One observer's opinion of Chinese Kung Flu Stupidity.
Posted On: Tuesday - November 23rd 2021 6:01PM MST
In Topics: China Orwellian Stupidity World Political Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
Two weeks ago, under the extremely-anti-vax article Excess Deaths Point to Depopulation Agenda on The Unz Review by the anti-Panic writer Mike Whitney, I came across a few anecdotal comments that mention the situation in China. (It's a long thread - there are currently 643 comments under the article!) Because this blog has a special fixation with things Chinese I was interested in one particular comment by commenter "Erebus".
Mr. Erebus' take on the situation in China, not just with respect to the Flu Manchu but general Totalitarianism in China, is not one I particularly agree completely with. However, I have not been to that Eastern land for ~ 4 years, so, I figure he may have a more recent take. (That is especially important that my last time spent there was, of course, well before this latest excuse for "MOAR control, everywhere, by everyone!") We don't know this the guy going by the handle "Erebus" lives in China or anywhere near there, or has ever even visited. However, though I haven't agreed with this guy on some things in the past, he comes across as pretty honest, and he's civil about his opinions too.
Therefore, I present his quick take on life in China in the aftermath(?) of this world PanicFest. I have plenty to say about his take, but I'll leave that for another post to come shortly*:
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They’re right when it comes to digital ID. It’s been soft sold for years, and the Chinese public bought into it wholesale. As smart phones are absolutely everywhere and in continuous use, the move was quite organic. Now, everyone pays using their phone, and most people don’t even carry cash.
They’d been living with State ID for centuries with the Hukou (户口) residence registration system and have been carrying a state ID card for decades. All that started migrating to the smart phone some years ago, and there’s moves afoot to abolish the old Hukou system. When SARS-2 rolled out the digital ID evolved rapidly to include a “health” function.
That function (afaict) principally indicates that you haven’t been in any hotspots recently (or at least your phone hasn’t). Venues such as airports, rail stations, hospitals, some hotels and all govt buildings require you to pull up a green code before entering. The only commercial enterprise I know of that asks for it currently is Walmart. Temperature checks remain pretty common, though a fraction of what they were a year ago when they were everywhere.
Where all that is less so is in the countryside. Rural areas still have “off-line” stores & markets and some villages are panicked about the virus. Locals have a lot of autonomy and in many cases make up rules as they see fit.
The big differences with the RoW are:
– There is no vaxx mandate or threat of one. The vaccines were heavily promoted when they first rolled out and some local officials tried to improve their numbers by making it mandatory for govt & medical workers and certain industries. The national govt soon banned the practice and it’s been strictly voluntary since. Vaccine promotion has pretty much died out.
BTW, vaccinations were not available to anyone over 60 or under 18 until Aug 2021 when some regions began rolling out programs for 12-17 yr olds and over-60s. Again voluntary, and under 18 yr olds must have a consent form signed by their accompanying parent/legal guardian.
– Local lockdowns around local outbreaks has been the Chinese strategy since Wuhan opened 17 mos ago. These have been as small as locking down a single apartment building, to city districts (boroughs) but I’m not aware of a lockdown that covered a whole city since Wuhan, and such lockdowns as have occurred lasted 2-3 weeks unless new cases arose.
– Masks are required on public transit and typically in any venue requiring a green code, but are voluntary everywhere else. Roughly 1/3 of people wear them on the street etc, but remove them on entering a bar/restaurant. Go figure.
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That's the entirety of the comment. I'll have plenty to add, but it seems at least a fair unbiased view. I need to add here the quick note that Mr. Erebus' "RoW" means the Rest of the World. Another commenter asked, and I'm glad, as I wouldn't have caught the meaning either, as obvious as it is to me now.
* I hate to break it up like this, but with a specifically timely post coming tomorrow, and then Thanksgiving on Thursday, that'll be here on Friday at the earliest. I am itching to give my take now, though! (However, the posts of gotten way too long lately!)
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Zhou Bai Dien, the Winter Olympics, and Human Rights.
Posted On: Monday - November 22nd 2021 8:10PM MST
In Topics: US Police State China Zhou Bai Dien
"What? Mr. President, could you say that again? You're coming through 1 by 2 with that stupid mask on."
It's another one of these "takes a lot of damn gall" pieces of hypocrisy that you get a lot lately. The Biden administration has threatened ("yeah, whatever" - the Chinese) a diplomatic boycott of the coming Winter Olympics, to be held in Peking, China. That doesn't mean the American athletes won't participate, but just that the top US dignitaries won't make it. Oh, too bad - the CCP will have to pay serious postage to sent some more Hunter video by personal courier instead of handing it directly to Jan Psaki.
The Daily Caller explains that this is due to the Chinese government's treatment of the Uighurs. These Moslems in the northwest of (well, what's now) China, the high desert/mountain area of Xinjiang, are indeed being treated like shit. I could believe anything even Breitbart (here) says about the place, though they seem to be more anti-China in general than that country warrants.
Be all that as it may, what takes the cake is that this administration brought up Human Rights to another country while there are many dozens and possibly hundreds of Political Prisoners held right in downtown F.S.* itself for most of a year without having been tried!** China may have much more than a proverbial mote in its eye, but you need to take the log out of your own eye, Mr. President. We're gonna need it for later, when we shove it up your ass instead, on behalf of the 1/6 Political Prisoners.
PS: The reader may very well want to know why Peak Stupidity still insists on "Zhou Bai Dien" then, seeing as he is at odds with China. I think he has the new Neocons like UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and Senator Tom Cotton on his ass about this. It's just talk. I see no action against China on things that matter like trade. I really think if the Chinese say "jump", Joe Biden will, well, he'll ask "can I go potty now?", as his handlers ask "how high, Sir?!"
* That's Washington Federal Shithole.
** In the meantime, the only one that murdered anyone at the Capitol last January 6th is free as a Byrd - that is Michael Leroy Byrd, the murderer of Ashli Babbitt.
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Nobody Said It Was Easy
Posted On: Saturday - November 20th 2021 7:42PM MST
In Topics: Music
What a great song for these times! This song was a hit almost 40 years ago. Perhaps there are times for every generation that look just as bleak, but I have a hard time believing it. We're trying to get through it intact, but, nobody said it was easy.
When I looked up this song, I couldn't find it at first. Even via recognition (forget recall), I wouldn't have been able to remember it was a band called LeRoux for the life of me. Nobody Said It Was Easy was a Billboard magazine #18 top single from this Baton Rouge band's 4th album, Last Safe Place in 1982. The song has a sub-title, as it were: (Lookin' for the Lights).
LeRoux:
Jeff Pollard – lead vocals, guitar
Tony Haselden – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, lead and backing vocals
Leon Medica – bass, backing vocals
David Peters – drums, backing vocals
Rod Roddy – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, synthesizer
Bobby Campo – backing vocals, percussion
Next week: maybe that book review finally, something on China and the vax policy over there, speculation on Globalist evil pushers of the vax to the world, a series of short posts taken from just 20 minutes in front of the TV, and, OK, yeah, maybe some current event or something. Thanks to everyone who reads Peak Stupidity and especially to the commenters.
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Bash Business Big-Time
Posted On: Saturday - November 20th 2021 6:07PM MST
In Topics: Pundits US Feral Government Race/Genetics Socialism/Communism Zhou Bai Dien
Yeah, and screw the White Man in the process. In the 2nd of our quick series of "Hey, read this!" posts, I refer the reader to Peak Stupidity's favorite literary pundit, Miss Ann Coulter. She misfire's on a cylinder every 1,000 miles or so, not even enough to warrant plugging into her OBD-II port*.
Miss Coulter tells us Biden's "Build Back Bigger" Is Anti-White Racial Socialism, in her 2nd-to-latest column**.
Hmmm, what about the Dad?
First of all, there's no building of anything in this bill. The word "infrastructure" doesn't mean what these assholes tell us it means. Even then, it's not about us.
