Eric Clapton on Enoch Powell and the Wogs


Posted On: Tuesday - February 1st 2022 10:37AM MST
In Topics:   Immigration Stupidity  Music  Race/Genetics

(No, "Enoch Powell and the Wogs" WOULD be a good name for the band, but it's not.)



This post is not really a continuation of the previous one about musician Eric Clapton, but it is a discussion of the second topic involving Mr. Clapton and politics from that VDare Carl Horowitz article "Is This A Sovereign Nation / Or Just A Police State?" Eric Clapton, COVID, And Immigration. The two discussions, about Mr Clapton's opinionated commentary from 4 decades apart are intermixed by Mr. Horowitz, but this second topic is in VDare's wheelhouse, out-of-control, unwanted mass immigration. (Out of the people's control that is!)

I'll put this caveat near the top here this time: Eric Clapton is just a musician. I wish it didn't come down to people getting their politics from entertainers rather than, I dunno, Ron Paul's Liberty Report. (Hey, it's entertaining too but it's no Layla or Blues Power.) That's the way it is, and this second discussion by Carl Horowitz is really something, anyway.

We're going back to 1976 here, 45 1/2 years back, when Eric Clapton had already been a big star already for10 years or so. This was a month after the American Bicentennial, if that rings a (liberty) bell for you. The show in question was at The Odeon in Birmingham, England. Horowitz's article notes that, like your average white band* during that era, Eric Clapton drank a lot of booze then and did cocaine. I'll discuss that "excuse" in a bit, but during a break in playing, he started a monologue to the audience which included this:
Listen to me, man! I think we should vote for Enoch Powell. Enoch’s our man. I think Enoch’s right, I think we should send them all back. Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I’m into racism. It’s much heavier, man. F*cking wogs, man. F*cking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded and Enoch will stop it and send them all back.
Firstly, now I can guess more accurately what a "wog" is. Secondly, Enoch Powell was a scholarly, true-Conservative British Minister of Parliament for 37 years (1950 - 1987), famous at VDare and elsewhere for his "Rivers of Blood" speech in April of 1968. He was the British version of, well, maybe NOBODY America had, warning of this existential threat to his country.

Eric Clapton agreed. Were I transported back into the audience that night at the Odeon (the WHAT?), my current political bent would have me hooting and hollering "you said it, man!" However, I have sympathy for the bloke who paid his 5 quid for the show** who just wanted to hear the music, at that point hopefully some of the older best blues stuff alone with his "newer" music from There's One in Every Crowd and No Reason to Cry*** "Shut up and Sing!" Sure, OK, fair enough.

Because it was a conservative rant, not a leftist rant, the repercussions for Mr. Clapton were a lot bigger. I won't go over all the details from the article except to say that the "Rock Against Racism" group that resulted and persisted for 6 years after must have been mostly a British thing.

It reads as though Mr. Clapton didn't give any overt apology, at least for many years.
In a 2004 interview with the British music magazine Uncut, he termed Powell “outrageously brave,” adding that the UK was “inviting people in as cheap labor and then putting them in ghettos”
Any excuse could easily include "I was drunk off my ass, so you know..." I would say things are in reality quite the opposite. Often the truth only comes out, or CAN only come out, when the potential truth-teller is drunk, not necessarily off his ass completely either.****

By the year 1976, it was brave of Eric Clapton to try to tell some racial truths to the people of formerly-Great formerly-Britain. How did he get his views, as an Englishman in a still almost-all-white country in 1976? I'm guessing it's from some time spent and experiences gained in America and from his American musical friends.

One was of his musical friends was Jimi Hendrix - I doubt he was the example Mr. Clapton had in mind. Another was Duane Allman who was, in fact, in an integrated band, during the time in the South when private schools were forming to get away from that. Still, you can get the truth out of all races of people though. That's especially the case when there ARE drugs and alcohol involved.


PS: One more point is in order. Commenter "UsNThem" on an iSteve comment thread brought up the question of Mr. Clapton's having made his whole, early, at least, career from the blues music originating from blacks in America. That's true, as with most of the British bands, and plenty of American, in those years. Carl Horowitz addresses this. I will too, real quickly here.

You know, in the whole continent of Africa, all of which makes a bit of civilization was appropriated from the White man, 2-story housing, electrical tools, hand tools, plumbing, law & order, medicine, [database error, text field exceeded!], OK, OK, I've already embedded that "What have the Romans done for us?" video before.... Yet, they may go on all the anti-White-people rants they want anyway, over in Africa, and I have no problem with that!

OK were these 2 posts just an excuse to feature some great music by Eric Clapton, as Peak Stupidity has been remiss about? Partially.

I suppose Lay Down, Sally from the Slowhand album has some indirect blues influence. It sounds a lot like the style of J.J. Cale in his They Call me the Breeze, made famous (OK, to ME, at least) by Lynyrd Skynyrd.



Tulsa Time is Eric Clapton's rock version of a true country song, written by and sung first by Don Williams - my second favorite country singer*****.



Finally, I will put this ballad down, though knowing the pain that Eric Clapton must have suffered from the tragic death of his 4 y/o makes me cry, honestly. Oh well...





* No, I'm not sure about the drug habits of the Average White Band itself. This is the generic average white band and average black or integrated band too, hell, everyone!

** a) I'm trying to stick to British terminology here. b) I think a quid is a pound - yes, thank you, wiki. c) I will write a post coming about the inflation in concert ticket prices soon. Even for the apples to oranges (then to now, and assuming you like apples better) comparison of smaller venues and better artists back then, without using hedonics, these prices have risen exorbitantly!

*** There's really not many hits that I remember from those 2 albums, but that's what the musicians did then, go on tour to popularize their new stuff .(That'll be part of the discussion the post coming per note **(c).)

**** There was a running Seinfeld gag is which the other characters would give Elaine some alcohol to get the story out. Peppermint Schnapps, I think it was, that did the trick.

***** No, that was just a funny line by Jerry Reed from Smokey and the Bandit Part 2(?)

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 Eric Clapton - Stand and Deliver


Posted On: Monday - January 31st 2022 10:39AM MST
In Topics:   Music  US Police State  Kung Flu Stupidity



(I'll tell you first thing, the video is not very good. Perhaps it was hard to find like-minded people to make one. Additionally we are no longer in the music video heyday of the 1980's, as VJ'd by Martha Quinn.)

Peak Stupidity is not in the habit of keeping up with the modern music scene, such as it is or may be, even from musicians who have been in the music scene for 6 decades. Yeah, there are a lot of them that have been around that long now! However, we have nothing at all against the music of Eric Clapton, so I was surprised to do a search of this site and find only one, Crossroads from Eric and his band Cream. (I was almost positive that I'd embedded Blues Power before, one of my favorites.* We'll have to remedy this lack of music from Mr. Clapton.

To give a background on this great guitarist and White-man's blues** singer is just too much for me, and there is Wikipedia and the whole internet. Suffice it to say, after noting Eric Clapton was in the bands The Yardbirds, Blind Faith, The Bluesbreakers, Cream, something, something ... Derick and the Dominoes... Why do these bands sound familiar if you've been interested in all the big 1960s-70s rock stars? It's because it seems like that whole British artist crowd had been in some of these bands in some combination. "He was with Jeff Beck in ___, and Jimmy Page, and Steve Winwood, who broke up and formed ____ with Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart, and ...." It must have been a close-knit group of these blues-influenced British guys.

Because I don't keep up, it took my reading of a recent VDare article by Carl Horowitz*** to learn about about Eric Clapton's views on the Kung Flu PanidFest - "Is This A Sovereign Nation / Or Just A Police State?" Eric Clapton, COVID, And Immigration. That line is straight from Van Morrison's late-'20, anti-Totalitarianism song, as sung and played by Eric Clapton above.

It's really great to read of at least SOMEBODY over there having taken a stand, especially back in the first year of the PanicFest. It was perhaps 6 months behind my views on the matter, but good going, Eric Clapton (and Van Morrison, obviously too). Early on in Mr. Horowitz's article, I found myself not so enamored by the musician after reading that Mr. Clapton was only anti-vax for personal reasons, due to his having taken the vax..
The recent trouble began for the 76-year-old rocker after he received two AstraZeneca vaccinations. Unexpected—and frightening—symptoms ensued.

“I took the first jab of AZ and straight away had severe reactions which lasted ten days. I recovered eventually and was told it would be twelve weeks before the second one,” Clapton wrote:
About six weeks later I was offered and took the second AZ shot, but with a little more knowledge of the dangers. Needless to say the reactions were disastrous, my hands and feet were either frozen, numb or burning, and pretty much useless for two weeks, I feared I would never play again, (I suffer with peripheral neuropathy and should never have gone near the needle.) But the propaganda said the vaccine was safe for everyone.
[Eric Clapton’s Anti-Vaccine Diatribe Blames ‘Propaganda’ for ‘Disastrous’ Experience, by Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, May 16, 2021]
The experience caused him to rethink whether immunization is necessary and whether mandated vaccines and “social distancing” are worth the loss of liberty. In solidarity with musicians who couldn’t find live gigs, he now won’t perform at venues that require proof of vaccination.
That is not impressive to me. It's not being a man of principle - against Totalitarianism - to finally come out against mandated vaccines only when it becomes personally injurious. I don't have any problem with his having taken the vaccine. He may have felt pretty vulnerable at his age and whatever condition. He may have felt very comfortable taking experimental or non-experimental drugs, heha.... (After all, if you were in the Yardbirds, or Cream, or the Bluesbreakers ... and friends with Jimi Hendrix, Duane Allman, Jimmy Page ....)

