Do you have to let it Linger?
Posted On: Saturday - September 16th 2017 6:11PM MST
In Topics: Music Trump
Now, let it be said that Peak Stupidity does not have a man-crush on President Donald Trump. In fact, we really don't want to be any part of any man-crush, and if it did involve the current President of the U.S. then we would hope any further action on this unrequited Pres-Luv would involve more of the rest of the staff, including Kelly-Ann and Javanka (especially that one half of Javanka with the nicer legs.)
However, any crush that we may have had would be dashed by this point, as he has been a major screw-up. People are giving up on the wild-ass hopes that Donald Trump is this genius playing 4-D chess. It seems as this point that it is more of a Special-Olympics sack race he's signed up for.
No matter what, we can still be grateful that we stopped the Hildabeast dead in her hoof-tracks. I wrote this to thank one commenter on unz.com under this article by the great writer John Derbyshire who related how much money and effort he had put into the Trump campaign, along with other help to politicians who claim to be on our side.
You really were a big part of that, man. Whatever happens to our country now, it still will happen more slowly, and without our being under the scolding tongue of that sick bitch. I am no George Clooney, with the means to just leave America like it’s a trip to 6 flags, but I would seriously think about leaving. That would be not so much due to the impending hell, as it will happen either way – it would more be due to my disgust at my countrymen for voting in someone like that.
(Yes, it WAS only a few votes, so it’s not like there were that many fewer countrymen voting for her than if she’d won, but it’s just the emotional sick feeling that I’d have had that Americans deserve the hell coming, but I sure don’t, and you too, I.D.)
I think we'll find a way to say what we currently feel about President Trump in about every post, but other than this simple TWEET here, it'll be just some good music tonight to finish the post:
START TWEET. DONALD. YOU R LETTING US DOWN. STOP. DO NOT LISTEN SWAMP CREATURES. STOP. YOU ARE CHIEF EXECUTIVE! STOP. YOU ARE COMMANDER IN CHIEF 2. STOP. TAKE CONTROL OF BORDER. STOP. DO! YOUR! FUCKING! JOB! STOP. REPORT BACK. STOP. END TWEET.
What?? "That was not a tweet". (picture Bob Newhart on the phone.) You mean you ... not Western Union... oh, on a computer? 144 characters, you say? Oh, no money, OK, thanks Carol."
Man, if I had known I didn't need to go down to Safeway's Western Union kiosk to
Yeah, any man-crush tendencies are gone, but then I still have to read
The Cranberries from the 1993 off the album "Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We?". The great voice is that of Dolores O' Riordan, and she and Noel Hogan wrote the song.
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Russians and Chinese and Bears, oh my! (and Pandas) Pt. 1
Posted On: Saturday - September 16th 2017 1:25PM MST
In Topics: The Russians China The Neocons Deep State Socialism/Communism
As one can see from the title, I can already tell this will be 2 separate posts, which is a step in the right direction for Peak Stupidity (having a plan for the direction of future posts, that is). This post is about the small problems we at Peak Stupidity have with these two nations/ethnicities vs. what "America" (really the American Feral Government and its sack-hangers) has with it. The 2nd post will be more about the effect of Communism on both of these big lands and populations, and how the people have come through it differently.
"The Neocons" topic key is attached to this post, as they are a major factor in stirring up animosity, or at least worry, about these two major players in world history, especially regarding the Russians. Though China, of course, is more up and coming economically, or already there, you could say, Russia is still an important part of the world. It would behoove the "leaders" of this country to act responsibly with regards to these 2 powers, and part of that is for the statesmen (haha, haven't seen a real one of those in a while) to use diplomacy while keeping American's interest in mind when dealing with them. That would be a nice change over rhetoric that may have been very appllicable during the Cold War / Chairman Mao eras for the Soviets and the Red Chinese respectively. (One could say without argument from Peak Stupidity that the Red Chinese were also on the other side of this Cold War - true, the hot wars did involve the Chinese, but OTOH, the political maneuvering, weapons races, subterfuge and what most think of the "Cold War" involved the USSR.) That same rhetoric is downright silly now, as we are not dealing with the same people or government on either side.
Please don't think this post (and #2) are here to badmouth everything "America" and tout the new Ruskies and new Chinese. There's good and bad, and in fact, due to having more personal knowledge of China than Russian, Peak Stupidity has either 2 or 3 articles coming on the good/bad of modern China.
OK, then, Russia first. In my opinion, the Cold War rhetoric and the acual military "boxing-in" by NATO of the country of Russia has been going on for almost 3 decades after the demise of the USSR due to 2 reasons:
A) The Deep State per the original definition discussed here fears death, as do most people and about all organizations. They do not want to get off the gravy train of huge un-budgeted US government funds and fun times playing international man of mystery around the world. In addition to keeping this Cold War 2.0 thing going they are focusing their skills inward - another topic - see US Police State.
B) The Neocons are just a warmongering crowd that is still flush with power (oh, yeah, it'll fade when the money stops). Russia is as good a bogeyman as any, and for these guys, it's just a big game of Risk.
What are these people pretending to be worried about? Is Russia going to take over the world? Where's their empire? Will they raise the price of oil without our control and say-so? Does that last question even matter much? Most thinking Americans who are not part of this sham have no idea why this "Russian Bear" is any threat to us. This is not 1965 dammit (to cover it better, not 1945 to 1985).
Here's Peak Stupidity's problem with the Ruskies: Most of the spam comments and stupid hacking attempts that we've seen are from IP #'s that are attached to locations in Russia. Admittedly they could be spoofed IP #'s from people elsewhere, but why would they pick Russian IP's? Are these Russians so bored and devoid of good ideas that they feel they should spend the best years of their lives putting impossible-to-read viagra ads on Peak Stupidity? C'mon guys! Keep this crap up and I'll be a Juan McCain supporter! Bombs away, you hackers, figuratively speaking. (That was a joke about Senator McAmnesty - the reader should know how I feel about that scumbag by now.). OK, so the Russians can be annoying hackers, but that's not a reason to start a war.
This post is STILL getting long, but now on to China. Look at the background in that picture. (OK, NOT a good example, but just wanted to show some China-looking architecture). There are 20 cities or more that are the size of, or bigger than, New York City! Hell, it could be 50. 10 years back, 5 cities had modern subways, now it could be also 20 - just duckduckgo it - I don't like checking stuff every 2 minutes while writing - this is a descriptive post, coming from my head, not Wiki. Yes, as my next couple of posts on Chinese infrastructure will elaborate on, this country is growing massively economically. There is something to be afraid of, if you are an American entrenched in the Feral Gov't who is used to American ruling the waves, skies, and space, no doubt. There IS indeed a worry for regular Americans about how we will have decent jobs, hence lives, in this new limited-manufacturing economy of ours. When the reputation of the US economy and the US dollar along with it, go down the tubes, the Chinese will have the money to do what they want to WITHIN the US economically too. Maybe it'll just be buying up a few National parklands to mow down the trees, maybe it'll be as far as turning Americans into colonial indentured servant types - this all remains to be seen.
With that all said (got your blood pressure up high enough yet?), then why should this broke country, America, spend money defending the Spratley Freaking Islands, or Formosa (they're calling it Taiwan now, see, cause they rule the waves), or anywhere west of California? (yeah, screw Hawaii, other than Steve McGarrett and Danno, who cares about the place.). Enough, you can't be an empire when you're broke, I hate to break it to these people. The best way to defend ourselves from what's coming down economically is to become self-sufficient again. Could that possibly happen? The welfare state would have to be severely dismantled and the warfare state wouldl have to cease-and-desist. That is about as likely as the end of what my main beef with China is, in the next paragraph.
Peak Stupidity's main problem with China is still CHEAP CHINA-MADE CRAP!. See, I'm thinking locally not globally here. How can you fix small stuff that breaks within a year, but not 30 days, of purchase when there are hardly any small hardware stores around, and they don't have 1/2 the stuff you used to be able to get? They are shipping this crap over here to slow down our productivity, as documented right HERE, see as project QASFAM IV. There is no time left for new ideas and projects, when your shit keeps breaking! That is my problem with China, and I think the State Department should drop everything and take up this matter.
