10.12.13
Have a heart
For a friend’s birthday.
Don’t you think everyone deserves a song?
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10.11.13
Honoring Tea Party Patriots
A video triptych from where it all began. Viewing it easily convinced that if the tribe ever gained political power, it would be calamitous. And so it is.
From “Dr. King was a Republican!” to “I love capitalism” to Craig Miller of Pennsylvania, nationally famous for three minutes. Emblematic.
“I’m a nudist!” Women’s laughter. Fade to black.
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10.09.13
The wisdom of the six figure explainer
What could go wrong?
Best suggestion from six figure explainer at CNN on how to end GOP-caused Constitutional crisis, ever!
Eric Liu recommends the Prez go deep into the heart of WhiteManistan for town meetings with his haters (no link):
“The president should schedule town meetings in the districts of the most radical Republicans … He will certainly face vitriol … He will show that he doesn’t write off any American, even those who demonize him. This will be far more powerful than going to friendly audiences for staged events — and it will make clear to independents that he can break out of the usual partisan script.”
I don’t know why anyone else hasn’t thought of it! The Prez needs to go and just have some friendly talk with rabid groups who don’t believe he’s an American. When he does that the Tea Party shut down will end and everyone will get candy and cake!
All they need is some love and respect.
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10.04.13
The increasing merriment of cyberwar
The latest from Edward Snowden is an inadvertant comedy routine with the NSA as the funny-men. If the GOP hadn’t thrown a monkey wrench into the US government, triggered the layoffs of 800,000 and the economic loss of 300 million a day, his leaked documents would still be hot shit. Now, not so much.
Three thousand were laid off at Lockheed today, casualties of government shut down. Perhaps some were in the cyberwar unit. Probably not, though.
The National Security Agency has been trying to crack the online anonymity provided by Tor, a US-funded Internet tool designed to keep Net activity private and said to be widely used by dissidents in oppressive countries, as well as by terrorists. That’s according to the latest secret intelligence documents drawn from the cache leaked by Edward Snowden and published by the UK’s Guardian newspaper.
The NSA hasn’t been able to crack Tor outright, but through various means it’s been able to “de-anonymize a very small fraction of Tor users,” says an internal NSA document quoted by the Guardian.
This graphic is the best, a slide with an evil terrorist in a mask with an assault gun slung over his shoulder, accessing the Tor network!
It’s not even up to the snuff of the worst comic book.
At left, very naughty person.
But to the root of the matter, the obsession that terrorists are everywhere (now childishly called “bad people” and “very naughty people,” rendering the impression that the national security nerds working for the NSA are just as you think they might be — weird and stunted) and that, gosh, they’re using the Tor network.
Back track about two years.
GlobalSecurity.Org installed a paywall and found, when comparing user logs before and after, that a great deal of their regular users — or traffic — was going right through it.
I was asked to have a look.
There are paywalls, cheap and expensive, and the cheap and medium-priced ones are really easy to get through. And the top line, the best exemplified by the New York Times, harder to trivially circumvent. (Although it’s not really impossible to see what you want on the NY Times, even when you’re over the limit, without much trickery. Google the story, someone will have linked to it, go there and enter — the Times doesn’t count in traffic from a referral against your score.)
Anyway, one easy way to get through the GlobalSecurity paywall was to use a proxy anonymizer. The Tor network was perfect for it.
Paradoxically, Tor was developed by the Department of Defense. And the majority of GlobalSecurity.Org’s traffic, or regular users, are people who work for DoD, the intelligence agencies, or defense contractors.
A lot of them were apparently using Tor.
Ha-ha. Wow! Revealed, the NSA trying to unravel and attack the efficiency of Tor to find … Americans, “very naughty people,” in the employ of the national security megaplex.
Ha-ha-ho-ho-hee-hee! A real rib-tickler: “[Said] to be widely used by dissidents in oppressive countries, as well as by terrorists.”
Watch out! Sneaky enemies everywhere! Terrorism! Go NSA hacker dudes, go! Protect the nation from cyberwar!
Repeat the mantra: China, asymmetric, cyberspying, al Qaeda, hacking, very naughty people, Keith Alexander, power grid, intellectual property theft, greatest transfer of wealth in history! ORLY!
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Letter from Pennsyltucky
The cause of failed state government in the United States is WhiteManistan.
From a letter published in the Allentown Morning Call:
President Obama could have prevented this shutdown by demonstrating leadership qualities (which he sorely lacks) and by sitting down with the Republican leaders in Congress to try to work out a compromise. Instead, he and the Democratic leaders in the House and Senate (namely, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid), resorted to name-calling directed at the Republicans (“anarchists,” “extortionists,” etc.) rather than trying to work out a compromise …
In hindsight, the American people lost out on the opportunity to have prevented all this controversy had they elected Mitt Romney president. He would have been a uniter instead of a divider, a problem-solver instead of a problem-creator.
