{"id":99019,"date":"2021-12-30T16:46:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T21:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=99019"},"modified":"2021-12-30T16:46:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T21:46:22","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-december-27th-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=99019","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, December 27th, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Monday, December 27th, 2021&#8230;but before we begin, consider the following assertion&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7WwSNLbHpI0\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">then<\/span><\/em> contemplate what <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">decades<\/span><\/em> of government funding has done to the cost of a <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">college education<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the juice: NOTHING the government funds is either cost-effective <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">or<\/span><\/em> inexpensive, let alone <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">free<\/span><\/em>!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>any wonder<\/em><\/span> this lying sack of excrement <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">won&#8217;t take actual, insightful questions<\/span><\/em>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It should thus come as no surprise, as <em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Phil Klein observes, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/12\/why-bidens-approval-ratings-are-about-to-get-worse\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202021-12-23&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">his approval ratings may well fall below that of any President in history<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span>, illegitimate though he be.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hells bells<\/span><\/em>, it&#8217;s gotten <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">so bad<\/span><\/em> even the <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">insensate himself<\/span><\/em> has taken up the chant: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IrdrUBNKhe4?start=28&amp;end=35&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>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of lying sacks of excrement, courtesy of the\u00a0<em>New York Post<\/em>\u00a0via <em>White House Dossier<\/em>, in another <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">must-read<\/span><\/em> commentary from this most intelligent and erudite of authors, Heather Mac Donald explains how the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline headline--single\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/21\/omicron-coverage-reveals-how-the-establishment-media-keep-us-scared\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Omicron coverage reveals how the establishment, media keep us scared<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Image-12-22-21-at-9.53-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Image-12-22-21-at-9.53-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Image-12-22-21-at-9.53-AM.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Image-12-22-21-at-9.53-AM-300x274.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>In March 2020, a profile of the typical COVID victim emerged from Italy. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">The <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">average decedent<\/span><\/em> was <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">80 years old<\/span><\/em>, with approximately <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">three comorbidities<\/span><\/em>, such as <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">heart disease, obesity or diabetes<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> The <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">young<\/span><\/em> had <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>little to worry about<\/em><\/span>; the survival rate for the <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">vast majority of the population<\/span><\/em> was <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">well over 99 percent<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">That<\/span><\/em> portrait <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">never significantly changed<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> The <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">early assessments<\/span><\/em> of COVID out of Italy have <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">remained valid through today<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">And <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">so<\/span><\/em> it will prove with the Omicron variant.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>The\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/27\/omicron-variant-symptoms-unusual-but-mild-says-south-african-doctor\/\">data out of South Africa<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>, after five weeks of Omicron spread, suggest that Omicron should be a <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">cause for<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">celebration<\/span><\/em>, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not fear<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Its symptoms are <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">mild to nonexistent<\/span><\/em> in the majority of the infected, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">especially<\/span><\/em> the vaccinated; hospitalization rates are over <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nine times lower<\/span><\/em> than for previous COVID strains; <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">deaths are negligible<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> That assessment will only be confirmed as the United States and other Western countries gather their own data on Omicron. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>Only if Dr. Faux Chi and his ilk don&#8217;t manipulate the data!<\/em>)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Yet the public health establishment and the media are <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">working overtime to gin up Omicron hysteria<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> The <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">official response<\/span><\/em> to the Omicron variant provides a <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">case study in the deliberate manufacture of fear<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">The following strategies are <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">key<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Again, what follows above is <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">absolutely must-read material<\/span><\/em> for anyone and everyone\u00a0trying to grasp the goals of the fabricators of fear running both our government, its health bureaucracies, and the shills in the MSM who so subserviently support them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item, the editors at <em>NRO<\/em> call for Americans (<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">including<\/span><\/em> Christians!) to <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">grow a set<\/span><\/em> and&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/12\/end-the-covid-zero-mentality\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202021-12-22&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">End the Covid-Zero Mentality<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey4-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99025\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey4-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey4-2.