Pyongyang Traffic Girls From The Sky
Posted On: Thursday - August 4th 2022 5:48PM MST
In Topics: Humor World Political Stupidity
Commenter Adam Smith pasted the link to the video below under Monday's post Bizarro-world stupidity out of the Orient. That post was about North Korea. Peak Stupidity has found itself on some sort of North Korea kick this whole week so far. That will end with this one, as there are loads of posts that have accumulated in the queue* from the time on our trip.
I don't know why this video is so funny, at least the 1st time around, but, believe me, it is. I think it's that I can imagine leaders of N. Korea that may come up with crazy stunts being like Lawn Chair Larry Walters but with unlimited funds and budgets and much less of a history of common sense, DIY, practical know-how.
Enjoy:
If anyone reading knows Korean, can you tell me if the audio matches the captions. If yes, is this Koreans having some fun or is it people in on the fun but still the butt of the joke at the same time? Who is the cutie in the uniform?
UPDATE: Commenter Hail, who knows a lot about Korea says the caption says in general:
Here are these new big sun-umbrellas installed to help the traffic guards from the glare of the sun. They can also be used for rain, and help work proceed at maximum efficiency. And while they are transportable, mostly they are praising how comfortable it is to use them for shade or protection from precipitation. It's a great innovation. "I am so happy about this great innovation."Peak Stupidity will have posts coming on the shitshow called airport security (well, what would a reader expect?), the political correctness, now in it's more deadly form, wokeness, in the UK, and some residual Kung Flu stupidity, with a number of pictures. Every picture tells a story, don't it?. That is, as soon as the lead blogger recovers...
* In fact the very word "queue" is in here due to our trip to the UK. (I do know the word has been used for a long time in the computer world and the math that inhabits that world.)
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I stand with North Korea
Posted On: Wednesday - August 3rd 2022 3:01PM MST
In Topics: Pundits Kung Flu Stupidity
... as opposed to with Ron Unz:
Mind you, my post title and its continuation here apply specifically to a stand on the Kung Flu vaccine, but not anything else. In fact, as I've disclaimed a number of times, Ron Unz, creator/owner/operator of The Unz Review had done America a great service with this nearly-ultimate free speech platform ( ... if only more Americans would read parts of the site).
What irks me about his stance on the Kung Flu stupidity over the last 2 1/2 years is that he is no stupid man by any mean, so why can't he see the forest instead of just his one "America did it!" tree? Secondly, it's just a real shame we don't have a guy like him on the side of concerned patriotic Americans on the 2 (now) important issues of the Kung Flu Totalitarianism and the worries about the new
Regarding the latter, the jab, well, Mr. Unz kindly provided a forum for the very people he thinks are the silly anti-vaxxers under a post of his that called them silly anti-vaxxers in so many words. Hey, he's a bit of a weirdo but a real stalwart for free speech. I guess then chiming in on that thread to argue with the people he gave a forum to is his prerogative. I do understand the temptation to do this very much. The post with a nearly 900 comment thread is Vaxxing Conspiracies and 700,000 Rumble views. (Hey, the man's proud of his Rumble views. What can I say?)
Let it be said first that Ron Unz does not agree that the taking of this vaccine should be mandatory. He's said before that if we die off quickly due to Covid then we get what we deserve. I have no problem with that attitude - pure Libertarianism.
The gist of the problem that I and plenty of commenters (I'm sure readers and nonreaders too, for that matter) do have with Mr. Unz's attitude, is that, well, just look at his title. Mr. Unz is a big believer in conspiracy theories. I'm down with that too. There have probably been lots of them, and he has probably barked up the right tree at many of them. His fixation with that one "tree" called "Rogue Americans spread the Covid purposely via some soldiers visiting Wuhan" or some such unsubstantiated nonsense" is another one of his. That's just fine too, but he then thinks that this new gene therapy being (attempted to be, in the case of the lucky ones) forced on the population could not be a conspiracy or event a bad thing at all.
Mr. Unz is shocked, shocked, that Americans have somehow been made to gather together as a group of weirdos against this vaccine. He doesn't understand the phenomena. What??! What's so damnably weird about people being scared of an untested vaccine and actually doing something to fight back against the tyranny?
As a quick aside, there have been people arguing against vaccinations of other kinds for years. I don't know enough to support or refute their arguments regarding an increase in autism or what-have-you. I would definitely agree that the use of vaccines in general has been too high. Anyway, these original actual anti-vaxxers* will of course be a part of this movement (a fairly small part, because they aren't nearly as large a group as we are).
I will now include this one of Ron Unz's comments in that thread here.** This is in response to a commenter with the handle Wild Man, who seems, like most of us, pretty reasonable about the whole thing:
Well, this thread has gotten enormously long, well over 100,000 words, and just as I expected about 95% of the comments are by agitated anti-vaxxers. I obviously haven’t bothered reading the whole thing, but you yourself seem especially prolific, with more than 20 comments, totaling nearly 7,000 words, with many of them trying to figure out the puzzling reasons for my extreme anti-vaxxing skepticism.It's unbelievable that a guy with Ron Unz's cynicism about the mainstream of, well, ANYTHING, can't see how in the world a PanicFest built upon the excuse of just another virus and a big rush to "vaccinate" the world with something experimental, with lots of evidence of harm and death already... where was I? Oh, yeah, how could all that possibly be something evil or conspiratorial? Nah, we are just too damned agitated, that's all...
But perhaps you should turn the question around the other way. Nearly every prominent “mainstream” figure in Russia, America, China, Iran, Israel, and every other major country generally agrees with me about both the danger of the Covid virus and vaxxing. So either some mysterious conspiratorial force has seized control of the establishments of every mutually-hostile country in the world, or perhaps all of us are probably right, and a few random eccentrics on the Internet are wrong.
From my perspective, you and most of the other anti-vaxxers on this thread have just been taken in by a ridiculous hoax, and you’re simply unwilling to admit your serious error.
Wait, about those mainstream figures in those countries Ron Unz mentioned, what about North Korea - oh, not a major country. Sweden? Florida?
* Because, after all, I am not, and have never been, really against these Covid vaccines. I've always been against their being mandatory. Just as Ron Unz says, let them die off.
** There was no point in asking him whether I could, as I'm almost positive he's got me on [Ignore] on his site. I think that's a mutually beneficial arrangement.
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Bizarro-world stupidity out of the Orient
Posted On: Monday - August 1st 2022 3:33PM MST
In Topics: Commies China World Political Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity Totalitarianism
(This picture comes from this page on a site called Radio Free Asia. It seems to be on the panicky side.)
North Korea. What could one say about that place, for the last 70 years? It has been known as a place that had gone beyond Full Retard or Full Commie. In the whole world, perhaps Albania was the only other country that had turned up the stupidity dial up to 11. America has kept up with North Korea more, of course, due to the war there and then the nearly 70 years now of having 20-30 thousand soldiers, sailors, and airmen defending one group of Koreans from another group of Koreans*.
What we've got going on today, however, is a reversal of of the stupidity curve. Perhaps our great Economists with their brilliant technical methods, could have predicted this. What's happened with North Korea is that the Kung Flu stupidity in most of the rest of the world has not only surpassed that in N. Korea, but this vector of stupidity is so large in magnitude that N. Korea may have an actual lower en-Total stupidity level! (Our technicians are still crunching the data.)
Here's the general story on this stupidity upheaval from my astute source out of the Middle Kingdom:
Beside having likely accidentally let this latest nasty flu-like bug out of lab a couple of years ago, China has been a big part of the Kung Flu story for other reasons. The Chinese authorites were supposed to have had the best Totalitarian "response" to the virus of anywhere around the world, or maybe 2nd to New Zealand. Then there has been a story that Peak Stupidity has covered the first part of this year, their new efforts at Covid-Zero - better tasting LOCKDOWNs, but less filling.
As for the vaccine, where this post actually starts, the Chinese have been making and taking some more vaccine-like vaccine rather than the gene-therapy "vaccine" that much of the rest of the world has been. I doubt it has been acting any more of a vaccine than what we've been seeing, but it's probably not hurting as many people. However, for whatever reason (my source says that China, as in Pooh-Bear Xi, is beholden to the Deep State, but I don't see how**), they have been slated to receive billions of doses of Pfizer vaccine - not sure if that''ll happen.
