{"id":34042,"date":"2015-11-24T20:40:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T01:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=34042"},"modified":"2015-11-24T20:40:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T01:40:09","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-november-23rd-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=34042","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, November 23rd, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Monday, November 23rd, 2015&#8230;but before we begin, a couple of quick thoughts: first, if you haven&#8217;t tuned in before, you HAVE to check in with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/hopenchangecartoons.blogspot.com\/\">Hope n&#8217; Change<\/a><\/em><\/span> today, and on a regular basis going forward.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Second, Hillary has provided Republicans the subject matter for a dynamite ad when Campaign &#8217;16 finally hits full stride:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/RNC-Commercial.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33954\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/RNC-Commercial.png\" alt=\"RNC Commercial\" width=\"525\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/RNC-Commercial.png 525w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/RNC-Commercial-300x123.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>As James Taranto notes at <em>Best of the Web<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;The Federalist\u2019s Mollie Hemingway responded with this paraphrase: \u201c\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u2018Know your enemy.\u2019\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Sun Tzu.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u2018Don\u2019t know even the first thing about your enemy. <em>See how <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">that<\/span> works out<\/em>!\u2019\u00a0\u2014\u00a0HRC.<\/strong><\/span>\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oh, we almost forgot; make that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>two<\/em><\/span> ads&#8230;thanks to Lerch&#8217;s idiotic imitation&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3DMO82C5s3M?start=32\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;of his boss&#8217;s boneheaded braggadocio.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, Jonah Goldberg waxes eloquent about Hillary&#8217;s latest bout of foot-in-mouth disease:<\/strong><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"td1\" valign=\"middle\">\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;Yesterday, Hillary Clinton said: \u201cLet\u2019s be clear, though. Islam is not our adversary. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.<\/strong><\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-20-at-12.18.14-PM-445x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33998\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-20-at-12.18.14-PM-445x300.jpg\" alt=\"Screen-Shot-2015-11-20-at-12.18.14-PM-445x300\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-20-at-12.18.14-PM-445x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-20-at-12.18.14-PM-445x300-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"s1\">Now, unlike some people who e-mail me in ALL CAPS, I have no problem with politicians saying, \u201cIslam is not our adversary.\u201d <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>In fact, I think it would be disastrous if our political leaders went around saying anything like \u201cIslam is our enemy.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It\u2019s the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>second part<\/em><\/span> of that Hillary quote that I have trouble with.<\/span> Yes, some &#8212; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>most<\/em><\/span>! &#8212; Muslims are peaceful. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>And while peacefulness and tolerance don\u2019t necessarily go hand-in-hand<\/em><\/span> (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>just look at opinion polls in the Muslim world on questions of sharia, homosexuality, women\u2019s equality, free speech, and, of course, the Joooooooz<\/em><\/span>), let\u2019s stipulate that a great many Muslims are tolerant in their own fashion, too.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">But it is simply a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>lie<\/em><\/span> &#8212; <em>an obvious, glaring, indisputable, <span class=\"s2\">trout-in-the-milk<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">lie<\/span><\/em> &#8212; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that Muslims have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/isis-hillary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33996\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/isis-hillary.jpg\" alt=\"isis-hillary\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/isis-hillary.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/isis-hillary-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"s1\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Simply put, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>this is nonsense<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">But it\u2019s not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><i>just<\/i><\/span> nonsense.<\/span> <em>It is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\">highly refined nonsense<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\">If nonsense were radioactive, you could dump a barrel of it in a centrifuge, <em>wait a few weeks<\/em>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and out would come the claim that Islamic terrorism has <span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">nothing<\/span> to do with Islam<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Just off the top of my head is my hair. But figuratively speaking off the top of my head: The jihadists say they are motivated by Islam. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>They shout \u201cAllahu akbar!\u201d whenever they kill people. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u201cModerate Muslims\u201d in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere have been funding Islamic radicals around the world for nearly a century.<\/span> This morning in Mali, terrorist gunmen reportedly <span class=\"s2\">released those hostages who could quote the Koran<\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">The leader of ISIS has a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies and openly talks about restoring the Caliphate.