So, should the average American be worried or even scared of the Russian Bear and the Chinese man-eating Panda? Not in the ways that the elites tell us, we shouldn't. No. We'd better start taking care of our own business, to have a good chance against the Chinese economy, and as for the Russians, just don't buy viagra off the comments here, and hopefully they'll get the hint and get back to Math, Master Chessplaying, and Metallurgy. Or, at least, Bears, Beets, and Battlestar Galactica.
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Movie actor/hot wife end self-imposed exile to formerly-safe formerly-Great Britain
Posted On: Thursday - September 14th 2017 10:14AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Movies Trump
The guy is George Clooney and his wife is
Per Breitbart yesterday, this movie-power-couple is apparently more scared of a Moslem terrorist organization that may have it in for them than the totalitarianism that should have already ensued in America due to Donald Trump becoming president here. Now, Peak Stupidity reckons we are pretty much AT totalitarianism, or the Police State, at least, President Trump notwithstanding. Additionally, we wish Mr. Trump would act a bit MORE like a tyrant than the mush-headed idiot he has become, and JUST! DO! WHAT! HE! CAN! OF! WHAT! HE! PROMISED! Last week brought Peak Stupidity's and many Americans' hopes up high, and things don't look so bright today (DACA in particular).
Back to Mr. Clooney and the (hot) wife, they
Life & Style magazine reported last week that the 56-year-old Oscar-winner will move his newly-expanded family to his mansion in Studio City, California, after deeming his 17th century mansion in Sonning, England to be not sufficiently safe for them.Within minutes of the police station no less; yeah, why can't we all be that close - no, never mind, or be armed? Hmmm, can't do that so easily in
“As soon as Amal found out she was pregnant, he hired former Secret Service agents to assess all his properties and make recommendations for improvement,” an unnamed Clooney “insider” told the magazine. “His mansion in Studio City [Calif.] was deemed the most secure, and it’s within minutes of an LAPD station.”
“He doesn’t feel like Amal and the twins are safe living in the English countryside,” the source told Life & Style. “He’s determined to move his family to LA, where he feels much more secure.”It's not quite the same beautiful countryside you may have seen through the pot-smoke haze in the theater, oops, theatre, watching Led Zeppelin's "The Song Remains the Same" is it, govner?
The report comes as England has been rocked by terrorist attacks in recent months, including the terrorist bombing of a concert by pop singer Ariana Grande in Manchester in June that claimed the lives of 22 people, many of them young children.Wait, but, but ... you left America because Donald Trump threatened to (but hasn't, the pussy) keep out a lot of Moslems. I thought that ... now you want to come back cause ... wait... let me take some medicine, my brain is hurting. This is the hypocrisy part that you get out these "artists" a whole lot more than ordinary people. They can reverse their words, "Hey, we weren't wrong - no, just watch me in my next movie, I'm suave and my wife is hot - that's all you need to know" "Don't crop the bottom of her picture."
In May, British government officials disclosed that 23,000 known jihadi terrorists are believed to be residing in Britain, far more than the 3,000 that had initially been reported.
I'm not a big reader of Breitbart just due to formatting and ads and crap, but they do this story justice:
The move for the Clooneys comes as both George and Amal have been among the most vocal and active celebrity advocates for open borders and the free flow of refugees between countries.Oh, I wish I could do the sound Tony Soprano would make at this point - it must be an Italian thing, but you can't do it in text form. It's like "Oh ooh" while you slap your kid on the side of the face. Then, "You got a wall? Around your house? You got the nerve! I loved you
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George has also been an outspoken critic of Trump, telling The Guardian in a March 2016 interview that he believes Trump to be a “xenophobic fascist” and an “opportunist.” He previously described Trump’s immigration policy proposals as “idiotic” and “intolerant.”
Clooney owns several homes throughout the world, including a massive estate in Lake Como, Italy. The actor has previously taken extensive security measures to keep his home in Italy private, and in 2015, local mayor Robert Pozzi reportedly imposed a $600 fine on anyone found trespassing near the actor’s property.
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Men at Work, still...
Posted On: Wednesday - September 13th 2017 4:59PM MST
In Topics: Music Political Correctness Feminism
How did these ones get missed by the PC Police? I saw one "Men at Work" sign just today, but just could not get a pic, hence the file photo above. Yeah, Peak Stupidity is well aware that men do 98% of the dangerous work, and and maybe 95% of the hard manual labor, at least in America. That does not usually stop the politically correct scolds that want to tell us we are all equal, and the signs (like above) are sexist.
It takes a lot of money and time to make an assload of new signs to replace these, and who will do the hard work at the plant to do it? Men.
It's sad that just seeing a sign like this makes part of my day, but that's what it's come to. Now, from a totally different time, and a place where women glowed and men plundered - no, no nothing to do with the 3-Mile Island nucular facility or it's problems a year earlier, we have Men at Work from a "Land Down Under" off of their debut album "Business as Usual", written by Colin Hay, and Ron Strykert.
Hey, Peak Stupidity readers know by now that lyrics don't matter much, but this is a good example. I DID try vegemite about 10 years after hearing this song, and, trust me, it is some nasty shit. If that black goo is the Streelin version of peanut butter, then I don't want to try their jelly substitute either. Again, don't listen to the lyrics, as Peak Stupidity learned the hard way!
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The Camp of the Saints
Posted On: Wednesday - September 13th 2017 10:47AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Books
This and another book that'll I'll write about soon were meant to be the first 2 book reviews on Peak Stupidity. Now, keep in mind that this prophetic novel was written in 1975(!) by Mr. Jean Raspail (yes, it's a man ... the French are like that - no addadictomy involved here) with a great translation by Norman Shapiro. Yes the translator IS important, as this is not an action novel, and the best part of this book is the descriptions of the thoughts and discussions of the French population on major turmoil coming via a million destitute .-Indians fixin' to land on the Riviera with more boatloads to come. Censorship, Inc. has not yet taken "Camp of the Saints" down from Amazon.com ... yet.
Anwyay, today, VDare featured this review by Mr. Chris Roberts that is good as anything Peak Stupidity would post. Here is the same review posted on unz.com where there is a place for comments. It seems like some excerpts from this review are in order, then a few comments on behalf of Peak Stupidity.
Instead of gaudily focusing on black thugs, Arab terrorists, or conniving Asians, The Camp of the Saints puts the white race in front of a mirror to ask, “Why do you bow to those who wish you harm and who promise you subjugation?” This question takes up most of the book because the Third World does not reach Europe until the very end. The story is mainly about what goes on in the minds of whites as the “armada” of aliens slowly approaches.Does this sound familiar at all to you? Globalist elites replacing the people? Borders that are purposefully not enforced letting blank million ... anyone? anyone? Twenty to twenty-five million illegals in. Corrupt churches taking taxpayers money to resettle .. anyone? Anyone? 10's of thousands of Somalians ... in Minney ... Anyone? Anyone? ... apolis.
Mr. Raspail brilliantly depicts the weakness of the West’s elites. Even as millions of non-whites who share no language, culture, or religion with Europe approach, media and government alike welcome this coming dawn that will end the West’s present Dark Age.
Remember, the book was written 42 years back. It's incredibly prophetic! The reviewer goes on:
All the suicidal Western concepts are there: the idea that diversity is redemption, the guilt about wealth and comfort, pathological altruism—all with a curious veneer of ambivalence. What does it matter? We’ve had our day in the sun. To care about survival would be prejudice.
Yes, that seems to be the attitude of the majority. All that guilt will go away once the SHTF though, but kinda' late.
It is all too familiar, and a mark of incredible prescience that a novel written two generations ago in another country has a cast of characters immediately recognizable to any American in the current year. The Camp of the Saints even has good-hearted, normal white citizens suspicious of the coming changes, but paralyzed by dishonest media and the fear of social stigma.Indeed! Now, the ideas mentioned in this next paragraph of the Mr. Roberts' review meshes with what Peak Stupidity has state multiple times but summed up here with regard to theories of long-term conspiracies.
The book’s strength is its unwillingness to settle for easy answers. There is no cabal of Jews or bankers behind our race’s suicide. The bias of the media is not concocted by a conspiracy. Christianity is not a disease of the mind, but a sociological reality. The villains are not all perverts or pedophiles; the heroes are not flawless and square jawed. The Camp of the Saints takes stock of the world as it is, and then thrusts a crisis upon it to see what would happen. The author has said that he didn’t know the story’s ending when he started.
