{"id":69108,"date":"2019-04-14T19:54:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T23:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=69108"},"modified":"2019-04-14T19:56:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T23:56:32","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-april-12th-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=69108","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, April 12th, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Friday, April 12th, 2019&#8230;but before we begin, we take a moment to recognize the passing of an American legend:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/charles-van-doren-figure-in-game-show-scandals-dies-at-93\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\">Charles Van Doren, figure at center of &#8217;50s game show scandals, dead at 93<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/quiz-show.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68972\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/quiz-show.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/quiz-show.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/quiz-show-221x300.png 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Given that coaching seemed to be the rule rather than the exception on quiz shows at the time, it seems to us Van Doren was far too hard on himself.\u00a0 But, as Roy Hobbes (played by Robert Redford, who incidentally directed <em>Quiz Show<\/em>, the Hollywood dramatization of the scandal) observed in <em>The Natural<\/em>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jJIFA0Zjhzg?start=83\" 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>Charles Van Doren&#8217;s was one such mistake, though we for one, having had some rather extensive personal experience with game shows, never held it against him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of legendary Americans, the subject of Thursday morning&#8217;s video from <em>The History Guy<\/em>\u00a0was a genuine hero who deserves to be remembered:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hZpJJYbf1ms?start=0&amp;end=444&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Edward Albert Heimberger&#8217;s quiet courage reminds us of Dick Winters, another hero whose recollection at the conclusion of <em>Band of Brothers<\/em>\u00a0never fails to leave us misty-eyed:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V6TrbOexkUc\" 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>Perhaps because his modesty brings to mind the memories of our beloved Uncle Bobie, who, after enlisting in the Army right out of high school, saw action during both the landings on Leyte and 82 days on Okinawa.\u00a0 Upon hearing his self-effacing stories, had he the option of his actual experience versus Doctor Seuss&#8217; version of the future&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/81a5KHEkwQL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69040\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/81a5KHEkwQL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/81a5KHEkwQL.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/81a5KHEkwQL-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;we&#8217;ve <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no doubt<\/em><\/span><em>\u00a0<\/em>which option he&#8217;d have chosen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which reminds us, regarding Progressive poltroons like Andrew Cuomo and Eric Holder who&#8217;ve had the temerity to claim America was never great, we&#8217;re with Staff Sergeant Barnes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RbbIrIGpyf0?start=4\" 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>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, writing at the <em>WSJ<\/em>, Joshua Muravchik details how, its surging popularity notwithstanding, no matter how many opportunities its supporters provide it to succeed&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/socialism-fails-every-time-11554851786\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Socialism Fails Every Time<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/socialism-fails-every-time-11554851786\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The best outcome is a reversion to capitalism<\/span>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The worst<\/span>? <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hundreds of millions dead<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mitchellcartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68964\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mitchellcartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mitchellcartoon.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mitchellcartoon-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Self-described socialist Bernie Sanders has become a favorite of young voters by posing as an apostle of daring new ideas<strong>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Socialism, however, is anything <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but<\/em><\/span> new. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">It\u2019s hard to think of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>another idea<\/em><em> that has been tried and failed as many times in as many ways or at a steeper price in human suffering<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The term \u201csocialism\u201d was coined by followers of Robert Owen (1771-1858), whom Karl Marx would label a \u201cutopian socialist.\u201d <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">In 1825 Owen founded New Harmony, an Indiana commune, to demonstrate the superiority of what was first called the \u201csocial system.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span> The same year, Owen explained his experiment to a joint session of Congress attended by Supreme Court justices, President James Monroe and President-elect John Quincy Adams. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Although Owen <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>poured his fortune into it<\/em><\/span>, New Harmony <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>collapsed in disarray and recrimination within two years<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Owen\u2019s son Robert Dale Owen <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>salvaged<\/em><\/span> the community by implementing what he called \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>a policy the very reverse\u201d of socialism<\/em><\/span>: \u201c<em>giving each respectable citizen every facility and encouragement <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to become<\/span> (what every adult ought to be) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a landed proprietor<\/span><\/em>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Undeterred, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">others<\/span> founded some <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">40 to 50 similar communes<\/span> during the 19th century, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all collapsed quickly<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">New Harmony\u2019s two years proved to be their median lifespan.