Chauvin:Floyd !:: Byrd:Babbitt
Posted On: Saturday - July 10th 2021 7:04PM MST
In Topics: US Police State Race/Genetics Anarcho-tyranny
Remember those SAT analogy questions? Does anyone use the above symbolic syntax anymore? Even math geeks?* Well, I stuck in a little C/C++ syntax there (the "!" for the NOT in a comparison), as they couldn't have asked SAT questions the other way around, could they?
No, Minneapolis city cop Derek Chauvin v George Floyd is anything but analogous to Capitol cop Michael Leroy Bird v Ashli Babbitt, as perhaps we are to think, per Lyin' Press narrative. Well, actually, even that is not ludicrous enough for them. We are to believe that jailed-for-22-years Derek Chauvin did something WORSE to the late George Floyd on the streets of Minneapolis last summer than Scot-free did to the late Ashli Babbitt in the US Capitol building past January 6th! Can the narrative GET any stupider? Are we there yet?
Let's drop the SAT question talk, switch to TV shark-week-style mode, and consider Chauvin on Floyd v Byrd on Babbitt today.
"In this corner, known to ALL, with a Federal Holiday motivated by his passing, we have George Floyd ... loyd, oyd ... oyd...." Even those who avoid TV and try not to hear still heard a whole lot about this George Floyd and his death a year ago May in Minneapolis, Minnesota:
Cops CAN get out of control. White people don't like it anymore than black people, but they don't have proportionally nearly as many dealings in bad circumstances with cops to begin with. They aren't stupid enough to let average wrongful detainments or arrests get violent, as they hope, sometimes futilely, but alive at the time, to get justice later. Some of us call it "calming the fuck down". At the same time, the total number of black people wrongfully shot by cops is said to be in the neighborhood of a dozen times a year, versus the shootings of black people, many innocent, by other black people which is in the many thousands annually.
This one guy, George Floyd, is not exactly the guy you'd want for the poster child for police brutality, as he was a criminal reprobate well before the incident in May '20. Could they have found a better poster child? Apparently, it's not so easy.
There was a cause to arrest Mr. Floyd. He had passed a counterfeit 20 dollar bill, and that's still illegal, at least for us White and Oriental folks. Maybe for the black guy, they were just doing the arrest for old time's sake, and, well, he was a violent criminal to begin with. As I wrote in the caption above, it's not even clear that Mr. Floyd's death was a result of how he was restrained by Mr. Chauvin. Not only that, but nobody can say that his death was intentional on Mr. Chauvin's part. He was on camera(s), for crying out loud. What a really corrupt cop out for murder would have done is, at some point inside the squad car: "Hey, quit resisting! Let go of my gun! Owww!" to get that part on tape, shot the guy straight out, and then later "Ooops my body came failed in all this melee! Whatddya know?"
"And, in this corner, a name remembered only by American patriots and others who respect the rule of law, the purposefully forgotten MAGA insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt ... abbitt, ectionist... ist, ... ist ..." I've had to pay attention for half a year to get the name of the cop who killed her.
Nobody in Ashli Babbitt's close vicinity was being detained or arrested. They were perhaps too exuberant, as getting inside the Capitol was making a statement about the ridiculous 3rd-World-style '20 election, and patriots wanted to DO SOMETHING. (Nobody else was gonna, as has been proven out.) However, there were cops with rifles right along side many of these people, just in case it ACTUALLY got out of hand.
Mrs. Babbitt was carefully climbing through an interior window that the glass had been broken out of. She wasn't moving quickly. She wasn't armed. She wasn't threatening, as if there were that much of a way that a short, slender 35 y/o woman could be, to armed cops with freaking body armor on. There was no physical contact between Mrs. Babbitt and the Capitol cop Michael Byrd who was on the other side of that door/window divide. Any one of the cops could have grabbed her by the neck with one hand, in fact, not that it's the way to handle things. Yet, the cops behind her were not getting involved, and not trying to detain, much less arrest her, at this point.
Therefore, the stupid, viscous black Capitol cop Michael Byrd up and shot Ashli Babbitt in the head or throat from what now looks like closer to 5 ft. away to me and killed her. He was not under attack. He could have pushed her back through the window with one hand, if he really had something to worry about regarding her getting further into the building. He could have tazed her, though it wouldn't have been warranted either. Michael Leroy Byrd just plain murdered Ashli Babbitt right then and there with no cause.
George Floyd's death was in national and international headlines for months and even a year afterwards. The incident caused months of destructive rioting and looting all over the country in the inner cities. (That is, unless you're Portland, in which case it's now a continuously operating city attraction.)
Ashli Babbitt's death received attention only from patriotic Americans who made an effort to keep up with the murder. Her death was put behind that of Capitol cop Brian Sicknick, who was a decent man by all accounts, but died of much more natural causes the next day after the Capitol gang excitement rather than from the throwing of a fire extinguisher at him. There was talk of 3 total Capitol police officers who died later, but not so much about the near-point-blank murder of Mrs. Babbitt. Her name has not been brought up in the Lyin' Press daily. She's getting no statue of her paid by any taxpayers. There will be no Federal holiday.
There were investigations of the George Floyd death, with lots of taxpayer supported parties involved. The cop that possibly unintentionally killed him got a 22-year prison sentence. In the other corner, there has been NO investigation into the murder of Ashli Babbitt. The cop that can be, and has been, seen on video killing her has not only not been arrested, but his name has been kept from the public for 6 months by the Lyin' Press. We're supposed to just plain forget about it. Forget it, Americans, it's
Winner by a knock-out in round, I dunno, it just keeps on going: Michael Leroy Byrd! As a prize, Mr. Byrd will receive a "Keep out of jail for free" card, signed by the Capitol Police Internal Affairs Department and Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. His victim will remain dead and infamous as an insurrectionist.
The loser, Mr. Derek Chauvin, besides his 22 year jail time, will be hounded as a "Gasp, Racist!" for the rest of his life out after prison. His victim will be memorialized until our memories are gone due to dementia, or else!
Oh, I forgot to clarify the definition of winning and losing in this contest at the beginning. Winning means one is on the Anarcho side of the Anarcho-Tyranny. Losing means one takes it up the ass from the Tyranny side. Oh, and in these contests, due to the horrible legacy of slavery, it helps to be black. It's only fair.
* I'll try to get an answer from John Derbyshire in the comments section of one of his columns on the Unz Review, but he doesn't usually respond.
** I don't know. I've not been a cop, and I don't know many cops. Perhaps the Lyin' Press could have enlightened us on the police tactics in Minneapolis, had it fit in with any narrative of theirs.
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Ann Coulter on the attitude of the Globalist elites
Posted On: Friday - July 9th 2021 9:02PM MST
In Topics: Globalists Race/Genetics
(Header image taken from VDare yet again.)
With no time to write much of a post today and tiredness setting in, I will publish this quick "lookey here!" post to the most recent Ann Coulter column. It can be read here on VDare. VDare's title is Ann Coulter On Anti-Populist Elites: NYT—Why Are All These Racist Losers So Angry? Even for Peak Stupidity's favorite literary pundit, this column one of the best.
I'll excerpt here the mid-section of the column, in which Miss Coulter is referring to the bilge out of some Globalist NY Times columnist named Thomas Edsall:
But ever since the 2016 election, there’s been a frisson of viciousness to the elites’ usual contempt for ordinary Americans. Never mind that Trump ended up betraying his voters. The establishment is appalled that the issues he ran on were popular. Five years later, they still sputter in rage, unable to comprehend why Jeb or Hillary didn’t end up in the White House.She even went THERE! (That last part.)
To explain this calamity, Edsall rolls out all the Timesian cliches about losers being upset about losing. He calls this the “ubiquity of loss,” as if we’re talking about a natural phenomenon, like beach erosion.
Trump voters, he says, are people who are angry about:* their inability to achieve “a standard of living as high as that of their parents,”Edsall acts as if these things are immutable laws of physics. Actually, they result from the deliberate policy choices of our ruling class to benefit some Americans to the detriment of others.
