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(Denver Post) Amusing Mayor of Greeley, CO snatches boy off of moving motorscooter and shows teenagers a $3 bill featuring Obama in Middle Eastern garb. Looks like Palin has a 2012 running mate   (denverpost.com) divider line 73
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Lionel Mandrake [TotalFark] 2008-11-22 11:05:50 PM  
Dude. Grow up. Seriously.

 
SilentStrider [TotalFark] 2008-11-22 11:11:30 PM  
this is amusing?
really?

 
tonesskin [TotalFark] 2008-11-22 11:13:27 PM  
Lionel Mandrake: Dude. Grow up. Seriously.

Yeah, the Internet is serious business!

 
Sun God [TotalFark] 2008-11-22 11:37:53 PM  
Why is this still a discussion? Ralph Nader is pure Lebanese and has run for president 5 or 6 times now. He's closer to being Arab/Muslim than Obama by a great deal.

 
tonesskin [TotalFark] 2008-11-22 11:43:09 PM  
Sun God: Why is this still a discussion? Ralph Nader is pure Lebanese and has run for president 5 or 6 times now. He's closer to being Arab/Muslim than Obama by a great deal.

I can't figure out the $3 bill part. Is that a gay joke or something?

 
jimmyhaha [TotalFark] 2008-11-22 11:45:34 PM  
If there's one person who sums up the Republican moral high ground, it's a guy who was tried for inappropriately grabbing a young boy.

 
Broadcastdave [TotalFark] 2008-11-23 12:10:40 AM  
Greeley is a shiathole.

 
BlackStar11 2008-11-23 01:05:46 AM  
Broadcastdave: Greeley is a shiathole.

Having lived there the past three years, I very much agree.

/the smell comes and goes so you never get used to it

 
lajimi [TotalFark] 2008-11-23 01:34:31 AM  
Fifteen-year-old Remington Stitt sought a permanent restraining order against Clark in July, claiming the mayor assaulted him for joyriding on his motorbike in a neighborhood where the two live.
Clark won the court fight but also vowed never to go near the boy again and to call police when he witnesses a possible criminal act.


Hmmm, the court sided with the ex-cop mayor, how odd. Maybe the neighborhood parents should appeal to a higher court.
i236.photobucket.com

 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark] 2008-11-23 03:23:42 AM  
Broadcastdave: Greeley is a shiathole.

is a suburb of Denver or something?

 
Coco LaFemme [TotalFark] 2008-11-23 03:24:51 AM  
tonesskin: Sun God: Why is this still a discussion? Ralph Nader is pure Lebanese and has run for president 5 or 6 times now. He's closer to being Arab/Muslim than Obama by a great deal.

I can't figure out the $3 bill part. Is that a gay joke or something?


Yeah, I believe the expression is "queer as a three-dollar bill". This is guy is still weapons-grade stupid, though.

 
Sum Dum Gai 2008-11-23 03:27:04 AM  
I bet he tried to spend it at a Taco Bell too.

 
Sabyen91 [TotalFark] 2008-11-23 03:39:31 AM  
Sun God: Why is this still a discussion? Ralph Nader is pure Lebanese and has run for president 5 or 6 times now. He's closer to being Arab/Muslim than Obama by a great deal.

Bobby Jindal is awfully brown too.

 
Sabyen91 [TotalFark] 2008-11-23 03:41:23 AM  
Coco LaFemme: tonesskin: Sun God: Why is this still a discussion? Ralph Nader is pure Lebanese and has run for president 5 or 6 times now. He's closer to being Arab/Muslim than Obama by a great deal.

I can't figure out the $3 bill part. Is that a gay joke or something?

Yeah, I believe the expression is "queer as a three-dollar bill". This is guy is still weapons-grade stupid, though.


Actually I think it is queer as a two-dollar bill. Yes, they exist but retards do like embarassing themselves.

 
Coco LaFemme [TotalFark] 2008-11-23 03:43:26 AM  
Sabyen91: Coco LaFemme: tonesskin: Sun God: Why is this still a discussion? Ralph Nader is pure Lebanese and has run for president 5 or 6 times now. He's closer to being Arab/Muslim than Obama by a great deal.

