Monty Python - The Watch Smuggler
Posted On: Wednesday - April 2nd 2025 6:00PM MST
In Topics: Humor Anarcho-tyranny
Man, I got about 2/3 or more through the follow up EXCUSES post, with no other excuse other than I'm tired right now. That one, about the possible Motives and Means for foul play in JFK, Jr.'s death will have to appear tommorow.
I did have this hilarious Monty Python skit in a tab that's not helping my speed here at all, so... enjoy this one. I know most of these guys (excepting Michael Palin, I believe) have been lefty 'tards that we really didn't need to hear from in that regard. However, funny was really funny, back in the day. The customs man is Graham Chapman, and the smuggler is Michael Palin.
We have been discussing tariffs lately, so this take on the Custom's man is somewhat, errr, timely.
PS: I had to add that Anarcho-Tyranny tag for that ending (of the actual skit).
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Hooters going Tits Up
Posted On: Tuesday - April 1st 2025 7:30PM MST
In Topics: Humor Female Stupidity Big-Biz Stupidity
Best post title EVAH! It's stolen though. ZeroHedge already had one pretty good title for their post yesterday regarding the financial problems of the Hooters chain of breastaurants - Going Bust: Hooters To Re-Jiggle After Filing Chapter 11 Bankruptcy In Founder-Led Buyout. Yeah, I see 2 good ones in the title, and one more in the 1st paragraph.
However, the best of the many fun comments there, BY FAR, was the succinct line that is Peak Stupidity's post title. It turns out, that was Tyler Durden's title of this post back in February. Nice job, all involved!
The stupidity is pretty in your face here, as the Hooters MBA's have decided to go family friendly. Yes, that's the ticket, overpriced chicken wings and beer WITHOUT the hot ladies. I'm sure these MBA's have this all worked out in their re-org plans, with spreadsheets, Gantt Charts, and all good stuff, perhaps thinking of M&A's instead of T&A.
With Hooters on the verge of bankruptcy, the legendary restaurant where you can eat mediocre food and check out tits (and pay in cash so your wife doesn't find out) is getting rid of Bikini Nights and skimpy outfits, and hopes that an improvement in the food will stave off doom.An improvement in the food. I just don't think that's gonna get enough support for the sagging sales.
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Iron Curtain 2.0
Posted On: Monday - March 31st 2025 4:56PM MST
In Topics: Commies History Globalists World Political Stupidity
From Stornaway in the northeast Atlantic to Gibraltar at the entrance to the Mediterranean, with a small cut-out for Hungary, Iron Curtain 2.0 has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the Woke states of Europe. Dublin, London, Paris,
A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by Cold War victory. Nobody knows what Globalist Brussels and its Totalitarian international organisation intends to do in the immediate future, or what are the limits, if any, to their expansive and prostituting tendencies.
Four score minus a year and 3 weeks ago, 2 States away, summa y'all prolly heard this same story from a guy named Winston Churchill. He was talking about the Communists. This time it's the Globalists enacting Totalitarianism and Oppression.
- Peak Stupidity, from address to the student body of Meridian Community College (for extra credit), via Teams, March 31st, 2025*
We discussed this oppression of Europe by the Globalists in a recent post, Defeating Globalism: Europeans v Americans. The UK and Germany were more than mentioned, with the aspects of Orwellian speech control and the abolition of opposing political parties, respectively. I can't say I've been following it heavily, but at least I've read headlines and a few stories about Romania and the Globalist-implemented Do-over after the rightful election of Calin Georgescu last November. The problem was Tic-Tok, apparently ... or something. Now, he can't even run in a Do-over, as, per a court ruling in mid-March, he has been banned from running again. Didn't the Communists do this sort of thing 80 years ago?
We didn't discuss France in that "Defeating Globalism" post, but there's big news there. Rather than just banning her party or awaiting election results in anticipation of a possibly-needed Do-over, Marine Le Pen has been arrested and sentenced to a 4 year (2-years of suspended) prison sentence. No, but she can't win an election from prison, as we thought might have had to be the case for Donald Trump. Miss Le Pen has just been banned from running in elections for 5 years. (That ought to cover it.)
I no longer put any credence in reports of charges of election interference, embezzlement or any other accusations.*** We've learned quite a bit over here over the last 4 years. Whether it's politicians or not, Totalitarians will say whatever they need to. The old Soviet Union would have charged any "enemy of the State", aka, non-Communist, with online child pornography (as the FBI may do here) had they had the internet then, and computers, and pornography, and enough cabbage even to fulfill the bottom of that pyramid of needs.
Whatever the charges are, prison and/or fines ($100,000 or so for Miss Le Pen), how do they come up with "not being allowed to run for election" as part of a sentence?
The Soviets or the Red Chinese would have done the very same, that is, until they had complete control, at which point nobody will be stupid enough to run for ANYTHING.
How's it gonna go this time, assuming America still stands against Globalism? NATO won't do us any good against all the rest of the membership of NATO. Rather than the Warsaw Pact, we may see the Brussels Pact this time, with even more countries in the West Bloc than the old East Bloc had. At least we've got a whole big ocean, so we don't need to guard any new Fulda Gap. Let's hold onto that Triad though (ICBMs, bombers, and the subs).
Here, people have been telling us that this Ukraine thing is part of Cold War II. It doesn't look that way. Iron Curtain 2.0 may even be closer, passing just west of the Acela Corridor. Richmond can be our new Capital... hey, wait a minute ...
What I'm looking forward to this time around is the coming Budapest Airlift, to supply a whole city stuck behind Iron Curtain 2.0. We'll have much bigger Lifters this time.
Peak Stupidity Disclaimer [added per PS Legal Dept.:] Plagiarism is perfectly fine. Everybody does it - our last President did it as did the new Prime Minister of Canada. Sod off about it, already.
* The whole original "Sinews of Peace" speech. Churchill pushed the UNO, now UN, pretty hard too.
** On the 1st page of search results for this Mr. Georgescu of 9 blurbs, 7 of them have "far-right" in the title, the blurb, or both. One of the other 2 calls him an "Ultranationalist" (NY Times) and the other brings up money embezzled or something. (What's new?)
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The melting of Antarctica: More Alarmist Trickery - Part 2
Posted On: Friday - March 28th 2025 8:11PM MST
In Topics: Music Global Climate Stupidity Geography Science
OMG! Remember that last graph in Part 1. Where are the Polar Bears? You've killed
Where'd we leave off. Oh, yeah,I noted something about the vertical axes of the graphs that the somewhat alarmist (but not too bad) commenter in our conversation linked me to (also for Greenland and the sea ice stuff). This was a decrease from the horizontal axis representing 0 ice mass lost/gained.
OK, well, someone who was not quite so gullible to alarmism might well ask, hey, -2,700 Gt, out of, well, I wonder how big the whole ice sheet is.
The units on the vertical axis are Gt – Giga Metric Tonnes, i.e. 1 x 10^9 tonnes, with each tonne = ~2,200 lb. I will use English units till near the end, because I like 'em.
It should be easy enough to look up “mass of Antarctica ice sheet”. No, not really. I don’t chalk this up to conspiracy, but it’s just that the alarmist “ice loss” blurbs kept on going till I gave up. No worries, wiki up top give the volume as 6,400,000 cubic miles.
There are 5,280 ft/mile, so 5,2803 ft3/mi3 = ~ 1.5 x 1011 ft3/mi3. I will assume zero compresssibility of ice (for now) and the usual 58 lb/ft3 density (remember, it floats due it being slightly less dense than water). That’s 8 x 1012 lb/mi3. We’ve (they’ve? “We’ve”, if Trump claims the place) got 6.4^106 mi3 of ice, so that’s 5.5 x 1019 lb = 2.5 x 1016 metric tonnes / 1 x 109 tonnes/Gt to match the units, so ~ 25 million Gt. Note, that is already in GigaTonnes, so we can compare to that ghastly -2,700 Gt decrease on the graph, before they changed the methodology in ’18 (more about that too).
That lowest loss means 2,700/25,000,000 = a .011% decrease in ice mass. That’s 1 in 10,000! Now, I realize that if the entire ice sheet on Antarctica were to melt, well THAT would be a crisis! It’s an easy calculation I’ll do another time to see how much that would raise sea levels (spoiler alert from simple judgement – it’s be a REAL calamity).
Wait, let's go back and think about how they measure this ice mass, or at least changes in ice mass. This has been done using 2 different methods, each via satellites.
The GRACE satellites use the very minute effects of changes in mass below on the orbit of satellites. Note that the GPS satellites are used to ascertain a very accurate position of the GRACE satellite. The system is more clever than that though. The mission uses a pair of satellites in an almost polar orbit that fly 140 miles apart. The distance between the 2 is measured, so that changes in orbital velocity that reflect very slight gravitational differences through the orbit can be detected.
This system was used from '02* through Oct. '17. (I wonder if the end date was due to one of the satellites dying.) Note that this date matches the end of the first, bigger, portion of the data.
