HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Posted On: Monday - January 1st 2018 5:28PM MST
In Topics: Humor Holiday from Stupidity
A full new year of stupidity is ahead of us, unless we peak out and get to that sharp decline as modeled by the NACA supercomputers and numerically forecast to occur "ANY TIME NOW" +/- "a bit".
Of course, New Year's resolutions don't always take, and that's what this quick post is about (should be time for more detailed stuff tomorrow). I don't know how long this NY resolution business has been around, as I don't feel like looking it up (resolution # 23 this year is: "Look more stuff up."). I, and the Peak Stupidity blog are not big on resolutions. Like about anything else there is, according to quite a few people on the internet - hey, they're on "The Net", so they must be smart, right? - New Year's resolutions work on the Pareto 80/20 rule.
What is that bullshit, you ask? It's some well-known bullshit, apparently, as I was able to quickly look it up (resolution # 23: CHECK, done and done). It says, very simply, that "80 % of the effects are due to 20 % of the causes." That's kind of general so could indeed apply it to about everything. Peak Stupidity, after spending $14,000 of reader donations on consulting with Resolution Solutions, LLC, will therefore invoke the Pareto principle as applied to NY resolutions. We posit that:
A) 80 % of all NY resolutions are kept for under 20 % of the year.
and conversely,
B) 20 % of all NY resolutions are kept for under 80 % of the year.
After that, it's back to the same-old-same-old for most people. Stupidity is nothing if not persistent.
No, it doesn't really follow the general rule even, but it's something that can fit nicely onto just one powerpoint slide, which is critical in the modern corporate world.
Peak Stupidity's real New Year's resolution,
Thank you very much, readers, for being with us into the year 2018. We'd be glad if you "resolved" to just check in every day or so, as this is no Instapundit or Zerohedge. The goal is to put up about 6 - 8 substantial posts per week (i.e. not counting the quick music video ones).
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More on after-the-fact Explainers, in the finance sector
Posted On: Friday - December 29th 2017 7:59PM MST
In Topics: Music Economics
This was the upcoming post mentioned in the previous one. We're discussing here the practice of deeming oneself to be an expert in some field by explaining exactly why certain events have happened, when one just didn't get around to it, or something, beforehand.
The Finance "industry", #1 of the sectors of the worse-than-useless F.I.R.E. economy (mostly just for the acronym's sake), is a field full of big, big EXPLAINERS. There are explainers out the ying/yang, as most of us have experienced, I'm sure.
"The big drop in the DOW today was due to Mr. Merkel's speech yesterday about the European Union."
"Bonds yields have gone up this week due to investors being rattled over the goings on in the Middle East."
"Gold attained a three month high due to Mr. Yellen having attained menopause yesterday, with the S&P 500 pausing to take a breather due to consolidation in the rap-music sector (somebody put a cap in somebody's ass, or something)."
"The long decline of the NASDAQ since month-end was obvious at month beginning, as profit taking continues (yeah, knock yourself out, take your profits and get outta here), but we were not able to relate that information due to press deadlines. So, we're telling you now - don't know about tomorrow."
The investment guys always have very good reasons for what happened, ALREADY, but they never have the time to tell us that stuff beforehand. They are busy, busy people, people. Just once I'd like them to say "If Trump says something about North Korea, then stocks will end up higher this afternoon." NO, I mean TO ME, not his buddies at the bar at lunch, and I want a guarantee! NO, not a guarantee that his advice will pan out, but at least that he will lose something on the transaction if his prediction is wrong, along with my stupid ass (stupid for dealing with any of these finance "workers", which is why I don't.)
Yeah, more curmudgeonry here, right ... what kind of people do I like? Well, there's astronauts ... let's see ... Hey, I really like some part of the field of economics. No, it's far from a science, so I won't dignify it with that designation. However, the 1st-semester econ, with the supply/demand curves, price elasticity, price points, tax rates, the Laffer curve, etc. is pretty common-sensical, good stuff. You can work out some numbers this way, and use it to make decisions. I think a few economists could be useful in helping businesses using just those 1st-semester concepts. Econ 102 - no, it's all downhill from there.
The supply/demand idea come in right here, right now, in this very post, as it explains why we have these bullshit artists all trying to get us to invest by explaining why every financial thing just happened. How many simple economists that could consult and help businesses with pricing, tax law, etc. do we need? It's not a lot, and they wouldn't even have to graduate, as again, the last 3 1/2 years is what the psych majors (even MORE useless, if that's possible) call negative learning. Therefore, unless we create a demand for these $150/month newsletter writers, we're gonna have such an oversupply of economists that their wages will less than that in a Chinese McDonalds. The MBA programs are churning out bullshit artists, and someone's gotta hire them, I suppose.
That explains the oversupply in explainers when it comes to finance. You sound great at the closing bell, but don't take a loss no matter what you guessed at the opening bell. It's nice work if you
"This is the office of a busy man, can you hold the line ...
"... in pipes the music you can't understand.
Can you change the station?
Is there a message, he's on with L.A.
Big deal in L.A.
His time is his money, and his money is time.
Can you hold the line?
Do you know who I am?
Do you know who I am?
Do you know who I am?
This is the city of a busy man.
It's New York, New York.
There's thousands of people, and it's dog eat dog.
Can you taste the smog?
You've got to rush here and you've got to rush there.
Don't ask me why.
It's the city of dreams, it's the right kind of place
for a busy man.
1989, from "The Ocean Blue" (self-titled album)
Peak Stupidity featured this great band, The Ocean Blue, from Hershey, Pennsylvania, before, on, you guessed it, Columbus Day.
The band:
David Schelzel, Vocals and Guitars
Steve Lau, Keyboards, Saxophone and Vocals
Bobby Mittan, Bass guitar
Rob Minnig, Drums
Lyrics, David Schelzel
Music, David Schelzel and THE OCEAN BLUE
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I'm gonna need to talk to one of those Explainers.
