Al Qaeda’s Response?

Al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri says the group is reparing a “precise response” to Britain’s decision to bestow a knighthood on author Salman Rushdie.
Unfortunately, he neglected to say what Al Qaeda’s response might actually be, which means we’ll have to settle for wild speculation:


  • Posting “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” spoilers.
  • Naming all their goats “Elizabeth”.
  • A ceaseless campaign of stealing cars and parking them in tow-away zones.
  • Infecting Britain’s water supply with Mad Crumpet Disease.
  • Refusing to address Sir Paul McCartney as anything other than “the Ivory guy from that one Stevie Wonder song“.
  • Calling Prime Minister Gordon Brown up every day and asking if Hugh Jass is there.
  • Flushing “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” DVDs down the toilet.
  • Waiting until Prince Charles is asleep and then putting his hand in a bowl of warm water.
  • Making another James Bond movie with Timothy Dalton.
  • Organizing a Spice Girls Reunion tour.
  • Leaving duffle bags in the London Underground containing open copies of “The Big Book of British Smiles“.
  • Continuing to savagely attack the tendons of Glasgow cabbies with their balls.

British citizens are being advised to wear steel-toed boots at all times as a precaution.

John McCain Loses Staff. Hires Illegal Aliens

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Arizona Senator John McCain breathed new life into his presidential campaign today despite having lost most of the crucial players on the team. In an announcement at the Phoenix Home Depot, Senator McCain announced his bold decision to replace his key leaders with undocumented workers.
Senator McCain spoke before an excited crowd.
“Although I was disappointed to lose so many key people on my staff, it was for the best since I had trouble raising money and had very little cash on hand.” Some experts blame the poor fundraising on either the ever-eroding support for the Iraq war; others lay the blame at the hands of global warming.
When asked if the decision to use illegal aliens would further alienate his base the Senator responded enthusiastically. “There’s no way that would happen. I don’t feel that I’d lose one bit of support for die-hard conservatives who understand that I too am a die hard conservative with conservative values.”
Reports have it that with the hiring of 134 illegal alien workers, the McCain headquarters will be abuzz with positive activity. “Sure, we had to reach out to these folks. The first condition I had to meet for employment was to tear down the fence around my home. Just because I’m the legal owner, I didn’t want them thinking that I somehow consider it my property. By tearing down the fence, I feel a greater sense of security for myself and my family.”
Many political analysts have greeted the move with great joy. Said one commenter, “These illegal aliens will do the work Americans find beneath them: such as cleaning, gardening, and supporting a John McCain bid for a presidency.”
Although many of these workers are not paid very much, McCain staffers assured us that employment still has many benefits, such as free Emergency Room healthcare, all documents translated into Spanish, and a free education for any and all of these workers’ children.
Before departing the Home Depot Rally, Senator McCain urged all his followers (using Spanish interpreters) that, together, they can achieve a whole lot more. Mr. McCain’s Website now sports the new McCain slogan: Si Se Puede!

I Like Telling Stories

I had a lot of fun doing stories bit-by-bit, but that’s one of the sort of things I plan to move to a separate blog since it doesn’t fit with the political humor. I might not have time to start until my house is on the market, but I want to start planning it now. What I’ve been thinking of doing is a sequel to Superego (yeah, Rico didn’t actually die; I just never got around to writing the epilogue), taking on Hellbender again, or some new idea I’ve been batting around. What do you think?

Is OSHA Trying to Get Itself Hurt?

Apparently OSHA is planning to put extra regulations on stores that sell ammo. It won’t stop ammo sales but just seems to be laws made to inconvenience and anger gun owners (didn’t I recently talk about the wisdom of that?). If OSHA really wants to prevent people from being injured at the workplace, they should pass regulations that gun control stupidity can’t be discussed within 25 yards of gun owners… and within a thousand yards of snipers.
It’s not only common sense; it’s the law.

Daily John Edwards Fabulous Fact

John Edwards will not use cotton balls because they give him carpet burns.
[collaborative hat tip: reader Chris]

Support the Crazy

John Hawkins has made an ad to support Cindy Sheehan in running against Nancy Pelosi. I think it’s a great idea for more bloggers to make ads for Sheehan since she probably doesn’t have the money to do them herself.
“Cindy Sheehan lost her son in the war. She has absolute moral authority. If you vote against her, you’re worst than Hitler… maybe even as bad as Bush!”
Things like that. It could be fun.

In My World: No One Cares

“End war! Ergah! Leave now!” a crazed man screamed at Senator Harry Reid. Reid slammed the door to his Senate office. He could hear people clawing at it.
“Who are these weird smelling people?” Reid asked his aide.
“Left-wing bloggers, sir. They think they’re responsible for the Democrats’ victory in ’06, and they want the Iraq War ended now.”
“How many are there?”

“I’ve already told you that that’s my favoritest war ever and I’m not going to end it!”

“Not that many, but they’re loud.”
There was more pounding at the door. “Me smirt! You listen me! You end war!”
“Fine,” Reid said. “Guess I’ll finally have to get this war ended so I can get my afternoon nap. I’m old!”


President Bush sat at his desk, twiddling his thumbs. After a while of boredom, he hit the button on the intercom and asked his receptionist, “Any calls for me?”
“No, sir. No calls for you. You’re a lame duck.”
“Awwww.” Bush sunk in his chair.
“Wait, Harry Reid is here to see you.”
“Oh. Okay. Send him in.” Harry Reid walked into the office. “Anyone ever tell you you have the worst porn name ever?”
“We need to talk about Iraq,” Reid said.
“I’ve already told you that that’s my favoritest war ever and I’m not going to end it!”
“Then maybe I have someone who will convince you otherwise — an editor from the New York Times!”
An editor from the New York Times walked into the Oval Office. “We have declared that the Iraq War must end now!”
Bush furrowed his brow. “Haven’t you guys written that exact same editorial every day since forever?”
“Yeah… but this time we mean it!”
“And you don’t care that if we pull out, there will most likely be civil war and genocide?”
“We’re pretty sure you’ll get blamed for it, so we’re okay with that.”
Bush push the button on his intercom. “Clear my schedule for the afternoon. I’m going to spend it beating an editor from the New York Times with various objects in my office.”
“There’s nothing on your schedule, sir,” the receptionist replied. “You’re a lame duck.”
“Excellent.”


