Some Great News (for a change)
Posted On: Friday - November 19th 2021 12:30PM MST
In Topics: Liberty/Libertarianism ctrl-left
He's been acquitted on all charges.
Peak Stupidity wrote a few days after Kyle Rittenhouse shot the 3 antifa Commies that his shooting them was very obviously done in self-defense and was an excellent job at it, at that. See Kyle's Life Matters.
This case was one of 3 related cases we discussed in Three trials for the purpose of crushing American resistance, but it was the most important. If the Establishment legal system is going to put us in jeopardy for simple acts of self-defense, then things have gone very far down the road toward Communist oppression.
The jurors of Kenosha have struck a blow against the ctrl-left's march to take us down this road. Their doing the right thing has not only vindicated Kyle Rittenhouse for his 2 1/2 blows to the ctrl-left, but, more importantly, it gives the rest of us patriotic Americans much more confidence that we can stop these people, without going directly to civil war.
It's not like the Commies will just give up and go home though. We just have more time than we'd have had if this verdict had gone the other way. Even personally, this verdict has had an effect on my thinking for the long-term plans of my family.
Nice going jurors! Nice job, Kyle Rittenhouse!
PS: I've got ~ 20 posts in mind, backed up here. This good news needed to get on the site. It's not as if Peak Stupidity often reports on current events in a timely manner. Enjoy it while it lasts. ;-}
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The 1/6 Political Prisoners will NOT be sung of in a U-2 song
Posted On: Thursday - November 18th 2021 10:13AM MST
In Topics: US Police State Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government
It fits in well with the subject of this post that I could not easily find a picture for the top that showed the 1/6/21 protestors being arrested, jailed, or perhaps visited in jail? Why no pictures?
I'll tell you why there aren't easily available pictures. I doubt that there was any chance for family, friends, and other supporters to even have a chance to talk to them once "our" Federal Police Force got ahold of each. Peak Stupidity has written hardly anything about the plight of these patriotic Americans who did nothing more illegal and dastardly than trespass on Federal (well, "OUR") property. We had posts about the event itself (see Patriots Breach the Senate, The Battering of Sick Nick, No Justice for Ashlii Babbitt, and Murderer of Ashli Babbitt revealed: Michael Leroy Byrd), but nothing about what's happened to these Americans.
That's out of sheer disgust at the evil we see now in the Feral Gov't in the Washington Federal Shithole. The idea of the site is to write about stupidity, not so much pure evil. They do go hand-in-hand a lot though. Here's the basic formula (derived, I gotta assume, from Newton's Laws of Motion or the 1st Law of Thermodynamics as almost everything else is): Stupidity + Power = Evil.
There was a post going around the web recently containing a letter that is supposed to be from one of these men stuck for months now without trial in jail in Washington, F.S. Maybe someone else here can tell me if it's legit, but I have no reason to doubt the extremely poor treatment of these prisoners, health-wise and Constitution-wise. This is more 3rd-Worldly behavior here, much more important to those involved, of course, than my experience among the 3rd-Worldly crowd at a fast food joint.
I don't know how many Americans know what's going on there. Washington, F.S. is filled with wanna'-be Woodward & Bernstein media types, so you'd think a few of them might be on the egregious story for us. Nah. I they had a story about people held under conditions like this in El Salvador or Peru by the right-wing, we could read whole articles in the NY Times or Washington Post about it.*
Why are the no big protests on the streets about this by American patriots? My quick answer is that most American patriots have jobs. Back in the 1960's there'd be crowds outside the jail building all hours of the day and night. It'd be one big protest party, till they let the guys out, which they would.** The divide between left and right aligns pretty well with the line between Americans with real jobs and those without.
Will Americans (and I do include myself here) get out in mass rallies for the January 6th political prisoners? It's sad to see it written about this country, but there's no way around it. These people are nothing other than political prisoners.
Back in the day, the music artists of the left, which are, say 95% of them, would get political in their songs. If one just listened for the music (as to Neil Young's guitar in Cortez the Killer), it didn't matter. However, I remember one particular with a theme about those poor political prisoners or missing children down in ... wherever. That one was U-2's Mothers of the Disappeared. I DID listen to the lyrics of that song. Would U-2 ever be so kind as to write a song about America's political prisoners, stuck down in a dungeon in the capital for daring to trespass in a government building?
(C'mon, Bono, drawing a blank, are you?)
* That's not to say I'd ever get it directly from those outlets of the Lyin' Press.
** The left knows how to do Constitutionality, when it helps them out, that is.
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Awaiting the important Kyle Rittenhouse verdict
Posted On: Wednesday - November 17th 2021 8:09PM MST
In Topics: Liberty/Libertarianism ctrl-left Guns
As I wrote in this post yesterday, the fact that Peak Stupidity has not spent much time discussing the Kyle Rittenhouse trial doesn't mean it's not extremely important. Most of our readers have likely found other, hopefully conservative/libertarian outlets to read about or watch parts of this trial. The name of the site is Peak Stupidity, after all, so we cover the stupidity more than the evil.
Just as an example of why I can't get myself to follow these (even the important) high profile court cases: I heard a little snippet of some question of Mr. Rittenhouse by one of the prosecutors. (Was it Binger?) This was on someone’s phone, some TV at the airport, I can’t remember exactly, from a couple of days ago, no less.
To paraphrase:
“So you wanted to kill them.”
“They were threatening me, so I shot them.”
“You shot them because you wanted to kill them.”
“No, I …”
…
(It went at least 2, maybe 3 more times around.)
I know he’s only 17 y/o, and I think of better things to say later too, but I wish Kyle had said:
“I shot them because I wanted to stop them… to stop them from trying to kill me.”
That is a small part of the reason I wouldn’t want to follow all of the details on TV. Blood pressure. High blood pressure induced by prosecutors I suppose “just doing their jobs”.
Kyle was a cool character out on the street that night, and it also takes a lot of cool to calmly answer that line of questioning. If I would have not been coached for hours on it, I’m guessing I would have called the prosecutor a retard early on.
It's not stupidity but evil that in a supposed Constitutional Republic like America, Kyle Rittenhouse would have to defend his actions in Kenosha, Wisconsin that 2020 August night to begin with. We all know his actions were obviously done in urgent self defense.
We await the verdict now, just as a Presidential election result. The outcome of this trial is very important. If Kyle gets convicted on a murder charge, Americans will know that the Establishment – Feral Gov’t, local government, law enforcement, “justice” system, and all the rest – will throw the book at them for defending their culture (Charlottesville trials), their property (Brunswick, GA trial), and their very lives (in this one).
That would make most Americans stand down and let Totalitarianism reign, as most Americans have been seen to be cowardly, so far. However, those who are not will understand that it’s an all or nothing thing now, with patriots against the entire establishment. There are people who will take this to heart. Some of these people don’t post on blogs about any of this. These are the types that, if they do, will tell you that “after the first one, the rest are free.”
Hopefully, there will be an acquittal. Riots or no riots, many more Americans will be out there with rifles to defend their property and lives than before the unpleasantness in Kenosha.
This trial has been a long shot for the ctrl-left Establishment. I am very glad that the lead prosecutor looked like he may as well have been picked by someone on our side. If this goes the wrong way, it may be because the ctrl-left and the Lyin' Press sycophants have made indirect but obvious threats to the jurors. There's no belief in rule of law there, just mob tactics.
If Kyle is found guilty, well, at least Americans have no excuse for denying the truth about who is the ctrl-left Establishment that rules the country now.
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The one-side stories of the Lyin' Press - Yahoo version
Posted On: Tuesday - November 16th 2021 9:42PM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity Websites Media Stupidity Educational Stupidity
This yahoo headline gives only one side of the story. We are supposed to believe it, as is. Many do. I include myself here, as many times we may get some news from just the scanning of headlines. I suppose yahoo counts on that, like the rest of the Lyin' Press. You tend to see the lying-by-omission when you've already read more on the rest of the story.
I try to avoid even glancing at the yahoo fake news headlines the page appears after I log out of an email account. Sometimes I can't get the tab closed in time. The screenshot above is from one of those times. I went ahead and clicked on that one for this post's sake and for the sake of my curiosity about how they were going to spin the story of school boards' shutting down of speech against the anti-White lessons and Feral Gov't Attorney's General* threats to label concerned Americans as terrorist 180 degrees.
What yahoo did in their article 'I Don't Want to Die for It': School Board Members Face Rising Threats was to spend much of the article fixating on one story about one Oregon City, Corvallis, and one Corvallis, Oregon School Board member, one Sami Al-Abdrabbuh. You might guess where Mr. Al-Abdrabbuh stands on White people.
Like many school board races this year, the one in May in Corvallis, a left-leaning college town in the northwest corner of the state, was especially contentious, swirling around concerns not only about the coronavirus pandemic but also the teaching of what Al-Abdrabbuh called the “dark history” of America’s struggle with race.Back in Mr. Al-Abdrabbuh's old country, back in the day, well, OK, a sometimes now too, black people were/are taken by the millions as slaves, the males being castrated and the women being made into sex slaves. The good thing is, there was not much of a struggle.