One thing White House’s official press release did not mention is that almost all of the $2 trillion doled out under BBB is expressly designated for Black, Latino, Native American, Asian American, Pacific Islander and non-English speaking individuals. White Americans will get nothing and like it.Miss Coulter give us 8 such examples, which, in total, add up to the tremendous amount of $2 Billion. Well, that's peanuts nowadays. It's 0.1% of the spending in this bill. But, wait...
And on and on and on.She being an astute lawyer, I don't doubt that Ann Coulter went through this bill. It's not something I would do, even on the Ann Coulter pay scale. If I could get the same money for cleaning out sewer lines for a day, I think I'd go for the latter. Anyway, she is not stupid, so I'm guessing she sees the bigger picture, money-wise, of how this money will be spread in bigger amounts to anyone but White people.
It is nothing but a transfer of wealth from the White man to the non-white. I was about to correct that and write "transfer of some of our income, in the form of taxes", but who am I kidding? Taxes don't cover all this. It comes from just more borrowing. It won't be paid off, but the loss of value of the currency means Americans lose wealth due to the quickly decreasing value of the US Dollar.
The number I read was $1.85 Trillion for this latest largess. Interest at a more natural 7% rather than that rate artificially-reduced to 1% by the FED, would mean $130 Billion more interest would be needed per year. That's a significant portion of the $3 Trillion or so collected in taxes, just for this one bill. Now, that's just if we disregard the idea of it actually getting, like PAID BACK, or something. No, this stuff can't go on.
About the recipients of this generous Feral Gov't largess, Miss Coulter asks:
What the hell happened to Linda?She then answers that question:
Linda is wearing a hardhat, so her job has probably been outsourced. Maybe she’ll be helped by BBB’s humongous expansion of the Trade Adjustment Assistance program (TAA). That’s the law passed in the 1960s to compensate American workers whose jobs have been shipped abroad by globalist swine who couldn’t care less about their fellow Americans and don’t mind that every single thing we need, including masks and medicine, is made in China.Globalists don't mind Socialism. It keeps any possible small business competitors down.
Surely, some white people will qualify for that—steelworkers, autoworkers, glass, plastic and paper manufacturing employees.
In fact, the BBB hijacks the whole idea of compensating globalism’s losers and turns the TAA into just another massive welfare scheme. Both the eligibility requirements and payment amounts are expanded beyond all reason, entitling “workers” to years and years of payouts, with no minimum employment period required, and no stipulation that trade has anything to do with the loss of their jobs.
Oh, it just passed in the house, as I read here on a site called Liberty Nation. (At first glance, it seems to be a pretty good fiscal Libertarian-oriented site, with some Conservatism.) What's another 2 Trillion bucks, spread around among the non-priviledged? Hell, it even less than that. Don't you believe in charity? Well, we do! We're the US Feral Gov't, and we'll be charitable for you, you privileged misers, you!
No, we're not voting ourselves out of this.
* That's not what you think it is. I'm going on with the auto analogy - On Board Diagnostics - 2nd generation. What are they up to now? (On the one vehicle we have new enough to have any of this, hope we don't have to plug into it for another 50,000 miles!)
** The latest was about the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, here, written 2 days before his acquittal. You can't go wrong reading 99% of her columns anyway.
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Our favorite VDare writer Jack Dalton on the American Commies
Posted On: Friday - November 19th 2021 8:31PM MST
In Topics: Commies Pundits ctrl-left Anarcho-tyranny
Our new favorite VDare writer Jack Dalton has another article up on the site that goes right along with the thinking of the Peak Stupidity blog. We like to call the American left Communists, and Jack Dalton, along with VDare founder/editor Peter Brimelow*, agrees with us.
His latest article**, FBI Raids O’Keefe—Loudoun County’s Immigrant Muslim Prosecutor Threatens VDARE.com. Communist Anarcho-Tyranny Is Here, starts out mentioning The Gulag Archipelago:
If you want to know why you should reread Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and absorb his most famous passage from The Gulag Archipelago, consider what happened last week. Leftist federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York sent the FBI to raid the homes of dissident journalists who work for James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas. On Saturday, they searched O’Keefe’s apartment [F.B.I. Searches James O’Keefe’s Home in Ashley Biden Diary Theft Inquiry, by Michael S. Schmidt, et al., New York Times, November 6, 2021].VDare puts in hyperlinks like it's 1995, so click over there for lots of background - there are 10 links just in those 2 paragraphs alone. More:
O’Keefe is famous for his undercover videos that expose Leftists at their worst. But they, supposedly, weren’t the problem. O’Keefe reportedly once possessed Ashley Biden’s stolen diary. In it, the President’s daughter wrote that she had “probably not appropriate” showers with her father as a child. The Project Veritas raids are just the latest proof that we are living in an anarcho-tyranny in which the Deep State and its communist legal apparatus are prosecuting law-abiding, patriotic Americans.
So why a federal dragnet over nothing more than a petty theft?He gives some examples. I don't want to excerpt the entire article. After that:
To send a message.
O’Keefe and Projective Veritas threaten the Establishment:
No wonder the FBI and Justice Department went after O’Keefe with even the flimsiest excuse. They’d love to do to him and his courageous colleagues what they’re doing to Trump supporters at the January 6 Mostly Peaceful Protest [An Alarming Letter From January 6 Protester Nathan DeGrave, From His Jail Cell in Washington DC, by Sundance, Conservative Treehouse, October 30, 2021].Then we read about the piece of work in the VDare image above. She seems to be a cadre under the tutelage of the Totalitarian scumbag Merrick Garland:
NSBA subsequently apologized, but the damage was done [School boards group apologizes for letter linking protesting parents to domestic terrorism, by Valerie Richardson, Washington Times, October 23, 2021]. The anti-parent outfit got what it wanted, particularly after what happened in Loudoun County, Virginia. A “gender-fluid” boy in a dress raped a ninth-grade girl in a high-school bathroom [Loudoun Co. judge rules teen sexually assaulted girl in school bathroom, by Neal Augenstein, WTOP, October 25, 201]. The girl’s father lost his temper at a school board meeting after a Leftist woman said his daughter was lying, and even worse, after school board members and the county superintendent said no such assault had occurred [Loudoun County Schools Tried To Conceal Sexual Assault Against Daughter In Bathroom, Father Says, by Luke Rosiak, Daily Wire].From Mr. Dalton's excerpt of writing by one Bruce Lashan of an outfit called WUSA9:
The Commonwealth’s Attorney, Albanian Muslim immigrant Buta Biberaj, prosecuted the father.
Biberaj has been slammed by the New American, a publication of the John Birch Society, as a Muslim “immigrant prosecutor who arrested an ‘American’ who complained about daughter’s rape.” VDARE, a Southern Poverty Law Center designated hate group, said on Twitter, “Loudoun County prosecutor Biberaj is an Albanian Muslim immigrant from Montenegro. And yes, she was elected by a 1% margin after George Soros paid $845,000 to support her bid.”Hahahaaa! No, Soros never asks for anything in return. He was just giving out $845,000 to a Moslem immigrant running for country prosecutor in order to earn his Citizenship in the Community merit badge. Notice that the $outhern Poverty Law Center is THE designator of the "HATE" label. It'd sure be nice to get that contract. I'd be happy with a notary public embosser myself!
Biberaj says her campaign has taken money from Soros, a billionaire philanthropist and mega-donor who was born to Jewish parents. But she said Soros’ team “has never asked for anything in return.” Soros has been a focus of right-wing anger for years.
That doesn’t cover it all. There’s more. Much More. The Floyd Hoax riots. The Blake Hoax riots. The unjust Rittenhouse prosecution.I agree. Jack Dalton didn't know it as of his writing this, but Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal has slowed our progress down this path. These Commies are unrelenting, as always.
The upshot of it all is this: we are all James O’Keefe. We are all those parents who show up at school board meetings to protest bathroom rapes and anti-white CRT hate. We are all those locked in D.C.’s Gitmo.
We suffer under a totalitarian communist regime, and not just on the federal level—the cancer has metastasized to the state and the county level too. This is headed in a very bad direction.
