First post on the Financial Stupidity topic - much more to come
Posted On: Thursday - January 19th 2017 6:40PM MST
In Topics:   University  Global Financial Stupidity  Economics
In particular, I would like to write about the University loan bubble and accompanying University Stupidity that is at a very high level right now. There will be more to come on this topic and also the general topic of Global Financial Stupidity.
Due to time constraint for today, we will start now with an article from zerohedge on some "accounting problems" with student loan default rates. This is not starting with a very good introduction, but it's just to put this out there while the article is new, and we are at the last day of the Øb☭ma administration, bureaucrats of which have been faking data like a Chinese Cadre reporting directly to Chairman Mao.
Zerohedge says US Government Caught Massively Fabricating Student Loan Default Data
An the WSJ reported overnight "many more students have defaulted on or failed to pay back their college loans than the U.S. government previously believed."
The admission came last Friday, when the Education Department released a memo saying that it had overstated student loan repayment rates at most colleges and trade schools and provided updated numbers. This also means that the number of loan defaults in various cohorts is far greater than previously revealed.
A spokeswoman for the Education Department said that the problem resulted from a "technical programming error."
And so, the infamous "glitch" strikes again.
How bad was the data fabrication? When The Wall Street Journal analyzed the new numbers, the data revealed that the Department previously had inflated the repayment rates for 99.8% of all colleges and trade schools in the country. In other words, virtually every single number was made to appear better than it actually was. And people mock China for its own "fake data."
According to an analysis of the revised data, at more than 1,000 colleges and trade schools, or about a quarter of the total, at least half the students had defaulted or failed to pay down at least $1 on their debt within seven years. This is a stunning number and suggests that the student loan crisis is far greater than anyone had anticipated previously. It also means that the US taxpayer will be on the hook for hundreds of billions in government-funded loans once attention finally turns to who is expected to foot the bill for years of flawed lending practices.
Was this the 2nd Great Leap Forward, being called GLF 2.0? It does seems like we have all leaped, but more like off the New River Gorge bridge with a china-made parachute than forward, it seems to me. Hey, could I be a zerohedge commenter - gosh darn it, I'm funny enough!
Here's a real ZH commenter - just off the first few for this article:
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Krungle NoWayJose Jan 19, 2017 11:37 AM
You cannot tell a bank that they can make risky loans to teenagers with no credit history or jobs and that the government will be responsible for defaults and not expect bankers to hand them out like candy. This is yet another case where the taxpayer assumes the risk for banks and the banks only have to worry about the profit. If these loans were could all be discharged with bankruptcy, and if the government assumed no risk, you would find the student loan market immediately tighten up dramatically. And schools would adjust accordingly. If the loans came with grade requirements (something like if you start failing classes, we will stop funding you), you would find schools suddenly investing in education, not administration. As with almost everything in our society, the bad behavior starts with absolving banks of risk and guaranteeing their profits.
This is so correct that there is nothing that PeakStupidity could write for this post to explain any better (but we will later, just for the heck of it, as we thought of all this first).
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Expansion of post re zerohedge on Trump (Part 5 - New Media) TAKE-II
Posted On: Thursday - January 19th 2017 1:05PM MST
In Topics:   TV, aka Gov't Media  Trump
Continuing from the "non-post" from yesterday (trying not to delete post right now until DBase is set up better),
Donald Trump must have some great guys advising him, though we don't discount his own smarts either. Here is the zerohedge article entitled Trump Team Responds: May Move White House Briefings To Accommodate More Than Just "Media Elite that we were to comment about yesterday.
I have read somewhere that Mr. Trump wrote or said that he had to tweet so much to get past the "lying press", as he calls them (we have other terms here at PeakStupidity.) It's possible that he wrote that in a tweet also - I have checked my mailbox at the house - NO TWEET. How about my phone - does it come in the form of a text message? - NO TWEET. I asked Sarah at the switchboard - NO TWEET!. OK, besides ragging on the tweeting crap what do I have to say here. After I heard about this from Trump, I have remarked to at least 2 people that what he needs to do is just bring a whole new press, or form of journalism, in for the press conferences. Tell CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NYT, WA Post, all of these people to GO POUND SAND!
Why is it that these groups spouting at their agenda day and night are always present to hear from our elected
Invite Breitbart people, Matt Drudge, etc. The old gov't-press will howl over Breitbart about "oh, he is connected to your administration - collusion, whatever!" Hey, you dipshits have been getting free rides and meals on Air Force One for years and years. The rotating door between press and gov't office has been wearing out it's bearings for the last half century for you people.