* “the decline of the gender pay gap … and other types of loss relative to women,”
* and losing “employment and earnings to China and other countries.”
Specific policy decisions were made to import an endless stream of low-skilled workers. Employers got boatloads of cheap labor, while ordinary Americans saw their wages plummet.
Oh, and if we’re pretending to care about “democratic norms,” Americans have voted for less immigration over and over and over again. If anyone in the establishment gives a crap about “democratic norms,” then why do they keep foisting more immigration on us?
Specific policy decisions were made to explicitly discriminate against white men in order to give jobs to women, simply because they were women.
If you don't read Ann Coulter regularly, I highly recommend doing so. She is not the pro-GOP part-Neocon she was 20 years ago. Ann Coulter has grown in punditry.
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Murderer of Ashli Babbitt revealed: Michael Leroy Byrd
Posted On: Thursday - July 8th 2021 8:04PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 US Police State US Feral Government Race/Genetics Anarcho-tyranny
I watched a clip of Tucker Carlson talking for a few minutes with Ashli Babbitt's widower and the guy's lawyer. You can watch the clip on Gateway Pundit's post about the murder here.
What's interesting is that not a one of these three men would name names, when the name could be determined after a simple search after their discussion. What they did note is that the Capitol cop who shot Mrs. Babbitt from close range in the neck or head is the same one who was in the news in February of '19 for mistakenly leaving his gun in a Capitol restroom*, with no punishment allotted to him. (He was black, you know, so ...) See, here's the weird thing: the name of the absent-minded Capitol cop from '19 is KNOWN. His name is Michael Leroy Byrd. It's a simple step in basic logic to move from "we know the guy that left the gun in the restroom" and "we know that the guy who murdered Ashli Babbitt is that same guy", to a big-ass headline saying:
EXTRA: Capitol Police Officer Michael Byrd found to be murderer of Ashli Babbitt !
A blogger/pundit Conservative activist who was right there in the Capitol when this happened, one Tayler Hanson, has either broken or is trying to break this story. I can't believe I'm linking to a twitter page from some Millennial with a misspelt first name, but that's the way they do it now - His page here is worth scanning through**. I see this Mr. Hansen as a brave young patriot trying to get through a media blackout on the simple important very-easily-determined fact. It ain't a "Who shot JR Ewing" mystery. Hell, he was tweeting about this murderous cop back in late April, 2 1/2 months ago!
Your Peak Stupidity blogger happened to run into a member of the Capitol Police Department while traveling a couple of months ago. This guy was very nice to spend the time to talk, as he was on the way from some guard-a-CongressRat detail. I asked him about the deceased Brian Sicknick, and this guy happened to know him quite well.*** I was hesitant, due to the politics, and that this guy could be considered a customer, but I did ask him "do you know the guy that shot Ashli Babbitt?" He said yes, but he didn't know him well at all. There was no way he was going to give me a name, so I saw no reason to put him on the spot by asking.
That inside information wasn't given to me is to be expected. I'm not an internal affairs investigator. I'm no beat cop asking questions. I'm no Grand Jury, and I'm especially not a Congressional investigative committee. How come there ISN'T one of the latter, for that matter, seeing as the normal police investigation and arrest process has simply not occurred? You had a guy shoot and kill an unarmed woman from 10 ft or so, while other cops were right nearby with rifles, getting along just fine with everyone, and NOTHING HAPPENED! Again, this isn't some mystery that requires the services of Jim Rockford or the 5-0.
This is USSR or Mao-era China behavior here. I wouldn't have expected it in America.... so soon! On the other hand, we have that free and independent press, right? For some reason, they all are independently deciding not to look into this story that even a Journalism major could figure out. Apparently, the information about the culprit of a high profile murder right inside the US Capitol is not part of the news that's fit to print.
Then there's the race angle. Were it a White man who murdered Ashli Babbitt, the Capitol Police might have thrown him under the
Or, is this really something bigger, with the Deep State and Feral Government having decided to teach us a real lesson here? Anyone does something like this again, and we will just shoot whomever we want with no repercussions, lock others away for months and throw away the key, and create a widely-spread narrative that this simple slightly out-of-hand protest or minor riot was TERRORISM and a threat to the US Constitution, Dammit! (Like they give a shit about that document.) In the meantime, other groups, on the correct side of the ideology, can do much more serious damage with no one spending a single night in jail The Anarcho-Tyranny is palpable.
What is this teaching us? The lesson many patriots will learn is that if you're going to raise a little hell, you may as well go all out and raise a whole lot of hell. There will be lone wolves at some point. Michael Leroy Byrd ... well, I'll stop here.
* This news can still be found, as there was no effort to hide this smaller story - see this Fox News story, with the name Michael Leroy Byrd right out there.
** This page by The Deplorable Patriot is a bit more like a story than that series of tweets.
*** It's not part of this post's discussion, but more pertinent to the one just linked-to, that, in answer to my question or musing, he said that he didn't know of his friend Brian having any medical condition. In writing that post, I'd read that Mr. Sicknick had a heart condition. Would a friend not know that? That IS possible, though, as when you have a job that could be terminated due to medical problems, you may very well hide a problem from everyone. (Even a friend might accidentally mention it at the wrong time.)
This post of mine was from mid-February, so almost 5 months ago, well before I talked to this other Capitol cop.
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When things get real... minor jet bridge version
Posted On: Wednesday - July 7th 2021 7:47PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Feminism
These posts pop in my head out of almost nothing sometimes. In this case it was just a few words said by a lady being wheeled up the jet bridge into the airline terminal.
There's probably a special section of building code for it, but these airport jet bridges must be limited to a certain maximum slope. To embark on one of the big birds, one often goes up slope, while the people going off need to go down ... down to the customs/immigration* hellhole. For the smaller birds, usually you go down slope to board, and uphill to get into the gate level of the terminal. As hooked up to a 757, they may be fairly level, if it's a fairly small terminal, as in not so high off the pavement. These jet bridges come in an amazing number of configurations. Additional length can be used, of course, to decrease the slope.
The slope is important not just for ambulatory passengers, but especially for the wheelchairs. I noticed a blue-died-hair lady getting help off the plane in a wheelchair the other day, still near the bottom. (It was a regional jet.) First of all, she was not that awful old, maybe 55-60. She could have had lots of misfortune, but more likely she was diabetic. That blue hair thing just put me off, for that age, I mean. Geeze, what's that about, is she planning on going to some raves like that? Anyway, that's not the point here, but it made me look and pay attention a bit.
Now, I have helped a few people off the plane and into the terminal by pushing them in wheelchairs up top. I have pushed people weighing 300 lb. even. I was glad to do it, but it's a quick cardio workout, let me tell you. With these chairs with nice bearings and rubber tires, it's all ΔPE = mgΔh these days.
The small airport terminals may have 2 or even just 1 person available each shift to do this work for all the gates (along with other passenger service chores). In this case the airport employee was a smaller lady. She had blue haired mama pointed in the right direction there, and was pushing hard to get her going.
All I heard as I went by was the passenger in the chair saying "are you sure you can get me up there?" Now, see, I'd bet money that a lady looking like that had leftist, feminist, and PC tendencies. She would likely be the first to tell you that there are no "man's jobs" and that women could do anything at all just as good, and often better, than a man could. She shouldn't be questioning or bothering this small female employee. She should be glad that a woman had taken that airport service job. Gyrrlll power!
However, her ass was on the line here. If that wheelchair tipped over going over one of the joints (they are steeper), or worse yet, got released and headed back down backwards or forwards, it would be a bad day** When it becomes real, and you're worried about your butt getting busted, oh, all that PC, feminist crap goes right out the window. "Are you sure ...?" Hahahaa! Enjoying the ride?
* As I've written before, it's a GOOD thing for a country to have tough-asses in the immigration hall though.
