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Sun November 25, 2007
Fox News Sick 136 (25)
AP Dumbass Obama and Hillary argue over whose socialized medicine plan can screw up our health care system the best (35)
The Raw Story Dumbass After his gun show performance, Fred Thompson shoots himself in the foot by claiming that Fox News picks on him (23)
Baltimore Sun Dumbass Obama thinks that the Second Amendment applies only to hunters in rural areas (100)
Salon Obvious The problem with our political media is that they seem to believe getting a quote from two different sides is the same as telling the truth (33)
NYPost Interesting Brian DePalma's anti-war film, "Redacted," is so bad that this weekend only about 3,000 people in the entire country went to see it (155)
(JPost) Unlikely Hundreds of thousands of Israelis and Palestinians have received video game called "Peace Maker" in order to determine the fate of both people. Subby thinks distributing copies of "Counter-Strike" would reflect reality better (247)
Boston Globe Interesting Fred Thompson has alienated fellow conservatives by refusing to impose conservative principles on unwilling states (32)
Washington Post Obvious Libertarianism is the latest political fad that will soon go the way of hula-hoops and Cabbage Patch Kids (137)
(Some Rondroid) Spiffy Hate the game, not the playa: Ron Paul expected to raise $12 million in the 4th quarter (114)
Yahoo Stupid The 800lb gorilla in the room: Social Security. Solutions: either the unworkable "privatize it" from the conservatives or the tired old "tax the rich" formula from the liberals (83)
CNN Sad Indiana Congresswoman Julia Carson diagnosed with terminal lung cancer (36)
CNN Stupid Fred Thompson calls a gun show "paradise" (71)
Yahoo Interesting Chinese get their first taste of international peacekeeping in Sudan, are hungry again an hour later (16)
(Jerusalem Post) Stupid "Facebook helped further civil society in Syria and form civic groups outside government control. This is why it has been banned." (25)
Orlando Sentinel Florida Orlando tourism board worries about its "family-friendly" image as Florida is set to expand legal gambling. Thousands of bored fathers would like to tell them not to worry (7)
Yahoo Scary Lebanese president quits in the middle of the night causing a power vacuum. Because if there's one thing rubble-strewn Lebanon needs it's a vacuum (15)
CNN Stupid Mitt Romney says presidential candidates shouldn't discuss their past like Barack Obama, for the children's sake. You know what that means - $50 to whomever can unearth the tape of Teenage Mitt Romney smoking crack and farking a sheep (45)

Sat November 24, 2007
London Times Obvious Archbishop of Canterbury says U.S. is a worse imperialist than Britain ever was, scorning the “'chosen nation' myth, meaning that what happens in America is very much at the heart of God’s purpose for humanity” (123)
(newsnet) Amusing Your annual pamphlet accidentally giving sex line phone number goes to: Ohio Attorney Generals Christmas Shopping Tips (7)
Yahoo Spiffy Flood of Iraqi refugees into the US slows to a trickle as things keep getting better in Iraq. Quick, someone blame Bush (134)
Canada.com Asinine Cuddly Canada sabotages Kyoto accord (47)
Breitbart.com Interesting Chavez says "Only a 'traitor' will vote no" for his 69 revisions to Venezuela's charter (308)
CTV Asinine Let's just pull all books written by atheists off the school shelves and replace them with Chicks tracts (111)
Boston Globe Unlikely Mitt Romney demands resignation of judge he appointed after she turns out not to be as "law-and-order" as his Presidential campaign wanted (19)
Abc.net.au Interesting Australia's conservative government has been overturned in a Ruddslide (31)
Fox News Interesting College students are upset with global warming chickenhawks like Al Gore who talk the talk, but don't walk the walk (151)
AP Ironic Illinois Congressman Danny Davis insists that "I'm not one of these people who cry racism." However, that's exactly what he's doing after getting a traffic ticket for swerving over the center line (31)
Sky News News Howard loses, Rudd savours the sweet taste of...ear wax (285)
Telegraph Obvious Democrats have doubts about Clinton: "I'm always amazed how we can screw things up. Maybe the way we screw it up this time is by nominating Hillary - across the Midwest that would be the only way of unifying Republicans" (157)

