{"id":70490,"date":"2019-06-04T18:35:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T22:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=70490"},"modified":"2019-06-04T18:35:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T22:35:19","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-june-3rd-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=70490","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, June 3rd, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Monday, June 3rd, 2019&#8230;but before we begin, here&#8217;s a story we&#8217;ve yet to see or hear covered by the American MSM:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/ae\/books\/2019\/05\/30\/Historians-attack-David-Garrow-s-Martin-Luther-King-allegations-1\/stories\/201905300167\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">Historians attack Pitt professor David Garrow&#8217;s Martin Luther King allegations4<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/RisingStar2-3-1559304081.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70441\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/RisingStar2-3-1559304081.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/RisingStar2-3-1559304081.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/RisingStar2-3-1559304081-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s everywhere in the U.K., but, at least through today, it&#8217;s been covered nowhere here across the pond.\u00a0 Guess this means what was true in the day of Liberty Valance remains true today:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uZgzXbPfpko?start=17&amp;end=21&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><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Though we must confess confusion over the disparity of treatment accorded Black female representatives of a fabricated, farcical movement stealing the microphone from a White male Senator running for President (and who actually had a chance!)&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wSTNPspaPTA\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and the White male representative of an equally farcical movement heisting the mike from a Black female Senator running for President (who hasn&#8217;t the proverbial snowflake&#8217;s chance in Hell!):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZCx3RRLPDWU\" 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, we learn&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3y08ech14N8\" 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>No reverse racism to see here, folks&#8230;just move along.\u00a0 Oh, as for Kim Foxx&#8217;s reputation; she don&#8217; NEED no reputation; she be BLACK!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just sayin&#8217;!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We lead off the first edition of June with a simple question: will the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>real<\/em><\/span> DeWayne Craddock <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>please<\/em><\/span> stand up?!?\u00a0 Are you the official we-never-saw-THAT-coming version peddled by the City of Virginia Beach\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/virginia-beach-gunman-resignation-good-standing\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>to FOX News<\/em><\/span><\/a>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DeWayne-Craddock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DeWayne-Craddock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DeWayne-Craddock.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DeWayne-Craddock-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The\u00a0Virginia Beach shooter\u00a0who\u00a0killed 12 people\u00a0and wounded several others in a municipal complex on Friday had submitted his resignation earlier that morning, officials said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The gunman, identified as 40-year-old DeWayne Craddock, was an engineer with the city&#8217;s public utilities department for 15 years. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>In a news conference Sunday morning, Virginia Beach City Manager Dave Hansen described the man\u2019s work performance as \u201csatisfactory\u201d w<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ith no ongoing issues of discipline<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In response to a reporter&#8217;s question, Hansen said the shooter had notified his chain of command of his intention to quit via email on Friday, hours before the shooting. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Hansen also <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>reiterated<\/em><\/span> that Craddock <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>was not fired<\/em><\/span> or <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in the process of being fired<\/em><\/span> leading up to the shooting.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Police are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>continuing to investigate a possible motive<\/em><\/span> for the deadly rampage<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;or the increasingly violent version the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/06\/02\/dewayne-craddock-had-been-getting-violent-with-co-workers-before-virginia-beach-shooting-report\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>New York Post&#8217;s reporting<\/em><\/span><\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The gunman who\u00a0shot dead 12 people at a Virginia Beach municipal building\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>had been facing disciplinary action for a violent fight at work<\/em><\/span>, according to a report.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">But he recently started showing serious behavioral problems and got into physical \u201cscuffles\u201d with other city workers, a source<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/01\/us\/dewayne-craddock-virginia.html?searchResultPosition=1\" class=\"broken_link\">told The New York Times<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>.<\/strong> DeWayne Craddock, 40, was\u00a0still employed as an engineer\u00a0with the Department of Public Utilities when he went on his shooting rampage Friday, killing 12 and injuring several others, including a cop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The source told the paper that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the troubles had escalated in the week leading up to the mass shooting<\/em><\/span> \u2014 and Craddock was involved in what it called \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>a violent altercation on city grounds<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Craddock reportedly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>knew he was facing disciplinary action for the fight<\/em><\/span> when he went into the municipal building with two .45-caliber handguns<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Though we cannot speak to the veracity of the second version, if accurate, it certainly would explain Craddock&#8217;s motive&#8230;and leave Virginia Beach authorities with some splainin&#8217; to do.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of those having some splainin&#8217; to do, see if you can identify a recurring theme in these heart-wrenching tales of expatriate woe as <em>CNBC<\/em>&#8216;s Annie Nova details how&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"page-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/05\/25\/they-fled-the-country-to-escape-their-student-debt.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\">These Americans fled the country to escape their giant student debt<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/105481479-1538425295940ch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70428\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/105481479-1538425295940ch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/105481479-1538425295940ch.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/105481479-1538425295940ch-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ll take them one at a time.