From the Department of Who Cares?
Posted On: Tuesday - April 18th 2017 7:45PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Pundits
Funny, I don't feel any tension at all about this, in contrast to most of the other Drudge headlines that usually, when seen in one viewing, make me feel that the world will be ending very soon.
A) What strike?
B) What writers? What do they write about?
C) Who cares about Hollywood?
D) Is it gonna cost me any money? No? Again, who cares?
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Comment on Republic Airlines dba United Express fiasco/infotainment
Posted On: Tuesday - April 18th 2017 7:28PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Humor Americans
Except for a quick mention here along with an appropriate song lyric and music to placate the parrotheads, we have not mentioned that week-old dragging-the-passenger-off-the-plane incident. Hey, it's not like it is timely news that must be obtained hourly off the phone like the Dow Jones index or the current apparel being worn or pulled off of Miss Laura Kardashian (we hipsters call her LaurDash).
Anyhow, the main impression I have of the entire recorded part of this incident was the complete lack of civility or just normal thinking-human behavior on the part of about everybody involved. I won't get into all of the details about how everyone should have handled themselves, but it's the common theme witnessed of people behaving like incoherent kooks that cannot seem to make good judgements and talk well enough to keep the behavior civil.
You had your gate agents, and maybe you've got more details than me, but c'mon, up the ante a bit, do some small bit of thinking about who would be better to "request" a de-planing to, or just call up the bosses who can give authority for more resources to be used in this special case.
You had your security rent-a-cops who should never been called in the first place, as there was no criminal activity* going on or any that had happened. Their job then, since they WERE called, was to handle this guy, not to knock the crap out of him. 4 guys should be able to restrain the guy calmly (I know they had no business being sent to do so) without banging him around. An old fashioned peace-officer type could probably just have talked the guy into stepping off the plane eventually.
You had your nutty doctor, who should have just verbally raised holy hell up at the podium once off the plane. Let them know what trouble this will cause, whether people will die because you couldn't make it down to Louisville earlier. Screaming while being dragged down the aisle does not become a medical doctor, not unless he were getting arrested at a protest rally against free-market medicine or something.
Even the video takers acted like Jerry Springer guests. How about just a little calm dialogue, or if not that, just take some action, don't scream out stupid stuff while you're filming yourself.
The thing is, as bad as everything looked on here, it was one incident among perhaps thousands approaching this level of trouble that occur each year, but that are handled calmly. Maybe not everyone is happy with the outcomes, but they just don't usually make Americans out to be bloomin' idiots, like this particular piece of info-tainment, which is what it really was - a TV producer's dream - something to keep the viewers in front of the tube for most of a week.
As a friend of mine and I were discussing this, we came up with a couple of funny scenes that could have occurred. One was just better judgement by the agents as to what type of person should be (or given the most incentive to be) bumped. "Who else do we have on board? That guy's an engineer, no, leave him alone, oh, this guy runs a small company, don't bump him". "Attention, passengers, is there anyone on board for which it absolutely doesn't matter whether you get to Louisville tonight? Show of hands, please. OK, are there any of you for which it doesn't matter what happens to you today, tomorrow or any time, as in nobody cares really? Any government people, DMV, how about women's studies majors? Anyone? Anyone?"
The 2nd idea was a somewhat cryptic announcement over the aircraft P/A, something like: "These 4 passengers, please come out to the jetbridge to discuss your upgrades" might do the trick. As the passengers get fully on the bridge, one agent distracts them with a stack of bogus boarding passes while the other one starts backing up that bridge at full speed away from the plane. Finally, one passenger at a time gets that WTF?! look in his eyes. One of them takes a leap toward the still open main cabin door, but, alas, he is not really in shape and lands face down on the ramp. Hilarity ensues!
* Although, the fact that the man went back onto the plane makes him sort of like a stowaway in that sense, meaning that is a big deal and considered to be illegal due to TSA stupidity, not the airline's stupidity. In the old days, a stowaway was just a problem due to his not paying for his trip (and creation of a slight error in weight/balance for the airplane), but now it is a "big damn deal" because of our commie-inspired TSA, as his name was no longer connected with the flight after the agents first bumped him in the computer sense.
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Conflict Resolution ... (how long) will you be my neighbor?
Posted On: Monday - April 17th 2017 5:44PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity
This is not one of the ideas I had planned to write about this evening, but it just came up. This is about the small conflicts over things that could be called trivial that persist and turn into trouble that goes on for years. I just started a small conflict with a neighbor over a leaf pile - a leaf pile!! Haha, yeah, a leaf pile. The problem is that we all have our idiosyncrasies and mine is territorial. It is not even worth getting into too much detail, but, as I want to write something more on the (outdated, at this point, but still interesting) story, info-tainment really, about the Republic Airlines, dba United Airlines incident, it makes me think more on how conflicts can blow up like that.
I would like to say that everyone involved in that airliner incident, at least the ones on video, acted so uncivilly, and just not like calm human beings, that I couldn't see myself doing what any of them did. There will hopefully be a post in the morning on this. After this evening, I realize that there are certain people that one just can't deal civilly with. In my case, I believe it is both of our personalities. There are people with whom you are better off not talking and whom you just need to avoid, even a next door neighbor. It has been many years, but we just will never get along.
