10,004th Maniac - lost now on the country miles in his Cadillac...
Posted On: Friday - January 19th 2018 10:02PM MST
In Topics: Music The Dead History Pundits
Not least of all of the beat generation mentioned in the last post was a guy named Neal Cassady (yes, along with other problems like his Mom died when he was 10 and he had lived on the street with his drunkard Dad, he was a COBS victim too - that's Children Of Bad Spellers. OK, pretty low, even for Peak Stupidity, but c'mon messing up the 1st AND last names?). Now, unlike the 3 beat generation guys discussed previously, I wouldn't call Neal Cassady a "piece of work", just more like a "character", which is a hell of a lot better.
Being a "character", Neal Cassady is one of the major characters in the Tom Wolfe book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" which younger people who don't really know what all went on in the 1960's would think is some "Alice in Wonderland" type novel. Nope, that Tom Wolfe book is non-fiction, so Cassady is "featured" in that book, and shouldn't be called a character in that sense. Well, it would be hard for someone who has grown up during the last 30 years to understand that, yes, what went on in that book was a weird, weird trip, but you could do all that, as it was a free country back then.
The post title is from the great great-ful Dead song, spelled correctly, really because, although this Beat writer is mentioned in this John Perry Barlow written song (music written by Bob Weir), it was really about the birth of a baby girl, Cassidy Law, into the Dead extended family. The lyrics in the post title are about Neal Cassady's big penchant for long road trips, like Jack Kerouac. Additionally, they both wrote in the stream-of-consciousness manner.
Oh, yeah, speaking of beat-niks, beat-this, and beat-that, it was a band called the beat-les, it turns out, that provided Paul McCartney his path to stardom with the band Wings. Just a bit of trivia for the curious reader that doesn't have the deep trivial knowledge base of the Peak Stupidity blog.
This is another acoustic Dead song from the album Reckoning - like "Ded Reckoning", "Ded" for "Deduced", see, the most basic form of navigation other than pilotage (looking at the ground). We have posted two songs from this same album before, "Dark Hollow" and "The Race is On".
Come to think of it, may as well post this Doobie Brothers' rock song, "Neal's Fandango", as this guy was thought enough of to be in at least 2 songs. It's from the album Stampede, way before the band was single-handedly ruined by the more jazz-oriented Michael McDonald. Can you follow these lyrics, at that speed? After you figure it out - hey we didn't have the internet during the time of The Doobies - you can hear:
"It was Neal Cassady who started me a-traveling, all the stories that he told, I believed them, every one."
Neal Cassady and that free beatnik lifestyle of his sure made an impression on a lot of people.
I like the Dead/Barlow lyrics so much, I'll just end the post with that. Good night.
"I have seen where the wolf has slept by the silver stream.
I can tell by the mark he left, you were in his dream.
Ah child of countless trees, ah child of boundless seas.
What you are, and what you're meant to be
Speaks his name, though you were born to me,
born to me, Cassidy.
Lost now on the country miles in his Cadillac.
I can tell by the way you smile, he's rolling back.
Come wash the nighttime clean, come grow the scorched ground green.
Blow the horn, and tap the tambourine.
Close the gap of the dark years in between
you and me, Cassidy.
Quick beats in an icy heart, catch colt draws a coffin cart,
There he goes and now here she starts, hear her cry.
Flight of the seabirds
Scattered like lost words,
Wheel to the storm and fly.
Fare thee well now,
let your life proceed by it's own design.
Nothing to tell now,
let the words be yours, I'm done with mine.
Fare thee well now,
let your life proceed by it's own design.
Nothing to tell now, let the words be yours,
I'm done with mine."
Flight of the seabirds
Scattered like lost words,
Wield to the storm and fly.
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10,003 Maniacs
Posted On: Thursday - January 18th 2018 6:53PM MST
In Topics: Music History Pundits Poetic Stupidity
Time has gone by to where there are people in America, who speak English even, who have no idea that the famous singer Paul McCartney used to be in a famous rock-n-roll
We all know about the 1960's, really the era from 1965 to the early 1970's; it was the era of the hippies, yipees, the dropouts, the freaks, pinkos (well "the pinkos you'll always have with you.", "they" say), ... that whole bunch of craziness. However, I personally did not know about until a coupla decades back, and most don't, the bunch of weirdos that existed in our land as precursors to the '60's bunch. These were the "Beatniks", composed of the Beat poets and, I would imagine, Beat musicians, Beat artists, Beat financial advisors ... well, you get the idea - lumped together they make a bunch of niks. This stuff started when WWII was still on, I was shocked to find out during research for this post (yes, I looked a few things up, as it was very interesting).
Well, back in the late 1980's, years later, Natalie Merchant and her great band,
The 10,000 Maniacs wrote a great song played by her band called "Hey, Jack Kerouac" on the album In my Tribe, a hell of an album, BTW, which was about these Beat guys. Man, the more I read up doing my research, the more I learned that lots of these guys were real pieces of work, in the modern parlance, but then known as wild-ass nutcases. (Yes, and I think saying "Man .." to begin a sentence may have started with this Beat generation, and it's damn hard to shake, man.) It wasn't just sitting in coffee shops and talking about "the system" and standing up reciting that Beat poetry for lots of these guys. There were shootings, amphetamine-fueled cross-country road trips. homo-orgies, regular-orgies, and high-tailing it to Morocco by way of Mexico due to some of the former. It was a scene, man! To think that this was well before the 1st real hippie was out of his diapers opening up the medicine cabinet.
Let's listen to the 10,000 Maniacs while we learn about 3 more:
Hey Jack Kerouac, I think of your mother
and the tears she cried, they were cried for none other
than her little boy lost in our little world that hated
and that dared to drag him down, her little boy courageous,
who chose his words from mouths of
babes got lost in the wood.
Hip flask slinging madman, steaming cafe flirts,
they all spoke through you.
Hey Jack, now for the tricky part,
when you were the brightest star who were the shadows?
Of the San Francisco beat boys you were the favorite.
Now they sit and rattle their bones and think of their blood stoned days.
You chose your words from mouths of
babes got lost in the wood.
The hip flask slinging madman, steaming cafe flirts,
in Chinatown howling at night.
He was one of the "beat boys" who seemed, at my quick reading, to be having a good time with the beat life. Everyone likes an occasional road trip.
Allen baby, why so jaded?
Have the boys all grown up and their beauty faded?
Well there ya' go. She wouldn't even be able to sing this now without a bunch of grief from someone or other.
Billy, what a saint they've made you,
just like Mary down in Mexico on All Souls' Day.
You chose your words from mouths of babes got lost in the wood.
Cool junk booting madmen, street minded girls
in Harlem howling at night.
What a tear stained shock of the world,
you've gone away without saying goodbye.
Well, as the Peak Stupidity blog has maintained over our time on the web, it's the melody and sound that beat out lyrics completely for making a great song. However, this song has all three. 10,000 Maniacs is a great band, and Natalie Merchant could really belt out those lyrics, and they were well written at that.
Great ending too! "You've gone away babe without saying... say-e-a-e-a-e-a-e-a-e-a-e-a-ing goodbye."
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Apollo 12 Lunar landing footage from > 48 years back
Posted On: Wednesday - January 17th 2018 7:58PM MST
In Topics: Humor Americans Race/Genetics Science Socialism/Communism
Peak Stupidity has no particular anniversary to celebrate here regarding this 2nd lunar landing mission. It's just that the youtube video of the dramatic (in terms of audio anyway) footage has been sitting here running scripts and slowing down the computer! That's not a great reason to write a post, but I had this in mind for sometime anyway - good commentary will always out, as
Next summer, '09, will be 5 DECADES since Apollo 11, the mission in which 2 American men landed on the moon only 8 years or so after the first American in space, and the latter was only several (like 3 - 5) years since American rockets that could get a man even near orbit were working properly even 1/2 the time! What amazing progress by a country of can-do people, especially engineers, technicians, and pilots! The Peak Stupidity blog wrote a small bit here and here 3 months back regarding China and which is the "can-do" country now - the reader probably doesn't need a hint.
This video is of the landing phase, and though the 2 pilots sound mostly calm and collected, there was not much room for error in what they were doing here. They had auto guidance till a few hundred feet up, but had to be completely aware of radar altitude (well you're not gonna get barometric on the moon anyway!), position, descent angle, vertical speed, and fuel remaining in percent, but extra could be measured in seconds, as 1 minute's worth was a lot to spare! On this mission one goal was to try to land very accurately in position, so as to be near enough to a 3 y/o unmanned space probe to walk to it (they came within 1/4 mile). Pete Conrad got pretty excited when he saw the crater and surrounding of the intended landing spot. People could read a map back then, I'll tell you what.
