{"id":73394,"date":"2019-09-24T19:36:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T23:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=73394"},"modified":"2019-10-30T09:06:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T13:06:16","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-january-23rd-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=73394","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, September 23rd, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Monday, September 23rd, 2019&#8230;but first&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9463hBWy0ig?start=7&amp;end=8&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>Why aren&#8217;t certain mass shootings as highly publicized as others?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wishtv.com\/news\/crime-watch-8\/suspect-sought-after-6-injured-in-downtown-shooting\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">IMPD looking for \u2018person of interest\u2019 after 6 injured in downtown shooting<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/suspect.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/suspect.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/suspect.png 425w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/suspect-300x254.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Police say <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>three victims were juveniles<\/em><\/span> and three victims were adults.<\/strong><\/span> They were taken to different hospitals in the area. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Two victims are in critical condition<\/em><\/span>, three suffered minor injuries and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>one person was seriously injured<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">According to police, the shooter, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>who is believed to be a juvenile<\/em><\/span>, began shooting just north of the intersection of West Maryland and North Illinois Street before fleeing the scene.<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>Police say they are working with witnesses and victims to figure out what led up to the shooting and to identify a suspect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>A surveillance image<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>(<em>shown above<\/em>)<\/strong><\/span> <strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">of a person of interest in the case was released Sunday morning.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Authorities are asking the public for help in identifying the male subject.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">He is described as wearing a dark colored sweatshirt with light stripes on the sleeves and dark jeans<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a hint: it&#8217;s based upon the respective races of the mass-shooter and victims, as well as the type of weapon employed in a given massacre.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To wit: if the shooter is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>White<\/em><\/span>, and the weapon of choice is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>any variant<\/em><\/span> of the mythical &#8220;assault weapon&#8221;, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no matter<\/em><\/span> the race of the victims, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the massacre is guaranteed to be front page news for weeks and elicit countless calls to ban or confiscate said &#8220;assault weapons<\/em><\/span>&#8220;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But if the shooter <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> victims are\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Black<\/em><\/span>&#8230;an aspect of the crime which is NEVER covered in contemporary news reports&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> the weapon employed is an illegal semi-automatic handgun, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>it&#8217;s just another day in urban America<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sooo&#8230;tell us again how Progressive politicians have the backs of their Black constituents?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As for Beto&#8217;s claim certain Arkansans are willing to surrender their unneeded, unwanted AR-15s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>merely upon his request<\/em><\/span>, this meme forwarded by Ed Hickey represents the reception his confiscation scheme would likely receive from every 2nd Amendment-loving Razorback&#8230;or any other elsewhere in America:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ed-Hickey-Elmer.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73254\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ed-Hickey-Elmer.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ed-Hickey-Elmer.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ed-Hickey-Elmer-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ed-Hickey-Elmer-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which is why no rank-and-file law enforcement official in the country would be willing to enforce such an unconstitutional edict, let alone support it.\u00a0 So <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>have at it<\/em><\/span>, Beto&#8230;but\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>you<\/em><\/span><em> go in <\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>first<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of Dimocratic disdain for the rule of law, imagine our surprise when, having just watched one of our all-time favorite movies for the umpteenth time, we opened Rich Terrell&#8217;s cartoon d&#8217;jour and discovered he, too, is a fan of <em>A Man for All Seasons<\/em>, along with its exposure of the ultimate folly of situational ethics and malleable morals:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-9-19-at-8.21-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-9-19-at-8.21-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-9-19-at-8.21-AM.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-9-19-at-8.21-AM-300x202.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>We just finished reading <em>Citizens<\/em>, a rather detailed account of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror which inevitably followed.\u00a0 The parallels between the fact-less denouncements which led to the executions of tens of thousands whose only crime was either a careless remark about <em>La Patrie<\/em>\u00a0or a letter written years before containing words which were now considered anti-<em>La Patrie,\u00a0<\/em>and the contemporary consequences of some decades-removed act of political-incorrectness rather disturbing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Impossible as it might have seemed only a decade ago (i.e., B.O., <em>aka<\/em>, Before Obama), utterance of a banned word or improper gender reference today, whether deliberate or absent malice, can cost the speaker their job.\u00a0 How long before the\u00a0<em>sans culottes<\/em>\u00a0of the Hard Left&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/antifa-protest-644x429.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73363\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/antifa-protest-644x429.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/antifa-protest-644x429.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/antifa-protest-644x429-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;begin demanding harsher punishment?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Louis_guillotine-700x390.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73364\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Louis_guillotine-700x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Louis_guillotine-700x390.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Louis_guillotine-700x390-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And does anyone really believe these clowns&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2020_democrats-1024x727.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73365\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2020_democrats-1024x727.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2020_democrats-1024x727.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2020_democrats-1024x727-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230; will refuse to give them what they want, particularly if it means gaining or maintaining their grip on power?!?