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Sun July 22, 2007
Washington Post Unlikely After 6 years of planning, the Bush Administration "might consider" military action inside Pakistan to go after al-Qaeda (39)
Mercury News Ironic More and more non-believers are forming groups where they can talk about their beliefs (73)
(Daily Kos) Amusing College Republicans at convention strongly support the war. However when asked why they don't join up many mention medical problems and that dying is not a career priority. (w/video) Amusing trumps obvious (101)
Boston Herald Ironic Bill O'Reilly says that Osama is responsible for dividing America (55)
Salon Unlikely Will Nancy Pelosi drop her support of the illegals now that there is a machine that will pick the grapes in her vineyard better than her illegals can? (33)
Seattle Times Ironic Remember when the GOP was threatening to ban the filibuster? Well, now they're using it to create the "do-nothing Congress" label they'll be hurling at Libs during the next election (109)
(Some Guy) Interesting American voters don't like bald presidential candidates. Get some hair on that head, Fred Thompson (27)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Kucinich is very unhappy about the idea of being excluded from Presidential debates, despite the fact that he never debates congressional opponents (20)
NewsMax Stupid Newt Gingrich claims that the U.S. has been fighting a phony war since 9/11. The families of the over 3500 U.S. coalition casualties may tend to disagree (321)
(The rare moderate) Interesting Ten Iraq lessons learned. You won't like them (89)
(Some Guy) Scary Iran giving Syria $1 Billion Dollars for humanitarian aid. Just kidding. The money is to buy weapons to blow Israel off the map (56)
(2decide.com) Spiffy An easy guide to the 2008 Presidential candidates' positions on the top 25 issues (43)
(Some Count) Cool One, two, three... three more Congressmen needed to start impeachment proceedings. Ah Ha Ha (134)

Sat July 21, 2007
Yahoo Followup President Bush's doctors find no weapons of ass destruction in his colon, just five polyps described as "small and not worrisome" (97)
(Anchorage Daily News) Dumbass Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R- AK) under scrutiny for shady land deal with business parter of Ted Stevens (R -AK) (26)
(TMZ.com) Dumbass Mitt Romney poses with "Obama Osama" sign (84)
(C&L) Amusing If you're an (R) senator and Sean Hannity is calling for you to resign, you might want to pack your bags (73)
(Some Guy) Stupid Harry Potter is a parody of Blair and the War on Terror, says professor Dumbass from the University of Twit (28)
(Red Skeleton) Hero Chiropractors get boned by New Jersey. Hero tag for legislators who had the spine to curtail these charlatans activities (412)
BBC Obvious "Do you have to be religious to become US president?" They may not have a Romero but, dammit, they're trying (80)
ABC News Interesting The psychology behind lying, hypocritical, philandering public officials (27)
C|Net Amusing "Politicians have learned to fear and revere the video-sharing web site that has become a vital part of the campaign for the 2008 U.S. presidential election": YouTube (25)
(people) Followup Al Gore's son had 140 Vicodin pills and "dozens" of Xanax, Valium, Soma, Vicodin, and Adderall as well as marijuana. Sedagive?? (107)
CBS Miami Asinine Federal Government is about to increase the tax on cigars by 20,000%. Also known as the "Give the Mafia a Lucrative New Business Act" (61)
Wired Strange Over a dozen squirrels detained at Iran's border for espionage. Large-nutted squirrel wanted for questioning (22)

Fri July 20, 2007
(Some Guy) Asinine Democrats in Congress block bill that would have allowed protection from lawsuits against "john does" who report suspicious terrorist behavior. Terrorists 1, Congress 0 (123)
AP Dumbass Rep. Christopher Shays (R-CT) assaults a Capitol Police officer and drops the f-bomb (36)
Washington Post Stupid Washington Post reveals that Hillary showed cleavage on the Senate floor. Why they're looking at Hillary's cleavage, no one knows (article includes pic of cleavage) (251)
