iEspionage at the hardware store?
Posted On: Friday - January 18th 2019 10:39PM MST
In Topics: Artificial Stupidity iEspionage
What happens to the key-cut files after your key has been made?
Is it like the instant background checks on gun buyers that are virtually "destroyed"*?
iEspionage is a new Topic Key for Peak Stupidity. For some time, I have meant to write more articles on the unintentional and deliberate intrusions into the privacy of people in this "
Ironically, this post on the fairly-new keymaking machines does NOT apply to that previous post on the modern electronic auto keys. The machines like the one above, that are at home improvement and hardware stores around the nation, are made for cutting plain old one or two sided keys, but NOT the modern auto keys. These machines work well, I must admit. I was happy to get some back-up keys made recently once the original back-ups became the primaries, as the originals got lost. Yeah, that was the long way to say "I lost a bunch of keys, dammit."
As usual, with any new electronically-controlled devices, my mind goes to wondering what happens to the data. In this case, the data is in the form of the key shapes, used to run the cutter to make that copy. Wait, you say, it's just used for that quick purpose and then destroyed. I'd like to believe that. Why would the store or manufacturer of that high-tech machine want to keep all the curves that show how the tumblers are set on your front-door deadbolts or ...? Oooohh ... Yeah, but they are the big corporation and don't want to break into your houses. Sure, but very possibly they have another legitimate reason to keep the data, say, for recovery if you lose all your copies next time. "See, we can help you! Your key is in the Cloud.", that sort of thing. Next thing, they'll be wanting your email address**, so you can order a key delivered to your door next time (maybe right into your living room - it should be easy) to save you spending any time in the real world driving to the hardware store and having to talk to people and crap like that.
The reader may ask "who cares?" The machine doesn't know who you are, so it'd take a concerted criminal effort by these machine's manufacturer to cut replacements to break into houses and steal (older) cars. Yes, you're right about that. OTOH, I made sure I paid cash for the keys. Yes, this is pretty paranoid. Even a serious criminal effort would have to get credit-card data and the key data synched up. Who would do that? Maybe law-enforcement would, when they feel the need, but it'd have to be for a really big case, as the CC company would have to get involved, an the machine's manufacturerer would have to admit they have the data, if they indeed do. Once it gets done once, for an important case of some sort, it'll become the norm, like requesting cell-phone position data.
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I realized 1/2 day later that the previous paragraph may sound stupid to a reader that had the self-serve key-making machines in mind. I had the type behind a counter at the hardware store in mind as I wrote the post. In its case, the CC information and the key info are widely separated, hence my discussion on that. For the self-serve machines, in which you can put a CC in a slot, man I could not get myself to do that: "OK, you got it, here's my financial and identity information to go along with the shape of the keys to my house and vehicles. Have fun!" I would hope that they take case too.
***** End-Addendum *****
Is it true you can never be too paranoid? These auto-key-copying machines are impressive and do increase efficiency, well, except when you have to go round and round with the touch screen because you got out of order. This new concept seems pretty innocuous, and I don't see an internet connection to it (though it IS a thing, and there's that "internet of things"). Still, I just marvel at people who never see, or don't care about, the ways that their personal information of ALL SORTS gets saved into files, and sent to and fro, all in the cause of more convenience. It's not just the "if you haven't done anything wrong, then what do you have to worry about? crowd either. People want convenience over integrity. What if your keys and credit-card number did get hacked into for nefarious purposes, I could see some Industrial Strength Identity Theft (ISIT***) in your future, that's what. As written in a footnote below, nobody, but NOBODY really, permanantly deletes big data files. Be iparanoid - make your keys, but pay in cash. iEspionage is all around us.
* The quote marks are there to show a major point. Most data gathered on a whole bunch of people like this is useful to somebody. If it's not marketing people that want it, well, the US Feral Gov't still does. The background check files are destroyed, you say? Nah, in the computer world, storage memory is damn close to free, and nobody just deletes data like this. It remains with somebody. In the case of the gun buying checks, the NICS is nothing but a low-keyed gun registration scheme. If it becomes officially necessary to have that data, it will turn right up.
** I see that these key machines could be very much like the new-fangled blood-pressure measuring "HIGI stations", discussed in New blood-pressure
*** No, ISIT, not ISIS, neither the Moslem terror group nor the 1970's TV cartoon superheroine.
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[Updated, 01/19 morning:] Added addendum to differentiate between self-serve and other machines.
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Was that Gillette ad another New Coke deal?
Posted On: Thursday - January 17th 2019 8:11PM MST
In Topics: Salesmen Big-Biz Stupidity
OK, I’m no marketing guy, don’t watch TV, and hate every damn thing about modern image-based advertising. Hear me out though, and see if you think this is not too wacky to be true.
Do you all remember the whole New Coke/it sucks … tastes like Pepsi/OK, we hear ya’ .. here’s Coke Classic, but there’s still New Coke/Nobody’s buying New Coke – pull it! thing? I really wondered later on whether that was all ingeniously planned. Realize that the brand loyalty was strong in the Cola "space" among Coke vs. Pepsi vs Royal Crown Cola since, like Biblical times in America. Coca~Cola had their recipe locked in some safe in Atlanta or something! Why would they have changed the recipe just for the hell of it?
Well, see, you get millions of people talking about this stupid idea of “New Coke” when the old formula had been around near a century already. Then, with maybe a loss of sales for some months (sell off Mr. Pibb* or something to cover that), you let everyone know that “hey, we hear ya! We want to please those pissed-off customers, so here’s Coca~Cola Classic. For those that enjoy the New Coke that we only, sniff, sniff, concocted to please you all, we will sell that too.” 3-5 years later, it’s gone, and nobody cares. However, the word Coca~Cola was said so many billions of more times than it would have if not for this “brilliant” scheme.
Now, you may be wondering how this is alike. I just think that some marketing muckety-muck who may think he’s a genius figures that getting people talking about Gillette razors is more important than everything else. You piss off many men, you please some soy-boys, but you’ve got everyone EXCITED, that’s the thing. It sounds stupid, but it’s just stupid enough to work. I’ll tell you what, if you hear about some new “manly-man” razors just meant to please those millions of “accidentally” slighted customers coming out in a few months, then I will be vindicated.
Would the Gillette marketing execs really be that stupid to let this commercial out there otherwise? Is their hatred for the average white man so deep as to cloud their business judgement? There are various forms of stupidity working against each other here, so we haven't gotten to the bottom of this yet.
Anyway, we’ll see how Proctor & Gamble gets out of this one. I have even less respect for marketing people than I’ve ever had, and that’s saying a lot!
* I hate when they do that human trafficking thing, but Mr. Pibb is probably better off in his new life, living as a sex slave in Qiqihar, China.
