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Sun October 28, 2007
MSNBC Dumbass Hillary Clinton says that the day after she's elected she will send envoys to foreign governments to declare the end of "cowboy diplomacy." The president might have a problem with you doing that, lady (20)
MSNBC Obvious Head U.N. nuke watchdog is concerned that escalating anti-Iran rhetoric from U.S. could bring disaster, that he had no evidence Iran is working actively to build nukes, that maybe a committee to suggest something to the US could be formed (12)
Yahoo Unlikely Russia and the US urge all countries to destroy their medium range missiles. Didn't Kang and Kodos try this once? (5)
YouTube Video Two very intelligent minds spar as Christopher Hitchens debates Dinesh D'Souza (52)
(Some Guy) Obvious 70,000 Britons go to other countries for medical treatment rather than be subjected to the NHS. How's that socialized health care working out? Blink once for 'Not so good' (59)
(PowerlineBlog) Obvious "No phase of our history is less in need of further study than the baby boom, the roots of rock-and-roll, and the 60s as a whole" (33)
Houston Chronicle Unlikely Disney joins the Bush administration in global conquest, annexes Canada (16)
SMH Amusing The explanation for nude photos of "Family First" candidate making the rounds on gay websites. "I might have been drunk off my face or my political enemies might have drugged me" (24)
(NY Daily News) Interesting Nader voters, who torpedoed Al Gore's chances in 2000, now want him as president. Maybe they were just waiting for him to get chubbier (36)
(NY Daily News) Obvious President Ford: President Clinton is a sex addict in a wolf's clothes who finds everyone in a skirt to be delicious (40)
Stuff Sad Liberal German politicians may force a speed limit on the Autobahn to help reduce global warming (25)
NYPost Amusing Is there anybody famous in America who Barack Obama isn't related to? (36)
Yahoo Obvious Obama claims Clinton "sidestepping." Clinton: "It depends on what your definition of 'side' is" (46)
Baltimore Sun Interesting Cal Ripken to serve as special diplomatic envoy to China. Plan said to include marathon negotiating sessions that just keep going and going until the other side drops and concedes (44)
Reuters Scary Pakistan under assault from al Qaeda, but the military controls their nuclear weapons arsenal, so there's no reason to worry. For now, anyway. Probably (33)
Yahoo Cool Senators Bryon Dorgan (D-ND) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) call for probe on efforts by Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T to block certain types of Internet traffic over their networks (31)
ABC News Interesting Chances are good that close to 300 diplomats will have a very crappy Monday (48)

Sat October 27, 2007
(DailyKos) Scary If you're one of the roughly 200 DOJ employees who "anonymously" reported abuses by the Bush administration, keep an eye on your inbox for a personal thank you note from Dick Cheney (57)
(Some Gun Grabber) Asinine Senator Joe Biden (D-umbass) decides that he doesn't want to be president after all; proposes renewing ban on scary looking guns (218)
(Connecticut) Hero Noting that his colleagues have solved little else, a US Senator attempts to maintain a 792-year old legal tradition and the foundation of Western society (64)
(News Hounds) Sick Fox News has gone from ignoring the deaths of our troops to actually claiming it doesn't happen (53)
WRAL Asinine In America number #1 free speech is allowed. In John Edward's America #2, free speech is not allowed, especially to point out his hypocrisy (64)
(Hot Air) Interesting Ron Paul campaign paid $1,300 to famous conspiracy nutbar Alex Jones. Probably in return for fresh foil hat lining (218)
(Investors Business) Obvious Bill Clinton was the best president the People's Republic of China ever had. His wife may be even better. Beijing, hungry for more technology transfers, is betting on it (236)
(crooksandliars) Amusing Bill O'Reilly weighs in on the Dumbledore controversey: Hypocrilarity ensues (43)
(NYSun) Dumbass Mrs. Clinton tells Bush to chill out about the Ayatollahs and their nukes (65)
