Let's leave our Carbon Footprints ...
Posted On: Thursday - June 28th 2018 11:59AM MST
In Topics: Global Climate Stupidity Environmental Stupidity
... on the asses of the ctrl-left climate-admitters.
Dammit, if it weren't for that first stage, with its 5 North American Aviation - Rocketdyne F-1 engines pushing with 750 TONS thrust each, and burning a total of oh, about 200,000 gallons of kerosene, the Saturn V that took 12 men to the moon, 2* at a time, would have been carbon-freakin'-neutral, man! The other two stages burned Hydrogen (stored in liquid form) in pure Oxygen (also liquid in the tanks). See, when you burn Hydrogen, you make only water which HAS NO CARBON, producing no CO2 product, but only water, which is not .. a green ... house.... wait... whatever.
The phrase "carbon-neutral" can be seen all over now. It's nothing but a buzzword that nobody really even thinks the meaning of anymore, like "green" for instance. This computer keyboard I'm typing on - carbon neutral, the words you're reading right now - carbon neutral, this pencil I write my thoughts down with when I have no computer - carbon - negative? (well it seems to get smaller, but then I'm still a phlogiston-admitter too, so, you know ...) The thoughts in my head? You guessed it, carbon neutral!
At least back 5 decades ago, the environmentalists and proto-treehuggers (I don't think there was any penetration back then) had some real concrete causes to raise hell about. I guess too much concrete, come to think of it would be one. Seriously, this part of Lake Erie was a mess, the Nitrogen Oxides and particulates from the cars of the day came out the tailpipes like there was gonna be no tomorrow, the DDT was ... well, the jury's out on that one - Peak Stupidity could use some of that shit. Anyway, there were specific environmental problems that could be seen and smelled, not the vague, unsuccessfully modeled Global Climate DisruptionTM crap that we hear about incessantly today. Real environmental problems in America have improved greatly or I should say, BEEN IMPROVED greatly by the people that do the actual engineering, technical and manual work.
So don't go telling me about my carbon footprint unless you want it planted on your ass.
* The crew was 3 on these Apollo missions, but one guy would remain in lunar orbit during the lunar expeditions.
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Gold Dust Woman - Fleetwood Mac - Long Distance Dedication
Posted On: Wednesday - June 27th 2018 5:29PM MST
In Topics: Music
... to Theranos?
The last post, on Miss Elizabeth Holmes, was a doozy, and I didn't want to make it longer, even though the song title here could be related.
Who knows, really, about this "Gold Dust Woman" Stevie Nicks is on about? I don't even care what the lyrics of most songs are about. With all the musical talent and great sound from Fleetwood Mac during their relatively short time as creative artists, they are no exception. As much as I've insisted before that Christy McVie had the much better voice vs. the more-widely-known Stevie Nicks (of the 2 women singers, that is) the latter sings a great tune here with her much rougher voice. She got the credit for writing the song, but also the Lindsey Buckingham guitar makes this great, especially with the long fade ending.
If I'm gonna relate this song to the story of Therano, I suppose this one verse below should be dedicated to the big-time investors who put their money and soul into the hope that was the whiz-woman-led Theranos:
Did she make you cry,
make you break down,
shatter your illusions of love.
And, is it over now? Do you know how
to pick up the pieces and go home?
From the album Rumours (nope, they didn't have spell-check in the '70's the wogs!):
Peak Stupidity has featured Fleetwood Mac before three times, with Second Hand News, Say you Love Me, and Blue Letter.
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Lady Whiz-Kid Entrepreneur shows up the Geeks ... headed to jail...
Posted On: Wednesday - June 27th 2018 4:02PM MST
In Topics: Feminism Female Stupidity Poetic Stupidity Big-Biz Stupidity
... for defrauding a whole lot of investors.
("What now!? You're my legal council!"
"Uuhhhh, show 'em your tits?")
Yeah, this Elizabeth Holmes shown above has been cheered on by all kinds of big-wigs as the new girl-kind-of-whiz-kid. It hasn't worked out too well. Well, as commenter Reg Cæsar notes under the well-written Fred Reed article, Holmes, Uncle Clunk, and and Epic Con Job, "She could always pose nude." That usually solves anything, as we note:
Indeed, Reg, that would settle the matter … I mean, never underestimate the power of poontang. I’m pretty sure showing herself nude would negate all further matters of due process. Plus, it would settle the matter of whether … well, you know … that voice and all.As as much as we appreciate the 50% of the Fred Reed articles that are not advertisements for being an ex-patriate in Ole Mexico (note our caveat on that), Mr. Steve Sailer has been all over this Theranos start-up company for quite a while. He writes so much that I'll just link to his full article in Takimag*, called Blood Simple. The company decided they would invent a device that could do the hundreds of different blood tests that are done in labs now, via a machine that could do this on-site/at-home from drop of blood from the fingertip. It's not that it's some impossible dream, but just that this entrepreneur prodigy was a smart prodigy, no doubt, but just a prodigy at being an entrepreneur, not someone who actually knows the science and engineering that are involved and not at the state of art that can invent this device, YET.
Both Mr. Reed's and Mr. Sailer's articles wonder, and try to explain, how the big-wigs Henry Kissinger, a Senator, some generals, the Waltons (no, not John Boy or Mary Ellen, I know their Daddy taught them better than this - I watched him), and more, all put big investments into a business built on an untried and never-successful invention. Yes, they all liked the idea of, or pretended to for brownie points, a girl entrepreneur who could match the big Silicon Valley whiz-boys. They may have thought she is hot ... she's not bad, but, though "she walka like a woman but talka like a man ... but so does Lola."
I really appreciate Fred Reed's article in that he distinguishes natural smarts from hard-learned knowledge in this paragraph:
Note that most of the dazzling university dropouts who became billionaires are in software, not biological sciences. The few in hardware brilliantly put together readily comprehended pieces, like CPUs and memory chips. There is a reason for this. Programming takes a lot of brains and little knowledge. Medicine takes reasonable intelligence and lots of knowledge. Molecular biology takes a lot of brains and a lot of knowledge. A (very) bright kid can learn Python or C-plus-plus in a couple of months in mommy’s basement and actually be a programmer. It doesn’t work with complicated multidisciplinary computerized micro-fluidized gadgets involving robotic glue-arms. At least, it didn’t work.That's good stuff, Fred! It's pretty close to what I want to write in a coming Peak Stupidity blog post on engineers vs. software people. Here's it in a nutshell: The way memory space, computer speed, networking speed, and databases are these days, there is almost nothing stopping any idea relying on calculations from succeeding. As long as it can be broken down into logical steps, and there is some known way to get input, and provide output, ANYTHING THAT ONE WANTS TO BE DONE, CAN BE DONE with software/hardware these days.
Contrast that with the physical world, understood by engineers. There are natural laws, people. Conservation of mass, Newtons' laws of motion, Fourier's law of heat conduction, Ohm's laws ... there are thousands of 'em. If you design something that will need to violate any of those laws, IT WILL NOT WORK!
I believe the computer geeks, once they get big heads from having made lots of logical, but never-before-performed operations work, think that anything they can think of can be done in the physical world too. Sorry to be the one to break it to you, guys (oops, and girls), but this is why you are NOT engineers, no matter what the HR ladies call you.
OK, folks, finally now, it's LIMERICK TIME:
From "The one they call Desanex":
Miss Holmes gave superlative snow-jobs,
And perhaps even better you-know jobs—
Husky-voiced hummers
Dispensed to all comers;
For foot-fetishists, maybe a toe-job.
OUTSTANDING! We try to keep up here, so here is Peak Stupidity's take:
Miss Holmes and her project Theranos
took on the geeks mano-a-manos.
Though it turned out a dud
when one tried to draw blood,
the cash return beat the Sopranos.
* I would very much like to have linked to the 3 or 4 blog posts Mr. Sailer has written on unz on Miss Elizabeth Holmes and the company Theranos, but he writes so many posts, I have not found but 1. The unz posts have loads of comments, though, which are very much worth reading. Sailer's Takimag article is pretty complete, and pretty much what Fred Reed wrote about (in his different style), but Takimag does not have comments anymore (used to have some pretty decent commenters that would write multiple hundreds).
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The Price Point at the Field of Dreams
Posted On: Wednesday - June 27th 2018 9:02AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Curmudgeonry Economics
Hey, almost everyone likes baseball, or at least doesn't hate it the way lots of us hate soccer (oops that post hasn't been written yet - SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT!). Not all are into the more obscure rules and the unending statistics. Lot of us don't care to spend damn near a Benjamin to bring the family to a major league game - and that's in the fall when you have coat pockets with which to smuggle your snacks. However, you don't need to do that to enjoy it. Minor league ball is more fun anyway.
Listen, I don't care if these guys are not the best (yet). They still can hit, throw and catch better than I can (not sure about running). The game is the same, except more relaxing for the fans, as if baseball is not one of THE most relaxing games to watch anyway - in person, that is - on TV it bores the living shit out of me ... too many innings, people! Yeah, so this is why it's called not just a "sport", but a pastime.
