Yeah, Peter Buck's (REM) guitar. He helped the band with this one - that's why.


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How to deal with salesmen


Posted On: Wednesday - December 7th 2016 6:23PM MST
In Topics:   TV, aka Gov't Media  Salesmen  Curmudgeonry  Media Stupidity

A guy came up to the porch to sell me service from the competitor to the cable service we have now, which is just sending internet signals. The first thing I told the guy was that if he can sell us internet only, no bundles, we can make a deal - at least for next year.

He first bad-mouthed the phone service and I agreed (it's not a real land-line, so we'd still be dependent on the signal through the same cable.). He started asking about TV, at which point it was obvious to me that he didn't have an internet only deal. "Where do you get movies from? What channels do you get now?", etc. I told him we hadn't even used the (digital) antenna that I put way up on the roof in 2 years at least.

The guy was really concerned about our watching something, anything, on TV, so I went on a rant, not yelling mind you, as rant might imply. I told him that my Dad was right that the TV producers, Hollywood, and those people were pushing their agenda in subtle ways even back in the 1970's, and it's not subtle at all anymore and it's a whole bunch of lies, and I don't want to pay my own money to get lies delivered to my house, and so on for about 2 full minutes.

It's the first time I've seen a salesman walk off the porch on his own initiative, as he was muttering "hey, uh, I've got to get to some other houses and .... ok, uh, bye." Ha, ha, ha! If I'd known that's all it would take I'd have never had these window salesmen in my living room for an hour and a half back in the 90's (story for another post.)

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More on the destruction of California


Posted On: Wednesday - December 7th 2016 4:45PM MST
In Topics:   Immigration Stupidity  California  Treehuggers  Environmental Stupidity

About a month ago the Drudge Report led me to this article about a 29,000 acre (that’s about 45 square miles!) forest fire in the beautiful Sequoia National Forest in California [ Sanctuary city illegal immigrant sparks $61M fire in national forest , By Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times , October 25, 2016]. IT’s the kind of thing Brenda Walker of VDare writes about so much (California and human factors), so I wanted to point this one out.

The hue and cry from the tree-huggers has been deafening, I guess. I’m not sure, as I sure haven’t heard it—if an environmentalist protests in the forest, does it make a sound? What if the forest in question is mostly charred hundreds of years old Douglas Fir and Spruce, burned by a five-times deported (but, he’s baaaaack!!!) illegal alien Mexican who “don’t care about no steenking trees”? What if said unheard environmentalist works for an organization that is paid handsomely not to make a sound?

I do know why the Sierra Club big-wigs won’t mention the terrible effects of illegal immigrants on the huge, beautiful, preserved wildlands of America. I learned this from VDARE.com long ago. It’s because donor David Gelbaum gave them $100 million on the condition that “if they ever came out anti-immigration” they would never get another dollar from him. [The Man Behind the Land, by Kenneth R. Weiss, October 27, 2004] As to the rank and file dues-paying members, why do they never speak up and try to change the direction of the Sierra Club and speak some truth—as opposed to just letting their environment slowly go to ruin after 100 years of arguably the best environmental stewardship any country has accomplished? Let me throw this opinion out there: the chicks are there just for the warm and fuzzy feelings they get, and the guys are in the organization for the chicks. Maybe most of them have never even been hiking in the high Sierras, as there is no 4G cell service! They’d better go soon, as whatever’s not burned down may be owned by the Chinese soon and made into chopsticks.

Full Disclosure: I do like the beautiful wilderness and have been known to hug some trees myself, but I assure you there was no penetration.


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California immigration disaster


Posted On: Wednesday - December 7th 2016 4:04PM MST
In Topics:   Immigration Stupidity  The Dead  California

I've wanted to write a long post about the human and environmental tragedy that is called California for a long time. I'll have some more tomorrow, but what got me thinking about it again was this comment from this article on Amren.com:

Who Me? Xanthippe2 • 11 hours ago

"Why is California so interested in keeping the millions of non-citizens living there? I realize they vote D when they bother to vote at all, but other than that they are nothing but a drain on public funds and services. The removal of some of them would be a relief to the rest of the population who would have more room and more resources available. Not to mention, safer."

This guy gives part of the answer to his question right away, about the Dem. votes. The immigration is indeed a net big drain, and in more ways than just financial. The last sentence is true also. Yes, this is all true and nothing is being done. The second part of the answer to why the state is being demographically (and this will mean, eventually environmentally) destroyed is that the 50-75% of actual (not illegal alien) good decent Californian's are of no concern to the state/feral government elites, the ag-business elites, the software-tech elites.

