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Wednesday Linky Stuff

Your Filthy Lie Assignment:

How will Evil Glenn be celebrating his 5th Blogiversary?

is due by 11:59pm EDT Friday, August 4th. Late entries must be accompanied by a lame excuse.

The New Blog Showcase Carnival #75 is up at Pet's Garden.

Christian Carnival #133 is up at From the Anchor Hold.

Carnival of the Vanities #202 is up at Eteraz. Next week: No new host listed. To volunteer ASAP, contact host [at] firstcarnival [dot] com.

The next Carnival of the Capitalists posts due by 2pm Saturday. See here for submission address & guidelines.

Carnival of the Recipes #102 will be at From Chaos to Serendipity. Entries are due by noon Saturday. Submit to recipe.carnival(at)gmail(dot)com.

Conservative Cat's All-Purpose Carnival Submission Page - Bookmark this handy form, and you can enter almost any carnival with just a few clicks. It doesn't get much more convenient than this, folks. It also has a "Carnival News" section featuring links to the most recent Carnival posts. Also please note that Ferdy tracks a LOT more Carnivals than just the ones listed at Alliance HQ.

The Blog Carnival Index currently tracks 411 blog carnivals and offers a submission form. If you can't find a carnival at Conservative Cat, look here (and vice versa).

Conservative Cat's Permanent Floating Ping Festival. Just send a ping to http://www.conservativecat.com/Ferdy/.track.cgi/3, and you will show up on the front page. The only rule is you need to have a link to Conservative Cat somewhere on your front page, but most Alliance members should already have that. Just keep it clean and no more than one per day. The 15 most recent pings are displayed in the right sidebar with an excerpt.

Basil of Basil's Blog wants to send you traffic!
If you trackback to a post in his "Articles of Interest" category (usually titled either "Breakfast", "Brunch", "Lunch", or "Supper"), the trackback from your post will appear in the "Covered Dish Special" section at the bottom of the post. All he asks is that you give a courtesy link back to the post you're trackbacking. See the link for details.

The New Blog Carnival Showcase - a chance for new bloggers (3 months old or newer) to get some free exposure. It's a great way to get your beginner's talent discovered. See this post for details. For blogs that are too old, you should consider checking out the entries, since grateful new bloggers tend to reciprocate post links with permalinks.

Precision Guided Humor Round-up: Israel's War Secrets

It's not easy fighting terrorists. You need brilliant tactics, highly-skilled personnel, and complete secrecy for executing covert ops.

Well, at least Israel has 2 out of 3, since the Alliance will now reveal all their top secret military programs:

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Steve the Pirate discovered plans for the cruelest and unusualest of secret weapons.

dIRTY rOTTEN hEATHEN says it's all about keepin' the pimp-hand strong. Word.

AbbaGav tells us why the United Nations High Commission for Electromagnetic Justice and the End of Israeli Occupation of All Arab Land is so freaked out.

I (Harvey, posting from IMAO) discovered a plethora of protective projects designed to teach the terrorists that yes, Allah HAS forsaken them.

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I'm sure the terrorists will take this information and act on it accordingly.

By which I mean - Dudes, you might as well give up, because Israel's got WAY too many ways to kill your dumb asses.

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!

If I missed your entry or there's a typo or broken permalink, please leave a comment, or e-mail to Alliance.pgh@gmail.com

New Precision Guided Humor Assigment: Changing Cuba

Annoying commie jackass and president of Cuba Fidel Castro is not dead.

However, he DID undergo major surgery - probably for beard cancer or something - and "temporarily" signed over power to his brother Raul Castro.

Who, I'm sure, would never DREAM of pulling the plug on that machine next to Fidel's bed.

Very little is known about Raul, so there's a lot of speculation about what he might do while he has the presidency in his hot little hands.

Let us speculate also.

Your Precision Guided Humor Assignment this week is to answer the question:

What changes will Raul Castro make in Cuba during his tenure as President?

Post the answer at your own blog and leave a link in the comments to this post, leave a trackback, or e-mail the permalink directly to Alliance.PGH@gmail.com. Entries due by 11:59pm EST Wednesday, August 9th and the round-up will be posted Thursday. Late entries must be accompanied by a lame excuse.

