Drinking the Kommie Kool-Aid - 40 years back - Part 1
Posted On: Friday - April 26th 2019 2:27PM MST
In Topics: Commies California History Socialism/Communism
40 years ago this past November 18th, that is. Man, I HATE missing these anniversaries, as there's something about it being "this exact day XX years ago" that makes a story like this that much more interesting. So, it's 40 1/2 years ago now from the day over 900 Socialist/Communist cult member followers of Mr. James Warren Jones drank cyanide-spiked Kool-Aid* and died at their remote commune in the jungle of a place called Guyana.
This Wikipedia article on this "largest single loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act until September 11, 2001" reads pretty fairly. I remember this news story that even long before the internet, 98% of Americans were surveyed to have heard about This long ago for me was a time when I was too young to really put things into perspective. In other words, I heard about an airliner crash and thought maybe that happens every week, and the same with this story (along with the eruption of Mt. St. Helens a year or two later).
It was a big, big cult era, that decade of the 1970's. I can picture some of the adventurous, maybe overly-open-minded, people that realized at the end of the 1960's (~ 1972) that no, your brain is not going to last long on this LSD, or that following The Dead around supported by the selling of beads and drugs, and an occasional gift from Mom is just not a long-term career. They'd already helped win the internal Cold War for their side (not ours) by starting the mass infiltration of the institutions. What other kind of weirdness could they get into while they were still young?
The country was still less populated, much more free, and wild, to where any unorthodox ideas could still be put into practice without Big Feral Gov't clamping right down. Maybe others were too young during the '60's and wanted to have some fun. The free sex could not be had at non-existent protests anymore (maybe a few anti-Nuke ones), so the next best thing might be joining, or better yet, starting, a cult. The girls join due to their ditziness and awe of anybody charismatic, and guys will follow. It wasn't all about sex, especially the Jim Jones People's Temple cult in this story, but it's gotta be nice to be worshipped as the Head Philanderer and others can aspire to be Assistant Head Philanderer or at least Assistant TO the Head Philanderer. Maybe, just life is not treating you right and this guy really sounds like he knows his shit about life. As Johnny Cougar sang a decade later, "You'd better stand for something, or you're gonna fall for anything".
Yeah, cults were all over the place, it seemed in that era, some no more than churches a little bit wackier than the Unitarians, but others that involved mass kidnapping. Of course, like anything throughout the 2nd half of the last century, this stuff seemed to all start in California. For a very humorous take on that, Peak Stupidity recommends the 1980 movie Serial with Martin Mull.
I like those '70's sunglasses. Bring them back, fashion designers.
These People's Temple folks were on the more serious and political side. The charismatic Jim Jones was much more political than some cult leaders and in no small way either. He met with the California state politicians, supported by a number of them, and even Presidential Candidate Walter Mondale. He had some good recommendations from Rosalyn Carter, the 1st lady at the time. Now, Peak Stupidity may throw the word "Commie" around more than some readers may think appropriate. In this case however, as one can read in that surprisingly fair Wiki article, some time in the mid 1970's Mr. Jones, who'd been a Marxist since the 1950's in Indianapolis, Indiana, decided to take the group full-out Commie. No more feel-good Socialism only for his flock, the People's Temple built their commune down in "Jonestown", Guyana, in S. America to implement the hard-core sort, the type where, at some point they had to threaten people to keep them from going home.
I don't remember hearing of any of the political aspect of the Jonestown Massacre when I learned of this on the TV, but I can't blame the media, as it was just too long ago. However, the Wiki page discusses Jim Jones' fondness for the government of North Korea(!) and discussions with, and invitations to, political figures from the Soviet Union.
Was it a matter of building an idyllic People's Paradise in a non-fertile tepid jungle not working out finance-wise? Well, they did use the Social Security checks of the older black ladies to obtain sustenance from the bad Capitalist world. (- 2/3 of the residents of Jonestown were Afro-American - the term in use then - to be historically correct.). Thanks, LBJ and FDR! Oh, speaking of the finances, though. The cult still had some money in the bank upon mass suicide/homocide day, and that was arranged to be sent to the Soviet Union to help the Communist Party out ... hahahaaa! I'm not sure if it got there. Man, what a crazy time those '70's were! A note from the wife before she drank the Kool-Aid:
I, Marceline Jones, leave all bank assets in my name to the Communist Party of the USSR. The above bank accounts are located in the Bank of Nova Scotia in Nassau, Bahamas.What a big money sink that Communism can be. To each Commie sinkhole according to its needs, from each Kool-Aid-drinking fanatic according to his Social Security check.
Please be sure that these assets do get to the USSR. I especially request that none of these are allowed to get into the hands of my adopted daughter, Suzanne Jones Cartmell.
For anyone who finds this letter, please honor this request as it is most important to myself and my husband James W. Jones.
This is so interesting, and I have more to write about geography a bit, the shootout, including murder of a US Congressman at the Jonestown airstrip just before the mass death, and, of course, the much-used idiom that has been possibly the only good thing to come out of that sick cult/gulag in the jungles of South America 4 decades ago. They'll be at least a Part 2. Please read the whole Wiki article if you have 1/2 - 3/4 hour - it's wild, wacky stuff.
* OK, it was actually a cheaper version of flavored sugar water called Flavor Aid, but when you're Communists living in the jungle, you have to sacrifice for the Motherland. I'm gonna stick with "Kool-Aid" for the story, as it's been 40 years, and people ain't gonna change a whole expression now, dammit.
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Word Scramble gone wrong
Posted On: Thursday - April 25th 2019 8:47PM MST
In Topics: Humor Educational Stupidity
Firstly, this evening, I'd like to apologize to Peak Stupidity readers for having an almost blog-free week so far. Between traveling and simultaneously getting hung up arguing with people on other blogs, there've been nothing but 2 posts this Tuesday so far. I will try to write more tomorrow.
For now, it's just this kid's simple word scramble puzzle (goes along with some homework, or it IS homework) has got me really wondering about those in the Big-Ed bidness.
I wouldn't think it'd be very hard to make these puzzles. Just write in the letters for the words you want the kids to find and then fill in the rest. Oh, yeah, check to make sure you didn't actually spell something you'd rather not teach right now. Sex Ed is not till 3rd grade now, right?
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Lousiana Lou and Three-Card-Monty John - Allman Brothers
Posted On: Tuesday - April 23rd 2019 8:02PM MST
In Topics: Music Southern rock
This Allman Brothers' song is from the album Win, Lose, or Draw, which even though from back in 1975, was just a tad after the band's prime. Two of the band members, Dwayne Allman, lead guitarist, and Berry Oakley, bass player had died from motorcyle wrecks just 1 year and 3 blocks apart in Macon Georgia in 1971 and 1972, respectively. They still had Gregg (who died 2 years back), Dickey Betts, and the rest, so it's still good stuff, just not well known.
"Now 3-card-monty is a gamblin' game,
2 black aces and a pretty red queen.
Keep your eye on the lady, and lay your money down.
Watch the fastest hand you've ever seen."
Yeah, it doesn't have to be cards. A guy in the back of a city bus had 3 half walnut shells with a piece of foam, and I was to watch where the one with the foam ended up to win 10 big ones (long ago, and it would be a Benjamin to me now, at least). I didn't know they cheat! I lost my money, and it took till 5 minutes later before I realized that the foam was in the guy's hand the whole time. It's not like getting him to show me anything would have gotten my $10 back, as there were 3 of them, and I didn't know the neighborhood.