The big wigs of today, as opposed to those of a century ago, do not give a whit (I cleaned it up, Edit.) about their countrymen or, in this case, fellow Californians. They are "Men of the World". If they fuck up what was once the freest people, the most beautiful state, and the best lifestyle the world has ever seen, the'll just go globaltrotting to somewhere else better (so they think) and try again to fuck it up. It's what they do, and there've been people like this around for centuries but they never had a more beautiful place to destroy before.

Chuck Berry wrote it, but you can't do it better than Bob, Jerry, Phil, and whatever keyboardist had not OD'd yet by 1976.

By the way, for extra credit, what two states did our traveller cross on the way from the Tidewater, Virginia to the Promised Land that are not mentioned in the song?


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The Head and the Heart (band)


Posted On: Tuesday - December 6th 2016 9:00PM MST
In Topics:   Music

In my very first post of this blog I bad-mouthed modern music pretty heavily. About 5 years back I heard 2 particular songs on the radio that did not suck (at all, in fact), and would listen to them quite a bit on youtube.

This 1st of those is this one, called Lost in my Mind by a Seattle band called by the cumbersome name of "The Head and the Heart" This is a live recording (incl. video) of them playing in the KEXP studios, which is right over by the music museum, and the space needle.



I'll put the other song up tomorrow evening.


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Time magazine urges Hillary voters to not pay taxes


Posted On: Tuesday - December 6th 2016 11:52AM MST
In Topics:   Elections '16 - '24

Zerohedge.com refers to "Time" magazine (dang, there's a blast from the past - are they really still in business? What for?)

The question is: Are we gonna miss the $7,421 and eighty-seven cents that we get from these 65 million deadbeats?

No, really as a NET amount it turns out the sum is closer to $1,507,481,497,885.22, but that's just a quick calculation on my Lotus 123 spreadsheet. Wait, damn these Windows 2.1 non-compatible programs - it forgot the negative sign. I meant -$1,507,481,497,885.22 That's a chunk of change there, so the Feral Government comes out way, way ahead in this scenario.

Therefore, to keep our nice balanced budget, I expect a tax cut in the near future. In fact, I may buy an F350 today, on credit, in anticipation of said tax cut.


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Not as much PC back in '93


Posted On: Tuesday - December 6th 2016 9:38AM MST
In Topics:   TV, aka Gov't Media  Political Correctness

On a lighter note than the last post (by a long shot! Ed.), we have this 5 minute montage of a Seinfeld episode, "Cigar Store Indian". The youtube guy did a good job putting enough of the show in his video to where one can get the gist of this story.

(Oh, hell, you have to click on this video to open it up in a new window/tab. The "owner" says so. Well worth it.)


That's funny, no matter who ya are!

Oh, I mean, unless you're this guy:

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More about Waco, TX


Posted On: Tuesday - December 6th 2016 9:16AM MST
In Topics:   TV, aka Gov't Media  US Police State

This is more background regarding this post for readers young enough to not know much about the US governement's massacre of 76 people on their own property in Waco, Texas on April 19th of 1993 (or those unaware of current events at the time).

This site is one I picked out of the blue just now, but the Waco - the Rules of Endgagement video is the best documentary on it I have seen.

Well, unlike many Americans at this point in time, this writer was old enough, and aware enough, to keep up with what was going on in the country in 1993. This blog is not about whole histories of events in America, as there is plenty of material out there and not enough time in the day. However, I would like to point it out wrt Janet Reno but also put down just one thought here that is from 1993.

At that point, it was just a couple of years before I realized just about everything in politics/governments in this country was going in only one - the wrong - direction. This writer could be considered a libertarian/constitutionalist in 1993.

The siege of the Branch Davidian property, (oh, "compound", it's always a "compound" if it's the "bad" guys, the ones that don't like the police state) started a few months earlier than April 19th of that year. I was watching the national TV news, as was still my habit until the mid-90's. The reporter at the scene in Texas was concluding his report and handing off back to the big cheese - I don't know if it was Dan Rather or one of the other 2 big cheeses, let's just say that.

The reporter concluded his story with "They are Survivalists, Dan!" That was said in a way to make you sure that being a survivalist is a BAD thing. Even back then, as a younger man, I realized the BS that comes out of these people's pie-holes. "Hey," I thought, "what in hell's wrong with being a survivalist? It's not a reason to pin people in their house for 2 months, try to starve them out, and then eventually come in with the tear gas, tanks, and rifle fire. I mean, unless we're living in a police state. Oh, wait, that means ......"

I don't have a super long term memory for details like that, but this memory stands out like it had been said yesterday: "They are Survivalists, Dan!"


