{"id":55564,"date":"2018-01-04T20:41:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T01:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=55564"},"modified":"2018-01-04T20:42:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T01:42:08","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-january-3rd-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=55564","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehousedossier.com\/2018\/01\/02\/appeasers-grasp-at-kim-jong-uns-straws\/?awt_l=6Oa_r&amp;awt_m=3h6sKZao7nTM1Od\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Keith Koffler details at White House Dossier<\/em><\/span><\/a>, South Korea just redefined the term&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VUr0Jx_-uHU?start=36\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Exposing a similar vein of raw, Socialist stupidity, we bid good riddance to not only <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>bad<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/douchpump.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/douchpump.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/douchpump.png 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/douchpump-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>terribly<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>un<\/em><\/span>funny rubbish.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In light of the following item, we kick off 2018 with one simple request:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline head1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2018\/01\/02\/with-new-year-california-becomes-sanctuary-state.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">With new year, California becomes &#8216;sanctuary st<\/span><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">a<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">te<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8216;<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/malibu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55464\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/malibu.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/malibu.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/malibu-300x237.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sanctuary.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55465\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sanctuary.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sanctuary.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sanctuary-300x240.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Will the last sane person to leave the once-Golden State please turn off the lights?!?\u00a0 Assuming of course the electricity&#8217;s still working electricity!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like another victim of Dimocratic hypocrisy and hubris before her&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/mary_jo_stry_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55485\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/mary_jo_stry_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/mary_jo_stry_0.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/mary_jo_stry_0-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;Kate Steinle&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kate-steinle-posters-1280x720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55486\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kate-steinle-posters-1280x720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kate-steinle-posters-1280x720.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kate-steinle-posters-1280x720-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;couldn&#8217;t be reached for comment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of the hopelessly misguided, as this forward from the<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<em>WaPo <\/em>via Speed Mach details&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/democrats-havent-been-this-confident-since--2016\/2017\/12\/29\/43641dfe-ecd4-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html?utm_term=.e8dca43237bc\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Democrats haven\u2019t been this confident since&#8230; 201<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">6<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CCVZfsobXAM\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah,&#8230;and we all know how <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>2016<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/61bb899021ad400d3d22672d2af1e9bf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55472\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/61bb899021ad400d3d22672d2af1e9bf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/61bb899021ad400d3d22672d2af1e9bf.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/61bb899021ad400d3d22672d2af1e9bf-292x300.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;played out for them!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>That being said, The Donald <em>could<\/em> dramatically impact the odds were he to heed the advice of\u00a0Andy McCarthy, who, writing at <em>NRO<\/em>, reminds us even the longest conspiracy prosecution begins with a single conviction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/455020\/hillary-clinton-server-emails-erased-technician-should-be-pressured?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202017-12-30&amp;utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Time to Give Clinton\u2019s Server Technician the Mueller Tr<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">eatment<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/455020\/hillary-clinton-server-emails-erased-technician-should-be-pressured?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202017-12-30&amp;utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">The Trump Justice Department should reopen the investigation of Paul Co<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">mbetta<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #800080;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/clintonium.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/clintonium.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/clintonium.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/clintonium-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;New Year\u2019s Eve gets people thinking about resolutions. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Alas, when a year passes, a mothballed prosecutor finds himself thinking about the statute of limitations. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">As 2018 beckons, it has me thinking about <em>Paul Combetta<\/em> \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the Platte River Networks technician who used the \u201cBleachBit\u201d program to destroy thousands of Hillary Clinton\u2019s emails when they were under congressional subpoena and preservation orders<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>It is not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>just<\/em><\/span> the tick-tock of the criminal clock that has me thinking about Combetta \u2014 about how much longer his obstructive destruction of government files in March 2015 could still be subject to investigation and prosecution.<\/strong><\/span> The statute of limitations is five years. Time\u2019s a-wastin\u2019, but there could still be a live case for a while.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>other<\/em><\/span> reason Combetta leaps to the front of the mind is&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Robert Mueller<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/stg010218dAPR20180101074506.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55501\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/stg010218dAPR20180101074506.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/stg010218dAPR20180101074506.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/stg010218dAPR20180101074506-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>I\u2019m thinking it\u2019s a good time for the Justice Department, under new management (the Trump-appointed management that hired Mueller), <em>to show Paul Combetta <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">how it works<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Let\u2019s review <em>a few<\/em> <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(incredibly compelling)<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>key facts<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Should there be a wholesale reopening of the Clinton investigation? <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I believe so<\/em><\/span>, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span> bridge can be crossed <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>later<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> For now, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>how about simply reopening the Combetta investigation<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which again <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>begs<\/em><\/span> the question <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>why on earth hasn&#8217;t it yet happened<\/em><\/span>?!?