Eric Clapton took a stance against the vaccine only after the vaccine almost took HIM out. However, I did read more about Mr. Clapton's efforts against the rest of the PanicFest, and there's the song above. That part is admirable. He knows he has the rest of the entertainment and Infotainment "industry" against him, so I applaud his courage, or at least his not being another useful idiot. It's good to have someone "influential" in some way on our side on this.

I put "influential" in quotes to make a point. I don't think a rock artist, musician of any sort, artist of any sort, actors and actresses, or any of these entertainers have any special insight into political matters that would make it worth listening to him when he spouts out his political views. It’s understandable if you’ve already paid good money for the show. That’s when the whole “shut up and sing!” advice is warranted.

I really couldn’t care less what any musician, artist, or actor/actress does in his personal life either****. That is, not any more than I would about any other random interesting character. This explains why I’ve never bought a People Magazine copy or written about these people on Peak Stupidity. That's why I didn't even know about this anti-PanicFest song from over a year ago.

Still, as for the music, back when Eric Clapton got big, Bob Dylan was playing in, and playing, an influential part of a big movement. Movements against Totalitarianism could use some good music too... or we could recycle the old stuff ... leading to a Canadian Trucker post?

Finally, if you read Carl Horowitz's article, you'll see that there's a whole 'nother story mixed in, about Eric Clapton's anti-immigration (anti-destruction-of-Great-Britain, I should say) views that he voiced during a concert in 1976. That is more in VDare's wheelhouse, hence the appearance of the article there. I will write about that political stance from Eric Clapton in another post shortly.

When it comes to my views on Eric Clapton, well, it's about the music. Here is my favorite, a live version of a song from his 1970 self-titled album. Ain't no need to be a wallflower, cause now I'm livin' on blues power! Really, this is more straight-up Rock & Roll with his great leads. If not "Blues power", the movements which we must form to fight "the man" this time really ought to have some music power behind them. I don't know how you can beat THIS though.





* Then, it's impossible to search much here, at least with any ease, and even with my check in the dBase, it's still possible I just embedded it with no reference and not much writing, as I used to do.

** I have hereby reminded myself to write a post I thought about a year ago about blues music. It'll be coming.

*** He's a very infrequent contributor to VDare, having only 13 articles on the site in 20 years, but I do remember this one from last year, with its great title too: Marx Got It Right: Mass Immigration Wrecks Wages. Why Won’t America’s Resurgent Communists Admit It?.

**** I do have a big amount of sympathy for Eric Clapton regarding the tragic accidental death of his young son. That must have been devastating, and it did make his song Tears n Heaven very moving for me, once I learned what it was about.

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 I can link to spotted toad, I can podcast on the road, goin' mobile ..


Posted On: Saturday - January 29th 2022 8:16PM MST
In Topics:   General Stupidity  Music  Humor  Media Stupidity  Artificial Stupidity  Peak Stupidity Roadshow

(OK, maybe not in the title, so I'll link to Spotted Toad here. No guarantees, as I've never read him, but the articles look promising.)

Let me first just embed this same video that I found near one year ago, with a guy named James Austin Johnson doing an excellent imitation of Donald Trump. His Trump on Scooby Doo is truly LOL funny. Watch, if you haven't already:



As I wrote one paragraph about under that year-ago post, there's one thing that perplexes me about not just this video, but loads of others the young people are making. Some of these people have, if not funny like this one, very interesting and important things to say. As the independent media we need, people will report on the nasty effects of the Kung Flu vaccines, better remedies for the dreaded disease itself, the stolen election of '20, race realism, whatever, but things that need to be said that the Lyin' Press will not touch or will simply lie about.

Here's what perplexes me. These people won't freaking stay in one place doing this! The guy above is walking around some city that looks like it's in south Florida. He never said where he's going. Some people from the area might recognize some features of that urban landscape and enjoy the puzzle, but he lost me, anyway. With that camera angle, I couldn't tell if he was heading somewhere in particular or just walking around the blocks. Since he's in that nice locale, why couldn't he have sat on the beach and done this? Just sit down, for cryin' out loud, or at least stand in one place.

Then, there are even more of the guys that make these videos as they drive in their cars. WTF is that about? Is your day THAT busy? Long commute, I guess. See, I could see using this time for voice recordings, but with the background of movement through traffic, this really worries me. "OK, wow, this is Ron Unz-level 'I just read 14 books about this, and all the history is wrong!' stuff, but damn, watch your blind spot, man, I want to hear the end of this! "Hey, there's a merge ahead, dude. Quit taking part in the formation of a traffic jam and just drive. It's not THAT urgent. You can tell us when you get home."

I don't know how one can really pay attention to the road while spending the mental effort to talk coherently about politics at the same time. (You gotta hope they have a mount for their phones, at least.) I would not be safe doing this. Maybe I'd be still safer than the guy surfing Peak Stupidity right now and especially the guys commenting on Peak Stupidity right now, or the women putting on make-up or arranging real estate showings.

Yes, these are MOBILE phones**. I! GET! THAT! [/Tucker]. Notwithstanding the iEspionage aspect of these things, I'm still pretty happy I don't have to stop at a diner (yes, diner!) to use a pay phone. I do talk on it when driving by myself on long trips of if something comes up. I don't mind stopping to do something demanding serious attention on it, though. Need to look up a motel? I can stop at the gas station when the time comes, take a leak, get some nabs, look up info about the motels, and even, yes, if I feel a deep need to make a video podcast RIGHT NOW, even pull into a rest area and do it from a picnic table.

OK, stars of the new media: Keep up the good work. Let's make an end-run around the Lyin' Press directly to the people and make the Lyin' Press obsolete. When you do it, though, just, please, stay put!!

Better yet, sit down in a comfortable chair at home and look dignified.* If you're going to do this a lot, like some of these podcasters, set up a bookshelf with a collection of classics showing for the background. You don't have to READ them. Hell, you don't even have to have the real books. Be creative.

Look, I know they don't have any good music now and must listen to the good old rock, so let me just tell these Millennial iPhone jockeys: Yes, they are mobile phones, but that's not what people mean by "going mobile".



This one was my favorite Who song at one point, in the 1990s when I was pretty mobile myself.

I might drive up on the curb
or wreak havoc on the road.
Goin' mobile.
I can stop in any street
and get follows for my tweet.
Goin' mobile.
Keep me movin'.

Swipe, swipe!
beep beep!

Tap the tiny screen,
order fair-trade bean
when I'm mobile.
Well I can stream the Grateful Dead
while I text to Fred
when I'm mobile
Keep me movin'.

Acoustic Who?


* OK, for that Trump imitation, the latter is uncalled for...

** Though they haven't been called that for a minute.

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 Face Masking anecdotes for the week


Posted On: Friday - January 28th 2022 11:58AM MST
In Topics:   Kung Flu Stupidity



(File photo from the old days, before masking and plexiglass.)


It's got to be that nearly half of the Kung Flu Stupidity posts* are about the idiotic face-masking rules and practices. I've written before that this is not the worst of the Totalitarianism being made the new normal, or at least having precedents set for. The public LOCKDOWNs are the worst, though this forced vaccination comes close and is scarier in the short term.

Here's what it is about the face masking: This is the side of Totalitarianism explained well by Theodore Dalrymple (from here.**)
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.
Even EXPERT Fauci has so much as admitted that these face masks don't do squat against the Flu Manchu, but, still, they worked. Wait, what? Yes, they worked to show that Americans can be forced to do all kinds of humiliating and even self-harmful things if they are panicked or just the very compliant sort. And, this can be kinda fun for the elites!

What's with the restaurant images up top? Well, I try to start posts with an image, and this is the first anecdote. This was one of those take-out Chinese food places at the airport terminal. There's Panda Express, and now Lee Anne Chin. There's a lot of them now that have cropped up everywhere. Lee Anne Chin herself does not partake of her own offerings full of fat, sugar, and salt, so she is not one of the many Chins and many-chinned that one can find in a Chinese phone book. (Hey, I work with what I got.)

The black lady behind the counter had one of those new-fangled face masks I described in Moar fashion accessory anecdotes***. The foreign customer, •Indian from what I could gather, was having a hard time figuring out what the stuff there was, or what she was supposed to be getting. You've got the black accent, foreign, English-as-a-2nd-language old lady on the other end of some plexiglass, and then the mask on the employee. How is communication supposed to happen at all? Per the usual way, the server lady pulled down her face mask to be clear.

Now, I wasn't paying too much attention, but I did hear the customer say something about the Covid or what-have-you. This employee then, very clearly and nicely, said "no, ma'am, it's OK. You're not gonna catch anything." That's a lady after my own heart! "Hey, I just work here. They make us." would have probably been my addition, after a quick glance to see where the manager was.



It was back to the county building to pay taxes on a vehicle, in which one of the 2 anecdotes of that previous "fashion accessory" post came from. Yep, those are nice cloth masks they got there. I saw prices like $15 apiece when I checked on-line after last visit. Sure, I put it on, but I had to take it down to my chin to talk to the lady who accepted my property tax check. Nobody cared about that, least not the cashier behind 1 1/4" of plexiglass. (For Flu Manchu germs? No, for Glock .40 rounds. The bullets don't curve, but the germs CAN make their way underneath where you slip your check through.)

Going back 3 minutes - yeah, it went very quickly, as it wasn't that time of the month (for taxes! for taxes, I mean!) - I'd told the guard there**** about the price of those masks:

"Hey, do you know these cost 12 or 15 bucks?"
"No. These are free!"
"Uhh, no, you and I are paying for them with our taxes. Matter of fact. I'm paying for them right now."

On the way out:

"Hey, can I take a couple more of these?"

He didn't care. So I have 3 sitting in the car. Maybe craigslist will be easier than ebay for listing these things. It's better than that old hippie idea of stealing library books to get "the system" back, isn't it?



