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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05.13.14
Posted in Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 1:31 pm by George Smith
… Ted Nugent, sounding not very good, at the NRA convention in Indianapolis. His appearance was embargoed. And the fact that it was made off limits to the press is some indication that Nugent’s public speech and his now regular association with the words “racist” and “bigot” in mainstream news has started to have consequences for his business as a rock n roller.
In the last two months, he’s lost two dates on his summer tour, one on July 4th in Longview, Texas, and one on August 5th at the Clark County Fair in Washington. Both came as a result of his calling the president a “subhuman mongrel.”
To avoid having to pay Nugent, the Clark County Fair used an interesting tactic — an option to cancel a show if the performer was playing somewhere else close-by in the same general time frame.
Writes a newspaper opinion columnist:
[A MoveOn petition protesting the show] got the attention of fair organizers, who promptly canceled Nugent’s appearance. Something about a Radius Protection clause and the fact that Nugent is playing shows Aug. 2 and 3 in Tacoma. Good explanation — except that it rings hollow because the group Night Ranger is playing the fair one night after appearing in Albany, Ore.
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05.12.14
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, 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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05.03.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Psychopath & Sociopath, WhiteManistan at 12:13 pm by George Smith
A significant and noticeable portion of white American 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.
White American gun bullies 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.
Here is a video of a gun shop businessman named Andy Raymond who wished to import and sell a German smart gun by Armatix that won’t fire unless paired with an activating wrist watch. The technology was developed as a safety measure. If the gun is lost or stolen, it becomes useless.
When the news went public of his business venture he was showered with death threats by other gun owners.
Readers know why. In WhiteManistan, a smart gun that deactivates when not paired with a chip is just the beginning of a potential Obama administration and/or UN plot to disarm patriots by mandating they buy such things.
Angry drunk man, or someone playing one, with guns. It’s so unhinged, it’s possibly a spoof. Anyway, it won’t last long.
Andy Raymond [he comes unglued at around seven minutes]:
It’s a great thing for gun rights when you threaten to shoot somebody … If you’re going to shoot somebody, shoot the politicians who made these laws. Take ’em out in the street and gun ’em the fuck down. There’s a goddamn reason we got these fucking things! [brandishes assault rifle]
Stupid hack journalist line of the day, from a website that used to be a newspaper, but which only exists now because its owners bribe Google to put it in the news tab:
The optics of politically motivated gun owners threatening the lives of other citizens over their business activity will likely prove off-putting to a lot of Americans, especially given wide-ranging concerns about the armed standoff between government agents and rancher Cliven Bundy in Nevada over grazing rights and fees. Armed militiamen are still patrolling Bunkerville, Nev. …
The “optics” of “threatening the lives of others … will likely prove off-putting.”
You think? This is tortured journalism so bad it’s actually almost great. But only almost.
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Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, WhiteManistan at 9:35 am by George Smith
Yes, California has parts of WhiteManistan in it, too. And they are just as united, capable and eloquent in Temecula, about an hour so from me, as their brethren in solidly red states.
Temecula has grape vines and golf courses although why you’d buy wine from Riverside County, as opposed to Santa Barbara or Marin, is beyond me.
Temecula also has homeless people, like the rest of soCal, but they don’t like it, they really don’t. So Temecula’s burgomistress, that’s mayor, is exhorting people to not give money to the homeless in Temecula:
“People will know that by giving food, money, or temporary shelter to a homeless person, they are actually enabling the homeless person to continue to live in the creek and use heroin.“
Live in the creek and use heroin.
Surely that is one of the best constructions you will hear this year. A better example the doling out of the pure milk of human kindness would be hard to find. Perhaps it could be the title of a song.
And does it now mean that when you give shelter to the homeless, you must take them to live in “the creek”?
And hear you see the true nature of the grievance.
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05.02.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, WhiteManistan at 9:58 am by George Smith
Fiore gets to the heart of the NRA Convention, a hypnosis session for stoking fear, all to get WhiteManistan to buy more military hardware.
Here.
The NRA is a paranoid death cult. Contrast Fiore’s cartoon with Wayne LaPierre’s speech which starts calmly enough, then goes bonkers. (Advance to 5:44.)
Your eyes may water, too, but not in a good way when you hear LaPierre shed tears over a nation that has “lost civility” at a convention where Ted Nugent was a keynote speaker.
The NRA’s Paranoia TV series, sponsored by miscellaneous gun manufacturers, is truly remarkable.
