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President Barack Obama has called for a common sense response to the slaughter in Aurora.
With headline: White House gives cool welcome to bill restricting online ammo sales …
Atta boy!
“Truly, I say to you, unless y’all can buy unlimited ammunition on the Internet, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” — Chapter 2, The Compleat Sayings of American Jesus
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Ted Nugent in today’s WaTimes:
Fedzilla is growing fatter, less accountable and less transparent by gorging itself on our tax dollars. Instead of tightening Fedzilla’s fiscal belt, government bureaucrats just buy him bigger belts and suspenders, and he gets fatter and smellier each day. The only good pig is a dead pig.
Regrettably, there are way too many intellectually stunted Americans who support this gluttonous and irresponsible spending curse. They are called socialists. Socialists believe in Keynesian economics, which supports government control and meddling in our economy. It’s akin to Jerry Sandusky managing a little boys’ football team …
The rest of the column attempts to make that case that Grover Norquist is like Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry character. Even Ted’s idiot fans will have a hard time with it, Norquist being a tubby GOP nerd.
Red line is actual government purchases, 2009-2012.
“This isn’t a picture of an economy hobbled by Big Government; it’s a picture of an economy hobbled by premature austerity,” writes Krugman.
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1. Drop-dead, collar-ad handsome with gracious, statesmanlike aura. Looks like every central casting’s #1 choice for Commander-in-Chief.
2. Been married to ONE woman his entire life, and has been faithful to her, including through her bouts with breast cancer and MS.
3. No scandals or skeletons in his closet. (How boring is that?)
4. Can’t speak in a fake, southern, “black preacher voice” when necessary.
5. Highly intelligent. Graduated cum laude from both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School…and by the way, his academic records are NOT sealed.
6. Doesn’t smoke or drink alcohol, and has never done drugs, not even in the counter-culture age when he went to college. Too square for today’s America?
7. Represents an America of “yesterday”, where people believed in God, went to Church, didn’t screw around, worked hard, and became a SUCCESS!
8. Has a family of five great sons….and none of them have police records or are in drug rehab. But of course, they were raised by a stay-at-home mom, and that “choice” deserves America’s scorn.
9. Oh yes…..he’s a MORMON. We need to be very afraid of that very strange religion that teaches its members to be clean-living, patriotic, fiscally conservative, charitable, self-reliant, and honest.
10. And one more point…..pundits say because of his wealth, he can’t relate to ordinary Americans. I guess that’s because he made that money HIMSELF…..as opposed to marrying it or inheriting it from Dad. Apparently, he didn’t understand that actually working at a job and earning your own money made you unrelatable [sic] to Americans.
Show-stoppers, you just can’t argue ’em. Particularly the bit about not getting his wealth from Dad. Boy do I hate people who get stuff from their Dad.
Readers know I believe in failure, sodomy, promiscuous sex, cigars, going to the liquor store daily, taking many naps, cheap malt beverages, free pornography, no goin’ to meetin’, drinking before noon and stealing. Among other things.
It’s natural I not like the man.
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More assault rifles to stop evil, the same tune Ted Nugent sang after the Giffords massacre last year:
We can still be relaxed and comfortable, but mentally prepared and more tuned in to our surroundings. Be prepared to stop evil in its tracks and live.
On Twitter, this week, according to the Seattle newspaper:
“We pray for all victims & loved ones of demonshooter in CO & we SALUTE the brave warriors who saves lives IF only they would hav [sic] had a good gun,??? Nugent declared.
It is at best questionable whether a shootout in a darkened theater would have saved lives or upped the casualty count.
Nugent, on Glenn Beck’s radio show, yesterday:
NUGENT: But dear God in heaven, doing nothing is not an option. Training, having a firearm to neutralize an evil gun maniac is a way to go, and we train for that. And I wish I would have been in the theater that day.
“Heed these words, my disciples: When the crowd has not machine guns, it cannot protect itself from evil carrying a machine gun and a Glock.??? — Chapter 2, The Compleat Sayings of American Jesus.
Not everyone who owns a gun can possibly be so ill in the head. It’s a pity they lack the nerve to make changes at the NRA.