I gotta say, I can kinda see this guy inducing a bit of animosity from the good people of Corvallis, Oregon. The trouble began:
It was only days after Sami Al-Abdrabbuh was reelected to the school board in Corvallis, Oregon, that the text messages arrived.I dunno. I'm guessing the guy with the picture of the shot-up campaign sign was a friend, not the guy at the range. Who knows? It's yahoo news.
The first, he said, was a photograph taken at a shooting range. It showed one of his campaign’s lawn signs — “Re-Elect Sami” — riddled with bullet holes.
The second was a warning from a friend. This one said that one of their neighbors was looking for Al-Abdrabbuh. The neighbor was threatening to kill him.
Even months later, Al-Abdrabbuh, chair of the school board, is still taking precautions. He regularly speaks to police and scans his driveway in the morning before walking to his car. He often mixes up his daily route to work.Do yourself a favor then, Al-Abdrabbuh, along with the people of Corvallis, and quit. Per further down in the story, you're not helping the kids:
“I love serving on the school board,” he said. “But I don’t want to die for it.”
His opponent, Bryce Cleary, a local doctor, often complained that conservative voices were not being heard by board members, some of whom, he said, were “pushing political agendas.” At one candidate forum, Cleary argued that the board under Al-Abdrabbuh’s leadership had spent more time on inclusion and diversity than on math and science.Regarding a school district on the other side of the country, Brevard County, Florida, we hear of a Miss Jenkins from the school board:
“The problem is our schools are not doing what they’re supposed to do,” Cleary said.
Then in July, after the district put in place a mask mandate for students, a Republican state lawmaker posted Jenkins’ cellphone number on his Facebook page, and her voicemail filled with hateful messages. Not long after, she said, someone burned the letters “FU” into her lawn with weed killer and chopped down the bushes in front of her house."Hateful" has been watered down to saying something you disagree with, so that doesn't impress me. Burning "FU" into her lawn with the weed killer is clever and easier than painting it on the driveway in the middle of the night, so a B for creativity. I don't condone chopping down bushes though, ... other than those sticker-leaved Hollies that really deserve it.
In California, always the vanguard of Educational and all kinds of other stupidity,
Near Sacramento, he wrote, one entire school board had to flee its chamber after protesters accosted the members.What kind of sick business was the board up to that induced this amount of animosity? They don't say. I read nothing about the Dad in Loudoun County, Virginia who's daughter was raped by a skirt-wearing man in the girls' bathroom. He was arrested for getting a little upset and physical at the school board meeting there, as rape was covered up and the culprit unpunished. Yahoo didn't have space to mention this bit.
Meanwhile back on the West Coast:
In one extreme case, in suburban San Diego, a group of people protesting mask mandates disrupted a school board meeting in September. After taking an unauthorized vote, they summarily installed themselves as the district’s new board.Ha! Nice job,guys! Now that there's democracy in action ... OK, unauthorized democracy.
Sorry, but these school board members brought this on themselves by refusing to listen to parents who want none of the anti-White teaching, the genderbender nuttiness being taught to their kids and practiced in the bathrooms, and the PanicFest procedures. People have had enough. One man's "hurling of obscenities" and "menacing disruptions" are another man's only way to get through to these people.
Merrick Garland's siccing of the FBI on complaining parents is mentioned. The sickness that is being taught to our kids is not. Has yahoo ever published articles giving the other side of the story?
PS: I'll give yahoo writer Alan Feuer credit for one thing in this article though: "Republican attorneys general* in 17 states ..."
* There's some William Safire level prose there. I almost wrote "Attorney Generals". I ask myself WWWSW. He has been known to order "Two Whoppers Junior" at the BK.
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Prosecutor Thomas Binger on Gun Control
Posted On: Tuesday - November 16th 2021 6:52AM MST
In Topics: Legal Stupidity Guns
It was a demo. It was a demo on what NOT to do when handling guns. Here, from inside the courtroom, as seen at an angle from the court observers' view, the people on the right side of the room having a view right down the barrel.
As noted before, Peak Stupidity can't cover everything, and we try to concentrate on stupidity vs. evil. We'll write a short post to come on this, but suffice it to say here that, though we have only watched or kept with a very few details of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, we DO think this is one of the most important trials there has been in a long time. I mean, there shouldn't' have been ANY trial at all, due to no good reason for charges to be filed. However, since patriot and hero Kyle Rittenhouse IS on trial for murder or manslaughter, it's very important to the country that the right of self-defense be upheld here.
11 days back on this site, in an unduly long and rambling post, we declared that there are Three trials for the purpose of crushing American resistance. Kyle Rittenhouse's is the most important of the 3. The ctrl-left would like nothing better than for Americans to understand that any defense of their property and very lives against the ctrl-left's street thugs of any race, creed, or national original will not go unpunished.
Again, without having read many details, I did come across (per VDare, as usual), this post by PJ Media's* Stephen Green about lead prosecuting attorney Thomas Binger's demo of how not to handle guns during his closing arguments. See WHOA: Rittenhouse Prosecutor Thomas Binger Aims AR-15 at People in Courtroom, Finger on the Trigger.
As an owner of multiple firearms, I am not as regulated as I would like to be. WHOA! (as the Vodka-man said), no, by "not as regulated" I mean not as in practice and disciplined. I haven't been to the range in a long time. (I am very partial to outdoor shooting.) Even so, gun safety has been ingrained in me since I got my first .22 rifle. I will slightly adjust Vodkapundit's 3 very basic rules, in his post, that idiot prosecutor Binger violated, and right there in front of everybody, on camera!
1) In terms of where it's aimed, you handle every gun as if it is loaded.
2) You never aim your weapon at something you aren't ready to shoot.
3) You never put your finger inside the trigger guard until you are ready to shoot.
(Yes, in the picture, it looks like the chamber is open, but this still violates the rules. You just don't do this.)
The ever so occasionally snarky Instapundit remarked that "Alec Baldwin was unavailable for comment."
OK, that was funny, but let me put it seriously. I don't give a rat's ass about who shoots whom in Hollywood. If it all imploded over there that'd be a positive for America. Thomas Binger is the lead prosecuting attorney of this very important self-defense shooting case. There, in his closing arguments, he handled a rifle as Nancy Pelosi and other left-wing gun-controlling scum would, who know nothing about guns. It does not help his case at all the Mr. Binger seems to know jack-squat about guns himself. It not helping the case, well, that's also good for America!
PS: We hope to hear about an acquittal soon, but as many have discussed, the ctrl-left's mob actions of threatening jurors may make a difference.
* Stephen Green is one of Instapundit's** (Univ. of Tennessee Law Professor Glenn Reynolds') main pundits. I had no idea till now that he is one and the same as the Vodkapundit.
** Number 1 on the Peak Stupidity blogroll, 5 years running ...
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Mass Stupidity
Posted On: Saturday - November 13th 2021 7:38PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Humor Kung Flu Stupidity
Seen by the Peak Stupidity staff out in the field:
I'm pretty sure this is Kung Flu related, as this was taken recently. i believe the owner was a bit pissed off at all the labor problems that have been part of the fall-out from the Kung Flu PanicFest stupidity. Perhaps there were still partial LOCKDOWNs going on.
I checked and there IS a Mass Stupidity website, and, not only that, it is pretty much politically aligned with Peak Stupidity from what I've seen on it so far. I'll have to write him a comment.
More Peak Stupidity next week. It'll likely include that 2nd book review, 3 separate "read this!" posts, and more on the vaccination mandates, probably the most important acute issue right now .. oh, and some music, we've not put that much up lately. Thank you very much for reading and/or commenting!
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Peak Stupidity position paper on The Vax
Posted On: Saturday - November 13th 2021 6:53PM MST
In Topics: Healthcare Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
["Position paper"?! Keep this up, and we can get away with soliciting for funding - PS Accounting Department, kinda tired of working for nuthin']
(I wish it were an anti-hysteria booster.)
Since we realized that this Kung Flu PanicFest was no flash-in-the-pan in early April of '20, Peak Stupidity has covered this form of stupidity consistently, with (hey!) exactly 200 posts with the Kung Flu Stupidity topic key, counting this one.*
There have been various flavors of this Kung Flu stupidity, and Peak Stupidity has concentrated our efforts on the face masking business more than any other one item. One could say that this part of the PanicFest is not nearly as important as others. No doubt the LOCKDOWNSs were the most Totalitarian imposition of a Built Back Better Police State, till recently, that is. The LOCKDOWNs were excoriated here, but mostly likely due to my being in a reasonable State/area, that was a short period, seeming like long ago, that I've able to leave behind. That doesn't at all negate the fact that precedents have been set. Then, there is the financial and societal fall-out too.
Then, there is the Social Distancing crapola. I should say "was". I see hardly anyone who takes that stupidity seriously anymore, much less complies. We just had our follow-up on S.D. Elevator etiquette, and maybe a quick rundown post on what I've seen is in order. As for me personally, I think back, and I don't recall ANY time, from the very beginning that I ever took it seriously, or that I ever complied with ANY of it. Even back with the floor-sitcker-guided shopping buggy lines in Target, I had to get in that line, but I didn't worry about where I stood or rolled. I used to note others getting wary about it, but it's not even a thought for me, excepting when I see some idiotic poster still up on a wall or window.
