{"id":66740,"date":"2019-01-31T18:28:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T23:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=66740"},"modified":"2019-01-31T18:28:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T23:28:43","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-january-30th-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=66740","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, January 30th, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, January 30th, 2019&#8230;but before we begin, why would a little thing like\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/andrew-gillum-defeated-florida-candidate-joining-cnn-as-political-commentator-amid-renewed-ethics-problems\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>repeated ethics violations<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0cause CNN to reconsider&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Gillum.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66648\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Gillum.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Gillum.png 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Gillum-300x255.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;hiring another paragon of Progressive virtue?!?\u00a0 Guess they couldn&#8217;t lure &#8220;Reverend&#8221; Al away from MSDNC.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of the judgmentally-challenged, as <em>FOX News<\/em> reports&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/meghan-mccain-says-she-no-longer-calls-herself-a-republican-cites-trumps-influence-on-the-party\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Meghan McCain says she no longer calls herself a Republican, cites Trump\u2019s influence on party<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mccain.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66652\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mccain.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mccain.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mccain-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What a coincidence: Meghan&#8217;s father left a similarly bad taste in many a Conservative mouth!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in a related item of self-sanctimony forwarded by Bill Meisen,\u00a0<em>CNN<\/em>\u00a0informs us how&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"pg-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/25\/americas\/pope-walls-panama\/index.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">In apparent shot at Trump, Pope says &#8216;builders of walls&#8217; sow fear and divide<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2sd4w9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66653\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2sd4w9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2sd4w9.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2sd4w9-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Said he who lives behind a massive wall and 24\/7 armed security.\u00a0 Inquiring minds are also left wondering, if the &#8220;<em>builders of walls<\/em>&#8221; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>sow fear and divide<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>what<\/em><\/span> do the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>protectors of pedophiles promote<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just askin&#8217;!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Goug<\/em>e!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We lead off the mid-week edition with <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em>The Wrath of Trump: Part Ad Infinitum, Ad Nauseam<\/em><\/span>, as<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<em>CNBC<\/em>\u00a0reports via <em>Drudge<\/em>, The Donald has lashed out again:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/01\/28\/trump-former-starbucks-ceo-howard-schultz-doesnt-have-the-guts-to-run-for-president.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008080; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #339966; text-decoration: underline;\">Trump: Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz doesn&#8217;t have the &#8216;guts&#8217; to run for president<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/trump.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66626\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/trump.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/trump.png 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/trump-300x135.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two thoughts: first, Holy reverse psychology, Batman!\u00a0 Trump&#8217;s tweet carries all the sincerity of Br&#8217;er Rabbit pleading with Br&#8217;er Fox:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v9oWq9zIXTY\" 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>Second, though unintentionally so, for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>once<\/em><\/span> Trump&#8217;s tweet was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>right<\/em><\/span>: America <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>already does<\/em><\/span>\u00a0have &#8220;not the smartest person&#8221; as President.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, it didn&#8217;t take The Left long to register its condemnation of a former Progressive icon who threatens The Donald&#8217;s 2020 defeat:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HRht5syYKUo\" 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>As opposed to all the other egotistical a*sholes already in the Dimocratic field.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of egotistical a*sholes, one&#8217;s the subject of Jim Geraghty&#8217;s <em>Morning Jolt<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/kamala-harriss-history-of-jailing-parents-of-truants\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">Kamala Harris 2020: You Can\u2019t Keep Your Plan, Your Car Is Banned, and If Your Kids Miss Class I\u2019m Sending You to Jail<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kamala.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66392\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kamala.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kamala.png 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kamala-300x139.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Last night, presidential candidate Kamala Harris participated in a town hall with CNN and announced that she wanted a Medicare-for-all plan that would eliminate all forms of private insurance. (If you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>like<\/em><\/span> your plan&#8230;you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>can\u2019t keep<\/em><\/span> your plan.)<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">She said she supports the Green New Deal \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no follow up questions on<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/the-not-so-pretty-fine-print-of-the-green-new-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banning private ownership of cars, banning internal-combustion engines entirely, and cutting the military in half<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Also last night, Twitter started buzzing about an\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WillisJermane\/status\/1089983025713213440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1089983025713213440&amp;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theamericanmirror.com%2F2010-kamala-harris-laughed-about-jailing-parents-over-truant-children%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">old video of Harris<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0talking about her decision to start prosecuting parents for the truancy of their children.