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey4-2-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>A<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span class=\"small_caps\">s\u00a0<\/span>the Omicron variant rips through areas of the United States with among the highest vaccination rates in the world, it should be abundantly clear that we will not be able to \u201cend\u201d Covid. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">But we still have the power to end the \u201cCovid zero\u201d mentality.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The \u201cCovid zero\u201d mentality is an overriding belief that there is some ideal combination of government restrictions and personal behavioral changes that would enable us, in President Biden\u2019s infamous words, to \u201cshut down the virus.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Ever since the federal, state, and local governments started taking aggressive action against Covid in March 2020, Americans have been taunted by the promise that if we could just get over one hump, Covid madness would be over.<\/span> In practice, once we got to the top of one hump, another one became visible in the horizon. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">And then another one.<\/span> And another one. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">And another one.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The initial \u201c15 days to slow the spread\u201d is now used only as a punchline. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">That\u2019s because it ended up getting extended to six weeks, and then months, and for children who were shut out of schools in many parts of the country, over a year.<\/span> While the slogan may now be treated as an artifact, the central conceit of \u201c15 days to slow the spread\u201d is still with us.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> That conceit is that if Americans only sacrifice normalcy for a certain period of time, Covid will be over<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a second shot of the juice: it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>won&#8217;t<\/em><\/span> be over&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Ntksk9SpPs?start=113&amp;end=114&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;until we as a nation understand what we <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">need<\/span><\/em> to stop <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>isn&#8217;t<\/em><\/span> the ChiCom&#8217;s gift to the Dimocratic Party, but the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unconstitutional controls American Socialists have used<\/em><\/span> in fomenting fear of the WuFlu.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, <em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Kevin Williamson reveals a heretofore hidden radiance as he illuminates&#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\/2021\/12\/the-light-shines-in-the-darkness\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%20New%202021-12-25&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Light Shines in the Darkness<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/12\/the-light-shines-in-the-darkness\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%20New%202021-12-25&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">And the darkness has not overcome it<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/adoration-of-the-shepherd-honthorst.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99056\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/adoration-of-the-shepherd-honthorst.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/adoration-of-the-shepherd-honthorst.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/adoration-of-the-shepherd-honthorst-300x175.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Mary may be a young girl in a terrible situation \u2014 that unexplained pregnancy could have ended very badly for her \u2014 and she probably can\u2019t read or write, and probably doesn\u2019t know what the world is like beyond whatever is twelve villages over, but, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in this moment<\/span><\/em>, she understands, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">as a mother<\/span><\/em>, what is going on. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">And she shows <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>more moral sophistication than we might expect in our time from a university professor or a senator<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> There is <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">no equivocation<\/span><\/em> in Mary \u2014 there is <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">no room<\/span><\/em> for it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Herod knew<\/span><\/em> what was going on, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">too<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> Or he knew what a man like him <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">needed to know<\/span><\/em>, at least. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">He knew because Mary told him, told the world, that One was coming to \u201cput down the mighty from their thrones.\u201d<\/span> Herod responded as powerful men of that kind <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">usually do<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">For those <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">with power<\/span><\/em>, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">everything<\/span><\/em> must be made to <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">serve power<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> All flesh is meat to the state. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>Sound at all familiar?!?<\/em>)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Do you think Herod would have done differently if he had had to <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">personally watch<\/span><\/em> the slaughter of the Innocents?<\/span> Do you think he would have done differently if he had had to <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">do the butchering himself<\/span><\/em>, as\u00a0<em>Carnifex Rex<\/em>? <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I don\u2019t think he would have behaved any differently.<\/span> <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Why would<\/span><\/em> he? <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>We don\u2019t<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u201cMany have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled\u00a0among us,\u00a0just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first\u00a0were eyewitnesses\u00a0and servants of the word.\u201d <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It is <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">cold<\/span><\/em> outside when it happens.<\/span> <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Cold and dark<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The family is <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">far from home<\/span><\/em>, and would much rather be home, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the state<\/em><\/span> has <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">its<\/span><\/em> demands, too, and these cannot be resisted, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">even if that means sleeping among the animals<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> \u201cIn the beginning was the Word,\u00a0and the Word was with God,\u00a0and the Word was God.