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Sun June 03, 2007
The Raw Story Dumbass Head of Arkansas GOP: "We need more attacks on America", so people will appreciate Bush. Wow, it's like they aren't even trying anymore, huh? (34)
(Huffington Post) PSA Al Gore is running (36)
Boston Globe Amusing Vermonters plan to secede from the USA (53)
CNN Spiffy The 7pm ET Democratic Presidential Debate in NH discussion thread. Take a drink every time they say "health care", "Iraq", and "Bush". Bonus: take two shots if they claim to be Red Sox fans (123)
Canada.com Obvious Al Gore is wrong...again (84)
UPI Interesting Had sex with a member of the U.S. Congress? Publisher Larry Flynt is again offering up to $1 million cash if you can prove it (94)
(WSB TV) Interesting Former Atlanta TV investigative reporter to run for U.S. Senate. If elected, he'll reveal which common household product is slowly killing you (8)
Yahoo Unlikely Castro's condition holding steady at "not dead", with photographic* evidence. *Please ignore the fact he has worn the same outfit in all photos since his first operation, sincerely, the Cuban Government (16)
Yahoo Cool Remember the Cold War that the US was supposed to have won? Well its back on again. Muslims and libruls rejoice, conservatives have their old nemesis to hate again (21)
Reuters Scary Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Lebanese and Palestinians have pressed a "countdown button" to the destruction of Israel. Europe not impressed (28)
(Bear Armed Guy) Hero Two teens openly exercise their right to make people uncomfortable (206)
BBC Unlikely Mikhail Gorbachev blames the US for turning Putin into Stalin (15)
Boston Herald Silly May the breast Presidential Candidate's wife win (25)
Sun Sentinel Amusing Calling Mitt Romney Satan? No tax-exempt status for you (26)
Fox News Obvious After promising unprecedented openness regarding Congress' pork barrel practices, House Democrats are moving in the opposite direction as they draw up spending bills for the upcoming budget year (67)
(mlive) Scary DANGER: Thoughtful and logical consideration of your religion may lead to atheism. Critical thinking may be contageous, AVOID AT ALL COST (118)
(Some Guy) PSA Hear the one about how Barack Obama forced all his primary opponents off the ballot in 1996 so he could have a State Senate seat without any of that pesky Democracy? (90)
CNN Followup Iran claims that four captive Americans were spies, which is absurd, because you know, we never spy on our enemies (46)

Sat June 02, 2007
Fox News Amusing Hamas suggests another ceasefire with Israel so that they can break it again when they're ready (25)
(crooksandliars) Dumbass O'Reilly blames TB dickwad on liberals (102)
(colorado confidential) Dumbass Press release from Colorado Senator: "I don’t think first responders have really done anything significant in comparison to their counterparts who have dealt with real natural disasters, I have no idea what else to say here..." (56)
(americablog) Dumbass Bush: Vets in camo protesting war? That's just wrong. Bush: Active duty military in full uniform campaigning for Republicans? A-OK (57)
(Journalism.org) Obvious Study shows Fox News coverage of Anna Nicole Smith in first quarter of 2007 was almost as much as the Iraq War (40)
Baltimore Sun Unlikely Palestinian Strategic Rocket Forces are battling Israelis to a standstill (132)
BBC Interesting Chinese Vice-Premier Huang Ju dies at the age of 68. Coroner unsure if it was the toothpaste or the puppy chow (31)
(Some Russia Hand) Strange The wit and wisdom of Vladimir Putin (13)
(Some Guy) Interesting “Why the West has a never-ending supply of left-wing, doublethink, liberal liars” (155)
Washington Post Asinine Despite continually coming up empty handed, the U.N. continues to fund a team of weapons inspectors looking for Saddam's WMDs, who do their weapons inspecting from offices in NYC (19)
Philly Cool Lebanon attacks militants with its entire air force. No word on whether either helicopter was hit (10)
Reuters Amusing Among Fred Thompson's more attractive presidential qualities, he doesn't like to work too hard, a characteristic he shares with Ronald Reagan (32)
ABC News Interesting President Bush readies short list of SCOTUS candidates in case of June retirements. Insiders say it's filled with "solid conservatives," cronies, golfing buddies, Sideshow Bob, and his invisible friend "Harvey" (89)
(Some Guy) Obvious Number of people identifying themselves as either Republican or Democrat hits all time low (44)
MSNBC Interesting Only 53% of republicans happy with McCain and Rudy as thier choices for '08, as compared to 78% of Dems happy with Hillary and Obama (36)
ABC News Dumbass Clinton campaign can't spell "tomorrow." Hillarity ensues (49)
Yahoo Unlikely Condoleeza Rice says the US does not plan to go to war with Iran and the entire administration, including VP Cheney, supports "a diplomatic course." And by "diplomatic course" they mean "threats and ultimatums." (22)
Guardian.com Interesting Bad News: Blair's cabinet only made one decision in the first eight months of becoming PM. Worse News: It was about the Millennium Dome. Fark: Blair was out when the decision was made (10)
Guardian.com Obvious Joe Biden criticizes Democratic candidates for ducking out of Fox-sponsored presidential debates, saying they can't spend the whole campaign only talking to people who already agree with them (64)
Canada.com Dumbass Are you a Canadian living and working in another country? Prime Minister Harper doesn't think you're much of a Canadian (43)
Fox News Interesting U.S. warship launches strike into Somalia (178)