Footage kinda ended abruptly (not in this vid) after Alan Bean accidentally pointed the for-the-first-time color TV camera into the sun, and it was toast.
Back to the question - has there ever been a country in such great shape economically and demographically to have accomplished such a feat? I don't want to get into too much detail, but the electronics of the age were so far from what any cheap 10-year-old Motorola phone would have now (compared to the whole spacecraft put together!) that Earth was a different world from now too. The REAL ENGINEERING involved, no, not software programming, but true mechanical and electrical genius and problem-solving was tremendous. How far back has the onset of Socialism, being implemented that same decade, set American from the course to the stars that we could have otherwise stayed on? It's not just the money that's been wasted and done much more harm than good - it's the attitude of this whole place that has changed. The whole thing is saddening, and just as a needed pick-me-up, a pretty humorous video as an "opposing argument" is presented further below.
To make this Peak Stupidity commentary fairly timely here, I'll just ask the question - could this have been accomplished in Haiti?! Please don't insult the intelligence of any of us here with an answer in the comments. I mean, given all the money the world could come up with, I doubt things could possibly have gotten any further than the building of a decent road to a non-existent launching pad. There is not the human capital to do anything like this, and there never will be, unless the island had the population swapped out with, say, I dunno, Norway? Well, though Norwegians could turn the Haiti side of that island into a livable place with lots of work, I maintain the Americans of today, much less the Norwegians, are not up to anything like this anymore. Things could change though.
The Apollo 12 mission, as seen here, and the rest of the US manned space program, were accomplished at a time when America was the furthest thing from a shithole than the world had ever seen, both before and since. Here's hoping we go in the right direction again, after Peak Stupidity.
After all the criticism of this country that has been written here at Peak Stupidity for over a year, lest the reader feel we have become a bit shitholier-than-thou, we present some humor in the form of a Ken Burns-like video documentary of "The Old Negro Space Program":
(Just as a first comment before you watch this, the funniest stuff is the "Ken Burns-like" interviewee professor, wearing his sport jacket as a professor should, using the phrases "if I may", "if you will", and "as it were". That's what cracked me up the most. Check out the credits, too: "No one actually caught fire.")
Old Negro Space Program:
PS, I just read also that the Apollo 12 mission was the one featured, via actors, in the show, OK officially "docu-drama" miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon" back in 1998 which was 3 decades after the mission.
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Study finds that sexism is rampant in nature
Posted On: Tuesday - January 16th 2018 7:42PM MST
In Topics: Websites Humor Feminism
This was reported by The Onion, the on-line humor magazine, way back in 2002. There would be no point in writing this article today. It is obsolete in that the general stupidity level has increased so much just in these intervening 16 years that the article would be taken seriously. (That kind of screws things up when you are trying to run a humor magazine #NOT FUNNY!)
Some of the highlights of this research:
"Take the behavior of the ring-neck pheasant," Tannen said. "After mating, the male immediately abandons the hen, leaving her responsible for the total care for the chicks. For the single mother-to-be, there is no assistance, either in the form of a partner or child support. Nor is there any legal recourse. It's despicable."Shades of the Hollywood-inspired "me too" movement - something about bit-part actors should have the same benefits as directors and even producers, if I am understanding the movement correctly ... here:
Tannen said pheasants are typical of the natural world, where a mere 5 percent of animal species mate for life. Among species that do form lasting pairs, the situation barely improves: Females must remain close to the nest to incubate eggs, nurse, and keep watch over the burrow while males are free to go off hunting and fishing with their friends.
"The sexist attitude that child-rearing is 'women's work' is prevalent throughout nature and has been for generations, probably since reptiles first developed mammalian characteristics in the Triassic period," Tannen said. "Sadly, most creatures never pause to challenge these woefully outdated gender roles."
More seriously, in addition to an unfair division of labor, nature is rife with sexual abuse and harassment. The UCSD study estimates that in 2001 alone, more than 170 trillion cases of abuse occurred in the world's forests, grasslands, and oceans—all of them unreported.Remember that all of this Onion research has been peer-reviewed. It's hard to even continue to fathom this dark travesty, but read on:
"During the act of mating, the female moose is subject to excessive biting, nipping, and herding," Tannen said. "The male has no qualms about using sheer, brute force to overpower his sex partner, and the female, accustomed to this sort of rough treatment after millions of years of it, doesn't even realize there's something wrong."
"Then, when it's time for the bull moose to complete the sexual act," Tannen continued, "it's over in about five seconds, with no regard to female pleasure whatsoever. Typical."
Adding insult to injury, Tannen said, the bull moose then heads off to mate with dozens more females over a period of two to three weeks, justifying his behavior as "part of the Mardi Gras-like atmosphere of 'mating season.'"
With other species, darker situations unfold.
"To mate, the male Galapagos tortoise simply immobilizes the female with his weight, which, as far as I'm concerned, qualifies as non-consensual sex,"
Annie Secunda, a Boston-based females'-rights advocate, said swift action must be taken to address the problem of sexism within the animal kingdom.
"We need to provide tigresses, hens, and all other females in nature with outreach programs and support networks," Secunda said. "We also need to impose standards through intervention. The males of all species need to hear loud and clear the message that this kind of animal behavior is not acceptable."
Secunda conducts numerous workshops aimed at creating female-friendly biomes and promoting the health and positive self-image of females on both land and in the sea. She also strongly advocates the legalization of infanticide, which would enable females to devour their newborn offspring when resources are limited.
Secunda spent much of 2001 in the Amazon rainforest, working to create safe spaces for female animals. These efforts, however, yielded mixed results: Females have avoided the lighted walkways she built in several dangerously dense areas, and leaflets encouraging females to learn how their own bodies work were ultimately used to line dens for the rainy season.
Far from discouraged, Secunda said she plans to embark on an intensive study of the sexuality of flora.
"Multicellular plants alternate sexually reproducing and asexually reproducing generations, with each plant producing both male and female gametes," Secunda said. "It seems many plants have moved past conventional notions of male-female gender altogether. It's so liberating, I can't help but have hope for all those so-called 'higher' species of animals."
Hey, I about pasted the whole article, but the link is to only a secure server and won't work in some browsers. Hence, Peak Stupidity offers no apology.
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Local Politics
Posted On: Tuesday - January 16th 2018 7:08PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Curmudgeonry
They say "all politics is local". I don't really know what "they" are talking about, so just keep that in mind. This post is a short one about local elections. I had written comments about some of the worst of the US Senators and the fact that many in the R-wing of The Party get elected because the "R" is next to their names, but prior to that, not many people come out for the primary. Voting for a US Senator is not a local election of course, and not really much of a State election anymore (though it's still held there) due to US Constitution Amendment XVII (that's 17 for those of you in Buena Vista) ratified 100 years back (EVERY SINGLE TIME!). These Senate elections are basically national elections nowadays, with the money (and even candidates, cough, Hildabeast, cough, cough) coming from all over.
So, yeah, I'm not writing about the big ones, but the primaries are held at times such that, except for special widely-publicized cases of underdogs trying to kick out long-entrenched incumbents (cases like that), only those actually interested in politics will show up to vote. This reminded me of some thoughts on our local elections. Local elections might also be held at odd times of the year, or at least in November, but on those odd-number years. These are the ones where the people voting are mostly interested parties, and this works against the regular taxpayer who wishes the local governments will both leave him along AND not keep grabbing more money each year.
As discussed here and mentioned a bit previously here, the library bonds are a good example. Besides the usual tax leaches in certain parts of town (you may or may not know who you are) it's the people with the entrenched interests who are going to make a big get-out-the-vote effort. Since the total votes cast will be fairly small, unless the vote does happen to coincide with a presidential election, these people have a great influence. Just take the unneeded renovation of the libraries, as linked to. The library employees and their complete extended families up to 3rd cousins twice-removed are probably voting at above 90% - it's their livelihood ... based on our labor. Lots of times, in fact, we might even be laboring to support them on the day the votes are cast, hence missing a chance to say "hell no, you make plenty of my money already!"
Of course, it's not just the libraries but lots of local interests and local spending that work out like this. Just like on the national level though, most don't really care until they are plain getting their asses kicked, figuratively or literally.
This brings up a certain fairly near-by neighbor. There are lots of otherwise friendly and stand-up people that you just don't want to talk politics to. The one in question is not all that. I wouldn't be talking enough to even bring up anything political, so just as well there, as this neighbor is obviously a hard-core member of the ctnrl-left. How do I know that? From the signs at the front of the yard each time there is a local election that I often otherwise wouldn't know about. They are very, very helpful. I just read the sign, try to memorize the name or issue, and vote against whatever the hell the sign says! This has been working out well for years.
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Happy General Robert E. Lee's Birthday!