(Some Guy) Followup The White House strongly criticized FEMA for their phony press conference and the agency apologized for its "error in judgment." But one can only guess who put them up to this charade (26)
(Disgusted Citizen) Stupid Massachusetts Family Institute scams citizens into signing homophobic petition (w/caught on video goodness) (34)
Yahoo Amusing Now that Dummbledore has been outed, it's time to label Harry Potter for what he really is - the left-wing hero of the intellectual aristocracy against the materialist middle classes (63)
(Some Guy) Obvious Emmy-winning TV mini-series about 9/11 won't be released on DVD because it might hurt Hillary's campaign (27)
Yahoo Obvious US government has initiated the draft... for diplomats to serve at new US embassy in Iraq, due to lack of volunteers (14)
Yahoo Obvious Democrat senator drops bomb into debate with Dutch lawmakers on NATO: "You have to help us, because if it was not for us you would now be a province of Nazi Germany." (80)
(WND) Followup Chuck Norris endorsement causing Huckabeementum to ensue (30)
ABC News Dumbass Pastor running for judge unveils radically new campaign slogan: Everyone should donate $20 to his campaign "because you're all going to need me in traffic court" (9)
Guardian.com Interesting Ford Theatre where Lincoln was assassinated to be renovated to include a multimedia complex, educational displays on the 16th president and a bar called "I Freed The WHAT??" (20)

Fri October 26, 2007
Minneapolis Star Tribune Followup Sen. Craig to argue that soliciting in the bathroom is free speech. He wasn't doing that, of course, but you know, if someone else did (121)
ABC News Followup FEMA apologizes for fake press conference stunt, bad comb over (44)
ABC News Interesting October is on course to record the second consecutive decline in U.S. military and Iraqi civilian deaths. Shhhhhhhh (133)
National Review Sick Fox News' new reality show "Facing Reality" features ten women who must endure lighthearted physical challenges in an "abortion chamber". The winner gets the pleasure of having "murderer" screamed in her face (103)
(Some Guy) Followup Why yes, it does appear that Republicans are upset Laura Bush wore a headscarf while in the Middle East (85)
Baltimore Sun Asinine Half of the 2007 congressional record were bills for naming things. You may think they're just wasting time, but we now have the very first Oxycontin-inspired courthouse (16)
(Courier Post) Asinine Where do we go to vote in Pennsylvania? We can't tell you. It's classified. Terrorism and all (36)
(Some Guy) Asinine Having 50 Cent, Aerosmith and Don Henley play your daughter's Bat Mitzvah: $10,000,000. Paying for it through war profiteering: priceless (40)
(Suitably Flip) Unlikely "Hsu is asking a judge to toss his 15-year-old felony fraud conviction, arguing that his right to a speedy trial was violated because authorities weren't actively pursuing him." (20)
SLTrib Asinine Rep Barney Frank (D-Lite) introduces a bill that would allow homeowners to sue mortgage lenders for giving them loans that they never had a realistic chance of repaying. Personal Responsibility? (192)
(Stopthedrugwar) Amusing Ecuadorean President to US: "You can renew the lease on your air base here only if we can set up a military base in Miami" (56)
AP Dumbass President Bush really, REALLY hates sick children. The Presidential Veto II: The Reckoning (152)
(Some Carpetbagger) Amusing A decisive blow to the War on Halloween: Judge rejects claims of Pentecostal Christian government employee who claimed that a "screaming carpet" is a pagan symbol (49)
Sign On San Diego Obvious There's a reason FEMA air assets weren't deployed to fight the Cali fires -- and the reason isn't high winds (40)
Asia Times Scary The lines have been drawn in the U.S.-Iran conflict and the Russians are squarely on the Iranians side, as Putin declares that an attack on Iran would be considered an attack on Russia itself (149)
(Observer.com) Followup The New Republic loudly disses Drudge for quietly deleting story accusing Baghdad diarist of lying. Slow news week, citizen; nothing to see here (12)
(Some Guy) Amusing Having failed to destroy Daily Kos, Nas, The Huffington Post and the Bourne Identity, Bill O'Reilly picks Robert Redford as his next target (67)
(Big Head DC) Obvious When a person who goes by the name Princess Sparkle Pony is finding new Larry Craig sex scandals, you know it's time for him to resign (48)