Fri June 01, 2007
The Tennessean Interesting Gore says he hasn't ruled out 2008 presidential bid (120)
(Daily Kos) Stupid Nominee for Surgeon General oversees ministries for curing homosexuality, AIDS transmitting tears (107)
Chicago Tribune Asinine Bush gives mothers of fallen soldiers presidential coin when they visit White House and warns them not to sell it on eBay. Bad President. F---, would not vote for again (94)
Yahoo Dumbass Jessica Cutler, the blogging Senate slut, discovers that nobody will pay her bills since she really wasn't that hot anyhow (33)
YouTube Scary Fitzgerald asks court to double Scooter Libby's sentence for a crime Libby was never charged with, based on evidence Fitzgerald never submitted during the trial. God bless Amerika (88)
(NY Daily News) Cool Fran Drescher mentions interest in becoming "the most annoying person ever elected to public office" (26)
(Times-Picayune) Interesting Rep. William Jefferson says Louisiana may have to donate $1 billion to bail out Katrina recovery program. That's 11,000 freezers worth (152)
Breitbart.com Obvious Bush likes young advisors that have not fully developed their ability to reason… (33)
(not Constantinople) Dumbass Bust out your tinfoil hats, Texas. Gov. Rick Perry to attend Bilderberg Conference in Istanbul. Bonus: Paid for using campaign funds (78)
CNN Obvious Another Bush aide abandons ship (66)
Fox News Stupid Alabama apologizes for slavery, despite all U.S. slaves and slave owners being long dead. In related news, American Indians asking for an apology were told to STFU or get better lobbyists (415)
(Some Guy) Followup In a suprise to absolutely no one, White House pulls a Sheryl Crow and tries to downplay NASA head's controversial global warming remarks as "humor" (261)
Boston Globe Obvious Relations remain cool between leader of war on terror and leader of surrender to terror (20)
Washington Post Asinine Just like Iraq, Bush's new environmental policy sets 'goals', but has no concrete targets or dates, no enforcement mechanism, no penalties for noncompliance and won't take effect until four years after Bush leaves office (24)
Washington Post Weird "Warning: The following contains the use of the word 'penis' by a conservative columnist" (15)
(News Tribune) Sad Fort Lewis is losing so many soldiers that they no longer have time for individual memorials and instead will hold one mass memorial each month (138)
Yahoo Obvious White House says keeping visitor logs withheld from the public is essential to assuring that the president and vice president can receive candid, anonymous advice from convicted felons (74)
Houston Chronicle Followup If you had Sen John Kyl in the "secret senator who blocked the open govt act" pool collect your winnings at the ticket window (92)
The Raw Story Strange Brownback: "Evolution debate shouldn't separate faith, reason". Indeed, for some time we have needed to address the . . . the . . . ok, wtf is wrong with this guy's eyes and teeth? (112)
(Dallas Morning News) Scary Not News: Man thumps chest yelling "I am the President". News: Claims Iraq is set up so his successor could not get out of “our country’s destiny.” Fark: This man is actually the President of the United States (238)
AP Amusing Alabama legislature passes the "vote early, vote sober" bill for the upcoming presidential primary (5)