If only Mitt Romney, not written but still uttered — the white man — had won, the guy who implemented an equivalent of Obamacare in Massachusetts. (And in Pennsylvania, he lost, too.)
The tribe of WhiteManistan cannot abide two elections in which the majority chose that black man, Barack Obama. It bedevils them, they despise him, make no bones of it and consider everyone who voted for him a traitor and/or a parasite. And so it has steadily used weakness in the design of the US government to undermine government and stage a coup, a rebellion, which — if successful, effectively destroys his presidency.
That’s more than half of what paralyzing the government and threatening to blow the foundations is about. The undisguised malice toward the black man in the White House cannot be separated from the shut down and threats over the debt ceiling. Only terrible people overlook the animus and pretend its over philosophical differences on the role of government in providing health insurance.
And so they have made a unique civil war, one in which the armies don’t fire on each other, the bodies don’t pile up, the separation and secession isn’t geographic north and south, but still in entire states and the difference between a many-colored America and a mono-colored one where others still know their place.
Make no mistake, they were always aching for a Fort Sumter, it has been slowly coming for years. Now it’s here.
There’s no remedy for it until they are completely driven from the field. There’s no shared future American experience that includes the contributions of WhiteManistan, only the toleration of its long goodbye. They know it, too.
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10.02.13
Face In the Crowd: Frankensteins bummed the monster is out of control
Plutocrat bankers, including Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs, met at the White House with the Prez, really worried about the GOP monsters they worked hard to set loose because of the guy who dared say a few cross words to them a few years ago:
“Blankfein and other bank CEOs said they told the president they agree the long-term consequences of a shutdown would grow ‘extremely adverse’ if the U.S. fails raise its borrowing capacity.”
Among them, Robert Benmosche, CEO of AIG, notably called out as a sociopath by Paul Krugman, on the opinion pages of the New York Times a week ago.
A capital investment.
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10.01.13
Hector Heathcote Day
In honor of the despised minority who closed the US government because of their hatred for the President and the fair passage of law, a photo tribute collected from newspapers in the last few days.
Hector Heathcote rings his liberty bell a week or so before hundreds of thousands of tyrannical federal employees are sent home and the US government slowly grinds to a halt. Freedom at last.
Some of the men of the Second Revolt. God Bless America. Slight surge in sales of Hector Heathcote costumes begins.
Battle on, older white patriots and freedom fighters! Your cause has been the most noble in the land. “At the National Institutes of Health, nearly three-quarters of the staff was furloughed.” The same is happening to the Centers for Disease Control! Moochers whose jobs are just a symptom of bloated, out of control government.
Well done, men of WhiteManistan! In your tireless effort to preserve our freedoms and liberties, you made an older lady cry:
“Michael Mueller, a retired visitor from Arizona, and his wife Bea had planned their trip to New York for six months. Instead, she was left in tears at what she said should be the last thing to close.”
The bill for the 2010 elections comes due.
09.30.13
Grand Old Terrorists
The pure milk of American patriotism, run out of southern California, fortunately.
A couple times a week I stand behind a woman, sometimes with a child or two, using a WIC (Women, Infants and Children supplemental food program) check at my supermarket.
A government shutdown stops them. And after about a week, unless states take local measures, there’s nothing in the pipeline.
Let’s give lots of thumbs-ups to the Tea Party/GOP for getting WIC moochers as collateral damage in effort to engineer a coup over health care and that guy in the White House they hate with every fiber of their being. Shutdown won’t get the food stamps program — drat, it may have to wait for default in mid-October — but it can still start clawing poor women and children tomorrow.
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Faces In the Crowd
Shut down the government! Because Paul Revere, Hector Heathcote and the rest of those old founding guys knew that a life of fifes, drums, tri-corner hats, wooden teeth and typhus, anything, was better than health care for more people.
“What do you mean Hector Heathcote wasn’t a real patriot?!”
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09.28.13
Really loud folk
WhiteManistan Blues Band weekly Saturday anti-corporate fascist 1 percent shopping plutocracy jam deep inna heart of Pasadena. Margaritas, Trader Joe’s select Cava, Sekt or ‘champagne’ — one of these combinations.
Wish you could be here. But you can’t.
Cyberwar. Keith Alexander. China. Al Qaeda, Asymmetric. Oh, really?!
Atomic Reactor amp of the WhiteManistan Blues Band. And it sounds it, too.
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