To determine changes in ice mass, we must compare differences in the gravitational field to the whole. Can they really determine not only 1 in 10,000, as that was just the total decrease, but 1 in ~200,000 - the data shows changes of at least as low as 1/20th of the whole drop. Yeah, well, I don't know enough to argue with NASA or the German Aerospace Center (partner), but when you read:
The highly precise accelerometer that is needed to separate atmospheric and solar radiation pressure effects from the gravitation data...... you know it's pretty complicated engineering.
Sometime in late '18 or so, they started using the JASON satellites for this research.
The JASON series of satellites uses radar altimetry to get significant wave heights, sea level averages, and for the latter part of these Antarctic ice mass measurements, ice cap height.
Radar altimetry has been around for a long time, but knowing the exact height of the satellites above the Earth's center of mass or fitted perfect sphere (whatever they do) still sounds pretty complicated. I'll not argue any of that either. If they can get "significant wave heights" or see sea level rises, we may be talking about inches here (for the latter). To determine changes in ice mass, they must compare differences to the total, hence radar-alt height to total thickness. Just using that average ice pack thickness of 1.4 miles - say 7,000 ft. - that 1 in 10,000 is nearly a foot. However, that 1 in 10,000 is the TOTAL change. I see in the graph changes of about 1/20 of that. Can they really measure half an inch?
I am not in a position to argue the purported (by yesterday's graph) 1 in 200,000 resolution of ice mass measurement. During my time looking into this stuff, I came upon something very fortuitously. When using that 58 lb/ft3 density of ice, I didn't see a reason to get into more detail as I didn't need the ice mass value very accurately +/- 25% would have been fine. However, I did think about compressibility of ice and whether that'd be a factor in that 2nd, JASON-based radar altimetry method. Lo and behold, the 2nd blurb I found was a link to Density matters: ice compressibility and glacier mass estimation from Cambridge University, a short paper ("communication" vs. real paper, in the British tech-journal lingo) from '22. Not only was I very lucky to ever get to that, but I found I COULD READ IT! (The whole thing.)
This short paper got right to my point:
Ice flow models typically assume that ice is incompressible, a reasonable assumption because ice density changes are indeed small and have a correspondingly small effect on the overall mass balance of glaciers and ice sheets. Given the immense volume of the ice sheets, however, even relatively small changes may influence global mean sea level to a degree that severely impacts humanity (Hauer and others, Reference Hauer2020). Here, we quantify the role of gravitational compression and thermal contraction in estimating ice sheet mass.My bolding there, as I want to show that there are 2 factors. I hadn't though about the thermal effects. The paper uses a linear T-profile, from 0 C right on top of the actual land down to mean annual surface temperature at the boundary with the air above. Quick conclusion, and note the honesty, mostly 2 significant digits of precision, in these values. (Oh, and they did Greenland too - let Trump worry about Greenland. He's got that.)
We calculate that gravitational compression deforms the surface of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets by up to 5.8 and 11.3 m, respectively. For thermal contraction, the corresponding values are 2.9 and 6.2 m, respectively. The corresponding ice sheet-averaged values are 0.5 and 0.7 m for thermal contraction and 0.8 and 0.7 m for gravitational compression.Even the lower of these numbers are larger than what the 1 in 10,000 even, much less 1 in 200,000 purported precision must be from radar altimetry. Using the whole-ice-sheet-averaged differences from these two effects we see that the top of the ice sheet could be up to 2.3 ft (0.7m) lower due to compression of the ice (change in its density) and the same amount additionally lower to thermal compression effects. (The 2nd of these guys' pairs of numbers are for Antarctica.) That's 4 1/2 ft total, which out of 7,000 ft average ice thickness, is over 6 in 10,000. This error is larger than the whole ice mass decrease reported!
Now, that bit of simple math is something I came upon out of sheer luck. These effects shouldn't effect the GRACE numbers, because that system relied on gravitational force, hence mass, directly. Then, note though, that after the gap in data, the JASON data, for which two means of compression override the purported precision, there is no drop in ice mass. I'm beginning to think that this graph is complete garbage.
If the Peak Stupidity reader has gotten this far, you deserve our congratulations. I really like this stuff, is all.
However, even if I hadn't come upon this significant source to show me how much in error the data could be, there's the very basic deal that I imagine most readers WOULD be onto already. I did not purposely make the units on the vertical axis hard to read, but that is all I am getting to. The numbers are in GigaTonnes. (Billions of metric tonnes.)
I kind of blew the suspense up top but, again, what is the denominator for that 2,700 GigaTonne drop? That's what I calculated very simply above - a number a www search could have probably spit out easily 10 years ago - 25 Million GigaTonnes. Let's look at a graph over these 25 years of total ice mass to see that big loss due to the Climate Calamity™:
This is the SAME GRAPH as is on the last post.
Peak Stupidity confession here: It didn't take LOTUS 123 or even the latest version of whatever spreadsheet program is hip now to make that. I simply drew a horizontal line with underscores! What kind of lazy behavior is this? I'll tell you why there was no point in using a spreadsheet:
If this graph shows up as, say, 4″ high, on your screen, then the decrease of the line would be .0004″ = one hundredth of a millimeter. Let’s say, cause you’re a gamer or porn addict – not (some of) you, Peak Stupidity readers, but the general “you”, you’ve got a 100 pixels/in screen. The decrease in my line above is 1/25th of a pixel. Sorry, man, I can't show that, and you couldn't see it.
That's the answer to the question posed in the last post. This form of graphical alarmism (hey, I like that term!) is not the same as picking a data range (of years). This one involves showing changes alone without showing the base number. Yes, it's a big scam, and you ain't
So, in conclusion, Penguins and Polar Bears alike, chillax, dudes! Nothing's gonna change your world. Nothing's gonna change your world...
Kangaroo Days, ohhhh, Ohm...
Hey, listen, there wasn't always the internet to look up lyrics on. "Kangaroo Days" is the lyric, and that's final!
* Launched by Russian rockets, BTW.
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The melting of Antarctica: More Alarmist Trickery - Part 1
Posted On: Thursday - March 27th 2025 3:39PM MST
In Topics: Global Climate Stupidity Geography Science
Here's the 1st trick. Antarctica CAN'T melt. It's a continent, though it does have a thick ice cap and sea ice in the surrounding waters. I guess the alarmists know that, but I wouldn't put any stupidity past them...
The last 2 posts, discussing the race and sex problems, respectively, involved in long stays in close quarters in Antarctica, reminded me to write this post and its follow-up. This comes from a big discussion I had last Summer* here on The Unz Review with commenter ePebble.**
With all the seemingly-randomly-generated talk by the
That's what these 2 posts are about, the claims by Climate Alarmists that the ice at the Earth's poles is melting, so we'd better DO! SOMETHING! I will concentrate on Antarctica for now, as that's what I ended up looking into.
What's going on with the sea ice down there? You'll see 2 graphs below, and I had to look up the same thing: What's the difference between ice "area" and ice "extent"? From the National Snow and Ice Data Center (does DOGE know about these people?) we read off this page:
Sea ice area is the total region covered by ice. Extent is the total region with at least 15 percent sea ice cover.OK, thanks. Take your pick, as they seem to go together***:
This kind of graphical display reminds me of housing price graphs. They also vary on a local yearly cycle in addition to longer-term changes, so this works well. Note that the band that encompasses these yearly curves, after throwing outliers '15 for Summer and '14 for winter (both with extra ice) and '22/'23 for winter (lower ice) both extent and area are in the neighborhood of 50% and 15% of their absolute seasonal averages respectively. Yearly changes in this sea ice area are very significant, but is there a solid trend.
We can look at the small inset graphs. One can see from them, or the bigger graphs here too with more effort, that whether there's a real trend depends on the range of years one uses. It can be MADE to be a trend, which was the subject of 2 of our recent posts showing this simple method of Alarmism, as explained well by Toby Heller or Tony Flenderson, depending on how mixed up you get with the HR guy at The Office.
How about we look at it from slightly farther away? No not spatially farther away, as from a satellite (though we'll get to them) but farther away from the time scale. In these 2, the curves represent decadal averages:
A few single years of the past 2 decade are in there too, either for strict alarmist purposes or else, I don't know why. There sure is no trend with the 2 outliers of '14 (more ice) and '23 (less ice). Going by decades makes for much tighter graphs. Very obviously, there is no trend over the last 4 decades, or call it 5 with '22 and '23 in there.
We're talking frozen water (a mix of mostly salt water, but some fresh water off the continent) in a layer an average of a few yards thick. It's a lot, but it's nothing compared to the mass of ice on top of the continent of Antarctica itself. That is over 20 Million GigaTons versus the sea ice at very roughly 50 Thousand GigaTons at the end of Winter. It may have some other effect on the climate, but any long-term melting of sea ice is negligible compared to the melting of that ice cap, but:
OMG! This is terrible! "I’m melting, melting…!" – Wicked Witch of the South, calling (in transit) on (Radio Free Antarctica)****
This really does look bad. The Antarctic Ice Cap was shrinking steadily for the 1st 5th of this century. Woe is us.
