06.28.13
From deep inna hart of the Bund
Love the titles.
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WhiteManistan and Climate Science
It doesn’t believe in it.
Courtesy of Steven Aftergood at Secrecy blog, we can look at an excerpt from the recent Congressional Research Service report, “Science and Technology Issues in the 113th Congress,” here.
WhiteManistan has no use for science on most any subject because it always tends to be inconvenient to its crabbed world view.
And since WhiteManistan has paralyzed Congress by understanding how to stifle all change from a minority position, the Congressional Research Service is left in an odd position for this report.
Bluntly stated, there can be no legislation on climate change in the 113th Congress. There can be no debate in Congress any more than a person can have an intelligent conversation with the bottom of their shoe.
Nevertheless, the report diplomatically attempts to summarize what is known about climate change and how inharmonious opinion from WhiteManistan means for the legislative body.
“Debate on appropriate federal policies is fueled by differing levels of confidence among Members and the public … Few scientists dispute that the climate is changing … Over the long run, not addressing human contribution to the causes of climate fluctuations and their consequences could set up costly, even catastrophic risks and challenges,” it reads. “Most experts conclude from evidence and computer modeling that human activities have driven most of the global warming observed since the 1970s …”
This is as close as we could ever hope to get to a CRS report stating:
“The GOP is an extremist collection of anti-science douche-bags whose group actions prevent the country from moving forward on the problem of global warming.”
The President knows this, too. And this is why he signaled that he intended to undertake unilateral action on the issue this week.
WhiteManistan immediately reacted with cries on job destruction and government tyranny.
Steven Aftergood’s Secrecy blog, along with other recent CRS reports, is here.
This has been another in a now frequent series of postings discussing the security threat WhiteManistan poses to the future of Americans.
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06.27.13
Civil War 2 escalates, NYT recommends Gettyburg
The short [tourist] film, “A New Birth of Freedom,??? shown in the adjacent theaters every 15 minutes, lays out the origins of the war, the debate over slavery’s expansion to the new territories and the battle’s legacy, immortalized by Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, as a defense of democratic ideals.
Once the party of Lincoln, now the party of southern white hate and fear.
A tour of Gettysburg was a common public school excursion when I was growing up. It was not particularly thrilling.
However, today it takes on a bit more meaning, and not in a good way, on progress and the ongoing battle plans of the New Confederacy.
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SCOTUS unleashes Lee Atwater political activism
This is an excerpt explaining the southern sentiment, taken from Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story.
Boogie Man shows how Atwater motivated the white vote through use of the Nixonian southern strategy of fear of the black man. It put the first Bush in the White House, later providing the framework to unleash GWB on the US.
With WhiteManistan in demographic decline, this week’s SCOTUS decision crippling the Voting Rights Act unleashed the worst of the Deep Southern sentiment on the non-white and poor in every state currently under GOP and Tea Party control since the 2010 elections.
The GOP viscerally understands it can enact predatory laws targeting its enemies faster than US “democracy” can undo them.
One can look at it as being able to wage Civil War 2 without instigating the casus belli of firing on Fort Sumter or assaulting African Americans on Pettus Bridge.
In the United States, the Republican Party threatens the security of many average Americans, daily. In the south, no time was wasted after the Supreme Court ruling into getting to it.
I recommend Boogie Man because it so well illustrates how the grinding bigot animosity of the South made true political power all over the country.
And while it’s people are slowly running out of their time, it has not gone away, still posing a very clear threat to progress and a genuinely civilized nation.
Trivia note: Yes, that’s the Boogie Man in “Ricin Mama.
Right on time, from Ted Nugent’s column at World Net Daily:
Chronic stupidity is killing our republic. The gravest problem our republic faces: Stupid people vote …
The Founding Fathers surely must have forgotten to include a provision in our Constitution to prohibit stupid people from voting, or maybe people back then were more informed and responsible and not as stupid as they are today.