Yahoo Stupid Vote for Mitt Romney, because he is 100 percent pro-torture (226)
(Some Guy) Obvious Liberal media leaves out the political party of a Democrat mayor who is charged with running a brothel. Vitter asks, "What media bias?" (258)
CNN Hero Congress keeps public-broadcasting funding intact, rejecting notions that PBS and NPR are "too liberally biased" to maintain funding (742)
CBS News Spiffy George W. Bush at 87.5 percent (83)
(AntiWar.com) Ironic Pat Buchanan: "A decade hence, will the U.S. ambassador be occupying this imperial compound? Or will it be like the ruins of Acre?" (45)
(Some Guy) Asinine Democrats were all about voting reform until they got elected, now things are just fine the way they are (39)
MSNBC Interesting Truthiness for libs: "There is no threat against the U.S. homeland. It is all made up by Bush" (266)
(Newshounds) Amusing Bill O'Reilly fears the uterus (90)
USA Today Dumbass Nancy Pelosi to publish memoir. Any suggestions for the title? (100)
MSNBC Obvious TSA slowly waking up to the fact that feeling your balls and taking your spork may not be the best way to prevent terrorist attacks (242)
Yahoo Sad "The performance of the Department of Veterans Affairs has contributed substantially to our sense of national shame." Forty years later, court rules VA must pay benefits to Vietnam veterans harmed by Agent Orange (120)
Fox News Followup Another inconvenient truth for Al "do as I say not as I do" Gore about CO2 offsets (156)
(Timesnews.net) Dumbass At last, the perfect solution to America's woes: Ban Harry Potter books, beat your children, ignore scientists, deny welfare to all sinners and, of course, live your life by the Bible (772)
CBS New York Asinine It's no wonder Bloomberg wants to charge money to enter Manhattan. He has employees who spend $4,000 a month on one SUV (39)
(RTLC) Ironic Ronald Reagan, in a famous 1982 speech, explains why the Iraq invasion was such a terrible idea, and why it's essential to follow UN treaties (114)
(Think Progress) Amusing We all know that Dave Chappelle is crazy, but crazy enough to want Tony Snow's job? Yup, he's that crazy (25)
(Surreal Scoop) Amusing "We don’t need to understand where we are and less do we need to understand where we are going. We have Faith in the Lord" (27)
ABC News Sad U.S. Ambassador to Iraq admits the obvious: We're "Buying time at a cost of the lives of our soldiers" (17)
Forbes Hero Barack Obama: "Sorry, George, there's a bunch of genocides you don't care to stop, so no shifting the reason why we're still in Iraq to 'let's stop a genocide'" (92)
(Crooks and Liars) Hero Keith Olbermann to Bush: "Go there and fight your war… yourself" (149)
Fox News Unlikely Now that anyone aiding the enemy loses all their property, guess who they think is aiding the enemy now? (88)
Guardian.com Interesting Blair and balanced (5)
ABC News Scary Woman arrested after she sped through a highway roadblock set up for Bush's motorcade in Tennessee. Don't panic, though: The president was five miles away at the time and is fine (31)

Thu July 19, 2007
(EarthTimes.Org) Obvious Senate Finance Committee votes in 61-cent federal tax hike on cigarettes. Suck it, smokers (106)
Breitbart.tv Dumbass John Kerry: There was no bloodbath in Vietnam after we left. 165,000 beg to differ (74)
(Houston Press) Sad Looks like Texas is on the move to be as stupid as Kansas (114)
MSNBC Obvious So the Catholic Church was all like "Uh huh", and a Baptist leader was all like "Nuh uh" (206)
(Some Guy) Obvious Democrats force through a $1,000,000 earmark for organization that they could not prove existed (50)
(Southern Poverty Law Centre) Obvious "The Canadians and Mexicans have much more to fear from the U.S. than the U.S. has to fear from them. And yet, they are bolder in conceptualizing a new relationship." In other words, start embracing the Greater North American Community (79)
Mercury News Sad Gore: 1, Cheney: 70,000 (58)
