China, Inc., where quality is job 4
Posted On: Thursday - December 29th 2016 11:58AM MST
In Topics: Cheap China-made Crap Curmudgeonry
Went 2/4:1 on toys this Christmas. That's 2 out of 4 broken by end of day 1 - that'd be Christmas day. One of them starting slipping gears after about 1 hour of use, and the kid treated it with kid gloves too. He or I may have mis-handled the second one, but the part that broke was super-thin plastic and un-fixable, even with good super-glue, not the crap in my closet.
Same as usual, the people at the store don't have time to know or care about what broke. I understand that, but I always let them know the story. I quit feeling bad about returning anything that may be broken due to slight misuse (up to the point of being backed up over by the car). I told the one girl, to the effect of: Hey, I'll keep coming back with these until we've got use out of 'em. I wonder whether the US headquarters will do the math and compare selling 3 or 4 of these for the cheap price versus 1 good one at double the price?* I know, I know, math is hard, especially for these CEO's.
When it comes down to it, not all of this is the fault of the Chinese. They make much of the crap to the specs. of the engineers (if there are any) or designer types at the company HQ over here. However, there is much cheating going on over on the other side, so parts specified do not always match the parts on the products*.
Ford Motors' slogan at one point was: "Quality is job one." They may or may not have meant it, but in China, I imagine the translations of their company mottos would be closer to "Quality is about, job four or so." Unfortunately, the number 4 is a very unlucky number over there. That's the root problem right there - the unlucky number 4!
It really should be bumped down to 5 or lower, as jobs 1, 2, and 3 aren't gonna budge:
1) Job 1 - Make a lot of money.
2) Job 2 - Save even more by serving only white rice and 6-day old turnips in the company cafeteria.
3) Job 3 - Keep employees from jumping out of the higher floor balconies at the new facilities.
* I will make one more post about this regarding an exercise machine in the near future. Spoiler alert - we got our way.
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Trump says UN "might be waste of time and money".
Posted On: Wednesday - December 28th 2016 5:58PM MST
In Topics: Trump Liberty/Libertarianism World Political Stupidity
might be? Excuse me? Zerohedge includes this part as half of this post.
First, Trump again took the opportunity to slam the UN, saying “there is such tremendous potential, but it is not living up,” he told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach. "When do you see the United Nations solving problems? They don’t. They cause problems.” “So, if it lives up to its potential, it’s a great thing,” Trump added when asked if the U.S. should leave 71-year-old organization. "And if it doesn’t, it’s a waste of time and money.” (The last quote, starting with "And", does not fit in with the other sentences grammatically, but we like it.) BTW, we don't say this about the UN just because of some spat with Israel; this is a long-term feeling.
We haven't heard enough of this type of talk since the days of the John Birch Society. Trump, more than anybody, as a property tycoon in New York City, should know how much that building in Manhattan could fetch in the open market. I imagine a buyer could fill it up in a week with Chinese government officials that make as much as 8000 yuan RMB/month over in Peking (converts to about $1150/month at present exchange rates). That doesn't sound like a lot, but one can easily increase that by 2 or 3 orders-of-magnitude with a little elbow grease and quanxi. They could ship over the kids as anchor babies to enroll in the fancy $30,000/year preschools to academically kick the ass of the children of the Kenyan, Indonesian, and Venezuelan UN delegations, who would be busy packing up their shit anyway.
East Riverfront property with a view of the Brooklyn Bridge - THIS IS YUUUGE!
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Lefties
Posted On: Wednesday - December 28th 2016 10:02AM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity Trump Preppers and Prepping
... for the "Trumpocalypse". Hey, we're in for some bad, bad times to come, Mr. Trump as chief executive notwithstanding. Even Ron Paul would not be able to get us out of the financial pit we are in, but that's for another post to come.
Infowars, quoting Mike Snyder of the Economic Collapse Blog says:
Now that the shoe is on the other foot, many liberals all over America have suddenly become extremely interested in prepping.
This would not be a bad thing if these people ever kept their word on anything, like say, going up to Canada and freaking staying there (teach them aboooot some hockey, maybe so the Canadians might welcome them). I'd like to see some of these "folks", if one may call them that, at the gun shows, commenting at Survival Blog(s) about, say, the best way to keep your stored wheat and millet dry, reloading techniques and sources for cheap brass, recycling of car battery lead and bullet molding, solar power circuitry, etc. The impediments to this actually happening are many.
