{"id":64997,"date":"2018-11-29T17:58:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T22:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=64997"},"modified":"2018-11-29T17:58:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T22:58:14","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-november-28th-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=64997","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, November 28th, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Programming for This News Bulletin<\/em><\/span>:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/bethbaumann\/2018\/11\/27\/breaking-sen-cindy-hydesmith-wins-reelection-in-mississippi-runoff-election-n2536621\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith Wins Re-Election in Mississippi Runoff Election<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/cindy-hyde-smith-public-hanging.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64957\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/cindy-hyde-smith-public-hanging.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/cindy-hyde-smith-public-hanging.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/cindy-hyde-smith-public-hanging-300x221.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Her predilection for public hangings notwithstanding!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>We Now Resume Our Regularly Scheduled Broadcast<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, November 28th, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, we&#8217;re compelled to register several thoughts on a story we found <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>so wrong<\/em><\/span> on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>so many levels<\/em><\/span>:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/foxbaltimore.com\/news\/local\/4-damascus-jv-football-players-charged-as-adults-rape-broomstick-hazing\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008080; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">4 Damascus JV football players charged as adults with rape in alleged broomstick hazing<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5bf723acb9b19.image_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64916\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5bf723acb9b19.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5bf723acb9b19.image_.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5bf723acb9b19.image_-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Four Damascus High School junior varsity football players <em>accused of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">hazing<\/span> teammates<\/em> with a broomstick\u00a0will <em>be charged as adults with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">first degree rape<\/span><\/em>, according to authorities.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Montgomery County Public Schools released a statement Wednesday saying that the State\u2019s Attorney for Montgomery County was amending the charges for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Jean Claude &#8220;JC&#8221; Abedi, Kristian Lee, Will Smith and Caleb Thorpe<\/em><\/span>, who are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all 15 years old<\/em><\/span> and accused of\u00a0raping their fellow teammates on Halloween.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Sources confirm the five accused players <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>used a wooden broomstick to sodomize the victims<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong> <\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">The attacks, <em>which school administrators have called &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">upsetting and unacceptable<\/span><\/em>,&#8221; happened following afternoon dismissal in the boy&#8217;s locker room near the gymnasium.<\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"> The four victims <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>were picked<\/em><\/span>, <em>in part<\/em>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>based on their age and level of athleticism<\/em><\/span>, sources add<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In other words, their inability to resist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First, five amoral thugs forcibly violated four helpless young boys with a broom handle, and the harshest words school administrators could find to express their moral indignation were &#8220;upsetting and unacceptable&#8221;?!?\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Seriously<\/em><\/span>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Second, we find it hard to believe someone considered, <em>even for a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nanosecond<\/span><\/em>, calling such a depraved and heinous act mere <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>hazing<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 \u00a0When we were a freshman on the Navy varsity lacrosse team, a couple of the seniors pissed down our back in the showers after practice.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>That<\/em><\/span> was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>hazing<\/em><\/span>;\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>this<\/em><\/span> was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>felony rape and assault<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lastly, we were curious why, having revealed the names of those being charged as adults, none of the articles or videos featured photos of the perps, instead substituting generic silhouettes.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t take long to discover one rather obvious answer: meet Jean Claude &#8220;JC&#8221; Abedi&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Jean-Claude-Abedi.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-64917\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Jean-Claude-Abedi-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Jean-Claude-Abedi-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Jean-Claude-Abedi-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Jean-Claude-Abedi.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;Will Smith&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Will-Smith.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-64918\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Will-Smith-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Will-Smith-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Will-Smith-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Will-Smith.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and Caleb Thorpe:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Caleb-Thorpe.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-64919\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Caleb-Thorpe-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Caleb-Thorpe-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Caleb-Thorpe-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Caleb-Thorpe.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ve yet to discover a picture of Kristian Lee, but there&#8217;s little if any doubt he&#8217;ll exhibit the same, single characteristic shared by his three partners in crime.\u00a0 And if we, with our limited resources and lack of any search engine expertise, were able to determine the perps skin color, is it too much to expect the MSM to report their race?\u00a0 After all, had Masters Abedi, Lee, Smith and Thorpe been <em>White<\/em>, and their <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>victims<\/em><\/span> <em>Black<\/em>, is there any question the race of the rapists would have been the focus of every news report?