Waitresses to wear doggie cones? - Governor Mills' orders
Posted On: Thursday - August 27th 2020 8:25PM MST
In Topics: US Police State Kung Flu Stupidity
Thanks go to illustrious commenter Adam Smith for the picture below, from a tweet, about what medical doctor Sherri Tenpenny (formerly Dr. Sherri Penny, but for Inflation) has called "peak insanity". We beg to differ, but maybe it's a fine line between high stupidity and insanity.
The photo in the tweet is a photoshop, but the order about the wearing of doggie-injury-style inverted lampshade by Maine Governor Janet Mills* is not. It's a sort of cruel and unusual punishment she seems to think she has the power to dole out to those who won't wear face masks. It may be breathing problems with one of those infernal things adding resistance to your air flow, as per one of our commenters**, that is the reason for a waiter or waitress not wanting to wear a mask. It could be as with someone like me, his just not wanting to take part in the stupidity.
Perhaps patrons of a restaurant could decide for themselves whether they are comfortable having food and drinks served by someone without her face diaper on. Then, the boss of the establishment could make his own rule accordingly.
That's not current-era American thinking, however. If you don't want to wear a face mask, the Maine Governor, ruling during this long-trending emergency, says, no, you can't even wear one of those shields (looks like a lightweight welder's shield without the deep tinting). The breath you exhale would go downward, into the food, she says, so you must wear the doggie inverted lampshade.
The last paragraph of The Post Millennial article describing this insanity says:
Maine has only sustained 131 COVID-19 related fatalities to date with the majority in Cumberland County, where the state's most populous city, Portland, resides.For 131 deaths WITH the Kung Flu, Maine's Governor Mills says waiters and waitresses must be treated like dogs.
I don't know who I would feel sorrier for, the family cat or dog with one of these cones on, or a human in Maine. You wonder if your pet is aware enough to be very sad, thinking "hey, I've got to live with this stupid thing forever. I can't scratch, or eat right. This is gonna suck." He can't understand when you tell him that you'll take if off as soon as that wound heals up. On the other hand, the indignity inherent in a sentient human being having to wear one is very sad in its own way.
* Governor Mills of Maine and Governor Whitmer of Michigan seem to have some totalitarian tendencies in common. Maybe they should get together for some Totalitarian Ted Talks or something.
** I tried to find the comment but couldn't for the life of me. Please chime in again.
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OMG! Pro Sports Boycott!
Posted On: Wednesday - August 26th 2020 8:48PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Race/Genetics ctrl-left Bread and Circuses
Hell, I didn't know if they were playing or not anyway. Even before the Kung Flu Infotainment Panic-fest, I haven't known who was playing whom for the last 10 years. This is about something someone did somewhere to some black guy, isn't it?
If the cut-off of the Circuses part of the Bread & Circuses (with the "Bread" part taking a pretty big hit lately too) wasn't enough to turn regular Americans off the sportsball, perhaps this boycott is.
Look fans, the owners, the TV people who make lots of money off of it, and most of the players themselves are telling you that they actively hate your kind. It's bad enough you are rooting for mostly thugs who you wouldn't want anywhere near your family unless you are King of the Cucks. Now, they are siding with the 1/2* of the people who are in the process of destroying the inner cities, OK, what's left of them, of America. Really, you want to keep supporting this shit.
On my end, the TV has not been getting signals to it from other than the DVD player with movies I select for decades now. None of this concerns me in any way. If nothing else, at least the money to be saved by turning off those huge floodlights is coming out of my pocket in some way.
Americans ought to think about sports as being something you get out and PLAY, not something to veg out on the couch and watch. Could that be changed by the Kung Flu LOCKDOWNS and this scary boycott by your favorite thugs? We can hope.
Just END IT, already!
* The other 1/2 being the Commie antifa.
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I know you rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone ...
Posted On: Wednesday - August 26th 2020 7:55PM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity Music The Dead Peak Stupidity Roadshow
... that is not quite the case today, for our Uber ride to the beach. The Uber drivers must be drilled like hell from their corporate Uber-menschen ("but, but, wait, we are mere contractors") on the Kung Flu hysteria. Two different drivers were wearing masks - I wish I could have seen them drive up, but it was the usual "well the GPS says you are supposed to be here...".
Riders are not allowed in the front seats, so we had to squish in pretty tight, without masks, cause, like, whaddya' gonna do, kick us out? Your stupid ass drove 10 miles to get us, brought us 12 miles, then had to go 10 miles home. With that traffic it was probably about an hour, so that 16 bucks, minus Uber's 25%(?) cut, you are spinning your wheels to begin with.*. On the other hand, I suppose you could tell Uber we weren't masked up, and they'd have to take the driver's side - zero tolerance RULES!
I guess I think "stupid ass" of this lady just from her politics. Oh, yeah, someone "went there", and not me either. It escalated fairly quickly, as, badmouthing Trump is one thing (we all have our beefs with him). However, when I mentioned that, "well, Joe Biden is gonna die soon, and that Camel Toe hates all White people", the lady noted "well, I hate all White people!" Did I mention she was White? OK, this was getting nasty in a hurry.
Let me go back, way back, ~ 30 years, to when I was hitchhiking around parts of Ireland. I had to, because the trains would only go certain places, and we didn't have the money for driving back then (restaurants were out of the question, so my diet for over a week was, baguettes of bread, cheddar cheese, Guinness, and Cadbury bars) I was with a Swedish girl, but not "with her" so to speak, but just travel companions for a few days. (No, she wasn't that hot, if this is what you have in your head.)
At this one place we couldn't get a ride for 4 hours. We hung out in the light rain, and finally a Saab pulled up with, well a yuppie guy, as you'd figure. As we conversed, the talk turned to politics somehow. The Swedish woman, as you'd also figure, was a flaming leftist. I doubted this guy giving us a ride for 50 miles (excuse me, 80 kilometers, excuse me, kilometres) was any kind of lefty. Well it got to apartheid in S. Africa, and luckily the talk just stopped cold. I wasn't like that back then, but now I would have said out loud "hey, the guy's giving us a free ride - don't piss him off!" Maybe I did have thoughts about getting into her pants, hence the silence out of me.
You just don't piss off the driver, or you end up needing another ride. Regarding our Uber ride, well we were paying for this ride, but were things the opposite, the result would be my telling the riders to "just get the hell out right here." Now, I thought this lady a complete idiot after her statement and wished she somehow wouldn't have the right to vote again - maybe she'll commit a felony (not on our ride, hopefully!) - but, from my experience, it was time to stop this. "You don't talk politics when getting a ride", I simply said, and everyone agreed.
The lady turned out to be pretty nice. Who knew? However, when I think back on the political stupidity of people who are voting here, I lose hope. No, I won't miss her now that I'm gone.
If you are a Dead Head, you know that I Know You Rider is always preceded by China Cat Sunflower, but for newer listeners, this version from the Europe '72 2-record live album is a great first version to listen to.
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I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone.
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone.
Gonna miss your baby, from rolling in your arms.
Laid down last night, Lord, I could not take my rest.
Laid down last night, Lord, I could not take my rest.
My mind was wandering like the wild geese in the west.
The sun will shine in my back door someday.
The sun will shine in my back door someday.
March winds will blow all my troubles away.
I wish I was a headlight, on a north bound train.
I wish I was a headlight, on a north bound train.
I'd shine my light through cool Colorado rain.
This song was not written by The Dead or anyone associated. It's another one they played that was a traditional number, going back at least a century.
* Yeah, I need to do an economics post about this Uber/Lyft thing.