One thing I have learned from a friend's experience is to just take action, even if it might hurt one's pride, to put a stop to the conflict by giving in before (and this is where it relates to another post to come on the "student snowflakes" and the like) before it gets to the "I'm telling!" phase. It would never be on my part, but by "I'm telling!", I mean telling the law, getting city code enforcers, the tax assessors and all the various and sundry government bureaucrats that are paid to find and cause trouble, involved.
This friend is not sure that his old lady neighbor has died or not, but the best clue he has is that nobody from the city has come by in a long time to tell him what the hell he needs to work on, on the outside of his house, to comply with "THE LAW!" It had been going on for years, maybe the better part of a decade, that people on the taxpayers' dimes (well, Benjamins more like) had him working basically for them, not at his own pace, on this fixer-upper house. I don't think that my friend could even remember what small incident started the "I'm telling" phase, and I sure don't.
All this is my way of telling you, when your instincts tell you to let something go, and just "see and avoid", like Visual Flight Rules, you should listen. Some people ya just cain't reach.
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Happy Easter - and 3rd point on Trump disappointment
Posted On: Saturday - April 15th 2017 7:33PM MST
In Topics: Trump Holiday from Stupidity
It's been a busy few days, reader(s). However, there is no shortage of things to write about in the stupidity "space". I do want to comment on the now out-of-date story about that Republic Airlines flight (dba United Express) fiasco, which represents a whole world of stupidity on the part of just about everyone directly involved. More coming on Ross Perot as a precursor to Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan and the 1986 illegal alien amnesty, and some humor, just to name a few things.
Anyhow, to complete the elaboration on the post regarding Trump's disappointing breach-of-contract with us, his voters, I will address point 3. Point 3 was the question of how long Trump's supporters, the regular patriotic Americans and nobody else (besides Ann Coulter), will support him. Trump had campaigned on "America First", and part of that was the pretty obvious point that actually defending the country is more important than spending money we don't have to keep meddling in affairs of the rest of the world. "Meddling" is too weak a word, anyway; it's bombing, strafing, droning, and whatever. What's been happening wrt Syria, N. Korea is the same warmongering that we would have expected from a Hildabeast administration and basically all others since Ronald Reagan (and one could arguably include him too).
Per this post on the 2nd issue raised here, Trump had better not flake out on the immigration promises or he will lose all of us supporters right away. We've been through this crap with both George Bushes. I don't mean specifically believing they would uphold our national sovereignty, just that they'd act like conservatives. They didn't, and we were fooled. We didn't want another Bush (¡Jeb!), or any of the rest of the establishment GOP this time for that reason. Patriotic American voters have FINALLY learned their lesson on this.
Ann Coulter here, as usual lately, said this all best in "We Want The “President Of America” Back—Not “The President Of The World". Here's a bit of her writing:
While most of the left wailed about the return of Nazi Germany under Trump, savvier liberals saw his vulnerability: flattery. All we have to do is praise him! You’ll be shocked at how easy it is.
And, boy, did they lay it on thick with the Syrian misadventure. No sucker’s bait was left on the floor. Cable news hosts gushed, “Trump became president of the United States tonight!” On MSNBC, Brian Williams called the bombing “beautiful” three times in less than a minute. Sen. Lindsey Graham (one of the “women of the Senate,” according to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg) compared Trump to Reagan. The New York Times headlined an article, “On Syria Attack, Trump’s Heart Came First.”
My nightmare scenario: Trump and Jared watching TV together and high-fiving: DID YOU SEE THE NEWS! THEY LOVE YOU! All Trump had to do was pointlessly bomb another country, and it was as if a genie had granted his every wish.
Looking for some upside to this fiasco, desperate Trump supporters bleated that bombing Assad had sent a message to North Korea. Yes, the message is: The Washington establishment is determined to manipulate the president into launching counterproductive military strikes. Our enemies—both foreign and domestic—would be delighted to see our broken country further weaken itself with pointless wars.
We've got to support this guy on what we want most, enforcement of our sovereignty. If that doesn't happen more seriously soon, we just can't treat this guy like our leader - there are plenty of leaders out there. So, the answer is, as soon as most of us were to realize that this guy is just playing to the crowd on border control and legal immigration, while really trying to please the Washington establishment, he will be dead to us. I am hopeful he's just been conned on the foreign policy stuff.
We can still take some time to be thankful this Easter Sunday that we don't have the Hildabeast in front of us nightly on TV (if you still have one of those - shoot it center-screen).
HAPPY EASTER, READERS! (posting will resume on Monday with extreme prejudice)
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I don't think I'm gonna ever let him cut on me.
Posted On: Wednesday - April 12th 2017 6:15PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor
Apropos only to the crazy scene on the Republic Airlines plane the other day, the worst part of which was just the ridiculous, almost non-human way all parties in that incident acted, there is this one lyric line that would apply to that doctor dragged off the plane:
From this verse:
"We'e stayin' in a Holiday Inn full of surgeons;
I guess they meet there once a year.