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Gillette Marketing plan unexpectedly backfires
Posted On: Thursday - January 17th 2019 9:15AM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Feminism Big-Biz Stupidity
Again, Peak Stupidity is not ashamed to be a day or two behind the tweet and TV infotainment world. Being off of that stuff means we wouldn't have had to see that purposefully nasty, anti-white anti-male ad (yeah, what was it for, oh, men's razors?) if we didn't have a blog to publish.
The kind of stupidity here is very much like that described in the previous post - it's the "toxic masculinity" thing for which a post was promised. Well, with this type of stupidity that fills up railroad hopper cars, I think there'll be quite a few coming. Here's Michelle Malkin's column again, and there was a Steve Sailer post in which the hundreds of comments give shaving suggestions, if nothing else. Also, a new Peak Stupidity favorite blogger, Audacious Epigone, chimes in with his praise for the commenters all over in Geldette, the Impotence Men Won't Forget.
Yeah, Mr. Epigone, with a hat-tip to John Derbyshire, who I've read about this before too, is right - hope for the future lies with the words of
I can redeem myself for that lack of outrage, which I blame solely on my not watching the tube, errr, OK, plate, to get technical. By tomorrow, besides having a nice rant against these sick Gillette advertising bastards, I'd also like to put forth a theory about it, which hinges on the fact that many think that any publicity is good publicity. However, we all have heard of Gillette razors, so what would the point be?
As far as boycotts against these anti-white-male nuts at Proctor & Gamble, please read the 3 parts of Boycotts, Buycotts, and CEOs who should shut their mouths more, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. The gist of it is that some boycotts can be just about impossible to carry off, especially with the conglomerates like Proctor & Gamble. (In fact, that company was named in an example in one of those posts.) However, just to cut out their razors, with a sharp eye as to who exactly manufactures your replacement, sounds like an easy-enough gesture. It's working for our youtube pundit above. He looks like he hasn't shaved since he saw the ad!
Hey, good news! The guy now has had 12 views!
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Toxic Maculinity, including the scourge of John Henryism
Posted On: Wednesday - January 16th 2019 7:55PM MST
In Topics: Music The Dead Humor Political Correctness Feminism Healthcare Stupidity Poetic Stupidity
I shit you not, readers, that is a medical term, "John Henryism". Peak Stupidity came upon this term when reading a comment under a post about the latest feminist and/or PC business, "Toxic Masculinity" (no I don't have the heart for links here - I'm no John Henry).
More will be coming on this new piece of stupidity, in which everything masculine is now to be considered bad. (One can view the latest Michelle Malkin column for a taste of this via some Big-Biz Stupidity by Proctor & Gamble's Gillette razor brand.) I would hope the PC crowd would make just one exception to let men have just one piece of glory, you know, for making civilization to where we don't live in caves as hunter/gatherers anymore, as we would without this toxicity ... don't hate on me, ladies and P&G marketers ... don't mean nothin' by it ... just sayin' ... that this is no ordinary amount of stupidity that comes in 1 or 5 gallon buckets. No, not even those large mining-site dump trucks could haul this stupidity around. This is the type of stupidity that requires a unit train of hopper cars. (We'll get back to the railroads in a minute.)
Anyway, here is one of the goals, according to this tweet fresh off somebody's twitmitter:
START TWEETING..APA has issued its first-ever guidelines for practice with men and boys. They draw on more than 40 years of research showing that traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage...STOP TWEETINGMmmmkaaay, so does that mean we want men pouring out their emotions like women? Should we be on similar 28-day cycles with this outpouring? Man, I really don't want to be around for that, knowing mine and most men's temper whenever it finally comes to the surface. I am all for the Serenity Now plan myself, maybe as implemented slightly differently than seen above in the video.
The John Henryism is a current-era term for this apparently un-healthy syndrome of keeping everything bottled up. Sure, you've got to fight for yourself, but letting it all out like a woman? I don't think it's quite befitting of a steel-driving man beating a steam-drill with his 12 lb hammer making holes for explosives to blast the mountains out of the way for the railroad.
John Henry was a little tiny baby,
sitting on his mama's knee,
he picked up a hammer and a little piece of steel,
saying, "hammer's going to be the death of me, Lord, Lord,
hammer's going to be the death of me."
John Henry was a man just six feet high,
nearly two feet and a half across his breast.
He'd hammer with a nine-pound hammer all day
and never get tired and want to rest, Lord, Lord,
and never get tired and want to rest.
John Henry went up on the mountain,
and he looked one eye straight up its side.
The mountain was so tall and John Henry was so small.
He laid down his hammer and he cried, "Lord, Lord,"
He laid down his hammer and he cried.
John Henry said to his captain,
"Captain, you go to town,
bring me back a TWELVE-pound hammer, please,
and I'll beat that steam drill down, Lord, Lord,
I'll beat that steam drill down."
The captain said to John Henry,
"I believe this mountain's sinking in",
but John Henry said, "Captain, just you stand aside--
it's nothing but my hammer catching wind, Lord, Lord,
it's nothing but my hammer catching wind."
John Henry said to his shaker,
"Shaker, boy, you better start to pray,
'Cause if my TWELVE-pound hammer miss that little piece of steel,
tomorrow'll be your burying day, Lord, Lord,
tomorrow'll be your burying day."
John Henry said to his captain,
"A man is nothing but a man,
but before I let your steam drill beat me down,
I'd die with a hammer in my hand, Lord, Lord,
I'd die with a hammer in my hand."
The man that invented the steam drill,
he figured he was mighty high and fine,
but John Henry sunk the steel down fourteen feet
while the steam drill only made nine, Lord, Lord.
The steam drill only made nine.
John Henry hammered on the right-hand side.
Steam drill kept driving on the left.
John Henry beat that steam drill down.
But he hammered his poor heart to death, Lord, Lord.
He hammered his poor heart to death.
Well, they carried John Henry down the tunnel,
and they laid his body in the sand.
Now every woman riding on a C and O train
Says, "There lies my steel-driving man, Lord, Lord.
There lies my steel-driving man."
According to the healthcare link above, John Henryism, working your ass off that is, leads to hypertension and cardiovascular problems. Yeah, well, we've all heard the ballad of John Henry, so tell us something we didn't know back in 1872! Per a wiki article on this folklore, if there was such a real contest at the beginning of the power-drill era, it was indeed on the Chesapeake & Ohio line, during the building of a tunnel at the big bend of the Greenbrier River near Talcott, West Virginia. We don't know exactly what type of cardiac infarction resulted, as, you know, people just dropped dead back then. Still, watch yourselves when you're hammering holes into the sides of a mountains with 12 lb hammers. Be safe out there, people!
Since Peak Stupidity is getting into the wonderful folklore of the railroads here, I believe another man should be mentioned, one Casey Jones. Mr. Jones was no steel-driver, but an Engineer, who perhaps due to worries about that very John Henryism under discussion here, self-medicated himself to avoid such a fate, as explained in the Workingman's Dead:
Drivin' that train, high on cocaine,
Casey Jones, you better watch your speed.
