Better Hooverville than Hooverstan
Posted On: Monday - December 8th 2025 9:35PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Race/Genetics
Hoover, Alabama is not a real town. One might imagine that it would have been some sleepy Southern town with its own Andy and Barney back in the day, but really it was formed from a suburban area on the south side of Birmingham due to ... you guessed it (if you're a regular Peak Stupidity reader).
Birmingham played a prominent role in the instigated race rioting and destruction and the violent attempt at pushback by White Alabamans 60 years back. White people, and really anyone in favor of Freedom of Association, a limited Federal Gov't and all that, lost. As in hundreds of other cities in America, White people fled the new inner city dysfunction. This "town", really just a big suburb, had it pretty good as late as the year 2000, with over 85% White and under 7% Black. By '20, the numbers were 68% and 17%. "They're baaaaaacccck!"
If race relations can be somehow contained, something Alabamans have been dealing with much longer than much of the country, I guess someone somewhere figured they'll make life a little worse for the Alabamans of Hoover, cause, why not, right? The front of the immigration invasion involving Moslems is not the biggest, but it's significant. Cultural Destruction can ruin your town at the pounding of a judge's gavel.
Let me go back to a very old Peak Stupidity post, Nice Church ladies destroy Lewiston, Maine, in which I attempted to describe how and why townspeople will not readily stand up against these efforts to initially infiltrate, and later flood their towns with foreigners:
The poor bastards who’ve got to live with the huge change to their quality of life and culture for now on (with always a downward trend), know right away it's gonna be a bad thing, and may go to those initial town hallAs compared to what keeps happening this looks like very good news:meetings"conversations":
“We’re just bringing in downtrodden families, plus maybe a couple of poor teenagers, from Somalia. I hope there are no racist xenophobes here. If so, it’s only 15 asylum-seekers to our town of 30 thousand – how can you be so mean and nasty to object?!” Well, nobody objects. Nobody in town wants to have everyone else there look at him like that nasty foul-mouthed bad guy that isn’t compassionate enough to provide a “room at the inn”.*
At the next asylum-seeker meeting for another 20 asylum-seekers, its just the same, except you won’t even find 1/2 the people there from town to show up to object, as they can imagine how embarrassing it would be. This goes on for years, and people have kids. People find it easier to move to a different town than to say anything. You’d think that’d be silly… but no, it's pretty much all that's left to do.
This tweet (screenshot here) came from The Gateway Pundit, but I am LOATH to link to its Gateway Hispanic posts*. You can watch or read here about the plans to move Moslem school and community center from nearby Homewood to Hoover.
Hoover citizens fought back at a City Council meeting. The video is uplifting - just hear the elation and relief in the voices of those clapping after the ruling.**
It's a small thing, and after all, these particular foreigners have already been in America, Alabama, and even the same (Jefferson) county. The important question is are people finally standing up?
Uhhhh, it's not quite that great. The reader may recall a few posts we wrote about an attempt, successful too, BTW, to let apartments be built against the zoning codes, and the worry that caused nearby residents. I.e, who exactly would be living right near them? See It's a Beautiful Day in the Leafy Neighborhood and It's another beautiful day in the leafy neighborhood ....
The worries were really about a lot more residents being concentrated nearby and, the locals in the Zoom meeting*** wouldn't say it, but who they might be. However, the complaints were all about "the traffic". Sure, the traffic was something of a factor with all the kids nearby, but no...
In the case of this proposed Islamic school in Hoover, there was another vague explanation about "the guidance for that sector", some "tech village", and the "comprehensive plan", generally a bunch of BS, but "the traffic" was brought up too:
The Islamic Academy of Alabama was met with opposition at Hoover's Planning and Zoning meeting. Residents spoke on traffic issues, sticking to the comprehensive plan, and other reasons why they are against it moving to the city.The site, with the currently empty 100,000 ft2 building, is in Meadowbrook and described as off of US-280 and US-119:
I didn't capture it but the limited access road that curves around at the north is the 280.
Nah. We're talking 265 students. This is not about the traffic - it's about the Moslems! As far as I've seen on this, nobody will or nobody can say that his opposition to the school is about the Moslems. I'd really hoped that Trump's boldness over the years, and his most recent talk about the garbage Somalians especially would have emboldened regular Americans to just, well, tell the freaking truth.
There's nothing wrong with wanting your home to stay populated with your own people. There's nothing wrong to say you don't want mass influxes of strange foreigners to your town!
This is just as on the race issue, for which White Americans have danced around the truth for half a century. They feel the need to do the same regarding the Population Replacement Programme on a local level so as not to be those BAD, BAD, xenophobic, people, the type who wouldn't have let
After a little initial elation, for me this story turned disappointing. Objections claiming "the traffic!" is the problem may have** worked this time. If you use the bogus arguments (very much like "Vetting!") however, you lose the big fight, as it'll be hard for anyone to get by with an objection later when the site for a mass influx of foreigners does not present any realistic traffic problem. Maybe the "newcomers" have all been vetted too, thoroughly, I tell you, by the Defense Investigative Service. Who cares? Just say no!
I suggest people follow the lead of the President of the United States with their wording - how about some truth? I get it, though, The President has a big security detail, but you could be called names. True, you might get fired from your job too, etc, etc... but, NOT if the townspeople of the next Hoover, Alabama ALL together tell their City Council members that "We are against this plan because we want this place to remain America!
* I felt the need to read, and all but some links on the page are in English. I sent to reader to a TV station site - sorry 'bout that!
** It's only an initial ruling to "not recommend" the use of the building for that school. It's not over.
*** This was during the Deep Dark Days of the Kung Flu PanicFest.
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Hair - a touchy subject these days
Posted On: Saturday - December 6th 2025 1:30PM MST
In Topics: Music Pundits Race/Genetics
As an acolyte, one might call me, of Conservative alt-right(?) pundit extraordinaire Steve Sailer, a good many of our posts still start with his ideas. The subject of black women's hair, World War Hair by his running theme, is something Mr. Sailer holds dear. It's one of his subjects we'll discuss today.
I'm sure Mr. Sailer doesn't really care about the specific twists and curls of this non-touchy subject - Don't you dare! - of the hair itself, but it's the whole Regime Media treatment of it, pun not intended but greatly welcomed!, that he's written much about. He reads the New York Times, see... so we don't have to. This sounds like a ridiculously niche topic for him, less interesting than even golf course architecture to "some" of us. We don't complain - Peak Stupidity, after all, has presented more than a handful of posts about exercise machine console energy and power calculations - I! GET! IT! - NOBODY CARES!
There's more to what Mr. Sailer writes about however, on this subject, than just the hair styles. He notices that the media promotes this subject that nobody but the subjects themselves care about, in order to explain the bigger picture.
I'm not sure if every reader here would get the slight facetiousness in our recent post Jet Bridge Carol. The poster, shown again here, is revisionist, in that the woman's hairstyle hearkens to 1970's Bob Newhart Show's Carol the receptionist. However, if anyone is appropriating anyone else's "bit", it'd be White Carol having the Afro that most Afro-Americans* had. Actress Marcia Wallace could have had hair that was best worn that way. I don't know, I don't care. She was the smart-assed funny receptionist, is all.
I have no idea how many machines and different gels it takes to look like this, but it's a pretty nice look.
I really have not paid attention to black women's hair my whole life. There was one cutie from the Islands, possibly significantly White, who I liked. She had fairly straight, flowing hair, but the situation didn't get close to my having a reason to touch it, much less care how she took care of it. Not my job. As I read a few of Steve Sailer's and commenters' discussions of the matter, I realized that I hadn't even known what a weave is, what these woman do with their hair, and how much trouble and expense is involved. I mean, I'd seen thousands of these hairstyles, but I had no reason to care what was going on there. We men look at other parts first, and if they don't do it, the rest is just a blur.
Mr. Sailer's big point is that it's either a WHOLE LOT of trouble and expense or plain impossible for black women to make their hair like, say, this:
Unless they are nearly White, black women can never make their hair look like Marsha Brady did. I am partial to straight hair on women but also greatly appreciate the Farrah Faucetts, Christy Brinklies and the like, to go back to the same era, as White women can do all sorts of beautiful things with it.
Actually, she had much longer nicer hair other times, but this picture stood out for some reason.
If you can tell she's cute even with that Kung-Flu mask on, she's PRETTY, indeed.
I'm not really partial to blondes either, if that makes a difference to any sensitive black women readers, though somehow all examples here are blondes. (They not only have more fun, but they get in more PS file photos.). Whether it's straight, parted in the middle, flowing with curls that do take some effort too, black women are obviously jealous of how much men like this hair. Black women just can't DO THIS with their hair. It also doesn't help when you have a women-of-Wal-Mart body style either.
That's the big point. Mr. Sailer does not rant against the scourge of Feminism as we do here for a damn good reason. However, he understands the ill effects of women in positions, such as "journalism", in which their mode of "thinking", if one could call it that, does not work for us in a well-run society. His Sailer's Law of Female Journalism is a classic:
The most heartfelt articles by female journalists tend to be demands that social values be overturned in order that, Come the Revolution, the journalist herself will be considered hotter-looking.Yes, it's funny cause it's true. Jealousy for men's attention and lust is very important, and you can't fool Mother Nature ... with the compound silicone providing somewhat of an exception. So, black women have it tough - there's no getting around that.
I've meant to write this post for nearly a month, so in the meantime, not only did I run into this ZeroHedge article - Pennsylvania Governor Signs Law Banning "Hair Discrimination", but Mr. Sailer published another "World War Hair" article on his substack site (unfortunately paywalled) - . I oughta briefly discuss them both.
The CROWN Act! Ha, I say we require hats be worn by men at all time, except during sleep time. Some of us men might appreciate that. Or forget hair styles completely, like in the Iron-Rice-Bowl-Hair world of Mao's China. As for women, ZH excerpts Governor Shapiro, working with bill sponsor U.S. Rep. La'Tasha D. Mayes who exclaims in bold:
"Real freedom means being respected for who you are - no matter what you look like, where you come from, who you love, or who you pray to...For too long, many Pennsylvanians have faced discrimination simply for hairstyles that reflect their identity and culture - that ends today..."Yes, it surely will end once the law is passed. Now, I can't see the powerpoint - down in front!
This La'Tasha is a woman. Have you ever noticed that they don't always say what they mean. You think it's this one thing you did wrong, but a month later, you find out that was not what she was mad about at all!
“This is going to help people by making sure that, wherever you work, or wherever you're applying for a job, they can't look at your hair and size you up - not based on your qualifications and all of the professional development you have and all of your education,” said PA House Speaker Joanna McClinton. “They will not look at your hair and decide you can't work here. They will not look at your hair and decide you don't belong in this C-suite. They will not look at your hair and say, ‘you can't be in the boardroom.’”No, it's not about the workplace and professional development, La'Tundra. You want more men to look at you, and if it takes a law to (somehow) make that happen, so let it be written, so let it be done! THIS! MARSHA! BRADY! JENNIFER! ANNISTON! CUTE! FLU-MANCHU! GIRL! SHIT! ENDS! NOW!
"Hair discrimination has taken confidence from our children, but that ends today," Mayes said. "Hair discrimination has taken dignity from workers, but that ends today. It has taken access to economic opportunities, hopes and dreams, but that begins to end today."
Mr. Sailer got back to this niche but illustrative subject of his after reading yet another New York Times article. He wrote Michelle Obama Declares World War Hair, subtitled Are white people really to blame for why Michelle gets her hair straightened? What I could read from that post were well under a thousand words, but they say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here:
That's not to say it wouldn't be an interesting thought-election, Big Mike v Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
What can you say to them? We're sorry, but you can't compete with White girls when it comes to hair? It's the truth, as much as they try. Would it not be better if they went back to the more natural easier-to-maintain "Afro" or something such as Jet Bridge Carol's style? I don't find short hair of any kind less pretty than the crazy braided-up weave get-ups either.
Men of other races too surely like the beautiful hair of the Marsha/Jennifer/File-photo-chick types too. Can black men settle for the natural black women, so women will generally be happier? Would one need to ask these question were it 1955 outside?
Well, here's an extreme example:
She seems to like it. We don't go to the movies much anymore, so what's the problem?