They exchange physician stories
and get drunk on Tuborg beer.
Then they're off to catch a stripper
with their eyes glued to her G.
But I don't think that I would ever let 'em cut on me!"
Jimmy Buffett, "Miss you so Badly"from Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes:
Plus, the parrotheads have been feelin' no luv here lately. Mucho apologies!
Listen to all the lyrics - they're clear enough to not need to be in pixels here. What a great songwriter!
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The Trump flake out?
Posted On: Wednesday - April 12th 2017 6:02PM MST
In Topics: Trump
To address the 2nd concern from the post two days back, "What is wrong with Trump?", we ask "Does this flake-out of Trump's cover everything?" Whether it's just temporary or not, this neocon action by Trump is in definite contradiction to his campaign statements. It's good to hold out hope, but I don't see how this is some type of "3-D chess", as people term the idea that this guy is just some genius, and everything he does is in a part of his strategy to implement policies we elected him to.
It is true that no matter what trouble the warmongering talk causes up to all-out warfare, if Trump were to keep his promises to turn around the out-of-control foreign invasion, it is still a win for us in the long run. In other words, if the situation isn't turned around soon, all other problems just won't be important, as patriotic Americans wouldn't care anymore what happened to our country. The immigration problem is existential as the goateed kids say.
The problem is, since Trump flaked out on this promise, and more so on his whole stance on "America first", will he flake out on the rest? It's not like he's got any other branch of the Feral Gov't on his side. It's Trump, the leader, and many, many loyal Americans that can change things - who's the next leader in the wings if this guy has flaked out completely?
Another thing to be concerned about is that these wars that are supported by the neocons and globalists seem to be one half of the "Invade-the-World, Invite-the-World" strategy, first explained by Steve Sailer (the article in the link is not even close to the time when Sailer came up with that - it's probably been a decade and a half). It used to be "let's fight them over there, so we don't have to over here", but now it's, "well, we better let some of them come here, as it's only fair since we bombed the shit out of 'em over there". "Oh, BTW, now they are fighting us over here, so we need to fight them over there even more!".
If Trump is supporting one half of this, what should be called "Burn down the world, but replace the Americans first to make our hidey-hole safe"* strategy, why would he not stop on the other half? Has he already been convinced to abandon immigration control? It doesn't look like it so far. Let's hope he's not playing games like the rest of the politicians have been doing on this for 30 years, since they duped Ronnie Reagan into a bad deal back in '86.
It's definitely not time to give up on the president, but he needs to know to shape the hell up and trust his instincts that led him to victory in 2016. Who knows, once the ball gets rolling for border control, maybe it can keep rolling even without this guy, but the job must be done by Americans without the politicians - they are 100% against us.
* OK, that doesn't come off the tongue easier - I can work on it.
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Washington FS and First Ladies
Posted On: Tuesday - April 11th 2017 5:26PM MST
In Topics: Music Trump US Feral Government
I have been in the vicinity of Washington, FS*. It would have been too disheartening to visit any of the government sites other than maybe Jefferson's memorial and the Air/Space museum, but no time for it anyway. It has only been the last 15 years or so in which I would have told anyone who asked that I feel ashamed of this place and "our" allegedly-federal government.
This is the opposite of what we heard from our deposed first lady of 2008-16, who had uttered that she "for once, felt proud to be an American" or some such thing. Of course, that 1st lady only cared about Black America, not America, and she was wrong anyway to be proud. 50 years of socialism have ruined black America along with a lot of the rest.
The first lady thing made me think that only one thing better now is we have a classy beautiful woman as first lady as opposed to some type of affirmative-action wookie. It's not enough to make me a proud American, but I do like her picture [cause it gets page views? - editor]:
Really, I don't know if she's classy or not, and I don't know if she's fashionable. A hottie like that looks good in anything shorter than a full-out, jihad-ready, burka-tent. We hear tell Jacqueline Kennedy was classy and all that too, but PeakStupidity does not claim to be a fashion site, nor should we be.
If we as a nation even survive long enough to care, I do wonder what Melania's "thing" as first lady will be**. Michelle Obama had the whole "eat-your-vegetables" nanny campaign, Nancy Reagan had the "just-say-no" to ingestible substances nanny campaign, and way way back, before most of our readers' times, there apparently was Lady Bird Johnson's (what kind of name is "Lady Bird" anyway?) "don't-be-a-litterbug" nanny campaign. That must be the first lady's job, though I missed that section and article in the US Constitution. I really don't think any of these*** were bad on the scale of what the rest of the Feral Government does. We can ignore the nannies, but we can't ignore the people with guns that will come if we act like free men.
* FS = Federal Shithole
** Just in case the administration has visited PeakStupidity this evening, I'd like to push a favorite nanny issue that Melania might have expertise in -
Melania Trump's campaign could be more of a "naughty nanny" campaign, rather than just a regular nanny campaign, dub it nanny 2.0. Here's a song about a naughty nanny that apparently had an influence on Mr. Freddie Mercury's life, but it may have backfired, now that I think about it:
*** I don't recall what Laura or Barbara Bush's nanny things were - maybe theirs were internal campaigns within the CIA. We also can recall no such nanny campaign from the Hildabeast, but she wouldn't be satisfied with the job of nanny - she was sent up from below, after the opening of the 7th seal, for better and bigger things.