I wanted to describe the nicer part of that visit to the hospital that I complained about yesterday. My not carrying even a balled-up cheap medical style blue mask in my pocket anymore means I have to rely on the charity of strangers. I headed right into the lobby expecting the people at the information desk to hand me one of these - it's not government-run, so I expected a 5¢ rather than $15 dollar rig this time.

Nope, either nobody noticed my lack of accessorization or nobody noticed me, as I sailed right on through to the records area. I kept waiting for somebody in there to give me grief about this, like some kind of mask-ochist. Nope, I was there for 10 minutes, right in front of dozens of masked-up people well-inside the hospital. How pleasant! It was not only nice to be able to breath normally, but just to know that, yeah, normal people are not actually scared shitless of the Flu Manchu.



* As much as making a separate topic key just for "Face Mask Stupidity" would help a bit, I try to go for more general topic keys. I am missing a number of them due to my not wanting to add new ones so much. "Totalitarianism", "Taxes", and "American Political Stupidity" seem needed, as I tend to put other slightly ill-fitting keys on some posts where these would fit.

** That Heidelblog web page links to the archive of FrontPageMagazine (I used to read that regularly years ago) where I guess Mr. Dalrymple wrote this, but the link doesn't work.

*** We're finally catching up with that "moar" meme, pretty much for nostalgic reasons at this point.

**** That's also a new thing. Why do they reckon people are so pissed off? Maybe there's been a robbery there, I don't know.

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 The Matriarchy - what can't go on, won't go on.


Posted On: Thursday - January 27th 2022 5:20PM MST
In Topics:   Curmudgeonry  Female Stupidity  Peak Stupidity Roadshow

Yeah, but for how long do we have to put up with it?



(I couldn't find a really representative file photo. It was much nicer outside but much busier too.)


I'd have saved 55 minutes of the hour I spent doing to the hospital for something if it weren't for those damn HIPAA laws. Again, mission creep is the problem, as I thought it was to apply only to the health care of female hippopotami. Nope, it slows us all down, not just the hippa. These people can't email stuff to me. Therefore, as far as medical records go, we are back living in the world of 70 years ago, at the earliest time of the widespread use of the automobile.

I've been through that, so I knew the drill. It's just that I'd promised my boy we'd do something together in an hour. OK, it was all good until my arrival at the hospital complex. It's a big place. There's some parking, but you've got multiple speed bumps* and stop signs, and... ridiculously ultra-cautious people who made a traffic jam out of thin air.

I! GET! IT! There are sick and injured people walking slowly, some not able to get out of the way. There are some steps leading up to walkways with bushes blocking part of the view. (Whose idea was that one?) You DO have to slow to 20, even, 15, mph here and there and keep your eyes on a swivel. What you don't have to do is stop for 10 seconds at the signs and go 2 mph over the speed bumps. Imagine if I were in a real hurry... inside an ambulance. I didn't see any way ambulances could get around this, as this 2 lane street had nothing but curbs lining it, and cars everywhere.

Why the title here? My slight hassle is just one small result of the Matriarchy we are living under. Women make these ultra-cautious rules and are the enforcers of it. They are the ones complaining at the neighborhood meetings that we need MOAR 4-way stop signs! (You can't even get through my neighborhood in one direction any faster than a bike now, well, when I run the stop signs on my bike, which, hell, they don't like either!)

Woman are running the neighborhood groups (or men who wan't resist them on anything), running the government offices, running the universities, running the lots of Big Business, overwhelming lower education, with almost all female teachers but the gym teachers where I am.** As I walked into the hospital (a brighter story, for the next Kung Flu stupidity post), I noted how woman-dominated these places are. I'd guess 9 out of 10 people working there were women. OTOH, I didn't see any doctors. Perhaps they were all out at the golf course, and honestly, who can blame them, with all this?

Unnecessary traffic jams, extra stress, but I guess there was a 0.1% lower chance of someone getting hurt on that road. The road can be pretty safe when nobody's moving. That's it in a nutshell. We are all a tad safer, but stuff can't get done, and there's no advancement of society under a Matriarchy.



* Peak Stupidity has already discussed this in Sport Utility Drivers - GET OFF the ROAD ..., with a follow-up post - Speed bumps and phone freaks.

** I don't say they are all headed by women, but I pity the man who resists the overabundance of caution and takes some risks, even if he is nominally in charge. The way it works is, you can't go wrong making a mountain out of a mole hill. It's called "zero tolerance".

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 It's almost as if yahoo wants me to click this...


Posted On: Thursday - January 27th 2022 7:48AM MST
In Topics:   Websites  Global Climate Stupidity  Media Stupidity

... based on the promising headline, read some more, and get pissed and write a blog post.



Firstly, Peak Stupidity apologizes for being a slacker this week so far. I did have quite a few errands built up and more that came up - the good thing is that blog post ideas have already come of that. We (the cat and I) got distracted by a particular iSteve post and thread too, on "systemic racism", but that's not a real good excuse.

Speaking of Steve Sailer, thought, if the title here sounds familiar in your head, that's because it's almost as if I took that Sailer line and appropriated it. It's pretty sarcastic and snarky, but it's almost as if he's used it too many times for me to appreciate it anymore.

Again speaking of Steve Sailer, with this post, it's almost as if [Last Freaking Time! - Ed.] Peak Stupidity is getting to be the low-brow version of the iSteve, with our PS content generator being yahoo.com rather than the NY Times or Washington Post. It's only "almost" however, because it's not like I read this Lyin' Press crap on purpose like he does! Hey, it's usually when I log out of email or while in the process of doing a search* for this site on there to ya know, support the team, that I run across the garbage.

Anyway, "We're in trouble. I hope everyone understands that." from that guy I recognize from such elections as US President, 2004 sounded promising. Hey, does John Kerry even, know what kind of shape this country is in? I doubted it was about the immigration invasion, as, we don't talk about that, but maybe the guy knows a little bit about the financial stupidity and the doom coming from that sector of the stupidity market.

Well, then I saw the text there and was sucked in by the stupidity of it all. Kerry is pushing the Global Climate Stupidity - that's his angle, but let's just click and see how stupid this can get. (Channeling iSteve here.)
We're in trouble. I hope everyone understands that," Kerry told an event called Building Momentum to UN COP27 hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and officials from Egypt, the host of the next UN climate summit.

Kerry told the event he is concerned about the recent uptick in the use of coal globally and about plans to build new coal plants without carbon capture technology..
Yes, sure, that's why we are in trouble, too much energy generation and industry. As long as we don't bother China about it, we can coerce the rest of the world into heading back toward the Stone Age or at least go warp speed, to the 3rd World. China, where they have huge coal power infrastructure and are building nukes like it's 1970s America, will just proceed to eat all the world's lunch.

I'm not gonna sit here, and ... or podcast about this while walking to the drug store or driving to work... OK, that's another post .. and argue against the Global Climate Stupidity all over again. Peak Stupidity did quite a bit of that early on in the life of this blog (click the link in the last sentence and look back a bit). I will point out one piece of duplicity that the Climate Crisis Crowd has been pushing for a while.

Note that John Kerry wants to see "carbon" capture technology. It's not carbon that these people have been worrying themselves sick (see G. Thunberg, et al) and bitching (see G. Thunberg, et al.) about. It's Carbon Dioxide. Carbon is an element. Carbon Dioxide is a compound, a molecule made up of more than one element. For the elucidation of John Kerry and the like, the atoms of these two elements are 1 carbon and 2 oxygen.

See, I think it's purposeful, this use of "carbon" now, rather than CO2, just as the term "emissions" has been used. They want chemically-challenged Joe and Jane Blow to think that CO2 is pollution, as in, if you breath it, it WILL kill you, soon enough. (OK, technically, like pretty much anything except for O2, if you breath NOTHING BUT CO2, yes, you will die.) When they say or write "carbon" they are hoping people will think of soot and ash, in which there is a lot of elemental carbon.

However, controlling that particulate pollution has been the purpose of many pollution controls already. The soot in the air is mostly gone, much the effect of REAL pollution controls and some the effect of exporting real industry to, there you go, China. As far as smoke stack scrubbers go, they were made for getting rid of true pollutants, the nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, aerosolized metal oxides, and some nasty hydrocarbons. Almost all of those are the result of unclean burning, meaning combustion of compounds other than just the hydrocarbons with the appropriate amount of oxygen. What we get from ideal clean burning is 2 things: Water and Carbon Dioxide. So, WTF do these people want?

"We need to reduce the emissions of carbon" is duplicitous. You know, over in the sauna room the other day, I noticed that there are huge emissions of hydrogen. Do you they know how dangerous hydrogen is? Anyone remember the LZ 129 Hindenburg**? Lakehurst, New Jersey? No? Well the stuff is extremely flammable. Yet there are emissions of it from saunas, swimming pools, combustion engines of any sort.

"What the hell are you talking about?", you say. Well, yeah, I mean hydrogen, in a compound, part of those H2O molecules that are emitted all over the place. We need to reduce the emissions of hydrogen, people!. To add insult to John Kerry's intelligence to the injury that he must have already received, water vapor IS, in fact, a greenhouse gas, and we are making water every time we make CO2. Only thing is, at least plants can convert that CO2, and we can eat them, while the water stays around. O2MG!

Yeah, we're in trouble alright, but the stupidity emissions out of John Kerry and yahoo are part of that trouble.

That was just a small, mole-sized, if you will, taste of the stupidity for the chemically-inclined. For the other types of geeks, l meant to say something more about yahoo here.

From my memory yahoo's heyday was in the very late 1990s, maybe into the '00s just a year or two. Back when there were those search engines that bring back memories, your Alta-vistas, Lycos's, Excites, Ask Jeeve's, dogpiles (well, if you ran your phone cord from the modem to the back yard, yes, dog piles), yahoo was on top for a while. They had also had free email account service at least as early as late-1997, from my memory.