Anyway, that all being said by us, the zerohedge article let us know that Trump already has plans like this in mind. Great stuff! From ZeroHedge.com:
“This is about greater accessibility, more people in the process,” Trump's press secretary Sean Spicer added Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “Media Buzz.” Involving more people, including bloggers and others who aren’t from the mainstream media, “should be seen as a welcome change,” he said. Indeed, it will be... by the alternative press; the "media elite", however, will be quite disappointed that their exclusive access rights to the president will be stripped away if only for the next four years, commoditizing their "value added" to the level of your lowly. neighrborhood blogger.
The gov't-press lackeys sound a little butt-hurt with this reply:
Meanwhile, the White House Correspondents' Association objected in a statement to "any move that would shield the president and his advisers from the scrutiny of an on-site White House press corps," and said that it would fight to keep the briefing room and access to senior administration officials open. Jeff Mason, a Reuters White House correspondent, is president of the WHCA.
Where's the scrutiny been for the last 8 years, on-site White Hut Gov't-press lackeys? I never even knew the President-Eject's mother-in-law lived there for the whole time of Øb☭ma's 2 terms. Didn't they see her when she was screeching at Mr. Øb☭ma to quit putting on airs and acting like an Uncle Tom and "take us back to Sweet Home Chicago - these honkies don't know how to make no chittlens! Maybe my girl kin git layed too - she gitten ornery!"
You wanna see some scrutiny? Bring in some bloggers, prontomundo.
Scrutiny, bitchez!
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Fleetwood Mac - Blue Letter
Posted On: Wednesday - January 18th 2017 8:19PM MST
In Topics:   Music
From their (2nd) self-titled album:
Fleetwood Mac:
Lindsay Buckingham - vocals and guitar
John McVie - bass guitar
Mic Fleetwood - drums
Christy McVie, Stevie Nicks (not sure if they're on this track)
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Expansion of post re zerohedge on Trump (Part 5 - New Media)
Posted On: Wednesday - January 18th 2017 7:21PM MST
In Topics:   TV, aka Gov't Media  Trump
About this one, our blogging team is very sleepy and will add lots about this one: Trump Team Responds: May Move White House Briefings To Accommodate More Than Just "Media Elite" tomorrow, as it's exactly the right way to go to fight the gov't/fake media outlets.
More coming.
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Expansion of post re zerohedge on Trump (Part 4 - CIA)
Posted On: Wednesday - January 18th 2017 7:12PM MST
In Topics:   Trump  Globalists
This zerohedge article describes the incredible nerve of the deep-state folks, CIA in this instance, as the departing director John Brennan, tells Trump to "watch what he says". It's not like Mr. Trump has an unsecured server or something. This guy says this as a threat. The point is, these guys are told what to do by the big-shot Globalists, and the US Chief Executive is supposed to just listen to them, not lead them, according to these incompetent supposed-spooks.
"It's more than just about Mr. Trump. It's about the United States of America."
"What I do find outrageous is equating intelligence community with Nazi Germany," Brennan said. "I do take great umbrage at that."
You're right, Brennan, that's a bad comparison - the Nazi's didn't have the equipment and even -2 orders of magnitude as much money as you guys. Maybe the East German Stasi would be a better comparison. These agencies are completely out-of-control, and that is in the true sense of that phrase. It's not that they're just too big and hard to govern, but they have been completely out of control of the people of the US and leaders elected by said people. Trump better get some trustworthy guys to watch his 6, if he's going to try to cut this agency (and the NSA) down to size.
In our humble opinion, Donald Trump didn't particularly know much history and a whole lot about the whole situation in the US when he started this endeavor in summer '15, but he sure does learn very well. I would love to hear that he had changed his mind about Ed Snowden and call him a hero. Even without that, there is no doubt from this episode that Mr. Trump is emphatically NOT part of the Feral Gov't establishment and deep state. We dodged a high-caliber one back in early November.
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Expansion of post re zerohedge on Trump (Part 3 - Merkel's response)
Posted On: Wednesday - January 18th 2017 6:56PM MST
In Topics:   Commies  Trump  Globalists
OK, this is a bit out of order from the original post here (2nd link after 3rd link of original post).
Here's a small part of Merkel's response per zerohedge:
"We've got to fight this battle, if for no other reason than principle," Merkel said, referring to Germany's commitment to the free trade, and asking German business to "join her in defending liberal democracy and trade", saying “in every generation one has to fight for one’s ideals.”Ex/Current Commie and Reich-Chancellor Merkel has done everything in her power to destroy the liberal democracy that is Germany! The Germans are going to have to rise up and "fight for their ideals" pretty soon, as talking about them is illegal at this point in that "liberal democracy". Replacing the original people will not result in a country that resembles Deutchland in any way, and they have had about enough over there.