I can't figure out the $3 bill part. Is that a gay joke or something?

Yeah, I believe the expression is "queer as a three-dollar bill". This is guy is still weapons-grade stupid, though.

Actually I think it is queer as a two-dollar bill. Yes, they exist but retards do like embarassing themselves.



No, it's three-dollar bill because a two dollar bill actually exists. In the expression's case, the word "queer" means strange, not gay.

 
Sabyen91 [TotalFark] 2008-11-23 03:54:08 AM  
Coco LaFemme: Sabyen91: Coco LaFemme: tonesskin: Sun God: Why is this still a discussion? Ralph Nader is pure Lebanese and has run for president 5 or 6 times now. He's closer to being Arab/Muslim than Obama by a great deal.

I can't figure out the $3 bill part. Is that a gay joke or something?

Yeah, I believe the expression is "queer as a three-dollar bill". This is guy is still weapons-grade stupid, though.

Actually I think it is queer as a two-dollar bill. Yes, they exist but retards do like embarassing themselves.


No, it's three-dollar bill because a two dollar bill actually exists. In the expression's case, the word "queer" means strange, not gay.


You are right. There was a movie with two dollar bill, though. I am trying to pick my brain for what it was.

 
Ishidan [TotalFark] 2008-11-23 03:54:46 AM  
Coco LaFemme: No, it's three-dollar bill because a two dollar bill actually exists. In the expression's case, the word "queer" means strange, not gay.

Sometimes I go for the gold and say "four dollar bill".

And if you mean, "It's strange, but it exists. Deny that it exists and people who know more than you will laugh at you.", then use "two dollar bill".

 
starzman2003 2008-11-23 04:08:36 AM  
tonesskin: Sun God: Why is this still a discussion? Ralph Nader is pure Lebanese and has run for president 5 or 6 times now. He's closer to being Arab/Muslim than Obama by a great deal.

I can't figure out the $3 bill part. Is that a gay joke or something?


You've never heard of the line "queer as a 3 dollar bill?"

/if it's been said, nevermind.
//I don't support that line, but I have heard it.

 
holiday_inn_in_cambodia 2008-11-23 04:13:26 AM  
sat⋅ire
/ˈsætaɪər/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [sat-ahyuhr] Show IPA Pronunciation
-noun
1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.

Ed Clark
/ˈEdclark/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [Ed-clark] Show IPA Pronunciation
-noun
1. A moron

 
Cucullen 2008-11-23 04:39:59 AM  
Man what a douchebag. Is it a perquisite for a cop to be a dick or does the job make them that way?

 
CanisNoir [TotalFark] 2008-11-23 04:55:17 AM  
As a conservative that did not Vote for Obama and really didn't want him to be president - let me just echo someone from up thread.

This guy is just all kinds of weapons grade stupid!

/Really wish the Obama is a mooslim thing would die already.
//Not that there's anything wrong with having a 3 dollar bill.

 
Kevin72 2008-11-23 05:06:29 AM  
OMG, that man is a crime waiting to happen. He should be nowhere near any teenagers. Kid should have done a citizen arrest, but of course Ed Anger next door has a gun.

 
spill_thrill 2008-11-23 05:09:31 AM  
Shaved prick and former cop? Shocking!

 
red headed stranger 2008-11-23 05:49:35 AM  
CanisNoir: As a conservative that did not Vote for Obama and really didn't want him to be president - let me just echo someone from up thread.

This guy is just all kinds of weapons grade stupid!

/Really wish the Obama is a mooslim thing would die already.
//Not that there's anything wrong with having a 3 dollar bill.


I'm also sick of the whole "OMG he was really born in Kenya and not a US citizen" thing. Those people are worse than 9/11 truthers.

 
baka-san [TotalFark] 2008-11-23 05:52:55 AM  
Kevin72: OMG, that man is a crime waiting to happen. He should be nowhere near any teenagers. Kid should have done a citizen arrest, but of course Ed Anger next door has a gun.