The mandating of the COVID-19 experimental vaccines have taken the lead now in Kung Flu Totalitarianism. This one didn't start out as anything to be worried about. I figured if people wanted to get this vaccine, more power to them This is a Libertarian site (along with Conservative - see this post) - so I have no problem with anyone else doing harm to his own body. Additionally, I liked that this vaccine, whatever its medical effects might be, had the emotional effect on its experimentees of getting them to calm the hell down about the dreaded Covid-one-niner. It was fairly successful in this, I'd say, for individuals.
But, then why do we keep hearing about the Covid-one-niner, almost as much as in April of '20? Of course, the Lyin' Press want to keep this PanicFest (Season 3 now!) gravy train rolling along. Why do people still listen though? Most are no longer in panic mode about the virus, per my observation, as discussed above. Well, most of what we hear or read is about the vaccine now. It turns out that no, you can still contract the Kung Flu. Oh, and you can still spread the same virus around, maybe even quicker than those poor un-vaccinated bastards. Maybe you won't get nearly as sick if you go get it. If that's the case, good on you.
I see no common sense reason that individuals should have any more big concern about this virus. After all, if you've been vaccinated, well, pat yourself on the back if you want, or just be glad you made that decision (possibly the right thing still for some). You shouldn't be concerned about us unvaccinated. We're not doing you any harm. We unvaxxed are obviously not that concerned. Some of us never have been.
Why, then, was the vaccine first pushed on us increasingly more vociferously by media, government, and Big Biz, and then recently been demanded of us via direct threats to our jobs, careers, freedom of travel, and, in some places, ability to live life normally? That'll be the subject of a subsequent post. The statement here will be the personal position on it for me and my family.
With a face mask on only in positions where I'd be fired otherwise or dragged out of the store, that total lack of participation in the Social Distancing, and working around people from all over the place, I am pretty sure I've been exposed to this bug. I've also hung out with people daily who tested positive, stayed home for their 10 days (back when they took this seriously) and got nothing but a spell of weakness, upset stomach for a few hours, etc. I got nuthin'
I’ve been told to stay home from work 3 separate times due to having worked closely with people with the Kung Flu. (They can’t tell you who it was due to HIPAA laws.) All 3 times I had no symptoms, and I told them I’d be glad to come in to work. Nope.
I've written a few times about my wife's participation in the PanicFest from April '20 through about early summer of that year. Yeah, like the guy in Monty Python's Holy Grail who got turned into a newt, well, she got better...** At this point, she's not quite as tired of this PanicFest as me, but she is even more anti-vax than I am, at the risk of her job.
I have already told the story of another family member whose immediate boss helped him get a religious waiver through, so that he wouldn't take the retirement package - see Just another Maskless Monday. There is one who has taken the vaccine. She is at the age where it might do some good against the virus. However, she had ill effects from one of the booster shots, getting a type of condition that she's never had before. As for the rest of us, we're not getting it, and, not only that, not a one of us has ever tested positive for Covid-19, as, like the Amish, we have seen no reason to get tested cause we don't watch TV.
Until reading more and more about the ill effects of these vaccines, I'd based my decision to avoid this thing based on:
1) No benefit I could foresee by taking it, vs. no harm in not taking it.
2) The whole idea that any government in this country should have the power to force Americans to make this important medical decision in favor of getting an experimental vaccine with KNOWN ill effects. (As commenters here have mentioned, a Swine Flu vaccine in the 1970's was completely discontinued over a 2-digit number of deaths due to it, yet these ones have caused 1000 times and maybe 10,000 times as many.)
Now, my decision to not take the Kung Flu vaccine is based on medical worries as well.
That's the situation here at Peak Stupidity headquarters. I will
* We started writing about it in January of '20, but the first 2 were China- oriented, then from late February until it was no longer a joke by April Fools Day (how Bizzaro-Worldly appropriate).
** That movie and The Life of Brian have so many scenes that crack me up to no end!
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Florida Panicker-in-Chief Daniel Uhlfelder, his Dad, and family traditions
Posted On: Friday - November 12th 2021 10:08PM MST
In Topics: Student and other Snowflakes Political Correctness Bible/Religion Kung Flu Stupidity President DeSantis
The regular Peak Stupidity reader may remember the name of the Grim Reaper above from our post They hate him for his freedoms!. "They" would be the shyster lawyer decked out above, whose human (as much as a lawyer can be) name is Daniel Uhlfelder. "Him" would be Florida anti-Panic Governor Ron DeSantis*. If you want to see extreme stupidity, an outlier that is above and beyond the smoothed out peak we expect, go watch the video made by Mr. Uhlfelder in that post. It was made to disparage Governor DeSantis, but for most of us, does quite the opposite.
Mr. E. H. Hail, on his Hail to You blog had a very detailed post on the background of this character last month, On Daniel Uhlfelder, major Corona-activist and Panic-pusher; an exploration on why some embraced the Corona-Panic to balance out his previous post with very detailed information on the background of the Governor. Fair and balanced, that's the deal.
Well, in the comments, Mr. Adam Smith embedded a video he had dug up of Dan Uhlfelder's Dad Steve that was very informative for the point of the discussion of the politics of this man as a function of his genetics and family background. Steve Uhlfelder has been a lefty activist lawyer since the 1960s, and the son has tried to fill his father's shoes.
This video is of a recent Tallahassee City Council meeting in which Steve Uhlfelder spends spends time to berate that city's Police Chief for attending a Christian Evangelical meeting on his own time. I don't want to repeat the Hail to You post and the discussion in the comments below it. I just found a few things in this video below to remark on:
(You could get away with watching only the first 03:45 to see what Mr. Uhlfelder has to stay, or watch the rest, of which I'll comment about too.)
What is it that motivates people like Steve Uhlfelder? What he does here is not for money. It's not likely to get him and attention as a promotion (such as the stunts his son pulled with the Kung Flu). Steve Uhlfelder is Jewish, from both his father and mother (Mr. Hail has lots and lots of family background). I get that the Billy Graham conference is not to HIS liking, but why does he care that much, even it had been improper for the Larry Revell, the Police Chief, to have gone to that conference. Does he fight every single instance of improper conduct in the city of Tallahassee like this?
The thing is, America has always had a Christian majority. Ya gotta know that going in (and in it was, as Steve Uhlfelder's father and his mother's parents were all immigrants). Yet, per Mr. Hail again, Steve Uhlfeld's Dad was a highly political lefty and he had an uncle who was a Canadian Communist. This stuff runs deep in the family. There seemed to be no gratitude whatsoever shown by these immigrants to Christian America for their being left alone to worship the way THEY wanted to and do business in America.
Why does one feel he has to continually work at destroying the Christian roots, maybe all the roots, of his host society like this?
OK, that stuff was discussed in Mr. Hail's post and comments, to I'll add my thoughts on the City Commission meeting in the video. Though the subject, for a change, was not the Kung Flu, I saw all others but Mr. Uhlfelder and Chief Revell wear face diapers throughout. That was disgusting to see, and it DOES impede communication. This is in Florida, for crying out loud. I wonder if there is any law in Tallahassee requiring masking up at these meetings.
More importantly, there is the cuckiness of everyone involved. That is, besides Steve Uhlfelder, who, being the lefty, can get all his opinions in in full. Everyone else who talked at the meeting had to cow-tow to the BLT-G** principles that Mr. Uhlfelder had brought up to show that Chief Revell was a very bad man, by association with the late Billy Graham, who read the Bible a lot. Chief Revell had to couch everything he said with support for all of the woke stuff that his detractor pushed and has pushed his whole life, in general. That's really not the best way to defend one's self against people like Steve Uhlfelder.
Steve Uhlelder is the type that will push and push, with no permanent compromise. Just his wasting the taxpayers money to have these nearly a dozen Tallahassee civil "servants" be in this meeting listening to his silly gripe shows that Mr. Uhlfelder will keep on pushing. I would think his son Daniel, Florida Panicker-in-Chief, is the same way.
This whole video was pathetic! Larry Revell is Chief of Police of a medium-sized city, but yet still a snowflake in nature (or that was his act). I would have really like to have seen just one of these officials, preferably the Police Chief or Mayor, show some guts. "Your gripe is stupid. We have better things to do with out time. Put on your face diaper and get the fuck out." People have gotta STAND UP for themselves. What you see in the video is how we lose.
* ... on whom the Peak Stupidity blog has the closest thing to a blogger-crush that this blogger can muster - see Federalism Rumble: DeSantis v Bai Dien
** Bacon Lettuce and Tomato, with Guacamole on the side, is how I remember it.
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Isn't it Time - The Babys
Posted On: Thursday - November 11th 2021 10:51PM MST
In Topics: Music
Just as our book review yesterday was apropos of nothing, it's the same with this song featured tonight. I saw it on youtube and realized I hadn't heard the great 1970s hit in years.
The band was called The Babys (yeah, spelled that way), and it was not one that I would have ever kept up with or known the names of the members and what they played. However, the name John Waite stuck out as one I remember. Not to be confused with the musician Tom Wait, John Waite had a 1984 song Missing You that was also a hit.
The Babys were a 1970s (basically) British band. Isn't it Time came out in 1977, and their other hit, Every Time I Think of You came out a year later.
Oh yeah, before you watch, please be aware that many male musicians dressed and looked like this in the 1970s. In this video John Waite looks just like like David Bowie did for a while. It's not like today, where they go to the doctor, and they want to be referred to with certain pronouns. Those musicians in the 1970s did not STAY THAT WAY!
