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An Afghan culture-enricher expressed his theological differences with an Evangelical church in the German city of Nordhausen by removing the furniture and appointments from the church. The responsible authorities acted with tolerant firmness against the misguided miscreant in a manner that can only be comprehended if one is German.

Biden apologizes for being late to G20 press conference: ‘We were playing with elevators’  What a moron.

Greta Thunberg urges banks to halt funding for climate ‘destruction’  (The Hill) So young, and already a fascist.

Is this our last chance to act on the climate crisis?  (The Guardian) Whatever happened to that last ten ‘last chances’?

Elites Are Using Climate Hysteria to Immiserate the Working Class  Joel Kotkin.

Is Climate Alarmism An Establishment Attempt To Restore Social Control?

‘It is a game changer’: Waging war on climate change from space (Politico) Available in the App Store.

Stop Telling Kids They’ll Die From Climate Change (Wired ‘Science’)

Forget COP26, The G-20 Still Struggles To Meet COP15 And COP09

Bezos Leads Parade Of 400 Private Jets To COP26 With $65M Gulfstream As Greta Accuses Leaders Of Betrayal

Texas State Geologist Scott Tinker: The Bad Assumptions Underpinning COP26 and the Impending Energy Train Wreck

Twitter to ‘Pre-Bunk’ Criticism of Left’s Climate Narrative During COP26

CNN’s Weir Hopes for ‘An Awful Lot of Greta Thunbergs’ Scolding Parents on Climate Change  I’m hoping for a lot of spankings.

Ibram X. Kendi backtracks after tweeting on study some say undermines his white privilege narrative

Philadelphia Passes “Anti-Driving While Black” Measure That Bans Minor Traffic Stops  And so it follows as the night the day that crime will increase.

CRT: It Doesn’t Exist…And It’s Awesome!

In a setback for Black Lives Matter, mayoral campaigns shift to ‘law and order’ (Washington Post) Because fighting crime is Just So Racist.

Loudoun County mom says 6-year-old asked her if she was ‘born evil’ because she’s white

Kaepernick Starts Underground Railroad To Help Other NFL Stars Escape To Freedom  Babylon Bee.

Kaepernick Sad That No Slave Owner Will Enslave Him No Matter How Many Times He Tries Out To Be A Slave  Babylon Bee.

Mayoral candidates can’t run away fast enough from BLM rhetoric

Trump escalates his January 6 cover-up as political comeback steps up a gear (CNN)

Jan. 6 Organizers Are Raking It In With Trump and GOP Groups (Daily Beast)

Reporter reveals what Lindsey Graham said during January 6 riot (CNN)

‘Pure Evil’: Republican Adam Kinzinger Blasts Tucker Carlson for ‘Abusing’ Viewers’ Trust (Newsweek)

Top Republican Lawyer Says Trump ‘Setting a Fire’ With ‘Destructive’ Election Fraud Claims (Newsweek) All Trump! All the time!

‘Step up or step out’: Lawmaker calls out attorney general (CNN) Apparently the AG isn’t fascist enough.

Twitter Lets Anti-Youngkin Hoax Run Amuck  My, what a surprise.

Statues, Statues Everywhere!

Republican gerrymandering promises even more polarized Congress (The Hill) ‘Polarized’ is politician-speak for ‘not caving to the Democrat agenda’.

Trump’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers Ate the Republican Party (Daily Beast) Whatever happened to our Democrat-lite party?

Animal rights activists hold ‘Squid Game’ themed protest outside In-N-Out in San Francisco (ABC) Virtue-signaling: It’s not just for Twitter any more.

Washington Post report rebuts the January 6 alt-reality that Tucker Carlson promotes (CNN) And CNN promotes the Washington Post because one hand washes the other.

Anti-Masker Who Harassed NYC School Kids Fired in Epic Self-Own (Daily Beast) How is getting fired a ‘self-own’?

MSNBC Mocks Loudoun School Rape Case as ‘Manufactured Outrage,’ ‘Made-Up’ Controversy

‘I Just Think This Let’s Go Brandon Thing Is Really Disrespectful,’ Says Man Wearing F— TRUMP T-Shirt  Babylon Bee.

