Republicans want to limit the number of bullets federal agencies can purchase so American gun owners can buy more.
Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe and Rep. Frank Lucas have introduced a bill that would prohibit every government agency — except the military — from buying more ammunition each month, than the monthly average it purchased from 2001 to 2009.
The lawmakers say the Obama administration is buying up exceedingly high levels of ammunition in an attempt to limit the number of bullets the American public have access to on the open marketplace.
“President Obama has been adamant about curbing law-abiding Americans’ access and opportunities to exercise their Second Amendment rights,” said Inhofe.
“One way the Obama Administration is able to do this is by limiting what’s available in the market with federal agencies purchasing unnecessary stockpiles of ammunition.???
More distillate of all that is the paranoid and hateful style.
Nominated to replace the bald eagle as national symbol. C’mon, you know it’s just right.
The reason Ted Nugent has a career is because hate is profit. Not a week expires in which Nugent doesn’t recommend very bad things — extreme punishments, metaphorical shootings and slayings, for some individual or a group. In this Nugent is unstinting, an inexhaustible source of oil of vitriol for throwing in the eyes of others.
Week upon week upon week of it, a big show usually republished or rebroadcast everywhere. A surprisingly large number of people applaud and even pay money for it.
A cuddly Uncle Ted made only one joking reference to his wish that he could mow down South Central Los Angeles with an M-4 rifle; only dropped about 10 f-bombs in 50 minutes; paid tribute to the comedy stylings of the late Richard Pryor by laughing deliriously at the thought of Pryor’s “Afro on fire??? as the comedian ran from his home in 1980 with his body engulfed in flames; and showed great restraint by only once referring to President Barack Obama as a “Chicago gangster.???
Over a decade ago this wouldn’t have worked. The country had not quite yet made pop-eyed rage, casual cruelty at the expense of others and the irrational mainstream and acceptable. But the real national spirit now, earned through years and years of dedicated toil, is one in which vindictiveness and malice toward all are virtuous.
Nugent, 64, was the most polarizing figure on the bill, thanks to his outspoken views on politics, hunting and guns. But it seems like it’s been at least 30 years since Nugent cared what anyone else thought about him, and he carried that cocksure attitude over to his performance. Basically, it was one long guitar solo, punctuated by an obscene amount of swearing and some “USA! USA!??? patriotism tossed in for good measure.
The dates with REO and Styx make up over half his schedule. Without them it’s all dates in front of power drunks and topers at casinos and dive bars like the Flag Staff (now renamed as Penn’s Peak) in Jim Thorpe, PA, a place I wrote about decades ago in Nightclubbing.
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No one will make a record with Ted Nugent anymore.
Today, Nugent excoriates his home state.
From the Detroit Freep:
Michigan-born rocker Ted Nugent ripped the Pure Michigan tourism advertising campaign during a radio appearance this morning, saying his home state is becoming “a suburb of Illinois and San Francisco??? due to liberalism and political correctness …
Nugent, a rock star of the 1970s who is known as the “Motor City Madman??? and has hits that include “Cat Scratch Fever,??? is a hunting enthusiast who has become increasingly politically active with conservative views. In 2012, he received a visit from the Secret Service after comparing President Barack Obama to coyotes that needed to be shot.
In today’s interview, Nugent complained about state laws and regulations that he said prohibit carrying loaded weapons on a motorized vehicle such as a four-wheeler used for hunting and require residents to trap, rather than shoot, beavers that become a nuisance around a resident.
And from right wing conspiracy website WND, an excerpt from Ted’s Weekly column:
Ninety-nine weeks of unemployment is social and economic suicide. I say you get nine weeks of unemployment. If you need assistance after that, contact a church. Hunger is a great motivator …
I say we burn the existing U.S. tax code, which is the single biggest, most bombastic and ambiguous document in the history of the world, and replace it with a flat tax.
This is his audience, where one headline story of the day is
“School forces all girls to ask for lesbian kiss.”
The students were introduced to terms such as “pansexual??? and “genderqueer.???
Some of the young female students said they were told it was common for 14-year-old girls to have sex and their parents couldn’t stop them.
Mandy Coon, a mother of an eighth-grade student said, “I am furious. I am her parent. Where does anyone get the right to tell her that it’s OK for her to have sex????