Nice article again, Jack Dalton. (I hope VDare will publish him more frequently in the near future.)
* Mr. Brimelow wrote this tweet agreeing with Peak Stupidity's take on the ctrl-left. (There was some confusion, as he linked to tweets by a guy with the "@StupidityPeak" twitter handle. However, he linked to our article OK, Some (V)Dare Call it Communism.) Thank you, E.H. Hail, for finding this tweet.
Oh, and I realized (just now) that Mr. Brimelow's tweet with one segment of my post has a homophone typo - "than" should be "then". Fixed here, but not there, wherever "there" means?
** Bear with me, as I'm catching up on some "hey read this!" posts, going back a couple of weeks.
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Some Great News (for a change)
Posted On: Friday - November 19th 2021 12:30PM MST
In Topics: Liberty/Libertarianism ctrl-left
He's been acquitted on all charges.
Peak Stupidity wrote a few days after Kyle Rittenhouse shot the 3 antifa Commies that his shooting them was very obviously done in self-defense and was an excellent job at it, at that. See Kyle's Life Matters.
This case was one of 3 related cases we discussed in Three trials for the purpose of crushing American resistance, but it was the most important. If the Establishment legal system is going to put us in jeopardy for simple acts of self-defense, then things have gone very far down the road toward Communist oppression.
The jurors of Kenosha have struck a blow against the ctrl-left's march to take us down this road. Their doing the right thing has not only vindicated Kyle Rittenhouse for his 2 1/2 blows to the ctrl-left, but, more importantly, it gives the rest of us patriotic Americans much more confidence that we can stop these people, without going directly to civil war.
It's not like the Commies will just give up and go home though. We just have more time than we'd have had if this verdict had gone the other way. Even personally, this verdict has had an effect on my thinking for the long-term plans of my family.
Nice going jurors! Nice job, Kyle Rittenhouse!
PS: I've got ~ 20 posts in mind, backed up here. This good news needed to get on the site. It's not as if Peak Stupidity often reports on current events in a timely manner. Enjoy it while it lasts. ;-}
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The 1/6 Political Prisoners will NOT be sung of in a U-2 song
Posted On: Thursday - November 18th 2021 10:13AM MST
In Topics: US Police State Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government
It fits in well with the subject of this post that I could not easily find a picture for the top that showed the 1/6/21 protestors being arrested, jailed, or perhaps visited in jail? Why no pictures?
I'll tell you why there aren't easily available pictures. I doubt that there was any chance for family, friends, and other supporters to even have a chance to talk to them once "our" Federal Police Force got ahold of each. Peak Stupidity has written hardly anything about the plight of these patriotic Americans who did nothing more illegal and dastardly than trespass on Federal (well, "OUR") property. We had posts about the event itself (see Patriots Breach the Senate, The Battering of Sick Nick, No Justice for Ashlii Babbitt, and Murderer of Ashli Babbitt revealed: Michael Leroy Byrd), but nothing about what's happened to these Americans.
That's out of sheer disgust at the evil we see now in the Feral Gov't in the Washington Federal Shithole. The idea of the site is to write about stupidity, not so much pure evil. They do go hand-in-hand a lot though. Here's the basic formula (derived, I gotta assume, from Newton's Laws of Motion or the 1st Law of Thermodynamics as almost everything else is): Stupidity + Power = Evil.
There was a post going around the web recently containing a letter that is supposed to be from one of these men stuck for months now without trial in jail in Washington, F.S. Maybe someone else here can tell me if it's legit, but I have no reason to doubt the extremely poor treatment of these prisoners, health-wise and Constitution-wise. This is more 3rd-Worldly behavior here, much more important to those involved, of course, than my experience among the 3rd-Worldly crowd at a fast food joint.
I don't know how many Americans know what's going on there. Washington, F.S. is filled with wanna'-be Woodward & Bernstein media types, so you'd think a few of them might be on the egregious story for us. Nah. I they had a story about people held under conditions like this in El Salvador or Peru by the right-wing, we could read whole articles in the NY Times or Washington Post about it.*
Why are the no big protests on the streets about this by American patriots? My quick answer is that most American patriots have jobs. Back in the 1960's there'd be crowds outside the jail building all hours of the day and night. It'd be one big protest party, till they let the guys out, which they would.** The divide between left and right aligns pretty well with the line between Americans with real jobs and those without.
Will Americans (and I do include myself here) get out in mass rallies for the January 6th political prisoners? It's sad to see it written about this country, but there's no way around it. These people are nothing other than political prisoners.
Back in the day, the music artists of the left, which are, say 95% of them, would get political in their songs. If one just listened for the music (as to Neil Young's guitar in Cortez the Killer), it didn't matter. However, I remember one particular with a theme about those poor political prisoners or missing children down in ... wherever. That one was U-2's Mothers of the Disappeared. I DID listen to the lyrics of that song. Would U-2 ever be so kind as to write a song about America's political prisoners, stuck down in a dungeon in the capital for daring to trespass in a government building?
(C'mon, Bono, drawing a blank, are you?)
* That's not to say I'd ever get it directly from those outlets of the Lyin' Press.
** The left knows how to do Constitutionality, when it helps them out, that is.
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Awaiting the important Kyle Rittenhouse verdict
Posted On: Wednesday - November 17th 2021 8:09PM MST
In Topics: Liberty/Libertarianism ctrl-left Guns
As I wrote in this post yesterday, the fact that Peak Stupidity has not spent much time discussing the Kyle Rittenhouse trial doesn't mean it's not extremely important. Most of our readers have likely found other, hopefully conservative/libertarian outlets to read about or watch parts of this trial. The name of the site is Peak Stupidity, after all, so we cover the stupidity more than the evil.
Just as an example of why I can't get myself to follow these (even the important) high profile court cases: I heard a little snippet of some question of Mr. Rittenhouse by one of the prosecutors. (Was it Binger?) This was on someone’s phone, some TV at the airport, I can’t remember exactly, from a couple of days ago, no less.
To paraphrase:
“So you wanted to kill them.”
“They were threatening me, so I shot them.”
“You shot them because you wanted to kill them.”
“No, I …”
…
(It went at least 2, maybe 3 more times around.)
I know he’s only 17 y/o, and I think of better things to say later too, but I wish Kyle had said:
“I shot them because I wanted to stop them… to stop them from trying to kill me.”
That is a small part of the reason I wouldn’t want to follow all of the details on TV. Blood pressure. High blood pressure induced by prosecutors I suppose “just doing their jobs”.
Kyle was a cool character out on the street that night, and it also takes a lot of cool to calmly answer that line of questioning. If I would have not been coached for hours on it, I’m guessing I would have called the prosecutor a retard early on.
It's not stupidity but evil that in a supposed Constitutional Republic like America, Kyle Rittenhouse would have to defend his actions in Kenosha, Wisconsin that 2020 August night to begin with. We all know his actions were obviously done in urgent self defense.
We await the verdict now, just as a Presidential election result. The outcome of this trial is very important. If Kyle gets convicted on a murder charge, Americans will know that the Establishment – Feral Gov’t, local government, law enforcement, “justice” system, and all the rest – will throw the book at them for defending their culture (Charlottesville trials), their property (Brunswick, GA trial), and their very lives (in this one).
That would make most Americans stand down and let Totalitarianism reign, as most Americans have been seen to be cowardly, so far. However, those who are not will understand that it’s an all or nothing thing now, with patriots against the entire establishment. There are people who will take this to heart. Some of these people don’t post on blogs about any of this. These are the types that, if they do, will tell you that “after the first one, the rest are free.”
Hopefully, there will be an acquittal. Riots or no riots, many more Americans will be out there with rifles to defend their property and lives than before the unpleasantness in Kenosha.
This trial has been a long shot for the ctrl-left Establishment. I am very glad that the lead prosecutor looked like he may as well have been picked by someone on our side. If this goes the wrong way, it may be because the ctrl-left and the Lyin' Press sycophants have made indirect but obvious threats to the jurors. There's no belief in rule of law there, just mob tactics.