Trouble ahead, trouble behind,
and you know that notion just crossed my mind.
From a post about tragedy impending, we're gonna link swiftly back to a post about tragedy narrowly averted. It's another in The Dead's long list of tragedy songs, but that one's about tragedy narrowly averted.
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Foreigners in America
Posted On: Wednesday - January 16th 2019 7:00PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity
(cropped from graph in Friday's post to eliminate projected numbers)
I'm not a big fan of "projected" numbers for areas that are not very scientific. For the example of the graph from Friday, on the percentage of foreigners in the US population, I think the red bars in the graph in Friday's post could be drastically lowered with some willpower. However, the light blue you see here is bad enough, and as of yet, I don't see that willpower anyway. People are still scared of being called names.
What the big deal is here, is that you don't have much of a unified country when 1 in 7 inhabitants are people who have no family ties to Americans. As Peak Stupidity discussed long ago in Immigration invasion, assimilation, and refugees, small number like 1 or 2% of individuals from all over, an not placed together as with the Cubans in Miami or Moslems in Dearbornistan, can be a positive thing for the nation, or at least not seriously negative.
Well, you may say, it's not quite as bad today as with the almost 15% foreign-born a hundred years ago. History rhymes, right, you heard it right here? Let me tell you, it was no picnic for white, mostly British-descended, America to absorb the large masses (smaller numbers than today, but let's think relatively) of Italians, Irish, and eastern European Poles and Jews that came in the period from the late 1870's to when people got fed up, by the year 1924. Interestingly, that was the year of the great Silent Cal's election as President, after a year of serving already due to Harding's death. Good times, good times... There are no Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans today, sure, unless they go retro (with the names like Meghan, etc!), but there were tons of problems from having masses of like people, amidst that past era's Americans who were not like them at that time.
OK, then, give it 30-40 years then, as with the period mid-1920's to mid '50's or '60's when the country was very unified demographically at least. Yeah, well, then we'd really need a major curtailment in immigration, as the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act*, passed by a good margin in the US House and Senate, entailed. The proof is in the pudding:
(The numbers are in immigrant entries per DECADE - but do not, obviously, count illegal entry.)
The window has been open wider, and for just as long, during the period 1965 to 2019, people are probably even more fed up (the problem was mostly an urban thing in the previous period), so is it not high time to do a Johnson-Reed again? Otherwise, those deep red bars from Friday's graph's projections WILL be there, and the country will be truly fucked. The problem I see, is that the Legislative branch of today's US Feral Gov't is full of crazies and cucks, nothing like the Congress of a century ago. The Lyin' Press of today is nothing but a branch of the D-squad of The Party, as opposed to having a shred of integrity a century ago. Would the current US President, listening to his Beltway advisors, even sign a bill like that, were it magically to come across his desk, as President Calvin Coolidge did a century ago? I don't think there's any chance of our finding out without serious effort by the only ones who care - about 1/2 of the American people.
In the meantime, I think there's less loyalty by the masses of immigrants than there was in the non-welfare era of 100 years back. Steve Sailer, in his post Shamelessness yesterday, displayed a tweet of his:
How many opeds have we read by people with names like "Shikha Dalmia" that basically boil down to: America needs more immigration because not all my extended family have arrived yet!Hell, maybe there was some of that last go around too. I will end with the entire comment under Sailer's thread by a good commenter named "iSteveReader", with the most-indented blocks of quotes being from this Shikha Dalmia:
Indeed! There you have it, it's not just the quantity but the quality, yet quantity has a quality all its own... if that all makes any sense. Good luck to us.In America, by contrast, there are about 44 million foreign-born people who now constitute about 13.7 percent of the population, according to the Pew Research Foundation. This is close to the historic high of 15 percent at the turn of the 20th century.Some things to point out. First, there are 44 million foreign-born people WHO ARE ALIVE in the USA right now. This is not the same as the number of people who have come since 1965, about 60 million in total, because some have already lived their lives and died.
Second, this sum of 44 million foreign-born who are alive, and the 60 million or so who have come since 1965, does NOT include their descendants.
Third, the notion that since the foreign-born population is ONLY at 13.7%, shy of the record high 15%, we still have room for more is the wrong way to look at it. The population of the USA in 1900 was 76 million. Today it is over 325 million. So obviously a larger number of foreign-born people would account for a smaller percentage today since our population is so much larger.
But, here is where that is a bad metric. Given that our population is ever increasing and is expected to climb from the current level of 325M to 400 M, will people 30 years in the future sit around saying that since our foreign-born population is only 52 million and only represents 13%, that we have room for more since it is still shy of the 15% in 1900?
We will always be chasing a higher number because as the population rises someone will always point out that what we think is a huge number is really a small number because percentage-wise it is actually smaller than it was in 1900. Of course if you were to go back to 1607 Jamestown, 100 percent of our population was foreign-born. Do we want that?
By any reasonable metric, “mass” immigration is a myth.A myth that will have changed the third most populous nation in the world from being 88% European to being under 50% in about 80 years time. We aren’t talking about changing the demographics of a small nation like Switzerland where perhaps you could flood a couple of million people to water down a population of 5 million. We are talking about flipping a nation that had almost 200 million people in 1965. Think about that. Demographically altering a nation of 200 million people to the point it is unrecognizable.
That is the definition of mass immigration. It is not fu*king myth. It’s harsh reality.
* It's a damn shame when, even with duckduckgo, after 15 minutes of checking out sites, I can't find one less biased against the bill in defense of Johnson-Reed than wiki!
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Do not change that URL - posting will resume momentarily
Posted On: Tuesday - January 15th 2019 7:15PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity
... meaning tomorrow (Wednesday). Besides the loss of a computer device, one containing a buttload of posting ideas, only some of which will come back to me soon, internet problems earlier caused a lull here at Peak Stupidity. I'd also been distracted by commenting to some hard-to-reach folks at unz.com, which is easier for me than getting a full hour or 1 1/2 that it takes to make a solid post.
So, if you are wondering about the 3 days with nothing here, don't be too alarmed. Due to a comment by BernCar, there is now a goal here of getting to post 1,000 by end-o'-bidness, end-o'-March. This one counts. ;-}
Hopefully, there'll be a post up by mid-morning.
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Jim Goad article - "The 18 Most Annoying People of '18"
Posted On: Saturday - January 12th 2019 1:02PM MST
In Topics: Humor Feminism Pundits ctrl-left
Peak Stupidity has promoted Mr. Jim Goad before, as tied with Mr. Steve Sailer as the best writers for the Takimag webzine. Perhaps that site should be in the blogroll, though we've just criticized it for the usability (see digression - what's new?! - in this post).
Well, I just got to reading Mr. Goad's The 18 Most Annoying People of 2018 retrospective, with his intial caveat that we all may have our own picks, likely a lot more than 18. So, don't read it with the intention of correcting him (Takimag doesn't have commenting anymore anyway), but just enjoy it. It seems like Mr. Goad's emphasis in the realm of annoyances is the feminist and genderbending types of stupidity, hence those topic keys are attached here.