** With the help of a good lawyer, it would be a bad day for lots of parties, the assisting employee, the airline, the airport management, the jet bridge manufacturer ... and I'm sure I'm missing a few parties to be held responsible to make this lady whole.
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RayOVac batteries are a scam
Posted On: Tuesday - July 6th 2021 10:41PM MST
In Topics: Preppers and Prepping Curmudgeonry Inflation Scams
I wish I could include the Cheap China-made Crap topic key with this post, but as, I hated to find out, these batteries, are (Proudly?) "Made in the USA". That is, the AA's at least.
You try to be a prepper or at least "be prepared" as much as a former Boy Scout knows he ought to. Batteries are part of it. This was about kids' toys at first, as I realized years ago that you really need a load of double-A's, triple-A's, quite a few D's, and a few C's and 9 Volters to keep all the toys running.
As with lots of things that I have bought over the years, I've seen the price of batteries go WAY up. I just seem to remember prices while most people's minds are more forgiving and forgetful about them. Peak Stupidity has noted the big increases in lots of products and services, especially over the period from the mid/late-1990s through recently. (It's going to get much worse soon.) Though we noted the big increase in car battery prices, we haven't covered small batteries, as I don't have hard data. I just remember that it wasn't that long ago - probably in the mid-1990s - when one could get multiple D or C cells for a buck, while now you're paying 2 bucks EACH!
"OK", one, might say, "but they last much longer, so you aren't comparing apples to oranges here". Well, first of all, we've noted before that BLS inflation calculations don't seem to take the reverse of that into account, when products last for shorter times - see Tire Inflation by Deflation. But additionally, and as the original point of this post, "they lie!"
I don't expect Duracells to last the 10 years on the shelf as they tout, but they've been OK for me. However, with all that battery purchasing, I decided to by a couple of cases of Ray-o-Vacs. The case of AAAs has 1 1/2 gross (216), and the case of AAs has 2 gross (288). I should say had, not has, as after something like 4 to 5 years, they have almost all corroded in their original packaging! Now, I didn't expect them to go the 10 years that is advertised right here, as an example, for the exact Alkaline AAAs - part # ALAAA-18 (ALkaline AAAs - 18 pack). Maybe they'd be weaker and last 1/2 as long in a toy or flashlight. I just didn't expect them to all corrode like this.
This is disconcerting for a number of reasons. One way to fight inflation, something we all ought to be ready for as if this were 1975 again, is to buy in bulk when things are on sale. We discussed this a bit in The different levels of prepping. This is only worth doing for items with a long shelf life, as I found out the hard way with sneakers long ago. (The glue fails over time.) Batteries are one of THE prepper items*, though, not just something bought for the sole purpose of saving the paying of higher prices later. I was happy to see those long life-times advertised, as that would make them a very worthwhile prepper item. That seems not to be the case.
Even if one is not concerned with any Shit Hitting any Fan, just normal Boy Scout style "be preparedness", he would say you need batteries for emergency use. You need flashlights for emergency use, kept in the appropriate places, with, yes, batteries in them. Nowadays, even for Duracells, after a year or so, the damn batteries have corroded to where not only is the flashlight not going to work with them, but it won't work with any more batteries, as they have corroded all the contacts and more! They are a preppers and a Boy Scout's nightmare, as the flashlights now must be kept with batteries next to them, I guess. One has to put the batteries in when needed, in the dark, and hopefully when in not too much of a hurry. Sure, that's what you want.
No, I don't live by the beach, and the 2 cases of RayOVacs were inside the house in a closet not near open water, in temperatures varying from the mid 60s F to the low 80s F.
Just for the record, here are the AA's. Note "Made in the USA"!:
I might have sworn that these cases came from one of the Batteries & Bulbs stores, but I don't see them on the web site. This was a few years back, and I will check my records some more soon to see if I did get them there. I don't know where else i would have bought so many. If I find out where, I WILL be bringing them back, if nothing else to let them and maybe other customers know about this scam.
I'm not sure where to turn to now, for the good stuff. I suppose it's time to get back to reading some of the prepper sites regularly. This kind of thing is a concern to the good people that prepare, if nothing else, for the next hurricane or earthquake, but most of the time for long-term trouble.
AVOID RayOVac batteries. They are crap!
PS: It's not just me with the problems. When I brought this up to a friend he told me that one mechanic friend of his that I am also acquainted with has the same complaint.
* No, buying a few cases will not get one through decades of hard times, but it were a couple of years, it'd be nice to have 5-10 cases of various types.
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Them US Blues - 2021
Posted On: Sunday - July 4th 2021 8:49PM MST
In Topics: Music The Dead Americans Holiday from Stupidity
This is the first blog-post here on a Sunday. Peak Stupidity is only breaking our rule in order to keep another tradition up, which is the posting of The Dead's US Blues every Independence Day, with a few lyrics. Son of a gun, when I looked back I see every one of the previous 4 posts has a youtube video that has since gone missing!
Well, that there's a good reason to put it up too. Any non-DeadHeads should also please note that, though you may think of them as counter traditional American culture and a bunch of druggies, this band was truly an All American band. That goes for the music AND the players - Jerry, Bobby, Phil, Mickey, Billy, and Brent, all of them.
Stays seventy-two come shine or rain.
Wave the flag, pop the bag,
Rock the boat, skin the goat.
Wave that flag, wave it wide and high.
Summertime done come and gone, my, oh, my.
Happy Independence Day, or what's left of it (the day and our independence).
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Marshall Crenshaw- There & Back Again
Posted On: Saturday - July 3rd 2021 6:41PM MST
In Topics: Music
Peak Stupidity has featured the bright sound of Marshall Crenshaw before at least once - my favortie is probably She Can't Dance from his self-titled debut album. That album had 2 songs that I'd heard played on the radio, the hit Someday, Someway and my 2nd favorite, Cynical Girl.
I bought a CD of Marshall Crenshaw's Miracle of Science sometime around 2000. It's not quite as good as that self-titled one, but is still full of good songs. The album was his 7th one, from 1996, and I doubt 1% of the American population has ever heard any of the songs. His career peaked, unfortunately, with that 1st album.
From Miracle of Science, here's There & Back Again, with a good melody and a bright voice and bright guitar. Enjoy!
So ends the blogweek. Next week, more curmudgeonry, something about cheap American-made crap, revisiting the Kung Flu Panicfest for a post, hotel room stupidity, and MORE!!! Thanks for reading.
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Erroneous Road Rage
Posted On: Saturday - July 3rd 2021 10:21AM MST
In Topics: Cars Curmudgeonry Peak Stupidity Roadshow
(Note: Just a file photo - woman in question looked more seriously pissed off.)
Road rage: There's a time for it, just like there's a time to every purpose under heaven. I've had my share, coming and going, though, when my Dad long ago would emphasize not letting myself get taken advantage of, he made an exception for events on the road. No matter who's in the right or who had the actual right-of-way, it really isn't worth the months of intermittent paperwork and hassle to get the car bashed up.
The problem for me is, as this one comedian went on about one time, those retards poking along ahead of me (at 2 mph over the speed bumps in their 4 by 4's*) and those assholes riding my ass behind me! Haha! Yes, my Dad was right, as I went through a lot of trouble based on one "I'll show you for cutting me off" incident many years ago. When you drive with the limit of bad driver points allowed in your State, and for a while over the limit, you learn to mellow out. "Want to cut me off? Go ahead. Have a nice day!" ... yet still, I'd really like to teach people how to merge.
Anyway, part of mild road rage, or incipient road rage, let's call it, is overuse of the horn. They'll be another post coming on that one. The horn is a safety device and another communication device in addition to those oft-misused turn signals. As a communication device it's supposed to be for warning others not chewing them out.
There's a road in the downtown area nearby on which even 30 mph is too fast, per common sense, as it's just one lane with parallel parking on the right and angle parking on the left. The point is to keep the parallel parking right next to the small stores, and the angle parking by the middle median, for people who will stay longer and/or walk a bit farther. That's the reason, but I can see that having angle parking on the left is worse for safety than having it on the right.
