PC and how best to kill aliens - Signs with Mel Gibson
Posted On: Tuesday - February 27th 2018 7:05PM MST
In Topics: Humor Political Correctness Movies Guns
This short, humorous Steve Sailer post titled "The Establishment is Getting a Tad Xenophobic", involved aliens, then Mel Gibson movies in the comments. Guns have been a general topic of late in in the news, of course. Therefore, to make use of some comments made on unz, I figure it's high time for another "movie review". Yeah, it's in quotes because I don't do real movie reviews. Again, I don't care who's the director. I don't care about the lighting unless you can't see anything. Who are the actors? I don't (much) care. Are the actresses hot? They'd better be. I don't care how much money the movie made or lost. How did this director frame that scene and how did he follow the story line? I don't know, and I don't care. Peak Stupidity claims to be neither the next Siskel nor the next Ebert.
Okeedokey then, let's calm down here. This is just something I've thought about a few times since watching M. Night Shamalam(?)'s movie Signs from back in 2002. 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.
I didn't return this particular movie, as I did want to find out what happened to all these tall skinny aliens that had come to Earth for no good. Mel Gibson was a widower living with his kids and some other dude in a farmhouse, as he was a farmer. This is important to the whole one point of this post, to be made in a minute, but here is Mr. Gibson's movie farmhouse and the family:
At some point, the aliens that had come to Earth, ended up committing a home invasion, in cop-speak, on Mr. Gibson's place.
Here's my whole point that I've been keeping inside since I almost returned the movie, but didn't just to find out what it would take to really hurt these nasty aliens: Mel Gibson lived on a farm. He had to fight these bastards with a baseball bat, per the long-ago advice of his injured and dying wife - her last words, in fact, were "swing away". What American farmer, for crying out loud, does not own, at the very least, a shotgun? You show me one. Show me the guy. This PC hoplophobic crap just ruined any last believability in this movie*.
It's the same as in any home invasion. Use a shotgun, not a baseball bat, for better effect (advice null and void in New York and New Jersey). Peak Stupidity asks no remittance from Mr. M. Night Shamalam on this one. We are nothing if not generous in our advice here, even to rich bastards like this Shamalam. Who in hell writes his name like that anyway? I can think of only F. Scott Fitzgerald and J. Edgar Hoover offhand. Just use your first or middle name, like a normal human being, or pay your $300 at the courthouse and change it. Crimeny!
Since this is SOME kind of movie review here, let me explain the mystical/religious part. See, long before, the wife's dying words were mystically from the future, somehow with the knowledge of what Mel Gibson would face later with the aliens. She said "swing away", and it sounded like just dying-word gibberish, but the viewer (who hasn't had the movie spoiled already) realizes the mystical aspect when Gibson remembers her words as he makes good connections with the skulls of some of these alien sickos with his Louisville Slugger.
Shamalam could have saved the movie by NOT being PC and afraid to admit the value of firearms. The wife's dying words should have (had Peak Stupidity screenwritten this piece-o-shit) more like: "Lock and load .... owwww... center of mass .... ohhhhh .... center of mass!"
*Yeah, true, it's not like aliens that came to Earth in spaceships, would not have an idea that this planet's surface area is 3/4 water, when water was POISON TO THEM, right? [Go where the water isn't! /Kinnison] Oh, did I spoil it for you? It's just as well - the movie sucked.
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Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, ...
Posted On: Tuesday - February 27th 2018 5:48PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Websites Pundits Globalists Media Stupidity
... yeah, I'll tell you, Robert Frost, what doesn't love a wall - Globalism.
There is a nice picture-filled article by a man named Westley Parker on VDare here and here on American Renaissance called "Border Walls Work…All Over The World". Mr. Steve Sailer put up a quick post also to point out this article, but it has lots of great thoughtful comments, with one MAJOR, notable exception, the host of the whole website! (More on this further down) This original post on the "walls" is a nice non-comprehensive survey of different types of national border walls/fences/barriers from various countries, many of which Americans would not know of or care about the reasons for the barriers to entry. The structure of these different border barriers vary widely too, and some nice bar graphs display results of the implementation of said barriers (at least for the ones shown - results are damn good).
Please read the article and check at the pictures and other graphics. I'll call it an essay from here on, the way it's laid out. We've heard the talk now for 2 1/2 years running now about a "wall" of some sort between the US and Mexico, and it's good to see how it's been working out elsewhere. Peak Stupidity will neither repeat the essay nor quote anything this time, as our few pictures here may be worth a lot of words. However, we have various comments that come to mind on "The Wall" for America.
First, I'd like to note that, after the first 20 or so, 20-30, maybe more, comments on the AmRen post linked-to above, are just 2 guys arguing back and forth. That can happen at weird hours sometimes, but I'm commenting on it here to bring up a point. The argument is between an open-borders libertard (Reason magazine type) named "BigFish92672" and a Conservative named "Greg Thomas". The argument somewhat follows the Libertarian/Conservative divide featured here but with a big dose of stupidity on Mr. BigFish's (L-tard)part and a small piece of stupidity-of-omission by Mr. Thomas (Conservative). The fiscal conservative in the L-tard comes out, and we have no argument with that. However, the argument that this American border barrier is significant in terms of cost is just completely bogus. Yet, the Conservative never even brings up that argument, just that it's necessary anyway (yeah, no argument from us there either).
The problem is that with all the hoopla and infotainment in the Lyin Press, especially the TV division, even decent AmRen readers are suckered in by this stuff. The money is NOT a factor, as Peak Stupidity has covered here in terms of cost-to-build and here in terms of maintenance. Even to round up from those posts, which were pretty conservative, estimate-wise, building this wall will take 1/2 a day of the Feral Government spending-year and maintenance of it half of that per year. It is an insignificant amount of the Feral budget, but taking away all the transfer payments that are a big part of the government, it is still a very minor amount of "discretionary" spending. Guarding the borders of your nation should not be considered discretionary, but let's just go with government-speak for understanding.
These numbers match within 1/4 order-of-magnitude some of the cost numbers from the essay in question regarding border barriers around the world. Any kind of cost-benefit analysis would be a futile, silly gesture. It would need to account for not only calculable things like many billions in un-due welfare benefits, tremendous emergency-room costs, school costs, infrastructure costs for a bigger population, but the incalculable stuff like, I dunno, ruination of neighborhoods, ruination of the environment, loss of peace and quiet, loss of decent job prospects, loss of safety and security, ruined futures for families, loss of community, and the loss of the nation itself. It all adds up, right?
Next, let me go to the thoughtful and non-thoughtful comments under the Steve Sailer post linked-to above. The unz.com site, one of the few here on the Peak Stupidity blogroll to the right, is one hell of a well-functioning website and features some great writers, along with some wackos. (See our review) However, Mr. Ron Unz, the big-time computer guy and rich conservative benefactor, chimes in only rarely, but in the comments there - comment #5. I've seen it before on there and mostly held my
Mr. Unz has repeated his statement that only 5% of immigrants are illegal aliens. Firstly, how do you know that when they have, by defintion come in through non-legal channels and are not counted. True, this is not all across the border, as we have discussed here. However, there are very many Mexican/Guatamalen/Salvadorian people, in most states in this nation, and almost of them got here via that southern open-border. The 5% illegal alien numbers, even if it were just for border invaders, as Mr. Unz's comment included "the wall is just boob bait for Bubbas", is way off.
Many of the people who end up here illegally via other pathways are those who overstay visas - basically forever. They are probably not mostly Hispanic, but so what? How will you pick out an illegal Chinaman in Chinatown? These people may have originally came here legally, but on a non-immigrant visa (tourist mostly, or temp-work visas). They are still illegals, and Mr. Ron Unz's determination number of 5% was not just rectal extraction, but poorly-done rectal extraction at that!
This post was not meant to denigrate Mr. Unz, but to illustrate the situation with some examples and points. His comment, though, got plenty of good thoughtful replies and here's one: Even it the efficiency of the wall is not all that Americans hope, it has the great benefit of showing the world, and more importantly, the internal Globalist elite, that we are a nation that wants to remain a nation and control who lives here.