These types do not want to do anything resembling real work - that's the number 1 problem. Then, they are scared of hanging out with people who may say something politically incorrect, as they would not know what to do, and may cry. Lastly, it is entirely possible they may learn something and that is completely anathema to these "folks", as they already know everything (apparently).
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Is President-Eject Øb☭ma indeed the AntiChrist? (Part 2)
Posted On: Wednesday - December 28th 2016 9:00AM MST
In Topics: AntiChrist Hildabeast
Most of the evidence posted just yesterday indicates that, yes, this is unfortunately the case, and this AntiChrist will be living amongst us for quite some time, till either the 7th seal is broken or we can ship that blithering idiot back to Kenya (whichever comes first).
However, "...the times-they-are-a-changin, so come all you deporables, bitter-clingers ...." wait, times are changing quickly, much faster than a dragged-out, drugged-out old Bob Dylan song. New evidence and analysis has come to light, loyal reader(s)!
1) It was just learned from a re-reading of the Book of Revelation (this time with the TV volume turned down) that there is no mention of multiple AntiChrists existing at the same time (it does talk about another Beast following the first one.)
2) The Polaroid snapshot (no developing required) displayed below has revealed what was until now only whispered about on facebook, chatrooms everywhere, and George Michael and Carrie Fisher fan zines and covered up by the CNN, MSNBC, ABC etc. fake news outlets. This is a big scoop, reader(s)!
3) Ifso facto, quid pro quo, Clarice*, if this electoral-dead-end, genetically/mentally unstable witch-o-Poughkeepsie is the AntiChrist, then President-Eject Maobama is OFF THE HOOK.
Peakstupidity sincerely regrets the error of commission and is hopeful that no inconvenience will result therefrom.
* Just wording added by the PeakStupidity.com legal dept., pay no mind.
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Matt Drudge - what we at Peakstupidity think of Drudgereport
Posted On: Wednesday - December 28th 2016 8:29AM MST
In Topics: Internets Websites Pundits Curmudgeonry
I don't need a link here, of course. Probably anyone who uses the internet for anything besides just shopping and facebook would have seen his page at least once.
For the last couple of days, Matt Drudge has been putting up bunches of headlines about two celebrities, Carrie Fisher, the 1970's actress, and George Michael, the 1980's pop singer. OK, the elections are over, so, Drudge needs to keep the viewers, but this celebrity worship turns us off, here at Peakstupidity.
Even if this were 1978, when the actual Star Wars movie was playing, and she was pretty and all, it wouldn't concern me a bit if she kicked it at any point. As for George Michael, I'll give you that Faith was a pretty catchy tune, but that's it; if if died when he was famous in the late 1980's even, why would I care? I don't get this crap at all.
I wouldn't even be writing this before, as I'd only started regularly
Two more things should be said about the Drudgereport:
1) This guy is a whore for page views, and the way he does it is with automatic reloading. This happens every 3-5 minutes (I haven't measured it.) and that means it reloads for me about the time I'm reading the 3rd column - very annoying.
2) It is really not healthful to look at this site everyday. With the headlines normally on there showing the craziest (truthful most of the time, but also greatly exaggerated a lot) stuff imaginable, one is led to believe it is the end of the world is fairly imminent! It is the type of website that should make one immediately get out of the house, get out in the woods for a while, or on a bike, or just talk to the neighbors, in order to shake that world-is-ending feeling. Keep away from the high-intensity stupidity, and you'll be alright, son.
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Acoustic Dead from early 1980's
Posted On: Tuesday - December 27th 2016 6:58PM MST
In Topics: Music The Dead
This song is an old standard; it was not written by the band.
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Is President-Eject Øb☭ma indeed the AntiChrist?