Fri November 23, 2007
Abc.net.au PSA Can we Aussie farkers please have one thread greenlit in the Politics forum to discuss our election happening today? Please? (129)
(Politico) Obvious "Even Fred Thompson's own aides and advisers acknowledge privately that there are days when he seems disinterested in running for president at all" (24)
Yahoo Ironic They're coming to work out the peace deal of the century, but don't expect them to shake hands (13)
Chicago Tribune Interesting Worry less about Ron Paul and his nutbar followers and more about Mike Huckabee and his potential do-good-for-God presidency (179)
(Some Guy) Interesting Study reveals the party best affiliated with big business and the majority of the nation's wealthiest districts: The Democratic Party. Wait, what? (35)
Reuters Followup Rumsfeld torture case dismissed. There are known knowns, and there are known unknowns (32)
(Washington Times) Interesting Today: A fascinating analysis of how Hillary's campaign thwarts honest reporting. Tomorrow: Press release from Hillary about the media picking on her (13)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Rudy Guiliani on changing New York during his stint as mayor: "People were hopeless. Sixty percent of the population, 70 percent of the population wanted to live somewhere else...By the time I left, 70 percent wanted to stay" (34)
Time Interesting Sunday school for atheists. Wait, what? (139)
(YNet) Scary The Lebanese President has declared a state of emergency and ordered the Army to take power of the government in order to avoid a Hizbullah takover hours before stepping down (46)
(Some Guy) Obvious No matter who becomes the next President of the United States, the American people have already won a great victory with the total disintegration of the once all-powerful religious right (64)
YouTube Video Dennis Kucinich talks presidential politics on the Early Show and says that OH MY GOD LOOK AT HIS WIFE (86)
Slate Amusing We've come a long way since "I didn't inhale." (17)
Washington Post Scary Feds routinely use cellphones to track people, sometimes without showing probable cause. And the terrorists "hate us for our freedoms?" (56)
(epolitix.com) Interesting British Military chiefs call Defence Secretary an insult to the armed forces, fails to realise that you go to war with the Defence Secretary you have, not the Defence Secretary you want or wish to have at a later time (11)
Seattle Times Obvious When U.S. military contractors hire cheap Indian labor and mark it up at the usual rates, everyone makes immense profits. Happy Black Friday, Halliburton (134)
CBC Ironic Pakistan suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations, which is headed by a hereditary monarch, for being undemocratic (25)
Guardian.com Obvious Nearly half the insurgents in Iraq are Saudis. In other news, the White House has no plans to attack Saudi Arabia (37)
CNN Interesting Al Qaeda Rolodex found in Iraq. Bush says his Timex works just fine for him (45)
Yahoo Interesting Sharif to try again to return from exile, stop Casbah from rocking (10)
(YNet) Unlikely Israeli Foreign Minister: "The entire world accepts Israeli stance". Unless she means a wide stance in public bathrooms, she's going to have to specify which world she's talking about (17)
(Florida Today) Florida High school kids generate all the hatred and conflict that only a "Peace" T-shirt could create (132)
News.com.au Stupid Labor Party promises to say "sorry" to Aborigines if it wins tomorrow's federal election, "go pound sand" if they lose (7)

Thu November 22, 2007
CBS Chicago Dumbass US Congressman says he's a victim of racial profiling. "Victim," of course, meaning "I'm a member of Congress--I ought to be able to violate traffic laws whenever I want" (56)
(Yahoo) Obvious With French charges pending, Chiracs seek asylum in U.S. under next Clinton Administration (15)
LA Times Amusing Writers' strike could lead to the cancellation of Presidential debates. Terror alert level raised to red as politicians realize they might have to write their own speeches and answers (23)
(The Atlantic) Interesting The "Culture War" could come to an end if Obama wins in 2008 (97)
(Some Obama Fan) Obvious Bush gives Hillary Clinton the political kiss of death (27)
Detroit News Dumbass Woman's group, trying to motivate unmarried women to vote, sends voter registration forms to deceased people, dogs, gerbils, and parakeets (22)
Yahoo Amusing Skype encryption 1, German police 0 (63)
Washington Post Followup Keen to the backlash over sentencing a rape victim to 200 lashes, Saudi Arabia has taken swift remedial action. Step One: suspend the lawyer who tried to prevent her from being whipped (73)
(KCAU) Misc 44 years ago today, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas by, a) a lone gunman, b) the KGB, c) the Masons, d) the flying spaghetti monster or e) none of the above because it doesn't fit your theory? (307)
Independent Scary While everyone is focussed on what's going on in Iraq, it might be worth mentioning that the Taliban now control more than 50% of Afghanistan again (101)
Yahoo Unlikely Like a divorcing couple trying to split a house, Muslims and Jews contemplate splitting Jerusalem... with about the same results (153)
(Real Clear Politics) Obvious "Like Nixon, Senator Clinton is widely disliked. Like Nixon, she cannot be made warm. And like Nixon, she is a politician about whom her peers have real doubts." (58)
The Register Interesting There may actually be an upside to the UK government's losing the personal data of 25 million people; also, article's author may answer one of your "where are they now?" questions (59)
Telegraph Interesting Tired of being the butt of jokes in Fark headlines, British PM launches initiative to dismantle the nanny State. We'll still have their food, teeth and soccer team to mock, however (44)

