{"id":32862,"date":"2015-08-25T18:58:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T22:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=32862"},"modified":"2015-08-25T18:58:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T22:58:47","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-august-24th-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=32862","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, August 24th, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Monday, August 24th, 2015…but before we begin, some more of that sh*t you just cannot<\/em><\/span> make up:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Yeah; the rules governing classified emails confuses not only Hillary all to hell, but her countless myrmidonic minions as well. \u00a0But rest assured, she…and they…are ready, willing and more than able to run the country!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Yeah…and Monica dug\u00a0Bill because he felt her pain.<\/b><\/p>\n

Now, here’s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n

First up, as Commentary Magazine<\/em>‘s Noah Rothman notes, when it comes American politics, unless your a partisan hack dependent upon the status quo for your livelihood, regardless of your particular side of the aisle…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Joke\u2019s on Us<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

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“…The presidency that was allegedly destined to repair<\/em><\/span> the damage Bush did to the credibility of the federal government has only quickened<\/span> the pace of America\u2019s disaffection with politics<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> Today, the three co-equal branches of the federal government inspire confidence in only a handful of Americans. The media, organized labor, banks, schools, and big business, too, are no longer trusted. Among government-run enterprises, only the police and the military retain the trust of a majority of American citizens \u2013 a dangerous place for any civilian-led republic to find itself<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong> <\/span>Even on the matter of racial comity, a perpetual sore spot for most Americans, Obama has not lived up to his transcendental promise. In fact, the state of racial tensions in the Obama era makes the Bush presidency look like a utopian epoch characterized by ethnic harmony.<\/span> The Obama presidency has failed on a variety of fronts, but its most injurious may be the ruinous effect it has had on faith in the republican experiment itself.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Americans\u2019 disregard for the value of the governing institutions that serve as the country\u2019s foundational structures is evident in how the voting public has approached the coming presidential election. Thus far, the process has been a joke, and the public has treated it like one.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

…All of this cynicism is both trite and toxic. It is a tedious sort of juvenile rebelliousness that sees no value in the most resilient and vibrant political system man ever devised.<\/strong> <\/span>We\u2019re not talking about satire here \u2013 even if any of it were clever. We\u2019re talking about stakeholders \u2013 candidates, pollsters, and political parties that have skin in the game \u2013 making light of the American system in order to capture the prevalent mood of alienation and apathy. But that dark and self-destructive mood is not one that deserves to be captured; it should be repudiated and dispelled, not incubated<\/em><\/span>. It\u2019s a republic only so long as we can keep it, and there is a vocal minority who appears increasingly indifferent to its longevity<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> What\u2019s worse<\/span>, there is an influential set in positions of authority who apparently feel the same way<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span>“<\/p>\n

Though we maintain whatever seriousness remains in Washington, it emanates from The Right.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a related item, the WSJ<\/em> details the depths of Dimocratic duplicity as epitomized by latest political pandering by the party’s presumptive front-runner:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Progressive Principle<\/span><\/h1>\n

First you encourage student debt, then you write it off on taxpayers.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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The arc of progressive politics these days seems to be hoping to benefit from proposing policies to solve the problems their previous policies have created\u2014and hoping nobody notices the cause and effect<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton and the other Democratic presidential candidates have been proposing new ways for college students to reduce or write-off their student loans. The goal is to win over millennial voters with more taxpayer largesse, while slowly turning higher education into one more universal federal entitlement. Mrs. Clinton\u2019s proposal would cost a hefty $350 billion over 10 years, by her own no doubt conservative estimate.<\/p>\n

What Democrats don\u2019t<\/em><\/span> say is that such taxpayer generosity wouldn\u2019t be necessary if they hadn\u2019t done so much to encourage students to load up on taxpayer-guaranteed debt<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong> <\/span>The Education Department reported this week that some 6.9 million Americans with student loans hadn\u2019t made a single payment in at least 360 days. That\u2019s up 6%<\/span><\/em>, or 400,000 borrowers, in a year<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Obama Administration took over the student loan market in 2010, easing terms and expanding benefits. Now that the bills are coming due in more deadbeats, Democrats hope to benefit again by handing the tab to taxpayers<\/span><\/em>. They nail you coming and going<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Though Barry and Hillary belong in a class by themselves, Liberals in general remind us of TLJ’s occasional effort to bankrupt us under the guise of “saving” money, though with two noteworthy differences: come the end of the day, (1) TLJ’s “finds” leave us with something<\/em> of value; and (2) we can always<\/em><\/span> get our money back!\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Next up, as Jim Geraghty observes in last Friday’s edition of his\u00a0Morning Jolt<\/em>, even Reuters<\/em>, the international equivalent of MSDNC and National Progressive Radio, is beginning to grasp the obvious absurdity of Hillary’s “facts”, aka, deliberate dissimulation:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reuters: Hey, Doesn\u2019t \u2018Classified\u2019 Mean, You Know, Classified<\/span>?<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n

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Reuters takes the long route in calling Hillary Clinton\u2019s excuses a bunch of nonsense<\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n

For months, the U.S. State Department has stood behind its former boss Hillary Clinton as she has repeatedly said she did not send or receive classified information on her unsecured, private email account, a practice the government forbids.<\/span><\/p>\n

While the department is now stamping a few dozen of the publicly released emails as \u201cClassified,\u201d it stresses this is not evidence of rule-breaking. Those stamps are new, it says, and do not mean the information was classified when Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner in the 2016 presidential election, first sent or received it.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the details included in those \u201cClassified\u201d stamps \u2014 which include a string of dates, letters and numbers describing the nature of the classification \u2014 appear to undermine this account, a Reuters examination of the emails and the relevant regulations has found.<\/span><\/p>\n

