More proof at The Looking Spoon.

UPDATE: Linked by It’s About Liberty

Fred’s off the radio now, but he’s got a website, Fred Thompson’s America, where you can submit questions to him.

He’s having way too much fun with this, too:

Q (from 55358): Honestly, any chance of you accepting the Vice Presidential spot on the upcoming Republican ticket to balance moderate Romney? You have been pretty silent until e mails the last three day, keep em coming.

A: Thanks for asking, pal but NOPE. Have to admit, since I’m poor, homely and have a conservative background, I would provide pretty good balance.

Even better – his response to this one:

Q (from 11413): Why am I getting these emails I am neither a Fred Thompson supporter nor a republican. OBAMA ALL THE WAY!!!

A: Sorry, just thought you could use a little enlightenment. Guess I was right. I like your slogan with one small addition:”Obama, all the way… OUT”

The New York Times saying nice things about Ronald Reagan and Republicans.

Well, indirectly.

They actually quote the Russian immigrants in New York who said the nice things (via NewsBusters):

Another inspiration for their conservatism, scholars and political professionals say, is the legacy of President Ronald Reagan. Kalman Yeger, a campaign manager for Lewis A. Fidler, a city councilman and Mr. Storobin’s Democratic opponent in the State Senate race, said many Soviet immigrants never lost their gratitude to Reagan for his role in the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union. His 1987 exhortation to Mikhail Gorbachev that he tear down the Berlin Wall still flutters hearts in Brighton Beach.

“The Republican Party was the party that brought them out of despair,” Mr. Yeger said.

As Yakov Smirnoff once said, “In Soviet Russia, you get the hell out of there and move to a free country.”

[High Praise! to Bad Science]

Technically this would be a step down from his glory days of strangling CNN reporters, but a man’s gotta keep busy somehow.

A very old picture of Donald Rumsfeld is being used to promote a brand of wasabi-coated peanuts in England:

The photographer who snapped the shot confirms it’s legit:

taken at a state dinner featuring Geisha, in Kyoto, November 21, 1974… Rumsfeld, then the White House Chief of Staff, participated in this Japanese parlor game that involved passing a piece of straw held between the upper lip and nose to the person next to him (a Geisha dressed in colorful attire, in this case). Rumsfeld, defying tradition as is his way, used a chopstick instead of the obligatory straw. The nose-down winner, however, was Sec[retary of State Henry] Kissinger, who invoked the ‘closer-to-the-upper-lip-with-his-schnoz’ rule, thereby defeating Rumsfeld and President Ford, who was also in the competition.

What this has to do with peanuts is anyone’s guess.

The important thing is that his picture is out there making hippies cry.

I usually just call you guys “IMAO Readers”.

Which is kind of boring.

Bunch of guys on Harleys get together and they call themselves cool stuff like “Hell’s Angels” or “Sons of Anarchy”.

IMAO Readers need an awesome name like that.

What would you call the IMAO motorcycle gang?

I was considering making this a Link of the Day because it’s a truly awesome and heartfelt rant, but it’s got a couple f-bombs in it, so I’d caution the PG-13 readership about visiting.

But if hippies make you feel like laying down a couple of your own f-bombs, reading this will probably give you a warm, fuzzy feeling.

Persistent Vegetative State

Excerpt:

Washing your reusable bamboo panty liners in a stream with a rock does not make you Gandhi. Not that he wore pads, but that’s not really the point I’m trying to make.

And really, more often than not, these people who live so simply would be thrilled to do their laundry at your place. Hippies are not Amish, they’re broke. And they’re usually broke because they don’t want to work, or they can’t get real jobs because they have a lotus tattooed on their face and smell like kefir.

Hippies also hate the government, but wish the government would give them more money. And they believe that the country’s financial problems could all be solved by legalizing marijuana.

Brief explanation about the target site:

Etsy is a site, vaguely similar to eBay, which specializes in connecting the buyers and sellers of hand-made crafts.

Regretsy (which the above link goes to) chooses some of the more egregiously tasteless, talentless, and downright revolting Etsy products and malicioulsy ridicules them. Although the owner of the site can be (and usually is) quite mean, her targets are, without exception, deserving of the derision they get.

One of my daily reads and guilty pleasures.

Saw this at Powerline, and thought it needed just a tiny touch-up:

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Cross-posted at America is an Obamanation!

UPDATE: Linked by Top Conservative Blogs

[Reposted from 2009, because I didn't realize what day it was until about 5 minutes ago]

* Mexico declared its independence from Spain on September 16th, 1810. This should not be confused with the first Cinco de Mayo of May 5th 1862, which marked Mexico’s victory over the French Army. Every day is Cinco de Mayo somewhere in the world.

* In absolute numbers, Mexico has more native Spanish-speakers than anywhere else in the world. Percentage-wise, the winner is any given Home Depot parking lot.