Here's the thing: If you want people to come regularly to relax and enjoy this truly all-American pastime, you (the owners or stadium management) have GOT TO UNDERSTAND A TERM CALLED THE PRICE POINT, dammit! Really, you don't even need to know that term, you just need to instinctively understand it and be able to do some arithmetic. No, no calculus and number theory are required. Just, DON'T BE STUPID! When we went to the game recently, it was $12 a ticket, and the seats were only 30% filled - at best estimate - on a nice afternoon.
Let me get to the economics, shall we?
Remember this stuff? Me neither, but I LUV good graphs.
Peak Stupidity has written in On the Non-Science of Economics ... ( follow-up here - warning, you're gonna want to listen to some George Thorogood) that economics is NOT a science, per se. As written there, though, the basics, supply and demand, price elasticity, fixed costs/recurring costs and all that are good, good stuff. There is basic math involved with nice graphs that cross each other and stuff (we'll get to that), so one might almost call that initial 1st semester Econ-101 a "science". It's not completely just because, even though we know the relationship between supply & demand, etc., there is no underlying theory that the math is based on besides human psychology. Yes, we know that if you lower the price on the same thing, more people will buy it, or if not, no fewer people will buy it. If we raise the price, fewer people will buy it, or at least we can say that no more people will buy it. The exact shape of the curves can only be determined by observation, and the situation can change over time, or via surveys, which is the possibly useful part of marketing (the advertising business being the useless part - see Madison Avenue and the Advertising Business - Does it even work at all?.)
After this stuff, the study of economics goes downhill pretty fast. Once any government gets involved and starts distorting the hell out of the market, the study of economics is a study of stupidity. I believe that the subject is made long-winded and boring on purpose, as if the students are not put to sleep, or even just into a semi-comatose state, they may vaguely catch on to how the middle-class is getting screwed 6 ways from Sunday by Big-Gov and Big-Biz working closely together. It's all teamwork nowadays!
Oh, yeah, to the subject of the Price Point. I realize now that I really want to put 2 or 3 graphs up to show this simple concept nicely. I am not in a position to do so on my "equipment" here, so that'll have to come in a post in a few days. This is simple though, anyway, but the graphs WOULD be cool, and I'll give more interesting economic principle-based details in that subsquent post.
You've got items to sell, or in this case, seats at the minor league stadium. You want to maximize your revenue, or more importantly, your profits (in general these maximums would coincide based on units, but then, there are taxes - there's that distorting-the-markets crap again). One can make a curve, or at least have an idea, or how many seats you will fill as a function of ticket price. Again, marketing people could tell you that - nah, don't pay them for fairly-erroneous surveys, but some familiar with the minor-league baseball business in this size market should know pretty well the shape of this curve. Better yet, change around the prices slowly - maybe week-by-week - and see what happens.
Then, one can easily know how much profit comes from each additional seat. That sounds like exactly 12 bucks, duh, in my case, but it is not always that simple. In some business, perhaps there are associated costs for more items sold - more shelf space, more employees, etc. Here, that $12 is almost the same extra income no matter how many come, so the curve is almost a horizontal line. Therefore, that first curve on expected attendance vs. ticket price is about all you need. Take function y = f(x) where x = ticket prices and y = number of attendees Then multiply y by x again to get g(x) = f(x)(x) = yx. Find the maximum of that curve, meaning the maximum of the product (attendees x ticket price). That'll be the maximum revenue, and the ticket price that sits under that maximum is what you should charge. OK, well round it up to the nearest 50 cents - that's fine with me.
This is not the only time I've run into a business that is very stupid regarding setting prices at this point that gives them the most profit. I hate to be the one to tell these people how to do business, but come on! It's < 1/3 full at $12/ticket. Try $8.50 for a while. What if you get the stadium 75% full? (BTW, that enhances the experience for some, but for me, really, I don't care if only 50 people are in there with me. I just don't like paying $12, regularly). The stadium is sitting there, with all those seats. You come out ahead. We all come out ahead. Do the math, as they say.
This is your money. It was my money. At $12, once you've got the whole family and buy a few snacks (too hot to wear coats), you're in for serious money. It's not something we'll go to but a few times in a season. Now, at $8, a family of 5 saves $20 EACH TIME, and may go to the games weekly. It's nice to have something like that to look forward to each week.
Yeah, we've seen the movie. You built it, with part of my tax money, I might add, so they're supposed to come. At high ticket prices for minor league baseball, I'm not coming. Don't believe everything Hollywood tells you, I guess the moral of the story is - DO THE MATH!
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[UPDATE 06/27 eve:] Speaking of doing the math, I had to change paragraph ~ 8 above to fix the little bit of math necessary to get the max. revenue. Calculus is not really necessary, and even graphs aren't if you're good with a spreadsheet, but a good graphical picture helps explain better.
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Guernica - The Propaganda and the Movie
Posted On: Tuesday - June 26th 2018 5:08PM MST
In Topics: History Movies Media Stupidity
No, no, that's "Attica, Attica! Attica!" from a totally different, but really great movie, Dog Day Afternoon.
As we left off earlier on the topic of Guernica, the point was to have a movie review here. OK, it's another Peak Stupidity style movie review, not your Siskell/Ebert type, meaning:
A) We DON'T CARE who produced the thing, who directed it, who's the casting director, and who stars in it, unless there are absolutely no hot chicks - that's 2 thumbs down, right there. We don't care about the lighting or the camera angles or set.
B) We care if the movie is a good story with no serious amount of political correctness. That is all.
C) The DVD player has an off button, and worst case, an A/C power plug, like most other appliances, and CAN AND WILL be turned off at Peak Stupidity's discretion. Yes, nobody says you've gotta keep watching, as written before on the Peak Stupidity blog regarding another movie thusly:
I almost returned it to the video store not finished, as I have done a few times in the past, back in the days when they were VHS tapes: "Oh, sorry, what happened? Did the tape get jammed? Is it washed-out?" "Nope, it just sucks." "OK, then, do you want your money or another one?" I guess I was a member in good standing, as I remember having some kind of yellow membership card.OK, then, about the movie Guernica:
It is a movie about the severe bombing of this town during the Spanish American War. As noted in the last post, the militaries supporting both sides used this war to test out weapons and tactics. In this bombing attack, the Germans, supporting the side of Francesco Franco and the Fascists or Conservatives/Monarchists (the term depends on who you ask) tried out their new lighting attack ways that would later be used in WWII, starting in Poland.
The target was non-military, and the attack used new thermite bombs in a tactic called firebombing (also later used at 1000's of times the scale in Dresden, Germany and Tokyo, Japan by the allies.) The Germans didn't have their Stukas in this battle, but a collection of 20-odd older airplanes, with, per the movie, no anti-aircraft defense to thwart them. It's terrible stuff to be a victim of, yet there were thousands of terrible attacks and battles during the war as started by both sides. Why did the movie and why does history single this out?
The movie purports to be about the use of propaganda and censorship during wartime. "The first casualty of war is the truth" is a quote you'll hear often. The movie cover claimed that this was the point of the movie, though the IMDB page (linked to above) had more of a general description for movie buffs, and is more accurate, as it's written by viewers. Guernica is about how the news reporters wanted to tell their own narratives in the same way done today. Of course, there is a 3-way love story involved, maybe to pull in the women viewers (sure didn't see any sex, so ... just saying), and there is some suspense that makes the movie interesting.
The point of this 2-part post is simply that this 2016-release movie is a piece of propaganda in and of itself. Both sides in the movie, the "Republicans" with their Commie advisors/handlers and the German Luftwaffe that firebombed Guernica were shown fairly in my opinion. However, the concentration just on this one attack does not tell much of a whole story about a war that hardly anyone's even heard about anymore. In the movie, this bombing changes the American reporter's whole view on the war and war. period, but I don't know if he ever got around to reporting on atrocities by the Republican-Commies. That's sure not in this movie.
A couple of minor points are that the German Air Force unit is shown as a group of decent guys but only concerned with efficiency, efficiency. Yeah, that is part of the German way, but the movie really pushed that hard. In addition, the destruction done to the town looks total, yet the actual accounts vary widely in destruction and people killed.
So, we've got a movie advertised as a story on propaganda that is itself a piece of subtle propaganda by telling only a small part of the story with one side doing all the killing.
At least we had the artist Pablo Picasso to record some details for us in the painting below:
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Guernica - The Spanish American War - Fascists vs. Commies
Posted On: Tuesday - June 26th 2018 8:23AM MST
In Topics: Commies History Geography
Guernica is a town in the north of Spain** that is famous for having the living hell bombed out of it one day during the Spanish Civil War. What does the Spanish Civil War have to do with current era Peak Stupidity, the reader may wonder, disgustingly? It's due to this post leading to another about a movie that I watched recently, the propaganda IN and OF this recent movie, and the fact that Commies seem to crop up in history too much for me to believe that they have lightened the hell up and are not any kind of factor today. I realized from the get/go that this would end up being too long a post, so this one is about the war and the Commies (and don't forget the Fascists) and the next will be about the movie and propaganda.
