Vote for the Yak and Then Trackback (Midweek Open Trackbacks Party)

Our buddy, The Random Yak is up for a Weblog Award as one of the Top blogs ranked between 5001-6750. Cast your vote here. The reason we’re promoting the Yak here is because he’s been a good friend of the site and has an advantage on the other choices in that his name rhymes with Trackback.

So after you vote for the Yak, vote in our presidential primary poll for 2008. Rudy Giuliani’s in the lead. However, with 1 week of voting left, your vote matters in this poll (especially with only 42 votes cast so far), your vote can make a big difference. If you haven’t voted, please vote now.

I should note that you’ll notice a few differences between this and other polls.

1) This poll has no Condi Rice, no Jeb Bush, and no Marc Sanford. The reason for this is that these candidates have already declared themselves not in the running and I see no point having a poll with candidates who’ve said no in the strongest possible terms.

2) This poll is set up using Single Transferable Vote. While of debatable merit in real life elections, in this pre-presidential poll, it answers some important questions. My poll lists 15 candidates for President, the odds of all running are quite thin. With STV, if a Candidate finishes in last place their votes are transferred to their second preference which means that we can see who may have a chance of garnering a majority of Republican votes. This is important because a lot of candidates start only to drop out before the first primary or even after some of those pre-primary events like the Iowa Strawpoll.

3) For Reference you can read my Picking the President series where I endorse Mark Pence, but I discuss all 15 Candidates in this poll.

Today’s poll is brought to you by:

Remember, get your Christmas posts ready for The Carnival of Christmas which is three weeks away.

Now, without further adieu, here’s our trackbacks post:

Now, welcome to today’s open post/open trackbacks thread. There’s two things you can do today or Wednesday (trackbacks received after 10 PM MDT, 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/2005/12/06/vote_for_the_yak_and_then_trackback_midw

And here’s the Trackback:
http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/htsrv/trackback.php/1277

Other Parties:
Pursuing Holiness
Conservative Cat
Basil’s Blog
Right Wing Nation
Third World County
Blogging Out Loud
NIF
Stuck on Stupid
Caos Blog

Linking In:

from: Random Yak
Web Award Picks, part deux
Moving Right along, the yaks endorse the following additional candidate in the 2005 Weblog Awards (bearing in mind that our endorsements are first to read these blogs regularl

Telchai Nation with:

Sister Toldjah and Cuanas report that Sami Al-Arian, the Florida professor and Islamic terrorist supporter who arranged meetings with one of the culprits in the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, has been aquitted on all 8 terror-related charges,…

The Conservative Cat with:

Stupid Spammer Tricks and The Weather Guy
As always, I am continually amazed at the combination of cleverness and rank stupidity behind spamming. The fake Rolex EMAIL spammers have begun using a technique in which they prefix each message with a personal little blurb. The idea is…

From Don Surber: After Hours:

The War On Happy Holidays
So let me get this straight, Jerry Falwell is leading a boycott against a chain of stores because clerks there say “Happy Holidays.”

from: Is It Just Me?
Post Insinuates Sanctions Caused Iranian C-130 Cr
A C-130 (American made) military cargo plane crashed into a military based apartment building in Iran killing 94 passengers onboard and at least 24 on the ground. The Washington Post reports:

from: The Real Ugly American
Reasons I Dislike USC and Why Texas Will Destroy Them In The Rose Bowl Volume 2
So here is volume 2 of the reasons I dislike USC and Why Texas will Destroy them in the Rose Bowl. This feature will continue until they are crushed at the Rose Bowl or until I am selected in the MSM Blogger Draft being conducted over at Hughhewitt.com…

IRIS with

Princeton Censors Ex-PLO Speakers; Likely to Hire PLO Professor
Princeton U. Says Campus Event Against Terrorism is “Too Inflammatory”
Princeton University has cancelled a speaking event by three former Middle East terrorists because it says that the use of the word “terrorist” in the promotion for the event is “too

TMH Bacon Bits with:

Why Do Liberals Hate Bush?
Yes, the party of deceit hates Bush, because they hate truth – and Bush is a refreshingly truthful man. They fear his truth, because they know it can defeat their lies.

And

From Russia To Iran Via Gore
A decade ago, Al Gore was making a secret deal with a Russian gangster that would allow Russia to sell hi-tech missiles to Iran, which might prevent us from taking out Iranian nukes (should we need to).

from: freedom folks
Artfully Drawn Districts
Tom DeLay has been in the news again recently regarding the redrawing of political districts in Texas. I’ll be honest — I haven’t been following that closely, so I’m not up on all the facts.

and:

The Chicago Way
Mexican drug—you‘re not going to believe this—Mexican drug cartels are running marijuana farms in the United States.

Israpundit with:

Mission Retreat
By Ted Belman I decided to look how the US mission has changed over the years since 9/11. I was going to write an article but after collecting segments of key speeches by Bush in the first six months after…

and

Saudis have radicalized 80% of US mosques
By HAVIV RETTIG, JPOST Mainstream US Muslim organizations are heavily influenced by Saudi-funded extremists, according to Yehudit Barsky, an expert on terrorism at the American Jewish Committee. Worse still, Barsky told The Jerusalem Post last week, th…

from: The Florida Masochist
Are Howard Dean and Frank Rich the same person?

So its been done before. The Democrats claim Republicans live in the past, when it so often is them in reality. I wouldn’t give much credence to anything Governor Dean says, he is either small minded or don’t know what he is saying more often than no…

And:
Bogus Excuse #2
That the person means something entirely different. Case in point here. Judith Miller is no longer working for the NY Times, Scooter Libby is under indictment and now Valerie Plame is leaving the CIA. My view on this entire story remains unchanged.

and:

Could have been handled differently
Ms. Siegel got herself into this mess no question about it. The City of Tequesta sold the debt to a Lake Worth LLC. Everything was legal and by the law. But still this is a sad story. How does it feel Tequesta to evict an old lady? I’d have a bad tas…

as well as

100 years of Filipinos in Hawaii and legal immigra
They are hardworking people who have added much to this country. Why then do some in the anti-illegal immigration crowd want to limit legal aliens too? I’m no fans of illegals, read this post. This country does have a need for legal immigrants and th…

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