02.27.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Ted Nugent at 10:53 am by George Smith
The Texas Niagara Falls of race-baiting slurs and misogyny will stop. For now. Ted Nugent is to the hospital for total knee replacement. He uses a cane, put aside when he takes the stage. Nugent was a candidate for a Rascal.
Nugent suffers from kidney stones. His knees are gone from bone grinding on bone and the resulting osteoarthritis. The mainstream media, despite its daily coverage of his colorful character for the past two years for the sake of clickbait, has declined to speak of this aspect of the man’s life. Nugent is not the iron man he likes to paint himself as. He’s 65. He has health problems.
And today in his column at WorldNetDaily, after a week or so of being at the center for a media maelstrom for calling the president a subhuman mongrel, Nugent announces he will be taking a break as he undergoes double knee replacement.
It is not a trivial procedure:
As you read this, yet another little Nuge update at WND.com on this lovely day of our Lord, Feb. 26, 2014, I am gone with the wind, out cold, bonkers, comfortably numb, zapped, schnookered, boogered, out of pocket, off the grid, anesthetized, beyond the zone, almost Ozzy-like.
No, really. I’m plugged in/out in the hospital right now, today, getting new wheels. My long overdue double knee replacement surgery could not be put off any longer …
And what, you may ask, is so positive about this painful procedure that knocks me flat on my 65-year-old a–? Well, beyond the truism that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, and beyond the joyful thoughts of being back in the saddle of that legendary Ted Nugent athletic mobility, this rare down moment in time will force me to temporarily disengage from this putrid, tragic culture-war media debate that rages on across the land on a minute by minute, hour by hour, day after day nonstop basis.
“You see, not only will my legs become more powerful and reinforced for the rock ‘n’ roll and bowhunting adventures that lie ahead in my indefatigable American Dream, but after this brief respite and forced rehab, a certain electrifying soul cleansing and spirit re-invigoration will surely transpire, increasing the mental, physical and spiritual firepower of our favorite MotorCity Madman,” Nugent continues in one of his now bog standard run-on sentences.
Maybe. Maybe not.
Double knee replacement is tough surgery.
“Full recovery will take 3 months to a year,” informs the National Institute of Health. If Nugent wished to be even potentially ready for his summer tour this year, now was the drop dead last moment to have knee replacement done. He still might not make it back in time. Summer, I’m predicting, will be for a vacation.
Total knee replacement patients are put on their feet quite early after the procedure so that the joints do not stiffen.
Physical rehab takes a good deal of time. Pain is considerable so control of it is important.
On the replacement, one doctor comments: “It is not designed to make you younger or allow you to do activities that add stress to the joint or risk added injury.”
High impact in daily life, tennis playing, jumping off of even small guitar amplifiers, pretending you’re a young man, are pretty much out. The problem lies in the nature of the prosthetics. They can loosen or shift.
“Perhaps the most common long-term problem with both artificial knees and hips is loosening of the prosthetic and the wearing out of the joint surface,” advises a doctor. “[Maintaining] proper body weight and staying physically fit, while avoiding repetitive high-impact sports such as long distance running, will help preserve joint function and longevity.”
On CNN earlier this week, Nugent appeared to barely hanging onto composure. To me, anyway. This, as a very stressing future, may have had something to do with it.
Ted Nugent needs a break. So does everyone else, from him. Perhaps it will be positive.
For CNN, Nugent made idiotic claims about going along on law enforcement missions, raids, with the DEA, ATF, FBI and Texas Rangers. These are claims he has made before but it’s not worth looking them up. They’re obviously lies.
Politifact went to the trouble of calling the agencies.
It dubs Nugent a liar here. But we already knew that.
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02.26.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Fiat money fear and loathers at 3:44 pm by George Smith
The most seen faces of BitCoin, until the Mt. Gox failure and replacement by the Waiting for BitCoin Godot guys.
Bitcoin holdings of Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss:
$64.1 million
Source: The New York Times, today.
What makes the Ponzi Twins so swank?
