There’s a new cookbook out with recipes taken from blogs (SarahK is big on recipe trading). It happens to include a forward by Glenn Reynolds, cover art by Cox & Forkum, and Glenn Reynolds’s secret smoothie recipe (with some contribution by me in that area).
Check it out!

Make sure to check out Lair’s spoof of the Orson Welles War of the Worlds radio drama. He’s in a competition at Podcast Pickle and his production (the writing, voice work, and sound mixing) totally rock the other entrants and yet he’s losing in the voting right now. So also register and vote for his work. If he wins, you may get an IMAO podcast before the end of the year.
Support you local IMAO podcaster!
Go team Hellbender!
BTW, be smart like Lair’s cat.

Wow. I’ve never seen one of those moron truthers handled so adeptly… and by Danny Bonaduce of all people!
Really satisfying to watch, but there is a language warning (bleeped out though… plus Bonaduce gives the warning himself):

(via Hot Air)

The newspaper Hernando Today did a story on the Right Wing Howler being shut down by CAIR and includes a few quote from me about the editorial in question and CAIR. Seems to be a pretty balanced article and kudos to the reporter for doing some actual research on the subject (compare it to the article in the Hernando Times).
Also, Vilmar has a statement up where his site used to be announcing his retirement from blogging (planned before this incident) and asking people not to be to harsh on his service provider.
I’m not sure if there is some big lesson to learn from this. This site is hosted by Hosting Matters who hosts some of the most controversial blogs such as Little Green Footballs, so I’m not worried about something similar happening with this site. I guess my one worry would be someone selectively quoting IMAO in a news article without context, as that would make it pretty easy to make us look worse than Hitler. And we’re not worse than Hitler. We’re much nicer, really. Plus, we hate the German people and all their descendants.

Congratulations to my brother, Lt. Joe foo’ the Marine. Today he received his commission and officially became an officer. May he be responsible for the death of many evil foreigners in his career.
Can I get an “Ooh-rah!”?

Okay, so Kanye West stirred up a lot of controvery last year by saying that President Bush hates black people because of the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Well, folks. I hate to admit it, but he’s right.
Here’s the proof:

Not only is he trying to strangle blues legend BB King, but the man has the audacity to do it at a public ceremony!
And that goofy-assed look of stupefied bewildermenalism on his face? Oh. My. [Hebrew Deity]. It’s like he’s never strangled a man before. He’s so bad at it, BB King is laughing at him.
Now if he had let Donald Rumsfeld do it, man, that guy is a pro at wasting guitarists. He could probably wipe out BB King, Eric Clapton, and David Gilmour before anybody would notice. (Especially not Pete Townshend)
But we all know what happened to Donald Rumsfeld… a human sacrifice on the Altar Of Pelosi.
I am not proud to be an American today.

There’s been an awful lot of talk about CAIR and blogs being shut down and IMAO being the root cause of one of those shutdowns blah de blah de blah. (I usually quit reading stuff after the first two paragraphs)
As Spacemonkey said, the R in CAIR stands for Relationship, so I’m having a hard time understanding how one can establish a relationship with someone by out-and-out shutting them down.
There’s also been a lot of talk about “Throwing Lair under the train” and “All they want is the Jew” and “Empty his pockets before we hand him over” kind of stuff, but I know they’re just kidding.
I mean, does this look like the kind of guy that would shut down a site over a silly little Jew?

By the way, IMAO would like to wish CAIR Publicity Affairs Director Ibrahim Hooper (pictured above) a swift recovery from what I’m going to assume is his recent head surgery. I mean, looking at the photo, you can’t see any blood seeping through the bandages, so he must be recovering quickly already, right? Praise Allah!
See, folks? We’re wishing him well. And we wish all of the members of CAIR well, no matter what malady or illness, mental or physical, they may be suffering from at the moment.
We are here for them. We’re ready to provide a shoulder for them to lean on or cry upon.
Because that’s how you build a positive and constructive relationship with people.
Together, we can build a better future.

