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"Friday night in Fort Worth, Texas, the state&amp;apos;s Republican party passed a platform that significantly liberalized its stance on immigration. Saturday  night in Austin, Texas, Ted Nugent, one of the state&amp;apos;s most infamous  conservatives (and Romney-endorsers), offered up his own take on the general issue.\r\n&amp;quot;There&amp;apos;s  an American Dream,&amp;quot; Nugent said during his headline set at the massive  Republic of Texas Biker Rally. &amp;quot;There&amp;apos;s no French dream. There&amp;apos;s no  Cuban dream. There&amp;apos;s no Spanish dream.\r\n&amp;quot;Is there a Mexican dream, except &amp;apos;Get the fuck out of Mexico?&amp;apos;,&amp;quot; the Nuge finished. &amp;quot;I can&amp;apos;t blame you.&amp;quot;\r\nBy the standard of Nugent&amp;apos;s April comments at the National Rifle Association convention or his 2007 broadside at Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton,  this was fairly tame material. Though the Motor City not-so-Madman  performs in front of a giant Stars and Stripes and ends his set by  re-enacting the planting of the flag at Iwo Jima (complete with a  recording of the &amp;quot;Marines Hymn&amp;quot;), he got through the first 45 minutes of  his 90-minute show without getting political.\r\nInstead,  Nugent regaled the crowd &amp;#x2013; a sea of biker vests, bandanas, Mardi Gras  beads and (obviously) boobies &amp;#x2013; with Spinal Tap-caliber stage patter. He  really likes to say &amp;quot;No Shit!&amp;quot; and at one point asked the &amp;quot;Republic of  Texas Motherfuckers!&amp;quot; if they were &amp;quot;ready to dance with Uncle Ted?&amp;quot;.\r\nThere&amp;apos;s  also plenty of pro-wrestling-level self-aggrandizement, with Nugent  calling his own hard rock &amp;quot;Motown classics,&amp;quot; (compared to Motown  Records) and an &amp;quot;all-American soundtrack of defiance&amp;quot; (compared to the  MC5?).\r\nMore  humorously, he introduced &amp;quot;Cat Scratch Fever&amp;quot; as &amp;quot;the number-one love song in  the history of the world,&amp;quot; and perhaps less so, said that &amp;quot;Live It Up&amp;quot;  is a song he and guitarist Derek St. Holmes (back in the band as of last  year) wrote &amp;quot;when we were small black children.&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;You  motherfuckers deserve me,&amp;quot; Nugent said into his Madonna-style  hands-free mic. And, later: &amp;quot;I piss off assholes just for being myself.&amp;quot;\r\nEventually,  Nugent got to the current events portion of the set, explaining that  his impressive display of 11 Gibson guitars (laid out across a wall of  Marshall amps) was meant to be a message to the federal government,  which is &amp;quot;infested with fucking criminals.\r\n&amp;quot;Any pussies from the [U.S.] Fish and Wildlife out there, you want to take my guitars?,&amp;quot; he bellowed, referring to the fact that Gibson has been raided for importing endangered wood. &amp;quot;Fuck you!&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;That&amp;apos;s my favorite one,&amp;quot; he also said, brandishing not a guitar, but a weapon.  Nugent&amp;apos;s shout-out to the &amp;quot;NRA gun nut motherfuckers out there&amp;quot; and his  admonition, &amp;quot;put a fucking gun in your hand, Texas, stormtroopers  coming&amp;quot; both got big cheers, as did a tribute to the &amp;quot;the warriors of  the United States military,&amp;quot; even as Nugent lamented that they have to  do the bidding of this particular administration.\r\n&amp;quot;They,  unfortunately, are the real enemies right now.&amp;quot; he said, without naming  any names. &amp;quot;We&amp;apos;re gonna fix it in November, aren&amp;apos;t we boys and girls?&amp;quot;\r\nOne imagines that, as with most aging rockers (and politicial candidates) Nugent will parrot the same lines when he plays in Minnesota next week (and again when he returns to opening for REO Speedwagon and Styx on June 19th).\r\n&amp;quot;I rock &amp;amp; roll my balls off all summer long,&amp;quot; Nugent said. &amp;quot;The rest of the year, I just kill shit.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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