Just for the record, though one may bitch about things that can't be changed, it's not like some White hair styles don't require a lot of time and money too. I was witness to a 4 hour long hair highlighting operation one day. If the girl doing it wasn't her sister, that would have cost a pretty penny. (I don't even like that highlighting bit...)
Here's the deal: Pundit Steve Sailer's discussion about black women's hair troubles is not so much out of concern for these poor, jealous ladies, although he's more concerned than I am. He's been relating the big picture, which is that women's personal problems have become causes for political change. That's not the way you run a society.
That wasn't the deal back in the days of America, the band too, I mean. Sister Golden Hair, from the Hearts album, is from right at half-century ago America, and America.
America were:
Gerry Beckley – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, guitars, bass, harmonica.
Dewey Bunnell – lead and backing vocals, guitars, percussion,
Dan Peek – lead and backing vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, harmonica.
... near the end of this song's long ending, I still hear "... and, we've got a winner!" This song was on for me one of the first times I ever heard pop music on the radio. The DJ talked over the ending, explaining that there had been a number 10 dialer, who won a record or something.
PS: Now, this was just uncanny! Just a day before writing this post, as I'd picked out the big-Afro picture already, I ended up on an escalator behind a woman with hair right about that size, bigger than I'd ever seen in real life before. I was about 1 foot behind her. This is the weird part - contrary to all Steve Sailer/commenters/MY writing before, I DID want to touch it! I couldn't tell, but wanted to know, how much of it was part of her Eskimo-style coat and how much was hair. Far out, man!
* Look, that was just their preferred term at the time - I don't pick them!
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Breaking roofing news
Posted On: Friday - December 5th 2025 10:01PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump
There's been so much good news on the immigration invasion counterattack lately, but no, why would I be tired of it? That "tired of winning" line from Trump never made a lick of sense. What I do get tired of is seeing hopeful moves on this existential problem go nowhere. Trump is not very good at following up on what comes out of his mouth. (Sometimes that's a good thing, though!)
We'll see about the actual deportations based on the latest great news about the ending of the "Temporary" Protected Status of many hundreds of thousands of first Haitians, now Somalians. Next, Trump's told us of the banning of importation of people from so far 19 countries. It's not George Carlin's exact list of words you
Afghanistan, Burma, The Congo, Equatorial (NOT Polar) Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela*That's 5 continents with shitholes in them. I think I kinda got that out of 6th and 8th grade Geography.
We all want to see action, but this talk is heartening at least. What is more heartening is real and personal reporting from a friend of changes due to the Trump Administration's work against the PRP. Operation Charlotte's Web was a big story a couple of weeks ago, you can probably recall. We've got some related news.
There's a big house this friend is involved with, not a McMansion but an actual mansion by my estimation, in the Charlotte area, that needed a new roof due to hail damage. It's a BIG roof, as the place is more rambling than the kind of mansion we usually picture. The cost is upwards of $90,000! Yes, that's the price of a small house 20-30 years ago, and yes, it's too much. However, as my friend discussed, the insurance company is willing to pay that. That this amount is about the same as the total of all his premiums he's paid over the years really makes us both wonder. He says the price is nuts, but if the house sells, that's just a selling point - "It's got a new $90-something thousand dollar roof!"
The big news he told me is simply this: This roofing project has been delayed due to the effect of Operation Charlotte's Web. In other words, the illegal aliens that would be doing it don't feel so comfortable coming out of the shadows and into the sun right now. Will that remain the case? Will the roofing company worry about who its Spanish-speaking workers actually are, or they just laying low until the ICE storm has passed? Would the company even think about hiring Americans, with that increased labor cost... that doesn't mean a hill of beans as compared to the money they will make on this roof?
The deal is, if every roofing company really had to hire Americans, they would still be competitive and make lots of money. As it is today, if you're the one patriotically hiring actual Americans at a higher rate, you'll lose the bids. Any difference you might charge for based on better quality (if there IS any) will not be known about until that 30 year roof starts leaking 5 or 10 years later. By then, nobody is held accountable.
Now, as usual, I need to limit the length of these posts. Just pondering some of the economics of the roofing business had me thinking of 3 more posts. One of them will be based on the "Con" below, another will be about the breakdown of the costs of, and profit taken, from this big roof project, with simple calculations done in various ways to check "Does It Make Sense?", and another will be about a different type of illegal alien labor.
A bigger question than those about this one big roof, would be, is it wise to have the ICE agents detain illegal aliens very publicly as in the Charlotte's Web operation? It surely helped in this case, as it's not likely the couple of hundred illegal aliens detained, of many 10's of thousands (maybe 100's) in the region, just happened to be part of this particular roofing crew! That's one of the pro's of doing these public displays, whether intended to be public or not. Peak Stupidity has discussed before the ratio of self-deportees vs forced-ones back 71 years ago during President Eisenhower's Operation Wetback. Over the 4 southern border States, it varied from 6.25:1 to 9.75:1. I can imagine it going even higher in the current media environment. By all means, Regime Media, bring us some big sob stories!
The big con (as in pros & cons) of the public method is that opposing forces, the ctrl-left judges and others still in control of the Institutions, will have big targets. Instead, imagine continuing a quiet, steady program of a few dozen, maybe a hundred, illegals taken in to custody in each of a hundred large or medium sized cities daily. The numbers will add up, yet how many judges in how many jurisdictions has the ctrl-left got? How big a story can you make to promote your newsroom when the same thing is happening in a hundred other places? There are a lot of Home Depot parking lots, and there are a lot of Chinese Buffet restaurants**!
The one personal anecdote shows evidence of Deportation Nation having at least SOME effect on the labor market.
* Only 40 years ago, this was the crown jewel of Latin America. It really is a shame.
** Yes, them too. I did some quick math in my head on whether these big buffet places could still exist and how it would work out were these ladies out of Fujian (mostly) arrested. Another thing about the Chinese - Indians too - is that THAT news would travel fast. Imagine having to go home across all that distance! Send a few of them home, and they will surely stop coming.
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Power texting
Posted On: Thursday - December 4th 2025 2:04PM MST
In Topics: Artificial Stupidity Big-Biz Stupidity
I decided not to even add the Curmudgeonry tag to this post. I don't think you have to be "plain sick of all this newfangled stuff" to be miffed, if not upset, by incompetence. This is not ordinary people incompetence but incompetence of the Artificial Stupidity we are forced to deal with daily. Other than the people who set it up to begin with, with this kind often no actual humans must be involved.
It started off with some minor human incompetence. Our electric power was acting very wacky, and eventually I determined, by looking in the right place finally(!) that this was due to the ground/neutral wire of our standard 2-phase power being on the ground.* (It is also the structural support for the 2 insulated hot wires, so it's pretty important in that way too.)
Well, though we could have used more of our appliances working, especially the HVAC unit, this was no emergency. The lady on the phone at (I think) the power company treated it as such. OK, well, better yet, a guy would come that evening. I explained to her that we knew what the problem was, that neutral wire. She listened supportingly and said "You'll get a text message..."
Oh, I got text messages all right. First, I was texted that "Hey, we (at the power company) see you have good voltage on your lines. Perhaps you should check your circuit breaker box.", to paraphrase.
I went back to the phones. "I told the lady that the neutral line is off the house. That's the problem. I guess your fancy system can't tell that." Well, we talked for a bit, he got it, and we both agreed that "no, that lady you talked to knows nothing about electricity." Sure, except I did ask her to enter that note... "OK, when will you be here?" "No, I'm not in a truck - I'm the guy that sends the trucks out." It was all perfectly pleasant. "He'll text you when he's on the way."
Next text, again to paraphrase: "It looks like you have good voltage on your lines. Perhaps you should check your breaker box." This one WAS from the guy in the truck, or at least it came from a number that got him... somehow... "Yeah, didn't the guy who sent you out tell you that the neutral line is off the house?" "No, this stuff is automated." Errr, wouldn't you think the other guy could update the "ticket" in the database with this note, say for this guy driving over? Nah, it's just computers automatically doing their thing, based on their knowledge from sensors or other computers. No humans were involved, so nothing was learned by the computers... who are there to inform the humans. Perhaps the system didn't LET humans interact with it... or the humans didn't have to interface with the computers like I did.
It was dark, but the 2 guys arrived, got their ladder in place, and winched the neutral line back up and connected it.* Good power was restored. Again, it was all very pleasant. Besides an electrically-destroyed clock, power strip, and some bulbs, nothing much was harmed.
The next day I got a series of text messages from the power company. Each one informed me that a guy would be out to the house to fix the power by 5 PM.
* They'd taken it down for tree work but not connected it well enough - a guy later said they'd put too much tension on it.
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Tampon Timmy and the Somalians
Posted On: Wednesday - December 3rd 2025 6:35PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Trump China Race/Genetics
That is NOT the name of a rock band from the Twin Cities, no matter how edgy and fitting the name would be nowadays. First, see, you'd have to have rock music to have such a band name.
This guy named Walz that came a few cases of laser-printed mail-in ballots and one "blow job gone wrong" from the US Presidency has always been one weird mofo. There was his Lefty Mega-stupidity out of him already during his time as Minnesota Governor, perhaps culminating in his obtaining the moniker "Tampon Tim" due to his push for tampon machines in school boys' bathrooms. Additionally, something Peak Stupidity has not mentioned more than once, IIRC, is that the guy has a LOT of connections to China. I've been either 11 or a dozen times myself, but not for same reasons as Tampon Tim had for his 30 trips there and support from Chinese sources.* We may get into that again.
Mass groups of foreigners like Afghans and Somalians, most especially your Moslem crowd, will generally ally with the ctrl-left, as the ctrl-left pushes for the destruction of traditional America, something these groups also desire. The groups will stick with the ctrl-left until the latter is no longer needed. Though Somalians abound in his State, they may wish now they'd have stayed far away from this guy Tim Walz, however. It's not often that the New York Times, yes, THAT New York Times, along with the government of Minnesooota, don'tch' know, will call out the wrongdoings of one of their very own lefties.
The problem is, as I see it, Tampon Tim and the Somalians have not just been up to the usual $10 million here, $50 million here grift, such as during the Kung Flu PanicFest. I mean, what's $100 million total or so out of $4 TRILLION in CARES Act money? It's 0.025%, is what it is. Nobody CARES. Now, with $1 Billion scammed of just the State of Minnesota's money, the word "egregious" comes to mind, even in the minds of the NYT and the lefty government of Minnesota, you betcha' it does.
This may have started as a personal thing for President Trump, the usual case, going back to those 2 West Virginia Nat'l Guardsman shot in the Federal Shithole, but that's another post. Trump is pissed. This is immigration patriot GOLD right here:
We couldn't have said this better ourselves... though we could have said it 10 or 20 years earlier! Everything Trump wrote has been common knowledge for American immigration patriots for a couple of decades. (I sure wish VDare would come back on-line with full archives.) We know the ills of the PRP are not just about the immoral grifting, and this is NOT just about the money. Minnesota can lose another Billion bucks via stupidity for all I care.
As President Trump sees one more way America and Americans are being scammed, he starts to understand what we've long known. Then, this time around, he's dug deeper into the problem and seen the whole, yes EVEN LEEGULL, immigration invasion as a scam. This is a very good thing. Peak Stupidity would like to see President Trump this pissed off for 3 more years... at least.
Trump's ending of that "Temporary" Protected Status, first for Haitians, now Somalians, is very welcomed. It's something that we'd meant to praise him (and his underling Kristie Noem) for earlier.
Do you remember seeing MAGA patriot Marjorie Taylor Greene trying to censure - it was not really ever going to happen in the UniParty-run Congress - that Congresslady from Somal... errr, Minnesota? No, OK, here ya go. It's a real shame that Trump couldn't see fit to get along with MGT. They're very much on the same page when it comes to Job #1.
PS: "Swaddling hijab", hahahaaa! Ya' gotta love this guy... sometimes.
* Full disclosure [from PS Legal Team]: Peak Stupidity's relationship with the Middle Kingdom was formed long before the CCP, going back to the Poontang Dynasty.