Posted On: Friday - December 29th 2017 11:48AM MST
In Topics: Humor Global Climate Stupidity
It is not official policy of the Peak Stupidity blog to literally rub people's noses in the dirt - right now the dirt is so hard packed from the cold that it just wouldn't take anyway. The expression is usually taken figuratively though, but it's not even our policy to figuratively rub anyone's noses into the dirt. See it's cold all around right now, and, just as we don't want to read the crap (usually on Drudge) that says Global Climate DisruptionTM is IMMINENT! when our readers are reading our posts half-naked due to a heat wave (send pics in please, for valuable prizes!), we won't reciprocate tats-for-tits, as THATS! NOT! WHOM! WE! ARE! (Whom we are, in fact, is absolute sticklers on grammar, along with of course, a repository for tats/tits pictures.) This juxtaposition of headlines appeared today on Drudge:
It's that last one down, ""Global Warming" [sick] Explainers Race to Justify Cold" that really displays the stupidity of this whole climaphobia (not a sexually-transmitted disease, but possibly worse; you're thinking chlamydia, hell, I have no idea what you're thinking) episode that's been festering for well nigh a couple of decades with no
Seriously, for a second, that one really gets to the heart of them matter. Someone's got to come up with an explanation for everything that goes on, right? Well for all the human stupidity in the world, science is not gonna cut it, and for economic studies/predictions, well, that's an upcoming post. For physical phenomenon, yeah, that's part of science. We need science to explain the physical things that go on in the world so we can create inventions to replicate the ones we like, create ways to eliminate or mitigate the ones that suck, and just know what the hell is going on, for next time. Great stuff.
However, think for a bit on why we need "Explainers" on these short and medium term climate phenomenon when we are supposed to have WORKING MATHE-FREAKIN'-MATICAL MODELS. Well, I might have been the first one to break it to you, but There is no working mathematical model of the world's climate, dammit! (Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.) Listen, I'm not expecting a climate model run in 2010 to tell me what exact days Chicago will set a record low-low or low-high, or when the next rain will fall in Oklahoma. That's local weather. However, a working model should at least be useful to give the trend of temperature over a few-year range of winters in a certain general region of a continent. It should do that for all such regions and it would NEED TO. It would NEED TO come up with data on average cloud cover over each large geographic area, along with precipitation averages over the seasons, snow cover, levels of the largest lakes, ice pack extent at the poles, ALL OF THAT.
Why do I keep saying "NEED TO" and using ALL CAPS? The reason is that these physical "states", if you will, are necessary to know in the future as they are not just outputs but they are a part of any working model of the energy balance (often mis-stated as "heat" balance) of the earth. If the model does not predict these things very well, then, even if it got some things correct, that'd have been luck or fudging, as it needs these future states (fairly accurately in some numerical form) to continue the modeling of the energy balance into the further future. Oh, ALL CAPS is because I got exited, OK!!?
Whew, back to small letters now, this is the kind of thing I've been trying to relate to some bloggers that seem to be pretty up on the political state of things, but can't really understand the state of climate science. As I've written many times already, there's nothing wrong with doing science, in any field, but please don't believe climatology has a working math model of the whole earth, kit-and-kaboodle.
What we seem to have, and who the Drudge headline is alluding to, is people, whether scientists or not, who are great with explaining after the fact what was the reason for that warm spring over here, and that
Well, now that I've gotten all heated, I may venture outside to reap the benefits of all our hard work emitting all of that CO2.... with it's well-expected effect of freezing-ass cold at my locale. With the cold weather (no no no... not climate), I may not run into many Explainers out there, but I'll all ears - I hope, I can't really feel them right now.
"Hey, are you one of those Explainers? Yeah, well I'm one of those Complainers, let's have a nice little chat, Floyd, if you've got a minute, about the weather."
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[UPDATED 12/29 eve.:] Added 7th paragraph to "explain" a bit more relating to the post title.
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Oh, you're one of those "you ever notice?" KIDS.
Posted On: Thursday - December 28th 2017 8:03PM MST
In Topics: Humor
Since I posted Oh, you're one of those "you ever notice?" guys. a week back, I've noticed that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. The little one, 6 years old, asks a lot of questions, as they all do. Today, it was, "Hey, why do they call hot dogs hot dogs, Dad? They're hot, but they don't look like dogs."
No, I didn't have an answer, but, hell, this kid should be in NY City doing stand-up off Broadway ... way, way off Broadway, like in New Jersey, but still ... No, it's not as good as Kenny Bania's Ovalteen routine, but, hey, the kid's only 6. If this kid can out-Bania Kenny Bania at his age, he's goin' places! And he can read tampon packages to boot.
Get it? Hot dogs ... they don't look like dogs ... it's comedy gold, Jerry!
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The Marshall Tucker Band - 24 Hours at a Time
Posted On: Wednesday - December 27th 2017 7:22PM MST
In Topics: Music Southern rock
Peak Stupidity has neglected the Southern Rock - it's been a long time. Here is a great song by a band that may be unknown to many readers, but they were fairly big back in the late '70's. The Marshall Tucker Band had a couple of hits, even, with "Fire on the Mountain" (not the song by The Dead that goes with "Scarlet Begonias") and "Heard it in a Love Song".
I had been trying to say goodbye to a girl, not in actuality, as we'd already been apart, but in my mind. As I sat inside my car in a parking lot in the rain somewhere, I heard this song for the 1st time, on the radio - this was long after Marshall Tucker. Man, I thought that great instrumental ending went on for 5 minutes or more, but I see, here on youtube, that it can't be more than 2 or 3.
I'd have posted this one long ago, but it hadn't been on youtube ...
Original Marshall Tucker Band:
Doug Gray - lead vocals
Toy Caldwell - vocals, lead guitar
Tommy Caldwell - bass guitar
George McCorkle - rhythm guitar
Paul Riddle - drums
Jerry Eubanks - flute (how many rock bands have a floutist, other than these guys and Jethro Tull - w/ Ian Anderson?_
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Why are most politicians immoral psychopaths?
Posted On: Wednesday - December 27th 2017 6:37PM MST
In Topics: Salesmen Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government Deep State
In his latest article, the great Dr. Ron Paul writes about Political Immorality and Personal Immorality. Most of this article is the usual stuff that we've read and heard many times from this great libertarian. It's all correct, but Dr. Paul doesn't really get to his point until the last paragraph on how these politicans political immorality is related to their personalities:
The welfare-warfare state is built on violence and deceit. It is thus inevitable that many of those participating in this immoral system will combine their immoral politics with immoral personal conduct. Hopefully the revelations of sexual misconduct among the welfare-warfare state’s Capitol Hill and media defenders will lead more Americans to question the morality and the wisdom of allowing the federal government to run the world, run the economy, and run our lives.Peak Stupidity does begs to differ on the reasoning here. As a reply to Dr. Paul, our comment is (and I won't "blockquote" it here, as it's our own writing):
He may be right, but there is a good argument for his putting the cart before the horse. Isn’t it just as likely that the big-money/big-biz/big-gov people who donate and “select” these immoral politicians are selecting them FOR these qualities? It’s a lot easier to get the guy to “accomplish” what you need during his time in office if he is easily corruptible.