Thu May 31, 2007
Telegraph Scary Ше каи наs anфтнея cфld шая? (262)
(Some Michigander) Unlikely Lawyer sues President George W Bush and the United States of America (30)
Yahoo Asinine CIA wants to re-classify Valerie Plame as covert to prevent her book from being published, also wants to put the cat back in the bag, close the barn door after the horse has gotten out (63)
Slate Spiffy Evangelical teens are likely to have sex earlier and more often than other Christian religions, and probably cry out Jesus's name even more often *wink wink nudge nudge knowhatImean* (42)
Wonkette Asinine Though mocking the mother of a dead soldier was no problem, chickenhawks are having a hard time with Iraq War veterans protesting the war. The Solution: re-enlist them so they can be dishonorably discharged (128)
(C&L) Amusing Bill O'Reilly and John McCain are worried that the New York Times and liberals are trying to dismantle the white, Christian, male power structure (68)
UPI Dumbass Mitt Romney, who enacted a government-mandated health care plan while governor of Massachusetts, attacked Democrats for their "government-mandated" health care plans (21)
(Pharyngula) Interesting Sam Brownback, Presidential candidate who denies evolution, writes an Op-Ed to explain why (164)
ABC News Asinine NASA's top official says that there is "no doubt that a trend of global warming exists," but that it's "not a problem we must wrestle with." (175)
National Review Asinine Citibank freezes account of Iranian-American scholar imprisoned in Iran because she is now a "resident of Iran" (12)
(Townhall) Obvious Hillary Clinton is an unabashed socialist who is salivating over the prospect of remaking America in her own Stalinist image. If she's elected, we can say goodbye to the prosperity and opportunity we have enjoyed since the Reagan years (283)
BBC Interesting President Bush urges countries to agree on long term goals for greenhouse gas emissions. No, seriously (37)
(Election Geek) Cool John McCain visits a tech conference, talks about the series of tubes (4)
(Some Guy) Obvious Tony Blair: "I bless the reign down in Africa" (29)
Baltimore Sun Cool Democrats caught red-handed probing Justice Department interns (24)
Slate Scary Bush's foreign policy is like New Coke, only worse (60)
(Some Guy) Asinine JAG sentenced to 6 months. Crime? Following the Geneva Convention. USA's moral authority surrenders (164)
Wonkette Stupid All-time champion Democratic loon Cynthia McKinney considers run for president; platform includes plenty of comedy gold, including a vow to impeach Bush after he leaves office (45)
CNN Cool CNN's Lou Dobbs delivers gentlemanly whoopass on New York Times columnist for personal attack (47)
BBC Scary Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko, Alexander Litvinenko, and now Kyrgyzstan Prime Minister Almaz Atambayev. The KGB poisoning trifecta is complete (33)
(Las Vegas SUN) Dumbass President Bush envisions a South Korean model for Iraq with troops being stationed there long-term. He also envisions flying cars, unicorns, and Mister Cheney giving him cheeseburger (63)

Wed May 30, 2007
Yahoo Spiffy A day after taking a tougher stance on Darfur genocide, Bush doubles global AIDS relief funds. Sounds like somebody's loaded his iPod full of U2 (136)
Wall Street Journal Interesting The troll is strong in this one (135)
(Right Wing News) Interesting Poll: 98% of conservative bloggers oppose Bush's immigration bill (112)
(Talk2Action) Stupid Newt Gingrich: "Any true religion would be therefore deserving of the respect of the government, which would include the freedom to express in public the moral principles of such a true religion." (171)
News.com.au Stupid The Australian Federal Govt has been paying someone $350,000 a year to play a recorded message. For angry retort, press 1. For bored resignation, press 2. For furious outrage, mash your fingers against the keypad (22)
Seattle Times Amusing News: Live at home son drug deals, mom protects him. Not news: By yelling at the cops to remove their shoes. For the win: She's a conservative "law and order" Republican state senator, whose son just got early release. By magic (38)
(Townhall) Interesting Fred Thompson is running for President *DUN* *DUN* (207)
News.com.au Obvious Apparently it's inappropriate to refer to union bosses as "wankers" in Parliament (43)
CNN Scary Russia tests new intercontinental ballistic missile in to response to U.S. plans to deploy a missile defense system in Europe. This should end well (240)
Breitbart.com Ironic The Tories say that they (and not Gordon Brown) are the true defenders of Tony Blair's legacy. In other news: Margaret Thatcher is said to be feeling all stabby (10)
590 KLBJ Amusing Alaska "Bridge to Nowhere" senator Ted Stevens under investigation by FBI concerning the rather extensive remodeling of his house (72)

