09.20.13
Posted in Psychopath & Sociopath, Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 11:06 am by George Smith
From the American Journal of Medicine:
“The number of guns per capita per country was a strong and independent predictor of firearm related death in a given country, whereas the predictive power of the mental illness burden was of borderline significance … Regardless of exact cause and effect, however, the current study debunks the widely-quoted hypothesis that guns make a nation safer.”
Accompanying data shows US the obvious world leader.
Journal article here.
Full size.
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Posted in Psychopath & Sociopath, WhiteManistan at 9:14 am by George Smith
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Krugman today: “[It] grows increasingly hard to see how … we can avoid a government shutdown — and … the even more frightening prospect of a debt default … this political moment of truth was going to happen sooner or later. We might as well have it now.”
Bring on the Constitutional crisis. See if the crazy backed and elected by corporate wealth in 2010 can bring down the government and the economy.
Why not?
They voted to toss a few million off food stamps yesterday and set the stage for closing the government over Obamacare today. They should have what they want, a doomsday, and see what it’s about.
No more suspense.
Wreck it, do it, stop the checks, stop the planes, stop the services, send homeland security home, stop the spending in government/military towns, stop it all, bring on the whirlwind and blight in the “greatest nation on Earth,” let’s get it on. With hands over hearts. God Bless America!
The catalog of PARIAH covers. Collect them all.
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08.21.13
Posted in Psychopath & Sociopath, Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 12:18 pm by George Smith
The American for a country where contempt is a virtue. Wait around for the rant in New Haven about “food stamp cocksuckers” who use the program to buy “crack.”
The Connecticut newspaper was not wrong when it compared his profane ideology to the Ku Klux Klan.
To Ted Nugent, most Americans are “cocksuckers.”
By dint of Media Matters and YouTube, all can see one of the most public bigots of our time, and — boy — is he angry about it.
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07.28.13
Posted in Psychopath & Sociopath, WhiteManistan at 2:10 pm by George Smith
PARIAH: “Dedicated to bringing it all down on your heads.”
More in the fine satirical art series.
From NY Mag:
The Republican Party has spent 30 years careering ever more deeply into ideological extremism, but one of the novel developments of the Obama years is its embrace of procedural extremism. The Republican fringe has evolved from being politically shrewd proponents of radical policy changes to a gang of saboteurs who would rather stop government from functioning at all. In this sense, their historical precedents are not so much the Gingrich revolutionaries, or even their tea-party selves of a few years ago; the movement is more like the radical left of the sixties, had it occupied a position of power in Congress. And so the terms we traditionally use to scold bad Congresses—partisanship, obstruction, gridlock—don’t come close to describing this situation. The hard right’s extremism has bent back upon itself, leaving an inscrutable void of paranoia and formless rage and twisting the Republican Party into a band of anarchists.
And the worst is not behind us.
“The reign of the Republican House has not yet inflicted any deep or permanent disaster on the country, but it looks like it is just a matter of time,” it concludes.
Hat tip to Frank and Pine View Farm.
Full size Pariah magazine.
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07.26.13
Posted in Psychopath & Sociopath, WhiteManistan at 3:37 pm by George Smith
Police Chief Mark Kessler, now briefly Pennsyltucky’s most famous citizen, has the attention of all the medium-sized newspapers in the region. And the Southern Poverty Law Center which noticed his attempts to take a militia-style group nationwide earlier this summer.
From the Morning Call:
Gilberton police chief Kessler told NBC News on Wednesday that he expects to lose his job, but believes his speech is protected under the First Amendment.
From the Harrisburg Patriot-News, an editorial:
Kessler, 41, bald, outspoken and as hard as the coal that’s scraped from the ground in the massive fields on the east edge of town, is literally a force of one. He also serves on a local school board.
He’s also active in gun-rights circles. He appears on a radio show on the conspiracy-minded website “Infowars??? [run by crazy Alex Jones.] And he hosts his own website where he’s organizing a militia-style group called The Constitutional Security Force.
He also pushed a resolution through the Gilberton borough council authorizing him to take any measures needed to prevent the “unconstitutional enforcement??? of changes to federal gun laws.
Let’s be clear, there’s something seriously disturbing about the idea of a gun-toting, F-Bomb spewing, conspiracy-theorist, police chief/school board member who may or may not have anger management issues being anywhere near a position of power.
But there’s also something weirdly Pennsylvanian about the rhetoric that sprays from Kessler’s mouth as fast as the rounds he fires from the borough-owned weapons in his videos.
Let’s dispense with hard coal romanticism bit. I grew up there and hard men mining hard coal were pretty much all gone by the time I was in my early teens.
The rest is fine, though, and reading it I thought of responding to it from the perspective of having been there and now being here.
What is to be said to my old tribe back in Schuylkill County?
