There's no such thing as a free steak dinner
Posted On: Thursday - May 10th 2018 6:32PM MST
In Topics: Humor Global Financial Stupidity
Hat tip to Milton Friedman, Libertarian economist, in case you thought Peak Stupidity made this one up.
This is what you have to go through to get the scrumptious meal, but that's not what Milton Friedman meant, was it?
More asterisks than the baseball stats after the strike.
Let's read: "Products [sic] that keep your principal safe from market declines" Oh, so they are selling cash and gun safes? That's the only way I know your money will be safe, and even then, not from inflation. The drawback is you may lose 0.15 % interest, enough cash to power the de-humidifier in your safe and get one box of .380 FMJ.
"Strategies to feel good about your retirement strategies." That's a lot of strategizing. You're going to feel good as that steak is going down, and that's all that matters, right? You may not feel so good later after having eaten a big meal that late - possibly it'd have been better having just gone to the Early Bird Special to gum down that creamed corn instead.
Oh, I see, "How you can get income you can't outlive." Make sure you get the steak cooked at least medium-well. I wonder if that's what they're up to.
"... that let you avoid taxes..." Count me in! I don't care how bad this strategy is going to be, long as I can screw over the IRS and the Feral Gov., I'll be a happy camper.
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Have the Population Bombs been Duds? - Part 1
Posted On: Thursday - May 10th 2018 5:57PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity History Globalists The Future
(As soon as I started thinking of this post, it came to mind that the point will be too long for just one. Therefore, this will be the 1st of 2 or 3.)
If you are old enough or read enough political history, you may know about the "Club of Rome". It was not a drinking establishment, though that's not to say the discussions held there (if there really was a physical club) wouldn't encourage a heavy amount of it. During the early 1970's, about Earth Day's Birthday, out-of-control exponentially-growing population around the world was the biggest fear 2nd to nuclear war, I'd guess. The graph above is one of perhaps thousands, as the group, others, and their followers, almost all in the Western world were getting freaked out. Step ahead only 1 1/2 decades in history, and you would not only not have heard of this stuff, but it would be generally pooh-poohed already by the political establishment, both left (they had their cultural war to wage .. so much ... to destroy ... not ... enough ... time ...) and the right (never took it seriously as we were going to prosperity our way out of it).
How's this all been working out? There are almost 8,000,000,000 (8 billion, but it's good to see the zeros) people in the world now, and there were ~ 3 billion when the Club of Rome and the environmental movement in general were greatly worried about the "population bomb".
(Note the word "projected" on the right.
That is Non-Governmental-Organization-speak for "rectal extraction".
Dark blue is all we know.
Also, I'm not very enamored with this particular graph, as I really didn't need the 1st derivative - red line - and the scale of the value itself must be read as 0.2% = 1 billion.)
One can see why people were getting worried back in the early 1970's as the curve had just turned more sharply upward do not solely the baby boom in the 1st world, but moreso due to health improvements in the 3rd world (the 2nd world, in case you're wondering, was the Communist world, mostly the USSR and Red China - due to Chairman Mao, Red China could be in the 2nd and 3rd categories, a bifecta, if you will!). I will not go over all the details, but this was just to point out the prevailing worries of the 1st world. The 3rd world was happy to be eating better and having just as many kids a previously ... watch out ...
What happened in the 1st world was that population numbers stabilized very well until the effects of massive immigration to "some countries" was felt by the 1990's. However, before that, or barring that, population was becoming stable (or would have) and even declining in various places. Now, I could not say that the worries of a population bomb that were lectured to people all over the 1st world were the reason for things stabilizing. Family formation was hindered greatly by the infestation of feminism, and the implementation of the welfare state just created a dysgenic effect in which the people having the most offspring were those who could least afford to raise them right and passed on some of the worst genes of society.
During this time the 3rd world just put the pedal to the metal. I don't think the matter of whether they heard about the coming population bomb or not would have had any effect. They didn't care. They didn't have a lot of feminism to ruin the family unit either.
It seemed like (for various ACTUAL reasons, of course) that the developed world was doing it's part to diffuse this population bomb, while behind the scenes (most didn't care, but it's raciss to mention it), the 3rd world was arming a bomb of it's own. With that going on, one could say, or could have said, "hey, that's their own business." Not any more it isn't though, with the Globalist push for population replacement in the developed world. That's getting close to my point, coming next post... I sure hope!
Last November, the Peak Stupidity blog posted a sequence of 3 pieces on this "demographic soo-eee-cide", so before the next in this sequence, the reader may want to peruse Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of that series. I will show last though, to illustrate the problems coming, one graph that has been highlighted by Mr. Steve Sailer time and again, as "The World's Most Important Graph" (more here, but Sailer's been over this many times, so do a search on unz.com for lots of hits on this.)
For this one, I cropped the heck out of the graph to get rid of most of the projected stuff. It's only going out 20 years there, but it's worrisome nonetheless.
Next time: Let's talk about the Orient.
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Where have all the Czars gone?
Posted On: Wednesday - May 9th 2018 7:17PM MST
In Topics: The Russians Humor History Americans US Feral Government
"... long time passing."
Tsar Nicholas and family, before being murdered by the Commies.
Last summer, a century ago, the last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II (Nicholas Romanov), was imprisoned after abdicating his position of Czar due to the turmoil and tragedy of the Great War Russia had been fighting in since the summer of 1914. It's not long after today, a century ago, in June of 1918, that he and his whole family were killed by the Bolsheviks*. The Peak Stupidity blog is not a history site, for the simple reason that the higher level of stupidity in today's world deserves our focus. Not, only that, but 20 or 50 of my posts wouldn't do the subject justice compared to a talk with your local Russian history
Something that came up in my head though recently is a thought not about the Czars that ran Russian, but the "Czars" that used to try to run things in America. I mean the appointed positions in previous US Presidential administrations that were named "Health Czar" and "Economic Czar", etc. That was going on for a few decades, and getting a little out of hand, if I do say so. See, the idea was that the bureaucracy was getting too much to handle, and the various agencies worked at conflicting agendas sometimes, probably a good thing for the American people, but the work of the Feral Gov't to try to help us just WASN'T GETTING DONE. Each executive branch since I don't know when, but something tells me after anti-Communist Ronald Reagan, would add its own new Czar positions.
"Czar" basically means "King", and didn't the US Constitution prohibit that sort of thing? I shouldn't have to answer to any damn King, Russian appellation notwithstanding! Well, OK, it's was just a word used to show that this was going to be a guy, or gal (a Czarita?) who was sovereign in the area of expertise within the political goings-on of the administration. Hence, we had the Energy Czar to run meetings with the various head-butting heads of unconstitutional agencies involved with energy, a Health Czar to run meetings with the various head-butting heads of unconstitutional agencies involved with health, etc. This trend of appointing tax-payer-supported Czars, who one could also call "Tsars" to show one's worldliness and sympathy with the Romanov family, I guess, increased until, what about 1 year and 4 months ago (why exactly then?).
I don't know where the American line of Czars built up to, but probably by Peak Czarism, we had been blessed with a Housing Czar, a Food Czar, a Sewage Czar, a Feminine Products Czar, a Carbon Czar, a Vodka Czar (naturally!), and even a Russia Czar.
However, since the Trump administration started up, I haven't heard Czar-one in the news. Are these guys still there, laying down a heavy Czarist hand on our government agencies and
The answer is not known as of press date. Peak Stupidity is unfortunately not in the loop here, as we have recently blocked electronic communication from our Russian sources due to their incessant spamming of the comments section with unreadable Viagra ads.
* BTW, in part 2 of our series on Russia and China and the long-term effects of Communism, I pointed out a great epic movie called Nicholas and Alexandra along with a book on the treatment of the former aristocrats of Russia after their time, during the 1920's through WWII.