Posted On: Monday - January 15th 2018 12:27PM MST
In Topics: Music Political Correctness Americans Liberty/Libertarianism Southern rock Holiday from Stupidity
down in Dixie (Hey, hey hey) on a Sunday morning."
More to come, but busy here on this celebration day of a great man, soldier, and Virginian - his actual birthday is January 19th, but you know how the government hard-working folks love their 3-day weekends (guess that could have worked out.)
Yeah, to continue to the point of this post, it really shouldn't matter which side of the War of Northern Agression you feel was in the right somehow, This great American and who stayed loyal to his country (Virginia) to the end was someone every man should admire, if he has done any reading of this history. Peak Stupidity posted this commentary on this illustrious general back during the time when the cntrl-left attacked some defenders of a statue of the man in Charlottesville, Virginia this past summer.
If we're gonna have a Federal Holiday why not celebrate a great man, the type that hardly get made today, vs. a Commie-supported serial adulterer "preacher", whose type you will find plenty of... that's his legacy you might say.
It's also not easy to put all the bogus titles the guy the Poltically Correct urge us to revere this day on this blog, much less a damn street sign in every city (beware .... not usually the best of neighborhoods). Let's see:
The - OK, fine.
Reverend - from what has been revealed over the years, he is far from reverent.
Doctor - The guy plagiarized a bunch of his bullshit dissertation, so no, he doens't deserve this title.
Martin Luther - Now there's a guy I can get behind. It took a lot of guts to defy the corrupt Catholic Church of the late middle ages.
King - What?
Junior - Who really knows with his crowd?
No, we celebrate a great American here, and, for crying out loud, if you're gonna decide we have to celebrate a black man each January for reasons of AA or what-have-you, how about a real straight-up erudite gentleman who knows what this country is
BTW, coincidentally, upon searching for info on Robert E. Lee, it turned up that last year at this time,
About this Martin Luther King, I guess he could give a good speech, if all that matters to you is words, not deeds.
"I have a dream ..." Yeah, buddy, we all have dreams. We ain't gonna see them all happen ...
This is the best song, in my opinion, from The Allman Brothers' debut album from 1969, with Greg's soulful singing (RIP Greg Allman) and the awsome lead and bottleneck slide guitat of his brother Duane. Molly Hatchett, featured here on Peak Stupidity, covered this song with a more choppy sound, but still very good.
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Authentic Coach handbag or cheap Chinese knockoff, and WHO CARES?
Posted On: Saturday - January 13th 2018 9:34PM MST
In Topics: Cheap China-made Crap Music Humor Female Stupidity
... wait a minute? Is that a man, baby?!
Peak Stupidty has our newest topic key, Female Stupidity, starting with this post ... clap, clap, clap. I've tried to keep the list down somewhat and apply existing ones to each new post. However, this and some previous posts (gonna have to clean up like this in general) deserve this new one, as nothing else fit well. Yeah, don't get your reproductive-parts-hats all askew, feminists and other ladies, as most of the other flavors of stupidity can be assumed to have men involved, along with a few female hangers-on (is that a real word?).
With that housekeeping behind us, what the hell is with all these Coach and other designer purses, now called handbags? It's been irking me for a while, but it came up in an on-line conversation today, or maybe I just wrote it and got no answer, like a modern-day conversation. It's nothing like the big deal of the serious rip-offs of American intellectual property in the engineering world, but this knock-off purse, shoes, whatever female consumer goods thing means a lot to some damn people.
I have no doubt that the fake bags, being cheap China-made crap are lower quality and are a rip-off for the
The stupidity here is that the ladies really don't care about the quality when they buy a cheap one to display their high status with. It's to show off, as no women wants to be left out of the whole handbag scene. Imagine, carrying your lipstick and Sue Grafton novels in a handbag with some unknown design on it! Better just to stick all the stuff in your pockets, if it came down to it. Now, the ladies who paid full price can feel lots of pride that they blew $500 of their husband's labor on this REAL one, but who can tell about the other ladies? They are getting ripped off of their show-off power. It's a quandary really, and there is probably some esoteric field of mathematics (game theory?) that can describe what these ladies should do.
In the meantime, to avoid trouble, the husband should not buy any kind of handbag at all, but just a boob job (pay for quality, no cheap knocker-offs will do here) and a gym membership. This will cost the same as a real Coach handbag (hell, I don't know), but with results that can be distinguished. That is, until the Chambers of Commerce of both nations can amicably work this out. Next on the agenda, shoes.
What do I know about all this, to be writing a blog post about it? I'm probably not your best source, as it wasn't that long ago that I figured women also had just one or two pairs of shoes, with an extra dirty set for painting.
Hey, listen, back in the day, you didn't worry about what brand your handbag was, as folks was poor, see?! You took good care of the handbags and gladrags that your GrandDadddy had to literally sweat so's you could buy . .. acccording to Rod Stewart, anyway .... Well, I can tell you this, we didn't use cheap Chinese knock-off gladrags either, people ... whatever the hell they are.
Rod Stewart, featured here, doesn't have a smooth Gerry Rafferty-type voice by any means, but his gravelly voice is good too. The song was written by a guy named Mike D'Abo from the band Manfred Man and is from Stewart's An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down album from way back in 1967.
On youtube, I usually ignore the comments writing about "I came here from ...", I guess some video games, but a short snippet of the instrumental part of Handbags and Gladrags was the intro. music on the British version (original) of The Office - the American version possibly being the funniest TV show of all time.
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The founding of America - was it a fluke?
Posted On: Saturday - January 13th 2018 9:03PM MST
In Topics: History Americans Liberty/Libertarianism Morning Constitutional
I gotta say, the last post was one of the darkest posts ever seen here on the Peak Stupidity blog. "Dark" is a big, very popular descriptive world nowadays for the Lyin' Press, especially in reference to any dark think being done to change the status quo of America's sinking into the abyss. What I had forgotten to add to the bottom of that last post (in addition to it being long enough anyway) was the following regarding the founding of our formerly great nation. This is an optimistic antidote and addendum to the previous post, then.
Yeah, you had your French Revolution, before anyone called each other Comrade or just Commie, then the Bolsheviks turning Russia into the USSR, the Red Chinese taking the country at an opportune time, the usual turmoil in Central and South America with the Commies taking over for a while, people then just about starving and going all police state on their asses (get some popcorn - in progress in former crown jewel of S. America Venezuala). Each time, the new boss was not any better than the old boss. The difference with the Commie tyrannies is that it would take extra long to turn the ship around with those types in perpetual-revolution mode, and with more purges going on than at an all-you-can-eat buffet on supermodel 1/2-price night.
Has there been any other time in history when the people have thrown off the yoke of their oppressors and turned the government into something much better, other than the founding of America? You could go back to the time of the Romans and even the Greeks and only then find something close in awesomeness. The closest things were probably the Glorious Revolution in England and other events in the land of the forefathers of our founders. Interestingly enough, that Glorious Revolution was exactly 1 century early than the signing of the US Constitution depicted above (couldn't find a damn file photo anywhere on the web!). Though it seems like completely ancient history now, the signing of the US Constitution is 2 1/2 times as far back for us, as the Glorious Revolution was for those signers!
This most amazing occurence of our country's founders coming out of a war against their oppressors (kid stuff compared to the US Police State and Feral Gov't oppression today) had the wisdom and diligence to create that great document that guided the Republic and limited the size of the Feral Beast of a government for near 150 years, with a few interruptions, cough, Lincoln, cough, cough. Nowadays, kids at school don't even learn much about this once-in-history occurence, but when I did, I don't think I appreciated how amazing a job it was. Are there any poeple like Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Madison and the rest even around today? I think that the reason that these people were able to create the free society of our early American Republic is that they had been heirs to the Englishmen who had built up the ideas (taken from ancient-Greek ideas too) of liberty and rule-of-law, but also, had been living some of the freest, least-interfered-with lives ever seen before as colonists in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Just to end up on a somewhat sour note to fit in with last post afterall, is this transformation from the (albeit light, relative to now) yoke of oppression to a small-government republic something that people could even understand today? I don't mean just the cntrl-left, the big-gov Democrats and Republicans and the Socialists/Neo-Commies among us. Even the alt-right and modern conservatives keep dissing the Constitutionalists with the "muh Constitution" and "Libertard" crap. Perhaps there are not many left in the world who deserve to know freedom.
Just look at the men in the picture above. Could you imagine anyone but good, honest Englishmen doing anything like that? How about some of the relocated Somalians, the DACA kids from El Salvador, even the bright Chinese people who've taken over the computer science department? Why are you laughing?!! This post is supposed to end sadly... please stop.
