{"id":99956,"date":"2022-02-13T18:35:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T23:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=99956"},"modified":"2022-02-13T18:35:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T23:35:39","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-february-11th-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=99956","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, February 11th, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Friday, February 11th, 2022&#8230;but before we begin, while the headline reads&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/new-york-state-to-drop-indoor-mask-mandate-11644419799?mod=djemalertNEWS\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\">New York State to Drop Indoor Mask Mandate<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/64l5b5.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99924\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/64l5b5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/64l5b5.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/64l5b5-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;the reality is drastically different, as&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;&#8230;<\/span><strong>Despite this, the governor said mask requirements will remain in effect in other locations <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>including<\/em><\/span> schools and childcare centers, healthcare facilities, homeless shelters, and corrections facilities.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Hochul said she spoke to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Dr. Anthony Fauci<\/em><\/span>, healthcare leaders, business leaders, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>school superintendents, and teachers unions<\/em><\/span> before making her decisions<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rather, they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>told<\/em><\/span> the good governor, accidental though she is, what decision to make, particularly if she was interested in union campaign contributions in the next election cycle.\u00a0 Hochul <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>couldn&#8217;t care less<\/em><\/span> what the actual science says regarding the efficacy and advisability of mask mandates, and even less than that what parents think.\u00a0 She sought the direction of everyone else but New York voters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: Cloth masks do <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>virtually nothing<\/em><\/span> to protect, a fact backed by hard data which has been available to anyone with common sense and an open mind for over a year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, the toad atop the nation&#8217;s largest teachers&#8217; union believes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/randi-weingarten-suggests-not-getting-rid-masks-zero-transmission-school\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>masking should be mandated until there is zero transmission in schools<\/em><\/span><\/a>. Which causes us to wonder whether Weingarten is just ignorant of the fact the WuFlu is here <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>TO STAY<\/em><\/span>, i.e., it&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>NEVER GOING AWAY<\/em><\/span> and we will <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>NEVER<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>EVER<\/em><\/span> have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>zero transmission<\/em><\/span> of the virus <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET<\/em><\/span>!!!<\/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><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>First up, for more on the subject of the utter uselessness of masking, we turn to a forward from Ed Hickey in which Geoff Shullenberger offers a follow-up to an earlier item featuring the research of Ian Miller, as he asks and answers the question&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2022\/02\/were-masks-a-waste-of-time\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Were masks a waste of time<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #333399;\">?<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2022\/02\/were-masks-a-waste-of-time\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Experts advocated an intervention they once thought useless<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99942\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image001.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image001-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The only way to measure the efficacy of mandates is to look at their actual track record. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This is what Miller has done, and the result, he argues, is clear: \u201cmask mandates have demonstrated very little impact, if any, on case curves throughout the United States and in many other international locations.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Miller is justifiably derisive about the experts who have oversold dubious policies at every turn, but the ironic implication of his book is that much of the expert guidance from prior to 2020 has been vindicated. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Before<\/em><\/span> Covid appeared, scientists and officials advised <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>time and again<\/em><\/span> that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>masks would be ineffective<\/em><\/span> at containing a pandemic respiratory virus, and the evidence Miller has compiled suggests <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">they were correct<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Two years into the pandemic, the experts are now the last to acknowledge the accuracy of their earlier predictions. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This raises the question of why they changed course and sacrificed their own credibility in the process.<\/span> Miller confines himself to the data, and if there\u2019s a limitation to his book, it\u2019s that he does not offer any compelling explanation of why the expert class threw itself a policy it once regarded as worse than useless.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It is not difficult to see why mask mandates proved irresistible to politicians.<\/span> Masks are the perfect form of hygiene theatre, conveying an intuitive sense of safety regardless of demonstrable efficacy at scale. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">They also offload responsibility for controlling the pandemic to ordinary people.<\/span> The overcrowding of ICUs can be blamed on the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>bad behavior of \u201canti-maskers<\/em><\/span>\u201d, rather than on the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>allocation of resources by governments and hospital CEO<\/em><\/span>s. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">When cases and deaths <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>spike<\/em><\/span>, it is the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>fault of the citizenry<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not the leadership<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The scientific and medical establishment\u2019s uncritical support of masks and other dubious policies is just the latest manifestation of its <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>lack of independence from political imperatives<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">After several years of finding themselves at the receiving end of rhetorical assaults from rising Right-wing populists, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the experts seized on the pandemic as an opportunity to reassert their own status and authority<\/em><\/span> \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and that of the liberal-technocratic politicians with whom they are largely aligned<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>In the long run, however, the temporary political advantages they gained from this will be outweighed by the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>discrediting effect<\/em><\/span> of their embrace of censorship, propaganda, and rule by decree. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Making us all put masks on was the expert class\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>mask-off moment<\/em><\/span> \u2014\u00a0and what we can see now <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>isn\u2019t pretty<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item, the <em>Morning Jolt<\/em> relates how\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/the-open-everything-meltdown-exposes-the-covid-psychosis\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20220210&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>The \u2018Open Everything\u2019 Meltdown Exposes the COVID Psychosis<\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 And a psychosis of the deepest possible variety.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To wit, upon entering our local Harris Teeter grocery store Thursday afternoon TLJ discovered she was one of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>very<\/em><\/span> small minority of people in the store <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> sporting a mask.\u00a0 Later, traveling down an aisle she encountered a masked woman who looked at her as if she were the veritable Angel of Death come to claim her.\u00a0 TLJ was so amused by the shock on the woman&#8217;s face, she couldn&#8217;t help taking a detour from her planned route so as to come fact to face with her prey once again.\u00a0 The resultant fear was, if anything, geometrically greater.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Think about: TLJ <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>wasn&#8217;t<\/em><\/span> masked, the woman <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>was<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 Based on the &#8220;science&#8221; of masking, and assuming being maskless TLJ wasn&#8217;t vaccinated, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>who<\/em><\/span> was in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>greater danger<\/em><\/span>?\u00a0 Yes, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that&#8217;s<\/em><\/span> the behavior exhibited when <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>fear overrides facts and reason<\/em><\/span>, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>textbook definition<\/em><\/span> of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>psychosis<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Turning from the &#8220;isn&#8217;t pretty&#8221; to the downright unattractive&#8230;at least in their #NeverTrump machinations&#8230;w<\/strong><strong>riting at <em>Townhall.com<\/em>, <em>RNC<\/em> chair Ronna McDaniel details how&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/ronnamcdaniel\/2022\/02\/08\/the-media-is-distorting-republican-censure-of-cheney-kinzinger-n2603021\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Media Is Distorting Republican Censure of Cheney, Kinzinger<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/64rhyx.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99960\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/64rhyx.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/64rhyx.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/64rhyx-300x157.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>the awful events of that day do not justify Cheney or Kinzinger enabling a partisan committee whose real purpose seems to be helping Democrats\u2019 electoral prospects at the cost of potentially ruining innocent people\u2019s lives.<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> From the outset, the committee has lacked the legitimacy of past independent, bipartisan efforts investigating events of national importance.<\/span> For starters, Republican leadership was not allowed to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>freely appoint<\/em><\/span> a single Republican to the committee. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Instead, Cheney and Kinzinger were hand-picked by Nancy Pelosi.\u00a0<\/span><i class=\"fa fa-arrow-circle-right\"><\/i><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The January 6 Committee predictably has now vastly exceeded its original purpose and morphed into something else entirely, investigating Republicans who had nothing to do with January 6 for the apparent offense of being Republican. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Under the Committee\u2019s approach, almost anything related to the 2020 election is within the scope of its jurisdiction, to include harassing citizens who were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not even in Washington, DC that day<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Nancy Pelosi\u2019s committee \u2013 which the New York Times says \u201cis <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>employing techniques more common in criminal cases than in congressional inquiries<\/em><\/span>\u201d \u2013 has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no authority to pursue criminal charges<\/em><\/span>, is not respecting the rights of private citizens and has disregarded due process and checks and balances. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Last month, reports showed that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>90 percent<\/em><\/span> of the committee\u2019s subpoenas have been delivered to people who <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">weren\u2019t even at the Capitol on January 6th<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> That is political posturing, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> pursuing justice. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Even an individual on trial has the right to face a jury of his peers, but those being called in front of the committee are faced with a hostile kangaroo court that reached a conclusion long before even asking a question.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>This includes individuals like one of the RNC\u2019s members who was subpoenaed because, weeks before January 6th, she served as an alternate elector pending the outcome of ongoing lawsuits \u2013 an action with clear legal precedent which Democrats themselves have done in the past. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Now she could face costly legal bills even though she was nowhere near the Capitol on January 6th and had nothing to do with the violence that occurred.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are cheapening the events of January 6th by participating in Nancy Pelosi\u2019s partisan committee. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Senate has already completed one investigation into January 6th, and there are multiple ongoing active law enforcement investigations into what happened that day.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>These<\/em><\/span> are the correct avenues for investigation.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I firmly believe we are the big tent party, and that disagreement amongst Republicans is welcome and can make us stronger.<\/span> But what Cheney and Kinzinger are engaged in goes <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>much further<\/em><\/span> than any policy disagreement. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">These two have permitted their party affiliation to be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>weaponized to allow the Democrats gross overreach and abuse of power<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> In short, they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never should have agreed<\/em><\/span> to be part of a committee where <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Republicans were denied representation<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">As I have repeatedly stated, violence is not legitimate political discourse \u2013 whether in the U.S. Capitol or in Democrat-run cities across the country \u2013 and neither is abusing Congress\u2019 investigatory powers for political gain.<\/span> Media outlets pretending that the RNC believes otherwise are doing so in bad faith, and their lies should be called out for the cheap political stunts they are.<\/strong> <\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To which we would simply add&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6I6TrGedUn8?start=224&amp;end=226&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>We only hope <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2022\/02\/10\/liz-cheney-ditched-constituents-to-speak-with-reporters-called-wy-voters-crazies-n2603114\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Wyoming voters share our utter disdain for Cheney<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, we offer a septet of items specially selected for inquiring Conservative minds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(1). Writing at <em>The Epoch Times<\/em>, Roger Simon relates how, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/not-just-cnn-mainstream-media-is-on-the-ropes_4264496.html?utm_source=opinionnoe&amp;utm_campaign=opinion-2022-02-09&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;est=5uRC2iN78vgBY%2FS%2FXqskOFPv13mXwcjyb8KquxnLMI8%2F6sJsxH7IKQi5wHtXRcSHOQ%3D%3D\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>when he suggests the MSM is on the ropes, he doesn&#8217;t mean JUST CNN<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2). Maryland RINO governor Larry Hogan made the announcement in a press conference where he said <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/madelineleesman\/2022\/02\/08\/maryland-gov-hogan-makes-announcement-on-a-2022-senate-run-n2603012\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>he does not aspire to be a Senator and appreciates those who\u2019ve urged him to consider it<\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 What Larry <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>does<\/em><\/span> aspire to be is the next Republican candidate for President, a position for which he should consider running as a Dimocrat, the party which best suits his proclivity for changing his policies to suit the mood of The Mob.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(3). And we&#8217;re shocked&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/shocked.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99944\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/shocked.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/shocked.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/shocked-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;to report <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>15-year-old Russian figure skater prodigy Kamila Valieva has failed a drug test<\/em><\/span>\u00a0at the Beijing Olympics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(4). The <em>Journal<\/em>&#8216;s Dan Henninger sagely suggests <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/turn-off-winter-beijing-2022-olympics-beijing-xi-jinping-mlb-nfl-commanders-washington-political-correctness-11644439456?mod=opinion_featst_pos3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>everyone in America turn off the Olympics<\/em><\/span><\/a>&#8230;a recommendation we can&#8217;t follow as we never turned them on in the first place.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(5). Though, as this item forwarded by our old friend Adam indicates, <a href=\"https:\/\/bariweiss.substack.com\/p\/slow-motion-suicide-in-san-francisco\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>San Francisco continues to sink into a cesspool of its own creation<\/em><\/span><\/a>, 8 hours to the south, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-degradation-of-life-in-l-a-is-exponential-11644531039?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>residents of the City of Angels are beginning to fight back against the Soros-sponsored powers-that-be<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(6). James Nichols sent us this account of <a href=\"https:\/\/maybury.ca\/the-reformed-physicist\/2022\/02\/03\/a-night-with-the-untouchables\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Canadian scientist who took the time to try to understand the thinking of the Freedom Convoy<\/em><\/span><\/a>&#8230;and came away convinced of their sincerity, if not the justness of their cause.\u00a0 BTW, if you didn&#8217;t catch Tucker last night, here&#8217;s a snippet you don&#8217;t want to miss:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ou5A8Glngr8?start=0&amp;end=1022&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The powers-that-be are afraid&#8230;VERY afraid.