"You need to know how to pick your battles."
Posted On: Tuesday - December 19th 2017 7:28PM MST
In Topics: US Police State US Feral Government
This was said to me by a guy about 1/2 my age a number of years back, and, heck he was a sage for his age (Peak Stupidity poetry at it's best there). To explain this post, let me refer you to yesterday's, in which I mentioned that I'd need to teach a young kid that, as he was in a heated argument over the vibrant color of a car across the street.
This was a ways back when I had an Australian friend, and he had gone through the US cultural rite of watching the superbowl (I'm off all that, of course). This was, of course, after I'd forgiven the bloke for introducing me to vegemite, the sick man's substitute for peanut butter. "You gotta' have some beer for the game.", I reminded him (turns out strayin's don't need to be reminded), so we headed over to the big grocery store nearby.
Well, you need some chips too, so we came up to the cashier with our beer and chips, and the guy freakin' cards me. OK, a woman would be pleased, and most people wouldn't care unless they were underage per the Feral Gov't. I'm sure I mentioned above that I was dealing with a guy 1/2 my age, so unless they had 10 year-old cashiers, I was old enough. I was not just old enough, is the point of this post - I did not look anything near young enough for any common-sense-following individual to need to check my age off an ID card. Again, "WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?", the reader may well ask. It's because the guy was carding everyone, and there is no law to say you need an ID card (what a driver's license is basically, in the present era) to buy alcohol!
The laws of every so-called state in the Union (more like sac-hangers on the Feral Gov't, hence the "so-called) require one to be 21 y/o to buy it, but not that ANYONE must show an ID. What was the deal, too much pressure from some state alcohol-controlling agency, the manager was covering his ass, and no one else cared about this? Yeah, probably all 3. "You don't need any ID to just buy alcohol, you just have to be 21. Do I look 21 or under?" "No, but it's just what I need to do." "Here, take your stuff, see ya." I left the beer and chips right there.
That's when the young man said "you need to know how to pick your battles". I realized, hey, he's pretty wise for his age, and maybe this WAS silly. There is a fine line between being just plain neurotic and a pain-in-the-ass to everyone and just standing up for a little freedom now and then. It's hard to tell what's the best course sometimes.
However, this attitude, of "Let it go. It's just the way things are nowadays." is why you see people being felt up the ass and around their genital regions when they go to the airport to catch a flight that they paid good money for (more here.). Most Americans haven't been pushing back one bit against the Feral Police State, and they deserve whatever is coming. I sure don't.
Yes, it is indeed The Champagne of Beers, but you gotta' take a stand sometime!
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More Gerry Rafferty - Welcome to Hollywood
Posted On: Monday - December 18th 2017 10:17PM MST
In Topics: Music
From the album "Snakes and Ladders" here's a "video" (audio only) that features Gerry Rafferty's great voice, if you play it on speakers bigger than these computer tweeters.
"Welcome to Hollywood" is kind of an appropriate one to put up now, with all the scandals I have obliquely read about - it's not that there aren't scandals 24/7/365 in that town, but there's some kind of meta-scandal going on, with bitter post-prime women behind it. I don't care, but in the music business, even way back, it mattered who you knew and smoozed, but Gerry Rafferty wanted no part in any of that.
This song is pretty distainful of that big music scene, and a youtube commenter writes:
f you want to know the whole deal with Gerry then check out the BBC documentary in 4 parts which on YT. GR was very suspicious of everything he hated about the music business. A perfectionist who didn't really want to play the Music Biz game.....he wanted to do his own thing and wasn't going to compromise the direction he wanted to go in! A very sad end to a brilliant mind and gifted musician.By "sad end", the commenter means Gerry's death from ills due to heavy drinking.
It's admirable that Mr. Rafferty didn't want to be part of the big music biz - nothing wrong with making lots of money, but it sounds like, from my reading, he wanted to live a quiet artistic life in England and Scotland. His music probably was all the better for it.
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Oh, you're one of those "you ever notice?" guys.
Posted On: Monday - December 18th 2017 9:56PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Cars Race/Genetics
(Just another thing really funny in that show - the other characters would often make fun of Jerry's job as a comedian when they were ALL comedians!)
I didn't hear those exact words today, but they may have been appropriate. See, the kids with us were arguing about whether the car across the street, parked at the convenience store, was pink or purple. It was fairly dark, but the car was "vibrant" enough for the kids to get excited about it.
"It's PINK!" "No, it's PURPLE! Why are you lying about it?" Firstly, I had to straighten the one out "Just being wrong doesn't make you a liar, do you understand that?" It's just that I had taught him that being a liar was a really bad thing, but he didn't understand that just getting something wrong was not necessarily a lie, even if the teller of this falsehood is persistent as the other little kid was. That doesn't mean it sometime won't be a really bad thing, cough, Communists, cough, cough. Secondly, I will have to have a talk about "sometimes you have to pick your battles" with the kid, maybe tomorrow, along with a short post on it (may as well get some mileage out of this). Lastly, I don't know if the car was PINK or was PURPLE.
OK, this file photo is misleading. We can see the vibrant color of THIS car, and let's just say it's in a vibrant neighborhood.
Here's what I do know and said to my friend in front of the kids: "I don't know for sure what color that car is from here, but I can tell you what color the driver is." I mean, come on! Stereotype much? Sure, I've been around a while. I NOTICE* things because I've seen a lot of things. Well, my friend is not particularly politically correct, but he did say "I've seen some white people drive some weird ...". "Hey, I'll put $50 or $100 on this. We can go over there and wait for the guy to come out." Needless to say we went on our merry way neither knowing for sure the color of that car, nor having exchanged any money.
Is it a BAD thing to make remarks like that? It's not even anything bad about black guys, and there's plenty one could come up with. Yes, they like the colorful stuff, as I noticed way back in school. Who else bought all that FANTA grape and orange soft drink? The 12oz pop-topped steel cans were not gonna jump out of the old machines on their own. The white kids either drank Coke, Pepsi, Royal Crown or Cheer Wine.
Stereotypes are generally true. People get them in their heads via living a while and noticing how people act. These stereotypes can be very helpful in determining what will happen, which is damn important to know. Yes, we all know it's just rude to assume a stereotype must be true for any individual. There must be some black guy out there who absolutely HATES HATES HATES fried chicken, though I have not personally run into him, as of publish date.