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Based on the uniformly dismal results, the idea of socialism might have died a quiet death were it not for Marx (1818-83), who transformed socialism from an experiment\u2014tried, tested and failed\u2014into a prophecy, \u201cthe riddle of history solved.\u201d<\/strong><\/span> Ironically, he called his vision \u201cscientific socialism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Inspired by the dream of proletarian revolution overthrowing capitalist immiseration, socialist parties sprouted across Europe. <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Yet <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>instead of growing poorer<\/em><\/span>, workers in industrialized countries <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>saw improvement in their living standards<\/em><\/span>; and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>instead of disappearing<\/em><\/span>, middle classes <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">expanded<\/span><\/em>\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all disproving Marx<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>It took Vladimir Lenin\u2019s \u201cvanguard\u201d and the horrors of World War I to give socialism new life. In Russia, Lenin pioneered <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>modern communism<\/em><\/span>, <em>which in the 20th century <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">was imposed on 18 countries and one-third of mankind<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><em>Repression was justified by socialism\u2019s purported economic benefits, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">but the actual trade-off entailed economic misery and the snuffing out of as many as 100 million lives<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Today Communist parties rule six countries. Most follow the lead of China, where the party redefined itself to include entrepreneurs. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">A 2012 Wall Street Journal\u00a0report\u00a0identified <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>160 people with an average net worth of more than $1 billion holding high government or party seats<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>No Chinese Bernie Sanders rails against them<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>(<em>Let alone a Chinese<\/em> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sw0mmMc1nFc?start=287&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\">Ali &#8220;Bifurcation&#8221; Velshi<\/span><\/a>!<\/em>)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u201cSocial democrats\u201d and \u201cdemocratic socialists\u201d rejected Lenin\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>methods<\/em><\/span>. But their <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>goals<\/em> <em>remained transformational<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong> <\/span>As British Labour Party leader Clement Attlee, who became prime minister in 1945, explained: \u201cOur policy was not a reformed capitalism but progress toward a democratic socialism.\u201d <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Labour sought to bring \u201cmain factors in the economic system\u201d\u2014including banks, mining and energy\u2014under \u201cpublic ownership and control.\u201d<\/span> Nationalization worked <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>so<\/em><em> badly<\/em><\/span>, however, that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Attlee soon beat a retreat and was voted out in 1951<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image017.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image017-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>In 1981 Socialist Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand was elected president of France promising a clean \u201crupture\u201d with capitalism. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The results of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>his<\/em><\/span> spending and nationalizations were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>so<\/em><em> alarming<\/em><\/span> that in 1982 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Mitterrand reversed course and implemented austerity measures<\/em><\/span>, which he dubbed \u201csocialist rigor\u201d to save face.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> \u201cThe aim is to bring about a real reconciliation between the left and the economy,\u201d explained Socialist Party chief Lionel Jospin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">American socialists like Mr. Sanders, while often defending the likes of Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, Hugo Ch\u00e1vez and Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, prefer to point to Scandinavia as a model. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">But Scandinavian social democrats learned to settle for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>dense social safety nets<\/em><\/span> underwritten by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>remarkably free, capitalist economies<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> On the World Bank\u2019s Ease of Doing Business scale, Denmark ranks <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>third<\/em><\/span> of 190 countries, Norway <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>seventh<\/em><\/span> and Sweden <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>12th<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Still other forms of socialism arose in the Third World. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Encouraged by United Nations development experts, virtually all newly decolonized states adopted \u201cAfrican Socialism,\u201d \u201cArab Socialism\u201d or other variants. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The result was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>years of economic stagnation<\/em><\/span> until the successful models of East Asia began to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>reverse<\/em><\/span> their thinking.