{"id":82204,"date":"2020-06-18T18:11:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T22:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=82204"},"modified":"2020-06-18T18:11:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T22:11:47","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-june-17th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=82204","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, June 17th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, June 17th, 2020&#8230;but before we begin, meet 31-year-old Rashid Brimmage, as he exhibits all the charm and civility visitors and residents have come to expect from the Big Apple, as he bids good morning to a 92-year-old woman:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NaU3CxDK9LU\" 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>Thankfully, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Brimmage<\/em><\/span> is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Black<\/em><\/span>, while the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>woman<\/em><\/span>\u00a0is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>White<\/em><\/span>, thus the nation can forego what would have been, had the races been reversed, another round of senseless, lawless violence&#8230;though we&#8217;ve no doubt Rashid&#8217;s actions resulted from the latent effects of slavery and Jim Crow he&#8217;s too young to have experienced himself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, <em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Kevin Williamson examines the latest example of judicial activism at the highest level as he details&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/06\/the-emperors-new-law\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=blog-post&amp;utm_campaign=river&amp;utm_content=more-in&amp;utm_term=first\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Emperor\u2019s New Law<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\" style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/06\/the-emperors-new-law\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=blog-post&amp;utm_campaign=river&amp;utm_content=more-in&amp;utm_term=first\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Magical thinking replaces jurisprudence at the Supreme Court<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/45d6q2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82108\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/45d6q2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/45d6q2.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/45d6q2-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>If some conservative critic had said in 1964<\/em><\/span> that the civil-rights bill then under consideration would outlaw discrimination against men who wish to undergo voluntary genital amputation in service of a persistent fantasy that they are in some transcendent sense female, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Lyndon Johnson would have looked at him a little funny<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Even <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Barry Goldwater<\/em><\/span> did not think such a thing.<\/span> There is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not a word<\/em><\/span> about sexuality, <em>homosexuality<\/em>, or <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the contemporary phenomenon politely known as transgenderism<\/em><\/span> in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Civil Rights Act of 1964<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">This is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> jurisprudence.<\/span> This is <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">magical thinking<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">The law says <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>whatever the wizards in the black robes say it says<\/em><\/span>, and they are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not very particular about distinguishing between what it says<\/em><\/span> and what <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>they<\/em> <em>think<\/em><\/span> it should say.<\/span> If a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>few lawyers<\/em><\/span> can <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>pretend<\/em><em> to be persuaded<\/em><\/span> by an argument, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>everybody who wants the outcome it would produce<\/em><em> also can pretend to be persuaded<\/em><\/span> by it, then <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>who are you<\/em><\/span> to hold out? <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Did <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>you<\/em><\/span> go to law school?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>And so we must rely on the ladies and gentlemen in Washington to interpret the scriptures for us. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Can we trust them to be honest brokers and evenhanded?<\/span> Consider that the day before yesterday, gathering for a church service was a crime against humanity and getting a haircut in Georgia was to offer human sacrifice to Mammon. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">And then \u2014 poof! \u2014 gathering in gigantic crowds of non-socially distanced, sweaty protesters chanting and looting and rioting and burning was an absolute necessity for the survival of democracy and the cause of genuine justice.<\/span> Consider that the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>right to keep and bear arms<\/em><\/span>, which is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>actually found<\/em><\/span> in the Constitution, is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>severely limited<\/em><\/span> (unless you are leading a left-wing militia uprising in Seattle!), but the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>right to an abortion<\/em><\/span>, which is found <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>nowhere<\/em><\/span> in the Constitution, is considered <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>virtually absolute<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>You<\/em><\/span> can\u2019t see the emperor\u2019s new clothes? Well, we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>know<\/em><\/span> what <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>you are<\/em><\/span>, then!\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Phyllis Schlafly was wrong about a lot of things. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">She was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>right<\/em><\/span> not to trust <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>these charlatans<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This quote from Justice Alito&#8217;s dissent forwarded by Keith Calcotte offers the perfect summation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Many<\/em><\/span> will <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>applaud<\/em><\/span> today\u2019s decision <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>because they agree on policy grounds with the Court\u2019s updating of Title VII<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> But the question in these cases <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em> <em>not<\/em><\/span> whether discrimination because of sexual orientation or gender identity <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>should<\/em><\/span> be outlawed. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">The question <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span> whether <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Congress did that<\/em><\/span> in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>1964<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>indisputably did not<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>There is only <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>one word<\/em><\/span> for what the Court has done today: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>legislation<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>As King David wrote in Psalm 146:3 &#8220;Put not your\u00a0<b>trust<\/b>\u00a0in\u00a0<b>princes<\/b>, in mortal men, who cannot save.&#8221;\u00a0 Let alone in men&#8230;and\/or women&#8230;who <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>feel themselves<\/em><\/span> a certain kind of royalty.\u00a0 And for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>heaven&#8217;s sake<\/em><\/span> don&#8217;t place it in a Supreme Court justice <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>appointed by a Republican<\/em><\/span>!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, writing at\u00a0<\/strong><strong><em>Townhall.com<\/em>, it&#8217;s the expert opinion of criminal defense attorney Marina Medvin&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/marinamedvin\/2020\/06\/15\/the-atlanta-wendys-officer-shooting--justified-use-of-force-n2570674\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">The Atlanta Wendy&#8217;s Officer Shooting Was a Justified Use of Force<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EojpsR_EyxY\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Ofc. Rolfe was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>100 percent justified in his use of force<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">He acted <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>professionally and appropriately throughout<\/em><\/span> his interaction with Mr. Brooks.<\/span> Ofc. Rolfe <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>adjusted the proportionality of his force to respond to the growing threats from Mr. Brooks<\/em><\/span>, who has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only himself to blame for what happened<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Mr. Brooks was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> entitled to commit whatever felonies of his choosing, to feloniously assault police officers, to attempt to tase a police officer, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and to get away with it<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>For those not in law enforcement or in the field of criminal law, witnessing a police officer in the process of criminal apprehension or arrest <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>tends to appear overly aggressive<\/em><\/span>.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> Understand &#8211; the job of law enforcement <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>isn&#8217;t to hand out participation stickers for felonies<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> It is to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>apprehend<\/em><\/span> dangerous people\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>physically<\/em><\/span>\u00a0and to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>bring them to a jail cell<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Criminals <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>don&#8217;t immediately walk themselves into jail cells<\/em><\/span> with a ballon escort and words of positive encouragement; that&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>just not how the world works<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Please understand that your cushy office job and your ability to play Monday morning quarterback <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>isn&#8217;t commensurate with what law enforcement officers deal with on the street<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Remember, this officer shifted levels of force and defended himself against the threat by the fleeing felon within\u00a0<em>a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">two-second time period<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: the shooting of Rayshard Brooks isn&#8217;t a question of right or wrong, but of right or wrong <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>choices<\/em><\/span>, and ultimately, one of <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">responsibility<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0 Unfortunately for Mr. Brooks <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">every<\/span><\/em>\u00a0choice he made that night&#8230; driving drunk (as well as likely under the added influence of a controlled substance)&#8230;falling asleep in the Wendy&#8217;s drive-thru&#8230;resisting arrest&#8230;assaulting a police officer&#8230;grabbing Officer Brosnan&#8217;s taser&#8230;fleeing the scene&#8230;and finally, and fatally, firing the taser at Officer Rolfe&#8230;was the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>wrong<\/em><\/span> choice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Was it absolutely, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>positively<\/em><\/span> necessary to shoot Rayshard?\u00a0 Maybe&#8230;maybe not.\u00a0 But the facts remains HE put HIMSELF in that position, NOT the officers.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Rayshard<\/em><\/span> made the choices which forged every link in the chain of events, NOT the officers; they were simply reacting.\u00a0 Had Brooks been so inclined, he could have opted out at any point in the process, and be alive today.\u00a0 But he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>didn&#8217;t<\/em><\/span>, so, sadly, he\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>isn&#8217;t<\/em><\/span>; but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he<\/em><\/span> bears the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>responsibility<\/em><\/span> for his actions and choices.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trust us, we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>know<\/em><\/span> of what we write: during an incident back in 1978 while in Navy flight training, we were one wrong choice away from taking a round from one of Pensacola&#8217;s finest&#8230;and it would have been <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>our<\/em><\/span> fault, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> the officer&#8217;s.