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Sun July 08, 2007
Yahoo Amusing Just when you thought the chief moonbat had faded into the woodwork... she's baaaaaaaack (97)
(Reason Online) Obvious George Stephanopoulos pees in Ron Paul's Sunday morning cornflakes, says he won't be president. Paul responds, "Na-uh, you're not the boss of me" (123)
(ny1.com) Sad Rudy Guiliani's campaign manager dies of heart attack while jogging. 9/11 (49)
Seattle Times Sad None of President Bush's goals for Iraq are likely to be met, so instead they're coming up with "alternative evidence of progress" (73)
Cleveland Strange French president’s jogging regimen roundly criticized because “running is for self-centered individualists like Americans.” Americans can only wish that the biggest complaint about our president was so petty (36)
The Raw Story Obvious White House blocks former aide from testifying before Congress. Claims she is not "hittable" enough to draw sympathy under the "klieg lights" (81)
Washington Post Stupid Article claiming correlation between lead poisoning and violent crime turns into a political editorial against Rudy Giuliani. There's certainly no liberal media bias here (30)
Telegraph Obvious Admiral Sir Alan West encourages Brits to be "a little bit un-British" and to start snitching on everyone and anyone suspicious (66)
(The Hill) Dumbass John Dingell (D-Mich) has proposed that Congress pass a steep carbon tax that would raise the gas tax 50 cents (71)
ABC News Cool The perfect storm of crazy... Mike Gravel and Ron Paul are both going to be on "This Week with Stephanopoulos" (89)
CNN Dumbass 2005 mission to attack Al Queda in Pakistan called off because Rumsfeld was afraid we might make someone in the Middle East like us less (29)
CNN Obvious Supreme Court Justices take potshots at each other in their opinions, i.e. flabby old rich men get biatchy with their peeps, too (33)

Sat July 07, 2007
Yahoo Asinine High ranking French official dons his finest tin foil hat when he announces President Bush was behind the Sept. 11 attacks (66)
(Think Progress) Dumbass Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SCrewed in the head) says the surge is working better than expected. This coming from the guy who strolled through the Baghdad market with McCain, 100 troops and 3 helicopters (65)
Yahoo Ironic With a completely straight face George W Bush scolds Congress by saying, "Democrats have a chance to prove they are for open and transparent government” (134)
Salon Interesting You know that court ruling yesterday that basically said that Bush's wiretaps are legal? Yeah, well, not so much (202)
Wired Asinine It's not just the troops that are surging - cost of fighting in Irag and Afghanistan up more than a third higher than last year, to an average of $12 billion per month (70)
(Some Druggie) Unlikely United Nations says world drug problem under control, sky is plaid (117)
Daily Mail Ironic Live Earth concerts: artists flight distance = 222,623.63 miles, carbon emissions produced by all concerts = 31,500 tons, carbon emissions including TV audience = 74,500 tons, hypocrisy = off the scale (358)
LA Times Dumbass Republicans climb over each other to abandon the S.S. Iraq and save their political careers. Still refuse to acknowledge the existence of the word "timetable" in the dictionary (100)
LA Times Interesting News Fred Thompson would probably prefer hadn't got out (88)
Abc.net.au Obvious Australian defense Minister Brendan Nelson has distanced himself from comments he made yesterday about a link between oil security and the need for Australian troops to stay in Iraq. These aren't the well-oiled droids you're looking for (9)
YouTube Hero Sean Hannity blows the lid off of Al Gore's "global warming" hysteria. Suck it, libs (184)