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"s1\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Oh, one other thing: The <em>Islamic State<\/em> is called the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><i>Islamic State<\/i><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> I used to eat at a restaurant called \u201cBurrito Brothers.\u201d Saying the Islamic State has <i>nothing <\/i>to do with Islam is like telling someone eating a burrito they bought at Burrito Brothers that Burrito Brothers has \u201cnothing whatsoever\u201d to do with burritos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"s1\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">And like many other highly enriched radioactive substances, this nonsensical notion is weaponizable.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It is dangerous<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> I would like to think that if you had an honest conversation with Hillary Clinton away from the cameras, she would say something like, \u201cOf course, Islamic terrorism has a lot to do with Islam. But we can\u2019t say that publicly because we have to isolate the radicals, not radicalize the moderates.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/hillaryhijab-vi1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33997\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/hillaryhijab-vi1.jpg\" alt=\"hillaryhijab-vi1\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/hillaryhijab-vi1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/hillaryhijab-vi1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"s1\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>That is an entirely defensible position <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>intellectually<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">But that doesn\u2019t make the \u201cThis Isn\u2019t Islamic\u201d claim <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>any less of a lie<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong> <strong>And what makes the lie dangerous &#8212; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>very dangerous<\/em><\/span> &#8212; <em>is the possibility that, to borrow a phrase from Barack Obama, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">these people believe their own <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>bullsh***<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <\/strong><\/span>The danger is twofold. On the one hand, if you engage an enemy without actually understanding its motivations and ambitions, you will inevitably screw it up because you\u2019ll be constantly surprised by the facts on the ground. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>As Irving Kristol once said, \u201cWhen we lack the will to see things as they really are, there is nothing so mystifying as the obvious.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"s1\">On the other hand, if you are trying to rally political support for your strategy, while at the same time giving the public every reason to believe you\u2019re operating from a home-base in fantasyland, only fellow bullsh***ers and fools will rally to your banner. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>And, you\u2019ll lose the confidence and trust <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>of those people who see through the fog of bovine excrement<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>In other words, the majority of the country who <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>aren&#8217;t<\/em><\/span> inclined to savor Hillary&#8217;s new Feminazi-flavored Kool-Aid, and are no longer drinking the dregs of The Obamao&#8217;s.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of The Dear Misleader&#8217;s waning influence, we present two items of interest, the first from Walter Russell Mead via\u00a0<em>The American Interest<\/em>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the-american-interest.com\/2015\/11\/17\/president-obamas-cynical-refugee-ploy\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"title\">President Obama\u2019s Cynical Refugee Ploy<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"excerpt\">\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the-american-interest.com\/2015\/11\/17\/president-obamas-cynical-refugee-ploy\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The debate we are having over the acceptance of Syrian refugees is not the conversation the country needs<\/span>.<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/03mag-syria-1-master675.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33978\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/03mag-syria-1-master675.jpg\" alt=\"03mag-syria-1-master675\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/03mag-syria-1-master675.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/03mag-syria-1-master675-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b><i>Another humanitarian crisis of Biblical proportions brought to you by BHO!<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>To see the full cynicism of the Obama approach to the refugee issue, one has only to ask President Obama\u2019s least favorite question: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Why is there a Syrian refugee crisis in the first place<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Obama\u2019s own policy decisions\u2014allowing Assad to convert peaceful demonstrations into an increasingly ugly civil war, refusing to declare safe havens and no fly zones\u2014were instrumental in creating the Syrian refugee crisis. This crisis is in large part the direct consequence of President Obama\u2019s decision to stand aside and watch Syria burn.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><em>For him to try and use a derisory and symbolic program to allow 10,000 refugees into the United States in order to posture as more caring than those evil Jacksonian rednecks out in the benighted sticks <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is one of the most cynical, cold-blooded, and nastily divisive moves\u00a0an American President has made in a long time<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Moreover,\u00a0<em>many of those \u201cbenighted\u201d people <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">were willing to sign up for the U.S. military and go to fight ISIS in Syria to protect the refugees<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Many Americans who now oppose the President\u2019s ill-considered refugee program have long supported the use of American power to create \u201csafe zones\u201d in Syria so the refugees could be sheltered and fed in their own country.