07.05.13
Posted in WhiteManistan at 11:09 am by George Smith
In Civil War 2 today, WhiteManistan lost a small one when Missouri’s governor vetoed a nullification act.
From the wire:
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has vetoed legislation that would have made it a crime for federal agents to try to enforce gun control laws.
Nixon, a Democrat, stated the Constitution gives federal law “supremacy” over state law. The proposed law would have made it a misdemeanor for federal agents to enforce national regulations pertaining to guns in the Show Me state when they conflicted with “the people’s right to keep and bear arms.”
On the other hand there is North Carolina, a state moving assertively to win a title as the new heart of American sedition with new legislation requiring voter ID, new legislation to curtail abortion and law to fight the non-existent problem of shariah in the US.
From the WaPo:
Candidate McCrory tried to occupy a middle ground on the hot-button issue, saying he would not sign any further restrictions on abortion into law. But as governor, McCrory has been following the lead of conservative Republican veto-proof super-majorities in the state House and Senate. A wave of proposals — from voter-ID restrictions to cutbacks on unemployment payments – has resulted in push-back from protesters who continue to show up inside and outside the state capitol in Raleigh each week.
Hundreds more made their way to Raleigh to shout “shame??? at the state Senate’s actions this week. The GOP majority attached new abortion restrictions to a bill that would ban North Carolina family courts from considering foreign laws [GOP/Tea Party code for “shariah law”] and passed it by a 29-12 vote.
The bill would require abortion clinics to meet standards similar to those for outpatient surgery clinics, and critics say majority of the state’s 16 licensed abortion clinics would not qualify …
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07.04.13
Posted in Rock 'n' Roll, WhiteManistan at 8:23 am by George Smith
Have a good 4th. Eat hot dogs or something. I will.
It has the John Philip Sousa feel. I asked him for help when I wrote it.
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Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, WhiteManistan at 5:47 am by George Smith
Or, shit WhiteManistan thinks.
It was obviously not as much fun being on the Union side.
From a USA Today piece on the re-enactment in Gettysburg, yesterday:
Kevin Farrar, a Confederate re-enactor from Lovettsville, Va., said it was “mind-boggling” to think of the mile-long march that Confederate troops endured under heavy fire. “It’s like the beaches of Normandy,” he said.
[Um, no, wrong on too many levels.]
No photo subject was more popular than a smartly dressed Gen. Robert E. Lee, played by Don Vanhart, a 58-year-old surgical technician from Maine, N.Y.
One noticeable feature of the recent faddy Gettysburg stories is that in interviewing the folk of WhiteManistan, they’re mostly only interested in talking about the South.
In reading Shelby Foote’s three volume history of it (I’m on the first book), the author states that after about the first six months, troops on either side which had been in battle were on equal footing.
This, counter to the common myth that the Confederate soldier, used to hunting more and “living outside,” was superior to “the pasty-faced mechanics” of the Union.
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07.03.13
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle at 11:12 am by George Smith
From the web:
???The 18 Best U.S. Cities for Bros???–comes courtesy of real estate website Estately, and puts Bethlehem at No. 17:
Bethlehem made the list primarily because a high school student there was hospitalized after suffering an allergic reaction from an overexposure of Axe Body Spray. However, oh little bro town of Bethlehem, you are much more than a toxic cloud of spray-on brodor. You are home to Lehigh University, a small school whose cultural life revolves around its fraternity scene, with a brolific 37% of male students in a fraternity. The lacrosse team was ranked 13th in the country last season and The Daily Beast considers it the #19 party school in America. Your caucasians are plentiful (65.4%), the marijuana abounds, and white baseball hats turned backwards can be seen all over campus.
Clueless. Lehigh wrestling is nationally famous.
“The most storied athletic program at Lehigh is its wrestling team,” reads Wiki.
And, of course, Dwayne Johnson is Bethlehem’s most famous son.
“The Rock will layeth the smackdown on your candy ass!”
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07.02.13
Posted in Crazy Weapons at 1:51 pm by George Smith
Since Roscoe Bartlett was run out of Congress leaving the cause of electromagnetic pulse doom-stopping in the hands of legitimate rape caucus member Trent Franks of Arizona, the old Cult of EMP Crazy has been gravely damaged. But like the twin phenomena of zombie dramatic cable television and movies, it always staggers forward, always has an audience.
Franks is known now mostly for joining the GOP legitimate rape thing a couple weeks back. This marking as a barely sentient human being means there’s very little chance that anything he sponsors on electromagnetic pulse defense will go anywhere.
The old Cult of EMP Crazy knows this liability so they’ve taken their cause and their merchandising to “the states.”