Fri July 06, 2007
(Some Guy) Dumbass Stupid: New York is enforcing a new noise ordinance with a $350 fine. Stupider: Thousands of cops are on patrol for the new ordinance. Fark: First fine issued to an ice-cream truck driver (22)
Yahoo Cool Condoleezza Rice to Iran: "We aren't scared of you biatches, don't test us" (53)
CNN Interesting The candidate whose supporters are ruining the Internet now has more cash on-hand than the candidate who pissed on all his supporters (162)
Newsweek Dumbass 26% (322)
(Michael Moore) Sick Leaked memo of BlueCross executives going apeshiat over Michael Moore's "Sicko" (160)
(pollster) Cool Majority of Americans want to see Cheney impeached; Bush close behind (170)
(Rasmussen) Cool Poll shows Hillary Clinton tied with Fred Thompson in battle of the political asskickers (77)
(Trans Terrestrial) Unlikely The doctor's plot "finally puts to bed the ongoing liberal myth that terrorism is caused by poverty and alienation, or by our foreign policy" (179)
Fox News Interesting Bruce Willis laments the fact that Hollywood liberals can't take a joke and that they all suffer from leftist groupthink (102)
(The NY Sun) Scary How NHS is a "socialist cult of security" that opened the door to jihadists (125)
Yahoo Unlikely Now that Bloomberg is thinking of running for President, reporters dust off the old "could he be the first Jewish President" stories from 2000 and simply replace Lieberman's name (65)
Netscape PSA Fox News would like you to know that universal health care may breed terrorism (179)
Canada.com Scary Russia plans to move their missiles closer to the EU border in total violation of the rules of Risk. Your roll, America (44)
(kos) Interesting Reagan's NSA Chief suggests impeaching Bush if he doesn't end the Iraq war (276)
Miami Herald Interesting Since there's no storm in the tropics, the staff at the National Hurricane Center decides to create its own (27)

Thu July 05, 2007
MSNBC Amusing The White House has just about had it up to here with all these congressional investigations, thank you very much (148)
The Raw Story Amusing Judge lifts injunction on DC madam phone records ... these go back 13 years, meaning including the Clinton years. Uh-oh (108)
Fox News Asinine Fox News rails on NBC's upcoming airing of Live Earth, claiming broadcasting the concert gives unfair air time to liberals (185)
(700 Club) Asinine Pat Robertson's attack machine gears up for the next Harry Potter book (156)
Salon Interesting Why the "But Clinton" argument doesn't work for Libby (273)
(The Day) Amusing When your newspaper runs an editorial criticising Bush, do you: C) Accuse the writer of being unAmerican and blame the democrats for slavery, World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam and the fall of the middle east? (56)
(Some Guy) Asinine Bush lobbied court to uphold 30-month sentence for perjury, obstruction. In 2006. For a sick Marine. With 25 years of service. And 35 medals. Suck it libs, troops, and citizens (282)
(kos) Scary What did we get for the $592 million we paid Halliburton subsidiary KBR for an Iraqi Embassy? A toxic deathtrap that is unsafe to occupy (84)
Time Unlikely 2008 promises to be different from all previous elections because Dorito-filled, PlayStation-addicted indoor ferns known as "Today's Youth" are somehow expected to get out and vote. Yeah sure (58)
Salon Obvious Even Richard Nixon knew it was time to resign (138)
Boston Globe Obvious Managing to mention it three times in the first ten seconds of his stump speech, poltical observers fear Giuliani might just possibly be overplaying the 9/11 card (57)
CNN Ironic Bill Clinton blasts Libby sentence commutation, upset that it was done for free (111)
590 KLBJ Obvious Fred Thompson, Watergate investigator, was a rat (114)
Guardian.com Sad Vice President says of his own people "...they must die in agony with hunger". Good news - it wasn't Cheney. Bad news - if you're in Zimbabwe, there's gonna be a lot more bad news (47)
(NineMSN) Obvious Australian Minister admits: We're in Iraq for the Oil and Prestige. Footbullet Of The Year Award being delivered (25)