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Unitarian Stupidity - it's how they roll at the UU - Part 2
Posted On: Tuesday - August 25th 2020 8:44PM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity Student and other Snowflakes Bible/Religion
What has now become Part 1 is a long ago post regarding the Unitarian Church's virtual signalling displays of BLM and Pro-immigration-invasion. That was almost 3 years ago, during an earlier round of the BLM BS.
The UU Church's main dogma is that there are one or fewer gods, and that's about it. Many of the members, undoubtedly Mary Moon* being one, believe in Karma. I think some of that not-so-instant karma, but within the standards of modern day court justice karma, has come down on the Kenosha Unitarian Church:
This is kind of a cheesey sign, this plastic type, for any church, because this UU one
I had read Mr. Steve Sailer's post on unz.com, Wisconsin Governor Urges, in Effect, Blacks to Riot, but only just looked at a 7 second tweet on VDare, here. Mr. Sailer has always been a bit too pro-cops in his writing for me, but there are 2 sides to every story that should be listened to before the rioting is to start.
I don't know about the Commie antifa crowd that has been driving from all over to help start and continue the rioting in many American cities, but the black looters ought to like these Unitarian supporters. They are down with you homies - they've got big signs on the church where I live, and note the letters on the plastic sign in the picture above. The other night though... dayum, nigga, look at that sheeet!
Gotta be tolerant, brothers. The Unitarians out-tolerate all other Churches around. Fires, pssshaaaw, it's Social Justice, man. Gotta tolerate those BLMers and those Commies. We can rebuild the sign - we have the stupidity. That's how we roll at the UU.
* Yeah, I put the song in that previous post, and I know it's not "She's a Unitarian" but "She's a vegetarian" in the lyrics, but that's how I hear it - it's just as good.
** I wanted to check it out, and maps.bing.com got me a nice aerial, then this street view from July of '19. This is not any cheesy strip-mall church. It looks very nice, especially when unburnt. (OK, the fire only got the sign and cars in the parking lot, as far as I know.) The sign is not in this picture, so, I don't know... talk to the sign committee. Was that BLM message put up there to keep insurance premiums low?
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Lost & Found - "customer care"
Posted On: Tuesday - August 25th 2020 1:09PM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Big-Biz Stupidity Scams Customer Care
It's time for another Peak Stupidity "customer care" story. It's been a while, and this one is a doozy, really more like a scam than just a customer service failure.
In our post Thank you, TSA guy! of a week and a half ago, derived from a family road trip, I noted that we had lost something, which was related to what slowed us down at the TSA. Part of it was somewhat important, and I was sure I'd left it in, around, or under the rent-a-car that we returned, as we were in a big hurry there. While getting on the plane I used some of their internet to figure out how we'd reach these people.
As usual, they made it impossible to call them, at least per the web site. That is the thing now - nobody wants a phone call. The young people don't even know how to use it properly as a telephone anymore. I found that there was a web page for lost items and went through the whole semi-frustrating thing. (You always get stuck on something or other.) OK, fine, but, as I've written before, doing everything electronically gives me absolutely no confidence that any live human being even knows or is thinking, or ever will know or think, about this lost item! How would I ever know?
We've all been through something like this, and one thing (which deserves its own post) you learn is that it's best to try to find something right away. Even with honest people - and in this case, it was nothing but 3rd world immigrants (they were very nice, I'll admit, but who knows about 'em?) - someone may hold your item for you, but the chain of custody can get longer than the chain of communications.
Therefore, I was happy to find a local area code phone number of the rent-a-car location. That had to wait until I got back, that night. I laid in the bed, not expecting to get a live person right off the bat, but maybe soon... maybe ... With my obstinate policy of not talking to computers, I went through some button-mashing sequences. No, "0" right away hangs up, OK, try to get through this one, OK got "lost and found", excellent, should be someone answering... nope, more menu options ... "listen, as our menu options have changed", that last thing being a scam of its own...
Within the lost and found menu, I tried every sequence I could find but it wanted you to listen to what was an ad, AARP discounts, something like that. There was no way around that. OK, I gotta get a person, so I went through that ad and found out there was another after it. Keep in mind that during these trials, I hung up, or got hung up on (for mashing "0"), many times in my experimentation. I was resigned to listening to now a 3rd ad, as one had to get through them to get anywhere. Here's where you get - it hangs up on you after that 3rd ad!
Man, I was pissed. Not only could you not get a live person at all, I'd wasted 1/2 an hour, and got suckered into listening to 3 advertisements in order to TRY to get to a live person. It's just plain a scam. (In case you are wondering, this was definitely the rent-a-car company's voice system, as I got to the front end each time, and then their lost and found option.)
Oh, the item was deep in my luggage, I found out the next day sometime when I rummaged through it better. That doesn't let these marketing bastards off the hook. Now relieved to have my belonging back, I just have to put up with auto-emails from the company daily that tell me that, yes, the lost-and-found computer program knows that I lost it, but does not know where it is. I can't figure out how to stop these emails so far, unless I tell the computer I found the item. I will not give it the satisfaction - haha, like there's anybody to care!
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Christianity - Living for the next world, but what about this one? - Part 3
Posted On: Monday - August 24th 2020 1:09PM MST
In Topics: Bible/Religion
(continued from Part 1 and Part 2.)
In Part 2 we left off with discussion of the large-scale stupidity of the huge emphasis on forgiveness and tolerance over other aspects of religion that is part of the dogma now of the large Christian denominations. Even many of the evangelical Mega-Churches have this same stupidity.
This post will start off with the small-scale effect, which is back to where this started, with the flat-out execution of one little white boy, and the trauma done to another from hateful black thugs. (Note that this would not need to be written about here were these 2 in a decade happenings, but things as bad as this happen much more often than that.) In the Hoffman parents' case, since little Landen has recovered amazingly, it's not a murder. What I'll write about here doesn't apply to them exactly, but I'm sure during that long period when their boy was in critical condition, getting this surgery, this other procedure, and with their worries about what the permanent function of his body would be like, they had some of these thoughts.
I will also mention an adult (as much as a college student today is, anyway) named Seth Smith, a very bright, promising Cal Berkeley student murdered in that town. The latest post and commentary is in Steve Sailer's Seth Smith, Seth Rich, Nobody Much Cares When Seths Get Murdered.*
What's a parent to do when something as terrible as the murder of their child happens? It's the biggest sorrow most can imagine, and turning to religion or something resembling that is the usual, best course. For a Christian, the way to abate the sorrow and hate is to slowly try to forgive. "Forgive thine enemy" is all over the New Testament (per this site, at least 100 times). I do not think that most of the people that forgive these evil non-white thugs that are not all, but most of the problem, are doing it for virtue signaling reasons either. It is the way forward, and the thoughts of this being the way to best enter the next world are the only hope and joy left.
Failing that, the neutral course of thought is to simply trust in the legal system to give justice and "closure". Nowadays, this is a very long process, becoming a big portion of these parents/siblings/friends' lives. There is a significant chance that justice won't be served either. You can also spend a portion of the rest of your life working for a cause to help avoid the fate of your child for other parents. That is often a good thing, doing the best you can for this world.
However, because of the stupidity of political correctness, the efforts spent do improve this world often do nothing but distract or even cause more destruction of this world. "Integrate the schools, more midnight basketball, give 'em more of our stuff!" and "It was the gun! It's those guns! Take 'em away from everyone!" come to mind, respectively.