Most of these things are pretty harmless anyway, and they can be thought of for any group that has enough people for anyone to care about. Yeah, white people have a thing about being able to ride to work on a bike path, even with $2.35/gallon gas (about the cheapest in real dollars it's been). It's kind of funny and who cares? I'll tell you who cares - the cntrl-left and the Commie types care. I don't think they have much of a sense of humor at all. In fact, I'd like to do a bit of investigating on-line to see if the founders of our country, the pro-freedom guys, had good sense of humor - we already know Ben Franklin did.
* This idea that the current PC and the cntrl-left have a "war on noticing" is from the extreme noticer Steve Sailer. It's a theme of many of his great posts on VDare/unz.com.
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Can't I hear some real Christmas music and not about Santa's Clauses infidelities?
Posted On: Saturday - December 16th 2017 8:21PM MST
In Topics: Music Curmudgeonry
I'm just sayin'. The "war on Christmas" is a real phenomenon and has been going on as long as I've been alive and aware. Why the quotes? Quotes around words of phrases can mean all sorts of things nowadays, but this set was not meant in a snarky way. It's just that it's not a real war of course, like a war on an emotion (the "Global War on Terra!"), a war against the natural state of some people according to Jesus (the "War on Poverty") or war on a number of types of ingestable substances (the "War on Drugs") - Note all of those quotes, people!
Yeah, the real religious songs have not been played in your average store or on your average radio station (yep, I just checked and they still got those) in 3 decades at least. There are no Christmas trees, just Holiday trees, and people have been saying "Happy Holidays" for longer than I can remember. You can real all about this every year on VDare or at any conservative site on the web. That's not my point, though I will say that there are people that do want to bury Christianity pretty badly. They are the ones that will tell you that you're paranoid for complaining about all this war on Christmas stuff. Lastly, on this digression, the habitual reader may notice that the Peak Stupidity blog does have a thing for Ann Coulter. Maybe this started when she wrote long ago (can't find it right now) about the war on Christmas that saying "Merry Christmas" to a New Yorker is like saying "fuck you!". Ha!
On a ride from the airport last week, the driver had on "Christmas music" - there's those quotes again! - which still beat hell out of soap-operatic football commentary or
cough, projectile-vomiting ... I'm OK, National Public Radio. It was really a soul music station, speaking of which, that beats hell out of hip-hop-crap anyway. The Christmas music was nothing but soul music with the words "Christmas", "winter", and "snow" somewhere embedded in each song, not in keeping with the real spirit of the season in my mind.
It's the store music I heard today though, that started to really make me wonder if the modern songs that substitute for Christmas music aren't just as bad as all the rest of the crap that has 12 year-olds fortuitously listening to Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta' Love". I mean, this one about "I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus". That's been sung by lots of different musical artists trying to make a quick easy buck, but I just really thought about it today. Is is really just about kissing, or more like when Steve Miller sings "keep on rockin' me", but really means "keep on fuckin me", and finally says so, albeit kinda quickly, later in the song? What kind of "present" had Santa
Anyway, I don't like that song one bit. Besides the silliness and lack of any connection to the point of Christmas, the connotations about Santa do irk me. It's not like my upcoming "Christmas song" will likely climb the Billboard charts (do they still have those?) as it should, even with a more realistic theme of Christmas home defense. ♫ "I saw Life-Flight evacuating Santa Clause ... extracting buck-shot from last night ..." ♫
Of course, I can go to youtube and listen to "The 1st Noel", "We 3 Kings...", and "Hark the Herald Angels Sing". How can you NOT like that stuff? I'll put some on during actual Christmas, not the "shopping season". Lest the reader think Peak Stupidity is more curmudgeonly than Charlie Brown even, here we have Elton John, who can do up a not-in-the-spirit Christmas song better than anyone. I never got sick of "Step into Christmas" from way back, 1973:
Bernie Taupin, who didn't play with the band, wrote most of the great lyrics to Elton songs, with Elton writing the music. In this song, Bernie appears playing bells (2:05), which is cool. It looks like Elton's usual great band:
Elton John - Vocals, piano
Davey Johnston - Guitar
Dee Murray - Bass
Nigel Olson - Drums
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Gerry Rafferty again
Posted On: Wednesday - December 13th 2017 6:50PM MST
In Topics: Music
Even before the band Stealer's Wheel, this artist was in a group called The New Humblebums. It's the same great voice though. This recording is kind of weak in quality, but it's from 1969 and not one in 100,000 Americans would know the song, so what can you say? (Maybe more Scotsmen would.)
Patrick was written about Rafferty's artist friend, John Patrick Byrne, who painted a bunch of Gerry's album covers, as displayed in the stills in this "video".
"Patrick my primitive painter of art,
you will always and ever be near to my heart.
I will never cross water, never cross sea.
We will always be with you, Jockie, Mally, and me.
The things that we have are all that we need
You have your painting, and I like to read
books by people of feeling, someone sincere.
They remind me of you and what we have here.
Patrick my primitive painter of art
You will always and ever be near to my heart.
I will never cross water, never cross sea
We will always be with you, Jockie, Mally, and me.
If in our lifetime we find peace of mind,
we'll remember the bad days that we left behind,
thinking only of love and what it can bring.
You paint songs for the children, a song we'll always sing.
Patrick my primitive painter of art
You will always and ever be near to my heart
I will never cross water, never cross sea
We will always be with you, Jockie, Mally, and me."
No, it's not AC/DC; sometimes you don't want that high energy.
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Ed Snowden, the CIA/NSA, and the movies
Posted On: Wednesday - December 13th 2017 7:06AM MST
In Topics: Movies US Feral Government
Under "FEATURES" on the left panel of Peak Stupidity, the plan was to have book and movie reviews. That may or may not happen, but I do want to write a bit about the movie Snowden, directed by Oliver Stone. More about the movie below, but first let me write about Snowden, the actual guy.