It’s all that money in their BitCoin tank!
And how did the Ponzis get so swank?
Who knows, buddy? Don’t be a crank!
Even Nobel laureates in the Manhattan Project never approached the worth of the Ponzi Twins.
From the man the Reg used to refer to as McClunker:
A US senator is asking the federal government to take this remarkable step: completely ban Bitcoin.
Joe Manchin, a Democratic senator representing West Virginia, sent a letter Wednesday to the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, and other regulators characterizing the virtual currency as encouraging “illicit activity” as well as being “highly unstable and disruptive to our economy.”
Manchin, who is a member of the Senate banking committee, suggested in the letter — titled “Manchin Demands Federal Regulators Ban Bitcoin” — that a complete prohibition was appropriate because Thailand, China, and South Korea have already enacted severe restrictions or bans of their own.
It’s unlikely that the Federal Reserve and the executive branch possess the statutory authority to prohibit Bitcoin without a new law enacted by Congress and signed by the president — making Manchin’s letter something of a publicity stunt.
No one listens to Joe Manchin. More unintentionally humorous, he’s the famous Senator from a state where most of the people have little or no money: West Virginia.
Unintentionally funny random headline:
Larry Summers Optimistic About Bitcoin Amid Huge Thefts
BitCoin supporter on-line speech of the day:
Hello Mr. Casey,
I read your [Wall Street Journal] article today. I feel deceived by you.
You requested to speak with me, so I took time out of my day to do so. We talked for 20 minutes, during which time I conveyed to you my sentiments about the Bitcoin ecosystem and the matter of MtGox’s collapse. My message was unambiguously a positive one. I didn’t focus whatsoever on the personal funds I lost at Gox. Indeed, the impetus for your call was my heartfelt post on Reddit.
Yet, you ignored everything I said. The only quote that you published from me in the Journal’s cover story was “”That’s gone now,” said Mr. Veerhoos, who is based in Panama City, Panama. “There’s no chance of getting that back now.””
Is that really the takeaway you had from our call and from my letter? Is that your idea of journalism? Did I come across with the sentiment of a despairing investor whose confidence has been rattled? It seems you were happy to completely ignore my sentiments, preferring instead to cherry pick the one fact that is least important, in order to paint a narrative that Bitcoin’s biggest problem is that it’s not “regulated.” I didn’t expect you to quote everything I said, but should you not have maintained at least a modicum of fidelity to my message?
I have dedicated my life to building and supporting the Bitcoin project. I don’t give a damn about the money I lost at Gox. That’s not important. What is important is that Bitcoin is resilient and enduring, and will continue to grow and change the world for the better. It is a story of human progress through technology. It is a story of the good seeping into the cracks of a corrupted financial system. It is a story of passionate people struggling against all odds to remedy the calamities brought down upon society from the most potently misguided people and institutions on Earth.
Next time you spend your efforts casting a pall over this cause, please don’t ask me to contribute mine.
-Erik Voorhees
PS – I will be posting this letter openly on Reddit. I will post your reply if you’d like. And if I do, I won’t cherry pick the most misleading points of it, and I will spell your name correctly.
Mr. Vorhees, it is said, lost over $300,000 in BitCoin on Mt. Gox.
From said WSJ piece:
Executives of bitcoin businesses around the world scrambled on Tuesday to shore up confidence …
A number of mainstream merchants recently have started accepting bitcoin for payment, including online retailer Overstock.com, the Sacramento Kings professional basketball team and online dating site OKCupid.
The Mt. Gox mess hasn’t changed the enthusiasm of Overstock.com, which began accepting bitcoin for payment in January. “If we didn’t use greenback dollars because a bank or two failed, the greenback would never have gotten off the ground,??? said Jonathan Johnson, executive vice chairman of the discount online retailer.
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02.25.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, WhiteManistan at 10:48 am by George Smith
For Arizona, one of the red beating hearts of WhiteManistan. Take the Super Bowl off them even if the anti-gay law is vetoed. You know they’re not sincere, They just regret the outrage directed at the state.
