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Sun May 20, 2007
(Y Net News) Stupid Women should rule the world, because men are warmongers. Just ask Ahotep, several Cleopatras, Thatcher, Mbande Zinga, Nandi, Golda Meir, Catherine the Great, Elizabeth I, Indira Gandhi, Boudica, Zenobia, Isabella, Jinga of Angola, Rani of Jh (12)
(Daily Kos) Cool Problem: When the Senate goes on summer recess, Bush appoints flunkies without Senate confirmation. Solution: Don't go on recess (21)
AFP Scary "If you REALLY loved me, you'd set off a car bomb for me." (6)
CBS Minneapolis Followup The White House has dismissed former President Carter as "increasingly irrelevant" after his harsh criticism of President Bush (170)
(NY Times) Obvious Rupert Murdoch directed his NY Post staff to avoid articles critical of China, where he was trying to do business. The riberal media strikes again (33)
ABC News Amusing My great curse in life for winning the '92 election is that God has ordained that I spend the rest of it being George Bush's straight man (17)
(Winnipeg Sun) Strange Apparently there's a place called "Manitoba", which seems to be in Canada, and they have something much like elections, except there are three parties and toilets are a campaign issue (6)
Reuters Stupid Saudis jump on the litigation bandwagon late, sue tobacco firms for more than $2.7 bln (5)
(Some Guy) Sad Death and Taxes, or: How the Government wasted your tax dollars this year (18)
Slate Interesting Behind the stupid GOP effort to silence Ron Paul (108)
London Times Strange Great political promises of the 21st Century: 'A slop bucket in every home' (6)
News.com.au Interesting Iraqi President flies to US to lose weight, and not the normal mideast weight loss plan where they lop off everything above the collar (16)
CBC Interesting In Baghdad did Georgie W a stately pleasure dome decree (43)
London Times Cool 29-year-old hippie chick from Essex could be the first U.S. First Lady with a tongue stud (161)
STLToday Amusing Missouri adapts state reptile, state invertabrate, and state grass. That last one might explain why they had so many problems passing the rest of the bills correctly (8)
Reuters Asinine U.S. retirement and health-care programs may go bankrupt, since neither party wants to touch those issues before the next president arrives in 2009 (66)
News.com.au Obvious White House advised that soon-to-be British PM Gordon Brown will likely announce plans for troop withdrawal within first 100 days of office (139)

Sat May 19, 2007
(Statesman) Asinine The National Association of State Boards of Education is about to elect a president who opposes teaching evolution (241)
YouTube Cool What do Pat Buchanan, Rosie O'Donnell, Barry Goldwater Jr., and now Bill Maher have in common? (70)
(Michelle Malkin) Dumbass Michelle Malkin accuses Ron Paul of being a 9/11 conspiracy theorist, gets blasted by emails/letters correcting her, then takes back her statements while still calling Ron Paul's supporters "hysterical minions" (142)
Yahoo Obvious Jimmy Carter is fed up with President Bush (with fed up pic) (89)
Yahoo Interesting Bloomberg strongly considers entering presidential race. As a third-party candidate. New York trifecta now in play (50)
Denver Channel Asinine For the fifth time in 13 years, ACLU has to go after the same school district for handing out bibles on school property, during school time, by school officials (151)
SeattlePI Dumbass Fake "Iraq War veteran" and peace movement icon arrested for fraud (28)
Fox News Interesting Fox News calls Michael Moore's film brilliant. Suck it liberal media (72)
(Some Guy) Interesting Fred Thompson blog post at Pajamas Media (30)
Yahoo Obvious Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas hasn't said a word in over 68 hours of oral testimony. Apparently Long Dong Silver is the strong and silent type (35)
Yahoo Dumbass Tony Blair makes final visit to Iraq, congratulates self on a job well-done (23)
Yahoo Dumbass Hugo Chavez rips the Pope over recent comments. Window seat booking now confirmed (68)
Washington Post Amusing John McCain got into a heated exchange with another Senator using "a curse word associated with chickens.” Wait, what? (51)

Fri May 18, 2007
Guardian.com Interesting Tony Blair in line to replace Paul Wolfowitz as president of World Bank (26)