I was sitting next to a young lady on an airplane, when something got us talking about the airline business, which led to talk about the TSA, as depicted here and other government stupidity. We had been agreeing on just about everything, though she had mentioned she worked for the government (hadn't told me in what capacity though). I was sort of tactful, and did not bring up my canard that "Hey, in China, the smart people always worked for the government, while in Soviet USSA,
At some point, though, Ed Snowden came up in the conversation, and the lady told me how it was nuts how all the young people actually supported this guy. "Well, because he's a hero!" I opined vociferously. Now, as an aside here, keep in mind, I don't abuse the word like lots of people. "Hero" seems to be the term in use for anyone that does something pretty impressive that is a good thing. BS there. A hero is a guy who risks life and limb to save people or property when he could have rightfully stayed out of the situation completely. I'd say Snowden could fit this bill. He could have kept his nose down, just done his 30 years at "the company" or "the other company", and not worried about the sick violations of American's rights going on with the electronic spying programs. Ed Snowden did risk his life, as otherwise I doubt he'd have ended up holed-up in Hong Kong and then Russia. No, you may say, that can't just execute these people without a big trial and all. Nooo.... he may just drive off an embankment because his brakes failed, or have some type of
Now, the lady didn't disagree on account of the definition of the word hero, except that, yeah, the hero has to be doing something good. She did not think that exposing US Feral Gov't's spying on it's citizens makes him a hero. That's when she mentioned she works for the FBI, so, just supporting the team, I guess...
That was the point when we
I saw the movie Snowden a few months back. I'll tell you that I was somewhat surprised that it was not a hack job on the man. I say "somewhat", as I saw an interview with that famous director, Oliver Stone that showed he was not part of the usually Hollywood establishment. He had some choice things to say about the US Feral Gov't that you would not usually hear from anyone in Hollywood who "wants to work in dis bidness again". I haven't seen Stone's JFK, but, man there are so many theories on Kennedy's murder, lots that have good reason to be believed. that I wouldn't know what to think of the movie story. (Personally, the theory that the US gov't did not want Kennedy to have the Treasury in charge of making real money again is my favorite. I dunno, I just blo
Anyway, Ed Snowden WAS pretty much depicted as a hero in this movie. I don't know how realistic it is, as it makes him out to have been pretty high up the chain, or at least dealing with the top men. I don't think that's really the way it was. Hollywood always screws up real stories to make the movie. That's to be expected, but was unexpected was the lack of the usual pro-US-BIG-GOV agenda at least as the main story.
Good, but then when I think of this and another movie from long ago (The Recruit) about a guy who joined the CIA, there is still the usual depiction, whether intentional or just ignorance-based, of these people as the crack, hardworking people that probably are few and far between at even this government agency. This has been a Peak Stupidity topic before, though, as part 1, part 2, and part 3, of our series on the complete non-reality of the operatives in the Jason Bourne series of movies. Hey, they are fun to watch, and I hear-tell there's another sequel coming out that WILL be more realistic, to be entitled The Bourne Stupidity (You could probably see that one coming a mile away, right? ;-}
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P.S.: No, I DON'T know whether the casting was good, about the lighting effects, or the skills of the make-up artists. This is not a REAL review, and that's the part of the business I don't care a lick about... oh, and about who was doing who 30 years ago and why she regrets trading sex for roles now.
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Gerry Rafferty on The Days Gone Down
Posted On: Tuesday - December 12th 2017 9:48PM MST
In Topics: Music
A year's gone by and I've never put up any music of one of my favorite musical artists of all time. I could come up with 50 great songs by the late Mr. Gerry Rafferty of Scotland. Gerry Rafferty has got the smoothest male singing voice I've ever heard.
Besides the great song, this youtube video shows Gerry and his band in the studio recording the song. I couldn't have gotten to see this back when the guy was popular. (Baker Street was his biggest hit as a solo artist, from his City to City album, one with no filler - just 10 great songs in a row!) Youtube can be a blessing some times.
(It's always kind of chilly in Scotland, which explains the beard on that drummer... I guess)
"We won't forget the days gone down.
They're written in our hearts, yeah yeah,
and we're as much in tune as we were right at the start,
It all seems so much harder now, it seemed so easy then, yeah yeah.
Well someday just for fun we might do it all again."
Two cool things about Gerry Rafferty:
1) He liked to carry over lyric lines from song to song. The "written in our hearts" appeared as the title song on City to City - Whatever's written in your Heart. There are more deals like that, even carrying over from his music in The Humblebees and Stealer's Wheel.
2) He had the best album covers. The good ones were paintings by his artist friend, Patrick Byrne, who Gerry sings about in a song called Patrick from long ago - a good one for another night.
RIP, Gerry Rafferty - I wish I'd met you or seen you play in person.
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Shades of Instapundit here - great Boyd D. Cathey article
Posted On: Tuesday - December 12th 2017 6:54PM MST
In Topics: Commies Pundits Race/Genetics ctrl-left Socialism/Communism
Yeah, not our normal type of blogging here, but I got busy making comments on other sites. It's kind of addictive - hey, you should try it here!
A man named Boyd D. Cathey has an excellent long article on Unz Review called "Black & White in Culturally Marxist America". Some conservatives or alt-right like, and some don't the term "Cultural Marxist". We have lambasted and will continue to lambast Commies (33 posts) and Socialists (4 posts), but we use the term "cntrl-left" (24 posts) for the people Mr. Cathey is describing.
The reference to Mr. Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, is here just because we will link here with no excerpt at all, as this article his so good that you must READ! THE! WHOLE! THING! That's Instapundit's thing, lots and lots of short posts to point out stuff worth reading. Well, here's just one tonight (maybe just a song later one).
This Boyd Cathey is a Southerner from what I can tell. Besides his name being Southern, he recalls his time at the Univ. of Virginia in the 1970's when he saw this cultural marxism in it's more mellow state. It still reminded him of the worst of the Commies. He mentions WUNC, a TV station obviously in Chapel Hill, NC, so that's mainly why I figure he's a Southerner. He is a fairly low-key guy though I've read his name before. A duckduckgo search showed him hidden fairly well, and the 1st link was to the $PLC, the most-well known hate group, as they hate lots and lots of people, and lots and lots of organizations. Would we like that Peak Stupidity appear on the rolls of the $PLC? Would we EVER! Put in a good word for us, please, reader.
Mr. Boyd's blurb from that link starts off with: "Boyd Cathey has been involved in several extremist movements,...". That's all I need to know. I'm down with this guy. Or (per Insta.):
INDEED!
