IMAO Time Machine: IMAO Podcast #2 6-6-05

The 2nd IMAO Podcast, from 2005. — The Editors


  1. Frank: Introduction
  2. Our Sponsors
  3. Frank Topics: The Impending Theocracy
  4. American Monkey: Interview with guest Senator George Voinovich
  5. Frank introduces a new podcast sponsor
  6. Right Wing Duck with the news
  7. Frank Knowledge: Neutron Stars
  8. At home with George & Laura Bush
  9. Harvey: Fun Facts About Alaska
  10. Commentary from the Hate-Filled Lefty
  11. SarahK reviews Zoolander
  12. A Call From Tom DeLay
  13. Frank Discourse (Roundtable): Deep Throat revealed, FEC regulation of blogs, Amnesty International compares Gitmo to a gulag
  14. Frank: Conclusion, listener email

Straight Line of the Day: Historians Announce the Discovery of Lost Presidential Archives Revealing…

Per caleygraph2015:

Straight Line of the Day: Historians announce the discovery of lost presidential archives revealing…

Companion Piece

Remember that rock-solid juris”Prudence” exhibited in the previous post?

More for those who like their laws warm and fuzzy:

California Adopts Broadest US Rules for Seizing Guns
NBC 7 San Diego | October 11, 2019 | Don Thompson

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a law that will make the state the first to allow employers, co-workers and teachers to seek gun violence restraining orders against other people.

The bill was vetoed twice by former governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, and goes beyond a measure that he signed allowing only law enforcement officers and immediate family members to ask judges to temporarily take away peoples’ guns when they are deemed a danger to themselves or others.

They were among 15 gun-related laws Newsom approved as the state strengthens what the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence calls the nation’s toughest restrictions.

“With school and workplace shootings on the rise, it’s common sense to give the people we see every day the power to intervene and prevent tragedies,” said the bill’s author, Democratic Assemblyman Phil Ting of San Francisco. The existing law has mostly been used by police officers, but Ting said the expansion should allow more awareness and more opportunity for others to act.

Newsom, a Democrat, signed a companion bill allowing the gun violence restraining orders to last one and five years, although the gun owners could petition to end those restrictions earlier.

Hawaii allows the restraining order petitions by medical professionals, co-workers, and educators but not employers, Ting’s office said.

The California law will require co-workers requesting the orders to have “substantial and regular interactions” with gun owners to seek the orders and co-workers and school employees must get approval from their employers or school administrators before seeking them. People seeking the orders will have to file sworn statements specifying their reasons for doing so.

Aside from extending the restraining orders to a maximum of five years, her bill allows judges to issue search warrants at the same time as they grant the orders. The warrants can be used immediately if the gun owners are served with the relinquishment orders but fail to turn over the firearms or ammunition.

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In fairness, it must be pointed out that even the ACLU opposes the measure.

“I heard you are dangerous and have dangerous weapons in the house. Relinquish them.”
“I’m not. And no I don’t.”
“Aha! You have thereby failed to comply with our relinquishment order. Now our search warrant comes into effect. Stand aside!”


Well, There They Go Again . . .

. . . parodying themselves.

“We’re super-extra-sure that all of you citizens are committing crimes — right now, at this very moment — based on what someone told us they’re hearing others heard reported.”

— The Three Stooges Gestapo

Andrew McCabe Opens Up About Steele Dossier, Origins Of Trump-Russia Probe

Chuck Ross / dailycaller.com / October 10, 2019

Andrew McCabe, the embattled former FBI deputy director, said at a recent event that former British spy Christopher Steele disclosed to FBI investigators that his infamous anti-Trump dossier should not be taken as “gospel,” and that he could not vouch for the accuracy of some of the material in the infamous document.

. . .

“We knew that Steele was working a number of different sources, some of which has sub-sources, and sub-sub-sources, and he would represent that in the reporting, as any good source should. It didn’t come with his imprimatur of, ‘this is all gospel.’ It was like, ‘this is what I’m hearing,’” said McCabe, who is under Justice Department investigation.

“That’s how good sources report.”

Good Democrat sources, clearly.

John Brennan Admits He “May Have Been Fooled’ by Bad Info on Trump’s Russia Connections
Twitchy / 10/8/2019

From The New York Post:

Former head of the CIA John Brennan admitted on Monday that he may have relied on “bad information” for his relentless attacks on President Trump.

Brennan — who once warned that “our Nation’s future is at stake” — told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that he may have been misled on the extent of Trump’s connections to Russia.

“Well, I don’t know if I received bad information but I think I suspected there was more than there actually was,” Brennan said. “I am relieved that it’s been determined there was not a criminal conspiracy with the Russian government over our election.”

Oh, by the way, I heard from an informant (whom I can’t identify) that you broke the law again while you were reading this.


Congressional Oversight?

I just discovered my keyboard has a “Schiff” key. What’s up with that?


Columbus Day (Traditional)

Monday is Columbus Day. But today is, too.

Monday is the federal holiday “Columbus Day.” It’s one of those holidays that’s observed on Mondays because it’s more important to get a long weekend than it is to properly observe whatever it is that’s being observed. So, if you got Monday off, enjoy it. But know that today is the actual Columbus Day, even though you gotta work.

I learned that Christopher Columbus discovered America because he thought the world was round while everyone else thought it was flat. I’m not sure if I learned that from school, or from Bugs Bunny.

[The YouTube]

I probably learned it from Bugs Bunny because I paid more attention to Bugs Bunny than I did to school.

Of course, you and I both know that nobody thought the earth was flat in 1492. There are people today that think it’s flat, but that’s just because those people that think that are stupider than people from 1492 were.

Anyway, it’s Columbus Day. Now, go discover a continent with a bunny rabbit.