If Kyle is found guilty, well, at least Americans have no excuse for denying the truth about who is the ctrl-left Establishment that rules the country now.
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The one-side stories of the Lyin' Press - Yahoo version
Posted On: Tuesday - November 16th 2021 9:42PM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity Websites Media Stupidity Educational Stupidity
This yahoo headline gives only one side of the story. We are supposed to believe it, as is. Many do. I include myself here, as many times we may get some news from just the scanning of headlines. I suppose yahoo counts on that, like the rest of the Lyin' Press. You tend to see the lying-by-omission when you've already read more on the rest of the story.
I try to avoid even glancing at the yahoo fake news headlines the page appears after I log out of an email account. Sometimes I can't get the tab closed in time. The screenshot above is from one of those times. I went ahead and clicked on that one for this post's sake and for the sake of my curiosity about how they were going to spin the story of school boards' shutting down of speech against the anti-White lessons and Feral Gov't Attorney's General* threats to label concerned Americans as terrorist 180 degrees.
What yahoo did in their article 'I Don't Want to Die for It': School Board Members Face Rising Threats was to spend much of the article fixating on one story about one Oregon City, Corvallis, and one Corvallis, Oregon School Board member, one Sami Al-Abdrabbuh. You might guess where Mr. Al-Abdrabbuh stands on White people.
Like many school board races this year, the one in May in Corvallis, a left-leaning college town in the northwest corner of the state, was especially contentious, swirling around concerns not only about the coronavirus pandemic but also the teaching of what Al-Abdrabbuh called the “dark history” of America’s struggle with race.Back in Mr. Al-Abdrabbuh's old country, back in the day, well, OK, a sometimes now too, black people were/are taken by the millions as slaves, the males being castrated and the women being made into sex slaves. The good thing is, there was not much of a struggle.
I gotta say, I can kinda see this guy inducing a bit of animosity from the good people of Corvallis, Oregon. The trouble began:
It was only days after Sami Al-Abdrabbuh was reelected to the school board in Corvallis, Oregon, that the text messages arrived.I dunno. I'm guessing the guy with the picture of the shot-up campaign sign was a friend, not the guy at the range. Who knows? It's yahoo news.
The first, he said, was a photograph taken at a shooting range. It showed one of his campaign’s lawn signs — “Re-Elect Sami” — riddled with bullet holes.
The second was a warning from a friend. This one said that one of their neighbors was looking for Al-Abdrabbuh. The neighbor was threatening to kill him.
Even months later, Al-Abdrabbuh, chair of the school board, is still taking precautions. He regularly speaks to police and scans his driveway in the morning before walking to his car. He often mixes up his daily route to work.Do yourself a favor then, Al-Abdrabbuh, along with the people of Corvallis, and quit. Per further down in the story, you're not helping the kids:
“I love serving on the school board,” he said. “But I don’t want to die for it.”
His opponent, Bryce Cleary, a local doctor, often complained that conservative voices were not being heard by board members, some of whom, he said, were “pushing political agendas.” At one candidate forum, Cleary argued that the board under Al-Abdrabbuh’s leadership had spent more time on inclusion and diversity than on math and science.Regarding a school district on the other side of the country, Brevard County, Florida, we hear of a Miss Jenkins from the school board:
“The problem is our schools are not doing what they’re supposed to do,” Cleary said.
Then in July, after the district put in place a mask mandate for students, a Republican state lawmaker posted Jenkins’ cellphone number on his Facebook page, and her voicemail filled with hateful messages. Not long after, she said, someone burned the letters “FU” into her lawn with weed killer and chopped down the bushes in front of her house."Hateful" has been watered down to saying something you disagree with, so that doesn't impress me. Burning "FU" into her lawn with the weed killer is clever and easier than painting it on the driveway in the middle of the night, so a B for creativity. I don't condone chopping down bushes though, ... other than those sticker-leaved Hollies that really deserve it.
In California, always the vanguard of Educational and all kinds of other stupidity,
Near Sacramento, he wrote, one entire school board had to flee its chamber after protesters accosted the members.What kind of sick business was the board up to that induced this amount of animosity? They don't say. I read nothing about the Dad in Loudoun County, Virginia who's daughter was raped by a skirt-wearing man in the girls' bathroom. He was arrested for getting a little upset and physical at the school board meeting there, as rape was covered up and the culprit unpunished. Yahoo didn't have space to mention this bit.
Meanwhile back on the West Coast:
In one extreme case, in suburban San Diego, a group of people protesting mask mandates disrupted a school board meeting in September. After taking an unauthorized vote, they summarily installed themselves as the district’s new board.Ha! Nice job,guys! Now that there's democracy in action ... OK, unauthorized democracy.
Sorry, but these school board members brought this on themselves by refusing to listen to parents who want none of the anti-White teaching, the genderbender nuttiness being taught to their kids and practiced in the bathrooms, and the PanicFest procedures. People have had enough. One man's "hurling of obscenities" and "menacing disruptions" are another man's only way to get through to these people.
Merrick Garland's siccing of the FBI on complaining parents is mentioned. The sickness that is being taught to our kids is not. Has yahoo ever published articles giving the other side of the story?
PS: I'll give yahoo writer Alan Feuer credit for one thing in this article though: "Republican attorneys general* in 17 states ..."
* There's some William Safire level prose there. I almost wrote "Attorney Generals". I ask myself WWWSW. He has been known to order "Two Whoppers Junior" at the BK.
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Prosecutor Thomas Binger on Gun Control
Posted On: Tuesday - November 16th 2021 6:52AM MST
In Topics: Legal Stupidity Guns
It was a demo. It was a demo on what NOT to do when handling guns. Here, from inside the courtroom, as seen at an angle from the court observers' view, the people on the right side of the room having a view right down the barrel.
As noted before, Peak Stupidity can't cover everything, and we try to concentrate on stupidity vs. evil. We'll write a short post to come on this, but suffice it to say here that, though we have only watched or kept with a very few details of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, we DO think this is one of the most important trials there has been in a long time. I mean, there shouldn't' have been ANY trial at all, due to no good reason for charges to be filed. However, since patriot and hero Kyle Rittenhouse IS on trial for murder or manslaughter, it's very important to the country that the right of self-defense be upheld here.
11 days back on this site, in an unduly long and rambling post, we declared that there are Three trials for the purpose of crushing American resistance. Kyle Rittenhouse's is the most important of the 3. The ctrl-left would like nothing better than for Americans to understand that any defense of their property and very lives against the ctrl-left's street thugs of any race, creed, or national original will not go unpunished.
Again, without having read many details, I did come across (per VDare, as usual), this post by PJ Media's* Stephen Green about lead prosecuting attorney Thomas Binger's demo of how not to handle guns during his closing arguments. See WHOA: Rittenhouse Prosecutor Thomas Binger Aims AR-15 at People in Courtroom, Finger on the Trigger.
As an owner of multiple firearms, I am not as regulated as I would like to be. WHOA! (as the Vodka-man said), no, by "not as regulated" I mean not as in practice and disciplined. I haven't been to the range in a long time. (I am very partial to outdoor shooting.) Even so, gun safety has been ingrained in me since I got my first .22 rifle. I will slightly adjust Vodkapundit's 3 very basic rules, in his post, that idiot prosecutor Binger violated, and right there in front of everybody, on camera!
1) In terms of where it's aimed, you handle every gun as if it is loaded.
2) You never aim your weapon at something you aren't ready to shoot.
3) You never put your finger inside the trigger guard until you are ready to shoot.
(Yes, in the picture, it looks like the chamber is open, but this still violates the rules. You just don't do this.)
The ever so occasionally snarky Instapundit remarked that "Alec Baldwin was unavailable for comment."
OK, that was funny, but let me put it seriously. I don't give a rat's ass about who shoots whom in Hollywood. If it all imploded over there that'd be a positive for America. Thomas Binger is the lead prosecuting attorney of this very important self-defense shooting case. There, in his closing arguments, he handled a rifle as Nancy Pelosi and other left-wing gun-controlling scum would, who know nothing about guns. It does not help his case at all the Mr. Binger seems to know jack-squat about guns himself. It not helping the case, well, that's also good for America!