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The value of hard work
Posted On: Monday - December 11th 2017 6:33PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity
I don't have a topic key "Self Stupidity", but it would have definitely applied for this writer today and for this post. I reckon I won't add it either as I don't experience a whole lot of it.
The curmudgeonry has been attached to many Peak Stupidity posts, as that is my thing, though not the whole theme of this website. Lots of curmudgeonry posts have to do with customer service, now called "customer care", due to the plain fact that dealing with that now is a chore for about anyone. This is only occasionally due to the people that work in these call centers, but more to the bureaucracy, the waiting, and the voice-activated menu trees, especially the ones that act like you will be connected to a human, but then proceed to ask you more questions. Hey, anyone could write posts with customer service stories - that's kid stuff.
Today, however, I had thought the lady on the phone just did not get this thing we were trying to figure out, even though the call started out good. I was on my best behavior, but at one point, when it seemed like she just didn't want to get my question, and we were going round and round, I got rude to the point that I really regretted it later on in the day. It's not just the choice bad words that came out, but the fact that I think she wasn't stupid after all - it was me this time (at least, I had missed something).
In the meantime, before calling back to apologize, what made me feel so much better was getting outside to finish some manual work around the house. It makes all the mental BS go away so fast. (I get lots of post ideas too then, while doing work that doesn't require too much thinking, though that's not all manual labor by any means). As I worked in the front yard, a man that came by said "you're working too hard", basically, just to be friendly. "You should have seen me 10 minutes ago, sitting on my ass." would have been an appropriate honest reply, but the point here is that people appreciate others doing hard work.
(not me, just some guy raking the yard)
Sure, engineers and doctors can work hard to where it's mentally exhausting, but people appreciate the manual labor because it is obviously honest work. Much of white collar labor is too, but then, some trial lawyer can "work hard" at suing poeple's asses off for 15 hours a day, but most of us do not appreciate that at all.
What I've noticed also is even city workers, not known to be the hard-charging types, are easy to deal with when they are the ones doing the actual physical hard work. The guys doing the paving, or grabbing the leaf piles with the hydraulic machines (yes, it's hard work, as they have to rake too) may be tired, but I find them easier to deal with than some lady in the office downtown.
None of this is to say a full-time manual labor job is something I'm looking for now. As you get older, it's not a good thing to NEED to do for a living. However, sometimes you've just got to get out and dig or pound some nails to clear your head. It relieves the stupidity.
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Bitcoin - money, or another form of stupidity?
Posted On: Saturday - December 9th 2017 5:35PM MST
In Topics: Economics
In keeping on top of all the current news, as usual, Peak Stupidity may think of investing in bitcoin, as it seems to be at a local minimum of 14,730 dollars per, errr, coin. Wait, whaaaattt? OK, sometimes a post title or this lead sentence can get the reader riled enough to pay attention and read, right? Isn't that how the Lyin Press does it? Of course, we continue into some truth or at least truthful opinion, while the Lyin Press bullshit just streaks on for pages at a time.
Anyway, we will opine on this, as the subject of what money really is, or what is real money, has been hinted at before in posts with the Global Financial Stupidity topic key. Bottom line top, Bitcoin is in no way a stupid idea. I and the Peak Stupidity blog support any way to form a decent currency, if not money (not the same), that (a) can help evade the tax thieves of all the world's governments. Even more important is that (b) this form of currency is not "made" by any government.
Bitcoin is NOT really un-trackable, and in fact, from my understanding, the times of transactions and the accounts to/from which buying/selling is performed is tracked by definition of the mathematics of this currency. So, property (a) may not be all it's cracked up to be, but it sure beats transferring money (checks, credit cards, letters of credit, account transfers, etc.) via the big banks that take their cut every time, but more importantly, will always be the sac-hangers of the Feral Governments of the world (some say vice vera). That is the importance of property (b), the governments may try to get their grimy hands around the flow of this currency, but, without the ability to make it, cannot dilute the value. That dilution, called inflation, is a hidden large tax on the population.
Additionally, a 3rd important property of bitcoin is that (c) it can not be confiscated easily, as it's not tangible, but like our digital dollars which are most of them, is out of control of the banksters in cahoots with the Feds and FED.
I will admit right here that I wish I'd bought some of this with about 10 grand or so a couple of years back. Commenters on Zerohedge went back and forth under hundreds of articles about this digital currency over the last 3 years, and that is a pretty good way to learn, by reading other's arguments (unless they are morons). I can't say I didn't learn, as I can not be sure to this day that bitcoin will last, and more on this in a bit here. It just would have been a winning gamble. I am not a gambler and this is what I think of it. I have met people who have made a killing off of "investing" in this 2nd run-up in the dollar value of bitcoin. They were not math/computer whizes, but just speculators. You don't have to be smart, just lucky, sometimes, to do well.
Let's discuss Bitcoin in a descriptively technical manner. I.E., no I don't know that math behind it but get the idea. It takes computing energy to create more of this digital money per it's mathematical basis, and steadily more with time. It sounds like the amount of total bitcoin asymptotically approaches some value, from what "people" say (sorry that's all I got), and that it's already fairly well along toward it's total amount that can exist based on the math. If this is true, then even big leaps in computing power will not let anyone suddenly corner the market, quickly diluting the value of the rest of it. The value of Bitcoin as money, and not just a good form of currency is, as with precious metals, one can not easily mine a lot more of it. That's why the term "mining" is used for the computer calculations performed to "make it", in fact.
"It's just some computer program/data, someone will figure out how to hack it." is the typical response of those with distain for digital currencies in general, not precluding them from having made a killing in it anyway! This is a discussion we had with a proponent of bitcoin (yep, and he made a killing) and another friend who is a computer guy. The misunderstanding was in the proponent thinking that, by "hacking", the computer guy meant someone hacking into someone's wallet or better yet, the exchanges (like bitcoin banks). "Hey, people have hacked all into B of A ... etc, and that's a whole lot easier." was the Bitcoin proponent's rebuttal. Probably true, but the really worry, as the computer guy MEANT, was, what if someone can hack the whole formula or algorithm that MAKES Bitcoin?
That's where it takes a real hard-core computer/math guy to know whether this is impossible, possible, or even probable. Since I am not that guy, and haven't talked to a real expert, that is an unknown for me. I would think that the guy (a Japanese guy, as I recall) that started this digital currency, along with all the guys doing the big trading would know the answer to "Is the whole algorithm mathematically impossible to hack?" Wouldn't they all think yes? That's where you've got to wonder it there is someone inside who knows something different, but has good reasons to hold off for a while.