It may not be so much as these immoral politicians being unfazed by, or creating, immoral policies, such as the welfare/warfare state, versus their being told to make this stuff happen by immoral elites who need immoral, hence, corruptible people up there in Washington, FS. Blackmail, bribery, and combinations thereof can only make things happen if the politicians have done blackmail-worth things and/or are immoral money-grubbing scum. Yeah, they mostly are, from what I’ve seen. They make their constituents feel good about their choice by being really good at smiling and remembering people’s names.
Let me expound on that last sentence with a personal story. The man I'm writing about was not a politician, per se, as he was not in an elected office, but he was in a high profile position that basically made him have to BE a politician, and his nature was one of a politician. This guy had a big gathering with at least a coupla' hundred people that he had definitely seen around but didn't know in particular, me included. I happened to be in a phase of going around barefoot at the time, and the man remarked to me, something along the lines of "Hey, WTF?", but as a politician, it was more lilke "How are you? Nice to see you? Going without shoes, I see.". "Yeah, I'm headed out to California for a while. I think they're all like this." That was the extent of the conversation.
Two years went by, and I was back in the area. This guy and his wife came up to the dock we were on with his power boat and we both said hello, as he was a recognizable guy. I feel ashamed to say now, but I thought that this was pretty cool. "Hey" the politician said, "I thought you were out in California." "Wow", I thought, "This guy knows me." Even cooler, I am more ashamed to say I felt [Hey, quit writing like Yoda! - Ed.] See, that's the gist of it - these guys are good at some things, there's no doubt. They are good at smiling; well, that's not that hard. They are good at facial recognition and remembering just enough to make you think they really care about the people around them. I would say being a salesman is one step on the road to
Please, please, use another browser to watch this if you have IE browser (I am so sorry, on behalf of Bill the geek Gates on this) - it is just plain hilarious!
Where were we, before this brief video digression on personal memorization techniques? Oh, yeah, though good at some parts of personal relationships, the weakness in these people is usually in their morality, their principles. That's not what you need in high levels of government, but that's what we're getting. Even some of the fairly decent people that get into the Feral government seem too weak to resist the peer pressure of Washington, Federal Shithole. In the Peak Stupidity post, a few weeks back, on Judge Roy Moore of Alabama, we listed 4 possible reasons, some that may be combined, for the continual incidences of these politicians going native. Perhaps just their personal weakness in succumbing to peer pressure could be number 5.
How do we prevent this? We can't in a big government situation like America is in now. We're pretty much going to have to start over, some day.
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How the Grinch Stole Back Christmas - by Mr. Joe Long
Posted On: Tuesday - December 26th 2017 6:13PM MST
In Topics: Websites Humor Political Correctness Pundits Poetic Stupidity
... of a site called American Greatness. This Joe Long, from Cayce, S. Carolina, can write this stuff as good as the original Doctor Suess. Yes, OK, it should have been up last week, and yes, it's a total cut and paste job, but this is funny, politically incorrect, good-natured, and hopeful. Mr. Long seems to write about every week or so on the site, and from what I've read so far, he's a great writer.
Tis a tale often told, and every Who knows,
How the Grinch first descended from Mount Crumpet snows
And stole away Christmas (its trappings, at least)
Then had his heart changed, and came back for roast beast.
Not everyone knows what has happened since then;
How the Grinch came to think he must steal it again—
For Grinches are grinchy, and grinch-genes will tell—
And in some ways, he wasn’t adjusting too well.
Though his heart grew three sizes, his brain had not shrunk
And he tired of buying up masses of junk
And dealing with hassles and hustles barbaric
For “holidays” swiftly becoming generic.
The customs traditional, which the Grinch loved
Were watered-down, fluffed-up, or “new and improved.”
Why, at one Christmas feast, by one misguided Who,
The roast beast itself was a glob of tofu!
And the songs which reformed him with simple Who joys
Were increasingly drowned out by “noise, noise, noise, noise.”
And deep in his heart, underneath his green fur,
The Grinch knew that things weren’t right as they were.
His ponderer once more was sore as could be
In the checkout line near the HDTV’s,
When the half-hearted clerk with a faraway gaze
Blandly muttered to him, “Happy Holidays.”
Well, the Grinch’s lips curled in a most Grinchy smile
(More grinchy, perhaps, than he’d been in a while!)
He remembered his heritage, cunning and sly,
He thought, “I was made this way—p’raps this is why!”
Then he fixed his eyes on the unfortunate knave,
And regarded him mildly, and told him, “How brave!”
“Brave?” asked the clerk, “Why, what did I say?”
“My good man, you have wished me a fine Holy Day!
“I thank you, good sir, and return it sincerely;
“For you wished for me, sir, not a merry day merely,
“But a day blessed with favor from our Lord divine—
“I return it; may your Holy Day, too, be fine!”
“No! I just said ‘holiday’,” stammered the clerk,
“For that is the policy here where I work…”
“Delightful!,” the Grinch interjected with glee.
“Such corporate boldness—it overwhelms me!
“A spiritual awakening—that’s what it means!
“Now, sir, sell me some cards with nativity scenes.”
There were no such cards, for he’d sold his last few
But he did have a Santa. The Grinch said, “He’ll do,
“That old Bishop Nicholas, merry and stout.
“He once punched the heretic Arius out!”
And the clerk looked about—and no bosses he saw—
“Merry Christmas!,” he whispered, and shook a grinch paw.
The Grinch strode from the store and out into the street,
“Merry Christmas!” he said to each Who whom he’d meet,
And he said to himself, “Why, this really is nice!
“A good deed which has gained all the thrill of a vice!
“This holiday season need not make me blue;
“For with each ‘Merry Christmas,’ I break a taboo!”
Some heartily answer, returning his greeting;
And others more shyly, ere swiftly retreating—
Some say “Happy Hannukah” back with a grin,
Which the old Grinch returns, and calls that a win/win.
Some never quite notice; too stressed and engrossed.
But some look offended—and these he likes most.
“Now, don’t kid a kidder,” he tells such a one—
“I stole Christmas once, and I know how it’s done.
“But I stole it with style; I stole it with flare.
“You aren’t that clever, or else wouldn’t dare;
“To my exploits, your Christmas theft can’t hold a candle –
“You’re not even a thief—just a wannabe vandal.”
For a Grinch is a Grinch, at the end of the day
(And as he observed, Someone made him that way)
As wise as a serpent (and almost as green)
And not really worried if folks think he’s mean.