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Social Infertility: New frontiers in Stupidity
Posted On: Monday - December 1st 2025 9:25PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Feminism Movies Trump Liberty/Libertarianism Healthcare Stupidity Socialism/Communism Scams
Today, we're temporarily going away from current events, as we used to call the news long ago, back to our core competency, pure unadulterated Stupidity. Gotta pay the bills.
ZeroHedge discussed recently ‘Social Infertility’: Where Biomedical Profiteering Intersects Social Justice. The article was written by one Benjamin Bartee on his substack site Armageddon Prose. OK, first of all, whenever you hear about "Social" attached to ANYTHING,
It's been over a year and a half - wow! - since Peak Stupidity's last post on the the alleged Depopulocalypse. Basically, we wouldn't be too worried at all about greatly reduced fertility in the world were people to generally STAY PUT. This stupidity we've come upon just now though is not your fathers' fertility crisis. (Ha! Apostrophic typo fully intended!) Here:
“The global surrogacy* market was estimated at USD 22.4 billion in 2024. The market is expected to grow from USD 27.9 billion in 2025 to USD 201.8 billion in 2034, at a CAGR of 24.6% during the forecast period,” per Global Market Insights — nearly a ten-fold increase over less than a decade.I feel bad for couples, actual, like men & women, who are medically not able to have children due to either's (or even both's) physical problems. There's still adoption, and yes, there's surrogacy. I liked the 1990s movie Juno which delved into the subject in a poignant and humorous way. No, no, though, that's not the thing...
”*Global surrogacy” being a euphemism for economically endowed homosexuals growing children in Third World women’s wombs so as to commandeer them upon birth — ostensibly to raise them as their own, but realistically for whatever possibly depraved purposes tickle their fancy.The Libertarian side of Peak Stupidity doesn't argue against what these gay people want to do, that is, until it involves a completely innocent and ENTIRE life, that of the children of 2 Mommies or 2 Daddies, as seen in the library books. Raising children, if it can even be called that, in this un-Godly manner is not a victimless crime.
“Social infertility is a newer term used to describe situations where people want to become parents but are not biologically able due to social or relational circumstances. This includes factors like sexual orientation, relationship status, and life circumstances, which might necessitate fertility treatments. In support of this movement, in the fall of 2023, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) updated their definition of infertility to include “anyone needing medical interventions to achieve a successful pregnancy either as an individual or with a partner” (ASRM 2023).[Bolding changed from the original.] Here's the first thing, as we keep on our Libertarian hats for a bit. All of this is about insurance, hence MONEY. It's a problem for us because ... Socialism. Imagine, if you will, a free market in insurance in which I don't want to pay high premiums for this stupidity. I don't support it with my money. You do, however, Mr. Buttigieg, so sure, pay whatever premiums your company will charge to cover all these possibilities. "Oh, I don't like either of the deals", you tell me? Start your own insurance company. With Big Government involved, the only way you can change the plan, that is, THE PLAN, for everyone, is to vote for someone who will ..., hahahaaa, no, sorry, I don't normally tear up like this - it's the onions in my salad.
Note the "legal language":
Additionally, in 2022, Illinois updated its legal language around infertility to be more inclusive of the LGBTQIA community and single people, recognizing one of the definitions of infertility as “a person’s inability to reproduce either as a single individual or with a partner without medical intervention”Let me go back to what I put in bold above, but in differing order: Includes factors like:
Relationship status - If she won't put out, there will be no children. Otherwise, I don't think that in current society, women are infertile due to their marital status. This isn't 1955. This makes me wonder what it is that the writer is even talking about here.
Life circumstances - Here's one we've discussed quite a bit under in our Feminism and Female Stupidity posts. It's really a shame that young women are led astray by Feminists, as guided by Commmunists who want to destroy the nuclear family and society. These women often realize they've been had, duped, or just been stubborn and stupid, when it's too late, biologically. In one of our earliest posts on Feminism, we warned It's not nice to fool Mother Nature! Should we pay for expensive treatments due to their long-term stupidity? This is at least not the penultimate stupidity, which is:
Sexual orientation - The problem is that lesbians cannot conceive without having some of that go-juice, let's call it, enter their certain woman parts. So, medical intervention is not required. A penis is, though.
For homosexual men, I see 2 major problems. Perhaps the reader does too, like about everybody else who's not into this stupidity. Yeah, I'll leave this trivial exercise to the reader. Sure, you laugh, but your laughter is a thing of the past to these people with their new concept of Social Infertility. Were a gang of funny guys like Monty Python around today, they'd be wise to keep their day jobs.
The Social Infertility idea originally came from a Wildflower (Center for Emotional Health*) article, Understanding Social Infertility: An Evolving Term in Reproductive Health by "Gabrielle Pendley, MA, LCSW, CADC, PMH-C (she/her)". I see a lot of designations that Miss/Mrs. Pendley has accumulated, but M.D. is not among them. Anyone care to take a stab at any? Master of Arts, of course, Low-level Communist Social Worker, Cash Advances from DC, and Post Menstrual Hairless... mental block here... Though the excerpts above come generally from her/she's article, let me include a little more:
Traditionally, medical definitions of infertility require heterosexual sex and are defined in physiological terms.Right. Those medical doctors fixate too much on the birds and the bees.
This means people can’t get an infertility diagnosis unless there’s something “wrong” with their reproductive system.If you can't possibly be fertile, perhaps due to not having a womb or something trivial like that, you can't be said to be infertile either.
Consequently, a significant group of people struggling to become parents are excluded from insurance coverage and other meaningful support, often being left out of conversations about infertility.Oh, right, it's about the money. You want money for trying to have babies... even if the whole idea is ... well, here's that Monty Python scene from The Life of Brian finally:
That was hilarious. 1979, '80, it was a different time, you understand. 45 years later, this is more of the stupidity that is used to humiliate us. Maybe you won't be forced to verbally agree with the idea of Social Infertility but the money would come out of your paycheck as a medicaid deduction.
This picture from the Wildflower article shows a young lady at the 4-way-stop intersection of beauty, stupidity, fertility, and confusion - probably advisable not to roll through it. Unless she's ACTUALLY infertile, this young lady has many years left to make babies. It's another shame here that so many of them have been fed the BLT-G+ garbage such that they can't even imagine how happy they might be being a normal woman.
Finally, let me bring up Trump and his big mouth. [Does he have to be in EVERY post?! - Ed] We've complained many times about him mouthing off stupidly and counter-productively. (Example) We've praised him for mouthing off about something that nobody else would have the guts to mouth off about. (Example) I really can't recall his mouthing off about the evils of Feminism. Trump's usual way is to not care enough until it becomes personal. What could make the evils of Feminism personal to him?
* Give us a call at (312) 809-0298, it says at the top.
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Tragic Dirt tragically not explained by girls in bikinis
Posted On: Saturday - November 29th 2025 9:47PM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics Female Stupidity
The male Peak Stupidity reader will have already seen the reason we stated on Thanksgiving that today's post would have something not quite appropriate. Our eyes tend to find certain things very quickly, such as the girls in the video below in bikinis bending over to ... doesn't really matter what, but yeah, pick up trash. This video, billed as YOU’LL NEVER COMPLAIN ABOUT YOUR COUNTRY AGAIN AFTER WATCHING THIS DOCUMENTARY, caught my eye for the same reason it caught yours.
I've thought about writing this post two ways. The first is more honest, yet the second would get more readers to see the more important point of two here. I'll go with Honesty is the best policy, but you'll see what I mean.
The Unz Review commenter who embedded this video in this post about Somalians by Paul Kersey did it for the purpose of showing that Somalia is said to be the very worst (#1 on the list) of countries in terms of pure environmental degradation. I won't argue that point, but something tells me the commenter either didn't watch his own video or wanted us to watch it some ulterior motive such as MOAR clicks.
I'm not gonna lie to our Peak Stupidity readers - I felt obligated to watch this video to - yeah, we're all the same - get to the scenes of the bikini-clad girls bending over to pick up trash. Remember, I went with Option 1 above, so I'm telling you, I went through the whole 16 1/2 minutes and there were ZERO bikini clad girls in the whole thing. Even the still scene seen here does not appear. At the end, I saw that those advertising blurbs of other videos* by this guy or on his channel had other girls in bikinis. "Fool me once ..." I'm not THAT much of a sucker! I've been already to a degree, as I did think, seeing the still scene, "That's a nasty job, and something tells me these girls shown could find some other job in the world to do... something ..."
However, that 16 1/2 minutes of patiently watching was not wasted, it turns out. This video presents a nearly perfect example of the belief in the Magic Dirt / Tragic Dirt theory. (I'd thought until today, the term was coined by either Steve Sailer or John Derbyshire, but, per Stacy ("the other")** McCain here, it came from Vox Day.) We've discussed this silly erroneous mode of thinking before, early on in Part 2 of our review of Keith Richburg's book Out of America 6 1/2 years back and then, more thoughtfully in the more recent post Targeted Cultural Destruction and a deep dive into Tragic Dirt. I think a bit of the latter bears repeating:
So, let me get to the point about Magic Dirt/Tragic Dirt theory*** Other than just pure evil, the motive for the Communist Resentidos types, what else would be the thinking of those who don't seem to have a problem with mass extremely-foreign and non-White immigration?The video here comes from a channel with ~1,500 subscribers called Secret World. Here are some of the notes below it on youtube:
A possible answer to that came to me about the time of the eating of the cats and dogs. I think I've gotten into their heads, so let me write it out here. It goes like this:Haiti is a shithole, for whatever reason. We went there on a mission, and it was just hopeless. I don't want people to have to live like that. We have so many great places here in America they could live. It's not fair for them to have to live in their shithole while we all live in nice places.That's it. I believe that's the thinking involved. There's nothing evil there - it's just plain stupidity. How do we know all this? It's our core competency here.
Let's invite them here. We have enough room to get all of the Haitians away from that shithole. We can help all of them! They will very much appreciate living in our, and what can also be their, nice places.
What I really don't get is those people who complain about some extra people, the Haitians, living in our nice places with us. Do they want them to keep living back in that shithole? How mean!
I already listed what you'll NOT see.
38,073 views [Uhhh, yeah, cause, bikinis] Oct 23, 2025
In this video, you’ll discover the real life in the dirtiest and most chaotic countries in the world — places where trash takes over the streets, water is scarce, the air is almost unbreathable, and survival is a daily battle.
➡️ From Bangladesh to Somalia, passing through India, Haiti, and Nigeria, you’ll uncover extreme realities and unbelievable living conditions.
Get ready for shocking scenes, absurd contrasts, and deep reflections on inequality, poverty, and abandonment.
🌍 In this documentary, you’ll see:
✅ The daily routine of people living among mountains of garbage.
✅ How negligence and corruption destroy entire cities.
✅ Communities surviving without sanitation, electricity, or clean water.
Note the sentence about those "deep reflections". No, your reflections are not deep enough, Secret World - try harder.
I had to go through the video again - hey, who knows what I may have missed?! - to catch some of the terminology that I'd forgotten. Here we go, with Peak Stupidity's deep reflections:
- "Lack of an efficient waste collection system. Trash piles up everywhere." You mean people pile trash up everywhere, and nobody in the country knows how to efficiently collect waste.
- "The question remains, 'How can a country with so much potential still be trapped by so much disfunction?'" Hmmm, because it's one with dysfunctional people, perhaps?
- "How is it possible, in the 21st century, an entire nation still lives under layers of trash, poverty, and global neglect?" Because the same people live there as did in the 20th century?
- "Haiti's reality is one of the most tragic on earth." There you go, it's simply tragic. Tragic dirt.
- "The lack of recycling systems and environmental education only makes things worse." It's not like the people of these countries could develop any of this. Actually, no, they couldn't. I hate to say it, but they could use a good dose of colonization. (Whewww, glad I'm not a subject of the UK - you'd be done reading right here.)
- "A lack of waste management and careless environmental policies make things worse every year." Yeah, unfortunately those policies only grow in places with the Tragic Dirt.
- "The question remains, 'How can a nation with such deep meaning, rich history, and immense potential continue to live in such precarious conditions? Can India, with all its diversity and strength, find a way to balance tradition and progress without sacrificing the future of its people?'" I'm out of ide... hey, wait, bring back the British?
- "The sanitation system is precarious." Fix it.
- "Trash is a constant and unavoidable presence." Throw it out.