In the meantime, anything that can screw over central governments and big banks around the world, is greatly appreciated by Peak Stupidity. No, this stuff is not stupid. Is it stupid to buy some at $14,730 per "coin"? Probably, but that's because I'm no gambler. That's why I'm not rich. It's also why I'm not poor.
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About our peakstupidity future - Part 2
Posted On: Friday - December 8th 2017 8:54PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Websites The Future
(continued from here)
I just wanted to finish on the plans, if you could call them that, for the future of Peak Stupidity.
One more thing on the content - I have not put up much music lately. Partly, that's because I've only been putting in the youtube clips lately when the song has something to do with the post. I can go back to just putting up some really good songs up here, at least 2 or 3 times per week. I have got figure out how to get the embedded videos to show in Windows Explorer too... this leads me to the next section.
Yes, Peak Stupidity is a pretty crude site, but I would like to keep things simple. There is no javascript or any other scripting on the client side to slow down loading of pages. Right now, however, all one can do is read the 15 or so posts on each page, then go to OLDER POSTS. One can comment, something we'd really appreciate, but, granted, there is no way to edit submitted posts and no way to keep track of who's whom. That last part is low priority, right now, with the only occasional comment. Remember to write the two characters "PS" at the beginning, as ...
I want to put more navigation methods here, and that will not be so hard really. Probably, there'll be a drop-down box, with the option of alphabetical or chronological ordering of posts to allow selection. A search of just Peak Stupidity would be nice too. The one hang-up I'd like to overcome first is the stupid display of the page at locations down in the white space. Yes, I DO KNOW ABOUT THIS. It is not a very simple ANCHOR tag problem though. The php software creates the page and I have tried to find out how to get the location at least just to the top every time, much less exactly where I want it. Any help would be appreciated.
Yeah, the same simple HTML for embedding youtube videos works just fine on the unz site (easy enough to copy to test). There must be some header setting or what-have-you to make it work in Explorer though. I don't want to be one of those guys who says "You've got to use version 10.3 of this browser, with javascript enabled to see my site". Hell, nobody needs to read most websites that badly, right? Therefore, I will do more work in researching a solution for this.
As far as formatting, besides an addition to the blogroll, with an appropriate review, once in a while, not much will change. It it does it'll be small changes. I hate revamping of anything for no reason - that's a salesmen and marketing people thing, and I want no part of it. As written in the short post about "Clippy" and other annoyances with software, a tool should just work the same way every time, and software is nothing but tools, usually written by tools.
* (Yes, the Berzerkely landlord in "The Graduate" was also Mr. Roper, the landlord in "Three's Company", whose job it was to make sure Jack Tripper didn't boink either Chrissy or Janet.)
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Just when I thought I was out, SHE! PULLS! ME! BACK! IN!
Posted On: Thursday - December 7th 2017 6:41AM MST
In Topics: Pundits Media Stupidity
Yeah, we WISH! The point is, though, that we have just stated our intention to keep up more of the original writing here at the Peak Stupidity blog rather than just lots of excerpt/rebuttal or excerpt/"right-on!" posts. Well, Miss Ann Coulter has been a favorite since she came around from being a pro-GOP, neocon pundit most of a decade ago, and her latest column, about the Roy Moore (Free Spirit - Alabama) senatorial election deserves a SHOUT OUT!
I will only put the last short paragraph in here, as, again, READ THE WHOLE THING! (too much SHOUTING OUT!?):
We have no rebuttal here, but it's always good to get the last word, at least on your own damn blog. Oh, one thing, Ann, it's the Lyin' Press - after all, YOU are part of the real media (truth seekers) - welcome to the party, pallette!
The media say that Republicans support Moore just because they want another GOP vote in the Senate. I support Moore just because I hate the media.
Yes, I like a free spirit like Roy Moore, (see here and here) even though I'd bet he's not a true conservative, more of a showman. Anything to poke a stick at the Lyin' Press and both the blue and red wings of The Party establishment would get my vote - I just don't live in Alabama - don't dox me, bro - you've got 56 states to go, according to Øb☭ma.
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About our peakstupidity future
Posted On: Tuesday - December 5th 2017 5:52AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Websites Movies Curmudgeonry The Future
"Sir, that's 2 words ..."*
Since our 500th and blogversary post was over a week ago, let us write a post here about the blogfuture of Peak Stupidity. First off, don't worry readers, as this will not be some big change that will ruin the site for you as you know it. Keep in mind, that the Peak Stupidity blog has been, and will be, all about curmudeonry, from post 1 onwards! Just like you, we don't want change just for change's sake. I will write here about the future style of blog-posting, the content "going forward", formatting changes (if any), and the improvement of site usability.
By "style" here, I don't mean formatting, just the blogging method on the continuum from Instapundit-style quick blurbs pointing out other writings on the web (50 times a day) to the long essays once-a-week type style. I'd like to post at least once a day, but closer to 2. It's easy to do more than that when most of them are simply posts that excerpt and comment-on other good articles relating to the Peak Stupidity interests. These are always articles that I feel are worth reading. However, the reader can just "read the whole things" there, as we urge, and possibly have not that much interest in the Peak Stupidity ideas themselves. On these type posts, I will continue to have at least 1/2 of the writing be my commentary. As an opposing example, the writer Brenda Walker on VDare.com, when writing these types of posts, tends to excerpt big passages from the Lyin' Press with not enough commentary, especially at the bottom. You've got to get that last word in, to fight the stupidity! (This is is no way a big criticism of Mrs. Walker, who writes well about the human and environmental cost of our immigration invasion.) I also don't want to get too much into the pundit-on-pundit relationships and feuds that are all over the web. "Mr. X of Breitbart wrote that that Politico guy's tweet regarding the unz article on Y, is blah, blah..." Sometimes, the pundits would be well-served to be reminded that 90% of Americans have not heard of ANY of them! The point is to get the ideas to the people that can make a difference, and that is mostly just the American public, but they are still all ON! THE! DAMN! TV! half the day, so what is the point?