OK, well, that is about 1/2 of the review so you may as well go read it if you've come this far.
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16 Years of Spreading Democracy - They still hate us for our freedoms(?)
Posted On: Monday - September 11th 2017 8:26PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity US Police State History US Feral Government
Peak Stupidity remembers 9/11/01 today. This is not in the sense of a commemoration, but just that, yes, we remember what happened, what people said then and what people in power have actually done since then. There is not much good to be said, beside things already written about the bravery of the men of the NY Fire Department. The United States had never had a direct attack of this magnitude within the country itself since Pearl Harbor, Hawaii at the end of 1941 (yes, it was just a territory then).
It was shocking, and the reactions by people of the media could not have been expected to be completely sane just a day later. Ann Coulter (whom has come around to be a true Libertarian-Conservative) wrote about us going over there to kick ass and convert them all. The neocons talked about our Moslem problem as an opportunity (though even back then the worry was the "backlash", as dying of smoke inhalation, burns, or a jump from 1000 ft. is bad, but having peoples' feeling hurt is another story entirely.).
There are still arguments over what really happened, and I WILL NOT get into that. Suffice it to say that indeed the US Feral Government seemed really ready with a plan to do something, mostly to really get moving on a more solid police state, very quickly. Does that kind of jumping-to-action happen a lot in big governments? I don't seem to recall anything ...
We all know that only very specific minor solutions as reactions to the attacks were accomplished, while the basic problems were maintained or made worse. Cockpit doors on airliners are hard to bust through now. Check. The amount of Moslems entering the US to stay, and even from Saudi Arabia, where the culprits came from, have increased drastically. VDare has all of this, and here is information on number of Saudi students. This box in not checked. Immigration under control now? That box is not checked.
Let me get to the point of the post title. Well, you'd have thought, after the initial anger and other emotions wore off, people in power in the US Feral Gov't could really look at what the big problems were: Uncontrolled immigration, military meddling in places that were not any part of Defense of the country, and one more to come last here. However, the big idea of the neocons, President Bush included there, were already hatched, I guess, and the deal was we would spread democracy, and give that part of the world a taste of our "freedoms", so they'd never go back to their camel-jockeying, women-oppressing, ayatollah-following ways. Just try it in any country first, say, what the hell, Iraq.
Next, on the domestic front, the "Patriot" act, something that America's founders wouldn't have used for toilet paper due to biohazard, was passed, again rather quickly for a big government. It was part of the blueprint for the police state in progress. About the freedoms to be foisted on the poor bastards in the Middle East Moslem world, is freedom like a pile of gravel? Do we reduce our pile of freedom when we move it with the front-end loader all over the world. It sure as hell seems like it here, as there ain't much left!
Yeah, many think that, oh it's just the airports. "I will boycott that whole industry before I take part in the massively undignified and unconstitutional stuff that goes on.", you may adamantly tell me. I hate to break it to you, but it will come in some form to other travel modes and other areas of everyday life. They can't just have a partial police state - it's one of those all-or-nothing things.
This part about the airports, though takes me to the last, but important, point of non-solution to the problem we had on 9/11/01. Another box unchecked is any fix to the tragedy of having unarmed people on all 4 of those airliners that day. The picture above shows it vividly. People are still, 16 years later, being DISARMED at the airports. No lesson has been learned. The next paragraph is something I've been wanting to write for a long time.
Wouldn't this country, and the whole world possibly, be so much different now, if the following simple thing happened 16 years ago today: What if the airport-based security guys at that time were NOT disarming passengers? What if only 2-3 passengers on each of those airliners had been armed (very likely were they living per US Constitution Amendment II)? Can you imagine how proud Americans would have felt and still would, had the planes been defended through quick dispatch of the RWB's (Ragheads With Boxcutters)? Not only that, but the rest of the world would be mostly envious, some angry, that this was a country that could not be messed with as there was still "a rifle behind every blade of grass".
The Middle East was invaded willy-nilly and the US population was coerced into becoming a police state, all because of 19 guys with boxcutters? Is that what I'm telling you? PATHETIC!
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Is Global Climate DisruptionTM Real? Is the Pope Catholic?
Posted On: Monday - September 11th 2017 2:52PM MST
In Topics: Commies Lefty MegaStupidity Global Climate Stupidity So-called Pope Francis
Oh, bottom line you? Sure: Not hardly, and there's no freakin' tellin' anymore.
(taken from NEAR Venezuela (Cartagena, Colombia), but not IN Venezuela, as Venezuela is in a "grave crisis" so needs a prayer service - no talk about rounding up, shooting, and pushing the Commies into a ditch yet - wonder why? Possibly, the PAPAL PLANE did some chandelles and crazy eights OVER Venezuala to, you know, pray a bit closer by.)
Is the Pope Catholic? See, now you used to hear that expression a lot. "Hey, do you think I should park the car somewhere right away, since my oil pressure light is on?" "Is the Pope Catholic?" That meant, "of course, yes." How should we phrase it now? "Do you think we're going to get wet here in Tampa, Florida today?" "C'mon, is the Pope a Latin American Commie?" "Yeah, I'd better go ahead and cancel the BBQ."
The Associated Press relates the latest spew outta' the guy they still haven't demoted back down to lay bishop 1st class. Peak Stupidity has opined on the fool before back here and here.
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) -- Pope Francis has sharply criticized climate change doubters, saying history will judge those who failed to take the necessary decisions to curb heat-trapping emissions blamed for the warming of the Earth.OK, let's start at the beginning - If you believe this Global Climate DisruptionTM nonsense, why ARE you traveling around the world in the PAPAL PLANE, vs using electronic methods to communicate with your flock
Francis was asked about climate change and the spate of hurricanes that have pummeled the U.S., Mexico and the Caribbean recently as his charter plane left Colombia on Sunday and flew over some of the devastated areas.
"Those who deny this must go to the scientists and ask them. They speak very clearly," he said, referring to experts who blame global warming on man-made activities.
I think this guy is not only a Commie fool but pretty far off the Catholic religion when he talks about who "history will judge". Who knows what history will say, as it is written by the winners, whether they were righteous or not. For his flock, he should be worried about who will be judged by God, especially for not seeking the truth (the "Word")
For those who have denied climate change, or delayed actions to counter it, he responded with an Old Testament saying: "Man is stupid."Now, the question in my mind, seeing as we nothing if not generous here at Peak Stupidity, is did Commie Francis say this nonsense before or after he busted his face on a part of the (Eco-, I hope) PopeMobile? Yes, man is stupid, and men with head injuries are stupider still. I really can't find that "Man is Stupid" quote in the Old Testament, but then I have the King James version, not the Revised Premier Lenin Eco-version, with the forward by Salvador Allende.
"When you don't want to see, you don't see," he said.
I can quote another passage that quotes Jesus in the New Testament, that goes like "Thou hypocrite, first cast out the
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The "Concept" album - what a concept!
Posted On: Saturday - September 9th 2017 7:34PM MST
In Topics: Music Movies
In answer to a question by a commenter, I brought up the old idea of the concept album from back in the heyday of good rock and pop music. Both words of this term are kind of ancient, as not so much music nowadays is bought in the form of albums, or bought PERIOD, if my habits are not uncommon. The first word, "concept" applied to albums in which all or most of the songs together told a story, or at least fit together well (in terms of lyrics).
Hey, this post is going to sound like some parts in the John Cussack movie "High Fidelity", I guess. If you've seen it, you know what I mean, and if not, go download it now or take it out from the library. Now, you can finish reading this at your leisure, as "High Fidelity" is a cool movie. I forgot to mention that Jack Black is in it, and that alone makes it good.
Yeah, so top 3 best Concept Albums of all time:
(Only one of the 3 is embedded for reasons explained.)
# 1) Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) – Time: It’s about a man who (possibly in just a dream) gets transported into the future.
The funny thing is, the only hit song on the album is one that is not part of the theme (“Hold on Tight (to your Dreams)“). I’d like to read otherwise, but right now, this is the best concept album of ALL TIME. Jeff Lynne was like some kind of musical genius.