\u00a0 Why do you think they want our guns?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;d suggest those who fail to recognize either the realities of human nature or what Hannah Arendt termed &#8220;the banality of human evil&#8221; fail to see the authoritarian forest for the totalitarian trees&#8230;l<\/strong><strong>et alone the true nature of evil.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, writing at <em>NRO<\/em>, Andrew Pollack accurately assesses why&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<header class=\"article-header article-header--full\" data-component=\"articleHeader\">\n<div class=\"article-header__inner\">\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/09\/california-ban-school-suspensions-invites-another-parkland\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-09-18&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">California\u2019s Ban on School Suspensions Invites Another Parkland<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/09\/california-ban-school-suspensions-invites-another-parkland\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-09-18&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">One year after the mass shooting in Florida, Gavin Newsom institutes the policies that made it inevitable<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3b9pr1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73322\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3b9pr1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3b9pr1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3b9pr1-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>M<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>y daughter Meadow was murdered in the Parkland school shooting in Florida last year.<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It was the most avoidable mass murder in American history<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> And last week, Governor Gavin Newsom just forced into every school in California the policies that made it inevitable.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Parkland shooter was a known-wolf. Before the massacre was over, students knew who did it. He was considered so dangerous when he attended Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that school administrators banned him from bringing a backpack and\u00a0frisked him\u00a0every day for fear that he\u2019d bring a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Even though security staff brought him to the principal\u2019s office <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all the time<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>his disciplinary record looked pretty clean on paper<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>If<\/em> <\/span>he had been arrested at school for his crimes, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>maybe<\/em><\/span> the FBI could have followed through on tips that he would shoot up the school.<\/span> And <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>if<\/em><\/span>\u00a0he\u2019d been disciplined for his sub-criminal misbehavior, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>maybe<\/em><\/span> school administrators could have made a strong case for sending him back to a specialized school for disturbed students, where he so badly needed to be.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>But<\/em><\/span> the Broward County school district had embarked on a quest to fight the \u201cschool-to-prison pipeline\u201d by lowering suspensions, expulsions, and arrests.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>And<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/local\/broward\/parkland\/florida-school-shooting\/fl-florida-school-shooting-discipline-20180510-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">school principals responded<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>systematically sweeping disturbing behavior under the rug<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>one individual<\/em><em> in the Broward school district<\/em><\/span> made <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>one responsible decision about the killer<\/em><\/span>, the tragedy <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>could have been averted<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> But you can\u2019t even call what happened a \u201cfailure,\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>because each obviously irresponsible decision makes perfect sense given the policies<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The state of California has just lurched <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>far harder<\/em><\/span> on leniency <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>than Broward<\/em><\/span>, by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>banning suspensions and expulsions for nonviolent offenses<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>Don\u2019t you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">dare<\/span> think that in practice this leniency won\u2019t extend to violence, though<\/em><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;For evidence, look no further than Los Angeles. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>As the school board <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>banned suspensions<\/em><\/span>,<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.laprogressive.com\/student-police-referrals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">referrals to law enforcement<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>increased 145 percent<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>And last year, threats of<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/Campus-Threats-Arrests-Increase-During-2017-2018-La-School-Year-486985361.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">violence in Los Angeles schools<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>increased by 70 percent<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>I sent my daughter to public school <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>thinking she was safe<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I had <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no idea<\/em><\/span> there was a kid there so dangerous that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>they frisked him every day<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> I had <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no idea<\/em><\/span> that the school <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>was systematically covering up threats and violence<\/em><\/span>.<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I didn\u2019t know<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I can\u2019t let any other parent make that excuse<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong> <\/span>That\u2019s why I wrote a book to tell the true story of Parkland. I don\u2019t expect that this article or that book, or that anything, really, will convince the Democratic politicians who run California to think twice about this terrible mistake. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>My whole life\u2019s mission now is to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>inform parents<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Chances are, your kid <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>won\u2019t<\/em><\/span> get murdered at school. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>But you have to know about the type of environment you\u2019re putting your child in<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <em>Public school in California is now a place where disruption, threats, and even violence <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">can\u2019t even be punished<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>My advice to California parents: <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Stretch your wallet<\/span> to send them to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">private school<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Or <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>keep them<\/em><\/span> in public school <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and roll the dice<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like the backers of abortion, there&#8217;s surely a special place in Hell for those who would play politics with the lives of schoolchildren.