It'd be a great start, with follow-up steps of work-place enforcement, deportation upon an arrest for even a parking ticket, and then a 90% reduction in legal immigration. Here's a point from this writer as another argument against "the wall won't matter, let's not bother". If any real steps to stop illegal immigration get put into place, the flow will find the path of least resistance. Many who may have come in through an airport before may have to come in via the southern route due to more resistance on the former route. The wall or barrier needs to be up then.
Hey, readers, I believe I bit off way more than I can chew in one post, as I need at least one more post on this. I never even got to Robert Frost here, so they'll be a follow-up post or two momentarily*.
"momentarily" on the Peak Stupidity blog uses our own Peak Stupidity definition which is "adverb - usually, sometime this week".
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Alex Jones Indie Folk Song
Posted On: Monday - February 26th 2018 5:37PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor Pundits
Peak Stupidity almost prides itself now in being un-timely, but for a viral video? [C'mon, man! - Ed.]. Yeah, I wanted to write a post on border walls but just can't seem to get in the mood for a serious post, so this was on the back-burner for quite a while, gettting sautéed. (Hey, software is so cool now, putting that gay accent mark on sauteed for me - thanks, spell-check, we are not worthy!).
Alex Jones, of InfoWars is in pretty good standing with the Peak Stupidity blog. I always appreciate a man who stands up on principle*, and Mr. Jones is a stand-up guy for sure. Yeah, he's a bit over the top, and I don't agree with all his opinions. His respect for Liberty and the US Constitution certainly makes up for all that though.
About the only thing that stops me from watching more video of the guy, is that his voice is just about gone. I always feel that he could use just to swallow a glass of water and then go on, but he never does. Unfortunately, he is not particularly much of a writer, so he must be watched to be understood - it's just hard to put up with that voice after a while. That's too bad, but not a recommendation to avoid the guy and InfoWars by any means.
We would hope Mr. Jones would have a sense of humor, and his viewers too, as the "Indie Folk Song" on youtube below is hiarious, no matter whether you hate him or love him. I don't even know whether the producer of the video meant this in detest for the man or not. A viewer named Crab Legs, most likely not his real name, wonders about youtube doctoring of the numbers:
"it's kind of creepy that youtube went out of their way to delete views and likes for a parody video, makes you wonder if what he was saying was kind of true."
The post on border walls, hell, any kind of walls, is coming tomorrow.
*Unless, of course, his principles are highly stupid, such as those of the Commies ( posts on Socialism/Communism here.) At some point Stupidity + Power = Evil.
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We don't back down
Posted On: Saturday - February 24th 2018 7:12PM MST
In Topics: Liberty/Libertarianism
It's been a light blogging week here at Peak Stupidity. Next week may not be a whole lot better due to work pending. Today, however, the excuse is not really so sound - I have spent close to 1 1/2 hours, as a guess, on-line debating some ignorant Hoplophobe, i.e. gun-control nut, on unz.com both under this Pat Buchanan column and this Ron Paul column.
The worst of it, is that the guy, well, more likely a lady, is an immigrant from England, and has badmouthed England for being "not his country anymore." Yet, in the South, where the guy lives now, he writes like a typical cntrl-left resident of Massachusetts. The problem is that this commenter has been voting. Does this not remind the reader of a certain type of people, cough, cough, Californicators, cough, who have already screwed over the politics of Colorado and Washington State, and are working on Idaho? (Why is the commenter more likely a lady, even with the name "Jonathan Mason, you may well ask. I am just basing this judgement on the totally emotional response to that Florida school shooting vs. a man's normal logical response. This major difference been discussed here on the Peak Stupidity blog with regard to that S. Texas church shooting last fall.)
I would like to see the NRA not back down an inch on this. President Trump is another story, as he never has had solid principles, even with his heart in the right place. (i.e. he doesn't even hate Americans, whoo-hoo!) Back to the NRA, stickers and 5,000,000 members notwithstanding, they are not as solid and hard-core supporters of the 2nd Amendment as the smaller GOA, the Gun Owners of America, led by one Erich Pratt, and formerly by the awesome Larry Pratt.
Two last words here (OK, points). First, the true reasons the country has decayed to a point at which this type of thing happens every other month were described way better than the Peak Stupidity blog ever could by Mr. Fred Reed on unz.com, a man who has been justifiably bad mouthed by this very blog earlier for his unthinking support of all things involving his new-found Mexicanity here.
Secondly, please see the this link (same as above) on the Texas church shooting, if you think Peak Stupidity is just a home for heartless bastards.
Don't back down to the forces that want to exploit the tragedies, and sometimes very likely even encourage them, to take away the one freedom that COULD help maintain or restore the rest. Good night readers.
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Cowardly Cop of the American Police State
Posted On: Friday - February 23rd 2018 11:55AM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media US Police State Anarcho-tyranny Educational Stupidity
As stated before multiple times here (see TV, aks, Gov't Media) on the Peak Stupidity Blog, we don't do infotainment. It would be hard not to know about the school shooting in Parkland (Ft. Peirce, basically), Florida, without being a modern-day Ted Kaczynski. However, after a day or two of Lyin' Press fulminating and speculation - "there's a guy named Cruz who was a white nationalist" "Oh, and is this the same Nicholas here, with his name just spelled differently?" - I can get the gist of the story.
After that point, the pictures and video, stories from this witness, sorrow of the family members, all of it, become just infotainment**. It's no longer about putting out a story. There must be a few weeks or close to a month of
1) The agenda can be pushed onto the public for hours daily, and as written, extending on for weeks, if not months.
2) Whatever brings in the viewers will, as they see it support the advertisers, bringing in the big bucks.
What I hadn't heard about until this morning, from a friend, was the story on the school cop, aka "resource officer" who displayed cowardice that was absolutely NOT part of his job description, else his $80,000/year job wouldn't be necessary. (Granted, that may not stop the schools anyway, as living large off of taxpayers' money makes one kinda spendthrift.) Here is a down-under-Lyin'Press link on story that just came up from a search under "cowardly cop Florida shooting": Armed deputy who didn’t stop Florida school shooting thinks he ‘did a good job’, but it is short and unexpectedly just to the point.
School resource officer Scot Peterson, who has resigned in disgrace from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, was “distraught” about the shooting that killed 17 people — but believed he did his duty, according to the president of the Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputies Association.I can believe "distraught", as there's no going back from big mistakes sometimes, and that's a bad, bad feeling. I'm guessing the lack of action by this guy on the SOLE RARE EVENT that might justify his job was due to years of uneventful time at the school. I'd think, though, that I'd have had at least some bit of a Walter Mitty type mindset, just daydreaming of how I'd handle something like this and BE a hero, not a coward.
We always hear from the men in blue, or their union spokesman, that "we all want to go home at night to our families". Hey, I get it, but there's a job to do. It does get dangerous for some cops, I understand. You signed up to guard a school, a job that would have been seen as ludicrous in 1975, but as requested by parents and the school board nowadays. There was your chance to do your job. OK, parents, what do you think? Do you still want to blow our tax money on resource officers?
Now, also, do you anti-libertarian police sack-hangers out there still think that the cops are all our heroes? This was what this guy was THERE FOR, and yes, I KNOW I'M REPEATING MYSELF AND WRITING IN ALL CAPS! Between this type of event, the general anti-constitutional attitude of a majority of the police I've run into, along with the plain anarcho-tyranny as seen back in Charlottesville, Virginia***, I believe we patriotic normal Americans are on our own. "To Protect and Serve"? Nah, don't count on protection and don't count on service, other than of warrants.
* I'd like to link to this superb column by Mr. Fred Reed that tries to explain how America has changed to end up with school shooting as bi-monthly occurrences. Please read the whole thing.
** This is in no way to diminish the sorrow of the parents, brothers and sisters, and friends of those killed, and of the ones seriously hurt. I just got it after hearing details for a minute or two. Peak Stupidity has discussed the way men vs. women deal with this sorrow in a post about that south Texas church shooting last fall.
*** This could be a separate post, but I just wanted to guide the reader to the latest news on the continuing legal portion of the Anarcho-tyranny of that Charlottesville ruckus. Jason Kessler, heavily involved in it, reported more about it on VDare today.
**** What, why all the asterisks? Peak Stupidity is trying something a little different, some footnotes to avoid the run-on sentences. Which is more annoying? Let us know!