The problem is the visibility for backing up into the one lane of traffic. The driver is on the vehicle's left side, closer to the car in the direction he would like to see when backing up. Think of the geometry, and you will see that one has to go farther back to get a good sight line. It doesn't help at all that the modern vehicles have wide-ass pillars between doors to contain airbags (I think) and windows that start much higher up. Visibility sucks in the modern crossovers especially. The back-up cameras, something I think is a necessity now, the way these things are built, don't have that wide a view angle for help in backing up from that angled space.
Therefore, you just have to ease out, and hope for the best until you finally get a view past that big pickup or SUV to your left. That was us driving by, probably not more than 20mph just based on common sense. Pedestrians can come out from either side, someone may start backing out, etc. Well, this lady did. I saw the reverse lights on with the brake lights. That's normal, as you have to slowly get to where you can see. However, I was past the point at which I could stop and let her back out, and she kept on moving, too damn quickly and closely. I doubt she was even 4 ft. from me when I beeped the horn 3 times sharply. That did it. It's simply defensive driving.
That's what the horn IS for, as I explained to my son just a second after that. "It's for warning people, not to yell at them that they shouldn't have done that." (Then, he had to bring up "yeah, but what about that time when that guy was on the phone and you honked it when you passed him?" Kid have the darndest memories!)
Well, the lady pulls up next to us at the stop light only 100 yards past, and she was pissed. I really was hoping to just tell her nicely that I wasn't sure if she could see me. Nope, she kept her window up and said something that is not within my lip-reading capabilities. No flip of the bird, mind you, but just anger. Seriously?? I just wanted to make sure I could keep my old vehicle, as anything more that a scratch and the insurance company would tell me "you'll take $1,500, or you'll get nothing!" If the lady had backed up her much newer Subaru** (but none dare call it a station wagon) into us, she would have had months of intermittent hassle, paperwork, and higher premiums. With the number of complicated plastic parts on the new vehicles, minor wrecks are no longer minor. Everything's a big damn deal.
That's the thanks I get - some old lady getting pissed at me for warning her to quit backing up or there'd be a wreck. There really should be a Misanthrope topic key here, rather than just Curmudgeonry.
* See also Sport Utility Drivers - GET OFF
** Yeah, it's Honda for lesbians, but let me tell you, there were no fantasies going on in my head about THIS lady, me, and a willing lady insurance adjuster.
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LittleFreeLibraries in the leafy neighborhoods
Posted On: Friday - July 2nd 2021 8:46PM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics Books
In the latest (June) John Derbyshire's monthly "diary", as published on VDare and on on the Unz Review, with comments, I got another book recommendation. He hasn't let me down so far with the handful of books I read per his advice or suggestions.
What I noted is that Mr. Derbyshire got this latest book that I'll pick up from one of the "Little Free Libraries".* I am not sure if every reader will be familiar. There are lots of these cute and neighborly volunteer built and operated** things around, such as the one pictured above. I started seeing these ~8 years ago, by my recollection, but per the FreeLIttleLibraries website, it's been 12 years since the altruistic and creative Mr. Todd H. Bol made the first one. It says there are over 100,000 of them in people's front yards all around (occasionally at a part too).
We have the Little Free Libraries all over my neighborhood too. Most have either books for children, which we’ve taken advantage of on probably 10 to 15 occasions, or some self-help books, women’s novels, and lefty stuff. I did find one book on sailing I liked that I’ve been carrying around for a while.
There’s lefty stuff, mildly that is, not Das Kapital or Mao’s book, because there is a lot of that woke stuff going around the neighborhood. I think there’s a silent majority, but we’ve got our share of BLM, “We Believe”, etc, signs.
This Little Free Library thing was a great idea, I gotta say. There's the "sharing economy", as it's called, with your AirBnB's, Ubers, urban rent-a-bikes, etc., so I guess this is a "sharing charity" operation. No matter the BLM signs on the lawn of one of the Little Free Library volunteers near us, they've got to inherently know that:
a) This is not an idea that could possibly have originated from anyone other than a White person, such as Todd H. Bol.
b) Even if thought of by someone in China, Latin America, or the black ghetto in America, it would be dismissed out of hand, as who is going to build that nice dollhouse-looking structure of wood, mount it on a 4x4, and put some books in for the taking, knowing that the contents will be just all grabbed by someone and his handiwork will be vandalized soon enough? Oh, and where's the money in it? What would the point be, if there's no money in it?
c) Not so many people in the BLM movement even read books.
Oh, and these Little Free Library people have a "read in color" section on the web site. But, of course! You can sign a pledge on the internet that promises you will "share diverse books". I'd love to do that, putting an Ann Coulter book or a Vin Suprynowicz book called Send in the Waco Killers in that neighbor's Little Free Library for some diverse views, but I'm afraid that neighbor will trash it before it has a chance to get read.
* Mine is coming from the free! county library, free, as in is running off of that 80 million or so dollar bond issue they needed to renovate a bunch of the branches and the main one that all looked perfectly fine to me before.
** Basically just keeping things orderly if the users don't, adding some books here and there, and painting or replacing a nail or latch occasionally,
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Aggravating scene from Hereafter
Posted On: Wednesday - June 30th 2021 7:58PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Political Correctness Movies Bible/Religion
This post was not supposed to be a movie review. It came to mind from one particular scene from the '10 Matt Damon movie Hereafter. However, since I watched it, I'll just give a short review to go along with the main point.
I'd never heard of this movie before. It ought to have been my kind of movie, as I do like these types that speculate about the afterlife. Of course, this one had to trash the traditional religions in one very minor scene, I think mainly to make the story work there. That is not the scene this post is about, but it shows that was a PC influence, even with a movie directed by Clint Eastwood (found out to my surprise in the closing credits).
The whole opening sequence had the PC influence, come to think of it, as it was the dark people saving whitey meme again. In this case whitey was the TV news lady, played by Cecile de France, who, true to central casting, was French in the movie. I did not even think of turning the movie off due to that initial PC bit because the best part of the movie by far was the opening scene tsunami* sequence**. Whatever they did for these special effects, this scene looked awesome to me!
Hereafter flips back and forth between three different stories that come together in the end. There was the French part, starred by Cecile of France, a story about two identical-twin 10 y/o boys in England, and then Matt Damon the psychic who lives in a kindler, gentler 2010 San Francisco.
Commenter Alarmist mentioned I should use the film-buff term "production values". I do need to mention production values, but not of the movie, but the production of the CD. Here was my problem: The scenes with the French people were in France with English subtitles. However, the way it played on our player, only the first line of two appeared on the screen. I could make some of it out, but only enough to get the gist of what was going on. Then, in the British scenes, these people had enough of an accent (probably realistic) that I couldn't make out half of what they were saying either! That'd be OK if the normal DVD closed-caption feature would have worked. No dice on this. The only scenes I could follow completely were those of the San Francisco story. Talk aboutcher bad production values!
I'm glad IMDB agrees with me, but before reading it I had already planned to write that, interesting subject notwithstanding, this movie didn't have much of a point. So, here's what we have: Great opening scene disaster sequence, hard to follow 2/3 of the movie, too much PC, and no point.
OK, about that aggravating scene finally. After his soul-mate twin brother had died (not much of a spoiler really) the surviving twin wore the ball cap his brother had always worn everywhere. He attended a new school, and there was just a quick scene with he, two classmates, and the teacher. The other 2 kids were ... ready? A black girl and a Moslem girl. This was 2010 Britain. Yeah, there were plenty already, I guess, but was this a typical classroom, or was someone (Clint Eastwood, even?) pushing this stuff on us? I think you know the answer.