(Some Pill Popper) Obvious Noted music critic, Rush Limbaugh, suggests Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back" as Hillary Clinton's presidential theme song (52)
(Some Dil) Spiffy Dilbert tells us how lonely basement dwelling teenagers can stop the war (80)
(Angus Reid) Obvious 58% of Americans think it would be good for the U.S. if there were a truly competitive third party. Dems and Repubs assure the public of their bipartisan front against such blasphemy (98)
CBC Interesting Not news: Group goes to court arguing that driver's license photos violate their freedom of religion. News: Court rules in their favour. Fark: It wasn't Muslims (54)
Charlotte Obvious Newt Gingrich looks at Hillary Clinton and sees a void waiting to be filled, looks at Saudi Arabia and sees a regime waiting to be changed, looks at poll numbers and sees it's not time to run yet (42)
Chicago Sun-Times Interesting Massachusetts to introduce bill that would ban discrimination based on height or weight. Randy Newman unavailable for comment (48)
(Reason Online) Asinine Democratically elected Hugo Chavez, who is totally not a dictator, will shut down Venezuela's most popular TV station on May 28 because it pissed him off (126)
(Some Guy?) Amusing Ann Coulter's column on the death of Jerry Falwell is a veritable treasure trove of insanity (835)
Washington Post Asinine John McCain (R-Campaign Trail) has missed 42 consecutive roll-call votes in the Senate (84)
(current.tv) Amusing A look at political headquarters in "Second Life." Google Current is there... well, virtually at least (10)

Thu May 17, 2007
Yahoo Interesting Fire and brimstone; Democrats and Republicans sleeping together; mass immigration (125)
Marketwatch NewsFlash Wolfoquitz (346)
Yahoo Obvious Obama's gaffes mean nothing -- everyone misspeaks on occasion. Bush's gaffes, on the other hand, prove he's a moron. In related news, there is no such thing as media bias (146)
(Michelle Malkin) Amusing AP reporter takes look at "diversity" of presidential candidate staff. So Michelle Malkin takes a look at the "diversity" of the AP board of directors, which is whiter and maler than a South Carolina golf club (356)
(Ron Paul Said It) Obvious The U.S. government is the enemy of the American people and their values. It is not peaceful, it is not friendly, it is not motivated by the Christian faith but rather power and imperial lust (146)
AFP Obvious Bush voices "regret" as yet another one of his cronies is exposed as an incompetent fraud (72)
(kos) Asinine All 50 State Attornies General asked DOJ for investigation into oil pricing, but Gonzales refused. Nothing to see here, move along (144)
1010WINS Obvious With all other problems solved, NJ Assembly committee approves a resolution requesting Rutgers redesign their "R'' logo to include the letters "NJ'' (36)
(The Local) Stupid Far-right political party that contends 10 percent of Sweden's immigrants live off of the state is exposed as having 20 percent of its representatives doing likewise (79)
(NY Sun) Sad "America has been actively working on peace in the Middle East for 28 years, during which it has paid Israel, Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian Arabs more than $150 billion to kiss and make up" (56)
CNN Stupid Congress wants food safety to be monitored by a single agency. If only we had an agency (or two) like that already (15)
CBC Obvious Toronto police grudgingly admit that they spied on the city's gay community throughout the 1980s, but still won't admit that they liked it (68)
(The Largest Minority) Video During the Republican debate, McCain was a bit of a wet blanket about torture, and not even the good kind with an electric current running through it (28)
(Army Times) Asinine Bush requests a 3.0 percent pay increase for military personnel. House approves 3.5 percent. Bush Administration "strongly opposed" to the extra 0.5 percent because it is "unnecessary." Why does Bush hate the troops? (127)
UPI Obvious The UN sends its most harshly worded letter yet to kickstart Bosnian reforms (53)
(Cato) Asinine Hugo Chavez sends thugs to seize private land in Venezuela in the name of socialism. New York Times notes that this is "legal" (163)
(www.politico.com) Obvious B-b-b-but they started it (110)
Time Scary Congress reconsiders abstinence education for teens. Especially the hot congressional pages (24)
Washington Post Unlikely In response to a congressional subpoena, the DOJ searches its archives for Karl Rove emails and dilligently and forthrightly produces exactly one message (55)