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Updated [4/12 evening]: Added note **, moved note ** to be note ***, and added Queen video to match note **. Got it?
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Has Trump been Neo-conned?
Posted On: Tuesday - April 11th 2017 3:42PM MST
In Topics: Trump The Neocons Deep State
To address the 1st concern from the post yesterday "What is wrong with Trump?", we'd like to discuss what possesses this president to be a warmonger in the continuation of policies of the "commanders-in-chief" of the last 3 decades (or so).
It may have been written here (search features coming some time!) that during the presidential campaign (before PeakStupidity had seen the light of day) Trump just had qualities that would make him hard to bribe or blackmail. That is, he was already famous - on TV and in NYC, he was very rich, and he never claimed to be a straight-arrow. The 1st 2 qualities mean that he was not in this thing under someone else's control, say donors for some specific cause. The last quality would be something that could be used against a Jim Baker TV-evangelist or any of the candidates that claim the moral high ground as one of the primary issues. Everyone should figure Trump is a playboy type, he's on his 3rd wife. If there were pictures of his cheating out there, I don't think that his voters would have cared a bit about it.
I don't think the same could be said for most of the US senators. The more you learn about specific ones, the more your realize it's mostly a depraved bunch of people. It is to be noted that almost all of these people leave the senate as multi-millionaires. Many of them don't start off that way, so ....
So, what's the deal? What could the CIA or anybody else with access to NSA data, which is basically any communications, purchases of goods or services via anything but cash, and almost anything one does outside in the city limits these days. Oh, I forgot to add, probably one's location at any point in time since he purchased his first smart phone. I guess one could come up with something, but I'd thought Donald Trump was a pretty tough guy - tough enough to handle a bit of shame. In fact, it seems he enjoyed arguing about the hypocrisy of the big brouhaha about his locker-room talk during the campaign, for example. Could you bribe this guy? How much more money does he need? He lost a decent amount just by committing to the campaign, due to silly boycotts by the SJWs and assorted opponents. I think he couldn't be bribed.
It could be that some threats were made to the effect of "Look what happened to JFK" or "We already put old Ronnie in his place the 1st year - we may choose a larger caliber than .22 this time". It makes me really wonder what happened during the Ross Perot campaign in summer of '92. To me, Mr. Perot was the closest thing we had to a Donald Trump in the recent past. I should say, Mr. Trump was the closest thing to a Ross Perot. Mr. Perot, if you recall, or bing it, dropped out of a fairly successful campaign due to concerns about the safety of his family. This was a business leader/entrepreneur with about the order of magnitude of wealth as Donald Trump. You don't seem to hear much about what really happened in July 1992, and Perot, after re-entering the race received almost 19% of the popular vote.
OK, this was going to be a short post, but it's not happening. I'm just to the next question: Is this guy irresponsible enough with his power to take advice from his daughter. The story is that Ivanka Trump saw pictures of (allegedly?) gassed children and her distress made Mr. Trump decide to DO SOMETHING. Well, listen, it's terrible for innocent children to die period, but it sure doesn't help the lot of them to start a war. How many have died but just didn't appear in pictures in wars started by our commander-in-chiefs before in wars that are not in defense of this country? This rule-by-emotion crap is not acceptable! We ran into this with the pictures of some drowned kid washed up on the beach in southern Europe. "Oh, we must help these people invade our lands more safely!" was the response to that photo. I don't guess thinking emotionally and making irresponsible policy based on photos takes into account some rapes of kids in Germany by Moslem invaders, does it? That's the problem with this feminine rule-by-emotion. Compassion is only for short-term events, but there is no compassion for the long term terrible effects on lives and future lives when no masculine logical thinking and judgment is involved.
Nancy Reagan was always criticized back in the 1980's for using horoscope data to influence Ronnie in making policy, but there was no evidence that the man listened to her. With Trump this may not be the case. I don't like it.
Lastly, the son-in-law of the president, Jared Kushner is known to be not just a neocon, but in good with the big neocons. Is this guy influencing his father-in-law? Trump may need a Bannon type to lay down rules to him - "get this would-be power couple the hell out of the White House. Go see them on weekends at the golf course and come to their baby showers or fashion shows, but that's all!" Trump has seemed wise enough, as described in the previous post, to pick the right people to guide him in the past. However, he may have just not trusted his instincts and judgment and is letting the powerful neocon and MIC crowd make him doubt that he has been right - "we can't be the world's policeman anymore". I would add, "due last but not least that we are broke beyond all recognition", BBAR, FUBAR, whatever.
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Skynyrd - Truck Drivin' Man
Posted On: Monday - April 10th 2017 6:01PM MST
In Topics: Music Americans Southern rock
Dedicated to a friend and part-time reader of this blog.
Lynryd Skynyrd's Truck Drivin' Man from "Legend", 1977
The video has got some nice shots of the big rigs too.
