Max Lucado, King of the Cucks!
Posted On: Thursday - August 20th 2020 8:30PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Race/Genetics Bible/Religion
Since it's not nice to puke on the virtual pews, I'll avoid this cuck's church.
Right on the heels of the unfinished series of posts on the question of modern Christianity's effect on the continued existence of Western civilization (still on Part 2) Peak Stupidity has come upon an excellent example of what we were trying to get at. It's an excellent example, not an excellent thing to read about, by any means.
Allan Wall, one of the (usually) calmest and most civil writers on VDare.com, and they are all pretty calm and civil compared to your average political site, relates a story of a cuck-fest held by a church headed by a guy who's known as "America's Pastor". I'd never heard of this Max Lucado before, but per Mr. Wall, he has written over 100 books. Please go read the article at VDare, "America's Pastor" Max Lucado Publicly "Apologizes" for the Sins of Previous Generations of White Americans , even if you don't come back here. Take any and all blood pressure meds first, as otherwise Peak Stupidity is not responsible for any and all ... blah, blah, blah. [Thank you! - PS Legal]
Yeah, this guy is all broken up about the legacy of slavery, obviously having already chastised the writers of the Old Testament for condoning it in the multiple books and verses... right? I hope he didn't forget or nuthin'. As Peak Stupidity noted in our white paper laying out our Slavery Reparations Plan, it's not just a black thing, y'all, though the black folks do seem the most bent out of shape about it. PS:
It's a real fixation, I tell you, as probably a majority of us living in America today have had some slave ancestors of various sorts. You take your Hispanics - the Indian blood that makes up 1/2 their heritage is from ancestors for whom perhaps being held in bondage was the least of their worries.*. People with that Slavic background, well, you've got some street cred already, "Slave-ic", get it? You've got your leggy supermodels whose leggy supermodel ancestors could have easily been held as white sex slaves by, well, anybody, hell, who wouldn't? Jews have had ancestors held by Egyptians, Hittites by Caananites, Arkites by Girgashites, Sinites by Hermaphrodites, and more recently, Hindu-H-1Bites by Microsoft Windites. That's the big picture that many are not seeing.Speaking of the latter, we are not writing in jest when we note that The Horrible Legacy of Slavery Continues ... , I mean TODAY, in America, by Contra Costa County Couples and Suburban Chicago families. I would hope Pastor Lucado didn't forget to mention this kind of thing too.
Really, even if the entire family tree of yours descended from nothing but cotton plantation owners in 1850s Mississippi, you have no reason to feel guilty. The New Testament does not condone that sins of the Fathers crap from the Old. Shouldn't America's Pastor know this stuff?
Prominent local pastor and author Max Lucado got down on his knees Sunday [August 9] in San Antonio to beg forgiveness for his and his white ancestors’ acts of racism and inaction. “I am sorry that I have been silent. I am sorry that my head has been buried in the sand,” Lucado said. “My brothers and sisters are hurting and I am sorry. I have made them to feel less than. I did not help. I did not hear. I did not see. I did not understand.”You apparently don't understand squat, you miserable cuck. That's just the beginning.
“Our ancestors were wrong. They were wrong. When they bought and sold human beings, that was wrong. When they claimed superiority over slaves, over blacks, that was wrong. When they refused to share water fountains, restaurants, and city buses with your children, your chosen precious children, that was a sin. And we are so very sorry. We are sorry for the pain of that day.”Hmmm, so if I get on a city bus in downtown Birmingham (where the 'hound broke down*), and the (nothing but) black people on the bus aren't welcoming to me, can I get an apology? Can I get a witness? Mr. Wall asks "So is everybody in the world obligated to apologize for the sins of their ancestors, or only white people?"
Pastor Lucado then asks forgiveness for his own sins:
“Your church, your pastors, have broken your heart by favoring one skin color over another – oh, Lord God, have mercy on our souls. … How dare we? … How that must nauseate you, O Lord,” he said, adding that those sins extend to brown skin and that he himself has committed them.The Lord may very well be nauseated, but it ain't from racism. If the people of San Antonio undergo some precipitation in the near future never seen before other than by Bartholomew Cubbins in a Dr. Suess book, that is the Lord puking his guts out after having to forgive the genocidal cuckitude of America's Pastor. I don't know how to break it to you, San Antonio, but that shit ain't oobleck.
Here is the worst of Pastor Lucado's sins:
“The word ‘wetback’ has found its way on my lips, too,” he said. “For that, I’m so very sorry. Would you please, O Lord, bring a new day.”I wonder how the word "wetback" DID get to the lips of this guy - talking to references about the crew for the new church roof? How about a new day in America without wetbacks? We prayed for Donald Trump in '16, so ...
OK, well that rant got out of hand, but Mr. Wall's is more civil. Due to the way things are going in this country, even Allan Wall has a Sailer-style snarky remark, in this case regarding the Kung Flu. I recommend you read his article even if just for that one - it's very funny.
Mr. Wall also links to a rebuttal from a more Conservative church out of Charlotte, N. Carolina - it's by one Jeff Maples - here.
If this effeminate groveling is going to the a regular thing from America's Pastor, then count me out of America's Church.
* Sorry, old Chuck Berry reference. Check out the Dead's version of "The Promised Land". I promise you, it's better.
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Tucker Carlson - The LOCKDOWNS are destroying America
Posted On: Wednesday - August 19th 2020 7:49PM MST
In Topics: US Police State Pundits Kung Flu Stupidity
Per E.F. Hail, in the comments under his Against the Corona-Panic, Part XV , Tucker Carlson was "pushing almost non-stop Corona panic on his show" back in late March and April '20. (Without a TV in use, I watch what I want to watch, so I had no idea.) Hey, as we know, stupid thoughts can come out of even good people.
Well, Mr. Carlson has come around to the anti-panic side. In this video that I watched first on Mr. Hail's site, Tucker Carlson tears Dr. Fauci a new one, a guy whom Mr. Hail says Tucker lionized as an expert that should be listened to early on.
I haven't had Tucker on in quite some time - some of the old videos I've put up get switched out by youtube, and I don't always realize videos are missing until, I dunno, years later. Look under the Pundits topic key for some more. I'm sure it'd be easier to just go to youtube or bitchute*.
Here you go - > 8 minutes of premium Tucker:
"Joe Biden has not waded too deeply into questions of public policy recently, in case you haven't noticed. Whatever else Biden may be doing, looking at funny cat videos on the internet, shuffling to his mailbox every afternoon..." Hey, that hits a little too close to home, Tucker!
* I need to start embedding bitchute videos at some point. VDare has already been kicked off of youtube for excessive truthfulness, so It's time to support the new guys.
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Christianity - Living for the next world, but what about this one? - Part 2
Posted On: Wednesday - August 19th 2020 6:01PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Student and other Snowflakes Bible/Religion So-called Pope Francis
(Continued from previous post with its excellent, thoughtful comments so far.)
The argument being discussed here is whether the modern version of Christianity is at least partly responsible for the downfall of western society. Some of the comments/posts that I've see address this topic go all the way back to the very beginning of Christianity. They say we need to go back to paganism, Druidism(?), etc. Most would probably disagree with this opinion. When you look at history right up through the middle of the 20th century, 19 centuries of evidence (OK, 16 or so starting from the Roman adoption of Christianity) tells us the Western World did very well under Christianity, beating out, well everyone else. That's not to say it is the secret to our success, but it sure didn't hurt.
What about the last 75 years though? I am no Professor of Divinity, though it's apparently very easy to become one via the internet now. I can't discuss which Vatican forum was the downfall. I don't know which Pope to blame, if it comes down to Catholicism alone (not really), though I do know a recent Commie so-called Pope who is a very big example of the problem right now.
Again, most religions lead us to strive for the next life or next world, which will be better by a long shot than this one, or we wouldn't sign up. Christianity, though, is emphatic that no matter how much good one does in this one, that is no guarantee of any spot in the next one. Secondly, the emphasis on forgiveness towards ones enemies is something that is particular from Jesus. Both of these are concepts that don't come easily to us, but that's just it - it's about faith.