The curmudgeon of conservative bent will like the article, so I have not much more comment. I'd heard of at least of the annoying individuals "profiled" (haha) and even posted about a few of them - we do try to keep up with stupidity and practitioners thereof. Let's see, here are posts about # 18 - David Buckel, # 15 - Claas Relotius, lucky # 7 - the Øb☭ma, #4 - Sarah Jeong, and Jim Goad's #1 pick, of whom you may as well read about, as a sample:
1. Rob TibbetsMr. Goad is not so civil with his words with some of the rest of these 18 annoying pieces-of-work, but, hey, this guy is numero uno and deserves a little respect.
Political beliefs are all well and good so long as you don’t smack others in the face with them. But there’s a special sewer tank in Haiti reserved for parents who use their child’s freshly murdered corpses to make a political point. Mollie Tibbetts was a white Iowa girl who once wrote “I hate white people” on Twitter. After her dead body was found in a cornfield this August, the life beaten out of her by an illegal immigration from Mexico, her father Bob penned a nauseating OpEd that placed Mexicans above white Iowans:Today, we need to turn the page. We’re at the end of a long ordeal. But we need to turn toward life — Mollie’s life — because Mollie’s nobody’s victim. Mollie’s my hero….The Hispanic community are Iowans. They have the same values as Iowans….As far as I’m concerned, they’re Iowans with better food.Mr. Tibbetts, I wouldn’t feel bad if one day those “Iowans with better food” were to feast on your carcass.
OK, good readers, I've got not only about 30 or 40 tabs open in the browser with more blog fodder, but a few more in my head, and others promised from previous posts! There will be no running out of material in the near future. More to come on Monday. Thank you for reading!
* Well OK, since she's on the graphic, let's hear about numero dos:
2. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZYeah, we're done too, Jim.
What can be said about this horse-teethed economic retard that hasn’t been said beyond underlining the fact that she claims to have come from poverty but instead grew up in a plush ’hood that was 81% white and whose residents enjoyed a per-capita income twice the national average? Nothing, and I’m so sick of her already that I refuse to say anything else.
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The President unfollows Peak Stupidity pundit #1
Posted On: Saturday - January 12th 2019 11:45AM MST
In Topics: Trump Pundits Artificial Stupidity
Seriously, is that the state of things?
Per information from the blogger known as "Audacious Epigone", in the comments to his post Ann Coulter's Exploratory Committee, I needed to post this update to Thursday's post regarding Ann Coulter and the President's ear.
Per Mr. Epigone here, the President of the US has un-followed Peak Stupidity's favorite (at least, written) pundit. Now, the reason I've been the formal language referring to this high office, is simply that it sound so damn stupid - is this about a couple of 8th grade schoolgirls? NO! It's the head of the executive branch of this excuse for a government deciding to not follow the TWEETS of a well-known conservative/libertarian writer ... yes, probably because she figuratively tore him a new one, and rightfully so.
The more I think about this twitter-following by a President of the US, though, the more it seems just silly as all hell. I mean, does the guy get 5 or 10 blurbs onto his phone from those 45 people each time he’s in a meeting trying to get a handle on his treasonous staff, the continuous bomardment of Russia-porn by the Lyin’ Press, and his job as Commander-in-Chief?
Its seems so damn juvenile. How can you run a meeting, much less get any damn serious thinking in, when the phone is giving you little pieces of information every coupla’ minutes, some of which you feel a need to respond to?
"He said this like 10 minutes ago in a mean way." "OMG, this other guy disagrees and likes me." "I'm gonna reply to that 2nd guy and thank him." "Hey first guy, I never liked you anyway. You are not my friend anymore!"To go back to the actual politics, Miss Coulter was Donald Trump's biggest booster, even as the other TV talking
How about get real, Mr. President? Kick out the government-sack-hanging Lyin Press reporters, like that Acosta guy, from the press conferences. Come out with some simple to-the-point speeches about how you, with the American people's help, will get the swamp drained and the existential immigration invasion fixed. Don't talk in circles. If you have to, write this shit down first. No, don't hire Peggy Noonan (Reagan's former speechwriter, but a clueless piece of work), but how about, oh, I got it, Ann Coulter, to write for you? Oh, wait, you're not friends anymore, so the hell with the country. Is that it?
Hearing about this administration and the Twitter crap from other Americans for that matter, really makes me wonder if I woke up last year as a 14 y/o schoolgirl? (Yes, I guess I got the transgender surgery while I was out cold.)
BTW, A.E.'s post that I linked to above, and the comments under it, are half-serious speculation about how Ann Coulter would do as a GOP candidate. I'd vote for her over Trump without a moment's hesitation.
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Trump talk too late?
Posted On: Friday - January 11th 2019 9:33AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump
(No, that wasn't another Indian-tongued take-off, just an article-less headline.)
(I'll have more to say about this important graph in another post later.)
After thinking about President Trump's latest drama on the immigration front, along with Ann Coulter's column discussed yesterday and a new Pat Buchanan column today, I just wonder this: Why in hell wasn't all this talk and writing going on 2 years ago?! Probably lots of unknown bloggers and pundits, regular Americans, and, I'm sure, VDare.com thought of this possible solution.
What's happened over those 2 years, besides the back-and-forth Trump/Lyin'-Press infotainment and no serious action from our Feral Governent on this invasion? Oh, about 2- 4 million more unassimilable immigrants of all kinds, Hispanics from the south, Chinese and Indian visa overstayers through the airports, and the H1-B, family-reunification, and "refugee" legal ones came here. Don't llke my numbers? Give me some better ones, but I'm in the ballpark here. This is an EXISTENTIAL problem. It will not help to fix any of the other stupidity seen in this country today if the people are replaced with others who don't care about it all that much. This situation in the explosion of a population of non-Americans is (to use a 2nd word in the same post that used to be just for hippies and treehuggers) UNSUSTAINABLE!
I don’t have the optimism that anything serious will get done this time, not after 2 years of BS, WITH a GOP House and Senate. The problems are close to, maybe already, unfixable right now, but let 2 or 6 more years go by practicing politics, with another 3 – 10 million newcomers and more than that unassimilable offspring and it’s end of story.
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There's a Beauty in the River
Posted On: Thursday - January 10th 2019 8:07PM MST
In Topics: Music
As suggested by blogger Audacous Epigone*, this country/gospel song by a 1970's band called the Ozark Mountain Daredevils is a good one. Peak Stupidity featured this band way, way back, near the beginning of this blog, on its 4th day, with Jackie Blue.
Yeah, wait until you get into the song a minute or so to judge, as the voice sounds almost too country at first. The tune will grow on you, and this white country gospel sound rings a chord. It makes me wonder how long it will be before the Scots-Irish or Hillbilly gospel songs are just forgotten and there's no one left to remember and revive the sound and spirit.