Lastly, and partly because we don't have the justice system of the 1950s, vengeance served cold is probably in the thoughts of ALL of these parents. For some, it's only occasionally, when the despair gets too heavy. For others that may be their thoughts from the time it happened, and for some, in the back of their minds. The problem with this latter thing is that most religious people of today's world are pretty sure this behavior will not help them in the next world.
Per the information from the commenters under the article about the young man murdered in Berkeley, CA, Seth Smith, his Mom not only was one of these BLM supporter types, but SHE STILL IS. The suspect, 60 y/o Tony Walker, has a long rap sheet**, and he is a black man, as might be expected. This Mom just lost her bright, promising son, and yet her response is to tweet out more about evil white people and Trump. Just double down, I guess, if that makes you feel any better. I guess it must, and when you think about it, the SJW stuff is her religion, so she's on the same road as others. Only thing is her religion is a load of crap.
Peak Stupidity related another sad news story of the loss of a daughter (in this case) to a murder by an illegal alien - Mollie Tibbetts murder - no regrets?. In this case, it was the Dad I wrote about. He wasn't a kook like the BLM Mom of Seth Smith, but still could not dispute the narrative about the illegal aliens being "good Iowans". This was after his daughter had been raped and killed, mind you. This Dad was called brave for his stance, but, as we noted, some real bravery would be standing up and calling out the immigration stupidity. Oh, but he'd be called names!! What does it matter after something like that?
Perhaps that's a way for a parent to cope with this - stand up and call out the bullshit, LOUDLY. Your life will never be the same anyway, so why not go all out? You can still forgive the individual, if that's possible, and hate the sin, not the sinner. Where the sins happened are perhaps just not so simple. They go back to people that enable these things to happen in our country.
I pray that I never get a chance to ever find out how I would handle something like this.
There was to be a good wrap-up of this, more related back to the big picture. That'll be in the last post on this.
* If you search around in Mr. Sailer's archives, based on the date of this murder or shortly afterwards, you'll find more on this story.
** See some fairly unbiased reporting in this Berkeleyside article. The comments are amazingly not very woke at all.
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Do I look like a Daddy to you?
Posted On: Saturday - August 22nd 2020 8:29PM MST
In Topics: Music
I'd really wanted to finish the last part of the discussion about "Living for the next world, but how about this world." I think I am not up for it right now, so it's time for some good music if nothing else.
Here is some old Don Williams country music. He wasn't as famous at the other Williams and his son, but Don Williams wrote and sang some good tunes. This was from back in the time before country music went seriously downhill. That could be arguable the end of the 1970s but there were still some good artists in the early 1990s.
Don Williams was even in a movie, as a bit cameo part in Smokey and the Bandit - II*. Mr. Jerry Reed, who plays the trucker with the handle "Snowman", is a country singer himself, and he tells Mr. Williams "you're my 2nd favorite country singer."
Rake and Ramblin' Man was not written by Mr. Williams, but by Bob McDill. Off of his 1977 album Country Boy, this is my favorite Don Williams song.
* Sequels are hardly ever as good as the originals, and Smokey and the Bandit itself was not exactly a world-renowned film.
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Scenes from the Kung Flu Summer re-Panic - Part 11
Posted On: Saturday - August 22nd 2020 4:22PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Kung Flu Stupidity
(If she'd had a butt like this I think I'd have put a mask on and enjoyed the view.)
There are a dozen or more posts on the front burner here at Peak Stupidity, all with their specific cooking times as determined by the smoke alarm, and I thought it would be another week before the next "Scenes from the Kung Flu Summer re-Panic".
But no, the only reason, I mean, the only reason I'm here writing this post today [/Arlo Guthrie] is that I just had to leave the gym for a while this morning due to my first Becky encounter, and it was completely due to the Kung Flu re-Panic. My schedule allowed time for writing later, but I had this time, 20 minutes forced on me, as I must wait for this hysterical lady to finish her workout on a (nice, Precor with the best console!) treadmill.
I would not have believed it, if this woman had not apparently opened her mouth. I say "apparently" as she had one of those thick black masks on. I just got started on the bicycle machine (Precor P60-series, baby!) 12 ft away from the lady. I mean this is as far as I could get from her, though that was not my thought anyway - it was just the only recumbent bike machine. I had spent a couple of minutes finding the remote, getting it to work, then turning off the TV. Then I got 2 minutes in on the bike, with my heart rate coming up a tad, when this 55 y/o or so white lady told me I need to wear a mask... while working out!
OK, the ceiling in this room is way high, and there's loads of air flow with it opened up to another room. I told her about the 12 ft away part. I told her I need air flow to exercise, starting off nice about it, but this hysterical broad was telling me there are still germs floating around. Before I walked in, a guy with no mask on had already, and still was, doing sideways one-armed pushups and that sort of thing, about 8 ft. from me and 15 ft from this broad. He had nothing to say - I think it was the earbuds, but I don't know ...
The lady went off to talk to the management, but I really don't know what they told her. She came back insistent. I wasn't going to take this one to the mattresses for business reasons that I shouldn't explain here. "How long are you going to be?" "20 minutes." "OK, I'll be back in 20 minutes!" This is just a big sickness in people, but before I finish this post, the 20 minutes is up ....
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(Written a few hours later:)
I got the workout in, heart rate up, and later the BP hopefully down. The lady was gone (I think I ended up giving her 25 minutes.) Push-up guy was still there. "Hey, did you hear that from this lady?" "Only the last part." I mentioned hysteria, but this guy was down with the Panic Program. It turns out he's an Ob/Gyn doctor who's been working in NYC. We discussed the herd immunity and mutation stuff. He didn't know any more than he'd been told on TV, I could tell. I've heard 2nd hand from an I.D. Doc on this (Infectious Disease Doc) months ago, who told my Doc friend "do you know anyone who's never gotten a cold? It's going to be like that after a while."
Well, the Ob/Gyn told me about people on ventilators, delivering pregnant women in distress in NY City, and then he finally put on his mask to go out! I was kind of glad I didn't start any conversation about problems in NYC, such as it being a big China-travel hub, it being much more crowded than most of this country, and it being damn close to the 3rd World in many parts. He was just a young guy with zero perspective on life.
I checked in with management about what the deal was on masks. It was a grey area, as nobody had an answer. They all agreed that it'd be silly to wear a mask while doing cardio workouts. I'm guessing now Becky lied to me.
PS: Yeah, I don't really take to the slur "Becky" much, but I don't know what else to call her.
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Is the Kung Flu Panic-fest part of a Globalist plan?
Posted On: Friday - August 21st 2020 8:24PM MST
In Topics: Globalists The Future World Political Stupidity
Peak Stupidity is in general of the opinion that there are no really big long-term conspiracies behind the major changes in American/world history. Our speculation on this matter, in Stupid vs. Evil and long-term conspiracy theories, is that the stupidity outweighs the evil in this world.
A commenter from Spain who goes by the handle Rogelio put a very interesting bit of speculation himself, that does either involve long-term plotting by Globalist, Davos types, or at least some Globalist types that know the big picture of what is really going on. Mr. Rogelio's comment is on a thread under the great C.J. Hopkins article discussed and excerpted last week in Scenes from the Kung Flu Summer re-Panic - Part 9. Here is the comment in its entirety:
While I agree that spanish are showing compliance at the highest level, this is not a national problem, and the forces behind this are too powerful and transnational to not end up getting everyone.{That's my bolding of the last paragraph.) Is it all a set-up by some smart, super-rich, arrogant, evil people in the know, or is it just industrial-scale stupidity? I don't know for sure, but Mr. Rogelio's speculation is very, very interesting.
