Inflation by Deflation
Posted On: Tuesday - January 3rd 2017 9:29AM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Economics Inflation Scams
We mean "deflation" of product sizes. This is the first post on economics here, and there is room in the database for plenty more. We don't have the ability, and don't intend to, become a second zerohedge.com. However, hopefully some ideas can be written about here that relate, but don't copy, some of "The Tylers'" (zerohedge writers, supposedly all named Tyler Durden from Fight Club which this writer totally didn't get, BTW) stuff.
Now, we will go back to the subject, which is inflation. The back-and-forth commenting on zerohedge and some of the survival blogs is good stuff, as one can read real-world examples from (ya gotta' assume) real people. Oftentimes, when the comparison of supposed inflation of prices* by government bureaus to real life is discussed, commenters will bring up things we've also seen at the stores.
I don't have a particularly good long-term memory of details, but for some reason, I seem to remember that "this used to be made like this" or "cost this much" or be "bigger" much better than others whom I point out things too. Now, there are website like Shadowstats that give out a lot of data and use wide-ranging data collection and stats to compare to US Gov't BS values, so one example here doesn't make up an analysis. The reason we would like to show the coffee-flavored yogurt in the photo is to demonstrate how
Looky here - can you tell the difference?:
The price went down recently. Then the size changed from 6 oz. down to 5.3 oz. (these are weight ounces) last week. Firstly, as a technical guy, I like round numbers, so 5.3 oz. or even 5 oz is a dumb package size. But secondly, notice that the package shape is very similar - maybe 50 thousandths taken off each axis of the oval and about the same off of the height. It'd be hard to be sure a calculation on this matches the 11% decrease in volume, as the fill level may also be changed. Hey, this would be a cool project for the kids!
The price will go back up in a while, and then, after much sweat, many staff meetings, changes to expensive packaging molds and machine settings, talks with the label printers, and so on over at Dannon, they've made an effective 11% price increase that nobody (but PeakStupidity) has noticed. Very impressive! How 'bout be a man next time and just up the price and be done with it?
One more thing: I may have a good calibrated eyeball as technical people say - though the color change made me think about this before throwing the yogurt in the buggy, I could see that slight decrease in size! I then read the label that confirmed it.
* The definition of inflation by economists is the increase in the supply of money. The increase in prices that is bound to happen later is seen by them as a symptom. We realize this, but the general public's definition is the effect, not the cause, and we don't have a better other word.
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Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now
Posted On: Monday - January 2nd 2017 6:52PM MST
In Topics: Music California
For the continuation of our featuring of great Canadian musicians, we present Joni Mitchell singing Both Sides Now. Yes, this one is raw and doesn't have the great production like the Judy Collins version that was famous on the radio back in the day. Joni wrote this, and it has a beautiful tune and beautiful lyrics.
Oh, we added a topic key of "California" to this post, just due to the fact that Joni moved from Alberta to California as a young lady - I think she always kept that Canadian accent, but it's pretty understandable, compared to say, REM from Georgia. More about the once-beautiful California in later posts as promised, but it should be mentioned right here that Led Zeppelin's line in Going to California that says "Someone told me there's a girl out there, with love in her eyes and flowers, in her hair" was a reference to Joni.
NOTE: I had first thought that this video was stretched horizontally out of it's filmed aspect ratio, as she looks just a little hippy. No, I mean, I know she was a hippy, I'm talking about her hips. But, I don't think so, now. The truth is in this picture, which Peakstupidy.com possesses in it's attic, of the artist buck naked and spectacular*. It's from the inside of the folded-out album cover - see kids, you can't get this kind of stuff off your newfangled mp3 files, Lord knows I've tried. It's too bad though, they didn't show Joni from both sides then, from front and back, way back when...
*Oops, we neglected to mention that this was a photo from behind... , but STILL! Peakstupidity.com sincerely regrets thelack of frontal nudity error.
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[UPDATED 05/25:] Better late than never - just realized there was a joke in this - put that lyric line in at the end.