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Zerohedge commenters never disappoint
Posted On: Tuesday - May 8th 2018 9:10AM MST
In Topics: Websites Humor Global Financial Stupidity
Now, the website is another story. I've been beating this dead
Anyway, I TRY to read Zerohedge for the articles, mostly decent, but more for the comments. I've just read someone on another site badmouthing the people who comment there, yet they never fail to enlighten and amuse me. These people seem to really have a handle on the financial/economic matters at the personal and nationwide level (though the ZH site itself leans more toward politics these days). I learned quite a bit from them over the years. Sure, they can get pretty racy, mean, and vulgar, but you need that sometimes. Even insults about someone's mother are much more amusing on Zerohedge than anywhere including meat-insult-space. It's supposedly the Fight Club, right?
This writer had thought of registering long ago to comment there. I didn't in the past just due to the extreme time-wastage this would entail. I wasn't sure if that would be made up for in entertainment value. However, there were a few dozen commenters whom I used to read regularly and really would have liked to say "hey" and "thanks" to. Many of them are gone off the site now anyway.
OK, well the picture above, seen 4 days ago on Zerohedge, is the reason I'm writing today. The picture represents the usual head-in-the-sand ostrich-based satire to point out that people are willfully not paying attention to something (in this case stock-holders are ignoring blah, blah ..) Yeah, we get this image, but it's not usually a woman in the picture. Yes, I get the business suit part of it, but the shapely legs and butt in the air take all emphasis away from the stock market!
What kind of comments do you think you will get under this one? "Yes, the volatility is something to be worried ab ...", "There's lots of geopolitical risk, and the price of oil ..." No, like I said these people never disappoint me. It's worth going to the article for the comments as usual to have a good laugh. I came THIS CLOSE to registering because nobody had the exact good one I had, something about "priming the pump" or "what a nice visit with my broker - I'd like to sleep with you again in the desert tonight... with a billion stars all around.", you know, that sort of thing.
Yeah, it's an entertaining website, and "Tyler Durden" puts these types of pictures up for hits. I know I'd hit that .... article.
PS: The Peak Stupidity blog has featured some comment samples before, on vehicular manslaughter and hot babes that the President may have "hit", though it's hard to get the full flavor of it from these few. Yeah, in terms of opinion and humor, Zerohedge commenters are BEST IN CLASS.
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Juan McAmnesty and the Hawk and Chihuahua tail
Posted On: Monday - May 7th 2018 6:34PM MST
In Topics: Humor Globalists The Neocons
(not exactly how it is in the old gospel song, is it?)
The Peak Stupidity blog has a visceral hatred of Senator Juan McAmnesty (Arizona - T*). It's been mostly about his traitorous, and at the same time hypocritical stance on massive immigration. There's not room to explain it all here, but my opinions get shaped by the fact that I don't forget what these types of people say 10 and 20 years ago, like lots of voting Americans do, unfortunately.
Now, on his deathbed, or maybe it's his regular bed for now (OK, bad Seinfeld joke there), he is still jibberjabbing away, trying to be the "maverick" that the Lyin Press just LUVS! He just had to bad-mouth President Trump, and even the always-smiling Sarah Palin, who was the only thing that got this bastard's poll numbers into the black in 2008. As I wrote in an older article on this guy, Speaking Dead of the Ill - re Juan McAmnesty, it's not like I'd be rooting for the guy to die ... if he weren't a sitting, or bed-ridden US Senator, that is. In that post, I explained the same thing about former U-boat commander, Lying-of-the-Se
However, these people hang on in their positions, inviting and invading the world, until death nowadays. Don't they have a pretty good retirement plan? If the only way to get these people out of office is for them to die, I am in favor of them dying. That's all there is to it.
Oh, that was not the humor part, per tag attached! It's just that I read a post referencing some tweets (jeeez!) by, yeah, Steve Sailer again about the Senator's rooting for a hawk to eat his wife's (?) little Chihuahua doggie. Now, who really cares, but if I did, I'd have to root for the hawk myself, which makes me feel creepy ... no, not about birds preying on small mammals, mind you... no... just about being in agreement with still-dammit!-Senator McAmnesty. I may need to take a shower.
However, this scenario suggested a joke that could not be passed up (who knows when the next time some Senator mouths off about birds of prey and their tastes in small canines, right?). So, here goes, and Inspector Clouseau is provided below for reference purposes only.
Juan McAmnesty’s Chihuahua-owning wife: “Juan, do you think your hawk can pick up my dog and take him away?”Thank you. Thank you. I'll be blogging here all week. Don't forget to leave a few comments (Starting with PS) for your moderator, and try the stir-fried Chihuahau ... it's to die for.
Juan McAmnesty: “Non! Your doggie is too eavy.”
(JMCoW let’s her chihuahua run around for a minute.)
JMCoW: “What!! Your hawk just snatched my doggie and is eating him on top of that power pole! OMG! I thought you said my dog was too eavy?!”
JM: “Zhat is not my hawk.”
* T for Traitor.
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A China story and Chinese vs. American police states
Posted On: Monday - May 7th 2018 11:03AM MST
In Topics: US Police State Movies China
Picture from Blind Mountain starring Yang Li and a bunch of other people named Li, He, Fan, Yuan, Zhang, Zhu, Zhou, and Zizeer-Zazzer-Zuzz.)
Yes, they are kicking our asses in most areas of manufacturing and kicking our whole bodies in growth in quality of life, but how has China been doing in the Police State business, where America has been leading the pack lately? I can't put in all the history and details, even what I have found personally, in one post here, but Peak Stupidity just has a quick story today to contrast the two nations. It is from someone I know personally about her 1st cousin back in deepest yellowest Cathay, as we say.
Some 20 or 30 years back this cousin in China was kidnapped from her and my family friend's home town to be taken to be a bride somewhere way east, I think Fujian province (across the straits from Taiwan). The way this happened is that the young lady, a teenager, I think, got engaged in a conversation with a couple who had leads for a good job. In general, Chinese people seem almost too wary, and not at all friendly to strangers. The lead to a good job, however, was enough to entice her to hang out with these strangers, who proceeded to slip her a Mickey (or I guess it'd be a "Chenny" over there) to drug her up, and sent her on the way to Fujian to be married. That's a hell of a thing, but the young lady made the best of it, while still trying to get back home. Keep in mind this was way before cell phones, and most of China skipped the whole land-line phase. (Alexander Graham Bell is dead to these people!)
Anyway, over in Fujian,
The family had been looking desperately, of course, but it took a few years for some lead, possibly information passed from the lady or her adoptive village, but I can't remember all the details of the story. When the family found out their daughter's location, they requested the help of the local police (finally, something related to the title??) who were helpful and proceeded to go on a road trip for a number of days (we all like a good road trip once in a while) to the village. The interesting part here is that the local police at the destination, or kidnapping-Point-B, so to speak, would not cooperate with the girl's family's road-tripping hometown police. Nope, they told the family, "you can't have her. She ain't coming." It was a standoff between two local police forces, not the way one would think it would go in China, right? Wasn't there some big Central Red-China Police that would straighten out the whole thing from Peking? No, some things are not nearly as centralized as one would think, and that is almost always a good thing.
Contrast that incident with the way things would go in the USA. You can't get a ticket for rolling through a red light in Montpelier, Vermont without hearing about it within a few months in your home in Artesia, New Mexico. With the aid of computers they've tightened it all up over the last 3 decades - this writer has lots of experience in this non-felonious realm. There's good and bad, I will admit. Kidnapping was made one of the 1st Federal crimes just due it being too easy to move out of a jurisdiction when committing a terrible crime like this. It's gone way too far in Police State USA though. Sometimes you'd really like to leave a few bills and ongoing annoyances from the state and county behind.
The American way is still OFFICIALLY that the local Sheriff has the sovereign power in legal matters as an elected official. He SHOULD be able to tell the governor, or even the President to piss off, so long as local law does not conflict with state or federal law. It does not work that way in reality, right now, and we all know that. If someone from state government tells him to jump, he'll be all "how high?", no matter who was in the right by the laws. In addition, Federal law has been made into a 20 ft wide tome of books that can neither be all known nor all followed. This way, they can just forget the 10's of millions of letters of the law and just rule the living hell out of us.