Now, yahoo is just another form of the Lyin' Press, with still a search engine, long having lost out to google, and then, I've got emails on there from 1997! It's not like I WANT to click there, and, dammit, I should have sold my shares 20 years ago. I might have been better off putting them into a dog pile.



* I mostly use google for (only) that, as it's being the biggest search engine I figure we need to stay on top over there. I've been regularly searching for this site on bing and duckduckgo too, but I just started doing this on yahoo lately.

** No, the "LZ" does NOT stand for "Led Zeppelin".

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 Let them eat Dirt


Posted On: Monday - January 24th 2022 7:11PM MST
In Topics:   Books  Healthcare Stupidity



I picked up Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Our Children from an Oversanitized World, The co-authors, Brett Finlay and Marie-Claire Arrieta, are medical-science types in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

I only skimmed this book for 15 - 20 minutes, so this post is NOT a book review. I'd gotten this book out of the library for my wife to peruse, or at least see the cover of, for fun and shock value. Yeah, the title is pretty clever, at least if you're familiar with the famous "Let them eat cake" quote, attributed to the big-breasted last Queen of France prior to their revolution. (Wiki says the quote goes back a few decades before then, written in a story by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Confessions.)

One can see the idea that the 2 authors wanted to get across from the title. Large increases in asthma, allergies, and other ailments have been attributed to the modern house being TOO clean. This is not at al a problem for our household, and we have not seen such health problems. There's you one data point.

From skimming, I see that the authors also took aim at the modern-day indoor/snowflake type of living that kids now are experiencing. Due to their not spending nearly the amount of time outdoors than the kids of a generation or two ago, they are not exposed enough to the many germs that could give them better immunity against quite a few diseases. Has that concept been forgotten? (I can't be sure that the authors didn't also mention the value of Vitamin D from the sunshine, but they mostly concentrated on the microbes.)

For a new parent, I suppose the title of this book could be shocking,* The book was written in '16, well before the Kung Flu PanicFest. Maybe if they had bought Let Them Eat Dirt beforehand, some more people might have been on our side. The ideas within apply.



* It could be a good ploy to sell a few books to some outraged Moms, in the way that I've sometimes just got to read a yahoo article to see how stupid and disingenuous it is. Those Moms might be pleasantly surprised. I have not been so far with the yahoo articles.

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 Time for a Cool Change


Posted On: Saturday - January 22nd 2022 6:10PM MST
In Topics:   Music

I'd forgotten this band even existed. Then I saw one of their songs embedded in a comment thread, turns out by our Mr. Anon here. The Australian Little River Band had half a dozen hits back in the mid to late 1970s. All that I've heard from the band was what you would have called "Easy Listening" or the DJ's term MOR, for Middle Of the Road back then.

Their 3rd album called Diamantina Cocktail, had one song that I recognize, and that was the hit song Help is on its Way that Mr. Anon embedded. Their 4th album, Sleeper Catcher had 2 good hits, Reminiscing and Lady. Cool Change is from the band's 5th album, First Under the Wire.



The Band: (on this song, anyway).

Glenn Shorrock - lead vocals.
David Briggs - lead guitars, Roland synthesizer guitars.
Beeb Birtles - electric and acoustic guitars, vocals.
Graham Goble - electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals.
Derek Pellicci - Sonor and Syndrums drums, percussion.
Mike Clarke - bass.
Peter Jones - piano and keyboards.
Bill Harrower - saxophone.

Thanks for reading this week, Peakers! Next week I guess will have some more random stuff, with a whole lot still backed up. Have a happy and restful Sunday.

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 Two blasts from the past: Green advice from our Leaders


Posted On: Friday - January 21st 2022 9:20PM MST
In Topics:   General Stupidity  Environmental Stupidity  Dead/Ex- Presidents

This post topic is not relevant to anything particular going on in the country or anything period. It might have been from commenter Alarmist's discussion about the pushing of supposedly environmentally sound, or Green, investments a while back, I don't know. My thoughts wandered to about 13 years ago and then almost 50 years ago.

President Jimmy Carter all cozy-like and green in his sweater, with the White House thermostat turned down to 65 F:



Remember this guy? He was a real lefty for his time, expanding the Feral Gov't yet again with the Department of Education as payback to the teachers's unions for their getting out the votes, as one example. Were he implementing the same policies on the whole in 2017 though, he'd have been called a Nazi by the left. The Overton Window has been moving left ever since Overton was wee lad suckling on his mother's teet.

Carter wasn't a good leader, and Ronald Reagan would have been much more preferable*. However, it was still a decent and civil era, as was Jimmy a decent and civil man. He was no rabid Commie, as the scum we see today in the White House and its environs. There was a big energy crisis said to be going on in the latter 1970s (say '77), the oil price and supply problems actually being a matter of global politics and the pulling the rug, precious metals, I should say, out from under the US Dollar.

So, President Carter told Americans to turn down their thermostats in the winter. The winter of '77 was a cold one all over the country, and people would have to cut back on the luxury of central heating a bit, you know, for the team. The Green team? I don't think the word was even in use for treehuggers and treehugging back then. Mr. Carter suggested to Americans that they turn down those thermostats and wear sweaters in the house.

President Øb☭ma, a guy who likely never has had any idea how a car runs, lecturing Americans on appropriate tire pressures:



Remember that guy? (All too well, myself) He was a real lefty. The guy was steeped in Communism his whole life. Then it was arranged for him to amazingly get into the Illinois Senate**, then moved on up, better than the Jeffersons ever dreamed of, to a Presidential candidate four year later.

Gasoline prices in the US had been steadily going up from 1999 on, but really hit some highs*** in the summer of 2008 during the election campaign. What was the Øb☭ma solution? Optimize the pressure in your cars' tires. That was a deja vu moment for me.

Both times there was this Democrat President giving advice that would be not only "no duh!" common sense items for most Americans, but actions that Americans might have wanted to take on their own simply based on their budget. Others may not have. The free market works. Price is information. It really wasn't necessary, and both times kind of embarrassing, for Americans to be given simple and obvious advice from the guy who's simply supposed to be Executive of the Administrative Branch of the US Gov't. That's all.

One more comparison is in order here though. Jimmy Carter, with a BS in nucular (well, that's what HE called it) physics and experience in the nuclear Navy, in addition to having to have much common sense to be a farmer, had just slightly more business talking about things slightly technical. Øb☭ma was a good-for-nothing, coddled, Affirmative Action-boosted individual, with not much experience in anything technical. It's likely he never put air in a tire in his life.

To Jimmy Carter, Americans would have just thought of replying "you know, I might just work an extra few hours and keep my family warmer. Thanks, anyway." To Øb☭ma, a reply of "You're an idiot. STFU about the tires," would have been appropriate.

And tonight it's snowing way down South. Turn it up! In Washington, they hate the President, boo, hoo, hoo. Now we all did what we could do...




* That is, if he had first beat out Jerry Ford in the primary election.

** having run against Alan Keyes, who replaced Jack Ryan who had conveniently gotten ousted via some scandal about his wife.

*** I remember hearing about prices over 5 bucks a gallon in California at that time, and that was 2008 bucks. (I'd say that'd be the equivalent of $7 or $8 today.)

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 The Liars of Yahoo


Posted On: Friday - January 21st 2022 10:51AM MST
In Topics:   Immigration Stupidity  Media Stupidity



There is a little bit more I wanted to write about that yahoo headline resulting from the purposefully dangerous Bai Dien Administration's open border policy.

The whole "British Man" or "Texan" thing as used for some foreignest-of-the-foreigners is old news, sure. We are quite used to those lies of omission, and it's become a big joke. We may chalk them up just to political correctness type duplicity, but yeah, they ARE lies nonetheless. We get around them by reading past the headlines, maybe down to paragraph 28 if it's the NY Times, finding a picture, or just figuring if t it doesn't say "white" anywhere in the headline or early on, it's not someone white.

However, this yahoo headline was a pure lie of wrongful substitution - my term, meaning a plain old lie. They didn't write just "English citizen" or "UK man". When we see "British man", anyone who doesn't really believe the complete blank slate/magic dirt theory, and not many inherently do, would have a picture of John Derbyshire, Prince Andrew, or a member of The Kinks in his head. That "British Man" description was in the headline, mind you, and a lot of people just scan headlines. I noted that there was NO PICTURE of Malik Faisal Akram nearby the yahoo article.

This lie is purposeful to make us think that the terrorist in Texas was a man of British ancestry, rather than a Moslem man from the UK. Writing "Moslem man from the UK" in the headline would have been honest. Of course, we don't get honesty, as it IS the Lyin' Press after all. We didn't even get the tip-toeing-around-the-truth lies of omission this time. Without naming the guy, yahoo could have written "...was from the UK" "UK Citizen...", or yeah, "... from Blackburn, Lancashire.", the thing that got me started on that previous post. They could have still fooled some of the people some of the time.

The way the site reported journalized this, the casual yahoo news reader scanner of headlines will have in his head after this is "wow, so some British guy this time. Yep, as they say, you never know, it could be ANYONE. No wonder they feel up grannies and toddlers at the TSA lines. Better to be safe than free errr, sorry."

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 Excellent Epic Rant from Mrs. Michelle Malkin


Posted On: Thursday - January 20th 2022 5:24PM MST
In Topics:   General Stupidity  Pundits  The Neocons



I mean "rant" in the best possible sense here. Please read America First? Blundering Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya More Right Than Wrong On Uighurs*. The billionaire Michelle Malkin refers to, the guy in the VDare image above, is not someone who I'd ever heard of before either. That doesn't matter. He's not really the issue but just a good jumping off point for this great column on what "America first" really means.