Yeah, you really don't read or hear much about that Spanish Civil War, as it was just in Spain, after all, and it was overshadowed by WWII starting only just over a year after it ended. This war was used by various parties as a testing ground for weaponry and tactics, as the Gulf Wars have been used by the American forces to prove out weapons for later (for what, indeed?). A difference though, is that the Spanish Civil War was not a one-sided affair like all of the recent American ones all over the world. I don't think American trials of the overwhelming firepower will mean anything were the Neocons to get us into a war with a real foe.
I'm not really taking sides on this one, as I'm no expert, and don't have time or space for historical details here. So, in a nutshell, the Spanish Civil War started after the "Republicans" had taken power in government from the Conservatives and the monarchy about 5 years earlier. At this time, 1936, conservatives wanted to reverse this change in power. Before long, foreign powers got involved in this war on both sides.
Keep in mind, that the word "Republican" did not have the nearly the same meaning that the founders of the United States understood, looking back to its definition from the Greek days. You've heard of the "Democratic German Republic" maybe, if you can remember the Cold War? Yeah, that was the Communist totalitarian East Germany to me and you. Then, there's the modern-day "Republic of North Korea". See what I mean? Anyway, these were Spaniards (on both sides), and so the thousand-year old (just recently destroyed, in fact - see also here) Anglo-American tradition of rights of men, rule of law, due process and shared powers never seem to be ABLE TO BE understood by most of the rest of the world.
That correction of the wrongful terminology completed, these republicans wanted to change the order of things, and the other side, the conservatives wanted the old order back. The Catholic Church, a much bigger part of life, and a bigger power, back up through this time, was on the conservative side. Hmmm, it makes you wonder... I'm not a fan of the authoritative Church, but then these "republicans" were no "wall of separation" Thomas Jeffersons either. The Republican side had the backing of the Communists, who always want to get rid of any religion that would interfere with the indoctrination into theirs. Therefore, the USSR sent loads of weapons and other help, as did Mexico, of all places. Mexico and all of Latin America can get serious leftist at times, but, just guessing, I believe that Mexico must have had some personal dog in this fight, on that particular side.
The conservatives, in addition to their support from/for the Catholic Church, had the fascists on their side, though under the leadership of one Francisco Franco, a former decorater soldier, they may or may not have called themselves fascists. They had support and weapons from the Italians and the Germans, both Fascist by the mid-1930's. "Fascist" does not always mean Nazi, or Trump-supporters, you may not know. Nazism was just one bad example of lots of them. Peak Stupidity does not take the side of Fascists, under the true meaning of the term, as they get as totalitarian as the worst of them. However, it is interesting that the Fascists seem to crop up IN RESPONSE TO the Commies, as noted here. The Commies try to completely overturn all of society, and they must be stopped in order to avoid a USSR, Red China, or Khmer Rouge. Oftentimes, the violence that eventually becomes necessary to stop these people resembles that pendulum swinging back up in the other direction. This has been seen in Latin America many times. The cntrl-left/Socialists/Commies take full advantage of any liberties in a free society (they write books on it even, cough, Alinsky, cough, cough), and then the Fascists take these liberties away in order to have enough power to put the kibosh on the Communism. Can America avoid this same situation? That's a subject for another post (spoiler alert - I don't know yet!).
Besides all the foreign advisors and troops, the Spanish Civil War also included lots of do-gooders on both sides, along with writers and artists too, all in it for the "glory of war" and stupid intentions. Their stories are the lessons learned, if any, and the movie Guernica to be discussed in the next post is a modern-day example. The subsequent post, then, will be about this movie and the propaganda.
As to the war, it went on for over 3 years, and Francisco Franco and his Fascists won by summer of 1939, just in time to stay out of World War II (though they were not exactly neutral and favored the "Axis" who had supported them in their war). I guess they'd had enough of violence and death for a while. 1/2 a million people had died in the war. Franco ruled the country until his death in the mid-1970's.
* From the King (and possibly ONLY artist) of the history-rock or history-pop musical genre, this is from Mr. Al Stewart's On the Border, which must be referencing the Spanish Civil War in this stanza:
"The fishing boats go out across the evening water,
smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border.
The wind whips up the waves so loud.
The ghost moon sails among the clouds,
and turns the rifles into silver on the border."
(I don't really know why you need to end up at the border when you've got a boat to begin with, but, I'm pretty sure Mr. Stewart's got him one of those artistic licenses.)
** This town is in Basque country, a people that are not one ethnically with the Spaniards. I had thought that they lived only in the Pyrenees mountain range (the border between France and Spain), but Guernica is located near the north shore of Spain's Atlantic coast, a hundred miles or more west of the French border.
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"Technical" Trading - The stupid you'll always have with you.
Posted On: Saturday - June 23rd 2018 7:29PM MST
In Topics: Websites Global Financial Stupidity Economics
First a note here. It's been a busy week, and I apologize for this one making it only a 5-post week. It's not like stupidity has ceased and desisted or anything. There are loads of thoughts coming, and posts ready to get into pixel form (the hardest part for me). Next week will bring a couple on the Spanish Civil War (I know! However it relates to the Lyin' Press and Communists of today), something on the "price point" as related to minor-league baseball, and immigration stupidity from the "foodies". to name just a few.
That is all stupidity for another day. Here today is a graph from ZeroHedge.com:
Yeah, apparently there's a Death Cross coming and you may want to get the hell out of Dodge now, people! So says ZeroHedge. Now, wait a minute - Peak Stupidity would be the last naysayer to most forms of financial doom and gloom. Hell, that's what wakes us up in the morning, seeing as the crash coming is what will lead us through Peak Stupidity. Also, though bad-mouthing the ZeroHedge website (one of only 4 on our blogroll) multiple times for its out-of-control ads/scripts that make it unusable on lots of browser/operating system combinations, I personally learned very much about the big financial picture from that site over multiple years. The thoughts from all the reading/mulling-it-over are documented in posts with the Global Financial Stupidity Topic Key, and there are more to come.
The stuff I'm writing about this afternoon, however, is some of what Zerohedge puts up, along with 10's of thousands of pure investment sites and newsletters all over the web. As I wrote about in the post The Nonscience of Economics, even ZH commenters themselves (mostly the earlier-on ones) would concentrate too much on the investment-advice aspect of the talk about the big financial picture. A ZH post yesterday, Gold Joins The Global "Death Cross" Procession is an example of the kind of junk that is not the kind of stuff that helps us understand Global Financial Stupidity, so I'm badmouthing ZeroHedge AGAIN today, but it's really a rant about the term in the title.
"Technical Trading" is a total load of bullshit, and, believe me, that WAS putting it in a nice way. There is absolutely NOTHING TECHNICAL about technical trading. A better name for it would be "playing with graphs". Ever since the first stock numbers came ticking off on a paper tape, there have been people making graphs of it. That's fine, but there have been others trying to make predictions based on the shapes of graphs of stock values and any other kind of economic indices. That's the stupidity that has "always been with us."
It be one thing if, as in at least something resembling science or engineering, these "analysts" were connecting some theory with what they saw in the graphs. "This curve trends down when a company's sales reach this percentage of ... blah, blah...." ... probably lots of baloney, but one could do some math to relate theory and observation. No, these technical traders and advisers just look at shapes of graphs - they've got "head and shoulders" curves that mean this, "support" at various round numbers that mean something else, and in the ZH article, as an example, a DEATH CROSS that is the 50-day moving average crossing below the 200-day moving average. Yeah? What do you know about anything behind which way each of these commodities, markets and currencies will go from that?
The markets run on a small bit of sound capitalism and a much larger amount of psychology. Oh, and that's when the Feral Gov't is NOT involved! Well, it IS involved, making it even worse. One can try to think like the big guys and small guys together to understand what mindset will be involved in movement of certain stocks. Even that doesn't work well when the big guys have the whole system rigged. It doesn't even have to be technically illegal. Warren Buffett can give out advice that will make the market move the way that makes him money via whatever moves he made just before opening his mouth in the $200/year newsletter.
So yeah, lets just look at the 1st and 2nd derivatives of one curve vs another and smoothed by various amounts, with regression analysis and stuff. Heck, we can hire an engineer or mathematician, but with ZERO theory and no Big-Gov/Big-Biz connections, the only way NOT to lose your ass is to make money off of the newsletters and keep out of the market yourself!
As with even the non-technical analysis, which I believe means there MIGHT be some logic to it, there's still the question that always arises: If your theory is that accurate, why the hell are you telling the rest of us? You can make a ton of money buying, shorting, or whatever you people do. If lots of us really get wind of your idea and take it to heart, wouldn't the subsequent movements of that index screw up your prediction anyway?
Yeah, ZH writer, you can take your DEATH CROSS and shove it up your ass with a clove of garlic! I'm not buying this crap and I don't read financial sites for investment advice. You people keep saying it's rigged anyway. I'm not one of the riggers, and I'm not one of the playas. I'd just like to know how Peak Stupidity will all go down.