There is a pristine, obvious attemp to force a fourth industrial revolution. This one will finish, not millions of jobs, but the very concept of “job”, of “individual action”, of “business”, of “entrepreneur”. When they had erased the possibility, even the will to create something from nothing with our own effort, we´ll get the universal wage. All of this would not be possible without people giving away their lives voluntarily, and the only way to do it is with global fear. A fear so strong that they are ready to hand their individuality over to a greater good: security from sickness.
I´ve been watching this coming since 2010 more or less, although I did not forsee the global fear being a virus. I thought it was going to be climate+terrorism.And today I find the horrible confirmation of my guess. Words from two of the bigger fishes in the pool: Klaus Schwabb, founder of Davos Forum, and his buddy, Thierry Malleret. Take a look at this words:
“In one form or another, social- and physical-distancing measures are likely to persist after the pandemic itself subsides, justifying the decision in many companies from different industries to accelerate automation.
After a while, the enduring concerns about technological unemployment will recede as societies emphasize the need to restructure the workplace in a way that minimizes close human contact”.
“Indeed, automation technologies are particularly well suited to a world in which human beings can’t get too close to each other or are willing to reduce their interactions.
“In 2016, two academics from Oxford University came to the conclusion that up to 86% of jobs in restaurants, 75% of jobs in retail and 59% of jobs in entertainment could be automatized by 2035. ”
“The process of automation was set in motion many years ago, but the critical issue once again relates to the accelerating pace of change and transition: the pandemic will fast-forward the adoption of automation in the workplace”
“(…)at a global level, if viewed in terms of the percentage of the global population affected, the corona crisis is (so far) one of the least deadly pandemics the world has experienced over the last 2000 years. In all likelihood, unless the pandemic evolves in an unforeseen way, the consequences of COVID-19 in terms of health and mortality will be mild compared to previous pandemics. At the end of June 2020, COVID-19 has killed less than 0.006% of the world population. To put this low figure into context, the Spanish flu killed 2.7% of the world’s population and HIV/AIDS 0.6%”
So what's more aggravating is the fact that, not only they show their cards, but they also laugh in our faces, saying that the factor that will allow them to take over is basically bogus.
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These are not your father's treehuggers
Posted On: Friday - August 21st 2020 11:22AM MST
In Topics: Music Treehuggers Environmental Stupidity
(Did I get that translation right, Mr. Ganderson?)
Here in America, with other hysteria taking priority, we have gotten a welcome break from the harangues and harassment of the treehuggers for half a year now. "Greta who?" Right? Occasionally the Kung Flu stupidity and the Global Climate DisruptionTM stupidity are combined into a larger, denser piece of stupidity by some enterprising, even stupider people. The hysteria from each one combine not arithmetically but as a product, i.e.
M = 1/2 h2 So / (tms - t), where
h = hysteria (usually in units - gallons of spittle per university credit hour)
So = background stupidity level
tms = time of Peak Stupidity (we will need to change our banner graph)
M = Madness
Don't forget the factor of 1/2!
This break in the Environmental Stupidity must have created some space in my mind for flashbacks to the early 1990s and the treehugger agenda at that time. The goals were much more specific back then. I don't at all condone lying about saving owls and their habitat when it's really about saving old growth forests, mind you. That's what it was. I have no problem at all with Americans trying to save the old growth forests, but a) Put your money where your mouth is, as you are destroying good jobs in the process, and b) Don't lie about it, using cute owls and lynxes as your poster boys.
However, yeah, I'd hate to see the whales gone from the oceans of the world, so, save the whales you say? Maybe I'm down with that. Tell me more. A local musician that'd play a lot on the outdoor deck at a bar nearby had a "save the whales" number in his repertoire of mostly original songs. He was not crazed radical, just a young man who could play folk guitar and wanted to pick up chicks, like everyone else. I never did get straight whether this whale tune was his song or not, because part of the lyrics were the "Oh, oh, and up she rises...", but not followed by "way down in the sea-oh", as the old song from a kid's version(?) of 20,000 Leagues under the Sea went. I had this faint memory of the music from that kids story and something about one Captain Nemo (no, not the Saving Nemo Nemo).
In the chorus though, the song went "... going out to kill the whales". Well, that's not nice! When you go back to the early 1990s though, the country was still sane enough to where not every criticism had to be about America. It was not mostly American boats still doing whaling, but Japanese ones. If they can eat sushi, I guess whale fillets would go over well there too - high in Omega-6 acids, with maybe a side of blow-hole soup, why not? The Save the Whales crowd at least had an actual, tangible piece of destruction of our ecosystem to work against, rather than lame-ass, non-workable mathematical models of the entire Earth's climate. They didn't mind criticizing the Japanese, too - I recall this.
Maybe it was just me being a lot younger, but it seemed back then that the treehuggers back in the day were just an impediment for some industries, annoying, but pretty good songwriters. The treehuggers of the present day, with their plans to change entire economies*, seem to be a threat to the very existence of America, as if we didn't have plenty others of those.
PS: I never saw an instance of this particular anti-whaling song helping our musician friend pick up chicks. Maybe that's just my failure to hang out at the bar till 3 in the morning, like some of the people there. He was a good guy though. I hope he was able to make at least a semi-living playing music.
* I gotta say, the refusal of President Trump to sign the ridiculous Paris Treaty was one of his most solid moves.
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Max Lucado, King of the Cucks!
Posted On: Thursday - August 20th 2020 8:30PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Race/Genetics Bible/Religion
Since it's not nice to puke on the virtual pews, I'll avoid this cuck's church.
Right on the heels of the unfinished series of posts on the question of modern Christianity's effect on the continued existence of Western civilization (still on Part 2) Peak Stupidity has come upon an excellent example of what we were trying to get at. It's an excellent example, not an excellent thing to read about, by any means.
Allan Wall, one of the (usually) calmest and most civil writers on VDare.com, and they are all pretty calm and civil compared to your average political site, relates a story of a cuck-fest held by a church headed by a guy who's known as "America's Pastor". I'd never heard of this Max Lucado before, but per Mr. Wall, he has written over 100 books. Please go read the article at VDare, "America's Pastor" Max Lucado Publicly "Apologizes" for the Sins of Previous Generations of White Americans , even if you don't come back here. Take any and all blood pressure meds first, as otherwise Peak Stupidity is not responsible for any and all ... blah, blah, blah. [Thank you! - PS Legal]
Yeah, this guy is all broken up about the legacy of slavery, obviously having already chastised the writers of the Old Testament for condoning it in the multiple books and verses... right? I hope he didn't forget or nuthin'. As Peak Stupidity noted in our white paper laying out our Slavery Reparations Plan, it's not just a black thing, y'all, though the black folks do seem the most bent out of shape about it. PS:
It's a real fixation, I tell you, as probably a majority of us living in America today have had some slave ancestors of various sorts. You take your Hispanics - the Indian blood that makes up 1/2 their heritage is from ancestors for whom perhaps being held in bondage was the least of their worries.*. People with that Slavic background, well, you've got some street cred already, "Slave-ic", get it? You've got your leggy supermodels whose leggy supermodel ancestors could have easily been held as white sex slaves by, well, anybody, hell, who wouldn't? Jews have had ancestors held by Egyptians, Hittites by Caananites, Arkites by Girgashites, Sinites by Hermaphrodites, and more recently, Hindu-H-1Bites by Microsoft Windites. That's the big picture that many are not seeing.Speaking of the latter, we are not writing in jest when we note that The Horrible Legacy of Slavery Continues ... , I mean TODAY, in America, by Contra Costa County Couples and Suburban Chicago families. I would hope Pastor Lucado didn't forget to mention this kind of thing too.
