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It’s so easy to think that simple solutions exist. But if you look at the history of ideas that actually worked, they tend to only be simple from a distance. The closer you get, the more you notice that the working idea is surrounding by a huge number of almost identical ideas that don’t work.

Take bicycles, for example. They seem simple and obvious, but it took two centuries to figure out all the details and most people today can’t actually locate the working idea amongst its neighbours.

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It’s ok to think that things have flaws or could be improved. But it’s a trap to believe that it’s ever the case that a simple solution exists and everyone else is just too enfeebled of character to push the miracle button. All the miracle buttons that we know about have already been pressed.

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“I’ll make them as many Intel 16 [nanometer] chips as they want,” Intel chief executive Pat Gelsinger told Fortune last week during his visit to an auto industry trade show in Germany.

Carmakers have bombarded him with requests to invest in brand-new production capacity for semiconductors featuring designs that, at best, were state of the art when the first Apple iPhone launched.

“It just makes no economic or strategic sense,” said Gelsinger, who came to the auto show to convince carmakers they need to let go of the distant past. “Rather than spending billions on new ‘old’ fabs, let’s spend millions to help migrate designs to modern ones.”

And, unlike the government, they can’t just charge the taxpayers for the added expense.

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Sometimes it is good to be the queen.

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A 29-year-old man alleged to have been part of a group that blew up at least 15 cash machines in Germany managed to kill himself and injure an associate last year while filming a video tutorial on how to blow up ATMs, according to European authorities.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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Austin’s battle over a police staffing ballot measure has a new heavyweight entering the ring: billionaire financier and Democratic Party activist George Soros.

In a bombshell announcement that threatens to shake up the Nov. 2 election, a political action committee opposed to Proposition A — which if passed would require the city to hire hundreds of police officers — says it has accepted a $500,000 donation from Soros.

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A key “Stop the Steal” attorney who tried, on Donald Trump’s behalf, to convince former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to help execute a coup and overturn the 2020 election is helping a group of Michigan poll challengers sue voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems.

And according to newly filed court documents, that Trumpist attorney, Kurt Olsen, is teaming up with celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz, a longtime Democrat who served on former President Trump’s legal defense for the 2020 impeachment trial. Dershowitz said in a brief interview on Friday afternoon that though he is not the lead attorney on this new class-action lawsuit, he described himself as an “adviser and consultant on the First Amendment issues of this case.”

Harris’ office does damage control over student’s Israel ‘ethnic genocide’ comment (Politico)

Iran state media promotes video of Kamala Harris not pushing back on Israel ‘ethnic genocide’ claim Way to go, Jambalaya.

Why Rachael Rollins’ Nomination to Be Rogue US Attorney Should Terrify Us All

Thief Assures Victim Robbery Will Cost $0 Since Victim Is Paying For It  Babylon Bee.

5 injured as gunbattle rolls through West Loop on Wednesday afternoon: Crime scene is “almost a mile, two miles long,” cop says Race of the perps is not mentioned, so presumably they were Persons Of Fashionable Ethnicity.

The NBA, covid, and sportswriting

Fed Judge Questions Whether Jan. 6 Rioters Are Treated Unfairly Compared With George Floyd Protesters

They Voted For Trump And Then For Biden. Here’s What These Swing Voters Think Now (NPR)

Trump may run again and the nation’s mood darkens: Here’s what Biden must do (Salon)

How to get the wealthy to pay the taxes they owe (CNN) First prove that they owe what you think they do.

Top Republicans rub shoulders with extremists in secretive rightwing group, leak reveals (The Guardian) Oooo! Republicans! Extremists! Secretive!

How a middle-class retirement plan became a tax dodge for the rich (CBS News) The swine! How dare they take advantage of the law to dodge taxes!

Joe Manchin, America’s climate decider-in-chief, is a coal baron (The Guardian) He stands in the way of the Narrative, so he must be destroyed.

Leaked Membership List Shows Top Republicans in Shadowy Group With Extremists (Daily Beast) Top Republicans! Shadowy Group! Extremists!

Republicans are about to lose Texas – so they’re changing the rules (The Guardian) Hey, it works for Democrats.

The Media Root for Routing Republicans

TV’s Worst of the Week 9/26/21: Hatred for Hannity, ‘Dangerous Whites’ & ‘Blood Red’ America

Greta Thunberg says world leaders’ talk on climate change is ‘blah blah blah’ (Washington Post) How articulate.

Senate Approves Biden Land-Agency Pick Repubs Dubbed ‘Eco-terrorist’

Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions  Although a well-done steak doesn’t yield a lot of electricity….

Guardian: Frost Damaged Brazilian Coffee is Evidence of Climate Chaos

The Emperor Penguin Extinction Scam & Sea Ice Dynamics

The Looming Energy Crisis: People Are Going To Die This Winter

Activists Get A Recent Paper That Threatens Climate Alarm Narratives Removed From Journal

Confirmed – all 5 global temperature anomaly measurement systems reject NOAA’s July 2021 “hottest month ever” hype

Melting Frost in Arctic Could Release Cold War Radioactive Waste

Advocacy disguised as ‘science’: ‘Intergenerational inequities in climate extremes’

Students who pass white privilege test can win a gold star at UK university

Wikipedia Co-Founder Criticizes Site, Says It Has Slid Into “Leftist Propaganda”  My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

NPR Perfection? Used ‘Pregnant People’ or ‘Person’ Seven Times In Article

US School Board Group Asks Biden for Help Against Growing ‘Threat’

David Hogg’s Anti-Gun Campaign ‘Fades Into Darkness’ As Millennials Embrace Second Amendment

NYT: There’s More Haitians Where These Came from

Apple employee activism is shifting the balance of power, suggests report  Steve would never have .put up with this shit.