More trivial matters are in store for the next post, before Peak Stupidity is placed on suicide watch by our concerned hosting folks. [Actually, they don't care - Editor]
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Intellectual vs. Intellectual
Posted On: Friday - January 12th 2018 10:26AM MST
In Topics: Commies General Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity History ctrl-left Socialism/Communism
The Peak Stupidity blog has promised at the end of the very last post to develop a Grand Unified Theory of Evil, perhaps coupled with a Grand Unified Theory of Stupidity. However, this will require additional research by the staff and possibly a large grant provided by
Peak Stupidity has expounded before on the continual, possibly centennially-occuring epidemics of Communism or other totalitarian ideas. It's seems the cycle of seeing stupidity writ large throughout a society in grand experiments, then 3 - 7 decades or so of struggle by a miserable population to end it, followed by a few more generations who don't want to read or learn a thing about it, is destined to continue.
Right now, most of the worst political ideas come from the intellectuals, who should supposedly know a good idea from a bad one. Through history though, it seems to go that that the intellectuals are the ones who promote the ideas of Communism and Socialism, in front of a sometimes willing and oftentimes unwilling population. Yet, early on in these experiments with new political systems (well new implementations, as they weren't done right the first time, apparently) result in the intellectuals being the first to be rounded up and buried alive, or mercifully, shot in the head first and then pushed into a ditch.
Now, in America, I won't say all of the University professors are of the cntrl-left, totalitarian bent. There are those in engineering, computer software, and the sciences that really don't want any part of the stupidity. I am sure most of them keep that to themselves, however. They just want to be left alone to do their usually interesting work. That requires going along with lots of the intellectual stupidity. It takes a wise man to understand that, though you may not be interested in politics, politics may be interested in you. I will give even (MOST!) of the Climatologists a break. As written before (see last paragraph), it's the "journalists" who can't understand any science who blow up reports of work-in-progress into alarmist garbage for readership.
That was indeed off the subject a bit, but the intellectuals are almost all of the cntrl-left bent in all other schools of the universities, in the arts, in the media (well, intellectual is all relative, I guess), and in government. Since they purport to be society's elites, why do they end up in such bad shape when their own stupid ideas come to fruition? Let's look back at some bad occurences of the breakout of commie and other totalitarian stupidity.
The Bolsheviks who killed many to turn Russia into a Communist society back 100 years ago last year were the supposed intellectuals. I guess most of them came out good for a while, but it was only until the power struggles (think Lenin vs Trotsky) started. Later on, as their dream had been fulfilled for a decade or more and Stalin took over, he had had enough of the original Bolsheviks and purged lots of them.
In China, the butcher/chairman Mao was not really a big intellectual himself - but don't tell him that! The country may have been an exception as the poor peasants were the ones who gave Mao power and victory over the elite and those following the Nationalist Chiang Kai-Shek. Red China went through much turmoil under this man, and the first big one was the "Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom" campaign. Was this a Mao idea of 5-, or at least 1-D chess ... would you believe Chinese Checkers? He encouraged the intellectuals to speak out with their great ideas to help the then-new Communist great society. That gave him lots of names of people to send to the prison camps. (Trump is playing checkers compared to that man.)
I don't think anyone had heard of the word "communism" back in the 1790's, as Karl Marx was safely incubating in Hell, but the French Revolution is an another example illustrating one possible answer to the question of why the intellectuals don't come out too well under totalitariansim. People are fed up with the oppression of the current political system, and things get out of hand, violently. At these times, with the French Revolution being an example, a new faction, with the most power takes over and it becomes "meet the new boss, same as the old boss." See, Socialism/Communism is a complete failure as an economic system due to simple things that most people have learned during the kindergarten years. When times get tough econmically, as they will, then the struggle begins, as the top Commies want to live a decent life, not the life of their simple peasant followers. There can only be so many people at the top, in the elite, so lots of those intellectuals have got to go, good ideas notwithstanding. It's pretty easy really, as The Party line can be changed daily, meaning these formerly with-it intellectuals may tomorrow be quoting ideas blasphemous to the doctrine. You can never run out of ditches, right?
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President Trump seems to have been Neoconned into worthlessness
Posted On: Thursday - January 11th 2018 8:41AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Immigration Stupidity Trump Pundits
(Picture directly from VDare.com)
It's not the idea of the Peak Stupidity blog to delve into wonkishness, meaning the details of the all the deals being made by the our betters in "our" all-knowing, all-powerful Feral Government. It's not that the details aren't important, just that Peak Stupidity does not completely have the reigns of power in the BIG PUNDIT world as of yet, in order to do a damn thing about anything that goes on in the Washington, F.S. An example of our opinion on this was in our Christmas time post on the income tax changes that, even if one gets into the details, turn into a big ball of nothing.
Therefore, excuse us if we have not been following the details of the latest
As mentioned in that last of those 5 links regarding Miss Coulter's writing, she writes with the idea the policies that can start to end the immigration stupidity in our country are just not being done due to stupidity of the people in power, say, President Trump. In other words, if they would just listen and GET IT, they would do what Americans want done. As I stated in that last post, that's not the case. To add to what I wrote then, Trump in particular is not stupid and is obviously aware of what needs to be done. Why has he become suddenly stupid and a bad negotiator?
Has President Trump been neoconned already? Some of my ideas about how this happens were laid out here back when Trump totally reneged on his campaign promise to rein in the warfare state, as the Syria bombing started and he started mouthing off about N. Korea. That was very close to the beginning of his term as President, only 3 months in, and all of that stuff is completely under the control of the President in the Commander-in-Chief role. As I wrote, the great thing about this guy as a candidate was that he was already rich, forestalling bribery by the Deep State, already famous and well-known as a New Yorker, forestalling blackmail. The last options is threats to him and his family. Who knows? I didn't see the video of this (according to Miss Coulter), but if it went down per her writing quoted below, than maybe he is under some intense pressure:
In order to prove he doesn’t have dementia, as alleged in a recent book, President Trump called a meeting with congressional leaders on Tuesday—and requested that it be televised.Yeah, that's depressing to read, and the rest of Miss Coulter's column even more so, when she gets to the details of this impending sell-out.
Ivanka: Show them at your best, Daddy!
He then proceeded to completely sell out the base and actually added to his problems by appearing senile.
In a half-dozen exchanges—which, again, he wanted televised—Trump responded to remarks as if he had no clue what the person was saying. One senator would talk—he’d agree. Someone else would say the exact opposite—he’d agree with that, too.
It was really nice to have a guy on our side to at least rally around and not spend the day scolding real Americans and doing anything she can to screw us over in every realm of life. However, it could never have been just the one man Trump, alone, to ride up and solve our big problems. We're on our own. Get that in your mind now.
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More on the Neocons from Mark Green
Posted On: Wednesday - January 10th 2018 11:38AM MST
In Topics: The Neocons Deep State
This is more on the unz article by writer Phil Giraldi, as discussed here in a post yesterday about the huge Neocon influence on American foreign policy.
A commenter named Mark Green lays this out just as good as the author, so I'll paste the whole thing, including only one small disagreement from Peak Stupidity. (The big blockquote and italics are to show this is not Peak Stupidity writing.)
Neocon power in Big Government is directly connected to neocon media access and neocon media visibility. This is why ‘experts’ such as Boot, Kristol, Weinstein, Cohen, Stephens, Glasser, Podhoretz, Dubowitz, etc., are not only never stepping down from their appointed roles as high media priests–they’re actually failing their way into positions of tenure and (undue) respectability.Peak Stupidity back now. That's one hell of a good comment by just a lowly
Under any other circumstance, their bulletproof status would defy logic. But because of Israel’s unique place in American life, this makes perfect–though astonishing–sense. This above list of scoundrels may resemble the guest list of a Jewish wedding, but this ongoing affair will produce no honeymoon. These operatives function as soft double agents. Their devious mission is to justify US war(s) of aggression that benefit Israel.
Being a successful neocon doesn’t require being right. Not at all. It’s all about sending the right message. Over and over. Evidence be damned. The neocon mission is not about journalism. It’s about advancing the cause: Mideast disruption and a secure Jewish state.
More importantly, Washington’s impenetrable array of Zio-centric PACs, money-handlers, bundlers, fund-raisers, and billionaires want these crypto-Israeli pundits right where they are–on TV or in the your local newspaper–telling Americans how to feel and what to think. And Big Media–which happens to be in bed with these same powerful forces–needs these Zions in place to not only justify the latest Mideast confrontation, but even ones being planned. It’s one big happy effort at group-think, mass deception, and military conquest. Unfortunately, it’s not being presented that way.
So what lies ahead?
More subversion and more conflict. This explains why Pres. Trump has reversed course. He’s caved. Once elected, Trump decided to would be suicide to try to frustrate the Israeli Lobby. So he cucked his Presidency and dumped several major campaign pledges.