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Most of you never read the Washington Times. This is too bad because it’s the official newspaper of the insane political party in this country, the GOP. It publishes opinions daily that are either complete fictions or hateful — often both — except to those with the politics of Ted Nugent.
Today, Frank Gaffney, one of the evergreen chieftains of the Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy, Islam-o-phobe and birther, proclaims Michele Bachmann similar to Margaret Thatcher.
Movie theaters across America have recently showed a film depicting former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a woman whose visionary leadership and fortitude — particularly in the fight against Soviet communism — earned her the sobriquet “the Iron Lady …???
Fortunately, it turns out that as we confront our time’s most imminent threat to freedom, we have found America’s Iron Lady: Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota. Her Thatcheresque qualities are evident in the fearless and visionary leadership she is providing in opposing Shariah’s most formidable champions, the Muslim Brotherhood …
At the moment, Mrs. Bachmann is not facing mere name-calling but outright character assassination. She has been singled out for special treatment despite the fact that she was one of five members of Congress (the others were Reps. Louie Gohmert of Texas, Trent Franks of Arizona, Lynn A. Westmoreland of Georgia and Thomas J. Rooney of Florida) who had the temerity to send to the federal inspector general formal requests for investigations into Muslim Brotherhood influence operations inside our government. That’s a threat every bit as dangerous as the communist subversion of a generation ago.
It is, of course, no accident that Mrs. Bachmann is being subjected to such vilification by the Islamists, their allies on the left and in the establishment media’s amen chorus …
Mrs. Bachmann’s response to her critics is vintage Lady Thatcher: “I will not be silenced.???
Bachmann and others, inspired by Gaffney’s regular toil to point out a government subversion that most people lack the vision to see, have attacked Hilary Clinton’s assistant at the State Department, Huma Abedin. The Islam-o-phobes have been trying to tar the woman for months in a McCarthy-esque hunt for enemies within.
Until lately the mainstream media has mostly ignored them.
It has had bad consequences. Light sanitizes. The absence of it encourages the spread of noxious fungus and microbial slime. The same people have been responsible for absurd GOP party planks and red state legislation seeking to ban the alleged creeping subversion of the US justice system by shariah law.
What happened when idiot voters either stayed home or decided to punish Democrats in 2010. Election of those who are “white and crazy.” Except for the stitch Nazi — that was, apparently, a bridge too far.
Frank Gaffney — 180 pounds of complete bosh and loony extremist party fun — from the archives.
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Extreme heat, power blackouts and wildfires are no reason to mull over the consequences of global warming. Keep your eyes on the ball, folks! Instead they illustrate how frail US civilization is. And they let us have just a little taste of what life might be like after electromagnetic pulse doom.
If you thought embarrassing failure in the Republican presidential primary was any reason to keep Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy chief Newt Gingrich off the pages of the Washington Post, you were mistaken.
Without power, the comforts of home become worthless. You sit in the sweltering heat, realizing you are living in a box that, without electricity, is a trap. You pray for the “juice??? to return before your groceries go bad. You either make do in the heat or find refuge with friends who have electricity …
I write this now because of my concern for national security and our power grid, which are susceptible to doomsday-level damage if hit by an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) strike …
In 2009, my friend — and sometimes co-author — William R. Forstchen published a truly frightening book, “One Second After.??? (I wrote the foreword.) The story is fiction but based on hard facts. It is a cautionary tale about the threat of EMP strikes and major solar storms, known as coronal mass ejections.
William turned to bipartisan congressional studies published in 2004 and 2008 and interviewed many experts. His book made the New York Times bestseller list and helped to trigger what some call the “prepper??? movement …
The Cult of EMP Crazy — from the archives.
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Hank Williams, Jr. has put his new album of mostly Tea Party-themed I-Hate-the-President music, Old School New Rules, on YouTube. You may not be able to get through it. But I listened for you.
Readers may or may not remember Hank lost one of his big money gigs last year, getting tossed as the opening theme to Monday Night Football, for comparing the President to Hitler. Country music did not rally to his cause.
