The Freedom of Wireless LAN

Currently I write this from my living room while watching The Two Towers: Extended Addition on my widescreen TV.
Sweet!
Anyway, do not fret, IMAO fans. I am going to return Monday to begin a week of posting of which the likes you have never seen! That’s right… more than one post a day! To help out, you can e-mail me more questions with the subject “Frank Answers” for the return of Frank Answers™.
Plus, you will learn how to help me become rich and famous plus all the reasons you should buy my new t-shirt.
See you soon, and I hope you’re having a great holiday.

Free Ice Cream Closed

Do to business/laziness, I’m not going to have time for more posts this week. I may post more, I may not, but if I don’t, happy Thanksgiving.
Starting next monday, though, will be the bestest week of IMAO, guaranteed. Tons of the funniest post all so I can whore my t-shirt and start the make Frank rich and famous club.
Now I must rest and let the funny build inside me in preparation.
Until then, buy my t-shirt.

Link of the Day

At Front Line Voices we have a somewhat different letter, one from a fourteen year old girl written after her father was killed in Iraq. Please give it a look.
As for Front Line Voices, we’re having a bit of trouble because we need more help, both in getting submission and having people to verify them. I’ll probably put out another formal call for volunteers after this holiday weekend.

In My World: Negotiating the Medicare Bill

“Who is the mysterious protestor sniper?” Bush said to himself as he aimed his rifle. “Know one knows, for he strikes deadly and quietly.”
“Are you sniping people again?” Laura Bush asked angrily.
“Just with rubber bullets,” Bush answered defensively.
Laura picked up some of the bullets. “These look like copper tipped.”
“Uh… copper is a type of rubber.”
“I’m taking your gun away,” Laura said, snatching the rifle, “Now you play nice.”
“Now what I’m going to do?” Bush moaned as Laura walked off.
Out of the shadows emerged the cloaked figure of Karl Rove. “You must focus on getting the Medicare bill passed. The Democrats want it to be an issue, and it must be denied. So speaks the elders.”
“Don’t worry there, Rover,” Bush answered, “I’m just about to negotiate with some Democrats. I’m sure I’ll know how to sweet talk them.”
“Do not fail,” Rove warned ominously as the shadows consumed him.
Senator Tom Daschle then entered Bush’s office. “I know you wanted to talk to me, but I won’t vote for this Medicare bill because of… uh… seniors and… uh… yadda yadda.”
“I understand your concern,” Bush said, approaching Daschle, “but you should hear what I have to say.” He then started repeatedly bashing Daschle’s head into the top of the desk. “Now you vote for that bill, you slimy weasel! I’m a big man! I’ll hurt you good!”
Suddenly, the wall gave way as Ted Kennedy came crashing through. “Grerawerr!” You’re trying to privatize Medicare! Me filibuster! Me destroy!”
“Oh no!” Bush exclaimed, “It’s Big Fat Teddy K! And he’s come to eat me!” Bush then tossed Daschle out the window and hid under his desk.
“Grerawerr!” Big Fat Teddy K exclaimed as he swatted the desk aside with his massive arm.
Bush cowered in fear, but then he spotted Chomps out in the hallway. “Attack! Chomps! Attack!” Bush called out.
Chomps ran into the office and started savagely attacking one of the paintings on the wall. “Hey! I didn’t like that painting either,” Bush said, “but it was a present form my mother-in-law and it’s not the time for art criticism.” Bush then rolled to his feet and started running before Big Fat Teddy K could stomp him.
Bush soon found his wife who was washing dishes in the kitchen. “Quick, Laura,” Bush yelled, “I’m negotiating the Medicaid bill and I need my shotgun.”
“It’s the Medicare bill, dear,” Laura corrected him, “and you’d know where your shotgun is if you’d put it back on the shotgun rack after using it.”
Bush could hear the roar of Big Fat Teddy K and kept moving. He then ran into Scott McClellan. “Hey, Scott,” Bush said to him, “wave your arms in the air and say, ‘I want to cut taxes.'”
“Why?”
“Just do it!”
Scott waved is arms in the air and said, “I want to cut taxes!”
“Grerawerr!” Big Fat Teddy K roared in rage upon seeing Scott.
“Eep.” Scott ran off with Big Fat Teddy K in pursuit.
Bush let out a sigh of relief. “That was a close one.”
Senator John Edwards then walked up to Bush. “I just want to tell you I’m not going to vote for that…”
Bush punched Edwards in the face.
“Okay, I’ll vote for the bill!” Edwards said as he ran away crying.
Now Daschle came back followed by some police. “That’s the man who assaulted me!” Daschle yelled as he pointed at Bush.
“So what,” Bush answered, “I pardon myself. Plus, I reverse pardon Daschle for the charge of indecency since he’s such a slimy weasel.”
“You can’t do that!” Daschle declared.
“That’s for the courts to decide,” one of the officers said as he slapped cuffs onto Daschle. “Now let’s get you back to the federal penitentiary, you pervert.”
As soon as Daschle was led away, Karl Rove materialized. “Have you handled the problem?”
“Negotiating is hard,” Bush complained, “Want to play some Mario Kart, Rover?”
Rove vanished back into the darkness once again just as if he had never been there.
“Man, that guy is no fun.”

