It’s Monday, November 16th, 2015…but before we begin, a brief note of explanation to Rand Paul: see that red glow in the corner of your eye emanating from Paris, Senator?

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, three headlines which should make any thinking person…

Muslim Rampage in Paris, 100+ Dead

Obama moves to ‘increase and accelerate’ admission of Syrian refugees

…question the sanity of both our President and the seemingly-suicidal Socialists who continue to support him.

Given the reaction of the WSJ‘s editors to this latest Islamic atrocity, even they still don’t get it:

“What’s needed now is a renewed sense of purpose to destroy the barbarians at the gate.”

Read and heed: the barbarians aren’t at the gate…

Wake Up America: Syrian Refugees Arrive in New Orleans

Thus the question isn’t whether ISIS operatives are in-country, but rather how many Islamic terror cells are already up and operating!  Meanwhile, the likes of Obama and Angela Merkel want to aid their continued infiltration.

Sure, as Carol Brown details in today’s Muslim Minute, courtesy of American Thinker, there may be a logical explanation for the increasingly treasonous activities of one B. Hussein Obama: 

The Taqiyya Factor

“Taqiyya is an Islamic doctrine that allows Muslims to deceive non-Muslims. As in lie to them. Dr. Sami Mukaram, author of Taqiyya in Islam, writes: “Taqiyya is of fundamental importance in Islam. Practically every Islamic sect agrees to it and practices it… Taqiyya is very prevalent in Islamic politics, especially in the modern era.” (Specific references to taqiyya in the Quran, the Hadith, and in Islamic law, can be found here.)

One of the most common and persistent forms of taqiyya we are witnessing today is noted at Islam-Watch:

When placed under scrutiny or criminal investigation, (even when there is overwhelming, irrefutable evidence of guilt or complicity), the taqiyya-tactician will quickly attempt to counter the allegation by resorting to the claim that it is, in fact, the accused who are the ‘the victims’. Victims of Islamophobia, racism, religious discrimination and intolerance. Currently, this is the most commonly encountered form of distraction and ‘outwitting’….

Soooo…lying to the infidel is an integral part of Islam; that would explain a lot!

Indeed. We see this manifest just about every day as Muslims claim to be victims when it is they who are the aggressors. And the goal is always the same: deceive the non-believer in order to advance Islamic supremacy. Of course, the non-believers can only be outwitted if they are also non-thinkers…”

But Obama’s perfidy doesn’t explain why Angela Merkel is seemingly seeking the simultaneous destruction of Deutschland.  And regardless whether Barry’s betrayal results from deliberate design or unparalleled ineptitude, we agree with the conclusion Michael Goodwin reaches in the pages of the New York Post:

It’s time for Obama to make a choice: Lead us or resign

“In any time and place, war is fiendishly simple. It is the ultimate zero-sum contest — you win or you lose. That eternal truth is so obvious that it should not need to be said. Yet even after the horrific slaughter in Paris, there remains a distressing doubt about whether America’s commander in chief gets it.

President Obama has spent the last seven years trying to avoid the world as it is. He has put his intellect and rhetorical skills into the dishonorable service of assigning blame and fudging failure. If nuances were bombs, Islamic State would have been destroyed years ago.

He refuses to say “Islamic terrorism,” as if that would offend the peaceful Muslims who make up the vast bulk of victims. He rejects the word “war,” even as jihadists carry out bloodthirsty attacks against Americans and innocent peoples around the world.

He shuns the mantle of global leadership that comes with the Oval Office, with an aide advancing the preposterous concept that Obama is “leading from behind.” He snubs important partners like Egypt, showers concessions on the apocalyptic mullahs of Iran, and called the Islamic State the “jayvee team” even as it was beginning to create a caliphate.

Having long ago identified American power as a problem, he continues to slash the military as the enemy expands its reach. In a globalized era, the Obama doctrine smacks of cowardly retreat and fanciful isolation.

In an accident of timing that captures his cluelessness, the president actually declared on Friday morning that Islamic State had been “contained,” practically boasting in a TV interview that, “They have not gained ground in Iraq and in Syria.” What gall. What folly.

Paris is the final straw. Obama’s exemption from reality has expired. He must either commit to leading the free world to victory, or step aside so someone else can.

And don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out, you sorry piece of Socialist sh*t!

…The determination and unity the free world showed after 9/11 faded as casualties, mistakes and politics eroded the mission. So we are back to square one again, facing a stronger and more emboldened enemy. The time has run out for half measures and kicking the can down the road. The enemy must be destroyed on the battlefield before there can be any hope of peace.