Tue May 29, 2007
Sign On San Diego Asinine The Supreme Court says underpaying your female employees is A-OK if you do it for 6 months and no one sues (35)
(Some Guy) Obvious The Founding Fathers would be appalled at the atheistic secularist nation we have become (195)
Yahoo Interesting Bush to name Robert Zoellick for World Bank President. Backers cite his experience, the fact other countries like him, and that he hasn't come close to getting laid in years (52)
MSNBC Obvious Newly unclassified document confirms Valerie Plame was covert at the time of the leak (234)
(newyorker dot com) Interesting Tom DeLay notes that "the Schiavo case was one of my proudest moments in Congress," so you probably already figured out that this article is about the implosion of the Republican party (81)
(Crooks and Liars) Dumbass Memo thought to be fake is actually authentic. Dan Rather unavailable for comment (37)
CNN Amusing Castro says Bush is just waiting for him to die. Maybe he's got some good headline ideas (20)
Canoe Followup Russia announces that the Cold War is BACK ON (70)
(Ann Althouse) Dumbass Liberal political scientist determines that the public is stupid because they don't vote like liberal political scientists (59)
The Tennessean Asinine Despite budget surplus, Tennessee looks to tax propane for home use. "It's ridiculous. They already tax you on almost everything. Now they're taxing you on having fun." (31)
(Brattleboro Reformer) Dumbass President Bush declares that a "handful" of Americans want US troops withdrawn from Iraq. And by a "handful", he apparently means "63 percent" (185)
CNN Asinine Only six senators actually read the intelligence briefings on Iraq before voting for war powers. Is your presidential candidate among them? (95)
AP Obvious Obama calls for universal healthcare and offers for you to pay for it (237)
News.com.au Unlikely Syrian President Assad wins 97 percent of vote. Since he was the only candidate, so who got the other 3 percent? (18)
SFGate Interesting Bill O'Reilly's favorite prof, Ward Churchill, recommended for termination. No, not the CIA kind (32)
Fox News Obvious Asshats burn dozens of American flags decorating veterans' graves, replace them with swastikas (69)

Mon May 28, 2007
Sign On San Diego Ironic While campaigning for President, Sen. Obama says that Memorial Day isn't for politics and then leaves a steaming pile of politics on the ground (27)
Guardian.com Interesting An intelligent and well-thought deconstruction of why you look like a complete idiot every time you compare America to Nazi Germany and post a bad photoshop of Bush's head on Hitler (62)
(Some Guy) Interesting Cindy Sheehan announces she's leaving the Democratic party, no more war protests or bikini clad handstands (73)
(Observer.com) Obvious In a gesture of compassionate conservatism and tolerance, Freerepublic.com is banning Guliani supporters from their website. Wonder if they understand the meaning of the words "free republic"? (122)
(Think Progress) Interesting Here's an update on the other Bush Administration official about to go down because of corruption. No the other one. The other other one (81)
Wall Street Journal Stupid Congress declares it a felony to charge too much for gas when supplies are low, thereby making the laws of supply and demand vanish into thin air (138)
BBC Sad Japanese farm minister commits suicide over office expense scandal, thereby explaining why there aren't Republican or Democratic parties in Japan (97)
BBC Obvious Wolfowitz blames the media for making him such an insufferable prick (93)
Wall Street Journal Unlikely Liberals will miss Jerry Falwell (84)
(Star-Telegram) Spiffy Republican Speaker of the House for Texas state legislature declares himself dictator and employs armed guards to forcefully prevent coup attempt (49)
CNN Spiffy U.S., Iran to hold first formal talks in 27 years. Topics of discussion to include Jimmy Carter's grain embargo on the USSR and if Voyager 1 ever made it to Saturn (26)



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