And it won’t this time. Because while the genre and fans won’t tolerate the Dixie Chicks, and even went out of their way to ruin them, they also won’t publicly indulge anything like him.
Darryl Worley found it out with Keep the Change, an anti-Obama single he peddled to the Tea Party, hoping grass roots interest would force country music radio and television to play it. (If Worley made a penny of business value for every play on the fan-made video for it, he’s grossed about 2300 dollars. Boosted to a dime per play it’s still a sub-poverty wage for one office worker with a family. So while the numbers superficially looked like support from the standpoint of a major label artist who had previously had a hit single, they meant nothing.)
The best Darryl Worley could manage was an appearance on Huckabee. His record, promised after the release of the “Keep the Change” single never materialized. Instead, his company went out of business.
Like with Worley, Hank’s dilemma is that country music is emotionally embalmed. (He has also stupidly put his old anti-Obama tune with the exact same title, “Keep the Change,” on the new LP. It smells strongly of desperation.)
It’s classic rock refugee music for white people desperate to hold onto the delusion that if they’re just good enough, family-loving, God worshiping, hard workers, everything will turn out right in the end.
And what strikes fear in them is the wisp of any idea that this isn’t the way things are, that the country they think they live in hasn’t been the way they thought for a long time. Reality, looming over everyone like an unstoppable slow motion avalanche, threatens everything they believe in.
The music must therefore remain cheesy comfort.
Hank Williams Jr. is cheesy but not a comfort. And if there are songs that blame the President for everything, tunes that vow vengeance at the voting booth — well, the audience might find it agreeable privately but they won’t buy it and country music radio won’t play it. All the buxom young cut-off wearing girls on the summer tour circuit will find the mood harshed by Hank’s clumsy song to the small businessman, “Who’s Lookin’ Out for Number One.”
Counry music fans just don’t, don’t, don’t want trouble.
And Hank’s music is angry and a bit psychologically troubling but also not that great, expertly played by ringers and sung in two ways, either as a smooth ham or a mild boor tilting at the government.
In other words, if you want to have a genuine shit fit maybe you should really have one, instead of a big Nashville-session-man-and-buddies-middle-of-the-road imitation of it.
“I want to dedicate this song to every working man and woman in this country and everyone trying to run a business constantly punished, taxed and regulated by the federal government,” declares Hank Jr on the previously mentioned small businessman’s anthem.
“Our glorious leader just got back from China and Japan where he gave away our jobs, put us down and sold out our plans,” he sings. “We don’t need to be givin’ all that money away to other folks.”
It just doesn’t work as catchy music.
The first tune, “Takin’ Back the Country,” features his dead dad, autotuned. One presumes a few people in the studio thought this a bad idea but declined to say anything on the matter.
Hank Williams, Jr would desperately love Cow Turd Blues, from his new album, to be a Tea Party anthem.
Hanks gets a few points for giving it all away, at least for now.
The Republicans practice their new brand of McCarthy-ism every week.
It recommended everyone write their Congressman to join a number of radical House Republicans in an investigation of Muslim infiltration of the US government.
Brewing for a few months, we’ll get to the culprits/instigators in a minute.
Rep. Michele Bachmann says the Muslim Brotherhood, the international Islamist movement that recently came to power in Egypt, has made “deep penetration??? within the U.S. government, and she wants an investigation of its influence within five federal agencies …
[Bachmann,] R-Stillwater, and four other members of Congress see the Muslim Brotherhood as a domestic threat.
The lawmakers singled out the movement last month in letters to federal defense, diplomatic, intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, requesting investigations into whether — and through whom — the Muslim Brotherhood is exerting influence within President Barack Obama’s administration …
Bachmann’s letters are addressed to the inspectors general — the independent offices within federal agencies responsible for ensuring they operate efficiently and legally — for the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Justice and State, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Reps. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, Thomas Rooney, R-Fla., and Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., joined Bachmann in cosigning the letters, which cite people or actions by the agencies that raise the lawmakers’ concerns.
The letter to the State Department singles out Huma Abedin, a deputy chief of staff for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and asserts that three of Abedin’s family members are connected to the Muslim Brotherhood. It says Abedin’s position affords her access to Clinton, and adds that the department has “taken actions recently that have been enormously favorable to the Muslim Brotherhood and its interests.???