Posted On: Tuesday - December 27th 2016 6:41PM MST
In Topics: AntiChrist
He's risen to power out of nowhere, with no record of grades, constitutional law articles written. Did not rise out of the sea, but did get raised in a coupla hell-holes around the world, one of which is surrounded by the sea - pretty sure that's what they meant. [CHECK]
Was given a mouth that utters haughty and blasphemous words. [CHECK]
Is married to a space creature of some sort. [NO, NOTHING IN THERE ABOUT THAT]
Causes all men, both great and small, rich and poor, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, and no one may buy or sell without the mark or name of the beast [NO, THIS GUY KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY, AND HE IS TOO BUSY PLAYING GOLF TO DO ALL THE WORK INVOLVED]
There IS this, though (Look at what the Doc checked off, just under "State of Hawaii"):
I would trust the Doc over any kind of spin out of the whitehouse or Gov't media. I am leaning toward "yes" on this. More tomorrow.
Oh, and no, I want to emphasize that this image was NOT PHOTOSHOPPED. Peakstupidity.com used microsoft "Paint", as we cannot afford Photoshop on our limited resources.
Lastly, thanks to Steve Sailer for (either originating or bringing to our attention) the term "President-Eject".
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We could use more guys like this.... Thomas Sowell ....
Posted On: Tuesday - December 27th 2016 5:56PM MST
In Topics: Pundits
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says farewell in his last column, at 86 years old. What a great libertarian (and conservative) he is.
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Crank up the white smoke, Vatican staff, and find this fool a job in the Vatican gift shop!
Posted On: Tuesday - December 27th 2016 12:21PM MST
In Topics: Commies So-called Pope Francis
VDare.com writes about the latest emissions from the pie-hole of this commie useful-idiot that people are still calling "the Pope".
To quote the VDare writer, Henry McColloch:
The Holy Father’s crippling naiveté has been on display since the beginning of his Papacy. In 2013, in an address to the “Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People” (which sounds like something out of the Comintern), he said:
I would like to ask all of you to see a ray of hope … in the eyes and hearts of refugees… A hope that is expressed in expectations for the future, in the desire for friendship, in the wish to participate in the host society also through learning the language, access to employment and the education of children. I admire the courage of those who hope gradually to resume a normal life, waiting for joy and love to return to brighten their existence. We can and must all nourish this hope!
[Address of Holy Father Francis to Participants in Plenary of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, The Vatican, May 24, 2013. Emphasis added]
Compare this “hope” to the Hegira into Europe today. Most migrants are healthy, iPhone-equipped men of military age. The overwhelming majority are Muslim and half are not Syrian. And compare the Pope’s gushing over those who “wish to participate in the host society” to those Latin American “migrants” to the U.S. who expect and demand to be catered to in Spanish.
I guess, Francis, you think that the big 40 ft concrete wall around your city (the one that is OK with God, not the unholy one to be built across N. Mexico, Arizona, and California) is going to save your fat Pope-ass when the rest of Rome is under Sharia law, huh? I think you are neither much of a tactician nor a strategist. What does your job description say - you know, the paperwork you signed while you were also signing up for the papal disability/death-and-dismemberment and dental plans when you started this gig? I hate to break this to you, pontiff, but if Christianity is destroyed, there will be no Christmas bonus! No, no bonus for you!!
McColloch at VDare continues:
"In 2014, Pope Francis went further: "We believe that Jesus was a refugee, had to flee to save his life, with Saint Joseph and Mary, had to leave for Egypt. He was a refugee” [Pope Francis: ‘Jesus Was a Refugee,” by Yasmine Hafiz, Huffington Post, June 23, 2014] The Pope urged Catholics to “let us be their neighbors, share their fears and uncertainty about the future, and take concrete steps to reduce their suffering.”"
I have read the entire Old and New Testaments, and I can tell you, this guy is making it up as he goes along. Last quote from the Pope in this post: "There will be lights, there will be parties, bright trees, even Nativity scenes, all decked out, while the world continues to wage war,..." Just what are you doing to help, Francis, by encouraging an invasion of dieversity to all of Europe? You think we're all going to sit down at the campfire and sing Kumbaya?
I'm not even a Catholic, but I'm already starting to hate this Commie bastard. If you want less hate in the world, Pope, why don't you tell the crowd, and also the globalists/neocons behind the scenes of these invasions and wars, to let people live among their own and in peace!