SarahK had been trying to locate a Wii to buy me as a Christmas present and we were avoiding those expensive bundles they sold online, but yesterday I was really dumb and ordered a bundle from Toys R’ Us online with five games and some $40 starter pack I probably don’t want (at least the whole thing was $50 cheaper than listed now when I ordered). By the time I realized how stupid and bad I was, it was too late to cancel the order. Anyone know my option on unloading the games I don’t want since Toys R’ Us isn’t being cooperative. Like, can I return them without a receipt unopened to Wal-Mart for at least store credit so we can buy the food my reckless spending has denied us?
Stupid dumb bad Frank! The whole point of the book was to get us out of debt, but, no, you had to…
BTW, this has inspired me to do a new comic series I hope to premiere soon.

CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, has been doing much to promote the existence of a tender loving side of all Islamists everywhere. A side that YOU KNOW just wants to make us both a fresh cup of hot cocoa, with tiny marshmallows, and sit with us on the porch at night and listen to the gentle falling autumn rain all the while reminiscing about the humor of the popular but now defunct Calvin and Hobbes comic strip of days gone by. At times I get the feeling that an Islamist’s violently protesting the mere existence of America in the streets of Damascus may just be a way of asking if we’d prefer a dash or nutmeg or cinnamon but seems to me, they (CAIR) are only doing half the job their name implies.
Sure, I could see CAIR acting like beheadings, behandings, stonings and honor killings are all just quaint little carryovers from a bygone era sort of like churning your own butter or using table manners. And maybe, I can see them portraying those sorts of behaviors as just a big ol’ buncha hooey trumped up by the zionists and crusaders to make Islamists look barbaric The end result there is an obvious heartfelt effort to make Islamis look better in the eyes of Americans. But what about the other half of the RELATIONship (The ‘R’ in CAIR), What are they doing there?
Are they doing anything to promote Americans and their behavior among Islamists radical or otherwise? If so, I’ve not seen it. Did they make videos showing Abu Graib was just a big prison slumber party gone terribly awry? Not that I saw. Do the have news conferences saying how the the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq are attempts to make the Islamic world a safer place so you can in the privacy or your own home to beat your wife (or wives) for showing some ankle in public? Nooooo! I’ve never seen that video either.
Do they show how blessing of plenty in America and ask does Allah allow wickedness to flourish and abound while many islamists live on diets of warm sand. Do they ever suggest maybe Allah likes us a little bit too or else he’d be smashing us into warm sand to feed the Islamists with? If so they’ve kept them hidden even from the New York Times.
To me it seems they only care (get it?) about making Americans look bad and Islamists look good. While I admire them for taking the harder task, still that’s an all take and no give arrangement. Relationships like that are doomed. It’s time to break up. Because CAIR, doesn’t.

It’s Friday, so you know it’s time for the wire services to post the non sequitur non-news story of Mahmoud Abbas praying at a mosque.
However, this week’s different… this week we’re going to start a new feature called:

WHAT IS MAHMOUD ABBAS PRAYING FOR?
So, from Mahmoud Abbas’ expressions, can you tell what Mahmoud Abbas is praying for?
Is it:

a) A shipment of some real “Head And Shoulders” instead of this cheap, UN-knockoff “Behead and Shoulder-Fired Missiles” camel-spunk

b) Atkns-friendly relief supplies. Having the tailors of his suits executed to cover his weight gain is backfiring… they’re all moving back to Jordan.

c) Nobody to notice his rug. Now where did Arafat keep the clean tablecloths…

d) Head and Shoulders! Now!

e) Home Depot to build a franchise in Ramallah. Some wood paneling could cover up that ugly flag on the wall.

f) Dr. Rusty Shackleford to get a kitten for Christmas.

g) To be able to afford chairs. All this standing and bowing is killing his knees.

h) An aspirin for his knees.
or
i) NONE OF THE ABOVE
Put your guesses in the comments.

I noticed Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com (plus a few other sellers) suddenly have my book in stock. I was hoping to be exclusive until after Christmas, but buying direct from NTM Publishing is still cheapest (especially for multiple copies) plus it’s the only place to get a signed copy with original hand-drawn Frank J. artwork with the extra money going to charity to support the troops.
Maybe it’s time to start sending out those review copies. I have a great gift to go along with the book I’m sending Glenn Reynolds…
Anyhoo, order soon if you want it before Christmas or before CAIR decides to shut us down.