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Music for the depressed
Posted On: Wednesday - February 21st 2018 9:23PM MST
In Topics: Music
Quite a long time ago there were two friends I had that had problems with depression. One grew out of it, so far as I know, and the other didn't. I believe they became closer friends themselves due to this common problem. It's kind of weird how things really have not changed a lot from yesterday, yet the view from inside is just so much worse. It's not that I've ever felt this much, but just enough to know how it could be.
This 3rd song posted here by the 10,000 Maniacs band (after "Lilydale" and "Hey, Jack Kerouac"), is one that is about depression. Now, you don't need to be depressed to understand it, but it probably sure helps! The lyrics are such good writing by Natalie Merchant, and it has a cool beat and pretty good melody too. This is from the In my Tribe album, same as "Hey, Jack Kerouac", called "Like the Weather""
BTW, I first wanted to embed a different youtube video, also of this studio version, but it seemed way speeded up, as an antidote to depression, perhaps? The wierd thing is, it's only 7 seconds shorter, out of almost 4 minutes, but it was very obviously too fast and high pitched. It seems a 3% increase in speed, hence pitch also, is very easy to detect. Our ears, or brains, are amazing.
I've got to present the names of the 10,000 Maniacs now, as I've neglected that twice now:
Rob Buck - Guitars
John Lombardo - Guitars
Steve Gustafson - Bass
Dennis Drew - Keyboards
Jerry Augustniak - Drums
Next, the name of the epic Smashing Pumpkins album Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness just would suggests a state of depression, though Billy Corgan, per Wikipedia just said the album is based on "the human condition of mortal sorrow". I dunno, just look at the cover to see - great artwork!
This is just one hell of an album. It was not really a "concept album", but the THREE RECORD vinyl album had the 6 sides named: "Dawn", "Tea Time", "Dusk", "Twilight", "Midnight", and "Starlight". The CD two sides were "Dusk to Dawn" and "Twilight to Starlight". The tempo and sound vary every other song, in general, from ballad to fast distortion rock and back.
This is just posted along with "Like the Weather" due to that evocative cover art, and here is my favorite song of the album, the 9-minute long "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" (Don't worry if you hear nothing at first - the long intro ramps up for 2 solid minutes.) You probably should lay down and have the lights off for this one.
The Smashing Pumpkins:
Billy Corgan – lead vocals, lead and rhythm guitar, piano, mellotron, autoharp
Jimmy Chamberlin – drums, vocals on "Farewell and Goodnight"
James Iha – lead and rhythm guitar; vocals
D'arcy Wretzky – bass guitar, vocals on "Beautiful" and "Farewell and Goodnight"
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Our feelings about storage units
Posted On: Wednesday - February 21st 2018 8:23PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Economics
As related to, and promised in, last week's post on "Taking out the Proverbial Trash" I will now write our Peak Stupidity blog opinion and advice on storage units. How much less political would you like us to get here? We can crank up the politics again any time, with just a 1-minute perusal of the stupidity discussed on the web.
In fact, there is not any real stupidity involved here at all, so the reader should not take any of this as indicating there is. On a Peak Stupidity site, you would think one could still take a break from it one day out of the year or so.
When discussing the lightening of the mental burden, and sometimes physical, by just getting rid of stuff, whether browser tabs or old washing-machine motors, thoughts come to the idea of where to store all the stuff that "I just have to keep." People have a lotta, lotta stuff here in America, as "there is a lot of ruin in a nation" (continued here and here).
I have been lucky myself to have never needed a self-storage unit, just due to circumstances of my moving around, so this is not even a self-stupidity post. Granted, I did leave a lot of stuff for most of a decade all piled up, but it was in a place I didn't have to pay for. So as not to give the wrong first impression, no, I have nothing against storage-unit businesses or anyone involved. We have much respect for small business at Peak Stupidity, and the business idea of self-storage, as seen in the image at the top, was a very good one in fact. It's much harder to come up with great ideas in the
That behind us, the point here is that, just as with the stuff I left for a long time in my free storage, most of us will realize that the stuff is not truly necessary for life after a few years. We can't even remember what's in there by some point. The business idea is great for those who really do need a temporary place to put some things, for lots of reasons. The thing to be wary of, is the mindset that one can get in after some months or years of paying $75, or maybe $250 monthly. Whatever is in there has to be disposed of eventually in some way, sooner or later. The important thing is to take care of it sooner. Even that little 5 ft x 8 ft x 6 ft high unit that you have that old motorcycle in, for $75 monthly, will end up costing as much as the bike in, what, from 1 year to maybe 5 years.
The mindset is, and the way you get burned monetarily, is that it is always easier to stick with the status quo and pay that $75 (only going up long-term) when the bill comes. It is lots more effort to a) move the stuff, b) sell the stuff, and often even just c) get rid of the stuff. (I guess you could just stop paying, and (c) will happen pretty soon.) I've seen boats, planes, and (originally) expensive cars that need work that have been sitting a decade in spots that cost money too. That's an even stronger version of the same dilemma. Lots of work may be needed ... or, yeah, you can just pay the monthly bill again and think about it next month. I would say "that's how they got you!", but it's just a business that can be a good deal for some.
Sometimes you've got to nip these deals in the bud. Think back on whether you already paid more in storage than the item or stuff was worth, or will have soon. You've got to bite the bullet and do something. It's another burden lifted.
That's just some advice for this evening, neither stupid nor political (those usually go hand-in-hand though).
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Great gender-neutrality debunking video and other tidbit
Posted On: Tuesday - February 20th 2018 12:37PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Humor Political Correctness Feminism Pundits
The Norwegian TV-pundit/comedian, Mr. Harald Eia, featured in the 38 minute video below does a humorous, yet still serious, job debunking some of the worst notions of the feminists, that somehow male and female babies have different reproductive parts, but are somehow exactly the same otherwise. It's worth watching the whole thing, even though you must put up with subtitles, as the voices are Norwegian - except for the parts in which the host, Mr. Eia interviews English speakers. I've found out since watching that this is from a series of 7 videos named "Hjernevask", which means "brainwash" in Norwegian. This one can be seen alone though, without missing anything, in my opinion, but I may look up the rest.
This is the type of "60 Minutes" style interviewing, except much brighter and funnier, in which the interviewer goes back and forth from one interviewee with an opinion to another with the opposite, and then back again for a confrontation or two. The confrontations are interesting but almost hard-to-watch as these full-of-it gender-neutral "researchers" get caught with no science behind them. Yet, Mr. Eia always comes across nicely, and is great to watch. I wish he spoke English all the time - well, he can, it seems, but of course the show was made for Norwegian TV.
This next tidbit is something that's been bugging me for a while, yet maybe it's too small a deal for it's own post. It's from the schools, I'm guessing, as the kid comes home telling me a bit about "One person did this ...", in the case when a name is not known, but the sex is. It's very weird really, and he doesn't get it from home, of course. An example is probably needed "One person from the other class was hogging the monkey bars ..." See, he saw the kid, and I'd have said "one boy" or "one girl", as seems normal. No, it may not matter in this case what sex the "person" in question was, but it's just part of normal English, is it not?
"I talked to a woman today at the park about the free days at the zoo ..." Yeah, a man at the park could have told me the same thing, but it seems like the sex of individuals just is commonly given. "The woman told me that you need to talk to someone near the front ... ". OK, she didn't know the sex of that person, cause it could be anyone. If she did, she'd say though, unthinkingly. "Last time, we went over to a man near the entrance and..."
Sometimes it may matter, even when the speaker doesn't know it does: "Yeah, she told me that it may be the clutch making that noise." "Uh, whatever." "Yeah, he told me that it may be the clutch making that noise." "Oh, I need to go talk to that guy." How 'bout: "She said that Pampers really are better than those other diapers." "OK, glad you told me before I stocked up on that other crap." "He told me that Pampers really are better than those other diapers." "Uh, whatever."
Anyway this new gender-neutral, 3rd person, known-sex terminology is just plain weird. I'd chalked it up to feminism, but I had 2nd thoughts a while back. This may be more of a PC thing about not hurting the feelings of the actual gender-benders themselves. Maybe she looks like a girl but says she ain't one? We are not even supposed to notice what sex the other kids are now, I guess, oh except on Valentine's Day. So, there's that, at least ...