Well, I had some points to make:
Dear Schuylkill County:
I’m writing to you from today from the sunny streets of Pasadena in southern California. But I grew up in Pine Grove and spent almost half my life in Schuylkill Country. I’ve been gone now for over two decades.
However, I can’t imagine any police chief in a small town in the area in the early-70’s, when I was a teen, being anything like Mark Kessler. I didn’t know anyone, in a place where plenty of people had guns, who had a couple assault rifles firing full auto. Didn’t know anyone with even a remote chance of going nationwide with profanity as a brand, a stars-and-bars patch on his shirt and the assertion that “libtards”, uh, take it … well, watch the videos.
The place was strongly Republican and Gus Yatron was the representative in our nation’s capital for a really long time. He was an uncontroversial man, quiet, not known for much of anything. He would have been appalled at someone like Mark Kessler. I suspect everyone who ran things in the small town of Pine Grove, only twice and some as large as Gilberton, would have been horrified. Sure, there were raging jerks but they were kept out of any positions of power or authority.
If you could place Mark Kessler’s videos in a time machine and send them back to Gilberton forty years ago I bet you the people would watch and be convinced the country had collapsed and been overtaken by complete violence and anarchy.
Police Chief Mark is a symbol of national progress, I suppose, and not of any good kind. You can respect the freedom of speech and still believe a person like him needs to be ejected from any position of government-mandated responsibility at once. You can’t excuse away a personal website that just looks like a recruiting advertisement for a militia, one that declares the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms unconstitutional. How does that work with local law enforcement, anyway, since the ATF is a specific enforcement agency of federal law? What happens when, theoretically, the ATF comes to Gilberton?
I can tell you that in southern California, Mark Kessler would have been history as a policeman or sheriff, probably less than a day after his videos went viral. Then maybe he could have a career in private security.
Yes, Schuylkill County and Los Angeles County might as well be as far apart and different as Earth is from Jupiter. But I think we can probably agree that a warm heart is of much greater value than curses, the middle finger and a demonstration spray of hot lead meant to intimidate.
I feel sorry for the people in Gilberton. Perhaps they did not know Chief Mark Kessler like this. But now that they do they should realize, too, that government and its ability to authorize someone to have an assault rifle that’s used to get in the face of others is not good government. Law enforcement that uses its position to try and recruit a militia is not, by any definition, good law enforcement.
Doesn’t matter how small and close-knit your town is, it’s just bad and you’re the worse for it.
On Police Chief Mark Kessler’s website he calls the Southern Poverty Law Center an “anti-American group.”
If you know what the SPLC and what it does, track the violent right, you have an inkling as to why.
Earlier this summer Kessler and his Constitutional Security Force became an object of interest:
In preparation for that feared day when the federal government comes for citizens’ guns — a fear that animates much of the antigovernment “Patriot??? movement — a police chief in Pennsylvania has formed a militia-like group to stand against federal authorities he believes are intent on destroying the Constitution. The group, the Constitutional Protection Force (CPF), has already grown to 38 chapters in 38 states, with each dedicated to “meeting any attempts by the federal government to forcibly disarm the public,??? one website claims.
Behind the effort is Mark Kessler, police chief in the tiny borough of Gilberton, Pa …
Of course, it remains to be seen just what will become of Kessler’s militia — if it will grow or dissolve amid the ever-tendentious fight to pass gun control legislation. But in the meantime, the CPF has attracted widespread attention, and support, from a growing faction on the radical right.
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07.25.13
Posted in Psychopath & Sociopath, Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 12:33 pm by George Smith
From PARIAH mag cover star, Ted Nugent, at WorldNetDaily:
As I celebrate the greatest R&B rocktour of my gravity defying career, the Ted Nugent Black Power Tour 2013, paying homage and gushing love every night for the black musical geniuses that inspire all great music, like I have for more than 50 years, it pains me deeply to see the return of such nasty, unnecessary racism erupting across America today.
And before the racism scam industry unleashes their predictable, soulless lying hatred at me, my musicians include my dear black friend Johnny Gunnel and Marco Mendoza, a Mexican-born American. For like everybody I have ever known, and the George Zimmerman family as well I believe, there does not exist a racist fiber in the bones of any Nugent or Nugent associate. Not by any stretch of the imagination, contrary to the real racists out there. I have never met a racist, but I see and hear them on TV all the time, more and more lately …
Did you happen to mention that the misguided, I believe racist prosecution team’s prime witness, one Rachel Jeantel, displayed pretty much every self-inflicted bad choice that really oppresses blacks?
Obesity is also a major cause of death for blacks. That no one disciplined Rachel to get the most basic education to be able to read or speak clearly is the root of unemployment for blacks.
In light of this wisdom, the banner of Ted’s column is UNINTENTIONALLY THE BEST ON THE SUBJECT, EVER!