The letter to the Department of Defense charges the U.S. Army with failing to “characterize accurately the jihadist motivations??? of Major Nidal Hassan, the alleged Fort Hood shooter …
The GOP extremists have been pursuing Abedin, the wife of the disgraced Anthony Weiner, for months.
Did you know Islamic subversion is infiltrating the highest levels of US government?
Today, Bill Gertz of the Washington Times published the claim that Hillary Clinton might be associated with it, all revealed in a course offered by Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy and Islam-o-phobe Frank Gaffney.
Gaffney’s a birther. And [for the past few years] a great deal of his business [has been] centered around the alleged security threat of shariah-law permeating the US justice system.
Wrote Gertz, for the WaTimes:
Islamists linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and similar groups are working to undermine the U.S. government through “civilization jihad??? aimed at imposing Islamic law rule in the United States.
That is the conclusion of a new 10-part online video course produced by the Center for Security Policy (CSP), a Washington think tank, that was made public Tuesday.
The briefing-style educational video, “The Muslim Brotherhood in America: The Enemy Within,??? features lectures by CSP chief Frank Gaffney.
The video includes a detailed section on “Team Obama??? that identifies six people working close to or inside the Obama administration that the course says are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood or similar Islamist groups through numerous front organizations.
They include Rashad Hussein, special envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation; Huma Abedin, deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton …
The GOP’s new McCarthy’s have not ignited the same hysteria the original did in 1950 in what is recognized as one of the very dark moments from US history.
But it has not been for lack of trying.
The Islam-o-phobes pursue their persecutions with great tenacity, making up claims based on fictions, all for the tarring of enemies. Directly, they have been responsible for absurd anti-shariah law party platform planks and legislation in states controlled by the GOP/Tea Party. They’re a disgrace to the nation.
But one can guarantee that whatever the oral or written response is from the various government agencies targeted by the new McCarthy’s, it won’t be the end of the matter.
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Ted Nugent’s rock fans are the bottom out-of-sight riff-raff and wife-beaters of American country fairs, casinos and dive bars. After years of playing to them as a musician in Nugent’s band, and having to deal with Ted himself, I would think it understandable if you drank heavily:
People are always fleeing police, but usually it’s in a vehicle where they have a chance to get away. That wasn’t the case for Mick Brown, drummer for Ted Nugent, who tried to make his escape in a golf cart, according to the Bangor, Maine police department.
According to the police department, Brown, 55, reportedly stole a golf cart after a Bangor concert featuring Nugent, Styx and REO Speedwagon at Bangor’s waterfront pavilion.
Brown, who was reportedly intoxicated, evaded several people who tried to stop him and somehow picked up two women along the way, the department says on its Facebook page …
Brown was arrested and later released on $4,000 bail, and faces a court date of Aug. 15 for charges of operating under the influence of alcohol, driving to endanger, theft, and assault …
Ted Nugent himself has been in the news lately for his political opinions, most recently for suggesting that the South should have won the Civil War.
Nugent is also loudly teetotal.
Q: Michigan hasn’t gone Republican in a presidential election since 1988 and has been decidedly Democratic in the most recent presidential elections. However, recent polls suggest the state is up for grabs. Why do you think that is?
“Even those feeble-mined Michiganiacs on the receiving end of the government’s communist offenses of redistribution are waking up to how unfair and suicidal this system is for any meaningful quality of life in MI and America. This waking up is alarming all smart people to the disastrous results of the liberal democrats’ destruction of our great state.
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Nugent, now afraid to use threatening language on another Federal potentate, tries a different track:
With Chief Justice Roberts‘ vote to save Obamacare, I was reminded of what my dad told me more than 50 years ago: Never trust a man who wears a black robe. He might be naked under there …
Because our legislative, judicial and executive branches of government hold the 10th Amendment in contempt, I’m beginning to wonder if it would have been best had the South won the Civil War.
The America-hating Punk thing.
Also note cute American flag with hammer and sickle design.
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