Psaki tests positive for Covid, last saw Biden Tuesday (CNN) Fine vaccine you got there, just fine.

Shanghai Disneyland suspends entry on Halloween, parkgoers required to take Covid tests to exit

Fully-Vaccinated White House PressSec Psaki Tests Positive For COVID  Fine vaccine you got there, just fine.

Australia Confiscating Bank Accounts, Property, Licenses, & Businesses For Non-Compliance With COVID Fines

‘I Had To Stand Up And Try To Do Something:’ Professor Of Medicine On Suing School Over Vaccine Mandate  One thing that the Narrative Media avoids mentioning is that some people who oppose vaccine mandates are doctors too. There’s no intrinsic reason to trust the government’s doctors over the non-government doctors.

Swiss Restaurant Bucks the Vax Pass

Merck’s Antiviral Could Be Just What Covid Was Waiting For  (Wired ‘Science’)

The Race Is On to Develop a Vaccine Against Every Coronavirus (Wired ‘Science’)

FDA Delays Approval Of Moderna Jab For Kids As More Safety Concerns Emerge

Attorneys General In 10 States Join Fight Against Biden Admin’s Vaccine Mandate

New Iowa Law Guarantees Unemployment Benefit For Workers Fired Over Vaccine Mandate

9,000 NYC Workers, Including Firefighters & Officers, On Unpaid Leave Over Mandate: Mayor’s Office

In 2022, “Things Aren’t Gonna Get Done” On An Absolutely Massive Scale

Chicago Judge Temporarily Lifts Vaccine Mandate For Police Union Members

Sacramento Has Become Nation’s Least Affordable Housing Market  I guess voting for Democrats really advances the cause of affordable housing.

Two strategies to salvage democracy and halt the rise of authoritarianism (The Hill) I don’t think two hardcore Democrats have anything to teach us about salvaging democracy (remember Elian Gonzalez?).

Portland Travel Group Says City Is Too Scary For Tourists And Not Just On Halloween

Germany debates how to form gender-neutral words out of its gendered language

Worst Analogy Ever: On MSNBC, Abortion Advocate Says SCOTUS Case Brings Ax Murders to Mind!  MSNBC performs the useful function of gathering all of the insane ‘I want to change the world’ scribblers in one place and underscores their lunacy.

Why Are Native Americans Such a Disappointment to the Woke?

Sleepy Cow Town Sacramento Is Now A ‘Dangerous Hellhole’

Virginia Student Says Virtual School Is Terrible, Critical Race Theory Is Real

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Metafabric is the latest development in a broader emerging field of textiles for personal heat management, clothing that can heat or cool the wearer. Researchers hope that these textiles will not only enhance personal comfort, but reduce injury and death from extreme heat. They might even help slow climate change by reducing the need for air-conditioning and heating, which accounts for about 10 percent of global electricity consumption.

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One thing that made China’s modernized armed forces work was an adequate supply of well-educated and eager Chinese that were capable of mastering the skills required by China’s world-class military being produced. A critical problem is that future generations of well-educated Chinese recruits will be smaller and less eager to choose a military career. The key problem is that too many young Chinese cannot afford to marry and raise more than one child. The government has found this problem very resistant to solutions.

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Background, ICYMI: An AP reporterette claims she heard a Southwest Airlines pilot say “Let’s Go Brandon” into his cockpit mic. (So far no audio or video has emerged to prove her statement.) She also claims to have done what any other suburban, privileged white woman would do and demanded to speak to the plane’s manager. (Banging on the cockpit door to try and get a statement from the pilot.)

Legit or not, this alleged incident has brought out the full fury and rage of the Democrat left, with one former Deep State Operative/current CNN employee comparing “Let’s Go Brandon” to supporting a terrorist group. Former Clinton administration official Joe Lockhart says it indicates “a broader problem” which one presumes is the fact that a lot of unionized pilots aren’t Democrats. Another Democrat/CNN contributor declares “Let’s Go Brandon” is MAGA code for “Sieg Heil.” (In fairness, they say that about pretty much everything the right does.)