That does not mean that active Christians don't do more than their share of good in this world. Ask anyone, and he'd rather some Jehovah's Witness ladies knock on the door offering help than any bearded Moslem guy in a robe. They are trustworthy because of their attitude, and were the world really filled with true Christians (kind of the point for the Evangelical types)*, I don't think I'd be writing this post.
For whatever reasons, the forgiveness and tolerance** aspect of modern Christianity has been elevated to be the be-all-to-end-all over creating and maintaining a Western Christian society to begin with. This is the large-scale problem. Peak Stupidity has discussed in numerous posts (the Students and other Snowflakes has kinda morphed into a catch-all for some of these) the ridiculous tolerance for stupidity that modern Christian churches have signaling their virtues with***. On the immigration front, it involves invited millions of COMPLETE foreigners to live in our communities, changing them for the worse. See, the good being done for those individuals brought here may not do a bit of good for those of US already here, in this world, but they are thinking of the next. OTOH, good works alone, which is in this case surely in the eye of the
If the Lutherans that push this stuff, the Southern Baptist Convention support for Black Lives Matter idiocy , and pretty much all of the rest of the traditional denominations of American Christianity are all woke up, well, they are not concerned with this world. That is, at least this world in traditional America. They have their faith, they do what they FEEL is their best good works, but if their grandchildren end up growing up as strangers in a strange land, and if this world ends up burning in civil war, well, shoot, that's not really their problem. They are looking to the next world.
This post was just about to lead to the small-scale aspect of modern Christian extreme forgiveness and tolerance, but I think that'll have to be Part 3. Instead, today, how 'bout some Tucker Carlson goodness, regarding this world.
* The Chinese people have benefited a lot from the Christian religion, those in China practicing often under the table (not literally!) along with those around the world, such as in America. Western Christians tried to convert the place starting a coupla hundred years back, but they were needles in a haystack of people. (Read "A Great War never even heard of - the Taiping Rebellion " about a big war involving some weird fallout from this effort.)
** I don't think "tolerance" is actually mentioned anywhere in the New Testament (or Old Testament, most definitely!) but it seems to be part of the dogma now.
*** Well, OK, and to collect a whole lot of money for doing so, off of the US taxpayer, no less. The best source on all of this is the wonderful Refugee Resettlement Watch site, run by one nice and hardworking lady, Mrs. Ann Corcoran. She's got her own URL now, so Wordpress or Blogspot (whomever it was) can't fuck with her.
**** That is NOT a Biblical passage in Proverbs. Per wiki (I know, right?) the closest thing can be found in Ecclesiastes (see more) 21:10, "The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end thereof is the pit of hell." It is not clear to me that this has the same meaning, but anyway, this is Old Testament stuff, incorporated by Christianity, but not necessarily taken as the Gospel (haha!) Here's more the section of Chapter 21 in question:
7 An eloquent man is known far and near; but a man of understanding knoweth when he slippeth.
8 He that buildeth his house with other men's money is like one that gathereth himself stones for the tomb of his burial.
9 The congregation of the wicked is like tow wrapped together: and the end of them is a flame of fire to destroy them.
10 The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end thereof is the pit of hell.
11 He that keepeth the law of the Lord getteth the understanding thereof: and the perfection of the fear of the Lord is wisdom.
12 He that is not wise will not be taught: but there is a wisdom which multiplieth bitterness.
13 The knowledge of a wise man shall abound like a flood: and his counsel is like a pure fountain of life.
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Christianity - Living for the next world, but what about this one? - Part 1
Posted On: Tuesday - August 18th 2020 8:52PM MST
In Topics: Media Stupidity Race/Genetics Bible/Religion
These thoughts came to form this post back before I wrote the quick note about the wonderful news of the recovery of then- 5 y/o Landen Hoffman in Minneapolis, MN. What got me even thinking again of the attempted murder of this boy via being thrown 3 stories down off a balcony at the Mall of America was a post by iSteve about another evil deed by a crazed black man a little over a week ago. Mr. Sailer's article, Still No Mention of Murder of Cannon Hinnant in NYT or WP notes the evil behavior of the American Lyin' Press:
Cannon Hinnant was a five-year-old white boy playing outside in North Carolina last Sunday, when the adult black man living next door walked up and shot him in the head point blank in front of neighbors looking out their windows with horror. The suspect has been arrested but no motive has been released.Mr. "Paul Kersey", with his "Stuff Black People Don't Like" blog, now on unz.com, gives us these horrific stories at least weekly. That's a necessary thing, seeing as the Lyin' Press, other than at the local level at which people already know what happened, won't let us know. Sure, not all the black-on-white crimes are as evil as the murdering of 5 year-olds in cold blood, but the stats say there are multiple black-on-white violent crimes daily. What do you do?
So far, 96 hours later, neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post has deigned to run even the Associated Press’s brief wire service account of the event.
Obviously, if the races were reversed, this would be this year’s Crime of the Century. As it is, it’s just another dog-bites-man local police blotter item of no interest to national newspapers.
What you do as a nation about a race that simply consists of more violent people than your own being a large minority living among you is the subject of billions of words with no great solution insight. That's not the subject of this, or what is becoming a series of, post(s).
What do you do if a violent deed like this was done to your child? With the endless sorrow that would come from losing a child to some degenerate or the sorrow mixed with anxiety were it the long road back from the physical trauma dealt to little Landen, most people will turn to religion. There is no better way, other than performing simple vigilante justice. At that point, the whole rest of the family will be toast, and whether you will feel better or not won't be determined until after the fact. Getting to the point here [Finally! Here's a toast to getting to the point! - Ed], the still-dominant religion, if any, in America is one that says emphatically, no you don't do that! That is Christianity, of course.
Jesus, and hence, Christianity, emphasize forgiveness by far more than any other religion I've read much about. Additionally, though this is obviously a common idea in all religions, the belief that the next world that we can attain, through faith, is more important than this world, is also emphasized throughout the New Testament. The questions that come up to every thinking person are:
a) Doesn't it still matter what we accomplish, for good or bad, in this life?
b) If we concentrate on assuring our place in the next world at the expense of this one, i.e. by not sweating the political problems of today one bit, and let the chips fall where they may, are we not letting our future fellow man down? Is that just fine? It can go far enough, such as it did in Soviet Russia or Mao-era China, such that nobody can practice Christianity to begin with. Is it OK to let that happen?
One can look back to the Medieval times and understand that the 2nd important aspect of Christianity, the priority of the next world over this one, had widespread belief. However, think of the Crusades, wars over religion, etc., and you can discern that forgiveness was not the be-all-to-end-all that it is today. Perhaps the Medieval folks could count better, say to 490 ("7 times 70", the man said). After that, enough is enough!
I've seen lots of interesting arguments on the internet over whether modern Christianity is a force that is destroying White/Western society. The tendency for Christians to be forgiving and tolerant over all other qualities is thought to be at the root of many of our existential problems. It's a good argument, and one or more subsequent posts will address this in relation to these personal stories of loss and sadness from the evils that WE HAVE let happen in our Western society.
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Scenes from the Kung Flu Summer re-Panic - Part 10
Posted On: Monday - August 17th 2020 8:00PM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Kung Flu Stupidity
This post could also be called "Elevator Etiquette in the age of the Kung Flu", but we've already got a name for this series, so ... continuing from Part 9...
We can barely go a week here at Peak Stupidity without running into some Kung Flu stupidity that results in a blog post. After I thought about this one, I talked to a guy about his mask, and got so infuriated at his answer ... see, now that's another post.
In the elevators of hotels now there are signs of various sorts to help us prevent ourselves from spreading this Black Plague 2.0 that has our matriarchal society in hysterics. The signs are on the doors on all floors, and the stickers are on the elevator floors too.
Stay 6 ft. apart, it told me. Yeah, but the elevator was only about 5 ft across. OK, with a 4 ft. depth though, lets plug into Pythagorus' theory. Yeah, in my head it works out, but then do our mouths have to be 6 ft. apart? I think these stickers need to be more specific, so let's get the contagion engineers on the blower, get specs for these new stickers ...
