The Carnival of Christmas Weekend Open Trackbacks

Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. The reason why is often list in the midst of the current “War on Christmas.” The Carnival of Christmas recognizes that Christmas is the time of Christ’s birth and to us Americans, it is a reminder of all that is good and beautiful even in the midst of this dark winter.

If you’re a blogger, you’re invited to submit your best post to our Carnival of Christmas. After reading our guidelines send us your best post. (limit one post per blogger.) Please join us in celebrating Christmas. Remember submissions will be accepted NO LATER than December 23rd at Midnight MT and the carnival will be up soon after midnight.

Please also e-mail me suggested charities to place at the top of the blog that people can donate to. Your support is greatly appreciated.

Now, welcome to today’s open post/open trackbacks thread. There’s two things you can do today through Sunday at Midnight (trackbacks received after Midnight MT, Sunday night will not be linked to) to get your link on this page:

1) Post about anything that’s in good taste. No porn, no spam, no profanity.

2) Send me a trackback of any tasteful post you want and as soon as I check my blog, I’ll update this post with your link provided you link back to this thread.

For your convenience, here’s the URL for our thread:
http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/index.php/a/2005/12/16/the_carnival_of_christmas_weekend_open_t

And here’s the Trackback:
http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/htsrv/trackback.php/1336

If you don’t have the ability to send trackbacks, use Wizbang’s stand alone Trackback pinger.

Other Parties:
Common Folks Using Common Sense
California Conservative
Conservative Cat
Digger’s Realm
Right Wing Nation
Bloggin’ Out Loud
Jo’s Cafe
TMH Bacon Bits
Cao’s Blog
Third World County
Stop the ACLU
One Big Dog
The Real Ugly American
Right Nation
Peakah’s Provocations

Linking In:

From Stuck on Stupid:

Joshua Sparling’s Tormenter Reveals Himself?
The person who sent the Letter to Joshua Sparling telling him to die is allegedly Michael Crook who was on Hannity and Colmes earlier this year. The Political Teen has that video here. This is an excerpt from his blog: Yes I did it Submitted by michae…

And

Riviera Beach Officials Backpedal
Riviera Beach officials are starting to backtrack a little from the land grab that is about to take effect in that community. Now Mayor Brown,an eminent domain lawyer, claims that the land grab won’t be as large as originally planned. This from the Pa…

From Freedom Folks:

Christmas Parody Songs
Get ‘em while they’re hot, folks!

From Otimaster:

Una Repubblica fondata sulla mediocrità
L’altro giorno nel titolare “La Democrazia è la più grand’offesa che sia stata fatta agli uomini intelligenti” il post sull’ennesima sciocchezza detta dal bollito, non avevo nessun’intenzione di scomodare Socrate, ma evidentemente suscita più interes…

From All Things Beautiful

Europe Thy Name Is Cowardice
“It’s fascinating that this should come out of Europe. Mathias Dapfner, Chief Executive of the huge German publisher Axel Springer AG, has written a blistering attack in DIE WELT, Germany’s largest daily paper, against the timid reaction of Europe in t…

From MacStanbury:

Obsessed with losing
As Brett pointed out below, Iraq had its 3rd country wide vote. (You can find more information about the vote itself here, if you’re interested)

And while I am completely thrilled and excited by the idea of Iraqi’s embracing democracy, I…
From The Peace Moonbeam Chronicles:

Not So Silent Night
December 17, 2005 Undercover Last Tuesday
I agreed to join my activist friend Nate and a couple of his friends on a mission to eliminate overtly religious symbolism from public places. Our target was a large Catholic church that was

From Digger’s Realm:

A Calculator For Properly Pricing Your BlogAds And Sponsorships
The act of properly pricing your BlogAds and sponsorships on your website could mean the difference between getting consistent revenue and locking up real estate on your website at an under priced value. If you sell a spot for too…

From Random Yak

“Iran says “Oops,” then Did it Again

Oops. Apologies. Mea Culpa. Sorry. Jumped the shark on that one.In a move worthy of the “shoulda expected that” award, the Iranian Secretary of the Interior, Mostafa PourMohammadi,
From The Cracked Door:

Does a mature Christian really need human friends?

This question arose in a recent discussion;

Shouldn’t a strong Christian be able to live without people? Isn’t God supposed to be more than enough? If you’re mature then you don’t need anybody except God! Therefore, does a mature Christian really need human friends?

From The Business of America is Business:

My First BlogAd
As my regular readers know, last month I reported on my economic analysis of BlogAds. Doing so got me thinking that perhaps I could increase the visibility of my blog by purchasing ads on high-traffic blogs with like-minded readers. This…

And

Sand and Deliver
As many of my regular readers know, I am teaching this year in the United Arab Emirates, at the American University of Sharjah, just outside of Dubai. One topic which gets frequently discussed around the water cooler is the…

From Freedom Folks:

Iraqis Vote, Lefties Whine
Just read this excellent take on yesterday’s Iraqi elections and the lefties who can’t stand it.

and:

Words of Wisdom from Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman says the concept of a month dedicated to black history is “ridiculous.”

as well as:

A Little Help Please

This is unbelievably last minute, I know and I’m sorry.

Mj and I are currently working on a ‘war on Christmas’ version of Mr. Grinch.

Here’s how you can help.

Also:

Who Voted Mexico into Congress?
The Mexican government slammed the U.S. Congress for approving an immigration bill that would tighten border controls and make it harder for undocumented immigrants to get jobs.

From The Florida Masochist:

Today’s winners are The Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Tampa Tribune, Bradenton Herald and WFLA-TV News Channel 8. They won their lawsuit against the state of Florida to be able to view the autopsy photos of Carlie Brucia. I blogged about this in an earlier post here.

and

Awards, Knuckleheads, and a few blogging notes
Some things going on in the blogosphere

as well as:

Anyone need a 2.1 tonnes paperweight?
What the heck are the thieves going to do with this?

as well as

The Knucklehead of the Day award
Today’s winner is London University College Professor Mary Fulbrook.

From Don Surber

NYT reports Bush authorized domestic spying on al-Qaeda following 9/11. The spies didn’t have a court order in all cases. I am supposed to get all worked up over this.
But my gut reaction is good. Thank God he was president instead of Gore or Kerry, b…

and:

Friendly Fire In The War On Christmas
The Nova Scotia Power Company gave its customers the gift of energy efficiency this Christmas. Nova Scotia Power invited its customers to turn in their old lights for new energy efficient lights. It handed out 2,000 sets. Municipalties were also given these new efficient lights to put on their trees. Another 1,000 sets were given to food banks to hand out. Nova Scotians would feel a warm glow from their new bright lights.

as well as:

Podcast: The Littlest Marine

Brandon Rasnick always wanted to be a Marine, which means he had wanted to be a Marine for six years. That is how old he is.
On Monday, his wish came true.

and also:

Latest Lefty Lunacy
Libs are quoting Ben Franklin this weekend. That can only mean one thing, their George Bush Is The Real Terrorist Alert is up to fuchsia.
Oh no. They might have to wake up Babs Streisand to issue a scathing statement.

So what “essential liberty” are …

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