03.12.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 11:33 am by George Smith
Ted Nugent’s Facebook page and Twitter feeds are run by staff, the former primarily for the purpose of peddling merchandise and hunting tourism. And since his double knee replacement surgery Nugent has been quieted, emerging lucid only once on Facebook to announce his ongoing recovery and that it involved a considerable amount of pain.
Today, at the right wing conspiracy theory news site, Newsmax:
Today I will write and record some more killer music, write more killer articles, review the artwork for my new CD, review the military logistics for my 2014 killer tour, edit my killer Spirit of the Wild TV show, check my trapline, train my dogs, conduct media interviews, work on my trucks, shoot my bow and some guns, do my post-double knee replacement surgery therapy, perform various chores on our ranch, and as always, do what I am driven to do in order to live my ultimate American dream of independence to the fullest.
Liar, liar, pants on fire. Nobody does this soon after double-knee replacement surgery.
The graph comes from a longer column, easily something canned, dictated or ghost-written, in which Nugent excoriates all the lazy Americans who won’t work and allegedly don’t want jobs.
It is delivered with the usual Republican Party bigot dog-whistle, the big city where African-American people live, in this case, Detroit.
Ted relates a story from his youth, perhaps apocryphal or exaggerated in some way. (Nugent regularly lies about everything, the most recent example being on CNN before he went into the hospital, delivering since refuted claims that he was a sheriff and often engaged in law enforcement activities with a variety of local agencies as well as the DEA and ATF.)
Nugent’s youthful morality tale has him outperforming two supposedly lazy rivals as a dollar-an-hour gas-pumping kid at a local service station. It’s a good old man’s get-off-my-lawn stem-winder, reminiscent of the kind of thing my grandfather used to love retelling at Thanksgiving get-togethers.
“I remember my first job paid 25 cents an hour … Why can’t young people etc …”
Nugent, excerpted:
Well there ya have it America, especially you lazy bums who so embarrassingly chose to give up looking for work or won’t work at jobs they consider beneath them. Have we become France?
Until America returns to the pride of excellence, productivity, and the pride of earned ownership, we will continue to spiral at high velocity down that suicidal death march of dependency that liberal democrats have brainwashed us into. I remember the real Detroit.
Entitled? Economic equality? Social justice? Are you kidding me? Those two jerks at the gas station sure would have loved to have a Barack Obama negotiate their wages for them …
And here’s an emergency alert for all you bloodsuckers — you are entitled to jack squat.
Yes, Nugent remembers the real Detroit before it was ruined by the blood-sucking other people.
It’s the Republican thing. One of the reasons there is high unemployment is the other people in cities.
Jesus of America, Paul Ryan, today:
House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) previewed his upcoming legislative proposals for reforming America’s poverty programs during an appearance on Bill Bennett’s Morning in America Wednesday, hinting that he would focus on creating work requirements for men “in our inner cities??? and dealing with the “real culture problem??? in these communities. “We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with,??? he said.
One restores the learned value and culture of work in the mostly-working poor by taking away their food stamps and health care.
Emergency alert for all the blood-suckers.
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03.11.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, WhiteManistan at 2:35 pm by George Smith
Timely as ever.
There’s something wrong with using the WhiteManistan Koch brothers as whipping boys. Why would a political party ever think of vilifying other Americans? Who’s heard of such a thing?
From the AP:
Democratic Senate candidates, facing withering criticism on the national health care law, are gambling they can turn voters against two billionaire brothers funding the attacks — even if few Americans would recognize the pair on the street.
In an accelerating counteroffensive stretching from the Senate chamber to Alaska, Democrats are denouncing Charles and David Koch, the key figures behind millions of dollars in conservative TV ads hammering Democratic candidates and their ties to President Barack Obama …
In a time of stagnant working-class wages, they note, the Kochs have grown stupendously wealthy while pushing their conservative-to-libertarian causes.
Republicans respond that Americans don’t like it when politicians demonize others. With exceptions for everyone in the majority in the House of Representatives and Ted Nugent, who unfortunately is on sick leave.
They’re right. When you ride with WhiteManistan, you’re riding with truth, honor and the American way.
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Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Fiat money fear and loathers at 11:00 am by George Smith
Hot and fresh from the pages of the Daily Lickspittle: The Ponzi Winklevoss twins are paying Richard Branson $250,000 or maybe half a million in BitCoin for a space tourism ride on Virgin Galactic.
From the iEthers:
Wire news: In a blog post, Tyler Winklevoss compared Branson’s space endeavor and bitcoin entrepreneurs to major historical figures who changed the way the world was perceived, like Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Nicolaus Copernicus.
