02.14.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Psychopath & Sociopath, Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 10:04 am by George Smith
If you don’t like my song you’re a moron and should not be reading this blog.
From CNN Money, Tom Perkins, who is now doing it just because it gets him video attention:
“The fear is wealth tax, higher taxes, higher death taxes — just more taxes until there is no more 1%. And that that will creep down to the 5% and then the 10%.”
“The Tom Perkins system is: You don’t get to vote unless you pay a dollar of taxes.”
“But what I really think is, it should be like a corporation. You pay a million dollars in taxes, you get a million votes. How’s that?”
I thought that last bit was already true. Many think the same, no?
This puts Perkins in company with others, notably Ted Nugent, who has lobbied twice for the reciprocal: denying the vote to those who allegedly pay no tax.
Nugent means the poor, the 47 percent, anyone on the left and everyone not-white. And they actually do pay taxes, lots of them. Payroll, sales, regular state-administered car fees, phone service taxes, etc.
From 2012:
“Let’s also stop the insanity by suspending the right to vote of any American who is on welfare. Once they get off welfare and are self-sustaining, they get their right to vote restored. No American on welfare should have the right to vote for tax increases on those Americans who are working and paying taxes to support them.”
And again, last year:
He’ll use his NRA clout to make it law that everyone who buys a gun at a gun show go through a background check if the rest of us will campaign for and help enact law that takes the right to vote for presidential and congressional candidates in elections away from people who pay no income tax.
In his blog, and today in his column at the New York Times, Paul Krugman has been working over the same issue:
In fact, the people who seem least inclined to respect the efforts of ordinary workers are the winners of the wealth lottery. Over the past few months, we’ve been harangued by a procession of angry billionaires, furious that they’re not receiving the deference, the acknowledgment of their superiority, that they believe is their due. For example, last week the investor Sam Zell went on CNN Money to defend the 1 percent against “envy,??? and he asserted that “the 1 percent work harder. The 1 percent are much bigger factors in all forms of our society.??? Dignity for all!
And there’s another group that doesn’t respect workers: Republican politicians.
“[When] it comes to Americans down on their luck, conservatives become insultingly paternalistic, as comfortable congressmen (in this case, he specifically aims at Paul Ryan) lecture struggling families on the dignity of work,” Krugman adds.
And then there’s the whole thing of denying health care for the poor through the Medicaid expansion because of hatred of the president and … freedom.
The malevolence is personal.
Also by way of Krugman, an academic paper on factors causing rises in inequality, in this case, “capital account liberalisation,” aka rewarding money holders and the ease of sloshing it around the globe, and “fiscal consolidations,” aka policies of economic belt-tightening or “austerity:”
Last month’s World Economic Forum at Davos will be remembered as the one where the rich realised that incomes were unequal. One suspects the rich had always been dimly aware of this fact, but even they seem to have been astounded by the degree of inequality.
There is clear evidence that the decline in budget deficits was followed by increases in inequality.
Fiscal consolidations are followed by an increase in long-term unemployment.
The past three decades have been associated with a steady decline in the number of restrictions that countries impose on cross-border financial transactions …
What happens to inequality in the aftermath of these episodes? The evidence is that, on average, capital account liberalisation is followed by a significant and persistent increase in inequality.
It is a short and easy to grok read.
Sam Zell — from the archives.
Tom Perkins.
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02.12.14
Posted in Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 12:29 pm by George Smith
From Gibson:
Great Gibson electric guitars have long been a means of fighting the establishment, so when the powers that be confiscated stocks of tonewoods from the Gibson factory in Nashville—only to return them once there was a resolution and the investigation ended—it was an event worth celebrating. Introducing the Hector Heathcote Government Series II Les Paul, a striking new guitar from Gibson USA for 2014 that suitably marks this infamous time in Gibson’s history.
Fighting the establishment.
From The Grist, a couple years ago:
If you’ve tuned into any of the major jobs speeches recently or the conservative media’s political coverage surrounding them, you’ve heard about newly minted Tea Party hero, Gibson Guitar CEO Henry Juszkiewicz. He was sitting in House Speaker John Boehner’s box during President Obama’s jobs speech …
According to a count by the nonprofit Media Matters, Fox News has featured his company 24 times in the last couple of weeks.
From the Dept. of Justice, in 2012:
Gibson Guitar Corp. entered into a criminal enforcement agreement with the United States today resolving a criminal investigation into allegations that the company violated the Lacey Act by illegally purchasing and importing ebony wood from Madagascar and rosewood and ebony from India …
The criminal enforcement agreement defers prosecution for criminal violations of the Lacey Act and requires Gibson to pay a penalty amount of $300,000. The agreement further provides for a community service payment of $50,000 to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to be used to promote the conservation, identification and propagation of protected tree species used in the musical instrument industry and the forests where those species are found. Gibson will also implement a compliance program designed to strengthen its compliance controls and procedures. In related civil forfeiture actions, Gibson will withdraw its claims to the wood seized in the course of the criminal investigation, including Madagascar ebony from shipments with a total invoice value of $261,844.