The Babys:
John Waite - lead vocals, bass guitar
Michael Corby - keyboards, rhythm guitar
Wally Stocker - lead guitar
Tony Brock - drums
The backing vocalists, Lisa Freeman-Roberts, Myrna Matthews and Pat Henderson, are a big part of this song.
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Italian health mob sings.
Posted On: Thursday - November 11th 2021 12:11PM MST
In Topics: Humor World Political Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
"Imagine my muddah! Yo, I wanna' see some serious co-morbidities, capiche?!"
The thing about Peak Stupidity is, we don't subscribe to that whole not nice to say "I told you so!" dogma. This one is doozy of an opportunity to exercise our lack of adherence to that. From a (pretty cool from a first glance at other headlines) site called Summit News, there is an article about some interesting Italian Kung Flu news. It tells us the Italian Institute of Health Drastically Reduces Its Official COVID Death Toll Number..
They do mean "DRASTIC", let me tell ya':
The Italian Higher Institute of Health has drastically reduced the country’s official COVID death toll number by over 97 per cent after changing the definition of a fatality to someone who died from COVID rather than with COVID.Hey, not MY bolding. I didn't do it. Well, sure, this just shows us that our EXPERTS are human too. The SCIENCE? It's human too. 97% is still an A right? Oh, 97% off is not, OK.
Italian newspaper Il Tempo reports that the Institute has revised downward the number of people who have died from COVID rather than with COVID from 130,000 to under 4,000.
Of the of the 130,468 deaths registered as official COVID deaths since the start of the pandemic, only 3,783 are directly attributable to the virus alone.We panic deniers are still not outta the
“All the other Italians who lost their lives had from between one and five pre-existing diseases. Of those aged over 67 who died, 7% had more than three co-morbidities, and 18% at least two,” writes Young.
Despite the change, Italy may yet take the decision to make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory, although how such a scheme would be imposed remains unspecified.Oh! Thinka my muddah! Looks like we're still gonna need a wartime consigliere. String along that Peak Stupidity guy for a while, Christopher. You give him a nice calzone, some of Carmela's pasta, and gallon bottle of Lambrusco once in a while, eh? He likes that shrink too, occasionally, what's her name, Jennifer. Next time a bunch of face diapers fall offa da truck somewheres in Hoboken, give Peak Stupidity summa that action. Dis ain't over!
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Norco '80 - Book Review
Posted On: Wednesday - November 10th 2021 8:48PM MST
In Topics: California Books Legal Stupidity Guns
Yet again, I got a (perhaps inadvertent) recommendation for a book from the Unz Review. This one may have even been from the words of Steve Sailer himself, rather than a commenter, since he is a long-term resident of the City of Angels, the area in which the true story in Peter Houlahan's book Norco '80 takes place.
Norco is the name of the town - in the LA basin many hundreds of these towns are separated only via lines on the map - in which the robbery of the Security Pacific Bank branch took place on May 9th of 1980. It's not the robbery itself, but the big stationary and then rolling shootout for a big part of the day on a big stretch of the eastern basin, right up into the mountains, that is the story. Regarding "Norco", that is a strange name for a town. Additionally, though I have been around that area and known the names of hundreds of them, I'd never heard of Norco till reading this book. It's on the north side of Riverside County, which abuts the east side of Orange Country, and includes the other 90% of the way across California to the Colorado River.*
Speaking of this LA basic geography, one first gripe about this book is that there are no decent maps in it. Besides just showing the general location of the event there was the long the car chase, and one had to either look elsewhere or imagine where all these places are. There is just one line drawing of the bank area made by a sheriff's deputy at the beginning of the 8 page section of B&W pictures. The pictures section is nice though.
Just to go back to the beginning, well, the very beginning is the inside of the book jacket, with a bit of exaggerated hype, written by I don't know who. After Peak Stupidity's having extolled mid-20th-century California as being the best time/place to have ever lived (for the average guy), the book jacket, the Author's Note, and the Prologue, 1973 Orange Country, California, make the place and time seem like an apocalyptic nightmare. Sure, by the late 1970s, inflation was high and Disco was King, but, man, this is what the jacket says:
... Norco '80 transports the reader back to the Southern California of the 1970's, an era of predatory evangelical gurus, doomsday predictions, megachurches, and soaring crime rates, with the threat of nuclear obliteration looming over it all.Man, whatever this guy is smoking, it's a whole lot stronger than anything they had in the 1970s! The nuclear threat was much bigger in the 1950s and '60s, megachurches are really a 1990s+ thing, and I'd guess 90% of Southern Californians lived a nice middle-class life in which no family member was any real part of any of that.
I guess this was the stage the Mr. Houlahan wanted to set, as the bank robbers themselves WERE into the evangelical, End Times/Revelation-based thoughts, were preppers of their day, and planned the bank robbery to get to a bug-out location away from Southern California. They had Utah in mind. (Even so, they had dug a pretty good bunker for themselves in the back yard of their Mira Linda house.)
Southern Californians George Smith (the leader), the Harven brothers, Chris and Russell, and the Mexican Delgado brothers, Billy and Manny, were the bank robbers. It does sound a lot like the old-timey desperados, as if off an old Eagles album, not so old at the time. The latter set of brothers, Billy and Manny Delgado were both killed by the next morning, Billy at the scene in the getaway van and Manny much later on in that long, day actually the next morning, up in the mountains.**
OK, no more details, or I'll be at this all night. Once the stage was set (and the sun was sinking low down...) by the chapters about the background of these desperados, we read about the huge amounts of armaments, including homemade grenades and such, that the group purchased (made, for the grenades) with their remaining money. The plans they made were not bad for young men of that age. One thing the reader should keep in mind about both the robbery and the later events is that that video cameras were not just something one had to worry about back in 1980. (There were still cameras at the bank, of course.) That really makes the thinking different, and it's all be much harder today, if one wanted to actually get away clean.
40% of the book then covers the robbery and subsequent chase. However, 80% of that is the long chase scene. There were so many cop jurisdictions and different vehicles involved, it gets hard to follow them all. They all were chasing a yellow utility-style pickup truck that the robbers had commandeered, and this went on for many hours.
The big thing that distinguished this Norco robbery from others is the amount of firepower that these guys had. No matter what the cops did, and even a few innocent bi-drivers did, these guys would shoot back with semi-auto fire from a selection of weapons. They weren't going to run out of ammo anytime soon either. If you like chase scenes and shooting, you're gonna like this part. This section is one big long chase scene and much better than that boring one in The French Connection.
The remainder of the book, 50% or so, is about the aftermath, which was a drawn out trial of the 3 remaining bank robbers, George Smith and the Harven brothers, each tried separately. I am not a follower of this sort of thing, but it is interesting enough to round out the book nicely, if possibly making it 50 or 100 pages too long.
One of the big points in the book, and I believe this is what brought the book up in the thread in which I learned of it, is the change in law enforcement weapons practices after the Norco robbery and chase. The cops were very much out-gunned that day. I don't like the US Police State, as the modern cops are very much a part of. I do see that this robbery may have accelerated the trend toward the heavily armed, vested, and un-human-like police of our time, in addition to the other causes, such as the donation of military equipment to lots of police forces in America.
One cop, Riverside Sheriff's Deputy Jim Evans, was killed up in the last shootout up in the San Bernardino Mountains. By all accounts in this book he was a decent man a husband and father of an infant at the time. However, this book makes that killing out to be a far bigger thing than anything else that happened during the whole wild event. I understand a murder is the top charge that could have been used against the 3 remaining violent robbers/kidnappers, but I don't like how a cop killing is seen as some kind of above-and-beyond crime.
I'll add a few things about the readability of the book to wrap this up: Again, as in Our Lady of the Forest, the author's lack of quote marks around most the words of the participants was annoying. However, Mr. Houlahan at least explained his purpose in his Epilogue. He only quoted the exact words/phrases uttered by the people involved from his research into the case after the fact. For those he was paraphrasing, or sometimes (he had to be) just making them up for the story, he didn't use quotes. Fair enough, though a word about this in the beginning would have been nice.
Next, though the author wrote that he had to learn about weaponry to write Norco '80, it doesn't read as if he really knows very much about guns. It may be just a typo, but on page 103, he gives energy from an HK91 .308 round at the target as "2,200 pounds". No, that'd be foot-pounds. Another numerical mistake (p. 123) is when he wrote about Bill Crowe of the CA Highway Patrol hauling ass down Bellegrave Avenue, he notes that he covered a half mile in "less than a minute". OK, well, Mr. Houlahan, that's 30 mph, not exactly breakneck speed by anybody's measure!
Besides one "BCE" that I had to correct (it's not a history book, so it's only this one instance, on p. 228 in a discussion of PTSD), I didn't find any other readability annoyances.
If you like true story action books, guns, trial stories, and Southern California, or maybe 2 out of the 4, I recommend Norco '80..
PS: I know, I know, what in Sam Hill does a 1980 bank robbery have to do with the Kung Flu PanicFest, the worries about a mandatory experimental vaccine, the Orwellian, Totalitarian stuff that is coming with it, and the increasing price of tea in China? Nothing, readers, but that's not how Peak Stupidity works. I read a book, and, if there's anything good to say (or I wouldn't have finished it), I figure that's a post.