Throughout these 7 decades of Totalitarianism dialed up to 11, the Kims of N. Korea who have run the Hermit Kingdom could do pretty much whatever the hell they wanted to, to the poor bastards that had the misfortune to inhabit that land. The people have been either forced to worship these men or actually brainwashed to believe these guys were gods.*** Lots of the Kim's efforts have been to keep their (literally) people from knowing there was another, better way of life. One could understand how the Chinese would sympathize with these efforts during their own hard-core Commie period and support the nation****.
However, North Korea's antagonism toward anything Western back when it was mostly good may have have carried over to this time in which the Western World is as full of stupidity as the next. It's that or the latest Mr. Kim is simply using his common sense, but the North Koreans did not implement a Kung Flu PanicFest as most of the Western World did. Well, they already had Totalitarianism, so perhaps they weren't so awfully motivated on that. They could LOCKDOWN any place at any time they wanted - hell, the whole country was on LOCKDOWN since the 1950s. Additionally North Korea has already had serious border control, so it would "keep out the covid".
The Covid-Zero stupidity was mentioned earlier in regard to China. Who knows how much extra sickness or death, if any, their was there during the last 2 1/2 years, but at this point the newest strains of the Kung Flu are even less of a big deal. N. Korea has stupidly done some LOCKDOWNs this year, cause "CASES!", but one thing the latest Kim isn't doing is vaccinating his population.
Finally we get to the funny part here. That lack of mandatory vaccination program, that could be done with a snap of a Kim's finger, or maybe the implementation of a mandatory Nonvaccination program even, has the Chinese big-wigs really pissed off. You can't go around acting like the Kung Flu is no big deal, right on the doorstep, well, in the crawl space, of Xi's Middle Kingdom, in which it is most certainly A BIG DEAL. That could prove to be an embarrassment to ... somebody ... Nobody over there likes losing face.
North Korea has had a famine lately, something not altogether unexpected from a centrally-planned economy. Because the Chinese big shots are pissed off at the North Korean big shots for not doing the vaccine, the Chinese have decided to withhold food aid to that nation.
The Orient has proven at times to be just as much of a shit-show as the West had been lately. This is one of those times.
As for the Hermit Kingdom sorry-assed nation of North Korea, I gotta say that it's a pretty sad day when an American is out here saying:
* That old post of ours is about immigration stupidity - these guys there for the last almost 3/4 century (NO, not the same guys!) could completely cover the US southern border from invasion with 1/2 the men to spare!
** In fact, I think it may be or will be the opposite before long...
*** I remember watching a video about an expert American eye doctor who spent 10 days doing 1,000 eyesight restoration surgeries in N. Korea, using his special visa to even enter the place. After all his generous efforts, the formerly blind people thanks Dear Leader Kim rather than this wonderful doctor.
**** The Chinese are said to have lost something like 1 million men during the Korean War.
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Re-doing that Mickey's Monkey, children
Posted On: Friday - July 29th 2022 3:45PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor Pundits Healthcare Stupidity
Two of my favorite pundits, Tucker Carlson, and then Steve Sailer, have joined Americans and even top government officials in coming up with new names for the Monkeypox. In NYC Health Czar Takes Decisive Action Against Monkeypox: He Demands WHO Change the Name "Monkeypox" to Some Incomprehensible String of Characters, Mr. Sailer excerpts that NY City Czar:
“Monkeypox” is a misnomer, as the virus does not originate in monkeys and was only classified as such due to an infection seen in research primates. And we know alternative terminology is possible and entities are starting to use terms such as “hMPXV” and “MPV.”Hey is that "Most Prolific Visrus (of the season or of, at least, the league - yeah, THAT league, the one that swings both ways...) Mr. Sailer says:
We must raise awareness of the monkeypox menace by never again referring to it as monkeypox and instead only refer to it as hMPXV! says that a name such as H1N1That is, of course, to avoid stigmatizing gay people, monkeys, and, even worse, gay monkeys, which is apparently much more important than the spread of the disease itself. Now, my memory fails me some times, but I SWEAR this sounds familiar. Oh, yeah, that's right - March of '20 - WHO Cares. Don't stigmatize me, Bro!* was about that old Kung Flu thing and its naming.
Many of the commenters in that thread came up with some good substitute names. The reader can scan through that thread at his leisure, but I'l just list my favorite: PridePox, from occasional commenter Fluesterwitz.
Tucker Carlson got in on the fun earlier with his Schlong Flu, but I see today that he conducted a survey of his favorites:
[ ] Schlong Covid
[ ] Hunter Hives
[ ] Midterm Variant
[ ] Adam Shiffilis
That last one would be my pick, were I a tweet-survey-filler-outer, due to its cleverness. My own contributions would go along the lines of AIDS 2.0, [got tired, will insert some manana...]
All this monkey business about this newest virus is being used to up the hysteria in this country to 11 again, but hopefully it's just a lame-ass attempt at it this time. Have people learned anything from the last PanicFest? ** I think a lot of "us" have.
In that Sailer thread, I especially enjoyed the new lyrics for the old song Mickey's Monkey that the very funny limericist/commenter The one they call Desanex included:
Lumdy lumdy lie aye.(I inserted this verbatim EXCEPT for punctuation and the "aye"'s in the intro.)
Lumdy lumdy lie aye.
A cat named Mickey came from out of town, yeah.
Spreadin’ a new disease around.
Just in a matter of a few days, yeah.
His pox caught on with all the gays.
Come on and get Mickey’s Monkey, children.
Come on and get Mickey’s Monkey, children.
Monkey see, monkey do.
Come on, you can catch the Monkey, too.
Look at these, now look at those.
My lymph nodes pooch out mo’ than yose.
Peak Stupidity has been familiar with the great (and one of very, very few) black rock band from Charleston, S. Carolina named Mother's Finest and their version of the originally Smokey Robinson and the Miracles version. I'll link to a live version of that - here, but I gotta say, it's way, way too mellow if you've heard Mother's Finest do the song.
Peak Stupidity featured the very best song from the same album, Another Mother Further long ago. That was Piece of the Rock. Because the band wasn't listed in the old post, here's Mothers's Finest an instance of beneficial integration (White drummer and White guitarist - the other members of the band were black).
Joyce "Baby Jean" Kennedy – vocals and percussion.
Glenn "Doc" Murdock – vocals and percussion.
Jerry "Wyzard" Seay – bass.
Gary "Moses Mo" Moore – guitar.
Mike Keck – keyboards.
Sanford "Pepe" Daniels – Drums.
Ha! I guess Mike Keck was the only one not up for a nickname.
* That was a follow-up to the Peak Stupidity post WHO cares.
** That wasn't to say it is completely over. There are many lingering affects, and then the side-effect called the MJ syndrome - not Mary Richards, but Mandatory Jab (of an experimental gene therapy) syndrome.
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Ron Paul on Ugly Covid Lies out of Deborah Birx
Posted On: Wednesday - July 27th 2022 4:45PM MST
In Topics: Pundits Kung Flu Stupidity Totalitarianism
I thought Ron Paul's 1/2-year-ago column Biden’s ‘Democracy Summit’ Is a Joke was the best so far out of this Libertarian/Constitutionalist and real Conservative too. However, the former Congressman, and now literary/video pundit has outdone himself with his latest column, Ugly Covid Lies. I can chalk it up to laziness and the lack of time, as I noted in the previous post, or I can just note that Dr. Paul says it all here anyway.
Peak Stupidity has not been forthcoming on the Kung Flu Stupidity lately. The stupidity does go on though. Now it's with the vaccine madness, including, if not admissions, but at least realizations, by those EXPERTS pushing this experimental gene therapy that it's not a vaccine and it's hurt and killed many Americans.
Because I don't pay attention to the bullshit on the idiot plate, I had never heard of this Deborah Birx (former advisor to President Trump on the Kung Flu) ever before this last week. Ron Paul eviscerates this lady as either a big liar, an evil soul, or both.
