Welcome to the premiere performance of the Bestofme Symphony. Participation has been fantastic with 28 entries in this first edition. Like any good symphony, you'll find a lot of individual sounds that have been coalesced into one. I'm very happy to be offering some of the best stuff in the Blogosphere for your reading pleasure.

Comments on presentation and content, future Symphonies, etceteras are appreciated. If bloggers out there would link to this it would help enormously to get this meme launched in grand style and I'd be eternally grateful. Well, maybe not eternally, but at least until something really important pushed it out of the swiss cheese I like to call a brain.

Without further ado, the Symphony begins: more...

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Go vote!

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The Letter of the Day is was "P".

"P" is for Pork, as in "Pork Barrel Spending".

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Kevin at Wizbang has just found out that he's out of a job. 3 weeks before Christmas.

If you've got some spare some change, please consider dropping it in his tip jar.

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I just read a very touching story about Don's first love.

Were you in love the first time you said "I love you"? I don't mean to your Mom, now. I'm talking about a parternship type relationship. Unless that was with your Mom, of course. In that case i do mean your Mom. Sicko.

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It's time to vote for the 3rd (and final, since Helen has retired) Survivor Immunity. This is the big one. The immunity winner will decide which of the other two stays on the island with him.

I know that y'all want to vote for me but I'm not allowed to tell you which entry is mine. Just vote for the best one and I'll do fine. ;-)

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The much touted (and quite cool) Map of the Blogosphere has a detail map of Munuvia. Snuz is over there in the East, as is proper.

But what's that in the Southeast corner of Munuvia? Why, it's the province of Visbangius. Wizbang is but the first blog to fall to the plans of Munuvian blogosphere domination. Next we will annex Anti-Com.

Look out, y'all! The Munus are coming!

(Credit to LeeAnn for the Munuvia detail.)

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(From ScrappleFace)

U.S. President George Bush today converted from Christianity to Islam, declared himself to be a Grand Ayatollah and issued a fatwa, a religious edict, against those who have slowed the transition to democracy in Iraq.

The move comes as the Bush administration faced increasing criticism that it was trying to impose its brand of American democracy upon Iraq. The Washington Post reported today that Coalition transition efforts had faltered because an influential cleric had declared a fatwa against allowing foreigners to write the new Iraqi constitution.

"It's good to see that the Bush administration finally understands how to get things done in Iraq," said one unnamed member of the provisional Iraqi Governing Council. "All of this 'cultivating stakeholder buy-in' may work at IBM, but we Shiites wait until an influential ayatollah tells us what to do."

In Mr. Bush's first official statement after the Rose Garden fatwa-signing ceremony, Islam's newest Grand Ayatollah said, "Death to the infidel Baathists with their shoulder-fired rockets. Their blood will turn the sand red, God be willing. May God show them His wrath and give them what they deserve."

(Hat tip to Dopple-G)

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The Letter of the Day is was"N".

"N" is for Nipple. That's the little pointy bit on the end of a boobie.

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Yes it did! Don bowed out as hostmaster but Pylorns has taken up the reigns. Immunity Challenge III is forming up again and there's a bonus challenge as well: post what I'd plan to do with or to Luuk, the Everyday Bear. Since I'm one of those geeks that always went for the extra credit and since this one is a gimme, here goes nuthin':

I had him in my clutches once but due to a family plague I didn't get to do anywhere near as much with Luuk as I wanted.

If I got him back again we would definitely take a trip to the Mayfield Dairy in Braselton so he could have a taste of my favorite cow udder. We'd hit the Calloway Gardens and then see Helen for some serious drinking with bikers and faux Germans. That's the city in Georgia, not Luuk's Mom.

I'd like to take him to Bear and Bacon's preschool too. Both of them got a serious kick out of Luuk and they'd love to show him off for their friends. Hey, part of my Dad duties are to get the boys "cool points" anytime I can.

We'd have to go back to Stone Mountain Park again too. He loved the Pow-Wow there but we didn't get a chance to climb the mountain itself. That would be an adventure.

We'd probably stop by the Children's Museum of Atlanta too. They've got Sue there now. She's "a life-size replica of the worldÂ’s largest, and most complete T. rex in the world". You know, let him get a look at a real carnivore.

After that we'd probaby just spend the rest of our time together watching action movies, drinking beer and eating popcorn.

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The Bonfire has been lit. Head on over to get toasty warm at the expense of the turkeys of the blogosphere.

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In the spirit of X-Mas, Michele of A Small Victory Santa once again offers a hearty Ho Ho Holy Shit!.

Along with a score of bloggers, I'm contributing to that festive site. Can you guess which persona is me? 5 points to the first person who figures it out. 2 more points to the first person to say where I got it from.

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The Letter of the Day was is "M".

"M" is for Matter-of-fact, as in realistic. Libertarians who vote Republican are just being matter-of-fact about their choice.

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