“In Tea-Bag USSippi, only heterosexual Joes!”
From three years ago. Nothing has changed. If anything, the hatred is more virulent.
It’s all in there. Ted Nugent, punish gay people, global warming is a hoax, Darwin’s theory of evolution is a joke, the hard concrete of the proper life in Republican WhiteManistan. Enact law that strikes at everyone not like you.
If I were a state legislature person in California, and – sadly – I am not, I would promise to immediately introduce law to allow California businesses to refuse to serve or cater to people from Arizona or Kansas or Texas or Florida. It would make it mandatory for patrons to show driver licenses on request. There are more details but I’d call it “Show Your Ground.”
This under the reasoning that they don’t like us in California, anyway. Nobody wants to eat food in a group where no one likes each other. It’s bad for the digestion.
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Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Fiat money fear and loathers at 9:56 am by George Smith
All your money are belonged to “Poof!”
Mt. Gox is gone, or almost so, reads the news.
Rumors about the possible collapse of leading Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox are sending shock waves through the community that has embraced the virtual currency.
Amid radio silence from the company, users are attempting to sort through conflicting signals that the company has shut down or that it is being acquired and possible relaunched …Ryan Galt, a Bitcoin blogger, wrote a post expressing his fear that this could be a fatal blow.
“This is catastrophic, and I am sorry to share this,” he wrote. “I do believe that this is one of the existential threats to bitcoin that many have feared and have personally sold all of my bitcoin holdings through Coinbase.”
That would be the Ryan Galt, great great grandson of John.
Meanwhile, over at Ponzi Twins Central, the Winkdex provides evidence that BitCoin hoarders are desperately trying to keep the price of the currency propped up.
Blast from the past last weeK:
Protester Kolin Burges, who started dabbling in virtual currencies last summer, says that he should have known Mt Gox was “a bit dodgy???, and accepts that he should not have stashed all his Bitcoins – the proceeds of a well-timed sale of Litecoins – in the exchange’s vaults as late as January 28 …
“Exchanges need to prove that they have X amount of coins, and X amount of cash,??? says Mr Burges, an Android games developer hoping to “semi-retire??? if he gets his coins back. — The Financial Times
Donate Bitcoins
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02.24.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Psychopath & Sociopath, Ted Nugent at 7:59 pm by George Smith
Please proceed, Ted.
Either it’s a camera distortion or there’s something wrong with Ted Nugent’s mouth. One corner, his right, doesn’t work quite as it should.
Nugent starts coming apart at around six minutes, losing it when CNN’s Erin Burnett runs a tape in which he elliptically calls the President a chimpanzee.
“I have not a racist bone in my body … I’m a black guitar player from Detroit, get over it!” he rants.
“I never called the president a chimpanzee!”
Changes subject to “Benghazi!”
It gets worse here.
Credit a host who put someone, now nearly hysterical and visibly mentally ill, on the spot for about 13 minutes. The slurs come out of him too quickly now, he can’t stop himself.
CNN finally realizes it’s hosting a psychopath.
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Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Fiat money fear and loathers at 2:31 pm by George Smith
America’s plutocrats, just because, from here last week:
Why were the Winkelvoss twins able to become Bitcoin experts?
Because they had the money from the upper class and sucking cash from Zuckerberg, enough to at least buy up 1.5 million and somethings worth of Bitcoins.
And why are they successful at getting others to invest in their consulting services, hedge funding and so on? Because they are famous to semi-famous for being famous or semi-famous and people see the money sloshing in news articles in which the Winklevoss twins appear.
So the Winklevosses are wealthy because they were born to it and became adept at siphoning big money from large pools of it as the opportunities are presented when it splashes around.
Bitcoin, which is for hoarding, gaming the system, deception, chiseling and speculation, is a perfect match with them.
From the New York Times, on February 19:
Stock traders have the Standard & Poor’s 500. Bitcoin bettors will have the Winkdex.