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Successful socialism has been created in only one place on earth, the kibbutzim of Israel. They were democratic and egalitarian; sharing possessions, meals, even child rearing. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">But once the Jewish state was securely on its feet, kibbutzniks chose to switch to private enterprise.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Socialism<\/em><\/span>, they learned to their surprise, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>was not a happy way to live<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Socialism has failed everywhere it\u2019s been tried<\/em><\/span>\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>even where it succeeded<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Surely today\u2019s young people can create their own ideas and make their own mistakes rather than repeat those that darkened the times of their parents, grandparents and the generations before.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t count on it.\u00a0 But hey, what&#8217;s a hundred million or so souls compared to the triumph of Progressive policies and perpetual power?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>After all, that figure doesn&#8217;t count the 40,000,000 in the Third World sacrificed to Rachel Carson&#8217;s birthing of the modern EnviroNazi movement, let alone the 61,000,000+ offered up on the altar of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>\u00a0in the United States <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>alone<\/em><\/span>!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anti-socialism-quotes-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68965\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anti-socialism-quotes-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anti-socialism-quotes-10.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anti-socialism-quotes-10-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anti-socialism-quotes-05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68966\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anti-socialism-quotes-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anti-socialism-quotes-05.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anti-socialism-quotes-05-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Intellectuals&#8221;; which is another term for &#8220;educated idiots&#8221;:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/hqdefault.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68967\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/hqdefault.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/hqdefault-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>You know&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZZvT2r828QY?start=24\" 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>Meanwhile, at the same time the <em>WSJ\u00a0<\/em>informs us\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">one Dimocratic Socialist<\/span><\/em>\u00a0is focused on ways he can accumulate and spend more of other peoples&#8217; money (the effects on the economy be damned)&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/ron-wydens-plan-to-drain-investors-11554937146\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900; text-decoration: underline;\">Ron Wyden\u2019s Plan to Drain Investors<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/ron-wydens-plan-to-drain-investors-11554937146\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">A new Democratic idea to grab revenue: Tax unrealized capital gains<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #333399;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dimocrats.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68990\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dimocrats.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dimocrats.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dimocrats-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>another<\/em><\/span> is intent on forcing a system of Socialized medicine on America <em>under which <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">he&#8217;ll<\/span> be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">exempt<\/span><\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/would-patients-be-able-to-escape-berniecare-11555009346?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Would Patients Be Able to Escape BernieCare?<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/would-patients-be-able-to-escape-berniecare-11555009346?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">For all but a very few, the answer is no<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2ycng8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68991\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2ycng8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2ycng8.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2ycng8-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And if you haven&#8217;t heard, Fake News strikes again, as <em>Politic<\/em>o failed to confirm this fable before promoting it as fact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\" \" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/04\/10\/donald-trump-mount-vernon-george-washington-1264073\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">Trump\u2019s \u2018truly bizarre\u2019 visit to Mt. Vernon<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\" \" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/04\/10\/donald-trump-mount-vernon-george-washington-1264073\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">The 45th president \u2014 no student of history \u2014 marveled at the first president\u2019s failure to name his historic compound after himself<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #800080;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2yctk7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2yctk7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2yctk7.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2yctk7-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;During a guided tour of Mount Vernon last April with French president Emmanuel Macron, Trump learned that Washington was one of the major real-estate speculators of his era. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>So, he couldn\u2019t understand why America\u2019s first president didn\u2019t <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>name<\/em><\/span> his historic Virginia compound or any of the other property he acquired <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>after himself<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cIf he was smart, he would\u2019ve put his name on it,\u201d Trump said, according to three sources briefed on the exchange.