One can only bow the head in admiration. What a publication! What a guy!
And this is the best iJunkcast ever.
Listen to it all if you dare! Take the DD challenge! Proffer your reaction in fifteen to twenty words or less in the space below! Win an Escape from WhiteManistan No-Prize!
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07.24.13
Posted in Psychopath & Sociopath, WhiteManistan at 1:43 pm by George Smith
Confederate flag patch wearin’, swearin’, sub-machine gun firin’ Gilberton, Schuylkill County, police chief Mark Kessler, gone famous for the next 48 hours for his major-lapse-in-judgment video.
Gilberton is about half an hour from where I grew up, part of the North Schuylkill school district, where Kessler is a member of the local board.
Kessler uses his police permit to fire restricted sub-machine guns on private property as a personal statement. I’m reasonably sure this will draw attention from the feds, particularly since his personal website, chiefkessler.com, boldly proclaims:
Thus, ALL laws made by Congress, ALL regulations made by the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, and Tobacco (BAFT), are unconstitutional as outside the scope of the powers granted to Congress and to the Executive Branch by our Constitution. Regulation of arms and ammunition is NOT one of the “enumerated powers??? delegated to Congress or the Executive Branch.
Furthermore, all pretended regulations made by the BAFT are also unconstitutional as in violation of Art. I, Sec. 1, U.S. Constitution, which vests ALL legislative powers granted by the Constitution in CONGRESS. Executive agencies have no lawful authority whatsoever to make rules or regulations of general application to The People!
The website appears to be an attempt to recruit for a militia-styled group, the Constitutional Security Force. Ladies, Chief Mark is also looking for models for a “girls of the CSF” calender. Go, dear readers, before it all comes down.
Kessler is also a fan of the Holocaust-denier rock band, Poker Face, out of Allentown. (You can read about Poker Face on this blog, from the archives. I particularly liked the old post — Amusing Fuhrers.)
Chief Kessler is a gift from WhiteManistan, someone custom made for my definition, heevahava, one like many many others, but still an embarrassment of riches for those who follow the American demographic of insurrectionist neo-Confederates bent on patriotically saving the country and Constitution (with a capital “C’) from tyranny.
The white power right horn-of-plenty is all there on his website. Today he’s a star, the burgermeister of Gilberton and the North Schuylkill school board director still not quite grasping what national publicity has done. And the big public relations problem that’s about to fall on them.
From the Morning Call newspaper:
Despite the ensuing media stir and calls to Borough Hall the video generated Tuesday, Mayor Mary Lou Hannon said she saw no reason to discipline Kessler, who said he made the video to draw attention to gun rights. Hannon noted he did it on his own time and violated no laws.
“Each member of council, each employee and each citizen is not only entitled to their own political opinions, but also the right to express them,” she said in a prepared statement. “We will not take action to quash free speech, whether or not each member of council or any member of council agrees with it.”
Charles Hepler, school board president in the North Schuylkill School District, said he had not seen the video. He declined to comment because the board has not had time to review or discuss it.
So, using your photo in police chief’s uniform to recruit members of a Constitutional Security Force while declaring the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, a federal law enforcement agency, unconstitutional is just “drawing attention to gun rights” Mayor Hannon?
[Horselaugh.]
Yes, and the North Schuylkill board of education endorses Civil War 2.
Gone, eventually, even deep inna hart of Pennsyltucky.
And now for a musical interlude, entirely appropriate, given the circumstances.
It took about a week for Kessler’s video to get noticed. Surf out and you’ll see he’s already disabled comments although he has taken time to monetize it with overlay advertising. So hurry, it may not be long until he’s granted exactly what he wants, a visit from the tyrannical government to inquire about the sub-machine guns.
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07.16.13
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Psychopath & Sociopath, Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 5:09 pm by George Smith
The rest of the country is now sort of hipping to the fact that newspaper reporters, tv men and music journalists calling Ted Nugent just a good speaker with colorful opinions, for years, has had a regrettable result.
This:
But George Zimmerman and his entire family, innocent of any wrongdoing, have lost everything and will be in debt for a long, long time for having to fight the trumped-up charges that he “profiled??? and/or set out to murder the poor, helpless, dope-smoking, dope-peddling, gangsta wannabe, Skittles hoodie boy.
No link, from Nugent’s column at WorldNetDaily, the second in two days on the same matter, only with the hate speech turned up louder.
It is hard to imagine a copy editor who is a decent human being not walking off the job upon being assigned a column containing that. Certainly, of all the copy editors and editors I’ve worked for or known, none would have stomached it or bought any arguments that it had worth as controversial free speech.
It’s just pure cruelty.
The mainstream media made Ted Nugent a more successful character. He’s as much a creature of CNN and network news as he is of fringe extreme right wing websites. Music journalists who have to deal with him every weekend on his summer tour of dumps hardly touch him other than to print whatever he says.
