Until youtube, the last time I heard this was off an 8-track player - it's kind of annoying when you hear a loud CLICK during the track change in the middle of a song! Wonder why you can't buy anything in this format anymore? ;-}


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Brilliant plan by Chinese Communist Party Cadres pans out well


Posted On: Tuesday - December 20th 2016 9:02AM MST
In Topics:   Cheap China-made Crap  Humor  Curmudgeonry

I could be just a bit paranoid about this, but here is the results of my investigation into an odious, I mean egregious, no, brilliant plan by a group of Chinese party Cadres* to destroy American ingenuity and take over any and all markets. You read it here first, remember!:

Plan QASFAM IV, Quality Assurance Sabotage to Fuck-up American Machinery, revision 4, as translated by our peakstupidity assets in-country from the original Mandarin: 鄰 邻 斃 毙 蠟, 四, pronounced "wei fuk xit oup".

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A) Sell cheap tools at Harbor Freight and Northern Tool that irresistible for average American hands-on prole.

B) Come up American brand name about tools so being sounded like high-quality old rust-belt mighty industry. So far we name torque wrench Pittsburgh and such.

C) Name air compressor like big factory name Central Pneaumatic and try best American spelling.

D) Make hand tools from pot metal. Win-win, use tin, make steel and aluminum saving. Shine up to looking like steel using ex-party member labor in Shangxii cave-dwelling facility, former fissionable material storage area of motherland war II with wrong-type-of-communism, northern retneck neighbor country era.

D) Implementing 30-day non-honerble return policy.

E) Sit back, eat pop-rice and watch throw firework!

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Working example from Appendix A:

- American prole decides to use belt sander to finish legs for home-made wooden table.

- Sander fails 1/2 way through second table leg from cheap bolt holding belt guide. Belt flies off, goes through Harbor Freight cheap safety glasses causing eye irritation and increasing sales of our China-made Rite-Aid placebic medicines. 1/2 hour wasted.

- Man buys new bolt from Lowes. Chinese alternator break on way back from store. Man walks to Auto Zone and buys new alternator and China-made socket wrench and 15 mm socket, fixes auto and makes it home. 2 hour wasted.

- Man uses crescent (see sound like American built, but not) wrench to install new bolt to attach guide on belt sander. After 3 turns, crescent wrench adjustment knurled part fails in torsion at deep groove (we are sooo smart we scare self!). Man drives car to hardware store for new low quality, only wrench available. He drive car home on battery power only, as alternator belt rip due to bad finish on new alternator pulley. 1/2 hour wasted.

- Man fixes belt sander and finishes 2nd table leg. He work on 3rd table leg sanding when sander motor seize and causes flipped breaker in shop. Breaker break in 2 pieces when American prole try to switch back on. 1/2 hour wasted.

- Man take out American-made handgun and put many large hole is belt sander. Man returns to store (at high speed on battery power only) and obtain honorable 4-month return of money for sander from employee at gunpoint. 3 year, reducible-to-2 under probation wasted.

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* Cadre [Webster's edition XMIIV, revision 4(d)] - noun, "cad ray". 1) a commie dude who is involved in any kind of odious, egregious, or brilliant plan of some kind. 2) another commie who is involved who says "ain aahh helped!", but in Mandarin.


Oh, in case you've been living in a cave for the last, what, 20 to 50 years, here, for crying out loud!



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War (on Christmas) in Germany ....


Posted On: Tuesday - December 20th 2016 8:08AM MST
In Topics:   Immigration Stupidity  Globalists

... and elsewhere in the western world. I don't mean the cultural "war on Christmas", I mean the actual war, this time at Christmas - with one-sided skirmishes by the goat-love crowd on the Western World. The latest one-sided skirmish was the truck attack in Berlin, Germany. As of yesterday, we didn't know if the moslem "refugee" shouting "Alalu Akbar" was in reality a terrorist, or just a regular old German gentleman with a driving problem.