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I believe a child going without an education is tantamount to a crime.<\/span> So, I decided I was going to start prosecuting parents for truancy.<\/strong><\/span> Well, this was a little controversial in San Francisco! (laughs) Frankly, my staff went bananas. They were very concerned, at the time, we didn\u2019t know at the time whether I was going to have an opponent in my reelection race. I said, look I\u2019m done. This is a serious issue, and I\u2019ve got a little political capital, and I\u2019m going to spend some of it. And this is what we did. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">We recognized, as a prosecutor in law enforcement, I have a huge stick.<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>(<\/strong><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Who does she think she is: Willie Brown?!?<\/strong><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>)<\/strong><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The school system has got a carrot.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Let\u2019s work in tandem around our collective objective and goal, which is to get those kids in school.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Maybe there\u2019s something in the water out here in Indian Wells, but am I soft on crime if I think a situation of a student\u2019s chronic truancy probably needs a social worker, and not the state AG or local DA threatening to put the parents in jail?<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>How much teen truancy occurs <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">with parental consent<\/span><\/em>?<\/strong><\/span> How many parents of truant kids are dealing with some other significant issue \u2014 drug use, an absent parent, financial pressures, unusual working hours, or some other complication that enables the truancy? In the above video, Harris gleefully tells a story of a parent \u201cfreaking out\u201d upon receiving the letter announcing the policy. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Does <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<em>sound like reassuring law-enforcement judgment <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to you<\/span><\/em>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>We\u2019re in an era during which we\u2019re <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>decriminalizing<\/em><\/span> some drug offenses, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>repealing<\/em><\/span> mandatory minimums, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>giving prosecutors and judges more discretion<\/em><\/span>&#8230;and of course, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Kamala Harris has never encountered an illegal immigrant she wanted to deport in a state full of sanctuary cities<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">But <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>we\u2019re going to throw parents of truant kids in prison<\/em><\/span>?<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>This<\/em><\/span> is where we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>get tough<\/em><\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>lock \u2018em up<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><i>\u201cI believe a child going without an education is tantamount to a crime.\u201d\u00a0<\/i><span style=\"color: #800080;\">That sounds <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>really good as an applause line in a speech<\/em><\/span>, but \u201ccrime\u201d should not become a synonym for \u201csomething bad\u201d or \u201csomething tragic\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in the minds of prosecutors<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Because <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not every<\/em><\/span> bad situation <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>can be resolved by putting somebody in jail<\/em><\/span> \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>particularly putting parents in jail in order to resolve a family problem<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>But hey, if you like Harris\u2019s views on jailing parents of truants,<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/01\/kamala-harris-life-career-california-senator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wait until you hear her views on civil-asset forfeiture<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wait, did someone mention asset forfeiture?\u00a0 In what the great <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/01\/progressive-politics-abolish-ice-tax-increases-free-college\/\">VDH describes as the Progressive race to the bottom<\/a><\/em><\/span>, a contest between Dimocratic presidential wanna-bes seeking to out-Socialist each other in the run-up to 2020, <em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Kevin Williamson details the meaning behind Lizzie Warren&#8217;s latest proposal:<\/strong><\/p>\n<header class=\"article-header article-header--full\" data-component=\"articleHeader\">\n<div class=\"article-header__inner\">\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/01\/elizabeth-warren-tax-plan-is-asset-forfeiture\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">The Kulaks Must Be Liquidated as a Class<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/01\/elizabeth-warren-tax-plan-is-asset-forfeiture\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Elizabeth Warren is not proposing a tax; she\u2019s proposing asset forfeiture<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #333399;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/warren-china.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66670\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/warren-china.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/warren-china.jpg 386w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/warren-china-259x300.jpg 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Revolutions do not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>set out<\/em><\/span> to be awful. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>usually<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> They just <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>end up that way<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>When the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>many of them<\/em><\/span> wanted to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>prohibit capital punishment<\/em><\/span>, which they saw as a high-handed czarist institution.<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> V. I. Lenin <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>overruled them<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> \u201c<em>How can you make a revolution <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">without executions<\/span><\/em>?\u201d he asked. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>key<\/em><\/span> to revolution <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in his mind<\/em><\/span> \u2014 and in those of his revolutionary antecedents and descendants \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>was terror<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> \u201cWe shall <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>return<\/em><em> to terror<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800080;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em> to economic terror<\/em><\/span>,\u201d he promised, <em>in a revolution of \u201cunrestricted power <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">based on force<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not law<\/span><\/em>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Senator Warren apparently has found her guiding spirit and has announced along with her presidential campaign a campaign of economic terror <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>based on force<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not law<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Specifically, she has proposed to begin seizing a portion of the\u00a0<em>assets<\/em>\u00a0of some wealthy Americans, <em>a course of action that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the federal government has no constitutional power to undertake<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> The seizure of assets is a fundamentally different thing from the taxation of income, which <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>itself<\/em><\/span> took a constitutional amendment to implement. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">What Warren is proposing is essentially a federal version of the hated asset-forfeiture programs that have been so much abused by law-enforcement agencies \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>minus the allegation of criminal misconduct and made universal and annual<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>The senator is in a bit of a panic: She hadn\u2019t expected to face a challenge from her left in her quest for the Democratic nomination, <em>but as her entire party lurches in a\u00a0ch\u00e1vista\u00a0direction, she has been forced to go <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">one step farther<\/span> lest she fall into the \u201cmoderate\u201d class, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">whose members almost certainly will be slaughtered in the 2020 Democratic primary<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">And so she proposes this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ridiculous and illegal<\/em><\/span> course of action.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>She <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>may not be<\/em><\/span> the radical she <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>pretends to be<\/em><\/span>, but Senator Warren <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>has pretended to be a lot of things<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong> <strong>A Cherokee, for one, which is good for a laugh, but perhaps not the worst of it. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Her longing for fame \u2014 and money and power \u2014 is impossible to miss.<\/span> She spent a period trying to launch a career as a writer of dopey self-help books (<em>The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan<\/em>!) and then tried on the costume of a Lou Dobbs-style populist China hawk, and even in her scourge-of-Wall-Street incarnation, she couldn\u2019t help cribbing from Margaret Thatcher in pandering to Dobbs, then at CNN: \u201cOne of the problems with spending money in this way is that at some point we really do run out of money.\u201d <span style=\"color: #333399;\">She boasted that her little bureaucratic fiefdom \u2014 the Congressional Oversight Panel \u2014 was called \u201cCOP.\u201d<\/span> Her \u201cprofessor of color\u201d act got her a couple of cushy academic postings <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> a net worth of a few million dollars. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">I covered her Senate race against Scott Brown and watched her doing a pretty poor impersonation of an Irish-American ward-heeler in Boston, clapping along awkwardly to \u201cCharlie on the M.T.A.\u201d like some animatronic Muldoon.<\/span> <em>If she has to pretend to be Hugo Ch\u00e1vez, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">it won\u2019t be her first act of cultural appropriation<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">And <em>the recipe book <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">should<\/span> be a hoot<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Funny thing about Senator Warren\u2019s asset-forfeiture scheme. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Like many similar proposals, it probably would not raise much revenue and might in fact leave the country as a whole economically worse off.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>And the people advising Senator Warren on that are perfectly content with that outcome<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>because<\/em><\/span>, as Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman argue in the case of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s proposal to radically increase income taxes, <em>this is to be understood <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not as an economic question<\/span> but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">as a moral one<\/span><\/em>: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It is simply morally obligatory to hurt wealthy people<\/em><\/span>.<span style=\"color: #333399;\"> \u201cThe point of high top marginal income tax rates is to constrain the immoderate, <em>and especially <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">unmerited<\/span><\/em>, accumulation of riches,\u201d they write.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>And <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">who gets to decide<\/span> what\u2019s merited and what\u2019s unmerited<\/em>? <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>What are the chances<\/em><\/span> that, say, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Senator Warren\u2019s<\/em><\/span> modest millions or her multimillion-dollar home <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">are deemed \u201cunmerited\u201d<\/span><\/em>?<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>What decides<\/em><\/span>, of course, is \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unrestricted power based on force, not law<\/em><\/span>,\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>because the law cannot substantially answer that kind of question but can only instead encode the desires of people with power<\/em><\/span>, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">which is what Senator Warren<\/span> is seeking <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">more<\/span> of<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><em>Again<\/em>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>we have been here before<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tssvl-ejoz4\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><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;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>When the socialist schemes of Joseph Stalin et al. foundered, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>they blamed the \u201ckulaks<\/em><\/span>,\u201d i.e. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>those who had enjoyed the \u201cunmerited accumulation of riches<\/em><\/span>.\u201d <span style=\"color: #333399;\">There was never any real definition of a \u201ckulak.\u201d<\/span> Basically, if <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>you<\/em><\/span> had <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>one cow<\/em><\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>your neighbor<\/em><\/span> had <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>two<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he<\/em><\/span> was a kulak. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Stalin announced the \u201cliquidation of the kulaks as a class\u201d as a necessary precondition for the progress of his program, <em>which was<\/em>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>like Kamala Harris<\/em><\/span>, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>for the people<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/span> Dekulakization (\u0440\u0430\u0441\u043a\u0443\u043b\u0430\u0447\u0438\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0435) was responsible for the deaths of about 5 million subjects of the workers\u2019 paradise. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">This was necessary, the socialists argued, because the kulaks dominated the political party system (\u201cfor the rich, wealth begets power,\u201d Zucman writes), because expropriating their wealth was necessary to fund benefits for the people (\u201cThe affluent,\u201d Saez and Zucman write, \u201ccan contribute more to the public coffers.<\/span> And given the revenue needs of the country, it is necessary\u201d), because the kulaks were hoarders (under the headline \u201cElizabeth Warren is trying to save capitalism from itself,\u201d David Atkins of\u00a0<em>Washington Monthly\u00a0<\/em>decries the \u201cartificial lack of resources caused by the looting and hoarding of the obscenely wealthy\u201d), etc.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>But do our modern progressives really propose to liquidate these \u201choarders\u201d as a class?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Saez and Zucman write hopefully of the prospect that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>high tax rates would make the class of people with larger incomes<\/em><\/span> \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>largely disappear<\/em><\/span>.\u201d <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>Representative Ocasio-Cortez declares it \u201cimmoral\u201d that we have a \u201csystem that allows\u00a0billionaires\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to exist<\/span><\/em>.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>Is it any wonder <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/427364-some-dems-float-idea-of-primary-challenge-for-ocasio-cortez\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\">some Dimocrats are floating the idea of sponsoring a primary opponent to this buffoon in 2020<\/span><\/a>?!?<\/em>)<\/span>\u00a0Marshall Steinbaum, the research director of the progressive Roosevelt Institute, wrote: \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It\u2019s increasingly clear that having wealthy people around is a luxury our society can no longer afford<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">And, so, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>here we are again<\/em><\/span>: The kulaks <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>must be liquidated as a class<\/em><\/span>. <\/span>But <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>who is a kulak<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">We might glean some insight into that from the progressives\u2019 thinking in the recent free-speech debates, which goes something like this: \u201c<em>We\u2019re <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all<\/span> in favor of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">free speech<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">but Nazis should be chased from the public square, by violence if necessary, and we should harass their employers in order to ruin them financially<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Also<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>everybody who disagrees with me is a Nazi, including children wearing hats that I don\u2019t like<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>You may not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">feel<\/span> like a kulak<\/em>.<\/span> You may <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>take comfort in hearing<\/em><\/span> that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only the \u201ctippy-top\u201d wealthiest people are to be expropriated in the name of social justice<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Those children at Covington Catholic probably didn\u2019t think they were Nazis a week ago, either<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>History is short, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>if you look at it with the right kind of eyes<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Some of you might want to consider looking from Zurich or Singapore<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hey, what&#8217;s 100,000,000 or 150,000,000 million dead compared with the realization of the ultimate Socialist utopia: Libert\u00e9, Egalit\u00e9 and Fraternit\u00e9.\u00a0 The necessity for mass executions&#8230; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Os4qyjPI-QM?start=44\" 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>&#8230;notwithstanding.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up, writing at <em>NRO<\/em>, David French rightly wonders whether rumors of a rapprochement with as evil and repressive a regime as has ever existed signify&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<header class=\"article-header article-header--full\" data-component=\"articleHeader\">\n<div class=\"article-header__inner\">\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/01\/retreat-in-our-time\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-01-29&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Retreat in Our Time<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #333399;\">?<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\" style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/01\/retreat-in-our-time\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-01-29&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">It\u2019s vital to understand that peace does not necessarily require withdrawal<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/taliban-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66668\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/taliban-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/taliban-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/taliban-1-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;Y<\/span>esterday afternoon brought some\u00a0surprise news. American and Taliban negotiators have apparently \u201cagreed in principle\u201d to a \u201cframework of a deal\u201d with the Taliban, a deal that could ultimately lead to an American withdrawal after more than 17 years of war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Could we be seeing an end to the \u201cforever war\u201d? <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Is peace (possibly) at hand?<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Or would a deal represent nothing more than a dangerous retreat by a dispirited nation in the face of emboldened and energized enemies<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>To answer the question, let\u2019s look at the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>details<\/em><\/span> of the potential agreement.<\/strong><\/span> <strong>They\u2019re admittedly sketchy, and a final deal could look better, <em>but if we\u2019re seeing the outlines of the Trump administration\u2019s plan, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">we\u2019re seeing the outlines of a desperate, gullible deal<\/span> \u2014 one that will make America <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">far less secure<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>even if the Americans reach the agreement outlined by their own negotiator, <em>we would be entering into <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a fool\u2019s bargain with a ruthless enemy<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>How<\/em><\/span> would it be problematic?