I don't want to repeat music here, so, as TIME was featured here on Peak Stupidity before, I'll also just give the youtube link.
#2) The Moody Blues – Days of Future Passed: It is about the different stages of life. The hit song on it was “Tuesday Afternoon“.
These guys made rock in combination with classical orchestras. Nobody I’ve heard of today has 1/4 of this much creativity.
youtube had to screw up the concept of a full concept album together that I could embed.
#3) Eagles – Desperado: This one has a theme about outlaws and the West.
Most people know the title song and “Tequila Sunrise“, but the whole thing is great – Bernie Leadon has a short banjo instrumental, and all but Bernie (I think) sing lead vocals on various tracks. It was the best album by The Eagles, period.
Here is a link to a series of youtube videos that make this whole album, but with this WARNING that because this one is separate clips in a compilation, even though the songs will play in sequence, you will usually hear commercials at some point between songs, which pretty much RUINS your listening with a concept album. The Eagles have some kind of problem with some of their stuff being up there – I tried to find ANY version of the song “On the Border” for this post from that album with no luck.
Oh, right, usually one does these kind of top-x lists in reverse order, for suspense, just like John Cussack in the movie, Kasey Kasem of "America's Top 40" (if you know who he is, you shouldn't need this post to educate you.), and about every other person. Please remember though, that we are near Peak Stupidity. Good night readers.
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[UPDATED 12/05/20:] The video is gone, and I had to put a link to the Moody Blues full album Days of Future Passed instead of an embedded video.
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[UPDATED 08/28/21:] Thanks to commenter Adam Smith for the link to the whole album Days of Future Passed.
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Too many Anchor-Ruskies according to the Lyin' Press
Posted On: Friday - September 8th 2017 7:55AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity The Russians Pundits Media Stupidity
You read and STFU. ;-}
(Now, see this is what we've talking about - more baby pics for the women readers, that demographic has been a weak spot for us - PS Marketing Department)
Steve Sailer posts on unz his take on from his reading (he reads A LOT!) of this "Daily Beast" article on Russian anchor-babies. I glanced at the article too and see why Sailer has commented. This is a good of the Lyin' Press in action or really inaction, as it is an example of lying by omission.
One paragraph of history first. The 14th Amendment of the US Constitution was passed just after the War of Northern Aggression, and signed only under duress by the Southern states during the occupation called "the Reconstruction". Whatever you think about that last part, the idea of it was to give the freed black slaves the right to vote or participate in politics by making sure it was clear they were US citizens, along with other sections that expanded the jurisdiction of the Feral Government The Amendment was adopted in 1968. The 1st sentence of Section 1 is the only thing involved here in the "anchor-baby" issue, the idea that anyone born in the United States is automatically a citizen:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.Clear enough. No, read it carefully. The "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" is the part that is conveniently left out by those who believe the "automatically a citizen" part. Are non-English-speaking Chinese ladies who give birth at a
How about Mexican senoras who have just crossed over from Nogales, having already broken the law? If they are not in custody for that crime, I guess they're not. Peak Stupidity has no lawyers that can answer this (or any other) serious question, but Miss Ann Coulter gave a pretty damn good argument that we could not fully follow, and she IS some kind of lawyer (the odd kind, really - the ones trying to give the other 99% a good name).
Alrighty, back to the Lyin' Press - affiliated Daily Beast and their article all worried about a few hundred "Baby Ivans" that have been born lately on Trump property. Ha, kind of ironic I guess, too. They are AGAINST IT! OK, I'm glad these guys have been reading some Ann Coulter or something from a constitutional lawyer not named Øb☭ma. However, here comes the lying by omission as Sailer points out. By a well-known process improved by Peak Stupidity, Inc, called rectal extraction, we reckon that Chinese anchor babies born are at least 3 orders of magnitude (1000 times) more common than these Russians. Most of the Chinese are purposeful events too, as they are just very savvy folk. On the other hand, some of the Latin American anchor-babies may not be planned, and some are, but either way, those numbers are probably another 1/2 order of magnitude higher. Again, rectal-extraction-level numbers here, but this is no small amount in total. These Russian little ones are a drop in the bucket.
Why is this latest drop-in-the-bucket number from the Russians such a big deal? Does every part of the Lyin' Press stick to the narrative of "Russians are Bad, mmmkaay"? This is not 1975. They know that, I think. I believe that the LP has got a bug up their collective ass ONLY from the Russian babies because they just don't like white people to come here.
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Sport Utility Drivers - GET OFF
Posted On: Friday - September 8th 2017 6:52AM MST
In Topics: Cars Curmudgeonry
... I mean "GET OFF OF THE ROAD!", or at least, how about "OUT OF MY WAY - IT'S JUST A SMALL SPEEDBUMP, YA PUSSY!" Come on people, I've seen the commercials that got you to buy this land battleship. They show you tearin' ass up the desert hills, wheels treating the 6" rocks like it's pea gravel, making hard turns, spraying dust all over place, with your mountain bikes on top ready to take out and
yet, you slow down to 2 mph over a 4" high speedbump that my 2-door, 20 year-old Ford sedan handles at 15 mph. Git outta my way!
Really, you've spent the extra 5 - 10 large (OK, medium, nowadays) on that big drivetrain and lots more to have that 7,000 lb. massive machine in general, but it's never been off the road, and you are scared of the speedbumps? Are you the same people who would take your VW microbuses up Pike's Peak, follow The Dead around the country, selling beads and hallucinogens for gas money, living off
Now, baby boomers, you've got the money, or what's left of it, to purchase the big toys, travel all over the land, now that the kids are gone. Yet you're staying on the road going slow as molasses. What happened to you people? Did you get old? Sure, but I thought your generation is different due to Centrum Silver or something.
Please, next time you wake up in the morning, take a few extra Centrum Silvers (or something a big stronger - if you've still got em in the freezer), so you can get outta the way of my 110 Hp beater.
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Texas Flood - You're on your own! and "That's a Cold Shot!"
Posted On: Thursday - September 7th 2017 6:51PM MST
In Topics: Music Americans Liberty/Libertarianism
Peak Stupidity may start taking pride in being absolutely untimely in any of our "current events" articles. We may as well, because it seems like articles on current topics seem to get put behind just the general "look at this stupid shit" or "this is how stupid this is" articles. Per Joseph Heller's "Catch 22", perhaps the best thing to do is to take pride in being untimely. Even people who don't watch an hour of TV per week have heard about the flooding in SE Texas from Hurricane Harvey. This was meant to be written about 1 week back. Whatever...
This post is in no way a disparaging post about Texans, Houstonians in particular, I guess, or anything about this latest natural disaster. It's just a libertarian/federalism thing, I guess, but one time in my life (without using a time machine to go back oh, 6 decades) I'd like to hear the US President, or hell, any Feral government official say "Good luck down there, but it's not our business. We are neither your Daddy or your Mama, so take care of your own problems. We wish you the best."
Hey, this sounds as harsh as something out of an
That's Stevie Ray Vaughan and his band Double Trouble playing "Cold Shot" from the album "Texas Flood" released in 1983. It's an old blues song.
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UPDATE: Ron Paul just chimed in on this. (Well, I just saw it on Unz.com, anyway.)
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It's all Search Engine Optimization nowadays! So, Baizuo, Baizou, Baizou!
Posted On: Wednesday - September 6th 2017 6:16PM MST
In Topics: Websites Political Correctness China ctrl-left
In John Derbyshire's column today on unz.com, he introduced (to Peak Stupidity, anyway) the Chinese term "baizou". Derbyshire links to one Chenchen Zhang, who wrote a comprehensive definition in this article that would definitely include himself in that category. OK, that was all recursive and shit, huh? ;-} Keep in mind that is very hard to translate things word for word between most languages, and worse from Chinese-English, but the term has been applied to the cntrl-left, antifa, PC types of Americans.