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Charles Darwin was an introvert. Granted, he spent almost five years traveling the world on the Beagle recording observations that produced some of the most important scientific insights ever made. But he was in his twenties then, embarking on a privileged, 19th-century naturalist’s version of backpacking around Europe during a gap year. After returning home in 1836, he never again stepped foot outside the British Isles.

He avoided conferences, parties, and large gatherings. They made him anxious and exacerbated an illness that plagued much of his adult life. Instead, he passed his days at Down House, his quiet home almost twenty miles southeast of London, doing most of his writing in the study. He occasionally entertained a visitor or two but preferred to correspond with the world by letter. He installed a mirror in his study so he could glance up from his work to see the mailman coming up the road—the 19th-century version of hitting the refresh button on email.

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The theory of signalling likens many educational credentials to peacock’s tails: costly encumbrances, useful only as conspicuous proof that their owners are intellectually strong enough to bear them. And in “The Social Limits to Growth”, a book published in 1976, Fred Hirsch, once a writer for this newspaper, pointed out that education is often “positional” in nature. What matters is not only how much you have, but whether you have more than the next person. For many students it is not enough merely to acquire a good education. They must obtain a better education than the people jostling with them in the queue for sought-after jobs.

Positional goods are, by their nature, in strictly limited supply. Everyone can in principle live in a good neighbourhood, attend a good school, and work in a good job. But logic sadly dictates that not everyone can enjoy the nicest neighbourhoods, best schools or most prestigious jobs. As Hirsch pointed out, “what each of us can achieve, all cannot.”

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If we start calling it “gender appropriation,” do you think the Transgender thing will become unpopular on the left?

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Harold Brown’s contribution to the local treasury began as so many others have in Valley Brook, Okla.: A police officer saw that the light above his license plate was out.

“You pulled me over for that? Come on, man,” said Mr. Brown, a security guard headed home from work at 1:30 a.m. Expressing his annoyance was all it took. The officer yelled at Mr. Brown, ordered him out of the car and threw him to the pavement.

After a trip to jail that night in 2018, hands cuffed and blood running down his face onto his uniform, Mr. Brown eventually arrived at the crux of the matter: Valley Brook wanted $800 in fines and fees. It was a fraction of the roughly $1 million that the town of about 870 people collects each year from traffic cases.

What’s the use of power if you can’t abuse it?

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In my previous post I reported on the fight against organized crime among Arab clans in the Neukölln district of Berlin. The following German-language video report from Der Spiegel describes a similar situation in Arab no-go zones in the Swedish city of Gothenburg.

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“The CIF Southern Section expects that all athletic contests are to be conducted under the strictest code of good sportsmanship. We expect coaches, players, officials, administrators and students to adhere to the Six Pillars of Character – Trustworthiness, Respect, Responsibility, Fairness, Caring and Citizenship,” the statement read, via the San Bernardino Sun.

“A score of 106-0 does not represent these ideals. The CIF-SS condemns, in the strongest terms, results such as these. It is our expectation that the Inglewood administration will work toward putting in place an action plan so that an event such as this does not repeat itself.”

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The Left Party (Die Linke, i.e. the commies) in the Neukölln district of Berlin wants to abolish the police practice of raiding shisha bars and other culturally enriched locations in the fight against organized crime, because it “stigmatizes” people.

Steve Sailer.

Of course, the great and good want to abolish the Atlanta Braves’ American Indian war chant, their tomahawk arm-waving, and the team name in favor of something more appropriate to the times like the Atlanta Anxiety Disorders.

Robin Hanson.

In fact, I’m so impressed with how well The Profit scenarios illustrate the value of capitalism that I now build upon it a challenge to socialists: please describe in detail how The Profit style enterprise reform would happen under socialism.

Of course, Hanson misuses the term ‘capitalism’ in the same way that almost everybody does, as if it were a synonym for ‘how we do business when we aren’t under socialism’, but aside from that, it’s a good read.