\u00a0 First up&#8230; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Chad Haag considered living in a cave to escape his student debt. He had a friend doing it. But after some plotting, he settled on what he considered a less risky plan. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>This year, he relocated to a jungle in India. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u201cI\u2019ve put America behind me,\u201d Haag, 29, said.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Today he lives in a concrete house in the village of Uchakkada for $50 a month.<\/strong><\/span> His backyard is filled with coconut trees and chickens. \u201cI saw four elephants just yesterday,\u201d he said, adding that he hopes never to set foot in a\u00a0Walmart\u00a0again.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>(<em>Then again, Walmarts generally don&#8217;t carry malarial mosquitos, typhoid or any of a hundred other ailments common in India!<\/em>)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">More than 9,000 miles away from Colorado, Haag said, his student loans don\u2019t feel real anymore. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of like, if a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, does it really exist?\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Haag\u2019s student loan balance of around $20,000 isn\u2019t as large as the burden shouldered by many other borrowers, but, he said, his <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>difficultly finding a<\/em> <em>college-level job<\/em><\/span> in the U.S. has made that debt oppressive nonetheless.<span style=\"color: #333399;\"> \u201cIf you\u2019re not making a living wage,\u201d he said, \u201d$20,000 in debt is devastating.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>He struggled to come up with the $300 a month he owed upon graduation.<\/strong><\/span> The first work he found after he left the University of Northern Colorado in 2011 \u2014 when the recession\u2019s effects were still palpable \u2014 was on-again, off-again hours at a factory, unloading trucks and constructing toy rockets on an assembly line. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>He then went <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>back to school<\/em><\/span> to pursue <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>a master\u2019s degree in comparative literature<\/em><\/span> at the University of Colorado Boulder.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>So, his solution to crushing student debt is go BACK TO SCHOOL and incur additional crushing student debt?\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">SERIOUSLY<\/span>?!?<\/em>)<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">After <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span>, he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>tried<\/em><\/span> to make it as an adjunct professor, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>still<\/em><\/span> he could <em>b<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">arely scrape a living together<\/span><\/em> with the one class a semester he was assigned. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>Funny, Lieawatha makes some $400K\/year teaching only one class a semester; guess Haag should have claimed to be 1\/1,024th Cherokee!<\/em>)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tKT-eWMWXOE\" 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=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Haag had <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>some hope restored<\/em> <\/span>when he landed <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>full-time work as a medical courier<\/em><\/span> in Denver, delivering urine and blood samples to hospitals.<\/span> However, he was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>disappointed to find<\/em><\/span> that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he brought home just $1,700 a month<\/em><\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>This must mean a Master&#8217;s in comparative literature doesn&#8217;t include a course on basic math or personal finance; like he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">seriously didn&#8217;t know<\/span>\u00a0his take-home pay <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">before<\/span> he took the job?!?<\/em>)<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>He had little money left over after he paid his student loan bill. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>He couldn\u2019t afford an apartment in the city, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>where rents have\u00a0been rising sharply<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>(<em>Due <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">primarily<\/span> to Progressive policies!<\/em>)<\/strong><\/span> He lived with his mother and rarely went out with friends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u201cI couldn\u2019t make the math work in America,\u201d Haag said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>No, you couldn&#8217;t make the math work <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>on your terms<\/em><\/span>!\u00a0 Pardon us while we take a moment to brush away a tear.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Second&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/105490252-1538744865604albright.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70429\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/105490252-1538744865604albright.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/105490252-1538744865604albright.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/105490252-1538744865604albright-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Chad Albright attended Millersville University, in Pennsylvania, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>where he studied communications and history<\/em><\/span>. He graduated as the Great Recession was beginning in December 2007, <em>and couldn\u2019t find anyone to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">hire<\/span> him <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in his<\/span><\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <em>chosen field<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ROxvT8KKdFw?start=27&amp;end=29&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><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cI went to interview after interview after interview,\u201d Albright, 39, said.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Still, he had $<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>30,000 in student loans<\/em><\/span> and was soon faced with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>a monthly bill of around $400<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Unable to support himself, he moved in with his parents in Lancaster and worked as a pizza deliveryman.<\/span> \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>There was anger<\/em><\/span>,\u201d Albright said. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cI couldn\u2019t believe <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I couldn\u2019t find<\/em> <em>a job<\/em><\/span> in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>America<\/em><\/span>.\u201d\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>A job &#8220;in his chosen field&#8221;, which, with a degree in &#8220;communications and history&#8221;,\u00a0from Millersville University, shouldn&#8217;t have (no offense intended) peaked his expectations.<\/em>)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">He fell behind on his student loans and feared the Education Department would garnish his wages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Seeing no future for himself in the United States, he decided to move to China in 2011.<\/strong> <\/span>In the city of Zhongshan, he discovered he loved teaching students English. Unlike when he was delivering greasy boxes of pizza, he found his work meaningful and fulfilling.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> Though he earned just around $1,000 a month in China, the school where he was teaching covered most of his rent and the cost of living was much lower than in Pennsylvania.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Plus, there are lots of great Chinese restaurants!