Wed July 04, 2007
Washington Post Followup Having decided he wants to be the target of right wing blogs' impotent rage, recently freed BBC reporter Alan Johnston says Hamas is responsible for securing his release (39)
Washington Post Ironic President Bush uses the 4th of July to compare U.S. soldiers in Iraq to those of the Revolutionary War (139)
The Scotsman Obvious Britain downgrades terror alert from "Critical" to "Possibly Safe For Brazilians" (12)
Yahoo Stupid The federal government will spend more than $1 billion this year on nutrition education (41)
CBC Obvious Ninety-one per cent of Canadians believe they should do their part to help fight global warming, even if they have to pay more to do it, the Godless commie perverts (73)
AP Ironic Judge that sentenced Scooter Libby to jail was appointed by Bush to be tough on crime (175)
News.com.au Followup Nutcase who protested Prime Minister in speedos to be charged with Wearing Speedos (8)
(Some Guy) Interesting Jefferson’s “original Rough draught” of the Declaration of Independence. Anyone else for "opposing with manly firmness"? (15)
Yahoo Amusing Weary Iowans drowning in a glut of Presidential candidates. "They're sort of yesterday's news, you know" said one resident. Well, actually, Bill Clinton said that, but he and Hillary could almost claim residence now (11)
(Neatorama) Interesting Five obscure facts about the Declaration of Independence. Bet you didn't know they were initally redlit on Ye Olde Farkke.com (13)
Miami Herald Dumbass Having doomed his oil infrastructure, Hugo Chavez sets out to destroy his country's health care system (116)
Detroit News Dumbass It's one thing to play a prank on your ex-buddy by hacking into university computers and deleting his Myspace and AOL accounts. But you're not supposed to do that when you're the mayor (34)
Snopes Misc The fates of the signers of the Declaration of Independence (122)
(JBS) Hero Q. What do you do when you're not invited to a debate that you should have been invited to? A. Schedule your own event less then a week in advance at the same location and draw twice the crowd (72)
Guardian.com Obvious Slidell, Louisian puts up painting of Jesus in courthouse lobby. Coughing ACLU lawyers climb wearily out of VW Minibus trailing clouds of pot smoke, trudge into another court to make them take it down (50)
LA Times Obvious All that talk about fighting global warming the Governator's been doing? Yeah, he's been talking out of his cybernetic ass (8)
MSNBC Hero On the eve of our national celebration of declaring independence from a monarchy, Olbermann calls for Bush's resignation (788)
Chicago Tribune Amusing Oliver Stone responds to being called "Great Satan" by Imadinnerjacket thusly: "I wish the Iranian people well, and only hope their experience with an inept, rigid ideologue president goes better than ours" (36)
Guardian.com Unlikely "Feminism is more than just capitalism with tits" (25)
(Some Guy) Followup Mistress of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa also had a romantic relationship with California State Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez. Bill Richardson praying she wants to hit the Latino politician trifecta (13)

Tue July 03, 2007
MSNBC Obvious Presidential candidate John Edwards wants you to afford a better haircut (33)
Chicago Sun-Times Obvious "Many white voters view the Obama candidacy as a road to redemption from centuries of white guilt." (205)
LA Times Obvious Mayor of Los Angeles admits "relationship" with Telemundo anchorwoman, and to quell all the Fark concerns with one statement: Yes, she is hot (53)
(Media Matters) Dumbass MSNBC's Tucker Carlson -- known for his bow ties and "Dancing with the Stars" appearance -- called Barack Obama a "wuss" (73)
Forbes Asinine Remember that fine that Scooter Libby has to pay, and that probation that he'll be on for two years? Yeah, looks like those might go bye-bye, too (233)
Wonkette Interesting Wanto be on the NSA watch list? Enraged by Libby commutation, blogger leaks White House phone list to the interwebs (42)
(The Progressive) Unlikely Author Howard Zinn says put away the flag this Fourth, reject the evil of nationalism, and live together in peace and harmony, dancing naked among the fuzzy bunnies and lilies of the field (170)
The Virginian Pilot Interesting Former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore will take at least two weeks off from his presidential campaign to recover from emergency eye surgery. In other news, former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore is running for President (22)
(Some Guy) Obvious Iran's new English language news network premiered yesterday with a scoop: Glasgow was staged (214)
BBC Caption Caption Condi and Pootie (135)
SFGate Cool San Francisco becomes first major US city to offer socialized medi-, errr, I mean universal healthcare. Damn hippies (507)
(Talk to Action) Scary #1 New York Times best-selling paperback calls for war with Iran (83)
Abc.net.au Strange Japanese PM goes nuclear when his Defense Secretary drops a bomb on him (128)
Google Advice Farkette was chosen to meet with Hillary Clinton tomorrow at her university with other students. What questions should she ask? LGT her more preferred candidate (178)
(Some Guy) Interesting "Global warming is based much more on fear, political agendas, and computer models that don’t agree with each other or the climate, rather than hard-nosed evidence and science" (255)