- "Somalia is one of the world's most neglected countries..." Ha. We only wish!
The cliches here are endless:
"Life goes on. People still try to live their lives among the filth..." "People keep going, clinging to hope for a better life." "Yet, despite, these conditions, the Haitian people continue to more forward with remarkable resilience." "And yet, what stands out the most is the resilience of the Indian people." "And yet, [Pakistanian] people continue to move forward. coping with pollution and filth with remarkable resilience." So, what's the problem again? With all that strength, diversity, and resilience, the people of these nations should be able to do a bang-up clean-up job.
"The question remains..." He says this over and over.
"How long will the world keep turning a blind eye...?" "What can we do as global citizens to help change this reality? These countries deserve more than indifference. They deserve a future free from filth, misery, and neglect." Maybe instead of strength and resilience they need intelligence, organization, and hard work... unfortunately some things they don't have in them. The question no longer remains.
What we can do is be very thankful that we don't live among the kinds of people of these nations described and displayed here, so we won't be wading in precarious layers of tragic filth ourselves. The people of these nations who the Trump administration has not yet sent back out of Magic Dirt America ought to be thankful that they live among White people, lest they be wading in it all here.
Oh, "Share this video with someone who also needs to see this reality" ...
...and might like girls in bikinis. (This time I was shown a White girl in a green bikini to introduce me to Iceland: Everyone wants to live here.)
PS: Oh, I REALLY don't like this Secret World guy. He made that special effort to pronounce Galgutta(?) and Pocki-ston etc., his voice is overdramatic, and he pulls out the same cliches for these shitholes, one after another. The only secret this guy has is that, THERE ARE NO GIRLS IN BIKINIS in these countries after all!
* I really HATE that youtube will cover up the last 30 seconds of video I'm watching with this stuff.
** "The Other" is a legacy from the time of "The" McCain. that being Juan McAmnesty, a man who will not be sorely missed... or missed at all, in fact.
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Happy Thanksgiving - be thankful for your Magic Dirt
Posted On: Thursday - November 27th 2025 5:10PM MST
In Topics: Holiday from Stupidity
T HA N K S G I V I N G !
We've got a post ready to write with a video as possibly THE best example we've run across yet of belief in the Magic Dirt/Tragic Dirt* Theory. The title above foretells this post. However, one little bit of the graphics is not completely appropriate for today, and then tomorrow will be extremely busy, so we'll shoot for Saturday.
Sorry for the nearly post-free week here. It happens. It's not the tryptophan either that's the problem, although my wife did a great job making our Thanksgiving meal - no Campbell's soup involved - after only 4 hour sleep.
We do have a whole lot to be thankful for. I hope you readers do too.
PS: Thanks to Adam Smith for the graphic.
* I think the credit for this coinage should go to John Derbyshire, but I'll check more into this before I finish said post.
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Trump v MTG
Posted On: Wednesday - November 26th 2025 8:19PM MST
In Topics: Trump alt-right/MAGA
(No court case theme this time - it's back to "Saltwater Croc v Triceratops" or something...)
We've all probably discussed this political feud between President Trump and Congresswoman (till Jan 5th, '26) Marjorie Taylor Greene, (R-Georgia). It's old news now, but at least the dust has settled, and there's still much to rant about. We'll start with the "he said, she said" stuff that would be appropriate for People magazine.
From what I read after the fact, the memo that Trump wrote to MTG that started this feud, "advice" of some sort that she shouldn't run for US Senator from Georgia based on polls saying she'd lose badly, was sent to her non-publicly. That's a first for Trump, well, as far as we know. What was the point of that? I don't really see one.* Mrs Greene, as we greatly enjoyed noticing** is one of the very few hard-core loyalists AND someone who was very loyal to Trump.
MTG may just have had enough of Trump's inappreciativeness of her in general, as he bitched about her votes against warmongering, and pushed for release of the Epstein files, something he obviously has wanted to drop, big campaign promises notwithstanding.
Let's digress a tad toward this Epstein deal in the context of Trump v MTG. As opposed to his standard issue boastful bullshitting, or (to be generous) forgetful lying by omission (see Trump, you lie!), it was Trump's blowing off of his promise to release (what's left of) the Epstein files that was an ugly display of real standard-issue political lying by the man. See Jeff Epstein's Fantasy Island: clients, personnel, and the point for the video and commentary. OTOH, as MTG has pushed the Epstein issue, to the great ire of President Trump, she has made it all about the girls. That's not what it's about.
Face it, these girls were not 10 y/o’s. They weren’t exactly kidnapped, were they?. As much as they shouldn’t have been let to get into any of this by their parents, sorry, but I’m not that bent out of shape about the girls. The big story is how much blackmail was going on and by (you know) whom? Yes, that’s assuming the info has not all been trashed. Now, is MTG naive about this? I think it's rather that she's making the story about the girls to goad the Regime Media into being on her side and, per Unz Review commenter Hypnotoad666 here:
No one can call her a conspiracy theory anti-Semite while she’s standing in front of these poor victims. (Even though, let’s face it, they are really just a bunch of middle-aged former (hopefully) prostitutes who got rich off their services plus the huge NDA payments that followed — notice that essentially none of them are naming names or talking specifics — because that would violate their big dollar hush-money contracts.Good point. Right now, the Epstein Files is a card game of redaction reaction now, with each side's sleaziest and most blackmailed high officials having their files "lost" as quickly as possible by their team. Then, with all cards played, it's time to show the players' hands, and the one with the most "Trump" (haha) cards showing loses.
Back to the feud, as MTG publicly showed her annoyance at Trump's disloyalty to her with his advice for her future, he then, like the Drama Queen he can be, promised to work against her as she campaigned for her Congressional seat in '26. That was as low and vindictive as his stupidity with -45 A/G Jeff Sessions back in '17-'18. Trump could have politely "let Mr. Sessions go" due to the latter's "family issues" rather than publicly feuding with him via tweets about "Sleepy Jeff" for a couple of YEARS! The worst and most stupid part of that story was Trump's (also) working against Mr. Sessions, the immigration-invasion A+ rated politician he was, in Mr. Sessions big for the GOP primary for his possible return to the US Senate from Alabama.
It's not like I've been keeping up with The View show with great anticipation (you'd have to threaten me in some manner to get me to watch that), but Mrs. Greene had had enough of Trump's 14-y/o-school-girl-style vendetta against her to push back by hanging with the useful idiots of the ctrl-left. Was that just to push the Epstein release forward? I don't know. It IS going forward, unless Trump has lied about it yet again.
At about that point in the internal MAGA drama, I read the ZeroHedge story written from MTG's side, 'I Refuse To Be A Battered Wife' - Marjorie Taylor Green Abandoning House Seat.
From that post, here is MTG's goodbye video, directed at her Georgia District 14 constituents but also to America:
I don't think Congress should be a lifelong career, or an assisted-living facility.. LOL! and Thanks, MTG. To comply with the Internet Fairness Doctrine, Peak Stupidity will excerpt Trump's side here. Fair warning: It makes him sound like an asshole:
Marjorie "Traitor" Brown, because of PLUMMETING Poll Numbers, and not wanting to face a Primary Challenger with a strong Trump Endorsement (where she would have no chance of winning!), has decided to call it "quits." Her relationship with the WORST Republican Congressman in decades, Tom Massie of Kentucky, also known as Rand Paul Jr. because he votes against the Republican Party (and really good legislation!), did not help her. For some reason, primarily that I refused to return her never ending barrage of phone calls, Marjorie went BAD. Nevertheless, I will always appreciate Marjorie, and thank her for her service to our Country! President DJTMaybe not an asshole but El Caudillo Yanqui, is what it makes him sound like.
Though I don't like the way she's played up the "poor girls!" angle*** on the Epstein story, and I surely don't agree with her stance on Government healthcare she touted in the video above, MTG has been more MAGA than Trump-47, even with the latter's surprisingly good work on Job #1. On Job #1, while Trump has used administrative action to cut down H1B Visas drastically - that is, if he follows through, MTG had brought up a bill to eliminate the program. I can see both sides. MTG would likely have gone nowhere with the bill among the UniParty without big support from Trump. His ego, however, would not put up with supporting someone else's idea. OTOH, his way may have been the only realistic way on this. Come a ctrl-left administration, it all changes back though.
Should MTG have stood with the President on everything, right or wrong, on the BBB and the rest? I do understand having to make compromises to get, for example a couple of hundred Billion dollars for serious border control and deportations. The budget is a bust anyway, so we may as well get 'er done with it, Job #1 that is. Some other disagreements should not have meant that she's not loyal to him. He's not King, after all, and she's not on the Board of his Real Estate company.
MTG is against the US warmongering, a Trump broken promise - second take. She's stood up against AIPAC. She's attempted to censure Ilhan Omar, (D-SO) on the House floor for treason. (MTG v IOU) She's MAGA all the way. Now, the vindictive Drama Queen Donald Trump has pushed her to say "Fuck this shit!" I don't blame her. Here's hoping Marjorie Taylor Greene comes back into politics at a later date. Who wins Trump v MTG? I'd say they've both lost.
* After all, were MTG to lose said race and not be able to keep her House seat (not sure why she couldn't anyway), Trump could have appointed this most loyal MAGA lady to a useful position in his Administration. Really, he could and should have already done that. If she's got the integrity to not vote for Ukraine war funding, AIPAC wishes, etc, why not appoint her to some useful position?
** More here - - here, and here.
*** It reminds me very much of Fentanyl, Fentanyl, Fentanyl! and MOAR Vetting!!. Both are angles for political purposes, not the root problems.
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Don't give up, MTG
Posted On: Saturday - November 22nd 2025 9:17PM MST
In Topics: Music alt-right/MAGA
It's been a busy couple of days, and the blogweek is over. I really wanted to write about Trump v MTG, but it's just as well I didn't until today's recent development regarding her resignation from the House o' Representin'. (Effective Jan 5th) Today won't be the day to write it either though. There'll be plenty more stupidity to write about next week, but with it being a particularly busy Thanksgiving week, I'm not sure I'll get to more than a couple or three.
We're not giving up, and Peak Stupidity begs Marjorie Taylor Greene not to give up on America either.
This is an oldie from the end of the Alternative Rock era, late in 1998 by The New Radicals. I have heard nothing else from the band. I see from youtube that the band played this song for Dark Brandon and the Kameltoe at the '21 inauguration. Whatever. I'm not letting the ctrl-left steal the music, no matter how stupid the band is about it.
For you, MTG. Don't give up, you got the music in you.
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Operation Charlotte's Web
Posted On: Thursday - November 20th 2025 11:05AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Trump US Feral Government Educational Stupidity Poetic Stupidity
To all the ctrl-left, Globalist, and Commie promotors of the Population Replacement Programme, Peak Stupidity says: "Oh, what a tangled world wide web we weave, when we first practice to deceive."* Charlotte's Web - hey we've got at least a few literary folks in the Feral Gov't - is a classic children's book**, so that's a nice touch. Peak Stupidity IS at least familiar with that one.
We will start this post by taking a second to appreciate President Trump's efforts. No longer should disappointed naysayers think that he is only going after the criminals. (I've thought that before too, as Trump possibly wants to brag he's fixing the damage done by Dark Brandon, and doesn't care about anything more than that.) I don't think Trump's ICE people would be going anywhere NEAR elementary schools if that was the case. The optics are sob-story heaven for the ctrl-left and other destroyers.
The actual numbers in the modern Charlotte's Web operation are small - I've heard only 200 illegals taken. That's a drop, especially after you understand that some of the numbers from this story give an indication of how many illegal aliens there may be in the US. I still stick with 40-50 million, and if I were a betting man, I'd put serious money on that.
I've had a hell of a time going through web search results that are anything but biased as all get out, so I ended up at, haha, People magazine: More Than 30,000 Students in One North Carolina School District Skipped Class on Monday amid ICE Raids (I imagine either the whole of Mecklenburg County is one school district, or the writer doesn't understand school districts.) Mecklenburg is the county in which Charlotte minus some of its many exurbs sits.