*standing O"

 
CanisNoir [TotalFark] 2008-11-23 06:31:03 AM  
red headed stranger: CanisNoir: As a conservative that did not Vote for Obama and really didn't want him to be president - let me just echo someone from up thread.

This guy is just all kinds of weapons grade stupid!

/Really wish the Obama is a mooslim thing would die already.
//Not that there's anything wrong with having a 3 dollar bill.

I'm also sick of the whole "OMG he was really born in Kenya and not a US citizen" thing. Those people are worse than 9/11 truthers.


Ditto

/Said like a Limbaugh Fan just to irritate the pansies ;)

 
eschwe [TotalFark] 2008-11-23 06:52:35 AM  
Keep it classy, Greeley. Wonder if they're still doing "blood burn Thursdays" at the meat packing plant.

/Used to live in Fort Collins, getting a kick out of yadda yadda yadda.

 
TripSixes 2008-11-23 06:54:27 AM  
FTFA: "I'm not going to talk about it. I've got to go. sir."


That's some fine reporting there. lou.

 
castufari 2008-11-23 07:05:22 AM  
Cucullen: Man what a douchebag. Is it a perquisite for a cop to be a dick or does the job make them that way?

It seems that way. At my former job we had a "police force". They could patrol the facility but no where else. If something happened in town they couldn't get involved because they weren't recognized. One day the "chief" tried to pull me over on the highway for speeding, another day he wrote me a ticket for parking in a no parking zone - off campus. They finally canned him for something totally unrelated.

Then there is the resource office who visits our workplace to talk about crime, etc. Nice as can be, he'll even buy the first round.

 
rancidPlasma 2008-11-23 07:10:05 AM  
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content8.flixster.com

 
Jim_Callahan 2008-11-23 07:30:50 AM  
Cucullen: Man what a douchebag. Is it a perquisite for a cop to be a dick or does the job make them that way?

Dude, imagine if your primary interaction with other people involves exclusively dumbasses breaking other people's stuff, domestic disputes degenerating into violence, and straight-up criminals. Plus the law-abiding folks always assuming you're there to bust them for something and thus generally refusing to talk to you unless forced.

You'd probably become a bit of a dick pretty fast, too. Not exactly hanging out on the sunny side of human nature, police work.

//I've known cheerful cops, but I'm pretty sure they're just nuts.

 
Unsung_Hero 2008-11-23 08:02:16 AM  
Jim_Callahan: Cucullen: Man what a douchebag. Is it a perquisite for a cop to be a dick or does the job make them that way?

I've known quite a few cops. Some I disagree with, some I don't like. Not one I am worried about because they have a badge and a gun.

On the other hand, I don't live in an area where the cop and the judge are family, where 'being educated' means you made it through grade 8, or the town coffers depend on traffic fines to stay in the black.

 
deltabourne 2008-11-23 08:19:43 AM  
"It was political satire," Clark said Saturday.

Last I checked free speech was still protected. Nothing to see here, move along.

Farkers would be flipping their wig if someone dared to criticize someone satirizing McCain. You people are pathetic.

 
CanisNoir [TotalFark] 2008-11-23 09:18:59 AM  
deltabourne: "It was political satire," Clark said Saturday.

Last I checked free speech was still protected. Nothing to see here, move along.

Farkers would be flipping their wig if someone dared to criticize someone satirizing McCain. You people are pathetic.


Sorry, I just don't buy the whole "Satire" thing anymore. I didn't buy it when the left used it to try and wiggle out of their stupid things, and I won't buy it just because the guy appears to be coming from the right.

Calling something like this "Satire" sounds just like a little boy crying "wolf" to me now.

 
NYZooMan 2008-11-23 09:43:45 AM  
Sabyen91: Coco LaFemme: Sabyen91: Coco LaFemme: tonesskin: Sun God: Why is this still a discussion? Ralph Nader is pure Lebanese and has run for president 5 or 6 times now. He's closer to being Arab/Muslim than Obama by a great deal.