No matter what you think of John Lennon politically, the man could write a song, and it's OK if a man's political philosophy is moronic, though his heart is in the right place - ONLY if he has no power to screw up the world and get millions killed. John Lennon, at least, just sang and wrote songs (although you really gotta wonder about the whole Yoko thing - I'da picked a groupy with a better bod - OK, I'm just sayin')
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Jerry Jeff Walker
Posted On: Monday - December 26th 2016 8:31PM MST
In Topics: Music
Peakstupidity does not plan on being a site just dedicated to the subject of Global Climate Stupidity. It's just that this writer wants to kind of wrap this up soon. More posts on all kind of stuff will be coming, especially on Feminism, a topic key which has no posts to its name so far.
A hippie chick was riding in the club car of an Amtrack train with me on a trip across the glorious West when I was younger. I let her listen to The Dead from my expensive "walkman" knock-off cassette player, and she raved about a country singer named Jerry Jeff Walker.
Here it is 20-odd years later, and, apropos of nothing, I figure I'd put up a live version of his song "Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother".
"He's 34, drinking in a honky-tonk, just kicking hippies' asses and raising hell.
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Summary of our take on Global Climate DisruptionTM (Part 2)
Posted On: Monday - December 26th 2016 8:09PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Global Climate Stupidity
Here's what it comes down to, people: Although your writer has met a few very bright guys that were majoring in journalism back in the day, in general JOURNALISTS, aka NEWS REPORTERS, ARE NOT VERY BRIGHT PEOPLE!.
Now, back in the mid-90's, I still used to watch the over-the-air network news. NBC had 2 science reporters, and the younger guy actually was pretty knowledgeable. The other guy was worthless. Try to remember the last time you saw a story on Gov't media or local TV news that was on a field/area that you know much about - something that is YOUR THING. Didn't you feel like the story was so screwed up that you really needed to call the station or write a letter to keep people from getting misinformed by these knuckleheads?
Imagine, if you will, a "journalist" who is on the Global Climate DisruptionTM beat. This guy gets on-line to read a Climatology research paper from a journal. The only thing he will, or can, for that matter, read is the summary. This is usually 1-2 paragraphs that are perhaps 2-5% of the paper. The summary could be quite useful for another scientist who may want to find out if this is a paper worth reading to get information that would be useful to him. However, it's reading by this newsman will be less-than-useless. What he will not get any understanding of will be the assumptions made in the science, the parts about "... this will require more study to improve our data ...", "... more experimentation is needed here ...", "... our accuracy here has been improved only by use of some [fudge] factors, the origin of which must be determined by further observation", etc.
As pointed out facetiously in "What is Peek Stoopiditee?", mathematical results nowadays can be presented with beautiful (or scary, whatever you want) multi-colored, pseudo-3D curves that are very easy to make. However, Garbage in = Garbage out, nonetheless. In order to not put the blame on all of the scientists however, it is to be noted that the tolerance ranges of a mathematical model, and again, any caveats may be clearly stated, but, not in the SUMMARY!, because the summary cannot be a repeat of the entire paper. Therefore, our idiot journalist will not catch all of the information that would make him cautious to see these results as true predictions of the doomsday to come.
I truly believe that most of the scientists in even this highly-politicized field still try to be honest with the data. However, if Dr. So-and-So's paper gets mentioned on CNN and he gets calls from reporters and muckety-mucks from around the world, he's just not going to be too eager to tell them "hey, wait, not so fast - there's a whole lot of stuff that you didn't explain. This work isn't complete, you've blown it way out of proportion!" Well, to his credit, these people don't want to hear it anyway.
That's where the political agenda comes in to the picture. I'm done with this for the evening
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Summary of our take on Global Climate DisruptionTM (Part 1)
Posted On: Monday - December 26th 2016 7:34PM MST
In Topics: Global Climate Stupidity
This post and a follow-up or two (I know I will not fit a whole summary into one post) is a summary for non-technical people of peakstupidity.com's view of the entire GCDTM hoax/scam/whatever. The descriptively technical posts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 may be unbelieved by a non-technical reader, of course, with the attitude of "the consensus of the climate scientist is this ...", or basically, "how do you know more about this than scientists in the field?" I do not purport to have more, or as much, knowledge of the subject than a climate scientist - one may tell me that this or other process of the climate was completely left out or this one is not important, as you suggest, etc.
