{"id":64923,"date":"2018-11-27T20:02:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T01:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=64923"},"modified":"2018-11-27T20:02:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T01:02:16","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-november-26th-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=64923","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, November 26th, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Monday, November 26th, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, Carnac the Magnificent has peered into the future&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Carnac.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64869\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Carnac.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Carnac.jpg 367w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Carnac-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>and&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"post-headline \" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8216;<a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/black-friday-amazon-workers-protest-poor-working-conditions-2018-11\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">We are not robots&#8217;: Thousands of Amazon workers across Europe are striking on Black Friday over warehouse working conditions<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nc664.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64847\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nc664.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nc664.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nc664-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>these<\/em><\/span> lazy, ungrateful complaining clowns\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ain&#8217;t in it<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We lead off the last week of November with the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>It Was Only a Matter of Time<\/em><\/span> segment, and this headline from\u00a0<em>The Washington Times<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"page-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/nov\/24\/first-caravan-related-violence-reported-us-rocks-t\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #808000; text-decoration: underline;\">First caravan-related violence reported in U.S. as rocks thrown at Border Patrol<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/week_that_was_in_latin_america_photo_gallery_33700_c0-217-5184-3239_s885x516.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64854\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/week_that_was_in_latin_america_photo_gallery_33700_c0-217-5184-3239_s885x516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/week_that_was_in_latin_america_photo_gallery_33700_c0-217-5184-3239_s885x516.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/week_that_was_in_latin_america_photo_gallery_33700_c0-217-5184-3239_s885x516-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The Border Patrol reported the first major instance of migrant caravan-related violence Saturday, <strong><span style=\"color: #808000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>saying a Honduran man threw rocks at agents to try to keep from being arrested Friday in Arizona<\/em><\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333399;\">The 31-year-old, whom authorities didn\u2019t name, had climbed a tree to try to avoid capture, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>then lit the tree afire and began to throw rocks at the agents as well as a helicopter called in to help track him<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong> Neither the agents nor the helicopter were hit by the projectiles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The man was eventually arrested, and agents said he told them he was part of the migrant caravan that had been in the news. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><span style=\"color: #808000; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>They said he had previous arrests in the U.S. and had been deported back in June<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sure sounds like a peace-loving refugee yearning to breath free fleeing political violence and oppression <em>to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">us<\/span><\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of malevolent wolves masquerading as well-intentioned sheep,\u00a0<em>FOX News<\/em>\u00a0details how&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/nycs-de-blasio-would-love-to-see-city-control-rents-and-housing-development\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">de Blasio, citing &#8216;socialistic impulse,&#8217; wants more government control of NYC property<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nfh70.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64886\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nfh70.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nfh70.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nfh70-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>I think people <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all over<\/em><\/span> this city, of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>every background<\/em><\/span>, would like to have the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>city government<\/em><\/span> be able to determine <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>which building goes where<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>how high it will be<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>who gets to live in it<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>what the rent will be<\/em><\/span>,\u201d de Blasio said in a\u00a0wide-ranging interview with New York Magazine. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cI think there\u2019s a socialistic impulse, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>which I hear every day<\/em><\/span>, in every kind of community that they would like things to be planned <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in accordance to their needs<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;In accordance to their needs&#8221;&#8230;in accordance to their needs&#8221;; where have we heard <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span> before?\u00a0 Holy <em>Das Kapital<\/em>, Batman:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Groucho-Harpo-Barack-O.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64876\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Groucho-Harpo-Barack-O.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Groucho-Harpo-Barack-O.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Groucho-Harpo-Barack-O-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>NOW<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/301056_279483518834033_1119007113_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64877\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/301056_279483518834033_1119007113_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/301056_279483518834033_1119007113_n.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/301056_279483518834033_1119007113_n-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BaskinRobber.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64878\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BaskinRobber.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BaskinRobber.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BaskinRobber-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;we remember!