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Besides, the race of the victims isn&#8217;t really important, as the crime committed likely had as much to do with racism as prison sodomy suggests homosexual tendencies.\u00a0 Both are displays of power, intimidation and domination over weaker individuals, as Mike Tyson so eloquently demonstrated:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hx66LWV-CCk\" 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>Sodomy was simply the means through which Abedi, Lee, Smith and Thorpe made the four innocent young athletes\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>their<\/em><\/span> b*tches.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: a lie of omission is still a lie; and the deliberate withholding of facts in a news report, however well-intentioned, is &#8220;fake news&#8221;.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And here&#8217;s yet another reason to distrust anything ever uttered by either Joe Scarborough or Mika Brzezinksi:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/morning-joe-hosts-joe-scarborough-mika-brzezinski-tie-the-knot\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The couple wed during an intimate ceremony at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a> <em>The nuptials were officiated by U.S. Rep. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\">Elijah Cummings<\/span>, D-Md<\/em>.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which just goes to prove you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>can<\/em><\/span> tell a lot about a person by the friends they keep!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we mentioned lies of omission and &#8220;fake news&#8221;, they&#8217;re the subject of the latest installment of Jim Geraghty&#8217;s <em>Morning Jolt<\/em>, as he details another example of the MSM&#8217;s decided double-standard:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Tear Gas on the Border: Okay When the Obama Administration Does It, Apparently<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nlx4r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64942\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nlx4r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nlx4r.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nlx4r-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>From the coverage of the Customs and Border Patrol <em>using tear gas<\/em>, one could easily be led to believe that this was an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unprecedented escalation in tactics from the Trump administration<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Nope<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><em>The same tear-gas agent that the Trump administration is taking heat for deploying against a border mob this weekend is actually used fairly frequently \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">including more than once a month during the later years of President\u00a0Barack Obama\u2019s administration<\/span>, according to Homeland Security data.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">U.S. Customs and Border Protection has used 2-chlorobenzylidene malononitrile, or CS, since 2010, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and deployed it 26 times in fiscal 2012 and 27 times in 2013<\/span>.<\/span> The use <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">dropped after that<\/span>, but was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">still<\/span> deployed <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">three times in 2016<\/span>,\u00a0Mr. Obama\u2019s final full year in office.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Use of CS rose again in fiscal 2017, which was split between\u00a0Mr. Obama\u00a0and Mr. Trump, and reached 29 deployments in fiscal 2018, which ended two months ago, according to CBP data seen by The Washington Times.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Border authorities also use another agent, pepper spray, frequently \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">including a decade-high record of 151 instances in 2013, also under\u00a0Mr. Obama<\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> Pepper spray, officially known as Pava Capsaicin, was used 43 times in fiscal year 2018, according to the CBP numbers.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>A recent\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2018\/11\/26\/why-tear-gas-lobbed-migrants-southern-border-is-banned-warfare\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.83f464af29fe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">article<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>about the use of tear gas by the Border Patrol talks a lot about the Chemical Weapons Convention, the use of poison gas in World War I, and Saddam Hussein\u2019s use of chemical weapons \u2014 <em>as if <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">any<\/span> of that is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">comparable to the use of tear gas<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The Chemical Weapons Convention<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/ihl-databases.icrc.org\/customary-ihl\/eng\/docs\/v2_rul_rule75\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explicitly says<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>, \u201cRiot control agents <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>may not<\/em><\/span> be used <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>as a method of warfare<\/em><\/span> but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>may<\/em><\/span> be used <em>for certain law enforcement purposes <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">including riot control<\/span><\/em>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In 2008, the\u00a0<span class=\"small_caps\">National Review<\/span>\u00a0crew was in Saint Paul, Minn., covering the Republican National Convention.\u00a0Mark Hemingway\u00a0and I were on our way to tape a\u00a0\u201cRed Meat\u201d video\u00a0\u2014 remember those? \u2014 when we encountered a clash\u00a0between protesters and police in riot gear. Police fired tear gas to disperse the protesters and then&#8230;the wind shifted.<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> Those of us watching the clash from what we thought was a safe distance away found ourselves with watery eyes and burning nostrils.<\/span> (If you feel the need to simulate the experience, find your nearest pepper shaker, remove the cap, hold it right up against your nostril, and inhale deeply.)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>It\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unpleasant<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>As we or any other Midshipman who completed fire fighting training can attest; though we experienced it in a far more concentrated form than Mr. Geraghty.<\/em>)<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333399;\">But if <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>this<\/em><\/span> tool is unacceptable for dispersing crowds, what tool <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span> acceptable?<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Rubber bullets can kill people in the wrong circumstances. Water cannons evoke images of the violent crackdown on civil-rights protests. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>aim<\/em><\/span> is to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>avoid physical confrontation<\/em><\/span> between police and the rioters <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>as much as possible<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">FactCheck.org\u00a0examined the use of tear gas after the Ferguson protests in 2014:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p>\u201c<em><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>There are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">few immediate alternatives to tear gas for riot control<\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> There are strategies to prevent riots, including better community relations, a less militaristic appearance, and improved training, all of which have been raised in relation to Ferguson. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>But once rioting is under way, police need tools to control it \u2014 and \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">even though tear gas is far from perfect<\/span>,\u201d said David A. Koplow, a Georgetown University law professor, \u201cit continues to be used in that role <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">because there\u2019s nothing else better<\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The current effort to demonize the use of tear gas is offered by folks who don\u2019t really want to see crowds of migrants rushing the border stopped<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>That last sentence bears repeating:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The current effort to demonize the use of tear gas is offered by folks who don\u2019t really want to see crowds of migrants rushing the border stopped<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DYNLlQzXcAADraV.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64943\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DYNLlQzXcAADraV.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DYNLlQzXcAADraV.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DYNLlQzXcAADraV-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item from an earlier edition of the <em>Morning Jolt<\/em>, Geraghty<i>\u00a0<\/i>asks what inquiring minds want to know:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/the-morning-jolt-cyber-monday-shopping-guide\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Since When Do Migrant Caravans Make \u2018Shows of Force<\/span><\/a>\u2019?<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Image-11-26-18-at-8.56-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64903\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Image-11-26-18-at-8.56-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Image-11-26-18-at-8.56-AM.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Image-11-26-18-at-8.56-AM-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>AP headline: \u201cCaravan marches toward US border <em>in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">show of force<\/span><\/em>.\u201d <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">If you\u2019re a migrant, you\u2019re not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>supposed<\/em><\/span> to be showing \u201cforce\u201d, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>are you<\/em><\/span>?<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Just what exactly are you attempting to \u201cforce\u201d<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The whole mess amounted to a vivid live demonstration of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>why<\/em><\/span> the United States <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>needs<\/em><\/span> a secure border, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and why publicity stunts like the caravan undermine the cause of legal immigration<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">If you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>really<\/em><\/span> want to become an American, you don\u2019t <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>sneak<\/em><\/span> inside the country.<\/span> If you\u2019re <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>really<\/em><\/span> claiming asylum, you don\u2019t <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>run away<\/em><\/span> from the law-enforcement officials of the country that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>can grant asylum<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>And if you\u2019re throwing rocks and bottles at law enforcement officers, you\u2019re not the kind of person we want to let into the country<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>As ugly as the scene <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>was<\/em><\/span>, it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>could<\/em><\/span> have been <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>much worse<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>Clashes erupted at the U.S.-Mexico border Sunday as members of the migrant caravan tried to cross illegally, leading to a closure of the San Ysidro checkpoint and two San Diego County freeways.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Customs and Border Protection confirmed Sunday night that there were multiple instances of people throwing projectiles at CBP personnel, including Border Patrol agents hit with rocks.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>CBP officers used crowd-dispersing methods including pepper balls and CS canisters.<\/strong><\/span> There were no reports of injuries, officials said. Fumes from the tear gas\u00a0were blown toward people who were hundreds of feet away and not attempting to enter the U.S., the Associated Press reported.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAs the demonstrations on the Mexican side reached the border area, some members of the demonstration split off to head towards multiple locations along the border. Some attempted to enter the U.S. both directly east and west of the border crossing. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>These\u00a0attempts to illegally enter the U.S., and the response to them continue. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Some attempted to illegally enter the U.S. through both the northbound and southbound vehicle lanes at the port of entry itself.<\/span> Those persons were stopped and turned back to Mexico,\u201d CBP said in a statement.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The U.S. Border Patrol also made apprehensions of people who tried to enter the U.S. illegally, including in the vehicle lanes of the border crossing, according to CBP officials.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0The Mexican Interior Ministry has said it would immediately deport Central American migrants who tried to \u201cviolently\u201d breach the border with the U.S. just south of California and that it would reinforce the border.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/04\/30\/us\/migrant-caravan-myths-debunked\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>Back in April we were told<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>by places such as CNN that it was a \u201cmyth\u201d that caravans of migrants sought to enter the country illegally; that they merely wanted to apply for asylum; and that \u201cas asylum seekers, these migrants are\u00a0turning themselves in to authorities at the border and trying to start the formal process of getting protected status.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>See, if you\u2019re trying to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>run across the border<\/em><\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">away<em> from the border patrol<\/em><\/span>,\u00a0<em>you\u2019re <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not here to apply for asylum<\/span>.<\/em><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>But this is the Bizarro World of contemporary Progressivism; where&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/06-consignas-del-partido.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64948\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/06-consignas-del-partido.