My Excuses for Not Being Funny

I know I said I wasn’t able to write anything funny today, but I decided I owe you, my readers, more of an explanation.
TOP TEN REASONS I DIDN’T HAVE A FUNNY POST TODAY
10. I was too busy with other projects to put the proper time behind a post (those videogames don’t play themselves).
9. I’m now a militant feminist and no longer find anything funny.
8. I was going to write a post about how stupid dirty, smelly hippies are, but then I got worried I might hurt the feelings of a stupid, dirty, smelly hippy.
7. I realized that politics is a serious topic, and should never be made light of.
6. A pink cardboard tank convinced me the war was wrong.
5. I’m too sad to write humor since Glenn Reynolds blended my puppy.
4. I got an obscenity and grammatical error filled hate mail that really made me rethink my positions.
3. A monkey done bit me!
2. I thought humorous posts would distract from my t-shirt sales. BTW, buy my t-shirt!
And the number one reason I didn’t have a funny post today…
Because I know you’ll visit anyway! Bwa ha ha ha!

All Funnied Out

I’m all funnied out and couldn’t write a post for today. All I can think of is serious things like quantum physics. Maybe you can visit the blogs on my sidebar which may or may not be funny.
Oh yeah, and buy my shirt!
UPDATE: Read tiger. He likes to whine how I don’t read him; it’s funny. Maybe later I could find a muckadoo for us to go bother (one with comments). Suggestions will be accepted.
UPDATE: A worthy cause for the Alliance.
General Douchebaggery
Now there are some muckadoos.

Liberals Are Going to Kill Us!

Look at this post by some long-winded muckadoo! Somewhere inside it (I didn’t read it all ’cause it’s long) he accuses me of facism and doesn’t seem to understand that I am not actually calling for violent action. So I was thinking, why wouldn’t he understand my post as a joke? Then it struck me: he doesn’t understand that my calling for violence against liberals is a joke because he seriously considers violence against conservatives! It’s the only logical explanation! Liberals are considering killing us, and we have to get them first!
I am not being alarmist.

Know Thy Enemy: Protestors

Terrorists are horrible, but I have a t-shirt to handle them. Who are also as annoying, though, are protestors. Since Bush is encountering so many protestors while in Britain, I thought I’d put my crack research staff on finding out as much information about protestors as they could. Here’s what they found:
FUN FACTS ABOUT PROTESTORS
* They are called “protestors” because there is something which they “protest”. Only God know what, though, because they’re so damn incoherent.
* Much like the pineapple, protestors start with a ‘p’.
* Protestors like to yell a lot, but it’s hard to hear what they’re saying. It’s probably about how much they like Saddam and dictators since them being deposed seems to really get them riled.
* Protestors try to make their message clearer by waving signs around. Apparently they don’t think there should be trade between the Red Cross and Exxon.
* A number of protestors these days are anarchists. They can be identified as the protestors who can’t properly pronounce what they are.
* Large scale protests rarely change things because people don’t want to share opinions with smelly, yelling people.
* To protestors, the day they protest is known as “action day”. To police, it’s known as “whomping day”.
* If you’re a police officer and it looks like protests are getting out of control, shoot a protestor. I thought I saw him going for a gun too (wink) (wink).
* Like bees, protestors operate in swarms, but they don’t produce anything useful like honey.
* In America, the right to protest is guaranteed by the First Amendment, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence how that one’s directly followed by one saying we should have guns.
* Whatever you do, don’t let protestors touch you! It will make you annoyed.
* There are rarely large scale protests by right-leaning people on account of them having things called dignity and jobs.
* By the principles of basic physics, sound can be nullified by hitting it with the same sound with the sound wave offset by ninety degrees. So, to nullify the yelling of protestors, blast them with the recording of monkeys screeching.
* You make monkeys screech by dangling bananas in front of them but never giving them to them. Stupid monkeys. What are they going to do anyway? Take over the world and blow up the Statue of Liberty?
* Much like fire, protestors need oxygen to survive. Also like fire, denying protestors oxygen can cause them to die out.
* In another similarity to fire, dousing protestors with water can help quell them.
* Speaking of water, in a fight between protestors and Aquaman, Aquaman would soon be running around waving a sign saying how old forest logging is endangering the sea turtle.
* Maybe if the song “Don’t Worry; Be Happy” were played over loudspeakers, protestors would stop protesting as they no longer worried and were now happy. It’s worth a shot.
* Another idea is tear gas, but that will probably cause them to worry and not be happy. Screw them.