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As this series of stills from the great Stilton Jarlsberg relates, a taser fired in the darkness&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Taser-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82128\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Taser-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Taser-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Taser-1-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;looks a helluva lot like a muzzle flash.\u00a0 And as Ms. Medvin observed, Officer Rolfe had a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>two-second window<\/em><\/span> to react.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Meanwhile, here&#8217;s an interesting aspect of the case Medvin highlighted earlier in her commentary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>In <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>direct contradiction to the evidence and the law<\/em><\/span>, the prosecutor, Paul Howard,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/bronsonstocking\/2020\/06\/14\/da-may-file-murder-charge-against-officer-who-shot-rayshard-brooks-n2570623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/bronsonstocking\/2020\/06\/14\/da-may-file-murder-charge-against-officer-who-shot-rayshard-brooks-n2570623&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1592325805169000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF5225XpF2zAltSK7ju1iAeCmnFgA\">told CNN<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on Sunday that Mr. Brooks &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>did not seem to present any kind of threat to anyone<\/em><\/span>, and so the fact that it would escalate to his death <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>just seems unreasonable<\/em><\/span>.&#8221; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>sham prosecutor<\/em><\/span> then went on to<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em> threaten the good guy in this story<\/em><\/span>, Ofc. Rolfe, with criminal charges of murder or felony murder.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>According to Townhall, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>this prosecutor is under investigation<\/em><\/span> following local reporters&#8217; discovery that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>about $200,000 of funds sent to his office for crime prevention programs ended up in his pocket<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Embezzlement<\/em><\/span>, anyone?\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>Which makes Howard an ideal candidate for mayor of Baltimore!<\/em>)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>It&#8217;s certainly plausible that this prosecutor is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>utilizing the mass media hysteria<\/em><\/span> surrounding Mr. Brooks&#8217; shooting <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>to deflect attention from his own criminal wrongdoing<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">That would explain why he had the audacity to get on CNN and falsely claim that fleeing felon Mr. Brooks &#8220;did not seem to present any kind of threat to anyone.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Malicious prosecution<\/em><\/span>, which means bringing frivolous, vindictive, or otherwise improper criminal charges, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is a cause of action in Georgia<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>This<\/em><\/span> prosecutor <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>might<\/em><\/span> find <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>himself<\/em><\/span> in hot water if he proceeds<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like Mike Nifong, the now-disbarred Durham D.A. who knowingly pursued a malicious prosecution against the Duke lacrosse players.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item courtesy of James Nichols, <em>Mining Awareness<\/em>\u00a0offers some facts inquiring minds wanted to know, detailing that&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/miningawareness.wordpress.com\/2020\/06\/15\/atlanta-police-shooting-rayshard-brooks-out-on-parole-past-crimes-include-cruelty-to-children-family-violence-battery-theft-credit-card-fraud-more\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Rayshard Brooks Was Out on Parole; Past Crimes Included Cruelty to Children, Family Violence-Battery, Theft, Credit Card Fraud &amp;\u00a0More<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/image000000.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82093\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/image000000.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/image000000.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/image000000-300x286.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which offers a far more believable reason Rayshard resisted arrest than the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>convenient fable fabricated by his family&#8217;s attorney as he offers facts not in evidence<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Asked why Brooks ran, family attorney L. Chris Stewart <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>suggested<\/em><\/span> he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>may<\/em><\/span> have feared for his life.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">&#8220;They put <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>George Floyd<\/em><\/span> in handcuffs and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he<\/em><\/span> was subsequently <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>killed<\/em><\/span>,\u201d Stewart said.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cSo <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>just getting put in handcuffs<\/em><\/span> if you\u2019re African American <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>doesn\u2019t mean<\/em><\/span>, oh, you\u2019re going to get <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>nicely taken to the back of a police car<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>After all, the reserve and decency with which Rayshard had been treated during the 40 minutes <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>prior<\/em><\/span> to him him going apesh*t <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>could<\/em><\/span> have been a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>clever ruse<\/em><\/span> designed to lull him into a false sense of security&#8230;right up until the cops slapped the bracelets on him, threw him to the ground and put their knees on his neck&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all in full view of their fully-functional dashboard and body cams<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in the parking lot of the Wendy&#8217;s<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W_Sj8UNn0wQ?start=254\" 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>Next up, in what can only be described as a dreadfully and depressingly ironic&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2-missing-george-floyd-protesters-found-murdered-in-florida-suspect-arrested\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008080; text-decoration: underline;\">2 missing George Floyd protesters found murdered in Florida; black suspect arrested<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Tallahassee-Suspect-Missing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82075\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Tallahassee-Suspect-Missing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Tallahassee-Suspect-Missing.