Andrea Mitchell Plots Strategy With Radical Abortion Guests

National School Board Association Demands Biden Treat Fed-Up Parents as Domestic Terrorists

Infographic: How To Tell A Prison From A Public School  Babylon Bee.

California outlawed all-white-male boardrooms – reshaping corporate America

CNN Terrified of ‘Angry Mobs’ aka Parents Protesting Liberal School Boards

Terrifying New Horror Movie For Liberal Audiences Shows Politicians Leaving Them Alone, Letting Them Make Own Decisions  Babylon Bee.

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Drivers heading south on U.S. Route 183 in Austin, Texas, have become familiar with a billboard urging city police officers to relocate to Spokane, Washington to become deputy sheriffs and collect a $15,000 bonus.

The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office has targeted Texas’ capital city, already in a personnel crunch as the homicide rate reached a record high, along with other jurisdictions that recently slashed police budgets.

Amid the “defund the police” movement in 2020, the Austin City Council cut the police budget by about one-third and eventually lost 150 officers. In August, shortly before the city reached its all-time record for annual homicides, the council restored the funding.

“Austin is not Texas, although you can see Texas from Austin.” — Kevin Williamson

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Paging John Yoo….

(Babylon Bee)

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Speaking with Israel Hayom, Steve Emerson describes how he tried to warn the US government about the threat of Islamic terrorism in the runup to 9/11, only to be rebuffed.

Reminder: Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology with which no co-existence is possible.

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Millions of Americans became alarmed when they saw a viral video that compared a U.S. Army recruiting advertisement to those made for the Russian and Chinese militaries.

The Russian ad featured tough-looking men doing situps, jumping out of airplanes, and cocking rifles on a snow-covered battlefield. The Chinese ad showed infantrymen firing rounds as they ran next to advancing tanks.

The U.S. Army video was a cartoon about a woman with two moms who marched for equality and joined the Army so she could “shatter some stereotypes.”

One stereotype that has certainly been shattered is that the U.S. has the best military force in the world.

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An unprecedented operation involving 15 international security agencies has exposed an Iranian terror infrastructure that was planning a series of assassinations against Israeli and Western targets around the world.
It started in June, when Colombia’s Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia (DNI) issued an imminent security alert after determining two Israeli businessmen were the targets of an assassination attempt planned and financed by a high-ranking Iranian Quds Force officer. That officer, Rahmat Asadi, is regarded by Western intelligence organizations as a dangerous terrorist.

Reminder: Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology with which no co-existence is possible.

ZMan’s weeklyl podcast. Highly recommended.

A central question of this age is can you have a peaceful and prosperous society without a well-defined people? If the answer is no, which surely seems to be the case, then the obvious question is can a people exist without a ruler committed to the preservation of the people? In this age, the rulers are committed to abdicating their responsibilities to the people on the grounds that there is no such thing as a people, at least there is no such thing as our people.

Since self-preservation is the primary duty of all life, the first duty of a human group with a common identity is the preservation of the group. Logically, a ruler that violates his duty to that prime directive, putting the very existence of the people into question, is a lethal threat to the people. Just as it is the duty of a life forms to do what they must to preserve their existence, it follows that it is the duty of a people to use any means necessary to preserve itself. It is self-evident.

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Something unexpected is happening at U.S. military bases hosting Afghan evacuees: Many hundreds of them are simply leaving before receiving U.S. resettlement services, two sources familiar with the data told Reuters.

The number of “independent departures,” which top 700 and could be higher, has not been previously reported. But the phenomenon is raising alarms among immigration advocates concerned about the risks to Afghans who give up on what is now an open-ended, complex, and completely voluntary resettlement process.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Joe Biden has nominated Saule Omarova to be Comptroller of the Currency. It is an important position. According to the Comptroller’s web site:

The OCC charters, regulates, and supervises all national banks and federal savings associations as well as federal branches and agencies of foreign banks. The OCC is an independent bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

So who is Ms. Omarova, whom Joe Biden wants to “charter, regulate and supervise all national banks”? She is not a banker, but a professor at Cornell Law School. Sadly, these days being a law school professor is rarely a positive recommendation. (Sorry, Glenn and Bill.) The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board wrote about the Omarova nomination today:

She graduated from Moscow State University in 1989 on the Lenin Personal Academic Scholarship.

You can’t make this stuff up. And she still yearns for the USSR, which you can get away with as a law professor–although, to be fair, she also has a PhD from the University of Wisconsin, which might be a worse black mark.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

Scott has noted that Sen. Joe Manchin has “named his price point” on the spendapalooza bill: $1.5 trillion. Scott is right that this is still very bad, but it requires the progressives to shrink their wish list by more than half—by a full $2 trillion. I’d love to be a fly on the wall in the House Democratic caucus meetings and sub-meetings right now, because if there is no honor among thieves, imagine how painful it is to the progressive raiders of the treasury when they have to start trading off their once-in-a-generation wish lists.

Will the Progs agree to cut back universal Pre-K, or full Medicare vision and dental coverage? How about the $3 billion for “tree equity” (maybe my favorite part of the bill)? For that matter, how about the main features of the “Green New Deal”?

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The U.S. military announced senior al-Qaida leader Salim Abu-Ahmad was killed in a Sept. 20 drone strike, adding there “are no indications of civilian casualties.”