She sold the White House on the out-of-thin-air “fifteen days to slow the spread” all the while knowing there was no evidence it would do any such thing. As she wrote in her new book, Silent Invasion, “I didn’t have the numbers in front of me yet to make the case for extending it longer, but I had two weeks to get them.”If that's not enough wrong, she now is revealing her treachery on the Kung Flu "vaccine".
She was playing for time with no evidence. As it turns out, she was also destroying the lives of millions of Americans. The hysteria she created led to countless businesses destroyed, countless suicides, major depressions, drug and alcohol addictions. It led to countless deaths due to delays in treatment for other diseases. It may turn out to be the most deadly mistake in medical history.
As she revealed in her book, she actually wanted to isolate every single person in the United States! Writing about how many people would be allowed to gather, she said: “If I pushed for zero (which was actually what I wanted and what was required), this would have been interpreted as a ‘lockdown’—the perception we were all working so hard to avoid.”
She wanted to prevent even two people from meeting. How is it possible that someone like this came to gain so much power over our lives? One virus and we suddenly become Communist China?
Last week in a Fox News interview she again revealed the extent of her treachery. After months of relentlessly demanding that all Americans get the Covid shots, she revealed that the “vaccines” were not vaccines at all!
“I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection,” she told Fox. “And I think we overplayed the vaccines. And it made people then worry that it’s not going to protect against severe disease and hospitalization.”
So when did she know this? Did she know it when she told ABC in late 2020 that “this is one of the most highly-effective vaccines we have in our infectious disease arsenal. And so that’s why I’m very enthusiastic about the vaccine”?
If she knew all along that the “vaccines” were not vaccines, why didn’t she tell us? Because, as she admits in her book, she believes it’s just fine to lie to people in order to get them to do what she wants.
She admits that she employed “subterfuge” against her boss – President Donald Trump – to implement Covid policies he opposed. So it should be no surprise that she lied to the American people about the efficacy of the Covid shots.
PS: That was about 90% of his column. He wouldn't sue Peak Stupidity, though. We're all on the same team here.
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The never-ending quest for cheap labor
Posted On: Tuesday - July 26th 2022 7:35PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Big-Biz Stupidity
This will be another low-energy blogging week, as we have some travels planned. There are plenty of posts ready to write, but I'll probably only get to the "check out this one" sort of posts, unless I get some down time at our destination.
Here, however, I describe another finding from personal experience. It's Peak Stupidity's numero uno topic, the Immigration Invasion, though the Kung Flu is giving this one a run for its money.
Before I get to this story, let me say that I spent about 15 minutes trying to find a post about a related story from 5 years back that I may have not even written. I should have, if I didn't. I was with a friend with his kids and mine at an amusement park. Rather than amused, my friend was bemused to see me get pissed off about the personnel running the rides and concessions.
It wasn't that they were surly (and you know who I mean) or doing a bad job in any way. It was just that these young White people were imported to to this job from Europe! (I forget now which country - maybe eastern Europe even.) This was not in some resort-type area, just normal America. I assume the Big Biz outfit that owns the place just wanted more cheap labor. There was no reason in the world some young Americans could not have been hired, other than they'd need some kind of decent wage to live and save up some money. These Euro kids wouldn't have the same attitude, as they were getting a paid visit to another country.
Just recently I learned of yet another instance of the never-ending quest for cheap, or cheaper labor by the American Big Biz honchos. A guy who does some driving for a living (says he has 7 jobs!) told me that he sometimes gets a gig driving Filipino guys* down to the Mississippi Delta (Houma, Louisiana, to be exact) to the site from which they are taken by helicopter to oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
These are non-American oil rig workers. I can assume with confidence that they've been imported to the US solely for this work. I didn't want to get into a political discussion with this driver, as I'm sure he'd have told me he just did the driving, and the rest was not his business. I can relate. If he quit on principle, well probably they'd try to hire a Filipino for HIS job!
It's not just the lettuce-picking, then meat packing, then roofing ... Not many good jobs are safe now from the efforts of the Globalist class, who care nothing about replacing decent Americans in jobs that allow affordable family formation** That part about not caring is only an assumption. For some of them, what I mention here is not a bug but a feature, of the quest for cheap labor.
Screw these people!
* I know, "Filipino" is guys, by definition.
** one of the best terms coined by Steve Sailer.
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I want my CRTeeee...
Posted On: Monday - July 25th 2022 8:59AM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Artificial Stupidity Race/Genetics Big-Biz Stupidity
I want to follow up on the post from Saturday called I want YOU for the PS Army. That post included an anecdote by an Unz Review commenter about avoiding the modern PC/Woke Struggle Sessions, and in this post I'll put in some personal anecdotes. I don't claim to be the George Patton of the anti-Woke army by any means, as I also try to keep the career going to get along in this world.*
I remember an instance long ago of fighting the corporate BS, well before corporate training sessions were on-screen (for me, at least). This was way before wokeness and CRT and wasn't even about the milder Political Correctness in any form - there really wasn't any of that at all in my work area, which ought to give you a clue how long ago that was. Anyway, it was corporate bureaucratic BS, and I thought of this class (during the paid work day) as a waste of time. (There was also way too much bureaucracy, so this was kind of a last straw.) I remember throwing the nice booklet they gave us off a stairwell is all, and others in another session happened to see it later, and this attention got me a friendly warning from an otherwise sympathetic boss.
Then, about 1/2 as long ago as that, we had our yearly security training on the screen of a computer. I will say that it's not so much the waste of time that bothers me - only 1/2 hour or so a year - but the Feral Gov't imposed stupidity that it is, which I don't like. This particular question asked, to loosely paraphrase, whether I would rat out a known colleague who is in the wrong area or not wearing his ID tag. My answer was "No. I know this guy. He's no threat to us. WTF should I give him a hard time?" Apparently, the "correct" answer was "Yes, you must rat out your friend immediately!"
Keep in mind that these two possible answers are also both very loosely paraphrased here, because this was actually a YES/NO question. It was something like "You see your colleague blah, blah,... Should you call your superior immediately?" I clicked [NO] hoping at least this would register with the system. Nope, this deal was "corrected to 100%". That means EVERYONE GETS A 100. YEA! To do that, the system DIDN'T LET ME click [NO]. I could not move along until I clicked [YES]. I clicked [NO] anyway about 20 times, just in case it would get into the database and trigger someone to figure "hey, people don't like this sort of thing" or "man, this guy is STUPID!"
Back a ways, at the live sessions I did make the standard snide comments - it was at least fun back then** - and wrote a harsh evaluation of some of the most egregious stupidity. Nowadays, I've found a way to almost completely ignore the yearly on-line wokeness as described in the post Corporate liars, learning units, and violence in the workplace in excruciating detail.
OK, I know what I described has all been EXTREMELY MINOR stuff that is not exactly fighting the man. The attitude can be contagious though. Like that Flight Attendant who is said to have first spread AIDS around America, I've been patient zero of such contagion before, well, NO, not at all like that flight attendant though!
I have been blessed to have not been in the cubical-corporate setting for a long time. However, as per Mr. Alarmist's comment (also under the previous post) about giving them shit during "environmental sustainability" sessions, I think I would really enjoy that sort of thing. One can push it to whatever limits he figures apply to to himself. Yes, if you go past them, it's good to have a back-up plan or "Fuck You money". For more on this see FF.U. Money, F.U. Skills, and F.U. Attitude from, coincidentally, 2 years ago today.
My education was in a world before any of this. I would like to say I would have raised holy hell in any classroom in which CRT or anything like it was brought up. However, in my field, I doubt it would be even today.
Finally, what am I doing about it now, besides writing on this blog? Lately, there has been a last straw of sorts for me with some wording that the Big Biz woke-playing big shots feel they must send out memos about. It was not just the HR lady, this time. Unfortunately, giving the complete story, including said banned wording, would reduce my anonymity quite a bit.
I realize that there have been 4 of them, the latest being that last straw. I won't comply:
1) A term in use for over half a century has "man" in it, so it was been changed. In this case, we were not told specifically not to say it, but it's been changed in all the writing. It's only one more syllable, but no, as with "Oriental"***, I'll continue using the old term, thank you very much.