No further comments, your Honor.



* Here's the same column on The Un Review, with comments.

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 British man Malik Faisal Akram slipped through the cracks


Posted On: Wednesday - January 19th 2022 2:50PM MST
In Topics:   Immigration Stupidity  Zhou Bai Dien



That's what it was. He just slipped through the cracks, those cracks having been purposefully cut, though, into the already long cracked, crazed, and crumbling immigration system by the Biden Administration over the past year. I'l get to that, but let me divert back to the previous post for a minute.

Mr. Hail wrote a number of good comments under that post. I have no argument with his points other than to note that Peak Stupidity does not often get into long analysis. My not being a customer, or consumer, if you will, of the Lyin' Press Infotainment whatsoever, ALL I'd read of that story was just references in Unz Review comments until Steve Sailer's funny take on the usual "British Man" (or whatever it is each time) lie. Then, as I read the VDare article I will point out here, I noted the "Blackburn, Lancashire" "origin" of this Malik Faisal Akram and proceeded to blog accordingly. The yahoo headline came out as I did my occasional search for "Peak Stupidity" there, ya know, to support the team. That just added to the fun.

This Texas hostage deal was not any special big story. (As Mr. Hail wrote, had this happened to a Church rather than a Synagogue, we'd probably have never heard about it. White Christian worshippers are the lowest of the low to our elites.) It appears as if the Lyin' Press lacks perspective, but this was Infotainment, because "stand off". "What's gonna happen next?! We'll be back after the commercial break with MOAR!"

Again, I have not followed the story (and others they've got) other than via people I do read from, so I ask the reader if he has heard anything from the Lyin' Press about the immigration aspect of this. It's a major point to make. Questions like this should have been asked - yes, on TV: How did Mr. Akram get into the US? What did he come here for? Did he have any legitimate reason? and Who let him pass through? Was there any of that discussion? I truly don't know, but then I read VDare, so I am kept up with all this.

The long-term writer there named "Federale is a former insider from, or maybe he even still works in, the US Gov't immigration realm. I wrote "realm" because agency names have changed multiple times, and I don't want to get it wrong. Suffice it to say that "Federale" was obviously in what we would call the Border Patrol and knows about the Customs/Immigration procedures at airports of entry too. He was/is a field guy, not an office staffer.

VDare posted Federale's In Joe Biden’s America, BIPOC Terrorists Are Welcome yesterday. Here's the intro:
For all his faults, and Jared Kushner, Kirstjen Nielsen and Rod Rosenstein are just some of those faults, Donald Trump at least tried to keep terrorists out of the country. In fact, President Trump tried hard to keep Muslim terrorists out, but was met with great resistance by the kritarchs and terrorist sympathizers in the United States. After the first Muslim ban was instituted, thousands of sympathizers rallied at airports to show their support for Black, Indigenous, People Of Color (BIPOC) killers.
(I'm still not down with this BIPOC terminology that Federale keeps using, which sounds to me like a type of circuit board, but anyway ...) He's got the details of which agency does what here:
Despite the demonstrations and interference by kritarchs, a partial Muslim ban was put into effect. What was more important was that those charged with inspecting arriving BIPOC terrorists were allowed to do their job; identify, arrest, and deport arriving BIPOC terrorists. The agency charged with inspecting arriving BIPOC terrorists is U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) charged with actually protecting our borders and making decisions as to the admissibility of aliens at Ports-of-Entry (POE) upon their arrival into the United States. These inspections are executed by Customs and Border Protection Officers (CBPO) assigned to the Office of Field Operations.
The new guy that Biden appointed to be in charge is described:
CBP is currently headed by Biden nominee Chris Magnus, a notorious homosexual and vocal supporter of illegal immigration and racial discrimination against hiring White males.
Mr. Akram is not a Brit in the real sense, but being a citizen of the UK, he would not need a visa. However, he still had to fill out a form (probably on-line), called an ESTA , that had to be approved before the airline would let him board back on the other end**.
We now know that the BIPOC and Muslim terrorist, Malik Faisal Akram, who attacked a house of worship in Texas, had a long criminal history, a public history of supporting Muslim BIPOC terrorism, and a history of mental illness. Despite this, Chris Magnus ensured that he was able to enter the United States.
Besides this initial step, having arrived at the port of entry, John Freaking Kennedy airport, Mr. Akram would have gone through the Customs*** & Immigration line like anyone else. Federale explains that there were really 2 safeguards to screen out a guy like this, the initial inspection of his passport with the questioning by a guy at a booth**** and, were he to be suspected of something - well, they do have computers to check records there - he would be sent to secondary phase of screening.

Now, I've been there, even through the secondary meeting more than once (long story). Of course, I and the likely many men-about-the-world readers and commenters here on Peak Stupidity have seen and been through the basic C&I rigamarole. (I've been through it in China even.) The biggest problem is usually just long, long lines. Then, I've seen some surly assholes in those booths, let me tell you. Tell the wrong joke, hell, any joke, and you may be there extra long and even miss a flight connection. They don't care. Just answer the questions. However, this is one place within the US Gov't that I don't mind running into surly assholes. That keeps out the riff-raff, well, unless the President orders them to stand down, letting mentally-ill British guys on jihad, such at Malik Faisal Akram, get into our country with ease.

Please read the rest of Federale's article for details, since you got this far. It's not like the Lyin' Press is gonna' cover this very important part of the story. Yes, it's perhaps THE key point. If enemies of America were not let in willy-nilly, there would have been no such incident. Open-borders advocates. What CAN'T they ruin?!


* I have one more point still about that yahoo headline I showed yesterday. I'll post that tomorrow.

** That's a big burden on the gate agents for outbound international flights. They must make sure they don't let someone on who will get stuck in limbo at the other end, as in the movie Terminal with Tom Hanks - in the movie it was due to different and weird circumstances, but it shows the purpose for holding people behind.

*** Really, Customs has become less and less of a deal as of late, IMO. Part of its purpose is about the smuggling of items - nowadays cheap Chinese knockoffs (yeah, we're gonna stop THAT!), the drugs, I suppose, and then the food products that may carry strange diseases. There is so much international travel and trade these days that the latter has become just silly. Does anyone care about the drugs anymore?

**** Getting ahead of myself and Federale here, I've seen so many foreign-looking people that work there though, that I figure there's got to be corruption all over the place, which is my suspicion especially for how most of the (easily in the millions) Chinese illegal aliens get in.

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 I read the news today, oh boy...


Posted On: Tuesday - January 18th 2022 6:38PM MST
In Topics:   Immigration Stupidity  Music  Media Stupidity

... about some bloke from Blackburn, Lancashire.



OK, I know that news from Texas is about 3 days old, and I know it's not 4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire this time, but just the one hole, maybe a couple, in Englishman Malik Faisal Akram, as he was shot by Texas cops while leaving the scene of his holding people hostage for a few days. No, his name was not Alistair Spode-Featherstonehaugh, as speculated by Steve Sailer - he kids, he kids*, or my guess of Ian Niles Worthington-on-Thames, the 3rd.

Still, it's bloody coincidental that the residence of this Englishman Malik Faisal Akram is that as memorialized in a famous old avant-garde pop tune called A Day in the Life. The younger readers just won't get this post! See, Millennials, you know the old singer named Paul McCartney? Yeah, I know, I can't recall his most recent Kasey Kasem reported American Top 40 single either, but that aside, do you know he used to be in a world famous musical combo , errr, band? Yeah! It was called Wings. OK, that joke doesn't seem to get old for me, but, anyway, going even further back, it was A Day in the Life**, from the famous Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band album from which the line about Blackburn, Lancashire come from.

That 1967 released Beatle album featured advanced songwriting and a song that wasn't just the same old chorus-verse-chorus-verse, standard guitar/bass/drums/keyboards, and catchy lyrics done in 3 minutes like most of the songs at the time. Oh, there were plenty of exceptions, sure, but this was a groundbreaking album, as Pet Sounds was for the Beach Boys just before. A Day in the Life was one of these avant-garde songs. It had a few tunes put into one (a style that Paul McCartney did so great with with his later Wings band), with interludes, not your standard rock & roll instruments, weird sounds, etc.
I read the news today oh, boy.
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire.
And though the holes were rather small,
they had to count them all.
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
I don't know what Englishmen Lennon and McCartney were "on about", as the Englishmen say, with the lyrics, LSD possibly having something to do with them, but I've got a question. Would anyone involved in the songwriting or songlistening have imagined that a Moslem terrorist would have come from Blackburn, Lancashire ... in 1967? How about 1997, even? It wasn't even a year after Sgt. Pepper's when Englishman Enoch Powell gave his "River of Blood" speech. (See VDare for “Like The Roman, I Seem To See 'The River Tiber Foaming With Much Blood'”—Enoch Powell's Great Speech.) The British have always believed in more government than Americans in general, but, when it comes to protecting our countries from the outside world, we could all agree with Mr. Powell that "The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils." Instead of preventing it, our governments have invited evil in!

I read yahoo news today oh, boy
about an unlucky man who's below the grade.
And though the news made me rather mad,
well, I just had to laugh.
I saw the photograph.

They blew his brains out from afar.
They shouldn't notice his ethnicity's strange.
A crowd of people stood and stared.
They'd seen his type before.
Nowadays we're pretty sure a guy like that could join the House of Lords...

I'd love to turn you on ....

Straight off the yahoo news today, oh boy, it told me who was that the terrorist in the Colleyville, Texas Synagogue.



His name was Malik Faisal Akram, and apparently ...