It's hard to tell by headlines. We must read between the lines, like an old babushka perusing Pravda while sitting on the toilet.



Danke, hündin! This lady should be tried as an accessory to a coupla hundred counts of murder-1. Book her, Dano!


The murderer in question here may keep getting called "the German man" by our and other country's government media. The governments, gov't media, and the globalist crowd in general, like that sort of thing, as they can maintain the line "see, he's a German, homegrown terrorist." (yeah, "homegrown", like under the grow lights in my friend's closet before his house burned up - true story). "It's not about the immigrants, folks, nothing to see there, this sort of shit just happens. See, this guy wasn't an immigrant."

I don't care where this guy was born, he's a moslem terrorist waging war, and whatever colored passport he may have doesn't mean squat to me. He's not a German, and Syed Rizwan Farook and his San Bernardino broad are not Americans and never will be!

Two Americans or not? We report, you decide.


Why were these people's parents allowed to move in to Western lands? That's the question people want to ask but won't due to being scared of being called names.


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Dirty Work - Steely Dan


Posted On: Monday - December 19th 2016 8:33PM MST
In Topics:   Music  Hildabeast

From their 1972 album Can't Buy a Thrill.

Come to think of it - while listening to the lyrics it occurred to me that this song could have easily been written by Huma the moslem to her "friend-with-benefits" Mrs. Clinton.


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Great comment from Amren.com about the globalists


Posted On: Monday - December 19th 2016 8:28PM MST
In Topics:   Commies  Immigration Stupidity  The Russians  History  Globalists

A commenter named "Andrea Ostrov Letania" sums up a plethora of American stupidity and a kind of quandrey for the globalists with this great comment under this article about violence by Mexican immigrants.


"On the matter of RUSSIA interfering to help elect Trump...

This is what I don't get.

Globalists have been telling us that nationalism is so passe, so over.

Let's have open borders. Ideas about national independence and sovereignty are quaint, atavistic.

Some states say even non-citizens should be given the vote, even illegals, and some states don't even bother to check if those registered to vote are citizens.

And no problem that the most important newspaper in the US is 'owned' by a Mexican who isn't even Mexican but a Lebanese. A 'Mexican' owning an 'American' paper.

Also, big cities in the US don't even force national laws. They offer 'sanctuary' status to illegals who broke national laws.

So, if the NATION doesn't matter anymore and if everything should be open/global, what's wrong with Russia or any other nation interfering with US elections?

Hey, it's Open Borders Politics. I say let's give amnesty to Russian hackers if they were indeed responsible. If we should give amnesty to 20 million illegals in America, what's all this fuss about national security? Those hackers aren't so bad. They are just undocumented political activists.

It's funny that Globalists who've done everything to undermine national security, national identity, and national unity are now the very people who are making all this noise about how some FOREIGN nation messed with our NATIONAL election.

The Globalists have been calling the nationalists who supported Trump as deplorable 'xenophobes', but it's now the Glob that is now in total 'Russophobic-Xenophobic' mode of how some 'foreign body' messed with our sacred NATIONAL election.

But then, the current US is really batty. It yammers endlessly about how the US military and government are doing everything to ensure that other nations don't threaten OUR WAY OF LIFE... but then, it also says the US, being an exceptional and indispensable nation, has the right to invade and intervene in other nations to determine their WAY OF LIFE, like surrendering to the homo agenda and multi-culti Diversity. Globalism sure works funny. Other nations don't mess with our WAY OF LIFE, but we should interfere with theirs. I mean how dare Russia not have massive homo parades on Red Square that commemorates 20 million dead in WWII? Them Russkies got no sense of priorities."

I hadn't thought of that contradiction before and wouldn't have been able to sum it up so well myself.

[UPDATED:] Here is an article out today on VDare.com that makes the same point, but in a more wide-reaching, historical manner. One thing he left out is not the latest Clinton Foundation pay-to-play business, but the Bill Clinton White House dealings in the 1990's involving giving away American sovereignty to the Chinese Commies in return for money and favors.