[Ted Nugent is] someone who has advocated the killing of all pedophiles, yet by his own admission had countless sexual encounters with underage girls, allegedly including a 12-year-old Courtney Love.
From a Minneapolis newspaper, on the REO/Styx/Nugent oldies tour:
Nugent, 64, was the most polarizing figure on the bill, thanks to his outspoken views on politics, hunting and guns. But it seems like it’s been at least 30 years since Nugent cared what anyone else thought about him, and he carried that cocksure attitude over to his performance. Basically, it was one long guitar solo, punctuated by an obscene amount of swearing and some “USA! USA!” patriotism tossed in for good measure.
From the Toledo Blade, an article on the same tour explaining the Midwestern love of “classic rock” — or, as readers of this blog might call it now — WhiteManistan rock:
[Toledo venue manager] Miller refers to classic rock and country music as the arena’s “bread and butter,??? attracting “a traditional and loyal audience??? who identify with the songs about the Midwest experience — see Styx’s “Blue Collar Man,??? for example.
Cronin also noted similarities in the two fan bases, and said that REO Speedwagon keyboardist and co-founder Neal Doughty has a theory that classic rock is really the new country.
“Not musically, but just in as much as it’s long lasting,??? he said. “It’s the music of heartland, and it’s another alternative??? …
The music of heartland for some, of stomach-turning for others. Modern country became the refuge of classic rock in the last twenty years. Neal Doughty of REO has it a little bit sideways.
The musicians in modern country play light classic rock with banjo and fiddles glued on for seasoning.
See the most recent comment on Brad Paisley, here. After bombing with “Accidental Racist,” his record company launched another weird dud, “Beat This Summer.”
Now I ask you, who thought conjuring the spirit of a slightly older Jon Benet Ramsey by putting the song to a video in which a very little boy and little girl have a puppy summer affair on the Santa Monica pier was a great idea? Wistful, I don’t think so. It made my skin crawl.
God save us from the clueless in WhiteManistan and heartland music.
Nugent, the motor-mouthed madman of the American conservative movement, brought his self-touted business expertise to downtown San Antonio when he delivered the keynote address at a convention hosted by the Entrepreneurs’ Organization, a network designed to help business owners learn from each other.
A cuddly Uncle Ted made only one joking reference to his wish that he could mow down South Central Los Angeles with an M-4 rifle; only dropped about 10 f-bombs in 50 minutes; paid tribute to the comedy stylings of the late Richard Pryor by laughing deliriously at the thought of Pryor’s “Afro on fire??? as the comedian ran from his home in 1980 with his body engulfed in flames; and showed great restraint by only once referring to President Barack Obama as a “Chicago gangster.???
While on the topic of the living heirs of John Wilkes Booth, Ted Nugent made news again today for threatening the president again, twice in a little over a year now, for a NRA audience . He immediately disguised it with a transparent semantic trick, presumably to keep the US Secret Service off his back.
The left dominates the public discourse. And here we are, with the Chicago gangster, ACORN rip-off scam-artist-in-chief because we, who know better, were silent. I suppose we were being tolerant and moderate. And the Nugent guy, well he’s a radical. And again, it’s not about me. I don’t want a pat on the back. I don’t need one. I don’t seek one. It’s inconsequential.
But when I kick the door down to the enemy’s camp, would you help me shoot somebody? Just help me clear the room. And again, that’s a metaphor ladies and gentleman, I’m not recommending shooting anybody. It’s a metaphor of how to counterpunch the enemy if someone is willing to be on the frontline.
And, the Obama Hitler:
A lot of people, Cam, I’m afraid, listen to the outrageous examples, the freedom-stomping and jack-booted thuggery. And they wince a bit and they furrow their brow and they shake their heads. But then they still don’t do anything.
If you read, or listen, to the entire thing you’ll come away with the impression Nugent has plainly been driven nuts by Obama’s re-election and is still chapped from the US Secret Service visit in April of last year.
And he definitely does not like being reminded that he said he’d be dead or in jail by this time if the president won another four years in office.
A fan tribute video which, it’s probably safe to say, is not exactly what Brad Paisley was aiming for.
Having pilloried Brad Paisley before, I’m delighted to find he’s embarrassed himself nationally with the lead single, “Accidental Racist,” off his new Wheelhouse record.