I love that harmonica that also was in the forefront of their song If you wanna' get to Heaven.... There were too many different band members for me to give a good listing of who played on this, so try Wiki.
* "Epigone" - A second-rate imitator or follower, especially of an artist or a philosopher. This guy is not 2nd-rate, but a good blogger, new to unz.com
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Ann Coulter compares Ronnie to Donnie
Posted On: Thursday - January 10th 2019 7:42PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump Pundits Media Stupidity
In Peak Stupidity's #1 written pundit's latest column, Miss Coulter compares the late President Ronald Reagan's dealing with the Lyin' Press to that of President Trump. Funny that, in the 5 posts on the Ronnie vs. Donnie topic (brought out by some boasting by President Trump), I never did get to the one on dealings with the media (as a separate post, that is). Peak Stupidity included an intro, then comparisons of personalities, foreign policy, domestic policy and a conclusion. I did mention in the "personalities" comparison that Reagan was lambasted and name-called by the media too.
Miss Coulter has far more on that, and I think her memory is sound (of course she's got a book about much of this to reference, which she wrote!). From just below what's written in the screenshot above:
The New York Times and Washington Post produced nonstop denunciations of his "dangerous" policies. There were propaganda movies like "The Day After," terrifying Americans about a Soviet strike on our country. Witless college students demanded cyanide pills be stocked in campus health care clinics, on the grounds that Reagan was going to get us all nuked.Right! I can remember a lot of this stuff. Miss Coulter did not mention the ctrl-left's dubbing of that President as "Ronnie Raygun", because, you know, he wanted war and all, supposedly. (That last thought brings up an interesting post to come, going even further back.) The basic point of Coulter's column is this comparison to Reagan's winning of the Cold War* to Trump's possible (we are hoping) action on the immigration war:
Only after Reagan's policies succeeded did these same hysterics say, "Ho hum, no big deal. We always knew the Soviet Union was a paper tiger."
The Democrats, the media and most of the Republican Party are as fanatically opposed to Trump's ideas about illegal immigration as they were to Reagan's ideas about winning the Cold War.The rest of this great column is about immigration and the "wall". I can't be cutting and pasting Ann Coulter writing in every week here, just for reasons of the law (theft comes to mind), though she's been on a roll for about 10 years now. (Would she really sue Peak Stupidity after all the praise we've given her? Not if she's in love back, right?) Anyway, read the rest of the column for Miss Coulter's new arguments against the immigration stupidity and Lyin' Press.
The question of whether this famous pundit really has been influencing the President is interesting and very important. He's gotten his mojo back a tad recently, in this fight. Was that due to the fact that Ann Coulter wrote a tweet that tore him a new one just before Christmas? I'd like to think so. It shouldn't have to be this way, but if he's going to listen to anyone outside of his coterie of treasonous hand-picked employees, I'd pick this pundit to be the one to whisper in his ear
What a relief it'd be knowing that the President is listening to Ann Coulter over his wife, daughter and son-in-law too. It really makes me wonder if wife-swapping would be an option. Trump is a real playboy type, and they go in for that, don't they? Instead of for sex, well, OK, in addition to the sex, could he not be with Ann Coulter for her wit and wifely advice, while Ivanka could ... wait, Ann's not married, so how does that work? OK, just waive the polygamy laws for high-office holders - they do all that crazy shit on that island anyway.
To get back serious, if only for the conclusion here, Ann nails it here too:
Like Reagan, Trump has only the people on his side. Unlike Reagan, he doesn't seem as confident that he is right.Yep, that's about what I wrote in the Ronnie vs. Donnie posts. This guy has many of the right ideas, but he trusts the Washington, FS insiders over his own good judgement. Ronnie did not have this problem.
* with lots of help by the Iron Lady Thatcher, the old, serious Pope, Pole Lec Walesa, German Konrad Adenauer, and millions of American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and mechanical/electrical engineers.
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Dot vs. Feather
Posted On: Wednesday - January 9th 2019 6:22PM MST
In Topics: Humor Political Correctness
You're both pretty. Now, do you forgive the Political Incorrectness?
Peak Stupidity has been on the warpath lately with Chief Candidate Elizabeth Warren. It's not even clear to us whose side we are on. Perhaps we'd know better having walked a campaign in her moccasins, or maybe chugged a cold craft brewski with her sometime.
A comment regarding Mrs. Warren's daughter caught my eye, stating:
Elizabeth Warren may be a fake (feather) Indian, but her daughter married a real (dot) Indian, so presumably has a real (half dot) Indian grandchild. Problem solved! Run this woman for president and put that child on her lap.OK, so she now has some real Indian cred, but it's a bit backwards in 2 ways:
1) You're supposed to have Indian ancestors, not descendants, to be considered an Indian.
2) We meant feather Indian, NOT dot-Indian. The dot-types have been doing all right, and not many people feel sari for them. (get it, sari?)
The political incorrectness on this blog IS a bit off the wall, but we have clarified our views on the PC already, and specifically on the "Indian" confusion in First Nations and the Spirits Communities. We not only don't care about being Politically Correct, but Political INCORRECTNESS is something we strive for here. It's whom we are.
Back to Chief Warren here, if she wanted the sympathy of Americans, it seems like she ended up with the wrong Indians. There are big differences, you know:
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The Warrens expected venison jerky, smoked salmon, and buffalo (boiled buffalo, smoked buffalo, sauteed buffalo, shrimp-fried buffalo, buffalo gumbo …). Yet, they got curry dishes, blueberry squishies, and microwave burritos.
They expected incessant drumming, war chants, and moonlight dancing with wolves. Yet, they got 40 year-old disco, and Diwali Carols.
They expected story time, with the oral histories passed on from the ancient ones. Yet, they got two brother-in-laws holding 2-hour late-night arguments over the merits of Ubuntu versus Mint versions of Linux.
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I want my feathers back!
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A Tale of Two Moms
Posted On: Wednesday - January 9th 2019 8:46AM MST
In Topics: Feminism
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, but more importantly, it was the Peak of Stupidity ...
After the post yesterday which discussed Presidential candidate Warren's 16 year-old book about the economics of motherhood, it's time for this short post of pondering about it.
It's not like the economics discussed in Chief Warren's book are that hard for any decently-numerate working Dad to figure out that the 2-income set up is not that big a plus for the family, just financially speaking, never mind the social aspects. When looking back just now, I was surprised that Peak Stupidity has not covered this subject more, in fact. (I can see another post coming on details.) There are the 2 reliable vehicles required, the higher tax bracket (often making the 2nd-earner Mom's taxes, that the Dad pays, only pay off at 55 - 70% on the dollar earned!), and the child-care (most likely the biggest financial sink), just for starters. I'm sure that The Two-Income Trap covers that all pretty well, albeit with slightly different numbers.