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There is no working mathematical model of the world's climate, dammit! (Part 4)


Posted On: Monday - December 19th 2016 9:13AM MST
In Topics:   Global Climate Stupidity

(Continuation of Part 3, which should be just below.)

The hot bar soldering process analysis has been broken up by the writer, though the researcher working on it years back would probably have more to add.

Anyway, with the 3 modes of heat transfer that were modeled, only one of which is based on very accurate theory, the interrelated parts must be put together. The non-technical reader is asked to believe us here, that, no, the problems can NOT be solved separately. Temperature at a part's surface is determined via conduction, but then the convection and radiation transfer not only DEPEND on that temperature, but also "AFFECT" that temperature, and etc. Cause and effect go two ways here, so the model must simultaneously solve the math for all modes (Oh, and don't forget transience, or modelling the process over time.)

When put together, the model will generally produce a lot of garbage data, even with very good models of the individual processes. Then, much "tweaking" and comparison to experimental data must be done to fix unforseen problems in the math.

OK, to compare now to a model of the world's climate, this soldering process sounds, say, at first glance to a mechanical engineering student studying heat-transfer, to be a piece of cake, but it's not. Compare that to all the things (physical processes) going on with the earth's energy transfer and balance that I described in Post 2 as just a start).

I also described in Post 2 how there are many processes, that must be part of the model, that are either not even known to exist or were not considered at all. For my friend's research, he had to learn about "thermal contact resistance" and include that. This is the variation of heat transfer across a boundary of 2 solids. A good example of this concept is that of walking barefoot across a WalMart parking lot one July day. Try it! At least on the rough pavement, not all of your feet's surfaces touch rock and tar. Then, get on a really smooth part (same exact material) and you're gonna be screaming and hopping around after a few seconds. (unless you've been barefoot the whole summer like I have!) There is a pressure-dependent element too, which must be known accurately to be part of the math model. This thermal resistance at the boundary also had been mostly studied empirically. That is just one of possibly more (forgotten since the years have gone by) processes that were not initially regarded as important to a good analysis of the "simple" hot-bar soldering temperature fields.

Compare the idea in the above paragraph with what would be required to be included in any working climate model. Are they missing anything? Wouldn't the causes of the ice ages be really damn important to know, given that the changes are so high compared to what these current models are allegedly forecastng? Yes, they would. Do these alleged models purport to tell us about the next one? Really, enquiring minds really want to know. The scientists must have just forgotten to tell us. Even on a smaller scale, are all the physical processes involved known accurately.

See the unfortunate thing is, an entire model of the climate can not be tested versus experiments. We only have observation, and so far the output that said "no more snow, sell your snow blower on ebay before the next guy!" and "more hurricanes, batten down the hatches, get over to Lowes for more plywood!" 10 years back have not really panned out, in my humble, 2-ft-snow-bound, rotting-10-year-old-plywood-in-the-garaged opinion.

Now, take El Nino, and La Nina, puhleeeze. Wait .....

writing ... too fast ..... more .......... to ..... come....... about this ............ tomorr ...... ohhh ...... must ...... take ........ shower ........... [/Captain Kirk]


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There is no working mathematical model of the world's climate, dammit! (Part 3)


Posted On: Monday - December 19th 2016 8:30AM MST
In Topics:   Global Climate Stupidity

(Continuation of Post 2.)

The best way to explain the complications of a mathematical model is by example, I think. I am going to summarize an engineer friend of mine's research project from the distant past.

Back when a whole lot of manufacturing was still going on in the US, this particular company wanting the analysis done was in the business of making personal computers. Chips were being soldered onto circuit boards (or planned to be) via a "hot-bar" process. A small heated bar (just for the purpose of picturing it, think of a roughly 1/2 in. long and 1/8 x 1/8 in bar) is placed by machinery onto a bunch of leads of a chip on one side to solder them all at the same time.

