The Last Trackback Party Before the Carnival of Christmas

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. Any Post not following the guidelines will not be included. 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. We also greatly appreciate bloggers promoting the Carnival of Christmas on their site.

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.

There are only 3 submitting days before the Carnival is up. We have several special needs. A few more religious pieces would be helpful as well as “Christmas Wishes” posts where you simply make a short post wishing us all a Merry Christmas. We have more than 20 pieces in the Carnival, so its going to be a great time and we hope to have you join us.

Note: There will be no Open Trackbacks this weekend because it’ll be Christmas. Our next Trackback Party will be Tuesday, December 27th.

Now, welcome to today’s open post/open trackbacks thread. There’s two things you can do today or Tomorrow (trackbacks received after Midnight MT, Wednesday 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/2005/12/20/the_last_trackback_party_before_the_carn

And here’s the Trackback:
http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/htsrv/trackback.php/1357

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

Other Parties:
Pursuing Holiness
Bright and Early
Conservative Cat
Jo’s Cafe
Is It Just Me?
Third World County
Basil’s Breakfast
Choose Life

Linking in:

From Tidbits and Treasures:

Checking The List
We have a little over 3 days until Christmas Day. Hopefully, we have checked the list, bought those last minute gifts, and ready to cook that big Christmas feast. But, if you have not checked the list lately, maybe now is the time.

From Telchai Nation

Benjamin Netanyahu wins big 47% in four-man…
Okay, tonight, the results so far are in for the Likud primaries, and it looks like Benjamin Netanyahu’s won by a 15 percent margin over Silvan Shalom for chairmanship.

From The Real Ugly American:

the Washington Monthly Whackos are off the chart:

Of course, given the one-party autocracy of the present incarnation of Republicans, and their lust for executive power, I doubt if we’ll be seeing any small or big “d” Democratic presidents any time …

From The Business of America is Business

hat Conflict of Interest?
As is now widely known, Linda Foley, President of The Newspaper Guild, a union representing media workers, made the following remarks during a speech toThe National Conference For Media Reform on May 13, 2005: “Journalists, by the way, are…
From Ravenwood Universe:

Carnival of the Vanities 170
It’s that time of year again. The holidays are upon us, and the internet will soon slow to a crawl as bloggers of all faiths spend more time with their families, take vacations, or just sit back and relax. But…

Random Yak with:

Things I learned while Christmas shopping
It rained this weekend. Hard. Too hard to go Christmas shopping (at least without an ark). This weekend was also the last decent shopping weekend before Christmas, and the last shopping weekend, period, for anyone (like a c

Don Suber with:

The War Against Hannukah
… or how the ACLU tried to put the lights out on a Jewish holiday.

and

I Knew It
When this latest faux scandal broke over the mionitoring of phone calls to al-Qaeda operatives broje I knew it stunk and I knew its practice had precedent. Today’s Drudgereport confirms the latter.
His scoop is that both Clinton and Carter did the sam…

Freedom Folks with

I Just Stepped in a Pile of Crap
I read and blogged about this article smearing the Chicago Minuteman Project.

What really disturbed me about the article was the complete lack of effort to report news, rather than conveying an opinion. On a scale of journalistic integrity, I’d gi…

and:

Lieberman Attacked for Having a Mind of His Own
Democrats in Connecticut are so disturbed by Sen. Joe Lieberman’s stance on the war in Iraq that some are calling for a primary challenge against him in 2006.
The Florida Masochist with

The Knucklehead of the Day
Today’s winner is the Transport Workers Union.

and

Troubling
You combine this with the recent NSA story, and I am just having a hard time swallowing all of this. I know we’re at war, but the evidence continues to mount that our government in Washington feels its free to do anything it wants. Constitution or no…

As Well As:

Odd and Odder
Can a state’s chief executive be committed?

and

Give money to charity but……
do a little homework first. Here is an article from the Tampa Tribune. Some charities spend up to 90% on overhead. From my telemarketing experience, I know how little some charities get from the companies they hire who do their calling. That’s before…

as well as

If you break the law- don’t blog about it
A Florida teenager is learning just that. Blake Ranking admitted to his responsibility in the DUI death of a friend. This blog entry was used against Ranking who pleaded guilty to the charges and faces sentencing on December 29th.

I’m certain they…