05.24.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle at 12:52 pm by George Smith
“Every time I go out, I have to see these young couples. And I get jealous of them. They remind me of exactly of what I am missing out in life — sex, love, companionship. I desire those things. I desire girls. I am sexually attracted to girls. But girls are not sexually attracted to me and there’s a major problem with that, a major problem. That’s a problem that I intend to rectify. I, in all my magnificence and power, I will not let this fly. It’s an injustice that needs to be dealt with.”
The Isla Vista lunatic, 22-year old Elliot Rodger, put his pathological psyche into rambling videos, all on YouTube, made in the days just prior to his killing spree on Friday night at UC Santa Barbara.
All set against beautiful vistas, almost all of them in Santa Barbara, Roger lays out his grievances against girls and the unfair world, but mostly against girls for never wanting to have sex or anything else to do with him. Set against the setting sun overlooking the ocean, or on a beautiful hillside in Montecito in “Why do girls hate me so much?,” Roger repeats his message over and over.
One video is a morning drive to school a week or so ago set with “Walking On Sunshine” by Katrina & the Waves playing in the car, another a cruise through the main drag of Montecito, just south of Santa Barbara, to “Oh Sherrie” by Steve Perry.
In all, Rodger appears methodical, possessed by a calm hatred of women who are simply seen as objects, and patently insane. He had a script and never wavered. His family apparently saw them, knew of his problems and informed authorities, but nothing could be done.
Rodger calls himself magnificent, awesome, frequently. He boasts of his BMW and makes it a star in the video entries. He owns a 300 dollar pair of sunglasses and dresses nice. He is sophisticated but “girls” are not attracted to him. Rodger has had to “rot” in “bleak and sad loneliness.” The objects of his desire shun him for “obnoxious slobs,” in the parks, around town, at the local Trader Joe’s: “Every day I must be insulted by the sight of all these lesser men walking around with beautiful girls.”
It’s a macabre tour of the beautiful places in Santa Barbara, some of it set to a couple of sunny pop music hits from the Eighties, your narration by a madman whose plan was to tell everyone what he was about to do and, especially — why, repeatedly, knowing no one would see them until after.
Rodger’s selfie videos are The Sorrows of Young Werther as a short movie narrated ala American Psycho. Except instead of just killing himself after being spurned by the girl he pines for, the young man creates a video diary, then goes to a college sorority and guns down women in a drive-by. (He also stabbed three of his male roommates to death.)
“Right now I’m taking a walk through the park … and I’m just contemplating about my life and how it’s been unfair for the last eight years, ever since I hit puberty. Ever since I started desiring girls. But they never desire me back.
Life has been a living hell since then. I’ve been all alone. Right now it’s spring break. Everyone else my age is outside with their friends and their girlfriends. Here I am taking lonely walks through a park. But still, I have to admire the beauty of this place. Look at it. Magnificent, isn’t it?
“This is the park I usually come to. It’s quite close to where I live in Santa Barbara. Whenever I come here I true to develop a sense of peace, a sense of escape from my troubles in life. Even though I’m lonely here, the serenity of it all just makes me try and forget about it.”
Another disturbing feature, for this blog, is recognizing all the places in Rodger’s videos because I’ve been to them. Santa Barbara and its environs are popular getaways, all being somewhat less than a two hour drive from here, even on busy days.
No links. Some trivial flat-footing on YouTube shows them all. Roger had a plan and knew it would be this way.
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05.23.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle at 2:24 pm by George Smith
The United States isn’t really particularly great at making stuff.
However, it is easy to name where we still hang onto the top spot: weapons of mass destruction, bombers, heavy guided bombs and missiles, armed drones. No awards given for the “Designed in U.S.A. / Made in China” labels that come up with other things, mostly in consumer electronics, though.
Then there’s this bit of viral news from tech, one of the favorite sources of joy in the Culture of Lickspittle.
Yay, PancakeBot. Will you be able to buy it with BitCoin?
Last year, it was the 3D-plastic gun. Since then, cakes, cookies, pizza and candy.
“Unfortunately you can’t buy one of these badboys just yet, but if you don’t mind putting in some extra effort, it’s totally possible to build one yourself,” writes some publicist masquerading as a journalist at DigitalTrends.
It’s the future of breakfast, insists the piece.
“PancakeBot’s creators have developed a version made from Legos and an Arduino microcontroller, and have posted the building instructions online for free,” it adds.