Mon July 02, 2007
BBC Spiffy I don't cry for you, Argentina - YOUR ex-first lady running for President is actually hittable (30)
Yahoo Obvious McCain "shaking up" his presidential campaign -- that's political speak for "firing a third of your staff because nobody is giving you money" (27)
USA Today Asinine Today is the fourth anniversary of one of the dumbest things ever said by any president: "There are some who feel like that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is bring them on" (83)
The Raw Story Dumbass Conservative bloggers try to link Michael Moore to the failed terror attacks in London and Scotland (75)
MSNBC Dumbass Homeland Security chief: "We are safe." Bonus: This guy's the reason you can't take deodorant onto a plane (20)
CBS News Misc Pooty-poot hobnobbing with Dubya in K'bunk (15)
BBC Misc Minister suggests Iraq War Quarterly Status Reports. Submitter predicts that a single page printed with "Still a clusterfark" won't win any Employee of the Month awards (6)
(NewsHounds) Survey Among your choices for Outrageous Fox News Quote of the Week: One suggesting that cabbies have NPR on so terrorists could receive coded instructions (54)
BBC Misc Bill Clinton will be helping Hillary by hitting the campaign tail. I'm so sorry, I meant "campaign trail" (90)
Washington Post Obvious "Even when [President Bush] convenes philosophical discussions with scholars, he avoids second-guessing his actions. He still acts as if he were master of the universe, even if the rest of Washington no longer sees him that way." (37)
(Some Guy) Interesting Judge to Indians: No you can't practice your heathen religion in school. Not yours (50)
(Washigton Times) Interesting Majority-black populated county violated caucasian voting rights by "manipulation intending to impair and impede participation of white voters". It's the first ever use of the Voting Rights Act on behalf of white people (54)
Yahoo Dumbass Pentagon was arming Iran until this January. Thank you, Liberal Media (68)
(The Prometheus Institute) Stupid Dear US citizen, thanks for working for me for the past six months. Love, Uncle Sam (79)
NYPost Obvious NYC area recruiters baffled that the city's yutes find a thriving local economy more appealing than a battlefield in Baghdad (27)
Slate Obvious Turns out that Michael Moore's "Sicko" left out a significant part of the story. Who knew? (307)
National Review Interesting Rumor has it that within a few days, Sen. John McCain will have plenty of time to mumble into his beer about commies all day long down at the VFW (85)
Yahoo PSA If someone offers you eggplant, they are most likely a terrorist (138)
(KnoxNews) Obvious Tennessee law requires liquor stores to scan your driver's licence and record your address when they card you. They who would give up an essential liberty for light beer deserve neither (33)
Yahoo Interesting Barack Obama makes fundraising record, beating Hillary by $10 million (52)
Guardian.com Sad Even Ahmadinejad doesn't want to be in a new Oliver Stone movie (4)
News.com.au Followup Five years on, Australian government justifies its $20 million fridge magnets (6)
London Times Scary Dear White People: Please invade us (81)
Yahoo Interesting Patrick Leahy uses position on the Senate Judiciary Committee to tell the White House to go f**k itself (44)
SLTrib Stupid The State of Utah won't talk to high schoolers about condoms, but will spend thousands to promote the rhythm method, claiming it's more effective for typical users (50)



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