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Sun February 17, 2008
(Some Guy) Interesting Barack Obama's "Words Matter" speech may have been plagiarized from a 2006 Deval Patrick speech (69)
AP Unlikely John McCain: Read My Lips (128)
CNN Followup John Edwards finally allows Barack Obama into his super-secret treehouse of endorsement wonder and magic (85)
AFP Obvious Iraqis accuse the US military of deliberately sowing disorder so that they can stay in Iraq for as long as possible. "They ensure that chaos and terrorism continues by all possible means” (95)
CBS Minneapolis Unlikely St. Paul Police want to buy 234 more tasers. But it has nothing to due with the upcoming Republican Convention. Honest (69)
ABC News Obvious "When it comes to terrorist attack, people in the U.S. focus on foreign radicals. Yet domestic extremists who commit violence in the name of their cause - abortion or the environment - account for most of the damage in this country" (107)
Reuters Unlikely Hillary Clinton has a message for hairdressers in Wisconsin, postal workers in Ohio and autoworkers across the United States who are struggling financially: She cares (70)
SMH Dumbass Most people call it "lying" but the Australian Prime Minister calls it "the diplomatic use of a logistical reason to explain a cancellation" (11)
Philly Amusing Parents are upset that sex education doesn't stress not having sex. Next up: driving classes that urge you not to drive (57)
Guardian.com Interesting Controversial Dutch politician has no problem with Muslims as people. He just hates the "retarded" and destructive ideology that is Islam (69)
Boston Globe Interesting Superdelegates are half the fault of Mike Dukakis and Jesse Jackson, half the fault of Democrats who won't support the nominee unless they get a vote at the convention (25)
(Iraq Pundit) Cool "Iraq could well become America's decisive victory over Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and all those Muslims who believe that God has sanctified violence against the United States.” (107)
(Some Confused Guy) Strange Americans pick the top ten presidents. Not surprisingly, Lincoln is #1. Surprisingly, W is #10 (179)
(Politico) Stupid Clinton now trying to position herself as the best candidate to take on big business and special interests, most likely because the majority of lobbyists have already reached their maximum contribution limit (57)
BBC Dumbass Bush calls for "free and fair" elections in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe responds by calling for "free and fair" elections in Florida (73)
(Burnt Orange Report) Amusing Hillary Clinton opens Texas Campaign HQ next to a strip club. Bill decides he needs to do a little stumpin' (37)
YouTube Amusing MP William Hague and the funniest EU Treaty speech snippet you'll see this week (27)
(Some Flip-Flopper) Obvious Clinton advisor wants FL, MI delegates to count for Hillary -- the same delegates he, as a DNC member, voted to strip from the states (117)

Sat February 16, 2008
Yahoo Scary The Bush Administration is fighting tooth and nail to stop states from enacting laws that limit mercury pollution. Emissions Accomplished (126)
(NY Times) Interesting With Clinton and Obama fracturing the party, Democratic leaders seeking succor look once again to the New Christ Child, the living embodiment of Mother Gaia, the wise, the Nobel winner, the One: Al Gore (105)
JSOnline Interesting Seeing that Barack Obama has Wisconsin all sewn up, Hillary Clinton leaves the state faster than a Brett Favre pass into the arms of the opposing team's safety (76)
SMH Interesting Kosovo set to declare independence on Sunday. This will surely end well (204)
(Some Guy) Obvious Why Democrats should live with primary mess they created (41)
eBay Dumbass Man offers to sell his vote in the 2008 Democratic Primary in Ohio, not realizing that it's against the law. What could possibly go wrong? (176)
Philly Amusing Buxom Hillary pic seemed like a good idea at the time (44)
The Register Obvious In additional to making a person insane, now there's proof that printer manufacturers are violating your civil rights (39)
(NYtimes via Kos) Obvious New York election officials a little suspicious of originally reported Democratic primary results after finding 80 districts, most in Harlem and Brooklyn, which reported no votes for Obama (114)
Boston Globe Amusing Dear New England liberals: Real Americans eat squirrels and own guns. Love, Georgia (97)
ABC News Amusing Bill Clinton takes the onion off his belt and shakes it at that young whippersnapper Obama (89)
(Some Guy) Interesting Bush's ancestors owned slaves. Kanye West unavailable for comment (145)
(Richmond.com) Interesting If bill passes in Virginia, restaurants might sell beer popsicles. Hopsicles? (7)
CNN Amusing Barkley for three "I'll run for Governor in 2014," "Conservatives are fake Christians," and "They can't do anything to me. I don't work for them." (86)