Yeah, I like China's way better in this regard. Decentralization is almost always a good thing.
Oh, did you want to know what happened after that? The local police from the family's (and original) girl's hometown made a second trip with some reinforcements some months later and were able to extract the young lady, but without the son. Here comes the great human-interest part. The Peak Stupidity blog is not normally about "human interest", cause it's too girly, but this is a good one. The young lady was back in her hometown when her ex-husband traveled that long way (back before the new roads and fast railroads) to try to get her back, carrying a large sack of peanuts as an apology gift(?).
After setting down the large sack of peanuts at the doorstep, the man begged "Please, ask her if she would come back to her husband and son. We miss her ... blah, blah." (This was in Chinese, of course.) "OK, that's all fine and very romantic, but this is not the right house - you're at her cousin's, dude." Well, he did the same thing at the correct house, and the young lady decided, "yeah, WTF, let's go back."
It was a happy ending to this story, but I will tell you that that movie (see picture at top) named Blind Mountain", which is about a similar occurrence of this kind of kidnapping, ends a bit differently. It's a good, but very obscure movie that, even on the great Internet Movie Database, took me a while to find.
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At the zoo two... how to avoid animal microaggressions
Posted On: Friday - May 4th 2018 4:15PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor Treehuggers
Over a month back, in a post about goings-on at the zoo, Peak Stupidity complained about a young decent-looking treehugger's long rant about the environment that drowned-out the sounds of the seals and sea lions that we intended to watch. The beginning of that rant was more of an apology. The young lady informed us, as if we'd be stupid enough to care, that these sea mammals were not being treated like show animals. We should not be guilty or embarrased, as they were not embarrased. Can animals even get embarrased? That's really the question here.
Bottom line? No, otherwise they would not do their waste elimination right in front of us. I didn't notice any of the animals in the whole zoo heading away from the crowd to the bushes to use the bathroom. Well, the penguins and the particular sea mammals in question can probably get away with it without embarrassment in the same manner as a 10-year old in the swimming pool. No, I don't think the animals being displayed at the zoo have the emotion of embarrasment. They don't feel our microagressions in the same way as our beloved SJW animals do.
There may be other reasons that it's not a nice thing for the animals to be in the zoo, no doubt. However, my solution to that is to keep only the retarded ones. - retarded penguins, retarded monkeys, retarded snow leopards, and retarded brown bears, whatever, they will definitely not feel bad being confined in a smaller area than the natural environment and having people stare at them all day. Even for smart animals, it's all they know after a while, but there may still be some discomfort in their minds. The "learning-challenged" brown bear, however, should be glad he's not in the wild, or he'd have starved or been eaten by now. How are the visitors going to know or care about whether the particular samples of wild animals are the brightest bulbs in the pride? It's a win/win.
Now that I've got that great Simon & Garfunkle song, At the Zoo, in my head from that previous post in my head, let me present another seemingly-lost song by these guys. I write seemingly-lost, as just to me, because At the Zoo and this next one were not on the famous Greatest Hits album that has all that I think of as their classics.
Simon & Garfunkle were REAL New Yorkers (meaning NYC, in this case) back when it was still a very decent place. One can tell from the music, including their summer 1981 concert in Central Park, that these two had a great love for that city. Both At the Zoo and The Only Living Boy in New York evoke their feeling for the Big Apple (don't mind the maggots*). Words aside anyway, this one has such a great tune with some great vocal harmony:
* From a different guy, who understandably did not have quite the same feelings for NYC!
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Computerized testing - pros and cons
Posted On: Friday - May 4th 2018 3:34PM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Artificial Stupidity Educational Stupidity
The Peak Stupidity blog does try with our utmost alacrity to follow up on the thoughts from previous posts. This and the subsequent one will be that type. As a follow-up to the somewhat boring discussion on multiple-choice testing, I will relate what I've learned only recently about the newest type of computerized testing. This WILL NOT be boring to you if you do have a test like this coming up. You may be more like enraged and exasperated, in fact, if you are old enough to have taken these types of tests, in this case it's a medical board test, in the past.
Look, I completely understand the value, in terms of quality control and cost savings (to the test-MAKER, BTW, not passed on to you, the measly test-TAKER!) of automating this type of thing. It's a pretty mindless and tedious process otherwise, though not as tedious as the grading of problem-working tests, as explained in that previous post. However, it turns out that things have changed lots since software has become so fast and cheap (to write, not to buy!), and these new tests are way, way out there, man!
What it comes down to is that the newer tests are designed to completely eliminate any test-taking strategy. That's the gist of it, and I don't say that is particularly a bad thing, just a different thing, hence the curmudgeonry tag attached herein. More on the philosophy of this, but let me get to some details to show you the weirdness that makes a testing strategy pretty much impossible.
Yeah, first thing you may already know, is that computerized test can be made for which one cannot go back to previous questions. There's no reason they have to be this way, but they seem to all be - both in school and in these national boards. This eliminates one valuable tactic that is known by many who went through lots of schooling. It doesn't take accidental duplicates, but there are usually a number of questions who's premises help answer a following or previous question. The lack of any way to flip back and forth eliminates this way of correcting wrong answers. Again, it's not necessarily a bad thing, and not any less fair.
However, look at this shit:
I'll give you more details. You've got most of the day to do this test, OK? However, you don't HAVE to finish all the questions and you may not GET TO finish them all! As you can see in the graphic above, the questions get harder the better you
Oh, and this little tidbit of stupidity may come into play: Were you to not finish all the questions by the time limit, yet the software hasn't sent you home, then the last 60 questions matter as to whether you passed or failed (but you've gotta get past about 3/4 or so of the questions for this unknown ending).
What can one say about this? Well, it may be a "pro" in favor of just testing for knowledge and eliminating all general "testing ability" gained from taking many tests over the years. Those who have never done this sort of thing and didn't take 10 practice SAT's with a stopwatch will be made equal. This does make it more fair, as a way of testing just what the test is about. OK, fine, but with all the complicated rules, the bad thing is this - It's hard for someone in the middle of it to have any confidence at all. You don't know how you're doing, you go counting how many questions you've nailed, how many just need a quick check-over, and how many are pure random guesses. This, for old-fashioned, normal standardized multiple-choice testing, gave one a good idea of where he stands (with an eye on the clock too) during the test, and a very good idea of how one did after it's over, but before the results come in.
Mull on these test rules for a bit, and think of how you could possibly have any kind of strategy and/or confidence. The only way this test can be made NOT maddening is if you know the material inside and out (that's not always even the case, as per the post on multiple choice tests, sometimes one has to guess the knowledge of the test-makers.) As for the rest, is it any wonder that these test-makers get their questions spread all around the internet? When you fail one of these things, you won't ever know how you went wrong. Oh, yeah, is it really that tough to make the software give you your results before you leave the room? It knows, so why can't it tell you? (Yeah, I guess they check for guns and hammers at the same time as for cell phones and earbuds.).
Yeah, can you tell that I'm starting to think the cons outweight the pros? Computerized Adaptive Testing, yeah, I'm so glad I am done with all of this.
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Amity Shlaes on President "Silent Cal" Coolidge
Posted On: Wednesday - May 2nd 2018 7:24PM MST
In Topics: History Pundits Liberty/Libertarianism Books Dead/Ex- Presidents
Mrs. Amity Shlaes is a politically-libertarian writer of non-fiction. I read her great 2007 book The Forgotten Man, a history of, and debunking of the common Lyin Press-spread myths about, the Great Depression (GreyDep 1.0, we may be calling it in the not-too-far future).
Mrs. Shlaes has a new book out about ex-President Calvin Coolidge simply called Coolidge, who became president well nigh a century ago. I wrote "became" because he filled the position vacated by the death of Warren G. Harding in the summer of 1923, but was elected in 1924 for one term.