A representative for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools tells PEOPLE that 30,339 students were reported absent from their schools on Monday, Nov. 17.Rather than from any kind of news source of any kind, I have gotten a lot of this story from commenters on The Unz Review, most especially the very informative commenter Almost Missouri. The 2 graphics after this one (from the People article) come from his comments:
CMS, who originally reported the number as being close to 21,000, added that this reporting remains unofficial as a variety of factors go into the official count, such as whether or not this includes preschool-aged children, whether students doing virtual learning are counted and more.
WBTV noted that 31% of the student population in the area identifies as Hispanic, per data from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.
That had me very interested in using this info to extrapolate a better REAL value for the number of illegal aliens in the country. However, the news stories state that plenty of student were absent in alleged solidarity with the poor illegally residing students whose parents broke into the country. Some parents are probably encouraging this, while I imagine for almost all of the students absent, a day off is simply a good day, no matter what the purported reason. Therefore, I don't know if what exactly these numbers tell us.
The sentiment means a lot. The school district's and local government's blatant pissing & moaning about the loss of money shows what they are about. They don't care who lives in their district, their city, their county, and their country. MOAR tax dollars!! Lose the students, lose the tax dollars. That's bad. It's free money after all - you'd hate to lose it, right?
About this Luisa Santos, well, I do appreciate the appreciation - "And this country and our public schools - I'll never get tired of saying it - gave me everything." Bully for you, Miss or Mr. Santos, but I was being facetious before - It's not unlimited free money for every single person coming from around the world - we ain't got it, man! (or Ma'am, I don't know) The bottom of that series of comments mentioned the dropping enrollment. Peak Stupidity is pleased that fewer children are undergoing indoctrination in the Government Schools, no matter what reason. However, this is an especially good reason.
Some people are not so pleased. Almost Missouri had a 40 second video that
On a lighter, but still funny-cause-it's-true note, we present this excellent meme.
Trump's or an underling's strategy at this point may be to UP the publicity, come sob stories and high water. This would be in the hope that this meme would become a reality. With the exception of the violent criminals and madmen purposely let out of Venezuela, Haiti, wherever, most of us would rather see these invaders leave under their own power. It's cheaper, less violent, and perhaps makes some of us feel better about it. Either way... I'm cool with it.
* This line is from a long poem by Sir Walter Scott, written in 1809. I had no idea... .here's that stanza, from his Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field:
Oh! what a tangled web we weave
when first we practise to deceive!
A paltry thing, and full of care,
upon our backs to bind a load,
Were it not easier to go bare,
than thus to feel the galled goad?
** It's by E.B. White, written in 1952.
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[UPDATED. 11/21:] Adam Smith found the video I was trying to search for on youtube. Pasted in, replacing the still picture. Thanks, Adam!
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OSHA v ATF
Posted On: Wednesday - November 19th 2025 7:46PM MST
In Topics: Humor US Feral Government Legal Stupidity Guns
Foamies, ear muffs, full-out headsets, they're all part of that PPE - Personal Protective Equipment - that we've been hearing so much about since the Kung Flu set in almost 5 years back. Or, maybe you haven't heard so much about it ... cause, if not PPE, it's probably peanut butter. (There's so much other PPE - these are just for your ears of course.)
People from the Government want every one of us Americans to be safe. Hearing loss is no laughing matter. I said, HEARING LOSS IS NO LAUGHING MATTER! OSHA has come up with all the standards for the PPE to keep us safe from loud noises.
Then, there is the ATF, and sometimes E, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, sometimes Explosives, competing with Bass Pro Shops/Cabelas and other big box stores for your business. No, that's not it - the ATF/E is a Bureau of the US Feral Government, there to keep us safe from Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and sometimes Explosives.
Due to that pesky Amendment II in the Constitution, the ATF has been severely hampered in its ability to stop the sale, ownership, and use of guns in this country. The Bureau just tries to control them... for our safety. Problem is, some of the guns are REALLY loud! It's one thing out at the range or in the woods, where people use that PPE when necessary. American inner cities, OTOH, are PPE deserts. As always seems to be the case, with gun noise too, it's the minorities that have been hardest hit. (The bullets aren't pain-free either, BTW.)
Go to the ghetto sometime*. You'll see what we mean hear. The poor minorities there are literally bombarded with handgun noise, day-in and day-out. There are decibel/pitch charts that the OSHA folks could kindly distribute to the folks in the ghetto for their own safety. That should be done, but the Trump administration cares not a whit about hearing loss in the ghetto. Many young Black! men these days will not live to be 40 ... without some noticeable hearing loss.
Peak Stupidity knows this is a problem desperate for a solution. Is there any other solution besides mandating the wearing of foamies by black people as assigned by zip code? That leans a bit Totalitarian - may as well require, haha, medical face masks or something that THAT ridiculous. Wait...
[DEVELOPING!] Peak Stupidity has just learned that some firearms manufacturers sell what might be called IPE, Impersonal Protective Equipment. You may have heard of these things - they're often called suppressors or silencers.
Eureka! That's the ticket! These things greatly lower gunfire noise, even for those individuals NOT wearing PPE. The US Government should mandate noise suppressors for all guns, NOW! They should be required to come free with any gun purchase, just as they did for our safety with those trigger locks. (Yeah, they're in there... I know, it does look like part of the shipping material... [/Newhart])
On behalf of OSHA and all Americans who want to keep their hearing, the Peak Stupidity staff has just gotten done making an urgent phone call to ATF Acting Director Dan Driscoll. We weren't able to get anybody to talk with us, even after mashing 14 zeros, so we went to the ATF, yeah, web portal. After entering our suggestion about some rule-making regarding these safety devices, along with our names, birthplaces, number, make, model and number of guns we own, a scan of our latest audit of our ammo supply, info on our BMIs, scars, and tattoos, we submitted it all for perusal by the Assistant to the Acting Director.
While waiting on their portal to thoroughly vet us, Peak Stupidity staffers checked out some other ATF material on-line. Lo and behold, you wouldn't believe this: Not only does the ATF not yet require suppressors be given away to gun owners, they actively regulate them, making them hard to even BUY! Even AI agrees:
Possessing an unregistered silencer can lead to severe penalties, including fines of up to $10,000 per item and potential prison sentences of up to ten years. It's crucial to follow the regulations set by the National Firearms Act to avoid these legal consequences.Fined?! There should be fines for NOT having noise suppressors! People are going deaf due to you rogue ATF bastards. No, hear me out, minorities are being hardest hit! First there's the noise, and then there's the 9mm round.
In the sad case of OSHA v ATF, the Peak Stupidity court rules for the plaintiff, which would be OSHA. A motion for a stay is hereby issued to restrain the prior injunction.
In other words, Mandatory Gun Suppressors now! Mandatory and FREE!
PS: The idea for this satirical post came from my friend Rick. Nice idea. I hope this post fleshed it out pretty well. We're not at Babylon Bee level yet though ...
* Peak Stupidity hereby certifies that we take no, ZERO, ¡nunca! responsibility for any theft, death, or dismemberment resulting from any of our advice given herein. [PS Legal Dept]
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Hogan v Vatican et al
Posted On: Tuesday - November 18th 2025 8:46PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity US Feral Government So-called Pope Francis
These A v B themes and titles of our posts started early on in the post Nat-Geo and the once great Royal Scientific Societies - Part 2. This set of books my young boy was into at the time used this theme, such as with "Octopus vs. Spiny Dogfish Shark" to teach fun facts about various wild and crazy animals. There were even brackets for these imagined contests, as if it were the NCAA basketball playoffs.
That's what we've been thinking of with these type post titles over they years, but I think I'll change the theme to be more of a legal court case thing. We'll use italics then, so this post is Hogan v Vatican et al. (Both lawyers and doctors like Latin - sets them apart from the peons - though they have their legitimate reasons, errr sine qua non, on occasion to use them.)
Along with Trump's Staff General Steven Miller (there back during -45 too), Peak Stupidity has been pleased with the choice of Tom Hogan as the Field General. The recent ZeroHedge* post "Catholic Church Is Wrong" On Illegal Immigration, Homan Says has done nothing to disabuse me of this feeling. Entered into the court record: Tom Hogan is Catholic himself.
Though we are no big fans of cops in general ourselves, we do appreciate Tom Hogan's having been one and doing his job in the Deportation Nation effort as one. I like this:
“Secure border saves lives. I wish the Catholic Church would understand that. We have the right to secure our borders like they have the right to secure their facility,” Homan said.[ZH's bolding, which I appreciate.] It's that use of "facility" that struck me. Some might call it the Holy City or Holy something-or-other, but to this cop it's just a facility. (I don't know if they allow early release.) Facility is just cop talk, like "The individual was traveling southbound at a high rate of speed, your Honor."**
“You can’t enter their facility without getting arrested. Matter of fact, the penalties for entering their facilities are much worse than ours,” he said.
It's kinda like how Alcatraz is called The Rock, or something...
Of course, Mr. Homan was making the analogy of breaking into a country being like breaking into The Vatican. I imagine there are some guards there. We didn't bother visiting that facility (heh!) when in Rome*** in Summer '19, cause... Commie Pope. (That attitude has not changed one bit since.) I doubt they'd have let us just saunter on into The Vatican either without some ticket or pass. They'd have flat-out deported us. That term's not really facetious here either, as it IS a separate country.
“So the Catholic Church is wrong. I’m sorry. I’m a lifelong Catholic. I’m saying it as not only a border czar. I'll say it as a Catholic. I think they need to spend time fixing the Catholic Church.”Very good. The Catholic Church supported Christianity in the West a whole lot more during the Middle Ages, even with the indulgences and Borgia Pope orgies. They didn't select Liberation Theology style Commies as so-called Popes, and TWO IN A ROW, even!
Homan’s remarks were in response to a “special message” issued on Nov. 12 by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) saying the group was “disturbed” by the climate of fear and anxiety regarding questions of profiling and immigration enforcement among the church’s followers.The message was, per ZeroHedge:
USCCB said it opposes the “indiscriminate mass deportation” of people and prays for ending the “dehumanizing rhetoric and violence” aimed at illegal immigrants and law enforcement personnel.I am very sure that, by"law enforcement personel", they don't mean ICE, here They mean the cops that are committing crimes by harboring illegal aliens from The Law.
The article said that the last time the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a Special Message was a dozen years ago. This was not a Papal Bull - it was some Bishop Bull, agreed on by 216 of the 221 Bishops voting to send it. The Bishops are saddened.
“We are saddened by the state of contemporary debate and the vilification of immigrants. We are concerned about the conditions in detention centers and the lack of access to pastoral care. We lament that some immigrants in the United States have arbitrarily lost their legal status,” it said.I know. I hate that! I know there are plenty of guys wanted for armed robbery who have to worry every single day about being detained when they are just bringing their kids to school. Families have been split apart based on felonies like that! It's egregious, oh, and while I'm at it, it's "aggrieved", not "grieved", dumbass Bishops. What IS it with the Catholic Church and its complicity in the Population Replacement Programme? It was so much better when its Popes just had big orgies and threatened Kings.
“We are troubled by threats against the sanctity of houses of worship and the special nature of hospitals and schools. We are grieved when we meet parents who fear being detained when taking their children to school and when we try to console family members who have already been separated from their loved ones.”
I can't excerpt all of Homan's great arguments to these "grieved" Bishops. He's pretty good. He's not perfect though. His arguments go on about how many thousands of invaders have died on the way in. I get that this is to throw the Bishop's accusations back at them, but, hey, honestly I don't care a lick how many invaders of the US die.. Don't invade, and you won't die.
I mean, I don't guarantee immortality... anyway, to continue, Mr. Homan then brought up the 100's of thousands of American deaths due to Fentanyl. We've written this before on this blog, screw the Fentanyl! That's not what this Job #1 is about. I'm sorry for the drug addicts, really, and they ARE Americans, but this argument is not any better than the UK/Irish Patriots' arguments regarding their millions of foreign invaders that consist of MOAR vetting!".
I'd like to see Tom Homan be just a tad more honest, but perhaps that would be going away from his being a high-level cop. "How'd you like it if all you Catholics in the Vatican City were swamped with violent Moslems, and OUR Conference of US Peons sent you a message that we were disturbed by the climate of fear and anxiety among the Bishops all in there?****" is what I'd have LIKED to hear.