2) This other term in use in the industry for perhaps longer than (1) is something I really thought they'd all miss. Nope, it's another "sexist" term, and they finally caught up with it. Because it is almost always said by us as an acronym (2 syllables vs. 6, but now 7), this doesn't change too much.
3) This one term can be construed as being a crude sexist term, but it's actually a real word that has nothing to do with sex. Were anyone to call me out on using it (about 1/2 the people still do), I would ask him why his mind is in the gutter. Hopefully, that would shut him up. If not, we could get a dictionary. Oops, "dick"tionary does sound sexist too, but then I'll pull MY mind out of the gutter now.
4) This was the last straw. I really, really wish i could give you readers the word! Not agonna do it... A perfectly decent geographical term, used for a good reason, has been nixed from our vocabulary, well, I mean, if you comply. I won't. Now, I go and make an effort to say it.
Hey, I didn't start this Culture War, and I am not the one sending memos around with political themes and "finally, don't talk politics at work" written at the bottom. I think I might relish a CRT session at this point, just to raise a lot of long-overdue hell. I don't think they'll try it. We'll see.
"Don't burn your bridges", they tell you, especially of you are a young man in your career. Yeah, well maybe, but you may want out of some career occasionally. That's not the case right now, but I look back and see at least one time that I should have burned my bridges. Then, I'm a bit of a fire bug to begin with...
Do what you can. It's gonna get a lot harder, as they make it a lot worse.
* I do understand commenter PeterIke's point under that previous post, but my point, not solely, but especially, was about those who don't have career jobs - those who may be thinking of joining the US armed forces. Many have plenty of courage, so why not some courage in this realm?
** The sexual harassment bit would come after the corporate ethics stuff, and the crowd 15 years back would have loads of jokes about both. I remember "No, you guys got the story wrong! That guy was NOT fired for pinching her on the ass. He just never said 'I love you'" or something like that. It was funnier in person, I can tell you. Because the instructor was one of us, he had no problem with this, and fun was had by all. I miss those days!
*** "Oriental" has been well covered here on Peak Stupidity. Your best bet is our post Oriental is the term and we're done talkin' about it.. Caution, nice bikini picture. [THANK YOU!!! - PS Marketing Dept.]
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I want YOU for the PS Army!
Posted On: Saturday - July 23rd 2022 10:09PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Big-Biz Stupidity
In a post titled Military Enlistment Way Down of a few days back, Steve Sailer wrote about the new woke military that serves the Potomac Regime, there was good discussion on why any patriotic White man would want to serve. "Serve whom?" is the question.*
Still, plenty of White men sign up. Some of these guys are not just in it due to a lack of other employment and the benefits. There are many who take pride in their putting their lives on the line for (purportedly) their country. Since they have the courage to join up on their own when there might come a time they are under fire, and courage when under fire even, I wonder why they don't show a different kind of courage in other areas back home. I'm writing of fighting the wokeness of the American Establishment instead.
There's a Culture War being waged. On our side, instead of risking being fired at, in the Big-Biz world one only risks being fired. That shouldn't take as much courage, should it?
Maybe young White men aren't taking the Culture War as seriously as they take fighting some poor Moslem bastards over in the Middle East "for Democracy". Are they too polite? In which war do you personally have more to lose, and in which war does America have more to lose? It seems a no-brainer deciding to fight the woke Institutions here rather than risking getting a leg blown off fighting for the Potomac Regime.
Yeah, you might get canned. You might not. As Peak Stupidity has often noted, "there is great power in numbers". Even if you don't have the numbers, why not fight? These are the battles we need you for.
If you're a big shot in the corporate world, sure, you may put up with SOME of the diversity training BS, a stupid memo from HR every other day, etc. (I put up with a very small amount, but luckily, I'm not really in the corporate world. I've also taken a stand on some of it.) However, if you're a young White man working at McDonalds, and they've got an anti-White diversity training session spot set up for you, how about you just say no? The way the service industry needs people now, I don't know what they'll do. Even if they fire you, you've shown courage and done more to help America than anything your could possibly do as a soldier in today's American military.
Even though it was not quite the same scenario he described, I liked this anecdotal comment by Unz Review commenter JR Ewing (handle taken from the old Dallas TV show) enough to post it in its entirety here:
I quit my last corporate job about 15 years ago. Have since been 100x more successful working for myself than I ever would have been working for someone else.This was a small thing, but it's great that Mr. Ewing recognized it as an accomplishment.
Nonetheless, before I quit, I dodged mandatory “diversity training” for an entire year. At least 6-8 times by my count. Kept signing up and then coming up with excuses not to go at the last minute. (And truthfully, the excuses were legit – my time was much more valuable and important than sitting in a classroom doing bullshit indoctrination stuff)
By the time I finally resigned to pursue other opportunities, the training situation had progressed to “possible discipline up to and including termination”. Despite all the money I made them and everything else I accomplished at that company, I still consider avoiding that “training” to be my greatest accomplishment during my time there.
We've been losing about every battle in the Culture War. America needs some real warriors to fight for it, rather than for the Potomac Regime. Join up, and recruit more!
It's been a slow blog week here, with other stuff going on in life. Thank you for reading our meager postings this week and our apologies are due for the extreme brain fart in the Angelou quarter post. See you here on Monday.
* See Death from Above, Assasinations, and Declaration of War, Arrogance from the American Military, and Outside it's America, for starters.
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Hail-to-You on Germany's Wrongest Man
Posted On: Saturday - July 23rd 2022 10:45AM MST
In Topics: Pundits World Political Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
(The other guy is plain-old-vanilla American Ashish Jha, who, per Mr. Hail, is a •Indian who was invited into Canada by traitorous Canucks and then immigrated to the US - I'm sure we'd have just let him in straightaway otherwise.)
Illustrious commenter E.H. Hail has a number of comments under our Young Commies in LUV post with info and links to his newest blog post Germany’s Wrongest Man (Lauterbach) visits Washington, warns of imminent Covid catastrophe
Peak Stupidity has been short on time recently, so I won't have any commentary here - I will make sure to visit the HailToYou comment section under this post, along with Mr. Dieter Kief and others. (Well, of course Mr. Kief, with his perspective on Germany, but he comments there on most other matters also.)
We have also been short on Kung Flu Stupidity posts for a long while. That's generally a good thing, but the
PS: My apologies to Mr. Hail for not responding in 2 places. I should have more time this evening. Also, thanks for the general link up top right of your site, Mr. Hail!
* Isn't that the German term for those underwater cranes they use to pull up disabled U-boats?
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The benefit of being farsighted
Posted On: Friday - July 22nd 2022 4:01PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness US Feral Government Race/Genetics
Of course Peak Stupidity is farsighted, what with our NACA curves and all pinpointing with amazing accuracy the coming peak of stupidity (after our recent revision, that is). Here, for this post, I mean literally farsighted, as in not being able to read the fine print without a lot of light or some spectacles or both. In fact, I'm doing some of that gay-looking swiping right now, in order to be able to read WTH I'm writing here.
I haven't read the dates on coins or even looked at them closely for years. My excuse is that they are more and more getting to be useless pieces of dead weight*. It's really also that I can't read these dates well. Now, it turns out that my boy is interested in collecting coins. We got fairly lucky, IMO, and found 48 of the 50 State quarters from a stash of coins I had. There are 6 territories too. Who knew? We found one only, but then who cares about Puerto Rico? Best let the place go, I told him.
At this point, he's gotten serious and is looking at different sets, knows the series of pennies, 1909-'58 for wheat stalk backs, etc. He may buy a few to fill in what's missing from an old set I gave him, but for the States of Montana and Texas, I told him, no, you don't go paying $3.25 for them. Much of the fun in this hobby is looking for them.
As we, well, he - as all I did was slide them over to get him to look closely - checked out some quarters recently, we found out that there is a Maya Angelou one. I had no freaking idea they were up to this woke stuff on the coins yet! No, actually I did, as commenters E.H. Hail and Adam Smith had pointed these out only a month back, but I must have repressed that painful thought. I did already know Tubmania** is coming, but now I had to explain how this Angelou broad is a just some nobody poet that has now gotten elevated by our woke Potomac Regime to the level of the American Founding Fathers. She didn't even run a freaking railroad!
