JUST NBC THE BIAS BY OMISSION: After Promising ‘We’ll Get to Libya a Little Bit Later’ in His Show, NBC’S David Gregory Does…168 Hours Later.

SHOWING UP: My Sunday Washington Examiner column: The Ground Glass Election. Based on this quote from a blog commenter: “Romney was not my first, second, or third choice, but I will crawl over ground glass to vote for him.”

MICKEY KAUS: How Sandy Hurts Obama.

#GREENFAIL: BP Plant Cancellation Darkens Cellulosic Ethanol’s Future.

When BP backed out of building a $350 million, 36-million-gallon-per-year plant in Highlands County, Florida, last week, the cellulosic biofuels industry, which tries to make fuel from grass and wood chips, lost one of its most promising projects. The cancellation raises the question, if BP can’t bring cellulosic ethanol to market, can anyone?

BP had already started developing a 20,000-acre farm to grow special crops for the plant, such as a type of sugarcane that produces larger amounts of biomass and less sugar than the kind used to make sugar and ethanol in Brazil. As recently as last year, the CEO of BP Biofuels touted the project as evidence that “the technology is coming through” and a new “global commodity is starting to emerge.”

But the cellulosic industry is struggling, despite years of promises and an ambitious federal renewable fuels standard, which took effect in 2010, that mandates a market for cellulosic ethanol that was to have reached 500 million gallons per year by now and a billion by next year. The first commercial plant hasn’t been built, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has had to repeatedly waive the cellulosic ethanol requirement. At first, biofuels companies blamed the lack of commercial facilities on their inability to finance large plants. When a few big players like BP stepped in to say they’d finance plants, it looked like that problem was about to be swept away.

Now that BP has backed out, prospects look considerably dimmer.

Wait, you can’t just regulate a new technology into existence? Why weren’t we told? Oh, right. . . .

HUGE CROWD PACKS ROMNEY RALLY IN BUCKS COUNTY, PA: Photos at link.

UPDATE: Live Stream of rally currently online at C-Span.

BAD NEWS: Mitt Romney’s not scoring points with the French media.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? John Cusack Developing Rush Limbaugh Biopic.

Rush could have a lot of fun with Cusack by publicly asking him if he’s in favor of repealing the Hollywood tax cuts…

REPORT: BLOOMBERG DENIED NATIONAL GUARD ASSISTANCE IN BROOKLYN BECAUSE OF THEIR POSSESSION OF GUNS:

Mayor Bloomberg has snubbed Borough President Markowitz’s impassioned plea to bring the National Guard to Hurricane Sandy-scarred Brooklyn — arguing that approving the Beep’s request would be a waste of federal manpower and turn the borough into a police state.

“We don’t need it,” Mayor Bloomberg said on Wednesday during a press update on the city’s ongoing Hurricane Sandy cleanup. “The NYPD is the only people we want on the street with guns.”

I would hope Bloomberg works hard at vociferously denying the accuracy of this story, because otherwise, as Jazz Shaw writes at Hot Air, “I’m not sure, but I think we’re witnessing the complete implosion of somebody who was once considered a pretty influential politician on the rise. Yes, Bloomberg doesn’t much care for the Second Amendment and doesn’t want people to have guns. We get it. But we’re talking about the National Guard here. Has this guy completely lost his mind?”

And speaking of Northeast Corridor governors who may or may not have national ambitions, Jonathan S. Tobin of Commentary asks, “What’s Going on With Chris Christie?”

I’M SAUL ALINSKY, AND I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE: Steven Crowder uses own words of Biden, Reid to troll the Left.

STEPHEN GREEN: Jazz & Cocktails.

WAIT, I THOUGHT OBAMA SAID HE WAS THE PROP IN THE CAMPAIGN, NOT THE REST OF US: NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie: Hurricane Moment ‘Handed To Obama From Above.’

Rooting for hurricanes, yet again.

TARNISHED SILVER: Assessing the new king of stats, from Colby Cosh in Canada’s Maclean’s magazine.

On the other hand, “Paul Krugman and Nate Silver agree: New York Times reporting is ‘lazy’ and ‘stupid,’” so he’s got that going for him, at least.

UNDER A RED STATE SKY: Romney-Ryan, live at Red Rocks. A remixed version of the clip, featuring the “Flying Home” tune from the movie Kick Ass is here.

THE LONG ISLAND JEWISH STAR ENDORSES ROMNEY, via column written by Blogosphere favorite “Yid with Lid.”

THE MOST REVEALING MOMENT OF THE CAMPAIGN? “Look, I don’t doubt his personal generosity.”

HOBBITS NEVER BRING OVERSIZE CARRYONS: Middle Earth beckons in Air New Zealand safety video.

CHRIS WALLACE MAKES AXELROD SQUIRM: “In the process, [David Axelrod] effectively created a free one-minute web ad for the Republicans where we can see a top Democratic spokesman tacitly concede the claims of the Republican party about Ohio early voting.” Watch here.

THEY TOLD GLENN REYNOLDS THAT IF HE VOTED REPUBLICAN, HE’D SEE A PRESIDENT RELEASE AN AD “CITING MORAL, BIBLICAL BACKGROUND” FOR HIS ADMINISTRATION’S POLICIES – and they were right!

I’D CRAWL OVER BROKEN GLASS TO VOTE AGAINST THIS IDIOT: Video: Vagina 2012. Never mind the lies about Romney’s platform. It’s dwarfed by the image of this woman dressed as a vagina, reducing herself AND ALL OTHER WOMEN to the sum of their reproductive organs.  I can’t say it here, because it’s Glenn’s blog, and Glenn is a nice man, but if you’re a word that starts with t, then vote like a that word.  However, if you’re a human being, with a lot of other parts besides what’s between your legs, vote for Romney.  Maybe the poor woman in the ad will be shocked enough by the results to join a twelve step program and learn to stop demeaning herself.  I wanted to find this funny, but I’m actually PHYSICALLY ill at watching that.

BIDEN DOES IT AGAIN: President Who?

NOT ENOUGH OF ‘EM, ALAS: Will Law Students Have Jobs After They Graduate?

HATING BREITBART, RACE, AND ELECTION 2012: “Let’s go out and win this one for Andrew,” Roger L. Simon writes. Read the whole thing.

FIGHTING SPIRIT: 27 Injured In Air Force Academy Brawl.

THE YEAR VAGINAS JUMPED THE SHARK: What women want.

OBAMA’S KATRINA? America’s Northeast Suffers As President Puts Re-Election Ahead Of Relief.