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Hoyt Axton - Della and the Dealer


Posted On: Monday - December 5th 2016 7:47PM MST
In Topics:   Music

From 1979, when they still wrote some good country songs:

"The cat was cool, and he never said a mumblin' word."



I had no idea until today that this guy wrote "Joy to the World", performed most famously by Three Dog Night.


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"Beaver overthinking dam" (from The Onion archives)


Posted On: Monday - December 5th 2016 3:34PM MST
In Topics:   Humor

It's an oldy, and it's not political, just really funny:

Beaver Overthinking Dam


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Ohio State students and one prof. show maximum PC


Posted On: Monday - December 5th 2016 3:20PM MST
In Topics:   Student and other Snowflakes  University  Political Correctness

I am very glad I went to college a long time ago. In this day and age, if I were 18-22 still, I don't know if I'd had the guts to talk truth to the all the politically correct professors spouting all their indoctrination points.

This zerohedge.com article mentions a video of short interviews with students, and one faculty member, about the Somalian attempted murderer. These people have in very ingrained in them that certain truths are forbidden. They aren't stupid, but the are cowardly. You've probably seen other videos in which an interviewer puts the kids on the spot, and they get a very weird look in their faces when they have this dissonance in the brain - "I know this but can't say it." It's kind of eerie, as I never would see that "screwed-with" look in anyone's face back in my day.

I should modify this to add that when the writer was in college it was in order to study a technical field, and I'm pretty sure even today one would not run into too much BS from professors of Science and Engineering. Even if they were to get way off their subjects, something about these studies weeds out the PC morons, so I can't imagine the profs talking like the one guy in the video.

It would be a real hoot to show up now though, like a Rodney Dangerfield, to attend some humanities classes and give the profs and other students some extreme feedback. I have no problem with standing up for the truth even with all of the rest of the class against me. In fact, I would have fun with that; knowing that I wouldn't care what my grade turned out like would help in this regard.

Here is the video itself (I linked to zerohedge for the comments section, which has got to be good, but is mangled to the extreme in any older browser):

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A trifecta of good news


Posted On: Monday - December 5th 2016 9:32AM MST
In Topics:   Commies  US Police State

I would have really rather that I were mentioning the death of the Commie scumbag Castro about 40-50 years ago, rather than now (course, my blog wasn't up yet then, nor any other blogs, come to think of it, nor the internet. Oh, plus I didn't know how to read and write back then)

Anyhow, between Trump's electoral victory and Castro kicking it, November was a good news month, powerful-people wise. However, most all the pundits have forgotten to give many words about the death of another tyrant, the Commie Janet Reno. We, at PeakStupidity are very glad about this too.

Yes, we lost* Miss Reno on November 7th, just before the presidential election, so she has been rotting in hell for almost a month already. I got to that link just by binging, so I don't know about the rest of that forum site. They do have some parting words about the butcher of Waco though, if you didn't make the physical memorial service.

I'm sure the 70-odd men, women, and children that she had gassed, shot-up, and burned in Texas may have also wanted to get in a few words before she met up with, I dunno, Satan!

* By "lost", I mean in the same way that one would "lose" a bad Thai meal or expectorate a 5-day old chunk of phlegm. It's not all bad.

A TRIFECTA indeed.


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Live Dead - Scarlet Begonias/Fire on the Mountain


Posted On: Saturday - December 3rd 2016 7:30PM MST
In Topics:   Music  The Dead

For those totally unfamiliar, that's not the same Fire on the Mountain as the song by the Marshall Tucker Band (a great tune, BTW).

Let your mind go where it needs to:

Listen to Jerry from 3:00 to 5:02. Nobody plays like that, I mean, NOBODY!


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We have not been outed yet as Russian AgitProp ...


Posted On: Saturday - December 3rd 2016 6:56PM MST
In Topics:   Elections '16 - '24  The Russians

... and I'm kinda pissed about it. Of course, I just got this blog going 4 days back, so I could have in no way influenced the successful election of Donald Trump.

I tried to reach the Russian high command about a deal, but I haven't heard much good news yet. The dude asset I had arranged to meet at the NYC B-local 429th St. subway stop did not arrive with my case of vodka and six-pack of caffeinated borscht by the lower-level condom machine as we had arranged on MySpace, so I had to skeedaddle prontomundo to lose my tail. At least I think it was a CIA tail dressed as a stinky homeless guy. We probably just didn't have our watches synched up correctly, yeah, that's it, I think.

But seriously, being accused of working for the Russians just because you advocate for certain (conservative and correct, I might add) politics is something I would be pretty proud of. It reminds me of when the blogger who was the real first guy to break the ATF/Holder Justice Dept. gunwalker deal, Mike Vanderbough, got mentioned by Bill Clinton. That's definitely something to brag about.