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/06-consignas-del-partido.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/06-consignas-del-partido-300x142.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And asylum-seekers pelt their would-be hosts with rocks and bottles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of lies and the liars who tell them, in a follow-up to an earlier item, <em>Townhall.com<\/em>&#8216;s Kurt Schlichter relates why&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2018\/11\/26\/trump-is-right-about-judges-and-roberts-is-in-denial-n2536434\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Trump is Right About Judges And Roberts Is In Denial<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nlxlw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64945\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nlxlw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nlxlw.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2nlxlw-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Call it an \u201caspirational lie,\u201d the kind of lie that an establishment-type tells you that is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>manifestly, obviously, what-the-hell-are-you-kidding-me false<\/em><\/span>, but he\/she\/xe tells it to you anyway because he\/she\/xe really really <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>really<\/em> <em>wants it to be true<\/em><\/span> and because he\/she\/xe does not want to admit that his\/her\/xir institution is broken.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Take Justice John Souter Roberts\u2019s<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/scottmorefield\/2018\/11\/23\/is-john-roberts-clash-with-trump-an-ominous-warning-of-things-to-come-n2536395\">astonishingly untrue statement from last week<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\u201c<em>We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. That independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Every word<\/em><\/span> of this is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>blatantly false<\/em><\/span>, and the punctuation is pretty deceptive too. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">If <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>you<\/em><\/span> dished out such a dog\u2019s breakfast of bogus clich\u00e9s to one of those vaunted jurists he refers to during an oral argument, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>you\u2019d have a bad day<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> And you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>should<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>But the worst part is how\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>transparently<\/em><\/span>\u00a0false it is, <em>how<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>indisputably and insultingly incorrect it is, how in-your-face-daring-you-to-not-burst-into-laughter wrong it is<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Didn\u2019t we just have a national mudwrestling match over a justice Donald Trump appointed?<\/span> Was it because everyone was really concerned about Kegger Kavanaugh\u2019s high school antics, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>or was it the fact that he would be a Trump judge<\/em><\/span>? <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Are liberal weirdos offering Ruth Bader Ginsberg their ribs for transplantation because there is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no such thing as a Clinton judge<\/em><\/span>?<\/span>\u00a0<i class=\"fa fa-arrow-circle-right\"><\/i><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Everyone <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>knows<\/em><\/span> the truth<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>That\u2019s not how things are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>supposed<\/em><\/span> to work, but that\u2019s how things <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>do<\/em><\/span> work today \u2013 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and it\u2019s indisputable that it correlates with who appointed the offending judges<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> That\u2019s what John Roberts should be focusing one, the utter failure of his beloved institution to perform its duties at even the minimal standard of dedication to the principles it supposedly enshrines and from which it derives its deteriorating legitimacy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Instead of speaking the painful the truth<\/em><\/span>, Chief Justice Roberts chose to attack the one guy who was telling it like every single one of us <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>know<\/em><\/span> it is.<\/span> Instead of calling on his robed solons to do the hard work of applying the law and not their personal policy preferences, Chief Justice Roberts compounded the problem that is undermining the judiciary.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Getting mad at Trump (and, by extension, the half of America that supports him) for pointing out that the judge has no robe is the most establishment thing ever. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">John Roberts thinks pushing pretty falsehoods is going to save his institution.<\/span> He\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>wrong<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">His <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>aspirational lie<\/em><\/span> and his <em>sadly all-too-typical <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">elite refusal to confront the bitter reality that his institution has utterly failed to do its job<\/span> will do exponentially more damage to the judiciary than a million Donald Trumps <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ever<\/span> could.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>While we understand and appreciate Kurt&#8217;s point, we would respectfully disagree in one respect: the only certainty which accompanies the nomination of a given SCOTUS justice is the judicial activism inherent in the nominee of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">any<\/span> Dimocratic President.\u00a0 Think about it: can you name a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>single Liberal jurist<\/em><\/span> who&#8217;s grown <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>more Conservative<\/em><\/span> as a member of the Highest Court in the Land?\u00a0 Neither can we.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the other hand, history is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>replete<\/em><\/span> with disappointing examples of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Republican picks<\/em><\/span> who, after being seated, treated the Constitution not as the Law of the Land, but rather a lump of clay subject to reforming by the political pressures of the moment (See, &#8220;Stevens, John Paul&#8221;, &#8220;O&#8217;Connor, Sandra Day&#8221;, &#8220;Kennedy, Anthony M.&#8221;, &#8220;Souter, David H.&#8221; and &#8220;Roberts, John G.&#8221;).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Yes, the federal court system <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span> broken&#8230;the federal judiciary <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span> biased; and Trump is right, and Roberts wrong.\u00a0 But not solely because of the political affiliation of the President who appointed them.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Turning now to\u00a0<em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/cornucopia.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64937\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/cornucopia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/cornucopia.