That’s great. Whatever will we get for free, next?
You’ll note that “free” in the Culture of Lickspittle long ago ceased meaning what traditionalists stupidly still think it does.
“Drew’s fascination with technology began at an early age – shortly after he licked a 9-volt battery for the first time,” reads the bio at DigitalTrends. (No link.)
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05.21.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Cyberterrorism at 9:56 am by George Smith
It’s no longer particularly eye-opening that the US government views almost every problem, domestic and global, as something that could be helped by more militarization.
However, it is dismaying that when much of the rest of the world wants much less militarized US national security presence on the global networks, the polar opposite moves smoothly ahead domestically.
More teams of “warriors” often seem to be the only answer to just about everything in cyberspace, down to defending some a police department in Albuquerque after hackers compromised its network with malicious phishing e-mails, a now common place and fairly trivial occurrence nationally and globally.
A reader informs that California has taken up an offer from the National Guard to scan its network computers for vulnerabilities and to conduct penetration testing.
Excerpts from a piece posted at National Guard dot mil explain the background, which is being ramped up nationally:
With cyber attacks occurring more frequently and becoming more complex, the National Guard is stepping up its efforts to defend critical infrastructure networks and develop the next generation of Cyber Warriors.
More than 300 Soldiers, Airmen and civilians from 35 states, Puerto Rico, Guam and the District of Columbia converged at the National Guard Professional Education Center for the 2014 Cyber Shield Exercise from April 22 to May 2. While the scenarios they encountered were simulated, the malicious attacks came fast and furious, representative of what network defenders face in the real world.
The Guard’s CNDTs not only protect the National Guard’s information highway but also are mandated with assisting federal and state governments to provide vulnerability assessments and help protect their networks. Just as they are available to governors to respond to natural disasters, each individual CNDT is prepared to answer the call. In March, the New Mexico Army National Guard responded to a cyberattack in Albuquerque.
“We act as advisors to the governor,??? said Col. Raphael Warren, G6 for the New Mexico Army National Guard and officer in charge for the 2014 Cyber Shield Assessment Team. “We had an incident where the activist group Anonymous attacked the Albuquerque Police Department and we [took] that opportunity to get some insight into how those attacks occurred.???
Unlike federal troops who are bound by the Posse Comitatus Act, Guard Cyber Warriors can assist local and state law enforcement.
There is always a money side, too.
The National Guard dot mil piece makes it quite clear the need for militarized cyber-defense is also about searching for justifications for expanded budgeting, including joint programs for continuing education of “cyber warriors” at local schools.
“[The National Guard Public Education Center] and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) are exploring a partnership to provide improved course content development, internships, certificates and degrees for PEC instruction, reads the piece. “Coupled with UALR’s certified and accredited instruction, PEC will continue to be instrumental in providing skilled cyber warriors to support a wide range of federal and state cyber missions.”
“It’s a win-win that way and the money that we’re spending that is already been put on the table is a double benefit,??? one of the Guard’s cyber-soldiers added.
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05.19.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Cyberterrorism at 10:58 am by George Smith
PARIAH comes true! Send it to your friends!
US national computer security apparatchiks hit a new low
When you want to distract the media from Edward Snowden’s documents, restore the image of the NSA and relaunch cyberwar hype for the benefit of defense contractors, you do a show trial indictment of the Chinese.
You make sure it has no real weight and accuse five Chinese generals in a building in Shanghai of cyberspying and stealing corporate secrets from big US companies, and suggest they be handed over for a trial. Much for our amusement and greater merriment.
“The Justice Department said that the men were indicted on May 1 by a federal grand jury in Pennsylvania,” reads the New York Times.
Go Pennsylvania! Show the Chinese!
Now all us Americans who either have crap jobs or no jobs and are needing food stamps will know where to point the finger of blame: The Chinese army that is stealing our corporate secrets.
“[The government indictment and demands], however, were largely symbolic as the Chinese government, which said on Monday that the facts behind the charges were made up, is unlikely to turn them over,” continued the Times.
Later in the day, an analysis at the Times gets to the heart of the US dilemma (or hypocrisy, depending on your POV):
[The] Chinese have already rejected both the facts and the argument, and they used the revelations last year by the former National Security Agency contractor Edward J. Snowden to press their response that the distinction between spying for commerce and spying for national security is a tiny one, and distinctly American.
