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New Illegal Immigrant Compromise Idea: Cut Off a Finger

A lot of people seem intent on ramming through a path to citizenship for those who came here illegally, but it only seems fair that people who broke the laws get some sort of punishment before getting in line for citizenship. So here’s my idea: They have to cut off a pinky finger. That seems pretty fair to me. You broke the law, but you can still become a citizen — just less one finger. Plus, everyone should agree: Being an American is worth a finger. If you don’t think that, then you don’t deserve citizenship.

Though I guess if there is an illegal immigrant with no hands, he outsmarted the system.

IMAO, Officially the Funniest Right-Wing Blog

John Hawkins has pictures from CPAC, and included in there is the fact that IMAO won best humor blog at the 11th Annual Blogger Awards there were presented at CPAC. And there is like a plaque with the award and everything. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to go to CPAC and receive the award because that costs money. There’s the plane ticket and the time off work and the entry fee and… well, I don’t make a a ton of money from this blog (some of that due to Harvey’s embezzling). I hope one day the people at CPAC will be like, “Frank! We need you CPAC to stay relevant! Here’s thousands of dollars!” but that hasn’t happened yet.

Anyway, it’s awesome we received this award and are now officially the funniest conservative blog out there (which isn’t that great since it’s well known conservatives aren’t that funny). Anyway, I’d like to thank me for this award for my dedication of blogging every weekday even though I feel like I haven’t actually been funny since 2004. Oh, and Harvey, who does most of the actual work and helps hide the fact of how little I actually post. Plus, he interact with the readers of this blog which I hate doing because I look down on you all. And I thank Basil, who often posts here and also helps keep IMAO up and running. And I might also thank spacemonkey. Nah, I think I won’t thank him.

So, it’s been more than 10 years, but finally — finally — we have evidence IMAO is funny. Thank you for your support.

Do Gun Control Proponents Understand It’s Over Yet?

Well, the assault weapons ban totally failed. After Newtown, the left were like, “It’s a totally different climate on guns now! Everyone will be all for completely useless gun control measures that will annoy legal gun owners and do nothing to stop criminals!” But no, it’s not different. Opinion on guns have gone one direction for 50 years and it’s well established now that nothing will make it go the other way. And thus gun control supporters are ending up more and more like those Japanese after WWII who didn’t know the war was over.

My advice for those frustrated at how gun control has utterly failed: Just shrug your shoulder and say, “I guess I just don’t understand freedom,” and then move on to some other more minor despotic issue like soda bans. There’s other places freedom is still vulnerable, so attack it there. But on guns, you lost. Humanity won.