(Some Fed Up Guy) Scary RIP Fifth Amendment, U.S. Constitution, 1791-2007 (1163)
Telegraph Followup The Chilean Seabass Al Gore served at his daughter's wedding were actually "Green" seabass that were neither endangered nor illegally caught, and came from one of the world's few sustainable toothfish populations (313)
(NewsBusters) Asinine Rather: 'I'm Big on Personal Responsibility' (73)
CBS Salt Lake City Amusing Nebraska senator known as "Hair Force One" blames his new 'do on hair rinse gone wrong (with before and after pics) (132)
CNN Ironic Actual Headline: Bill Clinton defends wife’s record on women’s issues (41)
(Oregonian) Interesting Three dozen U.S. military deserters have fled to Canada instead of patriotically showing up at their AWOL hearings in an evening gown and pearls (623)
(myfoxny.com) Obvious Former President Jacque Chirac questioned in corruption probe. In typical French fashion, it's from 20 years ago (10)
(WJAR-TV) Interesting Bill would add "None of the above" to Massachusetts ballot (36)
MSNBC Dumbass Homeland Minister Chertoff warns that unless we give Wichita Falls the same amount of funding as New York City, the terrorists will win (229)
LA Times Strange Bush, a small-government-minded conservative, creates a Cabinet-level panel to study food-import safety. Well, I guess we'll just pretend that the FDA does not exist this week (52)
(Don Surber) Interesting Not news: Congress less popular than Bush. News: Congress less popular than Nixon. Fark: On the day he resigned (106)
ABC News Dumbass Barack Obama wants your kindergarteners to know about sex (168)

Wed July 18, 2007
CNN PSA Presidential candidate hospitalized. Oh, it's Kucinich? Oh (48)
Washington Post Obvious Energy Task Force papers finally revealed. Enron and Exxon-Mobil helped Cheney create our nation's energy policy. If you're surprised by that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you (205)
(Huff Po) Amusing Videographer crashes College Republicans event. Not surprisingly, it's wall-to-wall chickenhawk (with bonus nut-job Tom DeLay quote) (244)
CNN Obvious Oprah Winfrey wants Barack Obama to become president in 2009. Do you really think you can stop Oprah? (55)
(the Presidential Candidates) Unlikely Ron Paul says we should deal with Iranians. Words instead of bombs, what a novel concept (127)
CNSNews Ironic Harry Reid spent all night urging senators to vote for the Iraq withdrawal amendment. It's on Fark, so you could probably guess that he voted against it (91)
(Community @ ABC Action News) Amusing "If you don’t leave 'Sicko' convinced that our profit-driven healthcare system is a disgrace, you probably sat through 'Ratatouille' by mistake" (187)
Breitbart.com Obvious Nothing happened at the Senate’s slumber party last night. They didn’t even freeze Ted Kennedy’s bra (70)
(Political Wire) Interesting Larry Flynt says he's ready to implicate another U.S. senator in a sex scandal (152)
AP Spiffy Wal-Mart is meeting its ambitious environmental goals. Suck it Gore, you seabass killin' hypocrite (269)
USA Today Interesting A Mexican just took John Edwards' job in New Hampshire (35)
(Financial Times) Asinine Karl Rove's November ace-in-the-hole was supposed to be the DEA, but they're as good at getting people to vote Republican as they are at stopping drug use (73)
News.com.au Dumbass Just a week after dumping tons of CO2 in the atmosphere to promote not dumping CO2 into the atmosphere, Al Gore again shows his commitment to Mother Earth by serving a threatened species of fish at his daughter's wedding (838)
(NY Daily News) Interesting "Law & Order" reruns to get an extreme makeover if Fred Thompson runs for president. Dun --- [silence] (34)
(Gulfnews.com) Amusing French socialists are pissed that their people are hanging out with the cool capitalists (42)
Houston Chronicle Obvious Bush aides admit their Bin Laden strategy is FUBAR (255)
Yahoo Silly Bolivia bans used clothing. Cocaine still OK (8)
MSNBC Interesting Edwards agrees to three-way with Clinton, Kucinich (22)
(MilkandCookies) Asinine How to create an angry American (260)
