It’s Wednesday, March 13th, 2013…and here’s The Gouge!

Leading off the mid-week edition, A Tale of Two Parties, as told in these rather disparate story lines:

Senate Democrats’ Budget Hikes Taxes by $1 Trillion, Never Balances

Ryan Reduces Deficits by $4.6 Trillion and Balances the Budget 

Sure, it takes Ryan 10 years to do it, and a lot can happen in a decade; but this is one time later is definitely and infinitely better than never.

Since we’re on the subject of costs, they’re part of the title of this installment of Ashley Judd’s blog, offering Kentuckians an unvarnished glimpse into the tortured mind of this Senate wanna-be:

Costs of Convenience

Thinking of all that rape while simultaneously and hypocritically using my Apple products makes my head hurts!

Courtesy Alex Pappas, potential Senate candidate and actress Ashley Judd assesses the moral value of Apple products:

“…My electronics, received as gifts or purchased, profit armed militias and support slavery. I am financing mass rape as I enjoy these ridiculously Global North ultra-efficiencies and conveniences, for large scale rape is the preferred predation mining interests use to humiliate and terrify local populations, in order to control resource areas. The UN notes that virtually every mine in DRC is militarized. This means little to no tin, tantalum, and tungsten is mined free of brutal exploitation, extortion, violence, rape, rape, .“

http://ashleyjudd.com/writings/costs-of-convenience/

We’re somehow confident Ashley will muddle through her moral conundrum.

Next up, a reminder Naval Aviation is a very unforgiving avocation…particularly down in the weeds:

Navy aircraft crashes in rural Washington state, killing 3

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the aircrew.

In a related item, courtesy of the AEI, James Pethokoukis details a nation’s degeneration:

The US: From warfare state to welfare state

“…While about 50 percent of expenditures were devoted to national defense in the 1960s, most spending was devoted to welfare programs in 2010. Unemployment, Social Security, health, and education were just 28.9 percent of expenditures in the 1960s, but their size had increased to 61 percent by 2010. The composition of spending shifted from temporary to structural expenditures.”

Funny how Dimocrats don’t deem Defense spending an “investment” in America’s future, despite national security being one of the few responsibilities of the federal government actually delineated in the Constitution.  We can only assume some jobs are more important than others…particularly when the vast majority of defense-related workers tend to vote Republican.

Moving on, more on Mark Kelly’s incredible act of hypocrisy:

For the record, WE’RE sure as hell not averse to beating up on Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly…or anyone else, regardless of race, color, creed, sexual orientation or tragic personal circumstances, who would seek to rob us of our Constitutional rights.

By the way, don’t hold your breath waiting for Holder’s Department of Injustice to enforce the already-existing gun statute Kelly violated.  As reported previously, under Der Obamao, prosecutions for federal gun violations are down some 40%; which is strikingly similar to the decrease in oil and gas production on federal lands under B. Hussein.

Then there’s today’s Muslim Minute, and the latest from the Religion of Peace:

Saudi Arabia may stop beheadings over shortage of swordsmen

Saudi Arabia is considering halting beheadings in favor of firing squads, as officials report the government is running out of swordsmen to carry out executions. A joint Saudi committee made up of representatives from the interior, justice and health departments is deliberating the idea, according to Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, citing Saudi newspaper Al-Youm.

Lest Ashley Judd wax too enthusiastic about Saudi justice, there’s no equivalent in the Qur’an for the Western definition of rape.  As noted in WikiIslam, “there is not a single verse in the Qur’an which even remotely discourages forced sex. In contrast, there are several verses in this book which give the green light to rape and other sexual crimes against women.”

Not to mention goats, sheep and camels.

And in today’s Follow-Up segment, courtesy of George Lawlor, a follow-up to an earlier item regarding

Cincinnati poll worker charged with voting half dozen times in November

Were it up to us, Melowese would be facing a firing squad, as her crime undermines the very bedrock of the Republic; a view we’ll readily admit is not shared by the man who won an unlimited vacation budget, not to mention two terms in the White House, as a result of massive amounts of similar fraud.

Bottom rail on top, Massah…bottom rail on top.

Is it any wonder Dimocrats fight any form of sensible voter ID requirements…

…tooth and nail?

On the Lighter Side…

In a follow-up to yesterday’s item detailing a 0200 shooting in DC, we offer this headline:

SUV in fatal crash that left 6 teens dead was stolen, owner says

Here’s a recap to ensure we’re all on the same page: 8 kids…in a stolen 5-seat SUV…driving over 70 mph on a two-lane road at daybreak last Sunday morning…sans seatbelts.  And they weren’t heading to church!

Forget waiting for the release of the toxicology reports; the real cause of this horrendous accident lies with the parents of the kids involved, as well as the culture of non-judgmental moral relativism thrust down the throats of the body politic by over 100 years of Progressive political pandering.

Just as we wondered why a group of individuals…of any skin tone…would be hanging outside an apartment building in Northwest DC at 2 o’clock on a Monday morning, we’re flummoxed why 14 and 15-year-old boys would be passengers in a stolen car driven by a 19-year-old girl early on an early Sunday morning death ride.

Color us whatever you will, but until America’s willing to hold folks accountable for self-destructive behavior…without any associated monetary reward…guns are going to be the least of America’s problems.

Finally, we’ll call it a day with the “Your Tax Dollars at Work” segment, and conclusive evidence sequestration hasn’t even BEGUN to force the federal government to trim the…”fat”:

Feds Spend $1.5 Million to Study Why Lesbians Are Fat

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $1.5 million to study biological and social factors for why “three-quarters” of lesbians are obese and why gay males are not, calling it an issue of “high public-health significance.” Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass., has received two grants administered by NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to study the relationship between sexual orientation and obesity.

“Obesity is one of the most critical public health issues affecting the U.S. today,” the description of the grant reads. “Racial and socioeconomic disparities in the determinants, distribution, and consequences of obesity are receiving increasing attention.” “[H]owever, one area that is only beginning to be recognized is the striking interplay of gender and sexual orientation in obesity disparities,” it states. “It is now well-established that women of minority sexual orientation are disproportionately affected by the obesity epidemic, with it continues.

“In stark contrast, among men, heterosexual males have nearly double the risk of obesity compared to gay males.” The investigators say there has been “almost no” research devoted to this disparity, and they have set out to find the biological, psychological, and social factors behind it.

Gee…at the risk of saving taxpayers $1.5M, we’ll go way out on a limb and suggest obese lesbians are fat for the same reason as the kids pictured below…

…i.e., calories in far exceed calories out.  Laying aside the terribly disturbing Constitutional infringements…and Mika Brzezinski’s idiotic rantings…

 …notwithstanding, we were raised on Big Macs, sugary soft drinks and every kind of junk food imaginable.  They didn’t prevent us participating in high school and Division I college sports, let alone graduating from the Naval Academy and flying F-14’s.

Here’s the juice: it ain’t the intake, but rather the lack of burn.  Video games and television are no substitute for an endless stream of backyard football, pickle and 500.  Oh, and we played “guns” (“war” to the more sophisticated), which involved constant running, unlimited killing and occasional falling to the ground in simulated death…though we’ve yet to harm a single human; at least anyone who didn’t have it coming.

If the federal government is intent upon studying the differences in lesbians and gays, we’d suggest determining why so many of the former are repugnantly ugly…

…and the vast majority of the latter are possessed of such fashion sense:

Then again, as this last headline infers, maybe lesbians just need…

Inadequate sleep may make you eat more

…to catch more Z’s!

Magoo