PS: We hope to hear about an acquittal soon, but as many have discussed, the ctrl-left's mob actions of threatening jurors may make a difference.
* Stephen Green is one of Instapundit's** (Univ. of Tennessee Law Professor Glenn Reynolds') main pundits. I had no idea till now that he is one and the same as the Vodkapundit.
** Number 1 on the Peak Stupidity blogroll, 5 years running ...
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Mass Stupidity
Posted On: Saturday - November 13th 2021 7:38PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Humor Kung Flu Stupidity
Seen by the Peak Stupidity staff out in the field:
I'm pretty sure this is Kung Flu related, as this was taken recently. i believe the owner was a bit pissed off at all the labor problems that have been part of the fall-out from the Kung Flu PanicFest stupidity. Perhaps there were still partial LOCKDOWNs going on.
I checked and there IS a Mass Stupidity website, and, not only that, it is pretty much politically aligned with Peak Stupidity from what I've seen on it so far. I'll have to write him a comment.
More Peak Stupidity next week. It'll likely include that 2nd book review, 3 separate "read this!" posts, and more on the vaccination mandates, probably the most important acute issue right now .. oh, and some music, we've not put that much up lately. Thank you very much for reading and/or commenting!
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Peak Stupidity position paper on The Vax
Posted On: Saturday - November 13th 2021 6:53PM MST
In Topics: Healthcare Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
["Position paper"?! Keep this up, and we can get away with soliciting for funding - PS Accounting Department, kinda tired of working for nuthin']
(I wish it were an anti-hysteria booster.)
Since we realized that this Kung Flu PanicFest was no flash-in-the-pan in early April of '20, Peak Stupidity has covered this form of stupidity consistently, with (hey!) exactly 200 posts with the Kung Flu Stupidity topic key, counting this one.*
There have been various flavors of this Kung Flu stupidity, and Peak Stupidity has concentrated our efforts on the face masking business more than any other one item. One could say that this part of the PanicFest is not nearly as important as others. No doubt the LOCKDOWNSs were the most Totalitarian imposition of a Built Back Better Police State, till recently, that is. The LOCKDOWNs were excoriated here, but mostly likely due to my being in a reasonable State/area, that was a short period, seeming like long ago, that I've able to leave behind. That doesn't at all negate the fact that precedents have been set. Then, there is the financial and societal fall-out too.
Then, there is the Social Distancing crapola. I should say "was". I see hardly anyone who takes that stupidity seriously anymore, much less complies. We just had our follow-up on S.D. Elevator etiquette, and maybe a quick rundown post on what I've seen is in order. As for me personally, I think back, and I don't recall ANY time, from the very beginning that I ever took it seriously, or that I ever complied with ANY of it. Even back with the floor-sitcker-guided shopping buggy lines in Target, I had to get in that line, but I didn't worry about where I stood or rolled. I used to note others getting wary about it, but it's not even a thought for me, excepting when I see some idiotic poster still up on a wall or window.
The mandating of the COVID-19 experimental vaccines have taken the lead now in Kung Flu Totalitarianism. This one didn't start out as anything to be worried about. I figured if people wanted to get this vaccine, more power to them This is a Libertarian site (along with Conservative - see this post) - so I have no problem with anyone else doing harm to his own body. Additionally, I liked that this vaccine, whatever its medical effects might be, had the emotional effect on its experimentees of getting them to calm the hell down about the dreaded Covid-one-niner. It was fairly successful in this, I'd say, for individuals.
But, then why do we keep hearing about the Covid-one-niner, almost as much as in April of '20? Of course, the Lyin' Press want to keep this PanicFest (Season 3 now!) gravy train rolling along. Why do people still listen though? Most are no longer in panic mode about the virus, per my observation, as discussed above. Well, most of what we hear or read is about the vaccine now. It turns out that no, you can still contract the Kung Flu. Oh, and you can still spread the same virus around, maybe even quicker than those poor un-vaccinated bastards. Maybe you won't get nearly as sick if you go get it. If that's the case, good on you.
I see no common sense reason that individuals should have any more big concern about this virus. After all, if you've been vaccinated, well, pat yourself on the back if you want, or just be glad you made that decision (possibly the right thing still for some). You shouldn't be concerned about us unvaccinated. We're not doing you any harm. We unvaxxed are obviously not that concerned. Some of us never have been.
Why, then, was the vaccine first pushed on us increasingly more vociferously by media, government, and Big Biz, and then recently been demanded of us via direct threats to our jobs, careers, freedom of travel, and, in some places, ability to live life normally? That'll be the subject of a subsequent post. The statement here will be the personal position on it for me and my family.
With a face mask on only in positions where I'd be fired otherwise or dragged out of the store, that total lack of participation in the Social Distancing, and working around people from all over the place, I am pretty sure I've been exposed to this bug. I've also hung out with people daily who tested positive, stayed home for their 10 days (back when they took this seriously) and got nothing but a spell of weakness, upset stomach for a few hours, etc. I got nuthin'
I’ve been told to stay home from work 3 separate times due to having worked closely with people with the Kung Flu. (They can’t tell you who it was due to HIPAA laws.) All 3 times I had no symptoms, and I told them I’d be glad to come in to work. Nope.
I've written a few times about my wife's participation in the PanicFest from April '20 through about early summer of that year. Yeah, like the guy in Monty Python's Holy Grail who got turned into a newt, well, she got better...** At this point, she's not quite as tired of this PanicFest as me, but she is even more anti-vax than I am, at the risk of her job.
I have already told the story of another family member whose immediate boss helped him get a religious waiver through, so that he wouldn't take the retirement package - see Just another Maskless Monday. There is one who has taken the vaccine. She is at the age where it might do some good against the virus. However, she had ill effects from one of the booster shots, getting a type of condition that she's never had before. As for the rest of us, we're not getting it, and, not only that, not a one of us has ever tested positive for Covid-19, as, like the Amish, we have seen no reason to get tested cause we don't watch TV.
Until reading more and more about the ill effects of these vaccines, I'd based my decision to avoid this thing based on:
1) No benefit I could foresee by taking it, vs. no harm in not taking it.
2) The whole idea that any government in this country should have the power to force Americans to make this important medical decision in favor of getting an experimental vaccine with KNOWN ill effects. (As commenters here have mentioned, a Swine Flu vaccine in the 1970's was completely discontinued over a 2-digit number of deaths due to it, yet these ones have caused 1000 times and maybe 10,000 times as many.)
Now, my decision to not take the Kung Flu vaccine is based on medical worries as well.
That's the situation here at Peak Stupidity headquarters. I will
* We started writing about it in January of '20, but the first 2 were China- oriented, then from late February until it was no longer a joke by April Fools Day (how Bizzaro-Worldly appropriate).
** That movie and The Life of Brian have so many scenes that crack me up to no end!
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Florida Panicker-in-Chief Daniel Uhlfelder, his Dad, and family traditions
Posted On: Friday - November 12th 2021 10:08PM MST
In Topics: Student and other Snowflakes Political Correctness Bible/Religion Kung Flu Stupidity President DeSantis
The regular Peak Stupidity reader may remember the name of the Grim Reaper above from our post They hate him for his freedoms!. "They" would be the shyster lawyer decked out above, whose human (as much as a lawyer can be) name is Daniel Uhlfelder. "Him" would be Florida anti-Panic Governor Ron DeSantis*. If you want to see extreme stupidity, an outlier that is above and beyond the smoothed out peak we expect, go watch the video made by Mr. Uhlfelder in that post. It was made to disparage Governor DeSantis, but for most of us, does quite the opposite.
Mr. E. H. Hail, on his Hail to You blog had a very detailed post on the background of this character last month, On Daniel Uhlfelder, major Corona-activist and Panic-pusher; an exploration on why some embraced the Corona-Panic to balance out his previous post with very detailed information on the background of the Governor. Fair and balanced, that's the deal.