From a recent edition of POWER, a trade magazine on the global power industry, comes an article on the now always looming (for 20 years) threat of electromagnetic pulse attack:
So [F. Michael Maloof, a columnist for the right-wing crank newsite WND.COM] says he’s been traveling to U.S. states to encourage state and local responses. “This is a new states’ rights issue,??? he says. “People can take action at the state level. I’m traveling around suggesting people get together with their local emergency response agencies and coordinators??? to plan for an EMP contingency.
Indeed, here is an example of taking the story of electromagnetic pulse doom to the states, in this instance a lecture for a South Carolina Tea Party meeting, archived on YouTube.
Caveat, it’s hard to watch, a real WhiteManistan sleeping pill. But in the first few minutes readers may note that it’s a road show including old Cult of EMP Crazy chieftain, Frank Gaffney, who has made a career during the last few years going around to Republican do’s in red states to warn about the contamination of the US justice system by shariah law. Gaffney, it’s fair to say, has had great success in this, being one of forces behind the appearance of ridiculous anti-shariah legislation in a few red states.
For his part, F. Michael Maloof has been involved in the selling and merchandising of his book on electromagnetic pulse doom.
From POWER:
In his book [A Nation Forsaken], Maloof describes a hypothetical attack on Washington, D.C., that completely disrupts the nation’s capital and surrounding areas, including communications at the Pentagon. The attackers, he writes, use “small, rifle-sized arms that shoot not bullets but radio frequencies, weapons that can be built for about $400 with easy-to-obtain parts. Think of one of those Super Soaker water guns.
Maloof also describes how a terrorist cell with a primitive EMP weapon in the back of a panel truck could easily bring down a passenger airplane landing at Washington’s Reagan National Airport. “At the cost of a few thousand dollars in material and know-how, this homegrown terror cell kills more than a thousand people—several hundred passengers on the planes, the rest in the buildings that take the full impact of the crashing planes.???
DD readers know the Cult of EMP Crazy is a primary part of right-wing rural kook demographic known as “preppers,” citizens of WhiteManistan assiduously preparing for the fall of America, aka The End of the World As We Know It (TEOTWAWKI).
Preppers have turned electromagnetic pulse doom into kitsch art and literature, the meme now having generated hundreds of unreadable novels on survival after electromagnetic pulse attack through the technological miracle of Amazon’s CreateSpace.
On the art side we now have prepper electromagnetic pulse doom song and video. It is brief.
And it’s been awhile since we checked in on one of the best known preppers, the Patriot Nurse.
It’s quite a grab bag.
I didn’t spend much time commenting on Maloof’s electromagnetic pulse terrorism scenarios. The reason being, they’re all moldy oldies, having been run up the flag pole numerous times, starting about two decades ago.
From the old Crypt Newsletter, a bit of satire from a feature called the Joseph K Guide to Tech Terminology, ca. 1997:
Victor von Doom: a.k.a Dr. Doom, an arch villain in the Marvel Comics universe often portrayed handcrafting a variety of directed energy weapons — ray guns — with which to smite enemies; now used by Crypt Newsletter as a catch-all designation for computer security snake-oil salesmen and assorted crackpots spreading freaky tales of non-existent electronic [pulse] rays.
Usage: Victor von Doom, a faculty member at the University of Gobble-Wallah in Brisbane, Australia, warned frightened businessmen that a raygun capable of surreptitiously smashing networked corporate computers from a distance of half a mile could be easily fashioned from parts including a cattle prod, two potato knishes, one TV antenna and four car batteries.
Another definition from the old Joseph K Guide is updated for your enjoyment:
Booz Allen Hamilton: Contractor for the Pentagon which most Americans have never heard of; or, a secret corporation that relies almost exclusively upon taxpayer dollars for profits.
Usage: “The ideal Booz Allen Hamilton business product always involves classification so that outside audits, fraud investigations, accusations of illegality and meddlesome oversight can be side-stepped,??? a company vice-president patiently explained to the new hire.
It used to be the definition for Science Applications International Corporation, which is still around, but not as much in the news as BAH.
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Posted in Ricin Kooks at 12:17 pm by George Smith
From the wire:
A federal public defender has asked a judge to delay the trial of a Mississippi man charged with sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a local judge.
Attorney Greg Park says in a court filing Tuesday that he needs more time to prepare for the trial of James Everett Dutschke of Tupelo.
The trial was scheduled for July 29, unusually speedy for these kinds of things. It appears the federal government may want to pack the current clutch of accused ricin mailers away fast.
By contrast, the two men arrested last year and accused in the ricin-part of the Georgia Ricin Beans case have yet to go to trial.
The Georgia Ricin Beans Gang — from the archives.
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Posted in WhiteManistan at 10:12 am by George Smith
Marvel has never been a big fan of WhiteManistan.
But it does corny really well, as this old promo shows.
From the archives: Is WhiteManistan un-American?