The engineering problem was to determine the electrical power input to the bar and length of time of contact with the leads that would get the joints soldered without overheating any part of the chip (maybe of the circuit board, also). Too much energy in, or at too high a rate - burned out parts. Too little energy in, or too low a rate - unreliable cold solder joints. Both situations are bad. Simple, right? No, NOT. Granted, unlike the the entire climate of the world, say, data could be obtained experimentally, though probably not easily with the small scale. Though experimental methods are a part of engineering, of course, and might still need to be done as verification with this problem, there is a reason we need to apply theory, heat transfer and thermodynamics, in this case.

The reason we need to apply theory is that we don't want to keep doing experiments every time we change any part of the process (different chips, say, or different dimensions, whatever). We want a mathematical model that works. Notice very carefully the "THAT WORKS", part, which differentiates engineering from science!). If we have a computer model, based, of course on math that describes the physics involved, we can change parameters and still get our numerical answers. In this case, we require temperatures of the chip material and the solder over time, given chip dimensions/material, size and material of the leads and solder, size, material, and power of/to the bar, and even air temperature of the work area.

This problem involves conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer - all 3 modes. Conduction is very well defined by something called "Fourier's law of conduction". This can be modeled very well in even 3 dimensions and transiently (changes over time vs. steady-state) with "finite-element" and "finite-difference" techniques. These techniques break up some differential equations, which are very hard to solve together, into thousands or even millions of linear equations. The methods of solving linear equations simultaneously are called "matrix methods" and have been know for, say, a century or two. Nowadays, computer power is not even a factor for millions of equations, but even at the time of this example, one just needed more time - yes, you might wait on the computer to run for half an hour. Kids today would probably pull the plug to reboot the machine well before that time ;-}

Now, for the convection, the engineering analysis is much more empirical - meaning math derived not directly from theory but generalized from experiments. It is not something that gives numbers with great accuracy, and that's especially so with "free convection", meaning no forced flow of fluid, just movement of air (in this case) via buoyancy (warm air rises as it is lighter, right?). That's what this analysis involved, and much assuming and "smearing" must be done to match actual complicated geometry with the few generalized geometry set-ups that have known empirical math to describe them.

Radiation heat transfer has a simple equation for the gist of it, but the external geometry (what things the hot parts radiate to.) can make the problem complicated in a hurry.

I will get to comparing this problem to modeling the climate of the world in the next post.


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NY Slimes links African overpopulation to Global Climate Disruption^TM


Posted On: Saturday - December 17th 2016 9:41AM MST
In Topics:   Immigration Stupidity  Global Climate Stupidity

Steve Sailer here on VDare and here on Ron Unz's website (the latter has/allows comments) eviscerates this ridiculous NY fish-wrapper-of-record story. As written about here just a couple of days ago, Sailer reads this crap to keep up with these Gov-media lackeys, so's we don't have to.

A couple of parts stand out here:

[Sailer quoting NYS]:" Sub-Saharan Africa is in the throes of a population boom, which means that people have to grow more food precisely at a time when climate change is making it all the more difficult. Fertility rates remain higher than in other parts of the world, and Niger has the highest in the entire world: Women bear more than seven children on average.
Once every three years, according to scientists from the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, or FEWS Net, Niger faces food insecurity, or a lack of adequate food to eat. Hunger here is among the worst in the world: About 45 percent of Niger’s children under 5 suffer from chronic malnutrition.
Meanwhile, in what is already one of the hottest places on Earth, it has gotten steadily hotter: by 0.7 degrees Celsius since 1975, Fews Net has found. …"


[Sailer]:"Meanwhile, the population of Niger has grown from 5.2 million in 1975 to 19.9 million in 2015. But don’t think about the 14.7 million more people, think about the 0.7 more degrees."