It is not a term of endearment, I can tell you. We call these people the "cntrl-left" in general, here at the Peak Stupidity central offices, but Mr. Chenchen's article relates to us that baizou is more derisive than that:
Although the emphasis varies, baizuo is used generally to describe those who “only care about topics such as immigration, minorities, LGBT and the environment” and “have no sense of real problems in the real world”; they are hypocritical humanitarians who advocate for peace and equality only to “satisfy their own feeling of moral superiority”; they are “obsessed with political correctness” to the extent that they “tolerate backwards Islamic values for the sake of multiculturalism”; they believe in the welfare state that “benefits only the idle and the free riders”; they are the “ignorant and arrogant westerners” who “pity the rest of the world and think they are saviours”.Libtard! You gotta love the Chinese for appreciating that term. It has not been used enough here at Peak Stupidity, mostly because we have some sentimental attachment to the term "liberal" in the classical sense, as it used to mean what "libertarian" does now. That notwithstanding, both Libtard and now, Baizuo are hereby approved as terms of art for all purposes at Peak Stupdity. Our lawyers will get going on the paperwork first thing on the morrow.
Apart from some anti-hegemonic sentiments, the connotations of ‘white left’ in the Chinese context clearly resemble terms such as ‘regressive liberals’ or ‘libtards’ in the United States. In a way the demonization of the ‘white left’ in Chinese social media may also reflect the resurgence of right-wing populism globally.
BTW, I hated to link to Zhang's article, as the rest of it does indeed prove that he is not only a baizuo himself, as noted above, but more of a cntrl-left, libtard, PC China
Here's our point in even putting this post up: Websites need readers, and some of these readers could be from China. It's all about the eyeballs, as we in the BIZ always say at our all-hands, free-pizza meetings. We don't care if we get round eyeballs, slanted eyeballs, hairy eyeballs, or four-eyed eyeballs, just click dammit! Come on guys! It's so simple, do you need a refresher course? It's all Search Engine Optimization nowadays!
P.S. Per, commenter Daniel,Chieh, "In Chinese, baizuo heavily hints of “idiot”(白痴) so the humor is reinforced."
and, when asked for a translation for "useful idiot", writes:
"Most typically: zǒugǒu (走狗) or “lapdog” to express someone who is a foolish toady or collaborator, who is used and later discarded. Literal translation is: “walking dog”, presumably obediently to others."
Thanks, Dan.
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DREAM all you want, but YOU! HAVE! TO! GO! BACK!
Posted On: Wednesday - September 6th 2017 1:10PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Humor Trump Anarcho-tyranny
Per this Politico*1 article linked to by Matt Drudge, along with Michelle Malkin's commentary here*2, we see that President Trump made the right decision, or at least FOR NOW, on the DREAMERS. Yeah, everyone and his brother's got a freakin' DREAM! I would guess even the "DREAMERS" who have broken into the country, or whose parents committed this felony, are mostly just guys who dream of a decent living, possibly taking care of the family down south or making a new one, etc. Some may be dreaming of moving up the ladder of the brutal gang MS-13. Others dream of easy money from
He, yeah, we all all have DREAMS. Some middle-class American kids may DREAM that their Dad can be home with them again, you know "re-uniting the family" and all, after being estranged from fines, loss of his job, forced separation from their Mom and so forth due to being pulled over with a 0.10 % breathalyzer reading. It's tough being the low-hanging fruit on the "tyranny" side of this land of anarcho-tyranny. Some American DREAMERS may just DREAM that they can live a decent life and have a family without having connections or 8 years of college putting them into a no-house-down mortgage in a country that has eviscerated much of its manufacturing to make a lot of money for a small crowd of important people, leaving not many decent blue-collar jobs. Some Americans DREAM of a different government that does not take 1/3 of the money they make to redistribute it to other DREAMERS that broke laws to invade their lands. Others DREAM that their DREAMY kids could go to school with people that have their own culture and language, so that everyone can get along.
BTW, Mexican government conquistadors trying to keep influencing American politics, how well do you all treat those Salvadorian and Guatamalen DREAMERS? Do you let them hang out in Mexico on the dole, or even find a job there, or do they get jailed, robbed and raped until they wake up from their DREAMS? Maybe you should all just SHUT! THE! FUCKIMSIMO! UP-O!, GOVERNMENTO PENDEJOS, or we'll all be writing about the NIGHTMARERS (Not Invited by the Gringos Hose-A Therefore, Make A Rapido Exit.
Yeah, enough of this DREAM crap. You have to go back.
One excerpt from Mrs. Malkin's column:
Nancy Pelosi called on House Republicans to help her “safeguard our young DREAMers from the senseless cruelty of deportation and shield families from separation and heartbreak.”
Never has this Bay Area elitist called on House Republicans to join her in shielding native-born and law-abiding immigrant families from the senseless and preventable violence committed by criminals in this country illegally who’ve caused immeasurable heartbreak for decades in her overrun California sanctuary.
Jamiel Shaw Sr., whose son was mercilessly shot to death by a sanctuary-protected gang member living in outlaw-coddling Los Angeles illegally, administered a bracing reality check:
“You want to talk about families being separated? Try spending your holidays talking to a grave!”
So, major kudos to Donald Trump for sticking to his patriotic voters' wishes on this one. In fact, this is the reason he is President - the immigration issue - aside from getting the major break of being opposed in the '16 election by some type of beastly antiChrist runner-up. Peak Stupidity is pleased and, in fact, surprised by this development on the DACA program of amnesty. It is still no sure thing that this Trump hasn't been neoconned already (we don't believe purposefully, but perhaps under duress). His foreign policy doings have been very dissapointing and contrary to promises he made. This is just as important stuff in the long run, but not as much relatively in the short run, as the immigration issue is pressing, as it's just plain existential. If we don't fix things now, there will be no point or way of fixing anything else in America. Let's hope for and push for this stuff to keep up. Ignore the outcry from the Lyin' Press and the Red and Blue wings of the Government Party.
*1 BTW, Politico is another arm of the LP (Lyin' Press), but it's fun to read this stuff for gloating purposes alone.
*2 VDare writers themselves are the source for all the details, and have written on this topic for years. Their forte is immigration, legal and illegal. I just didn't have a specific article in mind from that site.
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The TV Mythbusters vs. Science & Engineering
Posted On: Tuesday - September 5th 2017 7:29PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity TV, aka Gov't Media Curmudgeonry Science
Peak Stupidity has categorically stated that TV sucks and has sucked since long before our
This is the "curmudgeonry" part. It seems like one should be able to watch the History channel to see shows about history, as WAS the case, what, 15 years ago or so? Yeah, they pretty much concentrated on WWII and the European theater only, so it was the "Nazi" channel to me (now we have youtube antifa videos for this!), but that's still historical. At this point, or last I checked, this "History" channel broadcast non-stop views of people getting ripped off, or ripping people off on some cheap old
The Weather Channel used to be about checking the weather 24/7, but now we can see "Storm Stories". Really, I do understand that times change - just for this Weather Channel example, yes, now we can get the weather on our phones, etc., so they had to do something different to keep viewers. That's understandable, but for some of the other ones, why even keep the name? There's no telling from the name what the broadcasts are about - you tune in the Animal channel, you may get non-stop episodes of I Love Lucy (along with The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy!, of course).
Finally back to the subject now, we have explained why the network name of the Mythbusters show eludes us. That is not the worst show by any means on these cable TV deals with all the 517 channels. There's much, much worse. Mythbusters is entertaining, and who wouldn't want to watch stuff get smashed, shot across the room, or run over with monster trucks? Peak Stupidity does not link to these kinds of things or do research for some of the more mundane posts (hell, maybe ANY of the posts), so we're going by pure random access memory dump here. The two guys that do all the "Myth Busting" are reasonable enough, and not too annoying with one exception.
The show purports to present these two guys as science or engineering types*, and that's what I've got a problem with. Predictions are made; final outcomes of these experiments are discussed, and conclusions are made like it is an engineering paper. Bull! The stuff on that show is neither science nor engineering. Sure, experiments are involved, but just trying different shit, as entertaining as it may be, and
Sure, sometimes in engineering, the theory doesn't cover the reality well (there is no math to cover the process very well, or the models have been way off before) or testing may be cheaper than heavy analysis. Still, some theory or at least engineering math is involved to at least define what the variables are, and what the results really represent. Testing must be done with a goal to cover not just the one process happening, but to at least allow for changes to the paramaters that may be different in the future.
