• A Bible quiz from the top of the hill (not over it!).

• Two for WFB, his desk (I have sympathy as I struggle with the messy desk “thing”) and some quotes.
• The essential dishonesty of Obama’s claims of bi-partisanship explained in the context of the judiciary. Wolf in sheep’s clothing.
• Fasting and Lent … fast approaching, a good discussion.
• Heh.
• Ohio and jobs.

• Che and the other side at The Belmont Club.
• Unimpressed by the honesty of the Islamic clerical letter.
• Another, Kim Zigfeld, is unimpressed by the honesty of the New York Times.
• Don’t try that here! Please.
• If temperatures had gone up this year by .6-.7C you know we’d not be hearing the end of it. But they went down, very dramatically … globally. Curious about the deafening silence on that from the global warming crowd. One wonders how they rationalize that little discrepancy. It is suspected (no link) by some that a unexpected low in sunspot activity and solar output is the cause. We’ll see if the solar output theories of global climate come back (and the dissipation of Saturn rings and Mars warming re-appears in discussions of climate).

Well, I was taken by the flu for a bit, which is the reason for the absence of yesterday’s “things heard” posting.

• Growing up and being adult, a thing more and more not done.
• The price of the false positive, and a question on the frequency of error.
• On Obama and the Captain.
• Just a little partisan.
• Ecumenism via music.

5 by 5? Hmm. For those curious, the XvY notion I’m using is sort of tracking how long I’ve been doing the “Things Heard” feature here on SCO. The X is a week number, Y is the day of the week (weekdays 1-5).

• Heroism, meant somewhat ironically.
• Fun with automated translators.
• Will Islam view this suggestion as they do Danish cartoonists? Or will the ivory tower walls shield the author?
• An abortion proposal to test the honesty of the “safe, legal, and rare” claim.
• Obama, dishonest or stupid?

• Jihadist is “out”, how about “evil scum” as a replacment? That has a direct meaning and some preschool charm. I wonder, in Kantian fashion, what would happen if that term was universalized.
• Box cutter found noted at Evil Scum Watch.
• The main al-Qaeda evil scum in Iraq who lead the move to recruiting girls from mental hospitals and using them as bombs … caught.
• A Lenten litany.
• A “hope” gap? Read the concluding paragraph.

• I did a short unnoticed piece in which I wondered which historical figures our three candidates resemble, here’s one: Obama as Putin?
• Now there is an ugly phrase, “soft eugenics”.
• A suggestion for McCain’s running mate.
• A Fidel fan in the media.
• My first glance (wrong as usual) was that “terp” was a type of turtle. Citizenship for the terps? I’d vote yes.
• Bob Geldof praises Bush on Africa.

• Mr Obama and church and state examined.
• Abortion, Jesus, and the modern philosopher. A really interesting twist to the debate, in denying what I’d previously called the Pontius Pilate defense of abortion.
• For your prayer list.
• One of my all time favorite musical compositions.
• On income inequality, in Bottom Billion it is noted that statistically income inequality has no correlation with outbreak of civil unrest or war.

I’m not going to note this every week or post, but the “things heard” are culled from a longer weekday/daily link list on my personal blog.

• A roundup of comments on Rowan Williams and his comment kerfuffle regarding Sharia law.
• Contra-touchy-feely ministering.
• Defining religious freedom down.
• On the right to live or die and who has the right to make that decision?
• Three hardened reprobates, if I’m any judge. 😉

Missed out during traveling (and server woes) yesterday.

• Jury and Jihad down under.
• Watching East.
• Evaluating the Clinton candidacy.
•  Messianic hopes assigned to Obama noted. Here too.
• One good way to appreciate your freedom.
• In Iraq, women.
• Inconvenient for the inconvenient truthers.

• Speaking of heretics, a heretic and a man utterly devoted to evil noted at Faithworld.
• Turkey and the headscarf.
• Art and the Word. Blech.
• Regional differences in the grieving process. (heh)
• Considering the three contenders for the American crown.

• Literature backing McCain (follow the link).
• Kos. Anti-American?
• Happy new year! And a fine label for the election season.
• CEO payscales as a carrot for the rest of us.
• de-Nazification deplored.
• Trash and the soul.

• Philosophers love maxims.
• The hubris of the pro-abortion professional.
• Global warming … or not?
• A comparison progressives and not so progressives.
• Jurists and the candidates.

• Lent. Here a poem, a link collection, one view from the East (dry mustard, btw),  a prayer,  some reflection, a closing of comments and other things, Fat Tuesday, some more reflection.
• A poem offered in the aftermath of the elections.
• Who is Linux, for those who loath Microsoft and find Apple to be worse.
• A bear of Iran in Poland. Famous too.
• Spencer on Islam, Christianity and slavery at On the Square.

• Hannah Montana from the point of view of the serious fellow First Things guys at On The Square.
• For super Tuesday a suggestion.
• Myanmar, a picture.
• Literature spanning views on life and death. ”
  

  Finally told me, said: I don’t like the way this country is headed. I want my granddaughter to be able to have an abortion. And I said well mam I don’t think you got any worries about the way the country is headed. The way I see it goin I don’t have much doubt but what she’ll be able to have an abortion. I’m goin to say that not only will she be able to have an abortion, she’ll be able to have you put to sleep. Which pretty much ended the conversation.”

• Lessons on leading and leadership.

Round the web:

• An impact on separation from culture for evangelism.
• Doomed to repeat?
• Mr Obama bought ad-time during the Superbowl. One succinct summary of the message, “I will end the politics of division by attractively stipulating the correctness of my views and thus implying that those who don’t agree are ugly and want to perpetuate the politics of division. It’s a version of what I labeled several years ago as the “passive aggressive tyranny trick.” Heh.
•  Al-Qaeda in Bagdahd used two women with Down’s Syndrom as bomb carriers, apparently unbeknownst to them. A comparison to the Western practice of aborting the same.