Enemies Surround You
Military Tactics for Suppression of Captured Enemies Who Used to Surround You
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04.25.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 11:59 am by George Smith
Cliven Bundy and Co., well done by Mark Fiore as a folk tune set to “Home on the Range.”
Here.
Wonderful stuff and done before Bundy’s outburst about how African-Americans might have had it better back when they still knew how to pick cotton.
True to form, WhiteManistan’s favorite bigots never know how to shut it. Today, this — excerpted — from a Cliven Bundy official explanation:
I am trying to keep Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream alive …
I am standing up against their bad and unconstitutional laws, just like Rosa Parks did when she refused to sit in the back of the bus.
In this he borrows a chapter from the book of old Steel Knees, Ted Nugent.
About once a year, sometimes more, Nugent regularly calls Rosa Parks and MLK his personal heroes or calls himself a rock and roll son of African Americans. Then he calls the president a subhuman mongrel or a chimpanzee, which is OK.
On Thursday, Nugent devoted his latest column to his standard script: African-Americans in the inner cities are responsible for all the gun violence in America, responsible gun owners need more guns to protect themselves and it’s all the fault of the liberal Democrat government that gives people stuff they don’t deserve, thereby corrupting them.
All of it as a preface to an NRA convention in Indianapolis next week, which Nugent — I assume — will be attending via teleconference. Since he’s either on crutches or in a wheel chair.
(Update: From an Indianapolis news bit: “Rock legend Ted Nugent will be present Sunday to address 2nd Amendment issues and sign his latest book.” We’ll see. Good photos or video will tell something about his condition.)
Nugent’s column did not make news this week, eclipsed as it was by the spectacle of WhiteManistan’s new most public bigot.
Home, home on the range deep inna heart of WhiteManistan.
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04.23.14
Posted in Bioterrorism, Culture of Lickspittle, Ricin Kooks, WhiteManistan at 1:08 pm by George Smith
From the bleak tale of 30-year-old Preston Rhoads of Oklahoma City, the country’s latest but certainly not last ricin kook:
A federal affidavit and search warrant just unsealed this afternoon lays out a possible motive behind the alleged murder plot that has Preston Rhoads behind bars.
The 14-page affidavit reveals how Rhoads reportedly asked a former co-worker to kill his pregnant girlfriend and her unborn baby.
Authorities said Rhoads texted a former co-worker telling him he had something serious to discuss with him.
The friend jokingly stated that he can “make people disappear.” Rhoads responded via text, saying not to joke about that if you can’t deliver.
During a face-to-face meeting, the co-worker said Rhoads showed him a vial and claimed it was Ricin. That same co-worker said Rhoads told him he downloaded a manual explaining how to manufacture the poison.
The co-worker said, while at Rhoads’ home, he found what he believed to be equipment to make ricin in the bathroom.
The affidavit reveals Rhoads wanted to use ricin to harm the girlfriend, because he felt it could not be easily traced.
And where do people learn ricin “[can’t] be easily traced”?
Unfortunately, from tv, Google and their smartphones.
Google search is not your friend. Google search relevance is, in many cases — including this one, determined by the wisdom of crowds of idiots. And they know this in Mountain View. Which is probably one reason, among a host, that they won’t talk to anyone on the telephone.
If you are looking for recipes for ricin, Google will give worthless web pages to you, either fine pieces of misinformation, or even more efficiently, perfect as materials for running afoul of the law.
Google will return articles on ricin, perhaps written by a know-nothing journalist at Slate, who explains helpfully how you don’t have to a terrorist to be good enough to make ricin.
Google will not show you any articles or much of the real record on how everyone who “makes ricin” is found out and their neighborhood stormed, with eye-watering speed, by a joint federal and state anti-ricin task force.
Google will not return you any articles that inform you that texting on the matter to others through your smartphone is a known process by which the anti-ricin squad is summoned.
What can you do? I give up.
Remember, as Kurt Saxon, one of the nation’s first and foremost ricin kooks, wrote in the late Eighties (but updated for 2014):
“It is bad to poison your fellow man [and wife], blow [them] up or even shoot [them] or otherwise disturb [their] tranquility. It is also uncouth to counterfeit your nation’s currency and it is tacky to destroy property as instructed in [the chapter] Arson and Electronics …
“But some people are just naturally crude … It is your responsibility, then, to be aware of the many ways bad people can be harmful …
“It is right to share with your enemies, the knowledge in this wonderful [ricin manual Google helped you find so you could download it with your smartphone and text your pals about it] …???
Post this on Instagram or Pinterest! Text the link to your friends with your smartphone! Or just use SnapChat! They’ll think you’re as clever as Walter White!
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