\u00a0 And no, support for the right to bear arms isn&#8217;t playing politics; it&#8217;s defending a freedom guaranteed law-abiding U.S. citizens by our Constitution&#8230;which still carries a little more weight than the inanities emanating from the putrid, pandering, Progressive penumbra which is California.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of pandering Progressives, Fielding Cocke forwarded this video which pretty much summarizes the last Dimocratic &#8220;debate&#8221;:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/enTEvon9pbw\" 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>Stand back, folks, &#8216;cuz Dimocrats have got themselves a&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-13-19-at-8.05-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73267\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-13-19-at-8.05-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-13-19-at-8.05-AM.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-13-19-at-8.05-AM-268x300.jpeg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and there&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VuAZTWGfQTs?start=104&amp;end=109&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fortunately for America, they&#8217;re running out of road to give away.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up, as Zach Evans recently recorded at <em>NRO<\/em>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/nyt-reporter-blames-editors-for-removing-exculpatory-information-in-kavanaugh-story\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NYT Reporters Blame Editors for Removing Exculpatory Information from Kavanaugh Story<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3b9lil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73298\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3b9lil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3b9lil.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3b9lil-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u201cwhat happened was that\u2026we had [the woman\u2019s] name, and the\u00a0<em>Times\u00a0<\/em>doesn\u2019t usually include the name of the victim, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and so in this case I think the editors felt like maybe it was better to remove it, and in removing her name, they removed the other reference to the fact that she didn\u2019t remember<\/em><\/span> [the incident],\u201d said Pogrebin. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">She continued that she thought the removal was done \u201cin the haste of the editing process.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">She also said of the alleged, unnamed victim, \u201c<em>She was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">incredibly drunk<\/span> at that party<\/em>\u2026<em>memory here is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">really<\/span> a questionable issue<\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Imagine <em>The Times<\/em>\u00a0acting in similar haste reporting the facts regarding where Obama was during Benghazi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item at the <em>WSJ<\/em>, Bill McGurn relates how Progressives&#8217; real purpose in peddling such blatant lies is to&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/pin-the-asterisk-on-kavanaugh-11568673826?mod=MorningEditorialReport&amp;mod=&amp;mod=djemMER_h\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Pin the Asterisk on Kavanaugh<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/pin-the-asterisk-on-kavanaugh-11568673826?mod=MorningEditorialReport&amp;mod=&amp;mod=djemMER_h\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Christine Blasey Ford was motivated by politics, her lawyer asserted in April<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/reporter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73299\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/reporter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/reporter.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/reporter-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>What has happened since is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>familiar<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">No sooner is the \u201cbombshell\u201d story <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>dropped<\/em><\/span> than it starts to look like a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>dud<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> It emerges, for example, that this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>new<\/em><\/span> allegation <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>isn\u2019t really new<\/em><\/span>\u2014the Federal Bureau of Investigation <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> senators <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>knew about it during Mr. Kavanaugh\u2019s confirmation hearings<\/em><\/span>\u2014and the Times <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never spoke to the man who had made the charge<\/em><\/span>, Max Stier.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">On Monday the Times <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>added<\/em><\/span> a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>humiliating<\/em><\/span> \u201ceditors\u2019 note\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>admitting its story omitted a crucial fact<\/em><\/span>: The purported victim <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>declined to be interviewed<\/em><\/span> and friends say <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>she does not recall such an incident<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> That <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>hasn\u2019t stopped<\/em><\/span> the Democrats\u2019 2020 candidates\u2014including Cory Booker, Juli\u00e1n Castro, Kamala Harris, Beto O\u2019Rourke, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg \u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>from calling for the justice\u2019s impeachment<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>In short, the \u201cnew\u201d accusation fails for the same reason the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>earlier<\/em><\/span> ones did: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>lack of evidenc<\/em><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>e<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>This is what Democrats do when they believe there could be a fifth vote to overturn\u00a0Roe<\/em><\/span>, the 1973 decision that upended the laws of all 50 states to legalize abortion. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">It\u2019s why<\/span> Sen. Ted Kennedy in 1987 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">slandered<\/span> Judge Robert Bork as a man working for an America where \u201cwomen would be forced into back-alley abortions\u201d and \u201cblacks would sit at segregated lunch counters<\/em>.\u201d<\/span> <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">It\u2019s why<\/span><\/em> Judge Clarence Thomas was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>savaged<\/em><\/span> in 1991, when he faced his own last-minute inquisition over alleged sexual harassment. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">And <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>it\u2019s why<\/em><\/span> the assassination of Justice Kavanaugh\u2019s character <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>continues<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us back to\u00a0<em>Citizens<\/em>, and the latest from\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Dennis Prager writing at\u00a0<em>Townhall.com<\/em>, as he expounds upon&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/dennisprager\/2019\/09\/10\/the-equation-that-explains-evil-n2552823\"><u>The Equation That Explains Evil<\/u><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3b9m30.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3b9m30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3b9m30.