Gambling (oh, wait, GAMING) is one thing - cheating is another.
Gregg Allman — lead vocals, Hammond organ, clavinet and acoustic guitar
Richard Betts — lead guitar, slide guitar, lead vocals and acoustic guitar
Jaimoe — drums and percussion
Chuck Leavell — piano, Fender Rhodes electric piano, Moog synthesizer, clavinet and background vocals
Butch Trucks — drums, congas, percussion and timpani
Lamar Williams — electric bass
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Fraser Anning of "Strileya" and the feel good picture of the year
Posted On: Tuesday - April 23rd 2019 7:35PM MST
In Topics: alt-right/MAGA ctrl-left
"Two thumbs tucked in!" - Roger Ebert's Krav-Maga coach.
If you've seen/heard this story already, I apologize for finally getting around to Fraser Anning. If not, please take the 50 seconds to watch. This ctrl-left kid, most likely incensed by a guy who tells the truth (a big no-no these days), with his assumption of getting a pass from major media and all other parts of today's institutions, did not see this coming. That's very enjoyable. It's not just that we see someone stand up for himself, a feel-good theme of a large percentage of old Western and other action movies. We all appreciate that. However, it's also important that these leftists and Commies get to feel some physical pain now, as we really don't want to wait for them to get into positions of power, then purged or killed in the next endlessly-on-going revolution. No, there's too much misery for everyone else that takes place. These people must feel physical reprisals for their own acts of violence ASAP.
Before I discuss Australian Senator Fraser Anning, let me point out something about that young kid in the video. What was the point in taking his own video? Was that being streamed in case the big camera video was not shown? That could be the case, but the problem for him was having his left hand tied up with the stupid phone. At least he could have tried a block if he'd have both hands free. I'm not defending the guy, but I just stay amazed at how these pieces of Artificial Stupidity called smart phones stay attached to young people as body-appendages. I don't know, but I'd have dropped the phone before I took the first punch, yet this guy held onto it even after a hit to the face! I don't think he dropped it until he was tackled. As the cops were taking a statement(?), he looked dazed, which was probably just due to his being without his phone.
Anyway, "hey man, nice shot!" That's the kind of stuff Americans expect from the blokes down under. I don't think there are many traditional Americans who've ever said a bad word about the Aussies. For various reasons, I guess, we like them. We know they aren't all Crocodile Dundees, but the wildness of the place and people (at least what used to be the vast majority of Australians) seems to us to be a step above us as Americans, with the Brits, and Canadians even moreso, not having the same mojo. It probably has something to do with their ancestors of 200 years back having been convicts.
Don't get your heart set on Australia as an ideal bug-out location, though, Peak Stupidity Preppers. Most of the guns were banned, or at least made difficult to obtain, almost 25 years ago, and their immigration-invasion policies are not a whole lot better than the Immigration Stupidity here. Only being a big continent-level island has made it still a slightly better situation (though not with the Moslems, it seems) than here.
This is why a man like Fraser Anning, who somewhat-fortuitously made it to the office of Senator down there (representing Queensland) is such a joy to hear from. You don't get his kind of truth-telling from a high-office holder in any country very often. Perhaps that he's in the Australian parliament can ONLY be explained by luck. By the way, I just learned that this guy who threw that quick left jab at "Egg Boy" is 1/2 year from being 70 years old!
From the Aussie version of the Lying' Press we read the latest from Fraser Anning, on the carnage in Ceylon (now gay-sounding "Sri Lanka"):
I also said during Christchurch, that whilst Muslims had been the victims, Muslims are usually the perpetrators in terrorist attacks,” he tweeted.[My bolding]
Senator Anning finished off his bizarre rant by warning Australians there will be more terrorist attacks here if the government continued to allow Muslims to enter the country.
He even went as far as telling people they would “face death” if they didn’t heed his advice.
I don't see the bizarreness here. Yes, they are usually the perpatrators. Yes, of course there will be more attacks the larger your Moslem minority (for now) becomes. Yep, lots more than 290 people "faced death" in Ceylon a coupla days back, but "only" 290 people died. Face your Moslem problem, or face death - no, that's not really bizarre. I guess what Senator Anning tweeted was bizarrely truthful, if you want to put it that way.
Oh, one of Fraser Anning's tweets said:
“Almost 300 dead due to Islamic terrorists in Sri Lanka. Where is egg boy now?”Very good question, Sir. Looking for his phone?
Godspeed, Fraser Anning! You are a real Australian, the way we remember 'em.
PS: I really wanted to discuss Senator Anning's 8-point policy or agenda that I'd seen somewhere. (There was only 1 point I thought was Socialist nonsense, but the rest was good stuff.) Looking through duckduckgo links after a search based on "policy", "agenda", etc. showed me that the hate against this guy from the ctrl-left is IN-tense. They really can't stand a guy that stands up for his white countrymen. He's been de-facebooked and such, and all this makes me like him even more. Well, the discussion on actual policy will have to wait for another post, if I can ever dig it out of the hateful bullshit that the search engines pull up.
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Kids and the running broad jump
Posted On: Saturday - April 20th 2019 7:26PM MST
In Topics: Humor
There is no topic key here for child stupidity, as there's really nothing wrong with it. It's whom they be. Secondly, we'd be pretty hard-pressed to justify criticism of a level of stupidity that is usually significantly higher than that of the average American Liberal-Arts graduate student. I'm writing about 6 year-olds here.
It's just a quick observation here to round out the week: Did you ever watch a kid working on making a longer running broad jump or trying to make it into the middle of a big leaf pile? He's tried it once but wants to do better. "I'm gonna go faster this time, watch me!" He walks 50 ft away and runs like hell, for a kid. "Did you see that, Daddy!? OK, wait I'm gonna go even farther." Then he runs 100 yards away. In his mind that much farther will result in that much more speed. All this stuff about speed vs. acceleration is still well into his future.
The kid turns around, then runs 50 yards, gets tuckered out, and limps it in toward the leaf pile. Enough of that, time to dig holes now to find buried treasures. What a nice time!
If not on a trip Monday, I want to write about the Aussie Fraser Anning. Thanks for reading.
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Peak Stupidity Reparations Plan
Posted On: Saturday - April 20th 2019 11:24AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Humor Race/Genetics
Peak Stupidity has noted as of late that the Blue-Wing of The Party has been bringing up the sensitive but important issue of reparations due to people for the practice of slavery. Now, in this case, they seem to ONLY be concentrating on that slavery practiced (well, they got pretty good at it) by the Southern American States plantation owners back from 400-odd years to right at 155 years back. There doesn't seem to have been a whole lot of talk out of the "Old Pharts" and "Young Turds" jockeying for position in the race about, I dunno, slavery at the time of the Bible, Arab slave ownership of millions of Europeans and black Africans (the latter going on through this day). Is it that I don't watch enough TV and just missed all of that?
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.