Documents released by Mr. Snowden have revealed that the American government pried deep into the servers of Huawei, one of China’s most successful Internet and communications companies. The documents made clear that the N.S.A. was seeking to learn whether the company was a front for the People’s Liberation Army and whether it was interested in spying on American firms. But there was a second purpose: to get inside Huawei’s systems, and to use them as a conduit to spy on countries that buy its equipment around the world.
Huawei officials said they failed to understand how that differed in any meaningful way from what the United States has accused the Chinese of doing.
Naturally, US national security apparatchiks/very-important-people won’t have it.
However, when in their own company presumably some of the gang realize the problem they have created for themselves and that today’s action is unlikely to solve it in any meaningful way.
It also raises the prospect of tit-for-tat.
Indicting PLA generals on computer crimes puts pressure on other countries which may have agreements in place to detain foreign nationals accused of such crimes by the US when they pass through their territory.
These countries, and many others, may be partially or even entirely unenthusiastic about cooperating in such matters considering the damage done to the American reputation by the Snowden affair.
Knowing this, the Chinese, or any other country, might choose to indict an American general, such as the head of the NSA or the chief of Cyber Command, for actions revealed in the Snowden materials, for the development and dissemination of malware like Stuxnet, or any other intrusion it detects on the networks that its experts think or insist points to US operations.
In this way, the show trial held today could backfire in interesting ways in the next couple of years.
The US government has not come close to making a compelling case that Chinese stealing of American secrets has hurt the US economy. If the theft has, no economists of note have discerned it or even chosen to comment on the matter in their daily publishings on the state and progress of the national economy.
The statistics, or raw numbers of hacking intrusions and documents accessed in corporate America no matter how large, as reported by the media or selectively distributed for-special-eyes-only reports, do not make the case.
Paradoxically, it all comes down to matters of trust. How much trust is to be put into agencies which have worked to damage trusted networks?
Sherlock Holmes: Don’t you trust your own Secret Service?
Mycroft Holmes: Naturally not. They all spy on people for money.
— Sherlock, A Scandal in Belgravia
To keep things in perspective, from Krugman today:
By any normal standard, economic policy since the onset of the financial crisis has been a dismal failure.
Much of Mr. Geithner’s book is devoted to a defense of the U.S. financial bailout, which he sees as a huge success story — which it was, if financial confidence is viewed as an end in itself. Credit markets, which seized up after Lehman fell, mostly returned to normal during Mr. Geithner’s first year in office. Stock indexes rebounded, and have hit new records. Even subprime-backed securities — the infamous “toxic waste??? that was poisoning the financial system — eventually regained a significant part of their value … [Tim Geithner] was, if you like, all for bailing out banks but against bailing out families.
And refusing to help families in debt, it turns out, wasn’t just unfair; it was bad economics. Wall Street is back, but America isn’t, and the double standard is the main reason.
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05.14.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, WhiteManistan at 1:29 pm by George Smith
Convenient bottled fad.
Although made near me east on the highway, Sriracha pepper sauce isn’t one of those things considered a California icon. I’ve used it but it’s no necessity. Hot sauces line up on all our local shelves, in big bottles and small, from the mild to punishing, Sriracha leaning toward the latter.
But thanks to the New York Times, 60 Minutes and the opportunity to make political hay, the relatively small business is now much more famous than it ought to be.
In Irwindale, some of the locals are annoyed by the plant which processes peppers it trucks in from Ventura in one big batch, once during the year. During that time, capsaicin and acetic acid are released into the air. And it’s caused a problem.
From the New York Times feature, which carried one unintentionally amusing quote by a politician who will wake up to find a new hole ripped in him on election day:
But since this small, industrial city east of Los Angeles began taking legal action against the Sriracha factory here — responding to complaints from residents about the strong scent of chiles — this trendy hot sauce has turned from a culinary symbol into a political one for business leaders and Republicans who have long complained that California is hostile to industry …
To local residents, the problem with the Sriracha factory is one of overwhelming odors. When the factory is grinding chiles in the fall, the scent of red jalapeños — so sweet once bottled — blows through town like a malevolent wind.
“Sriracha is a symbol of a much bigger and very unfortunate trend in California of businesses leaving and political leaders not seeming to care,??? said Neel Kashkari, a moderate Republican running for governor this year against the Democratic incumbent, Gov. Jerry Brown.