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3b9m30-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Magoo&#8217;s Corollary to Prager&#8217;s Postulation<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Our age loves scientific equations. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Here&#8217;s one you weren&#8217;t taught at college but which affects you as much as the law of gravity:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>GI &#8211; W = E<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Good Intentions (GI) minus Wisdom (W) leads to Evil (E).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The problem with communists and with leftists who don&#8217;t consider themselves communists is not that none of them mean well.<\/span> <em>It&#8217;s that they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">lack wisdom<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">There are wise and foolish liberals, wise and foolish conservatives; but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all leftists are fools<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong> <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Every one<\/em><\/span> of the Democrats running for president <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is a fool<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> This is not, however, a description of their totality as a human being. Fools may be personally kind and generous, may be loyal friends and devoted spouses, and of course, they may be well-intentioned. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>But in terms of making the world <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">worse<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">there is little difference between a well-meaning fool and an evil human being<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Tens of millions<\/em><\/span> of <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">well-intentioned<\/span><\/em> Westerners <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>supported Stalin<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">The Westerners who supplied Stalin the secrets to the atom bomb <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>were not motivated by evil<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> They were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>simply fools<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>But few evil people did as much to hurt the world as they did<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>They <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>are fools<\/em><\/span> partly because they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>believe<\/em><\/span> good intentions <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>are all that matter<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Therefore, they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never ask<\/em><\/span> perhaps the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>most important moral question one can ask<\/em><\/span>: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>What will happen if my policy is enacted<\/em><\/span>?<\/span> Leftist supporters of communism <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>or <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">any other<\/span> proposed Progressive policy!!!<\/em>)<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never asked<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Democrats who push the country-bankrupting Green New Deal provide a contemporary example. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">They <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not only deny<\/em><\/span> the economy- and society-crushing consequences of the Green New Deal, they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>deny any price will be paid<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Every<\/em><\/span> home, office, hospital, school <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> business <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>will be forced to stop using fossil fuels<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>yet only good will come from that<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Giving that amount of coercive power to the state is of no consequence to leftists.<\/span> In their make-believe world, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no one will suffer<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>On the contrary<\/em><\/span>, America will become richer, and millions of jobs will be created while we destroy our economy.<\/span> Poor Africans trying to electrify their countries will be told <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not to<\/em><\/span> &#8212; yet they, too, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>will somehow become rich using only wind and sun<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>But<\/em><\/span> they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>mean well<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1otTZq6UzLM?start=192\" 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>, <em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Kevin Williamson asks\u00a0which do EnviroNazis want:<\/strong><\/p>\n<header class=\"article-header article-header--full\" data-component=\"articleHeader\">\n<div class=\"article-header__inner\">\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/09\/more-fracking-or-more-war\/#slide-1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">More Fracking, or More War<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #008000;\">?<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"section-content--primary\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<h3 class=\"article-content\" data-component=\"iframeEmbed\"><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\" style=\"color: #003300;\"><a style=\"color: #003300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/09\/more-fracking-or-more-war\/#slide-1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">It\u2019s our choice<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/https___blogs-images.forbes.com_ucenergy_files_2018_02_Fracking-stock-2-1200x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73294\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/https___blogs-images.forbes.com_ucenergy_files_2018_02_Fracking-stock-2-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/https___blogs-images.forbes.com_ucenergy_files_2018_02_Fracking-stock-2-1200x800.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/https___blogs-images.forbes.com_ucenergy_files_2018_02_Fracking-stock-2-1200x800-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>H<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>ere is a news lead that begins with a bang and<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-oil-opec-capacity-explainer\/explainer-attack-on-saudi-leaves-world-without-spare-oil-capacity-idUSKBN1W00V9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ends with a whimper<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>:<\/strong> <strong>\u201cThe strike on the heartland of Saudi Arabia\u2019s oil industry, including damage to the world\u2019s biggest petroleum-processing facility, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>has driven oil prices to their highest level in<\/em><\/span>\u201d \u2014 here, Reuters should have used some ellipses of irony \u2014 \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>nearly four months<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Four months<\/span>!