<\/span> Let us <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>count the ways<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>It\u2019s vital to understand that\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>peace does not necessarily require withdrawal<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">In fact, <em>American troops have often been <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">indispensable to keeping the peace after our worst wars<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> And <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">as costly<\/span> as those forward deployments <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">are<\/span><\/em>, they are <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">far, far less costly than renewed combat<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Keeping an American military force in Iraq in 2011 would have been far less costly than the city-destroying urban battles we\u2019ve seen since America was forced to reengage in 2014.<\/span> Keeping an American military force in South Korea has been far less costly than the likely catastrophe of a second Korean War.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>No deal with the Taliban<\/em><\/span> should depend on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>trusting the Taliban<\/em><\/span> to defeat the terrorists who seek to strike us here at home.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>No deal with the Taliban<\/em><\/span> should <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>leave our allies at the mercy of the Taliban<\/em><\/span>.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> If that means <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no deal with the Taliban<\/em><\/span>, then <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>so be it<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> If <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>they<\/em><em> want to commit to perpetual warfare<\/em><\/span>, then they should understand that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>our nation has the will for perpetual self-defense<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sorry, but anyone who&#8217;d trust the Taliban to keep a promise shouldn&#8217;t be in a position of power in the first place.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us to\u00a0<em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/afb012819dAPR20190128024518.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66657\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/afb012819dAPR20190128024518.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/afb012819dAPR20190128024518.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/afb012819dAPR20190128024518-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG-412620190126072047.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66658\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG-412620190126072047.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG-412620190126072047.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG-412620190126072047-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/afb012919dAPR20190129054507.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66659\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/afb012919dAPR20190129054507.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/afb012919dAPR20190129054507.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/afb012919dAPR20190129054507-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/sk012719dAPR20190124114603.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66663\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/sk012719dAPR20190124114603.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/sk012719dAPR20190124114603.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/sk012719dAPR20190124114603-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/liars.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" 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https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/download-16-300x229.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a day with the Francesco Quinn Memorial&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7k2d5q1I468?start=8\" 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>&#8230;segment, as we learn how the&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/captain-in-nepal-plane-crash-suffered-emotional-breakdown-report\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Captain in Nepal plane crash suffered \u2018emotional breakdown<\/span><\/a>\u2019<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2s81b5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66624\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2s81b5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2s81b5.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2s81b5-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;Reuters\u00a0reported\u00a0that <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Nepal\u2019s Accident Investigation Commission said in a report that <\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\">t<\/span>he pilot became \u201cemotionally disturbed\u201d during the flight because he thought that a female colleague questioned his ability as an instructor<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>This<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>together with the failure on the part of both the crew to follow the standard operating procedure at the critical stage of the flight, contributed to the loss of situational awareness<\/em><\/span>,&#8221; the report said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The report <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>also said<\/em><\/span> the pilot <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>had been released from the Bangladesh Air Force in 1993 due to depression<\/em><\/span> and was only allowed to fly civilian planes from 2002 after a detailed medical evaluation.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The flight crew and the controllers <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>also lacked<\/em><\/span> a clear understanding of each other when they communicated about the landing runway, the report said<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Holy &#8220;Other than <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span>, how&#8217;d you enjoy the play, Mrs. Lincoln?&#8221;, Batman!\u00a0 Yet another reason, outside of <em>British Airways<\/em>, <em>El Al<\/em> or perhaps <em>KLM<\/em>, we&#8217;ll <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never<\/em><\/span> fly a non-American carrier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Wednesday, January 30th, 2019&#8230;but before we begin, why would a little thing like\u00a0repeated ethics violations\u00a0cause CNN to reconsider&#8230; &#8230;hiring another paragon of Progressive virtue?!?\u00a0 Guess they couldn&#8217;t lure &#8220;Reverend&#8221; Al away from MSDNC. Since we&#8217;re on the subject of the judgmentally-challenged, as FOX News reports&#8230; Meghan McCain says she no longer calls herself a [&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-66740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66740","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=66740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66741,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66740\/revisions\/66741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}