<\/span> \u201cYou\u2019ve got to put your name on stuff or no one remembers you.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>The president\u2019s disinterest in Washington made it tough for tour guide Bradburn to sustain Trump\u2019s interest during a deluxe 45-minute tour of the property <em>which he later described to associates as &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">truly bizarre<\/span><\/em>.&#8221; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The Macrons<\/em><\/span>, Bradburn has told <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>several people<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>were far more knowledgeable about the history of the property than the president<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Except<\/em><\/span>, as Matt Vespa reports at <em>Townhall.com<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2019\/04\/10\/busted-mount-vernon-debunks-politicos-fake-news-story-about-trumps-visit-to-wa-n2544609\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Mount Vernon issued a rather categoric denial of Politico&#8217;s version of events<\/em><\/span><\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Mount Vernon <em>has a firm, long-standing policy<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>of not commenting on the details of high-profile visits to the home of George Washington<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>However<\/em><\/span>, we believe <em>in the importance of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ensuring that reports about events that take place at Mount Vernon are accurate<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> As such, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">we are concerned<\/span> that the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">third-party accounts<\/span> of the Trump-Macron visit released by several media outlets today <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">do not correctly reflect the events that transpired nearly a year ago<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Mount Vernon President Doug Bradburn and Regent Sarah Coulson escorted the presidents and first ladies on a tour of the Mansion on April 23, 2018. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>During the tour, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all parties<\/span><\/em> were interested and engaged in the story of George Washington and his beloved home<\/strong>.<\/span> \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Conversations touched on topics like business dealings, real estate, and related matters that were of relevance and interest to the touring parties, and questions were asked by both leaders with curiosity and respect.<\/span>\u00a0Comments pulled <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>from sources who were not present<\/em><\/span> for the tour <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>do not properly convey the tone and context in which they were delivered<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>There you have it: either the Mount Vernon authorities&#8230;who by their own admission receive NO FEDERAL FUNDING&#8230;are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>deliberately lying<\/em><\/span>, or <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Politico<\/em><\/span>, <em>a year <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">after<\/span> the event, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">doesn&#8217;t have its story straight<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moreover, we&#8217;re curious about <em>Politico<\/em>&#8216;s characterization of Trump as &#8220;The 45th president &#8211; no student of history&#8221;.\u00a0 As compared to whom: Barack Hussein Obama&#8230;George W. Bush&#8230;William Jefferson Clinton?!?\u00a0 Clinton was familiar with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>one subject<\/em><\/span>, and <em>one subject<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Bill-and-Chelsea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68979\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Bill-and-Chelsea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Bill-and-Chelsea.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Bill-and-Chelsea-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s George W. Bush, who <em>Politico<\/em> suddenly seeks to turn from the MSM&#8217;s favorite dunce into a well-read history buff by virtue of him reportedly reading three presidential biographies while occupying the White House.\u00a0 Wow,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>three books<\/em><\/span> in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>eight years<\/em><\/span>: he&#8217;s a regular Sir Isaac Einstein!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As for Barack Hussein Obama, while we&#8217;ll be happy to reconsider our opinion of Obama&#8217;s knowledge of history once we&#8217;ve seen his scholastic transcripts, until then, it&#8217;s our assessment if he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>learned<\/em><\/span> any history, it was a hopelessly inaccurate, politically-correct revisionist version, hence his return of the Churchill bust.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Might we add, <em>Politico<\/em>&#8216;s &#8220;reporting&#8221; of Trump&#8217;s supposed ignorance of the history of the Resolute desk notwithstanding, history <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>has recorded<\/em><\/span> the respect The Obamao accorded it:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-9.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69026\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-9.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-9.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-9-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/article-2317402-198FCD06000005DC-347_634x403.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69027\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/article-2317402-198FCD06000005DC-347_634x403.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/article-2317402-198FCD06000005DC-347_634x403.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/article-2317402-198FCD06000005DC-347_634x403-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/obama-desk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69028\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/obama-desk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/obama-desk.