A few days ago, at the Phoenix New Times, the terrible alternative news weekly company that bought the Village Voice and its properties years ago:
Nugent: Clearly Democrats have a solid lock on racism by scamming dishonest policies that continue the slavery of dependency that has hurt the black community more than any other … Historically it was the Democrat Party that fought against civil rights on all fronts, even infesting the evil subhuman KKK. The truth is very ugly and hurts, doesn’t it?
Ted Nugent is this summer’s public standard-bearer for malice delivered fresh from WhiteManistan every week.
There’s a cost for mainstreaming hate speech as bread-and-circuses entertainment and the final line on the bill for it isn’t in sight.
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07.15.13
Posted in Psychopath & Sociopath, Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 4:05 pm by George Smith
The man the WaPost devoted a Sunday magazine feature to, delivering the pure milk of human kindness for which he is known and revered:
“And so it was for a few weeks until the race-baiting industry saw an opportunity to further the racist careers of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the Black Panthers. President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, et al, who then swept down on the Florida community refusing to admit that the 17-year-old dope smoking, racist gangsta wannabe Trayvon Martin was at all responsible for his bad decisions and standard modus operendi [sic] of always taking the violent route … [No] one can possibly dispute the recent surge in black racism increasing throughout Barack Obama’s presidency … The only racism on that night was perpetrated by Trayvon Martin.”
No link.
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04.06.13
Posted in Psychopath & Sociopath, WhiteManistan at 12:59 pm by George Smith
The latest extremist tactic in legislatures of red states is to practice nullifications, tactics to supersede settled federal law. It’s white Confederacy strategy without firing on Ft. Sumter.
Kansas is at the forefront:
Kansas lawmakers have approved a a sweeping anti-abortion bill that bans Planned Parenthood from providing sex education materials in schools and defines life as beginning at conception. The 70-page bill passed 90-30 in the Kansas House of Representatives late on Friday night after easily clearing the Senate earlier in the day. Governor Sam Brownback, a Republican who is strongly against abortion, was expected to sign it …
The bill defines life as beginning at fertilization, but does not ban abortion from that point. Several other states are considering so-called “personhood” measures that seek to enshrine life-at-conception in state constitutions. Such measures have failed in the past when put to a referendum, most recently in Mississippi.
And:
TOPEKA — Schools across Kansas could pick teachers or other employees who could carry concealed guns under a measure approved by lawmakers on Friday.
And Kansas-made guns would be immune from federal regulations within state borders under the Second Amendment Protection Act also approved by lawmakers.
Both bills now head to the governor’s desk for his signature …
Fears of the federal government coming to take Kansans’ guns dominated the debate, with Rep. Allan Rothlisberg, R-Grandview Plaza, pointing to the 1993 federal siege on a compound in Waco and the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff and sniper shooting in Idaho as examples of the federal government attacking citizens.
“This state, along with many others, should be sending a message that we’re going to protect our citizens, even from the federal government if need be,??? he said. “If a citizen is protecting themselves against federal agents where they come in for no reason whatsoever, that person should not be prosecuted.???
Rep. Arlen Siegfreid, R-Olathe, said Kansas has to defend its sovereign rights.
Sovereign rights is old white man code for nullification of federal authority. The idiot legislation, which is probably not enforceable or constitutional, puts local and federal law enforcement at odds.
In the Los Angeles Times this morning, one of the women columnists reflects on WhiteManistan’s current attempt to strip women of their reproductive rights:
North Dakota is trying to ban all abortions. Arkansas is trying to ban them after 12 weeks. Mississippi is down to its last abortion clinic.
If you think the abortion question in this country was settled after the Supreme Court made its historic Roe vs. Wade ruling in 1973, you haven’t been paying attention. Tossing Roe was not just a plank of the 2012 Republican Party platform, it was a reliable applause line in every 2012 Republican presidential candidate’s stump speech.
Friday’s federal court ruling in New York that girls of all ages should have unrestricted access to the so-called morning-after pill to prevent pregnancy is an unvarnished victory for reproductive freedom at a time when its opponents are pushing hard in the opposite direction.
U.S. District Court Judge Edward Korman’s opinion was a vindication of sorts for folks who have been surprised, and angry, about how the Obama administration has rolled over on a number of reproductive rights issues.
The Times columnist points out that over-the-counter morning after (or Plan B) pills for girls are a very good idea.
Not in WhiteManistan, though, where it’s another example of how the Republican Party desires theocracy, government determined by its religious beliefs and paranoid manias. While it failed at the federal level, it continues through nullification legislation at the state level.
From earlier this week:
Time will render WhiteManistan into dust except in the places that don’t matter. But will it happen fast enough?
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