\u00a0 What,&#8230;has de Blasio been holding seances with the shades of Marx, Engels and\u00a0 Lenin?!?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item courtesy of\u00a0<em>American Thinker<\/em>, Dan Sobieski identifies&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2018\/11\/two_americas_de_blasios_amazon_vs_trumps_walmart.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Two Americas: De Blasio&#8217;s Amazon vs. Trump&#8217;s Walmart<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nfccx.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64874\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nfccx.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nfccx.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nfccx-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gOCNY9pJ850?start=217\" 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 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;John Edwards\u00a0once spoke of \u201ctwo Americas,\u201d\u00a0one \u201cfor all of those people who have lived the American dream and don&#8217;t have to worry, and another for most Americans, everybody else who struggle to make ends meet every single day\u201d.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> One is reminded of this by New York City mayor Bill De Blasio\u2019s full-throated shouting of \u201csocialism for all\u201d from the rooftops of buildings\u00a0whose height his politburo would determine and whose rents and occupants his commissars would control.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>One would be willing to believe De Blasio\u2019s socialistic impulses arises out of genuine, if wrongheaded, concern for the working poor and the middle class, the people the Democrat \u201cparty of compassion\u201d is allegedly the champion of, if it were not for De Blasio\u2019s\u00a0 support for what some would call corporate welfare, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>welcoming<\/em><\/span> cash-rich and taxpayer-subsidized <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Amazon<\/em><\/span>\u2019s new HQ to New York City while <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>closing its borders<\/em><\/span> to a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Walmart<\/em><\/span> invasion.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8230;<strong>Who wants Walmart greeters and cashiers moving to New York when you can have the high-rollers who work for Amazon?\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Amazon promises to deliver 25,000 jobs with an average salary of $150,000, which is a lot more than the average Walmart greeter or cashier makes.<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>(<em>Even though they&#8217;ve already trimmed the number of $150K positions by half, as the rest will be administrative, custodial, HR, etc.<\/em>)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Wal-Mart gave people <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>what they want<\/em><\/span> at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>a price they can afford<\/em><\/span>.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> Those \u201cmom-and-pop\u201d stores De Blasio champions were often inefficient, opportunistic price-gougers.<\/span> Walmart believed a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>fair<\/em><\/span> wage was and is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>one agreed upon between employee and employer<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>No one<\/em><\/span> was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>forced<\/em><\/span> to work <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>or<\/em><\/span> shop there.<\/span>\u00a0 It was<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <em>efficient<\/em><\/span>, <em>innovative<\/em>, <em>successful<\/em>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and non-union<\/em><\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span> is why it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>was<\/em><\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is hated<\/em><\/span> for all these reasons. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It is the poster child for roll-up-your-sleeves capitalism.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong>The socialism of the coastal elites of which De Blasio is a leader is akin to the old Soviet politburo who lived very well as they dictated what could be built and where, what people would make and where and how they would live. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Everyone was equal<\/em><\/span> but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>some<\/em><\/span> were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>more equal<\/em><\/span> than others.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>I reject the Democrat Party of the rich in favor of the GOP party of the working poor and the middle class, the deplorable bitter clingers. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">God, how I love the smell of Walmart in the morning.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vRp7tYWnJJs?start=35\" 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>Next up, writing at\u00a0<em>FOX News<\/em>, Joe diGenova suggests&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/justice-roberts-attack-against-president-trump-was-blatantly-political-and-wrong\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Justice Roberts\u2019 attack against President Trump was blatantly political and wrong<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nfa1k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64872\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nfa1k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nfa1k.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nfa1k-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;In a remarkably inappropriate and blatantly political statement Wednesday, U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts chastised President Trump for the president\u2019s quite accurate criticism of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and its rogue district and appellate court judges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The spectacle of the ostensibly nonpolitical chief justice engaged in a dispute with the president of the United States is insulting to the Supreme Court and to our system of justice.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Shame<\/em><\/span> on the chief justice.<\/strong><\/span> <strong>What he did is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unforgivable<\/em><\/span>, especially after the corrosive Senate confirmation battle over now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was the subject of bitter and baseless partisan attacks and character assassination by Senate Democrats.