Well, is this another case of that optimum-range-selection deal? The nominally-Christian satellites made to measure this, JASON and GRACE, haven't been up there longer than this. Note too, there's a gap, and then things have leveled out, at least, for the last 5 years. (Once can still run sled dogs.)
What the REAL DEAL is has probably got the Peak Stupidity reader in stitches right now. You know that there might be more to it, but WHAT? We'll get to it tomorrow. The penguins will be OK for another day until we settle this.
* Antarctic Summer, that is. (Of course! Different latitude - adjust your attitude.)
** Though I surely don't agree with him on the Climate Calamity™ issue, ePebble is a reasonable fellow.
*** I don't know why they wouldn't, but it could be interesting to speculate why not.
**** I doubt one could get this station to come in any clearer than the VMS (Voice of Michael Stipe)
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Antipodal Diversity: Someone snaps in close quarters - the sex(ual) angle
Posted On: Tuesday - March 25th 2025 7:39PM MST
In Topics: Music Geography Science Female Stupidity
To continue our simple analysis of "what went wrong?" - when 9 S. Africans of mixed races and sexes spent many months in close quarters in hostile Antarctica and sexual harassment "happened" - we'll move from the race angle to the sex(ual) angle. I realize this post will offer nothing but common sense that should already be obvious to anyone, but then, note the title of this blog please.
One could forgive some people, not the South Africans arranging this mission that had to have known better, but some people, for not understanding the problems of race. "We're all green* down here in the SANAE-IV living and research quarters... so, just remember.. yeah, be careful about those dark green guys - they can be a little, errr, forward..."
The differences in the sexes, well, you've got to be purposefully stupid to not see the problems that will crop up, no matter what the races.
It may look "brutalist" architecturally and be damned brutal outside, but this SANAE-IV base in Queen Maud Land is a paradise compared to anything experienced by geographic and scientific explorers of a century ago. For one thing, one can stay warm. Food is there for the taking. Years of entertainment are there for the off times.
To go to the other extreme, I have been remiss in not posting anything so far about the truly amazing job Ernest Shackleton and his (White!) men did in just surviving and getting all the way home to civilization after their ship The Endurance got jammed and eventually destroyed by the ice in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica a century and a decade ago. This story is so amazing that Peak Stupidity will have to write a post on it.**
However, we can thing of any serious effort done before the modern age after which most of the difficult discovering has been done and see why there was NO FREAKING WAY any women would have been brought along. Life or death hangs on the decisions made and the hard work done and endurance of the (yes, ALL) men, and were women to be brought along:
1) As the fairer and weaker sex, they would simply not pull their weight. Everyone must get fed, conveyed, and kept from freezing (in these cases) - with limits to the resources - so you'd want the most capable people PERIOD. Those would all be men. Otherwise, people, men and women, will die.
2) Even among men with the most self-control possible, the women would be too much of a distraction, causing special efforts to protect them, jealousies, and various behaviors that occur when
3) Sex in the form of a verb. What else would you expect? What would ensue i not always hilarity.
These 9 South Africans, and other crews like them, might fancy themselves explorers doing dangerous work. Nah, read about the expeditions to the North and South Poles and other sea-faring expeditions of the old days.
Below is The Endurance before it succumbed to the pack ice.
Leader of the expedition Ernest Shackleton saved his 27 men after the crushing and swallowing of their beefy ship by the sea, the spending of 4 months on the ice in the Antarctic Summer - with still way below freezing temperature - a multi-day voyage in icy seas in 3 small boats to an uninhabited island, a mission of 5 of the crew in one small boat 800 miles followed by mountainous land crossing to civilization, leading to the rescue of all those left. It was amazing. Nobody involved would have EVER thought of bringing women with them, except in his dreams at night.
Back to modern reality in the comfortable S. African modules with the crew of 9, the only problems really are the long-term close quarters and the dealing with the usual unadulterated crap of 2025. Even without sea-faring being much involved in this story, Jimmy Buffett lyrics will appear a total of 3 times in these 2 posts (see footnote **** of the previous one).
The late would-be pirate (born 200 years too late) Jimmy Buffett sang in the song Landfall***:
It's not close quarters that would make me snap.I guess it's been a little of both down there. Finally, to get in the mood (well some weren't!) of the 9 folks on the current SANAE-IV mission, we bring up the 3rd Jimmy Buffett song, one titled Boat Drinks****. All Jimmy and his band had to deal with was being holed up in a hotel somewhere up north, as opposed to the people in this story. This is likely how they feel though:
It's just dealing with the daily unadulterated crap.
20 degrees and the hockey game's on.OK, Parrotheads, you're right. We've got to embed something. Too much writing is giving me cabin fever. I've got to fly to Saint Somewhere...
Nobody cares, they are way too far gone.
Screamin', "Boat drinks"
Somethin' to keep them all warm.
This morning,
I shot six holes in my freezer.
I think I got cabin fever.
Somebody sound the alarm.
I'd like to go where the pace of life's slow.Great lyrics! R.I.P. Jimmy Buffett.
Could you beam me somewhere, Mister Scott?
Any old place here on Earth or in Space,
you pick the century, and I'll pick the spot.
* Old Bill Cosby routine.
** I've read the book long ago and seen the movie a little less long ago.
*** That one is an obscure song from his well-known Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes album. The rest of the lyrics of this song are great too!
**** That one is from his less-well-known album Volcano.
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Heart and Soul - T'Pau
Posted On: Saturday - March 22nd 2025 9:50PM MST
In Topics: Music
(Not to be confused with Heart and Soul by Huey Lewis & The News.)
This song came out of nowhere into my head a few days back. I didn't realize until I just now looked it up that the song is 38 years old! I don't know if I'd ever known the name of this British band, T'Pau and definitely I didn't know the singer Carol Decker. The band was from Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Now THAT was England, then.
Heart and Soul is from T'Pau's debut album Bridge of Spies. The melody of the verses is not so hot and kind of proto-rap, but the chorus is very catchy. You heard it here first... or something. Enjoy the rest of your weekend, Peakers. Thanks so much for reading and writing in!
Oh, well, I've got Huey Lewis's song in my head now too, so here's there one. These 2 together give out quite the '80's vibe.
Written and first recorded by the band Exile in 1981, this song was released by Huey Lewis & The News in 1984, 3 years before the T'Pau song.
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Antipodal Diversity: Someone snaps in close quarters - the race angle
Posted On: Saturday - March 22nd 2025 4:06AM MST
In Topics: Geography Race/Genetics Science
Note: This post may as well have been lifted directly from The Gateway Pundit. All 3 images come from their article. I'm over that site generally - just too much hype and gossipy "Watch so-and-so DESTROY so-and-so in this tweet! He got 1,800 LIKES!" stuff, and then there's the Hispanic "outreach".* They do have some useful headlines, especially for Peak Stupidity purposes.
I don't know how many different Peak Stupidity posts one could make out of the this story: South African Antarctic Expedition Still Stranded With Out-Of-Control Crew Member Who Sexually Harassed and Beat-up Colleagues – Authorities Monitoring the Situation Remotely. There could be quite a few, I reckon. If Steve Sailer doesn't get to it, he's lost his way, man.
Queen Maud Land is the sector of Antarctica, officially owned by Norway due to a Norwegian being the first man known to have set foot there, 95 years ago, upon which sits SANAE IV. (That's South African National Arctic Expedition, version 4.) This base is on the edge of the continent ~ 70 S latitude and just a couple of degrees west of the Prime Meridian - so due South of London, but more importantly, closest to S. Africa.
Contrary to popular perception**, it's STILL cold down that way - the Climate Crisis has done nothing to help. In fact, it's getting colder right now, even as April approaches! So, if you ever get to go down there on a scientific mission, keep in mind that it's no easy thing to go for nice long quiet hikes in your leisure time to get away from any annoying colleagues in your small group. You'll die. Either way, you might.
Now, seriously when I first read the headline (I think it was one for was a previous story), I imagined the group of scientists, engineers, and a doctor would be comprised of mostly White men with just a couple of diversity hires. That was the old AA. You use the White men that can think clearly, run things sanely, and solve problems, but you throw in a couple of bright diversity people that won't screw up the show, for show and The Law.
Wokeness is a different level. You have big diversity numbers, no matter what the situation. What would we expect to see in the group from S. Africa? I realize that South Africa is only a single-digit percentage White now, 7.3% in '22 and dropping steadily. I also learned recently*** that even at that ratio, the D.I.E. madness has the government requiring that only 2% of spots in medical schools be allotted to White people.**** Still, this is brutal, freezing-assed Ant-freaking-Arctica. Mistakes and turmoil can get people killed. Would you really want to settle on this team?
Note that there is not a White man in the crew there. That must have put the fear of God in, well pretty much all of them. One wonders if there have been any Tic-Tok videos made of the non-White group in the Great White South, made before, after, or during the trouble going on in the small research station on Queen Maud Land.