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>If President Obama <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">seriously cared<\/span> about the fate of Syria\u2019s millions of displaced people, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">he would have started to organize those safe havens years ago<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> And if he understood the nature of America\u2019s role in Europe, he would have known that working with the Europeans to prevent a mass refugee and humanitarian disaster was something that had to be done.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span class=\"pullquote\">Not even President Bush\u2019s decision to go to war in Iraq has been as destructive for Europe or as damaging to the Transatlantic alliance as President Obama\u2019s hard-hearted and short-sighted Syria policy.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> The flood of refugees is shaking the European Union to its core, and Obama\u2019s policy has cemented perceptions among many around the world\u00a0that the United States is no longer the kind of useful ally that it once was. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>France didn\u2019t even <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>bother<\/em><\/span> to invoke NATO\u2019s Article 5 after the Paris attacks; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>nobody really thinks of President Obama as the man you want at your side when the chips are down<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;To think that conspicuous moral posturing and holy posing over a symbolic refugee quota could turn President Obama from the goat to the hero of the Syrian crisis is absurd. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Wringing your hands while Syria turns into a hell on earth, and then taking a token number of refugees, can be called many things, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">but decent and wise are not among them<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">You don\u2019t have to be a xenophobe or a racist or even a Republican to reject this President\u2019s leadership on Syria policy.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>All you need for that is common sense and a moral compass<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/refuge3es-obama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33995\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/refuge3es-obama.jpg\" alt=\"refuge3es-obama\" width=\"400\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/refuge3es-obama.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/refuge3es-obama-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"dropcap1\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>I<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>f President Obama really had the superior moral insight and wisdom that he believes makes him so much more humane and far-seeing than the ignorant rednecks who keep on opposing him, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he would have approached the refugee issue with less arrogance and more self-awareness<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> It is not given to the sons (or even to the daughters) of mortals to be right about everything all the time; Presidents make mistakes, even in the Middle East. A little humility, a little acknowledgement of responsibility, a little self-reflection could go a long way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">no one<\/span><\/em>, other than the Butcher\u00a0Assad and the unspeakable al-Baghdadi, <em>is as responsible for the humanitarian catastrophe in Syria <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">as is President Obama<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">No one<\/span> has committed more sins of omission, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">no one<\/span> has so ruthlessly sacrificed the well-being of Syria\u2019s people for his own ends, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">as the man in the White House<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> <em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">In all the world, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">only President Obama had the ability to do anything significant to prevent this catastrophe<\/span>; in all the world <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">no one turned his back so coldly and resolutely on the suffering Syrians as the man who sits in the White House today<\/span>\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a man who is now lecturing his fellow citizens on what he insists is their moral inferiority before his own high self-esteem<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and the second again from\u00a0<\/strong><b>Jonah Goldberg writing at\u00a0<em>NRO<\/em>:<\/b><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/427370\/syrian-refugees-obama-islamic-state?utm_source=taboola&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=Gfile11202015&amp;utm_term=GFile\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Obama\u2019s Strategic Bumbling Is Theater of the Absurd<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/obama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33979\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/obama.jpg\" alt=\"obama\" width=\"325\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/obama.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/obama-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8216;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em><strong>\u2018You\u2019re all <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">suckers<\/span>.&#8217;<\/strong><\/em> <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>That <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>has<\/em><\/span> to be what Barack Obama is thinking as the country falls for his head-fake.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Let\u2019s recap.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>George W. Bush\u2019s surge reduced the Islamic State\u2019s precursor, al-Qaeda in Iraq, to a paltry 700 members, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>according to CIA director John Brennan<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Its membership has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>grown<\/em><\/span> by something close to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>4,000 percent<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> As it metastasized, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Obama yawned<\/em><\/span>, <em>calling it the \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">JV team<\/span><\/em>.