{"id":32623,"date":"2015-08-09T19:53:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T23:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=32623"},"modified":"2015-08-09T19:53:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T23:53:41","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-august-7th-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=32623","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, August 7th, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Friday, August 7th, 2015&#8230;but before we begin, get used to it&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2015\/08\/03\/investing\/puerto-rico-default\/index.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Puerto Rico <span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">just defaulted for the<\/span> first time<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/debtBums-800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32579\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/debtBums-800.jpg\" alt=\"debtBums-800\" width=\"400\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/debtBums-800.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/debtBums-800-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;&#8217;cuz it&#8217;s the inevitable result of running out of other people&#8217;s money. \u00a0And it&#8217;s coming soon to a city, state and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>country<\/em><\/span> near <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>you<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Oh&#8230;along with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>this<\/em><\/span>:<\/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.foxnews.com\/us\/2015\/08\/06\/illegal-immigrant-held-in-rape-murder-california-woman-was-on-probation\/?intcmp=hplnws\" class=\"broken_link\">Illegal immigrant held in rape, murder of California woman was on probation<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sbsuspects.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32594\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sbsuspects.jpg\" alt=\"sbsuspects\" width=\"400\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sbsuspects.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sbsuspects-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Perhaps when Malia, Sasha or Michelle has been sodomized by an illegal alien, something will be done about this unconscionable oversight; but even then, we doubt it. For Progressives, politics trumps even the personal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, we <em>really <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LIKE<\/span><\/em> this lady:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/319esxXCBAE\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Not at the top of the ticket, but certainly as #2&#8230;right behind Scott Walker.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And for those still clinging to the forlorn hope The Donald is any more electable than Archie Bunker, NRO&#8217;s Kevin Williamson offers these words of wisdom to The Beguiled:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/422116\/donald-trump-and-american-id-kevin-d-williamson?utm_source=jolt&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=Jolt&amp;utm_campaign=Jolt08062015B\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Donald Trump and the American Id<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/daily-news-goes-nuclear-on-donald-trump-says-he-used-a-foot-boo-boo-to-dodge-vietnam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32580\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/daily-news-goes-nuclear-on-donald-trump-says-he-used-a-foot-boo-boo-to-dodge-vietnam.jpg\" alt=\"daily-news-goes-nuclear-on-donald-trump-says-he-used-a-foot-boo-boo-to-dodge-vietnam\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/daily-news-goes-nuclear-on-donald-trump-says-he-used-a-foot-boo-boo-to-dodge-vietnam.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/daily-news-goes-nuclear-on-donald-trump-says-he-used-a-foot-boo-boo-to-dodge-vietnam-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Yet another reason we&#8217;ll never back this narcissistic douche pump!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Trump is always going on and on and on about how rich he is, but his largest asset is an asset only from a certain point of view: He values the Trump brand at more than $3 billion, more than any building, resort, golf club, or financial instrument in his possession.<\/strong><\/span> There are more than a few financial analysts who scoff at the notion that he could actually sell the brand for anything near that amount of money. Maybe Trump, or at least his people, understands this on some level: A previous valuation had the brand worth more than $4 billion. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>And it\u2019s not entirely clear who wants the Trump brand on his merchandise just now, <em>other than <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Trump<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Macy\u2019s dumped Trump \u2014 the store had sold a selection of hideously tacky Donald J. Trump\u2013branded shirts and ties, inevitably made in China and Mexico \u2014 when the candidate started bellowing that the Mexican government is intentionally flooding the United States with rapists, a proposition for which there is, unsurprisingly, no evidence.<\/strong><\/span> Trump is not very much interested in the world outside the narrow confines of his skull. When Macy\u2019s announced that it was severing its relationship with Trump, Trump had a full-on chimp-out, proclaiming that \u201cMacy\u2019s stores suck and they are bad for U.S.A.\u201d and calling for a boycott. The Trumpkins began circulating claims that tens of thousands of people were boycotting Macy\u2019s and cutting up their Macy\u2019s cards, another claim for which there is \u2014 unsurprisingly \u2014 no evidence. \u201cNow, Macy\u2019s hurts, because the head of Macy\u2019s I thought was a great friend of mine, Terry Lundgren,\u201d Trump said, falling into his familiar, nearly monosyllabic rhythm. \u201cNow this is a man I played golf with. I was with him all the time. He really was, was, was \u2014 you understand, because I don\u2019t forget things.\u201d <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">His response to the CEO\u2019s concerns about the fact that Hispanics are not very keen at the moment on buying stuff labeled \u201cTrump\u201d?<\/span> \u201cTerry, be tough! They\u2019ll be gone one day.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>That\u2019s Trump\u2019s big idea on the immigration problem: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>They\u2019ll be gone one day<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Which, when you get down to it, is about as compelling as the reasoning behind the rest of his positions.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of utterly uncompelling arguments, writing at <em>Best of the Web<\/em>, James Taranto offers two powerful counterpoints which obliterate any argument in support of The Obamao&#8217;s complete acceptance of a nuclear Iran:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/kerrys-perverse-warning-1438794873?