Well, they're calling it part of "an adjustment period", the story of someone down in there being physically harassed, with death threats involved. As opposed to the old days of Jim Jones down in Guyana and his close cronies being the only ones to be able to communicate with the outside world, via shortwave (HF) radio, they got the internet there. That means there are likely varying stories coming out, as the colleagues back home try to figure out what's going as reported by the group leader, Kelcey Maewashe. What if someone destroys the antenna(e) used for the internet signal? As Gateway Pundit has well noted, this could be like a horror/suspense movie. I am surprised by this, but even in this day and age, these people are stuck together until the summer. (December, that is, 8 months away.)
Gateway Pundit reckons, since Mr. Maewashe is the contact at the base reporting this story and trying to deal with it, the culprit would be one of 5 people - the men. Wait, what? I've been told the sexes are equal so it could be any of the rest. Nah, but when things get real, you drop all that BS, of course. So it's one of the
BTW, a picture in this UK Daily Mail article of Miss Van Tonder and 2 of the black men all in big orange suits out on the ice is captioned:
Geomarr van Tonder (center) and two colleagues hold alcoholic beverages outside Sanae IV. There is no indication that anyone in this photo was involved in the incidentNo, no, of course not. It could have been Miss Lawana and/or the other (non-leadership) black guy, or Colonel Mustard in the orange coat closet with the, errr, you know.
An NBC News article states:
Previous problems have been reported at another of South Africa’s remote research bases on Marion Island, a South African territory near Antarctica.I imagine all of the 9 crewmembers are pretty intelligent. (Double-diversity hire Miss Mabope is an instrument technician, so not exactly a rocket scientist there.) However, I've been in White neighborhoods and I've been in diverse neighborhoods. In that tiny neighborhood, those very close quarters down in the SANAE IV, diversity has not proved to be a strength. It could be anyone that snaps, but you'd be better off with a Western White crew. Continuing from the same article:
In 2017, a member of a research team there smashed a colleague’s room with an ax over an apparent love triangle, according to a report to South Africa’s Parliament. Lawmakers said it appeared the researchers were living in highly stressful conditions.
The National Science Foundation, the federal agency that oversees the U.S. Antarctic Program, published a report in 2022 in which 59% of women in the U.S. program said they’d experienced harassment or assault while on research trips in Antarctica.... and that's exactly where we'll pick up in the 2nd post on this story, the sex angle, or lack-thereof angle.
PS: Why is this such a big story if this sort of thing happens regularly? I may have just missed other stories. For one thing, the reports of "sexual harassment" from Western women don't always mean so much. OTOH, in one of the articles I read, it discussed a woman at one of the S. African stations reporting having to sleep with a hammer in her bra. Science! The big factor is that, communications ability being where it is now, "human interest" story reporters can keep up with this real-life suspense movie in nearly real time.
PPS: 1st Gateway Pundit comment under their post: “13% of scientists cause over 50% of Antarctica’s violent crime.” Heh!
* I'd thought it was to be certain Hispanic-specific articles, but now over 10% of their posts are perfectly American stories that one might want to read had they been in English.
** We will have a more sciencey/mathy post soon on Antarctica and the Climate Calamity™, one we meant to post months ago.
*** This links to part 3 of the Peak Stupidity series Cry the De-Constructed Country. See Part 1 --- Part 2 --- Part 4: Anecdote on Anti-Apartheid --- Part 5: Cold and Hot Wars, and the Commies, of course --- Part 6: Africa Wins --- Part 7: 1st World Memories of Suid Afrikaanse Lugdiens and Part 8: As Falls S. Africa...
**** This gives real meaning to the Jimmy Buffett lyric (in Miss You So Badly) that "I don't think I wanna ever let 'em cut on me".
***** The New Delhi news is interested because "their" woman is on there, Dr. Lawana. I learned of her ethnicity this way. Kinda' tribal, that kind of thing...
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New Minnegadishuan Flag and more from the traitorous Ilhan Omar
Posted On: Thursday - March 20th 2025 8:53AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Student and other Snowflakes Global Climate Stupidity
I snapped* this one myself.
Under this recent post about a Minnesota MentalCaseRep named Kozlowski, commenter Alarmist brought up the controversy regarding the newest version of the Minnesota State flag. Some States do change designs fairly regularly. Some don't.
The Minnesotans, being mostly very nice, nice people but without a whole lot of long-term experience with diversity, decided that they'd be glad to import thousands, no, 10's of thousands (64 thousand living there last count) of people from far-off Somalia. These people are of a different religion, with a much different culture, with much different genetics, but if "we" welcome them warmly, don'tcha know, they'll settle in nicely. You betcha!
But, but, as a group, they don't WANT to fit in. They want to live like black Moslem, non-Minnesotan Somalians. It's whom they are! With that many around, they may as well get involved in the government. The odious traitorous, hopefully soon-de
This one should remind all of us of exactly how much a traitor to the US Ilhan Omar is. She reckons nobody outside her Somalian contingent supporters speaks the language, but... computers!
You'll be incensed at this, I warn you:
She does mention our President though, at least. I'll give her that. We ARE talking about Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, right? (I figured he'd taken over from old senile Brandon or something - I don't watch TV, so ...)
(Note: All flags in this post stripped of some material but especially this one to show the center pictorial.)
Back to the Minnesota flag controversy. Well the problem is, you can't show an Indian riding horseback while a White man is there working hard taking care of the land. (It looks like he's running a roto-tiller, but it might be a mower - don't want to open another can of worms.) No, to be Woke, or at the very least politically correct, you are better off wiping out all the history to be proud of completely off the flag. Just put some stars and stripes and Minnesota colors on it, and be done with it.
Minnesota had a competition for the most favorite new flag. This is where the big controversy came in, as per the website of one Sara** Carter, we read from December of '23 about Outrage over Minnesota’s new flag looking just like Ilhan Omar’s home flag of Somalia. You've got to look there to see a VERY CLOSE resemblance, not to Somalia's flag itself but to Omar's home State there of Puntland. (Yeah, her family punted and then left the field.) This is important because if you're gonna get your say in the design of the flag of your "new homeland" you need to base it on the right old homeland. There's a war there and all - that's important for Americans!
Besides the navy blue near the pole, the suggested new MN flag had the very same light blue, white, and green stripes as the Puntland, Somalia flag. The star, though, had/has 8 points vs. 5.
“Minnesota is home to the largest Somali population in the West. Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minnesota) is from Puntland. Minnesota just unveiled their new flag. I’m sure this is just a coincidence.”What a coincidence! It could have brought people close together.
The Western Journal reported the new flag, an ” abstract shape of the state with an eight-pointed white North Star,” still could be altered by officials. However, it has “come under a searing microscope” because of the online references to the similarities between the new design and “the flag of a state within the historically impoverished African nation of Somalia.”
This did not fly, thankfully! (Perhaps an uprising was feared. Can Minnesotans get mad? I don't know.)
There is no more proud Minnesota history on the State flag, but at least they got away, for now, without one that represents only their newcomer Somalians, the ones from Puntland, of course, not those Splitters! from Bumfuckistan East.
Thanks to Americans that voted in Donald Trump, America has gotten away without the Tubman Twenty too ... for at least a while.
While looking for my older images - I had this post in mind after reading Sara Carter's article when it was published - I came across a couple of other oldies that involve Somalians in Minnesota. Here's an old tweet. There's been trouble on the light rail, it seems. Now, THAT's not nice! Who are these troublemakers? Where'd they come from, Maple Valley, Edina, Eagan, maybe some of those bad, bad kids out of Mankato, don'tcha know?
Yeah, and then, to excuse any possible bad behavior on the part of our still-not-quite-settled-in Somalian guests, they had to come to Minnesota, cause... yeah, that Climate Calamity™ deal. It's really hot down there in Somalia and the newspaper says "Climate change is turbo-charging Somalia’s problems - but there's still hope." Our guests will be able to cool down up here in the great
* How do you "snap" a picture these days? It's just a computer making whatever noises you want.
** I'd thought that SARA, as part of a nice logo, was the acronym for some organization. Nope, it's just Sara Carter.
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EXCUSEs: Means and Motives - Example, JFK
Posted On: Wednesday - March 19th 2025 6:34PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity History Dead/Ex- Presidents
Peak Stupidity agrees with those who detest the use of "conspiracy theory" for any events for which people suspect the standard historical narrative. It's not like most of these explanations necessarily involve people plotting it all out, in secret or not. Often, "conspiracy theories" are simply alternate explanations of important happenings. Yes, they can get pretty wild sometimes, but other times they are correct.
So, our term in use, until someone, ANYONE, thinks of a better one, is the acronym EXCUSEs - EXplanations of Causes of Unusually Suspect Events.
We want to get into some discussion about what it takes to make an EXCUSE fairly believable, but we'll start this out today with an example that is in the running for the most popular, along with 9/11, of course. That'd be the John F. Kennedy assassination and what may have really happened on that day over 62 years ago in an era when the now-ubiquitous cameras were few and far between. The Trump Administration released 80,000 pages of JFK assassination files in .pdf form yesterday, reported ZeroHedge.