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!

Friday Linky Stuff

Carnival of Comedy #66 is not yet up at Progressive Islam.

Carnival of Republican Freedom #19 will be at YoungRepublicans4NY. Send your best post related to either Republicans or freedom to yr4nyblog-at-aol.com by noon Sunday. See here for submission guidelines.

The Best of Me Symphony #140 will be at The Owner's Manual. Submit your best post from your archives that's more than 60 days old. Entry deadline is midnight Sunday. E-mail to gcruse-at-netscape.com with subject line "Best of Me Symphony". See here for guidelines.

This Blog Is Full Of Crap will be hosting the next Carnival of the Cats (#124). Submit your post containing a picture of a cat or a Reasonable Facsimilie of a Cat (RFOAC) by 5pm Sunday to submissions-at-carnivalofthecats.com See the Carnival of the Cats home page for details.

Carnival of the Vanities #203 will be at... still looking for a host. Drop a line ASAP to host-at-firstcarnival.com. Everyone else, submit a link to your best post by 5pm Tuesday to cotvmail-at-gmail.com. Or you can just do the easy thing and use Conservative Cat's All-Purpose Submission Page (see below).

Conservative Cat's All-Purpose Carnival Submission Page - Bookmark this handy form, and you can enter almost any carnival with just a few clicks. It doesn't get much more convenient than this, folks. Additionally, it now features a "Carnival News" section, featuring links to the most recent Carnival posts. Also please note that Ferdy tracks a LOT more Carnivals than just the ones listed at Alliance HQ.

The Blog Carnival Index currently tracks 413a blog carnivals and offers a submission form. If you can't find a carnival at Conservative Cat, look here (and vice versa).

Conservative Cat's Permanent Floating Ping Festival. Just send a ping to http://www.conservativecat.com/Ferdy/.track.cgi/3, and you will show up on the front page. The only rule is you need to have a link to Conservative Cat somewhere on your front page, but most Alliance members should already have that. Just keep it clean and no more than one per day. The 15 most recent pings are displayed in the right sidebar with an excerpt.

Basil of Basil's Blog wants to send you traffic! If you trackback to a post in his "Articles of Interest" category (usually titled either "Breakfast", "Brunch", "Lunch", or "Supper"), the trackback from your post will appear in the "Covered Dish Special" section at the bottom of the post. All he asks is that you give a courtesy link back to the post you're trackbacking. See the link for details.

The New Blog Carnival Showcase - a chance for new bloggers (3 months old or newer) to get some free exposure. It's a great way to get your beginner's talent discovered. See this post for details. For blogs that are too old, you should consider checking out the entries, since grateful new bloggers tend to reciprocate post links with permalinks.

Filthy Lie Round-up: Bloggy Glenn's Evilversary

How will Evil Glenn celebrate 5 years of single-word blogging commentary? The Alliance theorizes thusly:

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GEBIV of There's One, Only! thinks it'll revolve around some exciting new vocabulary expansion.

Sean of Shoot A Liberal gives me my buck-oh-five's worth by digging up the party's guest list.

Little Orange Fox of The Outlaw Republican suspects a game of Beach Blanket Communism is afoot.

I (Harvey, posting from IMAO) know for a fact that it's going to be a day of tearing open wrapping paper to reveal the shiny presents within.

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Well, no matter how the Puppy Blender celebrates, the Alliance will be celebrating with even GREATER enthusiasm, because every day that passes just brings us closer to the inevitable downfall of the Blogspheric Dark Overlord.

INSTAPUNDO DELENDA EST!

If I missed your entry or there's a typo or broken permalink, please leave a comment, or e-mail to Alliance.filthylies@gmail.com

Also, if you have any suggestions for new Filthy Lie Assignments, you can submit them the same way.

New Filthy Lie Assignment: Better Instapundit?

Back from his latest hobo-killing spree, Evil Glenn posted this idle musing:

Thanks to all my guest bloggers, who as usual did a great job. I think the blog actually improves when I go away!

I guess that depends on what the meaning of the word "improves" is, but I suppose we can discuss it.