“It is in this vein that Cameron and I contemplate our tickets into space – as seed capital supporting a new technology that may forever change the way we travel, purchased with a new technology that may forever change the way we transact.
“Since their inceptions, Bitcoin and Virgin Galactic have been writing the next chapter in our history books. While one is ushering in a new era of post-currency, entirely ledger-based decentralized financial systems, the other is ringing in a new era of post-aircraft, sub-orbital spacecraft-based travel systems.”
And BitCoin altar boys at Reddit, the Internet’s front page, have collected $28000 in BitCoin for BitCoin Elvis in the San Fernando Valley.
Winkdex: $621.
Donate Bitcoins
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03.10.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Fiat money fear and loathers at 10:55 am by George Smith
Angry at lost BitCoin, I hack Monsieur Gox to steal many of your BitCoin. Problem?
From the LA Times:
[Laura Saggers] said she personally has been trading in virtual currencies for eight months. She grew up interested in technology and studied programming in college, where she majored in music. She currently owns two bitcoins and 62 litecoins.
The Guardian:
Hackers took over the Reddit account and personal blog of Mark Karpeles, the chief executive of shuttered bitcoin exchange MtGox, on Sunday night.
The anonymous attackers used the accounts to post an angry letter accusing Karpeles of stealing bitcoins from his site’s former users, and posted a 750Mb zip file which they say comprises data stolen directly from MtGox’s servers …
Several members of the bitcoin community claim to have found their own transactions included in the dump, which would indicate that the leak is genuine. The hacker or hackers themselves say they were careful to strip out any passwords from the database. But other reports suggest that a second scam could be involved, with an application contained within the zip file, called TibanneBackOffice, apparently stealing users’ bitcoin wallets.
Economist Nouriel Roubini, in Twitter Tweets, from WSJ:
Bitcoin isn’t means of payment as few transactions in Bitcoin. And given its volatility all who accept it convert it right back into $.
BTCbugs like gold bugs are fanatics who speak of BTC in cult-like religious ways. Like gold bugs they have paranoid conspiracy views on the $.
Winkdex: $622 for one Bitcoin.
To paraphrase the cute young woman, money, money, I like money. I grew up interested in technology, studied in college and like to play music.
So this blog also accepts small amounts of Bitcoin. Because I went to a job fair last week and it sucked big time, more on which, later.
Donate Bitcoins
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Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 9:42 am by George Smith
No ranting about Nazis and Commies.
The report, on Facebook.
It’s a hard road. Read some of the fine print.
“You can still fight the good fight from your favorite chair,” writes a well-wisher.
Even when they obviously mean well, some people are just a little too stupid for words.
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03.08.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Fiat money fear and loathers at 10:59 am by George Smith
I not talk again until you buy lunch and gimme more BitCoin. Problem?
Winkdex: $606. A slow decline continues.
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Posted in Psychopath & Sociopath, WhiteManistan at 10:07 am by George Smith
The tunes just get better with age. That’s quality!
The NRA’s Wayne LaPierre, America’s best crazy scary gun salesman ever, delivered the best dose of steroids to WhiteManistan, ever, Thursday:
I’ve never been worried about his country until now … That’s why more Americans are buying firearms and ammunition. Not to cause trouble, but because that America is already in trouble … In this uncertain world, surrounded by lies and corruption everywhere, there is no greater freedom than the right to survive and protect our families with all the rifles, shotguns and handguns we want!
Woo-hoo and the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air! See all the guts and glory here!
That’s real eloquence. You should be in awe. I am. There’s no better exhibition of the defining American psychosis.
Putting the nitrous line aside for a moment, Wayne LaPierre is a master of the motivational speech for a tribe that’s characterized by its anger, paranoia and fear. Armed to the the teeth, bearing more weapons than any country in world history, LaPierre is the perfect pitchman for the healing salve to soothe their fevered insecurities, for sale to anyone at the local Walmart.
Real perfection in dog-whistling to the bigots who all know why America is in “trouble.” Defend yourself, stand your ground.
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03.07.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Fiat money fear and loathers at 1:41 pm by George Smith
Stupid people! I am not BitCoin Elvis! Now, which of you is going to buy me lunch?
It’s a good parlor trick.
How do you prove you are or you aren’t the Satoshi Nakamoto of interest? Why, you just run off into your bedroom and post a denial in an old chat forum. Or get someone else to. Or someone just does it spontaneously.
BitCoin, the currency and world of and for well-to-do libertarian tech trolls, beings so much smarter than the rest of the rusty old world.
Well, we know the US government is now very focused on BitCoin Elvis. Everyone is watching his blockchain data.