The harvest of ebony in and export of unfinished ebony from, Madagascar has been banned since 2006.
Gibson purchased “fingerboard blanks,??? consisting of sawn boards of Madagascar ebony, for use in manufacturing guitars. The Madagascar ebony fingerboard blanks were ordered from a supplier who obtained them from an exporter in Madagascar. Gibson’s supplier continued to receive Madagascar ebony fingerboard blanks from its Madagascar exporter after the 2006 ban. The Madagascar exporter did not have authority to export ebony fingerboard blanks after the law issued in Madagascar in 2006.
Note difference in the Hector Heathcote Les Paul. It does not feature an ebony fingerboard:
The glued-in mahogany neck features a comfortably rounded late-’50s profile, while the unbound fingerboard—with a Corian™ nut, 22 frets and traditional trapezoid inlays just like the very first Gibson Les Pauls—is made from solid rosewood returned to Gibson by the US government.
The government raid, unsurprisingly, probably took many things from Gibson facilities. Apparently, unbanned materials were returned. Which appears to be a bit of a favor to Gibson.
Ted Nugent, in 2012, on the Gibson case (Nugent plays Gibson guitars):
Gibson guitars reportedly ran afoul of Uncle Sham’s Lacey Act, which is one of the most overreaching, bizzaro, contemptuous laws in the history of the United States.
Armed federal agents raided two Gibson guitar plants looking for allegedly illegally obtained wood from Madagascar and India …
This mindless abuse of Gibson by the heavy hand of the out-of-control federal government is a perfect reason why millions of Americans believe the corrupt, abusive power of Fedzilla needs to be reined in.
Paradoxically, Ted Nugent, also ran afoul of the Lacey Act. From the DoJ, also in 2012:
U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler announced that Theodore A. Nugent pled guilty to and was sentenced in federal court today in Ketchikan for violating the Lacey Act by possessing and transporting a black bear, taken in violation of state law.
Nugent, 62, of China Springs, Texas, pled guilty to a single misdemeanor count of the Lacey Act before United States Magistrate Judge Michael A. Thompson.
According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Jack S. Schmidt, Nugent, who stars in and produces the outdoor hunting show, “Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild???, was filming a black bear (Ursus Americanus) bow hunt on Sukkwan Island, on U.S. Forest Service Land. Nugent utilized a number of bear baiting sites between the dates of May 21, 2009, to May 26, 2009. On May 22, 2009, Nugent shot and wounded a black bear at one of the registered bait sites. Nugent failed to harvest the wounded black bear, and continued hunting in violation of Alaska state law, which counts a wounded black bear towards the hunter’s bag limit, one black bear per regulatory year. Nugent continued to hunt another black bear in violation of Alaska law and subsequently harvested another black bear at a bear baiting site on May 26, 2009, which put Nugent over the regulatory bag limit for that year …
Nugent cooperated with law enforcement and indicated that he was unaware of the state law requiring a hunter to count a wounded black bear towards his bag limit.
Under the terms of the plea agreement, Nugent will be placed on probation for two years and is required to pay a $10,000 dollar fine and restitution in the amount of $600 dollar to the State of Alaska for the illegally taken bear. Special conditions of probation also prohibit Nugent from hunting or fishing in Alaska and on any U.S. Forest Service land for a term of one year.
My suggestion would have been to make one of the Hector Heathcote series of Gibson guitars, a Tea Party Ted Les Paul special.
Here is Nugent’s Lacey Act case, discussed in depth at an Alaska newspaper.
And from this blog, on the Gibson case, back in 2011:
Readers know I like Gibson guitars. They may have read when I tried to do the company a favor by successfully pressing the Washington Post and others to drop website ads selling Chinese counterfeits of the iconic brand.
But it’s been increasingly hard to not be turned off by Gibson. And this is all due to its CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz.
With his company raided twice by government agents — the first time for buying blackmarket protected wood from Madagascar, the second time for impropriety with Indian imports — Juszkiewicz decided to go extreme right wing and cry about the alleged tyranny of the US government.
Gibson Hector Heathcote Government II series — MSRP — $1,099.
So buy me a Hector Heathcote, or write Gibson to send one to me. For establishment fighting, since I’m on Medicaid and can’t afford it. I would make it my number one instrument.