Excusing the stupidly purple prose, Sriracha or no, Kashkari (gotta love the name) will be crushed by Brown. We’ve no use for Republican Party governors at this point. And anything Kashkari might have had to say about the company was irrelevant to its fortunes and his inevitable political destiny.
Texas was also after Sriracha, sending a delegation to Irwindale this week to convince the owner the state was ready with open arms.
Unfortunately, Sriracha, California and Irwindale are connected in a relationship of comparative advantage.
Sriracha gets its peppers from near-by Ventura and quickly processes them for the sake of freshness. There is no easy way to rip that up and duplicate it somewhere else.
Tough break.
On Monday, Sriracha’s owner, David Tran, complained in interview that the US government was like that of commie Vietnam, the place he left in 1978. This brought back memories of the fall of Saigon and Henry Kissinger, neither particularly helpful to the company’s cause.
But by Tuesday, the Texans had come and gone and the Lone Star state, despite much lobbying, had lost to California. We are number one, after all.
Said David Tran in interview: “This is a good place. I moved in. I will stay here.???
Texas governor, the infamous Rick Perry, invoked Atlas Shrugged for the state’s bid.
Go Galt in Texas noble pepper sauce, go Galt:
“When you start to overburden the creators of jobs, ultimately the creators of jobs have to consider alternatives.”
Hey, WhiteManistanis! Here’s a tip. Stop doing that. It makes too many people think you’re fucked up.
Remember the song: “Blessed are the job creators/They can always hire way more waiters (to pass you the Sriracha).”
The other thing worth noting in this story is how the news (60 Minutes! The NYT! The BBC!) was taken over with discussion of what was really small beer.
Sriracha is a business that produces a minor condiment that people obsess over all out of proportion to its use. While it certainly has its fans, it’s not catsup, bright yellow hot dog mustard or A1, or — locally — even Miller beer, which has a brewery visible from the highway in the same town.
It showed politicians from Texas and other states rushing around like carpetbaggers, trying to win over a company that doesn’t employ that many people — 70 — a molecule of water in the bucket of what’s a major problem in the country.
What it came down to is in the culture of lickspittle is that it’s easier to carry on about Sriracha as if it’s inconveniencing in Irwindale is a symptom of some major failing than it is to address mass unemployment and underemployment, which nobody in power has any will to do anything about except make worse.
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05.12.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Rock 'n' Roll, Shoeshine at 12:00 pm by George Smith
At RockNYCLiveandRecorded, a music website edited by Iman Lababedi, an old regular at the long defunct Creem magazine:
Stenography, that is to say, the passing on of favorable publicity and hagiography, is the major business practice of the mainstream media. Having the temerity of daring opinion in relationship to power, or money or whatever the majority feels is great consumer stuff, went badly out of fashion in the last few decades. So Lorde can be forgiven for believing something stupid, but which sounds superficially fair on first hearing, about the original nature of entertainment writing.
Stenography, or the rote passing on of free publicity, is a decades old problem, spread across many genres of journalism.
When I started writing for the Morning Call newspaper of Allentown in the late Eighties it came at a time when the entertainment section’s function was to be exactly that — providing of stenographers for the local arts people and those coming through town.
When that changed to sending in reports that frequently afflicted those deserving of it, it created a substantial short term fit. The assistant managing editor did not at all like getting angry phone calls on Monday morning, the first time he could be reached after the weekend bits had run. There was no e-mail you could just delete. You had to listen to grumpy people on the phone. In his estimation, the job of features section journalists was to make their subjects happy …
Read all of it.
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Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, WhiteManistan at 11:28 am by George Smith
The hobbies of WhiteManistan are easy to define: Anything bunches of angry white guys with weapons can do to scare and intimidate everyone else. And in special cases, the one-on-one gunning down of unarmed but suspected enemies. The hobbies are officially promoted by enacting laws that make it OK for WhiteManistanis to shoot not-white people and/or government workers who make them nervous and which also enable the waving of assault rifles at unarmed civilians in demonstrations of freedom from tyranny.
And nothing says you’re a tyranny-fighting patriot like riding your ATV over a native American historical site in Utah with your posse of like-minded buddies.
From the Salt Lake Tribune, excerpted:
While addressing the rally, [the WhiteManistan sovereign citizen leading the parade] voiced second thoughts about riding the closed trail, fearing illegal action would promote conflict and undermine his cause, which “is being tried in the court of public opinion.”