<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>If the United States declines to go to war against Iran on behalf of Saudi Arabia, our increasingly troublesome client state, one of the reasons for that happy development will be: <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">because we do not need to<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It is no longer the case that the world sneezes when the Saudis catch a cold<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> U.S. interests and Saudi interests remain aligned, broadly, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but they are severable<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>The high-tech method of mining shale formations for oil and gas colloquially known as \u201cfracking\u201d \u2014 though hydraulic fracturing is only a part of it \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>has been a game-changer for more than one game<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">While countries such as Germany set headline-grabbing, politics-driven carbon-reduction targets<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-oil-opec-capacity-explainer\/explainer-attack-on-saudi-leaves-world-without-spare-oil-capacity-idUSKBN1W00V9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">only to woefully fail to achieve them<\/a>\u00a0(<a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/10\/world\/europe\/germany-coal-climate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">it is very difficult to greenwash 170 million tons of brown coal<\/a><\/span><\/em>)<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>, the United States has been relatively successful on that front, reducing energy-related carbon emissions<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/todayinenergy\/detail.php?id=34872\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">by 14 percent from 2005 to 2017, thanks to natural gas<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>; put another way, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>fracking<\/em><\/span> has helped the United States to what climate activists <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ought<\/em><\/span> to consider <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>one of its greatest environmental victories<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">When the United States intensified its attention to the Middle East in the wake of the 9\/11 attacks, the country was heavily dependent on petroleum imports. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Today, the United States is the world\u2019s largest exporter of petroleum \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>thanks to fracking<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>The pointy-headed guys in the Washington war rooms <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>spend a lot less time worrying about whether tankers can get through the Strait of Hormuz these days<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">And that means the United States <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>has a much more free hand<\/em><\/span> \u2014 and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>more realistic options<\/em><\/span> \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>when dealing with Riyadh, Tehran, or any of the other pits of vipers that pass for national capitals in that part of the world<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>\u201cNo war for oil!\u201d they chanted when George W. Bush\u2019s administration prepared to invade Iraq. It was always a stupid slogan \u2014 if we\u2019d wanted to get our hands on that Iraqi oil, we could simply have bought it at a discount rather than pay a horrifying blood premium for it \u2014 <em>but now that chant can reasonably be turned back on its authors: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">If you want less war, then you should want a lot more fracking<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fat chance: the EnviroNazi Luddites can&#8217;t even bring themselves to recognize the carbon-free, renewable nature of nuclear power, let alone the amazing strides in design and safety nuclear plants have made since the non-event of Three-Mile Island and even Fukushima.<\/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\/09\/storm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73303\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/storm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/storm.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/storm-300x206.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/a.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/a.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/a-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/carnac.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73332\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/carnac.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/carnac.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/carnac-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/cb092019dAPR20190920034510.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/cb092019dAPR20190920034510.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/cb092019dAPR20190920034510.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/cb092019dAPR20190920034510-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/impeachment.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73334\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/impeachment.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/impeachment.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/impeachment-300x223.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/payn_c16838720190921120100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73335\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/payn_c16838720190921120100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/payn_c16838720190921120100.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/payn_c16838720190921120100-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/slimes.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73318\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/slimes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/slimes.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/slimes-300x209.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/UN.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73337\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/UN.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/UN.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/UN-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/medicare.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73304\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/medicare.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/medicare.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/medicare-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/gun-control.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73305\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/gun-control.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/gun-control.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/gun-control-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/edukation.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73306\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/edukation.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/edukation.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/edukation-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/afb091019dAPR20190910024554.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73307\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/afb091019dAPR20190910024554.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/afb091019dAPR20190910024554.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/afb091019dAPR20190910024554-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/bernie.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73308\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/bernie.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/bernie.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/bernie-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image008.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image008.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image008.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image008-300x201.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/buttedge.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73309\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/buttedge.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/buttedge.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/buttedge-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3asuk2-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73266\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3asuk2-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3asuk2-1-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3asuk2-1-1-300x271.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/091619.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73263\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/091619.