The Anchoress

Project Valor, a yearly effort to raise funds to buy Voice-Activated Laptops for OUR Injured Troops, is once again underway. I just donated via Confederate Yankee, and ended up on the Air Force team but Ed Morrissey has a Navy widget up if you like. Sister Toldjah’s got the mean, green Gyrenes and Army Wife Toddler Mom brings up the rear. In a good way. Help if you can, it’s a great cause.

I worked hard to impress upon my children the evils of smoking. Seems I’ve screwed up their healthcare!.

And don’t worry about the smoke causing global warming, because that part about it being manmade is still not as settled as some want you to believe. That’s because the climate is very complex. So, it’s hard to simplify it all down to “buy my carbon offsets to save the world”.

Well, I agree with this woman, but here is what I don’t understand…how come Peter Paul has “no credibility” because he has a criminal record, but Sandy Berger still has enough credibility to be one of Hillary’s “advisers” and a sure-bet hireling in her presumptive administration? How can some criminals be more credible than others? I know, I’m so dumb, sometimes. But I’m smart enough to know that Rudy is quite right, and that socialized medicine does not work.

Socialized Medicine doesn’t work in Canada, or the UK, or in France. Why does she want to bring that unworkable model - one which seems to hold life rather cheap when considering costs - here? I mean…one would think it was all about power and control, or something.

If we win in Iraq, this is a bad thing? Only for some. And you have to wonder about that. Ron Silver, feeling satirical, writes on one way to get the world to like us and end the Iraq war.

Congress just gets worse and worse. The Porkbarrel spending is not enough. Now, they want to save their jobs by further limiting free speech. What a crew! My do-nothing congressman is going to be there forever and ever - he’s all anyone knows. And all they know about him is his name, which pops up in the streets and on the telephone polls every 18 months, and then goes back out of sight. I’m almost tempted to say “all whose names you recognize on that ballot? Don’t vote for them - vote for the other guys!” At this point voting for unknowns can’t be any worse than what we’ve got in DC.

I’m not really feeling Halloweeny, but here is a list of top horror flicks. But even better, Brian Saint-Paul over at InsideCatholic links to Orson Welles’ great Halloween radio broadcast from nearly 70 years ago, and he’s right, it does hold up well. Enjoy that! I remember my parents talking about how many people actually believed we were being invaded by men from Mars!

Speaking of flicks, I’ve had a few emails from Catholics and pro-lifers asking me why I haven’t written about the film “Bella.” Well, it’s because I haven’t seen it. But reviews seem to be mixed. Singer Tony Bennet loves it. Barbara Nicolosi is underwhelmed. Deacon Greg is withholding judgment until he sees it himself.

A glowing Sister Francesca makes her first vows.

Here is one for your headerbar: Media Mythbusters is a wiki being maintained specifically to keep track of and document those instances where media either selectively edit or omit something or get a story wrong and then keep on getting it wrong until the myths and narratives are well established. A good resource, and they’re just getting started.

Here is a different keeper: Einstein quotes from Doug Ross.

Got a religious group near you? That’s to your good.

Got gold?

That’s probably it for me today. Working on a prayer shawl, and want to finish it quickly.