He stole Christmas once, but he made his amends—
Now he’ll steal Christmas back, for his more timid friends.
So when you’ve the chance (if, that is, you’ve the guts)
Please join me and the Grinch, driving PC-folks nuts.
Reclaiming the Holy Days, joyous and rightful,
From the purely commercial or pettily spiteful.
Co-conspire in this bold holiday counter-crime—
Committed one “Merry Christmas” at a time.
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Merry Christmas from Peak Stupidity
Posted On: Saturday - December 23rd 2017 3:50PM MST
In Topics: Music Bible/Religion Holiday from Stupidity
I guess we shouldn't have expected gifts from the US Feral Gov't, but then, money isn't all anyway. It's not like Santa Clause can give me anything that I'd want for Christmas. I imagine some readers may say "how about getting him to make your site show music videos in Windows Explorer, for starters?". Between Bill Gates stupidity, Santa outsourcing all of his tech support elves to Bombay ("Hellooo, dees is Sugarplum Maddy... veddy meddy Christmas, and how may I help you today?"), and the fact that he is probably pretty sore about that recent post about him, not to mention the buck shot, I'm not expecting much.
That's OK, as it's not about the presents. It'd be nice to get the old America back, which is what Christmas music reminds us of. Imagine people coming to the door to sing beautiful religious songs, rather than to sell TV service. They did, I was there. OK, the curmudgeonry and snark ENDS! HERE! (till after the holiday).
C H R I S T M A S
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Merry Christmas from
Posted On: Saturday - December 23rd 2017 2:30PM MST
In Topics: Trump Economics US Feral Government Taxes
Kevin Brady presiding. As much as Peak Stupidity is interested in politics in America, I have NOT paid a whole lot of attention to the recently passed plan for a slight revison to the income tax system. I think the whole damn system has been a sick perversion of the American founders' beliefs over the last century, for starters. It's also that there's not anything I can do about whatever the plan turns out to be. I figured I may just barely notice something in the Spring of 2019, if I'm not doing my taxes at the bar, as I did for about 1 decade.
Well, I just got excited about an hour ago, when reading that the standard deduction (money off the top line) for a married couple will DOUBLE in the newly passed plan, starting with taxes calculated in early '19 for the '18
* NO, it turns out it would not. See, they like this kind of thing - nobody looks at the details. I wasn't gonna, right? As a curmudgeon, I just really couldn't believe that something was gonna change for the better, especially something emitted out of the ass-end - legislative branch of the US Feral Government. Guess what, right again. Because, I found it hard to believe I would save money next year, I got on-line to delve into this for only about 10 minutes. That's all it took to see the part about the "Exemptions" (called "exemption deductions", even more confusing, by the House Ways and Means Committee, Kevin Brady presiding) being ELIMINATED. The exemptions are about $4,000 per family member, so the break even point with the doubling of the standard deduction from just over $12,000 to just over $24,000 means that the break-even point is three family members, i.e. one kid. For more kids than 1, you come out behind with this change, all other things being equal for the year. For a family of four, instead of $12,000 standard deduction + 4 X $4,000 exemptions = $28,000 off of the topline, it'll be $24,000 off of the top line meaning a tax increase of about $1,000 for those with a reasonable income, putting them into the 25% bracket.
Let me explain the top-line/bottom-line thing now along with the concept of the marginal rates, which will be first though. Each higher tax rate is not applied on the whole amount of income even AFTER deductions. The lowest rate (going up from 10% to 12%, heh, THAT CAN'T BE GOOD!) is applied to money up to some amount, then the next rate, 15%, is applied after that up to a limit, at which the 25% rate starts. Get it? This is important because, as with the $4,000 exemption (top-line item) turning into ~ $1,000 in taxes, any additional money you made or any reduction of your "earned income" (IRS words there) is at whatever your highest rate is. That is right now 25 % for most people/families who are middle-middle class, making over $75,000 yearly.
OK, two paragraphs, my apologies... anyway, the top-line "deduction/exemption" amounts can be multiplied by that 25% ( only 15% if you're working/lower-class (in income, I'm not trying to call the reader names here) or 28/33% if you are, let's call it lower-upper-middle-class, not quite the ones sharing the Gray Poupon out of the Mercedes). That's how you can see how much your payable amount will go up or down. Bottom-line items are usually called "credits". The amounts for these are taken directly off the amount of tax owed. Let's not get confused with the whole refund thing - that's just giving you back your overpayment. I'm writing about your tax bill, notwithstanding whatever amount you got with-held by your
Back to this trumped-up Trump bill, I ended up directly at a US Gov't web site of the House Ways and Means Committe, with the details, probably not the details the lawyers get paid $500/hr to figure out, though. It had the details, enough for the big let-down, that there was not gonna be any big savings, probably the contrary. I don't want to be inaccurate here, as the info. I read elsewhere touts "Hey, no exemption, but the child-care credit goes up! Yippee!" Yes, it is a credit, off the bottom line, but it's a change from $1,000 to $1,600 with even some caveats. $600 extra off the bottom line is like $2,400 off the top line for families making over $75,000 (25% rate on the margin), or about an even $4,000 for those making $20,000 to $75,000 (15% rate on the margin). With two or more kids, then, if the total, reported** income is under $75,000, then, the whole thing is a wash, as the extra credit about covers the missing exemption. If that family makes over $75,000, there will be a net loss, or, in the Christmas spirit, a gain for the government.
That's about enough, I guess, though, I will say that the elimination of the Alternate Income Tax, originally a way to snare about 40 (no kidding) rich people, but now, due to the 95% cut in dollar value since then, a big pain in the ass for the middle-middle class, is a good thing. Oh, here's a gem from another article, (LP, so not linked): Also repealed: deductions for alimony payments and .... Sorry, estranged Dads getting screwed over by family court and feminist ex-wives, Uncle
Yeah, pretty wonky post here, huh? Hey, Peak Stupidity can DO wonky, but we mostly consider it stupid, as all these details don't mean squat in the midst of the general pervasive Global Financial Stupidity in today's world. Think about it, my 10 minutes looking into this, and 1 hour writing this did not do either of us (me and my reader!) a bit of good.
So, the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, Kevin Brady presiding, wishes you and yours
** Reported income is what the IRS is interested in. Make sure to keep a large portion of your income un-reported. Simple? [Note from PS legal dept.: YOU! DID! NOT! READ! THAT! HERE!... we know nothing .. we own nothing, squid pro quo, Clarice!]
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Papa was a rolling stone. Wherever he laid his hat was his house ..