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Kerry\u2019s Perverse Warning<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/kerrys-perverse-warning-1438794873?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">He\u2019s worried about losing the ayatollah\u2019s trust<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/kerry-useful-idiot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32581\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/kerry-useful-idiot.jpg\" alt=\"kerry-useful-idiot\" width=\"400\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/kerry-useful-idiot.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/kerry-useful-idiot-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Useful only to America&#8217;s enemies!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">To put this as politely as possible\u2014and believe us, we\u2019re straining to do so\u2014Kerry\u2019s tender concern for the ayatollah\u2019s \u201cdignity\u201d is perverse.<\/span><\/strong> It\u2019s true that a degree of mutual trust is necessary for a negotiation to succeed, but Kerry ignores the \u201cmutual\u201d part. His analysis is one-sided, and on the wrong side. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>The main question for Congress\u2014as it should have been for the administration\u2014is whether <em>America <\/em>can trust <\/strong><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Iran<\/strong><\/span>.<\/em>..&#8221;<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/full-orwell-1438882438?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Full Orwell<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/full-orwell-1438882438?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The deeper logic of Obama\u2019s partisan smear<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/surrender-monkey1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32582\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/surrender-monkey1.jpg\" alt=\"surrender-monkey1\" width=\"400\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/surrender-monkey1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/surrender-monkey1-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Okay, okay&#8230;you&#8217;re right; the ears are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">WAY<\/span> too small!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;Most telling is the equivocation \u201csome sort of war.\u201d Does Obama really think that by choosing his form of \u201cdiplomacy,\u201d America would prevent war of any sort? No. In fact, he acknowledges it will foment several sorts of war:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>Now, this is not to say that sanctions relief will provide no benefit to Iran\u2019s military. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Let\u2019s stipulate that some of that money will flow to activities that we object to.<\/strong><\/span> We have no illusions about the Iranian government, or the significance of the Revolutionary Guard and the Quds Force. Iran supports terrorist organizations like Hezbollah. It supports proxy groups that threaten our interests and the interests of our allies\u2014including proxy groups who killed our troops in Iraq. They try to destabilize our Gulf partners. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">But Iran has been engaged in these activities for decades<\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> They engaged in them before sanctions and while sanctions were in place. In fact, Iran even engaged in these activities in the middle of the Iran-Iraq War\u2014a war that cost them nearly a million lives and hundreds of billions of dollars.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">You might say we\u2019ve always been at war with Westasia. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Obama has gone full Orwell here<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">He claims that his \u201cdiplomacy\u201d precludes the possibility of any \u201csort of war\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>while acknowledging it will feed a war machine<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>He is quite literally claiming that war is peace<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>As we&#8217;ve said for years, and even Thomas Sowell recently noted, an imbecilic, uninformed electorate has\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>twice<\/em><\/span> elected a man whose interests are not aligned with those of America. \u00a0Hell&#8217;s bells, let&#8217;s call a spade a spade:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he&#8217;s antithetically opposed to everything for which the Founding Fathers fought<\/em><\/span>!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item, courtesy of\u00a0<em>Commentary Magazine<\/em>,\u00a0Rick Richman details&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"post-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/2015\/08\/04\/iran-nuclear-deal-fatal-flaws\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"broken_link\">The Five Fatal Flaws in the Iran Deal<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/iran_missle_crow_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32583\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/iran_missle_crow_cover-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"iran_missle_crow_cover\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/iran_missle_crow_cover-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/iran_missle_crow_cover.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">On Tuesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee heard testimony from Amb. Robert G. Joseph, Ph.D, currently Senior Scholar at the National Institute for Public Policy, formerly Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, and the person who in 2003 led the nuclear negotiations with Libya. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>He testified\u00a0the Iran deal is a \u201cbad agreement\u201d with \u201cfive fatal flaws\u201d: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(1) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>it does not effectively detect cheating unless Iran decides to do it openly<\/em><\/span>, and Iran is more likely to cheat at military bases where it has cheated in the past and has ruled out inspections in the future;<\/span> (2)<em> it leaves a large\u2010scale nuclear infrastructure in place that could be used to break out, or more likely \u201csneak\u2010out,\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and then permits a significantly expanded program with a \u201cvirtually zero\u201d breakout time<\/span><\/em>; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(3) <em>it has \u201csnap\u2010back\u201d provisions <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">that are illusory<\/span><\/em>;<\/span> (4) <em>the purported 12-month breakout time is ineffective, since, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">unless Iran breaks out openly, we will not even know when the clock begins, and months will go by while the U.S. debates internally what to do<\/span><\/em>; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">and (5) <em>Iran is permitted to continue work on long-range ballistic missiles <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">that have no use other than eventual deployment of nuclear weapons<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> His conclusion is stark:<span id=\"more-900179\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>[The deal] assumes that permitting Iran a large\u2010scale enrichment capability is compatible with the goal of denying Iran the ability to produce weapons\u2010grade fissile material; it assumes that the twelve month breakout time is meaningful; it assumes that the agreement will be effectively verifiable; and it assumes that the United States and the international community will respond to evidence of cheating before Iran can mate a nuclear weapon to a ballistic missile. None of these assumptions holds up under scrutiny. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>As a result, the threat to the U.S. homeland and to our NATO allies of an Iran armed with nuclear tipped ballistic missiles will increase not decrease under the anticipated agreement<\/strong><\/span>.<\/span>[Emphasis added].<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>And <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span> is even <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>before<\/em><\/span> considering the risks of proliferation in the region, the existential threat to Israel, seriously frayed relations with Arab allies, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and the vastly increased resources for Iran and its allies to establish a game-changing hegemony in a vital strategic area of the world<\/em><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ll add #6 and #7:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32584\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/iran-pitiful-deal-nrd.jpg\" alt=\"iran-pitiful-deal-nrd\" width=\"400\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/iran-pitiful-deal-nrd.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/iran-pitiful-deal-nrd-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>The traitorous twits who negotiated this certificate of abject appeasement.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>As James Taranto so eloquently&#8230;and accurately&#8230;observed:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Still, it\u2019s worth noting the contrast between the way in which Obama administration supporters treat domestic and foreign adversaries. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">When Tea Party protesters said \u201c<em>Take back our country<\/em>\u201d\u2014a commonplace political trope\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>they imagined it had invidious racial implications and argued that it discredited opposition to Obama\u2019s domestic initiatives<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> \u201c<em>Death to America<\/em>\u201d is invidious on its face, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but the administration and its apologists are anxious to explain it away<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which is why we continue to believe only one thing this Marxist-Muslim has ever said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/MuslimObama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32585\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/MuslimObama.jpg\" alt=\"MuslimObama\" width=\"400\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/MuslimObama.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/MuslimObama-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving on, the WSJ&#8217;s Bret Stephens recounts why every freedom-loving citizen of Planet Earth ought to&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/thank-god-for-the-atom-bomb-1438642925\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Thank God for the Atom Bomb<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/thank-god-for-the-atom-bomb-1438642925\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren\u2019t merely horrific, war-ending events. They were lifesaving<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/atomic-bombing-hiroshima-nagasaki-69-years.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32548\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/atomic-bombing-hiroshima-nagasaki-69-years.jpg\" alt=\"atomic-bombing-hiroshima-nagasaki-69-years\" width=\"400\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/atomic-bombing-hiroshima-nagasaki-69-years.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/atomic-bombing-hiroshima-nagasaki-69-years-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Because Hiroshima and Nagasaki were real events, because they happened, there can be no gainsaying their horror. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Operation Downfall did not happen, so there\u2019s a lot of gainsaying.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Would the Japanese have been awed into capitulation by an offshore A-bomb test? Did the Soviet Union\u2019s invasion of Manchuria, starting the day of the Nagasaki bombing, have the more decisive effect in pushing Japan to give up? Would casualties from an invasion really have exceeded the overall toll\u2014by some estimates approaching 250,000\u2014of the two bombs?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We\u2019ll never know. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>We only know that the U.S. lost 14,000 men merely to take Okinawa in 82 days of fighting. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">We only know that, because Japan surrendered, the order to execute thousands of POWs in the event of an invasion of the home islands was never implemented.<\/span> We only know that, in the last weeks of a war Japan had supposedly already lost, the Allies were sustaining casualties at a rate of 7,000 a week.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We also know that the Japanese army fought nearly to the last man to defend Okinawa, and hundreds of civilians chose suicide over capture. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Do we know for a certainty that the Japanese would have fought less ferociously to defend the main islands?<\/strong><\/span> We can never know for a certainty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201c<em>Understanding the past<\/em>,\u201d Fussell wrote, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>requires pretending that you don\u2019t know the present<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination.\u201d<\/strong><\/span> Historical judgments must be made in light not only of outcomes but also of options. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Would we judge Harry Truman better today if he had eschewed his nuclear option in favor of 7,000 casualties a week; <em>that is, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">if he had been more considerate of the lives of the enemy than of the lives of his men<\/span><\/em>?<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Only if you&#8217;re an incomparable imbecile&#8230;or a Dimocrat. \u00a0For the rest of us, particularly those whose father and uncle would have been in the first wave to hit the Home Islands, it&#8217;s a&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Biden_Rock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32586\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Biden_Rock-185x300.jpg\" alt=\"Biden_Rock\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Biden_Rock-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Biden_Rock.