Your Filthy Lie Assignment this week is to answer the question:

Does the Instapundit blog improve when Evil Glenn is away? Explain.

Post your response at your own blog and leave a link in the comments to this post, leave a trackback, or e-mail the permalink directly to Alliance.filthylies@gmail.com. Entries due by 11:59pm EDT Friday, August 11th and the round-up will be posted on Saturday. Late entries must be accompanied by a lame excuse.

INSTAPUNDO DELENDA EST!

Monday Linky Stuff - UPDATED 4pm

Your Precision Guided Humor Assignment:

What changes will Raul Castro make in Cuba during his tenure as President?

Is due by 11:59pm EDT Wednesday, August 9th. Late entries must be accompanied by a lame excuse.

The Carnival of Republican Freedom #19 is not yet up at YoungRepublican4NY.

Carnival of Comedy #67 will be at The Order of the Blue Square. Links to your funny bits must be submitted by Midnight Wednesday. Submissions are only taken via Ferdy's All-Purpose Carnival Submission Form and BlogCarnival.

Carnival of the Recipes #103 is up at From Chaos to Serendipity. Next week: In the Headlights.

The New Blog Carnival Showcase #76 is not yet up at Dave's Not Here.

If you know any blogs that are less than 3 months old, please tell them to enter. If you ARE a blog less than 3 months old, tell yourself to enter, but don't do it in public or people will look at you funny.

If you would like to host a future NBCS, see this post for available dates. If you can host one, please drop a line to showcase.carnival@gmail.com - Remember, new bloggers are especially grateful for any attention they get. Hosting this has a good chance of getting you permalinks and life-long readers.

Best of Me Symphony #141 is up at The Owner's Manual. Frank Zappa theme this week. Next week - uh... comic books?... not really sure...

Carnival of the Cats #124 is up at This Blog Is Full Of Crap. For submission guidelines and upcoming hosts, see www.carnivalofthecats.com

UPDATE 4pm: Carnival of the Capitalists #148 is up at Galen's Log

Christian Carnival #134 is coming to Attention Span. Entries due by Tuesday at midnight. Submission guidelines are as follows:

To enter, your post should be of a Christian nature, but this does not exclude
ones that are political (or otherwise) in nature from a Christian point of view.

Send submissions to:  ChristianCarnival-at-gmail.com

Please put "Christian Carnival" in the subject line and provide the following:

Title of your Blog
URL of your Blog
Title of your post
URL linking to that post
Short description of the post

Conservative Cat's All-Purpose Carnival Submission Page - Bookmark this handy form, and you can enter almost any carnival with just a few clicks. It doesn't get much more convenient than this, folks. The page includes a handy "Carnival News" section featuring links to the most recent Carnival posts. Also please note that Ferdy tracks a LOT more Carnivals than just the ones listed at Alliance HQ.

The Blog Carnival Index currently tracks 416 blog carnivals and offers a submission form. If you can't find a carnival at Conservative Cat, look here (and vice versa).

Conservative Cat's Permanent Floating Ping Festival. Just send a ping to http://www.conservativecat.com/Ferdy/.track.cgi/3, and you will show up on the front page. The only rule is you need to have a link to Conservative Cat somewhere on your front page, but most Alliance members should already have that. Just keep it clean and no more than one per day. The 15 most recent pings are displayed in the right sidebar with an excerpt.

Basil of Basil's Blog wants to send you traffic!
If you trackback to a post in his "Articles of Interest" category (usually titled either "Breakfast", "Brunch", "Lunch", or "Supper"), the trackback from your post will appear in the "Covered Dish Special" section at the bottom of the post. All he asks is that you give a courtesy link back to the post you're trackbacking. See the link for details.

James of Outside the Beltway hosts a more-or-less daily linkfest called the Beltway Traffic Jam. Go to the most recent Traffic Jam post in the Traffic Jam category, and send a trackback to get entered in the next edition. If you're ping-impaired, you can use the standalone trackback form, a link to which is conveniently located at the bottom of the Traffic Jam post.

The New Blog Carnival Showcase - a chance for new bloggers (3 months old or newer) to get some free exposure. It's a great way to get your beginner's talent discovered. See this post for details. For blogs that are too old, you should consider checking out the entries, since grateful new bloggers tend to reciprocate post links with permalinks.