I'd like to have a majority of longer essays of my own writing. I will point out here that my style is to write without many references in these posts. The continually looking-up of details on the web just slows me down. I don't want factually-wrong stuff in the posts, of course, so I look up the occasional item. If you don't see enough detail on some of the longer essays, it's because I can't write that way without taking forever to finish. I want to lay out the general ideas, and detail will appear when they are needed, such as in post which has simple calculations, as in the Financial Stupidity writings.
Finding content for a blog about Peak Stupidity is like finding a needle in ... like, a sewing shop. There is no problem finding material of all kinds, and there may be a few more topic keys to add yet, for content that doesn't fit with any of the existing ones. We have not focused on the financial stupidity enough lately. This is the variety of stupidity of most importance, in my opinion, as, when the financial stupidity peaks and our country and/or much of the world has the mother of financial crashes, soon enough, this will foretell the peak of all stupidity. As written about in our "What is peek stoopidity?" introduction on the left side, the stupid will be neither fashionable nor feasible once things "get real", as the survival blogs say. It may be time for more on the prepping topic too, come to mention it. Other musings on economics will be made in future posts - not about the elasticity of demand, so much as just which parts of that whole
Because politics is inherently stupid, there will be no lack of post on politics in general, as it's so easy to come up with ideas to write about on that topic. Just read the headlines on Drudge any day of the week, and you will think things have gotten so stupid, the world must be ending shortly. Hell, I would really think that, if I didn't know about our financial turmoil to come.
I didn't want to leave out the curmudgeon-type writing, as that is not only the easiest writing, especially when it gets humorous, but the ideas come like mad. It's also the type that involves just original writing with no references usually. I mean, why rag on some modern stupidity that another pundit has already ragged on - like, say an Ann Coulter (favorite of mine) with an article on "Ever notice that these cheap tampons don't ever ... anymore? (NO, not a real article, but you get the point.) A curmudeon's gotta come up with his own bit.
OK, part 2 of this will be about the plans for improving the usability of this site and about any formatting changes, if at all.
* It is a big enough assumption to make, that all our readers have seen the classic movie "The Graduate", so I will in no way assume that they have seen the movie with this take-off on the one "PLASTICS!" scene from The Graduate. It's from the movie "My Tutor" - one could call it B-grade, but compared to present-day movies, it's probably an A+. All I remember, besides the sizzlin' hot tutor, is that scene in which the Oriental guy (not so PC in the day of that movie) says to the young guy "One word for your future - COMPUTER CHIP!" "Uh, that's 2 words".
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Kate Steinle's murderer, at least woman-slaughterer, aquitted
Posted On: Friday - December 1st 2017 9:21AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity California Treehuggers Anarcho-tyranny
(Picture taken from VDare.com)
If I were of a certain persuasion, and lived a bit closer to the jurisdiction (San Francisco), and had more time on my hands, this would be a good occasion for joining a riot or at least to get
One can read about this case all over the internet, with great detail at VDare.com, so this will be one of those mostly cut-and-paste posts. I have read the 130-odd comments (so far) under Steve Sailer's blog post at unz.com. Since I couldn't have done a better job at this myself, I am just pasting in one of the comments (also featured in the post by Sailer) by one Auntie Analogue:
If You’re Going To San Francisco Wear Some Armor When You’re ThereAdditionally, I will paste in the best summation of this madness, the sheer anarcho-tyranny of it, from a commenter that goes by Dr. X:
If you’re going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear your armor and beware
If you’re going to San Francisco
Foreign felons get away with murder there
Aliens who come to San Francisco
juries will be your love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Kate was murdered, the jury did not care
All across the nation, endless foreign invasion
People in motion
Endless foreign invasion, lawless exoneration
People in motion, justice dead by implosion
For those who come to San Francisco
Be sure to wear your armor and beware
Justice ain’t done in San Francisco
Kate Steinle died and the jury did not care
Alien felons, San Francisco
Juries are your love-in there.
This is absurd beyond belief. California has implemented some of the most drastic, unconstitutional gun laws in the country — which, of course, only affect law-abiding, taxpaying, home-owning, job-holding citizens who have a LOT to lose if they violate them.Anarcho-tyranny, indeed. Additionally, the lame-ass (I'm no lawyer and I don't have much info. on the actual trial) excuse of the guy just taking shots at some seals brings up two things. Dangerous negligence like this still should result in a manslaughter charge. This guy got let off on almost everything.
Conversely, an illegal alien who had been deported multiple times and had a felony record shoots an innocent bystander and gets off with no homicide conviction. This is the very definition of anarcho-tyranny.
Even if the shooting was an accident (and frankly I don’t know how the defense was able to “prove” that it was, other than the mere assertion of the defendant ) they guy still should have been convicted of some kind of homicide charge, such as manslaughter or criminally-negligent homicide.
This is nuts. California is nuts. This f-ing country is nuts.
Secondly is the thing about that excuse about aiming to shoot some seals, or sea lions, or some damn sea mammal. Imagine what kind of trouble a white guy would have gotten into for doing that even without an accidental murder involved. Even if you were to mention THINKING about shooting at some sea lionx to your average white San Franciscan, you’d know he (probably she) would never speak to you again.
The treehuggers will let anything ruinous to America slide, just as the Sierra Club decided 20 years ago that talking about the environmental problem of too many people is a big no-no. That one was about the money to begin with, but once the cntrl-left takes over, all the real environmental/conservation stuff takes a back seat to the gaining of POWER. It’s just about power. I mean, the USSR was not a treehuggers paradise, to be generous.
So, power of the cntrl-left and dieversity comes first over sea mammals, even the cute ones… even the cute land mammals that end up in an early grave.
We used to just be kidding when we said California is the land of fruits and nuts (errr, at least the nuts part).
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Future Alabama Honorable Senator Roy Moore and Going Native
Posted On: Thursday - November 30th 2017 6:41PM MST
In Topics: Trump US Feral Government
Earlier today, Peak Stupidity argued with Pat Buchanan's column explaining how this Senate candidate's election is important for getting Supreme Court justices in place to implement this, use the Senate rules for the other thing ... blah blah. Our problem is not with the logic but with the assumption that the whole political world is like that of the 1970's. We then listed 4 reasons to attempt to explain why politicians, including judges, will "go native" once they have been in Washington, FS for some time. We don't mean this in a good way, either, as "going native" means fitting in and becoming one with the Washington, Federal Shithole crowd that creates laws that turn the rest of America into a different kind of shithole.