"Well there's smoke from the stacks a-blowin'
And he don't care where he's goin'
The only time he feels right is when he's rollin'."
Ronnie Van Zant – lead vocals
Allen Collins – guitar
Gary Rossington – guitar
Billy Powell – keyboards
Artimus Pyle – drums
Leon Wilkeson – bass
Steve Gaines - guitar
Ed King - guitar
Bob Burns - drums
Larry Junstrom- bass
We need more Southern Rock on here.
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What's wrong with President Trump?
Posted On: Monday - April 10th 2017 5:18PM MST
In Topics: Trump The Neocons
Is this guy Trump going to dash our hopes into the ground? The latest wrong move by him is the lobbing of cruise missiles into Syria, of which the news could be found everywhere over the last few days. PeakStupidity's and, we reckon, most patriotic Americans, disappointment about this is not the stupid neocon move itself, but whether this means that the man is not, or never was, or is no longer, good for his word.
The continuation of the endless warfare state (only seen to this degree in the country of Oceana in the book 1984) goes against what Trump rightfully argued in his campaign for president. True, he was never going to be a Ron Paul. He came across as being against the US being the "world' policeman" more for practical than libertarian reasons. It was also not the biggest issue, which was out-of-control immigration. That's what got him elected. Mr. Trump, though he never had the grasp of history and politics like a Pat Buchanan, seemed to learn from the right people and lean the right way once he did learn about an issue.
The immigration thing is a good example. Trump not only picked Jeff Sessions of Alabama for Attorney General, but the had sought him out for good advice on the immigration issue way back during the primaries. Another example is the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms. This is a guy from NY City, remember; his world was one in which his bodyguards could carry arms, he and the rich and famous and well-connected were the only men who could seriously consider getting "approved" to legally carry a gun in NYC, yet he ended up thinking and talking the right stuff during the election for a very early endorsement by the NRA (well, it was against the HIldabeast, so you know ...)
The Syria thing is worrying for a number of reasons, each of which will be short a separate post to come:
1) Why is Trump being a neocon warmonger, when it is against what he seemed to believe before? Is it that he is under control of the "deep state"? How? If not that, is he running America's foreign policy to please his daughter and son-in-law?
2) If Trump has flaked out on his foreign policy positions, what else will he flake out on? The immigration issue has more of the rest of the US gov't involved, but he could have gotten a lot more done already.
3) How long will it take, or how many more stupid things like this, for Trump to lose the enthusiastic support of us patriotic Americans? Will it just be another George Bush (any one those worthless bastards) administration, meaning no slow-down in the stupidity?
It's just really disappointing so far, what we're seeing from this guy. He's just one guy, as I said, and needs our support in a multitude of ways. There are major impediments all throughout the Feral Government, but this Syria thing was a Commander-in-Chief decision; it's on Trump alone.
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Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Posted On: Saturday - April 8th 2017 6:40PM MST
In Topics: Music Americans
Are the good times really over for good?
Merle Haggard released this song in 1982, so the 3 songs from Thursday, Friday, and tonight are from 1973, 1980, and 1982. The future didn't look too bright for a lot of people back then, but the country got out of it ... for a spell.
"Are we rolling downhill like a snowball headed for hell
with no kinda chance for the flag or the liberty bell."
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Oh, this country sure looks good to me... but these fences are coming apart
Posted On: Friday - April 7th 2017 6:32PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Music Americans
at every nail.
This is another song, from 37 years back this time, in which the lyrics would make one think it was written today. Neil Young was pretty left wing, and musicians in general are not to be listened to on politics. These lyrics just happen to ring true, like the stopped clock once or twice per day. It's also got the great backing vocals of Nicolette Larson, who also sang on Comes a Time and Sail Away.
"Hey, hey, ain't that right?
The workingman's in for a hell of a fight.
Oh this country sure looks good to me,
but these fences are coming apart at every nail."
"Coming Apart at Every Nail" from "Hawks and Doves"
I think you could talk to 10 Neil Young fans, and only 1 would have heard of the album "Hawks and Doves". It's a great album and I listened to it for the 1st time off a cassette tape one night while traveling across this country on a train. The 2nd cut "The Old Homestead" was pretty freaky in my head, as I recall - I don't know what Neil was on when he wrote this.
The first song in this series was American Tune by Paul Simon, yesterday, and there's one more to come.
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It's alright, it's alright, you can't be forever blessed
Posted On: Thursday - April 6th 2017 8:31PM MST
In Topics: Music Americans
This should have been the very first post of this blogsite. More than 40 years ago, Mr. Paul Simon nails it. Was he a prescient guy writing about the future of his country? No, times looked pretty shaky back then. However, America still had an economy that was by a long shot the strongest in the world, even with the problems we had, and it was still a far more unified place than what we have now.
Since, we recovered from the turbulent times of the late 60's - 70's, aren't we being too pessimistic to write this place off now also, as bad as things look? No, I don't believe so. It IS different this time - you can't be forever blessed.