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Why Social Justice Warriors Are So DEMENTED
Posted On: Monday - January 2nd 2017 6:08PM MST
In Topics: Student and other Snowflakes Political Correctness
You may have seen the guy who made this video, Paul Joseph Watson, before, as he's made multiple videos ridiculing these SJW's and political correctness. I've never run into any people like those in the video in real life, and that is just as well.
Mr. Watson is an expressive and funny guy, but keep the sound down if you work in, say, a nunnery or something like that. Just a word to the wise, or, more like it, to the not-so-completely wise.
Again, some funny people comment on youtube. Just a short exchange quoted here:
Me vs. Everybody6 months ago
That woman who threw the trash can wasn't demented... she was possessed.
Daren Sanchez1 month ago
She Wasn't Possessed, That's the way She Acts. I've been Possessed Before, I Didn't Even Act like That. That's the Reason Most People Convert to Christianity. I'm Glad I Converted So That Wouldn't Happen Again.
FrigidYeti1 week ago (edited)
Me vs. Everybody - Maybe she just identifies as Satan.
Now, that there's just funny - I don't care who ya are!
Oops, I mean, unless you're this guy(?):
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Old Hoover Institute article about school "busing" in Boston, Mass
Posted On: Monday - January 2nd 2017 9:45AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Race/Genetics
This article is from way back in 1998 (luckily archived). In it, Mathew Richer writes about what was already 24 years ago in '98, the forced integration of the Boston public high schools. He's a good writer, and the article is very interesting.
I have not finished it, and this is just one small part of it, but here is one paragraph about the moms of these kids:
"From its commanders to its foot soldiers, the anti-busing movement was dominated by women. They were mostly stay-at-home moms who wanted to regain control over their children’s lives. These women had long taken for granted that their children could attend the schools in their community, that they had choices concerning their children’s education. Busing was a gross assault on their "natural authority." When asked why she was resisting busing, Charlestown anti-busing leader Peg Smith declared, "I want my freedom back. They took my freedom. They tell me where my kids have to go to school. This is like living in Russia. Next they’ll tell you where to shop.""
I imagine with more mothers still at home with the kids then, there was more good, direct involvement with the schools by them. Also, when's the last time you heard Patriot talk like that, especially from a woman. Times have changed for the way worse.
Now this next short paragraph, which occurred before my first quote is interesting in it's unintentional stupidity. Again, this guy's a good writer, but read this:
"In 1965, the Massachusetts state legislature passed the Racial Imbalance Act, which outlawed "racially imbalanced" schools, defined as any school whose student body was more than 50 percent minority. Every suburban legislator voted in favor of the Act; only those from Boston and Springfield voted against it."
Think about it the math here! Yes, I know they think "minority" just means a black person in this context, but the word still means what it was meant to mean - a part less than 1/2.
So, this is like some kind of thing that would get Dr. Spock's ears turning red, or maybe it would short out the HAL computer of 2001 days. "It is against the law to have more than 1/2 of the kids at school who are less than 1/2 of the kids, and .... shorting out here ... does not compute! Must .... recalculate .... "Daisy, daisy, give me your answer, do .... I'm so crazy ....." [/HAL]
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[UPDATE (1/2/17 afternoon):]
I just ran into this article while reading about this statist judge Garrity. He died about a year or so after Mr. Richer wrote the article discussed above.
One paragraph:
"An editorial in the Boston Herald lamented that Garrity 'never deserved the personal threats that dogged his life for years. . . . But it’s important to be clear that . . . massive busing of students across the city was a disaster for the city. . . . Sadly, Judge Garrity’s best-known decision will be studied for lessons in what judges should not try to do.'"
I really would not agree that this guy did not "deserve personal threats". How does the author really know that? How many kids and others did this Mr. Authoritah cause to be beaten up or ruined the entire childhood lives (kinda leaks over into adulthood too) of? How many lives could have been saved or unruined if someone had gotten this judge to just quit his Commie tyrannical control of the school districts of Boston just a couple of years into it. One really would have to read the original long Richer article to see why I feel this way about this guy. RIH, Garrity.