It's not just the cool name "Calvin" (see "Calvin and Hobbs"), but this man was probably the most libertarian of any US President since George Washington (or at least Jefferson), but Washington (the city) hadn't got started wreaking havoc yet just after the US Constitution. President Coolidge was called "Silent Cal" because he didn't have too much to say in terms of bringing about new policy and interfering in affairs of business and foreign countries. He represented what the Presidency SHOULD BE - just a high-level administrative office, in which one may occasionally (well, not "occasionally" for the last 25 years) wear the hat of Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces during wartime, as defined by a declaration from Congress. Yeah, I know, right ... hahahaa.
I don't know how the presidential
The one man from recent times that could hold a candle to the principles of Calvin Coolidge would be Dr. Ron Paul - as only a congressman, one of 454, he couldn't have the same effect on the country. Dr. Paul was often derided for "not bringing up a single bill to the ..." GOOD! What's the problem with that? "He's vetoed more bills than ... they call him 'Dr. No!'" GOOD! It sounds like the same stuff the fledgling Lyin' Press of the mid-1920's would have said about the great man Calvin Coolidge.
Amity Shlaes is an expert on this man, as she even runs an institute about him. I like this lady, and speaking of that, she can't look like the still photo shown of her in this < 1/2 hour video, as she is 57 years old. Mrs. Shlaes is not in the studio with the gentleman from the libertarian Mises Institute, so just her still shows. This is just something to be listened to, not watched.
Two quick points, the good and the not-too-bad.
1) During President Coolidge's years in office, the Federal budget became lower - yes, in Nominal, actual dollars! You'll never see that again until Grey-Dep 2.0.
2) As the this blog has pointed out before in What's the deal with Peak Stupidity - Libertarian or Conservative?, libertarians need to learn something from the conservatives about the immigration issue. Most L's are just ignorant about it. Well, I expected, at one small point in this video, Mrs. Shlaes to demonstrate that bit of stupidity. She did quickly mention in this video the 1924 near-closing-down of immigration, but it was so quick I can't even find it right now. It sounded like she was going to raise that as one point against President Coolidge, but this lady may be smart enough not to have ever really bought that line. She and the interviewer just let it go.
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Starbucks - fake coupons and raising hell
Posted On: Wednesday - May 2nd 2018 10:41AM MST
In Topics: Music Political Correctness Economics Race/Genetics Big-Biz Stupidity
WWJCMCD?... What Would John Cougar Melon-Camp Do?
NO! AUTHORITY! DOES! NOT! ALWAYS! WIN! Ask me about my dealings with the water department sometime (that's why we have a COMMENTS section, dammit!)
Peak Stupidity having only written briefly and tangentially about the Starbucks story with which the Lyin' Press has created a large brew-haha, I'll add something here today. A site called Stuff Black People Don't Like brought up an aspect of this infotainment that I hadn't yet heard of. Some devious folks have been making some fake coupons (see the article linked to, I have not read about it elsewhere).
The fake coupons, purporting to give free coffees to only black people, or some such thing, are not only a great idea for the trouble they may cause the Star-Cucks. In addition, this kind of thing awakens (especially the young) people to the PC racist BS that they've been living with their whole lives. Look at that guy in the photo - OK, probably staged a bit, but not as much as the whole "Big Incident" itself. Anyway, how much more of that kind of crap, along with the 4-hour struggle session ("The Kind of Training Starbucks Workers Need and Deserve") to come will one guy take?
I have mentioned on the Peak Stupidity blog, then again under that most recent Steve Sailer post just linked to (he goes wild with these kinds of stories - all are in his wheelhouse, if you will) that the young people could learn a lot from the radicals of the 1960's. My point:
One more thing regarding the employees in general and how they will not be backed up by Starbucks’ managment if it works against Starbucks’ virtue signaling. These employees aren’t all stupid. It’d be nice to see just one standing his ground and not worrying one bit about being fired. How much is the job worth vs. the great publicity one may receive for standing up to all the BS for a change?A regular poster, goes by the handle SFG replied:
My brother used to listen to Larry King, on radio, and he related how Larry told this story about all the employess of some retail place letting themselves get fired. They all went across the street telling stories and laughing about it. Yeah, I know it’s not the 1970′s anymore and good jobs (even somewhat decent) jobs are scarce. However, they can’t fire all of you. The first guy to take a stand is a hero and a rebel (so long as others follow …)"
No, that’s exactly the problem. As you say, it’s not the 1970s, good jobs are scarce, and they *can* fire all of you. There’ll be enough desperate 22-year-olds with loans to pay off to replace you.I respectfully disagree thusly:
I don’t know, SFG. To me, it’s really just a matter of young people not knowing how to raise hell anymore. If one guys says the equivalent of “f_k this s__t” and walks out, and so do the other 4 people in the store, and they meet across the street at the ice cream shop (per Larry King story), it’s going to really mess up the day for the boss and probably a few weeks. Yes, he will be able to find others, but will he not be worried about how these new employees will act “next time”?
I mean, a job’s a job, but to me these baristas and others who work in and hang out in the coffee shops aren’t on much a career path, and I think most just hope their school loans will be forgiven or written off eventually. How else could they possibly get ahead and form a family? The young people now just don’t have very much to lose. They could spend their time wisely, were they wise, that is, and do the hell-raising that the older folks can’t do anymore.
I wasn’t the type, but even in the recent past, I regret that I didn’t take the opportunity to tell a few (more) people off, and raise more hell in the workplace. It would not have changed my life for the worse, as this bridge-burning thing is only a problem when you run into the scourge of HR, but they don’t work in small business.
I’m not in these young people’s precarious positions though, SFG, so I dunno what I’d do. I can assure you I’d never be that one guy in the picture. I could tell you a couple of “customer service failure” stories that ended up being great memories!
Have the young people forgotten how to raise hell? I couldn't think of a better era in which to go ahead and raise hell, as these young people just don't have very much to lose anymore. The fake coupons and that type of thing are a start. I suppose that kind of action may be the egging-houses, prank-calling, and setting-fences-on-fire of the Current Era. On that note, direct from John Cougar's Melon Camp in the vicinity of Seymour, Indiana ...
"But I've been doin' it since I was a young kid, and I come out grinning."
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Karl Marx - born 200 years too soon?
Posted On: Tuesday - May 1st 2018 7:18PM MST
In Topics: Commies History
the insane ramblings of an ancient German retard?
Apparently Commie #1 was born 200 years ago, either today or yesterday (we don't keep up cause we don't care). It's just that if Karl Marx had been born later, as in today or so, I don't think this writer, at least, would be having to deal with the fallout from his Communist bullshit.
Peak Stupidity, having gone Marxist in the past does not quite have the hatred of this guy, as we do for the modern destroyers of liberty and decent society, say the US Police State, the Deep State and this guy and this guy. I'm not sure why though. The fallout from Karl Marx's asinine and inane thoughts about how the world should be run, as carried out by millions of useful idiots, have ended dozens of millions of lives and ruined maybe 2 orders of magnitude more than that. It's just that Mr. Marx never implemented any part of his prescriptions himself. He never had his own hand in the destruction. Do we blame the engineer who wrote the explosives manual for the acts of ragheads who use the information?
Still, the existence of this man is nothing to celebrate, just as we don't celebrate the day herpes first mutated into the first-tier STD that it is today. The Peak Stupidity blog has discussed the long-term effects and after-effects of the experiment of Communism on the nations of Russia and China a while back. We have many articles with the "Commies" and "Socialism/Communism" topic keys that could keep the reader busy until tomorrow, at which time maybe we can all forget this sick fuck.
It'd be nice to think that we won't get fooled again, but remember, these Commies come crawling out of the woodwork every century or so, the current situation in the good old US of A is at the point where these new millennial Commies will find happy useful idiot hunting.