An example would be helpful. Let's just say we are doing what sounds like a simple thing - testing the strength of seat belts. We'd want to know beforehand a range of belts to test to use the proper tensile test machine. We'd have to think of the loading rate (very high in this case, for impact), and make sure we not only use the right one, but test different rates. We'd want to know everything about the seat belt material, and how we can grip it to reduce errors from testing AND make it match the reality of the actual attachment points in the vehicle.
As far as theory, there is the simple stress calculation for axial loading, but cloth is an inherently non-homogenous material, and other calculations (based on thread patterns, etc.) must be used. Because of the high rate of loading, instead of just energy absorbed, impact theory will be involved. Why bother with this, you say, when we are going to test anyway? Well, because this way, once we get some good data and try to match theory with test results, we may want to apply this learning to avoid tests for future products (or at least have "qualification testing" only, as in just some sample runs vs. an entire test program again for every new product). That's engineering.
I'll tell you what they'd do - "We're gonna drop 500 lb of barbells on the end of this long seat belt from the roof of the Chrysler Building." "I say it'll hold, guy." "No, no way, we're gonna go ahead and clear the NW corner of 42nd St. and Lexington Ave (see I did SOME research!), as those barbells are going to make some cool cracks in the sidewalk, and we're gonna film ALL of it!" "See! I told you it would hold. This proves that seat belts are safe. Quit worrying about them, viewers."
You know what, all truth be told, it was probably just that gay beret that the one dude wears that turned me off about this show. Listen, guy on the right, unless you are currently in the Special Forces or are a Frenchman or, even better, a Frenchman in the French Foreign Legion, what the hell are you doing wearing that silly beret? Take it off, take a 4-year curriculum of engineering and then go on TV. Otherwise, get the hell off the air, and put back on those episodes of I Love Lucy, ya' wankers!
* No, I'm not saying the guys have been called "engineers" or "scientists" on the show, but they just talk like they are.
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What's with the banana peels in the trees anyway?
Posted On: Tuesday - September 5th 2017 7:06AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Science
No, I am not being a comedian (today), and I'm not Jerry Seinfeld or any other of those "you ever notice?" guys. I just really want to know - what the hell is with the banana peels in the trees anyway? I wouldn't even ask if I hadn't run across "Ole Miss Goes Bananas": Dear Parents, How's This For A $40K A Year Education? at Zerohedge a few days back.
In this post Peak Stupidity is making an effort to get back to its roots. One might say we are "roots-blogging" this morning, our core competency being the description of the utterly massive levels and myriad types of stupidity to be seen in America today, as we near the peak. The question in the post title and 1st paragraph is only a real one due to the fact that we have not determined where the stupidity of a banana peel in a tree being bad has originated. This is even after having, albeit quickly, read the zerohedge article linked to above, as we would LOVE to read the comments (completely unusable on an older browser - thanks, Zerohedge! No, seriously, I wasted WAY too much time reading the commenters there because they are best-in-class, and there are only so many hours in the day, and dozens of ZH posts/day.)
As we bloggers write so often, "Read the whole thing". Since I can't guarantee that will happen, let me just post one excerpt of an excerpt from one Rod Dreher of "The American Conservative" from his article there
"So let me get this straight. Three black students freaked out because they saw a banana peel in a tree while at a mixed-race fraternity-sorority retreat. The entire retreat ground to a halt so everybody could sit around and emote about the banana peel. A frat boy confessed that he had tossed the peel into the tree because he couldn’t find a trash can — then he promptly abased himself for having committed an offense against racial correctness. The freakout got even freakier, with some black students saying they didn’t feel “safe”. Because of a banana peel. Then the entire retreat was cancelled, and now it’s going to be a campus-wide Thing at Ole Miss. Over a banana peel a frat boy threw into a tree because he couldn’t find a trash can.""Didn't feel safe", he says. The problem is again with TV, but I can't blame the modern idiotic shows, as is usually the case here at Peak Stupidity. No, the problem here must lie with the old slapstick comedy and Bugs Bunny cartoons in my short but lucrative analysis: Do you know how easy it is to get hurt by slipping on a banana peel, people? I have seen it ALL THE TIME in those old comedies and cartoons on TV. ALL! THE! TIME! PEOPLE! They don't always stay in the trees, is the thing. Right? Or, am I missing something in this story?
Here's the part that merits the topic key science being applied to this here post: When my boy was a little one, I would bring him a banana (along with cookies) to eat on the walk home from school. We would put the peel somewhere in a fork or crotch of a tree, or on top of a stump each afternoon as part of some long-term experimenting with the process of rotting. We would both make an effort to remember where we put the one from each day of the week, and then keep an eye out for them during subsequent walks.
This banana peel rotting experiment gave me a chance to teach this boy a little experimental science, without the theory, because, you know, his being a little boy and all. (He did learn that there are tiny creatures in there turning the stuff back into dirt.)
It was pretty good for a while until we it got old for both of us. In the meantime, we answered questions about whether dry weather or wet caused more rotting, or did it matter that the peels were in the air or on the ground. We were like the myth busters, however without either of us adorned with any kind of gay beret. It would not have occurred to either of us walking back and forth to the school to think that maybe our 100's of banana peels in the plants amounted to some sort of aggression to some sort of sick fuck!
A couple of PS's here:
a) This reminded me to make a post of the "Myth Buster" vs. real science and engineering.
b) A reminder to my
c) I really wouldn't mind a comment explaining why banana peels in trees are bad, mmmmkay?? I wouldn't mind a comment about anything, in fact, besides unreadable advertisements for viagra.
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You wanta see fire and brimstone? Put this Beast in the pulpit... then SHELTER IN PLACE!
Posted On: Friday - September 1st 2017 3:48PM MST
In Topics: Humor Hildabeast
Listen, we have every right to give this
'Aspiring Pastor' Hillary Goes From Seances And SpiritCooks To Bible Thumping. If this really goes down, someone will find out about fire and brimstone the hard way and the Methodists may be just the folks. Yes, everyone has got their cameras (here too) these days, but first the eclipse and now this - I want to get me a piece of that brimstone for the mantle.
Hillary Clinton wants to preach. That’s what she told Bill Shillady, her longtime pastor, at a recent photo shoot for his new book about the daily devotionals he sent her during the 2016 campaign. Scattered bits of reporting suggest that ministry has always been a secret dream of the two-time presidential candidate: Last fall, the former Newsweek editor Kenneth Woodward revealed that Clinton told him in 1994 that she thought “all the time” about becoming an ordained Methodist minister. She asked him not to write about it, though: “It will make me seem much too pious.” The incident perfectly captures Clinton’s long campaign to modulate—and sometimes obscure—expressions of her faith.”–The AtlanticBecause what better way to make people forget about a massive pay-for-play scheme, raping Haiti, and a bitchy image than God? Zerohedge, I believe, not the Atlantic
While Hillary has apparently been in the closet for decades over her desire to preach, she turned heads in the 90’s when investigative journalist Bob Woodward wrote in his book ‘The Choice,” that Clinton “held imaginary conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma Ghandi as therapeutic release.” When an advisor suggested that she communicate with Jesus Christ, she declined, saying it would be “too personal.”
Now, we at Peak Stupidity mostly read Zerohedge for the comments (that is not to disparage the articles though). It would be fitting to include one, so here is one of the more erudite, less-disparaging remarks made about the Hildabeast:
John_Coltrane Aug 8, 2017 8:17 PMHey, it's all in fun, right, to write out how we really feel, and give publicity, whether good or bad, to our elites, the Hildabeasts, other Klintons, Gores, Soros', Bushes, Merkels, Senate Gigolos and all. However, as our Moms have always said "Yeah, it's all fun and games 'till someone gets elected!"
It boggles the mind that this neurologically damaged lush bitch is still alive. And Soros too for that matter. It does lend credibility to those Satanism charges.
Can you imagine how good you'll feel when she's finally worm food! Save lots of bubbly for that day.
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Low Hanging Fruit (part 2) - HEY, WHERE'S THE STUPIDITY?