The social costs are another thing, and the (apparently) MOST-important detail of the Mom' happiness and fulfillment is the subject here. This is about 2 Moms that live on the same block near me.
(A tail of one Mom! This is a file photo that I couldn't resist - wheewww!)
I've thought some about these two ladies that live about equidistant, have pretty much the same size and style of nice houses, both with working husbands. The Mom in one direction has 3 little ones and stays at home (or around with the kids at the parks, social events, etc.) The Mom in the other direction has 2 little ones and works at a decent-paying medium-level white color job.
Mom # 1 seems pretty happy when I talk to her about her kids, and a bit about the house and neighborhood. The main thing I get is that she seems very relaxed. Though not quite as hot as the file photo, she does keep herself in good shape, and has a nice smile. Their house is kept up very nicely, as the husband, who's not around much, must make good money - I never have talked to him.
Mom # 2 is rushed most of the time I see her, so there's not much talk to get anything out of. I cannot say if she's happy or fulfilled or what-have-you. I guess the feminists would say she "has it all!" Does she like that? I don't remember for sure what her husband does, but I thought it was a pretty good white-collar gig. Their house is also kept up nicely, on par, in my estimate with the expenses put into Mom #1's house.
OK, there's not much of a big conclusion here, as, even from this anecdote, the reader may well wonder, WTF is the point? (Knowing this blog, I'm sure you expected the results a certain way.) As I wrote, this is just pondering, or speculation. So here goes a bit of that:
Regarding the economics, I can see the use of the word "trap" in that book. Mom and Dad # 2 may be caught in a position where, as most Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck (a bit more here), no matter how much they make, they feel that they need the money from Mom #2's job. The kids can get the best of everything, except for, of course, the most attention from Mom. As Peak Stupidity wrote in our review of another book The Nurture Assumption, the time spent with the little ones will have long-lasting effects due to the build-up of trust - the more and longer, the better.
Mom #1's kids have all the attention from a relaxed Mom. She can spend time organizing things with the other home-Moms in the area for even more fun and learning for the kids. The total time spent with them could be 2 to 3 X that spent by Mom #2. Maybe her husband makes just a metric shit-ton of money. I dunno, but remember that the economics may not leave them with but 20% - 30% (my rectal extraction here, for now) less discretionary spending money even if Dad #1's pay = Dad #2's pay.
However, it's supposed to be all about Mom's happiness and fulfillment, per the feminists. They don't care quite so much about the kids, I suppose, as most serious feminists don't have many. I can't tell for sure, as I wrote already, whether Mom # 1 or Mom # 2 is happier, and I doubt I could get a straight answer about it from Mom #2 anyway. The buzzword, though, has been fulfillment. As far as fulfillment goes, I doubt either one of them knows how fulfilled they are without having Cosmo magazine tell them how fulfilled they are.
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More Doctor Humor
Posted On: Tuesday - January 8th 2019 7:12PM MST
In Topics: Humor
From the comments section under a post on unz.com, while totally unrelated to the topic, a comment contained the hilarious video presented here. We have written some doctor-humor posts before, in Docs on Bikes, Addendum, Doctor Talk, and Send in your payment - STAT! (more doctor stories). This commercial beats it all though. I truly LOL'd.
I guess TV is good for something after all.
(No, I don't know what the ad is for. I seem to have mysteriously cut off the end.)
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Another Native American succumbs to alcoholism
Posted On: Tuesday - January 8th 2019 7:02PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Humor Political Correctness Feminism Books
I am so, so, sorry, Mr. Shepface XL, for stealing your top-of-the-line youtube comment under the video below of Chief Warren's bender! That was just perfect for the title of this post, though, of course Peak Stupidity doesn't really care for the euphemism for the downtrodden
I'm not sure I see the fakeness that most have noticed from this instagram stunt from the Demo-Presidential candidate. However, I'm off TV, so that may be the reason. Others may have seen a lot more of this lady in action or inaction, hence some inauthenticity in the scene below. It just seems kind of juvenile, as, no, Chief Warren, you are no 14-year-old young squaw who may use smoke signals and twitter for frivolities. Peak Stupidity has discussed Chief Warren before, but never really got our digs in on her regarding that DNA-testing fiasco... maybe later.
For the Democrat Party presidential candidate picks, 2020 will be pretty much like Custer's last stand in terms of the chances for the white man (this includes the squaws here too, of course). From what I've read of her recently, Elizabeth Warren could have been a great candidate in, say 1992, even up through 2004, I'd say. She is truly a thinker who has tried, most often erroneously, but still tried to come to grips with the social and financial problems in America over the last 2-3 decades. This is no endorsement by any means, but just a look at how intelligent (without the pure evil of a Hildabeast) she is compared to the juvenile, tribal, diversity crowd that will probably produce the D-selection.
this lady can really accomplish something:
As reviewed back in 2003 by Steve Sailer, with more discussion today on unz with Elizabeth Warren on Why 1970s Feminism Was Best for the Bosses, the book shown above is downright conservative. From the admittedly short excerpts I read from Mr. Sailer and the editors' review on the amazon page for The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents Are (Still) Going Broke, this could have been written by Phyllis Schlafly! (She's died, unfortunately but the pro-family Eagle Forum lives on.) Here's the amazon.com editors' review:
In this brilliantly argued book, Harvard Law School bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren and business consultant Amelia Tyagi show that today's middle-class parents are suffering from an unprecedented and totally unexpected economic meltdown. Astonishingly, sending mothers to work has made families more vulnerable than ever before. Today's two-income family earns 75% more money than its single-income counterpart of a generation ago, but actually has less discretionary income once their fixed monthly bills are paid.How did this happen? Warren and Tyagi provide convincing evidence that the culprit is not "overconsumption," as many critics have charged. Instead, they point to the ferocious bidding war for housing and education that has quietly engulfed America's suburbs. Stay-at-home mothers once provided a financial safety net if disaster struck; their move into the workforce has left today's families chillingly at risk. The authors show why the usual remedies--child-support enforcement, subsidized daycare, and higher salaries for women--won't solve the problem, and propose a set of innovative solutions, from rate caps on credit cards to open-access public schools, to restore security to the middle class.And you want to be the 2020 Democrat candidate for US President?! I don't think so! After the Indian gaffe, you'd think this lady would have learned to fit in to the diversity, gender-stupidity, and other feminist bullshit that that basically IS the Democrat party of today, and keep her
Now that I've thought about this conservative book, I'd like to write a post tomorrow on its subject that I'd meant to write a year ago.
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The Shutdown and the Flags
Posted On: Monday - January 7th 2019 11:58AM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry US Feral Government
Or, is this just an essential government position?
Apparently, the US Gov't is still shutdown, as far as non-essential personnel goes. My life hasn't change a whole lot ... or any, come to think of it. I only know about this from the news coming through the internet tubes. What I have seen, though, at least up through < 1 week back, is flags still at half-mast. That's getting ridiculous.