Peak Stupidity, having that big picture view on slavery, realizes that for Americans today, there is really nobody who should have anything to bitch about. However, if we are going to narrowly focus on the Black American slavery from 155 years ago, we will set out our very generous compromise offer here, if only to appease the obviously very-concerned members of the Blue-Squad candidates, who have been slavishly working to extract more taxpayers' money for the proper causes. Our plan, and yes, it's a generous one, is ONE MILLION DOLLARS of reimbursement to every living American who has been a slave. That money will be collected from all living Americans who have owned black slaves, with an option for a payment plan with monthly reparations coupons. Not every former slave owner can come up with the money required by next April 15 (the cruelest day). Of course, 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.
Peak Stupidity makes this offer in good faith, should we be elected to Congress and appointed to the House Appropriations Committee. I will warn readers, however, that this offer is our final compromise. Rejection of it will cause us to revert to our previous offer:
Sound like a deal? Excellent. Though no slave owner myself, I will contribute in the interest of harmony of all races. Just keep reading while my brother Elwood writes out an American Express traveler's check on the dashboard of the car. I'm just gonna go over to the car with my pen here ... where my brother's gonna ...
* From back during Peak Stupidity's anti-cannibalization campaign (more here, here and here). I have not kept up with my dues to the NGOs that work hard to prevent the eating of indigenous peoples by other indigenous peoples, but the whole cause is still near and dear to my heart (no, no, you don't want this one ... it's been broken a few times and won't taste like the good stuff.)
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Sign up for Peak Stupidity Alerts
Posted On: Thursday - April 18th 2019 7:48PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor Trump Curmudgeonry Artificial Stupidity
ALERT! ALERT! INCOMING STUPIDITY!
I've about had it with any kind of unwanted information making its way onto the human interface* of my piece of iEspionage, excuse me, "Smart" phone! The sound is hellacious, and probably has been developed specifically to increase sales, as it causes one in 100 pieces of hardware to be thrown out the damn car window per alert. If I'm trying to use the phone, to make, like, a PHONE CALL or something, you're just confusing the hell of of things.
Listen, whomever, I don't want to hear about flash floods, I'm up high. I don't want to hear about tornadoes, as I know what a freight train sounds like ... now, if it's actually a freight train, that could be a problem... I don't want to hear about volcanoes, as I don't know where I'm agonna go, anyway**.
I don't care if Ivanka Trump has just been kidnapped and is being held in a Chinese designer underwear plant in an undisclosed location in Manchuria for 500 BILLION YUAN (no, dollar, qǐng!)***, I don't want to hear about it in the middle of a game of Tetris! Leave me alone, governments!
* If one could call it that, as fucked up as it's been getting.
** Now I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know where I'm a gonna go
when the volcano blow.
(It's the title song from the album Volcano from the summer of 1979.)
I don't know ... if the Parrotheads have hung with Peak Stupidity during our 2-year hiatus of Jimmy Buffett music. It's been since the post called I don't think I'm gonna ever let him cut on me.. How can something like this even happen?!
*** "qǐng" is "please" and really, we would be better off without the entire Javanka crowd "in house" for a decade or so, at least.
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Orwellian PC Stupidity and the Line in the Sand
Posted On: Thursday - April 18th 2019 6:54PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Political Correctness California Liberty/Libertarianism alt-right/MAGA Orwellian Stupidity
Peak Stupidity came upon this "Prager University" youtube video just yesterday, which left us with some thoughts about current Conservatism, even the real thing, and its disregard, or disinterest in the US Constitution. The video here, on the sickeningly stupid genderbender-agenda (like that one?) is called Preferred Pronouns or Prison.
At it's beginning, this video refers to a crazy 2017 California law (what's new?), signed by Governor Moonbeam* that dictates use of unwanted pronouns as a crime. This is beyond Orwellian, as how could George Orwell have predicted the level of stupidity we are at today? He didn't have the Super Computers for Modeling this stuff. Common sense alone would not have let him foresee a day when made-up pronouns are mandated to be used for people who can decide their sex on the fly... without even checking their flies, as a matter of fact. We didn't mind California being called the land of fruits and nuts back in the 60's through 70's when it was just some cults abducting a few nubile women, gay people containing themselves to certain bars and Castro Districts, and Governor Browns and such. The old stuff didn't involve so much coercion as the California stupidity of the present day. The fruits and nuts operated mostly in the private sector. Now, the public
OK, now please watch the video if you have the < 6 minutes. I will admit that the narrator is not my type ... of narrator. (Sure, I'm used to Faith Goldy sorts with their shirts not quite so ... buttoned.) The voice is not excellent for a video, but decent. I've seen a lot worse from male narrators lately, and it's good enough here:
The logic here is impeccable. It'a a reasoned approach and uses the basic principles of what free speech is all about to argue against all this stupidity. That's fine. You've convinced lots of Libertarians and Conservatives who are on (this side of) the fence, lady. However, do any of you people (directed at Prager-U writers and producers) really think the ctrl-left and their Globalist-elite backers give a damn about your reasoning? They want to push this shit to destroy what's left of American traditional culture. They enjoy it even more, the more absolutely stupid it all is. It's a matter of pushing the stupidity in your face and saying "eat this shit or we'll haul you away. We really don't need this shit eaten, but this is gonna show you who's boss here, in the current year." They don't need your steenkeeng logic, lady.
Now, with that said, I am still glad the US Constitution, or what you can make out, out of the shredder, is still ostensibly the Law of the Land. It's not that we're going to be able to keep it effectively the Law of the Land much longer, with our importing of millions of voters yearly who've come from cultures that don't even understand the concepts our Founding Fathers laid down, much less have any inclination to defend the principles over voting tribally.
However, I'll say this: This stuff is worse in formerly-Great formerly-Britain. When the Orwellian laws are drawn up over there, all the Brits can do is argue, but as nothing but skirmishes to cover their continual retreat into a diverse, Socialist, PC hellhole. They have no Constitution to even verbally defend their views to themselves. We have that here. Sure, as I wrote already, the other side DOES NOT CARE. However, we have a line in the sand. Our Founders drew that line. Though most Americans have retreated yards back from our ctrl-left PC bullies over the years, some of us haven't, and we all know where the line still is. Amendment II must be seen as this Line in the Sand. If we let it be crossed, all else is just blustering.
* While writing that post, Full Moonbeam over Sacramento, I really had thought that Jerry Brown was still to be the governor - I found out he'd been replaced in Nov. '18 by the possibly nuttier Gavin Newsome, who was, in fact, sworn in 2 days after my post! Weird.
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Beautiful vs. Ugly Churches
Posted On: Wednesday - April 17th 2019 7:01PM MST
In Topics: Music Curmudgeonry Bible/Religion
Peak Stupidity briefly mentioned the recent loss of much of the original Notre Dame Cathedral. Though not a big appreciator of art myself, I understand how tragic the loss of this beautiful monument of Western Christianity is, having seen the place inside and out about a year back. Along with that work of art, I'd seen some other amazing churches too, most of them in Germany. Honestly, it was the amount of work involved, accomplished in the days before LinkBelts and SnorkLifts, that was the most impressive part to me.