As far as free trade goes, it works pretty well with countries that are on the level, but it's not the be-all-to-end-all, and Teacher Ben Stein's reiteration of the stupid myth that a bad tariff deal was the main reason for the Great Depression of 1929 - WWII is not quite enough to convince me:
Readers, please comment if you know the real reasons for the transformation of a simple business down-cycle into the Great Depression - there was the anyone, anyone?, Federal anyone?, anyone?, Reserve ____ and it ends with "ist", anyone?, anyone?, Socialist asshole Franklin Delanor, anyone? anyone? Bueller?
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Expansion of post re zerohedge on Trump (Part 2 - German gov't response)
Posted On: Wednesday - January 18th 2017 6:40PM MST
In Topics:   Immigration Stupidity  Trump
In this zerohedge post linked to and mentioned earlier, German gov't officials/candidates have a response.
We can't really disagree too much with this part, but, well read first:
Responding to Trump’s comments that Merkel had made an “utterly catastrophic mistake by letting all these illegals into the country”, Gabriel said the increase in the number of people fleeing the Middle East to seek asylum in Europe had partially been a result of US-led wars destabilising the region.
Slamming US foreign policy - and thus the Obama regime, not to mention Angela Merkel's close friend Hillary Clinton - as a culprit for the European refugee crisis, Gabriel said that “there is a link between America’s flawed interventionist policy, especially the Iraq war, and the refugee crisis, that’s why my advice would be that we shouldn’t tell each other what we have done right or wrong, but that we look into establishing peace in that region and do everything to make sure people can find a home there again,” Gabriel said.
... but, the warfare state that the US is in is not Trump's fault - he was on record against the Iraq war back in the day, and this stuff goes back through US government under about 25 years of the US House, Congress, Obama, both Bushes and Mr. Clinton. I don't agree that the "refugees" coming into Europe are a DIRECT result of the current war-of-the-moment however. It's just Reich-Chancellor Merkel's way of creating the type of havoc that will wipe out the white German population in a few generations - that's what the globalists want her to do - that's what she does - it's all she knows.
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Expansion of post re zerohedge on Trump (Part 1 Trump's interviews)
Posted On: Wednesday - January 18th 2017 6:26PM MST
In Topics:   Commies  Trump  Globalists
As far as Trump's interviews about European relations and trade go - in this post, I think he is headstrong about the trade part to some degree. He writes about duties on imported BMW's, but BMW's built in SC are also exported out of the port at Charleston. As libertarians (AND conservatives) that part of the quotes in zerohedge is not the stuff that gets us excited about this guy.
Here's the good stuff. First:
Trump quote - “[NATO] is obsolete, first because it was designed many, many years ago,” Bild quoted Trump as saying about the trans-Atlantic military alliance. “Secondly, countries aren’t paying what they should” and NATO “didn’t deal with terrorism.”That is right on, and my man Ron Paul could not have set it better, I doubt, though he would have added something like "let's not push Russia into a corner - inviting the Baltics, Georgia, etc. into NATO would be like Russia putting their military into Venezuela, Honduras, Cuba, and freakin' Labrador." Buchanan would be good reading on this - he explains it better than we can here.
While those comments expanded on doubts Trump raised about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization during his campaign, he reserved some of his most dismissive remarks for the EU and Merkel, whose open-border refugee policy he called a “catastrophic mistake.” He further elaborated on this stance in the Times interview, where he said he was willing to lift Russian sanctions in return for a reduction in nuclear weapons.Good honest take of the Commie Merkel. It's so great to hear this stuff from a man who will be heard all over the world.
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With Merkel facing an unprecedented challenge from the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany as she seeks a fourth term this fall, Trump was asked whether he’d like to see her re-elected. He said he couldn’t say, adding that while he respects Merkel, who’s been in office for 11 years, he doesn’t know her and she has hurt Germany by letting “all these illegals” into the country.
Ya gotta like this guy - so far.
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We believe this guy is on our side.
Posted On: Wednesday - January 18th 2017 9:15AM MST
In Topics:   Trump  Globalists  Media Stupidity
PeakStupidity had not been soldered into our local terminals of the internet wires back during the November US elections, so we did not share our varied opinions of Mr. Donald Trump at the time. We do not think he is the saviour of the country, or even the next Ronald Reagan, but he IS looking better all the time.