The first to go was his pledge to normalize US-Russian relations (‘make peace’ with Russia) and after that 2) avoid unnecessary wars abroad. That’s was a huge reversal. But Trump did it and few pundits have scolded him for it. The fix is in.
Candidate Trump also stated: “I don’t want your [Jewish] money” to an auditorium full of wealthy Jews. Well, that’s changed too. Pres. Trump is now surrounded by wealthy and powerful Israeli-firsters now, including mega-billionaire, Sheldon Adelson, who ended up feeding the Trump campaign untold millions. Sadly, Trump has totally rolled over for the Israelis.
So Trump (the President) now sees things differently. Very differently. When it comes to the Middle East, Trump has been Hillary-ized. This means there’s no light between what Israel desires and what Washington is willing to deliver. The hyper-wealthy, super cohesive, extraordinarily well-positioned and diabolically cleaver Israeli lobby has Trump over a barrel. Shocking, yes. But true.
So watch Israel’s roughshod expansion continue, along with the typically meek and accommodating responses from Washington.
Regarding Israel, Washington will foot their war bill, supply the arms, lend diplomatic cover and even wage war on their behalf. No country in the world receives this kind of treatment. And no country in the world deserves it.
What’s worse, our ‘independent’ MSM will be there to sanitize Washington’s pro-Israel shenanigans and basically cheer the whole bloody process on. This is where the Zio-punditry of Kristol, Cohen, Stephens, Dubowitz, and Co. come in. They soothe the nervous nellies as they gently justify the death and destruction that come with these military strikes. Media tactics include:
Don’t count enemy war dead. Don’t count civilian war dead. Don’t count displaced refugees. Don’t connect Europe’s immigration crisis to Zio-Washington’s destruction of Iraq, Libya and Syria.
At the same time: Always praise Israeli ‘restraint’. Always refer to Israel as a ‘democracy’. Sneer and jeer the ‘terrorist’ Republic of Iran. Treat every Mideast warlord or rebellion as if it threatens the sanctity of Disneyland or even the next Superbowl. Oh my!
It’s a slick, highly-coordinated, and very manipulative affair. But the magic is working. Americans are being fooled.
Ironically, US security would be improved if we simply minded our own business and did nothing in the Middle East besides pursue normal and peaceful trade policies. But that’s not to be.
The reason for this phenomena is that Washington’s major PACs, syndicates, heavy hitters, influence peddlers, oligarchs, and Big Money handlers (and who also have their clutches on our corrupt MSM) want more Mideast disruption.
Why?
Israeli ‘security’. Israeli ‘survival’.
Considering Israel’s extraordinary military power, this might seem silly. But this is what the entrenched Israeli lobby desires.
And both Parties are listening.
To make matters worse, how one ‘thinks’ and ‘talks’ about Israel has unacknowledged limitations and restrictions in Big Washington as well as Big Media.
Diversity of opinion stops at Israel’s doorstep. Like it or not, Zionist Israel is the Third Rail of American discourse. Watch what you say. Even the typically rancorous disputes between Democrats and Republicans gets warm and fuzzy when Israel’s ‘special place’ in American life is raised. America’s ‘special relationship’ with you-know-who is the quintessential red line that no establishment figure will cross. And those who do cross that line tend to fade rapidly into oblivion. This phenomena has not gone unnoticed.
So America is stuck with pro-Israel speech codes and a militantly pro-Zionist foreign policy that has caused immense cost, dislocation, suffering and destruction. It’s been designed that way. And ‘outsider’ Trump is stuck with it. Few dare examine it.
Here’s the short list of Israel’s primary Enemies. Significantly, these are the countries that also get the worst press in American media:
The (anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian) Republic of Iran.
Syria, which still claims land (Golan Heights) stolen by Israel in 1967.
Lebanon (where Hezbollah roams)
Palestine (will they never give up?)
Russia (allied with Iran and Assad’s Syria)
N. Korea is even a player here. Iran and N. Korea have allegedly shared nuclear technology. This infuriates nuclear Israel.
So the Israel angle in this picture is huge. Overwhelmingly so. This is where the oligarchs, media lords, and corrupt journalists come together.
Thus, Israel’s tenured Hasbara brigade in US media will remain firmly in place.
I think, first of all, that the neocons don’t mind at all the current Euro-invasion being connected with the wars caused by America in the Middle East/N. Africa. I think the people who want this invasion, the evil Commie Merkel ( see also here, and here) and the Brussels EU Globalists, like to use that as an excuse. They would be happy to import people from non-invaded countries, and the refugees from the countries with the turmoil and destruction should be headed to places nearby. That’s how it’s supposed to work – near enough to go home eventually. (I know, that’s not those “refugees’” plan, of course.)
I need to write some post soon that will be an overriding connection of the Globalists, Commies, and Neocons, to sort all these bastards out. It will be some kind of Grand Unified Theory of Evil, maybe a bit easier than developing a similar theory in Physics, but hey, they told me when I started blogging that there would be no math, and I'm holding em to it.
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Movie Review - "Fight Club" still sucks
Posted On: Wednesday - January 10th 2018 11:07AM MST
In Topics: Humor Movies
I don't remember if I saw this movie at the theater back when it came out, but I think it was later on DVD. I didn't get it at the time, and now, after seeing it again recently, it still sucks. Perhaps it would have been better to be in the theater with someone else to explain what the point of all that stupid shit was. I remember a Jerry Seinfeld monologue about this. For me, viewing this movie would be kinda like:
"Hey, why did Brad Pitt move into that house? Where did he come from? Wouldn't the owner kick him out?" "How is the narrator guy gonna get stitched up? They never went to the hospital." He seems all better ... " "Shhhhhh!" "Why would Brad Pitt go out with a skank like that? It's the narrator's skank .. why didn't he go pick up that girl? What? Tyler Durden is Brad Pitt?" "No, idiot, Tyler Durden is the narrator!" "Whaattt!? "SHHHHHH!". "How can he beat up on himself? What is the point of ..." "SHHHHH, assholes!" "Hey, screw you, I paid my $8, you come over here and shhhhh me, bitch!"
Actually, that would not be me - that was my alter-ego, Peak Stupidity Tyler, who is no longer welcome at any of the Royal Cinema venues, due to the fighting and bombs and shit ...
Oh, did I spoil it for you? Oops. First rule of fight club: YOU! DO! NOT! TALK! ABOUT! HOW! BAD! THE! MOVIE! SUCKS! (lucky for me, I'm not a member.)
Yeah, about the Rules of Fight Club again:
1) You do not talk about how bad the movie sucks.
2) You do not talk about how bad the movie sucks, even the 2nd time.
3) When someone runs out of popcorn, or has to pee, Fight Club is over.
4) You do not pay more than 25 cents for a cheap China-ripped DVD.
5) If this is your 1st night at the theater where Fight Club is playing, you go next door to see Cool Hand Luke or Smokey and the Bandit for a dollar fifty.
6) "Teens", please, no brawling in the theater.
PS I'll admit that the anti-consumerism and anti-Matriarchal-society theme in the movie does make good points and is supported by the Peak Stupidity blog. All the messed-up mental stuff should have been just left in the book. They change these movies all the time to where they don't resemble the book. Why not "Fight Club II - Return of the Sanity", in which Tyler Durden turns out to be real after all, blows up the Hollywood studios, hacks all of the Lyin' Press with Peak Stupidity posts, and puts all Fight Club members in the cabs of track-hoes, dozers, front-end-loaders, and concrete trucks to BUILD THE WALL?
Really, the part that really suspended my belief, as us "film people" say, was the part where Brad Pitt has a relationship with that skank. If I were Tyler Durden, I wouldn't touch her with the narrators' dick. It's not that she might be a veneral disease carrier... oh no, it's more like she would be a venereal disease ORIGINATOR. Besides, what would Mrs. Pitt, his Mom, have to say when he brought her home?
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Philip Giraldi on the Necons, President Trump, and US foreign policy
Posted On: Tuesday - January 9th 2018 9:38AM MST
In Topics: Trump US Feral Government The Neocons
A really gutsy writer, Mr. Philip Giraldi of the modern press on unz.com, wrote this recent article, Surrounded by Neocons. It's not easy to admit or especially publish some of the truth about the major influence of Israel and the "American" Neocons on almost all of the our foreign policy.
The first 2/3 of Giraldi's article is relates the Lyin' Press's role in the continuation of the "invade-the-world" part of Mr. Steve Sailer's term "invade-the-world/invite-the-world" to describe the thoroughly idiotic-appearing policies that have been followed at the top levels of US government for the last 3 - 5 decades. The article describes why the TV press and the major newspapers seen to be on the same page with almost no real disagreement on foreign policy, citizens, taxpayers, and foreigners in the wrong countries be damned.