“Gibson sticks thumb in Obama administration’s eye with ‘Government Series’ guitars,” reads the Breitbart place. The US investigation of Gibson was started during the administration of George W. Bush.
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02.06.14
Posted in Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 3:01 pm by George Smith
It’s easy to figure out how Ted Nugent’s brain works.
Take the writing of his weekly column. When not calling someone a famous Nazi, metaphorically recommending death or arrest for various members of the administration, or illustrating how communist tyranny is being imposed on everyone, he gets up in the morning, thinks of something dear to his heart, and claims that the dear-to-heart something is responsible for some great national miracle.
In today’s column at WorldNetDaily, Nugent credits hunters and fisherman with cleaning up America’s dirty water in the seventies, specifically Lake Erie:
When I was growing up in that once grand city of Detroit, Lake Erie would occasionally ignite spontaneously …
The perfect “we the people??? ballet of whistleblowing sounded the alarm when real conservationist/environmentalist, you know, hunters, fishermen and trappers, with real boots on the ground, witnessed in the swamps and on the water our beloved muskrat, waterfowl and fish populations drop to unacceptable levels. We quickly stepped up to remedy this very dangerous condition that threatened our hunter/gatherer lifestyle.
We simply refused to accept the status quo of the industrial revolution mistakes …
It wasn’t that long thereafter that Lake Erie got cleaned up so well that it once again became the world’s top walleye and small mouth bass fishery.
It’s a nice story, pike fisherman and muskrat trappers fixed staggering industry-driven water pollution.
Except that’s not how it happened.
It was the hated federal government and the Clean Water Act that did the job.
From one of Ted Nugent’s hates, the EPA:
Fires plagued the Cuyahoga River beginning in 1936 when a spark from a blow torch ignited floating debris and oils. The largest river fire in 1952 caused over $1 million in damage to boats and a riverfront office building. By the 1960s, the lower Cuyahoga River in Cleveland was used for waste disposal and was choked with debris, oils, sludge, industrial wastes and sewage. These pollutants were considered a major source of impact to Lake Erie, which was considered “dead” (devoid of fish) at the time. On June 22, 1969 a river fire captured national attention. Time magazine described the Cuyahoga as the river that “oozes rather than flows” and in which a person “does not drown but decays.” This event helped spur an avalanche of pollution control activities resulting in the Clean Water Act, Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement and the creation of the federal and state Environmental Protection Agencies.
After the Clear Water Act of 1972 and other local initiatives started enforcement, Lake Erie gradually improved. Fishing recovered, mayflies, absent for close to four decades, returned.
However, a different and not uncommon problem in modern America, also caused by mass human action, has now arisen: massive algal blooms caused by agricultural run-off.
A 2013 report from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:
In 2011, Lake Erie experienced the largest harmful algal bloom in its recorded history, with a peak intensity over three times greater than any previously observed bloom. Here we show that long-term trends in agricultural practices are consistent with increasing phosphorus loading to the western basin of the lake, and that these trends, coupled with meteorological conditions in spring 2011, produced record-breaking nutrient loads. An extended period of weak lake circulation then led to abnormally long residence times that incubated the bloom, and warm and quiescent conditions after bloom onset allowed algae to remain near the top of the water column and prevented flushing of nutrients from the system. We further find that all of these factors are consistent with expected future conditions. If a scientifically guided management plan to mitigate these impacts is not implemented, we can therefore expect this bloom to be a harbinger of future blooms in Lake Erie.
“And so it continues today with all my hunting, fishing, trapping friends as dedicated stewards to monitor the health of wildlife and wild habitat as the ultimate barometers for quality air, soil and water, and, therefore, overall quality of life,” continues Nugent.
The breast swells, a tear is seen in the eye. Then one last recommendation.
“Now wouldn’t it be great if only enough Americans could put forth such effort to cleanse our government of all that political pollution?”
One newspaper excerpt, October 2012:
In recent summers large blooms of toxic algae have returned. In 2011, the worst year so far, there were days when the algae was so thick that Unger couldn’t take his customers fishing. He once drove his 27-foot Sportcraft boat 14 miles straight north from Cleveland before he gave up and turned back. “I never got out of the algae,??? he says.
Ted Nugent does God’s work in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, informs public Maryland, New Jersey and New York are no longer states in America:
“I’m doing God’s work exposing the soullessness of the left, the evil agenda of the same liberal Democrats who engineered the destruction of the greatest city of America my birth city of Detroit. They did it on purpose and now we have a commander in chief who is actually following the recipe for destruction of Detroit for the whole country.???
As he has done in the past, Nugent called Attorney General Eric Holder a gun runner and President Obama an avowed racist.
He accused the Obama Administration of imposing communism on America. “That’s the redistribution of earnings, giving hard-earned money to people who didn’t earn it.