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[UPDATED 7/19/18:] Original video has been removed - no idea when. I think this one is the same (has same length, but PS apologies if it doesn't fit this post exactly anymore.
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Educational whack-a-mole, per Steve Sailer and that Virginia Dare post
Posted On: Saturday - February 17th 2018 11:27AM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics Educational Stupidity
(All well and good and PC, but not in my kid's class.)
... referenced yesterday. I had indicated there would be a 2nd post. What I want to write here is mostly about stuff that iSteve, aka Steve Sailer has written about, nay, taught me about, over the last few years about many aspects of educational stupidity regarding parents/schools Just as an aside, the Peak Stupidity blog is specifically referring to primary and high school (whatever the terms are now) vs. "higher" education with the topic key Educational Stupidity, as the Universities have their own specific flavor of stupidity covered well here with a separate topic key.
Sailer has written so much about parent's struggle with or in the schools to get their children ahead, and the politics of it, that this knowledge is all spread out over perhaps 100's of posts. One however, came to mind as the "whack-a-mole" phrase came into my head from this iSteve post.
I pointed out a long time ago that public schools go through a regular cycle in which science-denialist Social Justice Warriors decide that “tracking” students into different classes or schools by academic aptitude is racist because of the inevitable racial gaps, so they abolish the programs, only to have the teachers who actually care about educating students revive them under new euphemisms, such as “Advanced Placement.”This is really the gist of the short post, as the remainder is an example with some stats, as iSteve likes his stats!
It then take a number of years for the SJW administrators to figure out they’ve been hoodwinked, at which they set out on the warpath once again to burn down effective institutions.
Fortunately, since the realist teachers tend to be a lot smarter than the SJWs, the anti-educators are usually behind at playing their game of whack-a-mole.
This is where the last portion of the "Virginia Dare"-written VDare post discussed yesterday comes in. Here is the last part in the article about the Oriental kid trying to do forbidden, offensive science:
Indeed, rather than this episode forcing an objective examination about racial differences in intelligence, it’s being used as an excuse to impose more “diversity” in gifted programs. Of course, the only way to do that is by lowering standards, which removes the whole point of the gifted programs. Indeed, it’s because of the objective existence of racial differences in intelligence that we know any gifted program is going to have disproportionately large members of some groups (such as Asians) and disproportionately smaller members of others.This is what Sailer's been writing about for years. The left-wing pro-diversity well-off/big-city parents push their kids hard to get into the gifted programs, and even the best $20,000 kindergartens! True, part of the reason is of course for a good education, but also for connections. The education is good because the kids are smart to begin with, but they are kept out of the classrooms with the distruptive diverse kids. Yes, it's hypocritical for these parents to still push the diversity on the rest who don't have the means, connections, and sometimes intelligence, to get into their kids into the same good educational lives. What's worse is that the kids of these parents end up getting brainwashed coming and going - from their parents, the schools themselves, no matter how little diversity actually occurs in their little realm, and then at the prestigious University. It's gotta be pretty hard to shake that shit - usually the light comes on about retirement age, best case!
Virginia Dare may not have read iSteve as much on this whack-a-mole concept, but that's what it'll come down to again. The parents that have the means to get their kids into good educational environments will have to figure out another loop hole.
Then come the wooden hammers again ... and so on ... and so on...
One would think teachers, of all people, would know that. But just as the last place you’ll discover the truth today is in a newspaper, the last place you’ll find real science today is in an American school. At least the public ones.Yes, homeschooling for the WIN WIN WIN!
Oh, the teachers all have degrees from colleges of education, so yes, Virginia (Dare), there is no intelligent life down here. (Haha, combined two expressions there, #WINNING!)
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Eeegads! Our President likes hot women!
Posted On: Friday - February 16th 2018 10:03PM MST
In Topics: Websites Humor Trump Female Stupidity
(Yes, apparently after stripping it all off for a nationwide audience, Miss McDougal is worried her Mother might find out she dated a rich man.)
This is supposed to be worrying us, the citizens of the US - our president dated some very hot women in the past. It's not like we don't have 32 flavors of Stupidity to think about every day, with the Peak Stupidity blog at your service in this regard. Part of the reason this writer voted for the man is that he was already known as a rich out-and-out playboy. That took out a couple of ways the Deep State could have this guy on a leash. Pardon me for my lack of concern for whom this President was slonging for the last 50 years. I am not concerned, but deeply jealous.
When you have this kind of story out, the best place to read about it is the ZeroHedge comment section. I have praised the commenters there before (also here), while duly noting that the site is frustrating as hell software/ad-wise. (I had to use a different device to read the comments.)
I guess Zerohedge gave a break to their readers on this story, as for their article today, were you to click that link ( Wait! I forgot to ask if. you are at work?! ) the story has a nice spread of Miss McDougal herself. Normally, ZH uses a small pic of a hot chick on the main page, and the users, as noted in the comments (haha) are dissapointed with no blown up picture on the story page. The big ZH click-bait thing, very overused, IMO, is to have a small picture of the same hot Brazilian girl soccer fan wearing a green shirt with a big yellow
OK, Zerohedge has over 400 comments on the Trump/playboy-bunny story as of publish deadline here at Peak Stupidity, so I can't put even all the great ones. I implore the reader to peruse them at his leisure.
But, here's some:
Ms. Erable --> hedgeless_horseman Fri, 02/16/2018 - 10:21 Dunno about the rug, but those tits are definitely bolted on.
Kayman --> Ms. Erable Fri, 02/16/2018 - 10:44 She wouldn't take money, but was happy to take a condo?
She was afraid what her mother would think of her with Trump, after stripping butt naked and having a camera shoved into all her cavities for all the public to see.
Jeez.
Got The Wrong No --> Kayman Fri, 02/16/2018 - 10:57 Kayman, let's face it, he wasn't fucking her for her brains.
NA X-15 --> Triple A Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:34 Would you trade POTUS Trump for Demonic POTUS Hillary Clinton and her sexual aide-de-camp, Huma Abedin, who's sole function these days is to fist Crooked Hillary's dusty womb on a nightly basis?? I didn't think so...
Dr. Dooms-a-lot Fri, 02/16/2018 - 19:07 I wouldn't mind a ZH swimsuit feature to break up the doom porn every now and then.
Sam Spayed Fri, 02/16/2018 - 21:15 Everybody already knows that Trump was a pig in the past. What are the leftists trying to prove? For crying out loud, you leftists put an actual rapist in the WH for two terms and he was still raping and pillaging WHILE President!!!
Meat Hammer --> Akzed Fri, 02/16/2018 - 10:15 As the Left tries to emasculate the American man, we see a story about a President who is a true alpha male and bangs a multitude of smoking hot bitches! Even libtard hipster cuckboys secretly wish they were Trump!
Scotch-n-Soda Fri, 02/16/2018 - 09:56 SO I am a little confused here. The guy is banging HOT models, porn stars, etc.... Is there a point to all this? WOuld it be better if he banged a fat unattractive intern, or Lena Dunham or something?
Cluster_Frak Fri, 02/16/2018 - 09:56 I had a major crush on her when I was in college. Good for Trump. For shagging her, he gets my vote.
3-fingered_chemist Fri, 02/16/2018 - 09:58 Billionaire's life style. Nothing to see here.
The Left doesn't have a leg to stand on anyway since they have embraced Bill Clinton doing the same thing for decades.
As long as Trump isn't doing any of this funny business WHILE ACTING AS PRESIDENT. It's a non-story. The reason Bill got in hot water is because is compromised his position (no pun intended) as the CIC.
Dilluminati Fri, 02/16/2018 - 10:00 "Playmate Karen McDougal shows off her amazing body"
“She couldn’t look at herself in the mirror anymore,” Crawford said. “And she was concerned about what her mother thought of her.”
Moms.. Google your daughters name and then look at the pictures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_McDougal
Has fake tits.. fake tits = fake news
MLRA B-11 Fri, 02/16/2018 - 10:02 So yeah, Trump was a billionaire playboy. He certainly has excellent taste in women and he makes watching the news concerning the President much more enjoyable. After years of a limp wristed metrosexual and a wookie, his is a refreshing change of scenery for sure. Politics is theater, and the more attractive its actors, the more enjoyable it is.