Peak Stupidity has mentioned Roy Moore of Alabama and his US Senate campaign before, Now, Roy Moore has been dinged, along with a bunch of the Hollywood crowd, on some alleged harassment thing. I don't particularly care what happens to most of them, let the left eat it's own, I say. I don't care what most of these people did either - it doesn't bother me a bit. I don't even care if Roy Moore was a bit of a perv, or a full-blown prevert for that matter, though I have no evidence and ain't looking. He is pissing off a lot of the insiders in national politics, as was the case with Donald Trump, and that alone is a reason I'd vote for him were I registered in Alabama.
I don't want to repeat 1/3 of my last post, so you may want to refer back to that top-4 list of "reasons politicians go native". (Yeah, I wish it were just a Dave Letterman joke.) The fact that Roy Moore stands up to the establishment rules out #3, his being a ringer. You may not agree with the man, but he stands on unchanging principles, which rules out #1 and #2. # 4, the blackmailing thing is a big part of the reason I'd like this guy to be a senator. If dirt's being dug up on Mr. Moore now, all over the place, than what's to dig up later? It's all out in the open, and guess what, nobody cares a whole lot anymore about this stuff, at least the mundane stuff that's not up to the sickness of the Hollywood crowd and some of the highest-level politicians.
It's hard for the Deep State to handle a guy like this, and that
There's one more point I want to make about the lies that come from either wing of The Party, in this case the Red-colored one. I've seen word written by pundits [yeah, WTF do they know? - Ed.] to the effect of "The conservatives in the House and Senate don't want to have to put up with another guy who puts his foot in his mouth, like some "Akin" guy..." etc. BULL! That's not what this is about. They want a guy that will be an upstanding member of their Senate CLUB. That's really not about what the guy will spout off about, but whether he will toe the line on the legislation, making sure the right things happen, no matter who gets to put in an occasional "Nay" vote for the constituents' sake. George Carlin said it best: "It's a big club, and you ain't in it." Roy Moore doesn't plan to join, and that worries the establishment deeply. GOOD! TO HELL WITH ALL OF THEM!
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Future Alabama Honorable Senator Roy Moore and the Supreme Court
Posted On: Thursday - November 30th 2017 6:40AM MST
In Topics: Pundits US Feral Government
The former politician, presidential adviser, and TV talking head, now pundit, Mr. Pat Buchanan lays out a bunch of political logic to illustrate that this one senate election will be critical to the anti-abortion cause (via Supreme Court justices, etc.) Hey, Peak Stupidity has lots of respect for the views of Pat Buchanan. His heart is in the right place, and as we've written numerous times (somewhere) the country would be in a whole lot better shape now if he had kept his momentum in the 1992 R-presidential primary campaign. The Lyin' Press was not his friend, of course.
Firstly, this post is not about abortion and Roe vs. Wade. It's about the Supreme Court. Again, in Buchanan's article, his heart is in the right place, and he runs through the scenario with the supreme and lower court pick numbers. Now, I'm not saying that the Supreme Court is not important, in fact they are far from it and OUT! OF! CONTROL!. My point here is that Mr. Buchanan is living in the past as far as his idea of how the American political system works in 2017. He writes about political strategy as in how many votes "we" get if this happens, and what the Senate rules are with the "nuclear option" having been set up by the D's, and it's gonna work against them .. blah blah. OK, you DO know how all this works better than a lowly Peak Stupidity blogger, Pat, but listen, things are not as civil politically as you are used to, and they are quickly getting even less civil. The rules don't matter to the cntrl-left, and most of the people we think are on our side are not on our side. I have not seen ANY political legislation/ruling/whatever go in the RIGHT direction since the EARLY 1990's, Pat! The elite have been getting what they want, one way or another.
Next, about the Supreme Court "conservative" picks themselves, in this very article, my main argument with his point is backed up by Mr. Buchanan right there in the same article! He lists 5 (or 7, if your main issue is abortion) S.C. justices that were appointed by Republicans from Reagan's term on that went native. What is to say every single one of the new appointees would not do the same, or at least a significant number, and same with the lower courts?
Let me speculate on why these politicians, and, yes, judges at that level are basically politicians, switch views and loyalties, almost always toward the left, after they get in power?
1) Some may actually have a change of their views over time, however, most times it is from living too long in the elitist bubble that they enter.
2) Some just don’t like being one of the bad guys as far as almost all of the Lyin’ Press is concerned. They want to be the good guy on TV, and get invited to all the best dinners and cocktail parties in Washington, FS. It’s peer pressure over principles for these ones.
3) Some may be ringers, in that they may be held up to the public as conservatives when the people behind the scenes know that what their real, anti-constitutional views are. Sure, there is a history, and that history may
4) Some may have plenty of sordid things they have done in the recent past (usually after they have been in some type of office, as that’s when they pick up the psychopathy). They can be blackmailed very easily, cough, cough, John Roberts, cough, to rule in favor of whatever the elites want.
It may not have been the case only 25 years back, but I would say now that my reasons for going native are in least-likely to most-likely order.
Now, Roy Moore himself has been slighted in this post, I just realized, though we have written our support before here. In a follow-up post, later today, I will tie future-Senator Moore in with my reason #4 (about politicians going native).
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1 year of stupidity and counting (500th post)
Posted On: Tuesday - November 28th 2017 10:55PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Websites
Yea! It's our 1st Blogversity here!
Yes, one year ago, on November 28th 2016, Peak Stupidity was loosed on the world with FIRST POST - Am I a curmudgeon?:
It is not a complete coincidence that this is POST #500 also, as I have accelerated posting just a bit over the last 2 weeks to make this number.
OK, I'm going live after messing with this URL and my doctored-up blog software on-and-off for longer than I want to admit right now.
I will try to keep a lot of humor in my posts as I write about the crazy, stupid, and once-in-a-while decent things going on in the country and the world. You can see this in the banner above and the "What is ...?" link on the left. However, I will probably come off as a curmudgeon much of the time.
That brings up a good point - what kind of blog is this supposed to be? Well, our "about" page tries to describe the content. We try to point out and discuss stupidity of all flavors, with right at 30 topic keys already. If Peak Stupidity has been remiss at fulfilling any part of our mission statement, it is probably in explaining the causes of the different "flavors" if you will, of stupidity. We have not made any effort in predicting time lines, or just how far we are from the stupidity peak. Math is hard.