"American Tune" was off the "There goes Rhymin' Simon" from 1973:
"We came on the ship they called the Mayflower;
we came on the ship that sailed the moon.
We came in the age's most uncertain hour
to sing an American tune."
There are 2 more songs in the same vein as American Tune that we will put up the next 2 nights here at PeakStupidity - 3 songs about coming apart.
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Et tu, Barry?
Posted On: Wednesday - April 5th 2017 6:18PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Music
Barry Manilow is gay now. That is all.
....
No, wait, it's not really a big deal. Listen, if you've lived in the western world for long, you've gotta know that nobody really cares about this too much. Yeah, many people may not agree with that lifestyle, but not 1% of Americans are in favor of STOPPING the practice of
Musical artists, not to mention cabaret show cast members and hairdressers, have been given a break for a long time - people almost expect this. PeakStupidity just has a problem with the song lyrics from these people, though. With respect to this great obscure Elton John song, we could not figure how the words could be changed properly to reflect the thoughts of a gay man (course, he had Bernie Taupen writing lyrics, so ...?). With the song featured tonight, a beautiful tune from the mid-1970's, it would not be too difficult to change the title and lyrics to "Andy", formerly "Mandy" and make it work. I guess an Andy could "stop him from shaking" just as well as a Mandy, I suppose.
I should probably refrain from interpreting lyrics anyway, what with my chronic case of lyricosis. It took PeakStupidity 3 1/2 DECADES to come to the conclusion that Jimi Hendrix was not gay, from my first impression, listening to him exclaim "excuse me, while I kiss this guy!".
Mr. Barry Manilow "Reveals Why He Didn’t Come Out for Decades: I Thought I Would ‘Disappoint’ Fans If They Knew I Was Gay" He had many girl fans, and I think he made a wise bidness decision.
Lastly, here is Dunder-Miflin Scranton-branch office manager Michael Scott's take on the matter. He seems to always put things in a good light:
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Peak Stupidity is an Equal Opportunity Offender
Posted On: Wednesday - April 5th 2017 5:50PM MST
In Topics: Humor Political Correctness Geography
Lately, after our post about Moslem prayer, along with a few hundred other blog posts that may be deemed offensive to some sensitive folk, we feel the need to reiterate our never-before-stated offense policy.
Here at PeakStupidity, we take great pains to ensure that we are in full compliance with all US and UN statutes that enforce Equality of Offensiveness. We strive to exceed the standards of excellence in this area, nay, strive is too weak a word, we ARE "best in class" in offensiveness. We wish to assure our readers that we are indeed an Equal Opportunity Offender, and if you don't like it, please just GTFO of here.
As an example we will follow up our post on Moslem prayer with respect to long-distance navigation with some religious "equal time".
Wait, though, first let me explain something that would have made the last post too long. At first thought of the concept of the Great Circle route, one may wonder why the East-West travel is only where the GC course is important. Look at the globe again, or think about one, and you'll soon realize that longitude lines are drawn differently than latitude lines. Since the longitude lines all fall on circumferences of the sphere, called the World, any North-South route will be the quickest along a line of equal longitude, which conform pretty well to the flat map, as North is usually up. In other words, the most direct course on the globe in a roughly N-S direction, will be what you see on the flat map.
OK, let's get this equal-time crap over with: When Christians and Jews pray we don't particularly face up, but we feel that that's where we should picture God, right? Well up is easy, as we've got gravity to help us stay oriented up/down wise. Then you've got your Satanists who would pray downwards, I'd imagine, though I haven't been to a meeting
Back to the Moslems again, this brings up another fascinating point. Since this is prayer, and not airplane or vehicular travel, is there any reason they must pray along a surface instead of THROUGH a material? Do you see what I am getting at here? Why not pray at an angle downward though the Earth directly toward Mecca with azimuth and negative-altitude angles determined very precisely via an app, or website, say myPrayerAlt-Azimuth.muz? I have not found any guidance on this at all in the Koran, thought I haven't picked it up directly but have perused the Cliff Notes. I can see one "issue", as the mid-level managers like to say, meaning big freakin' problem, though. How would we distinguish Moslems from Satanists without a protractor or bubble-level?
How, indeed?
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Moslem call to prayer and the Great Circle route
Posted On: Wednesday - April 5th 2017 8:23AM MST
In Topics: Music Humor Geography
The thing is, these Moslems, like the gentleman with his butt in the air below, are supposed to face toward Mecca when praying. I've also heard though, that they are supposed to face East. I'm trying to reconcile this. Now, East is at least somewhat the correct direction, within say 30 degrees, for Moslems in Europe, who are getting pretty ubiquitous there, I'd say too damn ubiquitous. What about the huge amount of Pakistani ones, or the Bangaladouchan ones? What about guys that live in the eastern suburbs, just a camel's ride away from the center of Mecca? Should they pray directly or the long way, all the way around? We need to talk some geography here and long distance navigation and the Great Circle route.
OK, in long-distance nav. you've got a point across the globe, or across a continent, that you're trying to head for - in this case just point your head at. A lot of people don't understand the Great Circle - shortest distance between 2 points - here on the surface (important point later on "surface") of this 8,000 mile diameter sphere we live on. It does not matter for cross-town travel, and usually within a state not too much unless it's a flight (allowing for a straight line) in a mostly east-west direction in a big state, say Nebraska.