* Yeah, don't get me started on bad graphing technique. ZH is big on that too. More on that in a subsequent post.
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Hey man, nice shot!
Posted On: Thursday - June 21st 2018 2:14PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Liberty/Libertarianism Guns
"This one guy had an icky gun! But then this other guy used his icky gun to stop the first guy with the icky gun. Ewwww! (but I'm in love...)"
The Lyin' Press does all they can too keep their narrative together, and "guns are bad, mmmkaay", is part of that. Therefore, the fact that this story of a successful shooting got shown on the Seattle Fox-13 TV station is something in an of itself amazing to me. Peak Stupidity got to this story from this ZeroHedge post which, turn, got it from a decent site called The Daily Bell (a sound-money financial news site that continually tries to get you to sign up for something or other) which points to the Seattle TV post, with video.
That's the great thing about the new world of media. Peak Stupidity can get some real stories from web sites we can (usually) trust, which do lots of the sorting of the real truth from the narrative for us.
Though pro-gun-rights in every way, the Peak Stupidity blog does not have a topic key specifically on this, but related posts can be found with the "Liberty/Libertarianism" topic key, and this article is an example, as it discusses that gun self-defense incidents happen more often than anyone knows about.
Tumwater Police spokeswoman Laura Wohl said it all happened about 4:40 p.m. Sunday when officers were alerted to a possible carjacking near a gas station.Yeah, he went into WalMart to get more ammo!
Wohl said Day approached a family and attempted to take their car but was not successful. He then fled the scene, drove the wrong way on Highway 101 and quickly exited into the City of Tumwater.
Day crashed the vehicle at the intersection of Tyee Drive and Israel Road SW, near Tumwater High School, police said.
He then left his car and attempted to carjack at least two other people, fired shots at the vehicles, and demanded owners abandon their cars. Day was successful in carjacking a third vehicle that he drove to Walmart, police said.
Tumwater Police said Day tried to carjack two cars in the Walmart parking lot at 5900 Littlerock Rd SW.(No, news sites don't have writers that understand paragraphs and all that fancy stuff. They are there to GET ON TV, dammit.).
One driver was shot when he refused to give up his car, Wohl said. He was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center. As of Monday, the man was in critical condition and in intensive care.
As Day tried to take a second car a "bystander here in the parking lot shot the suspect," Wohl said.
According to a police release, two armed shoppers saw Day inside Walmart and followed him outside.
Before attempting the carjackings, Tumwater Police said Day went into the Walmart and fired at a locked ammunition display case. He then removed some ammunition and left the store.
It sounds like the armed citizen, Mr. "47 year-old man from Oakville" stopped an ongoing pretty-widespread crime spree. He is right on the edge there of being a hero, per my discussion about First Responders. Don't get me wrong here, please:
He did the right thing.
He most likely saved a number of lives.
We need lots more guys like this man.
Nice shooting!
It took some guts (probably due to fear of the law more than the nutcase).
I just don't use the term "hero" lightly, as I don't know the details as to whether this guy was getting shot at or aimed at when he took aim and killed the criminal. It's great for the people of Seattle and Western Washington to get to see a successful use of a gun in self-defense, rather than getting nothing but the "ewwww, guns!" narrative. We at Peak Stupidity already know what's what.
Again, "Hey Man, Nice Shot!"
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Tucker Carlson rocks on immigrant's vs. OUR children
Posted On: Wednesday - June 20th 2018 5:44PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Pundits
Here is Peak Stupidity's favorite TV pundit. It's from seeing him on youtube. I've meant to put him up more, as he's been on the Peak Stupidity blog lots more in the past (see here, here, here, here, and here.)
In this case, it's not an interview with somebody whose stupidity is so high that the whole thing is hilarious. There's no interviewee on this one, and Mr. Tucker is talking about the brewhaha about the separation of illegally entered children. He compares this to the American children of anyone put into prison for something just as illegal as breaking into a country.
It's amazing that they let this guy on TV:
"The hysteria over separating illegal immigrant children from their families tells you everything about our ruling class. They care far more about foreigners than about their own people. They are only interested in changing the country."
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One year after our last post - Housing Bubble 2.0 going Bubblicious
Posted On: Wednesday - June 20th 2018 9:34AM MST
In Topics: Global Financial Stupidity Economics
As I copied some housing price graphs off of the website Seattle Bubble a few days back, I realize now that it's been just under a year since our graph-filled post entitled Housing Bubble 2.0 - West coast, university towns, minorities, to be hardest hit!. It's good timing, though the Seattle Bubble site itself puts out this data in the nice "tableau"-software graphical format based on Case-Shiller housing data monthly. It's pretty much the only reason to visit that site, unless you live in Seattle, are a realtor, or are thinking of buying housing out there. From the year-ago post:
SeattleBubble was interesting early on, but the posts were geared toward people living in Seattle, or King County, or surrounding counties of course. Besides discussing the ridiculousness of the prices (till 2007), the state of housing in the area during the big decline (2008 - 2013), and then the reasons for the new sharp rise again (2014-Present), the site is geared toward people into real estate as a business. Most of the commenters, in fact, would only be interesting to readers in Real Estate, one of the unproductive large areas of the American economy, as part of the FIRE sectors (see 5th paragraph and down). In addition, a majority of the commenters are fairly leftwing and clueless, which shows when any kind of politics come into discussion - that'd be expected, I guess. Nowaday, I look forward only to reading the monthly post with graphs from Case-Shiller data on housing prices for 20 metropolitan areas of the US. Granted, this data can be read elsewhere - from the 2 guys Case and Shiller, if nothing else. The Tim has some really well-presented graphs in his posts each month, that haven't changed format (which I like) and use software called Tableau that enables user control of the graph on-line - oh, that doesn't work on slightly older browsers, like a lot of stuff!I will now also excerpt another chunk of that year-ago post, only because I don't want readers to misinterpret these graphs:
1) All of the cities' housing prices are given as the median value, as opposed to the average, or mean. This really makes sense with this kind of data. Most buyers are buying ONE house out of thousands, and a few very high-dollar mansions being sold can skew an average. The median, for the statistically-declined, means the value at which 1/2 of the other numbers would be higher than it and 1/2 lower.I have 7 graphs here, each for a different region of the US. The Case-Shiller data are only presented for 20 cities, so some regions of course don't have big samples.
2) All of the city's median housing prices have been normalized to a value of 100 at the beginning of 2000, at a time when these guys considered housing bubble 1.0 to have started. This means that, though the median LA price and the median Charlotte, NC price were way different at that time, they both show 100 on the graph. The idea is to enable people to compare not actual prices between cities, but relative rises and falls based on that "initial" value, before any bubbling.
3) This last point is not particular to Case/Shiller data, but the housing market in general, for most parts of the country, gets better (more sales and higher prices) in Spring and Summer than in Fall/Winter. It may be a matter of more people getting out and around or something about jobs/schooling and moving. Who cares, but the yearly waves in most of the graphs are not noise, but real. It's the long-term trends that are more important.
As discussed herein, there is lots of foreign money coming into these locations and put into housing as an investment and foothold. Most of it is Chinese money. This does not look like it's been abating one little bit. Look at Seattle! Peak Stupidity also discussed the parking of this Chinese money all over the (especially) English-speaking world in Selling out the country - Aussie and Canook style.
New York always has the Big-Money money (the initial "F" in F.I.R.E. economy), and Washingon, FS (oh, Federal Shithole for you PS newbies) has all of OUR money that we apparently have to spare. Boston has lots of old-timey money too, and is a pillar, or to stick with the metaphor, a big gas source of the University bubble. Keep in mind caveat #2 above in interpretation of the data. This real estate may be the MOST expensive - the graphs show the rise/fall/rise in relative terms for each city.
Florida and cities of the "Sand States" below, were big players in the purposeful use of housing as a speculative investment vehicle (that's a money-man term, "vehicle", I mean WTF?) back in HB 1.0. I knew people involved in this in Florida and in Arizona. I don't feel sorry for either of them in their losing of their asses.
Like I said above.
It's just steady as she goes. There's never been a whole lot of big money in the Southern cities. The manufacturing that came down 50 years ago has mostly high-tailed it to China. The newcomers consist of lots of black from up north who don't bring much money with them. The Californians (most of them bringing their cntrl-left socialist ways with them) don't usually make it to the South, as the serious humidity and bugs are not a welcome change from the West. They've mostly infested the Pacific NW and Texas so far. It's a good thing, really, as it still doesn't take as much money to live down South as it does in much of the nation. The University towns, as in all of the country, are a different story, but Atlanta, Georgia, and Charlotte, N. Carolina are not particularly university towns.
Cleveland never did as badly as Detroit at the bottom, probably due to slightly better demographics. However, even the Continental (now part of United) Airline hub is no more. That can be a big loss, as there are billions of dollars flowing at a major airline hub. Anyway, these are the epitome of the Dem/Black/Union destroyed rust belt cities. Both of these place have "good deals" on housing due to not very good reasons to live there anymore. What were you expecting, Paris on the Erie?