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Tallahassee-Suspect-Missing-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Tallahassee police\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>f<\/em><em>ound the bodies of Oluwatoyin Salau, 19, and Victoria Sims, 75<\/em><\/span>, on Saturday in the vicinity of the home of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Aaron Glee<\/em><\/span>, according to reports. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Glee was taken into custody in connection with their deaths<\/em><\/span>, police said on Facebook Monday, adding that there was no further information to release &#8220;at this time.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Salau and Sims met after <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>recent Black Lives Matters protests seeking justice after the death of Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis<\/em><\/span>, the\u00a0Tallahassee Democrat\u00a0reported.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/45dh86.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82118\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/45dh86.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/45dh86.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/45dh86-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Salau spoke at the protests and carried signs pleading for justice <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in the wake of black lives lost<\/em><\/span>, the paper reported.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/45dhar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82119\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/45dhar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/45dhar.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/45dhar-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">She was last seen on June 6.<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>That afternoon she tweeted that a man molested her that morning after offering to give her a ride back to a church <em>where she had &#8220;refuged&#8221; for a couple of days<\/em> \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>to escape unjust living conditions<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Unjust living conditions&#8221;?\u00a0 Sorry, but WTF are &#8220;unjust living conditions&#8221;?!?\u00a0 Where, and with who?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Objection, your honor&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sEbSABWJiJc?start=11&amp;end=13&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>Goes to establishing the victim&#8217;s state of mind, your honor&#8230;which frankly seems more than a little suspect.\u00a0 Still, it&#8217;s more than sad, as we somehow doubt <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anything<\/em><\/span> seemed just in Ms. Salau&#8217;s world, who the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2020\/06\/what-we-know-about-the-death-of-activist-oluwatoyin-salau.html\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Intelligencer<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> described as &#8220;home insecure<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span>&#8220;&#8230;i.e., &#8220;homeless&#8221;?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And if the story weren&#8217;t already bizarre enough, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/06\/16\/oluwatoyin-salau-murder-suspect-confessed-to-mom-report\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>this version from The New York Post<\/em><\/span><\/a> lends it an air of surrealism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of those who find injustice in every nook and cranny of our systemically racist society, as <em>FOX News<\/em> relates, the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/virginia-cavaliers-alter-logo-over-apparent-slavery-ties\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">Virginia Cavaliers to alter logo over apparent slavery ties<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/542a095e-6ea7-423d-aec2-8503a94257c7.sized-1000x1000.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82076\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/542a095e-6ea7-423d-aec2-8503a94257c7.sized-1000x1000.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/542a095e-6ea7-423d-aec2-8503a94257c7.sized-1000x1000.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/542a095e-6ea7-423d-aec2-8503a94257c7.sized-1000x1000-300x166.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1fc96129-3310-43db-928c-5a395d197385.sized-1000x1000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82077\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1fc96129-3310-43db-928c-5a395d197385.sized-1000x1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1fc96129-3310-43db-928c-5a395d197385.sized-1000x1000.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1fc96129-3310-43db-928c-5a395d197385.sized-1000x1000-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">After the release of our new logos on April 24, I was made aware of the negative connotation between the serpentine walls and slavery,\u201d Williams said in a\u00a0news release.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cI was not previously aware of the historical perspective indicating the original 8-foot-high walls were constructed to mask the institution of slavery and enslaved laborers from public view.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201cOver the last few weeks, I have worked to better educate myself and that education will continue.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">There was no intent to cause harm, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>we did<\/em><\/span>, and for that I apologize <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>to those who bear the pain of slavery in our history<\/em><\/span>. <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">As such, we have redesigned the logos to remove that detail.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">All other aspects of the logos will remain the same.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The school\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>original<\/em><\/span> serpentine walls were built in the 1820s and were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>later removed<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>current<\/em><\/span> walls were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>constructed in the 1950s<\/em><\/span> with a shorter height and wider berth, the school said<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In all seriousness, precisely <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">WHO<\/span><\/em> was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>harmed<\/em><\/span> by the squiggles on the grips of the crossed swords?