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/obama-desk-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Not to forget James Earl Carter&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1-president-jimmy-carter-sitting-everett.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69029\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1-president-jimmy-carter-sitting-everett.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1-president-jimmy-carter-sitting-everett.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1-president-jimmy-carter-sitting-everett-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>second-worst<\/em><\/span> President in U.S. history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, we take a slightly different tack.\u00a0 Perusing the news earlier in the week, we were struck by how many idiots inhabit the earth; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>so many<\/em><\/span> in fact we had a tough time deciding which of their acts of idiocy deserved dissemination.\u00a0 But since <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>we report<\/em><\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>you decide<\/em><\/span>, here are five accounts of asininity which staggered our mind.\u00a0 Once you&#8217;ve skimmed them, if you&#8217;d be so kind as to determine which one amazed you the most and record your vote in our latest poll at the right hand side near the top of the page, we&#8217;d be most obliged.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>People&#8217;s Exhibit 1, courtesy of Jimmy Crilley and <em>Bethesda Magazine<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bethesdamagazine.com\/bethesda-beat\/courts\/death-of-man-digging-tunnels-under-bethesda-house-called-an-accident\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">Death of Man Digging Tunnels Under Bethesda House Called \u2018An Accident<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2019<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"deck\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a style=\"color: #008080;\" href=\"https:\/\/bethesdamagazine.com\/bethesda-beat\/courts\/death-of-man-digging-tunnels-under-bethesda-house-called-an-accident\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Murder trial of Bethesda millionaire stock trader opens; prosecutors say worker was &#8216;stuck in a death trap<\/span><\/a>&#8216;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2ycqfx.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2ycqfx.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2ycqfx.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2ycqfx-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-autoattached=\"true\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Beckwitt, a 27-year-old millionaire stock trader, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>began digging the tunnels to build a bunker out of fear of an attack by North Korea<\/em><\/span>, according to prosecutors and files in the case.<\/strong><\/span> He was\u00a0indicted in May 2018\u00a0on charges of second-degree \u201cdepraved heart\u201d murder and involuntary manslaughter. During opening statements to 12 jurors and four alternates, defense attorney Robert Bonsib said, \u201cThis case is about an accident \u2026 An accident plain and simple.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>[Prosecutor] Ayres said <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Khafra was hired online by Beckwitt and would be picked up in the early morning from his Silver Spring home and driven in circles while wearing blackout glasses so he wouldn\u2019t know the location of the house<\/em><\/span>, just north of the National Institutes of Health Bethesda campus.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cSecrecy was his priority,\u201d Ayres said. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>\u201cThe theme of this case is secrecy over safety at all costs.\u201d<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>People&#8217;s Exhibit 2 has\u00a0<em>FOX News<\/em>\u00a0relating how a&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/uk-woman-botched-breast-implants-procedure-abroad\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008080; text-decoration: underline;\">Woman claims implant scar smelled &#8216;like rotten meat&#8217; after botched procedure abroad<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2ycq9d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2ycq9d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2ycq9d.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2ycq9d-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>A 28-year-old woman who claims she forked over $3,500 for a\u00a0breast implant procedure and all-inclusive stay abroad said she has been left with a lopsided chest and feels \u201clike a total freak\u201d after\u00a0her care\u00a0was allegedly mismanaged.<\/strong> <\/span>Holly McCulloch claims that at one point, a 7-centimeter hole along her surgical wound started smelling \u201clike rotten meat,\u201d and then she noticed her implant had started poking through the skin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cHad a doctor told me that what I wanted was crazy, I\u2019d have been fine and just gone for the largest possible for my body,\u201d Holly McCulloch, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>of Manchester<\/em><\/span>, told SWNS of her initial implant size.<\/span> \u201cIt was the doctor\u2019s and nurses\u2019 jobs to make sure I was fit and well after the second surgery, and they should have never let me go home in such a state.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>McCulloch, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>who traveled from her home to Turkey<\/em><\/span> in August 2018 for the first surgery, told SWNS that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>she booked her trip after seeing an ad on Instagram<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>She said the ad featured celebrities and high-profile clients which boosted her confidence in booking<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">When she arrived, she told the news outlet that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>she began getting suspicious about the clinic\u2019s practices, but that her nerves prevented her from questioning anything<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> She claims she was sedated in an elevator, and that she communicated with a number of nurses through a translation app<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hey, a breast augmentation procedure <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in Turkey<\/em><\/span>; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>what could go wrong<\/em><\/span>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>People&#8217;s Exhibit 3, and another headline from <em>FOX<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/nude-florida-women-were-air-drying-at-rest-stop-police-say-before-leading-them-on-wild-chase\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\">Nude Florida women were \u2018air drying\u2019 at rest stop, police say, before leading them on wild chase<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2ycr5b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69007\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2ycr5b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2ycr5b.