I couldn’t have hoped for better timing. Although it won’t do any good.
From Newsweek, on Sarah Palin’s Alaska, the mom bending down upon her grizzly knee:
Watching Sarah Palin’s new reality show Alaska is like listening to Sgt. Pepper.
You can’t buy a better ridiculous lead sentence.
More:
While driving a dog sled across the wilderness, her fur-trimmed parka so perfectly frames her face, she evokes Audrey Hepburn.
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As Sarah Palin continues her climb, her knees feel trapped, she doesn’t know how to maneuver. Somehow, she musters the strength to climb higher, helped by the coaching from her guide who acknowledges her “Alaska-girl grit.??? He adds, “Good job, Sarah.??? And great job, Mark Burnett, who mines one more nugget from his newest reality star who says it was tough, but, “It’s fun when you reach the goal.???
Cue “Act Naturally.”
The Democratic Party has no one “white and crazy.” Nobody to beam at the camera with their name upside down in the background and have it painted as victory. No one for the media to gush over, to compare to Audrey Hepburn while outdoors fishing or sledding. It has no story, not even a ludicrous or bad one.
And I mean that in a critical way.
They have no one except Barack Obama to dominate television shows or news appearing to “Act Naturally.” Not a soul to destroy any mainstream media journalistic narrative by making their own. And he won’t do it, going absent without leave.
Instead, there are the likes of Heath Shuler and Jason Altmire. Fake Republicans only known to political junkies and news show tv producers — and not for any good things. Even as fools they have no hope of hitting the bigtime.
Even when the Democrats have MSNBC, they nuts it up, finding a situation in which Keith Olbermann has to take a few days off while no one bats an eye at Glenn Beck calling George Soros a Nazi collaborator.
On tv, even though they retain control of two-thirds of government, they appear a party of people with little backbone but lots of buyer’s remorse, eager to try and figure out how they can make tax cuts for the rich and even more decline look good.
And if they keep on going like this the Republicans will be able to get even someone fresh from a pharmaceutical straight-jacket elected in 2012.
Today Glenn Beck is describing how socialist insurrection — now said to be happening all over Europe, will soon be coming here, heralded by a total collapse of the dollar caused by the US government. Reinforced by a real he-man named Brad Thor, allegedly a very important ex-Dept. of Homeland Security employee. They wave around books that prove it, they say.
Besides the commercials for goldbuggism, advertisers are for the geriatric club, locally — a retirement home in Pasadena, rip-off reverse mortgage schemes designed to put you underwater pitched by elderly Fred Thompson, and lap band surgery.
And this:
Which says everything with very little effort.
Why did I even watch? Not being an ostomy patient, of course.
“American exceptionalism exists!” insists Brad Thor, with great conviction.
Now that things have changed and GOP/Tea Party types still don’t have the control they’d hoped for in the US government, what’s my old neighbor, the LehighValleyConservative up to?
Readers know I refer to the old Tea Party dude, the union man who hates on unions, spouts Biblical quote for the damning of others and has a contract as clip art for advertisements appealing to goldbuggism.
Harry Reid of Nevada won back his Senate seat last night for one main reason. He is in bed with and in the pockets of the Los [sic] Vegas gambling hierarchy. One look at the red/blue districts in Nevada and that becomes obvious. Reid is not being elected by the average working class, he is being protected by his gambling buddies. Much the same is going on in New York and other places. If we don’t wake up and clean house, it will only get worse … Bottom line is that we must get back to our traditional values and we must eliminate welfare for the lazy and reward hard work and success. That alone will eliminate most of the division and the resulting hate and crime in our society!
Having never left the pleasant green of Allentown and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, he doesn’t know what everyone who is sane does: Hey, lots and lots of Latinos live in the cities of the west.
The big problems are simple, he sez — our “lack of Judea/Christian values,” meaning yours and mine, and the paying out of entitlements to all the leeches.
The West Toledo man whose home contained hundreds of hallucinogenic mushrooms had amassed a cache of eight firearms and had told his wife that he hates government, especially the IRS and law enforcement, according to a newly obtained FBI affidavit.
Toledo police arrested Thomas D. Wineinger, 51, of 4716 Douglas Rd., on Oct. 26 and seized the illegal mushrooms, firearms, and more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition.
Also seized were castor beans, the basic ingredient for ricin, which has application as a biological weapon.
You really have to click through to the Toledo Blade to see the photo.
