{"id":69885,"date":"2019-05-14T19:26:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T23:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=69885"},"modified":"2019-05-14T19:26:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T23:26:32","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-may-13th-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=69885","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, May 13th, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Monday, May 13th, 2019&#8230;but before we begin,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>a quick administrative note.\u00a0 We continue to experience problems with our polls, which freeze out voting after the first person casts their ballot.\u00a0 We hope to have the problem corrected in the very near future, and apologize for the inconvenience.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, consider these two memes, courtesy of Speed Mach and Bill Jarnagin respectively, and see if you can discern the focus of today&#8217;s column:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_18791.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69782\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_18791.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_18791.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_18791-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_7885.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69783\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_7885.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_7885.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_7885-296x300.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a hint: it&#8217;s what would lead a parent, one Larisa Schreiber, to react to the situation highlighted in this headline as shown if the meme below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/netny.tv\/episodes\/currents\/pennsylvania-principal-banned-from-saying-god-bless-america\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">Pennsylvania Principal Banned from Saying God Bless America<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/30sb0p.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69785\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/30sb0p.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/30sb0p.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/30sb0p-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yes, children are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>indeed<\/em><\/span> impressionable, which is why Progressives want to begin programming them at as young an age as possible; to wit:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/education\/california-changes-sex-education-guidelines-for-teachers\/5292093\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff; text-decoration: underline;\">CA overhauls sex ed guidance for teachers, encouraging them to talk about gender identity<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/30sp8l.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69794\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/30sp8l.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/30sp8l.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/30sp8l-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/30sp8l-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;re <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> talking <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>high schoolers<\/em><\/span> here; rather the powers-that-be in the Land of Fruits &amp; Nuts are looking to indoctrinate <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>kindergartners<\/em><\/span>!\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>In all seriousness<\/em><\/span>, how can one <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>begin<\/em><\/span> to understand the mindset of those who would object to a principal saying &#8220;God bless America&#8221; after a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance while countenancing the implanting of perverse, pernicious propaganda in the minds pre-pubescent children?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>After all, no <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>reasonable<\/em><\/span> person (to use the Jim Comey standard) would suggest <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>any<\/em><\/span> connection between Progressives&#8217; ongoing campaign to erase even the faintest remnants of Judeo-Christian morals and values from the public sphere and what&#8217;s occurring in America on a regular basis, be it in our nation&#8217;s schools&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4f4qtYGMHK0\" 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 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">(Editor&#8217;s note:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizpacreview.com\/2019\/05\/12\/father-of-transgender-colorado-school-shooter-is-twice-deported-illegal-alien-ex-con-753790?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=BPR%20Email&amp;utm_campaign=DMS\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">the STEM shooters story just keeps getting curiouser and curiouser<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #008000;\">, a veritable smorgasbord of destructive Dimocratic policies!)<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;or the local fast-food restaurant:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/california-woman-attempted-drowning-mcdonalds-probation\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">California woman accused of attempting to drown newborn in McDonald&#8217;s restroom avoids jail time<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/30srge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69810\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/30srge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/30srge.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/30srge-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Sarah Jane Lockner, 27, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>received four years of supervised probation<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and was\u00a0ordered to take parenting classes<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0SFGate\u00a0reported, citing court documents. Lockner reportedly agreed to the plea deal in January. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>She was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>originally<\/em><\/span> charged with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>attempted murder<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Lockner was in the middle of a shift at a McDonald\u2019s in Redwood City in the Bay Area in\u00a0September 2017 when she was complaining of stomach pains, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney\u2019s Office. When her fellow employees noticed she was trailing blood, Lockner told them she had a &#8220;heavy period.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">A co-worker went to check on Lockner in the restroom <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and allegedly discovered Lockner with the newborn\u2019s head face-down in a toilet bowl<\/em><\/span>, according to prosecutors.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Lockner reportedly told the co-worker not to call police, but the co-worker did anyway<\/em><\/span>, according to the\u00a0Mercury News\u00a0of San Jose.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Responding officers found the baby not breathing and without a pulse, the newspaper reported. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The baby was rushed to a\u00a0hospital <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and survived<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The child is reportedly staying with the father\u2019s aunt.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It wasn\u2019t the first time this had happened<\/em><\/span> to Lockner, according to prosecutors. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">She had given birth to <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">another child in a restroom at home three years prior to the McDonald\u2019s birth<\/span><\/em>, prosecutors said.