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2ycr5b-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;A trio of nude women who told police they were \u201cair drying\u201d in public after showering at a\u00a0Florida\u00a0rest stop reportedly were\u00a0arrested following a wild chase that included the use of a metal bat, tasers and spike strips, reports say.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Oasis Mcleod, 18, Jeniyah Mcleod, 19, and Cecilia Young, 19, are now facing\u00a0charges\u00a0&#8212; such as fleeing to elude, aggravated assault and lewd behavior stemming from the alleged chaos that is said to have unfolded yesterday in Pasco County.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>There&#8217;s three women standing in the nude putting on suntan lotion<\/em><\/span>,&#8221; a Florida Highway Patrol trooper was first heard saying to dispatchers while at a rest stop on northbound I-75, according to\u00a0WTSP.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The cop reportedly was told by the women that they were \u201cair drying\u201d in the 80-degree weather after showering<\/em><\/span>, but when the trooper tried to get more information, they got into a car and sped off.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Police then tracked the vehicle to a convenience store parking lot, where it was found empty. <span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>They spotted all three females leaving the store and a trooper attempted to arrest one who wasn\u2019t able to get back inside the vehicle, FOX13 reported.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>But while trying to make that arrest, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the suspect behind the wheel of the car &#8220;purposely drove directly\u201d at the trooper and then its passenger got out and started swinging around a metal bat<\/em><\/span>, the station added.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Another officer on-scene reportedly rammed the suspects\u2019 car before it took off a second time.<\/strong><\/span> A short while later though, the car came to a halt with the help of spike strips deployed by the Dade City Police Department, according to\u00a0FOX13.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Once stopped, the women are said to have interlocked their arms together inside of the vehicle, refusing to come out.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Officers at the scene then tasered the trio and took them into custody<\/em><\/span>, suffering only minor injuries throughout the entire episode.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sorry, but which Florida\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>rest stop<\/em><\/span> has a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>shower<\/em><\/span>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s People&#8217;s Exhibit 4, again from <em>Fox News<\/em>, which makes us wonder wh<\/strong><strong>at&#8217;s in the water in the Sunshine State?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/police-man-buys-8-million-island-then-steals-from-kmart\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #003300; text-decoration: underline;\">Man buys $8 million island then steals from Kmart<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/man-who-bought-island-caught-shoplifting-at-kmart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/man-who-bought-island-caught-shoplifting-at-kmart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/man-who-bought-island-caught-shoplifting-at-kmart.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/man-who-bought-island-caught-shoplifting-at-kmart-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;A man who had just bought an $8 million island off of Key West was arrested Saturday for participating in what police described as a scheme to steal $300 in household items from Kmart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Officials at Kmart called Key West police April 5 after they say Andrew Francis Lippi, 59, had purchased several items, including a Keurig coffeemaker and light bulbs, and returned the original boxes for a refund. <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">But police say the boxes <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>were stuffed with other items<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> For example, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>store officials said a basketball was inside the Keurig box<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The store&#8217;s loss prevention officer provided detectives <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>with video<\/em><\/span> of Lippi buying and returning all of the items between March 30 and April 5, according to an arrest report.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Lippi told detectives <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he did not change out any of the items before returning them<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">According to the arrest report, Lippi <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>also told<\/em><\/span> detectives <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the clerk should have known there was no coffee maker inside the box because of its weight<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> He also told officers he returned the light bulbs <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>because they cost too much<\/em><\/span> and he did not realize they&#8217;d been switched. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>After paying\u00a0<\/em><em>$8M for a house, it&#8217;s the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">lightbulbs<\/span>\u00a0that cost too much!<\/em>)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Lippi was charged with grand theft and booked into jail.