"He was an Englishmaaannn!"***



I'll have more tomorrow about how a bloody Brit like Malik Faisal Akram waltzed right into the U.S. of A., no sweat, from an expert in this area at VDare.



* As do the commenters, always a very humorous, in addition to knowledgeable, crowd.

** The remake of it, done by TDZ or somebody (Lady Gaga?), has a longer title - A Day in the Life of an English Moslem terrorist on the Sabbath.

*** I'm not much of a playgoer, so I've never seen The HMS Pinafore .

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 We will name names!


Posted On: Monday - January 17th 2022 6:12PM MST
In Topics:   Commies  History



Wasn't that the old complaint from the lefty Communist sympathizers back in the 1950's? They hated Senator Joe McCarthy because he wanted to stop the waging of an internal Cold War by Communists within the US Government in its tracks. The were all for more free speech and other Constitutional rights, as anybody should be. However, as we see from their modern form, it was only because it helped them 70 years ago. Right now, they want no part of it.

The left was worried about being listed on these "blacklists" in which one couldn't do what, exactly, make a movie in Hollywood or be an actor in a the Screen Actor's Guild? So what? Nobody was locking them away or deporting them, as some should have been. Were I alive then, my retort would have been simply "get a real job!". My heart does not bleed for those people.

This is the history Americans have been told by the major Lyin' Press outlets since I've been alive and aware. Picking on Communists is NOT OKAY!* They have rights! Yes, sure they did, so long as they weren't committing treason against the US Constitution. That has always been part of their long-term goal. You sure can't implement it with that damn thing around! With all that talk about rights in the past, did everyone think they would want to keep these rights at the end of their successful Long March through the American Institutions?

Speaking of lists there is a book giving the other side of the story by M. Stanton Evans , Blacklisted by History**, that I will have on my hold list from the library as soon as my 10 y/o boy gets a few of his holds off the list (hit the maximum).

I have not read Ann Coulter's book that covers the early Cold War era internal fight against Communism, including the "McCarthyism, either. It's called Treason***, but that's on my list. I've got my own lists too, see?

Another thing I like about VDare is that the writers are not afraid to use the C-word. In the interesting Peter Brimelow speech at the last Amren conference, the transcript from which I commented on a bit here, there is also some talk about who are the people at the higher level, that could be rightly dubbed Communists. I'll excerpt most of that part:
I was actually converted on this matter by the great John Derbyshire. He regularly used the term “communist” to describe the mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio. And when I was looking this up today, I discovered that the de Blasio was actually involved in pro-Sandinista activities in the 1980s, when, of course, that put him on the wrong side of the Cold War.

And the term “communist” is gradually creeping into mainstream discourse. Someone who's done great work in this area is the podcaster Jesse Kelly, who's been using it for a long time.

The problem is that we've all been subliminally subverted by the McCarthy wars. We think that “communist” has to mean “card-carrying Communist”—that is, a member of the Party (although my understanding is that the party did not actually issue cards).

But in fact, the term “communist” pre-exists formally organized “Communist” parties. Marx used it in his 1848 Communist Manifesto—he said a specter was “haunting Europe—the specter of communism.” At that time, remember, he hadn't written Das Kapital.
[As it the usual case on VDare, there are loads of links in the original.]
(Coincidentally, I just heard of this Jesse Kelly today, somewhere on the Unz Review site.)

Besides Mr. Brimelow's talk here, and in writing of his elsewhere, there is the (one of my favorite) VDare writer Jack Dalton, who has used the C-word multiple times - see our post about him for one example. In addition two of their writers have started naming names of those at the lower level lever, the useful idiots of the antifa, as pictured above.

Infrequent writer Rosa Luxemburg, has 2 out of the 4 posts titled Doxing the Doxers. - HuffPo’s Christopher Mathias Another Spoiled Rich Brat Targeting Ordinary Americans. - and - Leftist Enforcer Jared Holt, Up Close and Personal—A Few Things He’d Prefer You Not To Know.

One of the persecuted**** White Men from the Commie vs. American street fight in Charlottesville, Virginia in the summer of '17, Jason Kessler has written the other 2 - Antifa’s War Against Regular Americans Is Run By Spoiled Rich Kids - and - Half-Egyptian Rich Kid SPLC Enforcer Michael Edison Hayden Is A Weirdo. What Else Is New?..

These two go back into biographical details, a la, Mr. E. H. Hail, of these nasty Communists of the internet world. The antifa scum they discuss have done their best to ruin the careers of traditional Americans that have tried to stop this war by doxing them. The left don't have to remain anonymous, as the Establishment is firmly on their side. Does doxing them help, then. Well, it'd be great if Americans who are still on the fence could see the evil of these people, and it's laid out very well in these 4 parts of the series. Put the word out. We need to start naming names. Senator Tail-gunner Joe McCarthy would be quite welcome here on Peak Stupidity.




* The entire title is Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies.

** The entire title is Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism. I don't like long-ass subtitles very much.

*** We got a slight reprieve on this during the 1990s especially right after the Cold War - see Christmas and Communism.

**** and an expert on the legal persecution in the aftermath.

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 Menstruation Nation


Posted On: Saturday - January 15th 2022 10:30PM MST
In Topics:   Music  Humor  Kung Flu Stupidity

"They took the whole American nation, (da, da, da-da da-da),
locked us down, it's mass menstruation."



From what I've read from folks in the blue zones, I feel very thankful to live where the PanicFest is generally over.* It's not quite, though. Plexiglass shields are still all over the place, and no, Apu at the Quicky Mart, they don't stop .380 rounds. The biggest reminder that people have not let this go is that there is still a good deal of masking going on.

Now, it's not like most people seem to take the mask use too seriously healthwise, as we noted in Accessorize, accessorize, accessorize! - II (near the bottom). That is the case where I live anyway. People will pull their masks down to get a point across, when it inhibits communication. I've not seen anyone who's wearing one chiding anyone else for not wearing one.

However, many still seem to take compliance with this stupidity seriously for themselves. "Just following the rules, you know. They know best." That anyone can still think like that after all the back-and-forth idiocy that the EXPERTS have spouted out over the last 2 years is confounding.

The face masks seem to come and go. I don't think it's just the cold weather, but maybe it's that scary Greek letter Omicron that's brought on this latest wave. Does in come in 28 day cycles? Are women synching up their own cycles now, due to the waves of panic coming off the idiot plates and their iCrap? Now THAT'S some scary stuff.

You're gonna' want to click play on Paul Revere and the Raiders' Indian Reservation below if you don't know this one, or it won't be as fun.

They took the whole American nation, (da, da, da-da da-da, da, da, da-da da-da),
Locked us down, it's mass menstruation.
Took away our way of life,
Now I'm zooming with my wife.

This whole Kung Flu agitation (da, da, da-da da-da, da, da, da-da da-da),
is just mental masturbation.
They've called off my graduation.
That's just one more aggravation.

Hysterical people, PanicFest tide,
so scared to live, cause Fauci lied!

You won't get a reservation (da, da, da-da da-da, da, da, da-da da-da),
'less you get a vaccination.
They screwed a whole new generation,
who may never know lactation.

They'll put you under observation, (da, da, da-da da-da, da, da, da-da da-da),
and pretty soon start intubation.
They called it an emergency situation
and spent enough to cause inflation.

Hysterical people, PanicFest tide,
so scared to live, locked-down inside!

But maybe someday we will learn,
and America will return, will return, will return ...





PS: The latest (much rarer these days) iSteve hopeful post on the Kung Flu has lots of great comments, including some by our commenters here. Read Is Omicron Just the Flu, Bro? and enjoy the comments!



* Though the great harm done is will not be stopped in the long run, the Totalitarianism that has been implemented during the PanicFest has set precedents. Those don't get overturned when you're fast on the road to tyranny. The people are already used to it.

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 Presidential Edict powers affirmed by usual black-robed POS


Posted On: Saturday - January 15th 2022 5:03PM MST
In Topics:   US Feral Government  Healthcare Stupidity  Legal Stupidity  Morning Constitutional  Kung Flu Stupidity



That's POS plural, as in Pieces Of Shit, Chief Justice John Roberts (above) presiding. The first decision the SCROTUS made on Thursday evening, National Federation of Independent Business v. OSHA was regarding the sweeping vaccination and testing edicts for all companies of 100 people or larger.

The Heritage Foundation article, on the side of freedom, had details in Unpacking Supreme Court Justices’ Reasoning in Vaccine Mandate Decisions.
“As its name suggests,” the court explained, “OSHA is tasked with ensuring occupational safety—that is, ‘safe and healthful working conditions.’” That means OSHA is only empowered “to set workplace safety standards, not broad public health measures,” and according to the justices, “no provision of the Act addresses public health more generally, which falls outside of OSHA’s sphere of expertise.”
Judges Kagan and Sotomayer, were of course on the side of Totalitarianism along with the lefty Stephen Breyer and wrote a dissenting opinion in favor of these Presidential Edicts, now called "mandates", to be enforced by the Executive Branch. I've looked all through the document, but I'll be damned if i can find anything that allows that in the US Constitution. Perhaps haven't downloaded the latest update.

Per the article, Judges Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito wrote a concurring opinion, Justices Brett M. Kavanaugh, Amy Barrett, and Roberts also voted against the legality of this edict and against OSHA's attempted massive mission creep, making it 6-3.

In their 2nd "opinion" on (and that's what it should be taken as, opinion not law, but it isn't these days), Biden v. Missouri, the decision was that "the US Department of Health and Human Services’ vaccine mandate (administered through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) for workers at federally funded health care facilities" is somehow OK. Wait, only "federally funded" health care facilities? Yeah, don't breath a sigh of relief here. That means anyone who takes Medicare and Medicaid, meaning pretty much ALL of them. That's the stick that the Feds having been using on the hospital. which don't at all mind taking that stick up the wazoo from what I've seen.