Depending on what part of a statement by one Jefferson Morley you read, still 30% or 67% of the JFK files have not been disclosed. An easy-to-believe
The (1st) Kennedy assassination sure sparks a lot of interest in EXCUSEs, based both on that, per some of them, this marked the real end of the Republic and because there are so many possibilities. I've written that with so many motives, one wonders how there COULD NOT have been a better explanation than the one guy Harvey Oswald being a Commie loser who made a good shot. (John Kennedy didn't have any charts and graphs to point at that day in Dallas, unfortunately.)
ZeroHedge lists the following motives, admittedly as "just a few of the top theories":
•The CIA killed JFK because of its outrage over his failure to invade Cuba in the wake of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, and his desire to "splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds."I guess there are plenty more in the ZH comments, but I will hasten to add:
•The Soviet Union killed JFK in retaliation for embarrassing the USSR in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
•Cuba's Fidel Castro killed JFK because of US assassination attempts on him, and/or because of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
•The Mafia killed JFK because of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's crackdown.
•Vice President Lyndon B Johnson conspired to kill JFK to take power.
•Israel killed JFK because of his opposition to the country's nuclear weapons development, potential sympathy with the Palestinians' right to return to homes they were expelled from in 1948, and insistence that the American Zionist Council register as agents of Israel pursuant to the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
•Bankers killed JFK because he planned to put the minting of real money back in the hands of Congress.
I tend to believe more the explanations that involve prevention of future actions over the ones involving revenge. The latter would cover the 1st part of the CIA one, the Soviet Union one (though on the preventative side, they may have wanted to kill him to get more of a Commie sympathizer in office - didn't quite take... in some ways), and the Mafia one. For that Mafia explanation, why wouldn't they just go to the source and kill Bobby? It would have been easier... wait, maybe they did ...
I don't know enough at all about the means, that is, the details of the alternate explanations, to say much here. That's not what I'm getting into. The next post will get to the winnowing out of some of these EXCUSES based on lack of good motives and/or lack of good means.
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Trump's Baloney v Italy's Meloni
Posted On: Tuesday - March 18th 2025 9:11AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump World Political Stupidity
10 days back ZeroHedge posted an article by one Thomas Brooke of Remix News that sounds pretty familiar for those of us following American Immigration Invasion news. "Tyler Durden" reports: Italian Govt Slams Judiciary After Ruling Demands Compensation For Illegals. Intro:
The Italian government has been ordered to compensate a group of migrants who were prevented from disembarking from the Diciotti ship in August 2018, following the directive of then-Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.(Thomas', Tyler's and PS's Bolding.)
It gets just as stupid or stupider than what America experiences.
The decision was handed down by the Court of Cassation on Friday, which ruled that the government is liable for damages caused by the deprivation of freedom suffered by the migrants. The court referred the case back to the lower court to determine the amount of compensation.Kidnapping, huh? Why don't more people think of these things?! Next time I get thrown in jail for driving with 12 points on my license, a big no-no apparently, I will claim kidnapping the next morning and write a blog post about it that afternoon for you all, with extra cash for Go-Daddy hosting for the rest of my life.
Salvini had been investigated by the Palermo Court for alleged kidnapping in connection with the prolonged detention of migrants aboard the Italian coast guard vessel. The case was transferred to Catania for territorial jurisdiction, where prosecutors dismissed the charges. However, the Court of Ministers overruled this decision and sought Senate authorization to prosecute Salvini, which was ultimately thrown out in December last year.
OK, enough of that. This post is sup-post to be about the words out of Italy's Prime Minister Georgia Meloni on this matter.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni criticized the ruling, arguing that it established a “highly questionable principle of compensation” by presuming damage without concrete proof. She expressed frustration that taxpayer money would be used to compensate individuals who had attempted to enter Italy illegally. Meloni stated that such decisions alienate citizens from institutions, particularly when government resources are already limited.(My bolding this time.)
“As a result of this decision, the government will have to compensate — with the money of honest Italian citizens who pay taxes — people who have attempted to enter Italy illegally, that is, by violating the law of the Italian state,” Meloni said in a post on X.
“I don’t think these are the decisions that citizens bring together the institutions, and I confess that having to spend money for this, when we do not have enough resources to do everything that would be right to do, is very frustrating,” she added."
Actions being another thing, even if you've got only words for now, words like these are not good enough. "Frustration that taxpayer money ..." Yeah, the money too, but the whole thing is both evil and stupid. "Frustration" is not the word I'd use for outrageous things like the invitation of a highly foreign people to replace your population. Jean Raspail in his Camp of the Saints* didn't even anticipate this level of national stupidity.
We'll have plenty of more post following the actions, or lack thereof, on the American Immigration Invasion attempted reversal in further posts. The words do matter too though. If Donald Trump had not come down that staircase in Summer '15 talking about their "sending murderers and rapists" and all that, who else would have? That part is all true. His rhetoric leans highly toward exaggeration and baloney when it comes to explaining his actions, but nobody can claim he's not alerting Americans to the problem, that is, if there could possibly BE anyone left who is not alert at this point.
I'm not trying to pick solely on Italy and Miss Meloni for this comparison. Besides some of the former East Bloc countries, the talk is also not serious enough. Of course, as we noted in Defeating Globalism: Europeans v Americans, the systems of government there don't make it easy. (What's been going on lately in Romania - yes, former East Bloc - is one hell of an example.)
I kind of like hearing the raw earth truth out of our President, vs. folks in Europe being frustrated.
* Read something more current in The Camp of the Saints - Happening right now.
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Breaking: Novel Coronavirus created in lab in Wuhan, China!
Posted On: Monday - March 17th 2025 11:18AM MST
In Topics: Media Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
I don't remember a time when there were newspaper boys running through the streets with bunches of newspapers yelling "Extra! Extra! Read all about it!". I barely am old enough to remember there being B&W movies with scenes of newspaper boys running through the streets with bunches of newspapers yelling that.
The thing is, back when there was an EXTRA special edition of, say, the New York Times, that was due to there having been new news or developments that happened since the morning edition. We've got the internet now, yet this same New York Times nowadays is so excited to report on something that we all knew 4-5 years ago!. I'm glad they didn't have to hire newsboys to run around the streets for this one... child labor laws being what they are ... a possible new Plandemics in progress... all that... But no, this is apparently news now, so:
The reason this the story of the Wuhan Virology Labs creating and Q/Aing to the streets a nasty virus as contracted by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Univ. of North Carolina, and the US Feral Gov't is NEWS to the New York Times in March of '25 is that this simply COULD NOT BE news in Spring of '20 - too Politically Incorrect. You can't go naming viruses for their countries of origin. That's rude, crude, and germo-xenophobic!
The WHO set us straight early on:
You also can't go making racist assumptions about Chinese Quality Assurance. I'm assured that only the very best flies out of the labs there.
Therefore, it was very important to the New York Times that we be badly misled 5 years ago... by, say, the New York Times. I think that's what Zeynep Tufekci is getting at... and WTF kinda name is Zeynep Tufekci anyway?! It sounds straight outta Dr. Suess. (I liked that creature with the really long tail who didn't own an alarm clock - he would bite the end of his tail at bed time so the pain would get around to waking him up in the morning 8 hours later.)
PS: All exclamation points in this and our previous post courteously provided by our new editor, one Elaine Benice!!
"I never heard of a relationship being affected by punctuation!"
* The tweet above comes from this twitchy page. For a while there I confused twitchy with twitter, as twitchy was the first "place" I saw a tweet... or something ..
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Five year anniversary of Peak Stupidity's Kung Flu Stupidity coverage
Posted On: Saturday - March 15th 2025 6:39PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Humor History The Future Kung Flu Stupidity
That's not exact to the day, but I always chalk the time up as the middle of March. On the 14th, I knew about the kids being sent home from school for an undetermined duration. As much as this was one of the silver linings of the Kung Flu PanicFest, what with parents learning what goes on in Government Schools and realizing that there are other options, we were miffed at the point about the kids. In School's out For Ever! (yes, featuring Alice Cooper, but also The Ramones) we wondered:
I get the idea of the worries about this virus spreading quickly, but, thankfully, the children seem to be left unharmed by this bug. Of course, every parent will likely get it eventually, then spread it further and so on.That sounds kind of Panicky, but then the reader would have seen:
One really cool result of this Wuhan-Willies infotainment panic-fest...That "Wuhan-Willies" nomenclature didn't stick, but yeah we were joking about "The Corona" back on that last day of leap-year February. Peak Stupidity's actual worries were about the financial fall-out from that still-nascent stupidity.
Speaking of February, this past February - 5 years later - I saw a ZeroHedge post that proclaimed:
China Reports New Coronavirus 'With Pandemic Potential' Discovered! [Exclamation point added! Ed, Elaine Benice!!]
... many are citing a report by The Daily Mail claiming a new coronavirus has been discovered in the wild in China that has the potential to another pandemic.