The new financial index takes its name from the Winklevoss brothers, famous for their legal battle with the Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg. The Winkdex was released publicly on Wednesday and provides a regularly updated figure for the price of Bitcoin, the virtual currency that has risen in popularity over the last year …
There are already a bunch of these things. But they are not called Winkdex and perhaps lack the slick cachet of the Ponzi Twins.
If you have the old BitCoin client server and wallet for the PC, you know you can contribute to the BitCoin network. You can give it your electricity and resources to help keep track of worldwide BitCoin transactions in exchange for nothing.
The BitCoin wallet will gladly chew up electrons for you as your virtual crypto-currency wallet sits empty, not even inhabited by a virtual moth.
My BitCoin personal client address:
1AVgAs6MmoFGfDCUaWvJVKtJurZFyqt9ps
And, finally news you can use from a data center publication:
Can data centers tap unused server capacity to mine for Bitcoins? The question occurred to the team at the online backup service iDrive, which performs most of its customer backup jobs overnight, leaving its 3,000 quad-core servers idle for much of the day. So the company ran a test with 600 servers to see whether Bitcoin mining could become a secondary revenue stream.
The result: running Bitcoin mining software on those 600 quad-core servers for a year would earn about 0.43 Bitcoin, worth a total return of about $275.08 at current prices on major Bitcoin exchanges.
“Its a waste of time, so any other company thinking about mining with their infrastructure, learn from us,??? said iDrive’s Matthew Harvey.
Yes, the blog now accepts BitCoin.
Please don’t make me so desperate that, like Jesse Korff, I start up a black market for exotic poisons on onion-network routers to just get a BitCoin by selling doses.
All I want, before I die, is to go home to Allentown and be able to use BitCoin to buy a sub sandwich on Hamilton Street.
Donate Bitcoins
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Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 1:53 pm by George Smith
Please proceed, Ted.
Bowing to reader request, more Ted Nugent!
Today, from Media Matters where they listen to all, and I do mean all, his radio broadcast appearances:
NUGENT: Well I got to tell you, Dennis, I just don’t agree at all. There was an incrementalism to what happened in Germany and other places historically, where they came in slowly. And they started, you know, the power struggle between the different races, and the power struggle between different elements of society. And they incrementally worked their way in. And I think that’s what Obamacare is, that’s what I think most of what he represents. The IRS — I really believe that what we see with the IRS can be compared accurately and historically to the early maneuvers of people like jack booted thugs, like the brownshirts. I really believe that and I think that you are being too soft on them, because —
DENNIS MILLER: No, we just disagree Teddy.
NUGENT: I think [Obama] really wants to destroy America. I think he wants to follow the Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals book, destroy our economy, have a — I can’t even think of the term right now — but the war between the haves and the have-nots, when the haves have because they try really hard and the have-nots don’t have because they don’t try as hard.
Give the poor, like me, access to health care they didn’t have before, or who paid out for years into useless junk policies, it’s just like Nazism. But still rather mild when put alongside the routine of comparing a couple famous Jewish people to Joseph Goebbels.
I doubt Ted Nugent has ever read the must cited Saul Alinsky. It’s something he learned about from watching Glenn Beck on Fox News a few years ago.
“He’s a little over the top but he’s funny,??? said Mitchell Creson of Nugent.
The above, from a North Carolina newspaper, today, on Nugent being given two handguns decorated with a custom decal process made by a local company.
In Texas, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, Greg Abbott, still has a significant polling lead over Democrat Wendy Davis. Despite Nugent, Texas will elect the Republican.
On Friday I asked a couple rock journalists who were in Michigan at Creem magazine in the early-70’s if Ted Nugent had actually always been like this, just without the media megaphone and people willing to reprint it.
No one seemed to know or be willing to comment directly although they did inform that he’d always been something of a fraud.
Also confirmed by a friend from Texas: In the context of state politics Nugent is not much of a liability because his presence brings people to rallies and, paradoxically, the base shares his “family values.??? Or they think they do. The distinction between what is reality and what’s imagined is not important.