From the information we receive daily, and especially from Zerohedge.com (one of the most reliable non-fake/gov't news sources around) we really have come to believe that the President-Elect is NOT part of the status-quo establishment. We think that he intends to do good for the American people, and is not working for the globalist elites. It's not that we/he will necessarily get our/his way, but we'd got one man in place to start some changes. Here are some headlines and excerpts:
In Stunning Pair Of Interviews, Trump Slams NATO And EU, Threatens BMW With Tax; Prepared To "Cut Ties" With Merkel
Responses from Merkel, first one, then others in the German Gov't:
Merkel Says She Is Ready To "Fight A Generational Battle" With Trump To Preserve Liberal Democracy And Trade
Germany Slams Trump Criticism: Urges US To "Build Better Cars", Accuses Washington Of Causing Refugee Crisis
The foreigners are not our main enemy to begin with - the Germans can run their mouths, the Chinese can run their factories in 3 shifts, the Moslems can run their goats and women ragged until they submit to Islamic anal sex, and the Australians can put more shrimp on the barbie (wait, we like those guys!) all they want. It's the domestic enemies that have more power to destroy what's left of the US. This next one is about one domestic enemy organization:
In Scathing Attack, CIA Director Brennan Warns Trump To "Watch What He Says"
Great response from Donald Trump to a large portion of the domestic enemies, the lying fake, government media:
Trump Team Responds: May Move White House Briefings To Accommodate More Than Just "Media Elite"
We are so psyched by this stuff - it's phenomenal. I, personally, am glad to "live in interesting times" as I read about at the Happy China Egg Roll Station.
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Is there a disturbance in the Stupid?
Posted On: Wednesday - January 18th 2017 8:30AM MST
In Topics:   Genderbenders  Lefty MegaStupidity  Preppers and Prepping
As discussed also earlier in this post, liberals are scared (or pretending to be scared) shitless about impending doom as Zerohedge explained yesterday in an articles headlined Liberal Preppers Are "Tired Of Being Perceived As Wusses" - Stock Up On Guns, Food As Trumpocalypse Looms. PeakStupidity has no problem at all with prepping, as we feel it is a very prudent thing, no matter who has been or will be elected to office in the near future. The financial stupidity build-up has been immense, and is not something that we will legislate our way out of.
As to the left-wing preppers, could it be that there is a lull in The Stupid? If the article is not exaggerating, this could be a hole in the Stupidity as large as a 3-day period of blue skies in Canton, China (some call it "Guangzhou", just like some call corn "maize" - who cares.) It doesn't mean that the stupidity has dissipated globally, it's just a nice respite - time to get out for a walk, charge one's batteries, and drink a coupla beers.
Here:
Colin Waugh bought a shotgun four weeks before November’s election.You don't want to live under tyranny, smart guy this Colin, but uhh, then why'd you vote for the Hildabeast, you stupid fuck?
An unapologetic liberal, he was no fan of firearms. He had never owned one before. But Waugh, a 31-year-old from Independence, Missouri, couldn’t shake his fears of a Donald Trump presidency — and all of the chaos it could bring. He imagined hate crimes and violence waged by extremists emboldened by the Republican nominee’s brash, divisive rhetoric. He pictured state-sanctioned roundups of Muslims, gays, and outspoken critics.
“I kept asking myself, ‘Do I want to live under tyranny?'” said Waugh, who supported Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary and later backed Hillary Clinton. “The answer was absolutely not.”
“We’re tired of being perceived as wusses who won’t survive when shit hits the fan,” said Stacy, a Texas Democrat who recently caught the prepper bug. She spoke with Vocativ on the condition we not publish her last name. “I, for one, don’t like to be thought of as some precious snowflake.”Alright, got no problem with that. How long are you going to keep up the facade of being a Democrat, then?
While most of these liberal preppers say they are readying for any disaster — natural, manmade, or even zombie — a doomsday scenario at the hands of a President Trump continues to be a primary concern.It sounds like Melissa (and the rest of these people) really want the Feral Government to leave them the hell alone! I'M! WITH! HER! But, but ... wait ... it sounds like Melissa and her friends are ... OMG .... like Libertarians or those evil Constitutionalists!
“With the new administration I worry about Nazi-style camps that would include my wife, our twins and myself,” said Melissa Letos, who lives with her family on a five-acre spread near Portland, Oregon. In a recent interview, she said she raises chickens, strives to keep a year’s supply of canned food, and is able to hold her own with a firearm. She and her family plan to a build a bunker-style basement in the future.
They are like Survivalists and shit!
From one (part-time, albeit) prepper to another: Welcome to the party, pal!
The Stupid, a local minimum with positive 2st-order partial-derivatives, is at. [/Mathematics Yoda]
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UPDATED 4 hrs. later:] Just saw this - ""...my wife, our twins and myself,” said Melissa Letos." Wait, what the ...., Oh, I see, so that's how it is in their family. OK, added another topickey to this post - Genderbenders [Rev 1.2, update A.5.12]
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Rush - Spirit of Radio
Posted On: Tuesday - January 17th 2017 6:50PM MST
In Topics:   Music
from Permanent Waves
A good song to wake up to - must be turned up to volume setting 11, or don't bother.