\u00a0 And they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>should<\/em><\/span> be.\u00a0 And if they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>aren&#8217;t<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tUoBkhTFdWA?start=7\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(7).\u00a0<\/strong><strong>President Biden\u00a0criticized a controversial bill making its way through the\u00a0Florida\u00a0legislature that addresses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-florida-bill-addressing-sex-gender-conversations-in-classrooms-is-hateful-attack-on-gay-children\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">conversations teachers have with their students about gender and sexual orientation<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>&#8220;<em>I want every member of the LGBTQI+ community \u2014 especially the kids who will be impacted by this hateful bill \u2014 to know that you are loved and accepted just as you are<\/em>,&#8221; the president tweeted Tuesday. &#8220;<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\">I have your back<\/span>, and my Administration will continue to fight for the protections and safety you deserve<\/em>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Yeah, kids, Uncle Joe&#8217;s&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/EX1618dWkAAZ6Or.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99962\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/EX1618dWkAAZ6Or.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/EX1618dWkAAZ6Or.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/EX1618dWkAAZ6Or-300x164.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/download-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99963\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/download-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/download-1.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/download-1-300x215.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;got your back!\u00a0 Guess the same individual who filtered Trump&#8217;s tweets are screening 46*&#8217;s.<\/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\/2022\/02\/aaaa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99926\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaaa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaaa.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaaa-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/afb020922dAPR20220209074508.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99927\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/afb020922dAPR20220209074508.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/afb020922dAPR20220209074508.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/afb020922dAPR20220209074508-300x214.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaa-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99965\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaa-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaa-6.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaa-6-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaaaa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99928 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaaaa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaaaa.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaaaa-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99933\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aa.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aa-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/afb021022dAPR20220210064506.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99964\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/afb021022dAPR20220210064506.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/afb021022dAPR20220210064506.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/afb021022dAPR20220210064506-300x214.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MC_DrStrangFauci_web20220209112200.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99934\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MC_DrStrangFauci_web20220209112200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MC_DrStrangFauci_web20220209112200.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MC_DrStrangFauci_web20220209112200-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaa-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99932\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaa-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaa-5.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaa-5-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaa-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99965\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaa-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaa-6.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaa-6-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aria_c18829520220209120100.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99930\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aria_c18829520220209120100.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aria_c18829520220209120100.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aria_c18829520220209120100-300x181.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaaaaaa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99931\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaaaaaa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaaaaaa.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaaaaaa-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99929\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/a.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/a-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Image-2-9-22-at-2.01-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99936\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Image-2-9-22-at-2.01-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Image-2-9-22-at-2.01-PM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Image-2-9-22-at-2.01-PM-300x254.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Image-2-10-22-at-8.39-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99968\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Image-2-10-22-at-8.39-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Image-2-10-22-at-8.39-PM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Image-2-10-22-at-8.39-PM-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s this from the lovely Shannon&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/neil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99969\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/neil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/neil.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/neil-287x300.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;along with a trio of <em>Hunter the Crack King<\/em> memes forwarded by Speed:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_3713_276558684874135.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99970\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_3713_276558684874135.