Posted On: Friday - December 22nd 2017 12:08PM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Economics Race/Genetics
Per a commenter who goes by the handle of "(((Owen)))" on Steve Sailer's blog on unz, regarding real estate in Compton - Los Angeles:
Blacks drive out whites with random street crime.What a great analogy by Mr. (((Owen)))! One difference from rock-paper-scissors is, of course, that nobody makes money on the real game. RE agents make money on every win - I guess their version of a draw would be "For Sale by Owner", (the best way to go)
But Hispanics form posses for self defense so they can colonize black neighborhoods.
Whites have much more money than Hispanics so they can colonize Hispanic neighborhoods once the blacks have been driven out.
Blacks have Section 8 and blockbusting to colonize white neighborhoods once the Hispanics have been driven out.
Rock. Paper. Scissors.
And the real estate brokers make all the money on the new Triangular Trade.
The Peak Stupidity blog has written about the F.I.R.E. economy (and also here) before. Finance, Insurance, Real estate, and Education are non-industrious "industries" that, especially the first 3 (as, people sometimes just mean, Real Estate) are composed of middlemen, oh, OK, middlewomen too, happy?! Come to think of it, regarding real estate, it is mostly middlewomen. That works, as many RE agents feel that high heels and tight white jeans are all it's gonna take to get a guy to pay 10 - 20 grand extra for a house ... and THEY ARE, in fact!
Big finance, insurance and real estate make money when people go through turmoil, or when there is at least enough turmoil around to worry about, in the case of insurance. Think about it. The big finance people make money off of every monetary transaction, whether the individuals they make money off of win or lose in their dealings. They need the economy to not necessarily produce a lot, but just have lots of dealings going on. Wanta just use cash at the flea market for groceries, pay cash for your gas and rent, get some bitcoin for a large dealing. That's NO! GOOD! for the finance industry. You are a very, very BAD! MAN!
The real estate people make money the same way. You've got a nice stable neighborhood, with lots of people having lived in and improved their normal-sized houses for 20-40 years. NO! GOOD! for business. You are a very, very BAD! FAMILY! We're gonna bring in some other people, and see how you like the schools now. You can pay out the ying-yang for private schools, or you can get the hell out, now, dammit! Someone's gotta move, so we can "move" these "properties". Hey, I'm not saying the RE industry has this all planned out like a big conspiracy. No, they are not smart enough to do that. They sure enjoy it though.
Now, just to add the curmudeonry topic key here, my major beef with the real estate industry is just their continual use of the word "home" for "house". Yeah, if you want to talk about all residential real estate together, meaning house, condos, "flats" (sounds so sophisticated, I want to live in a FLAT!), then "home" may be appropriate and sounds better than "property". However, the RE agents' idea is to use that word for it's emotional connotations. Oh, it must be cozy - it's a "HOME" - there's no place like HOME, right Aunty Em? Wrong, by "cozy", real estate agents mean really damn small, it turns out, with no place for your table saw and Harley (may have to park it in the living room - can you do that in a flat?).
Let's cut out the euphemisms, like my
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Are white people the new woo-woo Indians?
Posted On: Thursday - December 21st 2017 9:08AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Humor Americans
Per a favorite commenter of mine, Buffalo Joe, I will pick up the term "woo woo Indians" as it is more evocative than some of the other methods of distinguishing between two different peoples. As related here on the Peak Stupidity blog before, in "First Nations and the Spirits Communities", the recent terminology has been:
a) "Feather" vs. "Dot"
b) "Casino" vs. "Tech Support"
Anyway, in response to the same Pat Buchanan article cited in the last post another comment on unz wrote the following very interesting analogy, in regards to the massive influx of different groups of people to the US:
By a guy with a lengthy but appropriate name for these times, Mr. Citizen of a Silly Country.What America needs is a new national consensus on what is vital to us and what is not, what we are willing to fight to defend and what we are not.
What do you mean “we” kemosabe?
The United States has turned itself into a collection of tribes with very little in common outside of the fact that we work here. What does the white accountant in Minnesota have in common with the black itinerant janitor in Atlanta? What does the Chinese engineer in Seattle have in common with the Mexican bus boy in New Jersey? What does the Jewish lawyer in Chicago have in common with the white truck driver in West Virginia?
There is no “we” in any real sense of the word. There are several tribes that are not bound by race or history (remember American history is now just a long litany of evil white people discriminating against PoC) or culture.
We will fight small wars at the behest of Jews because those wars don’t require the full support of the various American tribes. You can get away with these targeted wars with gung-ho white kids from rural areas and the South.
If I was China or Russia, I’d play nice with the ring-leader of the American tribes, the ultimate tribe. America’s interests are now Jewish interests, so work with those in charge, knowing that every year that passes the United States becomes weaker as the various tribes grow ever more fractious.
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Pat Buchanan, still in that ancient mindset ...
Posted On: Thursday - December 21st 2017 8:54AM MST
In Topics: Global Financial Stupidity Globalists US Feral Government
... about US military might and economic power. Hey, yeah, it's more pundit-on-pundit stuff here, in a style of post I promised not to write too man of, but this is a general theme the Peak Stupidity blog has been harping on.
Mr. Buchanan also seems to live in the past when he writes about the domestic political scene, as if all "our" politicians in Washington, F.S. still follow Roberts Rules of Order and all that (re: Roy Moore). 2 weeks back or so, this column was about the foreign entanglements President George Washington (first time I've written that W-word without distain in a long while) warned us about way back. Just like my previous criticism of Mr. Buchanan on his old-timey-mindset, I don't disagree with the specifics, but he's not seeing the forest for the trees here either.
My comment to him is nothing really new from Peak Stupidity either, but needs to be reiterated:
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Let’s just back up and look at the big picture, Mr. Buchanan and readers. Lets’ leave out all the details about who started which war, whether the US should have been involved, what our strategy should be in the future… blah… blah.
AMERICA! IS! BEYOND! BROKE! Do you people get this?! I don’t mean just even-Stephen broke, like with zero in the bank and no cash flow right now. I mean $20,000,000,000,000 in the hole via Treasury bonds and around 10X that in future obligations – that’s peoples’ pensions promised to them, S. Security, health care obligations and all that.
That’s about 200 large owed per actual taxpaying (not filing, but paying) American family, just for the actual present debt, the 20 Trillion. There’s no way to get out of this hole without hyperinflation or default, either of which will eliminate the US dollar as “real” money.