Really, even if the entire family tree of yours descended from nothing but cotton plantation owners in 1850s Mississippi, you have no reason to feel guilty. The New Testament does not condone that sins of the Fathers crap from the Old. Shouldn't America's Pastor know this stuff?
Prominent local pastor and author Max Lucado got down on his knees Sunday [August 9] in San Antonio to beg forgiveness for his and his white ancestors’ acts of racism and inaction. “I am sorry that I have been silent. I am sorry that my head has been buried in the sand,” Lucado said. “My brothers and sisters are hurting and I am sorry. I have made them to feel less than. I did not help. I did not hear. I did not see. I did not understand.”You apparently don't understand squat, you miserable cuck. That's just the beginning.
“Our ancestors were wrong. They were wrong. When they bought and sold human beings, that was wrong. When they claimed superiority over slaves, over blacks, that was wrong. When they refused to share water fountains, restaurants, and city buses with your children, your chosen precious children, that was a sin. And we are so very sorry. We are sorry for the pain of that day.”Hmmm, so if I get on a city bus in downtown Birmingham (where the 'hound broke down*), and the (nothing but) black people on the bus aren't welcoming to me, can I get an apology? Can I get a witness? Mr. Wall asks "So is everybody in the world obligated to apologize for the sins of their ancestors, or only white people?"
Pastor Lucado then asks forgiveness for his own sins:
“Your church, your pastors, have broken your heart by favoring one skin color over another – oh, Lord God, have mercy on our souls. … How dare we? … How that must nauseate you, O Lord,” he said, adding that those sins extend to brown skin and that he himself has committed them.The Lord may very well be nauseated, but it ain't from racism. If the people of San Antonio undergo some precipitation in the near future never seen before other than by Bartholomew Cubbins in a Dr. Suess book, that is the Lord puking his guts out after having to forgive the genocidal cuckitude of America's Pastor. I don't know how to break it to you, San Antonio, but that shit ain't oobleck.
Here is the worst of Pastor Lucado's sins:
“The word ‘wetback’ has found its way on my lips, too,” he said. “For that, I’m so very sorry. Would you please, O Lord, bring a new day.”I wonder how the word "wetback" DID get to the lips of this guy - talking to references about the crew for the new church roof? How about a new day in America without wetbacks? We prayed for Donald Trump in '16, so ...
OK, well that rant got out of hand, but Mr. Wall's is more civil. Due to the way things are going in this country, even Allan Wall has a Sailer-style snarky remark, in this case regarding the Kung Flu. I recommend you read his article even if just for that one - it's very funny.
Mr. Wall also links to a rebuttal from a more Conservative church out of Charlotte, N. Carolina - it's by one Jeff Maples - here.
If this effeminate groveling is going to the a regular thing from America's Pastor, then count me out of America's Church.
* Sorry, old Chuck Berry reference. Check out the Dead's version of "The Promised Land". I promise you, it's better.
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Tucker Carlson - The LOCKDOWNS are destroying America
Posted On: Wednesday - August 19th 2020 7:49PM MST
In Topics: US Police State Pundits Kung Flu Stupidity
Per E.F. Hail, in the comments under his Against the Corona-Panic, Part XV , Tucker Carlson was "pushing almost non-stop Corona panic on his show" back in late March and April '20. (Without a TV in use, I watch what I want to watch, so I had no idea.) Hey, as we know, stupid thoughts can come out of even good people.
Well, Mr. Carlson has come around to the anti-panic side. In this video that I watched first on Mr. Hail's site, Tucker Carlson tears Dr. Fauci a new one, a guy whom Mr. Hail says Tucker lionized as an expert that should be listened to early on.
I haven't had Tucker on in quite some time - some of the old videos I've put up get switched out by youtube, and I don't always realize videos are missing until, I dunno, years later. Look under the Pundits topic key for some more. I'm sure it'd be easier to just go to youtube or bitchute*.
Here you go - > 8 minutes of premium Tucker:
"Joe Biden has not waded too deeply into questions of public policy recently, in case you haven't noticed. Whatever else Biden may be doing, looking at funny cat videos on the internet, shuffling to his mailbox every afternoon..." Hey, that hits a little too close to home, Tucker!
* I need to start embedding bitchute videos at some point. VDare has already been kicked off of youtube for excessive truthfulness, so It's time to support the new guys.
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Christianity - Living for the next world, but what about this one? - Part 2
Posted On: Wednesday - August 19th 2020 6:01PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Student and other Snowflakes Bible/Religion So-called Pope Francis
(Continued from previous post with its excellent, thoughtful comments so far.)
The argument being discussed here is whether the modern version of Christianity is at least partly responsible for the downfall of western society. Some of the comments/posts that I've see address this topic go all the way back to the very beginning of Christianity. They say we need to go back to paganism, Druidism(?), etc. Most would probably disagree with this opinion. When you look at history right up through the middle of the 20th century, 19 centuries of evidence (OK, 16 or so starting from the Roman adoption of Christianity) tells us the Western World did very well under Christianity, beating out, well everyone else. That's not to say it is the secret to our success, but it sure didn't hurt.
What about the last 75 years though? I am no Professor of Divinity, though it's apparently very easy to become one via the internet now. I can't discuss which Vatican forum was the downfall. I don't know which Pope to blame, if it comes down to Catholicism alone (not really), though I do know a recent Commie so-called Pope who is a very big example of the problem right now.
Again, most religions lead us to strive for the next life or next world, which will be better by a long shot than this one, or we wouldn't sign up. Christianity, though, is emphatic that no matter how much good one does in this one, that is no guarantee of any spot in the next one. Secondly, the emphasis on forgiveness towards ones enemies is something that is particular from Jesus. Both of these are concepts that don't come easily to us, but that's just it - it's about faith.
That does not mean that active Christians don't do more than their share of good in this world. Ask anyone, and he'd rather some Jehovah's Witness ladies knock on the door offering help than any bearded Moslem guy in a robe. They are trustworthy because of their attitude, and were the world really filled with true Christians (kind of the point for the Evangelical types)*, I don't think I'd be writing this post.
For whatever reasons, the forgiveness and tolerance** aspect of modern Christianity has been elevated to be the be-all-to-end-all over creating and maintaining a Western Christian society to begin with. This is the large-scale problem. Peak Stupidity has discussed in numerous posts (the Students and other Snowflakes has kinda morphed into a catch-all for some of these) the ridiculous tolerance for stupidity that modern Christian churches have signaling their virtues with***. On the immigration front, it involves invited millions of COMPLETE foreigners to live in our communities, changing them for the worse. See, the good being done for those individuals brought here may not do a bit of good for those of US already here, in this world, but they are thinking of the next. OTOH, good works alone, which is in this case surely in the eye of the
If the Lutherans that push this stuff, the Southern Baptist Convention support for Black Lives Matter idiocy , and pretty much all of the rest of the traditional denominations of American Christianity are all woke up, well, they are not concerned with this world. That is, at least this world in traditional America. They have their faith, they do what they FEEL is their best good works, but if their grandchildren end up growing up as strangers in a strange land, and if this world ends up burning in civil war, well, shoot, that's not really their problem. They are looking to the next world.
This post was just about to lead to the small-scale aspect of modern Christian extreme forgiveness and tolerance, but I think that'll have to be Part 3. Instead, today, how 'bout some Tucker Carlson goodness, regarding this world.
* The Chinese people have benefited a lot from the Christian religion, those in China practicing often under the table (not literally!) along with those around the world, such as in America. Western Christians tried to convert the place starting a coupla hundred years back, but they were needles in a haystack of people. (Read "A Great War never even heard of - the Taiping Rebellion " about a big war involving some weird fallout from this effort.)