\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>WHO<\/em><\/span>&#8230;particularly associated with the University of Virginia, either student or faculty&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>bears the pain of slavery<\/em><\/span>?!?\u00a0 Particularly as the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>original<\/em><\/span> slave-shielding serpentine walls <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>were removed<\/em><\/span>, and the replacement wall, of different dimensions, constructed in the 1950s.\u00a0 Unless of course the replacement wall was intended to initially shield the effects of Jim Crow, and later the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t2c-X8HiBng?start=177\" 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>Turning now to our continuing coverage of the Wuhan virus debacle, writing at the <em>WSJ<\/em>, Messrs. David Henderson and Jonathan Lipow inform us&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-data-are-in-its-time-for-major-reopening-11592264199?mod=MorningEditorialReport\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">The Data Are In: It\u2019s Time for Major Reopening<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-data-are-in-its-time-for-major-reopening-11592264199?mod=MorningEditorialReport\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\">Four new analyses of actual results show how the initial projections overestimated the value of lockdowns<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/45dgb9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82116\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/45dgb9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/45dgb9.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/45dgb9-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, an influential economic analysis from the University of Chicago\u00a0concluded\u00a0that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the likely benefits<\/em><\/span> of moderate social distancing would <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>greatly exceed the resultant costs<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">The\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> the Washington Post <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>recently cited that study<\/em><\/span> as evidence that the use of strict lockdowns to control the virus\u2019s spread <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>has been justified<\/em><\/span>, and that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>current efforts<\/em><\/span> to \u201copen up\u201d social and economic activity around the U.S. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>are dangerous and irresponsible<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>That<\/em><\/span> is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>seriously misleading<\/em><\/span>; the Chicago study is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>already out of date<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>More recent research supports<\/em><\/span> the idea that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the lockdowns should end<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The Chicago study came out in early March and was the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>first truly rigorous economic analysis of the pandemic<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">It estimated that a three- to-four-month regime of mitigation, \u201ccombining home isolation of suspect cases, home quarantine of those living in the same household as suspect cases, and social distancing of the elderly and others at most risk of severe disease,\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>would save 1.76 million lives between March 1 and Oct. 1, resulting in benefits of $7.9 trillion<\/em><\/span>, a number that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>far exceeds any conceivable cost of the mitigation strategy<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>But as the Chicago team carefully noted in their paper, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the particular benefits estimates are only as reliable<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>as projections on Covid-19\u2019s spread and health risks<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> Unfortunately, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>their analysis<\/em><\/span> relied on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>projections for Covid-19 from Imperial College of London<\/em><\/span> that by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>now have been shown to be full of analytical and even coding errors<\/em><\/span>, and its estimates of Covid-19\u2019s impact were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>too high<\/em><\/span>\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>by more than an order of magnitude<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Inevitably<\/em><\/span>, this meant that the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Chicago estimates<\/em><\/span> were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>also<\/em><em> way off<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Fortunately, economists no longer have to rely on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>inherently flawed projections<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> We can use <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>real data<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">In what might turn out to be the best paper on the economics of Covid-19, a team of economists from the University of California, Berkeley carefully\u00a0evaluated\u00a0empirical data on social distancing, shelter-in-place orders, and lives saved.<\/span> To measure the impact of social distancing, they gathered data from cellphones on travel patterns, foot traffic in nonessential businesses, and personal interactions.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Their<\/em><\/span> findings?<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Social-distancing measures reduced person-to-person contact by about 50%<\/em><\/span>, while <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>harsher shelter-in-place rules<\/em><\/span> reduced contact <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>by only an additional 5%<\/em><\/span>.<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> Then, using data on Covid-19 infection and mortality, they estimated that these measures saved <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>74,000 lives<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Finally, after using demographic data to adjust the VSL\u2014which is lower for older people, who have fewer years to live\u2014the study found that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the gross benefit of social distancing<\/em><\/span> has been a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>mere $250 billion<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In other words, this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>entire exercise<\/em><\/span> has been a needless waste of time, money and suffering.