Besides the fact that the US military is full of women, homos, and assorted trans-what-have-you’s and could not fight any serious enemy, we don’t have any money for more war. What are we going to do, call for a cease-fire with the Chinese to allow the container ships passage with the parts we need for helicopters and missiles?
There’s really no point in even writing about any of these details. We need to stay home and get prepped for what’s coming financially. I like Pat Buchanan, and he has written about Feral budget issues before, but he seems to have a blind spot for the financial aspect of what’s going on in America.
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Even Ron Paul's writings about foreign policy, though the gist of it is for America to quit interfering in world affairs, still don't usually bring up this simple point. We are like some spendthrift recent-divorcee that still has the credit cards, blowing money here and there on shoes, hair-styling, and granite countertops, as she hasn't realized yet that the money has to come from somewhere. I guess there's a little bit of Wile E. Coyote in all of us.
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"You need to know how to pick your battles."
Posted On: Tuesday - December 19th 2017 7:28PM MST
In Topics: US Police State US Feral Government
This was said to me by a guy about 1/2 my age a number of years back, and, heck he was a sage for his age (Peak Stupidity poetry at it's best there). To explain this post, let me refer you to yesterday's, in which I mentioned that I'd need to teach a young kid that, as he was in a heated argument over the vibrant color of a car across the street.
This was a ways back when I had an Australian friend, and he had gone through the US cultural rite of watching the superbowl (I'm off all that, of course). This was, of course, after I'd forgiven the bloke for introducing me to vegemite, the sick man's substitute for peanut butter. "You gotta' have some beer for the game.", I reminded him (turns out strayin's don't need to be reminded), so we headed over to the big grocery store nearby.
Well, you need some chips too, so we came up to the cashier with our beer and chips, and the guy freakin' cards me. OK, a woman would be pleased, and most people wouldn't care unless they were underage per the Feral Gov't. I'm sure I mentioned above that I was dealing with a guy 1/2 my age, so unless they had 10 year-old cashiers, I was old enough. I was not just old enough, is the point of this post - I did not look anything near young enough for any common-sense-following individual to need to check my age off an ID card. Again, "WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?", the reader may well ask. It's because the guy was carding everyone, and there is no law to say you need an ID card (what a driver's license is basically, in the present era) to buy alcohol!
The laws of every so-called state in the Union (more like sac-hangers on the Feral Gov't, hence the "so-called) require one to be 21 y/o to buy it, but not that ANYONE must show an ID. What was the deal, too much pressure from some state alcohol-controlling agency, the manager was covering his ass, and no one else cared about this? Yeah, probably all 3. "You don't need any ID to just buy alcohol, you just have to be 21. Do I look 21 or under?" "No, but it's just what I need to do." "Here, take your stuff, see ya." I left the beer and chips right there.
That's when the young man said "you need to know how to pick your battles". I realized, hey, he's pretty wise for his age, and maybe this WAS silly. There is a fine line between being just plain neurotic and a pain-in-the-ass to everyone and just standing up for a little freedom now and then. It's hard to tell what's the best course sometimes.
However, this attitude, of "Let it go. It's just the way things are nowadays." is why you see people being felt up the ass and around their genital regions when they go to the airport to catch a flight that they paid good money for (more here.). Most Americans haven't been pushing back one bit against the Feral Police State, and they deserve whatever is coming. I sure don't.
Yes, it is indeed The Champagne of Beers, but you gotta' take a stand sometime!
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More Gerry Rafferty - Welcome to Hollywood
Posted On: Monday - December 18th 2017 10:17PM MST
In Topics: Music
From the album "Snakes and Ladders" here's a "video" (audio only) that features Gerry Rafferty's great voice, if you play it on speakers bigger than these computer tweeters.
"Welcome to Hollywood" is kind of an appropriate one to put up now, with all the scandals I have obliquely read about - it's not that there aren't scandals 24/7/365 in that town, but there's some kind of meta-scandal going on, with bitter post-prime women behind it. I don't care, but in the music business, even way back, it mattered who you knew and smoozed, but Gerry Rafferty wanted no part in any of that.
This song is pretty distainful of that big music scene, and a youtube commenter writes:
f you want to know the whole deal with Gerry then check out the BBC documentary in 4 parts which on YT. GR was very suspicious of everything he hated about the music business. A perfectionist who didn't really want to play the Music Biz game.....he wanted to do his own thing and wasn't going to compromise the direction he wanted to go in! A very sad end to a brilliant mind and gifted musician.By "sad end", the commenter means Gerry's death from ills due to heavy drinking.
It's admirable that Mr. Rafferty didn't want to be part of the big music biz - nothing wrong with making lots of money, but it sounds like, from my reading, he wanted to live a quiet artistic life in England and Scotland. His music probably was all the better for it.
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Oh, you're one of those "you ever notice?" guys.
Posted On: Monday - December 18th 2017 9:56PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Cars Race/Genetics
(Just another thing really funny in that show - the other characters would often make fun of Jerry's job as a comedian when they were ALL comedians!)
I didn't hear those exact words today, but they may have been appropriate. See, the kids with us were arguing about whether the car across the street, parked at the convenience store, was pink or purple. It was fairly dark, but the car was "vibrant" enough for the kids to get excited about it.
"It's PINK!" "No, it's PURPLE! Why are you lying about it?" Firstly, I had to straighten the one out "Just being wrong doesn't make you a liar, do you understand that?" It's just that I had taught him that being a liar was a really bad thing, but he didn't understand that just getting something wrong was not necessarily a lie, even if the teller of this falsehood is persistent as the other little kid was. That doesn't mean it sometime won't be a really bad thing, cough, Communists, cough, cough. Secondly, I will have to have a talk about "sometimes you have to pick your battles" with the kid, maybe tomorrow, along with a short post on it (may as well get some mileage out of this). Lastly, I don't know if the car was PINK or was PURPLE.
OK, this file photo is misleading. We can see the vibrant color of THIS car, and let's just say it's in a vibrant neighborhood.
Here's what I do know and said to my friend in front of the kids: "I don't know for sure what color that car is from here, but I can tell you what color the driver is." I mean, come on! Stereotype much? Sure, I've been around a while. I NOTICE* things because I've seen a lot of things. Well, my friend is not particularly politically correct, but he did say "I've seen some white people drive some weird ...". "Hey, I'll put $50 or $100 on this. We can go over there and wait for the guy to come out." Needless to say we went on our merry way neither knowing for sure the color of that car, nor having exchanged any money.
