Must read du jour: Soros funded election fraud

"With a mere investment of $780,000 Soros and his allies were able to suborn free elections in the states of Montana, West Virginia, Missouri, Oregon, in 2008, and in Minnesota, Ohio, New Mexico, Nevada and Iowa, in 2006.

How did he achieve so much with so little? He founded a 527 group which funded candidates in one kind of race in which the victor has the most influence over election integrity, and in which there is so little political competition: the Secretaries of State."

Matthew Vadum, writing at Spectator.org, has details on how each Secretary of State whose election was funded by Soro's Secretary of State project is associated with election fraud and voter fraud.

The physics of space battles.

19 weird nativity sets.

Top 10 quirky science tricks for Christmas parties.

Anti-invisible cloak technology.

Salami battle in supermarket leaves Germans in hospital.

A Catalog of Nautilus Designs.

Motorcycle with built in rocket launchers.

London Skyline Recreated Using Vegetables.

Cow jumps six feet on to roof.

How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves.

Periodic table of beer.

Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them.

100 Greatest Quotes from The Wire.

Kung fu monkeys.

Video of the day: "The Known Universe". Related: Powers of Ten.

The evolution of cooking with weed.

Remember how in True Blood (and the related books) the vampires stop hiding because of the invention of synthetic blood? Well, it's here.

Re-Education

By John Feeney at America's Right.

"I have been re-educated.

My worldview has understandably been corrected. Whereas for much of my life I always believed in the goodness of the United States of America, I now see that this country and everything for which it stands is a corrupt, irredeemable, and immoral fraud. Our Founding Fathers were nothing other than racist, slave-owning pigs more bent on protecting their own financial assets than they were in actually creating a land in which all people could thrive and be free.

I can’t believe that I never saw it before. The degree of my shame is so pronounced that it sickens me. Thank God--if there is one--that liberalism has brought me to my senses."

Dr. Zero - The Chimera

Right on target and with some really spiffy metaphors, as usual:

"In Greek mythology, the Chimera was a monster with a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail. The term has come to be synonymous with nightmares and illusions. Modern America is infested with these monsters, and politicians are very dedicated to fighting them… with swords forged from billions of tax dollars, and shields woven from the dessicated remains of your shriveled liberties.

The proponents of Big Government programs frequently excuse their waste and inefficiency by hinting at the terrible things that would have happened, if they had not taken expensive action. The recent stimulus bill, a fountain of pork-barrel waste and theft, is defended in these terms."

Obama "passion" index at -19

“23% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -19. Today is the second straight day that Obama’s Approval Index rating has fallen to a new low. Prior to the past two days, the Approval Index had never fallen below -15 during Obama’s time in office.”

"Somewhat approve" remains at 46%.

Federal bureaucrat of the week

Your tax dollars at work, paying this guy's salary, and his hotel bill. He serves as a director of industry operations for ATF:

"A technician who was summoned Nov. 30 tracked the alarm problem to the second-floor room registered to Vanderwerf, the arrest report said. Inside, staffers found the smoke detectors in the bedroom and kitchen-den had been removed and the horn that blares alarms was hanging out of the wall.

But the staffers and a deputy sheriff also discovered that someone had removed the bedroom door from its hinges and replaced it with a 5-by-4-foot piece of plywood affixed to the frame and the drywall with hinges and screws, the arrest report said. The door had two locks attached from the bedroom side and a circular hole padded with duct tape. The deputy noted in the arrest report that the hole appeared to be used "in some sort of sexual act."

via Dan Riehl.

Video: Lord Monckton adresses a Greenpeace-campaigner on global warming

I'm unsure who Lord Monkton is (since I'm American, after all, and ignorant), but he very politely (and Socratically!) shoots down a fervent Greenpeace campaigner, who, to her credit, remains gracious throughout.

via Instapundit.