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07.01.13
Posted in Rock 'n' Roll, WhiteManistan at 10:57 am by George Smith
This week, along with the 150th anniversary of Gettysburg, the 35th anniversary of Texxas Jam, the high water mark of WhiteManistan Rock.
Now painful memories.
Go to the theatre, pay 20+ dollars, sob into popcorn in humiliation and the ravages of time.
Music Trivia: Watch as film from the teaser pans over the sea of flesh that’s the happy crowd. Thirty two years later many of them voted for the WhiteManistan male crabs now picking on women and trying to outlaw abortion in Texas. Man, we were so hip.
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06.30.13
Posted in WhiteManistan at 12:34 pm by George Smith
What piece of profound ignorance was published for the fad of marking the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg today, Daddy?
This, put forward by the Google News robots, idiot citations excerpted:
Peter Carmichael, director of the Civil War Institute in Gettysburg, said there was much flag waving with “not much substance behind it.”
“Southern symbols have come under attack in a way that didn’t happen 10 years ago,” he said.
Many people whose ancestors fought (in) the Civil War feel besieged” and say “the Civil War cause has nothing to do with slavery.”
“They say it is a war between the big government and small governments,” he added.
“It’s a heritage,” said Chuck Faust, one of about 200,000 history buffs expected to descend on this corner of Pennsylvania over the next 10 days to relive what happened here.
“Slavery was not the issue,” said the 52-year-old dressed up as a Union horseman and donning a blue cap.
“State rights were the initial issue.”
When the Confederate flag makes its way onto T-shirts worn by youngsters, it is a “symbol of rebellion,” he added.
Historian Brain Jordan, for one, noted that the presence of Confederate flags was more pronounced in Gettysburg than in the South.
Jamie Malanowski, meanwhile, said one should not boil down Southern culture and heritage to the “outdated, retrograde, racist, separatist and defeated” Confederacy.
Or, for that matter, the Tea Party — an ultra conservative US political movement.
“American culture is so strongly a Southern culture,” he added, pointing to jazz great Louis Armstrong and even barbecues.
Save us from another in the army of fat white guy writers who, for the sake of being diplomatic about progress, blithely points out that American culture is Southern culture.
So, in this manner, Louis Armstrong, an African American, can be inserted into an odious discussion about the nature of the Civil War and the battle of Gettysburg, which marked the beginning of the end for the Confederacy.
Consider that one again. Louis Armstrong presented as proof of the beacon of southern culture, rather than — er, maybe — someone who became an icon in spite of southern culture.
My head almost exploded.
It did not because of the last five or so years and the appearance of Tea Party bigots waving signs claiming Martin Luther King, Jr., was a Republican, Ted Nugent calling his rock and roll excursion the Black Power Tour, and about 90 percent of the GOP using the battle-cry — “Democrats started the KKK!” — in the last few months. (And lest we forget, the adoption of the “Sic Semper Tyrannis,” the imprecation of John Wilkes Booth, as suitable for T-shirts and posters.)
You get hardened. Or, perhaps, seasoned — a gentler word.
And maybe the folk blues should be really attributed to the southern slave owners, too, because without them, how would have African Americans ever come up with it?
Much in common with the man attesting the Civil War was about “states rights.” Paisley thought “Accidental Racist” would win him praise. Instead, it 86’d his new album in one week. Both instances of the complete cognitive disconnect in WhiteManistan.
Paisley’s song of treacly moaning about being a misunderstood southern boy sounds even more pathetic than the day it was leaked. It is the very essence of awful.
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Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Cyberterrorism at 10:28 am by George Smith
The world is not a bag of nails for which the US national security megaplex is the hammer.
It is difficult to know when, if ever, that reality will be perceived in this country where it counts enough to make a difference.
From Der Spiegel, by way of the Guardian:
The German publication Der Spiegel reported that it had seen documents and slides from the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden indicating that US agencies bugged the offices of the EU in Washington and at the United Nations in New York. They are also accused of directing an operation from Nato headquarters in Brussels to infiltrate the telephone and email networks at the EU’s Justus Lipsius building in the Belgian capital, the venue for EU summits and home of the European council.
Without citing sources, the magazine reported that more than five years ago security officers at the EU had noticed several missed calls apparently targeting the remote maintenance system in the building that were traced to NSA offices within the Nato compound in Brussels.
The impact of the Der Spiegel allegations may be felt more keenly in Germany than in Brussels. The magazine said Germany was the foremost target for the US surveillance programmes, categorising Washington’s key European ally alongside China, Iraq or Saudi Arabia in the intensity of the electronic snooping.
The US cannot and will not now ever be able to live down its exhausting campaign to make everyone believe that we were being spied on and probed in cyberspace, unfairly, by others.
Keys: Edward Snowden.
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