Is it a BAD thing to make remarks like that? It's not even anything bad about black guys, and there's plenty one could come up with. Yes, they like the colorful stuff, as I noticed way back in school. Who else bought all that FANTA grape and orange soft drink? The 12oz pop-topped steel cans were not gonna jump out of the old machines on their own. The white kids either drank Coke, Pepsi, Royal Crown or Cheer Wine.
Stereotypes are generally true. People get them in their heads via living a while and noticing how people act. These stereotypes can be very helpful in determining what will happen, which is damn important to know. Yes, we all know it's just rude to assume a stereotype must be true for any individual. There must be some black guy out there who absolutely HATES HATES HATES fried chicken, though I have not personally run into him, as of publish date.
Most of these things are pretty harmless anyway, and they can be thought of for any group that has enough people for anyone to care about. Yeah, white people have a thing about being able to ride to work on a bike path, even with $2.35/gallon gas (about the cheapest in real dollars it's been). It's kind of funny and who cares? I'll tell you who cares - the cntrl-left and the Commie types care. I don't think they have much of a sense of humor at all. In fact, I'd like to do a bit of investigating on-line to see if the founders of our country, the pro-freedom guys, had good sense of humor - we already know Ben Franklin did.
* This idea that the current PC and the cntrl-left have a "war on noticing" is from the extreme noticer Steve Sailer. It's a theme of many of his great posts on VDare/unz.com.
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Can't I hear some real Christmas music and not about Santa's Clauses infidelities?
Posted On: Saturday - December 16th 2017 8:21PM MST
In Topics: Music Curmudgeonry
I'm just sayin'. The "war on Christmas" is a real phenomenon and has been going on as long as I've been alive and aware. Why the quotes? Quotes around words of phrases can mean all sorts of things nowadays, but this set was not meant in a snarky way. It's just that it's not a real war of course, like a war on an emotion (the "Global War on Terra!"), a war against the natural state of some people according to Jesus (the "War on Poverty") or war on a number of types of ingestable substances (the "War on Drugs") - Note all of those quotes, people!
Yeah, the real religious songs have not been played in your average store or on your average radio station (yep, I just checked and they still got those) in 3 decades at least. There are no Christmas trees, just Holiday trees, and people have been saying "Happy Holidays" for longer than I can remember. You can real all about this every year on VDare or at any conservative site on the web. That's not my point, though I will say that there are people that do want to bury Christianity pretty badly. They are the ones that will tell you that you're paranoid for complaining about all this war on Christmas stuff. Lastly, on this digression, the habitual reader may notice that the Peak Stupidity blog does have a thing for Ann Coulter. Maybe this started when she wrote long ago (can't find it right now) about the war on Christmas that saying "Merry Christmas" to a New Yorker is like saying "fuck you!". Ha!
On a ride from the airport last week, the driver had on "Christmas music" - there's those quotes again! - which still beat hell out of soap-operatic football commentary or
cough, projectile-vomiting ... I'm OK, National Public Radio. It was really a soul music station, speaking of which, that beats hell out of hip-hop-crap anyway. The Christmas music was nothing but soul music with the words "Christmas", "winter", and "snow" somewhere embedded in each song, not in keeping with the real spirit of the season in my mind.
It's the store music I heard today though, that started to really make me wonder if the modern songs that substitute for Christmas music aren't just as bad as all the rest of the crap that has 12 year-olds fortuitously listening to Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta' Love". I mean, this one about "I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus". That's been sung by lots of different musical artists trying to make a quick easy buck, but I just really thought about it today. Is is really just about kissing, or more like when Steve Miller sings "keep on rockin' me", but really means "keep on fuckin me", and finally says so, albeit kinda quickly, later in the song? What kind of "present" had Santa
Anyway, I don't like that song one bit. Besides the silliness and lack of any connection to the point of Christmas, the connotations about Santa do irk me. It's not like my upcoming "Christmas song" will likely climb the Billboard charts (do they still have those?) as it should, even with a more realistic theme of Christmas home defense. ♫ "I saw Life-Flight evacuating Santa Clause ... extracting buck-shot from last night ..." ♫
Of course, I can go to youtube and listen to "The 1st Noel", "We 3 Kings...", and "Hark the Herald Angels Sing". How can you NOT like that stuff? I'll put some on during actual Christmas, not the "shopping season". Lest the reader think Peak Stupidity is more curmudgeonly than Charlie Brown even, here we have Elton John, who can do up a not-in-the-spirit Christmas song better than anyone. I never got sick of "Step into Christmas" from way back, 1973:
Bernie Taupin, who didn't play with the band, wrote most of the great lyrics to Elton songs, with Elton writing the music. In this song, Bernie appears playing bells (2:05), which is cool. It looks like Elton's usual great band:
Elton John - Vocals, piano
Davey Johnston - Guitar
Dee Murray - Bass
Nigel Olson - Drums
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Gerry Rafferty again
Posted On: Wednesday - December 13th 2017 6:50PM MST
In Topics: Music
Even before the band Stealer's Wheel, this artist was in a group called The New Humblebums. It's the same great voice though. This recording is kind of weak in quality, but it's from 1969 and not one in 100,000 Americans would know the song, so what can you say? (Maybe more Scotsmen would.)
Patrick was written about Rafferty's artist friend, John Patrick Byrne, who painted a bunch of Gerry's album covers, as displayed in the stills in this "video".
"Patrick my primitive painter of art,
you will always and ever be near to my heart.
I will never cross water, never cross sea.
We will always be with you, Jockie, Mally, and me.
The things that we have are all that we need
You have your painting, and I like to read
books by people of feeling, someone sincere.
They remind me of you and what we have here.
Patrick my primitive painter of art
You will always and ever be near to my heart.
I will never cross water, never cross sea
We will always be with you, Jockie, Mally, and me.
If in our lifetime we find peace of mind,
we'll remember the bad days that we left behind,
thinking only of love and what it can bring.
You paint songs for the children, a song we'll always sing.
Patrick my primitive painter of art
You will always and ever be near to my heart
I will never cross water, never cross sea
We will always be with you, Jockie, Mally, and me."
No, it's not AC/DC; sometimes you don't want that high energy.
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Ed Snowden, the CIA/NSA, and the movies
Posted On: Wednesday - December 13th 2017 7:06AM MST
In Topics: Movies US Feral Government
Under "FEATURES" on the left panel of Peak Stupidity, the plan was to have book and movie reviews. That may or may not happen, but I do want to write a bit about the movie Snowden, directed by Oliver Stone. More about the movie below, but first let me write about Snowden, the actual guy.
