{"id":71418,"date":"2019-07-18T20:07:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T00:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=71418"},"modified":"2019-07-18T20:08:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T00:08:07","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-july-17th-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=71418","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, July 17th, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, July 17th, 2019&#8230;and fifty years ago yesterday, three Americans set forth on what was perhaps the greatest adventure in human history:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2sEK2Ur2bwI\" 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> Not to mention the last great achievement a Democratic President ever inspired, let alone helped produce.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We were 12 years-old at the time; and now, knowing as we do the challenges the engineers and astronauts had to overcome, it gives us a bigger thrill than we experienced watching it live.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, turning from the great to the tacky and tawdry, as one Nate Cain recently tweeted&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Hillary-cannot-make-it.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Hillary-cannot-make-it.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Hillary-cannot-make-it.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Hillary-cannot-make-it-300x289.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hillary as the keynote speaker at a cyber security conference is akin to Bill addressing a monogamy rally.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, as Matt Vespa records at <em>Townhall.com<\/em>, what we said was going to happen finally did, as an&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2019\/07\/15\/antifa-activist-shot-dead-trying-to-attack-ice-detention-facility-n2550031\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">Antifa Activist is Shot Dead Trying to Attack ICE Detention Facility<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/35s8jf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71327\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/35s8jf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/35s8jf.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/35s8jf-267x300.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>We could offer some pointless platitude how Mr. Van Spronsen&#8217;s death diminishes us all, but it doesn&#8217;t&#8230;so we won&#8217;t.\u00a0 Like so many other Antifa anarchists, he was a rage-fueled bomb waiting to explode; we&#8217;re just glad when he detonated, his was the only life lost.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject &#8220;activists&#8221;, again courtesy of <em>Townhall.com<\/em>&#8216;s Matt Vespa, this time via Jeff Foutch, another less-suicidal Progressive propagandist informs us how, at least in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newspeak\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Newspeak<\/em><\/span><\/a>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u2018<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2019\/07\/16\/liberal-activist-communist-is-code-for-the-nword-n2550108\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Communist\u2019 Is Code For The N-Word<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/bass.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71334\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/bass.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/bass.png 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/bass-300x118.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. B-A*s last made news when she scaled a flagpole in front of the South Carolina statehouse to tear down a Confederate Battle Flag.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/bs-md-bree-newsome-20150627.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71335\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/bs-md-bree-newsome-20150627.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/bs-md-bree-newsome-20150627.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/bs-md-bree-newsome-20150627-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/35u6mb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71372\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/35u6mb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/35u6mb.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/35u6mb-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item, writing at <em>NRO<\/em>, Andy McCarthy echoes our thoughts on Trump&#8217;s latest <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>twit<\/em><\/span>tering:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/07\/donald-trump-and-the-racist-tweets\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-07-16&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Trump and the \u2018Racist Tweets<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u2019<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/07\/donald-trump-and-the-racist-tweets\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-07-16&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">There\u2019s a difference between racist and just stupid<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PI-xOCwkEC8?start=0&amp;end=2&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Or, put another way&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OUvKIubY6OY?start=103&amp;end=105&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 class=\"drop\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>W<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>hat does \u201cracist\u201d even <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>mean<\/em><\/span> anymore?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Racism is the headline on President Trump\u2019s Sunday tweets \u2014 the media-Democrat complex assiduously describes them as \u201cracist tweets\u201d as if that were a fact rather than a trope.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>As detailed in today&#8217;s installment of Tales From the Darkside, accessible through link #2 at the top of the page immediately beneath our Quote of the Day<\/em>.)<\/span><\/span>\u00a0I don\u2019t think they were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>racist<\/em><\/span>; I think they were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>abjectly stupid<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Like many Americans, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I am tired of being lectured about racism by racists and racialists, individuals whose full-field explanation for all life\u2019s issues is this matter of genetic happenstance that should be increasingly irrelevant in a pluralistic society<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Is it \u201cracist\u201d to tell people who have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>contempt<\/em><\/span> for the country \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>who abhor the common culture that makes us American<\/em><\/span> \u2014 that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>they ought to go back to where they came from<\/em><\/span>? <span style=\"color: #333399;\">It has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>nativist and reactionary overtones<\/em><\/span>, but I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>don\u2019t think<\/em><\/span> it is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>racist<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> I\u2019ll grant <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>this much<\/em><\/span>, though: It is closer to actual racism than the Left\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>usual<\/em><\/span> demagogic claim: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I am a racist if I extend to a non-white nincompoop like Ilhan Omar the courtesy of taking her seriously as an individual and a public official, as if it were her race rather than the idiocy of what she says that moves me to dissent<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>It <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>would<\/em><\/span> be racist to tell the progressive \u201cSquad\u201d that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>t<\/em><em>hey don\u2019t belong in our country because of their race or ethnic roots<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I don\u2019t understand Trump to have done that<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> He is attacking their <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>radicalism<\/em><\/span>, which <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>they wear like a badge of honor<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>don\u2019t believe<\/em><\/span> Trump is a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>master strategist<\/em><\/span> who did this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>to force Speaker Pelosi and other mainstream Democrats, at their electoral peril, to embrace the radicals<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">That\u2019s just the lemonade that Trump supporters are trying to make of the president\u2019s never-ending supply of lemons.