The ZH comments were a lot of fun, as one might expect. Nobody seems to be falling for this trick anymore. Believe it or not, Chief, they're still going on about Batwoman Shi Zhengli (well, she's Chinese, you know, so she's GOT to be smart) and that same damn Wuhan Lab of Virology. Speaking of Smart, Tyler Durden says: "That's the 2nd time I fell for this trick this decade!"
They set a lot of precedents in Totalitarianism starting 5 years ago. As with Major Major Major Major in Catch 22 who, though he couldn't hold parades, could cancel parades, implying that he COULD hold parades, the people got to see what Totalitarian governments are up for and their implications of what they could do anytime, as an "Emergency Situation" arises.
Nah, I don't think Americans are so stupid as to fall for another PanicFest that involves germs and a "pandemic". Too many people have learned enough and are ready to raise hell. Hell, my one regret is that I didn't raise more hell 5 years ago. It'll have to be somewhat different next time. They'll think of something else scary enough to get people ready for more Chaos & Control.
As I write this, it's very likely Globalist planners are meeting about this under a cone of silence.
How 'bout that Agent 99? Pretty cute, huh?!
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Adam Smith explains GDP growth and job creation...
Posted On: Thursday - March 13th 2025 8:59AM MST
In Topics: Humor Economics
... with the help of Economists Extraordinaire Ben Bernanke and Paul Krugman, ... and a couple of bulls. I refer not to the famous Scottish Economist Adam Smith, who would have enjoyed, or perhaps did enjoy, a simliar cartoon, but to our illustrious commenter Adam Smith who gets Economics. Thanks for this one, Adam!
It's thoughts like this that are not so far across the Spectrum™ of bull shit that do make Economics hard to get one's head around some times. We try.
PS: We're still in the midst of something that will require a break from serious blogging until Saturday. Thanks for reading, and especially thanks for the comments.
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Dow slides: ZeroHedge commenters hardest hit
Posted On: Tuesday - March 11th 2025 6:36PM MST
In Topics: Websites Trump Economics
I've written about this before. This group of people - the ZeroHedge commenters, who lean heavily anti-Regime Economic System and understand economics better than most, will complain when they're losing money in the Regime Economic System. That was the case a dozen years ago, and now I'm seeing the same thing. It's amusing.
Articles and comments there lean heavily Conservative and pro-Trump. Not all the commenters agree with Trump's tariffs, but I would say most understand the concept. The US has been getting screwed in trade, by either tariffs or unfair practices of various kinds (think especially China for 30 years here!). Even if you, like the esteemed Ron Paul here, (something we wrote about before in Ron Paul is wrong about something.) don't agree with the basic idea of tariffs, you may still understand the 3 reasons Trump has pushed them into place.
1) Yeah, it's been unfair. Canada tariffs the crap on lots of American imports, and China makes it hard to import goods, so let's just give back what we've been given.
2) President Trump has used tariffs as a bargaining tool to get Canada and Mexico to strengthen their borders. I'd say the onus for border control is on the receiving country - Trump is so far doing a bang-up job on this - but this is another way to get some things changed.
3) The most important and one I'd figure most people understand, to help bring back manufacturing to America. You can't have a serious economy in a big country like this without a serious manufacturing base. We simply can't go along selling each other gourmet hamburgers and craft beer.
Ahhh, but muh DOW JONES! It's what, 7-8% or so down since the high a month back. OMG! Honestly, since I don't give a wit really, other than in knowing when the SHTF is imminent, I had no idea the Dow was out of the 30,000s. No, you can't win if you don't enter! (You can't lose either.)
Reading those comments was a little disconcerting, as all of a sudden Trump is the bad guy for lots of the commenters. How about a little support and you quit worrying about your "earnings"? Long term changes must be made, and they will involve a lot more financial pain for Americans than this small drop in the Dow.
SITE NOTE: I spent lots of time arguing on the internet today, so I'm sorry this is all I've got. There's lots of good stuff to come, but, the last 3 days of this bidness week will be onerous. There may not be any posts up until Saturday. Sorry about that.
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Minnesota MentalCaseRep Kozlowski (BP - Duluth) calls out Genocide where they see it.
Posted On: Saturday - March 8th 2025 9:10PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Feminism Trump Liberty/Libertarianism Female Stupidity
ZeroHedge reports Non-Binary Minnesota State Rep Slams Trump's Efforts To Protect Women's Sports As "Genocide". Forgive me, ZH commenters, for borrowing a few good ones - the "BP" is for Bi-Polar, which is likely the real condition of those who use the euphemism "non-binary' instead. That is, unless they are Mathematicians who could, nay, SHOULD, make it clear that, as Americans, we work within a decimal system, dammit. Those of us (Mathematicians) who don't stoop so low as to go into IT are absolutely non-binary... so, hell, yeah! Maybe, Mix(ed up) Kozlowski should state their status as non-Boolean to make this a little more clear, mathematically, if not grammatically.
OK, speaking of grammatically clear, NOT!, now it's not just the ZH post, but even Wiki page on this piece of work uses the "their/they" terminology! From the 1st paragraph, in "Early life, education and career", it's confusing, as I can't tell if the writing is about her parents or this apparently furloughed-to-the-Legislative mental patient.
One more thing that I should clear up is that, per this 8 y/o Peak Stupidity post (our first, but nowhere close to last, post on Feminism), the "they/their" use for 3rd person unknown sex is nothing new. It came out of 1970s Feminist revisionism of English. Speaking of English as a subject though, I'm trying to come up with the term to explain how the long-term, still erroneous, use of "them" and "their" is different from the Woke genderbender stupidity we've seen for the last few years and in this article...
... so back to Alicia Kozlowski. This is Minnesota, land of Mary Tyler Moore, for crying out loud. It used to be that the fruits and nuts were contained in California. You can't grow them in Minnesota too well. Could it be that ...maybe Climate Change is real... because this
We’re facing an era of anti-trans violence that is born in the playbook of colonial violence used against two-spirits right here for over 500 years to reinforce the gender binary, and use colonial powers to do it. …Who knew this goes back 500 years?! I guess the idea is for this nutcase to use her mother's side Indian heritage in the cause of victimhood. We've written about this Spirits Community terminology before. I was right that it's not gonna take. People tend to associate the Spirits Community with distilled spirits... for some strange unknown reason. ZeroHedge commenters, however, reckon that this two-spirit idea is different. This Alicia Kozlowski does have 2 competing spirits, her soul and the demon that possesses her... goes by WB, Woke Beelzebubba.
[Y]ou have to understand why this is deeply connected to what we’re talking about tonight, because the first children that they came for were two-spirits and trans kids as a target.
That, errr, said, let me get to a point associated more with legislators and legislation than with the
That said, why in Sam Hill is this something the President of the US should be involved in?! He shouldn't have to, and he shouldn't be. (For Trump, whatever works, I guess.) We've got the President making edicts or trying to push through law to ban men from playing in women's sports. Our limited-government-loving Founders would have been sick to their stomachs, and that's before ever hearing of "transgenders" and "transitioning". I don't speak for the people of Minnesota, but I highly doubt, per their Constitution, this is something the Minnesota legislature, Mental Case(s) Alicia Kozlowski/Beelzebubba presiding, should be taking up either.
Here's how it's SUPPOSED to work. Instead of relying on some would-be King to make an edict, how about parents refuse to let their daughters play under such stupid conditions? How about they shut this stuff down via the PTO (formerly PTA)? How about they form their own competing leagues, to which all the girls would transition (oops!), with normal participation rules?
I'm really tired of hearing about all this.
Here's something that's probably also not specified in the Constitution of the State of Minnesota, but it's something I would really like to see anyway: A full-out exorcism on the floor of the State House. Must-see TV!
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Defeating Globalism: Europeans v Americans
Posted On: Friday - March 7th 2025 6:09PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump Globalists Americans Orwellian Stupidity World Political Stupidity
Here, Peak Stupidity most refers to Western Europeans, although leaders of Poland, of the former East Bloc, seem to be down with the Western Euros too.
This welcome rift in European/American relations started with Trump, PBUH, and his brash anti-Globalist attitude seen by the world in that no holds barred interview with the Ukraine's V. Zelensky. What? Trump is not on-board the "Russia!
Next thing you know, Trump will want to get US out of the UN too, and (well, might as well - prime real estate there) get the UN out of the US!
I'm a member, super-donor, and big supporter of the John Birch Society, and I know they were saying this same thing 70 years ago. John Birch himself* was shot by Chinese Communist soldiers in 1945, and founder Robert Welch died 40 years back, but has it taken 7 decades to clue in Americans about Communist/Globalist infiltration of society? Donald Trump, even, is catching on, and he doesn't read squat.
I'm not optimistic that Trump will really extract America from the Ukraine/Russia war. However, this rift in NATO could be used to let if fall by the wayside. It's only been right at half way in history to the founding of JBS that the Cold War ended, and there was no more Warsaw Pact, without an East Bloc supported by the 35-year-gone USSR to be, well, IT. I hope Americans are catching on.