Oreilly Fri, 02/16/2018 - 10:08 The dirt-digging is designed to sell subscriptions and to damage Trump's name. Ok, it'll certainly sell soap but I doubt it'll have much impact on Trump's name. I never voted for Trump because he was a Boy Scout, I voted for him because there was more chance he'd slow down the slide into Gomorrah than anyone else and still be electable. I knew ahead of time that he had "New York City values", and while I don't agree with it and don't support it, I elected him to enact policy. If he does that, he's done the job I hired him to do. If he doesn't, from my perspective that's when his name becomes damaged.
Now, can somebody find out who Schumer is schtucking just to even out the coverage?
sniffybigtoe Fri, 02/16/2018 - 10:15 Trumps was banging porn stars and Playboy models while in his 60's?
This totally makes me wish I voted for brain damaged old woman who has trouble staying conscious.
rphb Fri, 02/16/2018 - 10:30 Even if this story is true I doubt it will in any way affect his political career.
Looking at her picture I think any man can understand why he would sleep with her, and there is no talk of rape or anything other unconcentual, therefore no crime have been committed.
As for the morality involved on cheating with his wife, I can only say this: He's Trump, nobody expect anything else from that man.
In other words, this is a non-story.
You said you weren't at work, right?
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Science Fair project gone awry
Posted On: Friday - February 16th 2018 11:47AM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Race/Genetics Science
I mean, you can't just go around making hypotheses and sifting through data to try to support or negate these hypotheses, and making conclusions, and suggesting further theorizing, observation, or experimentation, I don't care what your science teacher said. Science must be raciss, then, so cut it out!
Forgive us for this is, albeit more-rare-lately "Hey, read this!" type post. However, the VDare article, The IQ Gap And The Science Fair Project–Diversity Makes Even Smart People Stupid, makes a few great points that may not be found on just any even UNBIASED account of some science fair stupidity from out in Sacramento, Californ-eye-eh. (OK, well, California, yeah, but it's still part of the US, far as the Peak Stupidity blog has heard - we're not always completely up-to-date, so go check.)
From the "Sacramento Bee" article (gotta love that original name for a newspaper, I'll give em that):
The project that started the controversy was titled “Race and IQ.” It raised the hypothesis: “If the average IQs of blacks, Southeast Asians, and Hispanics are lower than the average IQs of non-Hispanic whites and Northeast Asians, then the racial disproportionality in (HISP) is justified.”That wasn't even the conclusion, just the hypothesis, but I'm pretty sure the "Bee" didn't want to hear the conclusion. The problem the cntrl-left is running into on this latest bout of primary-school truth-telling, a big, big no-no, is that the young scientist-in-
You can almost sense the frustration in the article from the reporters because they can’t call the student a Nazi or a white supremacist. He’s Asian, the group which statistically has the most realistic view of the racial IQ gap. [VDare has links to all kinds of data not shown here.]
Human biodiversity shows different groups, on average, have different capabilities. This is simply a fact, based on the best research we have. As we are a modern society, not some primitive tribe, we look at scientific evidence to determine truth, we don’t just work backwards from our feelings and demand the world conform to our wishes.OK, this is a lot of the article, but here comes a great point:
Disagree? Show me evidence that proves me wrong. If the evidence does show there is no racial intelligence gap, then people who believe in HBD are wrong and they should change their minds. That’s how the human species progresses.
But for some reason, we don’t do that when it comes to racial differences in intelligence. We simply make claims about absolute equality based on no evidence. And when someone denies these claims, we determine “outrage” is sufficient reason to silence that person. No less lofty a personage than “Sacramento City Unified School District Superintendent” Jorge Aguilar [Email him] has made an emotional video denouncing the episode, and, subtly, promoting open borders policies.
One also has to ask why sparking “outrage” is sufficient reason for a scientific hypothesis to be opposed. After all, many people were “outraged” by a scientific theory which they thought denied the truth of Scripture. Many people were “outraged” by the connotation they were descended from apes and monkeys and not simply created by God in the Garden of Eden. Many people blame the introduction of theory of evolution for driving God out of the classroom and so opening the door to the immorality and vulgarity which plagues classrooms today.Yes, back in the day, not quite a century back, when the teaching of evolution was being pushed into the primary schools, there were big political battles about it. Whatever you think about it, there was no worry from the progressives of just regular science-trusting folks on about the fact that this curriculum being forced upon the schools was hurtful to their religious culture, making them feel bad, whatever. As the last sentence in the quote of VDare says, it's perfectly OK to offend Christians and/or white people, in the name of science. Rightly so on that, but this offensiveness has gone WAY beyond science. Additionally, it is hypocritical for these "race denialists" to be stopping science due to worries about hurt feelings.
Yet the feelings of such people are routinely mocked in the media, going all the way back to the 1960 film Inherit The Wind, if not before. Apparently, the feelings of some people are more important than others.
The end of the VDare article has another good point, about the schools, but I may leave that for another short post on this same story.
BTW, this particular article shows the author just being "Virginia Dare" - that's the web-site meme, as noted in the Peak Stupidity website review. I guess this stuff is worrisome to whatever good writer was responsible - READ THE WHOLE THING.
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Taking out the proverbial trash
Posted On: Thursday - February 15th 2018 12:44PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Artificial Stupidity
... No, I don't know what proverb, but it's just proverbial.
This is the 3rd of three thoughts from a previous post associated with the Artificial Stupidity, aka, "Computer Tech Stupidity". Yeah posts are proliferating here.
As I had the "tech" (OK, that's a bullshit term), electronic problems a few days back, as mentioned in the link above, I ended up at the same time cleaning up a bit in the electronic sense. Let me get back to the real world. It's a problem for this writer to throw things out. I mean things that MAY have some use later, and "may" is the important thing. Let me explain.
It is kind of a compulsion to keep things around, but there are 2 sides to this. My thoughts in keeping this set of bolts or piece of steel, or extra scrap wood is that I just may be sorry if I junk it. I really would be kicking myself, proverbially (of course!) if I happen to need something like that later on and I'd thrown it out. No, it's not usually the money, but the time, and sometimes just the quality of the old stuff. I've got to go to the hardware store, or worse yet, the big box store, find the stuff, etc. and way more than an hour is wasted over just going to the garage or attic to where I remember storing it - yeah, another key word "remember"! I'll get back to that.
Quality can be another factor too. I have a Craftsmen socket set from > 25 years ago, and I have every one of the sockets. That's not bragging, but probably just luck. A roommate wanted to borrow it way back, to work on his car. "Sure, but put every one back." Yeah, I found one socket out by the road the next day, and I don't know why he got so upset when I told him, in effect "No sockets for you!" You know it, right, the next time you are doing a job, that'll be the one you need too, the one by the road. The thing is, the replacement you get today will be cheap China-made crap. I'll just keep all of my good ones, knock on
Yes, it does no good to keep all the old "crap" if you are not an organized person. As I've told the boy, oh, and the wife, "if you don't know where it is, you may as well not own it."
Where does Artificial Stupidity come in to this post? (Thanks for being patient.) The number of windows, and tabs within windows proliferates over time with this writer. It starts with many tabs, and when the titles become unreadable to the number of 'em, more windows come on-line. No, I don't shut down the computer much, why do you ask? ;-} I look through them sometimes, maybe close 1 or 2, but they all seem important. In the past most have been reminders of stuff to do, or order on-line, or just read later. Most now are stuff to write about. I lost all the tabs on one of them finally, and just after that on the other device as I went through the sorcerer's apprentice routine earlier this week.
It's vexing for 15 minutes or so, as I try to recover, get upset at not bookmarking stuff (that's where organization comes in, just like keeping the sockets together), etc. However, 1 hour later, I think "man, what's the big deal. It couldn't all have been very important, since I can't remember 3/4 of the tabs. Most of it would have never resulted in anything getting done ... in. this lifetime." It's just like cleaning out a part of the garage or cleaning off a corner of the desk, which is all I can usually manage. It has to happen though, as my desk, garage, and attic have become UNSUSTAINABLE. Taking out the trash is like clearing the head. It can be good once in a while.
(BTW, now this post has got me thinking of another one about storage units. It'll be forthcoming.)