How is this one going to end? Are people really making that much more money in order to afford a lifestyle that includes payments for these "homes" or are they again counting on them as savings accounts that are earning 10% annually (beats hell of of the FED-induced < 1% CD rates)?
Let's compare these increases to inflation. The index had a value of 100 for all of the cities as defined by Case-Shiller for the year 2000. That year was considered to be a time before any serious bubble in housing prices. If we believe the 1.5 - 2% annual inflation rates as told to us by the Feral Gov't (we don't) than anything over 140 or so in 2018 has risen higher than general inflation. My comparisons of prices of food, insurance, vehicles, etc. give me a gut feeling of more like 4 - 5%. Any numbers below 220 or so, then, are not really very high. That means only the West coast is really getting out of whack. The Midwest, Florida, and the desert seem not unreasonable, and the South cheap still. Detroit and Cleveland? We don't want to go there. No, that wasn't an expression - I mean, literally, WE DON'T WANT TO GO THERE!
It's the way that lots of these curves are rising, though, that still make lots of this housing-as-an-investment business still a bubble.
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Dances with wolves? ... sounds like that wasn't the half of it!
Posted On: Tuesday - June 19th 2018 12:35PM MST
In Topics: Music The Dead Humor History Race/Genetics
A commenter has pointed me to an article from the British Lyin' Press tabloid Daily Mail with the long title "Canadian company offering $250 DNA heredity tests is accused of scamming customers after a man submitted a sample from his DOG and was told it was a descendant of Native Americans", making it pretty much too good to pass up. Now, the commenter under an iSteve post on unz was more interested in the HBD, (meaning Human Bio - Diversity) aspect, involving reliability of DNA testing. We at Peak Stupidity, are more interested in the humorous aspects of this silly-in-all-respects story.
It seems that "it's good to be Injun" these days, and the folks paying for DNA testing from one Viaguard Accu-Metrics were doing so to try to prove ancestry from the Indians, ooops, Native Canadians, ooops, Spirits Communities. There were many people suckered in by the testing company, but in a way it serves them right, as the ability to scam the rest of the remaining Canadians, through the heavy hand of government was their purpose in becoming officially, fuck it, INDIANS. Now, the one guy on the picture, he doesn't look Indian to me. I'm no Donald Trump (check out youtube on that one - look for "Trump", "Indian casino", "hearings"), nor a Banker, Lawyer, nor Indian Chief, but c'mon, that's a ball cap with not a feather in sight.
OK, I jest, and, not that I feel bad about that, but I will give the Indians credit, like lots of Americans do. They just got a bad deal over the last 200 - 300 years. Of all the "disadvantaged" groups we seem to have complaining, these guys just weren't gonna come out well with the clash of civilizations between people who believe in property/rights, and savages. Yeah, I can use that word, and it's not the complete insult that people take it for. They lived off the land, didn't make improvements to life in general (with good use though of the white man's improvements - guns and horses - when they got 'em), and lived without a host of rules and regulations that can define civilization.
Hey, it's not all bad, and that's why the idea of the "noble savage" gets people wistful about the Red Man's ways. They wouldn't stay wistful for long if left in that lifestyle for long with no way back - "Naked and Afraid", baby. Sure, the simple life, and simple social rules much more in tune with Mother Nature can feel great, but just wait until a week or two with hunger pains and no food in sight, or a blizzard with crude shelter and heat. It'd make most human beings long to improve the world a bit, I can tell you that. We're way off the subject here, but I'll end this rant about Indians by just saying that their current woes are mostly US Feral Gov. induced, just as they were on the other end 150 years back. The broken treaties and lies by Fed-Gov screwed them over then, and now to pay the Indians back, the other Americans are getting screwed - just think of the fishing rights, in which Indians can put nets across whole streams, while the white man gets fined for keeping a fish 1" too short. It's more of that Anarcho-Tyranny that governments are so, so good at. The Indians, with the easy casino money and different rules, suffer from a serious lack of self-respect and work-incentive, and these new woes aren't much better than the old woes.
Whew, what happened to the post, here? Oh, yeah, well, the DNA testing must have been pretty bogus, but do we know that for sure? They say that all mammals (just as an example) have lots more genes in common than ones that differ. After living on the land with all the creatures of the wild, maybe these Canadians trying to find their roots are getting data that they'd just rather not know. Maybe we all don't need to know that.
I can see the Tribal hearing now (or "tribunal" if you will, I guess that's where the word comes from(?)):
"Mr. With-wolves, you say that your Mama was a squaw from the Dakota territory. Yet, the DNA says otherwise. is there something you are not telling us?"
Defendant sits cross-legged in silence.
"Remember, Mr. With-wolves, you are UNDER OATH, to the Great Spirit of Winter!"
From the live album
In the timbers to fennario, the wolves are running round,
The winter was so hard and cold, froze ten feet neath the ground.
Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me. Please, don't murder me.
I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whisky,
I said my prayers and went to bed, that's the last they saw of me.
Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me. Please, don't murder me.
When I awoke, the dire wolf, six hundred pounds of sin,
Was grinning at my window, all I said was come on in.
Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me. Please, don't murder me.
The wolf came in, I got my cards, we sat down for a game.
I cut my deck to the queen of spades, but the cards were all the same.
Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me. Please, don't murder me.
In the backwash of fennario, the black and bloody mire,
The dire wolf collects his dues, while the boys sing round the fire.
Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me. Please, don't murder me.
No, no, no don't murder me. I beg of you,
Don't murder me. Please, don't murder me."
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Cntrl-left Anti-American agenda? Yeah, there's an app for that!
Posted On: Saturday - June 16th 2018 5:53PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Globalists Artificial Stupidity ctrl-left
It's just a simple test on prepositions, "that's all".
(The other two answers were "of" and "to".)
Oh, wait, they did leave out one answer that we feel should go in the blank:
While human rights activists all over the world call for humanity [sic, missimg comma] some e[sic - capital "E"]uropean countries still have negative attitude [sic - missing "s" for plurality] ___________ refugees from Africa."due to their wanting to keep their own countries in working order, against the Globalist scum just as much as their pawns, the". Hmmmmm, maybe the app has a bug in it, as the Peak Stupidity answer is not one of the options.
Ohhh, it's a feature you say? The Globalist agenda to replace the populations of white western lands has seeped into the apps now? No, not the apps! What would we do without the apps? Without them, life would cease to have meaning. I wouldn't be able to get the car started without my car app, so I'd have to walk to the grocery store, but without knowing the way and how many steps I'm taking, I can't get there from here. It's getting to where I need my iphone charged up to make sure that the TTT-AD* app will work, or I really can't be myself.
This stuff should really piss you off, even if you don't pay for any of this shit, like yours truly doesn't. Just look at that question again. It's not designed to teach someone prepositions at all, it it? Since the level of English it's designed for is 2nd grade or so, I'm guessing the clever Globalist scum behind this stuff want to catch the little ones or the new "Americans" right off the boat or straight out of Chinatown.
I've been off the normal Government Media, aka TV, for quite a while, but it's still not easy to get away from THE AGENDA.
This is why people home-school their children!** Even then, you've got to get together with the other Moms and Dads to make sure you can find, let's call it "non-judgemental" software. It's lots of work keeping you and yours from the brainwashing.
* TTT-AD is the Time To Take A Dump app. It's a really good deal. The phone charges you monthly or by the reminder ... all synched in with my calorie-burn app and my that new gas sensor at the bottom of all the new iPhone 11's. Far out, man ...!
** Peak Stupidity has a 3-post series on home-schooling - Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
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Regarding the Commies - no concept of history and the Cold War
Posted On: Saturday - June 16th 2018 9:54AM MST
In Topics: Commies History Socialism/Communism
This time it was Venezuala taking the hit.
This post was quickly inadvertently inspired by a one-line comment in reply to my thoughts somewhere in unz.com comments. The article in question is not really important to these thoughts, as it seems to me that there are is a new breed of proto-Commies on-line now (hopefully they just stay in the basement). These are people have absolutely no sense of history and therefore not only hate America in every way, but have a nice soft spot in their hearts for Communism and the Commies of old. This is NOT to say that Peak Stupidity has any love for the US Feral Government of "the current era", but we do know the past, and we do still like Americans. Unz.com, a very open forum for ideas, has lots of these people writing articles - you can write back in argument, but you must remember that Communism is one of the more extreme forms of stupidity, and logic often makes no headway.
I guess this stupidity comes out due to the fact that the Cold War ended 30 years ago. That means anyway into politics, writing on blogs, etc. must be over 40 to have even rough memories of what the Cold War was about. It helps if they don't do much reading of history or talking to their elders (the hated "boomers"). Yeah, Vietnam was probably a big mistake, Korea possibly so, and the proxy wars in Central America and central Asia likely so too. However, let me put it this way: If America, meaning American soldiers, sailors, airman, and engineers/technicians had just folded and decided to let the Commies take the parts of the world they wanted, we'd all be in a world of hurt economically and what's left of our freedoms would be long ago forgotten. Worse yet, there'd probably be no getting out of it, with the whole world under one big totalitarian system (yes, indeed, "they" are working pretty hard on this now, but it's no done deal!)