* It's south of the much bigger San Bernardino County, which covers the east-west mountain range of that name, and north of San Diego and Imperial Counties, going west to east.
** The book says that Manny, wounded up in the mountains, shot himself. I wonder about that one.
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Social Distancing, Chinese Style
Posted On: Tuesday - November 9th 2021 8:31PM MST
In Topics: China Kung Flu Stupidity
(Maybe this was before the Flu Manchu, maybe not.)
As I wrote to Mr. Hail in the comments, as he and others too* might already know, you can't believe everything you read about China. That especially goes for their response to the Flu Manchu. Supposedly "they did it right", with their police having locked people up in the apartment buildings for weeks, and then the contact tracing, just another brick in the Orwellian wall. "Oh, oh, how can you have any mooncakes if you don't bind your feet!"**
I'd seen Japanese people, mostly the women, wearing face masks coming off of the widebody airplanes into the airport terminal back during the '09 Swine Flu or whatever that one was, maybe with some Chinese people mixed in. (Only 12 years ago, but the Chinese people still didn't have the amounts of money for travel then that they have now.) That was weird enough, back in that era of relative sanity, as I figured "at least we aren't so cowardly and silly."
I'd also seen lots of people with face masks on outside, years before this Flu Manchu thing, but they were being worn to filter out smog particles, not viral particles. I don't know how big the masking thing is there now, as I haven't been there since well before the PanicFest started, then the Chinese have their own, possibly more normal-style, vaccine, but what about the Social Distancing stupidity over there? I simply don't see that it can be implemented at all in that country.
A really significant thing that I noticed about China over the many times I was there is that, not only do the Chinese live very close together, but they LIKE living close together. Many times they don't have a choice. However, even in the rural areas, instead of houses on an acre or two, spread apart, they have their pieces of land, but live close together in villages of a few hundred. The city areas are just teeming with people, respectful as they are, too.*** (When I say respectful, I don't include the spitting on the sidewalks. See Show me a nation that can enforce a social distance of 6 ft. ...****.) Mainland China is bad enough, but Hong Kong is ridiculous. You truly have to move along like ants in a line, headed to that goldfish cracker that the kid dropped yesterday right alongside the ants going the other way with one piece at a time, and it didn't cost me a dime ..."
I was in Macau, what the Chinese call Àomén, on the way to the mainland of China by city bus. It was not so easy to maneuver on it due to my having a piece of roll-aboard luggage with me. Well, I found a decent spot, but people kept on squeezing into me. I couldn't move much, even to turn around. The problem was just that I needed to see a little bit to make sure I got off at the right place. "OK, that's got to be all the Chinamen that can fit on this bus" I kept thinking, but, nope, the driver kept making the stops. 5 here, 2 there, getting on, with nobody headed out the front door. (At least nobody was getting pushed in through the windows as in the picture up top.) "How can this go on?!" I was wondering, after a few more stops in which people kept getting on. When I got off the bus is when I finally noticed that people were getting out via the back door. I wasn't able to turn around to see that during the ride.
Yeah, it's crowded over there. The best bet for China with this virus is for it to get around a bit and for the people to build up immunity. Maybe their vaccine is more conventional and not so deadly. We wouldn't know if it isn't. They have not just plain 'beat it", with all the locked-up apartment buildings and now health-scoring phone apps. One thing China is surely no good at is social distancing. Can the Chinese possibly implement the 6 feet apart rule with floor stickers and that? Nah. Fugetaboutit!
* In fact, if Mr. Ganderson would like to chime in sometime about the reports from China from his son there, I'd appreciate it.
** Our interpretation of that line in the Floyd song is discussed here.
*** I'd say that they are. I mean, were the diverse people of NY City this close together, it would be complete mayhem. Even in a White NY City, such as of the 1950s or earlier, well, I guess this has never been tested, as it never has been as crowded as cities in China except in certain parts - the Chinatowns!
**** "... and I'll show you a man who can hawk a loogie 7 feet."
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Will Gruesome Newsome come out?
Posted On: Tuesday - November 9th 2021 10:36AM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity California Healthcare Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
(Some say his saline solution was contaminated with a vaccine of some sort by mistake.)
I know the hard-left Totalitarian of California has been called Gruesome Newsome before, but this appellation may be more fitting now, per rumors that the Governor has gotten some type of syndrome from his booster shot of Kung Flu vaccine. (I read somewhere yesterday that he was mixing and matching types too, but I can't find that right now.) It's kind of fitting that he got this 4 days before Halloween, as he may have become a real Gruesome Newsome after the shot.
Politicians don't normally stay out of the public view for long. (That is, unless they are allied with the Lyin' Press in an election against Donald Trump and just don't want to say something stupid on the record for a couple of months.) Not only that, but this guy had Climate Summit to get to! Why miss out on the opportunity to burn 25 tons of Jet-A* and signal your virtue, governing 40 million Californians into the ground to SAVE! THE! PLANET!.
A writer named Steve Kirsch on the Substack site speculates Gavin Newsom is out of sight likely because he had Bell's palsy from his booster shot. He thinks it's more likely Bell's Palsy that Newsome contracted rather than Guillain-Barre syndrome, but thinks it's one of the two.**
It’s been rumored that Gavin Newsom is out of sight since getting his booster on Oct 27 because he developed Bell’s palsy (or a closely related, but more serious condition of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS)). This can happen within hours after getting his booster so this make perfect sense. This explains why nobody has seen him in public since he got the shot; anyone who saw him would instantly know.I don't know, but the more I read, the more I am not only against taking this vaccine for political reasons, as per Ron Paul, in this (another) great post of his. One possibly-duly-elected guy who is Administrator of the Executive Branch of the US Feral Gov't, just plain does not have the power to mandate the taking of any medicine, much less an experimental vaccine. Now, I'd be pretty worried health-wise now too.
Now, November 9, almost two weeks later, he is scheduled to do a livestream 11:45 am on at the California Economic Summit per this article. By then he could look totally normal as I will explain below.
A source close to Gavin Newsom told The Defender the governor experienced an adverse reaction to the Moderna COVID vaccine he received Oct. 27.
I’m guessing it is Bell’s palsy for three reasons:
1. it’s far more common side effect than GBS (by a factor of almost 5)
2. it’s common after Moderna (which is what he got),
3. it resolves relatively quickly compared to GBS (within days or weeks) so it would enable him to “fully recover” in 2 weeks and do the event today.
From Mr. Kirsch's article:
Peak Stupidity has not written much about the vaccine in all our coverage of the Kung Flu stupidity. We will be forthcoming with more posts about this important subject.
Back to Gruesome Newsome, before he's even come out into the sunshine, this guy is STILL coming out pushing for 5 to 11 y/o Californians to be inoculated with this crap. Is that stupid or evil or both?
* I estimated that fuel burn for 20 hrs. round-trip - San Fran, CA to Glasgow, Scotland - in a large-sized Biz Jet that burns, say, 3,000 lb/hr of fuel in cruise and just rounded conservatively (we want to conserve, you know, for THE PLANET) down to a nice round number.
** The article has an embedded string of text messages between Mr. Kirsch and some doctor friend. I'm not knocking the information, but, man, that's probably even worse than tweets! The text messages are in the bubbles with the typos and all. Why not just summarize it like, oh, I don't know, a WRITER, would do?
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Hotel Elevator Social Distancing Fail
Posted On: Monday - November 8th 2021 8:27PM MST
In Topics: Humor Kung Flu Stupidity
Peak Stupidity has written more than our share about the face masking stupidity aspect of the Kung Flu PanicFest. It's not that we think that is the worst aspect of it all, but it sure does show the cowardice and compliance of most Americans. As a commenter on the Unz Review wrote me in the comments, if Americans won't rebel against this form of coercion, will they ever rebel against the more serious things such as the holding of the January 6th political prisoners in Washington or the siccing of the FBI on school kid's parents who dare to speak up at school board meetings based on accusations of terrorism?
The masking is an indignity put on people, and as I wrote in the recent post Accessorize, accessorize, accessorize!, I highly doubt there are many Americans left who really think the masks are doing a bit of good. Yet people don them still...
To change it up a tad, we'll switch to another indignity pushed upon us based on this ridiculous PanicFest. That is the Social Distancing stupidity. It's been since August of '20 since we've discussed social distancing in elevators, a niche topic, to be sure. That post was Scenes from the Kung Flu Summer re-Panic - Part 10.
A few days ago, I got on an elevator in a hotel that was already nearly full with a family of 6 when it arrived at my floor. There is some kind of exception to the highly ignored social distancing rules on the signs for families. Well, nobody was concerned. None of us had face masks on, including a hotel employee that got on at yet another floor. We were packed like sardines. Is 1 ft. the new 6 ft? Boy, I hope so. It was so pleasant to be around a crowd that all realized "enough stupidity is enough!"
Right before we got to the lobby I said "OK, let's all stay on our stickers now." Without face masks on, I could really tell that they liked that one! I looked after everybody left - the stickers were gone.
Here's an old scene from Seinfeld featuring an office elevator. It's Elaine and a Finnish writer, Elaine being the editor of the other's book, at least at the beginning of the scene...