\u201d\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Magi show up with their signifying gifts: <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">gold<\/span><\/em>, because he is a <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">king<\/span><\/em>; <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">incense<\/span><\/em>, because he is a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>priest<\/em><\/span>; <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">myrrh<\/span><\/em>, because he will be <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">given over to the butchers<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> Does Mary <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">understand that<\/span><\/em>? <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">That the flesh of the <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">little infant<\/span><\/em> in her arms will <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">one day<\/span><\/em> be made to absorb <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all of the cruelty and horror that mankind has to offer<\/span><\/em>, so that <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">mankind might escape being damned by it even as we choke on it<\/span><\/em>?<\/span> She <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">will<\/span><\/em> understand, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">eventually<\/span><\/em> \u2014 God spares her <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nothing<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cIn him was life,\u00a0and that life was the light\u00a0of all mankind.<\/span>\u00a0The light shines in the darkness,\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and the darkness has not overcome it<\/span><\/em>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nor <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">will<\/span><\/em> it&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Ntksk9SpPs?start=113&amp;end=114&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>And on <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">that<\/span><\/em> you may make book!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of spiritual darkness in high places, in our<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>What Goes Around Comes Around<\/em><\/span> segment, the Progressive-inspired national crime wave finally comes home to roost, as <em>FOX<\/em> reports the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"title title-color-default\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/democratic-congresswoman-defund-police-carjacked-in-crime-surging-philadelphia\" intcmp=\"hp1bt1\" adv=\"hp1bt\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Democrat who sponsored police &#8216;reform&#8217; bill robbed at gunpoint hours after another liberal was carjacked<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/5yufha.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98995\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/5yufha.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/5yufha.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/5yufha-300x125.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., was\u00a0carjacked\u00a0at gunpoint in\u00a0Philadelphia\u00a0on Wednesday <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">as crime continues to surge in major cities across the country<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Scanlon&#8217;s phone and purse were stolen by the attacker,\u00a0according to WPVI-TV\u00a0of Philadelphia.<\/span> Police say Scanlon was approached by <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">two Black males<\/span><\/em>, aged approximately 20-30, as she walked to her vehicle before they demanded she hand them the keys. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Scanlon handed over the keys to her blue 2017 Acura MDX and one of the suspects drove away in it while the other drove away in a dark-colored SUV.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong>So far in 2021, the Philadelphia Police Department has reported <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">521\u00a0homicides<\/span><\/em>, which is a <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">13% increase<\/span><\/em> compared to 2020 and the city&#8217;s <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">highest<\/span><\/em> number of killings <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">since at least 2007<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Incidents involving a <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">shooting<\/span><\/em> have <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">also increased<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> by 4.4%<\/span><\/em>, and the number of people who are <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">victims<\/span><\/em> of a shooting has <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">risen by almost 3%<\/span><\/em> over the past year.<\/span> The City of Philadelphia is seeing at least an <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">80% increase in carjackings in 2021<\/span><\/em>, compared to the total number in 2020, police\u00a0told\u00a0FOX 29 earlier this month.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Scanlon was <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not the first<\/span><\/em> prominent Democratic official to be carjacked in a crime-ridden city <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in the last 24 hours<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> On Tuesday night,\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Illinois\u2019\u00a0Democratic state Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford<\/span><\/em> and her husband were\u00a0carjacked\u00a0in Broadview, Illinois, in the Chicago area, where crime has been\u00a0surging<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anyone with half a brain knows\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/five-arrested-in-connection-with-armed-carjacking-of-dem-congresswoman\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=26148110\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>the perps wouldn&#8217;t have been apprehended so quickly<\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0had their victim been a run-of-the-mill citizen of the hopelessly-misnamed <em>City of Brotherly Love<\/em> (in which even <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the brothers<\/span><\/em> seem to hate one another!), let alone had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/federal-charges-filed-against-suspect-carjacking-democratic-congresswoman\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">federal charges been filed against them<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>!\u00a0 If nothing else, The Swamp protects its own.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving on, we offer a septet of specially selected items certain to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(1).\u00a0According to a piece by\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/organization\/the-new-york-times\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">The New York Times<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>, Kommielaa has been privately complaining to her <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">allies<\/span><\/em>\u00a0her media coverage would be better were she any of her 48 White male predecessors.\u00a0 Her &#8220;allies&#8221;?\u00a0 <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">This<\/span><\/em> creature has &#8220;<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">allies<\/span><\/em>&#8220;?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2). In a forward from Ed Hickey, Royal Patriot tells us<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/royalpatriot.com\/college-spent-250k-on-racial-healing-garden\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">after San Diego State University spent $250,000 on its \u201cNative and Indigenous Healing Garden,\u201d nobody uses it<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>&#8220;<em>The \u201cHealing Garden\u201d was the university\u2019s way of addressing the controversy over its Aztec warrior mascot, which, unsurprisingly, came under fire a few years ago for being racist cultural appropriation&#8230;The healing garden was completed in March of last year, but the big grand opening celebration had to be canceled thanks to the COVID-related lockdowns. Since then, the healing garden hasn\u2019t been healing much of anything. Instead, it pretty much sits unused, a quarter of a million-dollar boondoggle courtesy of a taxpayer-funded university.