Now take a look at the globe. NO, you can't do this on your phone! It's got a flat screen, not a spherical segment. You need an actual 3D globe, dammit. Let's just think about a Washington, FS - San Francisco, CA road trip. From a look at the globe I estimate Wash, FS at 38 deg N. and San Fran at 37 deg N. A look at a flat map or layout with a ruler would make you think that the shortest drive will take you through central Missouri and central Kansas, when, in fact a string layed on the globe, pulled tight, and touching both cities will show you going through Lincoln, Nebraska and right through Salt Lake City, UT. OK, I realize the interstates don't all go exactly the way we'd like, and also you've only got certain routes through the mountains. Once you get west of the Missouri, or the dry line of the midwest, I prefer to drive on the 2-lane highways anyway - you can still haul ass.
The great circle route becomes even more important for long-distance airline flights. It is fun to lay the string on the globe to see where the shortest distance route lays. You will see why the Midwest to Asia flights will go over the north slope of Alaska - not to be near land that may have an airport (which is always a good thing, though), but it's the shortest way. In fact, to go from Washington, Federal Shithole to Shanghai, China, instead of starting off due west, as one might think (Shanghai is about at the same latitude) one should head at about a true heading of 350 deg, just 10 degrees to the west of due north! What else is cool, is that the GC route will take you only about 8-9 degrees from the North Pole, or about 600 miles away - better hope the fuel heating system was made, designed, and tested with pride in America.
How does this relate to the Moslem guy above with his butt in the air, the erudite reader may well ask? I'll tell you. These people need to get more scientific and join the age of exploration (wait, they may have missed it - started in the 15th century AD, and just ended a few decades back... damn, too bad). There's gotta be an app for this, right, or at least a website where one can get a Great Circle heading toward Mecca that would be the correct direction in which to pray. Wait, there's more! What about magnetic vs. true heading? Should they be praying on a magnetic heading to Mecca or the true heading?
With these differences in geometry between Euclidean, based on a flat surface, and non-Euclidean, and the Magnetic vs. True direction thing, I can see Islam breaking up into a few more sects. The Euclidean vs. Non-Euclidean Moslems, and the Magnetic vs. True Moslems, and combinations thereof. Will we see political infighting and even holy Jihad between these sects, as the iphone apps get improved, and more importantly, as the magnetic variation slowly shifts from place to place? To head this off, they will need a wise holy man, an Ayatollah of Geography, if you will. Otherwise, these people could get violent .... oh wait....
I cannot in good conscience end this post on geography without the following music video, I mean, come on, how many geography songs are there? One?
"Stand", by REM off the 1988 album "Green":
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Tucker Carlson tries to fend off the stupid
Posted On: Tuesday - April 4th 2017 7:54AM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media University Pundits
As written here before, this writer is not a viewer of TV. I will, however, see some good clips here and there, whether displayed on blogs within posts or as comments. Fox News may have the official "conservative" take on things, but I have just as much disdain for it as the rest of the TV sector of the Lyin' Press.
That said, this Tucker Carlson character does seem to have his head screwed on straight, and it's a good thing too, as I've seen now 3 clips of his interviewing of some complete freakin' nutcases. It is fun to watch, as I think he has just as much a hard time taking the massively stupid (or possibly just evil feigning stupidity) interviewees seriously as the viewers do. This guy here, George Maher, is a professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. He has sent out some nasty tweet messages that may have enraged thinking people, but nobody has called for shutting the guy up. He comes on here defending the harassment and physical threatening of the erudite Charles Murray. The logic in this guy's head is so twisted that I don't know how he can see straight. Charles Murray is no radical; I've read one of his books and he seems a hard-working researcher (well, it's sociology, so you know) and a fair guy, and decent writer. I didn't agree with him 100% on his book "Coming Apart", but it wasn't the complete twisted-english, nonsensical garbage that comes from Professor Maher.
"I am trying to take you seriously", Tucker says, about midway through this interview. Funny, funny stuff, or it'd be if these people were just harmless - unfortunately sometimes they influence those in power or get in power, and then you have Venezuela, of which Professor Maher is mucho enamored.
The other 2 interviews from Carlson we've blogged about are Mission Creep by the Sierra Club and Are we there yet (Peak Stupidity)?. Complete hard-core stupidity on display - it's that or rent old John Hughes movies for humor.
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[Update 03/06/18:] Video got jerked off again by youtube. This one starts at a diffent place, so may not match this post well anymore. I guess the professor didn't feel comfortable having the public undergo such stupidity.
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[Update 04/21/17:] Video got jerked off by youtube. New one should include the same stuff by this moron Professor Maher.
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Why should we defend Korea again?