The confusion came in when my son thought this Maya Angelou was on the face too. Well, my eyes aren't THAT bad, and I insisted that, no, that was just a different profile view of George Washington. You never know, as the black chicks do some odd things with their hair. I wouldn't think they would attempt to look like one of our Founding Fathers though. It turns out that I was right, and that's George Washington still on the face of these new quarters. I mean, it could have been Wilma Mankiller. This 🦅-Indian, born in 1945 and a member of the government-grant-writing tribe, is on some quarters too.
I'm not paying one zinc cent for any of these woke quarters. Who knows what all the mints are up to in addition to making these farcical coins. Being farsighted, I could have told you that none of this would stop with no Pocahontas. [Sacajawea, that'd be - Ed.] Whatever!
Being farsighted also means that I usually have no idea of who is on the tails side of any of the US coins. That's a big benefit, as I don't want to know these days!
* The pennies are, especially. I recently had a 2nd instance of the deal at the bank I wrote about in My 3 Cents during the height of the Kung Flu PanicFest. I would be glad if they'd keep all the change from any checks I cash, but return some kind of non-laughable rate of interest on our accounts.
** See also the prior posts Tubmania and a cashless economy and More on the Tubwoman Twenty.
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[UPDATED 7/22 evening:] Added that I HAD heard about the Angelou quarters, from 2 commenters on this very site a month ago. Sorry guys, my memory is good but just somewhat short..
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Young Commies in LUV
Posted On: Tuesday - July 19th 2022 7:48PM MST
In Topics: Commies History China Books
I came across the image above on page 113 of the book I've been intermittently reading called Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies, in a chapter titled Reds, Lies, and Audiotape*. This post will not be a review. I have not nearly finished this history book by M. Stanton Evans.. As a slight spoiler of the review, I will say that I've already given the book 2 thumbs ups. Because I've been spending so much time on-line, I only pick this book up on occasion.
The book's first section was an overview of the late 1950s Wisconsin GOP Senator Joe McCarthy's life and his work done in trying to root out Communists from high positions in the US Gov't. Soon after that, I got to this section on a number of traitorous American diplomat/State Dept./high level advisor types that were dealing with China during the midst of World War II. Besides fighting the Japanese, the civil war between Mr. Chiang's Nationalists and Mao's Communists down in Yenan was still simmering.
I had no idea until reading this book how much influence the civilian Commies working for the US Gov't had in swaying opinion of the President and top American military officials toward Mao Tse Tung's side during a couple of critical years. A few of them are shown in the picture above, along with a man who would subsequently run the Communist shitshow of Red China for 27 years with absolute power.
It's just weird to look at the guy in that picture. Without the palace and sycophants he looks like some poor skinny Chinese peon, like a half a billion others who inhabited the place at the time. The traitorous Americans in the picture (believe, me, Mr. Evans goes into detail on what they were up to) put their eggs in his basket for the future of that most important country in the course of world history.
If I'da been there and known what was going to happen, I'd have kicked his scrawny ass right then and there, and then reported back on those American Commies to
That picture goes to show that you never know when history is being made.
* This chapter follows one called Chungking, 1944. I like that name because I see it, and I just know the author, Stanton Evans, really knows what the heck was going on in detail, and also that he uses the old Chinese naming, made up by the English-speaking world to enable US to speak about China.
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Forever and ever stamps - Part 2
Posted On: Monday - July 18th 2022 8:20AM MST
In Topics: Economics US Feral Government Inflation
(Continued from Part 1.)
Could Liberty Bell postage stamps be used as money? (Well, the US Postal Service prints other kinds too... but the key word here is "print".) Peak Stupidity brought these stamps up in the previous post to help in thinking of the concepts of money and inflation.
The reason the "Forever Stamps" were issued for in the first place was due to inflation of the US Dollar causing the Post Office to continually have to charge more for postage. When it came to first class letters, people accumulate stamps, more so in the past (which we'll get to in a bit here), and it was a hassle to lick* and paste on a number of them to add up to the new required 1st-Class postage level. I imagine this got to be as much of a hassle for the USPS as it was for senders of letters. Sales of all different "denominations" (I remember 1¢, 2¢, 5¢, etc, as if they were monetary denominations), eventually out of machines, and bad arithmetic caused headaches. These Forever Stamps were a great idea, IMO, and an easily understood small hedge for inflation, so long as you were an organized person and remembered where you put them, that is.
I went and looked up the properties of money, something I had read on 20 years ago. What makes something useful as money comes down to a few properties, though I see that these vary slightly according to the armchair economist writing about them. Here's a nice infographic that I think covers these properties reasonably well:
* Fungibility - One unit is viewed as interchangeable with another.The top of that infographic I linked to above also shows the 3 (are there any more?) functions that something must fulfill to be useful as money. Those are:
* Durability - An item must be able to withstand being used repeatably.
* Divisibility - It can be divided into smaller units.
* Portability - Individuals can carry it with them and transfer it to others.
* Acceptability - Everybody must be able to use it for transactions.
* Uniformity - All versions of the same denominations must have the same purchasing power.
* Limitation of Supply - The supply of it in circulation must be limited to ensure values remain relatively constant
* A Unit of Account.
* A Medium of Exchange.
* A Store of Value
Of the properties listed above, different ones in combination determine the usefulness of the alleged money for the 3 functions. The collecting of, and use of, sheets of stamps rather than pieces of green paper seems to fulfill most of requirements for their being considered money. (Durability is somewhat questionable.) In other words, they COULD BE used as money, currency at least, but it comes down to that Acceptability.
Is the Acceptability property for stamps only based on the stamps being useful for one purpose, mailing letters? Over the last 25 years, since the internet, that use has gone down drastically. Many people hardly ever use stamps anymore, and rightly so.** Does that take the value completely away from these stamps? I don't know. So long as some people use them, those people would be glad to "buy" them from me for a slight discount, so at least keeping them was that inflation hedge. I put "buy" in quotes there, as it'd be just exchanging one form of currency for what could be another. Both of them don't have the very important property of "Limitation of Supply".
There are two parts to that, by my way of thinking:
1) A maybe not unlimited, but at least not limited, supply due to counterfeiting. We all know about that regarding US paper currency. As for the stamps, I ask the read to note that line through the word "Forever" on the image of the Liberty Bell stamp above. I had to read on that, but, yes, it's about counterfeiting. I will state right now, that I could undo that line in 10 minutes using MS-Paint, and much quicker after some practice with Adobe (or whoever owns it) Photoshop.
That gets to the point of "is is worth it?" The way inflation is, it may not be worth it to counterfeit US twenties anymore. (Going forward, I also foresee a problem with being a White man trying to reproduce a fat-ass black Tubwoman.) As for the stamps, in sheets of 20 worth only $12, it'd be way easier, with such simpler designs, printed on glossy label paper. However, I'm thinking of the old Liberty Bell ones, but there are much more colorful shark ones, astronomy ones, etc, now. Maybe they've been making them harder to copy, but then it may be just because nobody cares to make the effort.
2) A truly unlimited supply due to the actions of the US Government. Peak Stupidity has been all over this topic. With the help of their little buddies over at the Federal Reserve, they have expanded the supply of Dollars enough over the years to cause the inflation we see and have seen.
With these Forever Stamps, the idea is that you can ALWAYS mail a letter with one... forever. They are closer to gold in this sense (only), in that they have this inherent value of being able to get always one ounce*** of stuff sent to anywhere in the country within, well, there's rain, sleet, hail, supply-chain issues...
Wait, forever is a long time. Instead of "For Ever and Ever, Amen", it's really going to be much more like until the USPS says something to the effect of "Screw this! We can't honor millions of those Forever Stamps, when it now costs 18 dollars to move an ounce of mail, since, you know, the hyperinflation and all. OK then, you can get NEW Forever Stamps at $18, and you can even trade in 30 of the old ones for each." Does this remind you of anything? Franklin... anyone ... Delano ... anyone ... ?