If Obama cannot rise to the challenge of leadership in this historic crisis, then, for the good of humanity, he should resign. Those are the only options and it is his duty to decide.“

Though as his heiress-apparent demonstrated Saturday night…

…the architect of the Libyan debacle and “lead-from-behind” is cut from the same cloth!

Here’s the juice: one might as well wish Bill Clinton celibate as B. Hussein a leader; neither man has it in him.  So the only real option is resignation, and that ain’t happenin’!  For if there’s one thing The Great Divider’s demonstrated during his time in the public eye, the only quality he possesses in even shorter supply than leadership is humility.  

So batten down the hatches, friends; in the words of the late, great Fred Thompson:

431 days and counting.

Next up, as reported by Breitbart, the Delicate Little Flowers, aka, the Sisters and Brothers of St. Barry the Perpetually Offended, have yet another source of distress:

Mizzou Campus Activists and Black Lives Matter Complain About Paris Stealing the Spotlight

“Campus activists in America showed their true faces during an international tragedy last night: they are the selfish, spoiled children we always knew they were.

Black Lives Matter and Mizzou protesters responded to the murder of scores of people in Paris at the hands of Islamic extremists by complaining about losing the spotlight and saying their “struggles” were being “erased.” Their struggles, remember, consist of a poop swastika of unknown provenance and unsubstantiated claims of racially-charged remarks somewhere near Missouri’s campus.

So debased has the language on American campuses become that these incidents, which many observers believe to be hoaxes, just like previous campus scandals celebrated by progressive media, are being referred to as “terrorism” and a “tragedy” by moronic 20-year-olds who have never been told, “No.”…”

Truly the children of their two fathers:

In a related item courtesy of NRO, Mona Charen wonders whether the grandchildren of the 60’s are…

Special Snowflakes? Or Fascists?

“There was a much beloved quote circulated among leftists, often attributed to Sinclair Lewis, that “when fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” In light of recent episodes of mob action on American campuses, the quote needs updating: When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in “diversity” and demanding “safe spaces.”

Demand is the key word. It marks the essential authoritarianism at work here. At the University of Missouri, students “demanded” that (now former) university president Tim Wolfe write a “handwritten” letter of apology acknowledging his “white, male privilege.” Among his alleged sins was apparently not doing enough to shield so-called “marginalized students” from feeling upset after a black criminal, Michael Brown, was killed by the police officer he had assaulted. Another sin was driving away when a mob surrounded his car at homecoming festivities. Wolfe has since apologized, groveled (“my apology is long overdue”), and resigned. Good riddance.

Events at the University of Missouri were a perfect American storm: the confluence of fascistic student and faculty behavior, viral rumors of white racism, and the almighty dollar. That’s right, the dollar, because as an American university administrator, you can offend every principle enshrined in the Bible and the U.S. Constitution, you can make a mockery of higher education by offering courses on Martha Stewart’s whiteness or Fifty Shades of Grey, but don’t mess with the football team. That’s where the real power resides. When the black football players threatened to boycott this weekend’s game against Brigham Young, the university president had to go.

There has been some tut-tutting, even among liberals, about modern university students’ hypersensitivity. But let’s not kid ourselves — though it is couched in the language of safety, what these little snowflakes want is repression. Brenda Smith-Lezama, for example, is the vice president of the Missouri Students Association. Asked about efforts on the Missouri campus to “muscle” student journalists away from a public event, she offered a view that would make Castro proud: “I personally am tired of hearing that First Amendment rights protect students when they are creating a hostile and unsafe learning environment for myself and for other students here,” she told MSNBC…”

Perhaps in the future, to spare these delicate little flowers the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, even…

…should carry a warning label!

Though if this is the idiocy one can expect from contemporary moms…

…one shouldn’t be surprised at the sub-par quality of their offspring.

On the Lighter Side…

Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with News of the Bizarre, or perhaps more appropriately in this case, Sh*t That Just Makes You Laugh, courtesy of George Lawlor:

Pastafarian woman gets to wear strainer on head in license photo

A Massachusetts agency is letting a woman who belongs to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster wear a colander on her head in her driver’s license photo after she cited her religious beliefs.

Lowell resident Lindsay Miller said Friday that she “absolutely loves the history and the story” of Pastafarians, whose website says has existed in secrecy for hundreds of years and entered the mainstream in 2005. Miller says wearing the spaghetti strainer allows her to express her beliefs, like other religions are allowed to do.

A spokesman for the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles says policy does not permit head coverings or hats on license photos, but exceptions are made for religious reasons. Lawyer Patty DeJuneas calls Pastafarianism a “secular religion that uses parody to make its point.“

Magoo