In the meantime all we can take from this original Commie Karl Marx is a motto most applicable to a whorehouse - "To each according to his needs, from each according to her ability."
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In defense of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
Posted On: Monday - April 30th 2018 8:07PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Political Correctness
The Peak Stupidity blog likes to remain, oh, say, about 1 to 2 weeks behind in our "current events", in order to
Steve Sailer reads the NY Times a lot to check in on the enemy, and has found an article that berates Americans for thinking the character "Apu" is funny. Let me quote Mr. Sailer this time:
One trend I’ve been noticing lately is the ever-growing percentage of Professional Diversity Scolds who are from upper crust immigrant backgrounds from the more verbally facile countries, such as India. I would guess that the number of South Asians [dot-Indians, aka, sub-continental-drifters, does he mean? - Ed] who got paid last year for berating white Americans in the American media outnumbered Mexican-Americans, despite Mexicans being vastly more numerous.I'll let the reader go to Sailer's article on unz (linked above) to read the lecturer, a Mr. Vikas Bajas's scolding and the coupla' hundred mostly great comments discussing the matter.
For example, here’s a New York Times editorial today in which an Indian immigrant staffer lectures Americans on how The Simpsons — as good a candidate for The Great American TV Show as any — must be censored for the amour propre of people like himself.
Mr. Bajas:
… the character also encourages the infantilizing of Indian immigrants as simple-minded people who talk in a singsong voice. Even Apu’s last name — Nahasapeemapetilon — is presented in a way that invites mockery.They DO talk in a singsong voice. The names DO invite mockery. Why is that so hard to understand for this guy? Oh, yeah, no sense of humor.
“Thank you, come again” — those four words, spoken in an exaggerated Indian accent, have followed immigrants and Americans of South Asian descent like a bad penny since “The Simpsons” premiered in 1989. They helped make Apu, the show’s tightfisted convenience store owner, a household name. And they are often repeated to us, with a sly grin or a guffaw, by the same people who are surprised that we speak English in grammatically sound sentences.It would really help Mr. Bejesus’s cause if dot-Indian DIDN’T own and operate most of the convenience stores throughout the United States of America. In the famous words of Homer Simpson “It’s funny cause it’s true!”
There are so many great comments on this on unz there, but the gist of my favorite ones is: Doesn't this dipshit realize that The Simpsons makes fun of just about everybody? Why are the dot-Indians so special? Lighten up, Bejesus!
I am sensitive as the next fucking guy, but I will NEVER EVER STOP thinking “tank you, come again” in an Indian accent is funny.
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Making a fair multiple-choice test
Posted On: Monday - April 30th 2018 9:34AM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Educational Stupidity
OK, from the get-go, the post title, this one may seem boring if you're here for the political stuff. However for 2 reasons, I would like to write a bit about exams, boards, or placements tests.
1) This relates to the material in the last post on HR, scourge of the business world, involving software-based applications*. I had promised at the end to make a post on this, since it's something I'd been thinking about writing on.
2) A family member has been studying for a big one of these multiple choice exams, and I started to see some of the problems.
To get to it, multiple-choice tests are in use everywhere for medical boards, professional engineer licences, ham radio, etc. In addition, they are the test of choice for teachers and professors for the very simple reason that the grading is MUCH easier. If it's not computerized (and why not, by this point?) it's a mindless chore that can be done while listening to music, cooking, what-have-you.
I say this as a comparison to the types of tests that must be given in math and engineering especially, where the problems are long, and involve multiple steps. You just can't have a multiple choice test to look for the one correct numerical answer that results from an applied thermodynamics problem that may be 1 of 2 that make up the test. A problem will have mulitple steps that can't be tested separately. Yet, the numbers from one part will be used in the next part of the problem. Therefore, the grader must put lots of thinking into the grading. Sure, he can check the numbers at each step at a time, but if the eariler ones are wrong, he must now use the wrong numbers to check the work of the latter steps. To just count the rest wrong is unfair. It's a real problem and makes grading a big chore that involves concentration and not a little good judgement. As good as computer software is, a paper test like this cannot be graded by computer. (That's not to say the whole test couldn't be done via software that does take initial errors into account.)
OK, the studying my family member was doing was for a mutilple-choice test. I started realizing some of the difficulties in taking, and flaws in, these tests as she was taking the practice ones.
As for the difficulties, many of these questions could have multiple correct answers of the (a), (b), (c), and (d) (sometimes (e)). That's not what I've been used to. In the old way, with only one correct, a couple of fairly nonsensical answers would result in a 50/50 chance on the answer left. Not good, but let's say there are 20 questions like this you aren't at all sure of, 10 more that you have no idea of any of the answers on, with the 70 rest of the 100 known. Probability-wise, you've got an 82.5 score (70 pts. + 1/2 x 20 + 1/4 x 10) vs. < 80 if the possible answers were all reasonable. With any number of good answers that could all be correct, the test becomes much harder.
The "all of the above" and "none of the above" possible answers always helped out too, in the old tests. There is more logic available for the test-taker to winnow out which is right, even when unsure. I don't there was to be much of this in this upcoming test. Now, the factors just discussed don't make the newer tests unfair, but just more difficult.
As for the flaws in multiple-choice exams. the real problem is the implied knowledge of the test-MAKER. Especially for true/false questions, but even for the normal pick-one-out-of-four, it's often the case that the test-taker must guess how smart or knowledgeable the test-maker is. It's the words "almost" "always" "never", "often", etc. that can make the question hard for someone who knows the subject matter very well. In fact, knowing it well often makes these questions harder!
Maybe it's physics and the question is (just an example mind you) "A particle in motion will ....". (four choices). Hey, you know Newton's law very well, but did the professor want you to remember the exeptions for things moving near the speed of light, or did he just expect an answer correct in the normal realm? At least you may know the professor's ways. "Yeah, he drilled this into us one day a week back, so he must want this answer." Who knows for sure, yet you damn well know the material.
On some type of medical board test, let's say the question is something like "These 3 symptoms often indicate the patient has blahblah-itis, true or false?" Well, in class we learned that sometimes this 4th symptom is a better way to figure out if he's got this nasty disease, but it's hard to look for. Did the test-makers even know this fact? How much the test-makers know can effect which is the correct answer, and that means the question sucks.
This kind of thing is worse in any kind of nationwide board test or on a test involved in a job application, as there is usually no recourse (not even a way to find out what they wanted in the end - this leads to the subject of the next post). At least in your own school classroom, you may bring up the question and why you answered "wrongly" and have it thrown out. Back on the other hand, you figure those board questions have been thorougly tested as legitimate and fair, so that you should be getting good ones. One bad one, however, may be the difference between practicing law next year or not (probably just as well not - we have more than enough lawyers!).
The making up of good multiple-choice test questions takes some skill, but also testing of the questions. That leads right into the subject of a follow-up post on the strangeness of the new way of computerized testing. This may be neither interesting nor stupid, but it's my blog, and feel free to skip. I'll be back into politics as soon as the next time I get on the internet, I'm sure - lots of stupid in that realm!
* I mean "applications" as one of its REAL defintiions here, as in applying for a job, versus this silly Apple "app" talk, in which an application is a piece of software (what idiot started that use?).
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Pat Buchanan on American political history - 50 years ago
Posted On: Saturday - April 28th 2018 6:01PM MST
In Topics: History Pundits
(Watching people) kickin' hippies' asses and raisin' hell
Mr. Pat Buchanan is one of my favorite political pundits, meaning his views are approved of by the Peak Stupidity blog. His latest column With Nixon in '68: The Year America Came Apart is great reading just as a nice portrait of an important time in American political history. He really doesn't give any opinions, just his recollections from his time as Richard Nixon's (just before he became president) 29 y/o aide, as the presidential primary's, both D and R, were happening, and the Viet Nam war was the biggest issue.