<\/span> In any event, <em>while it is beneath a president to carp in Trump\u2019s juvenile way, I have less heartburn in principle with a president\u2019s attacking radicalism <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">than I do with a congresswoman\u2019s claim that any criticism of her is an implicit criticism of immigrants, women, black people, etc<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>real problems<\/em><\/span> here, in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>2020 terms<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>are the stupidity and insensitivity of the president\u2019s Twitter twaddle<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: Trump <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span>, has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>always been<\/em><\/span>, and will <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>always<\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> be<\/span>, <\/em>his own worst enemy.\u00a0 The only real question is whether <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he<\/em><\/span> or <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the Dimocrats<\/em><\/span> will alienate more voters between now and November 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of stupidity, as the <em>WSJ<\/em> reports, the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/democrats-prepare-vote-condemning-trumps-tweets-about-lawmakers-11563297658?mod=djemalertNEWS\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">House Passes Resolution Condemning Trump Tweets as Racist<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/download-10.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71368\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/download-10.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/download-10.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/download-10-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thus does the self-impressed peacock spread its feathers to impress the python.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving on, <em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Jack Crowe relates how Conservative billionaire&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/peter-thiel-calls-on-fbi-cia-to-investigate-possible-chinese-infiltration-of-google\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Peter Thiel<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Calls on FBI,<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900; text-decoration: underline;\">CIA to Investigate<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Possible Chinese<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">Infiltration<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\"> of Google<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/google_home_search_china.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71328\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/google_home_search_china.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/google_home_search_china.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/google_home_search_china-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Billionaire investor Peter Thiel urged the FBI and CIA to investigate whether Google has been infiltrated by the Chinese during his remarks at the National Conservatism Conference on Sunday.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Thiel, who sits on the board of Facebook, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>suggested that Google\u2019s decision to work with the Chinese military is \u201ctreasonous\u201d and likely occurred because the company\u2019s management has been compromised by Chinese intelligence<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Last year, Google\u2019s parent company Alphabet <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>chose not to renew a contract with the Pentagon to develop artificial intelligence for the military<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Google employees spoke out against the project, known as Operation Maven, out of concern that it would be used to improve the accuracy of drone strikes<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leave it to such Educated Idiots to back the folks who brought us the glories of the Cultural Revolution&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Chinese.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71365\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Chinese.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Chinese.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Chinese-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and Tiananmen Square&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/TankManThumbnail-1140x684.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/TankManThumbnail-1140x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/TankManThumbnail-1140x684.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/TankManThumbnail-1140x684-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;over the government that brought us triumph over <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>actual<\/em><\/span> fascism&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/jodl-signs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71363\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/jodl-signs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/jodl-signs.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/jodl-signs-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/300px-Shigemitsu-signs-surrender.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71364\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/300px-Shigemitsu-signs-surrender.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/300px-Shigemitsu-signs-surrender.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/300px-Shigemitsu-signs-surrender-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and final victory over totalitarian Soviet Communism:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/544935309.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71366\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/544935309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/544935309.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/544935309-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Come to think of it, the latter&#8217;s probably the reason they chose the ChiComs over the greatest force for&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lLCEUpIg8rE?start=1&amp;end=9&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>&#8230;the worlds ever known.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in the <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>EnvironMental Moment<\/em><\/span>, brought to us today by Jeff Foutch and Paul Joseph Watson writing at<em> InfoWars<\/em>, we learn a&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/new-finnish-study-finds-no-evidence-for-man-made-climate-change\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #008000;\">New Finnish Study Finds No Evidence for Man-Made Climate Change<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"entry-subtitle\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><a style=\"color: #003300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/new-finnish-study-finds-no-evidence-for-man-made-climate-change\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">There goes the \u201cconsensus<\/span><\/a>\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/140222-denier-galileo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71330\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/140222-denier-galileo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/140222-denier-galileo.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/140222-denier-galileo-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Climate-Change-Fairtales.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71331\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Climate-Change-Fairtales.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Climate-Change-Fairtales.