Pajamas Media Interesting What's the only difference between Barack Obama and Milli Vanilli? Obama still has his Grammy (69)
AP Unlikely Hillary Clinton thinks she can beat Obama, McCain, and the '86 Bears. To Hillary Brasky (57)
Newsweek Cool Al Gore could still be President (81)

Fri February 15, 2008
Breitbart.tv Obvious Ann Coulter says she thinks Hillary Clinton can still "pull it out." Fails to reveal whether hers is bigger (59)
NPR Scary The telecoms "did lawful things at the request of the government under the conditions they've done it for 50 years." That's why they need immunity. Wait...what? (66)
CBC Amusing British Columbia buys six more hotels for homeless in Vancouver causing the hotel-less population to riot (21)
(Statesman.com) Interesting Polls put Obama ahead in Texas (64)
(Statesman.com) Interesting Polls put Clinton ahead in Texas (53)
(Some Texan) Interesting Obama winning in Texas? It's more likely than you think (142)
Washington Post Obvious Republican state legislator who sponsors child-protection laws: Check. Active in youth activities and his local church: Check. Police raid his home for images on his computer: Checkmate (48)
(politico.com) Interesting Hillary Clinton on Vladimir Putin: "He doesn't have a soul." Putin on Hillary: "At a minimum, a head of state should have a head." OH SNAP (58)
The Raw Story Amusing Daily Show: Al-Qaeda is now a brand with franchises, like Quiznos. Al-Qaeda does have lower prices and better service (82)
Daily Mail Asinine Problem: Too many of your nation's pupils are failing SATs. Solution: Lower the passing grade. And all shall have prizes (40)
CNN Followup Bush: if we don't let telcos off the hook for letting me spy on everyone YOU'RE ALL GONNA DIE (682)
Baltimore Sun Obvious 41 to endorse McCain to be 44. 42 unavailable for comment (31)
Time Obvious "We have three plausible candidates remaining -- Obama, Clinton and John McCain -- and Obama has proved himself the best executive by far" (243)
UPI Stupid House Dems blasted by Bush inaction on FISA after the Republicans walked out of the sessions (66)
(Real News) Scary If McCain wins the election, he'll make Cheney look like Ghandi (94)
National Review Interesting The personality cult of Barack Obama: It's less expensive than Scientology and more fun that Mormonism (215)
Houston Chronicle Interesting Obama takes union with 1.8 million members, beating previous record set by Jenna Jameson (54)
The Raw Story Interesting Only 18 congressmen and senators refused to ask for earmarks. Suspiciously absent fron the list is Congressman Ron "Dr. No" Paul (123)
National Review Followup Under fire for accusing Pennsylvania voters of being racist and unlikely to support Barack Obama, governor clarifies his views: They're sexist, too (72)
Canada.com Interesting "Paying national debt"? I know all those words, but Canadian sentences make no sense (85)
Seattle Times Spiffy House Democrats allow the warrantless wiretap law to expire without renewal (547)
AP Obvious Prominent black lawmakers decide that deck chair rearranging on the SS Hillary not as good a career field as previously thought (27)
(Some Guy) Interesting Not sure what Obama and Clinton have accomplished in the Senate? Here's a mostly complete list of bills and amendments they've written that actually became law (102)
Boston Globe Sad Apparently Democrats can buy their way to the nomination (76)
BBC Dumbass "America is trapped in this notion that we care about human life." Guess who? (98)
Marketwatch Followup To the relief of worried Democrats, Obama momentum destined to wrap up nomination. Just kidding, Hillary leads by double digits in Ohio and Pennsylvania polls (137)
(Daily Kos) Obvious Keith Olbermann takes his very special brand of unbridled Bush-hate to an appropriate forum for the unhinged and sweaty, The Daily Kos (102)
(Some Guy) Interesting Cuba demands U.S. return Guantanamo Bay so it can torture the terrorists there itself (46)

Thu February 14, 2008
(Some Guy) Obvious "It's desperation time in Hillaryville. They're putting out fires faster than a mountain ranger in an August drought. And the most difficult fix: figuring out how to get the candidate's husband to shut the hell up" (53)
(TERBOCongress) Amusing Meet Theodore Terbolizard, self-proclaimed "Ron Paul Republican" seeking to represent California's 4th Congressional District. Theodore Terbolizard. Terbolizard (55)
(Some Guy) Followup Clinton won New Mexico Caucus, only took eight days to figure that out (82)
(Media Matters) Asinine Not News: McCain attacks Obama over "liberal" Senate score. Fark: McCain missed too many votes to receive any score (99)
(The OSU Lantern) Unlikely Chelsea Clinton promises college students double the money for school, free puppies, and soda in all the water fountains if they elect her mom (180)