If you read on in that article, you'll get to a section entitled USCCB Lawsuit. Under there, we read:
In February, USCCB filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for halting the funding of its refugee resettlement program.Ahhaaaaa! [My bolding] The Bishops are making big money by trafficking, yes, trafficking in "refugees"! They have a big vested interest in seeing big numbers of non-White foreigners come into the US. "Don't like your daughters getting raped? Fuck you, pay me!" "Your nice leafy neighborhood just went to hell? Fuck you, pay me!" "Got Haitians and Somalians eating the cats and dogs? Fuck you, pay me!" These guys are Italian, right? They're gonna make the Mafia look like pikers.
Under the program, USCCB facilitated the integration of refugees into the United States. The refugees were entitled to receive federal funds as transitional support for up to 90 days, which the complaint said was essential to helping them set up a new home.
When the Trump administration suspended the program in January, there were more than 6,700 refugees assigned to USSCB by the government who were still within their 90-day transition period, the lawsuit said.
The suspension resulted in USCCB having “millions of dollars in pending, unpaid reimbursements for services already rendered to refugees and is accruing millions more each week—with no indication that any future reimbursements will be paid or that the program will ever resume,” it said.
I get it now. The US Conference of Bishops are running a trafficking scam for money to support their facility there in Rome. They no longer even try to get the band back together or anything like that in order to be able to pay the Cook County Assessor. These people are not (only) stupid. They are greedy, and hence they are evil.
Thank you, Tom Homan, for calling out this greedy, evil Conference of Bishops! In Hogan v Vatican et al, the Peak Stupidity Superior Court rules in favor of Mr. Hogan with extreme prejudice.
* It came from The Epoch Times, written by one Naveen Athrappully.
** There's a scene in Idiocracy in which director Mike Judge makes fun of cops in this manner. My problem is the use of terms erroneously. No, speed is already a rate, and he doesn't mean acceleration. Southbound is the term for the general directionality of the lane, not the actual direction. How about "He was headed south and speeding", or "He was speeding in the southbound lane."
*** "When in Rome, do as the Romans do.", they say, but yeah, Roman residents likely don't visit unless their relatives come to town, from, like, Greece, just as people who live in big cities don't go to the museums until their friends visit.
**** Peak Stupidity told an anecdote of a Chicago preacher haranguing Americans in this manner - Dr. Kevin Vanhoozer, Globalist Pro-Invasion Pastor.
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For whom the flags are lowered, don't even ask...
Posted On: Monday - November 17th 2025 9:09AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Music US Feral Government The Neocons
Ask not for whom
... the extended mourn-porn* in the Lyin' Press for our Dowager ex-King, Bush I. Look, he died, I! GET! THAT!Mourn-porn! Yeah, I'm gonna use that again.
Soon after, we posted The Shutdown and the Flags, speculating that, though we didn't know who the flags had been lowered for, we did know who lowered them. That would be the government workers who, not being paid on-time temporarily, might not be raising the flags back up when they were supposed to have been. Ha, I'm sure there've been a few more rants since then, with our best solution being that government offices and business just ought to purchase flag-poles that are half of the normal length to begin with. There you go. Cut out the work being done by highly-paid government workers.
I have now seen the American flag staying at half-mast for at least a week, maybe 2. Who died this time? Anyone important? All I could come up with is the NeoCon of NeoCons, Dick Cheney. He was important, but so is George Soros - will the flags be lowered for him when he is taken down to the abyss?
This is not even mourn- porn. This is the deliberate memorialization of a destructive lying NeoCon warmongering bastard. That is, if the flags have really been lowered for Dick Cheney.
I won't even ask, then. I will go to my happy place and believe otherwise. I am so glad the US Gov't made the effort to memorialize a great artist who died recently. If not a big influence in American politics, he had a great influence on partying and Rocking & Rolling. We're talking Mr. Ace Frehley from the 1970s New York City rock band KISS. He died one month and a day ago. Let's keep the flags at half-mast all night, and e-ver-ee day!
You people shout it, you people shout it...!
KISS:
They all sang. Otherwise here's the true basic R&R instrument set-up:
Ace Frehley - lead guitar
Paul Stanley - rhythm guitar
Gene Simmons - bass guitar
Peter Chris - drums
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The new Paperless World
Posted On: Saturday - November 15th 2025 8:31PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Internets University Humor Curmudgeonry Economics Big-Biz Stupidity
Continued from this post about the steep decline of printed newspapers.
Since this is a post about office paper, any video clip of any kind from The Office's Dunder Mifflin, Scranton Branch is automatically appropriate. (Peak Stupidity pastes them in even when they're not... just 'cause, funny!)
For context, this salesmen training session was conducted by manager Michael Scott because the office girl Kelly had deliberately inserted false bad customer reviews for paper salesmen Jim and Dwight because these two didn't attend her party:
For many years I really didn't think the Paperless World was ever coming. The decline in the circulation of, at least home delivery of, actual printed newspapers started in the mid-1980s and only slowly for that and the next decade. As I discuss here the type of paper used in classrooms and business offices, those ubiquitous 8 1/2" x 11" sheets of all different material, quality, weight, and colors, I'll leave aside newspapers. Additionally, I think, of the other uses of paper, actual printed books, phone books (just a one-time-yearly thing), school notebooks, receipts (if you can get 'em - gotta make an effort now), shipping wrap/cushioning, and such, most uses are fading away, as for newsprint.
The changes in the use of paper involved computers at first. In those mid-1980s, the "personal computer", what a concept!, was spreading to homes and offices everywhere. Instead of drawing on paper, you could use software to do it, and make neater lines too. Instead of a big ledger for your accounting, you could use LOTUS-123™ and have it do all the calculations. To me the biggest benefit was, instead of the typewriter, liquid and plastic-strip White Out™, and a WHOLE lot of frustration, you could use WordPerfect™ for writing, and no longer would your many corrections cause you to stress over having to plain start typing all over.
It was great. You didn't do your work on paper anymore. You didn't run out of erasers. However, someone else normally had to see your work. You couldn't just go passing the computer screen around.* In the mid-1980s, nobody but hard-core geeks were on the internet then, and God bless 'em for it! So, you still had to print everything out. We did, in spades!
After the old blue-ink mimeograph machines yielded to line printers, ink-jet printers, and the most important laser printer, MOAR STUFF was printed out by everyone. After all, the computer generated a lot more stuff TO print out. Not only that, but once printing got cheaper and more reliable with some of those washing-machine-sized Xerox's and such, well, ooops, you single-spaced that, just print it again, all 40 pages, whatever... I think the waste of 8 1/2" x 11" sheets of paper was tremendous compared to the day of the typewriter.
During this period, for 2 decades, I remember myself wondering out loud a number of times, "Hey, I thought we were going to stop using paper, what with these computers and all." That it was quite the opposite was a surprise to lots of people, I imagine. The environmentalists, never really understanding** the free market, figured we would have a big problem. Paper recycling became an industry of its own (though the stuff burns readily... just sayin'...)
In the business world, we'd have computer generated "packages" - I think that's when the word started being used as such - of 100-150 pages coming out once monthly to each of us. Paper (and ink or toner) for lab reports at school were "free" - if it was not exactly right, you fixed it and printed it all back out. Ironically, computers were very very good for the paper business.
Any questions so far? Dunder Mifflin Scranton Branch Regional Manager Michael Scott answers any questions you may have at this point:
Then, though, there were not just computers, but computers connected to computers - the Internet. It took the internet to finally rid us of the use of reams and reams of paper, likely a few of them (500 sheets in a ream) per capita yearly. That took a long time too. I suppose a good marker of this change for me, not one of those "early adopters" of ANYTHING, was my final switch-over from grabbing the paper 50-100 page IRS tax booklets from the library each year to downloading them. That switch-over for me was only about 10 years ago, maybe a year shorter. Thick paper "packages" to peruse, paper forms with accompanying clipboards, etc, they're going away ... all we got left is the junk mail, and the email scammers have mostly taken that over. Oh, and we've still got toilet paper and fiat money, so there's
This leaves us to arrange our affairs on-line on the Portals. Ooops! You know, I thought the paperless world would be better. I do appreciate some the many benefits, and I just don't like wastage in general. But, web portals for this, web portals for that, getting on one portal to sign up for another portal, it's portals all the way down, and I'm not Loving it! one little bit. (A lot of the problem is that there are sign-ins, multi-factor authentication, too many passwords to keep changing - the Indian scammers have really made much on-line life miserable when it didn't have to be.- there's another post...)
I have to ask myself, how did we get here? Actually, I just explained, but this is NOT my beautiful Paperless World! What have we done?!
* Well, I mean if you had a Tandy TRash-80 "machine" and used a cassette tape recorder for storage and a 9" B&W TV set, you could... I suppose ...
** ... per Alarmist, in the comments under the previous post.
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Global Warming predicted to cause severe European Ice Age
Posted On: Friday - November 14th 2025 5:18PM MST
In Topics: University Global Climate Stupidity Artificial Stupidity Science
Just when we thought the 4-decade-running Climate Calamity™, greatest con job of all time!, had run its course, there's been a new twist. It's that damn AMOC (no kin to AOC), aka the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. I would say "just call it the Gulf Stream, already.", but though the Gulf Stream is a big part of it, the AMOC is more than that.
ZeroHedge reported today Key Ocean Current Faltering, Raising Risk Of "Ice Age"-Like Cooling, noting first thing:
And just like that we're free from climate hysteria and worried about a new "ice age"...Funny how that works, isn't it?First, though we might think of ocean currents as being 2-dimensional, with, say, that Pacific Current sweeping around up from Japan, south of the Aleutians or what-have-you, and back down the British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California coastlines (wet suits required in Los Angeles even till freaking August!), but no.
(If those are your coronary arteries, you're doing A-OK!)
The circulation has a depth dimension too. When it comes to modeling climates, though, it's the surface temperature that directly effects air temperatures. The Gulf Stream matters A LOT. From ZH:
The Post writes that the study argues that warming temperatures are melting the Greenland ice sheet, sending freshwater into the North Atlantic and slowing the AMOC. Researchers say they’ve detected a related “distinctive temperature fingerprint” several thousand feet below the surface.[Our bolding, per Peak Stupidity style sheet. REALLY stupid stuff is to be in bold typeface.]
“Here we identify a distinctive temperature fingerprint in the equatorial Atlantic that signals the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation change,” they wrote, adding that its “robust physical mechanism and reliable detection make [this fingerprint] a valuable metric for AMOC monitoring in a warming climate.”
Using the MITgcm climate model and ocean data back to 1960, the team concludes the AMOC has been weakening since the late 20th century and could collapse before 2100. If that happened, Europe could face drastic cooling — possibly nearly 60 degrees — and drier conditions. As Jonathan Bamber told the Daily Mail, “Winters would be more typical of Arctic Canada and precipitation would decrease, also.”
Before I get to discussing the idiotic -60F* ΔT, let me proudly inform the reader that after I went to The NY Post article I then skimmed and partially read the original paper in the journal Nature. What you're gonna read next should remind you of a 7 month-old post of ours, Peak Stupidity Geophysical Research Letter - Sea Ice Albedo. That is due to our having perused others of these Climate modeling papers before and now again seen the overall BIG FLAW.
Were there any, I wouldn't have caught errors in the calculus, bad numbers, erroneous specific modeling techniques - I don't read that deeply, and I am not a Climatologist. What I do know is what mathematical modeling is all about. Again, here too, I see a lot of modeling and the putting parts of various models together. What I don't see is very specific testing of every part of the model. In the case of the whole World's climate, that would have to be observational rather than some test in a lab. I'll refer the reader to the series of short posts entitled There is no working mathematical model of the world's climate, dammit!: Part 1 - - Part 2 - - Part 3 - - Part 4 and Part 5. The gist of it is that not only does every single process have to be modeled very accurately as compared to observation, no process can be left out, and when you put them all together, sorry, a complex model like that will STILL be wrong, that is, until a whole lot of corrections are done, also based on observation and physical understanding thereof, not fudging with the math factors.