Well, in the comments, Mr. Adam Smith embedded a video he had dug up of Dan Uhlfelder's Dad Steve that was very informative for the point of the discussion of the politics of this man as a function of his genetics and family background. Steve Uhlfelder has been a lefty activist lawyer since the 1960s, and the son has tried to fill his father's shoes.
This video is of a recent Tallahassee City Council meeting in which Steve Uhlfelder spends spends time to berate that city's Police Chief for attending a Christian Evangelical meeting on his own time. I don't want to repeat the Hail to You post and the discussion in the comments below it. I just found a few things in this video below to remark on:
(You could get away with watching only the first 03:45 to see what Mr. Uhlfelder has to stay, or watch the rest, of which I'll comment about too.)
What is it that motivates people like Steve Uhlfelder? What he does here is not for money. It's not likely to get him and attention as a promotion (such as the stunts his son pulled with the Kung Flu). Steve Uhlfelder is Jewish, from both his father and mother (Mr. Hail has lots and lots of family background). I get that the Billy Graham conference is not to HIS liking, but why does he care that much, even it had been improper for the Larry Revell, the Police Chief, to have gone to that conference. Does he fight every single instance of improper conduct in the city of Tallahassee like this?
The thing is, America has always had a Christian majority. Ya gotta know that going in (and in it was, as Steve Uhlfelder's father and his mother's parents were all immigrants). Yet, per Mr. Hail again, Steve Uhlfeld's Dad was a highly political lefty and he had an uncle who was a Canadian Communist. This stuff runs deep in the family. There seemed to be no gratitude whatsoever shown by these immigrants to Christian America for their being left alone to worship the way THEY wanted to and do business in America.
Why does one feel he has to continually work at destroying the Christian roots, maybe all the roots, of his host society like this?
OK, that stuff was discussed in Mr. Hail's post and comments, to I'll add my thoughts on the City Commission meeting in the video. Though the subject, for a change, was not the Kung Flu, I saw all others but Mr. Uhlfelder and Chief Revell wear face diapers throughout. That was disgusting to see, and it DOES impede communication. This is in Florida, for crying out loud. I wonder if there is any law in Tallahassee requiring masking up at these meetings.
More importantly, there is the cuckiness of everyone involved. That is, besides Steve Uhlfelder, who, being the lefty, can get all his opinions in in full. Everyone else who talked at the meeting had to cow-tow to the BLT-G** principles that Mr. Uhlfelder had brought up to show that Chief Revell was a very bad man, by association with the late Billy Graham, who read the Bible a lot. Chief Revell had to couch everything he said with support for all of the woke stuff that his detractor pushed and has pushed his whole life, in general. That's really not the best way to defend one's self against people like Steve Uhlfelder.
Steve Uhlelder is the type that will push and push, with no permanent compromise. Just his wasting the taxpayers money to have these nearly a dozen Tallahassee civil "servants" be in this meeting listening to his silly gripe shows that Mr. Uhlfelder will keep on pushing. I would think his son Daniel, Florida Panicker-in-Chief, is the same way.
This whole video was pathetic! Larry Revell is Chief of Police of a medium-sized city, but yet still a snowflake in nature (or that was his act). I would have really like to have seen just one of these officials, preferably the Police Chief or Mayor, show some guts. "Your gripe is stupid. We have better things to do with out time. Put on your face diaper and get the fuck out." People have gotta STAND UP for themselves. What you see in the video is how we lose.
* ... on whom the Peak Stupidity blog has the closest thing to a blogger-crush that this blogger can muster - see Federalism Rumble: DeSantis v Bai Dien
** Bacon Lettuce and Tomato, with Guacamole on the side, is how I remember it.
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Isn't it Time - The Babys
Posted On: Thursday - November 11th 2021 10:51PM MST
In Topics: Music
Just as our book review yesterday was apropos of nothing, it's the same with this song featured tonight. I saw it on youtube and realized I hadn't heard the great 1970s hit in years.
The band was called The Babys (yeah, spelled that way), and it was not one that I would have ever kept up with or known the names of the members and what they played. However, the name John Waite stuck out as one I remember. Not to be confused with the musician Tom Wait, John Waite had a 1984 song Missing You that was also a hit.
The Babys were a 1970s (basically) British band. Isn't it Time came out in 1977, and their other hit, Every Time I Think of You came out a year later.
Oh yeah, before you watch, please be aware that many male musicians dressed and looked like this in the 1970s. In this video John Waite looks just like like David Bowie did for a while. It's not like today, where they go to the doctor, and they want to be referred to with certain pronouns. Those musicians in the 1970s did not STAY THAT WAY!
The Babys:
John Waite - lead vocals, bass guitar
Michael Corby - keyboards, rhythm guitar
Wally Stocker - lead guitar
Tony Brock - drums
The backing vocalists, Lisa Freeman-Roberts, Myrna Matthews and Pat Henderson, are a big part of this song.
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Italian health mob sings.
Posted On: Thursday - November 11th 2021 12:11PM MST
In Topics: Humor World Political Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
"Imagine my muddah! Yo, I wanna' see some serious co-morbidities, capiche?!"
The thing about Peak Stupidity is, we don't subscribe to that whole not nice to say "I told you so!" dogma. This one is doozy of an opportunity to exercise our lack of adherence to that. From a (pretty cool from a first glance at other headlines) site called Summit News, there is an article about some interesting Italian Kung Flu news. It tells us the Italian Institute of Health Drastically Reduces Its Official COVID Death Toll Number..
They do mean "DRASTIC", let me tell ya':
The Italian Higher Institute of Health has drastically reduced the country’s official COVID death toll number by over 97 per cent after changing the definition of a fatality to someone who died from COVID rather than with COVID.Hey, not MY bolding. I didn't do it. Well, sure, this just shows us that our EXPERTS are human too. The SCIENCE? It's human too. 97% is still an A right? Oh, 97% off is not, OK.
Italian newspaper Il Tempo reports that the Institute has revised downward the number of people who have died from COVID rather than with COVID from 130,000 to under 4,000.
Of the of the 130,468 deaths registered as official COVID deaths since the start of the pandemic, only 3,783 are directly attributable to the virus alone.We panic deniers are still not outta the
“All the other Italians who lost their lives had from between one and five pre-existing diseases. Of those aged over 67 who died, 7% had more than three co-morbidities, and 18% at least two,” writes Young.
Despite the change, Italy may yet take the decision to make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory, although how such a scheme would be imposed remains unspecified.Oh! Thinka my muddah! Looks like we're still gonna need a wartime consigliere. String along that Peak Stupidity guy for a while, Christopher. You give him a nice calzone, some of Carmela's pasta, and gallon bottle of Lambrusco once in a while, eh? He likes that shrink too, occasionally, what's her name, Jennifer. Next time a bunch of face diapers fall offa da truck somewheres in Hoboken, give Peak Stupidity summa that action. Dis ain't over!
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Norco '80 - Book Review
Posted On: Wednesday - November 10th 2021 8:48PM MST
In Topics: California Books Legal Stupidity Guns
Yet again, I got a (perhaps inadvertent) recommendation for a book from the Unz Review. This one may have even been from the words of Steve Sailer himself, rather than a commenter, since he is a long-term resident of the City of Angels, the area in which the true story in Peter Houlahan's book Norco '80 takes place.
Norco is the name of the town - in the LA basin many hundreds of these towns are separated only via lines on the map - in which the robbery of the Security Pacific Bank branch took place on May 9th of 1980. It's not the robbery itself, but the big stationary and then rolling shootout for a big part of the day on a big stretch of the eastern basin, right up into the mountains, that is the story. Regarding "Norco", that is a strange name for a town. Additionally, though I have been around that area and known the names of hundreds of them, I'd never heard of Norco till reading this book. It's on the north side of Riverside County, which abuts the east side of Orange Country, and includes the other 90% of the way across California to the Colorado River.*
Speaking of this LA basic geography, one first gripe about this book is that there are no decent maps in it. Besides just showing the general location of the event there was the long the car chase, and one had to either look elsewhere or imagine where all these places are. There is just one line drawing of the bank area made by a sheriff's deputy at the beginning of the 8 page section of B&W pictures. The pictures section is nice though.