This has been nothing but a thought experiment. If you'd had been a subscriber to the the Peak Stupidity newsletter since '07, you'd have bought sheets and sheets of these to put into ammo cans... to then cash out (but how? You'd know if you had subscribed) and gone long in the floor sticker sector in January of '20. But, NO!! You didn't want to pony up the 2 bucks per email, for just the price of half a cup of coffee or the postage for a letter sent back to a poor helpless email scammer in Nigeria...
* Yeah, that's been a while too, the licking of stamps! I didn't see a problem I thought the glue tasted pretty good, really ...
** I think I should explain why I even brought up stamps here, as maybe you are with the folks that hardly ever use one. It is a privacy issue for two things: 1) Very rarely, sending a letter is a good option, assuming the USPS scans and records nothing but the outside, may be a better idea than "shooting" an email. 2) Much more commonly for me, the sending of checks for bills is worth the advantage of not having credit cards or bank account #s on file with every Big Biz outfit I deal with.
Regarding the latter, I did get smart and realize that sending a check with a stamp costs me a buck each time (not to mention my time), so I would pay some bills ahead by 4 or even 6 months a while back. However, with the shenanigans of one internet company and the lack of leverage it gives one when Big Biz decides to screw me I have gone back to month-to-month payments - no, not entirely optimum.
*** An Avoirdupois ounce vs. a Troy ounce, such as Gold and Silver are measured in. An Avoirdupois oz is 28.35 gm, and a Troy oz is 31.10 gm. Therefore you need two Forever Stamps**** to mail a Silver dollar, but I don't recommend the practice!
**** or 24¢ in additional stamps stuck on there, unless you meter the letter, introducing possibly another step in the chain of postmen, one of whom might be crooked and nap your coin.
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Rockford Files: Pizza, wine, and coffee - and a BIG THANKS to our commenters
Posted On: Saturday - July 16th 2022 9:37PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Humor
I realize that there have now been 9 posts** on this old 1970s TV show. That's odd for a site that purports to hate TV, but then The Rockford Files was not modern woke TV. I have not seen but one episode out of 60 or so I've watched recently that had any agenda that I could ascertain**.
The first part of a 2-part episode named To Protect and Serve had these 2 New York City mobsters, who, as usual, beat up Jim Rockford in his trailer. Later on in the episode, they were having some discussion of what to tell the big bosses in Newark or somewhere, and one of them was eating a slice of pizza.
Anthony Boy: "Whadda they call this, a pizza?"
Syl: "It ain't so bad, Tony."
Anthony Boy' Gagglio: "Ain't so bad? How can you say that? You been eatin' New York pizza all your life, you gonna make a statement like that? Back in Sheepshead Bay they throw up on crust like this. It's all cheese. Where's the tomato sauce, hunh? It ain't a pizza, it's a grilled cheese sandwich. California!"***
Damn straight, you's guys! I found a strange new respect for NY mobsters upon viewing this. They may be corrupt, violent, and often evil bastards, but they know a good pizza. This goes for mobsters and all Italian food. Anthony Boy John Gotti, that guy buried under Yankee Stadium, Tony Soprano, Paulie, etc. If these mobsters would just pick the right target, maybe run an arson insurance scam on the entire Pizza Hut chain ... just
Well, unfortunately I can't remember the exact scene, but Jim Rockford had pretty much the same thing to say about fine wines as did Steve Sailer recently in Are Fine Wines a Hoax, and I agree.
A few episodes earlier in the season, Jim had some Fed cop grilling him, and as is usually the case early on in the show, Jim doesn't know what the heck the guy was even talking about.
"What do you know about Bolivia?!"
"Well, they grow coffee, and there's Juan Valdez .. no, that's Colombia."
Ha! You just can't DO that on TV today, even if everyone know who Juan Valdez was. (For those who must know, Mr. Valdez entered America illegally in the late 1980s, narrowly missing the Reagan amnesty. After his recent 3rd fatality-DUI and 2nd deportation, he re-entered the United States recently with help from the Bai Dien Administration, was safely
My favorite answering machine message so far was this one:
After the usual: "This is Jim Rockford. At the tone, leave your name and message. I'll get back to you." ,
""Bummer ...I call up with some good vibes and some positive energy, then I get a robot? Forget you, man!""
That was 45 years ago, and this woman already understood what Peak Stupidity has been ranting about for years! Artificial Stupidity, indeed.
Finally, I would like to thank our regular and some irregular commenters here who have had much good discussion under the various posts. During the week before this one, July 4-9, there were 151 comments posted, and only 41 ( 27% ) were mine! Thank you all.
A 2nd post on the Forever Stamps, to explain my point, will come Monday, I want to feature some really good comments under Paul Kersey's blog, I'll have more on the Guidestones if I spend some more time on the subject, and then plenty of random stupidity will crop up.
* They are:
Peak Rockford Files
Jim Rockford - In Pursuit of Carol Thorne
Inflation indexed to the Rockford/Davenport basket of goods
Rockford Files: Bug v Land Yacht
Jim Rockford in the days of decent denominations
Rockford Files - cars, smart-ass remarks, etc.
Rockford Files update and one minor POS
The Daily Stupid, edition #53643- Part B, and the near-daily Rockford file
Goerge Floyd indicted for IP theft for "I can't breath!"
** That one was the episode So Help Me God, about Grand Juries, as mentioned in the 2nd to last of the 9 Rockford Files posts.
*** Thank you, IMDB (Internet Movie DataBase)!
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[UPDATED 08/01/23:] There've been 9 posts already on The Rockford Files, not 8. Another will come today.
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Peak Stupidity will end due to West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin
Posted On: Friday - July 15th 2022 9:10PM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity Humor Global Climate Stupidity
I mean, I guess so, right? We may be kind of crude here sometimes, but I'd still consider us part of Humanity. Yahoo says:
Single-handedly! Joe Manchin, you're my hero! I hate to see it all end like this, but it beats another few decades of hearing from Al Gore and Greta Thunberg.
So... that's it then ... no use fighting the Climate Crisis™ now, since Senator Manchin blew up our last defense, that piece of legislation.
Still, I've got a question about that Yahoo headline: What's it gonna be, Democrat Party, are you gonna seeth or are you gonna be stunned?
"First we're gonna seeth, and then we're gonna be stunned!"
Yes, big Fast Times at Ridgemont High fan here. It's the scene with Sean Penn and Forest Whitaker (before he got on the Crying Game), after Sean Penn has wrecked Forest's brother's Camaro:
Should I be taking this thing more seriously? I mean, it's a news headline, right there on the Yahoo site. Why even bother paying the Peak Stupidity hosting fees anymore if it's gonna end like this ...
Jefferson's Brother: My brother's gonna kill us! He's gonna kill us! He's gonna kill you, and he's gonna kill me. He's gonna kill us!
Jeff Spicoli: Hey man, just be glad I had fast reflexes!
Jefferson's Brother: My brother's gonna shit!
Jeff Spicoli: Make up your mind, dude. Is he gonna shit or is he gonna kill us?
Jefferson's Brother: First he's gonna shit, then he's gonna kill us!
* I tell you what - we're getting a lot of use out of that Charlton Heston quote from the end of Planet of the Apes.
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Forever and ever stamps - Part 1
Posted On: Friday - July 15th 2022 4:55PM MST
In Topics: Economics US Feral Government Inflation
I meant to write about this half a year ago, as I'd gotten into a discussion about the US Post Office's "Forever Stamps". They've been around, like, forever. Groan away, but nah, it's been 15 years since the first ones, featuring the Liberty Bell, a shown above, were issued and sold.* 4 years later, in '11, all 1st-class stamps (as in made to send anything enclosed in an envelope weighing 1 oz or less) were issued as forever stamps.
I have a dim memory of 1st-class postage stamps going up into the double digit cents. The rise of stamp prices was pretty steady over the last half-century. (I'll have to find or make a graph another time.) The forever stamps came out at the time this postage went from 39¢ to 41¢. The year 2007 was near the end of the time that my instinct tells me was a period of the lowest price inflation in my lifetime anyway.. (This is something discussed 4 years ago in the Peak Stupidity post Inflation and Chinese Imports and Exports.) Having dealt with inflation the rest of my life, though, I was gung-ho for these stamps. Why not stock up on them, as long as I don't forget where I put them?