To add to just one of our many curmdudgeonly posts here, and as a follow-up to Modern Church music is not the Rock of Ages, here are some thoughts on churches themselves, as structures, that is. Just a bit of this is discussed in the last paragraph in a Peak Stupidity post on Unitarians, but it was this article, Modern Churches Are Hideous. After Notre Dame, Let’s Start Building Beautiful Churches Again. that got me going. It's by Matt Walsh on the Daily Wire web site that starts off with an anecdote:
My wife and I once walked into a mall in Kentucky only to discover that it was not a mall, but was actually a megachurch. The building looked in every way like a mall and there was, at the time, no religious paraphernalia on the exterior that would have disabused us of this notion. Once inside the structure, the only thing that gave away the game was a young woman in a neon green T-shirt handing out programs. We accepted one politely and promptly left as soon as she turned away.Yeah, it was probably a good decision, as, like I wrote (link above), the music probably sucks too. Mr. Walsh than discussed the beauty of the old churches and the importance of that, along with the difference in that those old churches stand out in the skyline or above a whole town, rather than blending in with the nail salons and title loan joints in a strip mall.
Matt Walsh again:
Is it a church or a rehab center for wealthy drug offenders? I guess we are meant to remain in the dark — and the sermons offered at these places rarely clarify matters. The modern church experience is designed so that you might actually walk into the place, sit through a whole service, and never be quite sure that you attended church at all.I should play the Devil's Advocate here (a perfect use of this idiom, don't you think?) and put in a few points for the little metal "Butler" building with the $2,000 fiberglass steeples* set behind the Best Buy. Listen, not every congregation has the cash to build its own Notre Dame, even with LinkBelts and SnorkLifts, or even a really solid red-brick building. Churches may be in phases of growth and not ready to commit to the long-term location. When it comes down to it, ... wherever 2 or more are gathered in His name... can be a church, even, say, a Home Depot tool shed in the backyard. They're surprisingly roomy, and services can be done with or without the wheelbarrows, used motor-oil bins and riding mower, depending on how the
Even so, to focus on the non-urban churches, where more of religious people reside, in general, how DOES it feel to worship in that strip mall? All the parishioners are going to drive in anyway, these days, so why not put up a nice old-fashioned wood structure, such as the one pictured up top? I am really partial to those kinds. They were everywhere out in the country when I grew up, built usually as a rectangle with two tiny bathroom wings, Men's and Ladies, with a small kitchen at the back, and the sanctuary being the remaining part of the rectangle. Sure, sure, splurge a little and buy yourselves that $2,000 fiberglass steeple*, but I'm not gonna be the pressure-washing committee. Storage can be in the basement, crawl space, or that Home Depot former micro-church in the back.
Lastly, just before that last excerpt from Matt Walsh's nice short article, he mentioned the naming conventions of these modern churches. That strikes a chord with Peak Stupidity additionally, and is right in our wheelhouse with the humor and curmudeonry. Mr. Walsh throws out "Crosspoint" or "New Horizons" or some such thing. Those do sound familiar vs. the once-familiar "New Covenant", "Live Oak Baptist" and more Catholicky "St. Peter's/Matthew's/Mark's/Luke's/John's", "Lady of the Incarnation", "Blessed Sacrament of the Holy Spirit, Northeast Branch" or the "Church of the Sacred Bleeding Heart of Jesus located somewhere in Los Angeles California ..."
Sorry, I couldn't help myself on that one, being a fairly big Stones fan back in the day when this came out, once in a while, on the
It's The Girl with the Faraway Eyes, Mick Jagger's attempt to parody American 1970's country music, which completely backfired, as it's my 4th favorite** song off of that album.***
The Rolling Stones:
Mick Jagger - Vocals, guitar, piano
Keith Richards - Guitar (when out of jail)
Bill Wyman - Bass Guitar
Charlie Watts - Drums
Ronnie Wood - Guitar
* A used 22-footer can be had for $720 on ebay, and a 50-footer for $2,500 (BUY NOW). New ones are made right here in America, in Roanoke, Alabama, NE of Montgomery 10 miles W. of the Georgia border.
** You know, it seems like, in that day, blasphemous songs like The Girl with the Faraway Eyes could be sung, religion could be made fun of (ALL TYPES), yet those who believed would at least be left alone about it. Co-Exist, as they say.
*** That's after Respectable, which REALLY rocks, Before They Make Me Run, and When the Whip Comes Down.
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Comparison of '15/17 US Government Budgets
Posted On: Tuesday - April 16th 2019 8:01PM MST
In Topics: Global Financial Stupidity US Feral Government Taxes
On the "cruelest day" yesterday, my only fun part about looking over the IRS 1040 tax booklet was taking a look at the budget Income and Outlay pie charts near the back. 2 years back, Peak Stupidity posted Quick glance at the budget from US-Gov crack Green-eyeshade boys. That featured discussion on the financial hole that the US Feral Gov't has been digging for many years, based on the 2015 similar charts. I do appreciate that there was no change in the format. (They consistently seem to leave out any writing along the lines of "pray with us that interest rates never go up", weirdly.)
I'll put them both here for a quick comparison - the changes are fairly small:
(I couldn't include the text at the bottom easily off the on-line book.
The deficit was $665 Billion.)
2015 was a "very good year" with only a $438 Billion difference between the Income and the Outlays. Did I mention that that was on the red side? Is it really anything to celebrate, though, that the hole we've been digging was only increased by 2% versus the 5% seen in worse years? Even stopping the digging won't save us on this, as there's a thing called interest. Interest accumulates even when you've stopped digging, as Chinese bondholders aren't into deferments. In 2017 the US Gov't did not stop digging though, and the deficit was $665 Billion.
I note that the net interest portion of Outlays is still that 6%. A small increase may be covered by the rounding, but either way, it's 6% of a larger pie (the total debt). I'll repeat what I wrote 2 years ago: What if the FED were to let interest rates rise to their natural level (the real market price of money)? Even at a reasonable 7%, this is easily over 3 X the rate the FED sets, meaning interest payments would reach near 20% of the budget outlays. The deficit would have to expand accordingly, as nothing else will ever get seriously cut. The situation would get to the breaking point much faster. So, the FED does what it does, screwing over old ladies, not quite literally, out of a reasonable monthly check to supplement their SS.
The only difference greater than two percentage points between both pie charts for each year is that "Borrowing to Cover Deficit" thing, having gone from 12% of the "Income" to 17% of it in these 2 years. That can't be good for anybody.
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Notre Dame
Posted On: Tuesday - April 16th 2019 7:25PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Bible/Religion
You've probably heard as much as you wanted to about the terrible destructive fire that destroyed much of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris ... well, unless it's some real information on whether this was some act of terrorism. It's not like you WOULD get that story from high authorities in France if it were true. The Moslem population there is too high already, just under 9%, for them to risk serious political turmoil within the population, beyond what's been going on with the yellow vest crowd for months.
Knowing that cocksucker Macron, it'd be very likely that even if it came out that this was Moslem-instigated, his rhetoric would be all aimed at the Catholic French population, admonishing them about not stating any of that backlash. If this is not what it would take to incite the French people to get serious about the enemies within their gates, I doubt anything would. OK, we don't know, then, and other than speculation about this or that unfortunate accident that probably led to the conflagration in one of the highest cultural and religious artifacts of Western Christianity, that's all we're gonna know.
The only reason I posted at all on this, with nothing really new to say, is that this Peak Stupidity post from right at a year ago is a quick blurb on my family trip there. The picture above is from that previous post.
Western Civilization is about at a crisis point, all of its own making. Calling for a Crusade is not gonna cut it, as it's all about the rot within.
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The cruelest day of the cruelest month, of the, I dunno, 8th cruelest year?