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lastly, there&#8217;s number three:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/105524985-1540324802703childhood-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70430\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/105524985-1540324802703childhood-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/105524985-1540324802703childhood-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/105524985-1540324802703childhood-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Katrina Williams was in a rush to find a job after she graduated from the University of South Alabama in 2013. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">She was looking at a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>monthly student loan bill of $700<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I had to take whatever I could so I could pay on the loans<\/em><\/span>,\u201d Williams said.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>If Haag had monthly payment of $300 on $20K of student debt, and Albright a bill of $400\/month on $30K, our math puts Ms. Williams total student debt at somewhere around $54K; we don&#8217;t know her major, but its a cinch she wasn&#8217;t expecting to find work &#8220;in her chosen field&#8221;.\u00a0 Nothing like planning for your future!<\/em>)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>She picked up multiple jobs, as a part-time barista at\u00a0Starbucks, a substitute teacher and a delivery-woman for the United States Postal Service. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">At one point, she worked full time at a call center for\u00a0Sears.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u201cI was working every day,\u201d Williams said. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u201cI had enough money left over to put gas in the car.\u201d<\/span> She lived with her mother and couldn\u2019t afford health insurance.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>Wait a minute: she graduated in May\/June of 2013.\u00a0 ObamaScare went into effect January 1, 2014.\u00a0 Yet Williams &#8220;couldn&#8217;t afford health insurance&#8221;?!?<\/em>)\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Williams had a friend who had moved to Japan, and the idea of leaving the United States grew on her. In 2015, she moved to Chiba, also to teach English to students. \u201cI love my work,\u201d she said. Her job sponsors her visa. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>She has her own apartment now and doesn\u2019t have to work seven days a week anymore. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Yet Williams <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>misses her relationships back home<\/em><\/span>; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>she hasn\u2019t been able to make many friends in Japan<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Because, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unlike<\/em><\/span> the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>racist United States<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Japan<\/em><\/span> is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>so welcoming<\/em><\/span> to foreigners.\u00a0 At least the bastages behind the federal government&#8217;s student loan shake-down are equal-opportunity oppressors!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: there are three primary culprits in these tawdry tales of self-imposed woe: (1) the U.S. college and university system for offering degrees not worth the paper on which they&#8217;re printed; (2) the U.S. government for continuing to provide student loans to those seeking degrees not worth the paper on which they&#8217;re printed; and, (3) those who seek and finance the pursuit of degrees not worth the paper on which they&#8217;re printed <em>in general<\/em>&#8230;and those who only belatedly realize <em>they&#8217;re actually expected to pay said loans back<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in<\/em> <em>particular<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>These three unfortunates either never watched <em>Caddyshack<\/em> or didn&#8217;t understand Judge Elihu Smails was referring to them when he so famously observed&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8i5OrcxwFUA\" 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>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of Millennials stupid enough to borrow tens of thousands of dollars for useless degrees in Comparative Literature or Queer Studies (just to name a few!), as forwarded by Balls Cotton, <em>Townhall.com<\/em>&#8216;s Kurt Schlichter offers a simple solution:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2019\/05\/30\/students-heres-a-plan-to-solve-your-debt-problem-you-wont-like-it-n2546947\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Students, Here\u2019s A Plan To Solve Your Debt Problem (You Won\u2019t Like It<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #333399;\">)<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/must-be-nice-not-to-feel-any-responsibility-to-pay-your-debts-before-partying-a59bd.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70436\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/must-be-nice-not-to-feel-any-responsibility-to-pay-your-debts-before-partying-a59bd.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/must-be-nice-not-to-feel-any-responsibility-to-pay-your-debts-before-partying-a59bd.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/must-be-nice-not-to-feel-any-responsibility-to-pay-your-debts-before-partying-a59bd-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>So, you\u2019re a barista with a problem \u2013 you took out $200K student loans to get that master\u2019s degree from Gumbo State in \u201cLGBTQ2#v&amp; Experiences as Reflected in 17th Century Bolivian Folk Songs\u201d and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>now<\/em><\/span> you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>can\u2019t find an uncaffeinated career<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Worse<\/em><\/span>, those fascist monsters who <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>you took money from<\/em><\/span> based on<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em> your agreement to pay it back with interest<\/em><\/span> now e<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>xpect you to pay the money back with interest<\/em><\/span> despite the fact that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>you really don\u2019t feel like it anymore<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Well, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I<\/em><\/span> have a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>fresh solution<\/em><\/span> to this crisis.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>It\u2019s an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>innovative strategy<\/em><\/span> that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>totally and permanently resolves this problem in a new and exciting way<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Ready<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Here goes<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>How about you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>pay your own student debt<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>That\u2019s it<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> It\u2019s as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>elegant<\/em><\/span> as it is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>simple<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>You<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Pay<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Your<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Own<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Debts<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>If you follow this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>bold, one-step program<\/em><\/span> \u2013 the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>one step<\/em><\/span> is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>you<\/em><\/span> paying <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>your<\/em><\/span> debts \u2013 then you will <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>eventually<\/em><\/span> be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>debt-free<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">And <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>best of all<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I<\/em><\/span> won\u2019t have to pay <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>any<\/em><\/span> of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>your<\/em><\/span> debts.