Boston Globe Spiffy Mitt Romney gets schooled by a 15-year old. Subby fears new generation of politically savvy super-children (94)
MSNBC Florida "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis encourages women to run for Florida office, show their boobies (16)
(Krazy Kossack) Dumbass People at DailyKos suggest that America as a nation converts to Islam in order to stop terrorist actions against us. It's not like Muslims ever slaughter each other over their interpretation of Islam anyway (139)
CBS 2 Lost Angeles Obvious Dick Cheney doesn't care about white people (51)
UPI Asinine "A federal agency has banned flag-folding recitations at U.S. veterans cemeteries after a complaint over religious content." (397)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Giuliani on waterboarding: "It depends on who does it" (78)
News.com.au Obvious Knights Templar cleared of Grail silliness. Vatican will return shrubberies to descendants (20)
Time Obvious Bush to Cuba: Not only will US continue embargo, but also keep up lower levels of health care, supply of quality plantains (43)
BBC Followup New satellite images show an industrial-sized building in Syria wiped off the face of the planet. It was either a Syrian nuclear facility or a My Little Pony® factory (78)

Thu October 25, 2007
(Some Guy) Obvious Democratic-controlled House passes bill making thought crime an offence in U.S. That's doubleplus ungood (196)
AP Obvious President Bush lands at Miramar to tour fires, calls on Miramar leadership to stop cracking down on monks (123)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Financial genius and NYT columnist Paul Krugman writes that not only is the housing bubble burst Bush's fault, it's going to cost the country "several trillion" dollars. That's trillion, with a T-R (56)
(Some Guy) Asinine Congressional Democrats seize on introducing largest tax increase in history as way to ensure their popularity stays mired below Bush's (100)
Guardian.com Obvious "Worst lobbying awards" to be given out in Brussels in December. Aw, c'mon, admins, greenlight this. It'll be good for the site. You know you want to. Don't be lame. Pleeeeeze? (14)
(Hot Air) Unlikely Laura Bush dons a head scarf during her trip to Saudi Arabia. Submitter patiently waits for Drudge, Fox News and the conservative blogoshere to erupt in their usual bombastic outrage. *crickets* (pic) (67)
Washington Post Dumbass According to Sen. Joe Biden (D-umbass), the reason Iowa schools perform better than D.C. schools is that Iowa schools have less black people in them (127)
Yahoo Unlikely Barack O'Bama offering a role to Al Gore in his campaign if he wants one. Gore/O'Bama 08 to be announced in 3...2...1 (87)
(Some Guy) Amusing Conservative think tank releases list of the ten most dangerous organizations in America (165)
Guardian.com Dumbass Guardian reporter goes to Gaza, helps terrorists fire rockets, hangs out with wanted Palestinians and listens as they explain how they use Google Earth to kill more civilians. Bias? No such thing. (with video goodness) (354)
(Some Hippie) Stupid New McCain advertisement attacks Hillary as a hippie. The McCain campaign announced that subsequent ads will slam Hillary for being a flapper, a vagabond, a ne'er-do-well, and a "ƒaucy wench of a diƒreputable qualitie" (59)
(senate.gov) Spiffy Sen. Coburn has launched a website called "United Nations Watch" which shows some of the wonderful screwups they have done (27)
(kos) Spiffy Dennis Kucinich, the Munchkin of Justice, will force an impeachment vote before Thanksgiving (95)
(Some Guy) Followup Drudge quietly deletes story accusing Baghdad diarist of lying. Move along, citizen; nothing to see here (54)
(Rasmussen Reports) Amusing Stephen Colbert polling 13% in a three-way race against Hillary and Rudy. Take THAT Ron Paul (565)
Yahoo Asinine Determined conservative student constantly hounds Democrat candidate on campus. Insists it isn't because he's a Democrat. Riiiiiight (109)
Wired Obvious The Senator pushing to let Verizon and ATT get away with spying is of course being paid off. Democratic Culture of Corruption well under way (40)
Washington Post Cool GOP "taken by surprise" by vote on new S-CHIP package scheduled for today (166)