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_3713_276558684874135.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_3713_276558684874135-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_3713_276558684874135-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_4055_276402822779923.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99971\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_4055_276402822779923.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_4055_276402822779923.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_4055_276402822779923-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_4898_276039117928343.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99972\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_4898_276039117928343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_4898_276039117928343.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_4898_276039117928343-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, since we&#8217;re on the subject of drugs, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>News of the Bizarre<\/em><\/span>, as <em>FOX<\/em> relates the story of a state legislator who <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>must<\/em><\/span> be on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>something<\/em><\/span>:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/wa-rep-exempts-native-americans-life-jacket-bill-experience-cold-water\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800000;\">Washington rep exempts Native Americans from life jacket bill because they&#8217;re &#8216;very used to our cold waters<\/span><\/a>&#8216;<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/maxresdefault-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99949\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/maxresdefault-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/maxresdefault-1.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/maxresdefault-1-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Washington state Rep. Cindy Ryu, a Democrat, is the sponsor of HB 1707, a bill that would require people to wear personal flotation devices while on stand-up paddle boards, kayaks and canoes in an effort to prevent drowning deaths.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">The legislation, however, includes an exemption for members of federally-recognized Native American tribes.<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>The exemption came up during a\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/3341979\/rantz-democrat-native-americans-drown-eons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">remote hearing<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0on the bill, where Ryu defended it while suggesting Native Americans <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>wouldn\u2019t drown due to their &#8220;eons&#8221; of experience dealing with the &#8220;cold water<\/em><\/span>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">&#8220;The few exemptions you see, including the tribal members \u2013 federally recognized tribal members exemptions \u2013 are based on responses from the community,&#8221; Ryu said.<\/span> &#8220;These are situations where they have either <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>extensive training<\/em><\/span> or [are] <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>traditionally very used<\/em><\/span> to our cold waters <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>for eons<\/em><\/span>, essentially, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>or<\/em><\/span> are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>very closely supervised<\/em><\/span>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>According to\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/drowning\/facts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data<\/a><\/em><\/span>, Native Americans <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>actually<\/em><\/span> have the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>highest rate of drowning<\/em><\/span> among racial demographics.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Ryu said she thought the provision &#8220;was a great mechanism to allow the tribal members that do have a lot more access to the waters and traditional training and activity, unlike many of the other diverse communities that don\u2019t, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">like Korean Americans<\/span><\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0<u><\/u><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">&#8220;The only time I go out on the water nowadays anyway is when my non-Korean American son-in-law takes me out on the water,&#8221; she continued.<\/span> &#8220;And so I thought that was a good way of carving out very narrow exemptions.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Ryu\u2019s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital\u2019s request for comment.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah,&#8230;probably because they realize&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uq-v1TTUyhM\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>Video of the Day<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you ever needed a reason to boycott Showtime and any other cable channel or network owned by its parent, ViacomCBS, this is it. P.S. Gotta love the fact ViacomCBS is owned and run by rich WHITE people! (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.viacomcbs.com\/about\/leadership\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>https:\/\/www.viacomcbs.com\/about\/leadership<\/em><\/span><\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JQ2f5OVZ7Oo\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>Tales of The Darkside<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Will Cain, Harris Faulkner and Tammy Bruce team up to expose the true divide in America and the world. These elites have sown the wind, and they&#8217;re starting to reap the whirlwind.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4igyORleD2M?start=26&amp;end=465&amp;\" 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>Justin Trudeau: He can&#8217;t hold &#8217;em, cuz he&#8217;s got nothing to hold, and he sure as heck ain&#8217;t willin&#8217; to fold &#8217;em. So he just walks away! Another Profile in Progressive Political and Personal Poltroonery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bY5_4DgoY98\" 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, February 11th, 2022&#8230;but before we begin, while the headline reads&#8230; New York State to Drop Indoor Mask Mandate &nbsp; &#8230;the reality is drastically different, as&#8230; &#8220;&#8230;Despite this, the governor said mask requirements will remain in effect in other locations including schools and childcare centers, healthcare facilities, homeless shelters, and corrections facilities. 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