While this whole SarahK is pregnant thing is going on, posting may occasionally be irregular.

Obama is said to be much more popular in foreign countries than the previous president, and I guess a part of that is if you ever insult him, he will ban you from ever visiting America. I guess one of the perks of being the U.S. President is being able to boss around people from other countries, but it still seems a little harsh. Still, this policy makes sure that in America you won’t run into people who constantly insult the president — other than most Americans, of course.

Represenative Bob Etheridge has a new excuse not to answer questions from people. Last time his excuse was that he’s a violent weirdo who doesn’t like questions, but this time it’s because of cows. Etheridge left an event where he was answering questions an hour early because he got word his cows had gotten out, and apparently that needed his direct supervision. Who knows what happens with his cows if they get out while he’s in DC; I guess they just wreak havoc on the countryside unabated until Etheridge can finally come home and grab them and put them in headlocks and demand to know who they are — which they never answer being that they are cows.

I wonder if this is something we can use against Democrats if they try anything during a lame duck session.

“Now, let’s pass Cap & Trade and amnesty and– I just got a text… Oh no! Please no! The cows have gotten out! I. MUST. STOP. THEM!”

DISCLAIMER: I’ve done some work for the Renee Ellmers campaign and support all cows roaming free.

I guess it’s kinda late to be asking this, but have liberals ever been clear on exactly what why they’re so scared of Palin? They seem to think she’s a crazed extremist, but I’ve never heard what exactly were the crazy extreme policies she had as governor that were so scary. All the Palin objections seem to be of the form of:

“If Palin were elected governor, she’d… uh… Palin us! And… uh… there’s… I think I read somewhere she doesn’t think dinosaurs are really old!”

The biggest reasonable objection I can think to Palin is that she doesn’t have much experience, but liberals can’t make that objection unless they first admit Obama is a huge disaster. There’s also how Palin resigned, but if people don’t like Palin they should like how she resigns public office.

Liberals were really sure Obama would be a smart, great president despite his having no accomplishments to suggest that and they’re sure Palin is a crazed extremists despite there being no evidence from her record in public office to suggest that. We really need to push liberals towards using for actual logic and evidence to reach conclusions instead of making conclusion based on what they really want to be true. Maybe we could get them to watch Mythbusters, though the explosions may scare them.

There is an evil in this land that King Obama warns us of, and that is Bay-nor, the Orange. If the power of the Democrats is lessened, then they will no longer be able to hold him back and he will destroy all we hold dear. Little is known of him other that he hails from the cold, distant lands of Ohio and is sworn enemy of the king.

Aye, but some say he is savior and wishes to remove the foolishness of the king. And other’s say he is just your average, boring Republican. Still, King Obama warns that he is the unknown and should be feared, as does wizened-hag Pelosi.

Then, again perhaps he doesn’t exist at all. I guess I could check Wikipedia on that.

Maybe part of the problem these days is we’re too polite about religion. Basically, in society you either ignore religious differences and act like all religions are the same or you burn Korans, but there isn’t really anything in between. There is no actual public, polite discussion of whether some religions are flawed or some are better than others. That just isn’t done. You all remember the reactions when Brit Hume actually suggested that maybe Christianity was superior Buddhism; that’s something every Christian should believe, but mentioning out loud was national news.

In this country, the civilized view is that religions teach pretty much the same thing and the differences are just a cultural thing — one religion is no better than the other. To even question religion is like making fun of someone’s clothing from their native country (except if you’re an atheist questioning Christians, as they’re not the minority and known to be used to that sort of thing). And if anything bad pops up about a religion, it’s just waved off as extremists without even checking if those tenets are core to the religion or not. But religion is supposed to be more important than that in this country. Most people here call themselves Christians, and Christianity is in direct conflict with the beliefs of Islam, but how many Christians are actually able to argue for the beliefs of Christianity over that of Islam? That’s left for a few kooks shouting about how Mohammad was a pedophile.

Anyway, maybe the reason so many Muslims freak out over silly things like pictures of Mohammad is they aren’t as used to their religion being questioned as Christians in this country are. And they are going to continue to be that way if they get coddled. Basically, the only way to ensure moderation in a religion is to make sure it’s used to polite questioning. There needs to be more of a discussion of religion in this country, and not just in a happy, “Yay all religions!” way. But also not in a shouting “Islam is of the devil!” way. An academic discussion — something you’d think a country as religious as this one would be used to.

So, as I understand it, in Delaware there is a choice for Republicans in the Senate primary this Tuesday between Mike Castle — who is only a Republican because he accidentally mis-filled out his registration but should easily win the general election — and Christine O’Donnell — true-conservative crazed nut who could be beaten in the general election by Alvin Greene. And on one side we have people arguing we’re throwing away an easy election win to vote for a crazy person, while on the other we have that Castle is such a horrible RINO we’ll never be able to live with ourselves.

So who do I support? I just can’t care enough to decide. It’s Delaware. This is a big fight over who gets to represent a tollbooth. And while I guess Senate control might hang in the balance, getting control of the Senate wasn’t the most likely thing and there will be advantages in 2012 to not having control of both houses yet. So, while I’d like us to win the Senate, I’m not going to get to broken up about it if we don’t. And while in general I hate RINOs, it’s Delaware so not a big deal to me.

So, what do you think?