The specific physical processes that are studied, and the hierarchy thereof, are not what the 5 posts about mathematical modelling were about. My points in those posts were about the extreme difficulty of modelling of multiple-process systems, especially without experimentation being an option. My posts also illustrate nicely the difference between science and engineering. The big difference is that what is learned in science does not have to be ready to work right away. Work is always in progress.
Were an engineer to publish a paper announcing that he had modeled the climate of the world, then people would expect that this model could be run off of current conditions and should create output of some sort to forecast the climate of next year, next decade, or whenever, within whatever tolerances he advertised. In the science of climatology, it is expected that the journals would cover the on-going work of studying the various processes (say, cloud formation, changes in ocean currents, etc.), but that this work would be studied by others, improved upon, added to and so forth to expand the science. Any serious paper describing a model of the entire climate would have to be interspersed with caveats like "more study of this process is needed ..." and "... the accuracy of our knowledge of this other one is very low ...". To state in a journal article that a published mathematical model should be used to actually forecast climate at the present time is a misrepresentation of of science and would be a flat-out lie.
This is where the politics get involved, and that is where the next post will start.
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Christmas Music
Posted On: Saturday - December 24th 2016 8:05PM MST
In Topics: Music Holiday from Stupidity
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Skip this one unless you are familiar with Pink Floyd
Posted On: Saturday - December 24th 2016 1:11PM MST
In Topics: Humor
Somehow, my wife brought up some video she had seen about some pretty poor sanitary practices in India. Once I got to mentioning that I'd just read that something like 1/2 the population of that country still doesn't use toilets, my son got really interested.
After running through a few non-applicable videos on youtube, we finally found one that showed people defecating in a vacant lot (granted, they were kind of organized in a poo-grid of some sort).
Because this boy gets so distracted by anything during meals, I had to get him back on track, to eat his beef. "EAT YOUR MEAT. HOW CAN YOU WATCH PEOPLE POOING IF YOU DON'T EAT YOUR MEAT!!?"
I mean, it's the same meter and everything; it was very serendipitous! If you don't know what I'm talking about, maybe you didn't listen to American radio in 1979. Like I said, skip it.
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Corb Lund - could be called the "Prepper's Anthem"
Posted On: Friday - December 23rd 2016 8:20PM MST
In Topics: Music Preppers and Prepping
Peakstupidity.com has not covered prepping in any way yet. Zerohedge.com, which is number 1 on the blogroll, and has been mentioned already many times, is not a prepper site per se, but many of the commenters are of that sort. To me, that is one of the best things about zerohedge. One can learn a lot from the written experience of others.
In the future, some prepper-site links will be in the blogroll, but first reviews will be written.
Here is a few year old song buy a western Canadian dude named Corb Lund, who plays with his band The Hurtin' Albertans. OK, the "Peak Oil" idea may be completely out of anyone's head for a good while now, but that's the premise, and this is truly the Prepper's Anthem:
The video is not particularly interesting, so here are the lyrics:
When the oil stops, everything stops, nothing left in the fountain.
Nobody wants paper money son, so you just well stop countin'.
Can you break the horse, can you light the fire, what's that I beg your pardon?
You best start thinking where food comes from and I hope you tend a good garden.
Getting down on the mountain, getting down on the mountain.
Don't wanna be around when the shit goes down;
I'll be gettin' down on the mountain.
When the truck don't run, the bread don't come , have a hard time finding petrol.
Water ain't runnin' in the city no more do hold any precious metal?
Can you gut the fish, can you read the sky, whats that about over crowdin'?
You ever seen a man who's kids ain't ate for 17 days and countin'.
Getting down on the mountain, getting down on the mountain.
Dont wanna be around when the shit goes down;
I'll be gettin' on down the mountain.
There ain't no heat and the powers gone out, it's kerosene lamps and candles.
The roads are blocked its all grid locked, you got a short wave handle?
Can you track the deer, can you dig the well, couldn't quite hear your answer.
I think I see a .rip in the social fabric, brother can you spare some ammo?
Getting down on the mountain, getting down on the mountain
Don't wanna be around when the shit goes down;
Gettin' on down the mountain.