What does it mean for a currency when the person who has the most reserves just hoards it? It is a dick-headed thing.
Ponzi Planet BitCoin likes to think its beyond intervention by its lessers.
I have an idea to contribute to that.
The US government, the Dept. of Homeland Security, the FBI, could determine if the Temple City neighborhood is the actual home of BitCoin Elvis. And they could do it in one afternoon.
Given the news, you declare reasonable suspicion that Satoshi Nakamoto’s Mt. Everest of BitCoin is a potential financial weapon of mass destruction.
Worse than ricin.
And then the squads arrive to go through the house.
Worst that could happen? They confirm finding the wrong person. And then, a little later, they name the right person.
It’s happened before. Twice in ricin cases, once with anthrax, too many times to count in less well-publicized investigations.
And then the world has its answer.
Winkdex has BitCoin at $628. It’s been ever-so-slowly falling since yesterday.
Why? Should there not have been a spurt of BitCoin ebullience when the Olympian deity was initially thought to have been found?
Nakamoto is a genius, a computer programming hero.
Or is it because there’s a dawning realization that someone with the disposition of a Satoshi Nakamoto is sitting on the world’s biggest pile of hyped digital currency. And that someone is so great, so beyond everyone else, that no one can know anything about him.
So, naturally, the BitCoin Elvis, or some flunky in the cause, can and must post a one-line denial, a digital smirk, on some old forum. Because it’s the last word from the man, who has just been inconvenienced, too.
The world doesn’t work that way. You got a big image problem, bub. People not in on the take regard BitCoin as magic money for rich ego-bloated assholes, rip-off artists and criminals.
So, BitCoin Elvis, if the money is to flourish, you’ll have to make a concession, wherever you are, probably in the San Fernando Valley.
The perception-of-BitCoin-users problem. Good work, Mr. Nakamoto!
It was a lead-pipe cinch BitCoin altar boys would start throwing money at BitCoin Elvis. In all tribes of the Culture of Lickspittle you will find those who immediately wish to give money to people who probably already have a ton of it.
The mob, says one of the poor mens’ BitCoin philanthropists, is not a mob, just out to help Satoshi, according to the LA Times:
As of late Thursday morning [the give to BitCoin Elvis program on Reddit] had raised 15.14262168 bitcoins. Based on the latest Coindesk Index which pegs the price of one bitcoin at $616.50, that would mean the campaign has raised about $9,335.
“Thank you for doing this Andreas,” wrote Reddit user gonzobon in a comment. “We all want to show the world that we are not a mob.”
BitCoin Elvis, despite being the deity, is not so smart as built up.
BitCoin is easy to steal, even an attractive target, and those who make and run its infrastructure are equally plagued by human frailty. One such frailty is the always on attitude that they have none as the soldiers in the front lines of the battle to bring on the future.
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03.06.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, WhiteManistan at 8:12 pm by George Smith
Jesus of America said don’t feed the poor. If you do, they’ll come right to your door. They’ll wind up like stray cats, shedding on the floor. That’s what Jesus taught.
Paul Krugman has crucified Paul Ryan no less than four times this week at the New York Times for the latter’s new Congressional report on poverty and what poor Americans need: slashing food stamps and health care.
And even those four nail drivings may not quite be enough.
The capstone, his Friday column:
[If] generous aid to the poor perpetuates poverty, the United States — which treats its poor far more harshly than other rich countries, and induces them to work much longer hours — should lead the West in social mobility, in the fraction of those born poor who work their way up the scale. In fact, it’s just the opposite: America has less social mobility than most other advanced countries …
It is, in a way, nice to see the likes of Mr. Ryan at least talking about the need to help the poor. But somehow [his] notion of aiding the poor involves slashing benefits while cutting taxes on the rich.
“Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue,” is Krugman’s lede. Great sentence.
“So when you see something like the current scramble by Republicans to declare their deep concern for America’s poor, it’s a good sign, indicating a positive change in social norms. Goodbye, sneering at the 47 percent; hello, fake compassion.”
The fake compassion shtick brings the blog back to Jesus of America’s citation of Tory Iain Duncan Smith as someone informing Republican efforts on how to lift the unfortunate.
From here, a couple days ago:
Paul Ryan also huddled with Iain Duncan Smith, a former leader of Britain’s Conservative Party. Smith is well known in the United Kingdom for his attempts to better connect conservatives with the poor.
“We’ve been paying very close attention to the Tories and their think tanks,??? Ryan said … “[We] can learn from their experience, both their mistakes and their successes, so we can rework our welfare system and get people out of poverty and onto lives of self-sufficiency and dignity.???