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Alec Baldwin as a bumper sticker
Posted On: Saturday - November 6th 2021 8:51PM MST
In Topics: Humor Bread and Circuses Guns
We will end this week of deeply serious posts regarding our domestic enemies wanting us dead, their further implementing population replacement along with purposeful bankrupting of the nation, and their working to put down all resistance via violence and lawfare on a lighter note. I thank commenter Adam Smith for this image that he'd placed in one of The Unz Review comment threads.
I've heard about this accidental shooting on a movie set only via Steve Sailer and his commenters. My comment there was to the effect that it wouldn't bother me any if all these Hollywood people do stupid things to eliminate themselves. They don't mean much to me and don't contribute to the well-being of this nation. Who cares?
We'll discuss that video of the political Dad of the State of Florida's Chief of Kung Flu Panic, Mr. Daniel Uhlfelder, next week, have a book review or maybe two, some more media stupidity out of yahoo, and plenty more. Thank you all for reading and some for commenting!
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Ann Coulter keeping it real - Part 2
Posted On: Saturday - November 6th 2021 4:50PM MST
In Topics: Pundits Race/Genetics
I hadn't named the month-ago post that noted the same thing "Part 1", but the latest column by Ann Coulter has another does of race realism from our favorite literary pundit*. (Matter of fact, I'd temporarily forgotten that post already, so I'm glad I just came upon it.)
This latest column is Dems’ Post-Election Plan: Send More Immigrants To Virginia!. She does not disappoint those of us who would like the truth on race to be told. The column was about that recent election in general, so this is the last 1/3 or so of the column:
Let’s get back to the GOP victory in Virginia. Fox News sure called that one! Fox commentators assured us that black parents were powering Youngkin’s campaign because of their love for … school choice!Again, Miss Coulter does not mince words. I am really glad she brought up that "Platinum Plan" BS that came out of Trump within a few months of the election. If he had not turned off many white voters with that crap, he may have won the election even WITH the cheating.
Oh, give it up, conservatives.
CNN exit poll:
Black voters: 87% for McAuliffe to 13% for Youngkin
Hispanic voters: 68% for McAuliffe to 31% for Youngkin
Asian voters: 66% for McAuliffe to 34% for Youngkin
Good grief! How did Youngkin win? There must be some mistake!
Oh, I see. Youngkin won the same way Republicans always win, by driving up the white vote. White voters went 61% to 38% for Youngkin. According to NBC News’ exit poll, white women voted 57% for Youngkin.
Which reminds me: What is the one demographic Trump lost in 2020, compared to 2016? Correct: white men. Trump 2020: the Platinum Plan! the American Dream Plan! [Jared in the background: Forget white voters, Dad. They have no place else to go.]
Relax, GOP donors, you may now go back to obsessing over the minority vote and pissing away the only swing voters in the country. At this very moment, money men in the Republican Party are looking at Virginia and saying, “You see? We’ve got to pass amnesty to win over Latinos! School choice to win black voters! Then, of course, we’ll need a big tax cut.”
Yet, for some stupid reason, Miss Coulter has never reversed her position in support of Affirmative Action**. Nobody in the pundit world bats 1000, I suppose.
* Probably I should qualify this by "of renown".
** In that column discussed in that "Part 1" post, from inference one can't help but conclude she's still in favor of AA.
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Three trials for the purpose of crushing American resistance
Posted On: Friday - November 5th 2021 9:51PM MST
In Topics: Commies US Police State Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government ctrl-left Anarcho-tyranny Legal Stupidity Guns
(The title here does not say "the resistance", as any such actual movements are/would be wise to not even be known by this point.)
I'd been meaning to write this post all week, and Steve Sailer's post of one of his readers' takes on 2 of the 3 important trials going on prompted me again. Besides the important criminal trials on charges against the 3 Georgia men who shot a jogger dead while defending their Glynne County neighborhood in early '20 and those against Kyle Rittenhouse for shooting three Communist thugs (2 dead) who were chasing him down to assault and maybe kill him in Kenosha, Wisconsin late summer of '20, I am adding for this point the civil case going on in Charlottesville, Virginia against Jason Kessler and others 4 years later for "conspiracy".
We've got a Legal Stupidity topic key here at Peak Stupidity, but this site is plain just not about the intricate legal aspects of any of this - there's not enough time in the day. We are in no way interested in Court TV, especially hard to follow without a TV to begin with, and, even with one, I remember not giving much of a damn about the OJ Simpson trial other than to see how far the slide toward 3rd-Worldliness we'd gotten even 3 decades back.
Therefore, I'll give a couple of links, but this post is purely a polemic to advance the theory (if it even should need advancing) that there is a common thread among these 3 trials*. That thread goes along with the Peak Stupidity theme of the week, not really planned out by anyone, that "they really hate us, and they want us dead."
Communist Resentidos, such as the modern ctrl-left with its antifa wing, have felt the same way many different times and in many different places throughout history. They've been running up against bigger snags in dealing with Americans over the last century though. First, there was that whole prosperous and conservative society thing. It took at least half a century for the Long March through the Institutions to be 95% complete.
That Bill of Rights crap is still being bandied about here and there, say on fringe sites like Peak Stupidity with their silly Morning Constitutional shlock, your Lew Rockwells, Vin Suprynowicz's, etc. We (the ctrl-left) made great use of it during the 1960s, when that Free Speech stuff helped us raise more hell, then the court technicalities and all. Great ... but that's old news, and we can't have that crap around if we're going to get on with the bidness at hand. We've been chipping away at the whole Bill of Rights nicely, with most younger Americans not having a clue about it all. Thank you, ADL! Thank you, ACLU! Thank you, new Civil Rights!
Now, the gun confiscation business started off well back in '68, with great gains through the '70s, but someCommie somewhere dropped the ball, and things have even reverted. That measly little 1/10th of the Bill of Rights is really being a thorn in the side right now. Americans are still under the impression that they can fight back against oppression. I don't mean that just in the courts, as they try to to use that ole Bill of Rights against us back (haha!), but they still think they can PHYSICALLY fight back against oppression. The sheer gall of these Americans.
It's time to put the kibosh on this resistance bullshit via the courts.
First on the docket: The right to Free Speech and Assembly. Yeah, that's the 1st Amendment** being used against us (ctrl-left Commies). We're moving right along in the erasure of history portion of this Revolución!, and we sure as hell don't need that Amendment I crap to slow things down. These Unite the Right guys in Charlottesville thought they can just up and stand in front of that Robert E. Lee statue*** and give speeches. Even if they are going to do that, our antifa thugs ought to be able to be left to beat hell out of them. I mean, the City of Charlottesville was down with that.
These anti-revolutionary heritage defenders brought their own weapons, for self defense. How can the antifa beat their asses, then, I ask you? Well, we took care of this in the courts. Not a one of the antifa spent a night in jail after conducting street fighting, even involving homemade flame throwers. Yet, we got that James Fields put away for 400 years for backing over that fat broad. Now, the deal is to harass these people in the courts **** over a long period to dissuade anyone else from doing something so rash as to defend his heritage with an assembly with speeches. Let's bring up a KKK law from 1872. I know, it sounds stupid, but this stuff works. The courts work for us. If they say WE were the violent ones there, well, we were only defending ourselves from violent speech. See? That was easy! (Hey, where's that red Staples button when we need it?)
What's next for today? (Keep this stuff moving, Bailiff, the prosecutor, public defender, and I are jonesing for some of that vinegar-based barbecue for lunch). Next is the trial of 3 Glynne County, Georgia men for defending their neighborhood against black joggers.
OK, this is different. These black thugs menacing the nice White neighborhoods of Brunswick don't work for us, man. We may have encouraged them a tad over the last few years, oh, and gotten the courts to be more lax, and forced them to integrate and all, but hey, in the words of Bart Simpson, "we didn't do it!"
The problem for the ctrl-left is, these 3 White Georgia men took matters into their own hands. If they had just called 911 like they've all been told, Mr. Ahmaud Arbery could have been handled through the court system. He'd be out, errr, jogging again, the same afternoon. Maybe we on the left don't have our Soros D/A's everywhere, and there are conservative remnants in small town America, but still, we've got the press, we've got the Feds, and we've got that big old race card. We can't have people protecting their property on their own, or who knows what might happen?
It's time to make an example out of these 3. The local cops wouldn't arrest them the first time around. Self defense or something. No good. We just pull out that race card, get
Whewww! After that big lunch, I could use a few zzzz's, but let's hear about this Krazy Killer Kid Kyle. Imagine gunning down 3 of our very own useful idiots on the streets. They were in the middle of just another peaceful
Well, this post became way, way longer than I'd intended, and also that ctrl-left perspective here was not the style of what I'd originally intended. To get back to my own actual thinking, I'll say this: I contend that not one of these three big cases would have ever been brought to trial in the old conservative US of A.
Thinking of Charlottesville in '17 here, I believe I remember the ACLU defending the right of Nazis to march in Skokie, Illinois. Southern statues stood and Rebel flags could fly freely, and the "n-word", "nigger" for short, had not been a nice word for a long time, but it was not the verboten term that it is now. These Unite the Right guys would have been left alone 20 years back, but the ctrl-left has gotten very bold as of late. Seeing as they didn't want to unilaterally get their asses kicked, the Unite the Right guys were ready to defend themselves. That wasn't a crime in the old America.