CNN Amusing House Republicans "Democrats are taking advantage of a disaster to loot the American treasury." Democrats "I know you are but what am I?" (71)
(nasdaq) Asinine Charles Rangel is proposing a 4 to 4.6% income "surtax" on higher income earners, while lowering the tax rate of those evil corporations (66)
Reuters Hero Auhnuld displays impressive leadership abilities during this time of crises for caleefornia (59)
Slate Obvious Fred's last chance. His campaign just got started and he's got about a week to save it (53)
(My Fox DC) Dumbass Deputy accused of stealing campaign sign. NOTE: It doesn’t work if no one is running against the guy (48)
CBS New York Ironic The mafia strongly considered whacking Giuliani back in 1986 (46)
(huffpo) Dumbass If you like Katrina, you'll love Katrina 2.0 (46)
(Some Finn) Weird Nelson Mandela once saved the prime minister of Sweden from a vicious restroom tongue lashing. Everybody gets one (26)
(Some Guy) Stupid "It’s official. You can buy a gun in Alabama but you can’t buy a vibrator" (96)
Chicago Tribune Dumbass Yet another stunning diplomatic coup for the Bush administration: A maritime pact with Mongolia - a country with no coastline, no navy and precious little water (45)

Wed October 24, 2007
(Crooks and Liars) Ironic Congressional Budget Offices puts the price on Iraq at 2.4 trillion dollars. The party of fiscal responsibility is outraged. Just kidding. Not a single Republican on the committee showed up at the hearing (70)
Yahoo Obvious Sure we will let a Palestinian cross our land in order to get surgery, but first, we have some questions for you about your brother. You stay classy, Israel (119)
Guardian.com Stupid If you bet today is when someone would publicly blame Bush for the wildfires in California, you just won the office pool (43)
Yahoo Sad Mideast wars may cost $2.4 trillion over the next decade. Osama bin Laden: Mission Accomplished (95)
ABC News Scary White House sneaks in request in emergency funding bill to modify B-2 stealth bombers to carry new "bunker-buster" bombs. Hmmm... wonder (Iran) where those (Iran) would be (Iran) dropped? (51)
Wall Street Journal Dumbass New York Times, 1981: "Reagan is an idiot for saying ketchup is a vegetable." 2006: "Ketchup is a vegetable, and very healthy one at that" (79)
(Pittsfield Gazette) Silly To comply with federal education law, fourth graders draft constitution for class. List of rights includes extra recess time (50)
(Nola dot com) Asinine Successful and attractive New Orleans DA loses $3 million lawsuit after firing all the white people in his office. New Orleans DA now says the citizens of Chocolate City must foot the bill (56)
(Alternet) Unlikely Had it up to here with the high cost of blow? Blame George Bush. At least hookers still cheap (16)
The Raw Story Obvious 41% of Americans unable to name a single Republican presidential canidate. 9/12 (63)
MSNBC Obvious Today's Bush Administration official resigning amid scandal is Richard Griffith, who had "oversight" of diplomatic security, aka Blackwater's shoot first and let God sort 'em out boys (40)
Guardian.com Obvious Israel doesn't expect to accomplish anything by turning off the electricity in the Gaza Strip, but it will make them feel better, and that's what really counts (227)
Yahoo Asinine Your newest Federal judge once upheld the reinstatement of a social worker fired for using a racial slur against a co-worker and ruled a woman should lose custody of her child for being bisexual (25)
Arizona Star Interesting Arizona legislator proposes making it a crime for employers to accept fake ID (59)
(Think Progress) Obvious While Fox News is blaming the California wildfires on al Qaeda, the California National Guard and the liberals pin the blame squarely on the War in Iraq (128)
(Political Wire) Amusing In his latest campaign trail gaffe, Rudy Giuliani claims he licked pornography in New York City (33)
(Some Guy) Interesting George W. Bush was first mentioned in the NY Times in 1967 when he defended his fraternity's practice of branding and beating pledges (51)
(Think Progress) Unlikely You knew it and I knew it. Now Fox News has confirmed it: the California wildfires were started by the dastardly shadow group known as al Qaeda (85)