T-Shirt Whoring to Come

If you remember for the last t-shirt, I had a whole week of t-shirt whoring to celebrate, but I waited until the shirts were ready to ship. This time, we want to gauge interest from pre-orders, so the week of t-shirt whoring will occur the week following the Thanksgiving holiday. At the same time I will start membership of the make Frank rich and famous club, and outline all benefits charter members will receive when I am rich and famous (such as verifiable proof that you know someone rich and famous). The first action will be a readership drive (a higher readership being needed for my current rich and famous plans). More details as my brilliant mind comes up with them.
I’ll need the bestest posts ever for that week. There are a number of Know Thy Enemy™ topics I’ve been sitting on for a special occasion, and you can now vote on the sidebar for one of them.
Frank Answers™ will also return. Since I lost all previous questions in the great e-mail fire of ’03, I need more sent to me with the subject “Frank Answers”.
Also, I’ll take suggestions for any special In My World™ scenario you’ve always wanted to see.
I’ll also post a sample chapter from the book I’m working on which is a scientific analysis of the left as someone only as smart as me could do.
BTW, Meryl Yourish liked my t-shirt so much she made me an honorary Jew. Maybe I can weasel my way into the Zionist Conspiracy now…
Now buy my t-shirt!

In My World: O’Reilly Factor Transcript – Interview with Donald Rumsfeld

Bill O’Reilly: Next up on the Factor is Secretary of the Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Donald Rumsfeld: Where the hell are you? What is this?
O’Reilly: It’s a satellite hook-up. Secretary.
Rumsfeld: Then how am I supposed to strangle you if you enrage me?
O’Reilly: (laughs) I guess you’ll just have to come over here.
Rumsfeld: I will. Start your questions!
O’Reilly: So what is your opinion of how things are going in Iraq?
Rumsfeld: Excellent. Our enemies are being slaughtered in mass numbers.
O’Reilly: But there are many who don’t like America.
Rumsfeld: And they will die! We will hunt them down and kill them like dogs. Actually, I was just on a dog hunt this morning.
O’Reilly: Fair enough. Now some people say that you have botched the occupation and…
Rumsfeld: They will die as well!
O’Reilly: But you have to admit that some people can perceive that things aren’t going so well in Iraq…
Rumsfeld: And some people will be strangled by my own hands!
O’Reilly: Come on, Secretary. This is the no spin zone. Are we supposed to believe you can actually strangle everyone criticizing you?
Rumsfeld: Are you questioning me, you impudent fool! I know where you live which will soon be known as where you died!
O’Reilly: In all respect, Secretary, you’re just dodging the question now. Now, what about…
Rumsfeld: Each time you speak, you add that much more pain to your death…
O’Reilly: Hey, it’s my show and I get to talk so…
Rumsfeld: You pompous prick! I will rip your guts out with my teeth then…
O’Reilly: Cut his mike. Okay, now I get to talk, Mr. Secretary. A lot of people think you have not committed enough troops to Iraq, and I want a “no spin” response to that accusation. Put his mike back on.
Rumsfeld: …it down your neck. Your blood will paint the entire…
O’Reilly: You’re still not answering the question.
Rumsfeld: Sorry, could you repeat it?
O’Reilly: The question was about how people think you have failed in Iraq and…
Rumsfeld: And I said I’d kill them. What don’t you understand?
O’Reilly: But that’s not answering…
Rumsfeld: Why must I answer the concern of people who will be dead?
O’Reilly: Your just repeating the same tired old lines. You can’t possibly kill all of them when you didn’t even successfully kill Steve Doocy. In fact…
Rumsfeld: I’ll show you! Rarr!
O’Reilly: And apparently the Secretary has destroyed the satellite connection. Well, I guess he couldn’t stand the no spin zone. On to our next topic: why must our tax money go to NPR douche bags who won’t allow a fair discussion of my new book, Who’s Looking Out for You. With us, we have some idiot from NPR.
NPR Idiot: Now, I’d just like to point out…
O’Reilly: Quiet! There’s breaking news… Apparently a group of about a hundred protestors has been found strangled to death. Police think it’s the work of the so-called “Rumsfeld Strangler”, as a note was found at the scene reading, “I, Donald Rumsfeld, strangled these guys, and now I’m coming after Bill O’Reilly.” Police are currently deciphering what that’s supposed to mean, and we’ll have more information as it become available. Now, back to the NPR Idiot… hmm, he seems to have been strangled to death. Guess yet another person couldn’t stand the “no spin zone”. As for the most ridiculous item of the day… ack… erk…