* The Chihuahua dog breed was developed in 1850 in Mexico. Purebred Chihuahuas are quite rare and VERY expensive. If you can’t afford one, a shaved rat is pretty much the same thing.

* In the 16th century, Mexicans used poinsettia leaves for medicinal purposes, including to help control fevers. In modern times, they mostly use hospitals in Los Angeles.

* The national sport of Mexico is bull-fighting – where a pretty man prances around while cruelly butchering an innocent animal. Sorta like American Idol, except with bulls instead of pop music.

* Mexico is made up of 31 states. 38 if Obama is counting.

* The three colors of Mexico’s flag hold deep symbolism: green is for hope and victory, red is for the blood shed by the nation’s heroes, and white is for the nation’s vibrant cocaine export industry.

* Mexico City is the second-largest city in the world, with a population of 25 million, all of whom share a single car and apartment.

* The border between Mexico and the United States is thought to be second-longest in the world – after the border between the United States and Canada – although no one can say for sure, since it’s been completely obscured by footprints.

* All of which, mysteriously, point north, leading scientists to speculate that Mexicans are made out of some sort of magnetic material.

* Because Mexico is located in an area known as the Pacific “Ring of Fire.” the region is rife with millions of small, active volcanoes. These are harvested annually and sold under the name Habanero.

* Tequila, the liquor for which Mexico is famous, is made from the native blue agave plant. It’s named after the city where it originated, and not – as American overindulgers often claim – a Mexicanized pronunciation of “to kill ya”.

* 90% of Mexicans are Roman Catholic, which is why they tend to see the Virgin Mary in their tortillas instead of Barack Obama like normal people.

* Mexico has seven hundred and seven species of reptiles. Which one is in that taco is anyone’s guess.

* Chocolate was invented in Mexico as a sacred drink for the Aztecs. The original recipe contained no milk or sugar, leaving it a dark, bitter, unpleasant mess which few could stomach without retching. Think of it as Michelle Obama in a cup.

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UPDATE: Linked by waznmentobe

The Life of Julia slideshow Obama unveiled was just a rough draft. Obama has since consulted with futurists and science fiction authors to give more precise details about what life will be like with Julia under his guiding hand versus what will happen if Mitt Romney is elected. And I got my hands on these details and reveal them in my new PJ Media column.

AGE 25

Under President Obama: Julia graduates college and looks for a job. No jobs are currently available, so she is given more contraceptives. She watches on TV as President Obama, now immortal in his robot unicorn body, is democratically elected god king. Thanks to the new two-way TV design, she is comforted by the fact that Obama could be looking back at her.

Under Mitt Romney: Julia ventures out only at night to make it harder for Bain Capital’s hunter/seeker robots to find her.

He’s a half-windsor’n white boy.

Not surprised Jehmu Greene got it wrong. Whaddya expect from a bare-neck’n Democrat?

[High Praise! to seanmahair for the link]

In the comments at my personal blog (Rated R), Peter of Shakey Pete’s Shootin’ Shack had this to say on the topic of Obama trotting out his new government-services poster child, after I mentioned that I’d gladly opt off the goodies list if I could just have my liberty back:

They don’t want you to have your liberty back. They don’t want you owning a home. They don’t want you owning a gun. They don’t want you owning a car.

They want you living in a small apartment in a city, taking the train to your government provided job. They want you to need their permission to take the intercontinental railroad on your state approved vacation.

They want, no, they lust for power. They don’t care that every time they get that power millions of people die, others live in squalor and fear. They must have power.

Oh, and that small apartment in a big building they want you to live in? It will smell of boiled cabbage. Because that’s what they do. See the Soviet Union, circa 1970, when it was at it’s “best”.

Eff them. Eff them all.

Got ammo?

Well said, Pete.

UPDATE: Linked by Liberal Whoppers

UPDATE: Linked by Voluntaryist Wiki

Supermoon on Saturday, when Earth’s satellite and natural enemy will come within 221,802 miles of us.

There’s obviously only one solution to this crisis.

Dispense them from The Sharper Image’s motion-sensing candy machine:

[YouTube direct link] (Viewer #5,007)

Discover if you should marry that woman:

If she agrees to exchange these rings at your wedding, she’s a keeper.

[High Praise! to TBinSTL]

The thing about Rumford Meteor is that they write headlines that would make the guys at the Onion green with envy, but it just puts them on legitimate news stories instead of making stuff up and running with the satire.

So the stories aren’t worth reading unless you’re genuinely curious, but headlines like this are not to be missed:

* Organic Farmers Know That Consumers Don’t Mind A Little Listeria As Long As They Get It From Farmers Who Care

* Gender Studies Philosopher Thinking Of Enlisting OJ Simpson’s Help To Look For The Malicious Dastard That Keeps Lending Her Tuition Money

* Local Student Wonders When Machinist School Will Get Around To Exploring Sustainable Transgender Anarcho-Socialist Free-Range Machining

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