I wasn't wearing a mask at all, as I went downstairs to work out. I didn't expect anyone else to get on, but a 55-60 y/o guy with a face mask on got on at a lower floor. He had nothing to say. I guess that's the normal elevator etiquette, where you look down or up. I gathered that it wasn't the normal elevator etiquette for the masked man to face the corner though. I'd never seen this one before. He really was worried shitless.
Now, that is his business after all, and maybe he really does have something to worry about. I could have put the balled-up mask in my pocket on, but I was just disgusted by the whole scene. Or, that guy could have noticed me in there first, and if he was so concerned, taken the stairs down to get a little bit of exercise - he looked able enough.
After that Precor 842i bike machine kicked my ass, I was still breathing a little heavy*, so breathing in my own breath and snot off a mask on the way up was out of the question. Luckily, it was just me. We need to sort ourselves out into panickers and non-panickers. The masks or lack thereof, ought to be the "flag", as with shirts and skins in tag football. Too bad there are "emergency" orders that interfere with this arrangement.
Oh, I almost forgot. The guy on the elevator could see that I'd already pressed the button for floor 1, the lobby. It was lit up, and hell, where would I be going anyway? Yet, he did that thing where you press the button anyway, even though it was lit up. That is BAD elevator etiquette even in normal times, as, well, you're not going to speed it up, and it's as if to tell the other riders they didn't do it right. It just seems stupid. In this Summer of the re-Panic though, it was even worse, as the guy used the tip of his finger, as in normal times.
Doesn't he know that these Kung Flu germies can cling onto those elevator buttons like the last Vietnamese guy off the roof of the US Embassy in Saigon clung to the Huey skids in 1975? You use your knuckles now, you knuckleheads. Knuckles are the new fingertips. This is all great for burglars and bank robbers, between the masks, and now, look
* Yeah, I did spend extra time wiping off the machine. I was just glad I didn't have to sneak in - the key card doesn't always work.
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Precor 62/80/82 treadmill consoles- the Stupidity stops here.
Posted On: Monday - August 17th 2020 5:29PM MST
In Topics: Artificial Stupidity
Just skip this post, everyone. Peak Stupidity has this sub-fixation with the bio-physics calculations incorporated into the electronics in exercise machine consoles, and, by God, we're gonna finish this. In this case it's just praise for the Precor P62/80/82 series of treadmill machine console, the first of which is the console describe in our previous post on this matter.
After doing a workout on this nice machine (both mechanically and electronically), I checked it out just a bit more than last time. For one thing, I got the model #, which I didn't know last post - it's the Precor P-80, and I looked into the one I'd discussed before and determined that it was a P-62.
Then, I played with this one some. At two speed/slope combinations, the elevation gain is right on the money, per calculation. That should not be very difficult as it's simply speed x slope, but this just tells me the programmers at least weren't making it up as they went along. This treadmill** goes to NEGATIVE 3% slope. That was interesting. The only problem is, the elevation gained was not decreasing. I went up to 10 mph, but nope. That's just a little bit of stupidity there, as why shouldn't it go back down? It makes me think some "compassionate" women were involved in the marketing or programming - mustn't discourage the poor exerciser. "3 more calories too. You're a winner!".
See, with the slope at -3% at 1 mph, the display still shows ~3 kCal burned per minute. There may be something to that. As we tried to explain in some of the other similar posts, biological work done is not an easy thing to calculate. However, simple mechanical-work-wise, the exerciser is getting work done ON HIM. At -3%, 10 mph, more "calories are burned", but the damn thing is dangerous! If you stumble or can't keep up, I believe this thing could throw you into the bars and that nicely-engineered console.
Here's something I forgot to mention before, for some of the new treadmills: If you jump off onto the sides, as I do, to check my heart rate, the smart(ass) machine detects no user (no spikes in motor torque?) and will display a "no user detected message" with the heart rate I'm trying to watch off the display! #Annonying! Then again, the doctors or exercise pros would have you just bring the slope down and turn the speed way down for measurement of heart rate recovery. I suppose the idea is to keep one from leaving the machine running all night, and to keep some dumbass from getting back on it in the morning while it's running 10 mph 3% downhill.
One more thing regarding the exercise machines in general is my continual annoyance with the Precor 842i bike machine. That's the one that just screws me out of my efforts. My goal is to go 5 miles in 20 minutes, which, though really shouldn't have to be the case, seems to be a good standard workout for me on most of the recumbent bike machines. You've got to start a little easy, so I get behind that pace, then start ramping up the resistance. I keep the same 80 -85 rpm pace, and the speed averages well over 15 mph (5 miles in 20 min pace), yet the thing shows me further and further behind! It'd be one thing if the increased resistance on the machine were to represent hill-climbing, hence a higher calorie-burn rate but no speed increase. That's how it is on a real bike. But, NO, the speed shows an increase, but the pace is slower. WTH, Precor?
What? You're still here?? [/Bueller] If you've gone this far, I want to say that I appreciate our loyalty. A sneak peak into the near future is that we'll have more "scenes from the Kung Flu re-Panic", more on the religious questions in relationship to little Landen, and movie reviews.
* That may not be the case with all treadmills that have this console though.
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Little Landen's miraculous recovery
Posted On: Saturday - August 15th 2020 8:20PM MST
In Topics: Bible/Religion
An article by Steve Sailer on that shooting of the 5 y/o white boy by a black neighbor made me think again of little Lqnden Hoffman of Minneapolis, the 5 y/o boy (6 now) who was thrown of a balcony down 3 stories by some crazy black man "looking for someone to kill". I'll link to that in another post on the matter, but it just happens to be 2 weeks since Peak Stupidity's post on this, Little Landen in Minneapolis.
I meant to write a lot more about forgiveness (or lack thereof) and whether the Christain religion, at least the modern version, IS really going to be the downfall of white civilization, as I've read commenters argue. I'll leave that for another post to come next week.
Right now, I'll just mention that I read today very good news about this boy's recovery. Though he had lived, things looked very grim for the boy's full recovery last year, per the post linked-to above. He's just one boy, and bad things happen even to good little innocent children every day, but I am so glad about this.
I had a newer site page pulled up on a different computer earlier, but this Atlanta Journal-Constitution article from around Thanksgiving of last year is about the most recent proper article I can find. The world "miraculous" was used in that post I can't find anymore and in plenty of others. I'll let the kid speak for himself:
“He tells people all the time when they get hurt, don’t worry, I fell off a cliff, but Angels caught me and Jesus loves me, so I’m ok and you will be too!" reads a post on the site from Nov. 22.The boy is walking normally, and the articles I've seen don't mention any permanent health problems that the boy would have to deal with the rest of his whole life. This is great news.
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And now, we have longer cattle lines, for your own Safety and Security
Posted On: Saturday - August 15th 2020 11:18AM MST
In Topics: US Police State Americans Liberty/Libertarianism Kung Flu Stupidity
(Note: Not taken of our line. We had a more convoluted path, everyone wore masks, and then there was the
We ask the reader to please skip to at least the 2nd portion of this post if you've read this before (somewhere?), as this is basically an addendum to COVID / TSA twin peaks of stupidity post from over 2 months back. This post describes our experience at the TSA line in a different location from that at which we encountered the pleasant experience described 2 days back in Thank you, TSA guy!. Instead of just our family and the one guy (that was the beauty of it, as I think nobody was nearby enough to watch him), there were thousands.
Let me digress just a bit to inside the airport terminal, by which I mean on the flying side of the security lines. (Actually some of this is outside too.) Go back about 20 years, and, yes, one would hear about "the FAA advises this" and "the FAA requires that" when it came to luggage handling, plenty of rules on-board the airplanes, of course and this or that procedure. I want to mention 2 things:
1) I do know that much of the Nazi/Commie-like behavior of gate agents and flight attendants (especially) is due to out-of-control FAA rules, making these (wanting-to-be) customer service type individuals into cops. I can tell you from experience that were a F/A to know there are no company, FAA, or any other tattletales in the cabin, she would be much more relaxed and congenial. "Don't want to put the seat-belt on. Fine, I'm not gonna make a Federal case out of", she might think, not say, on occasion.
2) The FAA, being involved in actual, real, sometimes acute safety issues, with plenty of technical decisions to make, are a group composed of fewer AA/Dieversity hires than most government agencies. They've got lots of White men, in other words, making decisions. This is a good thing. Since I mentioned that, I'll note that I have actual high regard for the NTSB, a different outfit, because they are engineering/technical types. I have personal experience even.