Posted On: Friday - September 1st 2017 2:50PM MST
In Topics: Economics
This post is mostly off of any topic covered before on Peak Stupidity, as honestly, I cannot yet distill out any stupidity from this idea - low-hanging fruit. This is just to give a better example in real life
As the newly-added picture in that previous post showed, the term comes from the obvious thinking that one should pick (a) that fruit shown over (b) some other fruit easy to get to, but not in that good shape OR (c) some good fruit that is way high in the tree so hard to get to, and either (b) or (c) over some almost rotten fruit way up high in the tree. It's simple and obvious but kind of a cool way to organize things in a business setting: [Easy with Big Payoff] > [Easy with Small Payoff] OR [Hard with Big Payoff] > [Hard with Small Payoff].
Here are examples in 2 fields:
Let's do software examples - in fixing bugs one should not spend an inordinate amount of time on the bugs that don't appear much or don't really cause too much trouble AND are going to take lots of time. "The factory scanners are locking up every hour or so on this routine - we can't work like this!" "That is simple - those files are being written to a place with not enough space - this'll take 10 minutes to fix." That should get done right away. Lots of trouble can be saved with not much effort. Next, we've got "Hey, this only happens once in a long while. It's weird, but we get around it by doing this ..." "Yeah, I know how I caused that bug - I didn't change that one
Let's do engineering examples - in fixing problems, it's the same thing. Don't work on the minor stuff that ALSO takes lots of engineering effort until you've finished all the rest or just run into a total redesign. "This critical part is failing right here regularly." "We already know exactly why, due to this stress concentration point, and we already have replacement parts that have been redesigned with doublers there. That's job 1! Next, we have "The flow out of this duct is about 75 % of what it should be. It's not gonna even be noticed, but it needs to be fixed eventually." "Oh we are pretty sure that is just one piece of ducting designed wrong. We just need a few hours on Pro-E, and the shop can easily make the redesign." Or, the other way around "These valves work OK, but are kind of expensive - we can save a lot of money per unit with these other ones." "Yes, but we'll need to set up some test rig first to run cycles on them to see if they will be good enough - it'll be two weeks of engineering time, money for the shop, and a few months to get the "buyers' off their asses. Lastly, we've got "The area gets quite a bit hotter than our finite-element model shows. It is well within spec though, but I don't understand it." "Yeah, but we haven't looked at that in a while - it'll take a week for someone to get up to speed and get near figuring this out." Yes, you may want to find out in the long run, because, unlike software, there are physical principals involved, and engineers hate it when things don't work out as they should. The difference, once determined, could help us understand our next similar design better.
Wait, WHERE'S THE STUPIDITY?. (I'm not about to get a new URL at this late stage.)
Don't fret, reader(s), we're just about swimming in it.
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"(let me tell ya') It's More Fun, Bein' An Illegal Alien."
Posted On: Thursday - August 31st 2017 3:24PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Music Liberty/Libertarianism Anarcho-tyranny
Wasn't that Phil Collins and Genesis? Did we get the song title correct? How in hell do you sing these songs while you bang on the drums? Don Henley? Karen Carpenter? Ferris Bueller? Anyone....? Anyone?
OK, Phil Collins falls under the category of great artists who really don't know a whole lot, or enough to be shooting off their mouths like
The two posts show far on the basic idea of anarcho-tyranny so far, (part 1 and part 2) have included illegal immigration and these aliens as the main example of the anarcho portion of the term. Though Peak Stupidity has a Topic Key, Immigration Stupidity, pointing to over 40 posts as of this date on massive immigration, both legal and illegal, here is a short post just on the number of people in this "sector" of the population, to go along with the anarcho-tyranny posts.
Let's talk Mexicans and then Chinese. However, when talking "Mexicans", we imply the inclusion of a significant percentage of these from other countries in Latin (mostly Central) America. There are many Guatemalans, El Salvadorans, and others that pass through Mexico (if they don't get thrown in jail, raped, robbed or a combination thereof on the way - no they are not keeping their most compassionate Border Patrol agents!). Peak Stupidity cannot be keeping up decadaly with the latest damn euphemism for Latinos, be it Hispanic in the oughts, beaners back in the 1970's, during "Chico and the Man"'s day, and whatever you want to here now. It's too much, let's call 'em all Mexicans for practical purposes this post.
When talking Chinese (yes illegal aliens, you didn't know?), we may be including a few others, say from Thailand, Vietnam, or Laos. There wouldn't be but a handful of Japanese, just because their country is nothing really to run away from right now, financial news reports notwithstanding. Ditto for South Koreans. Now, North Koreans, along with white South African refugees, BTW, may be a just a few people that I would even think of asylum for, as you'd have to be damn good to get here - N. Koreans for obvious reasons, and S. Africans due to US immigration de-facto policy of refusing them flat-out. Anyway, suffice it to say, that by "Chinese", we mean 95% Chinese.
The number 11,000,000, like we know the precision to the nearest million (ha!) has been bandied about since 2001 for the number of illegal Mexicans living in the US. We don't use static numbers for other widely-varying values, and nobody had a good measurement in 2001 anyway, so this number is bogus. Your average illegal Mexican is not gonna come outside for the Census man, and I can't blame him for that; I don't like talking to the guy. However, just estimating percentage of population in average states, then adding in pretty-well estimated LARGE values for California and Texas, is gonna get you over 11 million. I'll say 20 - 25 million. "Hey, you just pulled that number out of your ass!" says the reader, or "via rectal extraction" says the more gentlemanly reader. Yeah, what of it, so did you with your 11 million. What are you saying, your ass is more accurate than the ass of Peak Stupidity?! ;-}
The number of illegal Chinese residents may be much more of a surprise to Americans. If you don't live in a medium or large size city (IN the city that is, not the 'burbs") you may not know, as Chinese people LUV the city, as described here. You won't find out easily without being with someone who knows the language, but much of the help at the myriad of Chinese restaurants in medium and even smaller towns are illegal Chinese people. Add in the massive amounts of people in the Chinatowns of NYC and the west coast cities, and just simple estimates can get one over 2,000,000. I will admit that is just a 1/2 order-of-magnitude guess - let's say 1 - 3 million. No, most do not cross over from Mexico, Canada, or ride in shipping containers. Most come via some type of visa, but overstay forever. The US does not have any good system being used to track exits, as THEY DON'T WANT TO DO IT, or the elites DON'T WANT THEM TO!
The quick tie-in to the anarcho-tyranny thing here is that both of these sectors of the population residing in America are living in some ways, especially economically, freer than the sector under tyranny. Oh, they can't get SS, they don't do paperwork, so they can't work for IBM or Google, you say? Yeah, but that's the point - no paperwork, no taxes, working as real free agents. Were the 16th Amendment to the US Constitution (on allowing the Feral Gov't to collect income tax) not around, we'd all live like illegal Mexicans and Chinese in a good way. "What do I do for a living, Gov't man? None of your damn bidness gringo!" Let me not get into right here the paperwork many illegal aliens (2nd-hand info.) do manage to fill out - that of the Earned Income Credit - to get some of you middle-class folks' tax money. They do get into H&R Block for that stuff. In addition, some of the illegal (and legal) Chinese, being always more savvy, will get on all the taxpayer money-redistribution programs they've heard of on We-Chat, say WIC, Medicare, what have you, even when making a GOOD LIVING in cash.
Wait, did I say short post?? Would you believe medium? This song to follow is named "On the Border" and, as written before, should not be confused with the great History-Musician Al Stewart's song with the same title. Mr. Stewart's song had the theme of wartime intrigue, while this Eagle's song is more about someone who is being hassled by the authorities and just wants to be left alone to "turn this water to wine."
I'm not saying I agree with the lyrics here, but they are not really specific enough to say. This comes from the same-titled album from way back in 1974 during the best part of The Eagles country-rock phase (just as good as one of the best concept albums of all time, the previously-released "Desperado"), with the line-up of:
Don Henley - vocals and drums
Glen Frey - vocals and guitars
Don Felder - electric guitar
Randy Meisner - vocals and bass guitar
Bernie Leadon - vocals, banjo, guitars, and pedal steel guitar
Woah, forgot that youtube blocked the hell out of this one, I suppose per Eagles request, but you never know anymore. What, youtube censors, too un-PC, too much anarchy, not enough tyranny?
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UPDATE [8/31/17 evening:]. That song link was only to a 30 s sample.