\u00a0 After all, does not Trump <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>directly control<\/em><\/span> the activities of the Executive Branch, which <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>includes<\/em><\/span> the <em>DOJ<\/em> and <em>FBI<\/em>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The only reasonable explanation we can offer is what we observed of Trey Gowdy in our <em>Tales From the Dark Side<\/em> section accessible via link #3 at the top of the page: while Republicans <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>talk<\/em><\/span> a good game, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>words<\/em><\/span> are all they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ever<\/em><\/span> to seem to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>offer<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>particularly<\/em><\/span> when it comes to holding Washington apparatchiks accountable for their crimes.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of crime, or in this case the decrease thereof, again courtesy of <em>NRO<\/em>, Heather Mac Donald offers this note of caution:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/454997\/new-york-city-homicide-rate-drop-lessons-proactive-policing\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">Don\u2019t Take the Wrong Lessons from NYC\u2019s Murd<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">er Drop<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/454997\/new-york-city-homicide-rate-drop-lessons-proactive-policing\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Proactive policing s<\/span><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">till matters<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #333399;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/nyc-subway-70s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55492\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/nyc-subway-70s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/nyc-subway-70s.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/nyc-subway-70s-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Before<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Cop critics who <em>assiduously <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ignored<\/span><\/em> the 20 percent <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>increase<\/em><\/span> in the national homicide rate <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>over the previous two years<\/em><\/span> have suddenly become enthusiastic purveyors of crime statistics. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Fueling their newfound interest in crime data is the announcement that the New York City homicide rate is at a near-60-year low.<\/span> That homicide drop shows that proactive policing is irrelevant to crime levels, say these policing skeptics. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">The New York Police Department\u2019s reported-stop activity plummeted earlier in this decade as a result of a groundless trilogy of racial-profiling lawsuits against the department.<\/span> Yet crime in New York ultimately continued its downward trajectory. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Therefore, proactive policing like pedestrian stops is unnecessary, these cop critics say.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Their arguments are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">specious<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(Not to mention <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>deliberately deceptive<\/em><\/span>.)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>New York City\u2019s formerly high-crime neighborhoods have experienced a stunning degree of gentrification over the last 15 years, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>thanks to the proactive-policing-induced conquest of crime<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">It is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span> gentrification which is now helping fuel the ongoing crime drop.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Urban hipsters are flocking to areas that once were the purview of drug dealers and pimps, trailing in their wake legitimate commerce and street life, which further attracts law-abiding activity and residents in a virtuous cycle of increasing public safety. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>The degree of demographic change is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>startling<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">In Brooklyn\u2019s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, for example, the number of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>white<\/em><\/span> residents <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>rose 1,235 percent from 2000 to 2015<\/em><\/span>, while the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>black<\/em><\/span> population <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>decreased by 17 percent<\/em><\/span>, reports City Lab.<\/span> In Bushwick, Brooklyn, the number of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>whites<\/em> <em>rose 610 percent<\/em><\/span> over that same decade and a half; the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>black<\/em><\/span> population was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>down 22 percent<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Central Harlem\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>white<\/em><\/span> population <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>rose 846 percent<\/em><\/span>; the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>black<\/em><\/span> share <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>dropped 10 percent<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> In 2000, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>whites<\/em><\/span> were about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>three-quarters of the black population<\/em><\/span> in Brownsville-Ocean Hill; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>by 2015, there were twice as many whites as blacks<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">In 2000, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>whites<\/em><\/span> were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>one-third of the black population<\/em><\/span> in Crown Heights North and Prospect Heights; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>now<\/em><\/span> they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>exceed<\/em><\/span> the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>black<\/em><\/span> population <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>by 20,000<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> The Brooklyn Navy Yards has now been declared the next cool place to be by the tech industry. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Business owners are moving their residences as well as their enterprises to the area.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>This demographic transformation has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>enormous<\/em><\/span> implications for crime. <em>A <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">black<\/span> New Yorker is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">50 times more likely to commit a shooting<\/span> than a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">white<\/span> New Yorker<\/em>, according to perpetrator identifications provided to the police by witnesses to, and victims of, those shootings. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Those victims are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>overwhelmingly<\/em><\/span> minority <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>themselves<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <em>When the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">racial balance<\/span> of a neighborhood changes radically, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">given those crime disparities<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">its violent-crime rate will as well<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">(This racial crime disparity reflects the breakdown of the black family and the high percentage of black males \u2014 upwards of 80 percent in some neighborhoods \u2014 being raised by single mothers.)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ny-daily-news.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55493\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ny-daily-news.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ny-daily-news.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ny-daily-news-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>After<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>The high-crime areas of Baltimore and Chicago <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>have not<\/em><\/span> been gentrified. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Baltimore is experiencing its highest per capita murder rate for the third year in a row<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;Libertarians and the anti-cop Left have also seized on this year\u2019s 33 percent drop in gun murders of police officers to declare that there has been no war on cops. Tell that to officers in the streets who lived for three years under the pall of the ubiquitous false narrative that policing is systemically racist and that cops are engaged in an epidemic of racially biased police shootings of black men. Tell it to officers who encountered acute levels of hostility during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, like the Chicago cop who said that he had never experienced so much hatred in his 19 years on the job. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>The war on cops was always predominantly a rhetorical one. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">But last year, at the height of the anti-cop frenzy, <em>gun murders of officers <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">rose 53 percent<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/thanks-obama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55499\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/thanks-obama.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/thanks-obama.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/thanks-obama-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em> Back <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">then<\/span><\/em>, the cop-haters assiduously <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ignored<\/em><\/span> that increase. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Now<\/em><\/span>, however, they are <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">trumpeting<\/span><\/em> this year\u2019s drop in gun murders.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>It is too soon to know definitively if the animus toward\u00a0officers has fallen and if any such fall is behind the welcome drop in officer slayings. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>But <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">without question<\/span>, there has been <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a sea change in rhetoric and policy from the White House<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Trump and Sessions do not take every opportunity to accuse the cops of systemic and lethal bias \u2014 yet when the facts warrant, the Sessions Justice Department has vigorously prosecuted and denounced cops who violate their oath of office. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Sessions and Trump have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>repeatedly<\/em><\/span> voiced their support for law enforcement, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>without coupling that support with a denunciation of phantom police racism<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Equally important, the mainstream media have lost interest in their anti-cop narrative.<\/span> <em>They now lack an echo chamber in the White House, and focusing on Trump\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">alleged<\/span> misdeeds <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is an all-consuming activity<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>That shift in rhetoric may have saved some officers\u2019 lives this year<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">But the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>drop<\/em><\/span> in gun murders of officers this year <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>hardly disproves the fact that the Obama administration ramped up a demoralizing and unjustified war on the cops during its second term<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let alone the fact Bill de Blow-me-o could hardly exert a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>positive<\/em><\/span> influence on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anything<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>including<\/em><\/span> his own political career.\u00a0 Or The Obamao for that matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item, as <em>FOX News<\/em>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>rather incompletely<\/em><\/span> informs us&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline head1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/auto\/2018\/01\/02\/police-arrest-suspects-in-richard-childress-home-invasion.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Police arrest suspects in Richard Childress home invas<\/span><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">ion<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1514919370809.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55482\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1514919370809.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1514919370809.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1514919370809-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Three suspects have been arrested in connection with an attempted robbery at NASCAR team owner Richard Childress\u2019 Lexington, N.C., estate home on December 17. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Childress, who was in the house with his wife at the time and was alerted to their presence when they set off an alarm, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>chased them away by firing a handgun at them before they could steal anything<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Childress is the second vice president of the National Rifle Association.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><em>Davidson County Sheriff David Grice said \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the only reason [Childress] and his wife were here today was because of God and the Second Amendment<\/span><\/em>,\u201d\u00a0according to The Charlotte Observer<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For those wondering why we view this <em>FOX<\/em> report as rather incomplete, it states Childress ran the tree yutes off&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/yo-yos.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55483\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/yo-yos.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/yo-yos.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/yo-yos-300x134.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Meet Messrs. Victorin, Hines and Spinks.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;&#8221;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>before<\/em><\/span> they could <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">steal<\/span><\/em> anything&#8221;&#8230;as if they were adolescent thieves bent on a bit of irresponsible but harmless burglary.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Seriously<\/em><\/span>?!?\u00a0 Such a description is hardly in keeping with the fact&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>armed<\/em><\/span> burglars had their faces covered, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">but the &#8216;military-style&#8217; guns they were carrying<\/span> matched the description of three that were stolen in nearby Winston-Salem two days prior <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and were later connected to the incident<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Call us a radical, but we find it hard to believe anyone who steals &#8216;military-style&#8217; guns in preparation for a home invasion intends on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>leaving any witnesses<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings to mind one of our favorite scenes from <em>Dirty Harry<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mRA5FBtbHHM?start=132\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s to Richard Childress for refusing to be a victim.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, back in the nation&#8217;s capital, as this item from George Lawlor relates&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline head1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8216;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2018\/01\/02\/mapping-swamp-report-finds-30000-feds-earn-more-than-any-governor.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\">Mapping the Swamp&#8217; report finds 30,000 feds earn more than any governor<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/221amy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55481\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/221amy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/221amy.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/221amy-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Tens of thousands of federal employees earn more money than any U.S. governor, according to a new report that reveals some eye-popping stats on government spending for the federal workforce.