OK, but that's going back 2 decades, almost. Go back 1/2 a year, or slightly more, through 18 years, and you will remember that you'd hear "the FAA this/that" AND "the TSA this/that" around the terminal, telling you what you must do to "be safe" and "for your own good". Yeah, I guess we are used to that enough to where our brains completely block it out. (I wish I could say the same for CNN in the terminals. )
Here's the latest agency we may hear from forever, the way the Kung Flu Panic-fest is going - the CDC. "The CDC recommends...", "The CDC requires ...", etc, is what you have blasting at you along with the commands from the other two organizations. Yes, put your money in noise-cancelling headsets, people! That's my stock tip. I sincerely hope it will make up for the tip that most readers hopefully missed in February to "get all your funds out of the floor sticker sector! It's going to bottom out!" Hey, this is not a financial-advise site, and (due to, cough, cough, our following our own stock tips, cough...) WE ARE NOT WORTH SUING! [Thank you - PS Legal]
Because there are these twin peaks of stupidity at the airport terminal, the War on Terra and the War on Germies, the American experts and authoritahs have worked out a system. We need to screen EVERYBODY because, fairness and shit. We also need to keep everyone 6 ft apart and not spreading germs even through the face masks that we require them to wear, because pandemic! Therefore, there was a long, long stretch of cattle-pen type line, bordered by 8 ft sections of ~ 7ft tall plexiglas with metal support. Let's not worry about any Covid-cooties going up and above or below, or through the breaks. We hope they have not mutated to be that smart yet.
Subtract the expected throughput (yes, that's the terms they use, as in a production line - you are the input and you minus your toothpaste, gerber tool, and bottled water are the output) from the rate of entrants to the terminal during the peak times, multiply that by 6 ft, and you get an idea of how long the line must be. There were multiple hundreds of sections of plexiglas that wound around like the line to the best E-ticket ride in Disneyland. Hey, we didn't mind the walk actually. It was only about 5 -10% of the number of steps we'd done on our long hike*.
No, it's the indignity of it all that really pissed me off. Some may reply to me that, yes, that's what we have to put up with, but I say that firstly, it's NOT a necessary indignity. The Kung Flu healthcare theater is ridiculous and the security theater is ridiculous. Both are for show, and I don't like being turned into a cattle/sheep-like creature for this show. Both of these worries could be better handled by individuals and private companies (the airlines in the case of both worries).
Lastly, and this is the point that'd I'd asked readers sick of this TSA-posting to come read. The problem we got, as described by some blogger who I can't recall many years ago, is this: Americans come from an organized people. The British Founders especially, but also Germans, Scandinavians, etc. are good with organization. OTOH, we have this unConstitutional and Police-State type behavior out of governents-gone-wild.
Now, you do down to S. America, and yes, they have lots of stupid, arbitrary rules too, and lots of hype too. However, they are not good at organization. So, the rules are in place, but people are too lazy and/or incompetent to really enforce them correctly**. There is the corruption aspect (that could probably get your pocketknife through the line, because, "hey, my Dad works for ...")
Our people do the best they could to comply with all recommendations by the experts and the letter of the law. So, you've got your floor stickers, your plexiglas sections by the hundreds, your face shields on the TSA guys (that's gotta suck, I don't care who you are, and no, if you work there I don't care who you are.***) so that we can all be SAFE when they ask you to take the mask off to match your face with your ID card, your touching of the ladies behinds by ladies only and little kids by ....
Oh, as a last thought here (I promise), when the cattle chute got within 100 ft or so of the entrance to finally get screened, well, people get anxious, you know, so ... they all bunch together. At that point we were back at normal, or what is now "non-social" distances apart. A lot of damn good this all does!
* Totally off-topic, but thanks to the nice backpacker who lent our 9 y/o the toilet paper! We were 2 1/2 hours from anything resembling a bathroom, and, though I used to have a pack with the required and emergency stuff for day hikes that might turn into overnights, we don't have a family of preppers exactly, right now. That needs to change. The wife is FINALLY catching on that thing are getting worse here. (The kid wouldn't have gone another 5 minutes, much less 2 1/2 hours!)
** The bad thing that comes from this is that anyone not in good standing with any authoritah can be taken in for any one of these rules that's only enforced when said authoritah damn well wants to.
*** Actually, I shouldn't be so harsh. A post coming sometime will be about that "I just work here. I don't make the rules" business.
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Inflation Note: National Park fees
Posted On: Friday - August 14th 2020 8:48PM MST
In Topics: Inflation
(Note: This is not necessarily the location we visited, but just a file photo.)
This is just a short inflation note. Is this cherry picking, is what I wonder myself sometimes? Well, if there were something related to counteract the items I see going up, I'd write about it too. I suppose we could have a post soon about the things that have been truly getting cheaper but being made of (or served resulting in) the same value or better.
Anyway, the National Park entrance fee is now $30 for a good-for-7-days entrance and $55 for a year-long one. I do not remember the comparable 7-day one, but through only 12 years ago, I used to go enough to one particular beautiful National Park that I'd get year-long ones.* They were $30 then. With the online calculator Money Chimp (yeah, I just like the name, and it works), I get a 5.18% inflation rate with compounding accounted for.
There is another data point that I wish I could give more details on. Let's call it a transportation service of some kind. This exact same service in the exact same location costed $6.50 in 1999. It is $20.50 today. Ka-ching! 5.62%, says the Money Chimp.
Hey, these Inflation notes I've been posting are just anecdotes. They add up though. Don't believe the BLS.
* One could and can also get year-long ones good for ANY of the National Parks. That was $80 last week, and I think it was $50 back in the day I'd buy the $30 ones. That's right at 4% yearly inflation.
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Mr. Øb☭ma fails to perform
Posted On: Friday - August 14th 2020 9:30AM MST
In Topics: Books Dead/Ex- Presidents
"...yet", says Penguin Random House, ex-President Øb☭ma's book publisher.
Look, Peak Stupidity would have been glad to have never heard from, read of, or written of, this "community-organizing" phony Constitutional scholar for the rest of our blog-life. This little tidbit regarding the retired President is worth mentioning due to the I-told-you-so effect. The first of our Affirmative Action Presidents (Kamel-Toe, or Tamil-Ho*, being a likely 2nd), I never thought Mr. Øb☭ma was a git-er-done type of guy.
I mean, increased Socialism, continued war-mongering, and the purposeful continuation of the immigration invasion aside, I figured, hell if this guy could racially heal this country, then maybe it would be worth putting up with 8 years of his condescension and ignorance of what made America great. I don't feel the healing right now, though. Maybe we were healed for a while, and I just missed it. If that's the case, it didn't take!
The ex-President, early-on AntiChrist candidate Øb☭ma has been reneging (wheww, thank you, spell check!) on a 3 y/o contract to write another book, or get someone to write another book for him. Per The American Spectator, Publishers Fret Over Obama’s ‘Failure to Perform’ his next book was to be published almost 2 years ago. In this short article it is also mentioned that Mr. Øb☭ma also blew off a book deal in the early 1990's, and kept most of his $125,000 advance anyway, because, poverty:
According to Osnos, the publisher [an "imprint"(?) of Simon & Shuster] asked that Obama return at least some of the advance. According to biographer Christopher Andersen, Obama had spent $75,000 of the advance and could not pay it back. The publisher let Obama keep the money only after he pled poverty due to “massive student loan debt.”Later on, in 1994, Mr. Obama was convinced to finish the book for Random House, unfortunately, as that became the racist whine called Dreams from my Father (his father being the reprobate that ditched little Obama and Mom - forget it, Jake, it's Africa).
For this most recent book from Obama, we are talking real money this time, $65,000,000. I'm just glad it's not my tax money. It'd be great if we never heard another word from this guy, and I'd never even pick up the book from the library. We are eagerly awaiting the latest Dogman book though, to be titled Grime and Punishment.
* Another great piece of wordplay by the illustrious unz.com commenter Reg Caesar.