Wed November 21, 2007
(Some Guy) Interesting New Hampshire wants to get this election crap over with so much they have moved their primary to January 8th (37)
(Courier Post Online) Obvious Electoral College system may be outdated. Propose something better (237)
Time Stupid After being shocked to discover the American people aren't buying Hillary Clinton Is Inevitable being jammed down their throat, the media now questions whether the Obama Iowa numbers are "for real" (67)
MSNBC Interesting When "inevitable" isn't so inevitable - Hillary drops 10 points nationally and begins to look more like Howard Dean 2004 everyday, while New Reagan is proving as popular as New Coke over on the GOP side (133)
Yahoo Dumbass Pervez Musharraf set to transition from military dictator to civilian dictator on Saturday (70)
(WND) Unlikely The Flying Monkey Right is warning that we are just a few years away from MexiCanaMerica (119)
(WorldNetDaily) Weird Columnist predicts the end of Christian talk radio, imprisonment of homeschoolers, and other acts of "persecution" if Rudy Giuliani is nominated (101)
Chicago Sun-Times Spiffy Obama gets endorsement from Oprah, which is good news, considering she's at least three times more influential than Ric Flair (185)
(abc7.com) Amusing Fred Thompson: Democrats are like NASCAR drivers, nothing but left turns (63)
CNN Obvious From the no shiat files: Bush, Cheney and others regularly mislead the media (123)
Washington Post Obvious Hillary is wrong again, Indonesian elementary school did give Obama the skills needed to provide the Middle East with peace (22)
(Some ZAKA guy) Unlikely Israel town, first responders suing Hamas in international courts for the barrage of rockets they are firing daily on their town. Good luck getting that money, guys (589)
(Some Guy) Sad Barack Obama's lifelong feud with the moon will insure no American will walk on it while he is president, suck it grey aliens (537)
(Some Guy) Obvious The U.N. denies that it is competent enough to deliberately inflate the number of AIDS cases worldwide (119)
Yahoo Dumbass Bill O'Reilly: Toby Keith and I are the only celebrities who've been in Afghanistan this year. USO: No, we've sent 7 tours over there this year, including Al Franken, you douchebag (313)
YouTube Interesting OJ Simpson announces his endorsement of Hillary, possibly due to her stance favoring the search for the real killers (14)
CNN Interesting As temperatures drop in New Hampshire, Clinton experiences shrinkage (26)

Tue November 20, 2007
(Some Guy) Obvious If you had one guess, just one, about the most frequently viewed topic on Conservapedia, what would it be? (193)
KNBC Interesting Lame duck pardons turkey (29)
Breitbart.com Interesting Obama admits to using drugs as a teen. See Bill, George, was that so hard? (75)
Houston Chronicle Hero Right-wing Bible-thumpers on the Supreme Court to decide whether Left-wing gun-grabbers in D.C. can continue to violate the Constitution (183)
Fox News Strange Judge asked to rule Georgia election void because one of the candidates has a penis (22)
(Some Hungry Venezuelan) Asinine Chavez successfully stamping out the evils of capitalism, with predictable results (83)
CNN Obvious White House adviser warns terrorists could attack around Christmas 2001... no wait, July 4th, 2002... no wait, Election Day 2004... no wait, here it is, Election Day 2008 (40)
(Some small subset) Interesting Ron Paul wins Zogby's latest blind bio survey of all likely voters. Zogby then claims Giuliani the winner. Wait, what? (67)
(Huffington Post) Obvious "I stood at the White house briefing room podium for two weeks and publicly exonerated Karl Rove and Scooter Libby. There was one problem. It was not true." (67)
ABC News Dumbass In the most blatant example of reverse psychology ever made in the history of history, George W. Bush endorses Hillary Clinton for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination (48)
The Raw Story Dumbass Fox and Friends' Brian Kilmead's answer to annoying anti-war types? Tasers or billy clubs (with vid) (118)
Washington Post Interesting Rep. Mike Ferguson of New Jersey becomes the seventeenth Republican Congressman to announce that he will be spending more time with his family in 2009 (28)
(Some Guy) Obvious All six of CNN's "undecided voters" were Democratic operatives (110)
(Some Guy) Obvious "The A+ go-getters do NOT work for government. The dull and mediocre watch our borders and go through our taxes while grinding their molars with boredom. That’s why I don’t believe in conspiracy theories" (82)
Newsweek Obvious Desertion level in the Army at highest rate since 1980. Apparently soldiers just can't enjoy a nice day at the market in Indiana (37)
Houston Chronicle Stupid Giuliani claims illegal immigration can be eliminated in 3 years. Subby looking forward to cars that run on happiness and electricity generated by love and patriotism since they are more likely to come first (104)
UPI Cool Pro wrestler "Ravishing" Ric Flair endorses Mike Huckabee and nobody cares (42)
CBS New York Dumbass New York state DMV blows a gasket. "GETOSAMA" license plate deemed offensive. New York looking like they're "not with us..." (36)
BBC Misc Israeli PM Ehud Olmert hopes a peace deal can be reached with the Palestinians by 2008, because scientists estimate they will have thrown all their rocks out of the country by then (318)
(The Oil Drum) Interesting The fight over fuel efficiency in the 2007 Energy Bill (or, has any political officeholder actually noticed that gas is getting more expensive?) (39)
Time Interesting Latest from the Iowa horse race: And coming around the back turn Clean & Articulate is pulling ahead of Hildebeast, Nice Hair fading further into third (287)
Sign On San Diego Hero Automakers vow to protect every Californian's God-given right to buy a gross polluter (51)
AP Unlikely Never one to let a deceased equine remain unbeaten, a prominent UK doctor now says Princess Diana would have survived, had the French Medics not surrendered (24)
Yahoo Amusing Bush homeland security adviser resigns. Yahoo (37)