This article should be read in it's entirety, but out of the first 2/3 evisceration of the Lyin' Press, including 2 "Newspapers of Record", TV, some Neocon think-tanks, etc. Giraldi discusses a Politico interview OF 2 neocons BY a neocon.
An interesting recent podcast interview by Politico‘s Chief International Affairs correspondent Susan Glasser with leading neoconservatives Eliot Cohen and Max Boot, is typical of how the media selectively shapes a narrative to suit its own biases. Glasser, Cohen and Boot are all part of the establishment foreign policy consensus in the U.S. and therefore both hate and fail to understand the Trump phenomenon. Both Cohen and Booth were vociferous founding members of the #NeverTrump foreign policy resistance movement.
Boot describes the new regime’s foreign policy as “kowtow[ing] to dictators and undermin[ing] American support for freedom and democracy around the world,” typical neocon leitmotifs. Glasser appears to be in love with her interviewees and hurls softball after softball. She describes Boot as “fantastic” and Cohen receives the epithet “The Great.” The interview itself is remarkably devoid of any serious discussion of foreign policy and is essentially a sustained assault on Trump while also implicitly supporting hardline national security positions. Cohen fulminates about “a very serious Russian attack on the core of our political system. I mean, I don’t know how you get more reckless and dangerous than that,” while Boot asks what “has to be done” about Iran.
Pompous ass Cohen, who interjected in the interview that “and you know, Max and I are both intellectuals,” notably very publicly refused to have any part in a Trump foreign policy team during the campaign but later when The Donald was actually elected suggested that the new regime might approach him with humility to offer a senior position and he just might condescend to join them. They did not do so, and he wrote an angry commentary on their refusal.
The last 1/3 of this article describes, in Phil Giraldi's opinion, how Trump is not only beholden to the Neocon strategy of Israel-over-all, but even criticized by the Neocon formerly "Never-Trumpers" for not including them all as his advisors. He's broken campaign promises by implementing lots of the Neocon agenda, but still:
Hating Trump is one thing, but I would bet that if the question of a hardline policy vis-à-vis Russia or the Jerusalem Embassy move had come up Cohen and Boot would have expressed delight. The irony is that Trump is in fact pursuing a basically neocon foreign policy which the two men would normally support, but they appear to be making room for Trump haters in the policy formulation process to push the national security consensus even farther to the right. Indeed, in another article by Boot at Foreign Policy he writes “I applaud Trump’s decisions to provide Ukraine with arms to defend itself from Russian aggression, to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, to send additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, and to accelerate former President Barack Obama’s strategy for fighting the Islamic State.” Cohen meanwhile applauds the embassy move, though he warns that Trump’s success in so doing might embolden him to do something reckless over North Korea.It sounds like their particular Overton Window must be still pushed towards more war. I do have a question about whose damn idea is to still keep our military all over, and engaged with the Orient, as I don't think the neocons have any interest in that. It's a subject for another post - See, we're never gonna run out of material!
Lastly, the writer adds information about recent efforts to prepare for nuclear war, like a deja vu to me:
It must be reassuring for many Americans to know that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is preparing itself to deal with the aftermath of a nuclear attack on the United States and it will be sharing information on the appropriate preparations with the American people. There will be a public session on how to prepare for a nuclear explosion on January 16th.Man, America spent FOUR DECADES containing the Communist menace (though we dropped the ball on the domestic front.) It took Ronald Reagan, the old, non-Commie Pope, leaders in Poland and West Germany, and millions of American soldiers, airmen, sailors and engineers to shut down the Euro-version (at least) of the Red Menace, and damned if we want to start more problems and have our kids practice ducking under their desks again (spoiler alert - plastic desks made of cheap China-made Crap - no, we cannot win it that way.)
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The modern grade school as medium-security correctional facility
Posted On: Monday - January 8th 2018 7:16PM MST
In Topics: US Police State Curmudgeonry Educational Stupidity
Since school is back in session, I will write a little on something I meant to at the beginning of the school year. Listen, I have paid lots of taxes to these people in this district for quite some time, so, anyone reading this on the taxpayers'
Things have changed a lot over my lifetime in America, as it drifted toward and then accelerated with the hammer down, to it's current police-state form. Sending kids to school in the morning really hammers the point home, as the difference between my time in the grade school and the kids' now is stark. I have heard the jokes over the years of school being like a prison, but that was just from the kids that hated it because they didn't do well.. or so it seemed then.
The security apparatus is part of it, with the full-time cop even at the elementary school (yes, in a diversified school, that is almost a must - glad I didn't get to partake myself). Teachers have plastic badges, you need a visit and piece of paper just to walk down the damn hall, if your kid forgot something, and the main door must be unlocked from the office after you buzz. It that a medium-security thing, or max, come to think of it? Why would they need that? After all aren't all the little ones innocent at Shawshank Elementary?
"You're gonna fit right in. Everyone in here is innocent, you know that? Heywood, what you in here for?". "Didn't do it, Red. Councilor fucked me."
As much as disdain as I have for the Schools of Education at the Universities, propped up completely by state laws requiring a worthless certificate of a Masters in Education to teach the little ones, it's mostly not the teachers at fault. The state government gets involved, as MANDATED by the Feral Gov't in Washington, FS (to show they are DOING SOMETHING), and that make these teachers' working lives miserable, at least compared to 20-40 years back. (In fact, one teacher told me that all the worst stuff came down in the last dozen years.)
In kindergarten, for crying out loud, the teachers were worried about the kids being ready for some damn mandated tests. The curriculum ... hey wait right there ... it's freakin' kindergarten and you need a curriculum? Yeah, anyway, the nearly 7-hour day was broken up into periods of 15 minutes. Whatever happened to just enjoying the little ones, teaching them some letters here and there, and having the 1/2 hour nap time. That's all I can remember, along with even the color of my nap rug. Wouldn't the simple, short, peaceful day be better for everyone than the frantic following of THE CURRICULUM? So, yeah, no time for nap time at all now in this busy schedule. and we all know recess is too short.
Our kid in the elementary school could learn a whole lot more on a trip with us for a week than the time at school, nice conscientious teacher notwithstanding. Yet, the attendance policy mentions "THE LAW" and child "protective" services if one doesn't meet their requirements. It's a shame to have to teach a kid at that age why we may have to lie to the school just to keep our plans. Hey, we've paid our money over the years - it's not their business whether we are going to partake of their paid-for services or not each day.
A final aspect of the grade school that makes it prison-like is the silly 3-letter abbreviation for the room/treatment the one or two bad kids go to/get. I can't even remember the acronym, but it's something out of 1984 or the Dept. of Motherland Security, one. Just say "we're gonna put you in the other room to chill out", or "go home".
A haven't even written about high school yet, but that could be another post, if it doesn't depress me too much.
It's not just that the kids have to endure this, but the many procedures and the bureaucracy are teaching the kids to behave like prisoners. That's the real problem, and I've only seen worse than that at the TSA areas in airports (except it's all ages getting prepped for the FEMA camps there).
What's the way out? One word: Homeschooling. Yes, that is the biggest way any family can stick it to the globalist elites. I am fairly surprised that this growing effort has not been clamped down on already. It may take more sacrifice than, say, cutting the TV cable, but to have millions of young adults taught to live as free people vs. prisoners is priceless for America.
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Are snowfalls now a thing of the past?
Posted On: Saturday - January 6th 2018 7:58PM MST
In Topics: Music Global Climate Stupidity
Bottom line top, NO.
Per Climate Depot:
Former Vice President Al Gore has weighed in on the record cold and snow in the U.S. “It’s bitter cold in parts of the US, but climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann explains that’s exactly what we should expect from the climate crisis,” Gore wrote on January 4 on Twitter. [Peak Stupidity's boldface]See, there's that after the fact explaining going on again. Man, why didn't I see that coming before I made my tropical vacation plans out of
These brilliant climatologists must have run that model long ago, since they expected this to happen. It's too bad this peer-reviewed literature didn't make it into that USA Today I stepped on leaving my hotel room last week.
Meteorologists, as mentioned here before, have to be somewhat correct, at least for 24 or 36 hours ahead, though any forecasts they make up past 4 days is complete rectal extraction. Still, there are screen shots now, and we can capture the bogus forecasts for the world to see.
Meteorologist Joe Bastardi on January 4, 2018: “This is flat out insanity and deception now. To tell the public that events that have occurred countless times before with no climate change attribution, is now just that, is not science, its witchcraft. NO PROOF AT ALL. Its climate ambulance chasing, nothing more.”I've said it before here on the Peak Stupidity blog, and I'll have to say it again, weather is not climate, and I don't pick every cold snap as a reason to blog about the stupidity involved in the whole Global Climate DisruptionTM hoax. It's just that the hypocrisy and lies of the people pushing this agenda have become so blatant lately.