MAGA is against Globalism, as you can't be for the Nationalist America First policies and be down with Globalism. For at least the MAGA folks, it's nice to see that lots of them are not so much your "Thank you for your service" people anymore. Even those low-brow types who don't read or write for Peak Stupidity** may be catching on, due to their hanging on President Trump's every word and action, that America's military has been defending exactly Jack Squat of America until Trump's having sent a few percent of the manpower down to the Texas/Mexico border.
I got ahead of myself here, as I meant to move on to the Europeans first. For whatever reason, and I don't think it's ALL stupidity, they are under the impression that it's 1985 outside, and if they don't CONTAIN*** it, tanks will be rolling west through the Fulda Gap from
Let me modify that a bit. I don't mean the European people so much as the European leaders. OTOH, it's the people that
The British people had had enough of the Tories, alleged Conservatives, conserving absolutely nothing of Great Britain by turning the knob on the Population Replacement Programme controls up to 11. So, they kicked them out of office, knowing full well that the replacement leadership was going to be no better. ("Meet the new boss - same as the old boss" The WHO had it right. No, not THAT WHO.)
In fact the new PM, Keir Starmer, is demonstrably worse. He's down with the PRP, but he's also gone Orwellian against any resistance to it. Peak Stupidity got deeply into the riots last summer in Southport, Rotherham, and elsewhere - with 7 detailed posts here. These riots were directly motivated by immigrant violence, starting with rage about that Welshman who stabbed to death 3 little girls, goes by the name Axel Rudakabana. (Yeah, that's also fairly unpronounceable, but, no, not Welch.) However, the general rage is against the PRP.
Keif Starmer is having none of that Free Speech thing, in which people discuss the problems and argue for change. The British army started fighting a war against that sort of thing a quarter of a Millennium ago, so I suppose the man should be called a Tory. However, a character named Big Brother from 1984 fits his M.O. better. Brits who argue against their replacement and the general cause of Globalism, and I'm guessing supporting wars against Russia is part of it, should be
I honestly had to look up this guy, Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany since '21. The problem for those who resist Globalism in Germany is the political system, not the one guy. Anti-Globalists around the world were happy to see the AfD (Alternative for Deutchland) party make big election gains, doubling their vote share from 10 1/2 in '21 to just under 21% to this year. Yes, Trump's coattails flutter around the world. That's good news, but the way things work there, the system can be used to keep that one anti-Globalist party from wielding power.
One has to register with The Authorities to form a political party. I'm not sure if the Nazis went through that ardous process, but the fallout from their rise and fall has resulted in a type of Hitler's Revenge.**** If the Government doesn't like your party, you can't have one. (No, don't bring up Lesley Gore, please.) Wiki has some details:
The version of the Federal Republic of Germany's Party Law current, as amended, in 2025 was enacted in 1967 and, according to the European Parliament, defines political parties as "central entities for the good functioning of democracy""Democracy"? Like in the German Democratic Republic?
The standards for the prohibition of political parties in the Federal Republic of Germany are laid-out in Article 21 of the Basic Law and Section 43 of the Federal Constitutional Court Act. According to the court, parties that "in view of their aims or the behaviour of their adherents, seek to undermine or abolish the free democratic basic order or to endanger the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany must be declared unconstitutional"."Climate of fear"? Yes, so as long as someone is scared, such as possibly 100's of thousand of government workers and the Globalist puppets like Herr Sholtz, then, no, of course you can't have your party. Anyone can say he's living in "a climate of fear". That's completely subjective. How long will it be before the AfD gets threatened with banishment for creating a climate of fear?
The court has interpreted these standards to establish two criteria for prohibition, both of which must be met. The first criteria is that a party demonstrate an "aggressive and combative attitude" that creates a "climate of fear" with the ultimate aim of abolishing the democratic order or the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany.
In 2017, the court created a second criterion for banning called "potentiality". The party in question must have the potential to actually implement its anti-democratic objectives to qualify for prohibition.
No that's no good. The people are not in a very good position to fight Globalism under these types of governments. Over here, it has been quite a struggle*****, but we've got ourselves into a better situation to fight Globalism.
Yeah, I know. A Pat Buchanan or a Ron Paul would have been much better, if even just for our collective blood pressure. However, this is the guy we've got. We've got to live with him and work with what we've got. This is not to say that Donald Trump is our savior. Hell, he's 78 years old. When Kings die, things change. Is J.D. Vance reliable as a successor to continue the work against Globalism? Maybe the Trump Administration should work with Congress this time, as I explained 4 years ago... but, wait, that IS happening. I think this guy has learned a lot.
My optimism regarding the American fight against Globalism comes not so much from Trump himself, but from knowing how many MAGA people are out there, enough to support him at big rallies for years and to get him past the amount of cheating that may have happened in '24.
MAGA is against all manner of Globalism to the extent that there is indeed some woo-woo stuff being discussed that is not all real, discussed recently by Steve Sailer in a dismissive manner. I don't agree with him. I'm not going to argue chem-trails, UFOs (well, there are unidentified drones, which, after all, FLY), Jewish space lasers, HAARP, etc. in this post, one way or the other. Then, if you want to keep going, how about "Eat zee bugs", Blackrock buying out real estate, and CDBCs (I'm not talking pot oil here), and, my favorite, the iEspionage? There's a whole spectrum of worries about Globalism, and we all have our favorite colors. I am glad we folks of the MAGA movement all work in our own ways to resist zee Globalism. As for some of the Far Out! [/John Denver] stuff, hey, better safe than sorry!
I'm more optimistic for America's chances against Globalism than Europe's. Maybe that's "because we live here!", but our political system seems to be better suited for resistance. Then too, there are the 100's of millions of guns. I know that there are times one questions why we haven't already bore them in anger, but there could be such a time. I believe this remains a worry for the Globalists. Good!
PS: I skipped France because I don't know enough about what's going on there politically. (I'd read Macron has taken a hit from the Trump election too.) Is the Yellow Vest movement still ongoing?
* I read a short book on him that the JBS sent me.
** Interpret that as you will - I left out a comma.
*** Remember the term "containment" from the Cold War? (Probably not, and I don't blame you.) It made sense then. I've heard otherwise, but if America and NATO had not contained the Soviets and China, yes, much of the world would have been brought under the light of the Communist Moon. [old Right Stuff and LBJ reference there].
**** VDare writers coined this term, but the meaning was specifically race/immigration oriented. I really wish I could link you to something here ... alas, fat-ass Leticia James.
***** Since Adolph Hitler was already mentioned once this post, this is a freebie: We've heard of Hitler's Mein Kampf, but I think Donald Trump ought to be the one to write, OK, have a guy write, My Other Struggle: How I got though the worst struggle EVER in history to become the best President since before George Washington..
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Windshield Wipers in a Peak Stupidity Trifecta
Posted On: Thursday - March 6th 2025 8:40PM MST
In Topics: Cheap China-made Crap Cars Curmudgeonry Inflation
We love it when a post comes together! [/A-Team guy] This post contains a trifecta of stupidity among a few of our favorite niche flavors of stupid. There's the Curmudgeonry, in which things keep getting worse, the Cheap China-made Crap in which we usually can't find anything but that worse stuff, and Inflation, in which stuff continuously cost more due to it being worse.
One of the front wiper blades in our newer vehicle (the longer one of the two blades - this is newfangled stuff here) is missing an important spot, about a 3" wide swipe, and I swear I got these within the last year. The rubber on these things gets brittle in no time now! Yes, this vehicle stays outside where the sun is harder on rubber parts, but I used to get many years on wiper blades under the same conditions. It seems like it used to be only very rarely, maybe 3 or 5 year intervals, when I had this simple job to do. Now, I'm stocking up for what seems to be a yearly job or an even more frequent one.
Replacing the blades* is easy once you've done it once. However, what about the mechanically declined folks or anyone who generally gets a shop to do these things? For them, I'd think it'd be at least a 0.1 hr add-on to servicing, meaning $10-$20 for the labor.
I don't even have to look to know they are made in China now. As with tires, I wonder whether the cheaper rubber is used just due to cost savings for the manufacturer due to a plan to increase replacement rates, hence sales, and/or both.
Where do those wiper blades fit within the BLS "basket o' goods"? I can see them helping bring down the official inflation rate, as nominal prices may not have gone up. However, same as with bicycles (see 3rd paragraph of Hedonics in the Current Era of Cheap China-made Crap, in which we broached this point), if you have to buy these things 3 to 5 times as often, your real price for "staying in good wiper blades" is that factor higher. What do you call this effect? How about we introduce the Quality Adjusted price? What do you say, BLS green-eyeshade boys? (Or D.I.E. hires?)
My point with the bikes was slightly different. You may not have to buy them 3 to 5 times as often. You probably can repair them. However, the Cheap China-made Crap ones require repairs much more often, raising the Quality Adjusted price due to both parts and labor.
See, goods are getting worse, because they are poorly made in China now, which is yet another from of inflation. This one is not accounted for in these baskets of goods and services. Hell, bikes don't even come with baskets anymore, unless you get one that's fake and ghey.