Posted On: Monday - April 15th 2019 7:51PM MST
In Topics: Economics Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government Poetic Stupidity Taxes
APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
It was the tax due date today, well, for those of us who don't make it even crueler on themselves by postponing for months, if not years* and then coming up with the penalties and interest ... I personally don't take actually working out the taxes at this due date too seriously, as I mentioned just a bit at the end of the post American's attitudes on the income tax. I'll save the details on really how bad my attitude is for a short humorous post to come. That post though, was written early this year, as I took a quick look at the new President Trump-influenced forms.
Today, however, IS that cruelest day, in which, for one thing, we can see exactly how big a portion of our lives the US Feral Gov't is stealing from us. It's right there on line 15 of the '18 1040 form. OK, well to give yourself a value in months of last year that you donated all working time to support your hated Feral Beast, divide line 15 by line 6 and ... oh, wait, first add on that SS money that you don't see on this form, and won't get any back as a refund or as an old man, if you're under 40 ... oh and add on your state income tax. THEN, divide all that by line 6 (Gross income + interest/dividends/etc.) and multiply by 12 months. You may find out the government(s) is (are) being cruel to you through May or July of this year, depending on how well you TRIED to do, and what kind of accountant you may have.
It's a sick, sick deal that some stupid-ass duped Americans voted for by supporting state legislators that supported Amendment XVI over a century ago.** "NO, NO, it's only gonna be put on the very rich, and even then, oh 7 % TOPS to pay for this upcoming war that we're gonna get into ... " was the story, and those suckers fell for it, as P.T. Barnum had predicted.
April may have been an even crueler month, and March 15th (switched in 1954) the cruelest day, had not the tax-withholding-by-employers been made a law in the early 1940's. Before that, one could see yearly the money and exerted labor it represents, coming right on over to the IRS in one big cruel shot. The current method is much easier on the US Government, as Americans are inured to the system after 3 or 4 generations and many even feel great that Uncle Sugar sends THEM a check in the spring. It's better than a bouquet of lilacs and hyacinths.
As for me, T.S. Eliot may have been depressed in 1922 over something more than the flowers, weather, girls and other odd things he went on-and-on about in The Waste Land. Was it about taxes, something only to be noticed by reading between the lines? I don't know. The English teacher made us read this stuff and tried to explain, but it's like an REM song to me.
* It works out just great if it's for the rest of one's life though - kind of a gamble then, and lots of people like gambilng, excuse me, oh, gaming, right.
** BTW, yes, that was just before Amendment XVII on direct election of US Senators, ratified only 2 months later - to protect the guilty and to protect against a repeal? It was 7 years before women were allowed to vote via Amendment XIX, so I can't blame THIS ONE on women voters. The decade one century back from this one was a TERRIBLE one for the US Constitution.
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Inflation and the point(s) of shopping by price
Posted On: Monday - April 15th 2019 12:39PM MST
In Topics: Economics Inflation
We sure tend to skip around to among our different topic keys here at Peak Stupidity, but ideas just crop up. This comes from shopping for gas in multiple states, at different tax levels, on a road trip. Sometimes it can be a real work of art, deciding exactly where to stop between piss/nab breaks and gas stops, especially with kids that can't last forever. When on my own on one of those long cross-countries, it was all about speed too - no gas stops until < 1/8 tank fuel, unless out in the desert, and the junk food ("nabs" in Southern parlance) and pee breaks had to occur during those fuel stops. Yeah, ya gotta watch your water intake!
What was that about? OK, we're concentrating on the prices. I remember the parents shopping around for 2 cents cheaper gasoline. There are some bad brands, but for the most part, gasoline is gasoline, and you don't need that V-Power! for most vehicles. (Higher octane-rating, if you don't need it, is not helping your fuel mileage.) There's a limit to that madness - how much is your time worth? Even if not much, you'll get to where the cost of the gas burned in the search approaches the difference in amount saved at the lower-priced station. For a 12 G purchase, even with a 20 cent difference (reasonable nowadays), you may be talking 20 city miles before it was a waste of your time, and really close to 5-10 miles before it's not worth it, practically speaking.
There is however, another benefit in shopping around based on price, though not particularly for gas: It's the feedback. There are plenty of people who seem to feel it's either cheap or even disgraceful to have to ask for prices, or even look around and take a moment to decide. First it will cost one dozens of dollars monthly, even if one acts that way just for the Cokes and candy bars, gas, and other sundries. It'll be in the multiple hundreds for an average family buying groceries and building supplies the same way. Besides this, however, with no feedback to the stores that can't set a good price point or run their businesses like crap because they can get away with it with shoppers and prices like this, they won't change. Walk out, shop elsewhere regularly, or let them know it's ridiculous, and things may change a bit. (No, the latter two won't work with the big-box, chain stores of course, but the former will eventually.)
Americans have lived so well so long that many feel they are too good for this sort of low-class behavior like asking for the price of something not marked. Yet, "We can't be forever blessed ..." goes the line in the Paul Simon song linked to. It'd be wise to at least try to be frugal and not too proud to stoop that low.
In thinking about the gas prices, a point made by zerohedge commenters back in "the day" came to mind also. It's a thing that should NOT be amazing to anyone who understand what sound money is, but it still amazes me: Two silver dimes that could buy a gallon of gas back in the early 1960's, when the dimes WERE silver, can buy a gallon of gas today also.
These old silver coins are known as "junk silver", but
they are the farthest thing from junk money there is.
Yeppers, though it's kind of hard to see it on the otherwise great graph in our 2nd post on the history of gasoline prices, as it may have been more like 30 cents/gallon from their face value, that was about the price. Now, if have any silver dimes (minted in 1964 or earlier) and you were amazingly able to run into a cashier who knew what sound money is, he might be wise (at the cheapo station), to take your dimes, and put his own money into the
* I used the irony quotes, as it's really that those 15 pieces of green paper are seen to be worth 2 silver dimes ... for now!
** In fact, if the prices were more like that 30 cents/gallon back in 1964, then, 2 silver dimes would have gotten you 0.83 gallons, and they could get you those same 0.83 gallons at $2.62. I can get it cheaper than that.
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There's no England now.
Posted On: Thursday - April 11th 2019 6:01PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Music Orwellian Stupidity Poetic Stupidity
Freedom of speech is treading a thin line here in America at this late stage, but in Great Britain, you can stick a fork in it. It's done! Big Brother's Ministry of Truth has already become more Orwellian in formerly-Great, formerly-Britain than, and laughable, compared even to Orwell's "Oceana" of 1984.
Steve Sailer posts on British Bobbies Crack Down on Limerick Hate:
Citing 30 potentially offensive tweets, the PC singled out a limerick Mr Miller had retweeted which questioned whether transgender women are biological women. It included the lines: “Your breasts are made of silicone, your vagina goes nowhere.”There is more information in the UK Telegraph, the Irish Post, and lastly, in the 1st one I've found that actually has Mr. Harry Miller's "hate-incident" causing poem itself for us to even SEE what the "hate" is, is in Life Site News. Additionally, after all this, it turns out that Mr. Miller's poem is NOT a limerick. How did the article writers miss that?! That, however, does not stop the commenters under Sailer's post from retorting Limerickally - best so far, IMO, by one "Scott in PA, goes:
A docker from Lincoln once tweetedNext however, is the actual poem. Peak Stupidity does not deign to critique poetry, but I really like Harry Miller's work:
Exactly what trans people needed
He scorned their fake boobs
And laughed at their pubes
Then things got predictably heated.