He proposed riding the canyon rim instead, but rally goers shouted that idea down …
It’s your god-given right to go down and ride through that canyon and to hell with the media,” shouted an armed militia member.
The newspaper noted the armed militiamen in attendance declined to be interviewed.
Do follow the link to see the pictures. My regret, of course, is I didn’t have these to include in my WhiteManistan Vacation song.
Hey, let’s go out and wave our guns at people in the park on Saturday.
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05.05.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Cyberterrorism at 5:22 pm by George Smith
Even stuff you did more than 20 years ago isn’t safe from corporate theft. If there is a way to steal labor, it will be done. Here then for your enjoyment, from the Morning Call, a piece I did as a free-lancer in 1992. The Call, which belonged to Times-Mirror, now Tribune, never had a contract with any free-lance writers.
Digital distribution didn’t exist in any form for it. Free-lance articles were never copied to the wire service from Allentown.
But this piece has existed in the Call archives for 22 years. And while the newspaper has no digital rights to it, that hasn’t stopped it from putting it on the web.
I’m taking it back today.
It’s Not That Tricky To Use The PC For April Fool’s Revenge
Dear Mr. Computer Dude:
My PC plays Rossini’s “William Tell Overture” every time I turn it on. I can’t find anything about this in the manual. Is it an undocumented feature?
— Puzzled
Has this ever happened to someone you know? Like, maybe around April 1?
Time to get even! If you have a PC and a double sawbuck to spare, you’re all set to try your hand at some electronic practical jokes and maybe learn a little about computer security in the process.
The sweetest way to get started on this April Fool’s revenge project is to let someone else provide the stoop labor. Just right for that purpose is a mall bookstore paperback called “Stupid PC Tricks” by Bob Levitus and Ed Tittel (Addison-Wesley; $19.95; 137 pp.). The book itself isn’t very helpful. However, the two floppy disks that come with it are — they contain the makings of a number of clever, cheap and, most important, user friendly practical jokes.
To start, the disks contain a program known as TRIP (as in drugs, not cruise).
Now, what you want to do to embarrass that goldbricking co-worker who’s always playing a favorite computer game when the shift supervisor’s not looking is this:
1. Take a disk that TRIP is on and insert it into your colleague’s work station PC floppy drive. Type A:, then .
2. Now, type TRIP 5.
3. Then type CLS to clear the PC monitor so there’s no evidence of your fiddling.
TRIP is a deeply aggravating trick which installs itself into a computer’s memory and alters the color of all letters on the TV screen in a random fashion at a rate predetermined by the number typed after TRIP.
TRIP is not destructive, but it is quite impossible for anyone to work at a PC with text characters pulsing queasily in different colors. And TRIP is easy to dismiss (but don’t tell any of the victims). Simply restarting the PC flushes TRIP from the system.
More devious and experienced users, perhaps your teen-age kid, for instance, will greatly appreciate TRIP’s potential when tied into a PC’s autoexec file (computer-ese for the routine the PC runs on start-up before it hands over control to the operator.) Heh-heh.
Anyway, executing your master TRIP plan has also neatly demonstrated how easy it is indeed to insert a real rogue program, like a virus, into most PCs. About 10 seconds’ worth of work, all told. This is a point that shouldn’t be overlooked in lieu of the recent hoo-haw over the Michelangelo virus.
A similar program supplied by the Stupid PC Tricks disks is MUTANT. MUTANT installs effortlessly and quickly like TRIP, but instead slowly goads the PC into generating a string of frankly disconcerting clicks and buzzes, including one sound that mimics the screech of a trapped squirrel. MUTANT’s thoughtful delayed activation ensures time for escape, thereby lessening professional risk, too.
One also gets two programs called FOOL and ANNOY which double as apoplexy-inducing pranks or low-level security applications.
FOOL is a bit more complex than TRIP or MUTANT. It consists of two files: the FOOL program and an insult/security database which FOOL refers to. FOOL is activated by typing FOOL and a percentage, i.e., FOOL 25 percent. When this is done, FOOL installs in memory and issues a work-blocking insult on roughly 25 percent of all typed commands.
A typical insult might be: “NAZI SWINE! I’LL NEVER TALK!” while the PC refuses to continue.