Just to go back to the beginning, well, the very beginning is the inside of the book jacket, with a bit of exaggerated hype, written by I don't know who. After Peak Stupidity's having extolled mid-20th-century California as being the best time/place to have ever lived (for the average guy), the book jacket, the Author's Note, and the Prologue, 1973 Orange Country, California, make the place and time seem like an apocalyptic nightmare. Sure, by the late 1970s, inflation was high and Disco was King, but, man, this is what the jacket says:
... Norco '80 transports the reader back to the Southern California of the 1970's, an era of predatory evangelical gurus, doomsday predictions, megachurches, and soaring crime rates, with the threat of nuclear obliteration looming over it all.Man, whatever this guy is smoking, it's a whole lot stronger than anything they had in the 1970s! The nuclear threat was much bigger in the 1950s and '60s, megachurches are really a 1990s+ thing, and I'd guess 90% of Southern Californians lived a nice middle-class life in which no family member was any real part of any of that.
I guess this was the stage the Mr. Houlahan wanted to set, as the bank robbers themselves WERE into the evangelical, End Times/Revelation-based thoughts, were preppers of their day, and planned the bank robbery to get to a bug-out location away from Southern California. They had Utah in mind. (Even so, they had dug a pretty good bunker for themselves in the back yard of their Mira Linda house.)
Southern Californians George Smith (the leader), the Harven brothers, Chris and Russell, and the Mexican Delgado brothers, Billy and Manny, were the bank robbers. It does sound a lot like the old-timey desperados, as if off an old Eagles album, not so old at the time. The latter set of brothers, Billy and Manny Delgado were both killed by the next morning, Billy at the scene in the getaway van and Manny much later on in that long, day actually the next morning, up in the mountains.**
OK, no more details, or I'll be at this all night. Once the stage was set (and the sun was sinking low down...) by the chapters about the background of these desperados, we read about the huge amounts of armaments, including homemade grenades and such, that the group purchased (made, for the grenades) with their remaining money. The plans they made were not bad for young men of that age. One thing the reader should keep in mind about both the robbery and the later events is that that video cameras were not just something one had to worry about back in 1980. (There were still cameras at the bank, of course.) That really makes the thinking different, and it's all be much harder today, if one wanted to actually get away clean.
40% of the book then covers the robbery and subsequent chase. However, 80% of that is the long chase scene. There were so many cop jurisdictions and different vehicles involved, it gets hard to follow them all. They all were chasing a yellow utility-style pickup truck that the robbers had commandeered, and this went on for many hours.
The big thing that distinguished this Norco robbery from others is the amount of firepower that these guys had. No matter what the cops did, and even a few innocent bi-drivers did, these guys would shoot back with semi-auto fire from a selection of weapons. They weren't going to run out of ammo anytime soon either. If you like chase scenes and shooting, you're gonna like this part. This section is one big long chase scene and much better than that boring one in The French Connection.
The remainder of the book, 50% or so, is about the aftermath, which was a drawn out trial of the 3 remaining bank robbers, George Smith and the Harven brothers, each tried separately. I am not a follower of this sort of thing, but it is interesting enough to round out the book nicely, if possibly making it 50 or 100 pages too long.
One of the big points in the book, and I believe this is what brought the book up in the thread in which I learned of it, is the change in law enforcement weapons practices after the Norco robbery and chase. The cops were very much out-gunned that day. I don't like the US Police State, as the modern cops are very much a part of. I do see that this robbery may have accelerated the trend toward the heavily armed, vested, and un-human-like police of our time, in addition to the other causes, such as the donation of military equipment to lots of police forces in America.
One cop, Riverside Sheriff's Deputy Jim Evans, was killed up in the last shootout up in the San Bernardino Mountains. By all accounts in this book he was a decent man a husband and father of an infant at the time. However, this book makes that killing out to be a far bigger thing than anything else that happened during the whole wild event. I understand a murder is the top charge that could have been used against the 3 remaining violent robbers/kidnappers, but I don't like how a cop killing is seen as some kind of above-and-beyond crime.
I'll add a few things about the readability of the book to wrap this up: Again, as in Our Lady of the Forest, the author's lack of quote marks around most the words of the participants was annoying. However, Mr. Houlahan at least explained his purpose in his Epilogue. He only quoted the exact words/phrases uttered by the people involved from his research into the case after the fact. For those he was paraphrasing, or sometimes (he had to be) just making them up for the story, he didn't use quotes. Fair enough, though a word about this in the beginning would have been nice.
Next, though the author wrote that he had to learn about weaponry to write Norco '80, it doesn't read as if he really knows very much about guns. It may be just a typo, but on page 103, he gives energy from an HK91 .308 round at the target as "2,200 pounds". No, that'd be foot-pounds. Another numerical mistake (p. 123) is when he wrote about Bill Crowe of the CA Highway Patrol hauling ass down Bellegrave Avenue, he notes that he covered a half mile in "less than a minute". OK, well, Mr. Houlahan, that's 30 mph, not exactly breakneck speed by anybody's measure!
Besides one "BCE" that I had to correct (it's not a history book, so it's only this one instance, on p. 228 in a discussion of PTSD), I didn't find any other readability annoyances.
If you like true story action books, guns, trial stories, and Southern California, or maybe 2 out of the 4, I recommend Norco '80..
PS: I know, I know, what in Sam Hill does a 1980 bank robbery have to do with the Kung Flu PanicFest, the worries about a mandatory experimental vaccine, the Orwellian, Totalitarian stuff that is coming with it, and the increasing price of tea in China? Nothing, readers, but that's not how Peak Stupidity works. I read a book, and, if there's anything good to say (or I wouldn't have finished it), I figure that's a post.
* It's south of the much bigger San Bernardino County, which covers the east-west mountain range of that name, and north of San Diego and Imperial Counties, going west to east.
** The book says that Manny, wounded up in the mountains, shot himself. I wonder about that one.
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Social Distancing, Chinese Style
Posted On: Tuesday - November 9th 2021 8:31PM MST
In Topics: China Kung Flu Stupidity
(Maybe this was before the Flu Manchu, maybe not.)
As I wrote to Mr. Hail in the comments, as he and others too* might already know, you can't believe everything you read about China. That especially goes for their response to the Flu Manchu. Supposedly "they did it right", with their police having locked people up in the apartment buildings for weeks, and then the contact tracing, just another brick in the Orwellian wall. "Oh, oh, how can you have any mooncakes if you don't bind your feet!"**
I'd seen Japanese people, mostly the women, wearing face masks coming off of the widebody airplanes into the airport terminal back during the '09 Swine Flu or whatever that one was, maybe with some Chinese people mixed in. (Only 12 years ago, but the Chinese people still didn't have the amounts of money for travel then that they have now.) That was weird enough, back in that era of relative sanity, as I figured "at least we aren't so cowardly and silly."
I'd also seen lots of people with face masks on outside, years before this Flu Manchu thing, but they were being worn to filter out smog particles, not viral particles. I don't know how big the masking thing is there now, as I haven't been there since well before the PanicFest started, then the Chinese have their own, possibly more normal-style, vaccine, but what about the Social Distancing stupidity over there? I simply don't see that it can be implemented at all in that country.
A really significant thing that I noticed about China over the many times I was there is that, not only do the Chinese live very close together, but they LIKE living close together. Many times they don't have a choice. However, even in the rural areas, instead of houses on an acre or two, spread apart, they have their pieces of land, but live close together in villages of a few hundred. The city areas are just teeming with people, respectful as they are, too.*** (When I say respectful, I don't include the spitting on the sidewalks. See Show me a nation that can enforce a social distance of 6 ft. ...****.) Mainland China is bad enough, but Hong Kong is ridiculous. You truly have to move along like ants in a line, headed to that goldfish cracker that the kid dropped yesterday right alongside the ants going the other way with one piece at a time, and it didn't cost me a dime ..."