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Why is a 19 year-old article about busing, which was discontinued in many places just as long ago being discussed by PeakStupidity.com? We came upon it randomly, but if this is the stupidity level of the late 1990's, imagine what doses we are under in 2017.
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Had it up to here with these messy, dirty rat bastard ...
Posted On: Monday - January 2nd 2017 9:23AM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry
... squirrels, I'm writing about. (Why, who'd you think?). Where I live, these creatures - to be generous - are real troublemakers. Besides taking all the nuts off the trees way before they are ripe, they can chew through wiring, and they have been making stashes of their current nut holdings in and among storage boxes all around.
You try to shoot some, and then you feel bad looking at them. Poisoning will be my new method soon, and what everyone, including we at peakstupidity.com, needs to remember about these squirrels is that they are nothing but bushy-tailed rats. That's all they are - members of the disease-carrying, tree-hugging, wire-chewing, long-despised, dysfunctional RODENT family. There, now I'm ready to take them out.
"If I get stoned and chew wires all night long, it's a FAMILY TRADITION!" (h/t Hank, Junior)
We were able to shoot one red burning-ball of a roman candle right up into the nest in a tree one year on July 4th. The nest lit-up, the bushy-tailed rats started bailing, and then the whole thing smoked for 10 minutes. It was a scene, man!
OK, I'm setting up a topic key called Curmudgeory right after this post - there's gonna be a lot of stuff in it ;-}
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Elton John from his heyday ....
Posted On: Saturday - December 31st 2016 5:49PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Immigration Stupidity Music
... but this is a pretty obscure song, though it was on a single record.
Listen to the funny lyrics - Elton either didn't want to admit he was gay at this point (1975), or it was hard to find a good rhyme/meter that beat "When along came a senorita; she looked so good, that I had to meet her. I was ready to approach her with my English charm." Let me see "Then along came a young senor, he ...", no, can't make it work.
I also notice from the lyrics that the Mexican populace has a more realistic approach versus our politically correct attitude regarding uppity foreigners. Instead of, "... may we enroll you in welfare, WIC, and hire new teachers to teach your kids in Spanish ...", it's more like "take my advice, take the next flight, grow your own funk at home, amigo!". You know, I think we weeelll! Fuckin' A!
Listen to that hardrock guitar sound by Davey Johnstone.
Sorry, no time to post today, and no posting on Sunday, as usual. We will resume on Monday. Carry on.
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Rush - Red Barchetta
Posted On: Friday - December 30th 2016 6:10PM MST
In Topics: Music Cars
I had an acquaintance at the dormitory who had a large Canadian flag in his room. After I inquired whether he was from Canada, he told me that, no, he is just a BIG Rush fan. I don't know if I'd develop a deep loyalty to another nation just based on one band. I will admit that I can't think of any bad musical artists from Canada, and I'll put a few more on here soon. (No don't bring up anyone name Bieber - I don't care who he is or what he does - he can't possibly be worth a damn, so don't start with me.)
Anyway, this guy let me listen to Limelight and Tom Sawyer from the album Moving Pictures. It is pretty rockin' stuff, but only later on did I come to like Red Barchetta, from the same album, even more.
This band is very tight, as in, they do stops for say 1/2 second or so, and back in time, so well. That seem to be different from The Grateful Dead, showcased here a lot, who sometimes headed in different directions during a song, and I don't think were what you'd call "tight" (oops, gotta be really careful what I say in this PeakStupidity.com environment - the place is literally crawling with Dead Heads - I mean "literally" depending on what type of doctor-prescribed medication they are on, and whether we turn on the blacklights ;-}
Anyway, here - it is Geddy Lee singing and playing bass (or keyboards), Alex Lifeson on guitar, and Neil Pert on drums:
The lyrics tell a story too - great song, and hey, these guys are libertarians.