Time Interesting Top 10 senate races to watch in 2008. Though it's not listed, keep an eye on the Idaho race too - could be a toe-tapper (22)
National Review Unlikely Hillary Clinton is entirely unelectable and has no chance of winning the presidency. That's why the GOP is spending all their time and resources campaigning against her. Because... uhhh ...she can't win (143)
Boston Globe Florida Fred Thompson offers his final solution to the immigrant problem (66)
CBC Scary You think Bush is bad? Canadian government bans one million Canadians from voting, including 80% of Nunavut (44)
CSMonitor Interesting Much of what the brilliant national media has told you about the "Jena 6" is doubleplus wrong (69)
NYPost Followup Rudy Giuliani loses the all important NY Post endorsement over Red Sox flap (53)
(Some Guy) Asinine While we're trying to prevent Iran from making nuclear weapons, some clueless folks are working to prevent the USA from having nuclear power at all. Way to go, Hippies (73)
ABC News Stupid Campaign law may make Stephen Colbert's presidential campaign illegal because he's sponsored by Doritos ... seriously. Also, couldn't anyone at ABC find a current photo of a bag of Doritos? (315)
(Big Head DC) Scary Prepare to scare the hell out of every kid in your neighborhood by downloading your very own Sen. Larry Craig Halloween mask. (Not safe for wear in public restrooms) (15)
(Some Guy) Amusing The "commies" at RedState are so enraged that Ron Paul is getting noticed they are calling for him to be purged from the party (224)
CBS News Weird "Rudy Giuliani is the guy you'd get if you put George Bush and Dick Cheney into a wine press and squeezed out their pure combined essence" (57)
Yahoo Asinine White House removes 10 out of 14 pages of the CDC climate testimony to Congress, thereby resolving global warming once and for all (153)
CBS Austin Asinine Singer who battled and defeated his "homosexual demons" singing for Barack. Gay activists aren't happy (51)
YouTube Interesting Keith Olbermann's interview with CIA super spy Valerie Plame Wilson (68)
Yahoo Asinine Not news: Iran is the country most people around the would like see have less power. News: The US is number 2. Fark: By only 2% (155)
(Big Head DC) Scary Shirley MacLaine claims Dennis Kucinich had an alien encounter. And she doesn't mean with an illegal alien (22)
(bnd.com) Dumbass GOP congressman asks immigration to raid Democratic senator's news conference (47)

Tue October 23, 2007
(Some Guy) Video How to make an attack campaign ad - explained in 56 seconds (18)
Wonkette Amusing Proving that the agency is staffed with people who still bring their lunch boxes to work; The CIA unveils their new "Terrorism Busters" logo. You better believe there is a pic (35)
Yahoo Obvious Zombie Castro arises long enough to predict Bush's WW3 (15)
Rolling Stone Unlikely Global warming will kill 6,000,000,000 people by the end of the century. At least according to the influential science magazine Rolling Stone. EVERYBODY PANIC (63)
CNN Dumbass In an innocent slip of the tongue Mitt Romney mistakes Obama for Osama. Just a slip. Uh-huh. Nothing more. Could happen to anyone. Really, has anyone ever seen them in the same room together? (63)
(Politico) Obvious Conservative forums are starting to ban Ron Paul supporters because they are sick of their constant spamming and annoying claims that he's going to save the world and cure cancer (552)
(Some Guy) Amusing "You'd think that Democrats and other liberals would understand that Sen. Larry Craig is merely conflicted about his sexuality. He deserves their sympathy and patience, but all he receives from them is their hatred and scorn. " (109)
Mediabistro Cool Stephen Colbert outpolls New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. Cool for Colbert, awkward for Richardson (48)
Breitbart.tv Followup Rep. Stark apologizes for saying Bush laughs when soldiers die. Includes this priceless quote: "I hope that with this apology I will become as insignificant as I should be" (87)
Baltimore Sun Followup GOP follows through on threat to halve delegates from renegade states who want to hold primaries in January (36)
Newsday Dumbass NJ to alter phrasing in its state constitution originally adopted in 1877: "No idiot or insane person shall enjoy the right of suffrage." Citizens rejoice in finally being able to vote (151)