I was in Macau, what the Chinese call Àomén, on the way to the mainland of China by city bus. It was not so easy to maneuver on it due to my having a piece of roll-aboard luggage with me. Well, I found a decent spot, but people kept on squeezing into me. I couldn't move much, even to turn around. The problem was just that I needed to see a little bit to make sure I got off at the right place. "OK, that's got to be all the Chinamen that can fit on this bus" I kept thinking, but, nope, the driver kept making the stops. 5 here, 2 there, getting on, with nobody headed out the front door. (At least nobody was getting pushed in through the windows as in the picture up top.) "How can this go on?!" I was wondering, after a few more stops in which people kept getting on. When I got off the bus is when I finally noticed that people were getting out via the back door. I wasn't able to turn around to see that during the ride.
Yeah, it's crowded over there. The best bet for China with this virus is for it to get around a bit and for the people to build up immunity. Maybe their vaccine is more conventional and not so deadly. We wouldn't know if it isn't. They have not just plain 'beat it", with all the locked-up apartment buildings and now health-scoring phone apps. One thing China is surely no good at is social distancing. Can the Chinese possibly implement the 6 feet apart rule with floor stickers and that? Nah. Fugetaboutit!
* In fact, if Mr. Ganderson would like to chime in sometime about the reports from China from his son there, I'd appreciate it.
** Our interpretation of that line in the Floyd song is discussed here.
*** I'd say that they are. I mean, were the diverse people of NY City this close together, it would be complete mayhem. Even in a White NY City, such as of the 1950s or earlier, well, I guess this has never been tested, as it never has been as crowded as cities in China except in certain parts - the Chinatowns!
**** "... and I'll show you a man who can hawk a loogie 7 feet."
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Will Gruesome Newsome come out?
Posted On: Tuesday - November 9th 2021 10:36AM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity California Healthcare Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
(Some say his saline solution was contaminated with a vaccine of some sort by mistake.)
I know the hard-left Totalitarian of California has been called Gruesome Newsome before, but this appellation may be more fitting now, per rumors that the Governor has gotten some type of syndrome from his booster shot of Kung Flu vaccine. (I read somewhere yesterday that he was mixing and matching types too, but I can't find that right now.) It's kind of fitting that he got this 4 days before Halloween, as he may have become a real Gruesome Newsome after the shot.
Politicians don't normally stay out of the public view for long. (That is, unless they are allied with the Lyin' Press in an election against Donald Trump and just don't want to say something stupid on the record for a couple of months.) Not only that, but this guy had Climate Summit to get to! Why miss out on the opportunity to burn 25 tons of Jet-A* and signal your virtue, governing 40 million Californians into the ground to SAVE! THE! PLANET!.
A writer named Steve Kirsch on the Substack site speculates Gavin Newsom is out of sight likely because he had Bell's palsy from his booster shot. He thinks it's more likely Bell's Palsy that Newsome contracted rather than Guillain-Barre syndrome, but thinks it's one of the two.**
It’s been rumored that Gavin Newsom is out of sight since getting his booster on Oct 27 because he developed Bell’s palsy (or a closely related, but more serious condition of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS)). This can happen within hours after getting his booster so this make perfect sense. This explains why nobody has seen him in public since he got the shot; anyone who saw him would instantly know.I don't know, but the more I read, the more I am not only against taking this vaccine for political reasons, as per Ron Paul, in this (another) great post of his. One possibly-duly-elected guy who is Administrator of the Executive Branch of the US Feral Gov't, just plain does not have the power to mandate the taking of any medicine, much less an experimental vaccine. Now, I'd be pretty worried health-wise now too.
Now, November 9, almost two weeks later, he is scheduled to do a livestream 11:45 am on at the California Economic Summit per this article. By then he could look totally normal as I will explain below.
A source close to Gavin Newsom told The Defender the governor experienced an adverse reaction to the Moderna COVID vaccine he received Oct. 27.
I’m guessing it is Bell’s palsy for three reasons:
1. it’s far more common side effect than GBS (by a factor of almost 5)
2. it’s common after Moderna (which is what he got),
3. it resolves relatively quickly compared to GBS (within days or weeks) so it would enable him to “fully recover” in 2 weeks and do the event today.
From Mr. Kirsch's article:
Peak Stupidity has not written much about the vaccine in all our coverage of the Kung Flu stupidity. We will be forthcoming with more posts about this important subject.
Back to Gruesome Newsome, before he's even come out into the sunshine, this guy is STILL coming out pushing for 5 to 11 y/o Californians to be inoculated with this crap. Is that stupid or evil or both?
* I estimated that fuel burn for 20 hrs. round-trip - San Fran, CA to Glasgow, Scotland - in a large-sized Biz Jet that burns, say, 3,000 lb/hr of fuel in cruise and just rounded conservatively (we want to conserve, you know, for THE PLANET) down to a nice round number.
** The article has an embedded string of text messages between Mr. Kirsch and some doctor friend. I'm not knocking the information, but, man, that's probably even worse than tweets! The text messages are in the bubbles with the typos and all. Why not just summarize it like, oh, I don't know, a WRITER, would do?
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Hotel Elevator Social Distancing Fail
Posted On: Monday - November 8th 2021 8:27PM MST
In Topics: Humor Kung Flu Stupidity
Peak Stupidity has written more than our share about the face masking stupidity aspect of the Kung Flu PanicFest. It's not that we think that is the worst aspect of it all, but it sure does show the cowardice and compliance of most Americans. As a commenter on the Unz Review wrote me in the comments, if Americans won't rebel against this form of coercion, will they ever rebel against the more serious things such as the holding of the January 6th political prisoners in Washington or the siccing of the FBI on school kid's parents who dare to speak up at school board meetings based on accusations of terrorism?
The masking is an indignity put on people, and as I wrote in the recent post Accessorize, accessorize, accessorize!, I highly doubt there are many Americans left who really think the masks are doing a bit of good. Yet people don them still...
To change it up a tad, we'll switch to another indignity pushed upon us based on this ridiculous PanicFest. That is the Social Distancing stupidity. It's been since August of '20 since we've discussed social distancing in elevators, a niche topic, to be sure. That post was Scenes from the Kung Flu Summer re-Panic - Part 10.
A few days ago, I got on an elevator in a hotel that was already nearly full with a family of 6 when it arrived at my floor. There is some kind of exception to the highly ignored social distancing rules on the signs for families. Well, nobody was concerned. None of us had face masks on, including a hotel employee that got on at yet another floor. We were packed like sardines. Is 1 ft. the new 6 ft? Boy, I hope so. It was so pleasant to be around a crowd that all realized "enough stupidity is enough!"
Right before we got to the lobby I said "OK, let's all stay on our stickers now." Without face masks on, I could really tell that they liked that one! I looked after everybody left - the stickers were gone.
Here's an old scene from Seinfeld featuring an office elevator. It's Elaine and a Finnish writer, Elaine being the editor of the other's book, at least at the beginning of the scene...
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Alec Baldwin as a bumper sticker
Posted On: Saturday - November 6th 2021 8:51PM MST
In Topics: Humor Bread and Circuses Guns
We will end this week of deeply serious posts regarding our domestic enemies wanting us dead, their further implementing population replacement along with purposeful bankrupting of the nation, and their working to put down all resistance via violence and lawfare on a lighter note. I thank commenter Adam Smith for this image that he'd placed in one of The Unz Review comment threads.
I've heard about this accidental shooting on a movie set only via Steve Sailer and his commenters. My comment there was to the effect that it wouldn't bother me any if all these Hollywood people do stupid things to eliminate themselves. They don't mean much to me and don't contribute to the well-being of this nation. Who cares?
We'll discuss that video of the political Dad of the State of Florida's Chief of Kung Flu Panic, Mr. Daniel Uhlfelder, next week, have a book review or maybe two, some more media stupidity out of yahoo, and plenty more. Thank you all for reading and some for commenting!
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