I had a thought about it: For the US Feral Gov't "public" buildings at least, is it that the employees responsible for raising and lowering the flags are out on un-paid time-off? I don't think this job is too essential, really, as I just don't have much respect for that flag as I have in the past (even just going back 10 years). Leave them where they are. We'll get used to it. Enterprising thieves will climb up and get the top halves for us once the price of aluminum goes back up.
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Tucker Carlson's Monologue
Posted On: Monday - January 7th 2019 6:58AM MST
In Topics: Trump Pundits Globalists Liberty/Libertarianism
It's not The King's Speech, but Peak Stupidity's favorite
Read or watch Mr. Carlson: Mitt Romney supports the status quo. But for everyone else, it's infuriating It's about a whole lot more than the worthless cuckservative Mitt Romney. Now, per Steve Sailer's valued opinion, Mr. Tucker combines ideas of the left and the right, as also can be seen in his book Ship of Fools. No, he's no Socialist.
First of all, I’d rather read than watch (it's much quicker), so after that good read of Mr. Carlson’s very powerful monologue, I’d like to comment on it a bit as a Libertarian and no fan of any ideas of the left. The folks on unz.com have some kind of problem with Libertarians due to the fact that they don't understand who Libertarians are, for the most part (they see them all as the Reason magazine open-borders retards, for which the animosity is completely understandable.)
This latest out of Mr. Carlson is definitely amazing stuff that you won’t find bandied about on infortainment TV. Tucker’s criticism of Libertarians is justified if Mitt Romney and his political and corporate followers could be considered Libertarians. Big-Business markets are not the only markets and they are not free anyway, so crony capitalism is not really about free markets and libertarianism.
Tucker’s talk about first the social devastation in the big cities is fine. He did, for reasons of avoiding the name-calling, leave out the Nature side and only include the US Feral Gov’t Nurture as a cause of the disasters that modern American inner cities are. He states that Big Gov is NOT a cause of the ills in modern rural America, though. Here’s where I disagree with him. The influence of Big Gov may not be as direct in this case, but they still are the cause.
Did you note that, when talking about the importance of families, Mr. Carlson left out anything about family businesses? (I know, I know, it was a TV monologue, not a 50-page manifesto, so I’m not complaining.) Those are very important, as without family and small businesses, everyone is just a “wage slave” to some big corporate or gov. entity. When the Big-Gov/Big-Biz crony capitalism that people call “Capitalism” exists, family and small businesses are actively marginalized and destroyed. Regulations are made FOR, but also BY, Big-Biz in hand with Big-Gov to strangle any competition.
The latter is one thing that I give President Trump praise for not just talking about, but actively working for, the trashing of the huge burden of unnecessary, small-business-strangling regulation. It's something he cares about due to a whole lot of his experience with it in his real estate businesses.
I could see lots of confusion by people reading this post, and others by Libertarians, arguing “hey, we need MORE regulation of business, not less. We have to stop entities like Romney’s Bain Capital and (the movie versions) Blue Star airlines being broken up, and let guys build big ships again (end of A Pretty Woman).” You’ve still got to understand that with the Feral Gov’t so large and powerful, any regulation will be made to be accommodated for by Big Biz. It doesn’t matter how you write it – they have the departments of lawyers and accountants that Joe’s Finance or Joe’s Flying Service DOES NOT.
Why rural America is suffering is that manufacturing might has been shipped to China and elsewhere around the world. Tucker understands this part. Big-corporate manufacturing, as Tucker states nicely, does not give a damn about the Americans that could be working for them to maintain themselves and families as middle class. With help from Big-Gov, they’ve shipped most of it out. The extremely heavy regulation on small business has made them noncompetitive. They may have liked to keep the plants here, but it doesn’t pay. Are you going to force them to lose money? Mr. Carlson left off his talk with a warning about Socialism, and I appreciated that greatly.
Back to rural American, to add insult to injury, Wal-Mart and Amazon (Wal-Mart II), along with the 3 dollar-store chains for the really low-end, have eviscerated family retail business. These are Big-Biz giants, and they will work hard to prevent any upstarts from getting competitive.
What are people left with? They can fix-up their, or flip other, houses as one remaining investment vehicle and place to put their labor. We see what happens when government lays down the moral hazard in that industry (see Housing Bubble 1.0, and recently, it’s current instance).
Almost all of the financial pain has Big-Government plans, whether evil or just stupid, as the basic root cause. It doesn't seem like Tucker Carlson gets ALL of that, but he's a real truth-seeker and may come around to that understanding.
Even though Peak Stupidity doesn't agree with Mr. Carlson 100%, were he to get into politics, it could only be a good thing. We wish him well, and appreciate hearing some truth from a guy that is inexplicably still on TV! As for Mitt Romney, the less said about him, the better.
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Full Moonbeam in Sacramento
Posted On: Saturday - January 5th 2019 8:35PM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity California Movies Global Climate Stupidity Trump Environmental Stupidity
Just to get off the subject right away this time, the post title is taken from the wonderful 1988 movie Full Moon in Blue Water, with Gene Hackman and the beautiful Teri Garr. I don't know what it is about it, but this one gets a Peak Stupidity two thumbs up.
Now, here's the moonbeam still "serving" the people of California a crock of lefty BS in Sacramento:
California was called "the land of fruits and nuts" even back in its Paradise days, and who knows what they call it now? What do you call a people who have kept Jerry Brown in and out of office since 1975, as he bounced from Governor to Mayor of Oakland to Attorney General, then back to Governor in 2010 and ever since. In some ways, per the wiki page on him, Brown was a pretty decent guy, being more of a fiscal conservative than Ronald Reagan, pushing for a US Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment, and presiding over a $5 Billion budget surplus - yes that was long, long ago! Spell-check was under the quite-reasonable impression that this blogger was drunk and kept trying to change this to deficit. Surpluses in California?! Hahahaa, you're one of those nuts, aren't you? Hey, I'm no fruit, so, you know, there's that.
However, Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown was down with the usual causes that are documented here as the various and sundry flavors, if you will, of stupidity. The environmentalism is one, which, originating as a very good cause, largely out of California, morphed into pure stupidity by the 90's or 00's. Moonbeam was at the forefront of all of it. The latest major bout of out-of-control environmental stupidity is the Global Climate DisruptionTM, of course, as well-documented here.