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Climate-Change-Fairtales-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>A new study by researchers at Turku University in Finland found that the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>human contribution<\/em><\/span> <em>to a rise of 0.1\u00b0C in global temperatures over the last century <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is just 0.01\u00b0C<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>The\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1907.00165.pdf\">paper<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>, titled \u2018No experimental evidence for the significant anthropogenic climate change\u2019 was published by Jyrki Kauppinen and Pekka Malmi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>The study found that, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>During the <\/em><em>last hundred years the temperature is increased about 0.1\u00b0C because of carbon dioxide<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>human contribution<\/em><\/span> was about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>0.01\u00b0C<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Kauppinen and<\/strong> <strong>Malmi conclude that global temperatures are controlled primarily by cloud cover and that \u201conly a small part\u201d of the increased carbon dioxide concentration is anthropogenic.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>While the methods and results of the study can be debated, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>this once again illustrates how there is no overwhelming consensus on man-made global warming as the media often claims<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #003300;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>In reality<\/em><\/span>, there are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>dozens of prominent scientists who believe that climate change is driven by natural forces<\/em><\/span> or that the United Nations\u2019 climate projections are unreliable.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further proof why facts to a Liberal are like&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/kryptonite-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71380\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/kryptonite-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s the latest entry in the <em><span style=\"color: #003300;\">If You Ain&#8217;t Cheatin&#8217;, You Ain&#8217;t Tryin&#8217;<\/span><\/em> segment, courtesy of a&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #003300;\">Chess grandmaster allegedly caught cheating in bathroom during tournament<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/35s78y.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71324\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/35s78y.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/35s78y.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/35s78y-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;A Latvian-Czech\u00a0chess\u00a0phenom whose legitimacy has long been questioned\u00a0was allegedly caught cheating inside a bathroom during a tournament in\u00a0France\u00a0this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Grandmaster Igors Rausis, 58, was suspended from the Strasbourg Open after a photo emerged showing him <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">sitting on a toilet looking at a phone during a break in play<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Phones are typically banned from chess tournaments because players can use certain apps to analyze their moves in previous games, gaining\u00a0an unfair advantage.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Rausis has long been suspected of cheating in competition play.<\/span> He stunned the chess world by racking up victories and progressing\u00a0from regular grandmaster to\u00a0&#8220;super&#8221; grandmaster in a six-year span.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing Rausis wasn\u2019t stopped earlier,&#8221; grandmaster Danny Gormally told\u00a0Deadspin.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8220;Seems naive that people think someone can improve that much in their fifties.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>At least Rausis wasn&#8217;t caught&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rausis.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71325\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rausis.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rausis.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rausis-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;with his pants down.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us, appropriately enough, to\u00a0<em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cities.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71343\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cities.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cities.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cities-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/afb071619dAPC20190716054511.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71342\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/afb071619dAPC20190716054511.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/afb071619dAPC20190716054511.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/afb071619dAPC20190716054511-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AOC-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AOC-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AOC-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AOC-1-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ramirez-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ramirez-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ramirez-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ramirez-1-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ramirez1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71339\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ramirez1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ramirez1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ramirez1-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cross-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cross-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cross-2.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cross-2-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/varvel-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71346\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/varvel-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/varvel-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/varvel-1-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/What-Can-Brown-Do-for-You-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/What-Can-Brown-Do-for-You-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/What-Can-Brown-Do-for-You-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/What-Can-Brown-Do-for-You-1-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AOC_DC-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71318\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AOC_DC-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AOC_DC-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AOC_DC-1-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-12-19-at-8.28-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71296\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-12-19-at-8.28-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-12-19-at-8.28-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-12-19-at-8.28-AM-300x239.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-16-19-at-9.08-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71336\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-16-19-at-9.08-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-16-19-at-9.08-AM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-16-19-at-9.08-AM-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-16-19-at-9.08-AM-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-15-19-at-8.13-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71317\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-15-19-at-8.13-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-15-19-at-8.13-AM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-15-19-at-8.13-AM-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/download-1-4.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/download-1-4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/download-1-4.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/download-1-4-300x240.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/download-2-4.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71301\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/download-2-4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/download-2-4.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/download-2-4-300x260.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/download-9.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71302\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/download-9.