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Post 3 in the form of a an allegory


Posted On: Saturday - December 3rd 2016 6:27PM MST
In Topics:   Commies

I just thought a story would be funnier than what I originally wrote.

I was on the horn with the treasurer of our local communist party chapter yesterday, and he seemed all bent out of shape about the fact that I was behind on dues - just a matter of months is all, maybe 30 - 36 months. He's going on about "show me the money" and so on, and I'm all "Yo, cut a comrade some slack, OK, from each according to his ablity, and to each according to his needs, man".

Man, this hardass didn't want to hear any of this. I mean come on, I told him about the fact that I was hard up lately due to all the money for the (8-day, 7-night) cruise up the Huang He in Red (note Red, right, not the other colored one) China on the tour of Chairman Mao's and the Gang of Four's grave sites, and drinking establishments. It wasn't cheap, lemme tell ya. There was the other communist-culture enriching trip to Leningrad, which we couldn't find for the life of us on the maps, once we got to Russia. Apparently, it's been changed, and "where was the memo, Comrade?", I berated him.

Anyway, to explain further, I was all "dude, you've got to break some eggs to make an omelot." to which he replied, vehemenently, I might add, "that's why we need your damn dues money, bitch, we bought 50 dozen eggs to make omelots with, along with 5 gallons of Aunt Babushka syrup, for the Lenin/Trotsky memorial breakfast. I didn't notice you redistributing any of the 4 sausage omelots you downed, comrade!"

I apologized eventually as I don't want to be purged (though I eventually purged my omelets), and promised I would be a paid-up card-carrying member of the party by the end of the current 5-year plan, or at least the next one.


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How I Ended up in a Psych Ward on Election Night


Posted On: Saturday - December 3rd 2016 6:00PM MST
In Topics:   Lefty MegaStupidity  Websites  Humor

Not me, this is another dude. It is downright hilarious, but unbelievably-unintentionally so.

TRIGGER WARNING: This article is in the Huffington Post, which I would not ordinarily read nor link to. If I ever do again, you have my permission right now to put me in the psych ward (but not the same room as this f__king guy, please!). I got this link off another guy's site, and he was right that it was worth it.

BTW, some of the commenters are smart, say 5-8 % of 'em. That surprised me, as the the HuffPo censors must have been unavailable (maybe having rotated too many into the psych ward?)

Since I'm a youtube emedding fool, here's just 3-4 seconds of George Costanza 5:34 - 5:38, in case the time interval doesn't take on your browser:




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Blast from the past / funny comments


Posted On: Friday - December 2nd 2016 6:31PM MST
In Topics:   Music

While not the kind of consistent, erudite, and funny comments that can be read at zerohedge, youtube often has some funny stuff. Here's a great song from the '70's you won't hear much elsewhere along with a comment at which I LLOL'd (Literally Laughed Out Loud):

Riff Raff2 weeks ago

Great, all this time in my mind's eye I thought some hot foxy southern chick from the Ozarks was singing this song. Now I'm almost questioning my sexuality as if I don't have enough crap to deal with. Thanks for nothing Black Oak Arkansas!

Ha, ha, I also always had thought it was a chick singing, but, hey what does Black Oak Arkansas got to do with it (though I could see the confusion).

I really like this verse that was not in the single version (i.e. played on the radio at the time):

Every day, in your indigo eyes
I watch the sunset but I don't see it rise
Moonlight and stars in your strawberry wine
You'd take the world but you won't take the time


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Even super-glue ain't working anymore


Posted On: Friday - December 2nd 2016 9:17AM MST
In Topics:   Cheap China-made Crap  Curmudgeonry

The 5-year old packs of small super-glue tubes got all solidified, so you can't really stock up on this stuff, I've learned. Now, even stuff from this 1-year old 3-pack I bought is crap. I tried to glue a reflector back on my car, and the stuff came out really thin, and sticks to my fingers well enough, but, unfortunately, not the car.

Along with the peak stupidity curve comes a same shape curve of the inverse of product quality, call it craptidude, but only set back about 30 years or so. You can't buy much that you know is quality anymore, or at least, it's a lot of trouble to find it. For some reason this makes me think of the movie Idiocracy. I would like to link the reader to the entire movie (made by Mike Judge, of B/B and KOH fame (Beavis/Butthead, King of the Hill)), as I know one used to be able to download the entire thing, but I can't find the whole thing now. It's not only amazingly prescient, but also funny as hell.

OK, here's a sample. The scene picks up where our protagonist starts to first realize he has been accidently transported 500 years into the future, where, it turns out, he is at that point the smartest guy in the world. In the scene here, he is talking to his doctor:

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