\u201d <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>When Syrian president Bashar al-Assad violated Obama\u2019s \u201cred line,\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Obama yawned again<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and the refugee crisis was born<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;That brings us to Monday\u2019s press conference in Turkey. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>For a moment, it seemed like the press had finally grasped the staggering failure of Obama\u2019s strategy.<\/strong><\/span> One reporter after another asked the dyspeptic and defensive president why we weren\u2019t making better progress against these rapists, slavers, and murderers. They repeated the question because Obama kept saying his strategy was working. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">He described the slaughter in Paris as the kind of \u201csetback\u201d we should expect from a successful strategy.<\/span> Even liberals were aghast at Obama\u2019s failure to appreciate the \u201ctheater\u201d of his job.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>Oh, but he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">gets<\/span> it<\/em>.<span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Put aside the fact that his \u201cstrategy\u201d was always theater to begin with.<\/span> <em>His phony war on the Islamic State was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">always<\/span> more about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">seeming<\/span> to do something <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">while running out the clock until his successor inherits his mess<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Obama knew the media would take their eye off the ball if he distracted them with a passion play about GOP bigotry.<\/strong><\/span> He ridiculed Republicans for their cowardice and cruelty in raising concerns about the potential security threats posed by Syrian refugees. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Never mind that such caution is informed in part by warnings from the heads of Obama\u2019s CIA, FBI, and DHS<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Obama ludicrously mocked the idea that we prioritize Christian refugees \u2014 victims of Islamic State genocide \u2014 as an Islamophobic \u201creligious test\u201d that was \u201cnot American,\u201d <em>even though his administration already gives special preference to Yazidi refugees from Iraq <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and federal law requires taking religion into account when screening refugees<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>For Obama, politics ends at the water\u2019s edge, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unless he\u2019s speaking abroad<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Obama\u2019s dithering <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>sparked<\/em><\/span> the refugee crisis.<\/span> He\u2019s now using a smattering of refugees as a cynical prop to prove he\u2019s the hero of his own morality tale. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The reality is that he\u2019s a villain in his own theater of the absurd<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">And we\u2019re the suckers in the audience falling for it.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>No, not &#8220;we&#8221;; rather&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bubbles_obama_media.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-33994\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bubbles_obama_media-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"bubbles_obama_media\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bubbles_obama_media-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bubbles_obama_media.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>thee<\/em><\/span>! \u00a0If we couldn&#8217;t stomach the man <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>before<\/em><\/span> he took office, the subsequent 7 years of his obfuscation, misdirection and deliberate deception certainly haven&#8217;t served to inoculate our constitution against his blatant bullsh*t.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As for the self-righteous, MSM-annointed religious &#8220;leaders&#8221; who seem to believe their supposed spiritual expertise extends into the realm of the corporeal&#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\/politics-elections\/2015\/11\/21\/us-religious-leaders-make-forceful-appeal-to-admit-refugees-n2083766\" class=\"broken_link\">US religious leaders make forceful appeal to admit refugees<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/3ba3151f-3164-46ce-8cae-83f8a01c485a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33999\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/3ba3151f-3164-46ce-8cae-83f8a01c485a.jpg\" alt=\"3ba3151f-3164-46ce-8cae-83f8a01c485a\" width=\"400\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/3ba3151f-3164-46ce-8cae-83f8a01c485a.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/3ba3151f-3164-46ce-8cae-83f8a01c485a-300x154.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;we&#8217;d offer the wisdom of The Stranger in <em>High Plains Drifter<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nT2fMnstxwU?start=11\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>In a related item, here&#8217;s a radical idea: before wasting the time, effort and money to legislate, formulate and administrate a new, &#8220;comprehensive&#8221; immigration system, howz about we try (a) <em>effectively<\/em>, <em>physically <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">sealing our southern border<\/span><\/em>; then, (b)&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y_AH6Yvr-g4\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ENFORCING THE IMMIGRATION LAWS CURRENTLY ON THE BOOKS<\/em><\/span>!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>WTF ever happened<\/em>, inquiring minds want to know, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>to common sense in government<\/em><\/span>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us, appropriately enough, to today&#8217;s installment of <em>Your Tax Dollars At Work<\/em>, and this just in from <em>The Washington Times<\/em>\u00a0via <em>Drudge<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"page-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/nov\/22\/labor-department-throws-football-party-but-bans-re\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Labor Department throws football party, but bans Redskins jerseys<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GTY_redskins_protest_jtm_140618_16x9_992.