* I remember when you'd just replace the rubber piece with its steel strip backing. That seems, and I hate to invoke The Greta, but it seems a lot less wasteful or more sustainable, as the Treehuggers might put it. Now you throw out a bunch of material each time.
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America's Golden Ticket-
Posted On: Wednesday - March 5th 2025 6:58PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump Economics
For the first time in as long as I can remember - I imagine since President Reagan - I watched (some of) the State of the Union address. I won't review it here. I was getting very sleepy anyway, but after President's Trump's stupidity about the Golden Buy-your-way-in immigration cards, that was enough.
I guess in addition to being the most important President since George Washington, Trump fancies himself the next Willie Wonka. Rather than springing for a candy bar and getting very lucky, Trump's Gold Card winners will just have to come to America with $5 Million... to give to America, well, the Government anyway, to help pay off the national debt. According to "Sovereign Man":
I remember this Sovereign Man from my dozen years ago days of reading ZeroHedge daily. Going by the pseudonym Simon Black then, this Jim Hickman is one of those men about the world*. This Sovereign Man bit is far different than the Sovereign Citizens of said movement in America (something we discussed recently in comments here). Regarding the former, it's easy to go on about where in the whole wide world you should move next, park your money, and how to escape or minimize taxes. I'm guessing he's not a family man.
All that vagabond stuff** doesn't work too well for those who are established people of the land. Such people don't necessarily relish guys like Jim Hickman or a few million rich guys buying out their country.
I really don't think President Trump understands exactly how much his scheme resembles selling out the country. Along these lines, why doesn't he just sell National Park land, square mile by square mile, to Chinese investors? They could also move here to develop and live on that land, the big old-growth trees serving well for a chopstick factory. (Yeah, I mused about doing a calculation for the Olympic Nat'l Park being cut into chopsticks while writing this post.***) We may be able to cover the whole national debt with these and other assets, their becoming property of foreigners, with the heritage of those who settled and built America lost. Whose debt will we have paid off?
I'd known that Portugal has been doing this selling of citizenship for cash thing, until, as this article admits, the people got mad about rising real estate prices. I've heard the same about New Zealand - now the formerly White British-heritage nation is diverse, with a large crown of Chinese exodees. The writer mentions Puerto Rico too, but, haha, were I some kind of Sovereign Man myself, I might be asking the Puerto Rican government for cash in return for my deigning to live there!
I've repeatedly said that Trump is no numbers man. He's got starry eyes about that cash from millions of new foreigners and probably had listened to Elon Musk on this one.
While Trump naively thinks we'll have 5 million Elon Musks (though at the $1 Million we'd need a Texas-sized crowd of 'em) coming here, instead it will be Latin American cartel owners, Chinese $1,200/month government
Sovereign Man adds, trying to sell his advice later:
On the other hand, from an individual American’s perspective, it’s great that there are already golden visa programs around the world that can help you diversify internationally with foreign residency, property ownership, and investment.See, we'd better find our own bug-out places too. We can all mix and match until some sort of equilibrium is reached, or what? Or do we all spend our lives running... and a million bucks each time... I mean, you've got that much at least, right? (Maybe you've not been reading his newsletter.)
Mr. Hickman is not so sure he's right here, so to be fair to his newsletter readers:
Because if you live, work, invest, and have everything you hold dear in one jurisdiction (which happens to be the most indebted government in the history of the world) that’s a significant risk.Sovereign Man didn't get around to asking himself where these problems came from to begin with. Just keep on running...
With problems the size of America’s, you don’t want all your eggs in one basket.
Enough about Sovereign Man. It's Trump who brought up this insanely stupid idea, just when I'd gained a modicum of respect for the him too. This kind of off-the-cuff stupidity bothers me most when it's about this most existential issue.
I urge the Peak Stupidity reader to go to the link above to read more from the ZeroHedge commenters. These guys usually don't disappoint. All the comments I've read so far are against this stupid idea. I wish I could copy the whole thread. BTW, there are good ones under the ZH post discussed under our previous post. I don't want to become, in the fast food industry parlance, a Heavy User, but I have been enjoying the reading there.
A final though for the post: How's that Million Dollar Ticket rich immigrant plan gonna work out when the US $ has gone down the toilet and a Million bucks only gets you a 5 y/o Kia Soul with no time remaining on the warranty?****
* The website is Schiff Sovereign now, per the website. Hickman shares billing with Mr. Peter Schiff, the gold bug of the multiple Gold v Bitcoin debates Peak Stupidity has featured and commented on. Mr. Schiff may have had to backstop this man-about-the-world. Traveling the world can get costly... well, yeah, he probably lost it on some broad...
** That's not to knock it for a young man, along the vein of Rod Stewart - about that, Every Picture Tells a Story, don't it? See footnote* for a warning though.
*** That was Part 5 of our 4 year-ago series Will America be Looted by China?, that one on "The Wilderness". See also Part 1: Intro -- Part 2: Housing -- Part 3: Big Biz -- Part 4: The Fruited Plain and Part 6: Conclusion - The Golden Rule .
**** That thing and the similar-looking Honda Element give the old Pontiac Aztec a run for its money in the running for the Ugly Car Hall of Fame. (oops, I hope I didn't lose too many Aztec-owner readers with this one...) Oh, and yeah, I guess you're still covered as far as the power train.
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Department of Urbane Development
Posted On: Wednesday - March 5th 2025 3:28PM MST
In Topics: Trump US Feral Government Race/Genetics
I read on ZeroHedge that HUD Terminates Obama-Era Housing Rule. If you recall, likely from reading people like Steve Sailer and VDare, this "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing"* business is Section 8 on steroids. It was a way to ruin suburbs, exurbs, small towns, you name it, in the same way that American cities have been ruined. One simply injects the Black! riff-raff, no border-crossing invitations even necessary.
Well, it's gone back and forth, started by the race-hustling destructive Øb☭ma (who now lives on Martha's Vineyard), suspended by Trump-45**, re-instated by Dark Brandon, and now "terminated" again by Trump-47. Yeah, but what do these terms of mine "suspended", "re-instated", and "terminated" mean legally anyway. "The AFFH rule, introduced by the Obama administration in 2015" is what the ZH article says. It was a "rule", see? Did Congress ever even get involved?
I'm glad to hear this news, a small thing in the grand scheme of things, but just another part of President Trump's Lighting War to turn things around.*** We at Peak Stupidity can be honest and be openly relieved for the White and other Americans who can breath just a bit easier in the face of possible targeted demographic destruction of their nice places. Epoch Times (ZH posts lots of their articles) writer Naveen Athrappully can't or won't say this plainly. To him it's about the bureaucracy.
it required local officials to provide answers to 92 questions on topics such as disparities in housing opportunities, according to a commentary by The Heritage Foundation. Local officials had to report data on issues such as environmental health hazards, which had little to do with affordable housing. Besides that, HUD fund recipients had to ensure that their policies and practices did not promote racial segregation.Yeah, the big worry is all the paperwork... NOT. This quote from Utah Senator Mike Lee was more truthful and was appropriately partially bolded, at least on ZH:
“[The AFFH rule was] designed to give unelected, anonymous bureaucrats in Washington the power to pick and choose who your new next-door neighbor will be,”Yup. That's what it's been about, on the portions of the 4-8 year cycle, I guess, when it's in place.
“If they don’t believe your neighborhood is ‘diverse’ enough, they will seize control of local zoning decisions—choosing what should be built, where, and who should pay for it—in order to make your neighborhood look more like they want it to.”
Anyway, with all that said already, that's not my point today. My point is (was?) simple: Why does every Housing and Urban Development Secretary have to be Black!? The guy in the picture is Trump's pick. We all know Trump is not down with the D.I.E. crap, far from it. Could he not personally practice what he's been preaching and Edicting?
This HUD Secretary Scott Turner may be a great guy. Was there no White man available who knows anything about Housing? How about Urban Development? Are we just admitting that Urban = Black! now in our lexicon? I can remember half a century ago that the radio format - they had formats, see? - called "Urban Contemporary" meant black music. It was a certain type, maybe a mix of soul, R&B, some light Gospel, with thankfully no (c)rap, as the latter wasn't yet around.
When I hear the word "urban" with regard to anything now my blood pressure tends to go up. So I suppose, sure, White people are not qualified to be Department Secretaries of anything urban. I have seen White people in inner cities still, but they're getting thin on the ground.
Another question arises: Why is there a Department of Housing and Urban Development still? If we (hello, DOGE guys - use paperwork as an excuse if you must) eliminated this department, there'd be no one to make such Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rules. Congress would need the votes to make such laws, and we could call our own Congressmen and tell them to vote nay, and ... Hey, I can dream, can't I?
Can you imagine such a civilized Constitutional-abiding society? To get it back, perhaps we need a Department of Urbane Development... headquartered in Urbana-Champaign.
* Ahhh, as I recall, it was either Mr. Sailer himself or some commenter who said that pronouncing it makes one sound like Daffy Duck. He was right!
** Though we were not happy with the job he did, these small things were still helpful to us.
*** No, it's not all good. See next post... coming soon.
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