When the oil stops, everything stops, nothing left in the fountain.
Nobody wants paper money son, so you just well stop countin'.
Can you break the horse, can you light the fire, whats that I beg your pardon?
I think I see a rip in the social fabric; brother can you pass the ammo?
Getting down on the mountain, getting down on the mountain
Don't wanna be around when the shit goes down;
Gettin' on down the mountain.
Addendum: The Calamity Song by The Decemberists embedded a few weeks back came on the radio just after this writer started reading zerohedge regularly, and it sure fit right in. The lyrics are really just jumbled-up garbage though (again, the REM influence!), but the song rocks anyway.
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There is no working mathematical model of the world's climate, dammit! (Part 5)
Posted On: Friday - December 23rd 2016 7:56PM MST
In Topics: Treehuggers Global Climate Stupidity
(Continuation of Part 4)
Where we left off before was a few paragraphs on the complications of mathematical models and why any model of the world climate advertised so far has left out some overridingly-significant physical processes, in particular, the ICE AGES. They were a big deal, and more of a change of climate than even the most extreme climate disruption alarmists have been trying to freak people out about. What would a few degrees up or down in the average global temperature mean, even if caused by humans, compared to thousand mile 100's of yards thick sheets of ice coming down through Canada to scrape Detroit off the map (see there's good news too, right?)?
If the start time of the next ice age can neither be determined by these purported models, nor are there some other empirical calculations of their appearances that can be input to the models, then these models are total crap.
A rebuttal from these people to this will be "well, that is all really-long term, and we are just modeling the medium-term climate". My reply to that is "how do you know, then, if we are not in the beginning phase of the next ice age and, since you don't know squat about this, how could you know if everything your model predicts will be negated, doubled or whatever?"
This writer got into a back-and-forth on-line discussion back in 2009 about climate modeling in the comments section of Mr. Vin Suprynowitz's (a great libertarian) column in the Las Vegas Review Journal. The guy was fairly reasonable and calm, and this discussion went on/off for most of the spring and summer, but unfortunately has been wiped off the web due to re-design of the site (and I'm sure a requirement for non-anonymity also). I brought up the El Nino and La Nina effects. Hey, I've respect for scientists that can at least see cause and effect of the ocean currents, wide-area atmospheric pressure regions and all that. It is great that they can get some idea of coming general weather conditions for areas of the US for one or two seasons ahead. However, as my debating opponent admitted, the El Nino effect is NOT KNOWN ABOUT UNTIL IT IS ALREADY IN PROGRESS. (Same with La Nina, the opposite effect). So, I asked the gentleman if El Nino/La Nina are INPUTS to, or OUTPUTS from, these climate models. The answer is neither.
The next post on this will be off of the overview of the descriptive science and modeling and on to the reasons for this hype/hoax about something that should be just an ongoing field of science, not a wet dream for control freaks all around the world.
George Carlin continues where peakstupidity.com leaves off:
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The philosophy of Confucius
Posted On: Thursday - December 22nd 2016 10:02PM MST
In Topics: Humor History Pundits China
After having alluded to a difference in philosophy between ancient Chinese culture under the influence of Confucius and American (Western/Christian) philosophy in this post, I should explain this more, I figure.
The writer has not read much of Mr. Confucius' writings, nor even any Cliff Notes versions, but I have read some history of the country. The general ideas of Confucius and the multi-millenial history of the Chinese seem to always boil down to the concept of harmonius living - living in harmany with each other without conflict, no matter what one's station in life may be. The multi-century's old Western, and especially American, culture exhibits a quite contrary philosopy, that of individualism.
This is what my comment in the other post was referring to. This blog attempts to put out the truth, among all of the massive stupidity that the people of America and most of the Western world is bombarded with continuously. An important cultural tradition of Americans is (or, at least was) to stand up for what is right. The Confucius idea of harmony does not allow for the individualist. "The nail that stands up gets hammered down", the Chinese say, while Americans say "the squeaky wheel gets the grease".
I am proud to still stick with the attitude that says: even if everyone around you is against your point of view, what's right is right, and the truth is the truth. That's the philosphy of this blog, Confucius be damned.