“This is ‘Planet of the Apes’ stuff,??? Nugent said. “This is so indecent, so criminal, that Americans who get up early and work hard are absolutely shattered by the abuse of power and corruption.???
He said Maryland, New York and New Jersey — all of which have legalized same-sex marriage — were no longer America.
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01.30.14
Posted in Psychopath & Sociopath, Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 12:00 pm by George Smith
Missouri and Wyoming are considering bringing back the firing squad. Good. They’ve got good shots in those states.
There is no debate regarding “pain and suffering??? and cruel and unusual punishment with a firing squad.
No link.
Once advocated shooting cats, too.
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12.26.13
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 11:42 am by George Smith
Bigger.
Ted Nugent, today:
This is all the result of one of the “Duck Dynasty??? guys, Phil Robertson, stating what he and many millions of Americans believe about the Bible and homosexuals … State a commonly held belief and watch the other side go ballistic …
Phil Robertson didn’t say anything hurtful or shameful.
From the New York Daily News, Jesus-like:
“I have a degree from Louisiana Tech. But this week I have been called an ignoramus.???
“Jesus Christ was the most perfect being to ever walk this planet and he was persecuted and nailed to the cross, so please don’t be surprised when we get a little static,??? Robertson added.
No links. Google if you want the full Ted and if I know my readers, I think they don’t.
Heevahava — defined. It was either that or a new PARIAH magazine cover. I chose more spare. What would you have done?
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12.05.13
Posted in Psychopath & Sociopath, Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 10:44 am by George Smith
WhiteManistan’s Minister of Best Practices in Fascism, Ted Nugent has the cure for ailing America.
He’ll use his NRA clout to make it law that everyone who buys a gun at a gun show go through a background check if the rest of us will campaign for and help enact law that takes the right to vote for presidential and congressional candidates in elections away from people who pay no income tax.
“The voting ‘loophole’ needs to be closed in order to restore fairness in federal elections,” reasons Nugent. It’s not necessarily permanent, he says. If you pay income tax for three consecutive years, your voting rights will be restored. “[Let’s] get it on. We have a country to save.”
(He could also have tied disenfranchisement to enrollment in the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. This would have had the added benefit of preserving some of the votes of poor white people in red states where Tea Party governors have refused to take government money for it.)
This isn’t new, only more formally codified. During December of 2012 he also campaigned for disenfranchising “welfare leeches.”
It seems that during the holiday season, one of the things on Ted Nugent’s cheery mind is taking away the vote from all the bloodsuckers, er — not white people, who don’t pay income tax.
No link, obviously.
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10.10.13
Posted in Psychopath & Sociopath, Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 3:08 pm by George Smith
Ted Nugent has the cure for Detroit:
“Huge swaths of the abandoned dead city should literally be given to private industry for them to build new industries. These industries that build there should be promised, in writing, that their taxes will be the lowest of any city in America. Because Detroit is broke and bankrupt, industries that take the offer would be responsible for paying for their own police, fire, schools for the children of their employees and other services typically reserved for government employees … only industry can potentially save Detroit from doom.”
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09.20.13
Posted in Psychopath & Sociopath, Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 11:06 am by George Smith
From the American Journal of Medicine:
“The number of guns per capita per country was a strong and independent predictor of firearm related death in a given country, whereas the predictive power of the mental illness burden was of borderline significance … Regardless of exact cause and effect, however, the current study debunks the widely-quoted hypothesis that guns make a nation safer.”
Accompanying data shows US the obvious world leader.
Journal article here.
Full size.
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Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 8:35 am by George Smith
Ted Nugent:
How many more slaughters have to occur before we reverse this very deadly course mandated by clueless bureaucrats?
Liberalism is a death sentence. Don’t buy it.
It took inter-agency joint SWAT forces to take him out. Therefore the NRA should spin up a new program to train soldiers on bases on the use of guns in self-defense. The ones allowed to bear arms should be more heavily armed. And self-defense guns should be mandated for all janitors, secretaries and whatever other civilian workers there may be.
Trivia: Blog comments filter catches astro-turf to domain welovegun.com, a spam site in Arabic, used as a front for advertising and backlinks to the usual goods. On access it attempts to load at least 3000 elements.
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08.30.13
Posted in Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 8:39 am by George Smith
Today the news is afilled with pieces on the arrest of Shemane Nugent, wife of ol’ Shredded Wheat, by the TSA for having a firearm in her carry-on luggage at Dallas/Ft. Worth airport.
Google it.
DD cannot confirm or deny whether Ted Nugent passed a kidney stone last night.
Ol’ Shredded Wheat and Shemane Nugent on the range in Waco.
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