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November 9, 2005

Carnival of the Vanities #164

Here it is, the 164th edition of the Carnival of the Vanities, a collection of user-submitted blog posts from around the web. First submitted is first posted with the posts I think are best at the top. Some are repeat submissions from the Carnival of the Capitalists on Monday. Go figure. Misc. Comments interspersed in italics because I can. Enjoy!.

Editor's Choices

Want to be in the Deck-O-Bloggers? They're Taking nominations.

The MaryHunter at TMH's Bacon Bits presents A Little Partisanship Never Hurt, Right?

Ferdinand T. Cat at Conservative Cat presents Paris Burning for All the Wrong Reasons

Barak at IRIS presents IRIS Exposes 2 Anti-Israel New York Times Falsehoods. This post was picked up directly by Powerline and many others, and indirectly by Andrew Sullivan.

Nick Queen presents Who is Fiddling While Paris Burns? Another Look at France and the Parisian Riots

Nov 3rd.

FMF at Free Money Finance presents Investing Made Easy. A simple guide to investing for the beginner.

Steve Pavlina at Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog presents Million Dollar Experiment

David Porter at Pacesetter Mortgage Blog presents Will Home Equity Prevent the Retirement Dreams of Baby Boomers?

Demosthenes presents Why isn't Joe Wilson Being Proesecuted for Lying to Congress? In light of the recent indictment of Scooter Libby, the
pregnant pause concerning Joe Wilson is becoming unbearable: when will Joe Wilson be proscecuted for lying to Congress? The Senate Intelligence Committee found - on a bipartisan basis - the Joe Wilson's assertions to them were false. Why the double standard about prosecutions? How about Libby could just claim whistleblower protections for exposing the unethical deal of his wife getting him a junket?

J. Fielek at Quibbles-n-Bits presents The Last Bus . 514 Words, G-Rated, an homage to a great person.

Nov. 4th

Sammler at The Stone City presents Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. The empty space between political and scientific prognostication.

CALL at The Clog Almanac presents Hey Mr. Bush Pilot. "Nose down, level the wings, accelerate." Edgy advice on how to recover from a stall, whether you're a pilot or the president, or both.

David Porter at Pacesetter Mortgage Blog presents How to handle a complaint with a Mortgage Lender or Mortgage Broker

Jon P at Dodgeblogium presents Time to Lighten Up

Mike at L&N Line presents TV So Far. "This is my blogmate Chris' review of TV this season. Some people might enjoy his reviews of all the shows. I hope so. Also see all of our movie reviews, if you'd like."

Doug Mataconis at Below The Beltway presents Let's Treat It Like A War . Much has been written about the report in yesterday's Washington Post about the CIA holding captured members of Al Qaeda in "secret prisons" in various Asian and Eastern European countries. Though nobody knows for sure what goes on at these prisons, the implications are clear; Al Qaeda captives are being subjected to various forms of psychological torture in an effort to extract information. This is one of the things that intelligence officers do during wartime, so it should be no surprise at all that it is happening now.

Barry Welford at The Other Bloke's Blog presents Before-Internet and After-Internet - the millennium changes. Many things have changed tumultuously with the Internet, not least marketing. One sign is that Google may be the fourth biggest US media company in advertising revenues next year ahead of NBC Universal and Time Warner. It's tough for CEOs to stay on top of all this.

Ironman at Political Calculations presents Coming Soon to a Gym Near You. Ironman at Political Calculations looks at some truly space-age exercise equipment that might find a place in your local gym.

Jane Dough at Boston Gal's Open Wallet presents Wow - I guess I struck a cord with that last post... as a follow-up to her post on how much do I need for retirement.

Nov. 5th

Dan Melson at Searchlight Crusade presents Tax Treatment of Annuity Withdrawals

Nov. 6th

Jack Cluth at The People's Republic of Seabrook presents And the knucKKKle-dragging troglodytes shall always be among us. When is denying a group it's liberty and dignity acceptable? Texas' Proposition 2 is not the answer.

Elisa Camahort at The Browster Blog presents The Search Conundrum: Information Glut or Insular, Limited Perspective New search tools aim to address informaiton overload, but most do so by limiting your sources. Not the ideal approach.