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33976\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GTY_redskins_protest_jtm_140618_16x9_992.jpg\" alt=\"GTY_redskins_protest_jtm_140618_16x9_992\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GTY_redskins_protest_jtm_140618_16x9_992.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GTY_redskins_protest_jtm_140618_16x9_992-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;When the U.S. Labor Department\u2019s Center for Civil Rights wanted to celebrate its accomplishments last week, its managers threw the staff a football-themed tailgate party in the office parking lot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>There was only stipulation: no Washington Redskins jerseys, paraphernalia or memorabilia.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>\u201cIt has been respectfully requested that employees voluntarily refrain from wearing clothing or other sports memorabilia that promote Washington D.C.\u2019s professional football team, the Redskins, or other teams that use names, characters, etc. that may portray American Indians or other cultures in a derogatory manner,\u201d an asterisk-marked note at the bottom of the invitation reader.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;The Labor Department invite was sent to The Washington Times by a reader who works for the agency who found the entire event took political correctness to a new level.\u00a0Labor officials confirmed the invite and the event, which occurred Friday.<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong> They said no tax dollars were spent on the tailgate party, and the agency does not have a formal policy on the Redskins team name.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">\u201cThe Civil Rights Center is a small office, and the food was paid for by the managers, out of their pockets,\u201d spokesman Stephen G. Barr said.<\/span> \u201cThere is no DOL policy on sports teams.\u201d<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Though (a) since we&#8217;re paying their salaries, it technically\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>was<\/em><\/span> our tax dollars being spent; and (b) it&#8217;s safe to assume had other government managers of equal rank paid out of <em>their<\/em> pockets for food or anything else associated with an event even <em>remotely<\/em> connected with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Christianity<\/em><\/span> the reaction of the federal agency would have been radically&#8230;<em>diverse<\/em>!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Environmental Moment<span style=\"color: #000000;\">, courtesy of <em>Climate Depot<\/em>, more damning dismissals of the massive scam which is the &#8220;theory&#8221; of anthropogenic global warming from the pesky &#8220;3%&#8221;:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Prominent Scientists Declare Climate Claims Ahead of UN Summit \u2018Irrational\u2019 \u2013 \u2018Based On Nonsense\u2019 \u2013 \u2018Leading us down a false path<\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u2019<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CUM2bO0WoAEkwGW-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33964\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CUM2bO0WoAEkwGW-1.jpg\" alt=\"CUM2bO0WoAEkwGW (1)\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CUM2bO0WoAEkwGW-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CUM2bO0WoAEkwGW-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">MIT Climate Scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen<\/span>: &#8216;<em>Demonization of CO2 is irrational at best and even modest warming is mostly beneficial.&#8217; &#8211; &#8216;When someone says this is the warmest temperature on record. What are they talking about? It\u2019s just nonsense. This is a very tiny change period.&#8217;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Princeton Physicist Dr. Will Happer<\/span>:\u00a0<em>&#8216;Policies to slow CO2 emissions are really based on nonsense. We are being led down a false path. To call carbon dioxide a pollutant is really Orwellian. You are calling something a pollutant that we all produce. Where does that lead us eventually?&#8217;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Greenpeace Co-Founder Dr. Patrick Moore<\/span>: <em>&#8216;We are dealing with pure political propaganda that has nothing to do with science.&#8217;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A team of prominent scientists gathered in Texas today at a climate summit to declare that fears of man-made global warming were \u201cirrational\u201d and \u201cbased on nonsense\u201d that \u201chad nothing to do with science.\u201d They warned that \u201cwe\u00a0are being led down a false path\u201d by the upcoming UN climate summit in Paris.\u00a0The scientists appeared at a climate summit sponsored by the Texas Public Policy Foundation. The summit in Austin\u00a0was titled: \u201cAt the Crossroads: Energy &amp; Climate Policy Summit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Climate Scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen, an emeritus Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT, derided what he termed climate \u201ccatastrophism.\u201d\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>\u201cDemonization of CO2 is irrational at best and even modest warming is mostly beneficial,\u201d Lindzen said.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Lindzen cautioned: \u201cThe most important thing to keep in mind is \u2013 when you ask \u2018is it warming, is it cooling\u2019, etc. \u00a0\u2014 <em>is that we are talking about something <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">tiny<\/span><\/em> (temperature changes) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and that is the crucial point<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Lindzen also challenged the oft-repeated UN IPCC claim that most of warming over past 50 years was due to mankind.\u00a0\u201cPeople get excited over this. Is this statement alarming? No,\u201d Lindzen stated.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>\u201cWe are speaking of small changes 0.25 Celcius would be about 51% of the recent warming and that strongly suggests a low and inconsequential climate sensitivity \u2013 meaning no problem at all,\u201d Lindzen explained.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>\u201cI urge you when looking at a graph, check the scales! <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The uncertainty here is tenths of a degree<\/em><\/span>,\u201d he noted.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u201cWhen someone points to this and says this is the warmest temperature on record. What are they talking about? <span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>It\u2019s just nonsense. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">This is a very tiny change period.<\/span> <em>And they are arguing over <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">hundredths of a degree<\/span> when it is uncertain in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">tenths of a degree<\/span><\/em>,\u201d Lindzen said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>\u201cAnd the proof that the uncertainty is tenths of a degree <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>are the adjustments that are being made<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">If you can <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>adjust<\/em><\/span> temperatures to 2\/10ths of a degree, it means it wasn\u2019t <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>certain<\/em><\/span> to 2\/10ths of a degree,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/strong> <\/span>(<em>Also See:<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.climatedepot.com\/2015\/01\/16\/scientists-balk-at-hottest-year-claims-we-are-arguing-over-the-significance-of-hundredths-of-a-degree-the-pause-continues\/\">Scientists balk at \u2018hottest year\u2019 claims: Ignores Satellites showing 18 Year \u2018Pause\u2019 \u2013 \u2018We are arguing over the significance of hundredths of a degree\u2019 \u2013 The \u2018Pause\u2019 continues<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/em>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cThe UN IPCC wisely avoided making the claim that 51% of a small change in temperature constitutes a problem. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>They left this to the politicians and anyone who took the bait<\/em><\/span>,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Lindzen noted that National Academy of Sciences president Dr. Ralph Cicerone has even admitted that there is no evidence for a catastrophic claims of man-made global warming.<\/strong> <\/span>(See: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.climatedepot.com\/2012\/07\/16\/backing-away-from-climate-alarm-nas-pres-ralph-cicerone-says-we-dont-have-that-kind-of-evidence-to-claim-we-are-going-to-fry-from-agw\/\">Backing away from climate alarm? NAS Pres. Ralph Cicerone says \u2018we don\u2019t have that kind of evidence\u2019 to claim we are \u2018going to fry\u2019 from AGW<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Lindzen also featured 2006 quotes from Scientist Dr. Miike Hulme, Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, and Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, admitting that claims of a climate catastrophe were not the \u201clanguage of science.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>\u201cThe discourse of catastrophe <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is a campaigning device<\/span>,\u201d Hulme wrote to the BBC in 2006. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u201cThe language of catastrophe is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> the language of science.<\/span> To state that climate change will be \u2018catastrophic\u2019 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions which do not emerge from empirical or theoretical science<\/span>,\u201d Hulme wrote.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u201cIs any amount of climate change catastrophic?<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Catastrophic for whom, for where, and by when<\/span>? <span style=\"color: #003300;\">What index is being used to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">measure<\/span> the catastrophe?\u201d Hulme continued.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Lindzen singled out Secretary of State John Kerry for his \u2018ignorance\u2019 on science.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u201cJohn Kerry stands alone,\u201d Lindzen said.<\/span> \u201cKerry expresses his ignorance of what science is,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/polls_kerry_ketchup_lies.jpg_0939_905084.jpeg_answer_8_xlarge.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-33993\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/polls_kerry_ketchup_lies.jpg_0939_905084.jpeg_answer_8_xlarge-297x300.jpeg\" alt=\"polls_kerry_ketchup_lies.jpg_0939_905084.jpeg_answer_8_xlarge\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/polls_kerry_ketchup_lies.jpg_0939_905084.jpeg_answer_8_xlarge-297x300.jpeg 297w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/polls_kerry_ketchup_lies.jpg_0939_905084.jpeg_answer_8_xlarge.jpeg 347w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Lindzen also criticized EPA Chief Gina McCarthy\u2019s education: \u201c<em>I don\u2019t want to be snobbish, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">but U Mass Boston is not a very good school<\/span><\/em>,\u201d he said to laughter.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Lindzen concluded his talk by saying: \u201c<em>Learn how to identify claims that have no alarming implications and free to say \u2018<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">So what<\/span><\/em>?\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the Lighter Side&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/RAMF800clr-112015-refugee-I.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33980\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/RAMF800clr-112015-refugee-I.jpg\" alt=\"RAMF800clr-112015-refugee-I\" width=\"462\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/RAMF800clr-112015-refugee-I.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/RAMF800clr-112015-refugee-I-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/lb1120cd20151120124516.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33958\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/lb1120cd20151120124516.jpg\" alt=\"lb1120cd20151120124516\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/lb1120cd20151120124516.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/lb1120cd20151120124516-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/RAMF800clr-112015-kerry-OPE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33981\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/RAMF800clr-112015-kerry-OPE.jpg\" alt=\"RAMF800clr-112015-kerry-OPE\" width=\"462\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/RAMF800clr-112015-kerry-OPE.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/RAMF800clr-112015-kerry-OPE-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/holb_c13683720151120120100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33959\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/holb_c13683720151120120100.jpg\" alt=\"holb_c13683720151120120100\" width=\"462\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/holb_c13683720151120120100.