With “Southern Comfort Zone,” another single from the same record, Paisley has had a nervous breakdown over his southern identity. In response, he’s tried to make music that explains to the rest of us why the south isn’t so bad and that it’s hard being a white guy from there.
Like everyone from WhiteManistan Paisley doesn’t quite get why this is so.
Anyway, Brad Paisley has always thought of himself as quite the lyricist. In a guitar magazine he once laughably compared himself to Mark Twain. But he has neither the nerve nor incision of Sam Clemens and way too much stupid on hand.
So you get what Brad Paisley delivers, apparently serious songs that are very public embarrassments, which — nonetheless — are received well by his country audience.
If you look on chat board or comments sections, I would suspect his grass roots love his “Accidental Racist” and “Southern Comfort Zone” songs and are astonished, even enraged, that others would laugh at him.
Which fits one of the definitions of WhiteManistan. You can condemn the bozos all you want but they view condemnation as affirmation. They expect it. It defines who and what they are. It is a very real measure of the polarization over race and antique traditions in society and that there will be no reconciliation or reconstruction. This war is truly forever.
There is nothing complicated in the ideology of the current white right/south. It’s one of hate, very real confederacy against outsiders, paranoia, and white supremacy.
And Brad Paisley, because of his great commercial success, seems to have foolishly picked himself as someone who can be an explainer and a middleman, a moderate, for it to the rest of us.
He’s failed grandly although sales might not reflect it and Barack Obama might still invite him to play the White House on July 4 because Paisley is a safe southern man, not someone overcome with spittle-flecked rage who elects heirs to the spirit of John Wilkes Booth to the US House of Representatives.
“Accidental Racist??? appears on Paisley’s ninth studio album Wheelhouse, which debuts today,” reports the TIME magazine website. “[However], the video appears to have been pulled from the Internet.”
One might say Brad Paisley has accidentally reverse-Dixie-Chicked himself.
Geez, it’s tough being a southern white guy.
Dude from WhiteManistan describes the “Accidental Racist” conspiracy.
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 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.
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?
At World Net Daily, Ted Nugent outdid himself yesterday. Because the site buries his column, not a lot of people notice the same way they used to when he was in residence at the Washington Times.
Nugent devoted his column to attacking Jim Carrey for the latter’s music video lampoon of Charlton Heston, “Cold Dead Hands.”
The entire column isn’t worth a blink. Except for one line.
Irreverent humor provides me enormous quality of life, and as a big fan of Lenny Bruce, Sam Kinison and Richard Pryor (especially when he was on fire) …
Ahem. Yes, Ted Nugent is certainly the best friend black Americans ever had.
Moving along, I’ve brought you this photo of official Nugent militaria, “a custom Ted Nugent-edition 10mm CQB Elite, with the rocker’s signature engraved into the slide and a handful of other tweaks personally selected by himself, including Wilson Combat Starburst G10 grips and Bulletproof Magwell, a solid medium trigger and a two-tone black and grey Armor-Tuff finish.”
Note the hollow points for maximum stopping power.
When you aim for the trunk of the not-white bad guy or the liberal scum coming out of the city to take your stuff WTSHTF you want the shell to expand and rip a nice big hole in the viscera. So the target falls over immediately and bleeds out.
“This full-custom 1911 pistol exhibits everything Ted wanted in a 10mm defensive and general use handgun and is the only mate in existence to his personal Wilson Combat 10mm,??? reads the piece, an article on an organization called Knife Rights which is raffling off the gun in a money-raiser.
Yes, Knife Rights, the piece informs, fighting alongside the National Rifle Association on the second front, the little known effort to keep the right to own as many bayonets and combat flick knives as you want. Because you never know when you’ll have to use them, preferably on someone smaller.
“The prize 1911 comes with a knife, too, a Wilson Tactical-Hogue Knives Star-Light four-inch tanto tactical folder,” continues the article at GUNS.COM. “Designed to be lightweight and sporting a matching set of G10 grips, the Star-Light is a great everyday-carry piece that sports the same Armor-Tuff finish as Ted’s CQB Elite. The knife retails for $250, and will be autographed by Nugent at the NRA Expo next month.”