Here's the abstract of that paper:
Climate models project an Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation slowdown under anthropogenic greenhouse warming. Despite a ~1.5 °C increase in the global mean surface temperature, debate remains on whether and when this circulation has slowed. Here we identify a distinctive temperature fingerprint in the equatorial Atlantic that signals the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation change through numerical ocean model experiments. The equatorial Atlantic is a crucial crossroads for the circulation anomalies to propagate to other oceans. A slowdown drives a mid-depth (1000–2000 m) warming in the equatorial Atlantic in a decade via baroclinic Kelvin waves. Analysis of climate models shows that this mid-depth temperature change is a better indicator for Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation change on decadal and longer timescales than other surface proxies. Observations reveal a robust mid-depth warming since 1960 that emerged from natural variability in the early 2000s, suggesting a slowdown that already started in the late 20th century.In other words, lets play with the different models and find some quantities that work to get the best matches for our observations. Now, I like this following explanation - only a small part of the matter - of WHAT they are attempting to accurately model:
The Atlantic warming pattern driven by the subpolar buoyancy forcing change is linked to the coherent circulation changes through the thermal-wind relationship, manifested as basin-scale weakening of meridional overturning circulation. Changes in circulation reduce the northward warm-water transport of the upper-limb AMOC and the southward cold-water transport of the deep-limb AMOC, resulting in heat convergence near the western coasts in the mid and low latitudes. These rapid adjustments of subsurface temperature and circulation are through Kelvin waves excited by subpolar buoyancy forcing.Fine. Then it goes this way, and this is just one example of many:
In addition, the equatorward heat transport by the climatological deep western boundary current (DWBC) also contributes to the mid-depth equatorial warming. We perform a BUOY-NA-passive experiment, which is the same as BUOY-NA but with the fixed ocean circulation. In BUOY-NA-passive, the perturbed ocean temperature change in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans travels as passive tracers via the mean ocean circulation (see Methods). The results of BUOY-NA-passive suggest that the mean DWBC leads to a weak deep-layer warming in the western equatorial Atlantic after about half a century, and has minimal contribution to the quick mid-depth warming.Let's try different models and put in buoyancy effects, or maybe not, whatever works. There is NO BASIC UNDERSTANDING down to the level of WHY one model has matched reality better than another.
Oh, and we do get to the Global Warming now:
Transient greenhouse warmingYeah, wax on, wax off, you're bound to get a decent curve one day ...
We further examine the statistical relationship between changes in the equatorial Atlantic temperature and AMOC intensity of the North Atlantic using the 50-member Large Ensemble of the Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2-LENS) under the historical and Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP) 3–7.0 scenarios (Fig. 3). Temperature in the equatorial Atlantic shows pronounced multi-decadal fluctuations during the historical period and has warmed up in the upper 3000 m since the 1990s (Fig. 3a). Like BUOY-NA, there is a vertical minimum in warming albeit at ~500 m in CESM2-LENS. This could be due to forcing difference; forcing is abruptly switched on in BUOY-NA, while CESM2-LENS uses slowly evolving radiative forcing that includes both anthropogenic greenhouse gases and aerosols.
Short digression for ZH humor:
There's nothing like some good ZeroHedge commenters to tell it like it is, or at least lighten the mood. First one:
Vampire Teabag:The banter on there is simply stellar:
9 out of 10 scientists agree with whomever funds them.
Gregga777:OK, wait, now what about that 60F fall predicted for temperatures in Europe in 3/4 of a century from now due to Global Warning? I'm guessing that, of the 5 authors of the paper, Qiuping Ren, Shang-Ping Xie, Qihua Peng, Yuanlong Li, and Fan Wang, not a one of them was ever taught DIMS?, Does It Make Sense? You've got cold Pacific Current water flowing south off the west coast of our continent, yet the climate as far up as Vancouver Island can be described as "Temperate". Colder water would mean colder air flowing off it (but, yea, no hurricanes!), but the nearby ocean moderates the climate with westerly winds. Deepest eastern Montana, Saskatchewan, Poland, freaking Siberia, that's where it gets cold.... but ... still not by a difference of 60 degrees Fahrenheit!!
Western Universities have been grossly overproducing unemployable overeducated graduates for decades. These scary Anthropogenic Global Warming / Anthropogenic Global Cooling articles by “Climate Scientists” are all part of government-funded make work programs for otherwise unemployable university graduates. It’s just another form of Universal Basic Income.
Wegee:
Sure hope you're here for the transition.
Auslinmilbarge:
From a democratic Republic to Communist?
Samuel Vimes:
Caucasian to Eskimo.
But, hell, since the last Ice Age was mentioned, it was a lot colder then... How cold WAS it?! That was not Ed McMahon, that was me, asking AI:
Aaaahhh, geeze... first we run into Human stupidity, and then we run into the artificial stupidity.
Yes, this post is getting long, about 10 x longer than we'd modeled it to be when reading the ZH article this morning. However, let's get non-technical here and imagine how this news that Global Warming will cause Global Freezing story will play in Peoria, well, anywhere but in the offices of the Chinese Professors at Bradley University. This is really bad for the narrative. Some people still remember that in the late 1970's Star Trek's America's Science Officer Dr. Spock told us the world was in for Global Cooling. Well, OK, he's not a real Science Officer - just plays one on TV, so one little mistake - that it's the other way around - was forgiven and forgotten by
It doesn't play on Peak Stupidity, and it doesn't on ZeroHedge, as that same "Vampire Teabag" noted:
We went from Spock, have you lost your Vulcan Mind, to Leonard Nimoy was right.
PS: What ABOUT authors Qiuping Ren, Shang-Ping Xie, Qihua Peng, Yuanlong Li, and Fan Wang (goes by Wang Fan on the web) anyway? Well, 2 of the 3 guys - what do you mean, "Which are the guys?", you cretin - OK, the 2nd and 3rd authors, are at UC-San Diego, while the 2 women and Mr. Li are at the Insititute [sic] of Oceanography, Chinese Academy of Sciense [sic]. I kind of wonder whether they and their grant-givers have a vested interest in this whole Climate Calamity™ continuing to waste Americans' time and money. Then, we hear lately the President is really not joking about letting 600,000 more of them in to do this sort of modeling that Americans can't do.
PPS: Here's what the artificial stupidity did by the way: It converted a Temperature in F to a Temperature in C, but that's not at all the same simple calculation as converting a Temperature difference in F to one in C. The first, conversion of values, is TC = (TF - 32F) x 5/9. The second, conversion of a ΔT, is simply ΔTC = 5/9 ΔTF. The Celsius temperature unit is 1.8x (9/5) bigger than the Fahrenheit unit. The 5/9 is approximate. And people want AI to run the world??
* ZeroHedge didn't give the units, but the NY Post and (of course) original paper did. Whether Fahrenheit or Celcius, this does not diminish the stupidity.
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Newspapers: Great example of changes to that basket of goods
Posted On: Thursday - November 13th 2025 7:39PM MST
In Topics: Internets History Curmudgeonry Economics Media Stupidity Environmental Stupidity Inflation
... AND services!
There was some good discussion on the latest Unz Review iSteve thread about inflation. This topic is right in Peak Stupidity's wheelhouse, especially when it comes to the ins-and-outs of that statistical "basked of goods" (and don't forget services) used in a valiant attempt to measure changes in prices of "stuff" over the years, decades, and centuries.
There are dozens of posts with our inflation topic key. Many are simple apples-to-apples comparisons of then to now. More interesting might be the discussions of the various concepts used by the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics - obviously a little not-really-undesirable mission creep there) to try their best to account for changes in types of goods and services purchased, really, total changes in our way of life over these long time periods. We discussed Hedonics*, Substitution**, and, in my mind, an important factor that has NOT been taken into account, quality decline***, before.
Here's a great example of a good, turned partially into a service, in fact, that might have given the BLS green-eyeshade boys (here's hoping that little agency hasn't been DIEvesified!) a real problem to chew on. That would be newspapers, you know, like on paper, thrown by paper boys onto everyone's lawns only a few short decades ago. (There were also whole stores called "news stands" for city people and special paper boxes next to our mail boxes.**** )
Can you believe all that? Let's forget NYC and the NY Times - 2" thick! on Sundays - even small city and town newspapers were 3/8" thick, let's say, and a couple of feet in the other dimensions, AND these were delivered to nearly every home! Can you say "UN! SUH! STAIN! ABLE!? No, we couldn't - we hadn't heard that one. For anyone under 30 y/o, this might not make any sense. "You mean they were sending the same damn stuff to every house - printing it out, the same thing, like thousands or millions of times? Each day?! Why not just email copies...? How could you waste all that paper?"
I got to visit a paper mill one time. They were making newsprint, as I recall, their only product. It was flying off the rollers... imagine the same sort of thing at the newspaper printers too.
"You have to understand that there was no internet. Let that sink in. What would you want people to have done, all huddle together and read one newspaper to save the planet?" It might be difficult to understand the non-internet age for many people now. Massive duplication just had to be done. I suppose, sure, we could have gone to the library and taken our turns reading the newspaper screwed to a big stick.
(Sorry about the video - some Indian company "owns" this - you've gotta click - 01:55 - 02:15 is the scene in question.)
Don't laugh, haha, OK, only at the show there, as there was more to that than just providing a way to keep up with the world for homeless, friendless bums. (Had they friends, they could have borrowed "the paper".) No, the bigger libraries, say, the main branches, would have newspapers from around the country and around the world even, all current, screwed or not screwed, depending on the neighborhood, to big sticks. I am impressed still and wonder how they got them so promptly.
It was not that I was some sort of treehugger, but, when I look back, I recall that, after leaving home, there were only a couple of years in which the local newspaper was thrown on our lawn. That subscription was shared among us roommates. By the time I could have comfortably afforded that luxury myself, I think I was not so awfully enamored anymore with the bias "inherent in the system". Within 3 years after that period, news on the internet had come into its own.
For the life of me, I have not been able to get a good graph of print newspaper circulation over the years, as the sites insidiously stick in "digital" along with print. I'd really like to know actual delivered newspapers, rather than sold, but AI at least told me the following: The peak year for print newspaper circulation in America was 1984, when it was 63 million daily. This only declined by a percent or two through 1990, then another 10% from then through 2000. It went down another 20% from 2000 to 44 million daily by 2010, then precipitously down from there by 50% by 2020 (24 million). That's pretty recent, but for end-of-'23, we're talking only 2.3 million.***** We are going paperless quickly now, which is the more-encompasing subject of the next post.
I have to digress here for an anecdote and to keep in touch with the Curmudgeonly side of Peak Stupidity. Still only about 8-10 years back, the local newspaper company had an idea to get the ads, just the ads, to people without going through the motions of throwing a big roll of news onto the lawn. A guy would throw out the 8-page ad from his car onto all the lawns weekly, no subscription required. Yeah, well, I had a real problem with that and would throw the thing back onto the road as soon as I saw it. I did this a couple of times right in front of the driver, and the different drivers got fairly upset. "Take your s__t back - you're littering!" I didn't want to hear anything about "we don't go by addresses...", as I told them to tell the company to quit this practice, at least a MY house. They must have gotten a lot of that, as this didn't last more than a year or so.
That we read our news off of computers of various kinds (I count phones, of course) rather than from these stacks of paper that arrived daily is quite the change in lifestyle over a quarter century.
I would have to agree with any environmentalist, landfill problems or not, that saving all that paper in this true Information Age is a good thing. Sorry to the pulp wood growers, paper mill workers, and former newspaper workers, but I hate wastage. It wasn't wastage then, but it'd be wastage now.
There are drawbacks to the digital world. Portals... ughhh! We'll get to that in another post shortly.
Now, as to that ever-changing Basket of Goods ... that I damn near forgot about... thought the post was over? #MeToo!: Newspapers were a product, one in demand by most households. One would figure the CPI would have included the price of newspapers. With improvements in productivity, they could have gone down in price, but then wages for newspaper employees rise, newsprint rises or falls, I don't know, but it's one item in the basket. It probably seemed, and was, simple enough for a while...
... within a quarter century, the BLS should have realized there was no longer a reason to put newspapers in the basket (hanging from the handlebars of your bike?). So, has the price of "printed" news gone to zero? You've got to pay for internet service though, to read the "newspaper" websites****** or the other sites we'd rather read from. Yeah, but the internet is useful for a lot more than reading the news. Shouldn't we pro-rate the news service as a small portion of all use of the internet, as consumed and paid for?