Next:

[Sailer quoting NYS]:"But many of these people fall through the cracks of international law. The United Nations 1951 refugee convention applies only to those fleeing war and persecution, and even that treaty’s obligation to offer protection is increasingly flouted by many countries wary of foreigners. …"

[PeakStupidity]:This takes the cake. This writer says that we need to let our country get invaded and overrun by foreigners because it's "THE! LAW!", not only "THE! LAW!", but "THE! INTERNATIONAL! LAW!". We've been completely FLOUTING this invasion shit for too long now and finding LOOPHOLES in "THE LAW". Firstly, US out of UN and UN out of the US (think how much rent someone could get out of that big-ass building downtown NYC).

Secondly, many of us who live in the United States stay here because we don't have anywhere else in mind in which we want to live. Africa is, in particular, one place almost all of us don't want to live. If we did, we'd pack it up and move there. We don't want the US to become Africa, because, again, we don't want to live there! Is this hard to understand for the writer, Mr. or Mrs. SOMINI SENGUPTA? I really doubt it. Some of these writers aren't actually as dumb as they sound. They just do not like the average American, and they DO! NOT! CARE! WHAT! HAPPENS! TO! YOU!

I have another great part of Steve Sailer's article I would like to point out, but this post is getting too long, and my blood pressure is up a tad.


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Live Dead - Bertha


Posted On: Thursday - December 15th 2016 7:36PM MST
In Topics:   Music  The Dead

April 1978 at Duke University, Durham, NC

(Gerry's lead is from 2:50 to 4:50.)

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Kids read the darndest things


Posted On: Thursday - December 15th 2016 12:00PM MST
In Topics:   Humor

Our five-year old guy is a pretty good reader. Also, he likes to really organize everything in his mind. If you tell him "this part is made of wood", he wants to know what all the other parts are made out of. If you tell him "this tree is an evergreen", and why, he has to make sure he knows what a deciduous tree is.

While he was using our restroom facilities he wanted to be clear about the information on this box:




"We've got the yellow ones, Daddy", he says.

"Do we have any of the green ones? It says 'heavy flow pads'. We should get some of those.

"I don't see the purple ones either. We have 'regular', but we need 'heavy flow pads' and 'overnight pads'"

I'm all, "Boy, I don't really keep up with this stuff too much. Ask your mama". (Always passing the buck, I guess ;-}


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It's all like a big game of Risk to these people


Posted On: Thursday - December 15th 2016 8:38AM MST
In Topics:   Elections '16 - '26  TV, aka Gov't Media

Steve Sailer, a brilliant mind, I would say, writes about the screw-ups in the strategy of the '16 Democratic presidential campaign operatives(?). He picks apart this Politico article like he's a hungry vulture working on a fresh, 3-day old armadillo carcass off the side of Nevada State Hwy 49, 20 miles W. of Winnemucca.

Now, I've not read the whole (politico) article and not too many policial strategy articles at all really, but the following important realization comes across:

Ideology, freedom (or lack thereof) of the American people, the financial state of the country, foreign relations, all that stuff doesn't mean a hill of beans to the "strategists". You've gotta admit that's it's not their job. OK, but upon reading this, you will realize that democratic elections are just games of Risk to these people!

Listen to this (Sailer's quote of the Politico article):

"... Waving off complaints during a visit to Michigan a few weeks out, Marshall explained to the room that Clinton was going to clobber Trump in the final debate and they were talking about moving money into Senate seats."

"... moving money into Senate seats". You, the voters, are just some pieces on the board. They may want you to move to the polls, they may not. Maybe the other side wants you to come out. Maybe not. They think you can be manipulated with some money paid to the TV station that you watch used to watch - before you read these 2 peakstupidiy posts - this and this, right? ;-}

You've got to read Sailer's whole thing to see where I'm coming from on this. This is the writer I mentioned in my review of VDare to the right (blogroll). He reads through the whole damn NY Times, just so the rest of us don't have to.