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National Geographic, no more girly pics of the natives ....
Posted On: Friday - December 30th 2016 3:24PM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity Humor Global Climate Stupidity Media Stupidity Geography
... who, apparently, didn't have the pocket money for bras and blouses - more power to 'em - but, listen, even the articles are starting to all suck (well, this post is a bit behind - I should have written this 20 years back).
[OK, now this is not the particular copy perused by your blogger, but I do have an answer to the headling: "Because you people didn't have the brainpower to do science, you couldn't invent anything, and when it came time to defend yourselves against the Spanish, they kicked your asses and took whatever precious metals you had." OK, $5 saved, you're quite welcome.]I picked up a copy the other day from the coffee table at a business. The first article I started reading went on about how these people here are in trouble due to Global Climate DisruptionTM. I've seen this over and over in this magazine. They want to beat us over the head with this BS, and one cannot enjoy the articles, which used to be just about exploration, geography, and discovery. Why would any sane person lay down the $5, or whatever the newsstand price is, when the native girls, instead of smiling and showing off their boobs, are bitching about it being too hot, too cold, not enough rain, too much humidity, bra strap's too tight, etc?
I would hope there are archives on Nat. Geographic website from the 60's through 80's so
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Too many posts about immigration, you say? - GIT! OFF! MY!
Posted On: Friday - December 30th 2016 3:04PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Humor Trump Pundits
.... bitchez.
No, seriously, this site is not anti-immigration per se, it's just something that must be written about a lot due to it being an existential problem for this country. (Wheewww, .... there .... I wrote the "E" word, let me explain why that is a big deal:)
Normally, people who use the word "existential" are the guys that sit around the coffee shops all over the Western World with long or short beards or goatees, oftentimes with rings and multiple pieces of household articles stapled and/or wired to protrusions of their faces drinking some type of super-expensive coffee from miniature cups. They don't seem to wear normal shoes, either.
I am not one of these guys - I like to drink hot chocolate, of course, but I get a normal size to get my damn money's worth. I truthfully did not know the meaning of this the world existential until only 5 years back, though, that does seem clueless, as the root is pretty clear. (I think the problem is the probably the pronunciation of the word by some of these non-US Army Paratrooper, yet still oddly beret-wearing, fellows at the coffee shop who lisp a bit so as not to get that Cappuccino AlFresco Latte cream in their facial hair mixed in with the hummus remains.) We are loath to use this high-brow, long-bearded word here at this blog, but our editor has spoken [... sometimes you just gotta say "what the fuck", Joel - Ed].
OK, so more seriously now, "existential" means pertaining to the entire existence of (in the blog's case) America and the Western World in general. In other words, if this uncontrolled massive immigration problem is not dealt with prontomundo (as my amigos
This is the only reason Donald Trump is in the position he is, now, and he'd better heed my words, along with my other reader(s), prontomundo*!
* No, don't sweat it, there is no stigma against use of the word "prontomundo".
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We are all pretty much the same genetically ...
Posted On: Friday - December 30th 2016 7:04AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Political Correctness China Race/Genetics
... according to Ms. Sarah Zhang, from such illuminating former rolled-up temporary doorstops as the Atlantic Magazine, picked apart like the proverbial Armadillo carcass by Mr. Steve Sailer here and here (with comments)
This chick had to have been born in America. No Chinese-born lady could lie this much to either herself or others. They have not been at the same Orange/Red high-alert stupidity level that we are at since the 1966-1976 cultural revolution.
I don’t think even China in the midst of that period was even a TSA-Stupid-Level-Yellow (well, maybe yellow is the default – hey, no offense intended, I’m just sayin’). Now an American lady in the midst of her period – that is off the charts sometimes – goes to Red in a heartbeat.
Must … quit … the …… offense … ive ..