<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>What about using the Native and Indigenous Healing Garden as a site for an altar on which Socialists can honor the Aztecs by cutting out the hearts of the unvaccinated?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(3). <em>The Epoch Times<\/em> reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us-navy-warship-pauses-deployment-after-covid-19-outbreak-among-100-percent-immunized-crew_4176989.html?utm_source=newsnoe&amp;utm_campaign=breaking-2021-12-25-2&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;est=Zvd68tmNjTkGASBZIc7nvmZVVkpkwADeo4z5vJGh9goiZXs0sdeJ8iIRkgmJVNeTCw%3D%3D\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><em>a U.S. Navy warship has paused its deployment to South America due to a\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0outbreak among its \u201c100 percent immunized\u201d crew<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/a>: &#8216;\u201cUSS <em>Milwaukee<\/em> (LCS 5), a Freedom variant littoral combat ship, remains in port as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>some<\/em><\/span> Sailors test positive for COVID-19,\u201d the\u00a0U.S. 4th Fleet said in a\u00a0statement.&#8221;\u00a0 Soooo&#8230;<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">how many<\/span><\/em> is &#8220;some&#8221;&#8230;and <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">how sick were they<\/span><\/em> that a warship would halt its deployment?!?\u00a0 After all, they&#8217;re young, in shape (generally) and all purportedly vaccinated; So, given the effects of the Omicron variant on practically 100% of the young, healthy and vaccinated, how sick <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">could they be<\/span><\/em>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(4). Writing at <em>NRO<\/em>, Rich Lowry lets one of The Donald&#8217;s favorite punching bags make his case, as Mitch McConnell correctly notes, &#8220;<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/12\/mcconnell-makes-his-case-we-must-be-doing-something-right\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202021-12-24&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">We must be doing SOMETHING Right<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 Say what you want about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2015\/05\/13\/mitch-mcconnell-responds-to-daily-show-turtle-impersonation.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kentucky State Post Turtle<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>, but Mitch has repeatedly performed in a pinch.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(5). In a forward from our old friend, classmate and fellow Nasal Radiator Breeze Gould, the <em>Conservative Daily News<\/em> explains the basis of its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativedailynews.com\/2021\/12\/knucklehead-of-the-week-christmas-edition-lori-lightfoot-on-santas-dunce-list\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nomination of Chicago&#8217;s lame-ass &#8220;leader&#8221; Lori Lightfoot as Knucklehead of the Week<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Outside of the occupant of the Offal Office and his suck-sessor, we cannot imagine a more deserving recipient of so dubious an honor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(6).\u00a0The propagandizing Progressive author of the 1619 Project <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/landonmion\/2021\/12\/26\/nikole-hannahjones-says-she-doesnt-understand-why-parents-should-decide-whats-being-taught-in-schools-n2601080\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">said Sunday on Meet the Progressive Press she did not understand the notion that parents should have a say in what their children should be taught in school<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>. &#8220;I don\u2019t really understand this idea that parents should decide what\u2019s being taught. <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I\u2019m not<\/span><\/em> a professional educator. <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I don\u2019t have<\/span><\/em> a degree in social studies or science. We send our children to school because we want them to be taught by people who have expertise in the subject area,&#8221; said Nikole Hannah-Jones.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Fortunately, yours truly <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">does<\/span><\/em> have a degree, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not only<\/span><\/em> in <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">history<\/span><\/em> but in <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">science<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0 And we&#8217;re not only the son of two teachers, but the brother of two more and father of a fifth.\u00a0 All of which, at least by the standards established by the corpulent Nikole Hannah-Jones, qualifies <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">us<\/span><\/em> to conclude <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">she&#8217;s full of Socialist sh*t<\/span><\/em>!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(7). <em>FOX<\/em> highlights\u00a0<\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/a-recap-of-actual-headlines-that-were-not-satire-in-2021\" class=\"broken_link\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">seven unbelievable headlines from 2021 that were NOT satire<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span>, but which might well have been featured at <em>The Onion<\/em> or <em>The Babylon Bee<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us, appropriately enough, to <em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bbb-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99044\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bbb-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bbb-5.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bbb-5-300x242.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/aaa-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99045\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/aaa-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/aaa-5.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/aaa-5-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bbbb.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99046\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bbbb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bbbb.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bbbb-300x228.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ccc.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99047\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ccc.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ccc.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ccc-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Picture31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99048\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Picture31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Picture31.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Picture31-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/naughty-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99049\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/naughty-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/naughty-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/naughty-1-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ddd.