<\/span><\/a>.&#8221;<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IRS-new-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32141\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IRS-new-logo.jpg\" alt=\"IRS new logo\" width=\"400\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IRS-new-logo.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IRS-new-logo-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Welcome to The Obamao&#8217;s Washington:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object class=\"hark_player\" width=\"300\" height=\"28\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/cdn.hark.com\/swfs\/player_fb.swf?pid=sqzfdknfrt\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allownetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/cdn.hark.com\/swfs\/player_fb.swf?pid=sqzfdknfrt\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" width=\"300\" height=\"28\" wmode=\"transparent\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>Does anyone <em>seriously<\/em> believe <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/jul\/8\/hillary-clinton-caught-lie-benghazi-subpoena\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Hillary&#8217;s<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0will smell any better?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As James Taranto confirms, no,&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>SERIOUSLY<\/em><\/span>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cHillary Clinton drew Republican fire Wednesday after falsely claiming she had never been subpoenaed for emails from her time as secretary of state,\u201d CNN reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>When CNN\u2019s Brianna Keilar asked Clinton in an exclusive interview on Tuesday about the decision to delete 33,000 emails while under investigation by a House panel, Clinton said other secretaries of state had done the \u201csame thing.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>Keilar asked if her predecessors had also been subpoenaed, to which Clinton responded, \u201cYou\u2019re starting with so many assumptions .\u00a0.\u00a0. I\u2019ve never had a subpoena. Again, let\u2019s take a deep breath here.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In response, Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, produced the subpoena. The Clinton camp\u2019s response was that \u201cnever\u201d doesn\u2019t mean \u201cnever\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill told CNN that [Mrs.] Clinton understood the question to be if she was under subpoena when the emails were deleted, this past December.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>\u201cThe suggestion was made that a subpoena was pending at the time. That was not accurate,\u201d he said on Wednesday.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>\u201cIn fact, Trey Gowdy did not issue a subpoena until March, months after .\u00a0.\u00a0. she\u2019d done that review. Further, the subpoena was specifically asking for documents pertaining to Libya and the attacks on our facility in Benghazi, documents which, along with tens of thousands of others, she had already given to the Department of State,\u201d Merrill said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>So by \u201cI\u2019ve never had a subpoena,\u201d she meant \u201cI had not yet had a subpoena when I destroyed the evidence.\u201d <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Usually<\/em><\/span> when the Clintons twist words like this, <em>they\u2019re careful to frame their statements in a way that is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">technically true<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">consistent with dictionary definitions<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>She\u2019s slipping<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up, writing at\u00a0<\/strong><b><em>Townhall.com<\/em>, Thomas Sowell recounts Dimocrats&#8217;&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/thomassowell\/2015\/07\/07\/a-legacy-of-cliches-n2021930\/page\/full\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Legacy of Cliches<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/comic-prickly-city-2012-09-09-racist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32095\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/comic-prickly-city-2012-09-09-racist.jpg\" alt=\"comic-prickly-city-2012-09-09-racist\" width=\"500\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/comic-prickly-city-2012-09-09-racist.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/comic-prickly-city-2012-09-09-racist-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Today the moral horror of slavery is so widely condemned that it is hard to realize that there were thousands of years when slavery was practiced around the world by people of virtually every race.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Even the leading moral and religious thinkers in different societies accepted slavery as just a fact of life<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">No one wanted to be a slave. But their rejection of slavery as a fate for themselves in no way meant that they were unwilling to enslave others. It was just not an issue &#8212; until the 18th century, and then it became an issue only in Western civilization.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Neither Africans, Asians, Polynesians nor the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere saw anything wrong with slavery<\/span>, even after small segments of British and American societies began to condemn slavery as morally wrong in the 18th century<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">What was special about America was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> that it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>had<\/em><\/span> slavery, which existed all over the world, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but that Americans were among the very few peoples who began to question the morality of holding human beings in bondage<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>That was not yet a majority view among Americans in the 18th century, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">but it was not even a serious minority view in non-Western societies at that time<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;Turning back to the &#8220;legacy of slavery&#8221; as an explanation of social problems in black American communities today, anyone who was serious about the truth &#8212; as distinguished from talking points &#8212; would want to check out the facts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Were children raised with only one parent as common at any time during the first 100 years after slavery as in the first 30 years after the great expansion of the welfare state in the 1960s?\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>As of 1960, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>22 percent<\/em><\/span> of black children were raised with only one parent, usually the mother. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>T<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">hirty years later, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">two-thirds of black children were being raised without a father present<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What about ghetto riots, crimes in general and murder in particular? What about low levels of labor force participation and high levels of welfare dependency? <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>None<\/em><\/span> <em>of those things was as bad in the first 100 years after slavery <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">as they became in the wake of the policies and notions of the 1960s<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">To many on the left, the 1960s were the glory days of their movements, and for some the days of their youth as well.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>They have a heavy emotional investment and ego investment in the ideas, aspirations and policies of the 1960s<\/em><\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It might never occur to many of them to check their beliefs against some hard facts about what actually happened after their ideas and policies were put into effect<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It certainly would not be pleasant to admit, <em>even to yourself<\/em>, that after promising progress toward &#8220;social justice,&#8221; <em>what you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">actually<\/span> delivered <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">was a retrogression toward barbarism<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The principal victims of these retrogressions are the decent, law-abiding members of black communities across the country who are prey to hoodlums and criminals&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Turning now to International News of Note, <em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Kevin Williamson offers what we term an &#8220;Ode on Grecian Urine&#8221;:<\/b><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/420814\/greece-referendum-germany-bailout-alexis-tsipras?utm_source=jolt&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=Jolt&amp;utm_campaign=New%20Campaign\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #3366ff;\">Beggars and Choosers<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/420814\/greece-referendum-germany-bailout-alexis-tsipras?utm_source=jolt&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=Jolt&amp;utm_campaign=New%20Campaign\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A temper tantrum is no substitute for a budget<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Foden20150707-Greece-Again20150706080056.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32091\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Foden20150707-Greece-Again20150706080056.jpg\" alt=\"Foden20150707-Greece Again20150706080056\" width=\"400\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Foden20150707-Greece-Again20150706080056.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Foden20150707-Greece-Again20150706080056-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;The Greek people spent part of the weekend in the streets celebrating their status as international deadbeat. <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>They spent the rest of the weekend hoarding food, fuel, and medicine in preparation for the manmade disaster they have inflicted upon themselves.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;Tsipras assured the Greeks they were voting themselves better bailout terms. They are getting the opposite \u2014 if, indeed, they get anything. More than a few well-informed observers believe that the Germans have simply abandoned hope that the Greeks are capable of real reform or willing to engage in it, and that the Greek \u201cNo\u201d vote was welcomed with a quiet sigh of relief, providing Angela Merkel et al. with a plausible excuse to scuttle further bailout efforts. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The Greeks may have burned their bridge to Europe, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but the Germans are roasting marshmallows over the flames<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related example of Progressive psychosis,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Mike Adams answers the question why we can&#8217;t just&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/mikeadams\/2015\/07\/07\/tolerate-diversity-n2021825\/page\/full\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">To<span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">ler<\/span><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">ate<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900; text-decoration: underline;\">Div<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">ers<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">ity<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/8887669b-fa51-498c-8b92-71b03cc0287c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32103\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/8887669b-fa51-498c-8b92-71b03cc0287c.jpg\" alt=\"8887669b-fa51-498c-8b92-71b03cc0287c\" width=\"400\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/8887669b-fa51-498c-8b92-71b03cc0287c.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/8887669b-fa51-498c-8b92-71b03cc0287c-300x154.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;The list of emotional damages in the lesbian couple\u2019s civil complaint against Sweet Cakes is entertaining. Among the damages claimed are the following: Experiencing \u201cacute loss of confidence,\u201d \u201cdoubt,\u201d \u201cexcessive sleep,\u201d feeling \u201cmentally raped, dirty and shameful,\u201d having \u201chigh blood pressure,\u201d \u201cimpaired digestion,\u201d \u201closs of appetite,\u201d \u201cmigraine headaches,\u201d looking \u201cpale and sick at home after work,\u201d resuming a \u201csmoking habit,\u201d going through \u201cshock, \u201csurprise,\u201d \u201cuncertainty,\u201d and \u201cworry\u201d all culminating in (drum roll) \u201cweight gain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A careful reader can see that the couple is simply lying. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>In other words, <em>they really aren\u2019t poor <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">lesbians<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>They\u2019re just really bad <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">thespians<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Obviously, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no one<\/em><\/span> can experience <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>loss of appetite<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>worry<\/em><\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>resumption of smoking<\/em><\/span> followed by \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>weight gain<\/em><\/span>.\u201d <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Those are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all<\/em><\/span> things that make you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>lose<\/em><\/span> weight.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span> Duh! So why did the judge award them $135,000 instead of accusing them of perjury?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The answer is simple. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em>None of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">facts<\/span> of the case are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">relevant<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The judge already believed that this couple has an absolute constitutional right to be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>affirmed<\/em><\/span>, <em>not just <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">tolerated<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>And <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span> has been the goal of the LGBT movement <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all along<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">That is why all the rainbow stickers you see demand that we &#8220;Celebrate Diversity,&#8221; not just \u201cTolerate Diversity.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">So where is all of this going? Well, it\u2019s going exactly where I have said it was going for over a decade. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>Demanding that businesses celebrate so-called gay weddings is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> the end game<\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Next, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>celebration<\/em><\/span> of homosexuality <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>will become a condition of public employment<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quickly followed by a condition of employment\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>period<\/em><\/span>! \u00a0And then&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lodzstar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32142\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lodzstar.jpg\" alt=\"lodzstar\" width=\"280\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;come the armbands!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, back at the ranch with The Gang Who Still Can&#8217;t Shoot Straight, though we know a number of you disagree with this assessment,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Jonah Goldberg explains why&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/jonahgoldberg\/2015\/07\/08\/trump-is-a-bad-deal-for-the-gop-n2022305\/page\/full\" class=\"broken_link\">Trump is a Bad Deal for the GOP<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/trump_hell_toupee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32112\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/trump_hell_toupee-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"trump_hell_toupee\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/trump_hell_toupee-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/trump_hell_toupee-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/trump_hell_toupee.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;Many of my colleagues on the right have taken pains to logic-chop Trump&#8217;s remarks. And it is true that some number of rapists and drug dealers are illegally crossing the border. Others have defended Trump by noting that what people like about this Lonesome Rhodes in a $10,000 suit is his fearlessness, bluntly tackling issues that other politicians fear to touch. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>That is a fine point in an indictment of the professional political class, but it is not a defense of Trump.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">His goal was to wave the rhetorical bloody shirt. It worked only too well, damaging a party he expresses contempt for daily.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Indeed, Trump&#8217;s commitment to the GOP has often been situational.<\/strong> <\/span>Sure, he has put his money where his mouth is, but he&#8217;s as promiscuous with his mouth as he is with the Trump brand. He&#8217;s given money to Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, John Kerry, Andrew Cuomo, Eliot Spitzer and the Clinton Foundation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Asked to explain why, he said, &#8220;You&#8217;re gonna need things from everybody.&#8221; (<em>One <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">does<\/span> wonder what Trump hoped to get from the Clinton Foundation<\/em>.)\u00a0<span style=\"color: #993300;\">This attitude helps explain why Trump is such a fan of eminent domain.<\/span> The man seeking the tea party&#8217;s support loves to use the government to seize private land he<em> can&#8217;t<\/em> &#8212; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>or doesn&#8217;t want to<\/em><\/span> &#8212; <em>buy fairly<\/em><\/span><\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>He may&#8230;or may not&#8230;be right; we just happen to agree with him. \u00a0More importantly, we find Trump utterly devoid of character, morals or principles; indeed, he lacks any redeeming social value <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>whatsoever<\/em><\/span>. \u00a0The Donald&#8217;s in it for one reason and one reason only:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/1434475845839.cached.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32143\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/1434475845839.cached.jpg\" alt=\"1434475845839.cached\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/1434475845839.cached.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/1434475845839.cached-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>As Peggy Noonan writes of Trump in today&#8217;s <em>WSJ<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/donald-trumps-appealand-its-limits-1436479851\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Sometimes an ill wind feels like a breath of fresh air<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oh,&#8230;FYI: as Jim Geraghty reports:<\/strong><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"td1\" valign=\"middle\">\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;&#8230;it\u2019s not just Democrats or independents who don\u2019t like Trump! Here\u2019s Harry Enten <span class=\"s2\">last month<\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Trump is the first candidate in modern presidential primary history to begin the campaign with a majority of his own party disliking him.<\/strong><\/span> A whopping 57 percent of Republicans have an unfavorable view of Trump, according to an average of the three most recent polls. That beats former record holder Pat Buchanan, who had a 43 percent unfavorable rating at this point in the 2000 election cycle<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span class=\"s1\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Taking into account name recognition, Trump\u2019s net favorability rating (favorable minus unfavorable) of -32 percentage points stands out for its pure terribleness at this point in the campaign.<\/span> Like his unfavorable rating, it is by far the worst of the 106 presidential candidates since 1980 who are in our database<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\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>And in the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Environmental Moment<span style=\"color: #000000;\">, courtesy of George Lawlor, another genius in league with the fossil fuel industry states the obvious:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2015\/07\/08\/nobel-prize-winning-scientist-says-obama-is-dead-wrong-on-global-warming\/?intcmp=latestnews\" class=\"broken_link\">Nobel Prize-winning scientist says Obama is \u2018dead wrong\u2019 on global warming<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Ivar-Giaever.