More gems, at the foot of the piece:
He routinely buried waste from his illegal mushroom-growing operation in the backyard, and threw castor beans in the yard too because he wants to “kill people,” [his wife] told agents.
Authorities also seized the following items last week from Wineinger’s property:
• Plastic bread racks containing 916 jars of mushrooms.
• Numerous pressure cookers with jars containing possible drug residue.
• A cooler with 41 spore petri dishes.
• Alleged drug paraphernalia including a scale, pipes, and knife.
“They did a witch-hunt and a during a Gestapo, jack-booted thug raid based on the allegation that my forked horn buck was a spike as spurred on by phone calls from the ‘Ted Haters.'”
California game wardens are “infested” — infiltrated — by interests from animal rights’ groups, Nugent added.
In the blog post, Nugent said he took one for his buddy when pleading to the charges.
Although the report is garbled, it apparently has something to do with a Nugent colleague being found in possession of brass knuckles, Ted intimating he took the fall to make the more serious charge go away.
In California, brass knuckles are outlawed. Possession is a felony.
The legalities are discussed here in a news report relating what happened when Electronic Arts sent out brass knuckles, which were hurriedly recalled, as part of a Godfather game promotion:
In the United States alone, brass knuckles are illegal in at least ten states: Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.
Ted, however, vowed revenge:
“There was a witch-hunt for Ted Nugent, but they’re going to lose. I’m going to get them.”
Rocker Ted Nugent won’t be hunting in Kansas this fall, said Kevin Jones, Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks law enforcement chief. Nugent has bowhunted in Kansas several years and has an archery deer permit for the current season … Jones said Kansas’ electronic license system will not permit Nugent to purchase a hunting license online or over-the-counter.
And there is Nugent’s election-eve column in the Washington Times, a very poor man’s Ayn Rand — here.
From Crooks & Liars, a good ad hoc video juxtaposing Sterling Hayden’s “fluoride, precious bodily fluids and commies” moments with Jerry Boykin on infiltration.
Many have previously noticed the similarities between the extremist paranoid GOP/Tea Party and the Strangelove psychosis with contamination of the American body.
Most recently, Ted Nugent — acting as a mouthpiece for the Team B report on Muslim subversion through Shariah law, was written of here:
In the fact-based world, Nugent’s essay — as does the Team B report — takes on the air of something heard from General Jack Ripper, telling Lionel Mandrake at Burpelson AFB, why he launched the bomb wing at the Soviet Union.
Nugent uses the word “poisoning??? twice in his essay. It’s a less elegant construction than Ripper’s dialog, concocted by Terry Southern and Peter George for the script of Dr. Strangelove:
“A foreign substance is introduced into the precious bodily fluids, without the knowledge of the individual and certainly without any free choice. That’s the way the commies work…” — Jack Ripper
In Team B’s case (and for Nugent’s essay), the nefarious foreign substance is Shariah law, not fluoride put into ice cream by the commies.
The United States has always had Jerry Boykins and Ted Nugents. But they used to always be swept to the fringes, their vein of American neurosis emerging as good satire in movies like Dr. Strangelove.
Everyone laughs. Great movie.
It’s no longer a joke. These people — and their way of thinking — are a genuine threat tomorrow. They are totally fucked up.
With regards to the Crooks & Liars video, Jerry Boykin — as the real thing — is almost impossible to watch next to Hayden and Peter Sellers.
Harmonization of hunting laws in various states means suspension of a license in one leads to automatic suspension in another. And earlier in the week this led game wardens in California and South Dakota to look into whether Ted Nugent had hunted pheasant prior to a Tea Party rally in South Dakota illegally.
Nugent’s license to hunt deer has been temporarily suspended in California over two misdemeanor convictions stemming from deer-baiting.
However, the suspension only covers deer hunting. And in California, that leaves Nugent free to hunt everything else but deer until the suspension is over. Which would seem to quite fairly get him off the hook in South Dakota.
Department officials won’t confirm the investigation or discuss
details, but a California wildlife officer provided some information on the case Thursday, confirming that Nugent did lose some hunting privileges in California for deer-hunting violations.
But the suspension only covers deer hunting. The rocker and widely
known gun advocate can still hunt pheasants and other game in
California, said Patrick Foy, a warden and public information
officer for the law enforcement division of the California Fish and
Game Department.