I neither had the money required then, nor thought about it, but stocking up on a serious number of forever stamps could have been an "investment" strategy. The word "investment" is in quotes, because, as with precious metals, this type is simply an investment in not losing one's ass to inflation. Let's say I HAD bought 10,000 sheets of Liberty Bell Forever Stamps at 41¢ each stamp, 20 on a sheet. That'd have cost me $82,000, but now I'd have $120,000, a 46% profit! OK, sure, that's only a 2.6% annual compounded rate. Yeah, but that'd have beat a CD at 0.5%, and I could have mailed lots of chain letters for my
Nope, I wouldn't have gotten rich, even if I'd bought 1 million sheets, as, like the precious metals, I'd have started with 20 million stamps (or about 625,000 oz of silver**) and ended up with 20 million stamps (or about 625,000 oz of silver). My point here is one shouldn't get fooled by inflation of the currency supply, as it's not like you've made money. At least, however, you haven't lost your ass. You've held onto your wealth.
"Wait now", you may be thinking, "are you seriously recommending the reader start accumulating USPS Forever Stamps?!" Well, no, I am not supposed to give out financial advice unless the Peak Stupidity Finance Department
* It's odd that this is one instance in which my memory expected a longer time-line. Normally, I am surprised that something is twice as long ago as I had thought, etc. If you'd have asked me about these stamps, I'd have said they've been around for 20-25 years, but I did my due diligence and looked it up.
** The equivalent amount of US currency would get each then, but, man, '07 was a few years past when it took only 4 pieces of green paper to buy an oz, rather than 13 or so in '07.
*** That's where the gold is, under there, right? Peter Schiff understands precious metals.
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Out of the frying pan ...
Posted On: Thursday - July 14th 2022 9:59PM MST
In Topics: Geography Race/Genetics
Early this week, a colleague and I talked with a friendly traveler going the same way. It started with the usual "what are you here for?", "where are you coming from?", and all that, but it wasn't long before the Kung Flu came up. Actually, yeah, I did start it, but I could tell this guy just seemed alright, maybe not so triggerable. Even though he'd told us he was from New Jersey, that was indeed the case. When I asked, he told as that no way was he getting vaccinated.
It turns out that his small town in New Jersey is pretty conservative. It's not way down south Jersey or in the ritzy northeastern townships either - it is pretty close in to NY City. Well, "conservative" is all relative, but also that doesn't keep him away from the ravages of the State of New Jersey. We talked about the politicians there vs. Ron DeSantis, as an example. We all happily agreed that on the PanicFest and other issues, none of us wanted what went on in New Jersey.
As per the meme above, this guy was planning on leaving. (I can't help thinking the Kung Flu nonsense played a part in his decision making.) He was going to an interview the next morning for some academic job, and if he got the job he planned to move his family - they have one child.
My colleague was fairly familiar with the area, so he gave this guy some advice on where the good places in the area to live. He even suggested, for the guy's wife who has a career too, "hey, if you lived in REDACTED, could she tele-commute?" Hmmm, what does one usually mean when you talk about "good areas" and "bad areas"? Yeah, you guessed it.
Here's the thing we did not get to talking about. This location is heavily black. The town where the university is, is over 70% black, and the whole county is only a few percentage points lower. This guy is from a conservative town in New Jersey. Does he know what this means?
You don't know how much you can talk about things like this without knowing someone a lot better, so, of course, we didn't. I saw the guy later though, as he'd gone to the same hotel. I was SO tempted to talk to him about the racial aspects of his plans. That would have been to help him out, primarily, but also to see what the guy already knew. Nope, it wasn't worth the trouble it could have led to.
If this gentleman from small-town New Jersey passed his interview, did he just jump from the frying pan into the fire?
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Life under Big Brother Winnie
Posted On: Wednesday - July 13th 2022 6:12PM MST
In Topics: China Orwellian Stupidity iEspionage
One of the Instapundit bloggers linked me to a Zerohedge post on what you see above. This is the first time I've linked to Zerohedge in a long while, my caring about the state of your computer, tablet, or phone being the reason. However, the page is not going nuts for me, so you could check out Chinese Bank Run Turns Violent After Angry Crowd Storms Bank of China Branch Over Frozen Deposits.
It's not like Peak Stupidity hasn't been writing about this for the last 5 years. There are so many posts stating "Cash is King" that I don't have time to link to 'em. (You can use the Economics topic key to find them.) The Chinese used to live this mantra, going back only 15 years at the most.
Well, yeah, America's economy is in bad, bad shape, so why highlight some banking problems in China? Good question. Well, the Chinese are screwed more than Americans in some ways, as, whatever they might think of the regime they live under, they can't opt out as easily as Americans can (if they'd get their asses in gear!). The use of smart "phones"* for making payments has gone big-time. We've documented that and other policies of control of the Chinese population, due to some Mandate straight outta Hell in our 2-part Dashed high hopes for China - Part 1 and Part 2. This was written based on personal experience**.
The Book of Revelation touches on the payment stuff, as we all know and can see is going on over in China right now. However, a Chinaman with all the other CCP-required apps may experience even more control than that. The last part of the ZH article says:
More than 1,000 depositors from across the country had planned to gather in Zhengzhou last month to try to withdraw their money but they were unable to when their COVID-19 health codes, which determine if one can travel, switched to a "no travel" status.You gotta give 'em credit where credit is due. If you're gonna go Big Brother, use all the electronic technology you have. You need to think outside of the 1984 box. Using the new health scores, cause, PANDEMIC!, to keep people from even getting to protests about Big-Banking matters is genius.
Not only can you not get ahold of your hard-earned money, but you can't go complain about not being able to get ahold of your hard-earned money because now you're sick! I know, you don't feel sick, but your phone says you're sick, so you're officially sick. Stay home and monitor your phone, Citizen.
Do you see why Americans are in somewhat better shape under the "leadership" of the evil and stupid rather than the evil and smart? Hmmmmm? Idiocracy v 1984 - tough call.
PS: Zhengzhou is the capital of the province of Henan (means "south of the river", and that'd be the Huang He, or Yellow River. There are over 12 million people in Zhengzhou. It's good to be
* Why do we bother calling them phones anymore? I use them to make phone calls, but for others, that phone icon is just another "app".
** One can read more information on the truly Orwellian, scare-the-bejusus-outta-ya' stuff from a book by a guy named Kai Strittmatter called We Have Been Harmonized. Peak Stupidity has a 4-part review on that book, it so happens: Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3 -- and Part 4.
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Potomac Regime lets its freak flag fly
Posted On: Tuesday - July 12th 2022 6:03PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders US Feral Government
🎼Almost cut my penis...
It happened just the other day .
It was gettin' kind of long.
I could've said it was in my way.
But I didn't and, I wonder why
I feel like letting my freak flag fly,
and I feel like I owe it, yeah ... to someone... 🎵
This may not be the latest version. Changes get made regularly to reflect the admission of new types of freaks. The beautiful designs are created in Philadelphia by an ex-man formerly known as Brett Ross, who now goes by the name Betsy.
OK, whoa, those lyrics worked out better than I'd intended, without changing but that one word! From that old, but young at the time, hippie David Crosby*, we got the title of this post. How is that Pride flag that is flaunted at us by Government and Big-Biz anything but a modern freak flag? It's a flag that symbolizes a freak country.
I liked this country better when it was just full of guys with long hair being the freaks, already back being frowned upon a decade before George Thorogood's lyrical parents did 30 years ago, than the country itself being one big promotion of freakdom.
I've written this before, and I will again: The weirdos, we will always have with us. I've been friends with a few, and having various weirdos of different types around can be a good thing some of the time. However, over the last decade, the entire Establishment has been pushing hard the idea that we should all accept the weirdos as normal people. Even the weirdos themselves knew they were weirdos back in the day. Recently, though, they have been encouraged to berate us for even thinking that they are weird, and to believe that WE are the weird ones for not thinking they are normal.