I was sitting next to a young lady on an airplane, when something got us talking about the airline business, which led to talk about the TSA, as depicted here and other government stupidity. We had been agreeing on just about everything, though she had mentioned she worked for the government (hadn't told me in what capacity though). I was sort of tactful, and did not bring up my canard that "Hey, in China, the smart people always worked for the government, while in Soviet USSA,
At some point, though, Ed Snowden came up in the conversation, and the lady told me how it was nuts how all the young people actually supported this guy. "Well, because he's a hero!" I opined vociferously. Now, as an aside here, keep in mind, I don't abuse the word like lots of people. "Hero" seems to be the term in use for anyone that does something pretty impressive that is a good thing. BS there. A hero is a guy who risks life and limb to save people or property when he could have rightfully stayed out of the situation completely. I'd say Snowden could fit this bill. He could have kept his nose down, just done his 30 years at "the company" or "the other company", and not worried about the sick violations of American's rights going on with the electronic spying programs. Ed Snowden did risk his life, as otherwise I doubt he'd have ended up holed-up in Hong Kong and then Russia. No, you may say, that can't just execute these people without a big trial and all. Nooo.... he may just drive off an embankment because his brakes failed, or have some type of
Now, the lady didn't disagree on account of the definition of the word hero, except that, yeah, the hero has to be doing something good. She did not think that exposing US Feral Gov't's spying on it's citizens makes him a hero. That's when she mentioned she works for the FBI, so, just supporting the team, I guess...
That was the point when we
I saw the movie Snowden a few months back. I'll tell you that I was somewhat surprised that it was not a hack job on the man. I say "somewhat", as I saw an interview with that famous director, Oliver Stone that showed he was not part of the usually Hollywood establishment. He had some choice things to say about the US Feral Gov't that you would not usually hear from anyone in Hollywood who "wants to work in dis bidness again". I haven't seen Stone's JFK, but, man there are so many theories on Kennedy's murder, lots that have good reason to be believed. that I wouldn't know what to think of the movie story. (Personally, the theory that the US gov't did not want Kennedy to have the Treasury in charge of making real money again is my favorite. I dunno, I just blo
Anyway, Ed Snowden WAS pretty much depicted as a hero in this movie. I don't know how realistic it is, as it makes him out to have been pretty high up the chain, or at least dealing with the top men. I don't think that's really the way it was. Hollywood always screws up real stories to make the movie. That's to be expected, but was unexpected was the lack of the usual pro-US-BIG-GOV agenda at least as the main story.
Good, but then when I think of this and another movie from long ago (The Recruit) about a guy who joined the CIA, there is still the usual depiction, whether intentional or just ignorance-based, of these people as the crack, hardworking people that probably are few and far between at even this government agency. This has been a Peak Stupidity topic before, though, as part 1, part 2, and part 3, of our series on the complete non-reality of the operatives in the Jason Bourne series of movies. Hey, they are fun to watch, and I hear-tell there's another sequel coming out that WILL be more realistic, to be entitled The Bourne Stupidity (You could probably see that one coming a mile away, right? ;-}
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P.S.: No, I DON'T know whether the casting was good, about the lighting effects, or the skills of the make-up artists. This is not a REAL review, and that's the part of the business I don't care a lick about... oh, and about who was doing who 30 years ago and why she regrets trading sex for roles now.
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Gerry Rafferty on The Days Gone Down
Posted On: Tuesday - December 12th 2017 9:48PM MST
In Topics: Music
A year's gone by and I've never put up any music of one of my favorite musical artists of all time. I could come up with 50 great songs by the late Mr. Gerry Rafferty of Scotland. Gerry Rafferty has got the smoothest male singing voice I've ever heard.
Besides the great song, this youtube video shows Gerry and his band in the studio recording the song. I couldn't have gotten to see this back when the guy was popular. (Baker Street was his biggest hit as a solo artist, from his City to City album, one with no filler - just 10 great songs in a row!) Youtube can be a blessing some times.
(It's always kind of chilly in Scotland, which explains the beard on that drummer... I guess)
"We won't forget the days gone down.
They're written in our hearts, yeah yeah,
and we're as much in tune as we were right at the start,
It all seems so much harder now, it seemed so easy then, yeah yeah.
Well someday just for fun we might do it all again."
Two cool things about Gerry Rafferty:
1) He liked to carry over lyric lines from song to song. The "written in our hearts" appeared as the title song on City to City - Whatever's written in your Heart. There are more deals like that, even carrying over from his music in The Humblebees and Stealer's Wheel.
2) He had the best album covers. The good ones were paintings by his artist friend, Patrick Byrne, who Gerry sings about in a song called Patrick from long ago - a good one for another night.
RIP, Gerry Rafferty - I wish I'd met you or seen you play in person.
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Shades of Instapundit here - great Boyd D. Cathey article
Posted On: Tuesday - December 12th 2017 6:54PM MST
In Topics: Commies Pundits Race/Genetics ctrl-left Socialism/Communism
Yeah, not our normal type of blogging here, but I got busy making comments on other sites. It's kind of addictive - hey, you should try it here!
A man named Boyd D. Cathey has an excellent long article on Unz Review called "Black & White in Culturally Marxist America". Some conservatives or alt-right like, and some don't the term "Cultural Marxist". We have lambasted and will continue to lambast Commies (33 posts) and Socialists (4 posts), but we use the term "cntrl-left" (24 posts) for the people Mr. Cathey is describing.
The reference to Mr. Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, is here just because we will link here with no excerpt at all, as this article his so good that you must READ! THE! WHOLE! THING! That's Instapundit's thing, lots and lots of short posts to point out stuff worth reading. Well, here's just one tonight (maybe just a song later one).
This Boyd Cathey is a Southerner from what I can tell. Besides his name being Southern, he recalls his time at the Univ. of Virginia in the 1970's when he saw this cultural marxism in it's more mellow state. It still reminded him of the worst of the Commies. He mentions WUNC, a TV station obviously in Chapel Hill, NC, so that's mainly why I figure he's a Southerner. He is a fairly low-key guy though I've read his name before. A duckduckgo search showed him hidden fairly well, and the 1st link was to the $PLC, the most-well known hate group, as they hate lots and lots of people, and lots and lots of organizations. Would we like that Peak Stupidity appear on the rolls of the $PLC? Would we EVER! Put in a good word for us, please, reader.
Mr. Boyd's blurb from that link starts off with: "Boyd Cathey has been involved in several extremist movements,...". That's all I need to know. I'm down with this guy. Or (per Insta.):
INDEED!
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