Our apologies, because it's a great rockin' tune. Replaced by "Already Gone"
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UPDATE [ ~ 4 years later:]. Thanks to commenter Adam Smith for the link to On the Border for which the Eagles, or someone involved was kind enough not to block ~ 50 years later!
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Anarcho-Tyranny (part 2) - Picking the Low-Hanging Fruit
Posted On: Thursday - August 31st 2017 1:01PM MST
In Topics: US Police State Anarcho-tyranny
(Continued from the previous post on anarcho-tyranny)
The objective of the previous Peak Stupidity post on anarcho-tyranny was to give a basic definition and some examples of how we are living under this kind of system in America today. It might be assumed by the reader that a country or land under anarcho-tyranny MUST have various sectors of un-like populations to be in effect. I did not mean to include that as part of the definition, but it does seem like there is a cause-and-effect there. In addition, an
That assumption may be correct, as I can't think of a situation off the bat with a homogenous population that falls or fell under anarcho-tyranny. For one thing, almost by definition, a homogenous population is more united, and can still be separated by class, but will not let itself be divided in the ways you may see in a die-verse society as we now have. One can look back in history to places like the Soviet Union where you had most of the population under a heavy yoke of rules while others, the inner Party and such, were not. However, that is just the way that just plain-Jane tyranny goes - there's always the animals that are "a little more equal" than the others. It may be, then, that it is only under diversity/multiculturalism that this effect can even happen.
Let's get out of the clouds here to more specifics as in the last post. Oh yeah, speaking of all the rules and The LAW, that falls heavily on the (mostly white) middle class, why and how does it happen like this? In keeping just with the traffic and local law enforcement hassles for now, though it pertains to all levels of government, I give you 3 words: Low-Hanging Fruit.
Low-Hanging Fruit: Yes, this has been a phrase used in the business world, but it doesn't grate on me like some of most egregious corporate-speak, as it makes complete sense. "Take care of the low-hanging fruit first", you will hear. Well, the literal meaning is obvious. In the business world, we mean that we'd be best served taking care of things first that are both fairly easy AND will make lots of improvement. For examples, we will use both the computer software world and the engineering world in an upcoming post to illustrate the concept. (It was right there, see where it's a space now... I hate when the post gets totally derailed, but I did want to write on this.) It comes down to what is easier AND will pay off more vs. harder with a high pay-off, easier with a low pay-off or lastly, harder with a low pay-off.
OK, please don't be naive enough (on Peak Stupidity? Nah!) to think that many areas of law enforcement aren't simply about monetary collection to support, well, what else, the "force" and the government of the jurisdiction. Think about the low-hanging fruit in traffic law enforcement. You pull over the soccer Mom or working Dad in the mini-van going 8 mph over the limit. The job is easy - no guff, not any chance of danger during the stop. The pay-off is high, maybe a 95% chance that the $217 for the ticket will be in the mail by the end of the week. Will the "perp" go to court? Not likely, he's too busy working to pay for the monthly bills and the tyrannical taxes to support the anarcho side of the systems' kids food, phones, and schooling. [Easy and high pay-off]
What about the hispanic beaner in the beater with old tags who rolled through the light? It may be fairly easy, plenty of stuff to write up, but where's the pay-off? What's the chances that money will get to the courthouse, when it's hard to tell who the guy even is, really? The city will lose money as this guy gets sent back and forth to get a real registration and insurance and probably quits showing up at some point, if he even bothered to begin with. [Easy, but low payoff]. Or, here's a known drug-dealer breaking about 10 laws inside a city block. Yeah, he's got warrants and people to pay his bail. The city can get its cut, but the danger in pulling this guy over is high. Let the DEA guys do it - that's their thing. [Decent pay-off, but not easy]
What about this black guy in the hood blasting the rap music? You can find something wrong with the car and the driving, but man, it may be a dangerous stop, and this guy may be indigent, driving a car he got with low-low-credit on his last few gas bucks. Just leave him be, it's not worth it. [Not easy, and no pay-off]
That's the low-hanging-fruit logic. The examples above are just in the one area of traffic enforcement, but this logic is around in all areas and levels of government. The middle-class working man must drive, work and live very carefully to avoid getting hit by the tyranny-stick, while the folks on the anarcho- side can take it a lot easier.
There will have to be at least a part 3 here on this topic, as this one dealt more with HTF? (the How?) than WTF? (the Why?) which must be addressed.
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Anarcho-Tyranny, WTF?
Posted On: Wednesday - August 30th 2017 9:52AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity US Police State US Feral Government Anarcho-tyranny
The term "Anarcho-tyranny" was discussed a week back here on Peak Stupidity in relation specifically to the Charlottesville, Virginia street battle. Links to the source of the term from the late Mr. Sam Francis were are in that older post. This post will discuss this method of government oppression (just one of potpourri of methods that exist) with examples.
Under anarcho-tyranny, as can be gleaned from the word itself, one sector or class of people in society can end up under tyranny, while another sector is left free to raise quite a bit of Holy Hell without many repercussions. In American society today, under our beastly Feral Government, and assisted by other underling governments, the middle class, but the white middle class especially lives under many rules undreamed about even in the wettest dreams of the commissars of Soviet Russia. It is a thin line that we must follow throughout life in order to not get in some kind of costly trouble at some point, and especially to not even have any worry about a possible clamp-down or visit by some part of the long tentacles of the law for some violation we don't even know about. At the same time, the illegal alien Mexicans, Chinese, and others, and much of the black ghetto, live under a different, more relaxed set of rules. They can get away with raising a whole lot more hell, and they have "outs" that the (white) middle class does not.
Here's how it works. Anyone not at the high, elite levels of society, where money and/or connections can get anything done, but who has a job and maybe even a family to support with that, has a lot to lose by getting in trouble with the law. OK, for felonies, sure, you may argue, but the little stuff just results in fines from the Highway Department, liens on the house, that sort of thing. Yeah, well, try not dealing with all the little stuff, and it will turn into the big stuff (cops at the door for an arrest or eviction) soon enough. We have got fines for license plates you forgot to turn in, for cars left in the front yard in the wrong spot (try, just try to get along with your neighbors, or else), and myriads of stupid rules that you MUST deal with daily if you don't want to jeopardize your family life. Now, if you have the gall to try to run your working life on your own via starting a business, well, you are on a whole nother level of stupidity regarding governments.
How about the other sectors, say, I dunno, the folks in the barrios in Los Angeles? Well, if the law can't even tell WHO you are from your fake ID and stolen SS number, they really can't do a lot to you. Ran through a red light drunk as a skunk and plowed into a nice middle class family? No problem? OK, you may spend a 1/2 year or two with a free crash pad and guaranteed grits and PB&J - yes, you will miss the tamales, so there is that sacrifice. No matter what, you can hightail it to your bugout location called Meheeco, and come back next year wide-eyed and bushy-tailed. If you, the reader, don't read what goes on with this stuff, you may not even know that some people come and go 5, 10 15 times! Without any idea and easy facial identification - yes you, the Mexican or Guatemalan do all look the same to the American law - and you are a new man every time you show up. Why even worry about more felonies, when each break-in to the US is a felony? After the 1st one, the rest are free, they say.
Illegal Chinese people in the Chinatowns in all the big cities, and spread out thinner in any medium-sized city, have the same "perks". Can you, an American, tell one from another? Not usually, right? In trouble with the law - just move to New York City. Who is going to find you? If it is a really major thing, and your picture has even been sent around, well you should have saved up the money by now (Chinese people have!) to pay off the right Chinese official to get left alone.
Try doing
Why did I mention the ghetto thugs? Yeah, they're Americans. However, as far as petty crime goes, most of them will not get treated with the thoroughness as a middle-class guy (of any race) who has violated some petty edict. See, the cops can't deal with all the little stuff with these guys, as there aren't the resources to deal with it. Even crime committed with the use of handguns will not get near the punishment for the "having a gun" part as it will for someone in the middle class. If you're in and out of jail regularly enough to where you say "hey" by name to the booking officers, your career is absolutely NOT in jeopardy, and your family is probably used to it; the occasional visits to the "big house" are treated as trips to the beach are to a middle-class family.
Some questions and tentative answers about the "why?"'s and "how?"'s about anarcho-tyranny will be the subject of an upcoming post in a day or two.
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