\u00a0 Hell&#8217;s bells: palm readers have a better chance of picking winning lottery numbers than these prognosticators have of being right.\u00a0 And we&#8217;re willing to bet <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>everyone of them<\/em><\/span> is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>still employed<\/em><\/span>&#8230;and preparing their <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>next<\/em><\/span> projection in the service of Progressive politics.<\/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\/2020\/06\/Image-6-16-20-at-4.28-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82115\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Image-6-16-20-at-4.28-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Image-6-16-20-at-4.28-PM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Image-6-16-20-at-4.28-PM-300x210.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/afb061520dAPR20200615064510.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82081\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/afb061520dAPR20200615064510.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/afb061520dAPR20200615064510.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/afb061520dAPR20200615064510-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/biden1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82082\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/biden1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/biden1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/biden1-300x233.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/biden.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82083\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/biden.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/biden.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/biden-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cb061320dAPC20200612104508.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82084\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cb061320dAPC20200612104508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cb061320dAPC20200612104508.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cb061320dAPC20200612104508-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/idiots.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82085\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/idiots.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/idiots.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/idiots-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/afb061620dAPR20200616034508.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82089\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/afb061620dAPR20200616034508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/afb061620dAPR20200616034508.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/afb061620dAPR20200616034508-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/endangered.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82086\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/endangered.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/endangered.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/endangered-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/kelly-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82087\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/kelly-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/kelly-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/kelly-1-300x247.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Garden-of-Eatin-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82056\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Garden-of-Eatin-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Garden-of-Eatin-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Garden-of-Eatin-1-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/A-Bad-Rap-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82057\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/A-Bad-Rap-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/A-Bad-Rap-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/A-Bad-Rap-1-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Autonomous-Wrecks-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82058\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Autonomous-Wrecks-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Autonomous-Wrecks-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Autonomous-Wrecks-1-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Image-6-15-20-at-7.58-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82059\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Image-6-15-20-at-7.58-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Image-6-15-20-at-7.58-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Image-6-15-20-at-7.58-AM-300x203.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Image-6-16-20-at-7.45-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82080\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Image-6-16-20-at-7.45-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Image-6-16-20-at-7.45-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Image-6-16-20-at-7.45-AM-300x238.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bachelorette-party.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82064\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bachelorette-party.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bachelorette-party.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bachelorette-party-236x300.jpeg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/be-careful.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82065\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/be-careful.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/be-careful.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/be-careful-300x254.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/meanwhile-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82066\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/meanwhile-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/meanwhile-1.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/meanwhile-1-300x277.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/deaf-people.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82067\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/deaf-people.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/deaf-people.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/deaf-people-300x245.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dont-even-bother-with-the-other-options.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82068\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dont-even-bother-with-the-other-options.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dont-even-bother-with-the-other-options.