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Lockner said <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>both times<\/em><\/span> that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>she didn\u2019t know she was pregnant<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Parenting classes<\/em>?!?\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>She should have given a hysterectomy<\/em><\/span>!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then again, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/what-did-ralph-northam-really-say-about-abortion\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>when the governor of Virginia publicly suggests<\/em><\/span><\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/new-york-passes-abortion-bill-late-term-if-mothers-health-is-at-risk-today-2019-01-23\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>the state of New York passes legislation<\/em><\/span><\/a> legalizing the murder of a newborn infant based on the whims of the mother and a &#8220;physician&#8221;, what crime, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>at least in the eyes of Progressives<\/em><\/span>, has Sarah Jane Lockner <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>actually committed<\/em><\/span>?!?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Kevin Williamson relates at\u00a0<em>NRO<\/em>, Liberals are attempting to remove non-existent specks from the eyes of Conservatives while ignoring the 2&#215;4&#8217;s solidly ensconced in their own:<\/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\/05\/brian-sims-political-fanaticism-identity-politics\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202019-05-12&amp;utm_term=WIR-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Does Brian Sims Hear Himself<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">?<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"section-content--primary\">\n<h3 class=\"article-content\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\" style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/05\/brian-sims-political-fanaticism-identity-politics\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202019-05-12&amp;utm_term=WIR-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\">Political fanatics such as Representative Brian Sims fixate on terminology as a substitute for ideas, and for them buzzwords are a necessary intellectual crutch<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/monster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69796\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/monster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/monster.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/monster-300x209.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>H<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>ow to explain Brian Sims? <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>None<\/em><\/span> of the <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">three most likely possibilities<\/span><\/em> \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that he is not very bright, that he is insane, that he is a fanatic<\/em><\/span> \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>speaks very well of the Pennsylvania state representative<\/em><\/span>, <em>who for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">some<\/span> reason<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>decided to accost an elderly woman praying silently in front of an abortion facility, to film the attack, and then to boast about it on Twitter<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>It is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">tempting<\/span> to lean toward <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">stupidity<\/span><\/em> as an explanation for Sims\u2019s shenanigans, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>if only because that is the most statistically likely scenario when the subject in question is a member of the Pennsylvania state legislature, as witless a collection of moldering goofs and ravening mediocrities as you will find in any of our state capitals<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Some fanatics<\/em><\/span> are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>dangerous<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Almost all of them<\/em><\/span> are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>boring<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>They are tedious in themselves and the cause of tediousness in others<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Forgive me for repeating this story: I once had a student <em>who discovered the Palestinian cause in college, as a certain kind of WASP suburbanite <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">does<\/span><\/em>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and she endeavored to turn every conversation to the evils of Israel, rarely speaking a sentence that did include the word \u201cZionist<\/em><\/span>,\u201d which she pronounced in a distinctly low-pH way. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I shared with her Winston Churchill\u2019s observation that a fanatic is \u201ca man who can\u2019t change his mind and won\u2019t change the subject.\u201d<\/span> She <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>did not miss a beat<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Exactly<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It\u2019s like when you\u2019re debating with a Zionist<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Representative Sims is a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>low kind of man<\/em><\/span> with a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>low kind of mind<\/em><\/span>, but <em>Representative Sims<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span>, in fact,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>representative<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> In <em>our<\/em> time, <em>politics has become a very strong part of some people\u2019s identities, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">fundamental to their self-conception<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Partly<\/em> it fills the hole left by the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>attenuation of religion<\/em><\/span>, but it is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>also<\/em><\/span> a kind of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>identity politics for<\/em><\/span> \u2014 Representative Sims surely will appreciate the irony \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>college-educated white people<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>People without a politically piquant demographic characteristic<\/em><\/span> (and being gay ain\u2019t what it used to be) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>sometimes use affinity groups as a substitute, seeking in being a vegan or a socialist or a Hamas apologist the solidarity, cohesion, and social cachet they imagine African Americans or transgender decathletes enjoying by virtue of their membership in those ranks<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>See &#8220;Warren, Elizabeth&#8221;, &#8220;Dolezal, Rachel&#8221; and &#8220;Churchill, Ward&#8221;<\/em>)<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">They take up political causes just as some young people take up exotic religions, in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>same way<\/em><\/span> and for the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>same reason<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Representative Sims is an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>adult man<\/em><\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>an elected representative in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Watching<\/em> his rage-monkey videos, one wonders: \u201c<em>Does he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not hear himself<\/span><\/em>?