Krugman, on the GOP and Obamacare, today:
Even supporters of health reform are somewhat surprised by the right’s apparent inability to come up with real cases of hardship. Surely there must be some people somewhere actually being hurt by a reform that affects millions of Americans. Why can’t the right find these people and exploit them?
The most likely answer is that the true losers from Obamacare generally aren’t very sympathetic. For the most part, they’re either very affluent people affected by the special taxes that help finance reform, or at least moderately well-off young men in very good health who can no longer buy cheap, minimalist plans. Neither group would play well in tear-jerker ads …
No, what the right wants are struggling average Americans, preferably women, facing financial devastation from health reform. So those are the tales they’re telling, even though they haven’t been able to come up with any real examples.
Hey, I have a suggestion: Why not have ads in which actors play Americans who have both lost their insurance thanks to Obamacare and lost the family farm to the death tax?
Comparison to Nazism apparently not working.
However, in California some agency has been working to convince seniors that signing up for Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, here it’s called Medi-Cal and it’s what I have as of January 1, may have their estates seized as part of the state’s attempt to recoup medical costs after the patient dies.
From the LA Times, over the weekend:
Despite government assurances that the vast majority of Medi-Cal patients needn’t worry about the state trying to claim their assets, growing numbers of new enrollees under Obamacare are voicing concerns after reading warnings on healthcare notices that after their deaths the state “must seek repayment of Medi-Cal benefits” for services provided once they turn 55 …
Established in 1993, the federal government’s estate recovery program was chiefly intended to recoup outlays for lengthy nursing home stays and skilled nursing care, which are among its biggest expenses.
But California and other states have exercised an option in limited instances to recover payment for medical services, from doctor visits and surgeries to managed care payments and drugs.
Norman Williams, a spokesman for the state Department of Health Care Services in Sacramento, says only a tiny fraction of the 9 million patients using Medi-Cal will be affected by cost recovery actions against their estates. Less than a quarter of a percent of the more than $600 billion the state spent on Medi-Cal over the past 20 years has been recovered, he said …
Doreena Wong, a project director for Asian Americans Advancing Justice – LA, an advocacy group, said that the estate collection program is “a barrier to our community” and discouraging many people from completing applications for coverage.
At the Chinatown branch of the Los Angeles Public Library, where Wong’s group has stationed a Chinese-speaking health educator to assist with enrollments, a quarter of potential Medi-Cal recipients are walking away instead of signing up, she said. Many, she added, cite worries about losing their estates.
The newspaper estimates that an additional 2 million people in California will be covered by Medi-Cal through the Medicaid expansion in Obamacare.
It also notes that some Medi-Cal eligible readers have written letters to the newspaper citing fear for their estates after they are die. Health care advocates tell the newspaper when the conflict between the state law and the new conditions of nationwide health care where not forseen. They believe the problem can be remedied by making only nursing home care potentially recoverable or extending exemptions because eligibility is now being determined by income, not including assets like homes and cars.
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Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Made in China, Rock 'n' Roll at 10:35 am by George Smith
From USA Today:
Here’s a Stars and Stripes shocker: Prior to Friday, flags bought by the Department of Defense weren’t necessarily 100% American-made.
But going forward, flags purchased by the military must be wholly sourced from the U.S. — and not have any elements from overseas, according to a Department of Defense purchasing rules amendment that went into effect Friday.
While the Department of Defense’s major flag vendors are American companies, the flag material — such as ink and fabric — could have come from foreign markets prior to the change.
“Our men (and) women in uniform should serve under American-made flags,” Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., said on his Facebook page last week. He proposed the legislation requiring the flags to be 100% American-made.
“After Thompson posted news of the regulation on his Facebook page, it spurred much debate among users on that site … Some applauded the rule … Others said flag production should be done by the most cost-effective source, even if that meant going outside of the U.S.,” it continues.