<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong> He was also issued a trespass warning <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>to stay away from Kmart<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Lippi told the Herald the theft allegation is &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>complicated<\/em><\/span>&#8221; and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he&#8217;d rather not talk about it<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We don&#8217;t know about you, but after spending $8M on a private island, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>we&#8217;d<\/em><\/span> be a might skosh on cash!\u00a0 Besides&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-8.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-8.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-8-300x172.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lastly, People&#8217;s Exhibit 5, and this complete departure from reason catalogued by\u00a0<em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Kat Timpf:<\/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: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/04\/parents-at-uc-berkeley-easter-egg-hunt-must-sign-waivers-due-to-kids-risk-of-death\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-04-09&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Parents at UC Berkeley Easter-Egg Hunt Must Sign Waivers Due to Kids\u2019 Risk of \u2018Death<\/span><\/a>\u2019<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\"><a style=\"color: #cc99ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/04\/parents-at-uc-berkeley-easter-egg-hunt-must-sign-waivers-due-to-kids-risk-of-death\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-04-09&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What\u2019s next, a waiver to allow kids to meet Santa at the mall<\/span><\/a>?<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/8e77be00-f24e-44e3-bb35-fed84df87c1d-AP00042201143.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68953\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/8e77be00-f24e-44e3-bb35-fed84df87c1d-AP00042201143.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/8e77be00-f24e-44e3-bb35-fed84df87c1d-AP00042201143.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/8e77be00-f24e-44e3-bb35-fed84df87c1d-AP00042201143-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;&#8230;<\/span>According to\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/08\/berkeley-easter-egg-hunt-waiver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Reason<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span>, parents had to stand in line for up to half an hour to hand in the waiver before their kids could attend the 25th Annual Easter Egg Hunt Learning Festival. The waiver, which was obtained by\u00a0<em>Reason<\/em>, listed risks including \u201cminor injuries, such as scratches, bruises, and sprains,\u201d \u201cmajor injuries such as eye injury or loss of sight, joint or back injuries, heart attacks, and concussions,\u201d and even \u201ccatastrophic injuries including paralysis or death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Yes \u2014\u00a0<em>death<\/em>. <span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Truly<\/em><\/span>, reading this waiver would give you the impression that <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">these parents were about ready to send their children off to a swordfight to the death<\/span><\/em>, and\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>an Easter-egg hunt.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>What\u2019s more, it\u2019s not even like the hunt took place on any kind of dangerous terrain.<\/strong><\/span> Robert Strand, executive director and lecturer at the Center for Responsible Business at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, told\u00a0<em>Reason\u00a0<\/em>that he was at the event with his wife and two kids. <span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\"><strong>He said the hunt took place in \u201cthree different roped-off areas for kids of different ages and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>literally it was a flat grass surface<\/em><\/span> where they would just place the eggs,\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>rather than, say, an area that was heavily occupied by ISIS<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>He added that each child was allowed to pick up only five eggs, which meant that the whole thing \u201cwas completed within a minute, because they were just placed there.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\">Up to 30 minutes in line for one minute of walking around on the grass?<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Seriously<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Seriously&#8221; is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>right<\/em><\/span>!\u00a0 After all, it&#8217;s not like <em>UC<\/em>\u00a0<em>Berkeley<\/em> is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Memphis<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mtziepw6jTI\" 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><strong>UC Berkeley feeling it&#8217;s even <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>remotely necessary<\/em><\/span> to have parents sign a waiver which includes the possibility of death for an Easter egg hunt is yet another reason we view a busload of lawyers driving off a cliff as only a start.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So now, pick your favorite of the five and record your vote at our poll, found on the right near the top of the page.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And now we turn, appropriately enough, to\u00a0<em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stg041119dAPR20190410024517.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68996\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stg041119dAPR20190410024517.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stg041119dAPR20190410024517.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stg041119dAPR20190410024517-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/captain-obvious.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68993\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/captain-obvious.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/captain-obvious.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/captain-obvious-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/afb041019dAPR20190410054506.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68994\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/afb041019dAPR20190410054506.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/afb041019dAPR20190410054506.