Yes, and not only that, but since we can get so much more news and in different ways, Hedonics-wise, the BLS could rightly say, that the price is even lower than that small share of the internet bill. We are "enjoying' a lot more of a service than we enjoyed that old product thrown on the lawn. I'd agree with them there too.
So, when you get that internet bill that your "provider" will keep raising unless you raise something else, hell on the phone, that would be, remember that the price of news is way down. Deflation in news has been occurring, even more so if you surf the web at the library and still read the newspapers they got screwed to big sticks.
* Check out: Measuring Inflation: Hooked on Hedonics - - Hedonics - Pleasure from Products and Services
** Check out: The Solution for Dilution is Substitution - - and
*** Check out: Hedonics in the Current Era of Cheap China-made Crap
**** I'd almost COMPLETELY forgotten about these until I started thinking of this post yesterday! These newspaper-supplied plastic boxes with the logos were ubiquitous even at the beginning of the century. They are almost all gone now, but I bet some of the established houses that had nice brick structures with built-in mail and "paper" boxes still have 'em. "Why come ya' got two mailboxes...?"
***** Yes, I suppose I should make my own graph. I kept asking the same question to AI, and switching out the years. (I'm not good with this stuff!)
****** These site are always the very worst when it comes to ads popping up, the page jumping around, and about 1 1/2" of screen left to actually read from, if you're lucky!
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Goodwill at the TSA
Posted On: Wednesday - November 12th 2025 5:40PM MST
In Topics: US Police State US Feral Government Guns
NOTE: I'm losing track of all these posts. Just under 7 years ago, during another Feral Gov't shutdown, Peak Stupidity posted Thousands Standing Around without pay.
These guys might really need Good Will. I could see some of them, much more than Air Traffic Controllers, living paycheck-to-paycheck out of necessity or having to find a side job during that now-ending Fed-Gov shutdown.
I was doing some traveling, and these guys seemed in better moods than when they were getting paid on time. I dunno... but let me relate some of my interactions with them as of late.
First, I will have to start with that the whole thing is very obviously unConstitutional based on Amendment IV:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,...Oh, you say, it's seems eminently reasonable for the government to search through every passenger's private property, cause... terra! No, the point is, there must be a specific reason given, to that judge who issues the warrant. I know, it's been 2 1/2 decades now... nobody cares... but Peak Stupidity and the rare Constitutionalist here and there. (Our post on September 11th of '17 was 16 Years of Spreading Democracy - They still hate us for our freedoms(?))
I had to do that. However, I have tried very hard, successfully I guess, to go with "It's just his job."* and go along to get along, as pretty much 99.99% of American travelers do, from my observations. (I haven't seen anyone raise hell there in most of a decade, I think.)
I got to know one guy by name after traveling though there a lot. We talked guns. Yes, this was at the Transportation Security Administration. Some "agent" found one pistol round in someone's luggage and brought it to this manager I know. Since I was right there, we both guessed on the caliber... yeah, .38 special, had to be. Yeah, he's got one of those, as do we. Neither this manager nor I (obviously) really cared that this round had been in someone's bag. It's America. Whaddya' expect?
It was even better another time, later on, when I came around to get my stuff out of the Anal Logic scanner. "Whadda' got today, a Baretta, an AR?" the one guy said, jokingly... (if he only knew..., write I, errr, jokingly.) "Nah, nothing today. The Barrett .50 wouldn't fit in my bag."
It's been a quarter decade now. We don't know for sure who really did it. The Moslems may very well hate us for other reasons, but they really don't have the energy or mojo to do any big terrorism anymore, it seems. Hell, if it were airplanes they were after, the ramps at MSP are half populated with Somalians after all... as the TSA, ALSO half-full of Somalians at MSP, goes on through the motions for our "security". Trays, belt and roller conveyor, imaging and metal detection, raw material in, finished product out, just a bunch of assembly lines producing checked or hand luggage out of raw un-secured luggage. It's just my job 5 days a week...
Nobody cares. Perhaps it's somewhat better that this is the case as compared to the frantic anti-terra panic a quarter century back.
This seems a good time to post in one anecdote from that (attempted) goodbye post of a year ago - I was trying to stick in a bunch of posts I'd already been ready to write:
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I was responsible for arranging the Customs & Immigration inspection for a small plane arriving into Victoria, BC, Canada. Before the internet was big, the phone-based system was called CanPass. The lady on the other end sounded nice. I gave her the full names and birth dates of the passengers. Then, the conversation went this way (exact phrasing):
"OK, do you have any tobacco?"
"No."
"Do you have any alcohol?"
"No."
"Do you have any guns?"
"Oh yeah, I have a lot of guns... but I won't bring any to Canada."
You'd think I'd proclaimed full-out Jihad against the City of Victoria there. She went on and on! I made it clear that, no, I wouldn't bring any guns, so what's the problem?
Keep in mind, as per our post Build the Wall! Employ assholes in the Customs Hall!, it's the immigration people that should be tough. I guess this lady was both that and customs together. This went on until "Hey, look, you're running me out of my roaming minutes." (If you don't understand that, you're a younger reader or maybe you're Ted Kaczynski.)
When we arrived in Victoria, there she met us - I assumed it was the same lady - to start searching all over the plane. She was looking back behind a bulkhead where cables and the battery are. Finally, I said, "Listen, we've got guns in America because we're a free country, OK?" "Hey Canada's a free country too!" "Whatever, we gotta go to dinner." That was about it for the evening with Miss Victoria Customs and Immigration.
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PS: I read over that post of mine from early '19. I highly recommend it. My attitude wasn't so mellow though... Here's an excerpt:
In earlier discussion on this Feral Gov't Shutdown, ... is it a threat, or a promise?, we brought up the "office-to-pool-hall pipeline idea. The TSA would be a choice example for the best use of that policy. Imagine if we just paid these people to stand around, but NOT AT AIRPORTS. You have to stand up while playing pool, so these people should be acclimated to that new use of their time. What a more pleasant experience air travel would be! Sure, pay these people the 2 billion anyway, it's the same as welfare - what's the diff?
* Johnny Cougar sang "... they callin' it your job, ol hoss, sure don't make it right."
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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Posted On: Monday - November 10th 2025 8:14PM MST
In Topics: Music History
It was 50 years ago today* when the ore carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank with her crew of 29 White American men into Lake Superior's Icewater Mansion. Peak Stupidity will dispense with our Sergeant Pepper parody this time. This tragedy should be remembered in sadness, not only about the 29 souls lost but also the death of the country America still was on November 10th of 1975.
As the song will tell you, the 729 ft long Edmund Fitzgerald was carrying 26,000 tons of iron ore (taconite) from resource-rich Minnesota on to steel foundries in Detroit.** In other words, this country was still a manufacturing powerhouse 50 years ago - yes, the big boat was built in America, in the late '50's though, by the Great Lakes Engineering Works of River Rouge, Michigan (in Detroit, basically).
I'm sitting here writing this while it's blowing snow here today, as "the gales of November come early...", thankfully not anywhere that far north, upper Great Lakes region. It was a violent gale there on Lake Superior that day, with the crew having planned the route out of Superior, Wisconsin the evening prior based on a slightly off and optimistic forecast. Other than the extreme weather - 50-58 knots sustained winds with gusts into the 70s and 25' and occasionally 35' rogue waves - the exact cause of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald has not necessarily been positively determined.
This wiki page does a nice job laying out 5 theories with the contributing factors. These all involve the heavy winds and big water, of course, but unsecured cargo hatch covers, a possible grounding at the "Superior Shoals" an underlake mountain, the "Three sisters" sequence of rogue wave hypothesis, plain old structural failure at the surface are brought up as possibilities. However, I checked out the NTSB report, which is more trustworthy than any wiki page. The NTSB doesn't just do aviation, even though that's where the glamour (?) is, and it is one of the few agencies of the US Government I think should have been getting paid as of late, shutdown or not. Good people. Their probable cause is the broken or missing hatch covers having let lots of water into the holds, causing the Fitzgerald to lose too much buoyancy.
I imagine our commenter SafeNow knows more about this story than we do, and his Coast Guard has a big role in the story of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald as well.
Anyway, as a youngster, living far from the Great Lakes, I'd heard Canadian pop singer Gordon Lightfoot's song quite a lot. It was an epic, you might say, especially for the AM pop radio of the day. The radio DJ I knew well told me that he'd put this single on the turntable when he had to use the restroom for the 2nd thing.
Yet, who listens to lyrics? (... as clear and good as they are in the song.) There I was, writing a creative story for English class - not my thing whatsoever, and it was to be about some mystery. In my mystery, written in pencil on the old loose-leaf paper, was about the ghost ship Edmund Fitzgerald appearing in the ocean (I didn't' know) after having sunk long, long ago, like a century. (Hey, I didn't know!) I truly didn't have any idea that the song was about a RECENT tragedy, and this English teacher. of all places, just happened to be from, as she called it, "Wizz-gaan'-sin". I got a B, probably for the spelling and grammar, but, man, if "WTF?" was around then, she should have put that in red ink! It was years until I knew of the story in the song.
This was a very nice job by a youtube creator*** from early in the youtube world. Mr. Lightfoot's great tribute was playing half a decade before musicians made creative videos for their songs, while the youtube video is from arguably 2 decades after musicians didn't care about making those creative music videos anymore.
Let's memorialize for a few minutes the hard-working White men who were lost a half century ago today. Also we should memorialize the country of a half century ago that may as well also be at the bottom in Lake Superior's Icewater Mansion... and please don't call the lake Gitche Gumee... this ain't wiki.
This is really nice: That old Mariners' Church of Detroit tolled its bells 30 times rather than 29 in '23, as old Gordie died 2 1/2 years ago. I miss him too.
PS: Years later, maybe around the time this fellow made the video, I was on a plane with a gentleman on the way from Traverse City ("Cherry Capital Airport") to Detroit. This guy turned out to be an owner of a shipping company with big boats plying the great lakes. There weren't that many of them out there. It sounded like he owned half the fleet. We had a talk about the pros and cons of actual shipping vs. shipping this bulk cargo via freight train.
* Thanks so much to Unz Review commenter Joe Stalin for noting this date - I didn't have it in my head.
** Gordon Lightfoot sang "Cleveland", but that was artistic license - it was headed for Detroit.
*** I'm just guessing that it's the "owner" of the channel, one Joseph Hulton. (Oops, now I also noticed his billing as director of the video.)
We have posted this very video made for Gordon Lightfoot's great song showing this history very respectfully, back when we'd just post videos for the music only. Amazingly, this very one was on youtube 16 years ago and is still there obviously. I must have seen it when it'd been up about a year or 2, as I recall.
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Jet Bridge Carol
Posted On: Saturday - November 8th 2025 7:15PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Humor Race/Genetics
Dang Revisionists!
I've read about it from Conservative race realists regularly. I've seen the commercials on youtube videos, same as on TV, as I've glimpsed on occasion (that last was in '21). The disproportionate preponderance of black characters is noticeable, to put it mildly. It's ridiculous, to put it truthfully.
I won't watch the movies, but apparently there are black people in movies about olde England and I'd guess at King Arthur's (basketball?) court too. A friend just mentioned that the Vikings are black in some movie or show coming out.
Look, Hollywood, you can revise olde England, and you can revise the Vikings, but I draw the line when you revise Carol Kester!
"Hey, why come you don't have a computer?"
Carol was Bob Newhart's receptionist, well, shared also by Jerry the Orthodontist and a couple of other professionals on the floor of that building in downtown Chicago. These people with their jet bridge artistry have very offensively culturally appropriated the hairstyle of 1970s receptionist Carol. The earrings are OK though ...
If you're gonna show a receptionist on vacation, show the original White lady, and, while you're at it, show with a REAL phone, with a whole bunch of REAL buttons and lights.
Peak Stupidity will sign off now, just in time for our race realist encounter group, hosted by Dr. Hartley. He's been trying to get me to take life less seriously.
The theme song from 53 years back. Why do people complain about Chicago? It looks like such a nice place.
Thanks for reading this week, Peakers. Have a good night.
PS: Her real name was Marcia Wallace, from Creston, Iowa. She died in '13. I know nothing about the imposter Jet Bridge Carol.
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