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Tuesday, November 5. 2024

Tuesday morning links

 How an ancient community split into farmers and hunter-gatherers


 The Decline Of Western Christianity: Gradually Then Suddenly


 Capital equipment not enough to revive US chip-making


Baby Power - Emily Oster and the rise of the optimization parent.


 New poll: 80% of Americans believe ‘words can be violence’


 The Inflation Reduction Act’s unprecedented climate spending—much of it uninvestigated—may soon lead to unprecedented scandals.


 A Response to My Liberal Neighbor


 What To Expect If Harris Gets Elected


 Megyn Kelly Speaks At Trump Rally: Trump Will Be A Protector Of Women, It's Why I Will Be Voting For Him


" Let’s offer two notes from yesterday’s Financial Times, a leading
liberal newspaper with liberal columnists that far outshine those who
write for New York’s favorite liberal newspaper."


 Seven Objects—And What They Say About the Election. Plus. . .


Britain's Cultural Revolution


Douglas Murray: What the British Government Wouldn’t Say - Over the
summer, UK police threatened people who dared to speculate about the
background of a killer. Now, they’ve admitted that he possessed an
al-Qaeda manual.


 Why are Palestinians not held accountable for the ongoing conflict with Israel?


 Russia’s Deal With Iran and Middle East Peace

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Why would a chip maker spend billions to open a plant in the socialist litigious states of America?
#1 Fred Z on 2024-11-05 08:56 (Reply)
"to revive US chip-making"

100% tariff on foreign chips. Laws requiring that chips be manufactured inside the U.S. by American owned companies employing American citizens.

Ditto for every critical and essential product we use. We are at a huge risk of our foreign suppliers cutting us off when we need those products and goods the most. History is replete with examples of countries losing a war or battle because of lack of critical supplies. Our dependence on China is a trap that will destroy us.
#2 OneGuy on 2024-11-05 09:26 (Reply)
Good intentions but I don't think it will work. You'll get lousy chips that cost proportionately as much as the famous $10,000 USAF toilet seats.

Legal sanctions and incentives never seem to work well. There are always horrible unforeseen consequences.

Economic incentives usually work better. How about letting the computer geeks figure out a plan to stockpile essential chips, store technology and make a plan to ramp up production in the USA if the stockpile is ever in danger? And pay them damn well.

To garble an old saying, money talks, politicos bullshit and steal the talking money.
#2.1 Fred Z on 2024-11-05 18:10 (Reply)
" The Decline Of Western Christianity: Gradually Then Suddenly" For some reason the various denominations can't figure out why their numbers are dropping. The leaders have pulled away from the belief system of Christians and following the Bible so it doesn't seem like a Christian church anymore. Look what has happened to the culture in this country with the decline of Christianity, the culture is degrading at astonishing speed. Just the last three years the degrading of children with the attempted forced acceptance to make the perversion normal shows just some results.
#3 JC on 2024-11-05 09:51 (Reply)
...and then suddenly. I can relate to much of the authors angst but I have always seen it in a cyclical pattern rather than the linear pattern that he presents. The second half of the 60's saw peak church attendance in both US Catholic and Protestant faiths. When government installs itself as 'government god' to deliver the 'goods' it always fails to understand that it places no emphasis at all on the spiritual sustenance of people. Governments produce the ghetto culture, divorce culture, abortion culture, law culture, movie culture, education, race, and immigration culture and entertainment sex culture as a result. It's all free and easy with no personal responsibilities except to self. Then it self destructs and begins again.
#3.1 indyjonesouthere on 2024-11-05 14:04 (Reply)
A response to my liberal neighbor
QUOTE:
He says there is a difference between us in “fundamental values.” He doesn’t define “fundamental values,” but it sounds as if he is saying he has better values than I have, or even that he is a good person, and I am not. Liberals have always said this of conservatives. For the record, I doubt my values really are different from his, and his values are, by and large, good — although there is one value he might work on: humility.
#4 Gringo on 2024-11-05 10:51 (Reply)
PRAY FOR US TODAY. PRAY FOR US LIKE YOU HAVE NEVER PRAYED BEFORE !
#5 faculty wife on 2024-11-05 11:43 (Reply)
Yes. We don't want Ahab's wife to win the presidency.
#5.1 Stargazer on 2024-11-05 11:50 (Reply)
The floods in Spain has devastated a large area destroying homes and killing people. Many, perhaps over ten thousand Spanish residents who have lost their homes are sleeping in their cars or out in the open, the government isn't helping them. Meanwhile tens of thousands of illegal immigrants from Africa are staying in 4 star hotels paid for by Spanish citizens taxes. You can't make this up. Babylon Bee is planning on suing the Spanish government for stealing their memes.

All squirrels matter.
#6 OneGuy on 2024-11-05 15:06 (Reply)
I welcome all the 'single issue' Peanut voters.
#6.1 indyjonesouthere on 2024-11-05 19:31 (Reply)
New poll: 80% of Americans believe ‘words can be violence’

That 80% is batshit crazy. And I hope that makes them all bleed out.
#7 ruralcounsel on 2024-11-05 17:05 (Reply)

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