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More rockin' music by Linda Ronstadt
Posted On: Thursday - August 13th 2020 8:12PM MST
In Topics: Music
In our Linda Ronstadt movie review, Peak Stupidity expressed our shock that we had not featured any of her great music before. It's time to remedy that right now.
As we noted, Miss Ronstadt didn't write very many of her songs. Every single one that I consider a good one was written by another writer/artist. It's So Easy was written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty and performed by Buddy Holly and the Crickets back in 1958. You gotta always give the writer(s) credit, but I will say I like Linda Rondstadt and her band's version better (perhaps because I heard it first).
I bring up the band, because that's important. Miss Ronstadt had such a great voice, but this song would not be one of my favorites without that band - the guitar, bass guitar, drums, and just the right amount of cowbell!
From the album Simple Dreams, this song went to number 5 on the Billboard magazine top 100 chart in 1977.
Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me was written by the late great Warren Zevon**. He had it on his eponymous album in 1976, and then Linda Rondstadt released it in 1978, from that same Simple Dreams album. I really like that hard-rocking guitar sound - I wish that ending would just gone on for longer. Oh, more cowbell? You got it!**
A youtube commenter (under the first video):
Rob Saunders 4 years ago (edited)
"She could sing the phone book and still sound better than any singers today."
* Peak Stupidity has featured his music 3 times so far, here, here, and here.
** OK, he's hitting the rim of the snare drum, but it's the poor man's cowbell.
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Thank you, TSA guy!
Posted On: Thursday - August 13th 2020 7:08PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity US Police State
From our recent family trip comes a story of a GOOD TSA guy. Can you imagine? Try to get in your head "good" and "TSA" together. OK, I'm just hearing the hilarious Good Samaritan skit from this recent post in my head. It's probably hard for the Peak Stupidity reader to understand that I'm not being sarcastic this time. Don't worry, more complaints about this whole government organization devoted to illegal search and seizure is coming ... tomorrow or on the weekend.
I try to direct my anger against the operation rather than the people, for whatever the indignity may be. In the case of the TSA, though I abhor the whole point of this agency and the process, I've tried to be civil lately with the people. Yeah, I know, "they just work there". I would really like to give this shout-out to the TSA gentleman with his location, just in case anyone reads it who might let him know, but we do try to keep a low profile here. Secondly, it would likely get him in trouble!
I'd lost something that would have allowed my normal quick pass through this checkpoint into the airport. At this one location, at a pretty big airport, there was nobody but our family in the line. The guy was pretty lenient about what I was taking through there, as we were very close to missing the flight (the search for my item was part of the problem, but the delay getting to the airport is what I blame for my losing of the item to begin with). Maybe it was because it was slow, but I have never met such a reasonable and helpful guy in the TSA in a long while.
The fact that he was reasonable meant that he was using common sense rather than enforcing random stupidity. That is part of what could get the guy in trouble. It's like that nowadays, in all government and other big organizations. The stupidity from on high must be enforced. Anyone being reasonable is taking a risk of getting in trouble, as one can't go wrong nowadays by enforcing "zero tolerance".
I thought back to 25 years ago, when the security guy was just someone hired by the airport authority. This was at LAX, mind you, and the guy said "hey, that pocket knife is probably a little too big. Do you mind putting it in your checked luggage?" The situation was so relaxed and non-confrontational that I could have probably argued him into letting me keep it on me. I did bring it back downstairs, and the only checked item I had was a rifle. It was already in a room behind the counter, so I was all, "hey, can you put this knife with my gun?" "What? Can't hear you." I had to shout "take this knife and put it in the box with my gun." Yeah, I'd be face down on the floor if this happened in this century.
So, thank you Mr. TSA man! You saved our trip from going haywire. Of course, if there were no TSA in the first place ....
PS: The reader may be long sick of these posts about the TSA. If you've read this far though, let me say this: If you don't travel on the airlines much, I understand that it's out-of-sight/out-of-mind to you. However, even if you don't travel, you've gotta know this Police State stuff is slowly building up. (Do you remember long ago when DUI checkpoints were actually debated based on Constitutionality?) This won't be just an airline travel thing in the long run. I thought they'd be doing the same at the train stations, but then, with Amtrak, who cares? A train on the Chicago-San Francisco line could get blown up, and the families on the other end would not know for a couple of days that something was amiss, the way that they keep to a schedule.
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The Horrible Legacy of Slavery Continues ...
Posted On: Wednesday - August 12th 2020 6:48PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Humor Race/Genetics
... Contra Costa County, California and Chicagoland hardest hit.
(Note: May not be the same exact slavers as per news stories mentioned herewith.)
I guess it's not a legacy anymore, come to think of it. Damn, this resets the clock in the neighborhood of 165 years back. See, slavery is still on-going in the United States, contrary to popular belief and the strict stipulations in Constitutional Amendment XIII. Worse yet, it's in the North now. Well, I never! Are the Northerners out of their cotton-pickin' minds?!
Peak Stupidity has mentioned before, in the Amend. 13 post linked-to above for example, that VDare has posted articles about slavery in the US a number of times. I really have a hard time searching for stuff on that site (using their own "Search" feature), but the recent article I read by regular writer James Fulford points out another instance of this practice. From an unz commenter, I was linked to another recent case.
Mr. Fulford, in Sunday's article reports on a story from suburban Chicago (do they still call it all "Chicagoland", Mr. Blanc?). Let me just give Mr. Fulford's source's title, then his own title. They are "Suburban Chicago Family Forced West African Kids Into Forced Labor: Feds" and "West African Family Enslaving Suburban Kids In Chicago", respectively. Ha! Well, in a way, I guesssss... they are both true, but really, that's just how you lie nowadays when you are known everywhere as the Lyin' Press.
See, both the slaveholders and the slaves, who LIVED in suburban Chicago, for what purpose I don't freaking know, were ALL from Benin, in west Africa. They are Beninians, or something. That makes them Africans living in suburban Chicago rather than a suburban Chicago family. (Mr. Fulford was getting his digs in with his "suburban kids" bit too.)
Nawomi Awoga*, 71, of Hazel Crest, and her two daughters, Marina Oke, also known as Marina Fandohan, 34, of Country Club Hills, and Assiba Lea Fandohan, 31, of Hazel Crest, are charged with conspiracy to conceal, harbor, and shield from detection two children from the West African country of Benin, according to an indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Chicago. The indictment also charges the defendants with forcing labor through threats of serious harm to a victim or another person.
They were arrested Monday.
According to the charges, Awoga coached the victims, then age 14 and 12, in Benin to lie to U.S. immigration authorities about their family relationships in order to obtain tourist visas, and then accompanied them into the United States. Once in the U.S., the defendants harbored the victims in residences in the Chicago suburbs of Country Club Hills and Hazel Crest while the victims were forced to provide labor and services for the defendants’ financial gain, the indictment states.
"Come for the opportunities. Stay
Then, just 1 day later, per the Contra Costra District Attorney's office (east of S.F. Bay, north of Oakland, specifically, the city of Martinez), we learn that slavery has been going on there too.
DA’s Office Files First Criminal Labor Trafficking Case Involving Domestic Servitude [There's that servitude again. I don't like the sound of that!]Once you set foot in the Bodie McMansion, you'd best setcher mind ta workin'.
Martinez, Calif. – Last month, [Californians] Ijeoma Chukwunyelu and Nnamdi Onwuzulike made their first court appearance and entered pleas of not guilty in Contra Costa County’s first criminal labor trafficking case. In addition to labor trafficking under Penal Code section 236.1(a), defendants are charged with extortion and conspiracy to violate Labor Code section 1199 which requires employers to follow California’s minimum wage and hour requirements.
In this case, a woman was recruited from outside the United States to be a nanny for a family with young children in East Contra Costa County. Defendants instructed the victim to obtain her passport and visa fraudulently and claim she was coming to California for three weeks as a tourist to attend the wedding of her son and the defendants’ daughter. Because of her economic circumstances, and fear that the job opportunity would be given to someone else, the victim followed the instructions she was given. She was not aware of her legal rights to minimum wages, breaks, overtime or employment conditions under California law.
