Silflay Hraka

Scott Glass (perhaps some of you remember him) and I went fishing on the neuse this past weekend and had a productive trip. we both caught plenty of specks, though small, and i hooked into two slot drum, all off of seagull’s pier. not a bad day on the river. the stripers should be moving in pretty soon, so if any are interested in a trip much like a few years ago, let me know. i know at least two guys that have houses at buxton, so the price should be cheaper than going through a realtor. it will be cold, but, hey, that’s striper fishing!

The 162nd edition of the Carnival of the Vanities is hosted by Baboon Pirates this week.

If you’d like to host the Carnival, drop us a line. Information on how to join the Carnival can be found here. If you would like to be added to the Carnival announcement list, send an email to cotvanities-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

November 2nd – Free Money Finance
November 9th – Ravings
November 16th – The Examining Room
November 23rd – Don Surber
November 30th – File It Under
December 7th – Denali Flavors
December 14th – Multiple Mentality
December 21st – Ravenwood’s Universe
December 28th – Chicken Soup For The Damned

All other dates are currently open for hosting. Also, be sure to check out the Carnival’s multitudinous offspring, most of which can be found via the Meta-Carnival.

Is there a scion of the Carnival missing? Drop us a line and let us know.

Finally, if submitting to the myriad of carnivals spawned by CoTV has proven difficult, head over to the Conservative Cat and take a look at his tool.

Which Historic General Are You?

Chief Sitting Bull

You scored 74 Wisdom, 77 Tactics, 64 Guts, and 37 Ruthlessness!

You’d make a decent guerilla fighter. You are a tactical genius and you have the balls to back it up with some follow through. But that being said, you are most likely unwilling to torture an enemy soldier for information, because underneath all of the hides of the buffalo you killed yourself and that huge f*cking headdress, you have a heart.

Chief Sitting Bull rose to prominence in the Sioux warfare against the whites and the resistance of the Native Americans under his command to forced settlement on a reservation led to a punitive expedition. In the course of the resistance occurred the Native American victory on the Little Bighorn, where George Armstrong Custer and his men were defeated and killed on June 25, 1876. Sitting Bull and some of his followers escaped to Canada, but returned (1881) on a promise of a pardon and were settled on a reservation. In 1885 he appeared in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, but his championship of the Native American cause was not at an end. He encouraged the Sioux to refuse to sell their lands, and he advocated the ghost dance religion. He was killed by Native American police on a charge of resisting arrest.

Another look at the book what spawned us.

But writing off ”Watership Down” as a manifesto of middle-class conservatism misses the point; the book’s unique effect resides not solely in the comforting, cabbage-muffled discourse of the well-behaved rabbits, but in the irruption-into their quiet, grey world-of violence and domination.

Must be something in the genes, as Longshanks is thought to be a very distant ancestor.

King Edward I
Or rather, King Edward the Longshanks if you’ve seen Braveheart. You, like Edward, are incredibly smart and shrewd, but you win at any costs…. William Wallace died at his hands after a fierce Scottish rebellion against his reign. Despite his reputation though, Longshanks had the best interests of his people at heart. But God help you if you got on his bad side.

You scored 62 Wisdom, 69 Tactics, 53 Guts, and 44 Ruthlessness!
The Which Historic General Are You Test

Tom Cruise has not gotten the best publicity in recent months, and apparently it is continuing. Here is one guy who believes Cruise is working on ruining lives and complete world domination.

Senate Overwhelmingly Rejects Three Coburn Anti-Pork Amendments.

The post lists how the various senators voted on the bill. If you’d like to see less pork-barrel spending and wiser use of tax funds, contact your senators. I did.

Bird Fan requests longer sentence.

Under the circumstance, pretending to be a Michael Jordan fan would have been a better move.

Body Believed to Be WWII Airman Recovered