The new stamps indicate that some of Clinton\u2019s emails from her time as the nation\u2019s most senior diplomat are filled with <\/strong>a type of information the U.S. government and the department\u2019s own regulations automatically deems classified from the get-go<\/span> \u2014 regardless of whether it is already marked that way or not<\/span><\/em>.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

In the small fraction of emails made public so far, Reuters has found at least 30 email threads from 2009, representing scores of individual emails, that include what the State Department\u2019s own \u201cClassified\u201d stamps now identify as so-called \u2018foreign government information.\u2019 The U.S. government defines this as any<\/em><\/span> information, written or spoken, provided in confidence to U.S. officials by their foreign counterparts.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This sort of information, which the department says Clinton both sent and received in her emails<\/em><\/span>, is the only kind that must be \u201cpresumed\u201d classified<\/em><\/span>, in part to protect national security and the integrity of diplomatic interactions, according to U.S. regulations examined by Reuters.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s born<\/em><\/span> classified,\u201d said J. William Leonard, a former director of the U.S. government\u2019s Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO).<\/strong><\/span> Leonard was director of ISOO, part of the White House\u2019s National Archives and Records Administration, from 2002 until 2008, and worked for both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf a foreign minister just told the secretary of state something in confidence, by U.S. rules that is classified at the moment it\u2019s in U.S. channels and U.S. possession<\/span><\/em>,\u201d he said in a telephone interview, adding that for the State Department to say otherwise was \u201cblowing smoke<\/span><\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Clintons corrupt what they touch<\/em><\/span>. They get otherwise normal government employees to insist that the law means the opposite of what it says.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Two more revealing sentences close out the article. First, \u201cSpokesmen for Clinton declined to answer questions, but Clinton and her staff maintain she did not mishandle any information<\/span><\/em>.\u201d<\/span> Uh-huh. Then, \u201cThe State Department disputed Reuters\u2019 analysis but declined requests to explain how it was incorrect<\/span><\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Likely because anything<\/em> those involved might<\/em><\/span> say can<\/em> and likely will<\/em><\/span> be used against them in a court of law. \u00a0And they know<\/em> Hillary ain’t<\/em><\/span> takin’ the rap for sh*t<\/em><\/span>; not as long as there’s still plenty of room under the bus…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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…as Huma’s no doubt beginning to realize.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And in the\u00a0Environmental Moment, courtesy of Jeff Foutch and CNSNews<\/em>, the voice of reason interrupts what’s become a non-stop cacophony of baseless bunk masquerading as science:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Climatologist: We Have a \u2018Moral Imperative\u2019 to Burn Fossil Fuels<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

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“We\u00a0have a \u201cmoral imperative\u201d to burn carbon dioxide-emitting fossil fuels because the energy they provide is a \u201cliberator\u201d of humanity, says Dr. John Christy, a climatologist and director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama, Huntsville.\u00a0\u201cWe are not morally bad people for taking carbon and turning it into the energy that offers life to humanity in a world that would otherwise be brutal<\/em><\/span>,\u201d Christy wrote in a recent oped. “On the contrary, we are good<\/span> people for doing so<\/em>.”<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

He also challenged what he says are contradictions in Pope Francis\u2019 encyclical, Laudato Si<\/em>, <\/em>in which the pontiff called climate change \u201cone of the principal challenges facing humanity in our day.\u201d\u00a0The pope\u2019s encyclical \u201cdisplays a lack of understanding of how the real world works<\/span><\/em>,\u201d Christy told CNSNews.com. According to microwave data from satellites going back to 1978, which are precise to within .08 of a degree, \u201cvery little warming is taking place<\/em><\/span>,\u201d he pointed out<\/span><\/strong><\/span>…”<\/p>\n

Since we’re on the subject of those displaying a lack of any understanding of how the real world works, as Katherine Timpf records at NRO<\/em>, despite the complete paucity of any evidence…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Top Activist and Author: It\u2019s \u2018Clear\u2019 That Climate Change Is Making Racism Worse<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Ms. Klein in one of her…saner moments; any questions?!?<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

According to social activist and best-selling author Naomi Klein, climate change isn\u2019t just destroying our planet \u2014 it\u2019s making racism worse, too. \u201cYou see that in Australia where the treatment of migrants is a profound moral crisis,\u201d she said, according to a piece published in The Guardian. \u201cIt\u2019s clear that as sea levels rise that this mean streak and open racism is going to become more extreme \u2013\u00a0climate change is an accelerant to all those other issues,\u201d she continued.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Yes \u2014 \u201cclear.\u201d The idea that racism rises with the sea is just so<\/em><\/span> \u201cclear\u201d that no further evidence or explanation is needed<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Climate change is making people more mean, and that is just a fact<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re dying to know more, you\u2019re in luck: Klein has written plenty of books about climate change, including This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate and\u00a0The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, which MSNBC host Rachel Maddow praised as \u201cthe only book of the last few years in American publishing that I would describe as a mandatory must-read.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s<\/em><\/span> a compelling endorsement, but I still don\u2019t think I\u2019ll read it \u2014 after all, the fact that Klein is totally right is already so \u201cclear<\/span><\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Liberals increasingly evoke a classic scene from My Cousin Vinny<\/em>\u00a0in which Fred Gwynne’s character, Judge Chamberlain Haller, so accurately observed “you want to skip the arraignment process, go directly to trial, skip that, and get a dismissal.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, to borrow another phrase from Judge Haller, we’re not about to revamp the entire scientific method just because Naomi Klein finds herself in the unique position of defending a Progressive policy without any factual support whatsoever.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the Lighter Side…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Finally, courtesy of Hope n’ Change, a bumper sticker fit, quite literally…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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…for a horse’s ass:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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