** I don't think "tolerance" is actually mentioned anywhere in the New Testament (or Old Testament, most definitely!) but it seems to be part of the dogma now.
*** Well, OK, and to collect a whole lot of money for doing so, off of the US taxpayer, no less. The best source on all of this is the wonderful Refugee Resettlement Watch site, run by one nice and hardworking lady, Mrs. Ann Corcoran. She's got her own URL now, so Wordpress or Blogspot (whomever it was) can't fuck with her.
**** That is NOT a Biblical passage in Proverbs. Per wiki (I know, right?) the closest thing can be found in Ecclesiastes (see more) 21:10, "The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end thereof is the pit of hell." It is not clear to me that this has the same meaning, but anyway, this is Old Testament stuff, incorporated by Christianity, but not necessarily taken as the Gospel (haha!) Here's more the section of Chapter 21 in question:
7 An eloquent man is known far and near; but a man of understanding knoweth when he slippeth.
8 He that buildeth his house with other men's money is like one that gathereth himself stones for the tomb of his burial.
9 The congregation of the wicked is like tow wrapped together: and the end of them is a flame of fire to destroy them.
10 The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end thereof is the pit of hell.
11 He that keepeth the law of the Lord getteth the understanding thereof: and the perfection of the fear of the Lord is wisdom.
12 He that is not wise will not be taught: but there is a wisdom which multiplieth bitterness.
13 The knowledge of a wise man shall abound like a flood: and his counsel is like a pure fountain of life.
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Christianity - Living for the next world, but what about this one? - Part 1
Posted On: Tuesday - August 18th 2020 8:52PM MST
In Topics: Media Stupidity Race/Genetics Bible/Religion
These thoughts came to form this post back before I wrote the quick note about the wonderful news of the recovery of then- 5 y/o Landen Hoffman in Minneapolis, MN. What got me even thinking again of the attempted murder of this boy via being thrown 3 stories down off a balcony at the Mall of America was a post by iSteve about another evil deed by a crazed black man a little over a week ago. Mr. Sailer's article, Still No Mention of Murder of Cannon Hinnant in NYT or WP notes the evil behavior of the American Lyin' Press:
Cannon Hinnant was a five-year-old white boy playing outside in North Carolina last Sunday, when the adult black man living next door walked up and shot him in the head point blank in front of neighbors looking out their windows with horror. The suspect has been arrested but no motive has been released.Mr. "Paul Kersey", with his "Stuff Black People Don't Like" blog, now on unz.com, gives us these horrific stories at least weekly. That's a necessary thing, seeing as the Lyin' Press, other than at the local level at which people already know what happened, won't let us know. Sure, not all the black-on-white crimes are as evil as the murdering of 5 year-olds in cold blood, but the stats say there are multiple black-on-white violent crimes daily. What do you do?
So far, 96 hours later, neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post has deigned to run even the Associated Press’s brief wire service account of the event.
Obviously, if the races were reversed, this would be this year’s Crime of the Century. As it is, it’s just another dog-bites-man local police blotter item of no interest to national newspapers.
What you do as a nation about a race that simply consists of more violent people than your own being a large minority living among you is the subject of billions of words with no great solution insight. That's not the subject of this, or what is becoming a series of, post(s).
What do you do if a violent deed like this was done to your child? With the endless sorrow that would come from losing a child to some degenerate or the sorrow mixed with anxiety were it the long road back from the physical trauma dealt to little Landen, most people will turn to religion. There is no better way, other than performing simple vigilante justice. At that point, the whole rest of the family will be toast, and whether you will feel better or not won't be determined until after the fact. Getting to the point here [Finally! Here's a toast to getting to the point! - Ed], the still-dominant religion, if any, in America is one that says emphatically, no you don't do that! That is Christianity, of course.
Jesus, and hence, Christianity, emphasize forgiveness by far more than any other religion I've read much about. Additionally, though this is obviously a common idea in all religions, the belief that the next world that we can attain, through faith, is more important than this world, is also emphasized throughout the New Testament. The questions that come up to every thinking person are:
a) Doesn't it still matter what we accomplish, for good or bad, in this life?
b) If we concentrate on assuring our place in the next world at the expense of this one, i.e. by not sweating the political problems of today one bit, and let the chips fall where they may, are we not letting our future fellow man down? Is that just fine? It can go far enough, such as it did in Soviet Russia or Mao-era China, such that nobody can practice Christianity to begin with. Is it OK to let that happen?
One can look back to the Medieval times and understand that the 2nd important aspect of Christianity, the priority of the next world over this one, had widespread belief. However, think of the Crusades, wars over religion, etc., and you can discern that forgiveness was not the be-all-to-end-all that it is today. Perhaps the Medieval folks could count better, say to 490 ("7 times 70", the man said). After that, enough is enough!
I've seen lots of interesting arguments on the internet over whether modern Christianity is a force that is destroying White/Western society. The tendency for Christians to be forgiving and tolerant over all other qualities is thought to be at the root of many of our existential problems. It's a good argument, and one or more subsequent posts will address this in relation to these personal stories of loss and sadness from the evils that WE HAVE let happen in our Western society.
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Scenes from the Kung Flu Summer re-Panic - Part 10
Posted On: Monday - August 17th 2020 8:00PM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Kung Flu Stupidity
This post could also be called "Elevator Etiquette in the age of the Kung Flu", but we've already got a name for this series, so ... continuing from Part 9...
We can barely go a week here at Peak Stupidity without running into some Kung Flu stupidity that results in a blog post. After I thought about this one, I talked to a guy about his mask, and got so infuriated at his answer ... see, now that's another post.
In the elevators of hotels now there are signs of various sorts to help us prevent ourselves from spreading this Black Plague 2.0 that has our matriarchal society in hysterics. The signs are on the doors on all floors, and the stickers are on the elevator floors too.
Stay 6 ft. apart, it told me. Yeah, but the elevator was only about 5 ft across. OK, with a 4 ft. depth though, lets plug into Pythagorus' theory. Yeah, in my head it works out, but then do our mouths have to be 6 ft. apart? I think these stickers need to be more specific, so let's get the contagion engineers on the blower, get specs for these new stickers ...
I wasn't wearing a mask at all, as I went downstairs to work out. I didn't expect anyone else to get on, but a 55-60 y/o guy with a face mask on got on at a lower floor. He had nothing to say. I guess that's the normal elevator etiquette, where you look down or up. I gathered that it wasn't the normal elevator etiquette for the masked man to face the corner though. I'd never seen this one before. He really was worried shitless.
Now, that is his business after all, and maybe he really does have something to worry about. I could have put the balled-up mask in my pocket on, but I was just disgusted by the whole scene. Or, that guy could have noticed me in there first, and if he was so concerned, taken the stairs down to get a little bit of exercise - he looked able enough.
After that Precor 842i bike machine kicked my ass, I was still breathing a little heavy*, so breathing in my own breath and snot off a mask on the way up was out of the question. Luckily, it was just me. We need to sort ourselves out into panickers and non-panickers. The masks or lack thereof, ought to be the "flag", as with shirts and skins in tag football. Too bad there are "emergency" orders that interfere with this arrangement.
Oh, I almost forgot. The guy on the elevator could see that I'd already pressed the button for floor 1, the lobby. It was lit up, and hell, where would I be going anyway? Yet, he did that thing where you press the button anyway, even though it was lit up. That is BAD elevator etiquette even in normal times, as, well, you're not going to speed it up, and it's as if to tell the other riders they didn't do it right. It just seems stupid. In this Summer of the re-Panic though, it was even worse, as the guy used the tip of his finger, as in normal times.