Wednesday Linky Stuff - UPDATED 11PM

Your Filthy Lie Assignment:

Does the Instapundit blog improve when Evil Glenn is away? Explain.

is due by 11:59pm EDT Friday, August 11th. Late entries must be accompanied by a lame excuse.

Carnival of Comedy #66 is up at Eteraz.

Christian Carnival #134 is up at Attention Span.

UPDATE 11PM - Carnival of the Vanities #203 is up at Humantide. Next week: No new host listed. To volunteer ASAP, contact host [at] firstcarnival [dot] com.

NOTE: Carnival of the Vanities now has its own home page with everything you've ever wanted to know about COTV: www.firstcarnival.com

The next Carnival of the Capitalists posts due by 2pm Saturday. See here for submission address & guidelines.

Carnival of the Recipes #102 will be at In the Headlights. Entries are due by noon Saturday. Submit to recipe.carnival(at)gmail(dot)com.

Conservative Cat's All-Purpose Carnival Submission Page - Bookmark this handy form, and you can enter almost any carnival with just a few clicks. It doesn't get much more convenient than this, folks. It also has a "Carnival News" section featuring links to the most recent Carnival posts. Also please note that Ferdy tracks a LOT more Carnivals than just the ones listed at Alliance HQ.

The Blog Carnival Index currently tracks 420 blog carnivals and offers a submission form. If you can't find a carnival at Conservative Cat, look here (and vice versa).

Conservative Cat's Permanent Floating Ping Festival. Just send a ping to http://www.conservativecat.com/Ferdy/.track.cgi/3, and you will show up on the front page. The only rule is you need to have a link to Conservative Cat somewhere on your front page, but most Alliance members should already have that. Just keep it clean and no more than one per day. The 15 most recent pings are displayed in the right sidebar with an excerpt.

Basil of Basil's Blog wants to send you traffic!
If you trackback to a post in his "Articles of Interest" category (usually titled either "Breakfast", "Brunch", "Lunch", or "Supper"), the trackback from your post will appear in the "Covered Dish Special" section at the bottom of the post. All he asks is that you give a courtesy link back to the post you're trackbacking. See the link for details.

The New Blog Carnival Showcase - a chance for new bloggers (3 months old or newer) to get some free exposure. It's a great way to get your beginner's talent discovered. See this post for details. For blogs that are too old, you should consider checking out the entries, since grateful new bloggers tend to reciprocate post links with permalinks.

Precision Guided Humor Round-up: Raul's Cuba

Sure, he had to wait 47 years to get his filthy paws on the reins of power, but now that he has it, Raul Castro is really going to town. The Alliance takes a look at what's different with a new sherriff in town:

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GEBIV of There's One, Only! looks over Raul's first 100 days, and notes such items as:
"The Official State Facial Hair will be changed from "Hedge Beard" to "Cheesy Mustache"."

I (Harvey, posting from IMAO) have seen the future of Cuba, and it includes:
"Relaxing the ban on American corporations. Even going so far as personally pinching the ceremonial first ass at the new Havana Hooters."

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Hopefully with Raul in charge, those CIA idiots will finally figure out how to deliver an effective exploding cigar.

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!

If I missed your entry or there's a typo or broken permalink, please leave a comment, or e-mail to Alliance.pgh@gmail.com

New Precision Guided Humor Assignment: Fauxtography

Faking pictures! It's hip! It's trendy! It's fun!

It's Reuters!

If there's a way to spread terrorist propaganda, Reuters will find it.

Here's your chance to play Reuters fauxtographer. Your Precision Guided Humor Assignment this week is to answer the question:

What picture will Reuters fake next?

If you're new to image manipulation, I have a quick & dirty guide explaining how to make passable fake pictures using Microsoft Paint.

Post the answer at your own blog and leave a link in the comments to this post, leave a trackback, or e-mail the permalink directly to Alliance.PGH@gmail.com. Entries due by 11:59pm EST Wednesday, August 16th and the round-up will be posted Thursday. Late entries must be accompanied by a lame excuse.

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!