You're a man.[Due solely to respect for this guy's poetic licence (British version), soon to be revoked, I have left the incorrect punctuation as it stood in the article.]
Your breasts are made of silicone
Your vagina goes nowhere
And we can tell the difference
Even when you are not there
Your hormones are synthetic
And lets just cross this bridge
What you have you stupid man
Is male privilege.
You’re a man, you’re a man
We can say it, yes we can
That you’ll never be a woman
Even if that is your plan
Every cell is coded male
From your birth until the grave
You are simply a man
Neither stunning nor brave
Your penis isn’t womanly
Your wig is poorly made
Your idea of womanhood
Just doesn’t make the grade
You think we are just caricatures
Or porn tropes for your use
You pretend that you can be us
But it’s merely more abuse
Your great big hands and manly head
Are difficult to hide
A hand in front of Adam’s fruit
Proof does not provide
That you have changed your actual sex
Because your brain is pink
It’s laughable to those of us
Who can actually think.
What I've been reading about for some years now is proof, even though 35 years since The Kinks wrote this in 1984 (fancy that), that "There's no England now."
I'd heard this song only a few times, but liked the tune the first time. The lyrics of Living on a Thin Line, from the album Word of Mouth are good poetry too:
All the stories have been told
Of kings and days of old,
But there’s no England now.
All the wars that were won and lost,
Somehow don’t seem to matter very much anymore.
All the lies we were told,
All the lies of the people running round,
Their castles have burned.
I see change,
But inside we’re the same as we ever were.
Living on a thin line,
Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?
Living on a thin line,
Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?
Living on a thin line,
Living this way, each day is a dream.
What am I, what are we supposed to do?
Living on a thin line,
Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?
Now another century nearly gone,
What are we gonna leave for the young?
What we couldn’t do, what we wouldn’t do,
It’s a crime, but does it matter?
Does it matter much, does it matter much to you?
Does it ever really matter?
Yes, it really, really matters.
Living on a thin line,
Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?
Living on a thin line,
Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?
Now another leader says:
“Break their hearts and break some heads”.
Is there nothing we can say or do?
Blame the future on the past,
Always lost in bloody guts.
And when they’re gone, it’s me and you.
The Kinks were the 2 brothers:
Ray Davies – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards
Dave Davies – lead guitar, backing & lead vocals (1964–1996, 2018–present)
AND
Mick Avory – drums
4 different bass guitar players over the years:
Pete Quaife, John Dalton, Andy Pyle, and Jim Rodford
The world is headed in the wrong direction so quickly ...
They'll be no posting through the weekend. Good evening, readers.
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Out of America - Book Review - Part 2, Tragic Dirt
Posted On: Thursday - April 11th 2019 11:10AM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics Books
(continued from previous post.)
An otherwise good book ends on a note of naive stupidity.
Out of America only gets stupid at the last chapter, #10, 90% of the way in. This chapter contains Keith Richburg's thoughts about leaving the dark continent and his summary of what is wrong with the place. His stupidity is in his belief in the (h/ts John Derbyshire and Steve Sailer) magic and tragic dirt of our various continents on Earth.
Let me first mention that, yes, Mr. Richburg was VERY glad to leave Africa, pretty much scared shitless by the end of his assignment, and ready to go to the Orient again. Here's the start of the 2nd paragraph in Chapter 10:
Africa. Birthplace of civilization. My ancestral homeland. ... [Yeah, these are not sentences, but I'll let that slide.]No, see, Mr. Richburg, Africa is NOT the birthplace of civilization. I'm no anthropologist, so I won't argue about where humans came from - Africa may be the best guess. It may the birthplace of the human race, but NOT the birthplace of civilization! Groups of humans hunting and gathering, killing each other like animals, wantonly birthing children with no regard for support, and inventing only one thing every 5,000 years, is not the definition of civilization, my esteemed Washington Post correspondent. Without understanding this, the author could never get to the heart of the matter.
In his conclusion, Mr. Richburg explains that, although he's a black man, he is absolutely not an African. The 400-odd years since his ancestors were brought to North America has made him part of a different "people", to paraphrase. He is thankful that his ancestors did get brought here, albeit under very adverse conditions, but now, the blacks in America are totally different people and should be accepted as such, just "black Americans". That'd be nice if it worked.
Nest, after that 225 earlier pages of description of the tribalism, violence, corruption, laziness, and unorganization seen everywhere on the African continent (oh, expect for anywhere left still run by the white man - S. Africa at the time of the book's writing), this guy still doesn't even try to get it. He goes on about, well, he's not optimistic for the near term, but perhaps more democracy, fairer election laws, end of government control of the media, re-written constitutions, voter education, oh, and NO MORE TRIBALISM (please!) will fix this continent up. Yeah, uhhh, that negates the whole book. The point is, nothing works there. Every single good thing in African society is a remnant of the colonial white rule*. That's gone, dude. Tribalism is all you're gonna get, along with every terrible, sad, depressing thing you just got done reporting on.
It's the "Magic Dirt/Tragic Dirt" theory here - the problem is not with the Africans, but just that their continent sucks. We have a better continent here in the US, being smack dab in North America and all. Yeah, it's the continent - don't get off the mother-fucking boat**! You'll be fine. Better get off the boat somewhere else, as your slave ancestors did.
Before his departure from Africa, Mr. Richburg longs for his home, yet has still got his grievances against the white majority (at least, at the time of writing) in America. People call the cops on him more, they don't trust him at the bank (funny story), and all that, as compared to other groups mixed up in the American "melting pot" (his obsolete words). Does he really think it's just that white Americans are prejudiced against blacks due to Africa?*** Hell, not 0.1% have ever been there, and most haven't read your book. Maybe there is a reason that the elder Mr. Richburg sent his kids to the white schools in the suburbs of Detroit. Is that just magic dirt again, up-river in Grosse Pointe, as opposed to inside the city limits, where the dirt just sucks?
Perhaps we don't just change the make-up of our inner selves, just due to 400 years of living among a different culture that has EVOLVED differently. As duly noted here, assimilation works pretty well for small numbers, 1 or 2 in a hundred, and even then, not 2,000 clustered together clustered within 100,000. Mr. Richburg, may have fit in OK as a 1% minority in Grosse Pointe, but how's the City of DetRIOT been doing over the last 5 decades, as no longer quite the "Paris of the West"? No, as anyone would say, these are just gang shootings and robberies and that, not at all the same thing as the horrific African violence. Yeah, there IS still some law-and-order left, as imposed by what's left of the Western Culture. Wait until the rest of the State of Michigan gives up on the place. There will be NOTHING stopping it from turning into one of the places nicely described from Keith Richburg's 3-year tour.
Keith Richburg is rightly glad and proud to have ditched his African roots. It's just unfortunate that his African roots have never ditched him.
Even with that last 10% of Out of America's stupidity, the book is an eye-opening good read. I doubt a book like this could be written without severe repercussions by a guy like this today, much less by a white man.
* It may be a good topic for another post, but the Chinese involvement in Africa is a good thing in my opinion. Good luck to them, and good luck to the Africans - I'm just glad that the next round of complaints and grievances can finally be directed against the Chinese instead of those white colonial oppressors. They ain't seen nothing yet!