That's not my complaint, though. The boy wore that ball cap to class. Now, the young Moslem girl is wearing the full-out canvas-to-the-floor get-up. She has no veil but has her head wrapped up like a mummy whose slaves had barely ran out of material. Then we hear, to paraphrase, as, remember, I could barely understand half of it, "You need to take off your cap in the classroom.", from the teacher. What damn hypocrisy! I'm pretty sure the movie was NOT making a point about the hypocrisy. Whoever wrote, produced, or directed this scene was telling us that this is what we'd better put up with.
This boy is a character that the audience is supposed to feel sympathy for. He didn't like to take off his brother's cap off, as it was his only tangible thing left of his brother.. Are we supposed to feel that the Moslem girl must be allowed to wear any damn thing she likes, while this poor sad boy must take off his cap because "the rules"? There's your Anarcho-tyranny on display, courtesy of Hollywood.
I didn't like that scene one bit, and the more I think about it now, I give two thumbs down for Hereafter due to it alone. I just hope Clint Eastwood had nothing to do with it. Otherwise I say Hang him High ... is what you should see rather than this PC bilge.
* This was in some place far away from France, possibly Asia, but not made clear, so they would use that word. I think we are supposed to say "tsunami" instead of "tidal wave" now. It's one of the few PC "let's do as the foreigners do" terminology changes that I am down with, as "tidal wave" is really misleading.
** Speaking of your special senses or clairvoyance, which I haven't gotten to yet, that scene preceded the huge Japanese tsunami. The movie was released in Japan about 3 weeks before the tsunami, and the movie was pulled from theaters early.
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Visa Account Updater - Part 2
Posted On: Wednesday - June 30th 2021 4:51PM MST
In Topics: Economics Big-Biz Stupidity Scams
(Continued from previous post.)
It's not so easy to find out information on the operation of this Visa Account Updater system, but I'm almost positive it's run by Visa itself. When doing searches on this subject most of the results are pages on credit union sites with information for their customers. I really wonder how many Americans know about this system other than those who've already had to deal with it based on some problems like ours. Americans are pretty savvy consumers - well, when it's our OWN MONEY - and "we" consume a whole lot. I think word on this will get around.
BTW, I assume by "Visa" they mean this applies to MasterCard, or are there even MasterCards at all anymore? American Express has its own deal called Card Refresher that does the same thing. There is one difference I see right away with it, which I'll get to later on.
Here's how this thing must have started: Americans use the hell out of these credit cards. Additionally, as I wrote about last time, many merchants with products for sale like to arrange recurring payments. This way, Americans can more easily live paycheck-to-paycheck which, unfortunately, seems to be the preference for most, and there's that almighty convenience factor* too. Then, as noted last post and in the comments there too, there's the huge amount of scamming going on, resulting in credit cards and debit cards being canceled more often. That has been happening in our household lots lately, perhaps averaging 3 times yearly lately.** I used to go with a debit card that simply wore out.
I'm sure lots of Americans with all those recurring payments have lots of instances of either canceled service or late payments due to the company on the other end not able to get their money regularly. Then there's a complaint or a call to beg for or demand satisfaction from the CC company. I put the blame mostly on these customers, with, of course, the contributing factor of getting into these situations due to the incessant scamming.
When a charge is disputed by a customer, the way it goes, it's usually the CC company that decides to cancel, or at least strongly recommends canceling of, the card number. When the scamming is more regular, urgent, or annoying, there's one good option for the customer to stop the theft of his money - cancel the card, prontomundo. Not all the scamming is blatant There may be a disagreement resulting in an unsatisfactory conversation with "customer care". One can try to hash it out, or one can just hang up and cancel the card to JUST END IT. That is the leverage we had and thought we still have.
Therefore, there was motivation for all three parties here. For the consumers, it's having lives too complicated to keep the card numbers all up with all their creditors, getting burned by fees or lost service. The motivation for the card-issuing companies is that they have had to deal with complaints from consumers about the late fees and interactions with, and complaints from, the merchants about charges they can't collect. The merchants had a big motivation for this too, as they had to deal with lots of missing payments monthly, some to be recouped later and with late fees added, and some they had to eat. The impetus to set up this Visa Account Updater could have come from any of the 3 or a combination thereof.
They got this thing up and running. Who knew? Seriously, who has heard about it? You think you cut off the flow of the money to that alleged auto warranty service, but, whoa, next month, there it goes again!
The good for a consumer that has come from the Visa Account Updater service is that, after another unsettled dispute, or another scam is settled with the solution being another card cancellation, he doesn't have to update all his merchants or servicers(?) right away or get charged extra fees. The card issuer saves on the time dealing with complaints from both sides. The merchant or company providing a service comes out the best . Now he doesn't have to deal with complaints on said late charges (well, maybe they are actually a "profit center") and can be more confident in those receivables coming in every month. What if he's not on the up-and-up? He comes out ahead too! Win/win/win/win?
The bad aspect for the consumer is simple. His main leverage, "I'll cancel the card", is now gone. The bad news for the CC issuers is ... hmmm... nothing. Big Biz usually comes out pretty well for itself. However, I'm not completely sure about that, as they may end up with more work in the charging disputes departments. How's it going to be when many a customer can't end the money drain from some outfit, legit or not, and must call continually for months to "claw back" (as they say) the money? One Philadelphia lady tells her experience here that involves getting
The merchants have to love this new system. An example would be the Uber driver and/or Uber itself, as mentioned in the postscript of the previous post. Lastly, oh, yeah, those scammers have got to love it.
Back to our particular story now, yes, as the customer, you can opt out. That's what I did after getting the scoop, and the first thing I'd ever heard about, the Visa Account Updater. The American Express site linked to above says you need to apply to opt IN. I like that better. Maybe my wife did, without knowing anything about it, but then she applied for this card at least 5 years ago. I don't think this deal was around then, simply because one's payments WOULD be cut off to a customer if the card were canceled.
I realize that the Peak Stupidity readers are going to be on the savvier side of this consumer stuff, but I'll put my "advice to consumers" here anyway:
1) Don't set up any more monthly automatic recurring payments than you have to.
(2) If you ignore (1), decide if it's easier for you to continually make the effort to keep current CC numbers available to all those people charging you legitimately as you keep your leverage to cut the scammers off or easier for you to just fight all those charges, but not have to worry about the legitimate payments getting made.
3) Gold, Bitchez!
* It does take a dollar each month for each of the regular bills, unless I trust the outfit enough to pay ahead. Stamps are in the neighborhood of 50¢ and checks cost about 50¢. apiece. (I do know you can make up your own checks, or at least used to be able to. So far, that's not worth the effort.)
** One of these instances was an exact $150 one-time charge from that Venmo outfit. First of all, I don't usually make payments on round numbers like that, and then I didn't recognize that lame-ass internet-style name. Sure enough, people had been scammed to use Venmo before, per the bank, and the dispute was quickly settle for me. I noted that this charge was incurred one day after I stayed at a •Indian-run motel. Coincidence? I'd be generous to think that.
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Visa Account Updater - Part 1
Posted On: Tuesday - June 29th 2021 11:24AM MST
In Topics: Economics Big-Biz Stupidity Scams
Before I get into this, let me state that the Scams topic key is not attached here to indicate that Visa Account Updater itself is a scam. It CAN be, however, helpful for situations in which one IS being scammed, helpful for the scammer, that is. Therefore, this topic key reflects that the post does involve scamming.
We just learned something new about the American financial world a couple of days ago. My wife had ordered some type of vitamin pills, nutrition supplements, or what-have-you on-line. I'm not sure if I've yet got it straight whether she signed up for recurring monthly shipments with their recurring charges on the credit card or whether that was unexpected.