So now, a gaggle of stupid senators from both parties is trying to push some stupid immigration reform bill that, if signed into law, will ultimately make tens of millions of non-American criminals U.S. citizens …
The Republicans who support making criminals citizens want cheap criminal labor. The Democrats want the criminal votes. Meanwhile, those Americans addicted to common sense will be strangled and drowned with insurmountable new debt due to the crushing demand by these “new??? Americans on our social welfare system, which is already broke and unsustainable.
The bigot’s bigot puts his best foot forward, as usual.
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06.26.13
What did you learn in WhiteManistan today?
The politicians of the New Confederacy don’t let the grass grow under their feet.
No sooner had they blown the vote on law to make abortion virtually impossible in Texas, they came right back with the expressed intent of ramming it through in another special session of the Texas legislature.
Rep. Tim Huelskamp said he will file a constitutional amendment later this week to restore DOMA.
The Kansas Republican said he will be joined by other conservatives in supporting that effort.
“My response to this will be later this week to file a federal marriage amendment,??? he said at a Conversation with Conservatives lunch on Wednesday morning.
When Hell freezes over.
However, everyone knows now that the extremists are never stopped, not in 2013 divided America. WhiteManistan wants no part of the future.
Its politicians have deduced they can enact unconstitutional law much faster than it can be undone, in effect bringing on the Cold Civil War riddling the country.
Thought question:
What happens when, before the 2014 elections, WhiteManistan has legislation in place to disenfranchise its enemies at the voting booth? When the people who have voted for years come out in force because they know they’ve been targeted and they are told their papers are not in order by someone who has different color skin, do you think they’ll go home?
That’s not going to happen.
It is heartening to know that it was California’s gay couples who wouldn’t stand for the state’s Prop. 8 banning gay marriage. It was that persistence that pushed it before the Supreme Court, bringing about the repeal of DOMA.
From Kevin Phillips’ American Theocracy , published in 2006:
Within [WhiteManistan’s] most loyal denominations — Southern Baptists, Mormons and Missouri Synod Lutherans — overall theology accords women secondary status. The essential female role is biblical and familial …
In a related vein conservative publications emphasized the importance in the 2004 election of the “baby gap” — the data showing the pro-Bush [white] voters have more children than do Democratic voters. The states where white fertility rates were high went conservative … Conversely, the states were abortion rates were highest supported Kerry.
To religious traditionalists, homosexuality threatened institutions of family and marriage. Eleven states held November 2004 referendums to ban gay marriage. In the seven states where conservative denominations are strong, the propositions carried by huge majorities: 86 percent in Mississippi, 77 percent in Georgia, 76 percent in Oklahoma, 75 percent in Kentucky and Arkansas, and 66 percent in Utah and Montana. Church-going black voters, principally Baptists and Pentecostals, supported the curbs by lopsided margins, increasing the antigay margins in the Deep South (and accounting for much of the small 2004 Republican increase in black support.)
Time moved on, shifting the sands of race demographics undermined the status quo of the Bush years. The country is more polarized now but WhiteManistan is in numerical decline.
Outsized Mormon bankrolling of Proposition 8 gave sleeping California a ban on gay marriage during the 2008 state elections. It won narrowly with a 52 percent majority. It put the state in the awkward position of having gay marriages enacted legally prior to its stand-up with the rest of the polity left to awkwardly look on. Socially, it was always a bad fit, rigged by money. One could perceive it would eventually be undone, somehow.
This was another factor, but not the major one, in the destruction of the GOP within the state. Its strategy of legislatively attacking enemies doesn’t work here anymore. In the intervening years the GOP was driven out of power, its end coming in 2012.
The rest of the country waits. But the neo-Confederates are never idle. They won a big one early in the week. They lost one today.
It’s not a coincidence that the win for the forces of good started in the Golden State and evil’s win in Shelby County, Alabama. The two regions — here and there in the Deep South — could not be farther apart.
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06.25.13
WhiteManistan Revival Act
Cold Civil War 2 just got hotter, courtesy of SCOTUS. The new disenfranchisement laws are already being written up in WhiteManistan. Is there anyone left who thinks this isn’t going to happen?
Goodness, how delicious! Eating goober peas! Wait for the yellow lettering.