On this 2nd case, Judge Thomas, joined by Gorsuch, Alito, and Amy Coney Barrett, dissented, The 3 Totalitarians from the 1st case, along with, yes, Trump-appointed Kavanaugh and Roberts, voted "aye". It was 5-4, and, I don't know the deal with Kavanaugh, but Judge Roberts let us down again. This is the 2nd big healthcare issue for which this George W. Bush appointee* has sided with big government Totalitarianism over freedom.

Remember the passage of Øb☭macare 12 years ago? (I can remember writing comments on the American Spectator site about it.) The Totalitarian side won out by a nose, every step of the way on the implementation of that piece of Fed-Gov over-reach. The last step was the Supreme Court. That's where Judge Roberts came up with some bogus argument about that whole monstrosity of Socialism being just a tax, which is OK (don't even now why on the latter).

I wonder who's got the goods on this guy? This one is not only another increase in Totalitarianism, but it will affect my family right away, more quickly than the Totalitarianism will. Screw this guy!

Finally, from Fox News, I read that anti-Panic hero Ron DeSantis of Florida had to say about it.
"But honestly, Roberts and Kavanaugh did not have a backbone on that decision," DeSantis also said. "That's just the bottom line."

DeSantis also vowed to enforce Florida’s protections for nurses amid the health care worker vaccine mandate.
There are a lot of very nice spots down there still. I just don't know how long the blue State refugees will take to destroy the place.


* Right to the top too, as initially he was to be a regular justice, but then Bush appointed him directly to Chief Justice.

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 Extreme black wokeness and LittleFreeLibraries - stupidity or lies?


Posted On: Friday - January 14th 2022 10:42PM MST
In Topics:   Lefty MegaStupidity  Race/Genetics



I wanted to write this post over a month ago. I didn't want to just steal Steve Sailer's material on some extreme stupidity here, for which he gets his ideas from the usual NY Times. His post of Dec. 5th, '21 NYT: By Encouraging Integration, Little Free Libraries Are Racist was another great job by Mr. Sailer in logically and snarkily refuting the stupidity of one Erin Aubry Kaplan. I just wanted more. I gotta do it myself. Also, I'm very familiar with some Little Free Libraries - see LittleFreeLibraries in the leafy neighborhoods .

The reader ought to go over and read Mr. Sailer's take first, if he hasn't already, as I will continue the fisking* here. I will include the excerpts he included that discussed the little libraries from the original article, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna click on the NY Times. Hopefully not too much is missing. Here goes:
Is My Little Library Contributing to the Gentrification of My Black Neighborhood?

Dec. 5, 2021, 11:00 a.m. ET

By Erin Aubry Kaplan

Ms. Aubry Kaplan is a journalist and author who grew up in the South Central section of Los Angeles and nearby Inglewood.

About a year ago, I decided to build a library on my front lawn. By library, I mean one of those little free-standing library boxes that dot lawns in bedroom communities around the country — charming, birdhouse-like structures filled with books that invite neighbors and passers-by to take a book, or donate a book, or both.
OK, fine, but keep in mind which type of people think of altruistic ideas like this and have the motivation to start building them. (Miss Kaplan could read the Peak Stupidity "Leafy Neighborhoods" post for a clue).
I’d spotted the phenomenon on walks through upscale, largely white neighborhoods around Los Angeles and immediately resolved to bring it home to Inglewood. Why not? A library is not so much a marker of wealth and whiteness ...
It kinda' IS. I mean, unless you're a bum who uses one for shelter.
... as it is an affirmation of community and cozy, small-town camaraderie that Inglewood, a mostly Black and Latino city in southwestern Los Angeles County, has plenty of. We deserved no less.
If that's the basic demographics of Inglewood, I'm guessing there isn't a big, big demand for a library by anyone but you, and, again, some bums.
Prepandemic, Inglewood was gentrifying, another reason I’d been inspired to do the library: I wanted to signal to my longtime neighbors that we had our own ideas about improvement, and could carry them out in our own way. …
Exactly. Since it was gentrifying, there might be a good spot where the LittleFreeLibrary would be less likely to get bashed apart by neighbor kids with baseball bats.
Then one morning, glancing out my front window, I saw a young white couple stopped at the library. Instantly, I was flooded with emotions — astonishment, and then resentment, and then astonishment at my resentment. It all converged into a silent scream in my head of, Get off my lawn! …
You need a hopefully-silent shotgun in your hands for best effect there. It's just the edge of your lawn, anyway, and how do you think I feel when black people from another neighborhood come up to the house on Halloween, some with no costumes?
Now that they were in front of my house, curious about this new neighborhood attraction, I didn’t know how to feel.
I don't know about nuts like Miss Kaplan, but for most of us, we don't have to figure out how to feel about something. I do know how I'd feel were the races reversed. "Man, I hope these guys aren't casing out the house. They sure as hell ain't out there for the books."
By bringing this modern cultural artifact here from white neighborhoods, had I set myself up, set up the neighborhood? Was I contributing to gentrification and sending the wrong message about how I wanted the neighborhood to be?
OK, Miss Kaplan gave away thoughts there that weren't supposed to come out. Nice stuff = White people. Got it.
What I resented was not this specific couple. It was their whiteness
OK, then, at least you know your feelings this time. You hate White people. (There are lots of inexpensive neighborhood in Los Angelos that have NO White people. You can bring your LittleFreeLibrary with you when you move.)
… Ultimately, the moment with the couple I saw through my window raised for me a serious moral question about how I should act. Screaming at them to get off my lawn would be adopting the values of the oppressor, as my racial-justice activist father used to say.
As an oppressor, I'd like to scream "get off my lawn" at black people occasionally, but I'm pretty sure that wouldn't go well for me. (There are too many cameras, if nothing else.)
Yet my resentment was not analogous to the white resentment of generations past (and of now, I’d argue). White resentment has always been legitimized, and reinforced, by legal and cultural dominance, a dynamic evident in everything from the rise of Trumpism to the current battle against the political boogeyman of critical race theory.
Whaaa? You lost me among the gibberish.
My little library, affirming as it is, is also an illusion; it can’t save our neighborhood. Still, in 2021, it has become increasingly important to maintain and grow Black space, on its own terms. As I watched the white couple peruse my little library, the most complicated feeling of all was the brief, bittersweet satisfaction I took in watching them drawn to my lawn, and to my idea. It felt empowering and hopeful on the one hand, defeating on the other.
In other words, you're glad your house is not seen as a total shithole. Good on you. Next step: Yard of the Month.
So what message do I hope they took from my library? The same message I wanted to send to the rest of my neighbors, my community: Black presence has value — in every sense of the word, and on its own terms.
They may have just figured a nice old White lady lives there. They were sadly mistaken, on the "nice".
That value should make the casual displacement of Black people untenable, even immoral. And that will take much more than a little library to rectify.
What value? If your neighborhood was that great, maybe the houses couldn't be bought up for cheap by White people. Nobody's forcing anyone to sell either. If you want to see value, wait a couple of years and see what kind of property tax bill you get. Now, that's a case in which I'd understand your feelings! I hear ya', sister.

Well, that was fun, but the question is: Are people like Erin Aubry Kaplan and hundreds of others that Steve Sailer features out of the NY Times and such really this stupid? Do they just need people to explain things to them logically. Would it help anyway, if they are as stupid as they sound? Nah, I think people like Miss Kaplan just come up with stuff to piss off White people. They know that, for fear of trouble, not many will dispute this feigned stupidity, which is nothing but lies that they are being forced to swallow with a smile.



* That's an old blogger term, the origin of which is explained here on Peak Stupidity in A Visual Fisking of Cortez the Killer. (We fisked the Neil Young song not the conquistador himself.)

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 Millennials v Boomers - Part 3: Muh-muh-my g-g-generation g-g-gap


Posted On: Thursday - January 13th 2022 6:39PM MST
In Topics:   General Stupidity  Music  Americans  Muh Generation

(Sort of continued from Part 1 and Part 2.)



The Generation Gap was a BIG topic from the middle 1960s through, I dunno, likely the mid-1970s, after the hippie era had ended. One could say that "it's always like this", and there was nothing new about the differences in perspective. I disagree. I don't know of any large cohort of young people who had rebelled against the Establishment and so disrespectfully against their parents in history, at least American history. (Of course, not close to all of them participated, so, yes, this is a generational-lization).

I will use Strauss' & Howe's, again arguable definitions of these generations again, During that time, it was the younger of the GI Generation (born 1901--1924) and the older of Silent Generation (born 1925 - 1942) who were the parents of that rebellious Baby Boom Generation (born 1943 - 1960). Apparently that White Man-run, civil, peaceful, prosperous era of 1946 to 1964* was too boooring for these young people. Their parents "wouldn't understand!" (Maybe because they were not young and stupid?) The Establishment had to be ousted.

If one either was there at the time or has read a decent amount on this period of the Generation Gap, he would know that this was not all grass-roots independent thought by the young Boomers (and some younger Silent Generation types too, as with those Beatniks, for example). As Peak Stupidity has discussed quite a bit lately, as the external Cold War was waged, the internal Cold War was being waged too. Unfortunately, Americans gave ground to the Communists waging that one at almost every turn. Unilateral disarmament wouldn't have been a good idea in the external stand-off against the USSR. What idiots thought it would work just fine in the internal version?!

That Generation Gap of the mid-1960's-mid-1970s was just a part of the Long March through the American Institutions. Destroying the nuclear family is job 1 for any good Communist. Creating a huge gap in perspective and values is between the generations worked, but at least, I'll grant that the rebelling Boomers had some great music.