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dont-even-bother-with-the-other-options-300x269.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>So much for our old stand-by, &#8220;When in doubt, choose &#8220;C&#8221;!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s this from Balls Cotton&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/balls-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82061\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/balls-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/balls-3.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/balls-3-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;along with this stream of Conservative consciousness and common sense from Ed Hickey:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey8jpeg.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82097\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey8jpeg.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey8jpeg.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey8jpeg-300x150.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey7.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82098\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey7.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey7-300x150.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey6.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82099\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey6.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey6-300x150.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey2-3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey2-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey2-3.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey2-3-300x150.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82101\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey3-3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82102\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey3-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey3-3.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey3-3-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey3-3-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey4-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82103\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey4-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey4-2.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey4-2-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hickey4-2-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The Crime Blotter<\/em><\/span>, courtesy today of James Nichols and <em>Science<\/em> magazine, which reports&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article__headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2020\/06\/fifty-four-scientists-have-lost-their-jobs-result-nih-probe-foreign-ties\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\">Fifty-four scientists have lost their jobs as a result of NIH probe into foreign ties<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/download-1-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82112\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/download-1-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/download-1-2.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/download-1-2-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Some <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>54 scientists have resigned or been fired<\/em><\/span> as a result of\u00a0an ongoing investigation\u00a0by the National Institutes of Health <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>into the failure of NIH grantees to disclose financial ties to foreign governments<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">In <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>93% of those cases<\/em><\/span>, the hidden funding <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>came from a Chinese institution<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The\u00a0new numbers\u00a0come from Michael Lauer, NIH\u2019s head of extramural research. Lauer had\u00a0previously provided some information\u00a0on the scope of NIH\u2019s investigation, which had targeted 189 scientists at 87 institutions. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">But his presentation today to a senior advisory panel offered by far the most detailed breakout of\u00a0an effort NIH launched in August 2018\u00a0that has roiled the U.S. biomedical community, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>resulted in criminal\u00a0charges against some prominent researchers<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>including Charles Lieber, chair of Harvard University\u2019s department of chemistry and chemical biology<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> what we had hoped, and it\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> a fun task,\u201d NIH Director Francis Collins <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>shown above<\/em>)<\/span> said in characterizing the ongoing investigation. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><em>He called the data \u201c<\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>sobering<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>In the vast majority of cases, Lauer reported, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the person being investigated has been an Asian man in his 50s<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Some <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>three-quarters<\/em><\/span> of those under investigation had <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>active NIH grants<\/em><\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>nearly half<\/em><\/span> had <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>at least two grants<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> The 285 active grants totaled $<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>164 million<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Just curious: has anyone from the <em>NIH<\/em> been <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>fired<\/em><\/span>, let alone <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>punished<\/em><\/span> as a result of this taxpayer-funded scandal?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;re gonna go out on a limb and say&#8230;<\/strong><\/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>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Wednesday, June 17th, 2020&#8230;but before we begin, meet 31-year-old Rashid Brimmage, as he exhibits all the charm and civility visitors and residents have come to expect from the Big Apple, as he bids good morning to a 92-year-old woman: \ufeff\ufeff Thankfully, Brimmage is Black, while the woman\u00a0is White, thus the nation can forego what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82204","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=82204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82205,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82204\/revisions\/82205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}