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Following your GPS
Posted On: Tuesday - January 17th 2017 12:39PM MST
In Topics:   Artificial Stupidity
To add to the previous post, if I may, at least out in Red Rock Canyon your GPS won't steer you into a lake (maybe off a cliff though).
We apologize in advance for the terrible quality of this video - the guy just pointed his mobile-phone camera at his TV, I guess - also an idiotic use of the electronics tech. Why not at least feed a line out to the recording device? It's still funny as hell, because it's "The Office" - possibly the funniest show ever.
Apparently, this happens in real life quite a bit.
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Not the guy you want with you in the SHTF phase
Posted On: Tuesday - January 17th 2017 12:27PM MST
In Topics:   Preppers and Prepping  Curmudgeonry  Artificial Stupidity
This guy's complete faith in computer wireless technology left him stuck, per Drudge: Tesla driver stranded in the desert after smartphone app failure
The family only got stranded 6 miles from home, but it could have been a lot farther.
A Tesla driver was stranded in Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas after the car's keyless control app suddenly stopped working.
Interested in testing a feature that lets Tesla owners unlock and power their car using their smartphone, Ryan Negri decided to leave his keys at home when he went for a drive around the canyon yesterday.
The keyless smartphone feature, which is available through Tesla's iPhone and Android apps, lets users remotely monitor and control their Tesla Model S without their key. One of the main features of the app is the ability to "unlock and drive Model S without your key".
Negri was able to do just this - but only to begin with. After getting out of the vehicle to adjust something when he was six miles from home he found himself locked out of the car unable to get back in let alone start it.
"Six miles down the road we decided to turn back, but before that, had to adjust Mozy & Millie's car bed, so I exited the vehicle...bad idea," Negri said on Instagram. "Need to restart the car now, but, with no cell service, my phone can't connect to the car to unlock it."
These people think it will all always work. We foresee a time coming when all this mostly won't work, at least for some time, until real engineers and technical people, not computer geeks, get to work on it.
Another thing is the way people want to record all their damn miserable lives now: "Negris said on Instagram - 'Need to restart ... blah, blah'." How about just get to work or take charge of the situation? Quit recording your stupidity for all to view later on your electronics that are not at all helpful at the time. People like this will record their own demises, like that Tim Treadwell with the bears. Let me tell you, bears have got no respect for "technology", OK - they are not impressed by it. Anyway, I can look forward to seeing some youtube videos in the future:
"Man records himself as he is being struck and fried by lighting at the golf course - did not go into clubhouse, as he was too busy tweeting at the time, captures once-in-a-lifetime lightning strike photo."
"Man records his own failed brain surgery operation, using new mynuerosurgery app - dies on table, but captures entire operation and funeral using new high-cap lithium battery packs (click here to shop now for battery packs)(click here to shop for amazon i-caskets)"
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More on Ann Barnhardt
Posted On: Tuesday - January 17th 2017 9:09AM MST
In Topics:   Websites  Pundits
We mentioned Miss Ann Barnhardt at the bottom of this post about Pope Francis. She has had a lot to say about the guy.
Miss Barnhardt is what you might call a "piece of work". That's usually said in a disparaging way, but I really don't quite mean that about her. I ran into this character (see, "character" is a nicer word, but not strong enough for this woman) on the web more than 5 years back after watching this video of Ann reading passages from the Koran to demonstrate some of the true meaning of Islam. She does not mince a lot of words, and burns the offending passages, which is her and any American's right to do. It's a great video.
You may want to skip 2:20 to 6:20. The fun starts at 6:20.
"Raw bacon makes the best Koran bookmarks." Hahaha, now that's just funny there - I don't care who ya are. (Oh, I mean, unless you're the grand muffti top goat-fuckler of East Dearbornistan ...)
This lady rocks! Her treatment of Miss Lindsey Graham (Traitor-SC) is great too, and the use of the word "Jackass" is nice - that word has not been in widespread use for many years, and PeakStupidity believes the time has long passed to bring this semi-cussword back into the forefront of the cuss-cabulary.
Miss Barnhardt's website was originally about her cattle futures/financial stuff out of Colorado, which was the business she had been in before the bank bailouts. She has more character than most American men to leave this business behind on principle (admittedly, easier for a woman, as a man may have to hold off on principles to take care of family.) The site turned into a mostly religious but part political site after, I assume her slight fame due to the video shown above.
The part where we tend to differ is in her extreme religious views. It's not her hard-core Catholicism itself - I admire someone with her personality, so it's not that. Miss Barnhardt's views on keeping a serious amount of Islam out of this county are correct, so it's not that either. Although she does rightfully malign a neo-con warmonger with the "Invade-the-world, invite-the-world"* strategy stupidity, she does not seem to understand the problem with the "invade-the-world" part. In fact, I quit reading her website regularly only after she revealed her dislike of Ron Paul. (She dislikes a lot of people, but we could say the same for ourselves at PeakStupidity.)