Many of the details were not carried out well in the strategic defense of the 1st World against the Communists, and worse yet, the whole Deep State apparatus became much larger and more powerful in the 40-year Cold War era.
Simple observations of history can tell us, though, that there is no easy way back from Communism. The Peak Stupidity blog's features on recovery from Communism in Russia and China, the two largest samples in Communist experimentation ever seen, hint that maybe there is no real "coming back" from that shit. Communism can have an effect on a country like sexual molestation during childhood, in which the country, like the child, will never be the same again.
The commenter that inspired this post then, otherwise a pretty sensible guy, simply argued that sanctions against North Korea (and Venezuela as an alternate example) are the reasons these places stayed in poverty over the years! Ha, no sense of history, and no sense of understanding of the failings of "to each according to his needs, from each according to her ability" as an economic way of life, exist under this mindset. Sanctions! OK, well, yeah, you may have called it that, when for 40-odd years America didn't trade much besides grain with the USSR or about anything with Red China. We were enemies, dude! I suppose, yes, one could say, that America placed economic sanctions on Nazi Germany throughout the early 1940's. We would not sell Sherman tanks to them, nor crude oil, nor ball bearings. Scandalous, and that's probably why Hitler was mad at us too.
Why WOULD we trade with Venezuela, the former crown-jewel of South America, after the Commie Chavez took over the place? Why WOULD we trade with North Korea after the armistice following 3 years of bloody war with ~ 50,000 American men killed and the place remained a poor, sick, Commie outpost for 65 years counting?
This is a failure to understand cause and effect. It's just one level of stupidity, and I'm not just tired of hearing about it, but I'm afraid this stuff is part of what leads to Commies Crawling out of the Woodwork every century or so.
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Nothing but distractions
Posted On: Friday - June 15th 2018 7:01PM MST
In Topics: The Russians TV, aka Gov't Media Trump Pundits
This is not an excuse for the lack of posting over the last couple of days here at the Peak Stupidity blog. I used the word "distractions" to apply to TV and all of the Lyin' Press infotainment that is sent out to us continuously in order to distract us from thinking of the small and large chunks of stupidity that are symptoms of the real problems.
In this case, it wasn't that I could not avoid the TV, as posted about previously, here, here, here, and here. This time I was hanging with some friends who were at the time watching TV Pundit Tucker Carlson on the Fox News branch of the Lyin' Press. We have almost solely seen this man on youtube and have been very entertained by his skill in seeing through and pointing out the stupidity of his (mostly) whacked-out cntrl-left guests. Tucker Carlson is Peak Stupidity's # 1 youtube pundit, in fact. The time, though, it was a whole hour show or so that was on, and the talk by Mr. Carlson was about the on-going back-and-forth accusations, subpeonas, and trash talk about the alleged Russian influence in getting Donald Trump elected president.
First off, HOLY COW, I really didn't know for sure that this stuff was still going on! It's been 16 months or so, right? It's only still going on because of the interest of viewers/readers on BOTH SIDES of this episode of stupidity. Now, Peak Stupidity comes down squarely on the side of President Trump, knowing and noting full well that, compared to the influence of Israel (on foreign policy) and Mexico (on domestic policy), any possible Russian influence, even all that is alleged, is KID STUFF. Keep that in mind. However, the details of which lawyers and congressrodents want to fuck which other lawyers and congressrodents in the ass, metaphorically, for the most part, is just something I cannot keep any interest in. I know what the deal is. I can see this big distraction for what it is.
President Trump, being unfortunately a major egotist, has probably exacerbated the whole issue by paying attention to it as much as he has. Sure, he has to defend himself, but,
a) Delegate, delegate, delegate! - that's what a leader does.
b) Were he to get more done for his true-conservative base, and use his bully-tweet-account to get Americans helping him in this regard, as described herein, nobody would care about this fakenews Russian matter.
Mr. Trump is distracted, which is part of the goal of Deep State, cntrl-left, Globalists and Neocons working against him, but the viewers and readers of the Lyin' Press are distracted too, which is much more of a problem. Who has time to learn about all the different flavors of stupidity we are being subjected to daily, after working all those brain cells just to keep up with the lawyers and other shysters that Mr. Carlson was discussing on the idiot box? I sure don't. It's the people that keep these Lyin' Press networks in business that keep the distractions going. We have noted before, over a year ago, that it is probably that all these Lyin' Press organizations may keep going even without monetary support from possible viewers, as Big-Fed-Gov may prop them up, like a plethora of Pravdas. Even if they do, though, the distractions won't matter if we keep away from them.
OK, Tucker, I'll see you on youtube ... for a few minutes of entertainment now and then ... that's all.
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Peak Stupidity attempts to outsnark Mr. Steve Sailer
Posted On: Tuesday - June 12th 2018 6:31AM MST
In Topics: Humor Feminism Female Stupidity
Seeing as Mr. Sailer's humorous verbal thrashing of a nutty, hateful, feminist broad named Suzanna Danuta Walters in the Bezos-indoctrination-broadsheet (dba Washington Post) has been up for over one day, meaning it's past its prime in internet time, the Peak Stupidity blog will attempt here to match, nay, exceed the snarkiness of Steve Sailer. Yes, it's doable ... not easy, but doable.
Keep in mind that there's no way in hell I'm gonna click on a Washington Post link, so all excerpts are the same as those in Mr. Sailer's blog post. Maybe it's the whole article, but I think not.
By Suzanna Danuta Walters"Suzanna Dana fo fana, Rosanna-Dana bo bana ... Walters". OK, that was too easy, and I'll call that a brain fart out the gate by the opposition - let's write it off and start out even again.
June 8
It’s not that Eric Schneiderman (the now-former New York attorney general accused of abuse by multiple women) pushed me over the edge. My edge has been crossed for a long time, before President Trump, before Harvey Weinstein, before “mansplaining” and “incels.” Before live-streaming sexual assaults and red pill men’s groups and rape camps as a tool of war and the deadening banality of male prerogative.Yeah, the edge of something ... Except for the live-streaming, and your imaginary rape camps (the ones in your
Seen in this indisputably true context, it seems logical to hate men.
Yes, if a woman who started* an ENTIRE gender studies program (I assume that includes the architecture, iron work, contracting, drywalling, and plumbing/electrical for the buildings) says something is indisputable, I reckon there's no disputing that, cause ... like ... context and shit.
I can’t lie, I’ve always had a soft spot for the radical feminist smackdown, for naming the problem in no uncertain terms. I’ve rankled at the “but we don’t hate men” protestations of generations of would-be feminists and found the “men are not the problem, this system is” obfuscation too precious by half. …Maybe you can't lie, but that doesn't mean you can't be completely full of it, either. On the other hand, you are right that men are the problem. Men have shirked their duties in keeping the stupidity out of society by letting women vote for the last 100 years.. that was a big problem. It needs to stop. I hate that ... but, that's only logical.
So, in this moment, here in the land of legislatively legitimated toxic masculinity, is it really so illogical to hate men? … I love Michelle Obama as much as the next woman, but when they have gone low for all of human history, maybe it’s time for us to go all Thelma and Louise and Foxy Brown on their collective butts.I don't think you should keep bringing up what is logical and illogical, Mizz Walters, as women are the definition of illogical. Could you imagine a female Dr. Spock? (OK, we're gonna have to go to "the tube", I'll make it a separate post.) OK, got the lesbianism thing, as Mrs. Øb☭ma does seem like the proverbial lesbian trapped inside a man's body. Not all women are down for that stuff though ... just sayin'. We don't want all women to "go all Thelma and Louise" on us, due mainly to needing them for love and sex. You do know that both Thelma and Louise** ended up with fatal "severe trauma to the head, torso, and extremities, as best as we can determine from the charred remains" due to "driving while menstruating" per their gyno-coroner, at the bottom of some canyon. (It's so refreshing to watch the prequel, I believe it was Helmer and Louis in which the two men completed a successful Jim Rockford sliding-huey, and just drove on back to Las Vegas to get hookers and, quote, "f__k it out".** There was not much drama during the rest of the movie ...)
The world has little place for feminist anger.
So men, if you really are #WithUs and would like us to not hate you for all the millennia of woe you have produced and benefited from,...We're mostly not just NOT "with you", but we'd really only be able to understand how to BE "with you" via a twitter conversation with you from the extra-security floor of the state hospital. I don't care which women hate me or not, unless I'm in the middle of asking one out for a date. You want woe, you ain't seen woe, lady ... wait:
... start with this: Lean out so we can actually just stand up without being beaten down. Pledge to vote for feminist women only. Don’t run for office. Don’t be in charge of anything. Step away from the power. We got this. And please know that your crocodile tears won’t be wiped away by us anymore. We have every right to hate you. You have done us wrong. #BecausePatriarchy. It is long past time to play hard for Team Feminism. And win."Lean out ... " Ummm... whaa? "Pledge to vote for feminist women ..." Well, I would, but see there's this neighbor, and it's so much easier just to read her yard signs. "Don't run for office." Check! "Don't be in charge of anything.". That sounds like a plan. I guess the house, yard, vehicles, and finances can take care of themselves. It's worth a try. I already quit raking, cold turkey, so I'm on it, baby! "Step away from the power." Hey, you don't have to tell me twice, lady, I've taken on 120 V A/C too many times to count on the one hand (of course my pinky's a bit shorter now) - man, it always feels like it's 220, don't it?