** Sorry for the cussing, but that's the line in Apocalypse Now!.
*** Mr. Richburg also mistakenly thinks that the Orientals in Hong Kong and those locales don't have the prejudices that the American whites have toward blacks. Yes, there are "black devils" and "white devils", so what's the diff, right? Haha, I think by now (> 20 years later), Keith Richburg may have been disabused of this notion.
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Out of America - Book Review - Part 1
Posted On: Tuesday - April 9th 2019 4:52PM MST
In Topics: Geography Race/Genetics Books
It ain't the Wakanda you've been looking for.
Per a blog commenter's recommendation somewhere, I just read this interesting book by Mr. Keith Richburg, published back in 1997. Mr. Richburg was a Washington Post foreign correspondent, who wrote this book about his experiences in and about the continent of Africa (pretty much the sub-Saharan part, excepting Somalia) while on assigment there for 3 years or so in the early 1990's. Not to spoil the theme for you, but I'll just say he was glad to have bugged out after that reporting assignment, and last was noted living in Hong Kong.
As this is a book review, I'll note first that the readability of this book is so-so. I don't mean it's hard to understand, but it just doesn't read as nicely as that from the best authors - I'd but it in the bottom 3rd of the non-fiction reading I've been doing lately. Does that mean Mr. Richburg was an Affirmative Action hire at the Washington Post? It's hard to prove that, but yeah, probably. Please note that Peak Stupidity does not claim to write even as well as Mr. Richburg, but then I don't make the big bucks... YET! Were I assigned to the African continent, I'd turn it down, so kudos to this gentleman for taking it.
Keith Richburg gives a very honest account of the state of affairs on the dark continent, circa early '90's, even as he started out with a biased attitude, as that black man yearning to see the land of his roots. The honesty, anyway, starts early on in the book, as the author accounts for his time, mostly around white people in good schools in the Grosse Pointe (haha, extra ritzy and expensive due to those extra "e"'s - last paragraph) neighborhood, NE of Detroit. He grew up around white people and pulls no punches in explaining why his Dad wanted him to grow up that way. The storyline, BTW flips back to Mr. Richburg's childhood now and again, which works pretty well.
It reads like the author, as a reporter, was allowed to pick and choose somewhat where in this big continent he could do his observing and writing. That sounds like a great gig, with his base of operations, so to speak, out of the relatively safest place around, Nairobi, Kenya. He was told to go to certain hot areas, which for most of the book, meant his time in Somalia during the time of the US military airlift operation "Restore Hope", later to become "Blackhawk Down", Rwanda (no, not Wakanda, Rwanda - those places always get me confused) in the midst of the African vs African million-fatality attempted genocide, and then Liberia and South Africa. The more detailed and lengthy writing in Out of America is on the experience in the first 2 locations.
What Mr. Richburg was most shocked about, even in the non war-torn countries, such as his Nairobi base, was the cheapness of human life in Africa. The corruption, laziness, and lack of Western-style organization is noted right away, from the time the author got settled. This book is full of good descriptions of the sheer stupidity, random violence (where've we heard about that before?), lack of morals and concience seen in general African life, even with a lot of good apples thrown in there. This is everywhere, before we are told about the experience in Somalia, Rwanda, etc. The number of good and, at the same time, non-stupid. people does not ever seem to be enough to break through and create anything more than this land of huts, subsistence farming and gathering, and big men that accumulate the wealth (to be parked in trustworthy place, meaning out of Africa). There's no breaking away without white people, but no that's colonization, which is bad, mmmkaaay?
In the big chapters on the more specific experiences of Mr. Richburg, the horrors that he saw in Somalia, Rwanda, and lots of other locations, added to his disdain for the land of his forefathers. It's worth reading, as he is very fair in explaining how the famine situation in Somalia did not, and could not, get solved with the massive airlift operation, which created nothing but resentment. Rwanda, where the millions of Tutsis (the taller, somewhat more well-off ones) were murdered, mostly with machetes, by the resentful Hutus (the shorter, originally less well-off ones) is where the author was most distressed. He recounts seeing bloated bodies float down the Kagera River, over the falls and down into Tanzania, more than can ever be counted, more than once. Mr. Richburg's most repeated line is "they don't count the bodies in Africa".
Once could argue that Keith Richburg just arrived in those African countries at the wrong time. He would be the first to tell you otherwise. Even with no on-going war, the place is run tribally, and even in countries organized along the limes of a tribe, life is violent. Regarding the civil war or attempted genocide in Rwanda, the reader could well argue, as has been done many times, that what was seen there was no more violent than what would have been seen by a visitor to most place in Europe in 1943. That's a valid argument and a good subject for another post.
Upon arrival on the dark continent, the author was still hopeful to find that it was that Western colonialism, or its aftermath, that was the cause of all the troubles in his ancestors' homeland. After 3 years of seeing how Africa "works", Keith Richburg was disabused of those notions, which are still used as explanations by the ctrl-left, most blacks in America AND Africa today. Mr. Richburg puts the blame of Africa's problems on Africans alone. He has a whole lot more gratitude for being "out of America" after his time spent in the hellholes he's described.
I will post a follow-up review just to discuss the ending of Out of America shortly, as the very last portion has some less-honest, or at least a bit more delusional than his honest assessment in the heart of the book.
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Knife, immigration policy Clash on the streets of London
Posted On: Tuesday - April 9th 2019 10:45AM MST
In Topics: Humor Race/Genetics
(Are those the guys from The Sex Pistols, or The Clash?)
Per Paul Kersey's SBPDL blog on unz.com, black violence in Jolly Old London is not working out per the narrative written by those who have ignored the words of the late Enoch Powell. The English statesman Mr. Powell was speaking about immigration of 3rd world foreigners from the former colonies about 50 years ago and mentioned something about rivers of blood.
Mr. Kersey writes Blacks Are 13% of London, England's Population: Blacks Represent 50% of the Murder Suspects in London. That percentage and the violent crime ratio happens to be in the same ballpark as that in the US, for which apparently slavery and separate water fountains are responsible. Yet, in Britain, there was no institutionalized black slavery and they drink bottled water, don't they? Hmmmm, something doesn't computer.
Well, see the English were "smart" and passed laws against gun ownership, so violcent criminals should not have guns, see? Also, knives along with possibly vans, next have been targeted for control. The two guys shown having it out in a knife fight in Newcastle City Center (oh, excuse me, Centre must not have kept abreast of the newer laws. You've just got to keep up with new Ministry of Truth memos, people!
As a regular actual Englishman going about one's business in Newcastle City Centre or any other place full of non-law-abreast 3rd-world New-Castle-Comers, one may just have to run like hell away from the scene if the long blades are pulled out. That kind of thing can not only seem highly irregular, it can make one highly irregular. Just as with gun control, it is the same with knife control - when knives are outlawed, only outlaws will have knives.
It's kind of hard to pull an Indiana Jones move, as seen below, when you're not allowed to defend yourself. Then again, Indiana Jones was a movie-American, and the kind of guy we are still able to emulate here in the colonies, for now at least.
