Spread the word.

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The letter of the day is "D" as in Deceptive, like Arafat's biological bombs.

(Link snagged at Common Sense & Wonder)

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Don't forget this cool feature over at The Truth Laid Bear. Each weak, NZ Bear hosts a contest for new blogger sites to help introduce them to the blogosphere and the blogosphere to them. The contest is easy - each new site submits one post to be voted on by the Ecosystem at large. If you have a new blog you can join the contest here. All y'all can see the entries here. Voters and contestants alike can vote for as many of the entries as they want simply by linking to them on their own blogs.

Due to some Ecosystem problems (that are all fixed now, phew!) the contest I was in got a bit messed up. The contest stretched for a couple weeks and a lot of votes were lost as voters' sites rotated older posts off of their main pages. So, I'm in it again! Yay! I've entered Why oh why do I have to love women? for the contest.

Side Note: Speaking of the Ecosystem, I am now a Flappy Bird! Boo yah!

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C is for Cheddar. >From young and smooth to aged and sharp, everybody can play along.

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If you thought my Fecalation post was humorous, see Everybody Poops over at Tenth Muse for the female perspective.

Side Note: Everyone Poops is a great kids' book from Taro Gomi. If you have kids and/or a sense of humor you should buy it.

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Kate was late putting up the weekly Snarkfest. In the spirit of "anything you can do I can do better", I'm linking to it even later than she was posting it! Bwah, hah, hah, hah, hah!

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1. What is the best or most sentimental vacation you have ever taken and why?
Last year Lovely Wife and I took the bairns to Chattanooga for a long weekend. We stayed at the Choo-Choo Hotel, rode the Chattanooga Ducks, took the Incline Railroad to Lookout Mountain, had a midnight horse carriage ride through downtown and generally just had a smashing good time. It was especially sentimental as we had gone the year before and not had such a wonderful time. That one was before Burger's surgery and his health problems put a pall on Lovely Wife and I and the kids picked up on it. This time it was just magical.

2. Which poses the next-what is the worst or most regrettable?
That first trip to Chattanooga qualifies.

3. If you could go back and change one decision or action that you made, what would it be?
I don't think I would change anything. Everything that I have done has led to what I am right now, today. You remember the old adage of "For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, for want of a horse the knight was lost, for want of a knight the battle was lost, for want of a battle the kingdom was lost"? I believe pretty firmly in causality and would not tamper with what has made me what I am today.

4. What are you most proud of in your life?
That's easy! Bear, Bacon and Burger.

5. What one memory from your childhood sticks out most in your mind?
I was about 6 or so. Big Bro was about 13 and Lil Bro was around 1. Big Bro was swinging Lil Bro up and down, doing airplane rides, etc. He had lifted Lil Bro up high above his head and both of them were laughing out loud. Then Lil Bro blew chunks into Big Bro's open mouth. It was the single funniest thing that I had seen in my life (and since then as well) and is probably the source of my wacked sense of humor.

6. What are your thoughts on homosexual marriage?
Nope. No way. You want to get married then you better have a round peg and a round hole involved. Oh, wait. That should be two round holes. No, wait again. Three round holes. Ah, shit. Let me start over. You better have one round peg, period.

I'm just funnin'. I don't think there's anything wrong with homosexual union. If two people love each other and want to commit to a life together then they should receive the legal benefits of that commitment regarless of race, religion, creed, sexual inclination, asshat status, etc. In fact, call any joining that's done outside of a church "Union" instead of "Marriage" and half of the opposition will go away.

7. What 3 laws would you change or enact if you had the power to do so?
1)Abortion - 3 strikes and you're out. After the third abortion you get the anti-baby implant.
2)Political Parties - Gone. A merit based system would be implemented. Candidates would compete to winnow the field to the top five and then we'd have the election.
3)Fallow Field Subsidies - This is when the government pays farmers to leave fields fallow. The gov would still pay the farmers but it would be to grow food. That food would then be the property of the government and could be distributed as foreign aid.

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The Letter of the Day is was "I".

I is for inanity as in frivolity or lack of seriousness.

(Hat tip to G for the link.)

"I" as a phoneme is very cool. It is one of very few phonemes with intrinsic and autonomous meaning and it has several different ones:

• There's "I" as in "I wish that certain media lines would take their collective heads out of their collective asses."


• There's "Eye" as in "If one more hysterically biased anti-American article comes out of Reuters somebody is getting an eye gouged out."


• Then there's "Aye" as in "Are you serious about gouging somebody's eye out?" "Aye, count on it."

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Talk Like A Pirate Day is September 19. Get your basic vocabulary down here and pick up some phrases with the English to Pirate translator.

Avast, ye scurvy lubber! Take yer eye orf me beauty or I'll be runnin' yer carcass thru th' scuppers!

I am SO ready.

I be tippin' me hat to that bilge rat th' Instapundit fer shinin' th' link. Arrrr!

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Since Allah has a blog now he is the most accessible deity that I know of. Wouldn't it be great if he would deign to answer some questions that we've all been curious about? Things like:

• If male martyrs get 72 virgins, what do female martyrs get?


• Are there grades of martyrs? Like if some guy blows up prematurely and only catches a couple of kids does he play second fiddle to a guy that takes out a disco?


• On the same line as the previous question, is it better to be a "mastermind" behind an attack or the actual exploder? Do these masterminds accumulate points or something like that? I mean it would suck to organize a dozen successful bombings then slip on a banana peel and wake up dead and without virgins.


• I'm not sure how accurate this is but I remember hearing that the eye of Allah is upon you during the light of day. Is it okay to booze it up after sundown?

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All hail Venomous Kate, Queen of the Memes.

F is for Fib. That's what Dell wants you to do.
(Hat tip to G for the link.)

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Carnival of the Vanities #50 is up at Rhetorica. Nice selection this week. Go. Read. Enjoy.

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