You got this? I don't know which will happen first - a whole country of women with crocodile tears due to lack of attention, or the 95% death toll due to the early-onset SHTF. I would prep harder, but I don't want to, like, "be in charge" and stuff.
*Walters founded the first in the nation Ph.D. program in gender studies at Indiana University, where she was a professor of gender studies and held positions in sociology and communication and culture. Previously, Walters was professor of sociology and director of women’s studies at Georgetown University. She was also a visiting senior scholar at the Center for Narrative Research at the University of East London. She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.Woah! "Senior Scholar" in "Narrative Research". "London"! We gotta keep pushing that NARRATIVE before every man has gotten red-pilled. You are worth every penny they paid you, and heck, as a Senior scholar, I sure hope you took advantage of the Early Bird specials to go gum down the creamed corn. Hold it! London, OK, gum down those creamed fish and chips.
** Oh crap, I always put in these spoiler-alerts too late in the posts. Mea Culpa, muchos mea culpas, amigos.
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Free Tommy - start of Glorious Revolution 2.0? We have hope!
Posted On: Monday - June 11th 2018 10:26PM MST
In Topics: Music Political Correctness Media Stupidity Orwellian Stupidity
It's very heartening, what's going on in London right now. I've heard that the "Free Tommy" (Robinson) movement has spread even to British embassies all over, but I wrote "heard", as it's not like any Lyin' Press of any kind would want to report on this major, major story. Where are the Woodwards and Bernsteins of yesteryear? Hell, you don't even need those guys - 10's of thousands of people are out in the streets over there! It's the little man against the Orwellian Police State, and the fact that this is not all over CNN (not that I'd see it) should be a clue of which side the Lyin' Press stands on this. Just like the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984, the Western world's Lyin' Press is PART of the Police State.
Per the links in one of our previous posts on Tommy Robinson, what's going on in London right now is a big validation of the idea of power in numbers. I've written it before, and I'll write it again - "They can't arrest a thousand of us." Again, the reader may find plenty of good videos on his own, but don't ever count on Google-owned youtube to let free speech stand for long either, people. Were these events happening before the internet, who knows how much tighter the Police State apparatus would already be.
It is glorious, not too strong of a word here IMO, to see these guys go right up to the cops in numbers large enough to avoid quick beatdowns and subsequent retreats. Hey, no, it's not like those cops look like goons in the way you see in American riots or even peaceful freakin demonstrations about saving historic statues. They look like decent British citizens, really, but that's part of the problem. How can they go home at night knowing that they're defending the system that is genociding the English people. Why not just go home during the daytime?
Think about this - the "power in numbers" principle applies everywhere. If a big share of those "Bobbies" were to turn around, go home, and write emails to the chief, saying "I'm not gonna be part of this sick business anymore." can they all be fired? Yeah? What happens when they start their own protests, with the backing of 10's of thousands of the Free Tommy movement, to get their jobs back? It could get really ugly for the British establishment ... another Glorious Revolution, perhaps.
Anyway, that's why it heartens me greatly to see a little violence and winning going on by the people, and, believe you me, I don't normally get off on saying "the people". This glorious rehash-and-reversal of the 1960's brings to mind the excellent 18 minute full version of The Alice's Restaurant Massacree written and sung by the folk singer Arlo Guthrie (son of Woody). The tune is not really the point of this song, a genuine exception to Peak Stupidity dogma on pop music.
Don't let the rant about getting arrested for littering get you to tune out. Arlo gets to the point at the end.
"... and the only reason I'm singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if you're in a situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into the shrink wherever you are, just walk in say "Shrink, You can get anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.". And walk out. You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement."
Now, in 4-part harmony, without the circles and arrows, here is Alice's Restaurant, with a lot we can relearn here. From another passage somewhere, "there is nothing new under the sun."
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Handy pocket-sized PC guide from PS Legal Eagle
Posted On: Monday - June 11th 2018 4:58AM MST
In Topics: Humor Political Correctness Geography
Peak Stupidity has been questioned on the use of proper adjectives to describe people from all over the world. We just got done explaining the total legitimacy of the term "Oriental", but now the Peak Stupidity legal department has sent out a memo, which we've been kind enough to pass on to our readers and the rest of the world.
Apparently, it’s all gotta be strict geography now – that way we don’t offend anybody. You’d think I’d like that, as I have a thing for geography. I just don’t take to stupidity very well (see the link above).
So,
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“Indian” is out – “Subcontinental” is in (like there aren’t lots of pieces of continents around, say the Yucatan and Iberian peninsulas).
“Oriental” is out – “Northeastern Asian”, “Southeastern Asian”, “West-by-Northwestern Asian”, “38th Parallel Asian”, and “Arctic Circular Asian” are in.
“Beaner”, “Greaser”, “Chicano” and “Latino” are out – “Mexican”, “Central American”, and “Yucatan Peninsularian” are in.
“Negro” and variations thereof, along with “dude from some shithole”, are out – “[cardinal direction] African” is in.
“Towel Head”, “Rag Head”, basically “[any type of woven fabric] – head” are out – “MENA”, MENAing Middle East North African, is in.
“Big Samoan Fat Fuck” is out – “SPIFF”, meaning “Southwestern Pacific Island Fat Fuck” is in.
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OK, everyone, print this out and get it laminated onto a little wallet-sized card.
No, no, no renumeration necessary … that’s what we're here for.
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Freedom of association - Race Hustlers vs. Peanut Scientists
Posted On: Saturday - June 9th 2018 12:26PM MST
In Topics: History Economics Liberty/Libertarianism Race/Genetics Socialism/Communism
In our once-in-a-decade (we hope) criticism of the pundit Ann Coulter a couple of days back Peak Stupidity warned of a follow-up post on the lack of initiative of black society in America. I refer to Miss Coulter's rightful advocacy of freedom of association, last seen defended at a high political level in America by Mr. Barry Goldwater. He was the Republican candidate for president against the scumbag Lyndon Johnson, and what a contrast between views that was (another damn post coming!). Mr. Goldwater was against the "civil rights" (meaning "only black civil rights") legislation of that era on completely constitutional grounds, that of the right of association. Whether Barry Goldwater was bigoted or not (I doubt it), he rightly insisted that one had the right to be bigoted.
That brings me to the point of following up on the thoughts about Miss Coulter's article. Whites and blacks lived fairly separate lives back then, and whether that was a good or bad thing is not the issue. The civil rights laws were made to destroy any right of people and their businesses to discriminate among whomever they want to. Is discrimination always based on bigotry or hate for the other? No, sometimes there are damn good reasons - see public schooling as exhibit A. Even if the disrespect and prevention of commerce with other races/ethnicities is unwarranted and bigoted, people have every right to be this way. The way to fight it is to build your own businesses and institutions and get revenge via "living well", rather than bring the heavy hand of Feral Gov't down on everyone.
The welfare programs were the 2nd of this 1-2 punch. Just when you get your self-respect and get economically to a point resembling middle class, the Feral Government pulls you back down. Blacks are much bigger, PROPORTIONALLY* users of welfare, and this Socialism does nothing but kill the initiative of a population. Black have been, since "Great Society", the proportionally biggest welfare recipients due to the fact that they have on average been the people with the fewest assets and lowest incomes. What has 50 years of other-people's-stuff done to change this?
I use the term welfare to include a lot of things given at the expense of the taxpayers, not just what's directly called welfare. The benefits collected from the taxpayers to be doled out to single mothers (the case for about 70% of black "families"), along with local-government extortion of money from whatever alleged fathers there are, is something I include.
This building of their own institutions by blacks is what civil rights, and during the same decade the "Great Society" welfare programs put the kibosh on. Things could have gone a different way. There are immigrant groups who came to America over the years who also were shunned or at least ignored at certain times and certain places. The Italians, Irish, Jews, and later on Vietnamese, etc. often were different from regular Americans (of the time) and were treated as such. Their attitude had them opening restaurants with their own ethnic food, supporting each other in business (not always a good thing, re, the Italian mob), and pulling themselves up economically. Could the black community have done the same without the interference of Fed-Gov? OK, there's no way many of them would have had families of 5 doctors like some Vietnamese people I know. There are inherent roadblocks to this sort of success just due to genetics. However, let's go back about 100 years then and explain WTF the peanuts up top have to do with this!