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>See, a lot of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Democrat politicians<\/em><\/span> are promising \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>free college<\/em><\/span>,\u201d but what they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>really<\/em><\/span> mean is \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>free for you<\/em><\/span>.\u201d <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Someone<\/em><\/span> has to pay, and that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>someone<\/em><\/span> is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>me<\/em><\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I need to level with you<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I<\/em><\/span> am not interested in paying for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>your<\/em><\/span> college<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neither are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>we<\/em><\/span>, having <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>already<\/em><\/span> borrowed\/paid <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>hundreds of thousands<\/em><\/span> for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>our own children&#8217;s educations<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 Sorry, but our cash register&#8217;s empty.\u00a0 Okay, not <em>empty<\/em>&#8230;but its contents are intended for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>our retirement and enjoyment<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em> <em>your Elizabeth Warren\/Native American basket-weaving degree<\/em><\/span> from Whatsamatta U!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, after having served me either a Venti Carmel Macchiato or a #3 Supersize, can I ask how that degree not worth the paper on which it is printed is working out for you?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rph_1DODXDU?start=12\" 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>And in the <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>EnvironMental Moment<\/em><\/span>, writing at the <em>WSJ<\/em>, Bjorn Lundstrom suggests&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/examining-the-latest-false-alarm-on-climate-11559256615\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #008000;\">Examining the Latest False Alarm on Climate<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><a style=\"color: #003300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/examining-the-latest-false-alarm-on-climate-11559256615\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">High seas won\u2019t displace 187 million people\u2014and the claim isn\u2019t even new<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/32apua.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70367\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/32apua.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/32apua.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/32apua-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>You\u2019ve probably seen the latest alarming headlines: Rising sea levels from climate change could flood 187 million people out of their homes. <span style=\"color: #003300;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Don\u2019t believe it<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> That figure is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unrealistic<\/em><\/span>\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>isn\u2019t even new<\/em><\/span>.<span style=\"color: #003300;\"> It appears in a<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"icon none broken_link\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2019\/05\/14\/1817205116?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new scholarly paper<\/a><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #003300;\">, whose authors plucked it from a<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"icon none broken_link\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/full\/10.1098\/rsta.2010.0291?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paper published in 2011<\/a><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #003300;\">.<\/span> What the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>earlier<\/em><\/span> paper <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>actually<\/em><\/span> found was that 187 million <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>could<\/em><\/span> be forced to move <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in the unlikely event that<\/em><\/span>, in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>next 80 years<\/em><\/span>,\u00a0<em>n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">o one does anything to adapt<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>to dramatic rises in sea level.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">In <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>real life<\/em><\/span>, the 2011 paper explained, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>humans \u201cadapt proactively,\u201d and \u201csuch adaptation can greatly reduce the possible impacts<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/span> That means \u201c<em>the problem of environmental refugees <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">almost disappears<\/span><\/em>.\u201d <span style=\"color: #003300;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Realistic<\/em><\/span> assumptions <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>reduce<\/em><\/span> the number to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>between 41,000 and 305,000<\/em><\/span>\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>at most<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>less than 1\/600th of the figure in those headlines<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Sober findings get less attention than alarming and far-fetched speculation<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">The United Nations\u2019 climate-panel scenarios <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all show that the world will be far richer and more resilient by the end of the century<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> That means <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>we\u2019ll be better able to tackle challenges like flooding<\/em><\/span>\u2014as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>much poorer<\/em><\/span> societies have done <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>for centuries<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">We have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>more<\/em><\/span> know-how and technology <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>than ever<\/em><\/span> to build dikes, surge barriers and dams, expand beaches and construct dunes, make ecosystem-based barriers like mangrove buffers, improve building codes and construction techniques, and use land planning and hazard mapping to minimize flooding.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Journalists looking for alarming headlines get help from climate scientists who gloss over adaptation and from public-relations teams that know their audienc<\/em><\/span>e.<span style=\"color: #003300;\"> A<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a class=\"icon none\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1748-9326\/aacc76\/meta?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2018 paper<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #003300;\">looked at two scenarios.