If you're not familiar with the board game Risk, it's an "epic struggle for world domination", an example of which is in this video of a game between these two guys:

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Sloop John B - Dwight Yoakam


Posted On: Wednesday - December 14th 2016 8:46PM MST
In Topics:   Music

I put the Beach Boys' version up a few days back. I found this video of Dwight Yoakam singing it. It's not a cover, as Bryan Wilson (Beach Boys songwriter) didn't write this one - they just had the only popular version out there. You can't miss with Dwight Yoakam, and the mandolin player is great too.

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There is no working mathematical model of the world's climate, dammit! (Part 2)


Posted On: Wednesday - December 14th 2016 2:43PM MST
In Topics:   Global Climate Stupidity

(Continuation of Post 1.)

at the end of this post I wrote "... to be explained today or tomorrow." By "tomorrow", I meant "next week" - sorry for the confusing terms :-}

Anyhow:


Without being a scientist in the field, but just from some reading and a mind geared toward science/engineering, one can name many factors that would have to be part of a mathematical model of the earth's climate. This is purely descriptive, with no claim to which is more important and which ones possibly interrelate enough to not be separate at all. Something major may be completely overlooked, but these:

a) Incoming solar radiation
b) Internal energy of the earth's core
c) Internal energy, kinetic energy (currents), and composition of the oceans
d) Internal energy ("sensible heat" and "latent heat") of the atmosphere
e) Composition of the atmosphere (where the specific "greenhouse effect" fits in) including reflectivity of clouds.
f) Land cover of the earth (solar absorption, radiation emmitance, conduction through the surface material)

are probably just a good start.

OK, now (a) varies predictably over a year but in a not-so-predictable manner over the years. (b) is something one never reads about regarding the earth's energy balance, but it's got to be some factor. It's not directly measureable. (c) varies over the huge 3/4 or whatever of the earth's surface area and long-term with time. (d) varies over time and 3-dimensional space. (e) varies with time and has varied drastically in the past versus today's "normal" values. (f) is known fairly well and also varies over the medium term (in particular the snow cover does).

Just to know the values, in 2 and 3 dimensions over the entire world, at one instance of time, of all these inputs to any mathematical climate model is not a task currently possible. To take current values, and know accurate enough information about the interactions of these quantities with each other (all of the physical processes involved) to make a mathematical model that will truly predict the climate in 10, 25, and 100 years, even with a low, continent-sized resolution is not currently feasible.

There will have to be a Part 3 on this. I will need to explain my ideas of the above paragraph another way.

Mind you, this is not a rant against science or scientists (though I will discuss the political part in a later post). Climate science is as good a field to study, or work on, as many others. It is not a practical field, such as meteorology, the study of weather, but advancement of the state of human knowledge is always a good thing, currently practical or not.


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Wondering when we'll hear the rest of the story on sick Hillary


Posted On: Wednesday - December 14th 2016 1:49PM MST
In Topics:   Elections '16 - '26  TV, aka Gov't Media  AntiChrist  Hildabeast

Hopefully this will become something that nobody cares about anymore really soon. However, since we're still hearing loud whining from the left-wing about "the Russians!" and states' rights (via voting by states, not population), which is keeping this nutcase in the news, we at Peak Stupidity deserve a follow-up on the H.O.H - Health Of the Hildabeast - to know what the real story is with it her.



Will it be like in Soviet Russia, where she fades from view, and we hear once in a while some rumors about an illness, and then we are told about 5 years later she has been dead for 4 years or so already? Our government-media is very similar to the old Soviet media, except we have bigger TV sets (we call them "screens" now) and higher-resolution TV signals with which to view the lies, and more women with blond hair and big tits to spew them.

I'd just like to know if the Parkinsons story was true. There were a lot of doctors' on-line diagnoses, and one guy in particular (I think Breibart displayed his views) that sounded pretty convincing.


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King of Fake News


Posted On: Tuesday - December 13th 2016 8:23PM MST
In Topics:   TV, aka Gov't Media




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REM - Don't Go Back to Rockville


Posted On: Tuesday - December 13th 2016 8:16PM MST
In Topics:   Music

Just ran out of time for posting today. Posting will resume tomorrow until morale improves, ... or something.