Yahoo Silly "Oprah, meet Uma... Uma, Oprah." "Oprah & Uma, meet Obama... Obama, Oprah & Uma." " (12)

Tue July 17, 2007
Time Amusing Britain's new tough line with Russia: We really, REALLY do not like borscht (6)
Washington Post Scary Obama: Sociali... I mean Universal health care in four years (155)
Guardian.com Misc Gates seeks $1.3 billion for bomb-resistant armored vehicles. Congress: IT'S A MRAP (17)
(Some Guy) Amusing Keith Olbermann describes his feelings about Bill O'Reilly: "It's, to some degree, the way a virus feels about its host" (249)
(Some Political Junkie) Strange Barry Manilow contributed $2,300 to Ron Paul's campaign. And a bunch of Democrats. I write the checks, I write the checks (36)
St. Pete Times Obvious Six days before Alberto Gonzalez told Congress "there has not been one verified case of civil liberties abuse" under Patriot Act, he was briefed by FBI on half-dozen cases of just such abuse (127)
(Some Guy) Followup Elizabeth Edwards Apologizes to Clinton, Asks Her To Remember the Cancer & 9/11 When Considering Her Wrath (7)
(Antiwar.com) Obvious Pat Buchanan warns of the upcoming Gulf of Tonkin Part Deux (55)
(Hugh Hewitt) Obvious "The whole problem with the Libby indictment was that he was charged for obstructing justice when there was no underlying crime committed" (130)
Wall Street Journal Obvious The new Democratic Congress has finally found a government agency whose budget it wants to cut: an obscure Labor Department office that monitors the compliance of unions with federal law (32)
(Honolulu Advertiser) Asinine Bush opposes military pay raise. But at least he still has his yellow ribbon magnet (154)
(AlterNet) Scary Neocons say the darndest things when they think no one's listening (385)
(The Spin Factor) Hero Over half of all donations from members of the military are going to Ron Paul. Gee, I wonder what he could be saying to cause that (184)
(RCP) Obvious The latest news on the Congressional *snicker* Democratic *giggle* earmark reform *heheh* efforts *HAHAHAAHAHAHA* (36)
(kos) Amusing Hate mail fills Markos Moulitsas' inbox after O'Reilly slams Daily Kos. Markos shares humorous samples (70)
Fox News Followup Senator Vitter (R-andy) publicly apologizes again for bogarting all those hookers, promises to leave more for his constituents next time (129)
Washington Post Asinine Surge 2.0 coming to Middle East this September. Because hey, if it doesn't work the first time, try it again until you get it right (418)
USA Today Amusing Cementing the reputation of the GOP as the party of fiscal responsibility; the top three Repubican Presidential Hopefuls have outspent their democratic rivals by $20 million, despite lagging them in fund-raising by nearly $40 million (71)
(Reason Magazine) Obvious It's not that the world is "running out of oil," it's that 77% of the world's oil is controlled by morons and nutjobs (330)
(Politico) Dumbass Missing the mark once again, John Edwards campaigns on forcing schools upon students rather than letting them choose where to go (61)
Salon Interesting Elizabeth Edwards claims that her husband is more like a woman than Hillary Clinton... or was that the other way around (18)
Yahoo Obvious If you were a country the size of New Jersey and got billions in subsidies per year to "keep the peace," you probably wouldn't want to discuss the reality of the core issues that cause the violence in the first place either (98)
Yahoo Interesting Surging nearly 10% in the polls since March, None of the Above is now the clear front-runner in the GOP presidential primary race (199)
UPI Obvious U.S. Democrats far ahead in fundraising, pandering (83)
BBC Dumbass MP "Gorgeous" George Galloway gets eighteen day suspension from House of Commons, no Respect at all (16)
Breitbart.com Interesting "Democrats vow all-night session on Iraq", subby just knows there's a sex joke in there somewhere (50)
Guardian.com Interesting "Chill in the air" between Britain and Russia over expulsion of diplomats in Litvinenko poisoning case, replacing previous "nip in the air" over allegations of Japanese espionage in country's aviation industry (12)