I can't figure out the $3 bill part. Is that a gay joke or something?

Yeah, I believe the expression is "queer as a three-dollar bill". This is guy is still weapons-grade stupid, though.

Actually I think it is queer as a two-dollar bill. Yes, they exist but retards do like embarassing themselves.


No, it's three-dollar bill because a two dollar bill actually exists. In the expression's case, the word "queer" means strange, not gay.

You are right. There was a movie with two dollar bill, though. I am trying to pick my brain for what it was.


It was "Two-Dollar Bill" back before the modern Two-Dollar Bill appeared, having been a long time since the previous Two-Dollar Bill circulated a Two-Dollar Bill was queer enough for the saying to work.

/You kids believe the universe began the day you were born.

 
PizzaJedi81 2008-11-23 09:48:55 AM  
holiday_inn_in_cambodia: sat⋅ire
/ˈsætaɪər/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [sat-ahyuhr] Show IPA Pronunciation
-noun
1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.

Ed Clark
/ˈEdclark/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [Ed-clark] Show IPA Pronunciation
-noun
1. A moronmoran


ftfy

 
TwistedFark 2008-11-23 09:56:51 AM  
NYZooMan: It was "Two-Dollar Bill" back before the modern Two-Dollar Bill appeared, having been a long time since the previous Two-Dollar Bill circulated a Two-Dollar Bill was queer enough for the saying to work.

/You kids believe the universe began the day you were born.


1) You're wrong.
2) The modern two-dollar bill is almost 150 years old.
3) It's been in continuous circulation since then.
4) I like making lists.
5) #2 + #3 invalidate your point.
6) I hate condescending people who are condescending about things they are wrong about.

 
GoHomeAndGetYourShinebox [TotalFark] 2008-11-23 09:58:44 AM  
deltabourne: "It was political satire," Clark said Saturday.

Last I checked free speech was still protected. Nothing to see here, move along.

Farkers would be flipping their wig if someone dared to criticize someone satirizing McCain. You people are pathetic.


It sounds like you have as much difficulty defining 'satire' as the bald cock in the article.

I suppose if he walked into City Hall in blackface shuckin' and jivin', he could also claim that as satire, but it would just show him to the inappropriate douche he has already demonstrated himself as.

As for the "free speech" argument, nobody is arguing that he should be arrested for his political views. Grow up.

 
laurascudder 2008-11-23 10:06:06 AM  
Bucky Katt: Broadcastdave: Greeley is a shiathole.

is a suburb of Denver or something?


If by "suburb of Denver" you mean "in Colorado".

/closer to Fort Collins

 
Lawnchair 2008-11-23 10:09:42 AM  
NYZooMan: It was "Two-Dollar Bill" back before the modern Two-Dollar Bill appeared, having been a long time since the previous Two-Dollar Bill circulated a Two-Dollar Bill was queer enough for the saying to work.

There has not been a time since the Civil War that two dollar bills were not in reasonably common (as common as they are now) circulation. Before the Civil War, there weren't banknotes in regular circulation at all.

 
deltabourne 2008-11-23 10:11:16 AM  
GoHomeAndGetYourShinebox: I suppose if he walked into City Hall in blackface shuckin' and jivin', he could also claim that as satire, but it would just show him to the inappropriate douche he has already demonstrated himself as.

As for the "free speech" argument, nobody is arguing that he should be arrested for his political views. Grow up.


You're offended by Obama's Kenyan birth certificate too, that calls his mother a "honky", right? Oh wait no, that's satire, right? Just checking to make sure your double standards are firmly in place.

 
BitwiseShift 2008-11-23 10:12:17 AM  
i190.photobucket.com

Just good friends. We cut each others hair.

 
deltabourne 2008-11-23 10:12:52 AM  
deltabourne: You're offended by Obama's Kenyan birth certificate too, that calls his mother a "honky", right? Oh wait no, that's satire, right? Just checking to make sure your double standards are firmly in place.