Don Surber at Don Surber presents A Country Not Worth Defending . I point out the problem with military recruiting is they are not allowed to recruit all youths, just us rural Southern hicks. Ask not what you can do for your country but what your country can do for you.

Suzi Chen at Special Fried Rice presents Telemarketing. Telemarketing from the other side of the phone - what a bad job will do to your soul.

Interested-Participant presents Wild Pussies Squeeze Statehouse Rats. For well over a century, Ohio's elected lawmakers have lived in uncompromised harmony with buck-toothed, omnivorous, and disease-carrying rats. And this isn't true outside Ohio? :)

David St Lawrence at Ripples: post-corporate adventures presents Cool Hunting in C'ville. "Cool" is the wonderfully outrageous activity of using technology for purposes the designers never intended. It arouses our interest so strongly that we emulate it or tell others about it, and thereby start a trend.

Kevin Baker at The Smallest Minority presents Tough History Coming. His take on Peggy Noonan's dystopic op-ed, "A Separate Peace" from last week.

Nov. 7th

Oddybobo at Bobo Blogger presents Flashback of childhood memories.

Marge at DubiousProfundity.com presents Creation

Elie at Elie's Expositions presents Anguished Composure. Part 4 of my series about the loss of his son Aaron.

Wayne Hurlbert at Blog Business World presents Off Topic Searches: Low Return Visitors.

Buckley F. Williams at The Nose On Your Face presents Bird Flu Nails France: Chickens, Cartoon Characters Hardest Hit

Bussorah Merchant at Wicked Thoughts presents Deeper Thoughts. Wicked Thoughts has some deeper thoughts on the Demon Wal-Mart.

John Ray at Dissecting Leftism presents Racial Preference As An Extension Of Kin Preference. John Ray has a brief discussion of a recent academic paper showing racial preference to be related to kin preference.

Ferdinand T. Cat at Conservative Cat presents France Losing Control, Newsweek Stuck on Stupid

Nov. 8th

Big Picture Guy at Big Picture, Small Office presents We Sail in Paper Boats. It’s budget time in the Small Office. There’s a lot of sandbagging going on, but apparently little conviction and no commitment. At least not if you read the body language of Winken, Blinken and Nod.

Elisson at Blog d'Elisson presents Coinage (A Nerdic Rant). A post in which Elisson gripes about the mostly dismal state of our nation's Circulating Coinage.

Adam at Sophistpundit presents Take them out, YOU KNOW THE REASON DAMMIT. Debate with one anti-war commentor; Dr. Zen, one-time host of a controversial installment of COTV. Remember what they say about arguing on the Internet?

Nick Schweitzer at The World According to Nick presents The Sands of Time

Mensa Barbie at Mensa Barbie Welcomes You presents Preservation Theory . Perfect etchings demonstrate a carbon theory. (Nature's ability to secure survival.) Also, catch a Panoramic view of Evolution Lake and the Sipapu Natural bridge (in this post.)

Matt Johnston at Going to the Mat presents Myths and Misconceptions About H.R. 1606 . A bill to make political blogging less regulated dies in the House, but it not nearly as bad as the boogeymen of the reform community would have you think. Say that after you get subpoenaed by the FEC. ;)

Tom Bowler at Libertarian Leanings presents What exactly hath Fitzgerald wrought?. As an unintended consequence of the Fitzgerald's indictment of Scooter Libby, the press may find itself on trial. Will we finally find out Novak's source?

Funk Soul Bruhva at Western Resistance presents Why There Is No Islam Without The Hadiths

Charlie Quidnunc at Rip & Read Blogger Podcast presents Rip & Read #153. Get the blogosphere in your ear with Charlie Quidnunc at the Rip & Read Blogger podcast. This week he covers: #1 Smearing Wilson, #2 The Leaking Culture

Watcher at Watcher of Weasels presents Frog Flambée. Something is a little sour about taking too many shots at France over this (and I'm by no means a France fan). Sure, it took them about 2 weeks to impose a curfew but it isn't like this kind of thing can't happen (and hasn't happened) here.

It Should Be Noted presents Your Move, France.

There we go, that's the carnival. Next week it's at The Examining Room. (insert doctor joke here).

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