(Avon Calling) Amusing Presidential candidate Mitt Romney (R-ouge), who criticized another candidate's $400 haircut, spends $300 for"makeup consulting" (37)
IndyStar Asinine State of Indiana currently has a $1.2 billion surplus. Gov. Mitch Daniels to taxpayers: No, you can't have your money back. Not yours (38)
Yahoo Dumbass Michael Moore calls a truce after being completely pwned by CNN (193)

Mon July 16, 2007
(Some Guy) Florida Mark Foley has spent $500k on legal fees, paid for with campaign funds. Not that there is anything wrong with that (15)
BBC Followup Argentinian economic minister quits when asked why she was keeping $64,000 cash in her toilet. "I was naive, clumsy, but I am sure I haven't committed any crime" (14)
Yahoo Dumbass Senator Vitter is shocked, SHOCKED I say, that people would believe rumors about him having sex with a prostitute in New Orleans (137)
(Some Guy) Interesting "Rove Strategy Paper Found in Nixon Archive." Next up: Proof that Rove is responsible not only for 9/11 and Watergate, but also the Teapot Dome scandal and the Civil War (35)
The Raw Story Ironic Douchebag? Sure. Anti-Christ? No problem. Liar? Bite your tongue, sir! (26)
Network World Interesting The surly mix of the Web and politics (9)
(Concord Monitor) Obvious 45% of insurgents in Iraq are from Saudi Arabia - which is troubling to the Bush Administration, according to the Duh News Service (264)
Wall Street Journal Interesting The New New Atheism sells books but lacks substance (854)
Guardian.com Obvious Would the last staffer to leave the McCain campaign please turn out the lights? (16)
Telegraph Dumbass The first Muslim in Congress, according to this, "has cultivated a moderate image" since being elected. Not sure if comparing Bush to Hitler is part of the moderate image, but at least he's trying (84)
(Daily Cuz We Said So, Cindy) Amusing All commie-loving, America-hating, lefty moonbats allowed to post at Daily Kos, take one step forward. No so fast, Cindy Sheehan (100)
Fox News Asinine Obama becomes the latest liberal to blame inner city violence on Evil Assault Weapons and "not loving [criminals] enough" (409)
National Review Interesting NRO has a great way to ensure our nation's Surgeon Generals never bother us with their secular humanist junk science again: abolish the office of the Surgeon General (55)
(Some Guy) Obvious Hollywood & the Internet Might Want a Clinton/Obama Ticket The Rest of the Country Probably Not So Much (68)
Yahoo Amusing Huffington Post says Bush is going to put anyone trying to buy food or medicine in secret prisons. After that the article gets a little weird (48)
(Some Guy) Cool Some crazy, tin-foil-hat-wearing looney takes the IRS to court claiming he doesn't legally have to pay income taxes. Wins (98)
(Politico) Interesting Fred Thompson exhibits a bit of Reaganite teflon as the LA Times tries to give him a candidate abortion (111)
(NY Daily News) Unlikely Americans say NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg is not too rich, too short and, more importantly, too Jewish, to be President (48)
BBC Amusing Boris Johnson to run for London Mayor. Trust me, world - this is funny (23)
USA Today Dumbass Just like before, Ralph Nader wants to fark everything up (93)
Yahoo Obvious US envoy to Zimbabwe does what anyone left in Zimbabwe who can should: he gets the fark out, saying he believes that the country will collapse by the end of the year (32)
Yahoo Spiffy The key to peace in the Middle East is: A) establishing a permanent Palestinian homeland, B) removal of all American troops or C) Owls (70)
ABC News Cool Look in the mirror - only you can help you - and repeat: I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and - doggonit - people'd like me to be senator (44)
Guardian.com Obvious The President pushes Bush to consider military action in Iran (222)
Guardian.com Interesting Britain urged to take a leading role in Iraq by cutting and running first (4)



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