Bastardi* added: “This has happened countless times before and it wasn’t global warming then and is not now. Solid use of past patterns predicted major early cold from OCTOBER! I have tweeted that dozens of times showing the analog years I used, No co2 then.”
Climatologist Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. also weighed in, explaining: “For those who claim USA/Canada nor’easter is stronger because of ‘global warming’, they apparently do not realize that it’s so strong because of especially strong horizontal temperature gradient in ["the"]troposphere. It ‘bombed’ because of [sic, "un"] usually cold air!” [I guess climatologists are not any better at checking their tweets than their counterparts, the cosmetologists.]
Well, yeah, if you take him literally, he's kinda right, right? I mean, snowfalls are a thing of the past for him. He's out on the coast of California... at sea level.
The Daily Caller quotes some scientists in the field quoting others to where I couldn't follow who's who, but it gets to Dr. Cliff Mass of the U. of Washington, who in addition to describing more actual climatology theory, relates this about the politics:
“And on a personal note, it is very disappointing that members of my profession are making such obviously bogus claims,” Mass said. “It hurts the science, it hurts the credibility of climate scientists, and weakens our ability to be taken seriously by society.” …I guess it's pretty obvious by now how seriously Peak Stupidity takes most of these people.
Well, the weather outside is frightful,
and the fire is so delightful.
I'd like for Al Gore to eat crow.
So, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
* He sounds like a reasonable guy, but what kind of name is that? Bastardi? Really?
** I didn't know that was even possible, till this guy.
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Federale of VDare - more on putting the scare on the illegal aliens.
Posted On: Friday - January 5th 2018 7:03PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity
The man called "Federale", who writes for VDare.com, applauded here, is happy about a certain detail out of the Trump administration involving the upcoming every-decade census (actually specified in the US Constitution). No, it's not like anyone at VDare, who are the most in the know about the all aspects of immigration, are happy with President Trump in general on the issue. Neither is Peak Stupidity satisfied in this regard. All of us can appreciate these small steps, though I am more pessimistic than Federale, as I'll explain.
This article, "Sessions Justice Department Weaponizing The Census Against Illegals" discusses the idea of scaring illegals to stay away from the 2010 census. There is a good point which the Peak Stupidity blog discussed almost a year ago, that illegal aliens may do damage to our political system by voting, but also, the counting of them in the census gives additional Electoral Votes to states like California, causing that much more damage. Federale's blog post addresses this.
In the good news department, recent demands by the Department of Justice could be a game-changer in dealing with the rotten boroughs problem that over represents Congressional districts with large illegal alien populations.Federale cites the short excerpt below:
The Department of Justice has requested the Census Bureau include a citizenship question on the 2020 census form that experts claim could sabotage the results.This is from a Newsweek (Still around! Who knew?) article unbiasedly titled: "Trump Justice Department Request For Citizenship Question Could Sabotage 2020 Census, Experts [sic] Say" by Maria Perez. If you're not a regular reader, I'll repeat PEAK STUPIDITY DOES! NOT! LINK! TO! IDIOTS! [My policy; the
The DOJ letter dated December 12 said that including a question on citizenship on the census would benefit the department and allow it to better enforce the Voting Rights Act, ProPublica first reported.
Yeah! You'd have gotten exactly the opposite from any Democrat or standard Republican administration, with the Hildabeast having fortunately not have been the extreme example. I guess I could just emphasize this nightly, but we dodged a bullet that day, sure enough. It's a nice gesture and this type of working the system for future elections (in this case it's plain old obvious rule-of-law anyway) is old hat for the D's, and in fact, most of what the immigration invasion is about for them.
Federale again:
This could be a game changer. Fear is the mind killer, and demanding that illegal aliens answer as to whether they are citizens will put the fear of immigration enforcement in them, and they will decline to answer the Census. This will have the effect of dropping their numbers in the numerous rotten boroughs in California and other States where illegals boost representation for overwhelmingly Democrat Congressional districts.I hate to be a Debbie (formerly Darrel) Downer, but I truly think plans made for multiple years or decades into the future are pretty much a surrender. The problem is EXI-FREAKING-STENTIAL!. The wall or barrier must be built now, and serious enforcement must start now, meaning large fines on employers and deportation of any arrested person found to be an illegal alien or any who admit it for the record. Right now, these guys aren't living in the shadows. That brings up a slight drawback to Federale's plan though. Why not let 'em form La Raza rallies in broad daylight, as they do, and arrest the whole lot.
However, just one question is insufficient. The Census should include several questions about alienage and require specific information in response to those questions, including alien registration number, immigration status, name, date of birth, and address. This will also allow the Census to weed out not only illegal aliens, but aliens temporarily resident, such as aliens on L and H non-immigrant employment visas.
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PC trending
Posted On: Wednesday - January 3rd 2018 7:27PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Movies Curmudgeonry
Yeah, the term "trending" itself has been trending for a while too; all sorts of shit is trending. The stupidity of Political Correctness has been trending upwards for a long while, but it was brought home to me how bad it is now when watching a video about tugboats with my kid.
We watched the "film" (yeah, "film", vs. movie, has been trending for a while with the upscale kids) about these tugboats pushing and pulling some big cruise ships and cargo ships into New York harbor. From the background, I didn't have to wait until the end to see that this video was made before September 11 of 2001, but likely in the late 1990's.
That explained why the video was not painful to watch in terms of the PC normally embedded all in it. It is amazing to realize that even only 20 years back, we didn't put up with, or sometimes have to put up with, the gender neutral pronouns (or worse!) - hey, they are tugboat drivers - all men. The guys in the video were white men, including the harbor pilot (he gets on-board the big vessel just for the close in maneuvering in/out of the harbor, as he is a local guy - they are not used as much anymore). What a pleasure it was to watch a normal, not Politically-Corrected video. It's worse, see, with a kid, as you can't explain all the stupid PC stuff when they have it, as he can't understand the point, but I want to point it out anyway.
Dr. Suess (see here, here, and here ) may or may not be rolling around in his grave, with the help of Thing 1 and Thing 2, as videos of his works were made. The Cat in the Hat series has the brother and sister being of different race. It is not explained anywhere how that came about. Are there no easy kid's words that rhyme with "baby daddy"? There's no point to this other than to just piss off the parents in front of their kids, as explanation of the stupidty at that age is not possible.
Just to end on a bright note, there is youtube! Yes, they have already tried some modes of censorship, so I do hope competitors become as ubiquitous. We would have never been able to see all of the "Mighty Machines" series without youtube, though. This is a great one for little boys. Though filmed in Canada, mostly Toronto and Montreal, the episodes were made in the middle 1990's so they are still a pleasure to watch. There are a fair share of women machines - the machines do the talking, see, so they had to get that in. What's pretty amusing, though, is the gruff French-Canadian voice of a few of the machines. My kid didn't know what to think, so I told him that's a French accent. It does not do the French-Canadian folks justice though, so I'm surprised the show is still on
It's great that we can go back no further than the 1990's, when lots of video was being made, to watch un-PC stuff and just enjoy the show.
"Mighty machines
Big and mighty machines
working for you doing mighty things,
they're mighty machines"
Lifting and pulling and flying so high,
building a building up to the sky.
You can watch 'em all day,
and then you'll know why,
they're mighty machines!"
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Return to Bizarro Germany
Posted On: Wednesday - January 3rd 2018 6:15PM MST
In Topics: Commies Immigration Stupidity History Trump Globalists The Future World Political Stupidity
3 months back or so, Peak Stupidity wrote about about the "Fourth Reich" of the Commie Angela Merkel of what we term Bizarro Germany. Again the "bizarro" is a reference to Superman, I am told (never was into that stuff), in which a world where everything is backwards is described. (Yes, you can learn a lot about nothing from Seinfeld, a "show about nothing". ;-}
Just as in any look at a whole big population, it'd be way off to say that all Germans are a certain way. In addition, the big problem that this post refers to, the intensive immigration invasion is not specific to just Germany either, when speaking of Europe. France and Sweden are in the same boat and have brought the same problems needlessly to their countries, and there are other smaller countries I don't have time to write about.
However, it's just that the Germans, in general, have always been known to have an unhealthy respect for authority. Yeah, the problem is pretty bad here too, as we documented before, and will write more about soon. The Germans are arguably tops in "respect mah authoritah", though I'll admit that none of what I know about it is personal accounts. The winners write the history, it is said. it's easy for people to make fun of the obedience for Hitler, as seen in the movies, from a time-distance of 8 decades, when once a certain point was reached there may have been no way out.
The Peak Stupidity blog described already, with 3 comparisons in that 2nd post of 2010's Germany vs. 1930's Germany that showed the bizarroness of the two time periods. In this post, I'll add one more about the German people.