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>With everyone looking for ways to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>remov<\/em><em>e<\/em><\/span> the high court from the political thicket, Roberts strode arrogantly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>right into it<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Sad day<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;\u201cWe do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges,\u201d Roberts shot back Wednesday, as if he were facing Trump in a presidential candidate debate. \u201cWhat we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>But President Trump\u2019s criticism of liberal judges in the 9th Circuit who were nominated by President Obama <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>was accurate<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> These judges previously issued an order blocking the president\u2019s Travel Ban Executive Order that was designed to protect our country from terrorists crossing our borders. As President Trump correctly noted, the Supreme Court later overturned the ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Roberts\u2019 comments seemed <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>particularly strange<\/em><\/span> because he had <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never<\/em><\/span> injected himself into a political debate <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>before<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>In fact, Roberts sat quietly through President Obama\u2019s 2010 State of the Union Address when Obama sharply attacked Supreme Court justices sitting in the audience for their ruling in the Citizens United case, which allowed unlimited political campaign contributions by unions and corporations<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>President Obama <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>falsely claimed<\/em><\/span> in this speech that the Citizens United ruling <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>allowed<\/em><\/span> massive political contributions by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>foreign<\/em><\/span> corporations. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">It did <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no such thing<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">As the justices sat in the House chamber listening to his speech, President Obama embarrassed the court <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>directly and fiercely<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Not a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>peep<\/em><\/span> from Roberts. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Only Justice Samuel Alito quietly mouthed to himself \u201cno, no\u201d as Obama railed against foreign campaign contributions.<\/span> <em>Roberts has said <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nothing<\/span> about Obama\u2019s remarks in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">eight years since<\/span>.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>So why <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>did<\/em><\/span> Roberts attack President Trump on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Wednesday<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The chief justice was institutionally the wrong person to make his point in criticizing President Trump.<\/strong><\/span> If the point was to be made at all, it should have been made by the usual suspects: the American Bar Association, any well-known and respected lawyer, or a prominent media commentator or newspaper editorial page.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The candidates for attacking President Trump are numerous and inoffensive. Perhaps Roberts could have chosen his favorite Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>At any rate, he chose <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>none<\/em><\/span> of these options. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">One wonders <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>why<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Why <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>would<\/em><\/span> Roberts insert himself, <em>at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">this<\/span> time<\/em>, <em>in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">this<\/span> situation<\/em>, to attack President Trump? He is a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>very<\/em><\/span> smart man. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> an accident <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>or<\/em><\/span> a coincidence.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The plot thickens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Were we permitted to cross-examine Chief Justice Roberts, our first question, as suggested by the keenest of legal minds, one Daniel Francis Feeney, Esq., would be: &#8220;Your Dishonor, if judges are all the same, why did we just have a monumental dust-up over the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court?!?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Roberts would have us disregard what our <em>eyes <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">see<\/span><\/em> and our <em>ears <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">hear<\/span><\/em>, and <em>believe<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>him<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>despite<\/em><\/span> the decisions of the 9th Circuit Court having been overturned <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>79% of the time<\/em><\/span> in the period 2010-2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: when it <em>matters&#8230;when it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">really matters<\/span><\/em>\u00a0(as with Obamacare), you can count on Roberts being fully in the tank for whatever Progressives are promoting.\u00a0 Which is what makes the GOP&#8217;s increased margin of control in the Senate (Krysten Sinema for Jeff Flake being a wash!) coupled with Darth Ginsburg&#8217;s increasingly tenuous health all the more important.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Roberts: yet another reason we refer to the Bushes as the family that keeps on giving&#8230;giving <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>America<\/em><\/span> the <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">shaft<\/span><\/em>!\u00a0 Having them as a First Family is like winning a million bucks&#8230;which is then shoved up your kiester a nickel at a time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in the <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Environmental Moment<\/em><\/span>, courtesy today of Jeff Foutch and\u00a0<em>Watts Up With That<\/em>, David Middleton and Ann Gibbons inform us how&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u201c<a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2018\/11\/17\/scientists-determine-that-the-worst-year-in-human-history-was-536-ad\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Scientists\u201d Determine That the Worst Year in Human History Was\u2026536 AD<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/methode2Ftimes2Fprod2Fweb2Fbin2Faf4c3536-ec58-11e8-8888-d940336e3709.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64873\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/methode2Ftimes2Fprod2Fweb2Fbin2Faf4c3536-ec58-11e8-8888-d940336e3709.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/methode2Ftimes2Fprod2Fweb2Fbin2Faf4c3536-ec58-11e8-8888-d940336e3709.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/methode2Ftimes2Fprod2Fweb2Fbin2Faf4c3536-ec58-11e8-8888-d940336e3709-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;From [Ann Gibbons writing at] the American Association for the Advancement of\u00a0<em>Science!<\/em>\u00a0in America:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em>&#8220;Ask medieval historian Michael McCormick what year was the worst to be alive, and he\u2019s got an answer: \u201c536.\u201d <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1349<\/span>, when the Black Death wiped out half of Europe. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">Not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1918<\/span>, when the flu killed 50 million to 100 million people, mostly young adults.<\/span> But <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">536<\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>In Europe, \u201cIt was the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year,\u201d says McCormick, a historian and archaeologist who chairs the Harvard University Initiative for the Science of the Human Past.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>A mysterious fog plunged Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia into darkness, day and night\u2014for 18 months.<\/strong> <\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u201cFor the sun gave forth its light without brightness, like the moon, during the whole year,\u201d wrote Byzantine historian Procopius<span style=\"color: #008000;\">. Temperatures in the summer of 536 fell 1.5\u00b0C to 2.5\u00b0C, initiating the coldest decade in the past 2300 years.<\/span> Snow fell that summer in China; crops failed; people starved. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">The Irish chronicles record \u201ca failure of bread from the years 536\u2013539.\u201d<\/span> Then, in 541, bubonic plague struck the Roman port of Pelusium, in Egypt. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">What came to be called the Plague of Justinian spread rapidly, wiping out one-third to one-half of the population of the eastern Roman Empire and hastening its collapse, McCormick says.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"interstitial-container\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em>Historians have long known that the middle of the sixth century was a dark hour in what used to be called the Dark Ages, but the source of the mysterious clouds has long been a puzzle. Now, an ultraprecise analysis of ice from a Swiss glacier by a team led by McCormick and glaciologist Paul Mayewski at the Climate Change Institute of The University of Maine (UM) in Orono has fingered a culprit. <span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>At a workshop at Harvard this week, the team reported that a cataclysmic volcanic eruption in Iceland spewed ash across the Northern Hemisphere early in 536. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Two <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">other<\/span> massive eruptions followed, in 540 and 547.<\/span> The repeated blows, followed by plague, plunged Europe into economic stagnation that lasted until 640, when another signal in the ice\u2014a spike in airborne lead\u2014marks a resurgence of silver mining, as the team reports in\u00a0<cite>Antiquity<\/cite>\u00a0this week.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>It <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>doesn\u2019t seem possible<\/em><\/span> that the worst year to be alive didn\u2019t occur during the fake <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Anthropocene Epoch<\/em><\/span>, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Climate Hellscape<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>or<\/em><\/span> the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Trump administration<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #003300;\">How could the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>worst<\/em><\/span> year in human history have occurred <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>before ExxonMobil<\/em><\/span>?<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Before SUV\u2019s<\/em><\/span>? <span style=\"color: #003300;\">Way back when the climate was cooler and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0was safely below 300 ppmv<\/em><\/span>?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>But there you have it\u2026536 AD was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the pits<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>This raises the question, \u201cWould people have been better off dead in 536 AD?\u201d<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lDnS4pkmzis\" 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>Soooo&#8230;we have a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>little<\/em><\/span> time!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us, appropriately enough, to\u00a0<em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a 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https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/economy-ruined-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fishing-season.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64858\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fishing-season.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fishing-season.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fishing-season-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/afb112318dAPR20181122074505.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64862\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/afb112318dAPR20181122074505.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/afb112318dAPR20181122074505.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/afb112318dAPR20181122074505-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/liawatha.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64863\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/liawatha.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/liawatha.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/liawatha-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a 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https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Image-11-19-18-at-9.22-AM-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-1-6.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64850\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-1-6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-1-6.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-1-6-300x277.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-2-6.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64851\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-2-6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-2-6.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-2-6-300x267.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-3-5.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64852\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-3-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-3-5.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-3-5-300x240.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-10.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64853\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-10.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-10.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-10-252x300.jpeg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Monday, November 26th, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, Carnac the Magnificent has peered into the future&#8230; and&#8230; &#8216;We are not robots&#8217;: Thousands of Amazon workers across Europe are striking on Black Friday over warehouse working conditions &nbsp; &#8230;these lazy, ungrateful complaining clowns\u00a0ain&#8217;t in it! Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge! We lead off the last week of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64923","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=64923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64924,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64923\/revisions\/64924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}