Additionally, having perused just a few of the writings attributed to Mr. Confucius' I am puzzled as to the high stature in which he is seen by Chinese intellectuals:
Confucius say:
Woman laid in tomb may become mummy.
Man who fall in vat of molten glass make spectacle of self.
Man who run in front of car get tired. Man who run behind car get exhausted.
Even the greatest of whales is helpless in middle of desert.
Grease monkey who go to bed without bathing wake up oily in the morning
OK, I think the 4th point is fairly profound, but, as to the rest of these "brilliant writings of this revered ancient sage of the East", I mean, come on! An American 6th grader (well, OK, not in public school) could do better. You call that claptrap high-brow philosophy??
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[UPDATE (3 mins later):] Whoops, peakstupidty.com staff regrets the misattribution of the above writings (stuff in italics) to Mr. Confucius of the People's Republic of China. These writings were posted by an intern working for the blog, who had understandably lifted them from the works of a different Confucius, Mr. Bill Confucius of Paducah, Kentucky. We sincerely regret the error. It won't might not happen again.
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[UPDATE 12/23/16:] George Carlin, the philosopher that beats hell out of Confucius, has been moved to a latter post, where his bit fits in much better.
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Another song about a riverboat
Posted On: Thursday - December 22nd 2016 9:18PM MST
In Topics: Music
This post has a happy song about a riverboat by Elton John. I just thought about another song about a different type of boat coming up the river - this is Neil Young's Powderfinger from the album Rust Never Sleeps.
Davey Johnstone's (Elton's guitar player) bright guitar sound is quite different from Neil's high-power peak-distortion sound here. This is a great song, but much different from Dixie Lily:
The album Rust Never Sleeps has acoustic guitar songs on the first side ("side" meaning nothing but the first 1/2 of the album, unless you go back to the vinyl) and the second side has hard-rock distortion electric guitar. So, the song "My my, hey, hey" is not to be confused with the song "Hey hey, my my!".
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On the Daily Mail article about Berlin murders again
Posted On: Wednesday - December 21st 2016 8:01AM MST
In Topics: Commies Immigration Stupidity Globalists
This post was getting long already, and the writer was getting steamed, but here is one more quote I wanted to add and comment on:
"Horst Seehofer, the minister-president of Bavaria and one of the harshest critics of her open-door asylum policy, caused a storm Tuesday night when he said on TV: 'We owe it to the victims, to those affected and to the whole population to rethink our immigration and security policy and to change it.' "
It's a pretty sad state of affairs in a country when the stupidity level, in this case, the political correctness, is so high, that this simple statement about a government policy "causes a storm". If Herr Seehofer's simple statement above "causes a storm", I wonder what the whole truth written in plain English, such as THIS would cause, a Class 5, 300 mph, 26.5 in-Hg center-pressure 2-mile wide tornado? Or maybe, just 10 years jail time is what it would cause, explaining why they Germans can't write or even say the whole truth. I am thankful our country has not gotten to this high stupidity level just yet (it is thanks to God, and thanks to a few hundred wise men who wrote-up the US Constitution.)
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About the Chinese
Posted On: Wednesday - December 21st 2016 7:46AM MST
In Topics: NONE
This and this post under the topic key Cheap Chinamade Crap may make the reader think that this site is really down on China in general.
I really cannot say that. There is Chinese blood in this writer's family, and I have much respect for the Chinese and their cultural traditions going as far back as the first PoonTang Dynasty (not the TV show with the busty blond, I'm going a little farther back than that). I respect the work ethic of the Chinese and the generally (though changing unfortunately) wise and conservative financial ways, and their amazing ability to get along well even in large crowds, which is pretty much the way they have to live.
The problem, I can foresee, is that any Chinese readers may not get the humor unless they were born here or grew up in this country. I think many, even with a sense of humor, may appreciate different humor than that presented here. In these cases, I won't be able to follow Confucius's advice* to get along with my fellow man harmoniously. Rather than smile at the humorless readers, wish them luck, and go on my way to call them assholes to my friends and family - the Chinese way, I am still under the real American cultural paradigm, which goes: "Fuck you if you can't take a joke! GET! OFF! MY! WEBSITE! BITCH!"
* More about Confucius's ancient Chinese writings in an upcoming post.
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