I won't even quote any of the article, because it's a story in sequence. Mr. Buchanan's favorite part (it'd have been mine) was probably when he got to watch the Chicago cops beat all hell out of a large contingent of protesting hippies from his safe vantage point on the 19th floor of a hotel. I wonder if he was listening to Jerry Jeff Walker singing about "kicking hippy's asses and raisin' hell". Nah, Jerry Jeff and all the outlaw country guys/gals were younger than Pat. 50 years ago, it was!
As I wrote in the last post of a 6-part series Battle Lines are Being Drawn, the patriotic young people of today could learn a lot from the hippies and protesters of 50 years ago. (Here are Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5. )
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Enemies of the Culture - foreign and domestic - Part 2
Posted On: Saturday - April 28th 2018 9:16AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Websites
(Continued from this post.)
(This particular one is just a globalist and traitor to South Carolina.)
This 2nd part of this series (should be the last) is a quick discussion, with a good example of domestic enemies of the culture. This is really simple. If you have massive immigration into your country, you won't have assimilation. Now, I may keep using Mexican examples even though this post will discuss dot-Indian people* for a reason to be given shortly. If you come down to Mexico by yourself or your family as an expatriate to a small town in Mexico, you may want to or even unwillingly assimilate to the Mexican culture. However, if you move to a big community of ex-Americans in Guadalajara, it's natural to hang with the other ex-Americans, and culturally all of you will really just remain actual Americans. Again, this is simple stuff, and I therefore don't blame large groups of Chinese, dot-Indians, and Latin Americans themselves for doing this. It's very hard to change your cultural ways, and then there is the genetic component - you're going to be who you are.
In the big picture, it's Americans' fault for letting this massive unassimilated immigration happen, but it's not many of us that asked for it. Most were just too ignorant of the problem, or cowardly, or too civil even, to make any effort to resist. I will this time paste in a large block-quote of a story that I got 3rd hand, I suppose, as it itself was pasted into a comment I'd read. I will include this link to an article/site I haven't read. One of my problem with going to unknown websites, aside from not wanting to link to stupidity directly, is that many of the larger TV/"newspaper" ones, ad-blocker nothwithstanding, run so many scripts that take too long to settle the hell down, so I can just plain read some text. I mean, often I believe things would be just as fast with a 4096-baud modem on the phone line receiving packets on a simple 3-page text/image website that doesn't try to write cookies, find your location and just ream you in the ass, when all you want is to just read a few paragraphs!
Back to the subject, this story is just one of the many skirmishes, not really particularly violent this time, that will happen more and more, as people are mixed in together in something that does not at all resemble a melting pot, but more of a experimental chemical reactor vessel. Call it California. Also, since I didn't read the original source (feel free to, and them comment, please!), I don't know who was really in the right. The cultural enemies in our midst here, the metric-shit-ton of dot-Indians living all together in lots of areas of America, are supported by their press back in India. That's the funny thing here - this article, about a simple neighborhood fist-fight/blow-up is in an Indian newspaper! Would the Des Moines register print an article about an American family getting called names in India? No, I don't believe so.
New Delhi: In yet another shocking incident of racial abuse, a woman was attacked at Milpitas in California (United States of America) on Sunday while she was standing on the guest parking spot on the road across her upper-level apartment. The incident, which took place at 1540 hours (local time), left the Indian neighbours in complete shock. As they rushed to save the lady, identified as 33-year-old Sharda KS, they also were assaulted too. According to Samrat Nandi, an IT engineer [sic, sic, SIC! There's no such thing as an IT ENGINEER. - Ed.] with Zensar Technologies, a white male, who was naked waist-up, tried to park his car where Sharda was standing. Suddenly, he started hurling racial abuses at the lady.Again, I don't know who was really at fault, but frictions are going to rise, and the Americans involved most likely didn't ask for this stuff on the larger level of immigration policy. People blow up sometimes when they have had enough and have no say in how their communties and their whole nation is changed by those in power. It's to be expected that dot-Indians will live like dot-Indians, but these domestic enemies of the culture are supported by their press way back in the old
Sharda rushed for help while calling out her husband’s name. Hearing her voice, Samrat and his wife Monima (who stay on the lower level) and a family friend Aniruddha Mondal immediately came outside. While Samrat dialled 911, the white male continued to hurl expletives and was “almost about to hit” Sharda and her husband who was trying to protect her. Meanwhile, the man grabbed Aniruddha and punched him in the face, leaving him profusely bleeding. As per Samrat, another “Hispanic-appearance male joined the fight along with the white man.”
Soon, a white lady too joined the scuffle and started abusing. She held Monima and shouted: “We are white, what are you going to do b***h.” The scuffle was finally sorted when a neighbour (white mixed race male) intervened. The trio left the scene while continuing to hurl racial abuses towards the Indian group.
While the group was helping Aniruddha as he was bleeding profusely, the white shirtless man came back again, grabbed Monima and slapped her on the face. The man then got into a black Nissan Altima car (Registration number – 8CQW497) parked near Nandi’s rented apartment and fled. The Hispanic man and the white lady rushed inside an apartment in the same community. At around 4:00 pm, the US police recorded the victims’ statements.
Samrat has alleged that the entire incident was recorded by a white lady whom the group does not know. He claimed that she provided the video to police. However, police officials told the complainants that the video was shaky and did not let them see it when they demanded. Albeit police told them later that they have identified the Hispanic man, who is a resident of the same community where the incident took place, and the lady who assaulted them, yet they refused to divulge their details.
The Indian group, another victim of hateful harassment since Donald Trump was elected president, has contacted the Consulate General of India in this regard and are awaiting justice.
Just picture this the other way around. I won't make my example India, just because it's hard for me to imagine wanting to live there as an ex-patriate. I'm sure it's got it's good spots, but it is, using the illustrious phrase of our President, a shithole. The place will surpass China pretty soon in population, with a land size roughly the same (see just below the middle of this post on China to understand what I mean) but the people are too disunited, with their castes and what-not, and just to weird to make that country into anything.
Imagine, then a group of American expatriates in Guadalajara deciding they really don't like the Mexican corrupt culture and being shaken down by Federales every other day. They then form a poltical organization to change the policies of Mexican law enforcement via protests to the government in Mexico City. Then, the New York Times prints article in support of the ... (OK, getting too silly here, and I almost forgot that the richest Mexican, maybe man in the world, owns a big chunk of the NY Times). How long would it be before these people were placed in a Mexican prison awaiting deportation, with their houses auctioned off (we don't need no steeeenking forclosure documents!)? As long as it takes the Federales to jump-start their old jalopies and get there, that's how long. There's no way they would put up with any of that. You'd better behave, gringo.
It might be a little more mellow in Thailand or Uruguay, but the people in most countries understand that you can't take any grief from the domestic cultural enemies. If they try to get along, no problem, but the welcome can be removed at any time. Many here in America do understand that, but our "betters" won't let us handle the situation and keep making it worse daily... it's been 50 years now of this. Don't wonder why people just blow up and call people names once in a while.
* The term in vogue** now is "sub-continental". Yeah, I know it refers to the subcontinent of India, being a big chunk of Asia hanging down to the south. What the hell kind of stupid term is that, though? Other continents can have subsets of some sort. Look at Greenland - it's part of Europe, I'd guess, since Denmark owns it, so it's some kind of subset. Who's to say the Yucatan part of Mexico isn't a subcontinent - it's sticks way the hell up there like a sore thumb trying to bum a ride up north across the border. How about Scandanavia? Are the Norwegians and Swedes not subcontinentals? No, I'm not doing it. It's dot-Indian, and that's final.
** NO, not in Vogue magazine! It's an expression. Writers for Vogue magazine do not worry about subcontinents and subcontinentals, unless they have glamorous new hair styles and show off their cleavage(s).