How about we leave these people to wallow in their own deep, deep, stupidity in their part of the world? Just leave them alone. More about this "invade-the-world, invite-the-world" stupidity of the American elites in a later post, but I just don't think Miss Barnhardt gets the problem with the first half of it.
Lastly wrt Ann Barnhardt, again about her religious views. She thinks worse of this Commie Pope Francis than even PeakStupidity does. Good stuff. However, she also thinks all Protestants are going straight to hell (yes, without passing go or collecting our 200 monopoly dollars). Her religious views are pretty extreme. She knows so much history of the Catholic church and believes very strongly as a Catholic. We can't fault that; we find nothing wrong with extreme views of people who aren't in a position of power to exert control of other people via these views. She is not. It's just that reading her website gets pretty tedious if you do not agree with her 100%. Believe me, I would write her that if she had access to her website via commenting. Again, she had a problem with Ron Paul, and that was enough for me re Ann Barnhardt.
*This phrase was originated by VDare.com, and probably came from Mr. Steve Sailer, though possibly from VDare strongman ;-}, Mr. Peter Brimelow.
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"Hungary set to turn screws on Soros-backed NGOs" and GOOD ON 'EM!
Posted On: Tuesday - January 17th 2017 8:27AM MST
In Topics:   Immigration Stupidity  Globalists  Media Stupidity
I admire the Hungarian, "strongman Prime Minister Viktor Orban" as much as President-Elect Trump, now that Yahoo mentions him (zerohedge and VDare mention this guy some too, but in a good way). BTW, is "strongman Prime Mimister" the complete title of Orban's office? You don't hear Obama called a "strongman" though he violated the constitution daily. I'm starting to think that in the Western world, according to gov-media, a strongman" is someone with certain political views only, who, if he doesn't rent an apartment, must live in a "compound". Of course, it's hard for us to imagine this AA-hire, effeminate President-Eject Øb☭ma as anything but the "weak-man in the white hut".
We want to add also that this story is in Yahoo News, not someplace to read a whole lot of truth, but it was linked to on Drudge.
In fact, just like in yesterday's post regarding a USA Today headline, the article, with it's embedded globalist opinions, just reinforces the opposite view in the awake reader. Here's half the story on Yahoo - see what you think the writer wants. Hint, he's a leftwing globalist imbecile.
Budapest (AFP) - Hungarian NGOs have long felt the heat under strongman Prime Minister Viktor Orban -- but they now fear that, emboldened by Donald Trump's victory, the right-wing premier will turn the screws even tighter.
First in line may be groups backed by Hungarian-born billionaire financier George Soros, whose foundation once funded the Oxford studies of a young Orban more than 25 years ago.
Last week the deputy head of Orban's ruling party Fidesz, in power since 2010, said that non-governmental organisations should be "cleaned out of here".
Szilard Nemeth said that criticism of government policies by "fake" civil organisations set up to "influence politics" by Soros and others was "impermissible".
The remarks triggered alarm among beleaguered NGOs, many of which -- in the absence of a credible political opposition -- have long attacked Orban's sweeping revamp of state institutions and hardline anti-immigration stance.
"This is a new level of NGO-bashing," said Marta Pardavi, co-head of the Hungarian branch of the Helsinki Committee, a human rights group that provides free advice to asylum-seekers.
Nemeth name-checked the body as potential targets along with civil rights group TASZ and corruption watchdog Transparency International.
"The notion that we should be swept away like rubbish or have no right to comment on politics shows their arrogant intolerance of different views," Pardavi told AFP.
Her office, staffed by some two dozen lawyers, heaves with case files as well as reports that have slammed Orban's anti-migration policies.
She freely admits that her organisation relies on foreign funding to continue operating. But "otherwise it's not possible to do human rights advocacy work in Hungary," she says.
Mirroring pressure in Russia under President Vladimir Putin, scrutiny of foreign-funded NGOs has been cranked up since Orban was re-elected in 2014.
NGO bashing is the new bocci-ball for patriotic Europeans - excellent, that game is kinda boring anyway.
More:
"Soros in crosshairs -
The 86-year-old Soros, whose Open Society Foundations (OSF) body has funded civil groups in Eastern Europe since the 1980s, is in the crosshairs of the new push.
"Soros has decided that he will be Viktor Orban's opponent and opposition in Hungarian politics... People have the right to know which organisations he's doing this through," Orban's chief-of-staff Janos Lazar said last week.
Hungarian officials have even accused Soros-backed NGOs of posing a national security risk during Europe's migration crisis by allegedly colluding with human-smugglers and "terrorists"."