…. com ……entssss …….. sides … aching …… Scotty
… you can … beam me … ahahahhha … [/Captn Kirk]
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Good old American Ingenuity
Posted On: Thursday - December 29th 2016 5:23PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor Cars
Yeah, I've been dissin' the quality of consumer goods produced in China a good bit. I cannot say that American cars back in the day were of high quality, but our manufacturers had most of the market, and the only better quality to be had was that of very expensive German imports. In addition, one could easily fix and even improve the cars made in that era.
Though American car prices were very reasonable for the large middle class that we had back then, some of us still had to improvise, as Johnny Cash explained in this song back in 1976:
At the end there, that is CB Radio talk, I believe, but then again, I'm no early adopter.
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I'm gonna have to believe the Russians anymore it seems.
Posted On: Thursday - December 29th 2016 3:06PM MST
In Topics: The Russians
Who would have thought, even as recently as 20 years back, that libertarian, conservative Americans would side with the Russians, in any kind of dispute with the US Gov't?
I would now believe them over most US Gov't officials or reports from our Gov't media any day of the week. It's pretty damn sad, that.
Here are 4 Zerohedge headlines, all from today:
1) Obama Mocked By Russian Embassy: "Everyone Will Be Glad To See The Last Of This Hapless Administration"
This thing below is from the Russian Embassy, and it's called a Tweet. I guess that means it's some kind of duck - it tweets like a duck, apparently, but heck, I'm not one of those early adopters, so who knows:
2) Russia Warns Of "Proportional Response" To Obama's "Paranoia"
3) US Retaliates Against Russia For "Hacking The Election": Expels 35 Diplomats, Unveils Sanctions
4) Full Statement By President Obama On US "Actions In Response" To Russian Hacking"
I don't see the Russian Gov't and Mr. Putin as particularly good people, but at least they stand up for their countrymen, and they don't spout out the PC crap day and night like our pathetic globalist elites. I'd put some of the Eastern European leaders up top of my list of possibly decent people, also.
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Psychopathic, ex-Nazi, Commie Globalist disses Donald Trump ...
Posted On: Thursday - December 29th 2016 12:16PM MST
In Topics: Trump AntiChrist Globalists
... as a "would-be Dictator".
Infowars writes about this AntiChrist runner-up. This quote of Soros is pretty egregious:
"Soros writes that in voting for Trump, Americans “elected a con artist and would-be dictator as its president,” and that his defeat of Hillary Clinton means America will be “unable to protect and promote democracy in the rest of the world” (because that policy worked so well in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Libya)."
I beg to disagree with this supposed Esteemed Elite Global Leader:
How many millions of people are dead because of this guy (with the help of the US State Dept)?:
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China, Inc., where quality is job 4
Posted On: Thursday - December 29th 2016 11:58AM MST
In Topics: Cheap China-made Crap Curmudgeonry
Went 2/4:1 on toys this Christmas. That's 2 out of 4 broken by end of day 1 - that'd be Christmas day. One of them starting slipping gears after about 1 hour of use, and the kid treated it with kid gloves too. He or I may have mis-handled the second one, but the part that broke was super-thin plastic and un-fixable, even with good super-glue, not the crap in my closet.
Same as usual, the people at the store don't have time to know or care about what broke. I understand that, but I always let them know the story. I quit feeling bad about returning anything that may be broken due to slight misuse (up to the point of being backed up over by the car). I told the one girl, to the effect of: Hey, I'll keep coming back with these until we've got use out of 'em. I wonder whether the US headquarters will do the math and compare selling 3 or 4 of these for the cheap price versus 1 good one at double the price?* I know, I know, math is hard, especially for these CEO's.
When it comes down to it, not all of this is the fault of the Chinese. They make much of the crap to the specs. of the engineers (if there are any) or designer types at the company HQ over here. However, there is much cheating going on over on the other side, so parts specified do not always match the parts on the products*.
Ford Motors' slogan at one point was: "Quality is job one." They may or may not have meant it, but in China, I imagine the translations of their company mottos would be closer to "Quality is about, job four or so." Unfortunately, the number 4 is a very unlucky number over there. That's the root problem right there - the unlucky number 4!