When the victim arrived in California in April of 2017, defendants took possession of her passport and visa. From the time she started until October of 2018, the defendants required her to perform work beyond what she was hired to do. She was required to sleep on the floor of the children’s room so she could care for them round the clock, to cook for the entire family and clean their 5-bedroom house for no additional wages. They did not provide the victim with breaks or days off from her work responsibilities as required by California Law. The defendants never paid her overtime for any of the additional hours she worked and continued to employ her with knowledge that her visa expired. This made the victim a particularly vulnerable worker without immigration status who was fearful of deportation.
It's horrible man, as I thought we had this shit licked the Night they Drove Ole Dixie Down, but someone dropped the ball a while back ... cough, cough, the 1965 Immigration Act, cough...
Remember that old underground railroad, from the mid-1800's? I wonder what it would take to spruce that thing up and reverse the polarity of the DC circuit. Could we get these people down to Mississippi or South Carolina, where they still abide by Amendment XIII? It may be harder to get the folks out of California though. Rail has gone to hell in this country since the 1930s Streamliners. Per that post, the Chinese are really kicking ass, railway-wise, and may be able to provide us with some cheap or maybe even free Coolie labor ... nah... scratch that... forget I mentioned it, even.
If nothing else, this is a perfect instance for the Peak Stupidity Reparations Plan to be invoked, with extreme prejudice. [Note from PS Legal Team: that term is not applicable here.] <--- Screw you guys, I like the movie, and "extreme prejudice STAYS IN! Yeah, now there are actual live slaveholders and slaves to be made whole, and per PS's plan, "reparations contributions will be pro-rated based on years of slaveholding practices, while reparations payouts will be pro-rated by years of jumping-down-turning-around-picking-bales-of-cotton."
* Isn't Nawomi Awoga one of the Waukegan Awoga's, the old-time hog-slaughtering Awoga's? Anyone, anyone ... Buehler? (He was a suburban Chicagoan, is why I'm asking.)
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Linda Ronstadt - the movie
Posted On: Tuesday - August 11th 2020 8:52PM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity Music Movies
Of course, she was a great singer, but just askin'...
With a couple of plane rides under our belts and relaxation time, Peak Stupidity now has 2 1/2 movie reviews in mind. The 1/2, BTW, is not for a movie I quit watching (sometimes it doesn't go well - see Tried to watch a movie - here's 3 reviews in one!). One of them just has what I think is an important opening sequence - the first 1/2 hour or so. That post is upcoming.
Anyway, the big thing now, since the movie makers ran pretty much out of original ideas a coupla' decades back - it's just sequels, prequels, and comic books - is to feature some of the great rock music artists. I've got no problem with this. The Peak Stupidity reader should know by now that I think the heyday of good pop music is long gone. There was an Elton John movie available (with a review to come) and this one about the great Linda Ronstadt, called Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice. This movie is pretty much a documentary.
I've really got no problem with a documentary as the format, but then with the Elton John movie being more like a weird musical*, I would have liked something in between. By in between, I mean how about the life story as acted out, not so much told, with lots of the great music of the artist stuck in there. The Buddy Holly Story is a great example of what I would have liked more for this Linda Ronstadt movie. They did show lots of music, but not always the whole song, so if just that's what you want, I'd go see it.
Linda Ronstadt grew up in a very musical family. The story on this was heartwarming, as a story of good old Americana back in late-1940s/50s/'60s rural Tucson, Arizona on 10 acres. She's been proud of her Latin American blood (a little more on this to come), but really it sounds like she's only 1/8 Mexican - her Dad's grandfather was a German engineer who moved to what was then a part of Mexico and married a Mexican lady back in the 1840s. This part of the movie was done very well.
Let me write just a bit about this musical artist before I go on. Linda mostly sang other artists/writers songs. As the musical friends/bandmates/interviewees in the movie noted, she made them her own. (No not IP theft, but in a musical sense.) She picked some of the best too, Warren Zevon, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Paul Anka, J.D. Souther, Hank Williams, Phil Everly, Neil Young, Jackson Brown, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Mick Jagger/Keith Richards, Elvis Costello, that other Elvis .. something or other. It goes on and on. No one denies she had one hell of a good strong voice too. I will have to add, that if you are of the male persuasion and of a certain, pretty wide, age range, her presence on stage and on album covers wearing the short shorts, cheerleader's uniforms, and even the Cub Scout outfit** probably did not hurt her career at all either.
Peak Stupidity is SHOCKED, and not in a Louis Renault fashion, that we have featured exactly NONE of Linda Ronstadt's music so far. I would have bet someone that I had, but the dBase says what it says. (Yeah, even I, the blogger, need a search function!) We'll have to remedy that, starting today. Though Miss Ronstadt sang both lots of ballads*** and rockers, it's the latter that I enjoy, as once she got her long-term band****, that rock sound out of guitarist Waddy Wachtel and the rest. This was supposed to be a quick movie review, so, OK, fine ...
The story of Miss Ronstadt's rise to stardom, with her great music mixed in goes pretty quickly, as she moved out to Los Angeles, then got hooked up with one band after another. She rose to fame fairly quickly, being in the right place at one of the best times in rock music there's ever been. Not all of anyone's favorite songs can be in an hour and a half movie, but they did put in some of the classics, and they fit in with the documentary pretty well.
You get to hear from Linda's musical friends. We heard from Don Henley, Jackson Brown, and some of the music industry people. Emmylou was in there along with Bonnie Raitt, both favorites of mine for a while there. By some point though, the feminism angle came in a bit (whaddya expect from the mid 1970s?). One could get past this part with the whining of "oh, it's hard to make it as a woman, because ..." cause, what, every producer, member of the band, male member of the audience... wanted to make it with you? I'm not sure what the problem would be, really, but if you like the 1970s music, you'll enjoy hearing the story.
At some point, California Governor Jerry Brown (during his first stint as Governor Moonbeam) had a long relationship with Miss Ronstadt, who remained "Miss" her whole life. It turns out from my reading, that this relationship started in the early 1970's, but the movie only starts on about it when it was a big item toward the end of that decade. I don't mind a short stint on that, but then I got this out of Miss Ronstadt, and I am paraphrasing: I don't think a musician should concern herself with these political issues... blah, blah...", but then proceeded to give her very left-wing, opinions on all the BS that Jerry Brown was spewing back in the day. It was California, mind you, so lots of that stuff would be lefty even today!
That was it. I didn't want to be politicked to, there in the middle of a flight, when I could simply click [EXIT] and watch another... which I did ... which will be that 1/2 review coming. I don't know how much time was left in Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of my Voice by this point. She was truly a 1970s artist, period, no matter how long she sung after that. So, I figure, with my exit from the movie at about 1979, I didn't miss much.
One more last thing: I figured that, since Miss Ronstadt got into her "roots", in her mind, anyway, with music in the 1980s sometime, the Latin American stuff, some more political BS that I might not enjoy was coming anyway. I don't fault this artist at all for delving into material that was off the mainstream and in deep in her soul or something. It was, though, a lot of music that I never listened to a bit of. Maybe I missed something, maybe I didn't. At least during my watching of the movie, I avoided any more political stress that would deter me from wanting to hear any more from Linda Ronstadt. We'll catch up in the long run, but for now, here is my favorite, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones (did I need to write that out?)
Speaking of movies, and man, this post is getting long, but the reason the video had some other footage at the beginning is because this song Tumbling Dice was featured in the cool 1978 movie FM - no static at all ... Anyone younger than 30 don't bother, you wouldn't understand the whole radio business. It was a big thing! I wanted this live footage:
* No, see that may cause a "duh??" out of the reader, but I'll explain in that upcoming review.
** It probably brought a number of early-onset-puberty boys into the program!
*** Plenty of the ballads were great too. My favorite is Blue Bayou, written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson.