“Ted Nugent is prohibited from hunting deer in California until after June 30 of 2012,” Foy said. “He can hunt pheasants. He can hunt pigs. He can hunt whatever else he wants to hunt. He is prohibited from hunting deer.”
The article goes on to state California wardens consider Nugent cooperative and remorseful over his offense.
However, they have probably not seen Nugent railing over his convictions on YouTube video — like readers at this blog have — calling game law “indecent” and anti-freedom.
One curious thing in the run-up to election day re Nugent.
While he is out stumping for various Tea Party candidates, he has yet to repeat a WaTimes column calling for varmint hunting with no bag limit on Tuesday. As he repeatedly did earlier in the year.
While there are a couple of days left for him to revert, Nugent has not gone back to euphemistically calling for violence — varmint hunting and crowbar swinging — on election day.
Paradoxically, what readers have seen — if they’re in America — is that through the summer and into the fall, the weakness of leadership in the President and Democratic Party and the very bad economy, have allowed for the complete mainstreaming of Ted Nugent-style extremism.
And that on certain occasions, actually beating up people, as long as they are Democrats, is OK.
In related news, Nugent is being investigated for another hunting violation. This time in South Dakota, it stems from his conviction on misdemeanor deer-baiting in California.
The Rapid City Journal reports:
State wildlife officials have begun an investigation to
determine whether musician Ted Nugent broke the law when he hunted
pheasants near Hot Springs prior to his Oct. 16 appearance in Rapid
City.
Nugent was featured at a Second Amendment rally sponsored by
Citizens for Liberty, a Rapid City area tea party affiliate. Before
the rally, Nugent shot pheasants and partridge on a hunting
preserve east of Hot Springs, under a special preserve license and
regulations.
Now there is a question about whether Nugent could legally hunt
in the state, because of his no-contest plea in August to two
counts of misdemeanor big-game violations in California.
Today the Tennessean newspaper ran a big expose on the lucrative business of spreading hate and fear over Muslims taking over America, as peddled by a small group of extreme right “national security” experts.
“Anti-Muslim crusaders make millions spreading fear,” is the headline.
This isn’t news to the followers of blogs like this one. The field of US national security is thoroughly contaminated with people who’s only business is encouraging Americans to despise Islam by mouthpiece-ing the hate through the media.
However, it’s welcome to see a newspaper’s investigative team digging into it so thoroughly.
Steve Emerson, who has been radioactive poison for a good long time is the biggest figure profiled. His business is described as one that uses a non-profit to front a for-profit business selling his ‘expertise’ about reputed Muslim group ties in the US to terrorists overseas.
It’s a damning takedown.
Also up for scrutiny is Frank Gaffney.
Gaffney is a charter member of the Cult of EMP Crazy, where he and other members of the GOP regularly push stories into the media about how Iran will send US back to the horse-and-buggy age with an electromagnetic pulse attack.
Writes the Tennessean:
Frank Gaffney, head of the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Center for Security Policy, earned a $288,300 salary from his charity in 2008. Gaffney was a key witness in recent hearings in the Rutherford County lawsuit filed by mosque opponents. He said he paid his own way.
On the stand, the Reagan-era deputy assistant defense secretary accused local mosque leaders of having ties to terrorism, using ties to Middle Eastern universities and politics as evidence. His main source of information was his own report on Shariah law as a threat to America, one he wrote with other self-proclaimed experts.
But, under oath, he admitted he is not an expert in Shariah law.
The list of people on the anti-Islam circuit goes on. IRS filings from 2008 show that Robert Spencer, who runs the Jihadwatch.org blog, earned $132,537 from the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a conservative nonprofit.
Gaffney authored the recent “Team B” report alleging Shariah law and Muslim terror was taking over the heartland of America.
The report, pumped by Fox News, the Washington Times, and many others in the right wing noise machine, acted as a convenience for the usual gasbags to fan the flames of Islam-o-phobia.
The Tennessean asserts the message from these non-experts resonates strongly in middle Tennessee among the hardcore Christian white right of the Bible Belt.
And it has been a very lucrative business. The thrust of the article contains tax returns from the various “businesses,” revealing the additional fact that they employ non-profit fronts as tax dodges.
The Tennessean article is here. Everyone should read it as a graphic example of the malicious application of fear for the making of money. At the expense of all Muslims in the United States.
Another fact is worth restating. The people who carry this out are the sole property of the Republican Party. And they are disgraces.
Perhaps the Tennessean newspaper has contributed to driving a stake through some of them, at long last.