AP Interesting $1.2 Billion will buy 4.1 million Nintendo Wiis, or 850,000 LCD televisions, 35,000 Jaguar X types, or 0 hours of police training in Iraq (187)
(Town Hall) Interesting Seven things that every voter should know about the Clintons (188)
(Real Clear Politics) Obvious Wanna know how to fire up a focus group of Republicans? Ask them what they think of the prospect of four more years of Billary (61)
Washington Post Obvious People are starting to discover that "I am not Hillary Clinton" has little value beyond being an applause line (25)
(Media Matters) Obvious Limbaugh, O'Reilly, and Malkin have set back the conservative movement by decades (140)
Newsday Sad Since 1975, 13,000 dead and countless injured in Laos by remaining US ordnance that Washington won't help to clean up (53)
Des Moines Register Obvious Hey, Ron Paul fanatics, he's come in first in another poll: More people have ruled out voting for Ron Paul in Iowa than any other GOP candidate (301)
(TPM) Asinine Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee: "Most of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were clergymen." Would you believe, 1 out of 56, Mikey? (143)

Mon October 22, 2007
Yahoo Dumbass Here's a quick summary of Sunday night's Republican debate: "I'm the most conservative." "No, I'm the most conservative." "No way dude, I'm the most conservative guy in the world" (65)
(Maybe it was this?) Dumbass Where did Congressman Stark ever get the idea that the President was "amused" by Americans dying in Iraq? (171)
(Some Guy) Dumbass According to Glenn Beck, the people that are losing their homes to the fires in California all hate America. Dumbass tag fitting but is really not sufficient for this level af asshattery (99)
MSNBC Dumbass Nobel laureate Doris Lessing says 9/11 wasn't so bad compared to IRA attacks on London. 'Cause we all remember that IRA attack that killed 3,000 people at the same time (72)
Reuters Spiffy Violence in Iraq down 70% since the surge began (430)
Boston Globe Dumbass Nanny-state liberals want to force kids to apply to college before giving them their diplomas (66)
(Some Independant Girl) Followup GOP threatens to pull delegates from "upstart" states. Democrats and Republicans agreeing? Next up cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria (31)
Yahoo Unlikely True to Republican tradition, Mitt Romney says church leaders will have no influence on government policy if he were elected president (74)
(Some Guy) Obvious If you are supposed to cover your heart during the national anthem, what is Obama covering? (193)
LA Times Followup Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger prepares to address the media about the wildfires devastating his disaster prone state. Expected statement: "GET TO DAH CHOPAH" (134)
CNN Amusing First newspaper in Iowa to endorse a Democratic candidate chooses... Joe Biden? (20)
CNN Interesting Chuck Norris picks his presidential favorite. Huckabee said to be slowly regaining use of lower limbs (48)
(OC Register) Interesting The USA needs to avoid bequeathing the next generation a system of unsustainable entitlements that turns the entire nation into a giant Ponzi scheme (91)
(kos) Obvious Attention Congressional Democrats: You're beginning to lose the DailyKos wing of the Democratic party (99)
MSNBC Amusing McCain: "I couldn't make it to Woodstock. I was tied up at the time" (46)
Washington Post Ironic Dog snatching: $10 for a net. Prostitute: $250 a night. Family values blowhard Richard Mellon Scaife getting divorced: Priceless, but approximated at $725,000 a month (186)
YouTube Obvious Ron Paul is booed by Republican audiences when he points out that the American people want the war in Iraq to end and troops to come home safely (441)
Yahoo Asinine Clarence Thomas blames affirmative action for his difficulties in geting a job after graduating from Yale Law. Well, it certainly couldn't have been that charming personality or razor-sharp intellect, right? (136)
St. Pete Times Florida Ex-NFL player tries to explain why Governor Crist appointed him regional transportaion chairman, despite having no experience in topic other than being stuck in traffic (14)