**** After she left The Stone Ponies at the end of the 1960s, Linda was called a solo artist, but a great band sure helped. Initially, it was Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner. If you don't recognize those names, you should just leave this web site right now and not come back .. until next post. OK, they became The Eagles a force more powerful in 1970s music than Linda Rondstadt. During the best and most successful years, 1975 and '76, Linda's great rocking band was:
Waddy Wachtel - Guitar, Background Vocals
Andrew Gold - Guitar, Keyboards, Background Vocals
Brock Walsh - Keyboards, Bass
Kenny Edwards - Bass, Banjo, Harmonica, Mandolin, Guitar, Background Vocals
Dan Dugmore - Guitar, Pedal Steel Guitar
Mike Botts - Drums
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Scenes from the Kung Flu Summer re-Panic - Part 9
Posted On: Monday - August 10th 2020 8:09PM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Kung Flu Stupidity
It's been over a week, though that includes Peak Stupidity's short hiatus, since the last re-Panic observations. I had to go back to the store today, Target again.
"See, now that there's your post."
"What post, all you did was go to the store?"
"That's what I mean, it's a site about NOTHING!"
"But why would anyone want to read a site about NOTHING?"
"Because ... it's on the INTERNET!"
[Not yet, it isn't. - Ed]
No really, in this Kung Flu era, even a trip to the Big Box store is worthy of a post. (Yeah, because people still have too much time on their hands, and it's either surf the web or riot ... hmmmm. ... what to do, what to do? Oh, I got it, surf the web while rioting, they got those big-ass phones now ...)
I was prepared for what I was to see at the Target store, but only mentally, not emotionally. I put my mask on last minute, almost to the point of waiting for the first yell from some poor employee tasked with that. Not a soul was without a mask, even the hotties. Let me tell you, in this location there are a ton, and with the hot weather, the short shorts made up for missing out on the cute faces (though one could still tell). It wasn't all bad, so I got my stuff merged in with the stretched-out but fast-moving line, and bought my stuff.
Let me go back though, as that's not ANY kind of post. It was on the way across the parking lot TO the store in which I got pretty disgusted with this whole country. Under the hot sun, across the parking lot, came a number of (many grossly overweight) shoppers with masks over their entire faces, right up to their sunglasses. (The image above doesn't do justice to my view.) There's fresh air out there, they were out of the store and well away from it, and this is not crowded NYC or China. Did I mention it was hot out, near 90F? That didn't stop 'em. It just looked like these folks were down with the masks for the "duration". What is the duration, the rest of their lives?
At least when the cute young women leave the store, they pull off those masks. They need to be seen.
While searching for the image I wanted, I noted the source of this one. I'd have to be a real bastard to put the link in here, as it was a site that informed us of "The Riskiest Places for Catching Coronavirus Revealed", each rated with a score to from 1 to 10 with 2 significant figures after the decimal. Yeah, it's a women's site. After perusing the stupidity there, I didn't even find the original pic of the young lady with the (1995-era) Jennifer Anniston hair with which the page was supposedly associated.
Now that I've written about my disgust with this "new normal", I realize that I should have early on linked to a C.J. Hopkins article - Invasion of the New Normals. He explains very well what's going on.
And, make no mistake, that is exactly what the “New Normal” movement intends to do. “New Normalism” is a classic totalitarian movement (albeit with a pathological twist), and it is the goal of every totalitarian movement to radically, utterly transform society, to remake the world in its monstrous image.
That is what totalitarianism is, this desire to establish complete control over everything and everyone, every thought, emotion, and human interaction. The character of its ideology changes (i.e., Nazism, Stalinism, Maoism, etc.), but this desire for complete control over people, over society, and ultimately life itself, is the essence of totalitarianism … and what has taken over the minds of the New Normals.
In the New Normal society they want to establish, as in every totalitarian society, fear and conformity will be pervasive. Their ideology is a pathologized ideology (as opposed to, say, the racialized ideology of the Nazis), so its symbology will be pathological. Fear of disease, infection, and death, and obsessive attention to matters of health will dominate every aspect of life. Paranoid propaganda and ideological conditioning will be ubiquitous and constant.
Everyone will be forced to wear medical masks to maintain a constant level of fear and an omnipresent atmosphere of sickness and death, as if the world were one big infectious disease ward. Everyone will wear these masks at all times, at work, at home, in their cars, everywhere. Anyone who fails or refuses to do so will be deemed “a threat to public health,” and beaten and arrested by the police or the military, or swarmed by mobs of New Normal vigilantes.
The threat of “infection” will be used to justify increasingly insane and authoritarian edicts, compulsory demonstration-of-fealty rituals, and eventually the elimination of all forms of dissent. Just as the Nazis believed they were waging a war against the “subhuman races,” the New Normals will be waging a war on “disease,” and on anyone who “endangers the public health” by challenging their ideological narrative. Like every other totalitarian movement, in the end, they will do whatever is necessary to purify society of “degenerate influences” (i.e., anyone who questions or disagrees with them, or who refuses to obey their every command).
Despite this increasing totalitarianization and pathologization of virtually everything, the New Normals will carry on with their lives as if everything were … well, completely normal. They will go out to restaurants and the movies in their masks. They will work, eat, and sleep in their masks. Families will go on holiday in their masks, or in their “Personal Protective Upper-Body Bubble-Wear.” They will arrive at the airport eight hours early, stand in their little color-coded boxes, and then follow the arrows on the floor to the “health officials” in the hazmat suits, who will take their temperature through their foreheads and shove ten-inch swabs into their sinus cavities.Yep.
Coming: a number of movie reviews, a new review of the TSA, and some feminist and customer "care" stupidity... oh, and the legacy of slavery.
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[UPDATED - 08/11:] Added reference to and excerpts from the C.J. Hopkins article.
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China roves Big Blother rong time
Posted On: Monday - August 10th 2020 5:37PM MST
In Topics: China Orwellian Stupidity iEspionage
From my Chinese sources, I've got information on the Orwellian state of the place, and I'm kinda glad to have not been there in a while (we were supposed to go this summer, but that's completely out*). I think I would not like what I'd see. That's after having already been disappointed but what I've seen over a decade and a half (see Dashed Hopes for China - Part 1 and Part 2).
The deal is that anyone who is in the least iEspionage-savvy, meaning likely anyone under 60 years old not living out in the sticks (whatever sticks are still left out there), is using his smart phone for payments. I was told that if one wants to take out a serious amount of cash out of the bank, say 元 100,000, or ~ $14,000, one now has to get paperwork and signatures, as impediments set up to make this difficult. The Chinese people are taking to this big convenience of cashless transactions very well.
Come to think of it, Peak Stupidity has posted about this already recently in a small section of the post Big Trouble in Little China. This was just confirmation that for most people over there, Cash is no longer King, and that is a 180-degree change from only a decade ago.
Then, the word is that the COVID-19 worries have been the impetus for the Chinese to implement a contact tracing program that beats hell out all the minor programs that have been tried here in America, for comprehensiveness. It's nice not having a competent government IT Force, isn't it? I guess the apps are required on the phones there (as I don't see another way), to make sure that everyone has color-coded "health scores" now, due to the fears of the Kung Flu, you know, but, hey, maybe we can keep this around ... for the next time ... and forever.
Yep, there's green when you are at home in a non-Kung-Flu zone, but it will turn yellow if you enter Zhejiang, for example. Zhejiang has some cases of the Kung Flu, so if you step across the border a foot or so, well, one can't be to careful ("one" being the CCP government). You will only get your health score back into the green if you quarantine for 2 weeks and then leave the province without passing GO. ("Go" means "dog", so forget the Monopoly reference - it means don't eat anything that used to fetch someone's slippers.) I suppose if you get sick during these 2 weeks, you can keep an eye on your red status from the hospital. Purple or black means someone is already bidding on your piece of iEspionage from your estate. OK, I made up the last part.
The Chinese people are falling for this Orwellian stuff because they know no better. Granted, many of the Millennials here have no clue what privacy and freedom are all about either. Others are learning from those of us who remember something about them.** Meanwhile, in China, and as Peak Stupidity covered in Citizenship in the Nation, one can go back 3,500 years and not learn of anyone who really understood what we know and knew 50 years ago. Old and young, the Chinese people are getting sucked into the "convenience" of all the iEspionage crap, because they have ZERO history of knowing any better.
Social credit, health scores, cashless buying and selling ... This Orwellian and straight-out-of-Revelation business is something Orwell, an Englishman, expected out of his own country. He was not wrong, mind you, other than being off by a few decades, as formerly-Great formerly-Britain has the Ministry of Truth aspect of it down pat. However, China is now #1 with a bullet, at Billboard magazine would put it, if they had an End Times top-100 chart. (Of course, number 3 would be The Calamity Song by The Decemberists and number 2 The End of the World as we Know It by REM.)