Yahoo Interesting Bush willing to delay his African vacation trip so he can bully Congress into approving his spying on Americans bill (179)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Tired of being ridiculed for his old-fashioned views, Kentucky legislator pushes bill to keep editorial cartoonists out of the legislative chambers (18)
Denver Post Dumbass Evangelicals are mulling running Guiliani as a third-party candidate in protest of McCain. Guess Karl Rove really isn't calling the shots anymore (80)
MSNBC Asinine Congressional GOP, in a fit of not thinking their cunning plan all the way through, threaten to walk out on vote citing Bolten and Miers for contempt (226)
CBS Philadelphia News Romney to America: "McCain is the guy." America to Romney: "You still here?" (61)
Yahoo Obvious Hey, know all those stories you've seen about how "superdelegates" will hand Hillary Clinton the election? Yeah, if Obama keeps winning, they'll ditch her in a second (124)
Breitbart.com Dumbass Pastor openly crosses the line and endorses Huckabee from his pulpit (twice). Also encourages his congregation to vote Huckabee. Guess which three-letter government agency wants to have a chat with him? (114)
Yahoo Interesting US intel proves Iran doesn't now and never had a nuclear weapons program. Just kidding; Iran actually has a massive weapons program and the US just declassified everything and handed it over to the IAEA (101)
CNN Hero If McCain is such a hawk on the war why isn't his son serv... oh, wait (173)
(Some Guy) Obvious Hillary is willing to destroy her party in order to get the nomination (196)
Wall Street Journal Amusing As heads continue to roll from Hillary Clintons inner circle, blame is placed elsewere. Former campaign manager blames firing on her stay at home husband. I guess her snowflake doesn't want her at bedtime when she's home once a month (83)
(NYTimes) Interesting New book claims that Americans are vulnerable to anti-intellectualism. In more important news, the writers strike is over, so who needs books? (295)
ABC News Obvious McCain advisor preparing to cut, run (55)
Wired Misc Ron Paul calls for his supporters to march on Washington. Washington, which sees small crowds of argumentative dweebs all the time, shrugs and goes on with its day (291)
National Review Obvious After three straight months of calling him the worst thing to happen to conservatism in 50 years, the editors of NRO have miraculously seen the light and are endorsing John McCain. Because, hey, integrity and principles are for liberal homos (93)
Fox News Followup Remember the Senate bill from yesterday that gave telecom companies retroactive immunity? Turns out it also has an amendment banning waterboarding and Bush is threatening a veto. Guess he loves torture more than he loves spying on citizens (139)
AP Unlikely Obama places pinky at corner of mouth, proposes $210 billion for new jobs (271)
(Boortz) Followup "Maybe someday the media will get over their infatuation and love affair with Obama and begin to ask some questions about his affinity for Marxist groups and professors during his university years" (250)
BBC Interesting Pakistan tests a nuclear-capable ballistic missile. You know, for peace (29)
MSNBC Interesting Barack Obama and John McCain already don't like each other very much, as McCain views Obama as a whippersnapper undeserving of his position (175)
(Sabah) Dumbass Turkish prime minister criticizes photos of naked women, especially the knees (15)
BBC Interesting British government says, "What's all this, then?" in response to Hamid Karzai's comments about the UK (19)
CNN Asinine U.S. Treasury Department: The check is in the mail. Please spend it wisely (83)
NBC 11 Dumbass California teacher put on leave after showing abortion video to 8th graders (93)
(Think Progress) Asinine John McCain was against torture before he was for it. Who's wearing the flip-flops now? (132)

Wed February 13, 2008
ABC News Asinine Senate Ethics Committee gives Larry Craig a slap on the wrist, tap of the foot, pat on the ass (36)
CNN Followup Virtual border fence given the go-ahead. Virtual fence expected to make illegal immigration virtually impossible, but not really (33)
NPR Asinine If you have donated to the Hillary Clinton campaign, I hope you like getting junk mail (81)
Yahoo Dumbass Cindy Sheehan is in Egypt protesting the government's prosecution of members of Islamic group because this has something to do with the death of her son (85)
(Think Progress) Unlikely Our economy is doing so well that the Bush administration has decided to shut down economicindicators.gov, because there is so much good news it might slow down the internet (79)
Canada.com Scary In preparation for its inevitable war with the United States over Arctic gas and oil reserves, Canada is freezing up the donuts for the canon, and fitting its fleet of intrepid battle moose with snow shoes (151)