\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Of course<\/em><\/span> <em>he hears<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>himself<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>He doesn\u2019t hear anything else<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Orwell had it right:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/War-is-peace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69823\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/War-is-peace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/War-is-peace.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/War-is-peace-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in another bit of Ivy League-inspired Newspeak insanity, vilification and marginalization becomes inclusion, as a&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/keynote-speaker-at-harvard-diversity-conference-says-christians-should-be-locked-up\/?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=idealmedia&amp;utm_campaign=thecollegefix.com&amp;utm_term=69017&amp;utm_content=2353511\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\">Keynote speaker at Harvard diversity conference says Christians should be \u2018locked up<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2019<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/keynote-speaker-at-harvard-diversity-conference-says-christians-should-be-locked-up\/?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=idealmedia&amp;utm_campaign=thecollegefix.com&amp;utm_term=69017&amp;utm_content=2353511\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008080; text-decoration: underline;\">Christians \u2018deserve to be mocked viciously and run out of the public square<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em><strong>\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/tim-wise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69815\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/tim-wise.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/tim-wise.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/tim-wise-300x119.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;To celebrate a \u201cDecade of Dialogue\u201d in its annual diversity conference, Harvard University\u2019s Faculty of Arts &amp; Sciences invited a straight white man to give the keynote lecture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>But not just <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>any<\/em><\/span> straight white man.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Tim Wise, an \u201canti-racism writer, educator and activist,\u201d has denigrated Christians as \u201c<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/timjwise\/posts\/10152817838385670\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeezoids<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>\u201d and<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timwise.org\/2008\/10\/this-is-how-fascism-comes-reflections-on-the-cost-of-silence\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">fascists<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>and called Pope Francis<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/timjacobwise\/status\/312001779032264704\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">evil<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #008080;\">.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>(<em>Though we won&#8217;t disagree with that assessment, but for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">other<\/span> reasons!<\/em>)<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>He has<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/timjacobwise\/status\/272866927318298624\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>that \u201cpeople who believe in a God of hell\/damnation deserve to be mocked viciously and run out of the public square.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Those who base their morality on the Hebrew Scriptures \u201cdeserve to be locked up,\u201d<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/timjwise\/posts\/10152994403075670\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he said in 2015<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>, claiming to be \u201csorta kidding but not by much.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The Diversity Dialogue Series provides a \u201cretrospective look at diversity and inclusion, a discussion of current issues, and practical guidance on how we can move toward greater inclusion and belonging at Harvard,\u201d according to the<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/hr.fas.harvard.edu\/event\/fas-diversity-conference-decade-dialogue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">event description<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So much for truth in advertising.\u00a0 Not to say &#8220;we told you so&#8221;, but for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>years<\/em><\/span> we&#8217;ve maintained, had Hillary, Barry, Bernie and the rest of the Lowing Liberal Herd <em>had their way<\/em>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>we&#8217;d all be living behind barbed wire<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 Think about it: when given unbridled power, Lenin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, Chavez, Maduro, Mobutu, Mugabe, Uncle Ho and Uncle Joe have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all<\/em><\/span> proved <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the rule<\/em><\/span>, rather than <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the exception<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For if there&#8217;s one constant&#8230;other than death, taxes and an eternal, loving God, who so loved the world He sent His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life&#8230;it&#8217;s that <em>power corrupts<\/em>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>absolute<\/em><\/span> power <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>corrupts absolutely<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 Particularly when those in control are Progressives dedicated to giving <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>said\u00a0power<\/em><\/span> to the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>People<\/em><\/span>&#8230; as such\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>most often<\/em><\/span> takes the form of a 9mm round&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/shot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69833\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/shot.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/shot.png 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/shot-273x300.png 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;right behind people&#8217;s ears!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, in a report from <em>The Baltimore Sun<\/em> via Mark Tapscott which highlights just how low Progressive-promoted political correctness has taken us, we learn&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a style=\"color: #008080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/entertainment\/tv\/z-on-tv-blog\/bs-fe-zontv-wjz-bubala-babj-20190506-story.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">WJZ says anchorwoman Mary Bubala is out in wake of her question about race, gender of recent Baltimore mayors<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/30su5r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69818\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/30su5r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/30su5r.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/30su5r-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>WJZ anchorwoman Mary Bubala, who came under fire Thursday for a question she asked about the race, gender and leadership of Baltimore\u2019s past three mayors, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is no longer with the station<\/em><\/span>, according to an email sent to The Baltimore Sun on Monday night by general manager Audra Swain.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;The criticism of Bubala that started last week in the wake of the WJZ anchor asking\u00a0Loyola University Maryland\u00a0Professor Karsonya \u201cKaye\u201d Wise Whitehead an on-air question about the race and gender of the past three Baltimore mayors has continued to build.