Polls Closed in Iraq
Take a look at this picture.
And people here in the States were complaining about long lines to vote in 2004?
The Iraqi election commission extended voting by one more hour because of high turnout in the country’s historic parliamentary elections Thursday.
And to the surprise of coalition forces, violence in Iraq was much lighter than expected and the smattering of attacks didn’t appear to discourage Iraqis, some of whom turned out wrapped in their country’s flag on a bright, sunny day and afterward displayed a purple ink-stained index finger — a mark to guard against multiple voting.
There shouldn’t be any attacks at all, of course, but the fact that they were so minimal is wonderful. The Iraqi Security Forces are doing a great job.Fox News has the rest.
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Stop the ACLU has a good round-up linking to other round-ups.
Tags: News & Politics, Iraq
A Different Christmas Poem at Blackfive
This is one of the most moving things I have read in quite a while. As an Army veteran, I can attest to the truth of it.
A Date Which Will Live In Infamy
Today the battle-scarred, submerged remains of the battleship USS Arizona rest on the silt of Pearl Harbor, just as they settled on December 7, 1941. The ship was one of many casualties from the deadly attack by the Japanese on a quiet Sunday that President Franklin Roosevelt called “a date which will live in infamy.” The Arizona‘s burning bridge and listing mast and superstructure were photographed in the aftermath of the Japanese attack, and news of her sinking was emblazoned on the front page of newspapers across the land. The photograph symbolized the destruction of the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor and the start of a war that was to take many thousands of American lives. Indelibly impressed into the national memory, the image could be recalled by most Americans when they heard the battle cry, “Remember Pearl Harbor.”
Read more at the National Park Service USS Arizona Site. This quote was from the Education Programs link.
Michelle Malkin and La Shawn Barber have excellent roundups.
Welcome visitors from Classical Values and Scared Monkeys! We will not forget.
Emails Purportedly From The FBI and CIA
I’ve been getting emails purportedly from the FBI and CIA saying that I have visited illegal websites and should open the attachment to see what sites I have visited.
I have deleted these emails.
If you get them, delete them too.
Those agencies do not send you emails. The attachments will contain a virus.
"Holiday Tree" Too Inclusive
Via Joe Carter at Evangelical Outpost in his Outtakes post of 11.30.05 we find this post by Gil Student, an Orthodox Rabbi at Hirhurim-Musings
He says that renaming a Christmas Tree a “Holiday Tree” is offensive to Jews because it implies that the Tree covers all holidays at this time of year, including Hanukkah.
Rabbi Student is correct.
It is a Christmas tree, not a Hanukkah tree, a Diwali tree, a Ramadan tree, or a New Year tree. By renaming it a “Holiday” tree it lumps together all religious and secular holidays that occur at this time every year.
Update: Oops! I forgot Kwanza! There is no Kwanza tree either. {sorry}
It’s time to Take Back Christmas! For Everyone!
The American Princess has further thoughts on this. Very good commentary.
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The Carnival of True Civil Liberties IX
We are happy to be hosting this week’s Ninth Carnival of True Civil Liberties!
das Heize at info4beer presents Locater Service for ACLU Lawyers and Can Somebody Help Us Understand dumbswede? about a comment left on the first post.
Team Swap at Swap Blog presents Oak Ridge Censorship
Daniel Levesque at Raving Conservative presents The Biggest ‘Tard in America
Jay at Stop The ACLU presents Another School Censoring Christmas
Greg Tinti at The Political Pit Bull presents A Principled Jurist
Gribbit at Gribb presents Saddam’s WMD’s They Did and Do Exist
Adam at Sophistpundit presents An Educated Jury
If you have a post that deals with how our civil liberties are being stripped away via judicial activism, Please Submit it to our Carnival!
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Polipundit Temporarily Down
Via Anklebiting Pundits the PoliPundit site is temporarily down. They are aware of it and are working on it. Keep checking back to see if the problem’s been fixed.
The Next Carnival of True Civil Liberties
We will be hosting the next Carnival of True Civil Liberties, here, Monday, December 5, 2005.
The deadline for submissions is 9 pm (EST), Friday, December 2, 2005.
You can use the Carnival Submission Form at Conservative Cat.
My Mother Broke Her Foot
Poor Mom. She woke up at 4 am yesterday morning and used the facilities. When she went to the sink, her blowdryer fell off the vanity and onto her right foot. She called me at about 9 am and said she needed some help because her foot hurt really bad. So, the little guy and I went over to help her out. I had brought some canes to help her move around but Mom couldn’t use them. I went and got her some crutches, but she couldn’t use those either. We finally used her office chair to get her out to the car.
We drove over to the Acute Care Center and used a wheelchair to get her out of the car and around in the Center. They took x-rays of her foot and found that she broken the first and second metatarsals in her foot. Numbers 8 and 9 below are the first and second metatarsals. The red lines are where the breaks are.
They tried her with a walker at the Acute Care Center, but she couldn’t use that either. We went to a local medical supply company and rented a wheelchair for her. Right now she has a splint on. Tomorrow we’re going to see the Orthopaedist to see what he’ll do.
Mom has plans to go to Florida to stay with my aunt for a while and we’re hoping she’ll have a walking cast so she can still do that. I told her yesterday that she’ll just have the normal amount of trouble at airport security since she’s an “old, white lady” and you know old white ladies are targeted by security anyway. I, at least, got a chuckle out of her…
Blogging might be a little light for a while…