It’s easy to see how this alone could get out of hand. However, FOOL has an added feature. By typing the names of any program, for example WP for a word processor, in FOOL’s insult/security file, FOOL aborts the execution of the program.
This is a noxious, intrusive property which has a lot of application in low-level PC security. For example, corporate stiffs, er, administrators, who wish to prevent employees from running certain programs during off hours could easily install FOOL to block access to popular applications like spreadsheets or income-tax preparers.
Certain anti-virus programs work in the same manner. Although slightly more sophisticated than FOOL, once installed in memory they can intercept pre-determined potentially destructive commands which simple viruses, novice computer vandals or disgruntled employees might issue.
ANNOY is not as powerful as FOOL, but far more sneaky. ANNOY installs memory resident, like the more pestiferous computer viruses, and poses as a password security feature for common commands on IBM-compatible PCs. For example, when the user types DIR — the most common command — ANNOY annoyingly pops up and asks for the password. In reality, there is no password. However, the user is unlikely to know this. In addition, ANNOY secretly logs the command to a secret usage file, for convenient snooping later.
All these programs are harmless. However, keep in mind that some people, by nature, are tense and humorless. In these cases, you should be ready to step in with a remedy and judicious application of diplomatic balm.
Next week: Irreversibly encrypting your boss’ payroll file.
“I don’t think people are interested in computers,” Mr. J. Kelly, Assistant Managing Editor, The Morning Call, 1992
Ah, the amusements of MS and PC DOS. If you know the editor of the blog, you’ll know what else was being set to be delivered in the old Crypt Newsletter. (Careful now, it can’t hurt you. But your anti-virus program might not like it.)
There was so much more that could have been written. But it was a newspaper, there were certain sensibilities that were inviolate, and as one person said, readers weren’t interested in personal computers.
Brilliant.
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Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, WhiteManistan at 2:54 pm by George Smith
Over the weekend, instant replay: [WhiteManistan’s] gun owners enjoy bullying others, either through death threats, videotaped outbursts of psychotic rage, or public displays in which they assemble, march and brandish their weapons in front of unarmed civilians. Or all three.
They get off on their pathology, so much so it’s become normal in this increasingly hostile-to-a-civil-life place. It’s natural to the psychotic character of the country, no longer a fringe symptom. Got a problem? If you’re a white guy with guns, show your anger. Make threatening paranoid videos about fighting or shooting the enemies that surround you, a real American. Frighten as many people as possible. Build your following.
From the New York Times today:
But what does it mean, in a democracy that enshrines freedom of speech, to publicly carry a gun as an expression of political dissent? Toting a weapon in a demonstration changes the stakes, transforming a protest from just another heated transaction in the marketplace of ideas into something else entirely. It’s bringing a gun to an idea-fight, gesturing as close as possible to outright violence while still technically remaining within the domain of speech. Like a military “show of force,??? this gesture stays on the near side of an actual declaration of war while remaining indisputably hostile. The commitment to civil disagreement is merely provisional: I feel so strongly about this issue, the gun says, that if I don’t get my way, I am willing to kill for it.
Citizens in a democracy make a certain pact with one another: to answer speech with more speech, not violence. No matter how angry what I say makes you, you do not have a right to pull a gun on me. But now the gun has already been drawn, nominally as an act of symbolic speech — and yet it still remains a gun. A slippage has occurred between the First and Second Amendments, and the First suffers as a result. The moral bravery political protest demands is no longer enough; to protest in response now requires the physical bravery to face down men with guns.
This situation is alarming, but it is also tragic. Asking after the propriety of guns in the public square ignores a basic reality: They are already there, and not just in ambiguously threatening demonstrations.
Further, the gun bullies are the shock troops of the bigot white right: “Since the election of Barack Obama, guns have appeared in the public square in a way unprecedented since the turbulent 1960s and ’70s — carried alongside signs and on their own since before the Tea Party elections …”
Included in this manner, gun bully public face Ted Nugent, calling the president a “subhuman mongrel” at a gun show, his most recent appearance at the NRA convention in Indianapolis embargoed from the press to keep him out of trouble while his new knees set.
“Fuck you, keep buying them guns this video is posted by a idiot …” — standard comment
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Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, WhiteManistan at 12:23 pm by George Smith
Capital
Cartooned.
The force is strong in the army of lickspittles:
“For the ‘picked last for kickball’ crowd.”
Who wants to get Escape from WhiteManistan a copy?
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