CNN Amusing No love lost: Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign manager endorses Obama (49)
YouTube Video Happy Birthday, Henry Rollins, tell us about evolution (127)
(Rasmussen Reports) Interesting Obama leads Clinton for the first time ever in the Rasmussen poll of likely Democratic voters, 46 to 41 percent. Clinton says she's focused less on polls and more on who stole her strawberries (63)
YouTube Sad Hillary's response to the Obama "Yes We Can" music video. You might want to sit down when you watch this (1042)
(Huffington Post) Stupid Adding to his list of stellar decisions, Edwards may endorse Clinton (108)
(Some Guy) Cool Hillary Clinton must win 56% of delegates in every remaining state to overtake Obama in pledged delegates (131)
(seacoastonline) Amusing Clinton finally reimburses landlord for office rental. Landlord to donate the check. To Obama campaign (50)
AP Obvious Senate Democrats successfully oppose retroactive immunity for telecom companies. Just kidding. They knuckle under like they always do (127)
(Some Red Stater) Dumbass "After an impressive 24 quarters of economic growth, it only took newly anointed Speaker Pelosi and her liberal colleagues less than one year to hobble a previously growing economy." (142)
CNN Dumbass U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates suffered a fractured shoulder after slipping on ice at his Washington home. Bush to award him the Presidential Medal of Freedom (42)
(Some Guy) Scary Smart: fingerprint all visitors to EU. Smarter: Share data with USA. Smartest: Constitution, who needs it (76)
AP Dumbass Utah State Senator compares funding bill to a black baby, calling it "a dark, ugly thing." Says he didn't mean to sound racist, has a lot of black baby friends (88)
(Some blogger) Dumbass Limbaugh before: McCain is a liberal and I'll vote Democrat to spite him. Now: What are you talking about? I've been secretly behind McCain all along. My vitriol against him is his biggest asset (163)
(New Yorker) Interesting "They’ve shown they can survive the worst the Republican attack machine can throw at them, next to which the relatively mild roughing-up they’re giving Obama is downright Gandhian." (228)
SMH Cool If only more politicians were able to even say this simple word, let alone say it so eloquently (128)
AP Followup Bill and Hillary's habit of treating DNC officials and party activists like crap may come back to haunt them as the nomination is now in their hands (104)
Daily Mail Scary Russian billionaire and Putin opponent who feared he was about to be murdered found dead of a heart attack. Move on, comrades, nothing to see here (47)
SFGate Dumbass Berkeley backs down: "To err is human but to really screw up it takes the Berkeley City Council," said council member Gordon Wozniak. "We failed our city. We embarrassed our city" (466)
(Jerusalem Post) Ironic Hizbollah's terror chief assassinated in car bombing (882)
Reuters Obvious The National Association of Home Builders halts campaign gifts to politicians because they're not vowing to throw enough of your tax dollars at the current housing crisis (40)
(Huffington Post) Obvious Be vewy, vewy qwiet. We'we hunting supewdewegates (19)
Yahoo Interesting Head of NAACP plays the race card in Democratic election. To help Hillary (41)
AFP Unlikely More and more women are catching Obama fever. Hillary still hoping they go back. Tag is for the possibility (28)
BBC Scary Malaysian Prime Minister dissolves Parliament. Bootsy Collins too busy in Iraq to respond (23)
AFP Strange Obama, Japan hopes to cash in on the Obamentum by selling t-shirts, coffee mugs, and commemorative spoons (22)
CNN Interesting Hillary graciously congratulates Obama on his continued primary victories. Just kidding, she won't give him the time of day (157)
Guardian.com Followup Taliban's top commander, Mansoor Dadullah, captured in Pakistan (45)

Tue February 12, 2008
Wired Obvious "Just hours before the Senate is about to pass a bill giving amnesty to spying telecoms and legalizing the government's warrantless wiretapping program, White House admits phone companies spied" (152)
AP Misc Iraq threatens to disband parliament. Bootsy Collins resolves to fight to the end (67)
(crooksandliars) Obvious In 2003, the Army hired RAND Corp to asses post-war planning. In 2005, the report was finished, accurately chronicling the state of Administration planning. Guess why you never heard of it (40)
AP Interesting Another Clinton staffer resigns. Everyone to the lifeboats (105)
Independent Obvious "So deep is the disillusionment with George Bush, so uninspiring the choice offered by the Republicans, that many life-long conservatives are abandoning the Grand Old Party to support a liberal black candidate" (109)
CNN Obvious Yes, Virginia, there is another win for Obama (1253)