“I would like for someone to offer one economically sound reason we should show preference to the more expensive American made American Flags, rather the affordable flags made in other countries,” reads one such comment. “I cannot support this crony capitalism.”
Markets must not be constrained by government order! Liberty! Atlas will shrug!
Whenever you see the slogans and beliefs now it’s always the property of the WhiteManistan boys club, people who deserve a kick in the butt and superciliousness.
China makes American flags more cheaply, the article notes.
In 2003 I sent off a parcel of cheer-you-up-type stuff to an US Air Force friend who was serving in Iraq. In return he sent back an American flag in a box that contained an official notice that said flag had been flown in a combat mission in an A-10.
I was informed the flags were bought and sent out on sorties for just such purposes. The flag, which was made a nylon fabric or something similar, had a made in China identification.
I no longer have it.
I don’t care whether stuff is made in China. It’s all I or lots of Americans can afford.
The piece of minor legislation by a Democrat is very small beer. It makes no difference at all to our collective fortunes. If an American corporation must now have the flags it supplies to the US Dept. of Defense made in America, it will either find a way to still use Chinese-made flags and have them fall under the made-in-America stipulation by having US workers add one little thing before they’re put in boxes or pass the slightly higher price on to the taxpayer.
Big deal.
My Fender telecaster is made-in-China.
It’s part and product of an economy where American corporations have been allowed to prey on the civilian population for decades, pushing pay for work down until all that could be done to keep a semblance of middle class life going was to buy goods made by ever cheaper labor. Nationally, paying people fairly became equated with the source of all evil, government.
Of course, you can have an economy in which people are paid more and the corporations are allowed to do many things, just not cannibalize and liquidate the lives of their domestic workers.
We don’t have it. Some European nations and other more progressive economies, places that aren’t slumped like the US, do.
A telecaster guitar has a simple specification. It can be made anywhere.
A Chinese factory can make them as effectively as the Fender Custom Shop and its alleged Master Builders.
The only reason the “Master Builder” employee description took hold in this country is its convenience as a marketing tool for the artisan work “crafted” for the snob buyer market. In this market the guitar is an investment, to grow in value as it ages.
But electric guitars are by no means scarce goods. They are not precious jem stones, old classic muscle cars, gold, the first Amazing Spider Man comic book or even BitCoin.
Leo Fender would have snorted at the warping in today’s American guitar markets.
“China Toilet Blues” is, amazingly, four years old. Which is when I started doing my “protest” music set to video. It was the first.
At 21 seconds, the commonly seen American flag lapel pin on insincere patriots and politicians. There’s Hugo Chavez, now dead. And who’s the crazy mullah? I don’t remember.
I still have my Mojo Deluxe harmonica but I no longer see the original book it came with and it’s no longer being marketed as new.
The market for weekend retreats in which corporate middle-managers have their leadership and creative skills strengthened by learning to play blues harmonica never blossomed as planned.
The image of a roomful of managers from Kraft Foods or directors from the American Society of Forensic Laboratories learning to “blow their blues away” on Chinese harmonicas during a compulsory leadership get-together is a shattering one. You would be hard-pressed to think up a situation containing less “mojo,” creativity and fun although you might be able to imagine it as a potential TV movie in which special punishments in Hell are meted out to the deserving. — 2008
Of course, you can still buy many harmonicas from China. My favorite package, from a couple years ago, was the Piedmont Blues pack.
The $180 3D-manufactured American super harmonica flopped.
The company, tits up, two years ago:
The only harmonica made in the U.S. was manufactured right here in Rockford. It was a business so unique, many thought it would take-off and create a hundred jobs. Instead, Harrison Harmonicas abruptly closed about a year ago, leaving no employment future and customers without their pre-paid orders or a refund.
Bum-bum-ba-bum-bump!
A blast from the past, February 2010:
Fender Musical Instruments is another example of ‘artisan’ business.
The book on its musical amplifiers entitled The Soul of Tone is an unintentional profile of a company that went from being a middle class employer in California, one making things for the middle class, to a company that sent all its manufacturing overseas, reserving its domestic manufacturing — greatly decreased — to stars and big deal corporate lawyers.