Reuters Followup Michael Moore plays a game of Uno with the Treasury Department, throws down the reverse card (205)
Yahoo Obvious Democrats widen probe of Gonzales, Justice Department after new revelations. This headline will automatically repeat every two weeks until Janaury 20, 2009 (371)
London Times Ironic Blair to convert to Catholicism. Shame we shalln't hear him confess the war was illegal (40)
Yahoo Dumbass Hillary Rodham Clinton coyly avoids controversial campaign-road questions by not saying anything to anyone anywhere at anytime, ever (18)
MSNBC Stupid New study says there could have been multiple shooters in Kennedy assassination. In other news, in the year 26,742, for the 24,779th consecutive year, someone will release a new study on the Kennedy assasination (17)
(Stars and Stripes) Hero Retired general loses job as CBS consultant after doing TV commercial criticizing Bush’s handling of Iraq war (79)
Fox News Obvious Romney edges Ron Paul as debate winner. Suck it, Fox News (91)
YouTube Amusing Guess who else can't tell the difference between whitehouse.gov and whitehouse.org? MSNBC, apparently (23)

Wed May 16, 2007
National Review Dumbass Democratic leadership to change House rules not touched since 1822, the same year Pelosi was born (302)
(GoldSilverDiamond) Interesting The 1967 Six Day War was a Soviet engineered war to stop Israel's nuclear program (54)
(Think Progress) Silly Congressman Ric Keller (R-FLava) quotes L.L. Cool J on the House floor (with vid) (23)
BBC Stupid Prince Harry, who was kinda going to Iraq, then not going to Iraq, then really was going to Iraq, is definitely not being deployed to Iraq (98)
(Bizarro Freeper Land) Followup And lo, the next seal was broken as Freepers point out that Ron Paul was right when he schooled Lord Comb-Over (155)
The Newspaper Hero Texas House votes to banninate red light cameras unless accident statistics at each intersection show demonstrable improvement within 2 years (29)
London Times Obvious The four things that Wolfowitz did wrong. Just four? (25)
(Charles Dickens) Obvious Socialism breeds laziness and entitlement complexes (76)
Houston Chronicle Asinine "Honestly, if a couple can't afford $60 for a marriage license, they probably shouldn't get married" (56)
CNN Amusing John McCain learned well from Mr. Rove: Trebuchet the propadanda (11)
National Review Interesting Giuliani up, McCain up, Romney down and Ron Paul out -- way out (81)
Slashdot Dumbass Because some criminal doesn't know the difference between .com and .org, we now can see many of the emails sent between Rove and Griffin in their campaign to disenfranchise voters (97)
Reuters Interesting The history of the French presidential palace, including whores and a gorilla. If only the White House had a history of sex scandal and a primate (11)
CBS News Sad Yolanda King, eldest daughter of Martin Luther King, dies just hours after Jerry Falwell. Who is in your rapture trifecta? (47)
Sky News Followup Nicolas Sarkozy officially assumes presidency of France. Ceremony includes handover of a "necklace of linked medallions" and the national white flag (50)
Yahoo Dumbass John Edwards calls for Memorial Day protests, gets American Legi0wn3d (86)
Guardian.com Obvious Former Deputy AG: White House pressured Ashcroft on wiretaps while he was sick in the hospital. "I thought I had just witnessed an effort to take advantage of a very sick man who did not have the powers of the attorney general" (86)

Tue May 15, 2007
BBC Amusing Bush picks Lieutenant General Douglas Lute to be his new Scapegoat in Chief (184)
MSNBC Video John McCain interviews himself on Meet the Press (24)
Breitbart.com Video Fred Thompson responds to Michael Moore's debate challenge; invites him to check into a Cuban mental hospital. With cigar-chomping video goodness (431)
(American Israeli Patriot) Scary The EU has finally achieved consensus on one crucial point. From Spain to Poland, Europeans now agree: It's all the Jews' fault (91)
NPR Ironic Iraqi Parliament bogged down in partisan and sectarian battles, making no progress, proving that the Iraqis have American Democracy at last (38)
Yahoo Obvious Tony Snow admits Paul Wolfowitz has made mistakes at the World Bank but none that are worth firing him over. The Bush Administration: rewarding loyalty over competency since 2000 (23)