I'll state right now that I avoid signing up for ANYTHING that involves automatic repeating payments. My wife may be seeing the light on this. However, it's not always possible, or at least easy, to avoid them. One instance is the cell phone bill. For a few of the companies we've been through, they will charge you an extra $5, maybe $10 even, if you just want to send checks each month*. There are so many deadbeats out there that, as they always say, "ruin it for the rest of us". It's true in this case. I still resent being considered a likely deadbeat from the get-go or having to pay more for the small risk the Big Biz operation takes. (They can just cut off service easily enough these days, with the flip of a
My wife didn't think these pills were worth anything after a while, so she had written or called that she didn't want any more. This company apparently wasn't having any of that. When she got another batch of these things** in the mail the next month she cut off the credit card***. They kept on coming, well at least one more month, because that's when she realized they were charging the items on the replacement CC with a new number. WTF! She was on the phone with them using the word "scam" a number of times, and I ended up writing a post on facebook (I'm no member, but my wife has some kind of bogus account), going all out and noting that perhaps these people were •Indian credit card hackers. I kind of regret that latter bit, as only then did we get the story straight from the bank that the CC was issued by.
So that's the back story, and here's what most Americans probably don't have any idea about. (We sure didn't.): There's an operation, I believe a part of the Visa company itself, but, I'm not sure on that, called "Visa Account Updater". It is a middle-
The nice bank lady explained the following to me on the phone: In the recent past, a merchant and its, spit, "acquirer" would have received some sort of electronic bad card notice in the past on a cancelled card number. It was too bad for them if the customer already had already gotten the product or made use of their service. That's good, or that's bad, but that's the subject of Part 2. Now what happens is this middle-computer Visa Account Updater outfit has been fed the new CC number of this card holder. After the charge on the first card is denied, the merchant/etc. will make use of the VAU service - there's very likely a charge! - and have the amount charged to the new card. That merchant doesn't receive the new CC info (number, expiration date, and 3-digit code), but it just gets its money from the customer's account.
This is interesting stuff. I do understand the need for it, as it can actually help the many customers who have to change CCs often due to scammers. I also understand that this can cut the leverage out from a customer who is being scammed. As I wrote just above, Part 2 will cover more about this Visa Account Updater.
PS: We wondered a while ago how my friend was able to get the Uber ride working when he knew it had only his old, cancelled CC in the system. We got the ride, the driver was certain he'd get his 75% cut (I tip in cash), and we figured Uber can just suck it if they don't get paid. Now I get completely what happened.
* For that matter, on some of the bills that I can actually count on not being somehow screwed by Big Biz on anytime in the near future, I'll even pay 6 months ahead. They should be spending time down on their knees in their corporate "worship center" just praising God for customers like me... well, until they piss me off.
** I wonder if they've got that old guarantee I used to see on the TV commercials: "If you are not satisfied, we'll send you another one, for FREE!"
*** Which has also been a recurring thing. The charges from scammers have been coming almost fast enough to where I can "burn my (old) credit cards for fuel". (Old, old, Neil Young reference there. Anyone here know which song, besides me?)
**** Sometimes, the first responder is the patient himself, who becomes responsive, gets up and says "fuck this sheeet, homies. I'm gonna get outta here fore the popo finds out how many shots I done took first!"
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Football is Ghey.
Posted On: Monday - June 28th 2021 6:50PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Humor Bread and Circuses
We just report. You decide.
Pssst ... guy, spellcheck is your friend. I've always seen it spelled "ghey" when used in this manner.
Hey, Peak Stupidity didn't say it. It's on the internet, from a guy named TMZ*, I swear!
I see from the tweet in question that we are down to last 2 days left of Pride Month. Who knew? We have been remiss here at Peak Stupidity in having not professed our pride for our excellent web site. We are here, we're out of the server closet, we're PROUD, and we're not going to let anyone shame us for what we do here, which is anything and everything ... besides screwing a guy in the ass.
Now as to sportsball itself, the gridiron version, this new statement is hilarious to me for another reason. Used to be, arguably 10 years ago, that any football fan, not to mention a player, would slug you for saying what's in that meme. Now, what could he do about it? I'd have the full woke Establishment behind me ... uh oh... wait ...
PS: I see that Steve Sailer just put up a post on this. I did not get it from there though - been perusing Instapundit more lately.
* I don't know who he is and what that stands for. I'm not interested in finding out either.
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Cancel the riot! It was just a White guy.
Posted On: Monday - June 28th 2021 1:15PM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics ctrl-left Anarcho-tyranny
This story out of Portland, Oregon* is a great example for us of the Anarcho-Tyranny that White Americans (especially male) are living under the bad side of. Some of us understand, and some of us are so used to it they may not even realize what it is. A young White man, say under 25 y/o, may not know there can be any other way but to be seen as the worst scum of the nation, based on his
This story is about a police shooting and killing of a White man. The White man is alleged to have come at the cops with a screwdriver, sure enough a weapon, but I read that he was shot while running away though. Is it worse than George Floyd's treatment? I'd say yes, but then as with that highly-policized, but not so highly-actually-reported case, I don't know enough to say.
It's really something to see this Anarcho-tyranny blatantly displayed by the "authorities", the media, and the ctrl-left alike. The tweet above shows that the cops are down with this anarcho-tyranny, or at least simply don't care to make any fuss about it. It is engrained in the Lyin' Press, of course, and the ctrl-left is the source of it. The Commie antifa young assholes in Portland are obviously not that concerned with police killing attempted arrestees. They are only ready to riot when this happens to a Black man, though Oriental and Hispanic will do on a rainy day (most of them there).
The courageous "Paul Kersey" has a very good take on this story in White Lives Don't Matter—To Avert Riot, Portland PD Tells BLM/Antifa Terrorists They Shot A White Man. Often his posts on The Unz Review are repetitive with nothing very much new to say**, but his is one of his good ones - here is the same article, but with comments***, on the unz site.
Stories like this ought to wake a few more people up. The ctrl-left is using black violence and dysfunction to help in their goal of destroying traditional America. They know they won't get any help from their useful thugs, if no poor, poor, pitiful 6 ft 4. black guys have been "abused". They not only won't get help in their destruction, but they call the whole thing off if it is a White guy. These "anti-fascists" are not the Constitutionalists that one may see bravely standing up to police abuse of authority. They want anarchy and destruction. This sounds eerily familiar. Weren't there people like this crawling out of the woodwork about a century ago?
Finally, I'm sure one may hear the argument that "well, this is only payback for what would have happened with the races reversed in the old South." Nah, that is wrong for a number of reasons:
1) In the old South, when blacks killed each other, true, as long as nobody was unluckily hurt in the usually excessive cross-fire, nobody cared. Sure, but that's the same as right now in inner city ghettos all over America. The people involved aren't worth caring about.
2) In the old South, it would have been black people rioting on behalf of black people killed by White police. Here, we have White people rioting ONLY on behalf of black people killed by White police. You need both a dead black person AND a White cop. They are necessary conditions.
3) Do we really want more "pay back" for the alleged sins of the fathers? I thought Affirmative Action was for that. None of this makes for harmonious race relations.
Anyway, Portland antifa, you can go back to the coffee shops, collect your upgraded extended unemployment and take a breather today. There's nothing to see here - it was just a White guy.
* It's not the first one either of this very same thing happening, but I hadn't read enough on that other story to make a post.
** I don't blame him for this though. What he is trying to do is to drill in that this black violence and inability to assimilate to White norms is a regular thing. People get hurt every day, lives have been upended, and more generally, we can't live like we'd like to.
*** I have not had good luck with his moderation policy as of late, so I'll not comment there anytime soon. None of it was off-the-wall or too out of bounds - I think the guy just doesn't feel he wants certain specific comments that he's not interested in on there. That's just too "whimmy" for me.
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Gerry Rafferty - Island
Posted On: Saturday - June 26th 2021 5:55PM MST
In Topics: Music
From the OTHER Gerry (who spells it with a "G" instead of a "J"), we have another favorite of mine.
Gerry Rafferty's 1978 album City to City made it to the #1 spot on the US Billboard rock/pop chart. Peak Stupidity has featured one or two of the songs from this 10-track masterpiece before. There were 3 singles released from the album, Baker Street (of course!), Right Down the Line, and Home and Dry.