Posted On: Tuesday - April 4th 2017 6:42AM MST
In Topics: Trump Pundits US Feral Government The Neocons
Pat Buchanan writes a lot about US foreign relations and military adventures and is very libertarian about it ("not our business - leave these places alone"). He has pretty good knowledge of history too, but will delve into speculation once in a while. His latest column, Why Is Kim Jong Un Our Problem?, seen here on VDare and here on Unz with comments is about why Trump should not be promising US involvement with North Korea should Mr. Kim go completely nuts.
Why then is this our problem to “solve”? And why is North Korea building a rocket that can cross the Pacific and strike Seattle or Los Angeles?Now, I have a problem with the line "Is Kim Jong Un mad? Mr. Buchanan means "mad" in the British sense, as in crazy, not the American sense, as in pissed off. I believe that whole damn country of North Korea is mad really. Whether we have 28,500 soldiers on the DMZ or not (BTW, I was pretty close with my round number of 25,000 in this post I'm good with round numbers) Mr. Kim would make his threats about the US anyway to show his powerful status to his country full of sad, oppressed peons. It makes him the big man to show that he is taking on the (so far) still biggest military power in the world, seriously or not seriously.
Is Kim Jong Un mad?
No. He is targeting us because we have 28,500 troops on his border. If U.S. air, naval, missile and ground forces were not in and around Korea, and if we were not treaty-bound to fight alongside South Korea, there would be no reason for Kim to build rockets to threaten a distant superpower that could reduce his hermit kingdom to ashes.
While immensely beneficial to Seoul, is this U.S. guarantee to fight Korean War II, 64 years after the first wise? Russia, China and Japan retain the freedom to decide whether and how to react, should war break out. Why do we not?
However, the rest of the column is right on. Trump needs to get his priorities straight - he may indeed have the Deep State on his ass causing him to follow in the neocon ways of the last 4 US presidents.
What Buchanan wrote needs to be said but he left out the other half of the picture that Ron Paul could have told us (and has): This country is BEYOND BROKE - get it? As related here on this blog, we will be requesting a cease fire as we wait for parts for our offensive weapons during any prolonged, serious war. Our military, in terms of personnel, has become a sick social experiment as opposed to the "armed forces".
I hope Trump can avoid listening to the neocons, but that hope usually goes away after 6 months of any new president being in office.
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The Electric Light Orchestra - Time
Posted On: Monday - April 3rd 2017 7:10PM MST
In Topics: Music The Future
If you're younger than 45, you may not even know the concept of the "concept album". Back in the days of great rock music, some of the most creative artists would put a story together and make (at least most of) the songs fit the story. I would say the most famous is Pink Floyd's "The Wall", which was 2 records long (for those not familiar with the vinyl "record album" or LP - Long Play, that could be up to 2 1/2 hours of music, but "The Wall" was an hour and 20 minutes only).
The title of the 2nd-to-last post, Is this the way life's meant to be? is a line (and the title) from a song on an obscure, but fantastic album by the band Electric Light Orchestra, or ELO that made great music in the 1970's and early '80's. The creative genius behind this English band was Mr. Jeff Lynne. From what I heard, early on in the band's career, they had more band members than people in the audience.
This album is called "Time" and tells the story of a man accidentally transported into the future, or possibly it was a dream. He wishes on the the song "The Way Life's Meant to Be" that he was "back in 1981" which was the year in which the album was released!
Interestingly, the only hit song from the album "Time" was "Hold on Tight to your Dreams", which was the only song on the album that WASN'T a part of the story!
The only way to listen to this is to hook up to some decent speakers or a headset and play it as you lay down to sleep. You need 45 minutes. Does anyone write music like this now? That was a rhetorical question.
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If I die, just let me go to Texas ...
Posted On: Monday - April 3rd 2017 6:45PM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity University
... oh, but not Austin, please!
I had always thought Texas might be the last holdout against the overwhelming frontal attack of stupidity that we are fighting (at least at this website, how 'bout y'all?). I guess one could figure the university towns would be an exception, or at least the universities themselves. VDare's Henry Wolff has an article (well, a bunch of tweets with some good commentary) entitled Marxist Prof. Gavin Mueller Thinks D.C. Whites Are “F***ing Insufferable . The professor at the Univ. of Texas is a nut, I'm guessing, but he didn't get officially reprimanded in any way for words that would be a firing and shunning offense were the racist words reversed.
Hey, but it wasn't all that usual anti-white BS that got me to writing tonight. It was the professor's tweet here:
Hey, I was all over this kids names thing way, way back, as I discussed the missed opportunity of naming my kid after a man of the cloth, you know, like Amos Moses. You're stealing my material, Professor Mueller! If you're gonna steal my material, get it right - the kids aren't named after condominiums, jackass, they're named LAST NAMES as FIRST NAMES. The condo buildings you mention are named after people, and we use LAST NAMES to name things after people. What did this guy get his PhD in, anyway?
Oh, yeah, you're a sick man also, but that's not what got to me. Quit stealing my material!
Oh, and one more thing: Whose parent would you rather be, anyway, Madison or LaTundra? We could just go back to the Biblical names. No, not just Mark and Mathew, but how about Methuselah, Malechai, Jedediah, Zachariah, and Jumpin' Jehoshaphat? Let's put away the Dr. Phil books and get real with these kids.
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