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Enemies of the Culture - foreign and domestic
Posted On: Friday - April 27th 2018 9:20AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Pundits
The phrase "enemies, foreign and domestic" is used by the liars, for the most part, taking oaths of office, as required by law and described here. "... solemnly swear, that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic... blah, blah, blah ..." NOTE VERY CAREFULLY the one bolded word Constitution. It's not supposed to be an oath to blindly defend the United States, only the law of the Constitution. The US may look like Soviet Russia or Orwell's "Oceania" in the pretty near future, so there would then be absolutely no obligation to defend it, even if one were WEREN'T LYING to begin with when one took the oath. OK, way to get off the subject in the first paragraph! However, that's just the background for the title of this post.
Here, I am writing not about enemies in the military sense, but just enemies of TRADITIONAL American culture. Unfortunately, foreigners seem to take to the absolute worst apects of the modern American culture - it's made worse in that they have no clue of what this country used to be - even those that have lived here for many years. The elites of foreign countries, however, may know more about the traditional American culture, which explains why, Commie, Moslem, Hindu, Totalitarian, whatever, the children of the big shots somehow always ended up going to school in America somewhere. The elites of Mexico and India, for instance (because they are the subject of this and a continuation post) aren't military enemies, but they are enemies of our traditional culture, and their foot soldiers unwittingly are enemies too. This post will give an example of the "foreign" portion of our cultural enemies, with Mexico as the foreign enemy, and the subsequent post will give an example of the "domestic" portion, with dot-Indians as the example. There's no reason this stuff can't be mixed and matched - these are just examples.
Mr. Allan Wall who writes for VDare.com, has 2 or 3 weekly articles about the Mexican views on the immigration invasion issue. His great perspective is from his having lived in Mexico for over a decade with his family. He and his writing would make a great contrast for another pundit who currently lives in Mexico, and has for over a decade himself, Mr. Fred Reed. That would make an excellent subsequent post, in fact - another pundit-vs-pundit deal. Mr. Wall is very fluent in Spanish, not a very hard thing to come by anymore, except in pundits who want to lay out the truth. Allan Wall has a good feeling for the Mexican people, as evidenced by the fact that he married one, and his kids are 1/2 Mexican, I assume (that's not any kind of slur - I just am not completely sure that his kid are from his senorita). However, that doesn't mean that he wanted to live AS a Mexican, as he moved back. (His column "Memo from Mexico" changed to "Memo from Middle America""Said in Spanish" VDare category.)
That all said, Mr. Wall's 2nd-to-latest column, Mexico’s “Conservative” Presidential Candidate Anaya Worse Trump-Basher Than Leftist AMLO—But U.S. Should Ignore Them All Anyway is another of his that delves into what the Mexican honchos, like the guy above, really think of us (spoiler - "WEAK PATSIES") and what they are getting away with. Yeah, they think no one here reads what they have to say, which is mostly correct, if by "no one" we mean their sycophants in the cntrl-left and US Feral Government only. However, they have been foiled by Mr. Wall! That is, so long as you read his great article, anyway. If nothing else, read the brown-fonted points made by the Mexican candidates for Presidente, or whatever-the-hell, just to see how blatant they are in their wishes for control of AMERICAN immigration policy and the tens of million of immigrants who are still Mexicans - regarding this aspect, I'll quote just this section:
What does Anaya propose? According to Siglo, Anaya “offered a policy of support and defense for the 37 million Mexicans who live in the United States.”The amusing part, as the writer states, is that even the most "American-friendly" candidate tries to out-do the other guy in his bellicose talk about President Trump and his encourangement of treasonous behavior of Mexicans that just happen to live in America, subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
What a minute! 37 million? Wouldn’t that include American-born citizens of Mexican descent going back several generations?
Why yes, Virginia Dare, it would. But that’s how Mexicans view American citizens of Mexican ancestry. They are Mexicans first.
Siglo reports that Anaya “would propose a reform that, with the goal of them [Mexicans in the U.S.] having greater representation in [the Mexican] Congress, would reinforce the consulates, include them [Mexicans in the U.S.] in public spending decisions and defend the DREAMers against the U.S. government.:
He’s proposing a State Within A State.
[My bold. As usual, VDare has links out the ying-yang to VDare and other sources. Those can be found it the original article.]
As far as the foreign portion of our cultural enemies go, just imagine the reverse of this situation of Mexico's elite deigning to dictate America's immigration policy, very hypocritically, I might add. Try immigrating as a white Christian to Saudi Arabia, Yemen, or Pakistan sometime (though something tells me they don't get a lot of phone calls about it ...) Do you think you, or anyone in the US Feral Government there to help you (hahahaaa!) cares where the hell you want to move to and why?
The Mexican culture, as can be just gleaned from the pic up at the top, is about machoism, something we could use a little bit more of, to the detriment though of rule-of-law and peace. Their religion, and that of all Latin America, is the supposed original version of Christianity, Catholicism, but they embrace the ceremonial and superstitious parts of it over the search of truth and belief in forgiveness. That is who they are, and I've got no problem with that, so long as "they" are "THERE", not here. It is NOT who WE are. Yet, with scores of 10's of millions of people, we will be living in an at least 1/2 Latin American culture before too long, without having taken the trouble to move!
These elites of Mexico, in the articles (many, over the years, by Allan Wall) are foreign enemies of our culture. As Mr. Wall says, we can just ignore their trash talk in their own internal elections. We cannot keep ignoring the policies that are treasonous to our country however. Peak Stupidty sure misses candidate Donald Trump.
south of the .... hiking trail.
Yes, our presidential candidates also like women with big tits.
Why can't we all just get along?
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Captain Kennedy - more acoustic Neil Young music
Posted On: Thursday - April 26th 2018 11:17PM MST
In Topics: Music
... and pretty damn obscure at that. You have to be a real Neil Young fan, almost an Annie Wilkes type fan, to have heard this one.
Captain Kennedy from the album Hawks and Doves should have come with the previous post on The Kennedies but I plain forgot. The Peak Stupidity blog has featured another song from the same album, called Coming Apart at Every Nail, which was one of a trilogy of songs that presciently described the unravelling of America leading up to peak stupidity. The other 2 were Merle Haggard's Are the Good Times Really Over for Good? and Paul Simon's American Tune
The lyrics on this one are very clear, so easy to make out, but it's not easy for me to have any idea of whether there is any real historic background to them, and what in the hell that would be. Who cares, this one has that trademark Neil Young acoustic chunky guitar sound. This is one guy who likes to use the guitar as both a harmonic and a percussion instrument. You can just tell it's Neil Young right away when you hear the style of his acoustic playing.
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You know you're a Kennedy if:
Posted On: Thursday - April 26th 2018 8:18AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Humor
Some thoughts from reading a Steve Sailer post, Do "Kennedys" Exist? turned into a list in the format of Dave Letterman's. (Or was it Jeff Foxworthy with his "You know you're a redneck if:" bit that started this?). Though I've touted the pundit Steve Sailer numerous times on the Peak Stupidity blog, I don't believe I understand his point on this one, but that happens to me sometimes.
Also, I would hope the reader is aware by now what Peak Stupidity thinks of the Kennedys especially this one guy - more at the bottom of this post.
You know you’re a Kennedy if:
10) You live in a Compound that is NOT derided by those in authority as a place for white survivalists and cult members.
9) You have so many odd-talking politicians in the family that their voices are preserved for posterity by Mayor Quimby on The Simpsons.
8) Your H-1B visa security team members are important enough themselves to say “do you know who I am?” during traffic stops.
7) Your name causes women to get all hot and bothered until they realize that nobody in your family can even get elected dog catcher in a majority-feline jurisdiction anymore.
6) You have a family so big and worshiped by People magazine that it retains a full-time wedding planner who plans the individual weddings of your H-1B Visa contractor wedding planners.
5) You are closely related to a family member who has ditched one of various types of conveyances, be it seaborne, airborne, or ground-borne/temporarily-airborne in multiple locations in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, mostly clustered to the south of lower New England.
4) Your family tree has roots so deeply inserted into the clay pipe fittings of the sewer of Boston that even the most corrupt snake in city government is not long enough to clear it.