If any one album ever deserved to be #1 on the charts (and sell 5 1/2 million copies), City to City has got to be it. It's one thing to have an album with no bad songs on it. This one doesn't just have all good songs - it has all GREAT songs. IMO, City to City is the best pop album of all time, and Gerry Rafferty had the best voice of any pop male vocalist EVER! ("IMO" means In My Opinion, keep in mind.)
Gerry's smooth voice is really featured in Island, track 9. Additionally, Raphael Ravenscroft, who played the most recognizable saxophone solo in all, or at least, pop music, on Baker Street also played on this one. I like Gary Taylor's bass guitar on it too.
Have a happy Sunday, Peakers! As always we thank you for reading.
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We need to talk about Kevin - book v movie
Posted On: Friday - June 25th 2021 8:47PM MST
In Topics: Movies Books
This is not a movie review. After all, Peak Stupidity already reviewed the Lionel Shriver novel We need to talk about Kevin. I had to get that movie after reading this riveting novel.
Of course, this movie could not be just like the book. The book consisted of letters from the narrator/Mom to her ex-husband. In making a couple of hours length movie, you've got to leave out a lot of happenings from the book. There are lots of events from the book that could have made the story in the movie more clear.
Since I read the book first, I already knew the story, to it's hard for me to tell whether the movie really tells the story well. I think so.
Even in regular movie reviews, Peak Stupidity doesn't go for all that criticism or praise of the lighting, the effects, the casting, etc. I'm no movie buff in that sense. If it's good, it's good, if not, it's not, no matter what prima donna stars and starlets are in it. However, the producers of We need to talk about Kevin really made a good pick with the lady who plays the Mom. She is just what I would have expected from my visualizations while reading! I wouldn't say the same about the Dad, but maybe the "excitable boy" too.
It worked out pretty well for me to read the novel first, then watch the movie. Just for entertainment's sake, I recommend either one.
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Zhou Bai Dien explains his solution for increased black murdering
Posted On: Friday - June 25th 2021 3:13PM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics Zhou Bai Dien Guns
Blogger Steve Sailer has done a great job in informing me, and I'm sure plenty of others, of this significant escalation in black violence since the "Summer of George" with numbers and graphs. (Nice Seinfeld reference too by Mr. Sailer.) One could legitimately argue over whether the change for the worse occurred due to the LOCKDOWNs and free money given out or the lack of policing per the specific wishes of the black community and as self-imposed by cops that are tired of appearing in viral videos or a combination of all that.
Here's what one can't argue with, if one seeks more news than just the narrative of the Lyin' Press, or simply keeps one's eyes open: Besides a few high-profile ones featured by the Lyin' Press, these shootings are perpetrated by black men. There is an increase in that type of shooting, with the rounds hitting people all over the party or block, and an occasional hit on the target. These are usually just targets of impulsive black rage, a guy who stared at another guy too hard, or maybe a screwed-up fried chicken order, I dunno.
One could come up with the usual solutions* under the assumption that American society has just not done enough to lift these black people out of their sorry state, as it's all cultural and poor nurturing, right? That's not whom we are and we could do better. Alternatively, one could face reality finally tell the truth, that these people are genetically low IQ and genetically prone to violence. The author Charles Murray just wrote a book explaining that, in fact (with not very good of a solution either, as some readers of the book have noted - briefly discussed in this post of ours.)
The normal M.O. here in America is for everyone to go along with the first idea. Of course, the Blue-squad wants to spend more money on the solutions, while the Red-squad wants to spend less money than the Blue-squad. Nobody is up for truth-telling and solutions based on said truth. Wouldn't be prudent, as the man said.
For this post, I'm going by what Steve Sailer excerpted here with a hell of a good one paragraph dismissal of said stupidity. Yeah, I get news from blogs often, at least ones I trust. However, the much larger transcript of what I couldn't stomach listening to, along with something similar from a few months back, is something I'd like to fisk separately. It's evil stuff out of these people, which I'll get to next time, but I have a different point today.
It's getting harder and harder for the ctrl-left, including Biden and his handlers, to stick with the narrative. I would say that from 1968, the year of the start of serious gun control**, till the early 1990s, there were intelligent people, not principled Americans, but intelligent do-gooders who honestly wanted to regulate/tax/ban various gun for safety reasons. I will give the NRA and millions of American voters and activists credit for not only thwarting the ban of all guns by this point, but also learning and teaching others the error in the logic of those do-gooders. The great increase and improvement of concealed carry laws (see our review here) is one thing. There have been many others. Things really turned around by the mid 1990s.
More importantly, the general public has long ago learned that the story about gun control being for "our safety" is bullshit. That narrative has been given up by the Red-squad politicians and many Blue-squad ones, who want to be elected. The Lyin' Press has been still on it, by showing story after story of
It's becoming more and more obvious to the "deplorable" patriotic Americans that the ctrl-left's push for gun control is completely about Totalitarianism now. They DO NOT WANT US TO BE ABLE TO FIGHT BACK when they come down on us with the full load of it. They were supposed to have taken care of this long ago, per the (I dunno) Frankfurt School's lesson plan.
So, here's the President and Commander-by-Cheat, Joe Biden explaining:
Background checks for purchasing a firearm are important; a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines — no one needs to have a weapon that can fire over 30, 40, 50, even up to 100 rounds unless you think the deer are wearing Kevlar vests or something.See, now, if he didn't screw up his line here, someone really screwed up with this. We're talking rifles here. We all know that this escalation in violent crime is not about Connor dissing Tyler about all the dandelions in his yard during a barbecue in the burbs and Tyler coming out with his 30.06 shooting up the gated community They'd have been better off keeping with the "illegal" handguns narrative.
Then, this deer donning kevlar remark really has me miffed. He could have brought up .50 caliber rounds and lied about lower calibers. "You just need your shotgun." What does the kevlar vest have to do with a larger number of rounds? Without a good shot, this deer would not stay put for even 1 more shot, or is the point that a hunter would knock the vest-wearing deer down with the first shot and run over to kill him with all the capacity of his 50-round mag after that? Biden screwed up and brought up the wrong tripe here. Leave out the kevlar vest, and it least makes sense.
Regarding his remark about F-15s not allowed to be in the hands of any of us peons or a militia. I could go on about Amendment II and that the F-15 is an interceptor, rather than a ground attack aircraft. I'll leave this one to Mr. Anon. From his comment on that iSteve thread here:
The answer is probably "yes". Thank you, Mr. Anon.In other comments Biden said we’d need F-15s and nukes to defend ourselves against the U.S. Federal GovCo.Yeah, right, small arms are no good for fighting the U.S. Government you peons – we have F-15s and W-88 nuclear warheads – but on January 6th, a bunch of unarmed flyover-country HVAC technicians, insurance salesmen, and grandmas, led by an internet shaman in a buffalo headress, constituted an “insurrection” that was a threat to the Republic!
Suffering from a little narrative-confusion there, senile old Joe?
PS: Site note: I finally added the Guns topic key back this February. I hesitate so long on these because I know I'll have to go back through 1960 posts and add these new ones. I will do that in a week of couple of hours a day, with a list of the newer ones in mind.
As the reader may well know, Peak Stupidity has had plenty of posts on guns. Except for 3 with the "Guns" key, they presently have the Liberty/Libertarianism, US Feral Government, or US Police State topic keys, at least.
* Fred Reed has written a couple of very decent columns recently. This last, Blackness Fatigue: Enough Is Too Much explains the current American racial nightmare pretty well, with, well, absolutely no solutions prescribed, which is his thing.
** Arguably, one could bring up the law in 1934, passed 87 years ago tomorrow.
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Chinese Immigration NON-Stupidity
Posted On: Thursday - June 24th 2021 8:03PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity China
This one is a cut-and-paste job. It's not even a normal cut-and-paste job, as I'm getting this one from Peak Stupidity itself. In this post about that Josh Rogin China/Trump book, I'd mentioned an anecdote coming in a footnote. What the footnote was about was this: "As evil as the governments of the Middle Kingdom have been to their countrymen, they still want to keep the same countrymen at least, and they make a big effort to control who lives there."