"What kind of blog is this?" is a question about the style of the blog too. That has morphed just slightly since Post 1, one year back. Blogs, good and bad, run the gamut of posting frequency and average post-length. There is no physical law, but for a given amount of effort being spent, this is a constant, call it "C" (for Constant!) - we don't care. You've got your Instapundits with very short blurbs scores of times daily to link to articles elsewhere to a few I've read that post 10 page essays once a month or so. There are those that excerpt outside articles every time, and others that come completely from the writer's head. Peak Stupidity has moved slightly since Post 1 toward longer, less-frequent posts, and stayed about the same as far as alternating original stuff vs. the "look at what these idiots (or geniuses) are saying" posts. The average of only (500 post/365 days = ) ~ 1.4 posts/day is about 50% lower than that of the 1st month, but the posts probably average more than 2x as long, so there's more effort now.
Commenting hasn't been used much, but that does not perturb the staff here. It is not a sophisticated system, and thus could prove a bunch of work. However, readership has been increasing steadily with the exception of the high month of October '17 with the anomaly of our Russian (IPs anyway) commenting bots having gone crazy then been curtailed via our simple commenting bot-stopper:
Just a core of steady readers is what I'd like to see here. More is better, but so long as I know there are people reading, I'll continue the writing. Changes to fix the poor navigation and problems (yes, Explorer doesn't show youtube vids) will come in due time.
PS - in reference to last post, the computer-tech stupidity/curmudgeonry complaint therein was a follow up from Post 1! It read ... let me write about Windows software another time..." See, we get around to things eventually!
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Whatever happened to this guy?
Posted On: Tuesday - November 28th 2017 6:57PM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Artificial Stupidity
His real name is, or hopefully WAS, "Clippy". Not having seen this nosey bastard pop down lately onto my computer screen while I'm in the middle of getting things done, has been a blessing.
Yeah, there's plenty more of this type of stuff: indentations that you don't want that happen anyway, automatic capitalization of letters, windows fading out when you accidentally moved the cursor over the task bar. I'm still thankful to have Clippy gone anyway, to an early bent-up rusty grave, hopefully.
I get it, I get it, computer geeks, you are proud of your new "features" and you want to have them default-on for the running of new forced-upgrades of the software that people who are TRYING to work use. You know, right, that I don't want to keep learning new things about my TOOLS, and software programs are nothing but tools? I know that my hammer works the same way EVERY SINGLE TIME that I pound in a nail (or beat the hell out of my computer), and I LIKE it that way! That's how tools are supposed to be.
OK, I can recommend Linux versions, but am still working under Windows stupidity right now, so who am I to preach on this. I will expand this post another time, when I can organize my thoughts better, but this post was really written for closure (haha, that sounds serious ... but it's not here) on this Curmudgeonry topic key for a certain reason to be disclosed next post, this evening.
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - BJ Thomas song
Posted On: Monday - November 27th 2017 6:44PM MST
In Topics: Music Movies
This morning's post alluding to the Federales reminded me of the scenes in the classic 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as Paul Newman (Butch Cassidy) and Robert Redford (the Sundance Kid) were chased around Bolivia by their Federales, set in the 1890's.
Peak Stupidity just got done mentioning the Frito Bandito, but these two guys were the Yankee Banditos:
The short scene below has Butch Cassidy riding the newly-invented bicycle with Etta (Katherine Ross), along to the music of the BJ Thomas song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head".
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Gentrification article from the "It takes a lot of gall" department of the LP
Posted On: Monday - November 27th 2017 6:12PM MST
In Topics: Economics Race/Genetics
Steve Sailer notes an article written by the west coast branch of the Lyin' Press that points to almost Peak Gall. The writer, a black lady who lives in Inglewood, California, seemed a mite upset that she ran into a ... gasp! ... white lady walking her dog, which might be leading to gentrification by white people, now up to 3% of the population of that city (just west of LAX airport in the Los Angeles basin).LA times lady:
All I could think was: White folks abandoned Inglewood, and now they’re coming back with no memory or acknowledgment of all that, expecting neighborliness?I don't think they abandoned the neighborhood lightly... it got too dangerous to stay. Now, some urban pioneers, grandkids, perhaps of the ones who couldn't live there anymore 5 decades back, want to try to clean it up. Peak Stupidity has written fairly long post about gentrification before, using that same word "pioneers"* These urban pioneers would like people to be neighborly, sure, but I don't think that's as important to them as just not having riots, continual property theft, and gang riots. You don't have to crank up the welcome wagon. LA Times lady again:
… But black people in particular will feel the sting. We will be out not just apartments and homes we can afford to rent or pay the mortgage on. We will lose our space, our place.Yeah, if you call selling your house, "having it taken away", I guess ... but that deal is not as bad as having your family's safety taken away, is it? Yeah, the white people sold their houses, and some others are buying houses now - pretty much on the up-and-up. Rather than pissing-and-moaning you Inglewoodians could spend that energy fixing up your houses or teaching the young ones not to hate, steal, and kill, so the property values would stay high.
It’s an enduring American truth: Whatever black people have can be taken away.
Inglewood was almost all black during Fred Sandford's, Lamont's, and Aunt Esther's time (maybe they were in Compton?). So, Sailer, being a statistics guy AND a resident of Los Angeles, easily notes the sheer gall of the writer to complain when:
Inglewood in the 2010 Census was 51% Hispanic, 44% black, and 3% white. The mayor is still black though, but half the City Council is Latino.Let me get this straight - Hispanics have moved in and live in over half the city, yet there were no complaints about gentrification. Is that saying that the Hispanics don't fix things up very well? Isn't that, like ... racist, or ethnicitist, or something? Or is it maybe, that they couldn't give a rat's ass about your complaints - "we don't need no steeenking altuism!"
Oh, and a bit more gall to top it off. The writer's deceased husband was a white guy. They moved to Inglewood together. OK, that's enough gall for today, over and out.
* "Pioneers" is an interesting word to use, but part of the lingo of the gentrification issue. It has connotations that make one think of people who take risks to live out in the wilderness among the wild animals. Can you still say it, then? .... cause, you know ...
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