What do we have going on now with the Millennials v Boomers? There's a lot of name-calling and bitterness, mostly in one direction, young against old. The differences in perspective and values this time doesn't seem to be based on lefty vs. conservative politics. The one thing that stands out is that the changes in electronic technology from the time of the days of the Boomers to the current day of the Millennials have been so sweeping that the generations have grown up in different worlds. That'd go even more so for the Zoomers, a portion of whom are old enough to be part of this current divide. (Strauss & Howe dubbed them the "Homeland Generation", which means, what exactly? I don't like that one.)

However, I think "it's the economy, stupid." Millennials and Zoomers are perhaps loath to repeat that line from that penultimate Boomer, BJ Clinton, if they remember it. (It was 30 years ago, in fact!) It is the problem they have with the Boomers - well, as usual, not ALL of them by any means. I take the side of the young people on this beef. There are still Boomer and older MIllennial parents who would lecture their young adults with a straight face:

Pull yourself up with your bootstraps. I worked every summer and made enough money to pay for college. You get that degree, and then, OK, maybe you do have to start in the mailroom ("mailroom? WTF, Dad?), but you work hard, you put your nose to the grindstone, and you'll make your way up the ladder. Or, get an apartment and work at fast food for a year or two and save up money and build up your work record. I walked around for a week handing out resumes until IBM hired me. You know, you get in the pension plan, you buy a small ranch house ..."

No, the American economy is nothing like the economy during the young adult years of the Boomers, and it hasn't been in 10 years either, when all the Millennials were young adults. That's not all of the Boomers' faults, as we noted in part 1. A large number of them were NOT in favor of shipping industry to Mexico and China, importing 60 million new people, or keeping Affirmative Action going.** Then again, not all the Millennials are the ones using the "OK, Boomer" insult. Maybe it's just a few idiots on-line, I dunno.

Are we in the midst of Generation Gap 2.0, or My Generation Gap? That's that whole "my computer", my this, and my that bit that Microsoft started 25 years ago(?)) There is no great music to go along with this generation gap this time, though. "Your music sucks!" and "learn to play guitar!" would be the modern version of "turn that down!", as those parents used to say, as they rolled around on the couch, rolling numbers with your KISS records out ...

You figured The Who would be featured at the end here, didn't you? Unfortunately, Peak Stupidity has already featured the stutter-rock song you expected. This one is about Generation Gap 1.0 bridged. It's the 1970s band Cheap Trick song Surrender from their excellent Live at Budokan (Japan) from 1978.



Mommy's alright, daddy's alright, they just seem a little weird.
Surrender, surrender, but don't give yourself away.



* It's a little on the later side, perhaps, but I'll call it ended when the Socialist Scumbag Lyndon Johnson won the 1964 Presidential election over Barry Goldwater. (Sure, we had another Barry in office 50 years later - that was not quite the same!)

** The origin of that anti-White evil comes from the time when it was 3 older generations voting for, again, the Socialist Scumbag Lyndon Johnson. (Hey, how come he appears in all the footnotes?)

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 Moar fashion accessory anecdotes


Posted On: Tuesday - January 11th 2022 7:58PM MST
In Topics:   Humor  Kung Flu Stupidity

One could say this post is a continuation from this one or this one based on their title*, but there are now many dozens of posts here about the ridiculous face masking stupidity that's been going on. It could be a continuation of any of them. I really hesitate to put in a special Face Diapers topic key. What would one have made of that 2 years ago?

From our star designers in Milano, comes this beautifully textured, black mask, manufactured in Shenzhen by People's Faxi Dai Pao plant number 5! Please clap.



I'm too sexy for my mask,
too sexy for my mask,
too sexy for my mask.
What song? Too stupid, so don't ask.

I could not really get a good image of what I wanted here, in this first of 2 anecdotes/observations. There are face masks being worn that are a new type, or new to me, at least. The texture on the outside looks like plastic almost. It's very glossy black. This must still be non-woven material (yeah, which is plastic), but the grain is different from those blue/green medical style ones.

The thing about these ones is that, even though they don't fit tightly at all on the user, they are EVEN WORSE for communication through. I wrote "through", but then, they seem to have a big gap on the top side where sound should come out well. (They are almost semi-circular at the top, leaving a gap to the portions of the face there.) I'd thought the thick cloth ones were the worse, especially on black ladies, but the sound must bounce around a bit before coming out, and these are terrible.

Maybe communication is not as important at work as we have been told, and it's all about fashion, except that these are ugly too.

How about face masks that are made of clean white real cloth?

This next, from a new avant-garde design studio in L-Gay-Paris, BT, is this lacy number, no the mask, not the blouse. Look up!:



That's the type I mean. These are really the closest things to diaper material you can have. Hell, maybe a converted diaper plant in Shenzhen makes them.

As I entered the country building today to pay property taxes, I remembered that they now have a metal detector and a guard at the entrance. (What might they be afraid of?) The guard told me I need to mask up. I looked and saw a stack of these nice white cloth face masks. Nobody really seemed to care HOW I wore this mask, and luckily, things went very quickly.

5 minutes later I walked out of the building wearing this thing. Yeah, these double-layered cloth ones do keep the face warm, but being a big opponent of all this hysteria, I took this one off and threw it on the grass near the bushes. No, littering is not my thing, but this was a political statement. Imagine they kept having to go out there and clean up 5 masks an hour. Maybe they would lighten the hell up.

When I started searching for images to match this 2nd item here, I noted that these things cost 15 bucks a piece! Maybe they are cheaper by the box, but by how much? Did the county have a big surplus? (of masks, I mean, not money) I now think it wasteful of me to have trashed that one, but, well, that's my own tax money I just paid. I've got half a mind to go there tomorrow, maybe in an out a couple of times ("ahhh, I forgot something") and collect more. They'd be good for wiping of oil dipsticks and things like that ...



* Wow! Until just now, I had no idea that I'd written 2 posts with the exact same title, both about face masks during this Kung Flu PanicFest. The 1st one has a Grateful Dead theme to it. They both treat this whole thing with great disdain and ridicule.

Well, as they say "great minds think alike, even if they are the same one, one year and 16 days apart." Hey, is October fashion month or something? I wouldn't know. This is just weird. I will rename the 2nd one with a "II' at the end.

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 Alas, it could have gone differently


Posted On: Tuesday - January 11th 2022 7:01AM MST
In Topics:   Commies  Websites  Pundits  Race/Genetics

This is nothing original today, but just in case we have Peak Stupidity readers who are not also VDare readers, I point you to 2 very good posts on that site. They are by the 2 men that run VDare and Amren (the organizations and the websites), Peter Brimelow and Jared Taylor, respectively.



Mr. Brimelow has been one of the few pundits I read to regularly use the C-word, along with at least one other (Jack Dalton) on the site, as we happily noted in OK, Some (V)Dare Call it Communism. This long post “This Is A Communist Coup. But White America Is On The Move” is not about the failures of old-timey Communism and that*. It's a timely speech on what has been attempted on the immigration front against these people and what should be done in the near future.

This post is a transcription of a speech that Peter Brimelow gave at the Amren conference in the usual venue on Tennessee State Gov't grounds, near Nashville. This is a great read, and nothing against Mr. Brimelow's accent, but he is right in his note at the beginning of the VDare post that he's easier to understand in writing for us Americans.

There is a lot to the speech, and this is not a review. About Mr. Brimelow's 6 political solutions he prescribes to be implemented sooner rather than later, unfortunately, I think he is much too optimistic with almost all of them. We can have an overwhelming GOP Congress in '22, but almost none of those things is going to happen. That's not because the GOP COULDN'T do them. It's because there are always a large proportion of traitorous or money-hungry, or cowardly cucks among them. I never liked it when Lucy kept doing that thing to Charlie Brown with the place kicking. We Conservatives need to quit being Charlie Brown.

Then, Mr. Brimelow gives some more possible separation scenarios. Those are more realistic, though we don't know how some new Federalism is going to fare. It's matter of power. Thankfully, due to diversity, Federal power is getting weaker, but the people are still accumulating firepower.



Peak Stupidity has discussed the McMichaels' and friend's self defense case just a bit before. After the verdict, we posted For the White Man: no justice and no peace, and after the extreme Anarcho-tyrannic sentences given, we posted Georgia 3 sentenced to life imprisonment in self-defense case. Well Amren's chief Jared Taylor does a much better job, and he also lays out the story of what went on in Satilla Shores that day in late Winter of '20 very well, something I haven't done at all.

Here is his "Justice For Ahmaud Arbery"—Another Atrocity For American Whites on the sentencing, on VDare. Here is the same article on The Unz Review, under which one can post comments. (It's got 280 of them right now, the article having been displayed on top left for a day or two.)

Back in '21 around Thanksgiving, Mr. Taylor also did a fine job writing about the case and the verdict. See How Horrible Is The Arbery/McMichael Verdict? HORRIBLE, For All White Americans . Here is that one on The Unz Review with 372 comments. Got time on your hands?

Both of these men are polite and civil, with Jared Taylor being more soft-spoken. They don't scream for violence. They don't even use cusswords. (That's, unless we count the C-word.) The just calmly try to encourage political solutions for the immigration/racial mess this nation has had forced upon it. They have both been doing that for a couple of decades or more.

Imagine if Americans had listened to, or more like it, had a CHANCE to listen to, guys like this running for high-level office in government. We had Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan and others, still not marginalized completely off the radar, in the 1990s. Many of us supported these men, and likely Mr. Brimelow and Mr. Taylor did too. How did we not take care of the problems then, 30 to 25 years ago? It'd have been much easier. Alas, it could have gone differently, much differently...



* Although Peter Brimelow does include a few paragraphs that explain why we can use the term Communist. I think I'll include that in another post, but it's about 1/2 way down his post for you to read.

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