I found out that I'd related this story on Peak Stupidity already. It was in our post Banned in Beijing ..., but not at all related to that post itself. That post is from over 4 years ago, so likely all readers here have not read this one. Here:
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This is hardly related at all, except my friend's date in the south of China was named Shuping (that's the family name - first name was "Sweetie" or something). Anyway, I was in a hurry to meet them both before 2:30P on the "mainland" side of the border with Macao a few years back, as I would not know where to meet up with the bus to Canton, were I to be late. I just missed getting in front of the immigration man, when a Moslem guy (with crescent moon on his green passport) got back in front of me to finish. Let me tell you, this immigration guy was absolutely not screwing around or being PC by treating everyone the same. He went through every page on this guy's passport with a magnifying glass, back and forth at least twice. 10-15 minutes went by. Well, I got my turn finally, and it took about 30 seconds. Though worried even more about making it in time into the country, I pointed at the guy, said "Moslem?" and gave that immigration guy a big thumbs up. He smiled back.
Luckily my friend meant AFTER 2:30P, not BEFORE, as I looked frantically for gui lao (foreigners, literally "white ghosts") all around the sea of Chinapeople on the other side. Good times, good times, ... and we should import immigration zealots like that Chinese gentleman at the Zhuhai/Macau border, rather than vapid psychology students.
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Now, that's a real country, taking seriously who comes in, who comes out, and WHEN they do. They have what's called "exit control", marking people as leaving. This allows them to be sure when people overstay their time limit in China. I know we didn't have a good system like China's on exit control, and I don't even know if we do now. See, that, a decent southern border barrier, and a moratorium on legal immigration are what I'd called a very good start on "Comprehensive Immigration Control". For the traitors like Texas Senator John Cornyn, that term means Amnesty. "Mister we could use a man like Xi Jinping
PS: Interestingly enough, that 4 y/o post had discussion of face masks in it. This was not about diseases though, but just the smog in the big Chinese cities. I've seen this myself, but it was a while back. According to a commenter on The Unz Review the girls are still holding umbrellas walking around in the sunshine. That was always pretty charming.
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One of Steve Sailer's best
Posted On: Wednesday - June 23rd 2021 7:34AM MST
In Topics: US Police State Pundits Media Stupidity
We on here, I and the regular commenters anyway, have had our BIG differences fairly recently with blogger-pundit Steve Sailer on Kung Fu PanicFest. I've written him some things that likely pissed him off a good bit, and some have bailed out on that blog (Mr. Hail, for example). Well, I don't insult people just for the hell of it, but that year-ago fixation and semi-hysteria on Mr. Sailer's blog was too much. I have a problem with "crises" being used as excuses for more implementation of the US Feral Gov't's Police State, and, IMO, Mr. Sailer fell right for that shit. Being the media-savvy and media-cynical guy he is, I'd have thought he could see through all that.
That's about over though, not for the country, Police State-wise, but at least for that blog. I have been reading regularly and commenting. When Steve Sailer gets fixated on a subject, he goes all out. Lately one of these fixations are on the black crime numbers (in addition to, more recently, the black traffic fatality numbers), their having increased significantly since the BLM insurrections. (Can I call them that?) The numbers are being noticed by the Lyin' Press. However, the obvious cause, the BLM stuff, defunding of police departments, and the increase in police donut-shop time (I can't blame them) due to fear of going viral is never mentioned or lied about.
The press is putting the increase in violence on the pandemic. I see possible cause and effect here, as black guys are much more affected by the Idle Hands are the Devil's Workshop thing. Then there was the huge extra amount of unemployment money given out. (See, they don't steal a loaf of bread because they are out of money - they steal a smartphone when they've been given money and have idle time.) OK, fine, but a) the Lyin' Press won't explain it like this and b) as Mr. Sailer has shown, the violence increase doesn't fit that timeline, and c) his explanation explains this violent crime surge better and it would add to the pandemic explanation. The Lyin' Press will always put the blame on White people. In the case pointed to below, it's that the White people haven't doled them enough State and Federal funds and "it's the guns!"
Wheww, I was really just writing this to to praise Steve Sailer for his recent post Mayors Respond to the Murder Surge: We've Tried Nothing and We're All Out of Ideas!. Not only did Mr. Sailer show us the crime wave and timeline in graphs and explain things very well in numerous posts, but, in this one, he calls out with appropriate snark the stupidity of Washington Post writers Griff Witte and Mark Berman on their long-winded bullshit explanation. As a bonus, Steve Sailer has a great title and a Simpsons clip to go along with it.
I'll still be reading the iSteve blog, with the excellent posts like that one.
PS: Ah rats, after all that, I just noticed the very last line (above the video clip):
Sorry, but the alternative to the state having a monopoly on violence is not after-school activities for youngsters, but nobody having a monopoly on violence and thus lots more violence.I can't be sure if that's snark or not, but if you look just above it, you'd think it's not. However, then it doesn't make so much sense. Does he want the police to have a monopoly on violence? How far does that go? It's almost if, with the anarcho-tyranny in place and lack of an enforced Constitution, a White Man can't legally defend his family or have freedom of association, so, I guess, yeah, we're gonna need a police monopoly.
Well, this guy has never been a principled Constitutionalist, so you've got to get through remarks like that.
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Nothing but disgust
Posted On: Monday - June 21st 2021 7:40PM MST
In Topics: US Feral Government Race/Genetics
(Image off of VDare)
That's Peak Stupidity's feeling after not just hearing about this Juneteenth holiday bill being passed, but additionally by how many votes. I could go on about the cowardice of many of the American people, tempered with the thought that, yes, you often put your status in the neighborhood and even career on the line. However, the disgust in this post if for our supposed representatives and the elite Senators in the Feral Government.
VDare's always on-the-money Washington Watcher II gave us the sad disgusting story of the votes of these cucks in his pre-Juneteenth article GOP (With Brave Exceptions Like Rep. Matt Rosendale) Rolls Over For Anti-White Juneteenth Scam. The voting was sickening: Unanimous yea's, or at least no nays in the Senate and 14 nays in the House.* Though he helped encourage this whole piece of bullshit, Zhou Bai Dien himself didn't have to be a factor. Even the severely math challenged can see that this one would override a veto.
A commenter on the Unz Review argued to me that this was not cowardice but just the normal purposeful destruction of America by these guys. I don't buy it for most of the R's, at least those in the House. They will vote for the destructive wars, the immigration invasion, and the corporate welfare ("invade the world, invite the world, in hoc to the world", in Steve Sailer parlance). They have donors to please, of course. The voters come 2nd or lower. In my mind though, many of these guys are not out for the purposeful cultural destruction that the ctrl-left, of which the D squad is almost completely comprised, is.
These Senators and Reps must know that they have so many constituents seething with hatred for their cowardice, but then, that's not as bad as being called names. No, of course not!
The whole thing disgusted me so much, I didn't feel like even writing about it before. Here are the 14 Congressmen who voted nay:
Matt Rosendale(MT)
Andy Biggs (AZ)
Mo Brooks (AL)
Andrew Clyde (GA)
Scott DesJarlais (TN)
Paul Gosar (AZ)
Ronny Jackson (TX)
Doug LaMalfa (CA)
Thomas Massie (KY)
Tom McClintock (CA)
Ralph Norman (SC)
Mike Rogers (AL)
Chip Roy (TX)
Tom Tiffany (WI)
All Red squad - should we congratulate them? What's the point?
* I am not sure how many abstentions there were in each body. That's a cop-out anyway. "Yeah, my alternator broke, and I missed my flight. I missed the vote by THIS MUCH. Yeah, CPAC audience, I had my nay vote in my hand even, yeah, that's the ticket."
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