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/holb_c13683720151120120100-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sbr112015dBP20151120014659.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33991\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sbr112015dBP20151120014659.jpg\" alt=\"sbr112015dBP20151120014659\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sbr112015dBP20151120014659.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sbr112015dBP20151120014659-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/obama-warns-putin-warned-face-to-face-not-too-far-syria-demo-politics-1445508119.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33983\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/obama-warns-putin-warned-face-to-face-not-too-far-syria-demo-politics-1445508119.jpg\" alt=\"obama-warns-putin-warned-face-to-face-not-too-far-syria-demo-politics-1445508119\" width=\"462\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/obama-warns-putin-warned-face-to-face-not-too-far-syria-demo-politics-1445508119.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/obama-warns-putin-warned-face-to-face-not-too-far-syria-demo-politics-1445508119-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CUR_a9tUEAISstt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33984\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CUR_a9tUEAISstt.jpg\" alt=\"CUR_a9tUEAISstt\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CUR_a9tUEAISstt.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CUR_a9tUEAISstt-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CUR_a9tUEAISstt-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download9.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33982\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download9.jpeg\" alt=\"download\" width=\"492\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download9.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download9-300x256.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download-16.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33956\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download-16.jpeg\" alt=\"download (1)\" width=\"500\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download-16.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download-16-300x295.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download8.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33957\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download8.jpeg\" alt=\"download\" width=\"450\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download8.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download8-246x300.jpeg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s this proof, courtesy of our son Mike, even rednecks can be clever:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cyqgIUA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cyqgIUA.jpg\" alt=\"cyqgIUA\" width=\"462\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cyqgIUA.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cyqgIUA-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a day with <em>Yet Another Politically-Correct Sign the Apocalypse Is Upon Us<\/em>, brought to us today by the <em>WSJ<\/em> and the Educated Idiots at the University of Ottawa:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Yoga as \u2018Cultural Appropriation\u2019<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">The heightened sensitivities on one campus stretch in a new direction.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/BN-LJ952_noquoy_J_20151122140245.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33992\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/BN-LJ952_noquoy_J_20151122140245.jpg\" alt=\"BN-LJ952_noquoy_J_20151122140245\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/BN-LJ952_noquoy_J_20151122140245.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/BN-LJ952_noquoy_J_20151122140245-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Student leaders have pulled the mat out from 60 University of Ottawa students, ending a free on-campus yoga class over fears the teachings could be seen as a form of \u201ccultural appropriation.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Jennifer Scharf, who has been offering free weekly yoga instruction to students since 2008, says she was shocked when told in September the program would be suspended, and saddened when she learned of the reasoning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Staff at the Centre for Students with Disabilities believe that \u201cwhile yoga is a really great idea and accessible and great for students . . . there are cultural issues of implication involved in the practice,\u201d according to an email from the centre.<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>The centre goes on to say, \u201cYoga has been under a lot of controversy lately due to how it is being practiced,\u201d and which cultures those practices \u201care being taken from.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong><em>The centre official argues since many of those cultures \u201chave experienced oppression, cultural genocide and diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy<\/em>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>we need to be mindful of this and how we express ourselves while practising yoga<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>No, we have to mindful of the PC-inspired insanity which is dividing us along lines of race, culture and ridiculous levels of sensitivity, creating the Progressive utopia of &#8220;Ex Uno Plures&#8221; rather than the Founding Fathers&#8217; &#8220;E Pluribus Unum&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Or, as the Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 1:22:\u00a0In eorum sapientia, stulti facti sunt.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Monday, November 23rd, 2015&#8230;but before we begin, a couple of quick thoughts: first, if you haven&#8217;t tuned in before, you HAVE to check in with Hope n&#8217; Change today, and on a regular basis going forward. Second, Hillary has provided Republicans the subject matter for a dynamite ad when Campaign &#8217;16 finally hits full [&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-34042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34042","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=34042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34043,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34042\/revisions\/34043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}