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/cornucopia-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sk112518dAPR20181121104505.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64944\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sk112518dAPR20181121104505.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sk112518dAPR20181121104505.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sk112518dAPR20181121104505-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/huddled-masses.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64938\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/huddled-masses.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/huddled-masses.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/huddled-masses-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mle181127c20181127014325.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64939\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mle181127c20181127014325.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mle181127c20181127014325.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mle181127c20181127014325-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gv112518dAPR20181126024914.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64940\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gv112518dAPR20181126024914.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gv112518dAPR20181126024914.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gv112518dAPR20181126024914-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Califorinia.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64909\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Califorinia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Califorinia.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Califorinia-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/afb112618dAPR20181126074506.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64933\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/afb112618dAPR20181126074506.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/afb112618dAPR20181126074506.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/afb112618dAPR20181126074506-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Anti-termite20181127125350.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64934\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Anti-termite20181127125350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Anti-termite20181127125350.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Anti-termite20181127125350-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/cb112418dAPR20181123064508.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64936\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/cb112418dAPR20181123064508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/cb112418dAPR20181123064508.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/cb112418dAPR20181123064508-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image001-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64931\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image001-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image001-2.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image001-2-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Image-11-27-18-at-9.00-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64932\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Image-11-27-18-at-9.00-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Image-11-27-18-at-9.00-AM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Image-11-27-18-at-9.00-AM-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-1-7.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64904\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-1-7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-1-7.jpeg 452w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-1-7-253x300.jpeg 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-2-7.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64905\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-2-7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-2-7.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-2-7-300x277.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-3-6.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64906\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-3-6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-3-6.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-3-6-260x300.jpeg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-11.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64907\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-11.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-11.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-11-300x278.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a day with yet another titillating tale torn from the pages of <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The Crime Blotter<\/em><\/span>, and this just in from the Sunshine State:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thesmokinggun.com\/documents\/drunk\/florida-woman-arrested-again-184906\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\">Cops: Woman Battered Man Over Rejection<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"http:\/\/thesmokinggun.com\/documents\/drunk\/florida-woman-arrested-again-184906\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Second time Floridian, 31, busted after sex advances were spurned<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rebeccalynnphelps18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-64911\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rebeccalynnphelps18-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rebeccalynnphelps18-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rebeccalynnphelps18.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>A Florida Woman <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>battered her boyfriend after he \u201csaid no and went back to bed\u201d after she \u201cgrabbed his genitals\u00a0wanting to have sex\u201d on Thanksgiving night<\/em><\/span>, cops say.<\/strong> <\/span>Rebecca Lynn Phelps, 31, was arrested for\u00a0domestic battery\u00a0following a confrontation in the Tampa-area home she shares with the victim and the couple\u2019s child.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Phelps\u2019s arrest was the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>second time in 14 months<\/em><\/span> that she was busted for allegedly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>battering a man who did not want to have sex with her<\/em><\/span>, records show<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We can only hope, for sake of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>next<\/em><\/span> object of Phelps&#8217; desire, the third time&#8217;s the charm!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Programming for This News Bulletin:\u00a0 Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith Wins Re-Election in Mississippi Runoff Election &nbsp; Her predilection for public hangings notwithstanding! We Now Resume Our Regularly Scheduled Broadcast. It&#8217;s Wednesday, November 28th, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, we&#8217;re compelled to register several thoughts on a story we found so wrong on [&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-64997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64997","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=64997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64998,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64997\/revisions\/64998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}