It really should be bumped down to 5 or lower, as jobs 1, 2, and 3 aren't gonna budge:
1) Job 1 - Make a lot of money.
2) Job 2 - Save even more by serving only white rice and 6-day old turnips in the company cafeteria.
3) Job 3 - Keep employees from jumping out of the higher floor balconies at the new facilities.
* I will make one more post about this regarding an exercise machine in the near future. Spoiler alert - we got our way.
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Trump says UN "might be waste of time and money".
Posted On: Wednesday - December 28th 2016 5:58PM MST
In Topics: Trump Liberty/Libertarianism World Political Stupidity
might be? Excuse me? Zerohedge includes this part as half of this post.
First, Trump again took the opportunity to slam the UN, saying “there is such tremendous potential, but it is not living up,” he told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach. "When do you see the United Nations solving problems? They don’t. They cause problems.” “So, if it lives up to its potential, it’s a great thing,” Trump added when asked if the U.S. should leave 71-year-old organization. "And if it doesn’t, it’s a waste of time and money.” (The last quote, starting with "And", does not fit in with the other sentences grammatically, but we like it.) BTW, we don't say this about the UN just because of some spat with Israel; this is a long-term feeling.
We haven't heard enough of this type of talk since the days of the John Birch Society. Trump, more than anybody, as a property tycoon in New York City, should know how much that building in Manhattan could fetch in the open market. I imagine a buyer could fill it up in a week with Chinese government officials that make as much as 8000 yuan RMB/month over in Peking (converts to about $1150/month at present exchange rates). That doesn't sound like a lot, but one can easily increase that by 2 or 3 orders-of-magnitude with a little elbow grease and quanxi. They could ship over the kids as anchor babies to enroll in the fancy $30,000/year preschools to academically kick the ass of the children of the Kenyan, Indonesian, and Venezuelan UN delegations, who would be busy packing up their shit anyway.
East Riverfront property with a view of the Brooklyn Bridge - THIS IS YUUUGE!
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Lefties
Posted On: Wednesday - December 28th 2016 10:02AM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity Trump Preppers and Prepping
... for the "Trumpocalypse". Hey, we're in for some bad, bad times to come, Mr. Trump as chief executive notwithstanding. Even Ron Paul would not be able to get us out of the financial pit we are in, but that's for another post to come.
Infowars, quoting Mike Snyder of the Economic Collapse Blog says:
Now that the shoe is on the other foot, many liberals all over America have suddenly become extremely interested in prepping.
This would not be a bad thing if these people ever kept their word on anything, like say, going up to Canada and freaking staying there (teach them aboooot some hockey, maybe so the Canadians might welcome them). I'd like to see some of these "folks", if one may call them that, at the gun shows, commenting at Survival Blog(s) about, say, the best way to keep your stored wheat and millet dry, reloading techniques and sources for cheap brass, recycling of car battery lead and bullet molding, solar power circuitry, etc. The impediments to this actually happening are many.
These types do not want to do anything resembling real work - that's the number 1 problem. Then, they are scared of hanging out with people who may say something politically incorrect, as they would not know what to do, and may cry. Lastly, it is entirely possible they may learn something and that is completely anathema to these "folks", as they already know everything (apparently).
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Is President-Eject Øb☭ma indeed the AntiChrist? (Part 2)
Posted On: Wednesday - December 28th 2016 9:00AM MST
In Topics: AntiChrist Hildabeast
Most of the evidence posted just yesterday indicates that, yes, this is unfortunately the case, and this AntiChrist will be living amongst us for quite some time, till either the 7th seal is broken or we can ship that blithering idiot back to Kenya (whichever comes first).
However, "...the times-they-are-a-changin, so come all you deporables, bitter-clingers ...." wait, times are changing quickly, much faster than a dragged-out, drugged-out old Bob Dylan song. New evidence and analysis has come to light, loyal reader(s)!