The 3 Georgia men defending their neighborhood against a suspected serial burglar were not charged by the local police, when the guy freaked out and attacked them. It's often the case that no charges get filed for actions of self-defense. It took a big media push and the fact that the guy shot was black to put enough pressure on the locals to get the men charged. That seems to work every time now. It used to stay local, and the local law would handle it the way they were going to originally.
Lastly, if the cops in Kenosha had been allowed to do their jobs, Kyle Rittenhouse would not have been in the situation he was in. After a whole summer of being permitted to do their destruction at will the black thugs and antifa Commies had become complacent. They figured they could run after and beat up (or worse) this brazen young man who dared to help defend property and lives. They didn't expect the kid to have such good control. That was some nice shooting!
Here's the stake that the ctrl-left has in these 3 trials. They are used to Americans turning to the system for justice and defense of traditional America. However, that system has been coopted by the left. The left wins when Americans try to rely on the Establishment system. However, the left cannot get its way in the manner it's used to if Americans start taking on their own defense. That is, defense of their culture, defense of their property, and defense of their very lives.
The Unite the Right crowd in Charlottesville was there to defend their culture. Those 3 men in Brunswick, Georgia had decided to handle a problem that had been threatening their people's property by themselves. (Yes, they were going to call the law next, but they'd at least caught the jogger.) Kyle Rittenhouse ended up in a position in which he had to defend his life, with no help from the law.
The ctrl-left needs to put an end to Americans' ability to defend their culture, property, and lives themselves, if it is to move along with the destruction of society. They've generally had the courts on their side for a long time, so they are trying to do this via the courts in these 3 prominent trials.
Commenter Alec Leamas (hard at work)***** said what I want to say very well in this comment under that quick iSteve post:
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But Rittenhouse represents something that weighs on their minds in their constant insurgency against Americans. Rittenhouse is proof of concept – there are literally tens of millions of rifles and hundreds of millions of cartridges in the hands of their adversaries, many of whom are combat veterans of the elites’ meat-grinder foreign wars of adventure. One literal cherub-faced boy with a rifle turned back a pack of their street paramilitaries who were in the process of lynching him. Imagine what ten trained and experienced men with rifles could have done. They want to lynch Rittenhouse now by corrupting the law because they’re pissed that he blew up their intimidation display in under a minute. They have to get him pour encourager les autres.
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(My only correction to Alec's excellent paragraph there is that there have got to be 10's of Billions of rounds (cartridges) in private hands.******)
* One could very well substitute the kangaroo-court trial on the charges that put James Fields in jail for 400-odd years(!) after the Charlottesville street fight, but that one is already done with. These 3 are going on simultaneously right now.
** BTW, our Morning Constitutional series concentrated on the Amendments made after the Bill of Rights. On the whole, Peak Stupidity concluded that they were a slow-moving train wreck.
*** Jeeze, Louise! We finally got rid of it only 4 months ago. There's a 5 year plan almost shot all to hell!
**** Another (of many) VDare article CHARLOTTESVILLE UNTOLD: Why Terry McAuliffe, Not Jason Kessler, Should Be On Trial, this by the frequent contributor on the topic, Charlottesville Survivor, with a defense of Jason Kessler.
***** He's got another handle for commenting from home.
****** For 100-200 million gun owners, it's maybe only a few boxes, 20 to 50 rounds or shells. For a dozen million though, the ones that understand Amendment II the most, they likely have between 500 to 5,000 rounds apiece.
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Brazen Biden Border Bullshit - They want us dead.
Posted On: Wednesday - November 3rd 2021 5:41PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Economics US Feral Government Zhou Bai Dien
(Continued from Part 1, An Odious Proposal and Part 2, Replacement AND Bankruptcy!)
You've heard that before - "They hate us, and they want us dead." It's becoming easier and easier to believe that. Even if you don't, would you believe "they hate this country, and they want it dead"? Well, we make up this country, so it's not much different. I'm sorry if the reader doesn't agree that this example of this Brazen Biden Border Bullshit is the most egregious example ever. That is of course arguable.
Just think of it in more personal terms via an analogy. The ctrl-left is your bitchy harlot of a wife, who is using your kids as ransom to get you to stay in the marriage. (The "kids" would be your career and your 401k or something.) She is spending your hard-earned money on clothing, a car, and all kinds of crap on amazon not only for fun, but for spite. Like the legal and illegal immigrants and use of outsourced cheap labor, this wife can use another husband, the US Feral Gov't, for support. She wants to replace you, but first she will have a lot of fun looting your life of labor in savings because she hates you.
What does one do? For the analogy, haven't we mentioned precious metals, trustworthy friends, and unfortunate boating accidents here already? Here's a little bit of that from way back under a post about rich financiers and fine art - see The case of the purloined Picasso.
At some point, if there is no other easier way out, you may have to ditch that career, at least for the time being, and drop out, underground, off-the books, off-grid, whatever. That may be easier for us to do than we think at the national level, compared to having to give up on our kids in the analogy. In the former case we may still keep our communities and they'll probably be much stronger.
Here are a bunch of more comments from that same iSteve thread. They are not in the numerical/chronological order as on the unz site, but by what these commenters and I would say about a response to this huge slap in the face.
First, the slap in the face itself:
The Germ Theory of Disease says:
@Coemgen
It is of course a victory dance… but it’s not Biden’s, it is for Biden’s (((controllers and handlers))), who have achieved full-spectrum dominance, and intend to use it to the hilt. This is just an amuse-bouche.
Biden himself can barely dance the hokey-pokey.
Harry Baldwin says:
@Coemgen
This is Biden’s version of an end-zone-dance … isn’t it?
It’s more like one of those burglars who takes a dump on your kitchen table after stealing everything of value from your home.
The Wild Geese Howard says:
This just might be the most infuriating story I have ever read. More and more it feels like our government is an occupying army.
Looking around the Western world, it is almost as if governments have declared and are waging war on their native peoples.
Currahee says:What to do?
@The Wild Geese Howard
The disparity has become so profound that neither compromise nor understanding is possible. This is part of the process of separation and ultimately civil war.
John Gruskos* says:
@Wilkey
I agree this is infuriating, but what do you actually plan to do to fight back?
I suggest doing at least the bare minimum – never voluntarily give you money to open enemies who passionately hate you.
For instance, don’t give your money to Hollywood.
Don’t buy a ticket to see Dune, and then write a glowing review encouraging everyone else to also buy a ticket. Doing so will finance those who hate you.
Goddard says:You gotta know by now that Peak Stupidity is on-board with that stuff.
@Dumbo
At this point, I think white people should just stop paying taxes en masse, and stop feeding the Beast.
How ’bout we start with turning our backs on Sportsball, throwing a brick through the TV, slimming down, trimming personal debt, and acquiring spiritual and financial independence?
Sick 'n Tired says:This one really got me thinking about getting right on the phone the next morning and then emailing HR a new withholding form (W-4), lowering my withholding, and just not paying anything this April. (I've got friends who have gone years like this.)
This story is why every productive worker, employer, and business owner needs to stop paying taxes. Stop funding this insanity. It’s the only way the government will wake up and listen. They can’t throw us all in prison, and if they do, we’ll be among like minded people, and there will be nobody to pay for it.
It's not really my style though, but additional comments that reminded me that they don't need the tax money, as they can just keep printing, made me realize that, yeah, this won't starve the beast. It'd be better to become more of a prepper and just keep with the family's policy of being minimalists (for the most part.)
This kind of action or even just proposal has got to be making a lot of Americans really angry.
TWS says:Yeah, this is just a few people on the internet, but this story has been reported on by Tucker. People do know about it. I would think that many would have the same reaction as I did. Does this current Feral Government want to provoke a REAL insurrection before long? It may be too early for any of these plans, as they have not gotten the guns and ammo yet. Do they thing a real insurrection will involve a hundred guys or so, just out there having a good time? Is it part of a smarter plan than I've imagined?
@Wilkey
You know, I used to laugh at the guys who said, ‘rope, light pole, some assembly required’. Now I am thinking, ‘do you want Madame Guillotine? Because this is how you get Madame Guillotine’.
Just another serf says:I don't know. There are evil ones behind the scenes, but many of these people are just too stupid to execute really evil plans, as much as they want them to be.
I’m thinking that this illegal alien millionaire lottery, along with events like the appointment of Rachel Levine to Admiral, are deliberate humiliations designed to provoke violence. After which, various forms of totalitarianism will be deemed justified and imposed on the population.
It's not like the Red Squad of The Party is going to come to our rescue on any of this. Last comment here:
Bragadocious says:Nope, we're on our own here.
@Kylie
Someone on Twitter said, paraphrasing:
I can’t wait to see the GOP counter-proposal of giving them only $250,000.
And that’s the rub. There’s no opposition to these maniacs, no pushback, just degrees of psychopathy.
Interestingly, when this story broke a lot of leftists called it fake news and a right-wing fantasy, showing that even they initially regarded it as insane. Then when it turned out to be true, they instantly pivoted to, you’re damn right these kids deserve that money.
* You may have heard from this guy on Peak Stupidity before here and (CRS alert**) here.
** CRS is Can't Remember Shit syndrome. It's the same comment from Mr. Gruskos, but with different commentary from Peak Stupidity.