<\/span> In the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>first<\/em><\/span>, sea levels rise <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>almost 3 feet during the next 81 years<\/em><\/span>, yet <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">no one<\/span> thinks to change the height of a single dike <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">anywhere<\/span> in the world<\/em>. <span style=\"color: #003300;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>That<\/em><\/span> would cost $<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>14 trillion globally a year<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>The authors <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>acknowledge<\/em><\/span> this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>wouldn\u2019t happen<\/em><\/span>: \u201c<em>It is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">clear<\/span> that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all<\/span> coastal nations <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">have<\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">will continue to adapt<\/span> by varying degrees <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to sea level rise<\/span><\/em>.\u201d <span style=\"color: #003300;\">In the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>second<\/em><\/span> scenario, they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>try<\/em><\/span> to account for adaptation, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>though they assume that as soon as any nation gets as rich as Romania is today<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>it will freeze its efforts<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Even <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>with<\/em><\/span> this odd assumption, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>estimated flooding costs still fall 88%<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">The press release announcing the study <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>skipped the second scenario<\/em><\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>trumpeted the $14 trillion figure<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>So did every news story<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is this beginning to remind us of the reaction of Virginia Beach authorities to DeWayne Craddock&#8217;s killing spree?<\/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\/cb053019dAPR20190530114507.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70414\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/cb053019dAPR20190530114507.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/cb053019dAPR20190530114507.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/cb053019dAPR20190530114507-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/afb053119dAPR20190531014525.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70415\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/afb053119dAPR20190531014525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/afb053119dAPR20190531014525.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/afb053119dAPR20190531014525-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aria_c16578020190530120100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70416\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aria_c16578020190530120100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aria_c16578020190530120100.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aria_c16578020190530120100-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sk053119dAPR20190530104551.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70417\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sk053119dAPR20190530104551.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sk053119dAPR20190530104551.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sk053119dAPR20190530104551-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Gorrell.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70418\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Gorrell.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Gorrell.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Gorrell-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Registered_democrat_120190530023647.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Registered_democrat_120190530023647.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Registered_democrat_120190530023647.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Registered_democrat_120190530023647-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Image-5-31-19-at-8.32-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70409\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Image-5-31-19-at-8.32-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Image-5-31-19-at-8.32-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Image-5-31-19-at-8.32-AM-300x177.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-2-3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70410\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-2-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-2-3.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-2-3-300x240.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-3-3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70411\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-3-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-3-3.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-3-3-246x300.jpeg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-14.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70412\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-14.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-14.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-14-300x205.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-1-6.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70413\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-1-6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-1-6.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-1-6-246x300.jpeg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with yet another titillating tale torn from the pages of <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The Crime Blotter<\/em><\/span>, and the story of one kinky copulating couple straight from the Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s <em>News Releases<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/florida-man-accidentally-shoots-woman-during-sex-act-police\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800000;\">Valrico Man Charged With Manslaughter<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Shinault.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70406\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Shinault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>A Valrico man is facing charges after accidentally shooting a woman.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Around 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 26, Andrew Shinault, 23, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>shot a woman<\/em><\/span>, who is also in her 20s, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>while engaging in an act of foreplay involving his registered hand gun<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> The incident occurred at Shinault&#8217;s home on Grand Canyon Drive in Valrico. The woman, who was shot in the upper body, was transported to Brandon Regional Hospital where she later died.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Talk about the ultimate turn-off!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Monday, June 3rd, 2019&#8230;but before we begin, here&#8217;s a story we&#8217;ve yet to see or hear covered by the American MSM: Historians attack Pitt professor David Garrow&#8217;s Martin Luther King allegations4 &nbsp; It&#8217;s everywhere in the U.K., but, at least through today, it&#8217;s been covered nowhere here across the pond.\u00a0 Guess this means what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70491,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70490\/revisions\/70491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}