Doesn't he know that these Kung Flu germies can cling onto those elevator buttons like the last Vietnamese guy off the roof of the US Embassy in Saigon clung to the Huey skids in 1975? You use your knuckles now, you knuckleheads. Knuckles are the new fingertips. This is all great for burglars and bank robbers, between the masks, and now, look
* Yeah, I did spend extra time wiping off the machine. I was just glad I didn't have to sneak in - the key card doesn't always work.
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Precor 62/80/82 treadmill consoles- the Stupidity stops here.
Posted On: Monday - August 17th 2020 5:29PM MST
In Topics: Artificial Stupidity
Just skip this post, everyone. Peak Stupidity has this sub-fixation with the bio-physics calculations incorporated into the electronics in exercise machine consoles, and, by God, we're gonna finish this. In this case it's just praise for the Precor P62/80/82 series of treadmill machine console, the first of which is the console describe in our previous post on this matter.
After doing a workout on this nice machine (both mechanically and electronically), I checked it out just a bit more than last time. For one thing, I got the model #, which I didn't know last post - it's the Precor P-80, and I looked into the one I'd discussed before and determined that it was a P-62.
Then, I played with this one some. At two speed/slope combinations, the elevation gain is right on the money, per calculation. That should not be very difficult as it's simply speed x slope, but this just tells me the programmers at least weren't making it up as they went along. This treadmill** goes to NEGATIVE 3% slope. That was interesting. The only problem is, the elevation gained was not decreasing. I went up to 10 mph, but nope. That's just a little bit of stupidity there, as why shouldn't it go back down? It makes me think some "compassionate" women were involved in the marketing or programming - mustn't discourage the poor exerciser. "3 more calories too. You're a winner!".
See, with the slope at -3% at 1 mph, the display still shows ~3 kCal burned per minute. There may be something to that. As we tried to explain in some of the other similar posts, biological work done is not an easy thing to calculate. However, simple mechanical-work-wise, the exerciser is getting work done ON HIM. At -3%, 10 mph, more "calories are burned", but the damn thing is dangerous! If you stumble or can't keep up, I believe this thing could throw you into the bars and that nicely-engineered console.
Here's something I forgot to mention before, for some of the new treadmills: If you jump off onto the sides, as I do, to check my heart rate, the smart(ass) machine detects no user (no spikes in motor torque?) and will display a "no user detected message" with the heart rate I'm trying to watch off the display! #Annonying! Then again, the doctors or exercise pros would have you just bring the slope down and turn the speed way down for measurement of heart rate recovery. I suppose the idea is to keep one from leaving the machine running all night, and to keep some dumbass from getting back on it in the morning while it's running 10 mph 3% downhill.
One more thing regarding the exercise machines in general is my continual annoyance with the Precor 842i bike machine. That's the one that just screws me out of my efforts. My goal is to go 5 miles in 20 minutes, which, though really shouldn't have to be the case, seems to be a good standard workout for me on most of the recumbent bike machines. You've got to start a little easy, so I get behind that pace, then start ramping up the resistance. I keep the same 80 -85 rpm pace, and the speed averages well over 15 mph (5 miles in 20 min pace), yet the thing shows me further and further behind! It'd be one thing if the increased resistance on the machine were to represent hill-climbing, hence a higher calorie-burn rate but no speed increase. That's how it is on a real bike. But, NO, the speed shows an increase, but the pace is slower. WTH, Precor?
What? You're still here?? [/Bueller] If you've gone this far, I want to say that I appreciate our loyalty. A sneak peak into the near future is that we'll have more "scenes from the Kung Flu re-Panic", more on the religious questions in relationship to little Landen, and movie reviews.
* That may not be the case with all treadmills that have this console though.
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Little Landen's miraculous recovery
Posted On: Saturday - August 15th 2020 8:20PM MST
In Topics: Bible/Religion
An article by Steve Sailer on that shooting of the 5 y/o white boy by a black neighbor made me think again of little Lqnden Hoffman of Minneapolis, the 5 y/o boy (6 now) who was thrown of a balcony down 3 stories by some crazy black man "looking for someone to kill". I'll link to that in another post on the matter, but it just happens to be 2 weeks since Peak Stupidity's post on this, Little Landen in Minneapolis.
I meant to write a lot more about forgiveness (or lack thereof) and whether the Christain religion, at least the modern version, IS really going to be the downfall of white civilization, as I've read commenters argue. I'll leave that for another post to come next week.
Right now, I'll just mention that I read today very good news about this boy's recovery. Though he had lived, things looked very grim for the boy's full recovery last year, per the post linked-to above. He's just one boy, and bad things happen even to good little innocent children every day, but I am so glad about this.
I had a newer site page pulled up on a different computer earlier, but this Atlanta Journal-Constitution article from around Thanksgiving of last year is about the most recent proper article I can find. The world "miraculous" was used in that post I can't find anymore and in plenty of others. I'll let the kid speak for himself:
“He tells people all the time when they get hurt, don’t worry, I fell off a cliff, but Angels caught me and Jesus loves me, so I’m ok and you will be too!" reads a post on the site from Nov. 22.The boy is walking normally, and the articles I've seen don't mention any permanent health problems that the boy would have to deal with the rest of his whole life. This is great news.
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And now, we have longer cattle lines, for your own Safety and Security
Posted On: Saturday - August 15th 2020 11:18AM MST
In Topics: US Police State Americans Liberty/Libertarianism Kung Flu Stupidity
(Note: Not taken of our line. We had a more convoluted path, everyone wore masks, and then there was the
We ask the reader to please skip to at least the 2nd portion of this post if you've read this before (somewhere?), as this is basically an addendum to COVID / TSA twin peaks of stupidity post from over 2 months back. This post describes our experience at the TSA line in a different location from that at which we encountered the pleasant experience described 2 days back in Thank you, TSA guy!. Instead of just our family and the one guy (that was the beauty of it, as I think nobody was nearby enough to watch him), there were thousands.
Let me digress just a bit to inside the airport terminal, by which I mean on the flying side of the security lines. (Actually some of this is outside too.) Go back about 20 years, and, yes, one would hear about "the FAA advises this" and "the FAA requires that" when it came to luggage handling, plenty of rules on-board the airplanes, of course and this or that procedure. I want to mention 2 things:
1) I do know that much of the Nazi/Commie-like behavior of gate agents and flight attendants (especially) is due to out-of-control FAA rules, making these (wanting-to-be) customer service type individuals into cops. I can tell you from experience that were a F/A to know there are no company, FAA, or any other tattletales in the cabin, she would be much more relaxed and congenial. "Don't want to put the seat-belt on. Fine, I'm not gonna make a Federal case out of", she might think, not say, on occasion.
2) The FAA, being involved in actual, real, sometimes acute safety issues, with plenty of technical decisions to make, are a group composed of fewer AA/Dieversity hires than most government agencies. They've got lots of White men, in other words, making decisions. This is a good thing. Since I mentioned that, I'll note that I have actual high regard for the NTSB, a different outfit, because they are engineering/technical types. I have personal experience even.