Paul Ryan …when mentioning Iain Duncan Smith, counts on American disinterest in whatever is happening in other countries to render the stupid … oblivious to the fact he’s drawing ideas from someone roundly condemned for attacking the poor in British society.
Jesus of America says don’t feed the poor! They are just too lazy, they’ll never work at all!
Republican Jesus! Hey, amen!
Not satire. Jesus strike me down, I wouldn’t say it if it weren’t absolutely true!
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Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Fiat money fear and loathers at 2:35 pm by George Smith
#$%@, BitCoin freaks! I’m callin’ the cops! I’m not your Elvis Presley!
Comment rescue from this morning, to bring you up to date…
BitCoin Elvis Satoshi Nakamoto has been found! He’s an older and very weird paranoid libertarian computer programmer who lives in the San Fernando Valley in a nondescript tract home.
And he called the police on the Newsweek lady reporter who knocked on his door.
But there’s no getting the toothpaste back in the tube, as Nakamoto found out in being chased around LA County today. And the parade couldn’t come at a better time!
Nakamoto programmed Bitcoin when out of work, informs Newsweek, partly inspired by rage at banks when his house was foreclosed on. And having to pay too many wire transfer fees when ordering model toy trains.
For his career, BitCoin Elvis was deeply ensconced in the employment of southern California defense contractors. Business bloomed for most of the Cold War.
Get your head around this: Satoshi Nakamoto, BitCoin’s inventor, had his bread buttered by defense contractors and government under classification orders. But he is paranoid about government and made a financial instrument, hailed by most of its fans, as a tool for destroying it.
And BitCoin Elvis cannot now easily spend or bank his piles of BitCoin because everyone is watching his part of the blockchain.
Now there will be an encampment around his home on the street and sidewalks as the curious and faithful acolytes go to get a glimpse of their Elvis figure.
He may have to move.
Oh, this is a really wonderful story!
BitCoin is associated with well-to-do tech libertarian assholes. And this is just who BitCoin Elvis is. He couldn’t be a better father figure!
From the LA Times, today, sort of straight out of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:
And now a dozen reporters camped out #Nakamoto’s Temple City house are in chase. #bitcoin
— [Times deputy business editor] Joe Bel Bruno (@JoeBelBruno) March 6, 2014
So the AP reporter takes #Nakamoto to lunch for the #Bitcoin scoop, to a sushi restaurant in Temple City. Other reporters chase them.
— Joe Bel Bruno (@JoeBelBruno) March 6, 2014
Then reporters barge into the sushi restaurant, confront the @ap reporter and #Nakamoto
— Joe Bel Bruno (@JoeBelBruno) March 6, 2014
So #Nakamoto and the @ap reporter flee the sushi restaurant. The rest of the media take chase again. #bitcoin
OK, so apparently #Nakamoto and the @AP reporter are driving around being chased by media. #bitcoin
— Joe Bel Bruno (@JoeBelBruno) March 6, 2014
The #Nakamoto car has pulled over. #Bitcoin The chase has ended!
— Joe Bel Bruno (@JoeBelBruno) March 6, 2014
OK, so #Nakamoto and the @ap reporter have just pulled over on a RANDOM street. #bitcoin
— Joe Bel Bruno (@JoeBelBruno) March 6, 2014
BREAKING: #Nakamoto and the @ap reporter are driving in a Prius. (Hey, fine, its just a detail!) #bitcoin
— Joe Bel Bruno (@JoeBelBruno) March 6, 2014
There is a huge chase going on behind #Nakamoto. Tons of media. All heading west on the 10 freeway
Ok, so now #Nakamoto has exited freeway. He’s in downtown Los Angeles. Great #Bitcoin chase
— Joe Bel Bruno (@JoeBelBruno) March 6, 2014
After some traffic, and some red lights, we are now again right behind #nakamoto in the #bitcoinchase
— Joe Bel Bruno (@JoeBelBruno) March 6, 2014
So the @ap reporter just took #Nakamoto into the @AP bureau. SMART REPORTER!
— Joe Bel Bruno (@JoeBelBruno) March 6, 2014
The @ap reporter drove his Prius into the parking garage with #Nakamoto
— Joe Bel Bruno (@JoeBelBruno) March 6, 2014
Here’s the best part: THE Media can’t drive into the parking garage! Its private #Nakamoto #bitcoin chase
— Joe Bel Bruno (@JoeBelBruno) March 6, 2014
Winkdex at $657.32 for one BitCoin, showing no jump from the wild ride of BitCoin Elvis.
“My brother is an asshole,” Arthur Nakamoto, the brother of BitCoin Elvis, told Newsweek.
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