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Instant Karma at the Intersection
Posted On: Monday - April 8th 2019 7:19PM MST
In Topics: Music Peak Stupidity Roadshow
Here's another post for Peak Stupidity's as-of-yet little-used topic key Traffic Stupidity. I'd guess any reader and/or curmudeon worth his salt could come up with some great posts involving stupidity on the road. I imagine there are whole blogs about it, as traffic stupidity is possibly the form we experience the most in life - I could see a thousand-comments-long thread with some very reasonable words about "the next thing this asshole did" and "I hate when these jerk-offs to ..." etc. Rather than induce road rage, a site like that could probably be very cathartic its readers. It's just not who we are, here, though, and there are other flavors of stupidity much more dangerous than simple blocking the passing lane at 75 mph, LIKE A COMPLETE IDIOT!
This is about the lack of courteousy regarding turn signals. I don't always use the signal, if there's no one to signal to. It IS, however, a communication device, and it's kind of helpful if other drivers know your plan. This quick deal I was involved with at an intersection was somewhat different from most discourteous acts on the road. There may very well be a 7-syllable German word for how it panned out, but I'll call it some instant karma.
If you can't visualize well, you may want to skip this post, as I just didn't want to put the effort into a diagram. I'll try to explain it well: There's a busy 4-lane road nearby that has a stoplight where one can cross on the less-busy two-lane road. The light stays green for the big road until a vehicle runs over the eddy-current embeded sensor loop in the road (either side of the intersection). The light may still stay green for the big road as much as 2-3 minutes by my estimate, even after the sensor is triggered. It will only stay green for the small road 20-25 seconds, and this is integral to this small unimportant story.
On one side of the big road, the single lane of the small road widens to 2 lanes, one for right turns and one for straight or left. In the other direction this two-lane road widens to 3 lanes, also just for 100 ft or so before the intersection, to allow one lane for right, one for straight, and one for left. I was in the straight-ahead lane on the 3-lane side next to a big SUV that I couldn't see past wanting to turn left in that left lane. On the other side there was a guy in the left/straight lane with no signal on.
Well, I couldn't just start driving straight through, as I didn't have any view over the SUV - people run this light at 45 mph. I needed to wait a bit for him to move somewhat to block the cars, or at least until no one would be running the light anymore. The problem is, that the guy across had no signal on. If he was going straight (not requiring a signal, of course), then the guy next to me would need to wait, to yield the right-of-way to him. He wasn't moving much, probably wanting to turn left, but, you know, we didn't know. It was a stand-off, as this no-signal a-hole had to wait for me to cross if he were to make his left turn. It was kind of like rock/paper/scissors. Did I mention that if the light turns red, you may have to wait up to 3 minutes?
This guy trying to turn left with no signal was just screwing himself, and that was the excellent instant karma here. If he'd have signaled for a left, then the SUV could have taken his left turn, then I'd have started moving quickly straight ahead simultaneously, and then Mr. no-signal could subsequently make his left turn. The stand-off lasted until the light was yellow, the SUV said "fuck it", made his left turn, and then I went through. Then Mr. no-signal made his left turn, probably through a red light. His being pulled over for running it would have been some turbocharged instant karma!
John Lennon wrote this song in early 1970.
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[UPDATED 07/10/21: ]Replaced dead youtube video with live version - YOKO ONO WARNING!!
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Out with Lady DACA
Posted On: Monday - April 8th 2019 6:02AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump
Are we going to start draining the swamp, finally??
Some good news from yesterday is that Kirsjen* Nielson*, notoriously described as "Lady DACA" by the good immigration patriots at VDare.com, is gone from the Trump Administration as Secretary of Motherland Security. Peak Stupidity has had this Neilson lady's picture on file since November of last year, ready for a disparaging post about her. We'll just celebrate this good news today, as one could read about from VDare's "Federale" with Kirstjen Nielsen Out: Hallelujah, #LadyDACA Is Gone! and more from "Washington Watcher in Trump Shows New Hope On Immigration—Will He Finally Hire Kobach? (the latter with more speculation on who will end up in charge of fighting the immigration invasion).
For good comments, as usual, one can go to Steve Sailer's blog post on this news.
This lady was an Øb☭ma administration hold-out. What is she doing in the Trump executive branch to begin with, for 2 years now?! How was that "draining the swamp"? This makes us wonder again is President Trump just too under-confident in government matters and/or just plain stupid? He's had a business career as an executive, delegating to underlings. Does he hire these swamp creatures because he doesn't have enough faith in his own ideas and thinks he must hire "the best", meaning the long-term people of the beltway? Does he not realize that they don't want the same results as he or patriotic Americans?
The President is letting his American supporters down by cranking up the legal immigration again, especially with the H-2B visa deal (oh, they are temporary, huh? Yeah, YOU go find them when they skip out on their visas.) He may be realizing he's losing this support and just doing this new anti-illegal-immigration business to placate us. I don't think it's that he's really changed his mind on controlling the border, but I think it's a matter of who's controlling him. Small steps by Trump to make us think he is really working on it (2 years later after a coupla' more million entries legal/illegal) may be OK with whoever is really running the show, as they ramp back up the legal immigration to continue their project of population replacement. I hope that's not the case, and I'll feel better if President Trump would stop tweeting and start DOING.
Here's hoping, per the 2nd VDare link, that Steve Miller gets greater influence in immigration matters, along with Kris Kobach, as a likely pick for this Secretary of Motherland Security job.
* See, even SHE doesn't want to assimilate. Pick an easy-to-spell name, lady. What's wrong with "Kristy" and "Nelson"?
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Larry Auster (RIP) on Immigration - 20 years back
Posted On: Saturday - April 6th 2019 2:52PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Pundits
I saw a link today to a long essay by the late immigration patriot Larry Auster. I'd heard of Huddled Cliches before, but I just today read the whole thing. The essay is at least 2 decades old, written already after Peter Brimelow wrote Alien Nation by at least 4 years, as the latest of the 29 footnote references in Huddle Cliches are from late 1996. (I just can't seem to find the actual publication date, even on Mr. Auster's still-online View from the Right.).
It'll take an hour or so to read and digest, but I highly recommend this essay to any immigration patriot. Larry Auster's 1990 book The Path to National Suicide was highly praised by Peter Brimelow (of VDare), but I haven't read it. Huddled Cliches presents logical soundly-reasoned arguments against any one of the many cliches/canards/tropes/mottos/scraps-of-stupidty, whatever your choice term, that the open-borders proponents throw out every day. It should be obvious by now that these proponents don't really give a damn about logical soundly-reasoned arguments, but at least one may convince those on the fence (wait, we've got a fence?)
I'll excerpt just my favorite paragraph, favorite because it's humorous, of course:
To see the uselessness of the “national of immigrants” formula as a source of political guidance, imagine what the British would have said if they had adopted it in 1940 when they were facing an imminent invasion by Hitler’s Germany. “Look, old man, we’re a nation of immigrant/invaders. First the Celts took the land from the Neolithic peoples, then the Anglo-Saxons conquered and drove out the Celts, then the Normans invaded and subjugated the Anglo-Saxons. In between there were Danish invaders and settlers and Viking marauders as well. Since we ourselves are descended from invaders, who are we to oppose yet another invasion of this island? Being invaded by Germanic barbarians is our national tradition!”Imagine if the American people had gotten serious about the existential immigration problem back when Mr. Auster wrote this, > 2 decades ago. Perhaps we'd have had a good chance to do something then to turn things around, and not rely 20 years later on one man, who ended up being a retarded waste of our time. Please read this enjoyable essay if you are an immigration patriot with an hour to spare. It covers it all
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