Hither and thither 10/29/10

Well children, I've often had to complain of busy, cramped weeks. Not this time. The pace was very unusually light and reasonable, giving me timely time to work on the blogs. I think I've a pretty good and full one for you, capping a good and full week at the blog, and heading us off into Reformation Day weekend, and the week of what I hope and pray is a positively pivotal vote in America.

Check back for  updates up until noon PT.

• I think I'll have some kind of make your predictions here post on Monday, so we can all be Charismatics for a day.
• It's not all bad news for Obama and the Dems, though. They do have one enthusiastic backer. That would be the head of the Communist Party in USA. Surprised? Me neither.
• If history repeats itself, Senatrix Barbara Boxer's campaign should release some terrible "revelation" about Carly Fiorina today. This is what they did when she campaigned against the vastly-superior Bruce Herschensohn in 1998. Worked with idiot voters then; why not today?
• So you want to advertise for a Christian roommate. In church. No problem, right? Yes problem — in Michigan, where a poor woman had The State come down on her for daring to exercise her freedom of religion and her freedom of association at the same time. Not in O-merica, sister!
• Evidently embracing and advocating sexual perversion is a real résumé-enhancer for the Obama administration. Go figure.
• Will it surprise you to learn that Obama is an evolutionist — particularly when it comes to relabeling the sexual-perversion du jour as "marriage"?

• Reader Susan made a very cool find. Steve Saint, son of martyred missionary Nate Saint, has actually invented an FAA-approved flying car, to benefit the tribe that murdered his father. Learn more about it (with a bit of a video) here, and see a further demonstration (you can turn the obnoxious music down and miss nothing) here.
• The Washington Examiner's David Freddoso is finally asking the question I've been asking: "Isn’t it amazing how we hear so much about Christine O’Donnell and so little about Alvin Greene?" Yep. And to think, there are still people who blink or roll their eyes when you talk about MSM bias.
• However, there may even be an "up" side to MSM bias. Think about it. R. Emmett Tyrell notes that the slavish MSM reporting and slanting and "cover" all just combines to make the liberals feel bullet-proof — so they just do more and more insane things, not realizing their limits, thus bringing on themselves backlashes such as we hope to see Tuesday.
• And, hokey smokes — could O'Donnell be catching up? She's far from the ideal candidate, but I would savor that victory.
• Saint's technology is better than certain aspects of his theology.
• Freddoso also notes a story that does my hart good. Yesterday I squawked about the Alaska Supreme Court's idiot decision to allow (in effect) Murkowski campaign material at the polls. Dozens of Alaskans responded by registering as write-ins. Go, Alaska!
• Given the perennial Democrat voter fraud, I always wonder why the GOP doesn't do something proactive. Well, apparently someone has at least tried:

• What does this mean? That "banana" should come before "orange"?

• You know, there have been bullies forever. There were bullies when you were a kid, there were bullies when I was a kid, back in the Ice Age. Kids were bullied because they were too short, too tall, too thin, too fat, too smart, too dumb. As a rule, they (we) survived. But now, because the government wants to hallow the embrace and pursuit of a particular sexual perversion, suddenly bullying is a federal offense. Good heavens... is there nothing that the Obama administration doesn't think is the federal government's business?
• Oh, wait, right — one thing: protecting babies from being butchered or poisoned to death for being imperfect or inconvenient or ill-fathered. That one is above O's pay-grade.
• One poll, happily, identifies says that Americans want to fire Obama in 2012 by a 56-38 margin. As always, I'm not comfortable until that figure is in three digits. At least.
• So, to Britain. Is there any way of coloring this little factoid as good news?
• Homeschoolers (and anyone else) will thank reader Julie for this remarkable animation attempting to show scale in a universal perspective.
• Tangentially relatedly: I'll get excited about this [link removed] only if J. J. Abrams or J. Michael Straczynski helms it. or, for that matter, the guy who does my car at Jiffy Lube. [Update: I removed the link — the rumor's been denied.]
• Not one of my math papers... but, lamentably, could have been:

• As Christmas approaches, maybe you want to go to E-Bay with your hardcore Star Trek geek in mind, looking for one of these choice items.
• If you can, without using helps or references, tell how this is the alphabet in Star Wars characters — you are too much geek!
• On which subject: Fred Butler found us a chart tracing the evolution of the geek.
• Fred is also concerned that we might not have noted the Yoda backpack in the past. I'm not sure... so here you go.
• Well, except for the A one. That just means you're a longtime BibChr reader.
• American Thinker traces the loss of freedom to an overweening nanny state government in Maryland. Warning, restaurateurs: your legal recipes may be illegal! 
• My J's will love this.
• Looks like more of a statement of fact than a warning or prohibition:

• Which political party would you guess is a Representative who deliberately leaves out "under God" when leading the Pledge of Allegiance? Or one who says that al-Qaeda is "no longer a threat" to the US? Hint: same party. Hint: same person. Give up? Sure you do.
• Similarly, readers Elizabeth Miller and John noted a time the League of Women Voters unsuccessfully tried to omit the Pledge.
• I don't think this Discover article means it the way reader Kerry Garrett is taking it... but I'm with him.

• Reader Greg Long notes that pastors are souring on Obama's job performance. Nice, but to me any disapproval numbers in less than three digits are still shameful.
• Beloved longtime reader Carlo thinks Science may have identified liberalism as a genetic defect. (He notes it may also mean a tendency to ADHD.)
• BTW, if you can get it in time, you might spice up your Diet of Worms cake this Sunday with the world's largest Gummi worm.

• The following picture — my family could tell you a related story in which FedEx does not come off well.

• Sad story of some Britons losing their freedom to nummy-bacon-hating Muslims.
• What's wrong with this sentence? "Personal experience aside, which surfaces a concern about the potential adversarial affect of textbooks to students learning, let;s return to the essential question of learning and how it is best achieved." You say, "The spelling and grammar, that's what's wrong with it." Yes, right — that and the fact that it was written by a school's principal.
• But... what's it keeping closed?

 

• Reader RBeyers noted that you can get your own brand-new 1966-style Batmobile, complete with working jet booster... for a cool $149,999. Line forms at right.
• Faithful long-time readers with mad memory skilz will know that, two years ago, I really struggled for nice things to say about John McCain. Well, now I've got one, seriously. He is campaigning today for Sharron Angle — and his support really may make a positive difference.
• I think I'd have liked this guy (thanks Paula):

• I hate it when this happens:

• Then again, there's this.

Cool Batman!