OK, but that's going back 2 decades, almost. Go back 1/2 a year, or slightly more, through 18 years, and you will remember that you'd hear "the FAA this/that" AND "the TSA this/that" around the terminal, telling you what you must do to "be safe" and "for your own good". Yeah, I guess we are used to that enough to where our brains completely block it out. (I wish I could say the same for CNN in the terminals. )
Here's the latest agency we may hear from forever, the way the Kung Flu Panic-fest is going - the CDC. "The CDC recommends...", "The CDC requires ...", etc, is what you have blasting at you along with the commands from the other two organizations. Yes, put your money in noise-cancelling headsets, people! That's my stock tip. I sincerely hope it will make up for the tip that most readers hopefully missed in February to "get all your funds out of the floor sticker sector! It's going to bottom out!" Hey, this is not a financial-advise site, and (due to, cough, cough, our following our own stock tips, cough...) WE ARE NOT WORTH SUING! [Thank you - PS Legal]
Because there are these twin peaks of stupidity at the airport terminal, the War on Terra and the War on Germies, the American experts and authoritahs have worked out a system. We need to screen EVERYBODY because, fairness and shit. We also need to keep everyone 6 ft apart and not spreading germs even through the face masks that we require them to wear, because pandemic! Therefore, there was a long, long stretch of cattle-pen type line, bordered by 8 ft sections of ~ 7ft tall plexiglas with metal support. Let's not worry about any Covid-cooties going up and above or below, or through the breaks. We hope they have not mutated to be that smart yet.
Subtract the expected throughput (yes, that's the terms they use, as in a production line - you are the input and you minus your toothpaste, gerber tool, and bottled water are the output) from the rate of entrants to the terminal during the peak times, multiply that by 6 ft, and you get an idea of how long the line must be. There were multiple hundreds of sections of plexiglas that wound around like the line to the best E-ticket ride in Disneyland. Hey, we didn't mind the walk actually. It was only about 5 -10% of the number of steps we'd done on our long hike*.
No, it's the indignity of it all that really pissed me off. Some may reply to me that, yes, that's what we have to put up with, but I say that firstly, it's NOT a necessary indignity. The Kung Flu healthcare theater is ridiculous and the security theater is ridiculous. Both are for show, and I don't like being turned into a cattle/sheep-like creature for this show. Both of these worries could be better handled by individuals and private companies (the airlines in the case of both worries).
Lastly, and this is the point that'd I'd asked readers sick of this TSA-posting to come read. The problem we got, as described by some blogger who I can't recall many years ago, is this: Americans come from an organized people. The British Founders especially, but also Germans, Scandinavians, etc. are good with organization. OTOH, we have this unConstitutional and Police-State type behavior out of governents-gone-wild.
Now, you do down to S. America, and yes, they have lots of stupid, arbitrary rules too, and lots of hype too. However, they are not good at organization. So, the rules are in place, but people are too lazy and/or incompetent to really enforce them correctly**. There is the corruption aspect (that could probably get your pocketknife through the line, because, "hey, my Dad works for ...")
Our people do the best they could to comply with all recommendations by the experts and the letter of the law. So, you've got your floor stickers, your plexiglas sections by the hundreds, your face shields on the TSA guys (that's gotta suck, I don't care who you are, and no, if you work there I don't care who you are.***) so that we can all be SAFE when they ask you to take the mask off to match your face with your ID card, your touching of the ladies behinds by ladies only and little kids by ....
Oh, as a last thought here (I promise), when the cattle chute got within 100 ft or so of the entrance to finally get screened, well, people get anxious, you know, so ... they all bunch together. At that point we were back at normal, or what is now "non-social" distances apart. A lot of damn good this all does!
* Totally off-topic, but thanks to the nice backpacker who lent our 9 y/o the toilet paper! We were 2 1/2 hours from anything resembling a bathroom, and, though I used to have a pack with the required and emergency stuff for day hikes that might turn into overnights, we don't have a family of preppers exactly, right now. That needs to change. The wife is FINALLY catching on that thing are getting worse here. (The kid wouldn't have gone another 5 minutes, much less 2 1/2 hours!)
** The bad thing that comes from this is that anyone not in good standing with any authoritah can be taken in for any one of these rules that's only enforced when said authoritah damn well wants to.
*** Actually, I shouldn't be so harsh. A post coming sometime will be about that "I just work here. I don't make the rules" business.
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Inflation Note: National Park fees
Posted On: Friday - August 14th 2020 8:48PM MST
In Topics: Inflation
(Note: This is not necessarily the location we visited, but just a file photo.)
This is just a short inflation note. Is this cherry picking, is what I wonder myself sometimes? Well, if there were something related to counteract the items I see going up, I'd write about it too. I suppose we could have a post soon about the things that have been truly getting cheaper but being made of (or served resulting in) the same value or better.
Anyway, the National Park entrance fee is now $30 for a good-for-7-days entrance and $55 for a year-long one. I do not remember the comparable 7-day one, but through only 12 years ago, I used to go enough to one particular beautiful National Park that I'd get year-long ones.* They were $30 then. With the online calculator Money Chimp (yeah, I just like the name, and it works), I get a 5.18% inflation rate with compounding accounted for.
There is another data point that I wish I could give more details on. Let's call it a transportation service of some kind. This exact same service in the exact same location costed $6.50 in 1999. It is $20.50 today. Ka-ching! 5.62%, says the Money Chimp.
Hey, these Inflation notes I've been posting are just anecdotes. They add up though. Don't believe the BLS.
* One could and can also get year-long ones good for ANY of the National Parks. That was $80 last week, and I think it was $50 back in the day I'd buy the $30 ones. That's right at 4% yearly inflation.
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Mr. Øb☭ma fails to perform
Posted On: Friday - August 14th 2020 9:30AM MST
In Topics: Books Dead/Ex- Presidents
"...yet", says Penguin Random House, ex-President Øb☭ma's book publisher.
Look, Peak Stupidity would have been glad to have never heard from, read of, or written of, this "community-organizing" phony Constitutional scholar for the rest of our blog-life. This little tidbit regarding the retired President is worth mentioning due to the I-told-you-so effect. The first of our Affirmative Action Presidents (Kamel-Toe, or Tamil-Ho*, being a likely 2nd), I never thought Mr. Øb☭ma was a git-er-done type of guy.
I mean, increased Socialism, continued war-mongering, and the purposeful continuation of the immigration invasion aside, I figured, hell if this guy could racially heal this country, then maybe it would be worth putting up with 8 years of his condescension and ignorance of what made America great. I don't feel the healing right now, though. Maybe we were healed for a while, and I just missed it. If that's the case, it didn't take!
The ex-President, early-on AntiChrist candidate Øb☭ma has been reneging (wheww, thank you, spell check!) on a 3 y/o contract to write another book, or get someone to write another book for him. Per The American Spectator, Publishers Fret Over Obama’s ‘Failure to Perform’ his next book was to be published almost 2 years ago. In this short article it is also mentioned that Mr. Øb☭ma also blew off a book deal in the early 1990's, and kept most of his $125,000 advance anyway, because, poverty:
According to Osnos, the publisher [an "imprint"(?) of Simon & Shuster] asked that Obama return at least some of the advance. According to biographer Christopher Andersen, Obama had spent $75,000 of the advance and could not pay it back. The publisher let Obama keep the money only after he pled poverty due to “massive student loan debt.”Later on, in 1994, Mr. Obama was convinced to finish the book for Random House, unfortunately, as that became the racist whine called Dreams from my Father (his father being the reprobate that ditched little Obama and Mom - forget it, Jake, it's Africa).
For this most recent book from Obama, we are talking real money this time, $65,000,000. I'm just glad it's not my tax money. It'd be great if we never heard another word from this guy, and I'd never even pick up the book from the library. We are eagerly awaiting the latest Dogman book though, to be titled Grime and Punishment.
* Another great piece of wordplay by the illustrious unz.com commenter Reg Caesar.
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