Get your Carnival on!
I have been struggling for a while to come with an appropriate theme for the Carnival. I know this is war-time and there are people dying in the battle fields of Iraq, on both sides. I thought about it long and hard and decided - what the heck, life goes on and doesn't stop for anybody. Let us carry on and do our thing and make merry and pray.
As usual, the posts have been quite a collection - I got submissions from the left and the right with topics ranging from silly celebrities to the war on Iraq and the tone of the posts has been funny and juvenile to grave and serious. Let's look at them one at a time. The posts have been organized into broad categories. Please leave a comment below or email me if you want something changed in the blurb, category or image for your post. I hope you will enjoy this.
Note: I am not trivializing anything or anyone's posts - the icons are just part of my effort to keep this light-hearted.
The icons are clickable, so you can see the "big picture".
The next carnival is going to be hosted at The Go Fish - don't forget to send your entries in.
More Moore....
Aaron want to have an official BUY A GUN FOR (TO SPITE) MICHAEL MOORE DAY in the blogosphere on APRIL 15.
Matt of "Overtaken by Events" rips a letter written by Michael Moore to President Bush. In related news, his wife Vicky was seen searching for him as rumors of his wish to be a human shield in Iraq began circulating.
Kevin McGeHee of blogoSFERICS has reportedly been strangled by Michael Moore, just before Moore's scheduled appearance at UCLA.
Paul of "Smell the Blog" reports about Michael Moore's alleged suicide with a gun, while performing at the UCLA.
Funny Stuff
Kiril of "Sneakeasy's Joint" reports that Saddam's speech failed to affect the morale of America.
Vicky of "Liquid Courage" wants to kill her husband, Matt....really!
Dave of "SCATTERED.ORG" writes a hilarious account of his adventures with a "Diet Pepsi" bottle.
Acidman gave himself papercut....on his eye - we promised we will not laugh at his pain (giggle!).
Frank of "IMAO" has an exclusive trascript of a press conference held by Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice.
Vegard Valberg of "Norwegian Blogger" has the third installment of the series of adventures of Wally, the poor anti-idiotarian in Idiotaria.
Steve of "Little Tiny Lies" found a new use for the leaflets being dropped in Iraq by the coalition forces.
Pro-war...
Zander of "Close Encounters of the Zanderkind" writes a heart-felt post about why he thinks America is right to go war with Iraq.
Steven of "The Grille" argues that even if the war against Iraq is being fought by America for pure self-interest, it might not be that bad for the world and Iraq after all.
Jim Spot of "MY take on things" is extremely angry at people who want "peace at all costs".
Charles of "You big mouth, You!" is angry too, at clueless people who cannot see why America's war against Iraq is moral and right.
Alex Knapp of "Heretical Ideas" has a very well-researched and informative series of posts about Iraq's links to terrorism and Al-Qaeda - part 1 and part 2.
Andrew of "la Blogatrice" wants us to "boycott the French" and gives a list of the companies to boycott.
Peace protesters....
Edward Mick of "Revealed Truth" had a quite a dinner at a Denny's recently.
John Ray of "Dissecting Leftism" has an interesting post exploring the psychological causes of anti-war attitudes.
Stupid Celebrities
Charles Austin of "Sine Qua Non Pundit" tries to teach Sheryl Crow a lesson or two.
Joe of "Attaboy" has a few choice things to say about Walter Cronkite and his opinions on world events.
Pro-Peace
Tim of "The Road to Surfdom", explains how Eric Alterman is derailing the Pro-Peace movement with some of his recent comments.
Peter of "World of Pete" has a comprehensive roundup of the winners and losers in the war against Iraq.
Miscellaneous good stuff....
David Russell fisks an article by a Canadian college student taking nasty postshots at America.
Michael Finley has a beautiful photographic history of his mom.....
John Rosenberg has a well-reasoned critique of Lani Guinier's attempt to justify racial discriminations.
Jack Cluth of "The People's Republic of Seabrook" struggles over his stance on the war against Iraq and settles on supporting the troops.
Wylie of "Wylie Blog" wonders why people cannot just agree to disagree instead of losing age-old friendships over political issues.
Woo Hoo! James at the Elevenday Empire muses about "March Madness".
Mathew of "Photomatt" defends the PalmOS from a heavily biased reviewer.
Dean Esmay of "Dean's World" knows how it feels to fly - literally.
Seth Farber of "The Talking Dog" says that American Jews don't control America's foreign policy, after all.
Da Goddess asks us to spare a thought for children who don't fit in and are different on the outside - she asks us to give them a chance and try to look their inner beauty before passing any judgement.
Solonor of "Solonor's Ink Well" finds out he is not that cynical about yellow ribbons anymore - 
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