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Still chaining down the pens
Posted On: Tuesday - November 2nd 2021 7:42PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Humor Kung Flu Stupidity
I guess I could have noticed or thought about this anytime over the last 10 years or so (since smart phones came out). They are still chaining down the pens at the bank. Well, this place has them attached to the base with a plastic coated piece of 1/16" aircraft cable - this ain't the fancy Bank of America, you know.
I find it odd, because who even writes much down anymore, with a pencil or pen? Do people still feel the need to steal these pens? I still will use a pen to write down information given to me by people, but anyone under a certain age goes for his phone first.
"What's your number, I'll type it in and text/call you." That makes sense. "The place is at 123 Elm Street." "OK, text me that." "Uhhh, I just told you - 123 Elm Street." It doesn't make quite as much sense, but then, who uses his memory up for this sort of thing anymore? We need the space to keep track of all the Kardashians. "Where do you live?" "Let me pull it up." "Oh, I can do that. What's your address?" "Let me pull that up..."
Then there's "see, on my mailbox it says 1451 - this is south Taylor Street." "OK, let me go over to the mailbox and take a picture of it."
OK, that over with, let me relate a quick funny (to me, anyway) anecdote from that visit to the bank. The black teller was a pleasant and fairly intelligent guy. He was articulate enough so that I could make out almost everything even with his thick black mask on*. That was until the one moment at which I asked him for some of the cash in hundreds. "Yeah, 3 hundreds, if you can get them easily." He said something that took me a while to catch. Finally, "Oh, you said 'C-notes". I haven't heard that in a while." (It's kind of cool sounding.) Then I said "Got it. You mean what you all call 'the Benjamins'. Yeah, give me 3 of the Benjamins."
Haha, I thought it was funny, but did the guy get offended a tad? Did he like that "you all" part? Well, I don't rightly know, because he had a mask covering over half his face. It's hard to make out people's expressions.
He was too nice to have said anything, I guess, and if he had, I still wouldn't have been able to get him back by stealing a pen.
* I wore no mask and got no grief about it for a change for the bank. What is the deal with this stuff? This masking business seems to come in waves. I'll have to take note if it's on a 28 day cycle.
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Brazen Biden Border Bullshit - Replacement AND Bankruptcy!
Posted On: Tuesday - November 2nd 2021 6:58PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Economics US Feral Government Inflation Zhou Bai Dien
(Continued from Part 1, An Odious Proposal.)
Here at
The Wall Street Journal article wants me to sign up to read it, so screw 'em, but this One Nation Blogger article Joe Biden Mulls $450K to Illegal Immigrants for Family Separation (and sorry for not providing the link last time) has some numbers. Depending on whether it's the Motherland Security or another branch of government, the ACLU, pissing and moaning about this separation of criminal families, there are either 2,800 or 5,500 children respectively, whose lucky lottery-winning parents should get nearly 1/2 a million bucks for each kid. In the grand scheme of Feral Gov't spending that's still peanuts, either $1.26 Billion or 2.48 Billion. Yeah, I mean it's only about 10% to 25% of what it would take to build a complete border barrier, which is still, like, peanuts. (Notice this free-spending administration** isn't even thinking about that.)
This proposed blowing of taxpayers money and rubbing it in the face of us taxpayers is setting a precedent though. Just as with the Feral Gov't's (Dept. of Justice) paying $80,000,000 to families with members shot by Dylann Roof in that Church in Charleston, SC, there's something different now. These monetary amounts are not being decided on in courts of law in civil trials. This is simply the Bai Dien administration flat out doling our money out on whims while Americans are struggling economically. Oh, sure, they have the excuse of a "faulty background check" for the latter and "Trump did this" for the former as reasons to just dole out settlements. This is complete bullshit, as anyone can see that this logic can be used to pay off anybody anytime, anywhere!
Secondly, more specifically, this latest illegal alien payout sets a precedent. Per Mr. Sailer's post's title, the incentive for more illegal families to get broken up like this and enter the country as millionaires - "we don't need to do no steeenking roofing, Senor!" - will guarantee that there will be more of this. There are hundreds of thousands of illegal entries per month now. The numbers could get up toward Trillion Dollar territory if the US Government regime deems it necessary. See, that's my question here. Are they purposefully trying to bankrupt the country?
I had thought the big idea was the replacement of the traditional American population. Don't get me wrong - that's been working swimmingly***. It looks like the US Gov't is making a concerted effort to go bankrupt at the same time.
You don't just go creating money in these huge amounts without prices of assets, goods and services going Sky High****. Since I missed out on that thread under the Steve Sailer post, I'll paste in a few comments from it here again. These ones relate specifically to the economic ruin that this Brazen Biden Border Bullshit will only exacerbate. One of my favorite commenters comes first:
Old Prude says:
This seems to a trend: Dump taxpayer dollars on the liberal pets: Illegals in NY State, the families of the victims of the Charleston church shooting, now criminal trespassers on the southern border. The one that really sets the teeth grinding is the cash being given to the family of the Afghan goat-herd zapped by Biden’s boys with the drone, so he could look like a hard-ass. “They will pay”.
Well guess what. A gaggle of incompetents in the intelligence community (but I repeat myself) targeted the wrong rag-head. So now who is paying? You and me, the middle class tax payer. And not only are we giving these wogs money, the government is going to bring them to our neighborhoods to crap up our communities. The jackasses who targeted the wrong family should be paying, but no: It’s you and me who had nothing whatsoever to do with this goat-rope. I hate this government.
Adept says:One of our Peak Stupidity commenters (also), PeterIke replies:
@Wilkey
You have to laugh, I guess. This sort of payout would be a huge “fuck you” to middle America, and an accelerationist’s wet dream. It’s the sort of thing that won’t easily be forgiven or forgotten.
Regarding the expansion of this precedent-setting proposal:
Magic Dirt Resident says:
Why stop at families who were separated under Trump? Why not extend it farther back to include those who were deported under Eisenhower (and their descendants, of course)?
This is yet one more example of an egregious- quite frankly laughable- proposal by the dems against which I’m doubtful the republicans will be able to give a proper denouncement. At least no one can say the collapse of the American Empire hasn’t been entertaining. Show biz is what America does best, after all.
Dani says:Not quite about the bankruptcy aspect, but good points:
@Wilkey
I feel exactly the same way and not ashamed to say so. I watch my 80 year old parents, who both worked full time their entire adult lives, having to fork over close to $700 a month for supplemental insurance coverage, and between Medicare and supplemental, vision and dental are not covered. I am sure millions have similar stories, and don’t even get me started on the homeless vets living in tents, the ones who haven’t blown their brains out yet.
(I left out the 2nd paragraph.)
Wilkey says:Finally, the commenter "Known Fact" is hopeful about a silver lining:
@Almost MissouriWhat’s really going on, of course, is that the current administration wants to make all actions of the previous administration appear to be illegitimate, as if they were crimes in need of remedy.Who are the law firms representing these poor victims? I saw the ACLU mentioned in at least one of the articles. How much of a cut will the law firms get? The usual 33%? So Biden could be handing over hundreds of millions to law firms politically allied with the administration, including the ACLU?
And how much of this money will ultimately end up in the hands of the human traffickers, as the recipients inevitably pay them to smuggle more of their relatives into the US? Ultimately tens or hundreds of millions of dollars will wind up in the hands of the very cartels that make Mexico so dangerous to begin with.
Known Fact says:When I mentioned Mexicans (or who knows, Haitians, Guatemalans, Hmong, I dunno?) coming in as millionaires, I did also want to point out that this may not mean that much, the way things are going. The Kung Flu PanicFest spending was no picnic, but this Biden and hard-left Congress seems to be purposefully killing the US dollar. That's going to hurt even the newcomers that they seem to love. Will it hurt the Globalist elite, themselves? Not if they put their currency into hard assets, here and around the world. If they are smart enough to be doing that, I guess they don't have a reason to care about the Dollar. I mean, that is, except for the being a Human Being thing and all...
I’m hoping this $450,000 thing is actually a clever sting operation — like when the feds advertise they’re giving away free stuff and idiots with outstanding warrants show up for some loot
As I went through these comments again, I see that I could pick out at least 10 excellent ones to describe how I feel about the Feral Gov't at this point and what we Americans ought to do, at least regarding the economic fall-out of free-spending-to-humiliate policies like this. That'll be in the 3rd part of this series.
The race is on. It's between a sooner than expected economic SHTF and population replacement to the point that most of the people are used to economic SHTF times from the shitholes they bolted from. Will there be many who still remember? I saw the lights go down on Broadway. I saw the ruins at my feet. You know I almost didn't notice it. We see it all the time, on 42nd street..."*****
* For movie reference, see the bottom of our old post What's the deal with Peak Stupidity - Libertarian or Conservative?
** I know, I know, it's Congress that spends the money. That'd be in a Constitutional Republic, I mean ...
*** Or should I say "wadeingly" as in, across the Rio Grande. Not in the mood for humor? I understand completely.
**** For pop/Southern Rock aficionados, that post has the Jigsaw upbeat song, while this earlier post has the harder rockin' Atlanta Rhythm Section song from a live album. Both are pretty damn good.
***** That's from a Billy Joel Sci-Fi song expired last year. - nope, now 4 years back - Miami 2017, the hard-rockin' live version from Songs in the Attic.
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