Mon November 19, 2007
(Pensito Review) Amusing Poll: Thompson drops below Ron Paul in New Hampshire (119)
(Some Guy) Interesting Chairman of 9/11 commission endorses Republican candidate for President, and it's not Rudy "9/11" Guiliani (24)
(Mother Jones) Scary Pro-War think tank that spent $15 million in ads supporting "the surge" is is test marketing war with Iran (154)
(NYT) Amusing Obama says Hillary has a big butt and cellulite, Hillary replies with "Dumbo ears" allegations, nyah-nyah (31)
CNN Spiffy Senate to remain in session through Thanksgiving to block Bush recess appointments. So there (98)
(Gateway Pundit) Cool "Violence in Iraq is down by 50 percent, civilian casualties in Iraq are down by 60 percent, Baghdad casualties are down by 75 percent, Basra violence is down by 90 percent, terrorist attacks in Iraq are down by 80 percent" (344)
London Times Obvious Hillary Clinton's opponents "fear her sex." So does Bill, subby and any man with a working pair of eyes (57)
Yahoo Dumbass Mike Huckabee says abortion is not an issue for states to decide, but instead should be decided by the small, radical minority of which he is a member (162)
BBC Amusing Democratic candidates taking swipes at each other over undefined "scandal" involving Obama. Lame, unfunny nicknames for Obama and Clinton appear on the right courtesy of neocon shills (46)
(Gallup.com) Interesting Despite their best effort, the Democratic party is still viewed favorably by a majority of Americans (22)
SMH Interesting The Iraqi national soccer team excelled at the 2004 Olympics, and won the 2007 Asian Cup, truly a sign that George Bush's strategies are working. Except now they are defecting to Australia (24)
LA Times Unlikely The childfree movement is dead. Or it has a bright future. Or it doesn't exist. Thanks for clearing that up (67)
(Avalance Journal) Obvious In 10 years, we're going to look back to 2007 and 2008 and wonder why we didn't do something to stop this Islamic encroachment into our society when we could (302)
Yahoo Obvious Alarmed at his recent strong debate showings, Dennis Kucinich hurriedly tries to destroy any credibility as a candidate he may have accidentally earned (41)
London Times Interesting Dear Santa, for Christmas I want a toy bike, some chocolate and a government. Signed, Belgium (48)
Slate Stupid Old and busted: War on Christmas. New hotness: War on Thanksgiving (271)
(New York Sun) Interesting The Clinton campaign's abrupt cancellation of her scheduled appearances leads members of this religious community to Sikh an explanation (30)
Boston Globe Obvious Washington D.C.'s "31-year experiment with gun prohibition" has been a "complete failure" (569)
(Some Guy) Strange Winston Churchill watched late-night screenings of the cartoon tear-jerker "Bambi" -- to inspire him as he led Britain to win the war (52)
Wall Street Journal Asinine "Nancy Pelosi tries to force the Salvation Army to hire people who can't speak English" (71)
News.com.au Stupid Lap-dancers, strippers 'not skilled migrants' (20)
Guardian.com Obvious "The United Kingdom is not, in any useful sense of the words, a sovereign country. You're a client state of the U.S. and don't you forget it" (57)



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