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Maestroes- doing the jobs that possibly nobody needs to do
Posted On: Wednesday - February 14th 2018 8:00AM MST
In Topics: Music The Dead Humor
Couldn't they be replaced by Maestro-bots or cheap illegal labor?
Upon reading/viewing this short John Derbyshire blog-post about Korean opera singer, Lee Myong-Joo, singing in Italian (not particularly my cup o' tea), I couldn't help but notice the conducter doing his bit there in front of the large orchestra backing up the singer. This conductor job has been bugging me for a while, which is the subject of this short post.
Yes, I have played in school bands with the teacher acting as conductor. It was highly necessary, as some of the kids were a bunch of screw ups and just couldn't keep time, much less play all the right notes. There's keeping time, as in not varying the meter off of that appropriate for the piece, and then there's the keeping time (more related to rock/country/bluegrass/etc) in which you must get back to the same place after 4 times around, or 8 times around, not some odd-ass number like 7! I've seen both types of problems. The former is something hard to overcome, as it just may be a talent, without the presence of a metronome or conductor. The latter is just plain old lack of attention. It's bad when it's the bass player, BTW.
You would just think that, after playing cello or violin for 2 hours a day for 10 years under the supervision of their Tiger Moms, by the time they get to play at the Metropolitan Opera House, these people would know how to keep time, right? Why do these musicians need this conductor, or "maestro" as they insist on being called. He's probably paid more or as much as the best musicians, but for what? He signals that they might want to play a little softer here, then come on strong with the low sound right now, then ... what? Couldn't they work it all out themselves during practice?
I think it's time to eliminate this union-sandbagging position. I wouldn't be surprised if some of these guys are just Soprano-family mobsters that didn't feel like sitting outside in a lawn chair in the winter for this make-work job. (You see a lot of these guys in New York City, too, come to think of it - mob country.)
Let's contrast the opera house or any large classical music performance requiring a maestro with how it's done in good rock music, OK? In this video, a live version of Cassidy*, Jerry Garcia has been just absorbed in playing his lead, to some unusual chord progression too, from 03:35 on. Then, at 05:18, Jerry tries for about 10 seconds to get Bob Weir's attention to let him know he's about done playing it. Bobby doesn't notice, but then at 05:32, he tries to get Jerry's attention. Jerry is looking back at his guitar then (or maybe just something acid-induced in his head!) so Bobby just yells "Hey" in the middle of the music there, and they all wrap it back up toward the tonic. Who needs a conductor? Those guys were all maestros!
* Yes, this is a repeat of a song featured just recently, in this post about the 10,004th maniac. OTOH every Dead performance has it done differently, and this one just was amusing to me. RIP, Jerry.
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Password-related stupidity
Posted On: Tuesday - February 13th 2018 2:33PM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Artificial Stupidity
Just to follow up as the 2nd of 3 notes promised on specific areas of modern electronic artificial stupidity (as opposed to AI), I'll just write a bit to explain problems that I'm sure I'm not the only one having. (Here is the 1st of the 3 follow-ups.)
I mentioned getting sent round and round with this electronic device yesterday. Between remembering passwords, getting replacement passwords and pins sent to email accounts that I no longer have the passwords to, updating this and that, requiring yet additional passwords, it was a scene, man! No, I didn't use the table saw on the device, so there's that ... Now, this writer does know that there are programs that keep your passwords together with only one necessary to open it. That's great if you are always on the same device, or will never, ever lose, or lose access to, the one that's got all the info. It's not always like that though.
You can synch up passwords, though that's not recommended for security reasons. You can write em all down in a little paper notebook and don't lose that. That's definitely not recommended, but done anyway by bright people who are just sick of the bullshit. I found one on the table in the office. I didn't know what or whose it was until I glanced through it and saw all that, and then a woman came out of the bathroom near by - "hey, is this yours, are you Barbara?". "Yes, thanks." "Good thing I'm not a thief or a pervert, huh?" Hell, I wouldn't have remembered any of it without a lot of effort anyway.
You can come up with one really hard one, without birthdays, names of cats and babies, etc., as all that personal stuff is what let's hackers easily get started on you. Then, you can vary this difficult-to-crack one a bit to use on various software programs that all want passwords, but some want it this way - 6-10 chars. no odd ones - others another way - at least 10 characters, must have numbers, what-have-you. You've still got to remember how you shifted around the pw when you (try to) get into each piece of software, i.e. tool, to get something done. That's all good until the program asks you to change the password for security reasons every 3 months. Then, that's where people say "the hell with it" and just go the notepad.
One more thing, since I mentioned the cats and babies, and "your first car", "your home town address", etc go along with this point. Those security questions - I never put the right stuff there either. It's not their damn business! Don't give out any more info than you have to (not for the Feral Gov's sake - they probably got it all, but for ID theft and corporate assholery reasons). Since I give bogus answers to those security questions, I usually don't remember what those answers were either, when I'm supposed to need 'em. However, I think I just came up with a system. No, I'm not telling. It just keeps me able to use my tools without spending an hour or two a week gettting the run-around. My table saw doesn't do this to me, so that might explain why woodworking is so peaceful.
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Dr. Ron Paul, E-verify as a Liberty vs. Conservatism conundrum
Posted On: Tuesday - February 13th 2018 10:30AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Americans Liberty/Libertarianism
about the ONLY politician that should appear by the American flag
Ron Paul, in his weekly punditry column, wrote against the implementation of the anti-illegal-employment E-verify program. I link here to his article on Zerohedge and here to the same article on the unz site, due to the fact that there are two sets of different kinds of commenters, yet good discussion on both. The Peak Stupidity blog has just recently tried to convince the reader(s) that libertarians (including Dr. Paul) have a lot they must learn from conservatives, and vice versa.
In the case of E-verifiy, supported as a very important part of real immigration-invasion reform by the respected VDare people, this clash between these two ideologies provides a conundrum, as it were (gotta like that "conundrum" one, makes me sound like a real pundit). It reminds me of the real US Supreme Court tough decisions, back in the day before it was totally politically corrupted. As discussed near the middle of this post, two different parts of the US Constitution, usually in the Bill of Rights, would be in conflict regarding the implementation of the law in question. That court was doing it's job back then.
E-verify is a way to stop employers from getting away with hiring illegal aliens. Serious immigration patriots think, pretty reasonably, in my opinion, that people will be deterred from illegal entry and others may go home due to lack of these formerly good opportunites. They will no longer be hired as cheap labor to undercut Americans, using American taxpayers' money as back up via welfare benefits.
Dr. Paul is against the program as it's another brick in the wall of the anti-privacy Police State that has been slowly (more quickly, as of the last 2 decades) built up. He makes good points, but, on this point, specifically, it seems like it's just water under the bridge. Yes, any program that CAN be misused for further control of Americans by Big Feral Gov WILL be, just as the Social Security number (SS #, very appropriate) was "never gonna be an American ID number" per FDR and his socialist minions. Yeah, I wouldn't have believed you people last time, and I don't now. The total awareness of American's locations, spending, communications, all of it is so far gone that I just don't think this one matters right now. To use a 3rd common expression, this E-verify might be another nail in the coffin for privacy, but there are already 2 1/2 " drywall screws spaced every 3" attaching the coffin lid already. Yeah, Peak Stupidity can use a metaphor like the best of 'em!
Back to the libertarians' side again, they have a point that without the huge welfare state set-up American has now, these illegals would not so readily invade for employment with this additional renumeration by the taxpayers. That's all true, but it's again water under the bridge (metaphor #2).
All in all, in this case, I disagree with the man of principle Ron Paul. Well, don't go disrespecting the man, as I don't here. If we had had just 25% of the congress made of men like him over the years enforcing Constitutional rule-of-law, we would never have been in the position we are in now with total loss of control of the policies the Feral Gov screws us with.
Libertarians please note again: This immigration invasion is an existential problem. It's got to be solved NOW, one way or another. These new unassimilated "Americans" will not be voting for anything liberty-oriented - DO! YOU! GET! THAT!? No, Reason-mag Libertards, if you get 5 new subscriptions yearly from new immigrants, legal or illegal, consider yourselves lucky.