Is the obedience to authority mostly a genetic trait? It's hard to single all that out. It was thought that these are a "Nationalistic people" and that was their problem in the 3rd Reich, but not today with their Globalism (the 1st of my comparisons in the linked post). So, I guess the nationalism was bred-out, or was just a cultural thing. It's not easy to sort these things out (subject for an upcoming post, BTW). Some say the war took many of the hard-core militant types out of the gene pool, and all that.
It just seem like the blind obedience thing, genetic or cultural or who cares, is still with them. Where is the bizarro, the oppositeness? Well, this respect for the authority of the Commie Frau Merkel means that the Germans (again, just most of them) will follow a Globalist who is deliberately destroying their country, vs. the madman Nationalist of 80 years back, who only inadvertently near-destroyed their country. That's the bizarro part.
As an aside, just like I'd say for another tyrant, Chairman Mao of China, the guy had good intentions for this country. That wouldn't help if you were Jewish, though I will have to add here, that had the Jews become more German, things may have happened differently (I say "may", mind you, as I have no idea what was in Adolph Hitler's heart.) Hitler's stupidity, just like that of Mao Zedong, got millions of his countrymen killed, good intentions not withstanding. History buff will argue all of it, but I imagine that the German people would have been fared much better had Hitler just fought one war instead of two - either West or East. Even the war in the west may have been avoided had Hitler not had the grudges, many deservedly, from WWI, and the allies let them take some of the German-populated areas that they wanted. My point is not to become a history buff here, but just to say that Hitler made mistakes that near-ruined, or temporarily-ruined his country. Merkel seems to be doing all this on purpose. Is she really that stupid, or is she just obituary shopping? (great term is per Nicholas Stix of VDare.
How can these German people keep supporting this nation wrecker, in a worse way, really, than the support for HItler in the 1930's, as they are not under the extreme financial duress as they were back then? It's that overriding respect for authority. "She's the duly elected leader. It's for our own good." Is that the thinking going on? Will it take the rape of one's daughter or the total transformation of one's town before anger and disrespect finally set in? It's going to be too late very soon. You can't say the Germans don't think ahead, as they planned the freakin' blitzkrieg "lightning war", and damn near conquered the world, even with Hitler's stupidity. Why can't they think ahead on a problem like this?
I'll give Americans some credit here. Even though Trump hasn't kept a whole lot of his promises (I mean the ones that he absolutely has authority on), many of us wanted to poke a stick in the eye of the elite globalist establishment. It's really hard to tell if this was truly on the mind of the 1/2 of American voters who put him in office, as look at the opposition. Some just couldn't stand to have that sick Hildabeast anywhere we had to see or hear from it. For me, it was both!
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Babylon - David Gray
Posted On: Tuesday - January 2nd 2018 6:03PM MST
In Topics: Music
Youtube had the original "official video" of this great song, but the video didn't fit the images that have been in my mind from this song from back in 1999. Though it was released in the summer of '99 per wikipedia, it couldn't have been summer when I first heard it, maybe the following fall or winter. It was a sort of gloomy time in a way. Things were not going badly in life, but where I lived was gloomy, and I had just been there a while living like a hermit. Because I was not sure I would stay long, I didn't get a phone connected up, nor the internet, and I was already off TV. It was nice for a while but it got dark early and I just read books and bought some music to listen to.
This song just went great with the mood I was in, and I don't need a video now to spoil the memory. I've never listened to anything else by this Englishman David Gray, but this is worth a listen to every once in a while.
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Toward Sustainable Stupidity
Posted On: Tuesday - January 2nd 2018 3:27PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Treehuggers Environmental Stupidity
... or should that be stupid sustainability? Sustainability is a perfectly good word, when used to describe a system with inputs and outputs to/from a control volume, given some generation and dissipation possibly too, in engineers' terms. It's just that, because the word has been used by the treehuggers and then the ctrl-left in general for so long as a BS word to throw out there along among the stupidity that they often emanate, it has bad connotations. Sustainability is often just stupidity by association, so it's time to straighten things out.
Let's talk about sustainability, shall we? [The bolding of this word is not sustainable. CUT! IT! OUT! - Ed.].
It probably started with pretty good science, maybe in talking about forests (typical with those treehuggers!). Yeah, this amount is being logged, yet tree growth has this time line, so this type of clear-cut logging is unsustainable, yet this other logging here is sustainable, and so forth. It's a pretty simple concept, in fact, though there may be lots of details to be worked out on the input, output, generation, and dissipation of whatever thing it is one wants to preserve, or keep to a minimum.
Take our garbage (please!) as another example. Recyling has become a big thing. Why? Is it not sustainable to keep burying loads of our used stuff in the ground? That depends. As Peak Stupidity wrote about in Were the Indians Slobs? (spoiler alert - that one guy was...), with a small population on lots of land, and especially with stuff that mother earth likes to reclaim as her own, sure it is. We mightn't even have to bury it. We throw out a lot of plastic and other wierd materials now that takes a long time to really go away and we have lots of more people on the same land. Hence there came the idea of recycling what can be.
I don't really have anything against this recycling idea, if we put in in perspective and understand what sustainability really means. More on that will be coming in a bit.
Are we going to run quickly out of areas to bury our stuff? No, take a look at google earth aerial pics sometimes and I doubt you'll find one landfill without making an effort. The cntrl-left enviros really don't care about that part, as most of them just want to feel good about themselves and know they are a BETTER PERSON than you are. Were they to go talk to the city managers who probably know the real problem, they'd know that it's hard to build a smelly landfill close in to the city. You can build them farther out, but that requires more money to continuously truck the trash much further. Is that sustainable? That depends on how much wasteful crap the city does with the rest of the budget, but I would not have any problem with any of the treehuggers who are in favor of charging for trash based on weight (Oh, no! Free markets! Ewwwww!). Sure, though, let's recycle what PAYS to recycle, as in stuff that the city can get enough money back for to cover what it would have cost to truck it to a far-out landfill (Landfills. FAR OUT, MAN!) That's what I call sustainable.
Instead of letting a free market take care of decisions about what to do with our trash, based on a concept called "pricing", we have these treehuggers pushing for decisions based on their emotions. They feel very good seeing these big cans filled with supposed "recyclables" in some citiies, when lots of it gets sent right to the landfill from the transfer station. See, not many treehuggers work at the transfer station to see this, just regular working people work there. Some of the process doesn't pay off at all, as in, it would still be cheaper to gather up the unsuitable-for-reuse trash normally and bring it straight way out of town to a landfill. That means that the taxpayers are on the hook, of course. Is that sustainable? At some point we're gonna' run out of taxpayers. Yeah, there are indeed bigger boondoggles than the recycling process in some progressive cities, and yes, you need to know how to pick your battles.. The point here is to debunk this whole meme of "sustainability, sustainability".
Just as a quick digression, I have learned more about recycling, scrap metal yards, and the like by viewing videos with a little boy, than I ever picked up during my whole life before. We spent quite a bit of time watching the crushing of cars, which have for a long time been the most recycled products around. It's not just the parts getting re-used (even more so now, via the internet sales) out of the junk yards, but the steel is used, and the glass goes back to it's mother earth as the sand it came from. "Sand to sand, dust to dust".
OK, let me get to the point here. You want sustainable? Even with 330,000,000 people in this country, quite a bit over optimal for my tastes, if it were held at that number, and with improvements by engineers, sure the cycle of refuse could be sustainable. However, due SOLELY to immigration, the population is NOT steady at all. Let's say we have gotten really good with this and recycle a full HALF of all household garbage. Whether you are worried there'll be no more room for landfills or not (it's not the case), then we've cut the problem in half. Depending on how good we get on with getting the stuff to truly go back to the earth (rot, or other "mitigation"), and re-use of the land taken by said landfills, it could get to where we would NEVER EVER have a problem - SUSTAINABILITY NOW! Nope, but once we've got TWICE the population, all that mental and physical effort has come to NIL!. It's as if we had the original population but never recycled.
Every single environmental problem caused by man will be that much worse with an increase in population. That is blindingly obvious. Why won't the environmentalists ever talk about immigration or overpopulation anymore? Oh, yeah, that's right.
Lastly, in keeping with the mission statement of the Peak Stupidity blog, just how sustainable is the high and increasing level of stupidity that exists in 21st century America? After putting a minute's thought into this, I would like to resurrect a concept from the scientific world, debunked by some bright European, mostly British physicists. That is the substance phlogiston, theorized to have a negative weight in order to explain the APPARENT lower mass of the products of combustion vs. the un-burnt fuel. This was before the clever scientists found a good way to measure the gaseous products. So, yeah, the existence of this phlogiston was debunked, but could stupidity be seen in the same way?
Stupidity can be seen as a negative for the quality of life and productivity of society. Additions of this
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