Long ago I read children's books, and one for 10-12 y/o's was a short biography of an American black man from ~ 100. years back named George Washington Carver. He was as much of a scientist as a black man could become in those days, and his science was the use of peanuts, peanutology, if you will. Peanut farming does seem to be a humble occupation, and that goes through the era of one President Jimmy Carter even. Mr. Carver developed ideas for the use of peanuts, and pretty much went nuts (pun accidental) with it, prompting the caption above from a different black guy, movie-Forest Gump's army buddy who knew 100's of ways to cook shrimp. (BTW, I don't keep track of actors, but was the chubby black guy the same as the Crying Game guy? Is there just one chubby, sensitive black guy that Hollywood has on-call 24/7?)
Back to George Washington Carver and other black leaders of a century back, my point is that these men (such as a man named Du Bois) wanted to lift up the black race in America. OK, that's the same as leaders now, but the methods differ drastically. 100 years ago, these men wanted black people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and make their own way economically in America. The last half-century's purported black "leaders", the Jacksons, Sharptons and the like, are nothing but hustlers and want to screw "the man" out of more free stuff. (That's not to say most decent black people really see them as leaders, but others, including the Lyin' Press, do.). These new methods are, as we say, "unsound" or unsustainable.
From the last post again, let's say it is 1962 and you can't drink from this here water fountain - you've got to use that one over there. First thing is, learn to maintain your own water fountain! Why would you make it into an issue unless your water fountain is a piece of crap, because your people don't take care of it. I'm not just writing about water fountains here, people - it's a metaphor. If you were a black guy running a great restaurant or doing honest car mechanic work, even 60 years ago in the Deep South, you were gonna get customers. If there are people too bigoted to even go in, it's their losses. Got a problem with Jews and don't want to live or work around them, but ended up in NY City with a hankering for a good sandwich? I'm pretty sure you're not headed for Subway - maybe THE subway, to catch the Red #2 northbound to your favorite delicatessen, but not "Subway" the chain. Business is business, and you can't find the good stuff at Subway.
It'd be really great if the grievance mongers and whiners of all shades and stripes would spend some time thinking of ways to physically improve the world themselves, or at least getting some honest work to get ahead economically. Look up George Washington Carver sometime. Almost everyone likes peanut butter (perhaps because it reminds us of our time as children):
beats the hell out of Vegemite, I'll guarantee-damn-tee ya'!
*I wrote "PROPORTIONALLY" in caps because I am tired of the BS line "no, whites get more welfare money than blacks!". Not, on a per capita basis, they don't. I don't want to see comments with this error... though I do like to see comments!
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There it goes, Miss America ...
Posted On: Thursday - June 7th 2018 7:18PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Feminism Media Stupidity
... into history.
We're all over this 3-day old news here at Peak Stupidity, but for most of the stories on increasing stupidity in the world, the stories are too stupid to warrant any timely action on the reader's part, and the stupidity is just getting harder to keep up with. We're trying with utmost alacrity. The latest piece is that the beautiful girls, one from each state, in their bikinis, as seen at the top (no, don't tell me you clicked on this post for the text - I've used that one before) are going to be a thing of the past.
I would have liked to start the post with a more close-up picture - somehow that seems to bring on the hits to the site - but almost all of these pictures don't fit our usual long-side-horizontal rectangle that's best for a header pic. That'd figure right? I mean these are long tall beauties, and so you can't get a sideways oriented close-up .. unless the girl is lying down, I suppose ... uh, no, they never ever had THAT on the Miss America TV show.
Now, we're supposed to be excited about a Miss America who is the most talented, intelligent, personable, anything but well-rounded .. you know, those round parts that we won't be able to see. I'm really not sure who these producers expect to watch the show from this point on. Heck, even the Mr. Universe and what-have-you contests have men showing off their bodies, so can this even be a anti-sexist thing? Are they that determined in their efforts to ruin everything, that they don't mind the ratings crashing down to those 1800 viewers who like to see trained birds?*
The stupid, it burns!
Well, I guess there's always youtube. We don't need to see this year's swimsuits, so we can watch yesteryear's bathing beauties. Sure, the ending is known, but does anyone really care who wins?
Oh except Cosmo Kramer - Swimsuit, eveningwear, talent, poise!
* Find the rest of the Seinfeld episode for the background of this joke.
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You've gotta stand for something, or you're gonna fall for anything.
Posted On: Thursday - June 7th 2018 8:02AM MST
In Topics: Music Pundits Liberty/Libertarianism Race/Genetics
Alt-working-title: "Ann Coulter screws the pooch."
For only the 2nd or 3rd time of so in most of a decade, Peak Stupidity blog #1 pundit Ann Coulter has written something that we think is bullshit. It's a shame really, as I may have come up with figure of 95% previously, but I think it's more like 98% of her writing that I've agreed with, as praised here, here, here, here, and here, with a good video of her here.
To mitigate the bad feelings here (maybe we just won't talk to each other for a week or so) even about her latest column 90% of IT is libertarian/conservative goodness. The remaining 10%, to be described in a minute, though, is egregiously wrong, and tends to validate my opinion of women never standing up hard for basic natural principles. Yeah, plenty of men don't too, but as described in regard to #2 pundit, Michelle Malkin, it always seems so come to "this Dept. of Education head is ruining our kids" vs. "There should be NO Dept. of Education". We've got to get back to root causes, call it "roots freedom", and stand for something. Miss Coulter has come across as a welcome exception to this tendency to miss the big picture, but this latest column is an exception from an exception.
Here's some great writing on the "freedom of association" principle that our founders and other forefathers took as a given, yet completely obliterated by the civil rights acts of the 1960's. Ann:
Midway through the last century, bedrock legal principles about property rights and freedom of association were abrogated to deal with a specific, intractable problem: We could not get Democrats to stop discriminating against blacks.Now, leaving out the "yeah for our team" stuff that I thought Miss Coulter was past (they're just 2 squads of The Party, at this point). Here's comes the stupidity:
So Republicans, with very little Democratic help, passed a slew of laws saying: No, even though you own that restaurant, you cannot discriminate against black customers. And no, even though we are a free people, you cannot refuse to associate with black people in your clubs, universities or sports teams.
This should have been a one-time exception to the law for one specific group of people based on an emergency.Wrong! Wrong! and Wrong! again. YOU! DO! NOT! MAKE! EXCEPTIONS! FOR! BASIC! CONSTITUTIONAL! PRINCIPLES! .... PERIOD! How are you going to argue back, Ann Coulter, when the principle of the right to bear arms is "excepted" for a year or so in order to get the guns off
Let me get down to the details of this a bit, but a later post will expand on it. it'd been 100 years already 50 years ago during that civil rights protest era since blacks had been enslaved. Here's some news, almost ALL people have ancestors who's people have been enslaved somewhere sometime. 100 years back (now it's > 150) IS NOT RECENT. Get the hell over it, black people. "No, it wasn't just that, but Jim Crow, Jim Crow!" crowed the civil rights crowd. Hey, it may or may not have been a good way to deal with the racial non-assimilation in the South, but it wasn't the worst damn thing in the world either. Can't drink from that water fountain? Drink from the other one. Can't sit in the front of the bus because you're black? Hell, people now often can't sit ANYWHERE on the bus because they're white. The whining needed to stop in 1965, but didn't, and it needs to stop even harder now. If white people won't let you shop in their stores, you start your own stores, etc (and that's the begining of the post to follow on this).
You make special exceptions to the US Constitution at great peril, and that's the peril Miss Coulter complains about in the rest of her article. The civil rights laws are not being used to apply to gays, Moslems ...
Instead of basing favored treatment under the law on a history of brutal and widespread injustice in America, liberals thought it should also be based on other forms of suffering, such as: being a woman, being a Muslim, wanting an abortion, having been born in Mexico, being a smelly homeless person stinking up the public library and—according to Ruth Bader Ginsburg this week—being a gay couple who wants to force a Christian to bake a cake for your wedding.Yeah, I'm all broken up about these people's rights (h/t Dirty Harry). What'd you expect, Ann, when people, including YOU - #1 Pundit, have this mistaken impression of what "civil rights" really means to begin with. Going backwards a paragraph in the column here:
These days, you could be forgiven for not realizing that civil rights ever had anything to do with black people. According to Equal Opportunity Employment Commission statistics, for a least a decade, 65 percent of all "civil rights" claims have had absolutely nothing to do with race discrimination.Bullshit, the cntrl-left of the 1960's DECIDED that "civil rights" only applied to black people, and the term has been defined as such. I don't care what they say it means - the term means natural rights as enshrined in the US Constitution, and they should apply to anyone. "CIVIL RIGHTS should protect an open-carrying white citizen hanging out at a coffee shop from police harrasment, just as well as a black person at a protest.
I hope to see little more of this nonsense from the great and fairly influencial liberty-loving/conservative pundit Ann Coulter. I guess isolated small pockets of stupidity are hard to eradicate.
The nation would be in much better shape right now if this wishy-washy thinking hadn't been allowed to become the new law-of-the-land. Maybe this was said best by Mr. Johnny Cougar from his melon camp somewhere in the vicinity of Seymour, Indiana:
This song was not even close to the best song from the John Cougar Mellencamp album Scarecrow, made back in 1985, but it fit with the post, is all.
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