Here's an REM song with lyrics you can understand:

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Looking at your watch a third time waiting
in the station for the bus.
Going to a place that's far,
so far away and if that's not enough.
Going where nobody says hello,
they don't talk to anybody they don't know.

You'll wind up in some factory that's
full time filth and nowhere left to go.
Walk home to an empty house,
sit around all by yourself.
I know it might sound strange,
but I believe You'll be coming back before too long.

Don't go back to Rockville,
don't go back to Rockville,
don't go back to Rockville,
and waste another year.

At night I drink myself to sleep and pretend
I don't care that you're not here with me.
'Cause it's so much easier to handle
All my problems if I'm too far out to sea.
But something better happen soon
or it's gonna be too late to bring me back.

Don't go back to Rockville,
don't go back to Rockville,
don't go back to Rockville,
and waste another year.

It's not as though I really need you.
If you were here I'd only bleed you.
But everybody else in town only wants to bring me down and
that's not how it ought to be.
Well I know it might sound strange, but I believe
you'll be coming back before too long.

Don't go back to Rockville,
don't go back to Rockville,
don't go back to Rockville,
and waste another year.

Don't go back to Rockville,
don't go back to Rockville,
don't go back to Rockville
and waste another year.


[Lyrics by Mike Mills]


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REM ... we don't need no steeenking lyrics!


Posted On: Monday - December 12th 2016 7:07PM MST
In Topics:   Music

Apropos of my theory that lyrics are the least important element of a song, I present exhibit A, REM's Radio Free Europe. It is from the appropriately titled album Murmur. That album is full of great songs, but it's the melodies and the sound (all of them: Peter Buck's guitar riffs, Mike Mill's pounding bass, Bill Berry's drums, and Michael Stipe's voice - though it doesn't matter what he's singing about) that make them great.

Even the youtube "owner" only put up two lines of lyrics, ha! I know this rocks and there's something about a train station, but that's about all of it lyric wise. I believe the other bandmembers admitted that they didn't know what Stipe was on about.



PLEASE!DO!NOT!LISTEN!TO!THIS!SONG!WITHOUT!BIG!WOOFERS!

"Calling out, in transit,
calling out, in transit,
Radio Free Europe,
Radio Free Europe"


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City Of Chicago Working Around Clock To Clear 18 Inches Of Bullet Casings From Streets


Posted On: Monday - December 12th 2016 8:39AM MST
In Topics:   Humor

Zerohedge links to The Onion, here.



I just got done saying that ZH has the best commenters around, but it took some of them 1/4 of the article to figure out it's satire. Hmmm, maybe Chicago is even worse now than I thought.


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Zerohedge.com - frustrating site


Posted On: Monday - December 12th 2016 8:21AM MST
In Topics:   Websites  Global Financial Stupidity  Curmudgeonry

It's the top link on the Blogroll, but damn these people (whoever administers the site, IT-wise)! As I mentioned in the review, they've got it loaded up with pop-ups, slowed down to a crawl even on a fast computer, and it will crash the browsers after a period of time with out-of-control scripts.

The reason it's frustrating is that it's such a great site otherwise, mostly due to the commenters. I was trying to read a long comment from a guy name "Skateboarder", who's been on a while, about the situation in India, what with their government changing the currency on them (really, they are trying a large-scale experiment with the globalist-loved cashless-economy thing.) Then zerohedge crashed the browser, which is why I decided to blog this morning, after a hiatus on Sunday.

Here is the article. What is great about these guys (the commenters) is many of them have a lot of real-life experiences, business or otherwise, that come through in their comments. This particular guy, "Skateboarder" described life in India right now, as he has been there during this money fiasco. His comment, the length of a full-out article, is somewhat in contradiction with "the Tylers" accounts. I'd believe an experienced commenter over the website authors' exaggerations any time.

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