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/091619.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/091619-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-16-19-at-9.08-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-16-19-at-9.08-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-16-19-at-9.08-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-16-19-at-9.08-AM-300x267.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-17-19-at-8.26-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73265\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-17-19-at-8.26-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-17-19-at-8.26-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-17-19-at-8.26-AM-300x231.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-10-19-at-8.43-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-10-19-at-8.43-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-10-19-at-8.43-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-10-19-at-8.43-AM-300x208.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/download-2-3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73258\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/download-2-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/download-2-3.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/download-2-3-300x284.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/download-1-3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/download-1-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/download-1-3.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/download-1-3-246x300.jpeg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/download-8.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73260\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/download-8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/download-8.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/download-8-246x300.jpeg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s yet another memorable string of memes courtesy of Ed Hickey&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-6-19-at-5.27-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73157\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-6-19-at-5.27-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-6-19-at-5.27-PM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-6-19-at-5.27-PM-300x282.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-6-19-at-5.28-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73158\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-6-19-at-5.28-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-6-19-at-5.28-PM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-6-19-at-5.28-PM-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-6-19-at-5.28-PM-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-6-19-at-5.28-PM-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73159\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-6-19-at-5.28-PM-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-6-19-at-5.28-PM-1.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-6-19-at-5.28-PM-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-6-19-at-5.28-PM-1-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-6-19-at-5.28-PM-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-6-19-at-5.28-PM-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-6-19-at-5.28-PM-2.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-6-19-at-5.28-PM-2-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-6-19-at-5.28-PM-2-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Edhickey.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73272\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Edhickey.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Edhickey.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Edhickey-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Edhickey-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-15-19-at-9.52-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73273\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-15-19-at-9.52-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-15-19-at-9.52-PM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-15-19-at-9.52-PM-300x212.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image017.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73313\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image017.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image017.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image017-300x291.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;followed by these two keepers from Jim Crilley and our eldest son Jon respectively:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Jim-Crilley.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73310\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Jim-Crilley.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Jim-Crilley.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Jim-Crilley-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Jim-Crilley-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/67654745_10217175220945329_768951720402223104_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/67654745_10217175220945329_768951720402223104_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/67654745_10217175220945329_768951720402223104_n.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/67654745_10217175220945329_768951720402223104_n-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a day with this just in f<\/strong><strong>rom <em>Campus Reform<\/em> via <em>Best of the Web<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=13700&amp;mod=article_inline\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\">Berkeley hosts &#8216;The Right to Be Lazy: Shifts in Marxist Thought&#8217; class for credit<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3at7de.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73275\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3at7de.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3at7de.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3at7de-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>If, as Dean Wormer so eloquently observed&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bK-Dqj4fHmM?start=7&amp;end=11&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;we&#8217;ll take fat, drunk and stupid over deluded, lazy and Marxist&#8230;or anything else coming out of Berkeley&#8230;any day.\u00a0 But why take our word for it when three out of three animals surveyed&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-19-19-at-9.53-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73326\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-19-19-at-9.53-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-19-19-at-9.53-AM.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-19-19-at-9.53-AM-300x213.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-19-119-at-9.52-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73327\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-19-119-at-9.52-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-19-119-at-9.52-AM.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image-9-19-119-at-9.52-AM-300x264.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/gorilla.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73328\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/gorilla.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/gorilla.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/gorilla-300x224.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>share our opinion<\/em><\/span> of the quality of anything Berkeley!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Monday, September 23rd, 2019&#8230;but first&#8230; \ufeff Why aren&#8217;t certain mass shootings as highly publicized as others? IMPD looking for \u2018person of interest\u2019 after 6 injured in downtown shooting &nbsp; &#8220;&#8230;Police say three victims were juveniles and three victims were adults. They were taken to different hospitals in the area. Two victims are in critical [&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-73394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73394","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=73394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74285,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73394\/revisions\/74285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}