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>\u201cWe\u2019ve had three female, African-American mayors in a row,\u201d Bubala said in setting up her question. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">\u201cThey were all <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>passionate public servants<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Two resigned, though. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Is this a signal that a different kind of leadership is needed to move Baltimore City forward?\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>In a statement sent to The Sun today in the wake of WJZ\u2019s action, Whitehead wrote, \u201cThe current conversations around leadership in Baltimore are challenging, emotional, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and at times include layers of racism and sexism<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">There is an assumption that since three black women have served as mayor \u2014 and the city has not entirely changed for the better \u2014 then perhaps black women are not fit to lead this city.<\/span> No one can ask racially biased questions in the public sphere \u2014 including in the media \u2014 without being held accountable.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Nicki Mayo, <em>who worked in TV news and is immediate past president of the Baltimore Association of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Black<\/span> Journalists<\/em> (BABJ), posted video of the interview on Twitter last week, and the social media blowback to Bubala\u2019s question was immediate.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>In addition to the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>racism<\/em><\/span> of Bubala\u2019s question, Mayo said she was also hurt by the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>sexism<\/em><\/span> of it.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008080;\">\u201c<em>I fall at the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">intersectionality<\/span> of being black <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> a woman<\/em>,\u201d she said.<\/span> \u201cIn something like this, I expect a woman to be more sensitive to generalizing a demographic. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">I don\u2019t know any white women who would be comfortable with an anchor or anyone asking a question like the one we heard, saying, \u2018Well, we\u2019ve had three women back to back. Do you think it\u2019s time for a different kind of leadership?\u2019<\/span> I think <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>every<\/em><\/span> white woman <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I<\/em><\/span> know would have been, like, \u2018What do you mean by that?\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Mayo said, \u201cI don\u2019t understand how tone deaf a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>fellow woman<\/em><\/span> could be.<\/span> That broke my heart.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">\u201cShe messed up.<\/span> I get it,\u201d Mayo said. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">\u201cBut you know that line, \u2018The mouth speaks the truth of the heart?\u2019<\/span> She told you how she feels.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Whitehead said in an email Tuesday that a question like the one Bubala asked ignores and can further mask the deeper structural forces that underlie Baltimore\u2019s problems.<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>To imply that this city is where it is today because of the leadership is misleading at best and a lie that erases the systemic racism at work in this city at worst<\/em><\/span>,\u201d she wrote.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>\u201c<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Baltimore City is struggling under the weight of decades of historical divestment, systemic inequality, redlining, and a disconnect between the people in power and those who are being impacted by their decisions<\/span><\/em>,\u201d Whitehead added, saying that she has been discussing the controversy on her WEAA show this week.<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: first, the only thing Bubala should have been fired for was her description of Baltimore&#8217;s last three mayors as &#8220;passionate public servants&#8221;, rather than the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>pillaging Progressive politicians<\/em><\/span> they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>actually were<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 Bear in mind, while two (Pugh and Dixon) were hounded from office for corruption, the third (Rawlings-Blake), evidently a graduate of the Jethro Bodine School of Rocket Surgery, actually suggested, in the midst of the arson, murder and theft following the death of serial criminal Freddie Gray&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QESGx__zewU\" 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>Sorry, but three strikes in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>any<\/em><\/span> league means <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>you&#8217;re out<\/em><\/span>!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Second, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Blacks<\/em><\/span> of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>both<\/em><\/span> sexes, along with their <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>White Dimocratic allies<\/em><\/span>, have been in control of Baltimore since 1967, when Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s brother began 52 years of unbroken Progressive rule which marked the onset of a downward death spiral even 16 years of Willie Don Schaefer couldn&#8217;t correct.\u00a0 To suggest otherwise, as &#8220;Professor&#8221; Whitehead does, is both disingenuous <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> deliberately deceptive.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lastly, <em>The Amazing Lucas<\/em> speaks for us:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_sjyiBxjlJM\" 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>In a rather curiously related item, somehow sharing in the invulnerability of leading Virginia Dimocrats to past racist\/sexist acts, Hairplug Joe&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sM19YOqs7hU\" 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>&#8230;continues to lead an increasingly crowded, ever-more Socialist 2020 field.<\/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\/05\/moses-biden.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69803\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/moses-biden.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/moses-biden.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/moses-biden-300x213.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a 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https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-3-252x300.jpeg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-4.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69775\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-4.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-4-300x218.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a day with this rather apropos depiction of Dimocrats from Speed Mach:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/59991771_2434977299866159_5240153438796382208_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69777\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/59991771_2434977299866159_5240153438796382208_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/59991771_2434977299866159_5240153438796382208_o.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/59991771_2434977299866159_5240153438796382208_o-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Monday, May 13th, 2019&#8230;but before we begin,\u00a0a quick administrative note.\u00a0 We continue to experience problems with our polls, which freeze out voting after the first person casts their ballot.\u00a0 We hope to have the problem corrected in the very near future, and apologize for the inconvenience. Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge! 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