A blogger (Right Wing Howler) quoted part of one of my editorials (adding a few remarks of his own), and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (you know, the terrorist support group) got his website account suspended. Here’s a google cache of one of the relevant posts.
Man, I hope CAIR never follows the link, comes here, and finds out about Lair, because then we’re totally screwed.
I’ll try and investigate this one further…
UPDATE:
Commentary on the shut down here. I’ll see if I can get a response from Vilmar of Right Wing Howler.
UPDATE 2:
Vilmar only had this to say:

I think it is pathetic. Much more than that I am not sure I should get into.

UPDATE 3:
The Jawa Report calls for IMAO to be shut down… because of Lair!
I really should backup IMAO more often…

I’ve yet to weigh in on the Rosie O’Donnell mocking the Chinese controversy, so most of you probably don’t know what to think about it. As you all know, I’m an avid View watcher and never miss an episode and have been trembling with excitement ever since Rosie was added to the cast. Thus, it probably won’t come as a surprise that I fully support Rosie’s decision to mock the Chinese language. Sometimes when I’m picking up Chinese food, the restaurant owners will talk to each other in Chinese and it really does sound like a bunch of “chings” and “chongs” peppered with a mention or two of Danny DeVito. I’m glad someone finally put those Chinese in their place because they think they’re so great since they have all the General Tso’s chicken. Well, you’re not. And the only reason Rosie’s imitation stung so much is because it was such a dead on impression.
Maybe it’s time for the Chinese to take a moment to reflect and think about making their language less silly sounding.

I don’t care so much about the Weblog Awards, and here’s why: I’m never a finalist (actually, I might have been one year, I don’t remember — that’s how much I don’t care). That’s right. It’s because I am one of the best storytellers on the interwebs, and I never get my props. And in the Best Diarist category, I’ve heard of ONE of the nominees. I’ve actually never read JustdotChristina, but I hope she wins, just because I’ve actually heard of her. There, I said it. I don’t care if I’m the only one thinking it, that’s why I don’t care about the Weblog Awards.
And seriously, IMAO is in the same category as one blog whose schtick is to post a picture on the blog then say, “That picture sucks! I hate the person in this picture! I’m so much better than everyone else! Lick my boots!” Um, ok, that’s humor? Put it back in the culture or diarist category where it belongs. Humor? Whatever.
Anyway, my friend Kimmy from Ramble Strip is nominated in one of the Top Thousands categories. I fully endorse her and endorse your voting for her. Voting ends tonight, and then Lair and I can be happy again.

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It wouldn’t be so hard except that I try to come up with something new and funny to put in each book (and so far been successful). That means that everyone who ordered a signed copy of my book gets original Frank J. humor that only he or she will ever get to see and then can lock that humor in a Frank J. humor vault and no one else in the world will ever get to know its joy.
Anyway, I’ll try to apply my muse to other things than book signing today.

Hugh Hewitt, going beyond the chickenhawk foolishness, wonders if it will be near impossible for a man to get elected in the future who didn’t serve in the military today. I’d say that would be dependent on how the war is looked at in the future.
John Hawkins guest blogged at Tom DeLay’s new blog. It seems like trolls primarily rule the comments there as I guess the site policy is to only toss the vulgar comments.

We’re big.
No one says Rush, who? Or has to link to his site anymore. You just…know. He’s big. Like us.
Yessiree, Big. Battling Mothra big.
We’ve hit it and hit it Bigtime.

Just like Strong Bad gets emails all the time asking him how he can type with boxing gloves on, I often get the same questions over and over, too.
For example, Hitler Cats and Stuff On My Cat links arrive in my mailbox at least once a day.
Or Cats In Sinks. That’s popular.
It may not be the most common question, but I sure get a lot of notes from people telling me that my name was mentioned at Instapundit, but it wasn’t linked.
shrug That’s nice.
So, have you seen the site with the cats that look like Hitler?
You know, FrankJ told me that it happens to him a lot, too. Glenn will mention FrankJ but not link to him here, and people will point it out to him.
And then I realize… this isn’t an oversight on Glenn’s part. Nor is it a slight of our blogging efforts.
No, this is a case where it’s not necessary to link FrankJ’s name or my name anymore.
You see, we’ve made it. People know us by name alone. There’s no need to distinguish us from other FrankJ’s or Laurence Simons.
Unlike other people out there who still need their names linked by everyone refering to them, like Andrew Sullivan or Glenn Reynolds or Michelle Malkin, people don’t ask “Who is that?” when our names come up in a blog or article.
Okay, so maybe there are a few people in the world who don’t know who FrankJ and Laurence Simon are, but for them, there’s Google.
Look up FrankJ in Google… FrankJ is the #1 FrankJ in the world!
Look up Laurence in Google… Laurence Simon is the #1 Laurence in the world!
Now look up Glenn… Andrew… are they the #1 Glenns and Andrews in the world? (Oh, just shut up about Michelle Malkin!)
As I said, people know who we are by name alone. And even the lefties who run Google, who would love nothing more than left-wing FrankJs and left-wing Laurences to drive us into searchengine obscurity, know that.
B List?
A List?
No, we’re The List.
Think about it for a second. When you say Madonna or Sting or Paul McCartney or George Bush, do you link their name to their blog?
Of course not. Because they’re big. Bigger than the bloggers who need their names linked.
Big like us, Frank. We’re bigtime now.

My muse has left me. It’s December and I usually slow down until the new year, but I was hoping for a few more funny posts before I head off for Christmas vacation at the end of next week. No news story has got my funny sense tingling, though.
Throw some stuff in the comments and I’ll play off of you until I’m funny inspired. Or, go to Sadly, No! They’re supposed to be funny.

I added the image of the back cover of my book to its Amazon.com page so you can see the quotes from famous people (all real quotes) I use to show people who have never heard of me that I am actually very smart and funny.
As always, the book is currently available and shipping now if ordered from here.

Ask Santa to draw a cartoon of Mohammed.
More:
“Smack Cindy Sheehan”
“Get linked by Glenn Reynolds”
“Burn a koran”
“Give FrankJ a monkey”
“Convert to Islam”
“Nuke the moon”
Even More:
“Can I put up a menorah?”
“Do you miss Peter Boyle”
“Does Nancy Pelosi make you want to vomit?”
“Did you get your hand cut off in Mecca?”
“Would you do Courtney Love?”

Sorry not to blog much today, but I’ve been busy. Anyway, I’m still working on the new Best of IMAO 2006 (Hellbender excluded) category. Basically I’ve been tagging anything I think is still funny, thus putting all worthwhile posts from the last year into one place (so far I’ve gone through all my posts up until the end of June). I’ve told the other IMAO bloggers to look through their stuff and do the same (and they better do it! ::shakes fist::). Later, I’ll work on the other years and then there will be a couple convient pages if you want to waste hours and hours reading all the funny stuff from IMAO.

Strokes often lead to brain damage.