Above and beyond all that, the Potomac Regime, thinking, weirdly-enough, that it's 30 years ago still and they run the sole economic and military superpower of the world, is trying to spread these beliefs throughout the rest of the world. They've even got a flag for this. (I'll get to it.). It's one thing to have some people around that dress in suits like, and think they are, Bunnies or even Diplodoci. It's another to have an embassy in East Bumfuckistan with flags (I'll get to them) that symbolize the acceptance of every weirdness known to Man, Bunnies, and Diplodoci. The people of this foreign country are being told that in order to deal in the Almighty Dollar (good as gold!) and to be accepted in the world of the civilized nations, they must also accept that one can identify as anything, even a Diplodocus roaming around the E. Bumfuckistan capital crushing vehicles and ripping through power lines, that used to have a haircut and a real job!
I had a thought about something before I looked up Almost Cut my Hair on Wiki for the album it came from. Per, Wiki, "[David] Crosby's song has been credited with popularizing the idea of long hair as a deliberate and visible symbol of the wearer's affiliation with the counterculture, and opposition to establishment values." "Anything goes!", they said. Yes, the Establishment at that time, almost 60 years ago, was Conservative, and this weirdness was part of the counterculture. That's not the deal now. These same people who got by just fine letting their freak flags fly have been part of the Establishment for a long time, along with now their offspring. Has the fact that "anything went" worked for them given them this attitude, as they push all this on us?
The ctrl-left are the Establishment now, but rather than letting us fly our normal flags they are trying to push the whole world to accept their freak flag, shown above.
They are the whole Establishment: Government, Big-Biz, Big-Ed, the Lyin' Press. The Feral Gov't takes the lead, but since it clearly does not represent the normal, non-weird, Americans in any way, Peak Stupidity calls that outfit the Potomac Regime**.
Of course, the Potomac Regime flag must fly higher. I'm sure you've also noticed that the Pride Flag is being flown upside-down in these images. That's in memory of the recently-lynched Emily Till. (What, you didn't know?! )
There is one nice thing that has come out of this massive amount of flying of that Pride flag by the Feral Gov't. We can reclaim the Stars and Stripes!
It's been 20 or maybe even 25 years since I've really felt proud of the old American flag. Between the increasing Totalitarianism within and the warmongering without, I didn't feel proud to fly a flag that represented the US Gov't and which was flown a lot by the "USA! USA! Fuck yeah!" chanting people either..
Well, if the Pride Flag is the new flag of the Potomac Regime, then maybe the Stars and Stripes can be adopted again by the (actually) patriotic American people. If not, the Rebel Stars and Bars or the Gadsden ("Don't Tread on Me.") flags would suffice for me too.
* He wrote and sang the song Almost Cut my Hair by his band Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young (also at the time only, as far as Neil Young) from their 1970 album Déja Vu. Calling one's long hair a "freak flag" was not new with this song. In his famous If 6 was 9 Jimi Hendix sang But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high a couple of years prior.
** That term seems to have been coined by VDare's James Kirkpatrick. Constitutionalists for many years have called it "Mordor on the Potomac".
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What if we exit the Age of Reason...?
Posted On: Saturday - July 9th 2022 4:12PM MST
In Topics: Music Globalists The Future World Political Stupidity
I took a bunch of pictures that day, late last Fall.
I suppose this could be called Part 4 of the Peak Stupidity discussion on the blowing up of the Georgia Guidestones. I'll keep it shorter. First, here are: Part 1 - - Part 2 - - and Part 3.
Every time I ran upon talk of "An Age of Reason" in the stones themselves or in Robert Christian's book Common Sense Renewed, I have to wonder if we aren't exiting this age instead. Actually, I know we are. Secondly, I get the Al Stewart song that's featured* below in my head.
OK, so someone on one side or the other thought blowing the Georgia Guidestones was important. It would send a message. I suppose it could. I think the anger at Globalism should be taken out on the responsible parties, not a bunch of stones, whether via coordinated political action, opting out, or other means. I don't really believe this world will get back to sanity without some violence. However, what does shooting up downtown Chicago, running over a parade of children, shooting up a black church, or the biggest, rioting and looting for months, do to change the world for the better? Think more and harder, people.
What I see, though, is that this world of screens with instant information is not the sole cause of, but has led us toward Peak Stupidity at higher rate. People don't spend the time to discuss things calmly and rationally in person with those on the opposing side.
Also, the elites of society are no longer in some King's court or the more civil world in the 1950s US Congress, all of them caring about their nations and the people within. They don't sponsor the Royal Astronomical Society and all that I vaguely described in the old post linked-to below, full of highly-educated, civil, White Men.
Even the old Age of Reason wasn't peaceful, but things were improving. Mr. Christian thought we might reach a more improved Age of Reason in which we could solve the world's problems peacefully with rational thought. That ain't gonna happen.
Mr. Christian was way, way off. The world has been exiting the Age of Reason for a while now. Here's Al Stewart again, the King of History Rock:
Thanks so much for reading and commenting, folks! There are still lots of posts ready to be written, and it ain't like we're going anywhere ... like Georgia. I'll slow down next week for real.
* PS has a usually-adhered-to policy of not putting the same song up multiple times, but this one fit the previous time and this time. That previous post was Nat-Geo and the once great Royal Scientific Societies - Part 2
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We are all Amish now
Posted On: Saturday - July 9th 2022 3:38PM MST
In Topics: Americans Liberty/Libertarianism Kung Flu Stupidity
The last Peak Stupidity post that was completely about Kung Flu Stupidity was published over a month ago, with 2 more that briefly mentioned it near the end of June. Though this drought of Kung Flu Stupidity may be eating into our bottom line, we like it. I don't say this particular madness won't be revived, and some of the effects, such as the Totalitarian policies will stay ready for use. It's nice to not have to deal with it for a while.
I did my best to deal with it in my way, complying with as little as possible, and writing 245(!) Kung Flu PanicFest-related posts. However, we are still The English and we live in our English world. That's what the Amish call us, anyway.* The Amish blew this PanicFest off like, it was... well, like we all should have. It helped a lot that they didn't have a barrage of panic coming from their TV's, internet, or smart phones for 2 years, because they don't have any of those.
The video below is a blast from the past, back to October of last year. I watched it in the comments section of Mr. E.H. Hail's most recent post, A “wild” Corona-Reckoning may be coming in 2022-2024, Matthew Peterson of the Claremont Institute predicts on his Hail to You blog.
The video is a segment from the show Full Measure with Sharyl Attkinson**. Some of us have known pretty much all that the main Amish interviewee, Calvin Lapp, said there. Still it's very refreshing to hear it all from someone free to speak his mind, with an interviewer who didn't panic and let him speak.
I'm sure you'll be amused by "And during the Covid-19 outbreak, they became the subjects of a massive social and medical experiment." Well, yeah, it was an experiment, alright, but not in the way she meant. It was more of an experiment in how much panic could be induced and how much Totalitarianism could be implemented, for now ...
Then, "The Amish chose a unique path..." Well, yeah. They weren't completely left alone, but with their way of life, they were most able to avoid all the worst parts of the PanicFest. We English aren't left alone like that, or they'll call us "Survivalists" and come with tear gas, guns, and tanks to kill us. Additionally, we don't have quite the solidarity the Amish do.
I think all Peakers will enjoy this video****. Thank you, Dieter Kief, for bringing this to our attention!
Next time around, we can do the Spartacus thing:
"No! I am Amish!"
"Why don't you guys figure it out, so I know who to jab here, mmmkaaay?"
* I wonder what they call all the various other races and nationalities they may see there in their parts of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Their calling everyone "English" could be a real insult. I won't say who would likely be insulted, but ...
** I think she produces the show too. She's been one of the few good journalists over the years. This lady is the one that helped break open the "gunwalker" story that bloggers Mike Vanderboegh*** and David Codrea investigated for many months first. This had to do with Attorney General Eric Holder attempting to blame American gun stores for violence by Mexican drug cartels, for his boss Øb☭ma .
*** Unfortunately for America, Mike died 6 years ago.
**** You can read the transcript here on the Full Measure website. I could have commented for 1,000 more words on it, but you all can do that in the comments here.
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