“And that’s for not publishing my op-ed!” Bush yelled as he hit the editor from the New York Times with a stapler.
“We’d never publish your stupid crayon scrawl!”
“My pen was broke and crayons were all I could find!” Bush shouted back and hit him with the stapler again.
“I think that’s enough,” Tony Snow said.
Bush looked around the room. “Where did Harry Reid go?”
“I think he got bored of impotently watching you beat the editor from the New York Times so he went out in the hallway and sat down in a chair and fell asleep. He’s old.”
“Well, help me throw this guy out the window. He’ll find his way home; liberals always remember their home.”
“I believe you’re thinking of dogs.”
“Whatever. The point is, we’re throwing him out the window.” Bush and Tony picked up the editor from the New York Times and threw him out the nearest window.
“What did you just throw onto my rose bush!” Laura exclaimed from outside.
“Whoops!” Bush quickly shut the window. “So, Tony, how are things going?”
“Pretty good. No one asks questions at the press conferences anymore since you’re a lame duck and no one care what you think. Also, by your request, we checked the motorcade for Decepticons and it’s all clear.”
“Great.” Bush sat back in his desk chair.
“There are a couple problems, though. A lot of people didn’t like how you commuted Scooter Libby’s sentence.”
“Well, if they saw his sad puppy dog eyes, they would have commuted his prison sentence too!”
“Also, more Republicans seems to be defecting on Iraq and not letting the surge play through.”
Bush nodded thoughtfully. “These are the times where we find out which Republicans have testicles and which ones only have the ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Not Testicles!’ testicle substitute. I’m not backing down on the war. I already lost all my popularity because of the ‘Not Amnesty at All’ for Mexicans debacle.” He leaned close to Tony and whispered. “I’ll tell you a secret: It was really amnesty all along.”
“I don’t think that was a secret, sir.”
“Anyway, the point is that no matter what I do, I can’t get any more unpopular, so I’m going to see this war through no matter how weak and whiny the rest of the politicians get.”
“I think that’s admirable.”
Bush thought for a moment. “Hmm… since I can’t get any more unpopular, maybe I should form some death squads to eliminate my opponents.”
“What?!”
“Squads of death. They’re like a squad that goes around killing people.”
“I know what a death squad is, Mr. President; I’m just saying maybe you should rethink that idea.”
Tony Snow left the room. “I don’t know why death squads get such bad raps,” Bush said to himself. He hit the button on his intercom. “Any calls for me.”
“No, sir. You’re still a lame duck.”
“I’m going to vandalize entries on Wikipedia for the rest of the day.”
“You don’t have to tell me; no one cares what you do.”
“Excellent.”

Katie Couric Spews Tums

Rachel Lucas points out a dichotomy. Ms Couric doesn’t want to say the word $pu+um, but she’ll show us her bowels.. Seems odd to me too. Who wants to see bowels?
But I think I know why Katie’s camera shy about one and not the other. Those laxatives you have to take before a colonoscopy will generally flush any $pu+um out of your bowels that might have been in there, for some reason.
Also she’s not very smirt and probably thought $pu+um was something else. Sputum, I mean.

An IMAO Presidential Poll


I think who should win this poll is pretty obvious, but I know one of those choices has an overzealous following who love to spam polls. I mean, the people who love a dancing monkey are just so over the top in their praise for a dancing monkey that it freaks me out. They’re always going on and on about how a dancing monkey is “the James Madison of our time” and how a dancing monkey is the only hope for our country. And they don’t seem to acknowledge the fact that 99% of Americans when asked about a dancing monkey respond with either “A dancing monkey is stupid,” or “What’s a dancing monkey?” How delusional are they to not realize how ridiculously insane they all look going on and on about their a dancing monkey? If anything, the crazed a dancing monkey followers ruined any chance of national support for a dancing monkey because everyone sees those wackos who love a dancing monkey and say, “If those nuts are for a dancing monkey, then a dancing monkey is probably just as stupid as they are.”
So, anyway, please don’t spam this poll.

IMAO Condensed: Gun Control

Too Much Posting

Wow. I think that was too much posting yesterday. I counted sixteen posts for IMAO’s fifth blogiversary, and at least half of them were big meaty posts too. That’s like a week’s worth of posts in one day. Most of you probably went, “That’s too much to expect me to read in one day.” Still, make sure to check it all out. Also, go see the comments the Ronulans left on my new video. Apparently, they don’t appreciate being made fun of. Who knew?
Well, I hope to deliver you all more posts in the future (though, not that many as yesterday) but you’ll have to open your hearts, and, more importantly, your pockets to me.













Remember, each dollar you donate gives you one more entry into winning the Super Happy Fun IMAO Prize Package Number One. Thanks to all those who already donated.
I’ll be posting soon about the new blogs and projects I’m going to be working on, and, of course, there will be more IMAO humor fun through the rest of day.
Be honorable, ronin.

The Perfect Democratic Ticket

I have an idea for the perfect Democratic ticket. It’s two people who aren’t officially in the race right now, but both of them are currently getting a lot of publicity and are sure to energize the base:

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Daily Fred Thompson Fact

Once Fred Thompson played such a great game of Monopoly that the Federal Trade Commission got involved.