A Lyin Press (warning) article from a week back features another piece of stupid out of this guy, with Jerry Brown: Climate change challenges as serious as those faced in World War II. Yeah, that's the ticket. Those extra hurricanes, as wrongly-predicted by those beautiful climate models, are like Nazi U-boats, sinking, well, condos and 2nd homes, and stuff. (I guess and Tsunamis could be seen as the modern-day equivalent of the Japanese Imperial Navy.) Who would be the Hitler and the Waffen SS in all this? I believe it is you the SUV driver, and you the user of propane and propane accessories. From the article:
In an interview for Sunday's "Meet the Press," the outgoing governor called on President Donald Trump to take the lead in addressing the issue. "Instead of worrying about tariffs, I'd like to see the president and the Congress invest tens of billions in renewable energy, in more-efficient batteries, to get us off fossil fuel as quickly as we can," Brown said.Oh, I see, all about the money again. Yes, California needs more of our money, with that big
"I would point to the fact that it took Roosevelt many, many years to get America willing to go into World War II and fight the Nazis. Well, we have an enemy, though different, but perhaps, very much devastating in a similar way.Yes, a 1 C rise in the average temperature compared is like the blitzkrieg of Poland and France and bombing of Pearl Harbor. Devastating! Speaking of this, it's kind of a slip that Governor Brown says it took Roosevelt "many, many years" to get Americans to want to fight overseas. Hmmm, but I thought we were neutral until Pearl Harbor? His statement kind of jives with many historians' opinions that Roosevelt dragged us into war, and who knows how much he knew about an attack coming.
No, America ramped up its military forces and transition to economic wartime footing over only a couple of years. Could we not do the same, if we actually saw a WORKING! MATHEMATICAL! MODEL! OF! THE! ENTIRE! EARTH'S! CLIMATE!? Why not give it a rest, Moonbeam, until we have a serious clue about causes of climate differences over time over the whole world?
Oh, we've badmouthed President Trump enough recently, so read this:
President Trump has repeatedly downplayed the importance of addressing climate change during his presidency.Donald, I forgive your lack of any success on the immigration invasion for the evening, as this part just warms my heart. As the older Californians probably still say "Right on, Mr. Trump!"
Last month, he brushed aside a federal climate report that warned of a “cascading effect” from climate change that could hurt both the planet and the economy, telling reporters “I don’t believe it.”
Last year, he pulled America out of the international Paris Agreement meant to align the world’s nations toward reducing emissions and curbing the effects of climate change.
And his administration has also rolled back a handful of Obama-era environmental regulations aimed at reducing the impact of climate change.
Let's leave along the left coast for a bit, and note what the ex-Mayor of NY City has to say. No fruit or nut he, but just a gun-grabbing, soda-stealing tyrant, Mr. Bloomberg chimes in, in the article, thusly:
"It would be a lot more helpful, if we had a climate champion, rather than a climate denier, in the White House," Bloomberg said."This world is in trouble." Yeah, come to think of it, with people like you and the Moonbeam, that is indeed a fact.
"You know, I've always thought, Trump has a right to his opinions. But he doesn't have a right to his own facts. And the truth of the matter is this country and this world is in trouble.
What about that comparison of Global Climate DisruptionTM to WWII (the big one) again? How'd it end? Oh yeah, does that mean we're gonna have to bring out the nukes to finish off these imperial Kamikaze Carbon Dioxide emissions?
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Cats not allowed to drink milk - is it the end times?
Posted On: Friday - January 4th 2019 8:02PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Curmudgeonry
Milk being cats' favorite food has been a little bit more than a meme, over the last, what, 5 or 20 centuries? It'd have been the case since people kept both cats and cows, I imagine. Imagine my surprise when some information from an animal shelter tells us pets (pets, period) shouldn't be fed milk. Is it the case that everything we know is wrong? Have the Commies, Socialists, SJW's, Globalists, Neocons, the ctrl-left, even the antifa, and the AntiChrist right all along? I mean, yeah, cat's like milk and that is no mere meow meme!
As an aside, let me tell you about an animal shelter as a place to adopt a pet. Good intentions aside, these people live in a bureaucratic nightmare, at least on our end. Just to compare to pre-stupidity America, or modern-day China ( with my pretty-good imagining on the latter), think of the situation then or there. "Oh, there's a cute kitty that needs a home." "Sure, you look like nice people. I'm glad you're here, as he would have to be put down by the end of the week otherwise. Here's a box, take him home. Thank you so much for giving him a good home!" Now, there were 10 pages of paperwork to be first messed with on the lady's computer. "Oh, sir, he's already licensed and neutered." "Whoa, wait a minute ..." It took us damn near 1/2 hour to get out of there. It was likely the last time, too.
At home, the boy looked over the paperwork for me, as I don't care - I know cats. Then, he surprised me with the milk warning, since we'd given him a small bowl already. How ridiculous it was to give a blanket statement that goes against the common sense of millions and millions of cat
OK, sure, new things can be learned. I felt foolish looking up "feeding milk to cats", but found out a little about lactose intolerant cats and too many calories from "unbalanced sources". Fine, you don't feed him solely on milk, but a few ounces in the evening as a treat - that's gonna continue. You would think evolution would result in cat's eating and drinking what they need (dogs are another story!), so I don't expect him to get sick to his stomach. If so, we'll cut his milk treat.
This kind of abandonment of all common sense by those "in the know" makes me wonder if Dave Letterman's line about the End Times will come true. As just an example, the last sentence being his: "The Federal Reserve will be shut down next week for the purposes of sound money. Next thing you know, they'll be cats and dogs living together!"
Just because they probably comprise the single biggest category of videos on the net*, so there's no problem finding one, Peak Stupidity presents "CATS will make you LAUGH YOUR HEAD OFF". No, the slow posting recently has absolutely NOT been due to the perusal of dozens of youtube cat videos. Why do you ask?
Oh, in answer to the question up top - nope, the Commies, Socialists, SJW's, Globalists, Neocons, the ctrl-left, even the antifa, and the AntiChrist have always been stupidly wrong, and will be right through the End Times?
* With the usual exception of porn, of course.
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Bodhisattva by Steely Dan
Posted On: Thursday - January 3rd 2019 8:23PM MST
In Topics: Music
According to a great guru who lives on a virtual hill sitting perfectly still, and goes by the name of Wiki, Bodhisattva is a state of being that can result in obtaining buddhahood in one lifetime. That's buddhahood, not bruddahhood, for our differently-ethniced readers.
You may or may not have to be on some strong drugs that can only be made in a laboratory to obtain these goals of higher conciousness (ask these guys). Steely Dan, however, made Bodhisattva with a great melody, excellent guitar work, and a great bebop jazz sound. The lyrics are a reminder that we must apparently get rid of lots of our stuff to get into the Buddhism thing. Indeed, I could see a much higher state of consciousness in myself were I to get rid of certain time-consuming vehicles.
Peak Stupidity has featured Steely Dan before with their title song from the album Aja, Black Cow from that same album, and Dr. Wu from the album Katy Lied
Here is Bodhisattva, off of Countdown to Ecstasy, from these musical geniuses as played 45 years ago:
Bodhisattva,
I'm gonna sell my house in town.
Bodhisattva,
I'm gonna sell my house in town
And I'll be there
to shine in your Japan,
to sparkle in your China.
Yes I'll be there.
Bodhisattva,
Bodhisattva.
Got distracted today from the serious posting, but I did want to get that Rocky Horror pic off of the top, Peak Stupidity being a family site and all.
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