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32109\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Ivar-Giaever.jpg\" alt=\"Ivar Giaever\" width=\"253\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;In 2008, Dr. Ivar Giaever joined over 70 Nobel Science Laureates in endorsing Barack Obama for president, but seven years later the Nobel Prize winner now stands against the president on global warming.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>\u201cI would say that basically global warming is a non-problem,\u201d Giaever, who won the Nobel for physics in 1973, told an audience at the Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting earlier this month.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Giaever ridiculed Obama for stating that \u201cno challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.\u201d The physicist called it a \u201cridiculous statement\u201d and that Obama \u201cgets bad advice\u201d when it comes to global warming.<strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u00a0\u201cI say this to Obama: Excuse me, Mr. President, <em>but you\u2019re <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">wrong<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Dead wrong<\/em><\/span>,\u201d<\/span> <\/strong>Giaever said&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>With all due respect to his knowledge of physics, having backed Barry in &#8217;08, Giaever remains an incredibly poor judge of character. \u00a0Der Obafuhrer isn&#8217;t getting <em>bad<\/em> advice; The One doesn&#8217;t <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>TAKE<\/em><\/span> advice&#8230;from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anyone<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>C&#8217;mon, this is a man who, absent <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>any<\/em><\/span> practical experience at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>any<\/em><em>thing<\/em><\/span>, willingly stated&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>I think that I\u2019m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors.<\/span> And I\u2019ll tell you right now that I\u2019m gonna think I\u2019m a better political director than my political director<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>On the Lighter Side&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/RAMclr-070715-job-IBD-COLOR-FINAL.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32135\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/RAMclr-070715-job-IBD-COLOR-FINAL.gif\" alt=\"RAMclr-070715-job-IBD-COLOR-FINAL\" width=\"462\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz070915dAPR20150708114537.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32145\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz070915dAPR20150708114537.jpg\" alt=\"mrz070915dAPR20150708114537\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz070915dAPR20150708114537.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz070915dAPR20150708114537-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/kn070715dAPR20150707084520.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32117\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/kn070715dAPR20150707084520.jpg\" alt=\"kn070715dAPR20150707084520\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/kn070715dAPR20150707084520.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/kn070715dAPR20150707084520-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Eye-balling-590-LI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32086\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Eye-balling-590-LI.jpg\" alt=\"Eye-balling-590-LI\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Eye-balling-590-LI.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Eye-balling-590-LI-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CMI-Flock20150707074804.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32115\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CMI-Flock20150707074804.jpg\" alt=\"CMI-Flock20150707074804\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CMI-Flock20150707074804.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CMI-Flock20150707074804-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gmc13184320150707080500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32116\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gmc13184320150707080500.jpg\" alt=\"gmc13184320150707080500\" width=\"462\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gmc13184320150707080500.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gmc13184320150707080500-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lb0707cd20150706092339.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32089\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lb0707cd20150706092339.jpg\" alt=\"lb0707cd20150706092339\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lb0707cd20150706092339.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lb0707cd20150706092339-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Nerobama-590-LI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32087\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Nerobama-590-LI.jpg\" alt=\"Nerobama-590-LI\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Nerobama-590-LI.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Nerobama-590-LI-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/holb_c13181020150707120100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32090\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/holb_c13181020150707120100.jpg\" alt=\"holb_c13181020150707120100\" width=\"462\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/holb_c13181020150707120100.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/holb_c13181020150707120100-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/download1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32127\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/download1.jpeg\" alt=\"download\" width=\"492\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/download1.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/download1-258x300.jpeg 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32132\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image001.jpg\" alt=\"image001\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image001.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image001-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, there&#8217;s this depiction of the MSM&#8217;s concept of unbiased &#8220;journalism&#8221;, courtesy of Chris &#8220;The Tingler&#8221; Matthews:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32098\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image003.jpg\" alt=\"image003\" width=\"472\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image003.jpg 472w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image003-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, July 10th, 2015&#8230;but before we begin: Now the feds says 19.7 million background checks were stolen. &nbsp; For those still counting, that&#8217;s up from 4.5 million. Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge! First up, writing at The Blaze, Matt Walsh hits the nail on head: It\u2019s OK That Illegals Murder Americans, As Long As They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32181,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32180\/revisions\/32181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}