Just on the details of how E-verify doesn't add much (as of yet!, Dr. Paul would say) to the already Big-Gov control of employment, I present one comment from ZeroHedge:
Yeah, ZH has some good discussion, and normally with no qualms about the Fight Club language and style. Still, for equal time - both in terms of unz vs. ZH and libertarians vs. conservatives, I present one very good unz comment by a guy named Guiseppe:
Endgame Napoleon --> IH8OBAMA Tue, 02/13/2018 - 01:26
Unlike millions of underemployed US citizens, Senator Paul obviously has not been through the array of mouse-on-a-treadmill tests, checks and forms, necessary to acquire every six-week temp job at $10.40 per hour.
Many in his state have. At $18,093k, Kentucky’s per-capita income says it all, and hordes of welfare-aided illegal aliens help to keep individual income at rock bottom in his state.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kentucky_locations_by_per_capit…
Many citizens — nationwide — have done this temp-job hoop jumping time after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, getting these jobs, working hard and having NOTHING to show for it.
eVerify is just too much to put illegal aliens through.......??????
Most of the citizens, going through all of that hoop jumping for every puny temp job that will not cover rent that absorbs more than half of their earned-only income, already sacrifice privacy and dignity, over and over.
Citizens have already ceded constitutional freedoms, just to work temporary, part-time, high-turnover and 1099-gig jobs with low wages and inadequate hours that will never rise.
Wages and hours will never really rise, when so many illegal aliens with US-born kids are incentivized by government to stay below the earned-income limit for monthly welfare that covers their rent and groceries and the cut off for child tax credits that used to top out at $6,444 until Swampers doubled the amount in their recent tax cut / tax-welfare plan. [Not sure about his point on the child credit, as the very next commenter argues - PS]
That move, in and of itself, revealed the direction of the Swamp water. When the Swamp doubled child-tax-credit welfare—even for illegal aliens—many of us could see that Swampians serve only 1) their campaign donors and 2) the cheap, welfare-buttressed, noncitizen labor of their campaign donors.
If Swampers were soooooo concerned with civil liberties, why did they not bring it up all these years, when US citizens were asked to submit to every kind of scrutiny imaginable to get every 6-week, two-bit call center stint? It is only when their precious, welfare-fueled, cheap illegal alien labor is on the line that they give a ****.
Ron is spot on, it’s a slippery slope. Paid trolls [nope, that's not the case here - it's a conundrum - PS] are out in force today. Features of E-Verify like biometrics are already being incorporated into what is being billed as the *enhanced drivers licence.” Congress would never dare pass legislation authorizing a national identity card, so your government has repackaged the idea and is slipping it past drowsy Americans. The national security state that tracks your vehicle’s license plate along freeways or at intersections, listens in on your mobile phone conversations and reads your email, bit by bit is assembling the the elements of a world-wide database with everything about you contained in a chip in your driver’s licence. All that remains is to surgically place the chip into your body or stamp a QR code on your forehead. In time advanced facial recognition and biometric capabilities will even make this obsolete, you will simply present your face to the officer, who will have immediate access to everything about you, including whether or not your driver’s license is current. Welcome to E-Verify, welcome to your dystopic future.It's a tough call on this one, really, which is why discussion these two blog sites is very interesting stuff.
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Software as a tool
Posted On: Monday - February 12th 2018 11:23PM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Artificial Stupidity
(They're just different kind of tools, right?)
Written by tools to be used as tools ... no, nothing against software programmers/developers here, but Peak Stupidity has got a real beef with the management. Look a the mechanical tool above for hands-on work then the (some kind of) piece of software that is part of a "tool" to for (former) "paperwork". As briefly discussed here and just in the previous post, software programs, aka "apps" now, are really just tools. We use many kinds of hand-powered and electrical/air/hydraulic-powered tools to do faster and higher quality hands-on work, and we use many kinds (programming language, O/S, interface) of computer-run tools to do faster and higher-quality clerical or paper-work.
The reason software is so frustrating to many of us - I can only speak for the staff of the Peak Stupidity blog - is that most software tools nowadays require constant learning to keep being of use. Hey, learning new things is usually a good thing for us. Not with this crap, it ain't! The deal with new updated apps or Windows 10 as a forced replacement for the last POS is that learning is made necessary just to do the same jobs. Not only that, we are often FORCED to use each new version of the same tool, as the old version becomes unusable due to other software tools that it must work with, that have themselves been updated, requiring more learning, Sorcerer's apprentice style.
Can you just imagine the analogy with the table saw? You pull it out of the garage to cut pieces for some shelves. You see some sticker that magically appeared on the side of the saw that claims it's now "table saw 1.03". What does that mean? Well, you may need to go on-line to get help, but it seems like the tightening knobs for the fence have been relocated and work differently, the blade-adjustment crank now turns the other way, the tilt angles are scribed on in radians instead of degrees, and the saw needs 220 V A/C power now, with it's new plug ready to go. You'll need a new blade too, BTW, as the blades have been updated recently, and the old one doesn't even fit now. There's work and learning to be done, before you can get started with the shelf project. Hey, that's just what you've gotta do - you're not some luddite, are ya?
It's not like that, though, with actual, non-software tools. The tablesaw is ready to be used in the same manner as it's always been. There's no learning required to use it again once it's been figured out. There may be better techniques to learn, sure, but not just to do as well as you did the last time. With software, however, we have new versions that we are forced to use, eventually. Even if the changes are only additions, as in extra new cool features, to our "Word" editor program, the new stuff is made default ON. That means, one has to learn how to turn off all the new stuff right away or learn to use it all over. Menus options have been rearranged - buttons have been eliminated or moved. Things start indenting because the software reckons that's what you want. Your wording keeps getting re-arranged by the half-assed grammar-checker. All these thing require workarounds, basically fooling the damn software, to get the work done, unless one backs off for a few hours to learn how to take care of this crap. Good luck remembering how to work the new way, which is will be finally pretty solidified in our minds about the time the next important version is coming out.
Yes, the software companies do lots of this to keep sales up. Who in hell really wants the next version of Windows that bad? If you don't keep up, eventually the old versions will be useless with other programs that you do want to add on. It would be so nice just to have one computer with it's O/S and useful programs all frozen in one state. You are good with these tools so why is a change necessary? Sorry, you've got no say in the matter. The artificial stupidity is big business and you luddites need to keep up we'll make fun of you as idiots because you can't use the new software and then we'll force your old one to become uselss. That's why you find people out in the garage making shelving that they don't really need, and occasionally having a blast running the old tablet through with the blade. Wear those goggle now, OSHA cares about YOU!
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Posted On: Monday - February 12th 2018 12:45PM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Artificial Stupidity
The video that I just spent 10 minutes unsuccessfully searching for was a cartoon with a sorcerer's apprentice who had kind of deputized a bunch of brooms to do work for him. The brooms would screw up the jobs, and as the apprentice sorcerer tried to stop them from doing any work at all, the brooms would just multiply, go crazy, and screw up the job even worse. It was the stuff of bad dreams, in fact, but I cannot find this one. Any reader who may know where to find it, please write in, in the comments (put the letters "PS" FIRST, to keep the Ruskies at bay - that's my only beef with the Ruskies - we are not Neocons here at Peak Stupidity, we just hate crazy broomstick-bot spammers!)
I think over 4 decades have gone by since I've seen that video (but hey, youtube, get on it, you slackers!). It came back to me after almost that long after having messed around with electronic devices this morning. The amount of time just purely wasted trying to use a piece of software required for work that I had used a few months back on the same damn device is shameful. Pieces of software are supposed to be used as TOOLS, dammit, the Peak Stupidity blog mentioned a few months back. As tools, they can make jobs easier, or just make them possible at all. I GET THAT! [/Carlson]. They don't need to make more work, like the brooms in that scary (to me at the time, anyway) sorcerer's apprentice video that I can't find.