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/afb041019dAPR20190410054506-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/lb190411c20190410104946.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/lb190411c20190410104946.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/lb190411c20190410104946.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/lb190411c20190410104946-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stg041019dAPR20190409034521.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stg041019dAPR20190409034521.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stg041019dAPR20190409034521.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stg041019dAPR20190409034521-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bg041019dAPR20190409104507.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68997\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bg041019dAPR20190409104507.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"322\" 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https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sk041019dAPR20190409044510-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Sucks-to-be-Huge-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68954\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Sucks-to-be-Huge-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Sucks-to-be-Huge-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Sucks-to-be-Huge-1-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Image-4-10-19-at-10.28-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68955\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Image-4-10-19-at-10.28-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Image-4-10-19-at-10.28-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Image-4-10-19-at-10.28-AM-300x193.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Image-4-11-19-at-9.26-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68995\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Image-4-11-19-at-9.26-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Image-4-11-19-at-9.26-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Image-4-11-19-at-9.26-AM-300x190.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69015\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image020.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image020-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69016\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image010.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image010-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-1-4.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68957\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-1-4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-1-4.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-1-4-264x300.jpeg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/irish-yoga.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68958\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/irish-yoga.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/irish-yoga.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/irish-yoga-300x255.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-3-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68959\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-3-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-3-2.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-3-2-300x284.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with these memorable memes courtesy of Mark Foster&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/7A41C586B14A46E2915DC3AD03D3840B.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68946\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/7A41C586B14A46E2915DC3AD03D3840B.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/7A41C586B14A46E2915DC3AD03D3840B.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/7A41C586B14A46E2915DC3AD03D3840B-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/7A41C586B14A46E2915DC3AD03D3840B-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/B5BF90D25AA14C0791D3A12D57000945.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68947\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/B5BF90D25AA14C0791D3A12D57000945.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/B5BF90D25AA14C0791D3A12D57000945.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/B5BF90D25AA14C0791D3A12D57000945-261x300.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/americans.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68948\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/americans.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/americans.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/americans-300x283.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/D8CBE01760B94908819237A3124C39CF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68949\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/D8CBE01760B94908819237A3124C39CF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/D8CBE01760B94908819237A3124C39CF.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/D8CBE01760B94908819237A3124C39CF-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/monopoly.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68950\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/monopoly.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/monopoly.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/monopoly-271x300.png 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;<\/strong><strong>George Lawlor&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sammy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68945\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sammy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sammy.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sammy-300x282.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and this little slice of reality from Pastor Mark:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_20190410-180435_Chrome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_20190410-180435_Chrome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_20190410-180435_Chrome.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_20190410-180435_Chrome-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Rowe has obviously seen us golf!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, April 12th, 2019&#8230;but before we begin, we take a moment to recognize the passing of an American legend: Charles Van Doren, figure at center of &#8217;50s game show scandals, dead at 93 &nbsp; Given that coaching seemed to be the rule rather than the exception on quiz shows at the time, it seems 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