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Bite Sized Wisdom: French Demands, Anti-Semitism Out of Control, Bush in London, Our Kick-Ass Friends, Lamentations of a Chickenhawk, and Make Frank Famous

  • We’re hoping to have a new government in Iraq by June 2004, but France is demanding one by the end of the year. First they’re not only no help, but they work against us, and now they’re trying to make demands on how to handle the liberation they didn’t support. I know it’s unprecedented, but the U.S. should just bomb France for being a bunch of douche bags. Just fly over them and drop a couple bombs on them. It’ll shut them up, and probably be an important learning experience for them.
  • As I showed earlier, anti-Semitism is completely out of control since it’s now ever targeting Irish Catholics. What is it with those who hate Bush and hate liberating Iraq also hate Jews? I just love the irony of how they’re basically saying, “Bush is turning America into Nazi Germany… and it’s all because of the Joooos!”
  • Finish him!
  • They sure have a lot of security for Bush for his visit to London. If I were president, I wouldn’t have any security and instead just carry a .44 magnum with a scope. First protestor to get within shouting distance… POW! Those dimwits will scatter like rats. And it’s perfectly legal to kill people while in another country because their laws don’t apply to us.
  • Britain has been a great ally, by the way, as have many others. Italy has really shown what their made of by reacting to the cowardly attack against them with even more resolve. Who cares if we don’t have the whiniest nations on board with us; all the most kick ass nations are already helping us out. We should like get together later and take over the world; I think the world would be a lot better for it. We could call ourselves the “Axis of Allies” or maybe just the “Super Friends”.
  • Arnold is now officially governor. Expect to find a legislator’s head mysteriously crushed within a week.
  • Dean is attacking Gephardt, Dean saying how he, unlike Gephardt, didn’t want the Iraqis liberated and would not support money to help our troops and the poor Iraqis. Why has my opinion of Gephardt suddenly grown?
  • In monkey news, Indonesia farmers are having their crops destroyed by monkeys. Quote one farmer, “All my corn plants have been destroyed. I don’t dare do anything. If I throw stones to drive them away, the monkeys throw them back.” Of course, environmentalists are blaming this on illegal loggers as they always do. Sure, blame everyone except for the monkeys.
  • That Tom Tomorrow comic about chickenhawks made me be a bit introspective: am I a horrible chickenhawk? When the attack on 9/11 occurred, I thought that some big war was coming, and I informed my boss that, if they made the call for more recruits, I’d have to quit my job and join up. When that never happen, I considered doing the reserves or National Guard, but that takes like weeks of training and sounds hard. What I’d be willing to do, though, is use a week of my own vacation to do some quick training, fly over to the Middle East, and kill some terrorists. I don’t want to be the only person on the block not to kill any.
  • Actually, that might make a great tourist outing: terrorist safaris. Pay big bucks, and we help you hunt terrorists. Maybe we could even get Steve Irwin to help out:
    “Those terrorist can be quite wily, and nothing pisses them off like implying that they’re homosexual. Just watch this. Hey! Omar! Who’s that next to you? Your boyfriend? Crikey! He’s trying to kill me now! Isn’t he beautiful?”
  • I really like the idea of setting the goal of me being rich and famous by the end of next year. I’m working on a couple things now, such as doing more rewrites on my novel and coming up with a book proposal based on humor from my site, but you people need to help to by coming up with other ideas for how I can achieve fame and money and helping me implement them. What I think could help me is growing the readership numbers on my site to give me more clout, thus I’m thinking of, instead of having a pledge drive, to have a readership drive. I’ll have more details on that as I think it up. I’ll also come up with an official name for the make Frank famous movement, and benefits for charter members for when I actually am rich and famous, such as, at book signings, you can go to the front of the line. Remember, if I get rich and famous enough, I could probably have Ted Rall disappeared. Think about it.