It's really like that video. You get sent round in circles, first by worthless IT people - this one WAS in America, BTW, but not a white guy - then, the various pieces of software involved each want to get updated, but updating one makes another stop or have problems. Then you've got to come up with passwords that you made up months ago. Yes, I know, synch em up, right, but that doesn't help when some of them want changing every month or so. How did we get our pieces of electronics to run our selves around in circles, trying to appease them? I can't even remember what happened at the end of that out-of-control crazy-ass brooms video. Did the apprentice win, and stop them all somehow, or did they take over and destroy everything? I think to recreate the former, I would have to take this piece of
Again, youtube has really let me down here, as the right video would really ring true with all of us familiar with modern artificial stupidity. I know there is a famous Mickey Mouse scene from Fantasia with the classical music of the name "Sorcerer's Apprentice" that goes with it, but it's not what I was looking for. This was a lot darker than Mickey Mouse's style. However, I did find it, with albeit very poor video quality (what do you want, from 1944 or something?), with some great rock guitar by a guy named Joe Stump:
I'm running out of time here, but I'll continue later, hopefully this evening, with more on the point of software as tools, more about modern password-related stupidity (to explain myself better on this), along with some thoughts about throwing out garbage - very much related.
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[UPDATED 12/18/19]: Video with Joe Stump music is gone off youtube. This is from Disney's Fantasia.
I dunno. That memory is from long long ago, maybe a bad dream, which cannot be found on youtube.
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Smashing Pumpkins - To Sheila
Posted On: Friday - February 9th 2018 8:23PM MST
In Topics: Music
This great Smashing Pumpkins ballad is NOT from the 2-CD album Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, which got me through some semi-rough times.
This is To Sheila from the album Adore from just about 20 years back. I had always thought that this band was part of the grunge scene for some reason, probably just because Smashing Pumpkins music came out near the latter part of that 1990's era. The band is from Chicago, however, not Seattle. That great haunting voice is Mr. Billy Corgan. I'll have to post more music from them, especially from Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, about which I'm still semi-infinitely sad, no more like pissed, from some asshole ripping off a whole bunch of my CD's, including that one, out of my car out west.
Billy Corgan – vocals, rhythm and lead guitar, and keyboards
James Iha – lead and rhythm guitar, vocals
D'arcy Wretzky – bass guitar, rhythm guitar
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Every headline tells a story, don't it?
Posted On: Friday - February 9th 2018 7:53PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Feminism ctrl-left
This post is not to be confused with an older one featuring great Rod Stewart music called Every Picture Tells a Story, Don't It?. Nope, this one says "headline", not picture. Here:
“It’s too late for Germany”: German feminist SJW admits she got it wrong on immigration, plans to emigrate for her retirement. What more does need to be said here, except for the fact that Peak Stupidity fancies itself a blog, and so must say something or other.
The story is from the Diversity Macht Frei blog - the title is a play on a phrase from a different phase in German history. I'm gonna paste in a good bit of his post:
In 2012 Rebecca Sommer founded the refugee aid association Arbeitsgruppe Flucht + Menschen-Rechte (AG F+M) [Working Group Asylum + Human Rights]. At the end of 2015, this artist, photographer and journalist and documentary maker applauded Angela Merkel’s decision to open German’s borders to the “refugees” who had been blocked in Hungary, despite the vacuum effect this would create. “At that time I wanted to help everyone ...Stop right there! See what I'm talking about?
“It was a jarring perception when I noticed that these people I had helped, who were eating, drinking, dancing and laughing with me, who didn’t pray, who didn’t go to the mosque, who didn’t respect Ramadan, who made fun of religion and deeply religious people, called me ‘the stupid German whore’ when they were eating my food and were in my garden.”Jarring, indeed, and just what does she mean by garden, exactly? [OK, low blow, there! - Ed] Really all I can write in reply to this paragraph is a big Instapundit-trademarked "HEH!".
She also acknowledges that, through their numbers, these Muslim immigrants pose a threat to the German way of life, and that this will get worse with family reunification.Yes, you hear all those Pollack jokes and you figure they may not be too bright over there, right? This lady, however, is taking a lot for granted, if she thinks they will let her in after helping fuck up one country already - it sounds pretty bigoted of her to assume they will get everything backwards like this is just a simple light bulb joke.
She also told the Polish weekly magazine Do Rzeczy that she personally knows Germans who are getting ready to emigrate to Poland because they had have enough,...
[SNIP]
She thinks it is already too late for Germany and she plans to emigrate for her retirement [to Poland, it sounds like]
Seriously, couldn't any of the SJW cntrl-left ever admit they were wrong? I mean, people like her have done unfathomable damage to the country of Germany. You're from there, lady, why don't you stick it out under you and the rest of your cntrl-left's sick social plans. See, it's not that an apology would make anything better. It's just that it may possibly clue in some of her cohorts that maybe they are not always right and should listen to their countrymen instead of dismissing them with perjoratives.
POLAND, STAND YOUR GROUND! DO! NOT! LET! THIS! SICK! BROAD! CROSS! THE! BORDER!
Oh, yeah, every picture tells a story too, so maybe the following would have sufficed as the entire post:
Still though, all German feminists are idiots.
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What's the deal with Peak Stupidity - Libertarian or Conservative?
Posted On: Friday - February 9th 2018 10:06AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Websites Liberty/Libertarianism
The Peak Stupidity blog reader may well be wondering - WTF is it gonna be, Libertarianism or Conservativism? After having hopped back and forth over the last week between the pro-liberty posts on homeschooling and the Police State, and the conservative posts on feminism/demographic soo-ee-cide and immigration lately (Hey what about moon cakes!? Moon pies, dammit!?), the reader has cause to wonder. Well, these two "isms" can very well co-exist, it turns out. That is so long as the adherents of both of these philosophies just don't think so many stupid things.
Libertarians have a lot to learn from the conservatives, and conservatives have a lot to learn from the libertarians. This would be a good topic for a full-out essay, as I have been thinking about this for quite a while, being an adherent of both of these philosophies, with the caveat "hold the stupid, please, ma'am."
As a conservative, I say to the libertarians that are somehow, stupidly, pro open-borders:
Free markets work, free trade can be good if it's fair and I understand the concept of division of labor and why we don't manufacture moon cakes and raise many dogs for human consumption here, just as the Chinese don't manufacture moon pies and raise many dairy cattle. In my bestest Tucker Carlson voice, I! GET! THAT! Even some free and easy travel between countries at low numbers can be a very good thing.As a libertarian, I say to you conservatives who don't really care a hoot how big the Feral Gov't gets:
Immigration of 5,000 - 10,000 people per year from various shit- and non-shit versions of holes all over the world can be a fine thing, likewise. However, 10's of MILLIONS of any kind of different people being imported from locations with totally different cultures is bad, mmmkaaay? Do you people think that 25,000,000 Latin Americans will vote for or defend your Constitutional rights? No, and neither will the next generation, and beyond that, there will be no America anymore, so no use worrying about what the 3rd generation will vote for, if voting will even go on then. How many Reason magazine subscribers do you reckon you've picked up out of this crowd, a coupla' dozen?
Face it, libertarians, you and some multiple 10's of million, usually white men, are the only people anywhere around the world left that have a long background and understanding of these concepts that our founders fought for and wrote out in the US Constitution and elsewhere. You are already pretty much outnumbered, so please stop making it worse.
Who are you kidding with your disrespect for "muh Constitution" and "we can have socialism just fine in our nice white country."? No, Big Government and the socialism that always goes along with it, is the cause of your problems. How the hell can you Make America Great Again, when the huge Feral Beast of a government has engendered the welfare/warfare state and implemented almost-uncontrolled immigration? This all started right in the mid-1960's (most of it, though I'd pin the start of the real forever-war-state on the 1990's).Yes, this will make a good essay, as there's lot's more to say to these people (Peak Stupidity remains on both sides, above the fray). Anyway, yes we swing both ways here at the Peak Stupidity blog, and we also got both kinds of music ... country AND western:
We're on the 3rd generation of welfare-state-raised thugs in the ghettos of just about every major and minor city in the country. These are people, some of whom would not have been born just due to the responsible parenting of people who can't depend on THE STATE, with the remainder who would be living much more productive and less violent lives. We would not be living at the peak of stupidity with respect to feminism, gender-bender nonsense, Political Correctness, and scores of other flavors of stupid, if people had continued to constrain the big Feral Government before it was too late.
Conservatives, your power to have done something to stop the immigration invasion would have been much greater if we had control of the US Government. Right now, the Globalists, the Neocons, the Deep State, and corrupt politicians of all sorts have no interest in making policy per your wants and needs as Americans. They don't give a flying fuck about you, on account of they don't seem to have to answer to you anymore. When was the last time you recall bringing up US Constitution Amendment X of the Bill of Rights? Dig deep, man.
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