Now it’s time to shoot all the liberals down
And take everyone else we hate and run them out of town
— Goober Peas, 2013
WhiteManistan, naturally, is not just location or the south. It’s an
outlook, a bleak philosophy that imagines a country that never existed, a demographic of bigots who never see themselves that way. The neo-Confederate sentiment is not just the old Confederacy.
From the New York Times:
Echoing the views of many on both sides of the debate, Mr. Coleman said that with voter ID laws in places like Ohio and Pennsylvania, and with problems with Hispanic access to the polls, maybe the South was not the center of the fight anymore. “I’m not so sure that there aren’t other jurisdictions in the country that are equally, if not more, in need of this than the South,??? he said.
Jerry Wilson, a lawyer in central Georgia who has worked in Voting Rights Act litigation for 25 years, was not so sure.
“I think we’re in big trouble,??? he said, reeling off a list of counties in the region that have up to now been hemmed in by the Voting Rights Act from making what he says were discriminatory voting changes.
Potential for discussion: What would a hot Civil War 2 look like in today’s United States? What would happen if the President mobilized the National Guard and deployed it to guarantee non-interference with voting in districts, cities or states where new legislation threatened to decrease and or render illegitimate specific voter participation for the 2014 mid-term elections?
What effect will today’s SC decision have on the frequency of domestic terror actions by the violent right in the US, keeping in mind a recent West Point study that posited increases in such terrorism when the political climate was viewed as growing more sympathetic to the beliefs of those with the potential to commit it?
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06.23.13
Part of the legitimate rape caucus
Joined with the electromagnetic pulse caucus in the House.
Trent Franks, famous last week for being part of the zoo of barely sentient animals from The Pit, aka GOP crackpots who opine on rape, in Politico:
“[Electromagnetic pulse] has the potential to be the ultimate cybersecurity threat because it can take our source of power completely away from us.???
Newt Gingrich was in town to prop Franks up in yet another run at legislation to fund the defending of the country from EMP doom.
And, naturally, no story on Gingrich and the Cult of EMP Crazy is ever complete without mentioning “One Second After,” the novel on electromagnetic pulse catastrophe come to America, a book that remarkably catalyzed the creation of hundreds of unreadable vanity novels made through Amazon’s CreateSpace. All done by the right wing demographic of white hoarders and arms stockpilers known as preppers.
Politico:
A science fiction novel called “One Second After??? told a cautionary tale of the doomsday scenario that would unfold if such an attack hit the U.S., frying electrical circuits and knocking out power. In the introduction to the book, Gingrich suggested that an EMP attack would “throw all of our lives back to an existence equal to that of the Middle Ages.???
“Millions would die in the first week alone,??? he wrote in the foreword of the novel released in 2009.
For reference, The Pit.
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06.20.13
Conservative Utopia, WhiteManistan
Germane to Kansas’ turn to the neo-Confederate extreme right,
a piece on expanding suburban poverty in the state:
The problem is, almost no jobs pay well, especially in the fields that are growing in areas like Johnson County. “The basic point is that we’re a low wage country,??? Peter Edelman, the Georgetown law school professor and poverty expert, said when I spoke to him. “People ought to make more money from working.???
It is a sentiment I’ve heard over and over, from experts and from people who live in communities with a rising population of poor families.
If people are working [in Kansas], they’re in the low-wage service sector and there is nowhere for them to move up,” it reads.
The concluding line:
“I’ve said all along that we need to tell the American consumer to stop demanding the lowest price always and stop demanding the highest return on their investment dollar,??? she says. “If not, we are going to continue to see all these non-living-wage jobs.???
It is a little too late, just like everything else.
One should read the “comments” for the immediate arrival of the trolls who attribute all the terrible statistics to either myth or the tyranny of the federal government.
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06.19.13
What did you do in WhiteManistan today?
Pictures showing why WhiteManistan is slowly biting the dust and how the Republican Party will not be able to win a presidential election even after Barack Obama is gone.
Tea Party people at an anti-IRS/anti-immigration legislation/anti-everything rally in DC. You’d either take laughable pictures, too, or leave for a few hot dogs.
Major fun just waiting to happen. Were thinking about ricin mail until others made it a summer fad.
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