"Hungarian officials have even accused ..." - I take that as "Hungarian officials have even started telling the truth about ..." See, just like with the old Soviet Pravda or the NYT for the last 50 years, you've simply got to translate from elite-speak to truth by changing out a few words and phrases - there's an app for that!
Lastly, I like "Soros in the crosshairs" very much, but even with the best scope, a good rifle caliber, and correct windage adjustment, remember this guy's the AntiChrist, so, you know, I'm not sure if that would do the trick. Let me check Revelation, and see what it says about firepower.
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Neil Young - Sail Away
Posted On: Monday - January 16th 2017 8:24PM MST
In Topics:   Music
Another great acoustic song, this is from the first
The great female backing vocalist is Nicolette Larson, who also sung on Comes a Time, on not just that song, but others on that album.
We hope you like the music.
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The more we read USA Today, the more we like this guy,
Posted On: Monday - January 16th 2017 8:11PM MST
In Topics:   Trump  Media Stupidity
Donald Trump, that is. USA Today probably shows some pretty large numbers for the circulation of its color paper newspaper, but much of that is copies laid outside the door of people's motel rooms. I usually purposefully use it as a doormat, as it is as much "the Gov't news" as the rest of the fake-news operations.
I had to keep this copy after seeing the headline, so's we could scan it in and present it to you:

They write this like it's a bad thing. ("They" meaning author Heidi M. Przybyia, in this case - please Miss Przybyia, I'll sell you a coupla vowels on the cheap). This is where the opinions of the gov-media journalists really "shine" through in their writing, not in a good way. A majority of Americans would NOT agree it's a bad thing that President-elect Trump is announcing agency heads that want to overhaul or eliminate the agencies they are being appointed to oversee. *Miss Przybyia is very out of touch with the average American!*, we at PeakStupidity would tweet, if had been taught at an early age how to tweet.
Now, personally, I might handle this in a gentler manner than Mr. Trump at a press conference, such as:
"Please, folks, you are making too much of this. Let me put you at ease here. We will not be shutting down the Department of Education, or any of the others you have mentioned. The Dept. of Education will be merged into the Dept. of Energy. The EPA will be integrated into the Dept. of Motherland Security. The new Dept. of Energy will then be combined with the new Dept. of Motherland Security. Much duplication will then be saved by having this one big Dept. of EnviroEduEnerSecurity. Then, we will shut that one down like a rabid dog. See we are eliminating only one Department. Any questions? No, good, more re-orgs in the morning. Good day, gentlemen!"
Here's a snippet of the front page of USA Today's article:

STORY CONTINUES ON 2A it says. No thank you, Miss Przybyia - we know your agenda now. What you've done for me is made me appreciate Mr. Trump more than I had already.
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Trick question: Would you rather be ruled by the people or the experts?
Posted On: Monday - January 16th 2017 3:13AM MST
In Topics:   Immigration Stupidity  US Police State  Liberty/Libertarianism
This Daily Bell article (they are featured on zerohedge quite a bit) refers to a guy named Tyler Cowen who wrote this article,featured on the Bloomberg financial site titled Would You Rather be Ruled by the People or the Experts? The question refers to William Buckley's statement of long ago that he'd rather be ruled by the first 2,000 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than by the faculty of Harvard University. Tyler is asking this question with the specific issue of immigration in mind.
First of all, if you're going to choose a phone book to pick these regular people (as Buckley was implying), I would not go with Boston. Those folks are a bunch of statist left-wingers who are about as politically far from the colonists of Massachusetts Bay,or at least the ones around in 1775, as one could possibly get. How about the Dallas, Texas phone book - let's start from there. Just pick names that sound like people who would speak English first of all. Yes, that would beat the graduates of Harvard by a long shot, but it's not the right answer.
The unz.com website features Steve Sailer again with his usual smart and funny comments about this article - not necessarily on the side of William Buckley, but just pointing out the hypocrisy of our elites on the immigration issue. Now, after having perused some of the comments, I have not seen anyone with the right answer to "Who would you rather be ruled by?" in all that I've read so far. The Daily Bell comments are better.
Let's be like Captain Kirk in that one episode where the Enterprise crewmen are discussing his performance in the space flight training class - heck, maybe it was in one of the movies; I don't care - I'm not a geek, OK? The gist of it was that he was in a real dilemma in whatever situation was being simulated and he thought outside the box, and did what nobody else had thought of in all the years of Starfleet Training Academy. Let's do that here, why don't we?