Washington Post Ironic Member of the Federal Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board resigns in protest over White House censorship of their annual report (36)
Yahoo Obvious The standoff in Gaza is finally resolved as Hamas and Fatah agree to commit mutual genocide (11)
(azdailysun) Stupid Having solved all other problems, Arizona lawmakers vote to stop the sale of anti-war T-shirts with names of dead soldiers (55)
Yahoo Obvious Now that his chief deputy has resigned, Alberto Gonzales can adequately explain his role in the firing of eight US District Attorneys by blaming his deputy completely (111)
Reuters Obvious Apparently confused on the definition of "veto," Condi Rice says that the US will not allow Russia to veto the missile shield (91)
(Town Hall) Asinine The more things change Chapter 257; House passes a bill stuffed with $97 Million in unclassified "earmarks". The biggest benefactor? John Murtha who gathers up $23 Million for a drug intelligence center (23)
UPI Obvious Reportedly, President Bush read 104 books over a year. At first, disbelief, followed quickly by realization: that's why he doesn't have time to solve any issues properly (70)
The Raw Story Amusing Bob Schieffer is some kind of country rapper and Tony Snow is a retarded Jethro Tull (16)
(Some Guy) Caption Caption what Nanci Pelosi is thinking (154)
ABC News Asinine Certain Presidential front-runners refuse to release tax returns. Guess which ones (50)
Chicago Sun-Times Interesting Chicago politician resigns over possible repeal of foie gras ban. "My manhood is at stake. My character is at stake. It's just not right for them to do this. I'm not going to let anyone walk on my integrity and my manhood" (15)
Yahoo Cool Secret Nazi information vault to be opened. Geraldo on high alert (11)
(The Fire.org) Asinine News: Professor recommended for termination for sending offending email. Fark: The offending email was George Washington’s “Thanksgiving Day Proclamation of 1789” (158)
(Some General) Interesting An open letter to Chuck Norris (21)
Drudge Silly Michael Moore challenges Fred Thompson to a debate. Since neither one is running for office, it makes a strange sort of sense (65)
Yahoo Asinine Senate Democrats push to amend water-project-funding bill to include two provisions for cutting funds in Iraq and for a fall troop withdrawl. The bill should clearly pass with these amendments, which had been a sticking point until now (59)
National Review Followup You know all those stories about how the new Democratic-controlled Congress is just as unpopular as Bush? Don't believe it. The new Gallup poll shows they're actually less popular than Bush (85)
CNSNews Misc "It is wholly inappropriate, disrespectful and disturbing that Hillary Clinton is using an image of Blessed Mother Teresa as a political tool" (46)
(Think Progress) Amusing Alberto Gonzales' Harvard Law School classmates take out a full page ad in the Washington Post urging him to resign, quote Ben Franklin out of context (189)
Yahoo Followup Taliban replaces slain commander, Abdullah Rullah Dadullah, with his brother, Anna Banna Fofanna Me My Momanna (133)
(NY Sun) Dumbass Nancy Pelosi set Muslim women's rights back 1000 years during her trip to Damascus (145)
(rocky mountain news) Obvious Denver plans to have all the homeless people in shelters by the time the Democratic National Convention comes to town. After that, say officials, they go back on the streets (92)
BBC Followup Comatose Gaddafi awakens briefly to sue the pants off the people who reported his ill health (20)
AZCentral Amusing You can find Nike shoes, Coca-Cola soft drinks and Colgate toothpaste in Cuba. Embargo? What embargo? (64)
(Some NeoCon) Dumbass Rush Limbaugh saw a turtle (197)
London Times Unlikely Left-wing MP challenges Gordon Brown for Labour leadership. Pig seen flying over Westminster (9)
Yahoo Interesting Bush moves to counter gas emissions. Just like your dad at the dinner table (27)
BBC Interesting Condi Rice opens Iranian art show in the U.S., looks to "expand cultural exchanges between the two nations." Neocons looking more for a cultural exchange as depicted in "300" (12)
The Scotsman Hero Sean Connery lays a smack-down on Tony Blair through a brilliant series of “your mom” jokes (25)
BBC Dumbass The pope claims that American Indians had been "silently longing" to become Christians 500 years ago and that their predecessors had willingly converted to Christianity (42)