(TNR) Obvious "Beijing, Moscow, Tehran, Pyongyang, Islamabad, Gaza City, Khartoum, Caracas ... does Obama really believe that he has something to propose to these ruthless regimes that they have not already considered?" (76)
Yahoo Obvious Hillary handles recent losses graciously, focuses on the road ahead. Just kidding, she says caucus states are undemocratic, southern blacks only vote for blacks, and red states don't matter (383)
NYPost Amusing Super Latino slams Clinton, pins her to the mat before tagging off to Mega Asian (14)
The Raw Story Scary Justice Scalia thinks that the Constitution permits torture of terror suspects. And we slide down the slippery slope a little further (131)
1010WINS Dumbass New Jersey plans to rename road after Congressman who was convicted of driving drunk. Surprisingly, some people have a problem with this (16)
(Some Guy) Followup Barack Obama responds to video of campaign office with a Che Guevara flag: It's not my office, just one of my supporters', so they're the fans of that murderous communist, not me (152)
(Some Pundit) Interesting "Suddenly, against all odds, the once-mighty Clinton campaign is beginning to feel like the last days of Pompeii." (125)
Daily Mail Interesting Hamas launches new kids TV show featuring Bugs Bunny lookalike whose motto is "I will eat the Jews" (pic) (367)
(ars technica) Unlikely Pundit's theory of why Republicans are outnumbered by non-Republicans on the internet: Conservatives less free time because "we have families because we don't abort our kids, and we have jobs because we believe in capitalism." (112)
CBS News Ironic Hillary Clinton believes she gets more fair coverage from Fox News than from MSNBC (59)
Daily Mail Interesting British Children's Minister Ed Balls thinks the terms "mum & dad" should be banned because of their offensive nature (39)
(Some Guy) Asinine Since the government is now subsidizing poor choices by homeowners, do you think they will help me out with my stock losses, gambling debts and credit card bills? (191)
(Alternet) Unlikely Everything you know about terrorism is wrong: It's actually the Christians who want to kill Muslims to purify the Earth for God (142)
(Horses' Mouth) Obvious How did the Washington GOP caucus get so messed up? At the last second, the GOP boss decided to hold a nonbinding straw poll in case Huckabee won (42)
(Some Guy) Asinine Conservative elections supervisor: "Our enemies are loudmouth leftists and shiftless deadbeats. To win the election, we have to keep as many of these people away from the polls as possible" (83)
(Transterrestrial Musings) Obvious "Haven't intelligence agencies ever wondered, or speculated why bin Laden, who was second only to Senator Schumer when it came to being a camera hog, all of a sudden switched from video to audio about six years ago?" (113)
Stuff Obvious New Zealand troops deny they ignored Horta's plight, say they applied cement mortar as soon as they realized it was wounded (15)
Yahoo Amusing Arnold Schwarzenegger to star in new foodie ads for California. Pasta la vista, baby (20)
NYPost Interesting Latino voters shouldn't support Hillary Clinton because she fired her Hispanic campaign manager, and everybody knows you can't fire minorities for performance reasons ever, so it must be racism (82)
(TwinCities.com) Cool Not news: St. Paul Grill stocks up on booze to get ready for August's Republican convention. News: They buy four bottles of 55-year-old Macallan single-malt scotch at $12,000 per bottle. Fark: Each shot goes for $525 (90)
Wired Amusing "One candidate mastered online campaigning. Too bad it was Ron Paul" (103)
Salon Obvious Why hasn't the media or Democrats attacked the myth of McCain and his "strength" on national security? "McCain is as pure a warmonger as it gets in the American political mainstream" (52)
Yahoo Interesting Russia warns of new arms race without space ban. That's right Jerry, the seismic weapon on the space ship does exist (54)
(Survey USA) Obvious Survey USA jumps on the FellatiObama bandwagon, predicts 23-point lead over Clinton going into Maryland Democratic primary (112)
NYPost Obvious Politician says its an undue burden on drug users and dealers to have to pay state sales tax on their illegal stash (79)
(Huff Post) Interesting Premature reports on death of Clinton's campaign continue. "Several Clinton superdelegates said they were wavering in the face of Mr. Obama's momentum" (114)
Yahoo Interesting President Obama: Bet on it. No, seriously, bet on it (194)
Miami Herald Scary Every year brings us closer to 1984, Members' Only jackets (33)
Yahoo Dumbass Mike Huckabee seems content to be the Republican party's Ralph Nader (58)
MSNBC Amusing Al Franken's main rival for the Democratic nomination for the Senate is more than a little pissed than he's trailing a comedian (55)
(Lone Star Times) Dumbass Feeling that there isn't enough controversy surrounding their candidate, Obama's Houston office has a Che Guevara flag hanging on the wall (with pic) (1