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/download-9.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/download-9-300x273.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s this classic from Mark Foster&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image001-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71303\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image001-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image001-3.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image001-3-271x300.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;along with this string from Balls Cotton:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-110.30-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71305\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-110.30-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-110.30-PM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-110.30-PM-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.30-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71306\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.30-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.30-PM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.30-PM-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.31-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71307\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.31-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.36-PM-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71308\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.36-PM-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.36-PM-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.36-PM-1-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.36-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71309\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.36-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.36-PM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.36-PM-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.36-PM-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.31-PM-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71310\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.31-PM-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.31-PM-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.31-PM-1-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.33-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.33-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.33-PM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.33-PM-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.36-PM-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71312\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.36-PM-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.36-PM-2.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.36-PM-2-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.310-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71313\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.310-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.310-PM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.310-PM-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.37-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71314\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.37-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.37-PM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.37-PM-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.37-PM-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.37-PM-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.37-PM-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Image-7-14-19-at-10.37-PM-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a day with another titillating tale torn from the pages of <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The Crime Blotter<\/em><\/span>, and this story, ironically enough, from the City of Brotherly Love:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/philadelphia-man-beats-carjacker-to-death-after-suspect-takes-off-with-car-full-of-children-police\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\">Philadelphia man, neighborhood mob beats carjacker to death after suspect takes off with 3 kids<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/man-kills-car-13719m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71348\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/man-kills-car-13719m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/man-kills-car-13719m.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/man-kills-car-13719m-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Officials said an unidentified 25-year-old woman was traveling with her three children Thursday <em>when she stopped outside a pizza shop on 29th and Dauphin St. at about\u00a09 p.m. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to visit her boyfriend<\/span><\/em>, who worked at the pizzeria<\/strong><\/span>, according to\u00a0WCAU.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">When she went inside, <em>the woman reportedly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">left her car running with her three children<\/span><\/em> &#8212; a 7-month-old, a 1-year-old\u00a0and a 5-year-old &#8212;\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>inside<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> That\u2019s when police say a 54-year-old man entered the car and took off.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Investigators say the boyfriend, who is the father of two of the children, chased the suspect on foot and was able to catch up to the car when\u00a0it got stuck in traffic. <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>The boyfriend, also 25, pulled the suspect from the car and a short foot chase ensued, Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small told\u00a0WPVI.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cHe fled on foot about a half a block.\u00a0And the boyfriend caught up to him and there was some sort of physical struggle that ensued,&#8221; Small said.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008080;\">&#8220;Then other males from the neighborhood intervened and began punching and kicking the male who took the vehicle.&#8221;<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>About an hour after the carjacking occurred, emergency services<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>arrived<\/em><em> on the scene<\/em><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>Again, when seconds count, police are only minutes away!<\/em>)<\/span> and found the carjacker unconscious, WCAU\u00a0 reported. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">He was taken to Temple University Hospital and pronounced dead.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The mother and father were taken in for questioning and\u00a0police say they&#8217;re cooperating.<\/span> Authorities have not said if charges will be filed, a\u00a0decision the District Attorney\u2019s Office will make.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s a decision the Philly D.A.&#8217;s office <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>still<\/em><\/span> hasn&#8217;t made, the boyfriend&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>undeniable involvement<\/em><\/span> in the crime\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>notwithstanding<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Horse theft was a hanging offense in the old west, primarily because stranding a man in the wilderness without a means of transport oftentimes constituted a death sentence.\u00a0 And though being left in certain parts of America&#8217;s urban ghettos sans transport would be cause for consternation, it certainly doesn&#8217;t rise to the level of lynching the would-be thief.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>One thing&#8217;s for certain: if an urban mob in Philadelphia is allowed to get away with murder, it will be just another instance of Dimocrats failing to hold &#8220;people of color&#8221; to the same standards of civilized behavior to which others are subject.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Wednesday, July 17th, 2019&#8230;and fifty years ago yesterday, three Americans set forth on what was perhaps the greatest adventure in human history: \ufeff Not to mention the last great achievement a Democratic President ever inspired, let alone helped produce. We were 12 years-old at the time; and now, knowing as we do the challenges [&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-71418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71418","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=71418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71419,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71418\/revisions\/71419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}