The answer to this question is easy. Neither one, not Harvard graduates and not regular Joes from the phone book. Just imagine freedom, if you will. This country has changed so much to where the young people now could not even think that there are no rulers or leaders needed for many realms of their lives. "Very sad!" as our President-elect would tweet-out. We lean hard-libertarian here at PeakStupidity for a reason. Free people do not act stupidly as they must be responsible for their lives as nobody else will bail them out. Statist governments like America's, and about any of them in the world today, take away responsibility, which, encourages stupidity, leading us toward the peak of it we are near today.
Take one example out of tens or hundreds of different realms of our lives: Do you need tens of thousands of bureaucrats in a US Feral Department of Education, so that people can learn a lot? Well, we didn't in the past, and people DON'T learn a lot in school these days. Do we even need public schools? OK, that sounds pretty hard-core, but just imagine freedom for a minute. Don't 99% or more of parents love their kids and take decent care of them? Couldn't parents arrange among themselves for school buildings and teachers themselves. Would they not cut out about 75% of the costs by leaving out the useless admins and bureaucrats and hiring, say, a retired engineer to each math (keeping him busy and making a few bucks) and someone who loves writing (say a blogger from one of the big ones, I dunno, PeakStupidity) to
What about those 1% of the kids in the example? They don't deserve to have no foundation in life. No, they don't - what about charity? There used to be lots more of it on the small scale (not the Gates' foundations and Zuckerbergs pushing global agendas). People tend to do a lot of good when they are left alone to put their money and time into where they know it's needed. Statists, however, would rather have the monetary accumulations of our labor stolen from us and given out as they please. People really tend to dislike the type of "charity" that steals from them, especially when the recipients are living larger than the theft victims.
What a libertarian rant that was, but at least PeakStupdity could answer the question correctly:
Q: Would You Rather be Ruled by the People or the Experts?
A: NO!
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Comes a Time - Acoustic Neil Young
Posted On: Saturday - January 14th 2017 7:50PM MST
In Topics:   Music
We've posted some hard-core distortion-electric Neil Young already, so here is a great acoustic song, Comes a Time from the album of the same name - late 1970's.
"This old world keeps spinning 'round; it's a wonder tall trees ain't laying down ...."
OK, he's not gotten a handle on dynamics and the general acceleration equation yet (nor politics, for that matter), but what a great songwriter anyway.
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In other news, Mr. Fox appointed hen-house minister by Mr. Retarded Pig, barnyard Premier
Posted On: Saturday - January 14th 2017 7:19PM MST
In Topics:   Immigration Stupidity
A reader wrote this letter to VDare about Justin
Re: John Derbyshire’s blog post Memo To Trump: Start Planning For A Northern Border Wall
From: An Anonymous Canadian Reader [Email him]
John Derbyshire beat me to it! I saw this appalling Star story before I left for work this morning. There are so many things wrong with this appointment, it’s hard to know where to begin.
However, two things come immediately to mind. 1) There is no recognition that there is a historic English-Canadian nation composed of white Europeans and this nation might have an interest in staying a majority in the country it created 2) Canadian immigration policy has become a post-national, anti-white ideological project completely divorced from Canada’s economic needs. [Former refugee Ahmed Hussen takes over immigration ministry by Alex Ballingall; Toronto Star, January 10th 2017.]
It’s troubling that the Star at least sees Ahmed Hussen’s status as a refugee as being more of a qualification for office than, say, a knowledge of economics and Canada’s labour force needs.
One reason I read the horribly globalist Star is that it has a lot of local news stories. Not a day goes by that the paper doesn’t have an article related to the fact that 100,000 new people come to the Greater Toronto Area every year: the skyrocketing cost of housing, the shortage and appalling state of Toronto’s public housing, controversial development proposals that promise to complete alter the character of residential neighbourhoods, our very expensive overburdened public transportation system, etc.
These articles often mention the 100,000 figure, but they NEVER question why this is happening. No journalist or local politician ever asks if it’s necessary to bring in all these people when the city’s manufacturing base has been decimated, when many immigrants end up in poverty working at minimum-wage jobs, etc. When I’ve raised the issue with local politicians, I get the usual clichés: immigrants are good for the economy, Canada has a low birth-rate, immigrants work hard and do the jobs Canadians won’t do, etc.
Just one bone to pick with the otherwise great letter. You've "raised the issue", huh? That's naive in this day and age. You have to realize that not only would said politician get in trouble for doing anything to help the regular Canadian people, as you would for speaking out, but he just does not care either. He's hoping he'll get through his career before "the shit goes down", and this won't happen if he goes against the status quo. Unless he's about 65 y/o though, he won't (get through before TSGD, I mean).
Here's the direct link to John Derbyshire's article, again.
Hey, if you Canadians are going to try to out-stupid your big-brother country Americans, you've got another think coming, eh? Keep up this crap and PeakStupidity will quit promoting the 30-40 year-old Canadian music!
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