(Some Guy) Cool Gallup poll indicates 45 percent of Americans say they would vote for an atheist for president. Praise science (46)
The Raw Story Scary Focus on the Family founder James Dobson believes war with Iran part of a "pro-family" agenda (78)

Mon May 14, 2007
CBS News Cool Sen. Chuck Hagel calls the current crop of Republicans "a bunch of effete, lying, incompetent douchebags that Eisenhower, Goldwater or Reagan wouldn't piss on if they were on fire." Considers independent run for presidency (116)
BBC Scary Surprise! You're on "Hidden Camera Jihad" (14)
Free Press Weird Bush, sporting spiffy new goatee acquired on last shore leave, orders federal agencies to begin regulating vehicle emissions by time he leaves office. Also says White House teleporters are currently down for routine maintenence (29)
(Outside the Wire) Interesting "After spending two weeks looking for the civil war raging in Baghdad, I've decided that Arabs must do civil wars the way they do everything else -- lackadaisically" (26)
(NY Daily News) Obvious New York City still hates Rudy Giuliani, can't understand why the rest of the country loves him so much (55)
Denver Post Obvious Unlike other presidential candidate's children, Chelsea Clinton has remained out of the spotlight and hidden far away (10)
ABC News NewsFlash Is it Friday already? Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty resigns (251)
(Iceland Review) Amusing Dewey defeats Truman, Iceland-style (4)
(Insight Mag) Obvious Speaker of the House Pelosi should be charged with a felony because of "she carried on both correspondence and intercourse with Syria." Giggity (48)
AP Hero Bush says any pollution laws must take into account their impact on scientific knowledge (54)
(Crooks and Liars) Obvious This just in: "The Half-Hour News Hour" still horrifically unfunny (with horrifically unfunny clip) (69)
St. Pete Times Interesting Poll of Florida voters shows Clinton and Giuliani leading with huge margins, although Pat Buchanan still strong among seniors in Palm Beach County (17)
LA Times Asinine Proving they have more in common than misspeaking, Obama and Dubya both support subsidies to produce liquid coal. Bonus: Which is actually worse for the environment than diesel or gas (27)
Yahoo Followup Tommy Thompson cited a dead hearing aid and an urgent need to use the bathroom to explain why he said that an employer should be allowed to fire a gay worker. Can you hear me now? (30)
Yahoo Dumbass Giuliani defends his position on abortion, just as soon as he figured out what it was (107)
The Raw Story Interesting Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace grills Giuliani over locating NYC's emergency response center in the World Trade Center despite being attacked by terrorists just a few years earlier (44)
CBC Asinine Quebec government planning another "language police" crackdown. Sucez-le, anglophones (364)
CBS New York Amusing Mitt Romney wants to re-tool Washington. Submitter thinks Washington has way too many tools already (58)
Guardian.com Unlikely Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad says that if all foreign troops leave the Persian Gulf region, it will return to being the bastion of peace and freedom that it always used to be (147)
Guardian.com Sad Condoleeza Rice says, "It's a time for intensive diplomacy." With Iran? Nah, those pesky Russians so we don't have another Cold War (28)
NYPost Obvious A big thank you to the politically correct left, courtesy of the Circuit City clerk who first saw the Fort Dix terrorist tapes: "Should I call someone or is that being racist?" (91)
ABC News Interesting Newt Gingrich "seriously thinking" about running for president. Says the character issue won't be a big deal since none of the other candidates has any either (30)
News.com.au Interesting Bad news: One billion people homeless by 2050 from global warming. Good news: If you are reading this online, then it probably isn't going to be you (283)
(Jerusalem Post) News Unconfirmed report: Gaddafi in coma after blood clot in brain (109)
The Raw Story Amusing Mary Cheney's book sells for $.07 on Amazon. Really, she isn't making dick on this thing (31)
Guardian.com Asinine U.S. admits the surge is failing, sharp increase in the victims of death squads. Solution? More surge (130)



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