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99050\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ddd.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ddd.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ddd-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/eee.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99051\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/eee.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/eee.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/eee-300x223.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Image-12-23-21-at-8.55-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99042\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Image-12-23-21-at-8.55-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Image-12-23-21-at-8.55-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Image-12-23-21-at-8.55-AM-267x300.jpeg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah, a tower a babbling bullsh*t!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s these from Ed Hickey&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99033\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey-1-258x300.png 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey2-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99035\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey2-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey2-2.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey2-2-300x269.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99038\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey6.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey6-283x300.png 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99039\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey5.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey5-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey3-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99040\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey3-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey3-2.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey3-2-253x300.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey1-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99041\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey1-2.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hickey1-2-255x300.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and the lovely Shannon&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/shannon-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99029\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/shannon-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/shannon-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/shannon-1-237x300.png 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/shannon3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99032\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/shannon3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/shannon3.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/shannon3-300x256.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;along with two bits of Holiday humor from Major Jon&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/jon1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99027\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/jon1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/jon1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/jon1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/jon1-297x300.png 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and Speed:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/speed-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99028\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/speed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/speed-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/speed-1-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with the heart-warming story of another Okie which did Muskogee proud, as Jim Freeman relates the tale of an unlikely hero:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/muskogees-local-hero-11640301243?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">Sixth-grader has a busy day rescuing neighbors<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">.<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/im-457768.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99053\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/im-457768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/im-457768.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/im-457768-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>a student was trying to fill his water bottle and trying to loosen the cap with his mouth. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">The cap slipped into his throat<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong>The choking student stumbled into a nearby classroom, where Davyon happened to be. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cDavyon immediately sprinted over and did the Heimlich maneuver,\u201d Dawkins said.<\/span> \u201cFrom the account of the witnesses, when he did it the bottle cap popped out.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Davyon demonstrated how he got behind the choking student, wrapped his arms around the student and \u201cburped him, kind of.\u201d<\/span>&#8230;Davyon said he learned to do the thrust, commonly called the Heimlich maneuver, on YouTube.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Many of us can only hope that we\u2019ll be able to respond with the youngster\u2019s cool competence if called upon to help in such a situation.<\/span> The youngster seems to have been ready for anything that day. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Tulsa\u2019s KOTV\u00a0reports:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em>That same day after school, Davyon saw a house fire and ran to help a woman with a walker get out of the home. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cI thought \u2018oh, she\u2019s not moving fast enough.\u2019<\/span> So I ran across the street and helped her to her truck,\u201d said Davyon.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Davyon Johnson aspires to become an emergency medical technician, but it sounds like he\u2019s already qualified to teach a master class<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;d say young Master Johnson had had a full <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span><\/em> fulfilling day in anyone&#8217;s book.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Video of the Day<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Judge Jeanine offers a reasoned, law-based analysis of the Kim Potter verdict. Doesn&#8217;t mean we agree with the jury&#8217;s verdict, particularly given the character and record of the scumbag she accidentally shot; only that she offers the legal grounds for their decision.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A7bz1PMp-7Y?start=0&amp;end=307&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Tales of The Darkside<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meet a 2nd Amendment practitioner with a cool head and rock-steady nerves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rhW0BtEyH5M\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>On the Lighter Side<\/em><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A compilation of every instance in which Sean Connery &#8220;misread&#8217; the board in SNL&#8217;s Celebrity Jeopardy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mMOjRCuMmsw\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Monday, December 27th, 2021&#8230;but before we begin, consider the following assertion&#8230; \ufeff &#8230;and then contemplate what decades of government funding has done to the cost of a college education.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the juice: NOTHING the government funds is either cost-effective or inexpensive, let alone free!!! 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