3) You still appear in The National Enquirer and People magazines, even after having done nothing of note for 5 decades, and without even a contraction name, such as Brangelina or JacKenNassis.
2) You have been personally instrumental in the demographic destruction of one or more advanced industrialized nations.
Finally, the number 1 way you know you are a Kennedy is
1) Your extended family is often compared to a beloved Middle-Ages cultural myth involving the Knights of the Round Table, when its behavior is usually closer to that of the Knights who say Nee!
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The great works of the ancients ... with no Caterpillars
Posted On: Tuesday - April 24th 2018 9:17PM MST
In Topics: History Science Poetic Stupidity
(well, they just shoulda used a better mix ...)
This post was brought up by some commenting I'd read a few days back about some pretty amazing Japanese skin divers that go down toward 200 ft. below the ocean surface and back with no equipment. It was pretty impressive and they were topless and possibly bottomless. [No, absolutely NOT - Peak Stupidity has plans to become a family site, dammit! - Ed] Still, while one can be impressed by the physical endurance involved, we have machines that can take people miles down called submarines, and equipment for the common man and (hopefully topless) women that allow us to stay down at those depths for hours at a time. It's called SCUBA. "Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus! By George, I think she's got it!"*
I'll bring up my point here early on (for a change!), and then some examples. All of the fascination and reverence modern Westerners have for the old native cultures and even the precursors to their own culture includes great awe for the old mighty works, your pyramids, your stonehenges, and your aqueducts (after all, what else have the Romans ever done for us?!) and such. People are impressed by these big monuments and other more useful structures were built by men without the help of modern day construction equipment, sometimes even without the use of the wheel which, well, they hadn't thought of yet. I'm not gonna give a lesson here in the antiquities, as the Peak Stupidity blog's purpose is to enlighten readers on types of stupidity, not to lecture.
You will hear from those who demean their own cultural roots and revere that of the ancients that "we couldn't do this today". That statement is almost always incorrect. We COULD do it today. We CHOOSE not to, firstly, because the projects may not have a positive pay-off - you know, things like huge pyramids in the desert and big piles of rocks aimed toward solstice points and all that aren't the kinds of projects that a lot of honest investors feel are sound, if they do their due diligence. Additionally, even the quite useful massive projects, such as the aqueducts, can be built using modern designs and modern methods. Yes, we COULD do it the old way. Why would we?
The construction of the various pyramids in Egypt went on for decades on each one of them. The labor was not just cheap but free, with no union representation, no health plan, and nothing but "go ahead and die" as a retirement plan (was that a "defined benefit" or "defined contribution" plan - I'll have to ask the Peak Stupidity HR lady first thing tomorrow). Whatever funds, what to feed and house the slaves, to buy the stones from Stones-R-Us, and to pay the engineers of the day, were necessary, were about as unlimited as the funds that emanate from the American Feral Gov't of today, with that great support from the FED. Did the ancient Egyptians have their own version of the FED, in fact? Maybe that's what some of that "linear-C" hieroglyphics, never deciphered (until possibly just now?) were about - the old one's version of quantitative easing. See, back to the first point again, why would our modern-day FED inscribe big stone tablets to create currency when they have a better way, called cntrl-P'ing?
How about that Stonehenge? Yeah, I know, it is proof that these ancestors of the English had the free time and inclination to know some astronomy. That part is cool. The hauling of those multi-ton rocks to the site and positioning of them (especially that top one, with neither a tracked-crane nor snorklifts), was that really necessary, though? It seems like overkill ... call it scope creep. It probably started as a wooden structure, but then some egotistical Druid reckoned his fellow hunter-gatherers seemed to have lots of time on their hands, and idle hands an all ... We couldn't build it today, really? I guess, like a straight-forward border barrier on a < 2,000 mile border, it's really a matter of "do people WANT it built?" We have observatories and apps on our phones that can tell us where the moon and stars are, or we could look up and shit ... Still, if we want to put together a few dozen 25-ton rocks in a pattern, it could be done in a morning, depending on the union break schedule.
Americans built > 50,000 miles of paved 4-lane limited access highway in a decade or so, and it didn't make a major dent in middle-class American's tax bills (keep in mind that this was during a time of much smaller government). Oh, no immigrant labor was necessary, just Americans working smarter with the American-designed/built dozers, back-hoes, front-loaders, dumpers, graders, scrapers, rollers, and pavers. Should we NOT be proud because we DIDN'T do it with our bare hands, wearing out our backs and costing 1000 times more money? Is the invention of all that hydraulic/IC-engine-powered construction equipment NOT something to be proud of? All you native-culture lovers would be singing a different tune, if it weren't for hundreds of years of Western science and engineering giving you the leisure to do so.
Oooh, "they built it with their bare hands" ... hell with that - get a Cat!
"But they built up with their bare hands what we still can't do today.... " Yeah, right ... whatever ... just jam, man.
As explained here on Peak Stupidity early on, we don't have to agree with the lyrics to enjoy a great song. It's only a disagreement with the line above, really, as Neil's words about the Spaniard's treatment of the natives were fairly true. The song's title is pretty appropriate, but again, here's the thing: This is the best of electric Neil Young - the lyrics could say any damn thing, and the song would still be great, with that long lead guitar solo. We have featured mostly acoustic Neil Young, also great stuff, such as Sail Away, Comin' Apart at Every Nail, and Comes a Time before. Electric Neil Young stuff is great too - listen to Powderfinger
*What, no Family Ties fans here?
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Can I help you?
Posted On: Friday - April 20th 2018 10:42AM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Race/Genetics
A commenter writing on a thread under one of the Steve Sailer post WaPo: "Starbucks and the Elimination of Black People from White Spaces" (WaPo is The Washington Post, for those who aren't required to keep up with the Lyin' Press) mentioned a euphemistic phrase that I'd been wanting to post about. It was on the way-back burner, but I'm glad to have my memory jogged. This concerns the Starbucks brew-haha that Peak Stupidity has been remiss in posting anything about. Well, iSteve almost always covers this sort of story remorselessly.
Per the commenter, name of Laura, the phrase "Can I help you?" is one that black people have a real problem with, per a Slate magazine writer. Apparently, inside a retail establishment, this question is a subtle accusation of shoplifting. Well, blacks are gonna complain about imaginary stuff just like lots of others, but I will say that this "Can I help you?" crap, in any other situations than the obvious ones that I'll describe in a second, kind of bugs me for a similar reason.
“Can I help you?” is most times a euphemism for “what the hell are you doing here?” Yes, if you are in Target wandering around the same coupla’ of aisles, it is a valid question, whatever color you may be. However, I have heard it many times when I was nowhere close to a store, say crossing the school grounds without any kids.
“Can I help you?”. “I don’t know if you CAN help me, but no, you MAY not.” is a good one at a school, followed by “Hey, what are you teachin’ here anyway?” That sets ‘em back about 30 seconds. Still, I don’t like this. I’d rather the questioner just put it truthfully “Hey, what are you doing here?” “Don’t worry about it.” is an appropriate response … till the cops come, that is.
I'm guessing blacks do hear this phrase more, but I don't know if they'd rather hear "Just what the hell are you up to?" or not. At the store, as the commenter said, the clerk is damned if she does and damned if she doesn't. "Can I help you?" is insinuating you are a trouble maker, while ignoring the you makes the clerk a racist. Nah, you can't win with this easily, but I did come up with one thing: “Hey, nice hair – one gal on our armed security force has hers the same way!” Whaddya think? Women are good at this sort of thing, right?
While I'm all over this thing, I will tell you that being called "Sir", most of the time, is worse than "Can I help you?" It usually the cops or somebody in authoritah you hear this one from, with the numerous exceptions of a stranger calling you to tell you your phone dropped out of your back pocket. Most of the times, "SIR!" is not good. I feel for some of the black guys that really aren't out to cause any trouble, but, hey, people can't usually tell.
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