In the context of the book, it’s written of as straightforward smart business. When it was published, three years ago, it seemed that way.
Now it reads poorly. The first part of the book is filled with great amplifiers made in America by guys and gals in Hawaiian shirts.
The end of the book is quite different. It’s filled with oral history from its current designer/artisans explaining how they ship their everyman stuff manufacturing to whatever overseas place is the cheapest.
Coincidentally, all the guys pictured in the front of the book are dead.
This transformation is encapsulated in a quote about one premium domestically made guitar amplifier, the Vibro-King, a $2500 item used by Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend.
“If you’re a rock star or a lawyer who wants a Vibro-King, you’re gonna get one, but the Cyber-Champ (a low end Chinese-made Fender-branded amp) is an example of the relentless march to Asia for manufacturing,??? states Shane Nicholas of Fender.
Coincidentally, all economic reports indicate that class hit hardest by the Great Recession has been the low wage earners, those customers targeted by Fender’s cheap goods made in China.
And, of course, the update, a Captain Beefheart-themed version starring Tom Friedman, quoting from one of his columns:
Well, folks, Sputnik just went up again: China is going clean-tech!
What a perfect asshole.
And this week, an odious lecture from someone at Google, passed off as how-to-get-hired advice.
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02.21.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 12:42 pm by George Smith
It was all the usual good fun for Ted Nugent when he called the President a “subhuman mongrel” for his base of crazy and rotten middle-aged guys from WhiteManistan at a gun show last month. After all, this is a man who’s made a routine of comparing Jewish people to Joseph Goebbels in the last couple weeks.
But then Ted Nugent went on the campaign trail with Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbot. The media interest in the Texas race refocused on his history. And the “subhuman mongrel” bit, along with his other things, are exploding in his face.
Told ya so.
This, at images.google.com, is really bad juju.
The world Google-bombed Ted Nugent and he is now inextricably linked with calling the President a “subhuman mongrel.” Everyone knows what he really wanted to say.
At the LA Times, minutes ago:
“I did cross the line. I do apologize — not necessarily to the president — but on behalf of much better men than myself,??? Nugent said Friday in an interview with Ben Ferguson, a Dallas-based conservative talk radio host.
Nugent said he regretted “using the street-fighter terminology of ‘subhuman mongrel’ instead of just using more understandable language, such as ‘violator of… the Constitution…. the liar that he is.’???
As an apology, it’s small beer. As well as tortured.
Nugent has crossed the line many times. But this is the first instance in which he seems to be regretting it. If he he now feels some fear it’s only because he may realize what the media could do to him.
The mainstream media pretty much made Ted Nugent over the last two to three years. They considered him controversial, clickbait and good for views, a charismatic character.
But Ted Nugent’s soul is twisted and stained in ways most can’t imagine. He is as vile a figure as you can find in the public light in 2014 and he has never had any sense of self-control. The “subhuman mongrel” moment and his applauding audience of gun-nut riffraff are on video and it cannot be removed from the net.
The mainstream media can turn on people like Ted Nugent, as quickly as they hoisted them up. And no one will mourn the passing.
Other Republicans, famous ones, have been forced to confront Ted Nugent’s poison. Rick Perry, Rand Paul and John McCain are three who have denounced him for it, according to the Times.
Actually, this is what Rick Perry said:
“I’ve got a problem with someone calling the president a ‘mongrel.’ That is an inappropriate thing to say.”
So the subhuman part was OK, though.
This is your Republican Party. The people running the show are, as said in the lede, crazy and rotten men from WhiteManistan, the same demographic defined by Ted Nugent.
America’s favorite ranting racist is their guy!
Please proceed, Ted.
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02.20.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle at 3:36 pm by George Smith
Today’s thrilling mail:
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Only 14 “likes” per dollar?! Frowny face. And he was offering 2000 for 70 dollars a year ago!
I wish people would like me.
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