Here's what's considered one of the very few references to China (also "land of Sinim" in Isaiah 49:12), from, you guessed it, the book of Revelation.
Chapter 12, verse 3:
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.Chapter 16, verse 12
And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.I dunno, I can't make heads, horns, or tails out of most of this. Where's Nostradumbass when you really need him?
* One would have to quarantine in the big city (Shanghai, Peking, or Hong Kong) for 2 weeks, even after making a 3-5X more expensive and twice as long journey to get there. This is at one's own, or company, expense, including the hotel room that one must stay in the whole time and meals served to the room. This goes for Chinamen/women or foreigners. (Knowing the Chinese business mentality and propensity for corruption, I wouldn't be surprised if this is a deal between the Chinese Gov. and some hotel chains to keep them booked!)
Oh, then there's a 2-week quarantine at any final destination. How are they going to know, if you got a car ride, you ask? There's that Orwellian tracking business again ...
** That's another part of the silver lining of the Kung Flu. With the schools closed, and even in the Fall most being conducted remotely, meaning no real contact, kids are getting a chance to learn from their parents more directly again. For a large majority of them, that's a good thing. The Deep State and Globalist elites have got to hate this part of it - ooops!
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Trending in Breakfast Attire
Posted On: Saturday - August 8th 2020 2:53PM MST
In Topics: Humor Race/Genetics
Thank you all for putting up with the short hiatus, and thanks to those who commented under Monday's post. In general, it was a pretty good trip. One can do some things for cheap now, as Peak Stupidity noted in Road Trip 3 months back, due to some of the temporary silver linings in this Kung Flu Panic-Vest. Other things have just gone up, up, up, at an Inflation rate that is obviously not what those green-eyeshade boys at the BLS have been touting for the last couple of decades. We will, of course, have a post on the latter.
Speaking of additonal posts, yes this trip will produce a number of Curmugeonry-style ones based on the not-so-fine aspects of this family travel experience. This post, however, is not one of those and not even from this particular trip.
On a trip for work a couple of weeks ago, I found out the night before that the hotel was to have their regular buffet breakfast, Kung Flu be damned, and it's some good stuff, let me tell you. (There's no point, is there, since I don't give many details?) OK, I won't say where, but there are grits, sausage, breakfast potatoes, muffins, etc, though no fresh fruit back yet. They do
No problem, but I was in a hurry this particular morning, so I was glad that the other people there, 4 black guys together eating in, were getting the made-to-order omelets or what have you, leaving the other guy to get my stuff. Being in a hurry (not to get to the gist of this story, but that morning, I mean) I didn't take the TSA-proof belt off my good pants and put it on my blue jeans to go downstairs. It's a good thing, but these pants are just a tad too small now, and I was hiking them up every minute or so. No, they didn't hang down half as much as they do on these black guys with their authentic style, as discussed in these pages (see Dress for Egress), but I cannot stand for my clothes not to stay put.
With my tasty breakfast in one hand and the other one pulling my pants up, I passed these 4 young black guys. Now, OK, I see the 4 with that hair with 4 braided things hanging down, and I don't automatically think "businessmen". Stereotypes are real, man. I was a little wary, but, WTF, as I walked by, frustratingly yanking my pants up, I noted to these fellows "hey, I'm gonna be like you guys", and not in a proud BLM fashion, either. Ha, two of the four guys cracked a smile!
OK, maybe on another morning, the manager may have found me with my face in the grits, but no matter all the stupidity and (often legitmate) hate in and around all of us, most people are pretty decent.
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Rest o' week hiatus for Peak Stupidity
Posted On: Monday - August 3rd 2020 7:19PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Websites
Due to a family trip, for the rest of this week there won't be any posts, unless I just CAN'T STAND IT... the stupidity, that is. It's a matter of time, not a lack of new topics for posts, as usual. (I've got the images saved already for 10 of them or so.) Stupidity stops for no man! Anyway, a few days break will be good, and I'll have so new posts pop up in mind, but I think I won't promise that anything new will be up till next Monday.
In the meantime, if you appreciate the entertainment here, there are 1560 posts on the site (including this one), and I doubt anyone has been following since late November of '16, or has gone back to read them all. If you take exception to that, PLEASE write in.
I am very glad to have had the many comments lately and slowly increasing readership during the Spring at least. Interestingly, the number of views went way up for a few days, each time I included links on the unz site to Part 4 of our "re-Panic" series ... along with a warning to the reader that this post has girly pictures, or it is "not safe for work". The numbers were doubled for a couple of days after I put the link in a Fred Reed post. That goes to show he gets a LOT of readers, or the horniest readers, or both. Nah, I wrote "interestingly" above, but "expectedly" works too, as we all know how we men are.
I don't think the commenting system is good enough for me to just advertise "Open Thread". However, feel free to write in on anything. You all know I haven't minded any digressions, though they've been few. I mean anything, other than viagra ads. Feel free to discuss viagra ads or viagra itself, for that matter, as we put the kibosh on those bots long ago (easier than I thought, but I sure don't want to jinx it ).
Again, thanks to all the readers, and the commenters more so! More next week.
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The parable of The Good Samaritan
Posted On: Monday - August 3rd 2020 5:10AM MST
In Topics: Humor Political Correctness Bible/Religion
It's only a parable, after all ...
An anonymous commenter on an iSteve thread embedded in this 2 minute sketch that could have been one of the best of Monty Python. The English accents are very much the same, to me, at least. The actors are different, so I had to look this one up.
This sketch if from the British show That Mitchell and Webb Look*. It was only on TV from '06 until '10. If youtube has more sketches or full episodes (which are just made of sketches anyway), I will be entertained for days.
I'm amazed this is from only a decade ago, as this one makes fun of the Political Correctness, and it's Jesus pushing the race realism here. Uh, oh, maybe that was the agenda, to imply something or other... I won't take it that way though. For something not at all completely different from Monty Python, here is one of the most hilarious videos I've seen in quite a while:
You know, because of that ending, I feel obligated to give some equal time to Monty Python, as this "he's making it up as he goes along" bit from The Life of Brian is equally hilarious. This clip may have appeared on Peak Stupidity already, and it's likely to appear again.
* That's the Wiki page. The IMDB site has this page.
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Scenes from the Kung Flu Summer re-Panic - Part 8
Posted On: Saturday - August 1st 2020 2:52PM MST
In Topics: Humor Hildabeast Kung Flu Stupidity
It's been again just over a week, as this Kung Flu, Season 2 is no fast-acting panic like the Black Plague times. It's slow enough to last all year, but fast enough to keep most ... zzzz .. people's attentions.
Pretty near to home today, I saw an older couple out on their front yard near the road with a "Home Made Designer Face Masks" sign. They had a whole rack of colorful stuff out there, something that would turn a few heads of young men, I imagine as instinct kicks in, even at 45 mph, and they think those are bikinis out of the corner of their eyes. I know, nobody is in them, but you remember when your imagination would fill in something there... There were no young women models like the lass above. (LEFT! Careful, or you'll burn an eye out!) It was just the two of them with no face masks on.
On the way home, I slowed down and asked how business was. OK, I think was the reply, but they didn't sound too enthused. I wasn't trying to start an argument, but I just couldn't help telling them "you'll never find me in one of those face diapers." (That's not strictly true, as I've written, so that's why I felt bad about it. There wasn't time to get into a discussion.) Good luck to them, I guess. It's better buying local than buying Cheap crap imported by 3-M from China.
Right around this spot, there were two college-age blond girls walking, not hot enough to require a neck-twist, but I still glanced as I drove by. With the windows down, I swear I heard only the following two words, and as part of a sentence mind you, not said separately: "... like totally ..." I heard it clearly, as they didn't have masks on either. Again, it wasn't a quick agreement "sentence", but right in the middle of a sentence. What's the odds of that with this generation, like 1 in 5 or something? I could like totally believe that.
Thanks for reading, PSers. Have a good weekend or what's left of it.
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