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ad-inread-1x1\" class=\"ad gpt ad-h-1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-ad-pos=\"inread\" data-ad-size=\"1x1\" data-google-query-id=\"CNO63v63utgCFQqVyAodYl0BOQ\" data-ad-slot-rendered=\"1\" data-rendered-size=\"1x1\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4145\/fnc\/politics_1__container__\">&#8230;<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">According to the report, the number of federal employees making $200,000 or more increased by 165 percent between fiscal 2010 and 2016. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Federal employees making $150,000 or more grew by 60 percent, with the number making more than $100,000 increasing by 37 percent in the same time period.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #008080;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The group put its figures in context by comparing these plush payment packages with those of America&#8217;s governors.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201cNearly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>30,000 rank-and-file federal employees<\/em><\/span> who received more than $190,823 out-earned each of the 50 state governors,\u201d the report said.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">According to the &#8220;Mapping the Swamp&#8221; report, a total of 406,960 federal employees made six-figure incomes in fiscal 2016 \u2013 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that\u2019s roughly one in five federal employees<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> \u201cThere is a new \u2018minimum wage\u2019 for federal bureaucrats \u2013 at 78 departments and independent agencies, the average employee made $100,000 or more,\u201d OpenTheBooks said in a statement.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>In fiscal 2016, the United States Postal Service and the Department of Veterans Affairs employed more than half of federal employees.<\/strong><\/span> USPS employed 32 percent of all disclosed federal employees, totaling 621,523 people on the payroll; and the VA employed the second-most employees with 372,614. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>(Proving once again quantity is wholly unrelated to quality!)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The analysis is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>incomplete<\/em><\/span>, however, <em>as there are a number of federal employees <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">who have not disclosed their salaries<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;Federal employees also are given considerable paid-time-off. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">According to the report, on average, federal employees are given 10 federal holidays, 13 sick days, and 20 vacation days per year.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008080;\">\u201cIf each employee used 13 sick days and took 20 vacation days in addition to the 10 federal holidays, it would cost taxpayers an estimated $22.6 billion annually,\u201d the report said.<\/span><\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>As reader Ed Harvey observed, &#8220;What a racket!&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No kidding; no risk\u2026can\u2019t be fired\u2026no real requirement to produce.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s news like this which increasingly leads us to ally ourselves with those who&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nnHmUk_J6xQ?start=117\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us to\u00a0<em>The Lighter Side<\/em>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/cb010218dAPC20180102074618.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55504\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/cb010218dAPC20180102074618.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/cb010218dAPC20180102074618.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/cb010218dAPC20180102074618-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lb171229c20171228110439.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55451\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lb171229c20171228110439.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lb171229c20171228110439.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lb171229c20171228110439-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Image-12-29-17-at-9.33-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55453\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Image-12-29-17-at-9.33-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Image-12-29-17-at-9.33-AM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Image-12-29-17-at-9.33-AM-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/payn_c15489520171230120100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55461\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/payn_c15489520171230120100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/payn_c15489520171230120100.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/payn_c15489520171230120100-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/kn122917dAPC20171229054552.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55452\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/kn122917dAPC20171229054552.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/kn122917dAPC20171229054552.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/kn122917dAPC20171229054552-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/cb122917dBP20171229124518.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55448\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/cb122917dBP20171229124518.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/cb122917dBP20171229124518.jpg 462w, 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width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/cb122817dAPR20171229104506.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/cb122817dAPR20171229104506-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/cb123017dAPR20171229114510.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55502\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/cb123017dAPR20171229114510.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/cb123017dAPR20171229114510.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/cb123017dAPR20171229114510-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a 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https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/image-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/download-1-11.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55454\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/download-1-11.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/download-1-11.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/download-1-11-300x256.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/download-2-11.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55455\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/download-2-11.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/download-2-11.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/download-2-11-300x249.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/download-3-8.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55456\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/download-3-8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/download-3-8.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/download-3-8-300x236.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/download-15.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55457\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/download-15.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/download-15.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/download-15-300x273.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>You know, as this forward from <em>Breitbart<\/em> via Jeff Foutch reveals,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/12\/31\/climate-expert-james-hansen-new-york-vanished-underwater-midnight\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>back before they were all exposed as self-serving sycophants of an anti-Capitalist, anti-freedom agenda<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, as Keith Koffler details at White House Dossier, South Korea just redefined the term&#8230; \ufeff\ufeff Exposing a similar vein of raw, Socialist stupidity, we bid good riddance to not only bad&#8230; &#8230;but terribly unfunny rubbish. Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge! In light of the following item, we kick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55564","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=55564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55565,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55564\/revisions\/55565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}