1) It was just learned from a re-reading of the Book of Revelation (this time with the TV volume turned down) that there is no mention of multiple AntiChrists existing at the same time (it does talk about another Beast following the first one.)
2) The Polaroid snapshot (no developing required) displayed below has revealed what was until now only whispered about on facebook, chatrooms everywhere, and George Michael and Carrie Fisher fan zines and covered up by the CNN, MSNBC, ABC etc. fake news outlets. This is a big scoop, reader(s)!
3) Ifso facto, quid pro quo, Clarice*, if this electoral-dead-end, genetically/mentally unstable witch-o-Poughkeepsie is the AntiChrist, then President-Eject Maobama is OFF THE HOOK.
Peakstupidity sincerely regrets the error of commission and is hopeful that no inconvenience will result therefrom.
* Just wording added by the PeakStupidity.com legal dept., pay no mind.
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Matt Drudge - what we at Peakstupidity think of Drudgereport
Posted On: Wednesday - December 28th 2016 8:29AM MST
In Topics: Internets Websites Pundits Curmudgeonry
I don't need a link here, of course. Probably anyone who uses the internet for anything besides just shopping and facebook would have seen his page at least once.
For the last couple of days, Matt Drudge has been putting up bunches of headlines about two celebrities, Carrie Fisher, the 1970's actress, and George Michael, the 1980's pop singer. OK, the elections are over, so, Drudge needs to keep the viewers, but this celebrity worship turns us off, here at Peakstupidity.
Even if this were 1978, when the actual Star Wars movie was playing, and she was pretty and all, it wouldn't concern me a bit if she kicked it at any point. As for George Michael, I'll give you that Faith was a pretty catchy tune, but that's it; if if died when he was famous in the late 1980's even, why would I care? I don't get this crap at all.
I wouldn't even be writing this before, as I'd only started regularly
Two more things should be said about the Drudgereport:
1) This guy is a whore for page views, and the way he does it is with automatic reloading. This happens every 3-5 minutes (I haven't measured it.) and that means it reloads for me about the time I'm reading the 3rd column - very annoying.
2) It is really not healthful to look at this site everyday. With the headlines normally on there showing the craziest (truthful most of the time, but also greatly exaggerated a lot) stuff imaginable, one is led to believe it is the end of the world is fairly imminent! It is the type of website that should make one immediately get out of the house, get out in the woods for a while, or on a bike, or just talk to the neighbors, in order to shake that world-is-ending feeling. Keep away from the high-intensity stupidity, and you'll be alright, son.
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Acoustic Dead from early 1980's
Posted On: Tuesday - December 27th 2016 6:58PM MST
In Topics: Music The Dead
This song is an old standard; it was not written by the band.
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Is President-Eject Øb☭ma indeed the AntiChrist?
Posted On: Tuesday - December 27th 2016 6:41PM MST
In Topics: AntiChrist
He's risen to power out of nowhere, with no record of grades, constitutional law articles written. Did not rise out of the sea, but did get raised in a coupla hell-holes around the world, one of which is surrounded by the sea - pretty sure that's what they meant. [CHECK]
Was given a mouth that utters haughty and blasphemous words. [CHECK]
Is married to a space creature of some sort. [NO, NOTHING IN THERE ABOUT THAT]
Causes all men, both great and small, rich and poor, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, and no one may buy or sell without the mark or name of the beast [NO, THIS GUY KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY, AND HE IS TOO BUSY PLAYING GOLF TO DO ALL THE WORK INVOLVED]
There IS this, though (Look at what the Doc checked off, just under "State of Hawaii"):
I would trust the Doc over any kind of spin out of the whitehouse or Gov't media. I am leaning toward "yes" on this. More tomorrow.
Oh, and no, I want to emphasize that this image was NOT PHOTOSHOPPED. Peakstupidity.com used microsoft "Paint", as we cannot afford Photoshop on our limited resources.
Lastly, thanks to Steve Sailer for (either originating or bringing to our attention) the term "President-Eject".
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