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;no-brainer!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of bombs&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/news\/us\/2015\/08\/03\/baltimore-homicide-uptick-anticrime-partnership-launched-n2034231\" class=\"broken_link\">Baltimore homicide uptick: Anti-crime partnership launched<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b9317142082z-1_20150427194643_000_gjdakif38-2-0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32587\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b9317142082z-1_20150427194643_000_gjdakif38-2-0.jpg\" alt=\"b9317142082z-1_20150427194643_000_gjdakif38-2-0\" width=\"400\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b9317142082z-1_20150427194643_000_gjdakif38-2-0.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b9317142082z-1_20150427194643_000_gjdakif38-2-0-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Baltimore police and civic leaders launched a partnership Monday with five federal agencies that will embed their special agents with city homicide detectives, bidding to quell an upswing in homicides and other violent crime in that city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;For several years &#8220;American cities have not seen an uptick in homicides we&#8217;re seeing in 2015,&#8221; Davis, the acting police commissioner, said Monday. &#8220;Now we&#8217;re back at the table, and our cities are looking at Baltimore. They want to know what Baltimore&#8217;s going to do about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Davis had said Sunday that more people are arming themselves on the streets, and that the department has seized 20 percent more guns than it had by this time last year. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Davis also said the influx of prescription pills \u2014 32 pharmacies were looted during the April 27 riot and nearly 300,000 doses of prescription medication stolen \u2014 has contributed to Baltimore&#8217;s spiking violence.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, in his remarks Monday, appealed to those considering committing acts of violence in Baltimore. <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>He pleaded with them to put down their guns and &#8220;allow people to live.&#8221;\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8220;The only people making good now are the morticians,&#8221; the Maryland Democrat said.<\/span> &#8220;And I say our city is better than that. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">It&#8217;s not just the murders and the shootings.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I&#8217;m begging you, put your guns down<\/em><\/span>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/crime\/blog\/bs-md-ci-shooting-20150806-story.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Man, woman killed in East Baltimore shootings<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bal-police-involved-shooting-chase-st-ph-20140203.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32588\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bal-police-involved-shooting-chase-st-ph-20140203.jpeg\" alt=\"bal-police-involved-shooting-chase-st-ph-20140203\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bal-police-involved-shooting-chase-st-ph-20140203.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bal-police-involved-shooting-chase-st-ph-20140203-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">that<\/span><\/em> oughta do it; &#8220;Dead End&#8221; is right: like <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>every other<\/em><\/span> Progressive policy ever promulgated!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Case in point, as Jim Geraghty wonders&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>Is It Unfair to Ask Food-Stamp Recipients to Work?<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/WillWorkForFood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32590\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/WillWorkForFood-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"WillWorkForFood\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/WillWorkForFood-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/WillWorkForFood.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Evidently&#8230;, in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">many<\/span> cases&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NOT<\/span>!!!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/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\">For four years<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, the number of Americans receiving food stamps has exceeded 45 million. There\u2019s a smidgen of good news; the number dropped from to 47.7 million at the end of 2012 to 45.4 million in May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"s2\">A new report from the <span class=\"s1\">Foundation for Government Accountability<\/span> calculates <span class=\"s1\">food-stamp spending is growing <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><i>ten times as fast<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/span> as federal revenues<\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>They point the finger at governors who keep requesting and granting exemptions from work requirements<\/strong><\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span class=\"s2\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>One key cause of this out-of-control spending is the recent explosion of enrollment <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>among able-bodied childless adults<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Although federal law requires these adults to work in order to receive food stamps, <em>the Obama administration has awarded an unprecedented number of waivers to states, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">allowing able-bodied childless adults to receive taxpayer-funded food stamp benefits without working at all<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"s2\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>They calculate about 5 million able-bodied childless adults are collecting food stamps; about 1 million were collecting them in 2008.<\/strong><\/span> It will probably not surprise you that people are staying on food stamps a lot longer now than a decade ago:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span class=\"s2\">In the early 2000s, most childless adults receiving food stamps exited the program within a year. Nearly a third of those childless adults exited within the first six months. <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>For comparison, fewer than six percent were enrolled for eight years or more.<\/strong> <\/span>But able-bodied childless adults are staying on food stamps far longer now that work requirements have been waived in many states. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Most childless adults <\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><span class=\"s2\"><strong>now<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong> stay on food stamps <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">for more than two years<\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> Just 14 percent of childless adults receiving food stamps exit within the first six months. <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Nearly a quarter of able-bodied childless adults receive food stamps for more than eight years<\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> Restoring work requirements would go a long way toward getting able-bodied adults out of government dependency and back to self-sufficiency.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Once again, the wisdom of God as relayed to Man through the Apostle Paul&#8217;s 2nd letter to the Thessalonians says it all:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>&#8220;<\/b><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: &#8220;If a man <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">will<\/span><\/em> not work, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he shall not eat.<\/em><\/span>&#8220;<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Not<\/em><\/span> widows&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> orphans&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> the infirm&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> those <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>incapable<\/em><\/span> of work; just those <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unwilling<\/em><\/span> to work&#8230;which is the vast majority of the able-bodied on food stamps!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us to today&#8217;s edition of the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Environmental Moment<\/span>, in which Joe Bastardi questions&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/patriotpost.us\/opinion\/36771\">All This for .01 Degrees Celsius<\/a>?<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/81_16719320150805122905.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32578\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/81_16719320150805122905.jpg\" alt=\"81_16719320150805122905\" width=\"400\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/81_16719320150805122905.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/81_16719320150805122905-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Inquiring, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>sentient<\/em><\/span> minds want to know!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>On the Lighter Side&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMclr-080715-unicorn-IBD-COLOR-FINAL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32589\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMclr-080715-unicorn-IBD-COLOR-FINAL.jpg\" alt=\"RAMclr-080715-unicorn-IBD-COLOR-FINAL\" width=\"462\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMclr-080715-unicorn-IBD-COLOR-FINAL.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMclr-080715-unicorn-IBD-COLOR-FINAL-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMclr-080515-shallow-IBD-COLOR-FINAL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32569\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMclr-080515-shallow-IBD-COLOR-FINAL.jpg\" alt=\"RAMclr-080515-shallow-IBD-COLOR-FINAL\" width=\"462\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMclr-080515-shallow-IBD-COLOR-FINAL.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMclr-080515-shallow-IBD-COLOR-FINAL-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a 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300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DrunkHillary-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32577\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DrunkHillary-1.jpg\" alt=\"DrunkHillary 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DrunkHillary-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DrunkHillary-1-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cb080415dAPC20150804084537.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32574\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cb080415dAPC20150804084537.jpg\" alt=\"cb080415dAPC20150804084537\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" 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srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-21.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-21-300x230.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-11.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32540\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-11.jpeg\" alt=\"download (1)\" width=\"500\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-11.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-11-300x244.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32541\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-3.jpeg\" alt=\"download (3)\" width=\"500\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-3.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-3-300x239.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-4.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32542\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-4.jpeg\" alt=\"download (4)\" width=\"450\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-4.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-4-246x300.jpeg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we wrap up the week with another sordid story ripped from the pages of <em>The Crime Blotter<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"yui_3_9_1_1_1438709085526_917\" class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/arizona-man-says-beheaded-wife-evil-police-023440509.html\">Arizona man says he beheaded wife &#8216;to get the evil out&#8217;: police<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/untitled-24.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32554\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/untitled-24.jpg\" alt=\"untitled-24\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/untitled-24.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/untitled-24-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_9_1_1_1438709085526_957\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>An Arizona man who admitted to decapitating his wife and her two dogs in a bloody incident last month in Phoenix told authorities he was attempting &#8220;to get the evil out&#8221; of her, according to court documents released on Monday<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah&#8230;if <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only<\/em><\/span> it were that easy! \u00a0\ud83d\ude09<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, August 7th, 2015&#8230;but before we begin, get used to it&#8230; Puerto Rico just defaulted for the first time &nbsp; &#8230;&#8217;cuz it&#8217;s the inevitable result of running out of other people&#8217;s money. \u00a0And it&#8217;s coming soon to a city, state and country near you! Oh&#8230;along with this: Illegal immigrant held in rape, murder of [&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-32623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32623","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=32623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32624,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32623\/revisions\/32624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}