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Let me also point out that it calls him a Muslim and pokes fun at his Kenyan heritage. But this is OK for some reason, while clearly the person in the article is a KKK loving white supremacist who wants to own slaves. CLEARLY. If you use Fark Logic™

 
TwistedFark 2008-11-23 10:18:21 AM  
deltabourne: GoHomeAndGetYourShinebox: I suppose if he walked into City Hall in blackface shuckin' and jivin', he could also claim that as satire, but it would just show him to the inappropriate douche he has already demonstrated himself as.

As for the "free speech" argument, nobody is arguing that he should be arrested for his political views. Grow up.

You're offended by Obama's Kenyan birth certificate too, that calls his mother a "honky", right? Oh wait no, that's satire, right? Just checking to make sure your double standards are firmly in place.


Look, in order for it to be satire the author/creator would essentially not have to mean what he/she was saying.

So please, try establishing that this fake bill was created by an Obama supporter - if it was, then it was satire, if it wasn't then it was slander.

It's really that simple. Didn't any of you farkers graduate the 5th grade?

 
Lawnchair 2008-11-23 10:20:34 AM  
deltabourne: Let me also point out that it calls him a Muslim and pokes fun at his Kenyan heritage. But this is OK for some reason, while clearly the person in the article is a KKK loving white supremacist who wants to own slaves. CLEARLY. If you use Fark Logic™

Both are fine (although the 'bill' is insulting a person, the 'certificate' is insulting a nebulous group of idiots). Neither are fine for a person in a position of power at school, particularly one with a history of going off-the-hook, to show to school kids to get a rise out of them.

 
deltabourne 2008-11-23 10:24:03 AM  
TwistedFark: Look, in order for it to be satire the author/creator would essentially not have to mean what he/she was saying.

So please, try establishing that this fake bill was created by an Obama supporter - if it was, then it was satire, if it wasn't then it was slander.

It's really that simple. Didn't any of you farkers graduate the 5th grade?


Are you serious? No, tell me, are you serious? You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what satire is. Christ. You think you have to support someone to satirize them? So I presume you think The Onion and Jon Stewart are either:

a) Bush supporters
b) Slanderous

Jesus. This is not even getting into the fact that you have no idea what the guy's views are, although you sure pretend like you do.

No, I really can't get over what you just said. Let me quote you Wikipedia's definition of satire:

"Although satire is usually meant to be funny, the purpose of satire is not primarily humour in itself so much as an attack on something of which the author strongly disapproves, using the weapon of wit."

You realize your statement makes political cartoons and political jokes illegal? You realize your statement is in direct contradiction to what the 1st amendment is meant for?

Wow. Total and complete fail on your part.

 
deltabourne 2008-11-23 10:26:11 AM  
Lawnchair: Both are fine (although the 'bill' is insulting a person, the 'certificate' is insulting a nebulous group of idiots). Neither are fine for a person in a position of power at school, particularly one with a history of going off-the-hook, to show to school kids to get a rise out of them.

Can you explain to me how you know that the $3 bill was attacking Obama and not these same groups of idiots. After all, both the bill and the certificate play on the fact that a "nebulous group of idiots" perceive Obama as a Muslim.

Your second point is more valid, but let's be honest, that's not what people are complaining about in this thread. Plus, he apologized for it.

 
TheMaskedUnit 2008-11-23 10:46:25 AM  
Sabyen91

Actually I think it is queer as a two-dollar bill. Yes, they exist but retards do like embarassing themselves.

I prefer to say, "gay as a two dollar bill" because it makes as little sense as possible while expanding upon the comedic elements of teh original expression.

 
Lord_Baull 2008-11-23 10:50:29 AM  
I'd file this "scandal" under: Who gives a rat's ass?

 
ArachnidDude 2008-11-23 11:01:28 AM  
deltabourne: "It was political satire," Clark said Saturday.

Last I checked free speech was still protected. Nothing to see here, move along.

Farkers would be flipping their wig if someone dared to criticize someone satirizing McCain. You people are pathetic.


THIS.

 
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