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Sun July 06, 2008
(Huffington Post) Amusing High-ranking Bush official resigns to help Obama (63)
(The Raw Story) Dumbass John McCain prepares to take the campaign all 9/11, all the time (92)
(Crooks & Liars) Obvious Dear bloggers: John McCain hates you (99)
(The New Republic) Obvious Magazine analyzes Obama and McCain's gambling habits. Long story short: Obama is smart and balanced while McCain is a pathological nutjob (68)
(CTV) Interesting World's most corrupt countries. Come for the food, stay for the political repression (143)
(International Herald Tribune) Interesting Since the 1970s oil embargo, automakers, lawmakers and oil companies have failed to heed warnings of skyrocketing gas prices. Obvious, dumbass, asinine tags busy brawling (34)
(Newsweek) Sad Forget Soccer Moms or NASCAR Dads. The newest swing vote? "Low-Info Voters" (61)
(The New York Times) Unlikely Republicans would rather Bush go to the Democratic convention instead of theirs (37)
(CNN) Dumbass Bush: Do not insult our Chinese overlords (83)
(Denver Post) Stupid Local Denver caterers unwilling to participate in Democratic National Convention because of stringent rules on what delegates will be eating, down to the color of the food. Damn Democrats are always so obsessed with color (46)
(Fox News) Amusing Prime Minister of Iraq: "We defeated terrorism." You go now (213)
(Washington Post) Obvious No matter who wins this fall, the next president will be a lefty (58)
(USA Today) Obvious Apparently, the rising tidal wave of housing foreclosures will NOT abate just because McCain or Obama wins the election. Wait, you mean one man CAN'T turn an economy on a dime? (108)
(MSNBC) Silly John McCain skillfully describes his energy plan, the Lexiggdon Project, err, Lexeegton Project, ahh, Project Lexington, uhhh, the Lex-ing-ton Proj-ect. "Remember that name" (56)
(St. Petersburg Times) Obvious What has Jeb Bush been up to since leaving the public eye as governor of Florida? Making money. Gobs and gobs of money (58)
(Valleywag) Scary Iran may make "corrupt blogging" punishable by death (0 comments thus far) (66)
(Time) Obvious Democrats are in the process of doing for their convention budget what Rosie O'Donnell does for wicker furniture (154)
(LA Times) Unlikely Obama thinks he can win over bitter gun-clingers by showing up at a NASCAR race (85)
(YouTube) Video Pulp Fiction: American politics style (Not safe for work language) (31)

Sat July 05, 2008
(Buffalo News) Stupid "People vote because politics is a lot like sports. Rooting for your team probably doesn't affect the outcome much, but people can say 'I was there' " (66)
(Time) Obvious Continuing his disastrous power slide to the center, Barack Obama advocates merit pay for school teachers, eliciting boos from union members (209)
(Election Geek) Obvious So far the general election has been massively boring with every Democratic idea straight from the 1970's and every Republican the 1980's and neither candidate offering change (90)
(London Times) Obvious Why people should like Michelle Obama but they don't when faced with the total hotness that is Cindy McCain (96)
(SeattlePI) Asinine Think your spouse will be taken care of in case something happens to you because you have employer sponsored life insurance? Think again (59)
(The Times Record) Interesting Seatbelts are "unconstitutional" and Big Brother's way of controlling you. Thankfully, your right to petition your government in a tinfoil hat remains intact (156)
(Washington Post) Obvious "Since the start of 2007, Bush alone is responsible for raising more money than the entire Democratic National Committee" (131)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Interesting Hey there, are you a wealthy businessman who's thinking about leaving the US to escape high taxes? Think again about your cunning plan (86)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Interesting Roger Ebert watches widely-acclaimed 1935 Nazi documentary "Triumph of the Will" for first time since undergrad, and is surprised to discover it is a terrible movie and more phony than whatever Michael Moore has been up to lately (120)
(BBC) Obvious "Today we remember the brave" FASCIST "Uh... today we remember" WAR CRIMINAL "Uhhh" (462)
(CBS News) Hero Federal judge smacks George W. Bush with the U.S. Constitution and says "Look at what you've done. BAD" (169)
(Ohio.com) Amusing Actual headline: "Governor will use cornhole to fund campaign" (59)
(MSNBC) Obvious U.S. report claims biofuels have driven up the cost of food 3% while the World Bank places the increase at 75%. Burning food for fuel still 100% stupid (104)

Fri July 04, 2008
(CBC) Interesting In a surprising reversal of recent trends, Canadians are actually having their rights EXPANDED by their government. You're doing it right (91)
(The New York Times) Obvious Not the Messiah they fell in love with: NY Times editorial board very disappointed with Barack Obama shifting his positions like a *gasp* normal politician (362)
(The Nation) Obvious If you're wondering why we don't just take Iraq's oil, don't worry. We are (108)
(WRAL) NewsFlash Jesse Helms joins yet another majority (1081)
(Some Guy) Amusing Cheney 1998: Tries to pressure congress to ease sanctions and enter into diplomatic discussions with Iran. Cheney 2008: Gimme my shotgun (42)
(Daily Kos) Unlikely John and Cindy McCain have a fake marriage since they don't live together (93)
(BBC) Scary Britain's Top Spy is hospitalized. He's shaken, not stirred (10)
(Metacafe) Amusing Bush gets cock blocked (54)
(AP) Asinine White House says court ruling could allow detainees to walk the streets of America. Is anyone afraid yet? Hello? Is anyone listening? (251)

Thu July 03, 2008
(Orlando Sentinel) Florida Florida governor grows beard (138)
(Reuters) Interesting Barack Obama campaigns in North Dakota, says he sees potential for "political realignment." In other news, the black population of North Dakota doubled today (134)
(AP) Interesting When Barack Obama changes his positions, he's "opening the door to altering" his stance. When McCain changes position, he's PANCAKES (281)
(NY Mag) Dumbass Proof animal lovers have gone overboard: Tshirts now available for "Bark Obama" and "John McCanine". Your dog wants a facepalm (35)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Obama might make his DNC acceptance speech at Invesco Field in front of over 75,000 people (107)
(Donklephant.com) Obvious AP reveals that moderate voters have (SHOCK) political views that don't fit into either Dem or Repub category (125)
(My DD) Obvious Tips for Democrats participating in July 4 parades. Be positive, don't wear your "Eff Bush" shirt, and wear sunscreen, because thin skin burns easily (143)
(Yahoo) Obvious Your pre-holiday weekend White House resignation announcement timed to miss the news cycle: Joe Hagin, a deputy chief of staff who was the last person in Bush's campaign still at the White House (13)
(Canada.com) Dumbass French prime minister show off his knowledge of geography, tact (37)
(Slate) Scary Come on, now, could Barack Obama really be a secret Muslim? Answer: yes (371)
(CNN) Amusing It's been a rough week for the Colorado Springs Police Department. What with the lightning strikes, a few motorcycle crashes, and Jeb Obama's motorcade. Wait... who the hell is Jeb Obama? (20)
(Crooks & Liars) Obvious Faced with growing casualties in Afghanistan, Bush proposes an increase in U.S. troops there, a "surge" if you will (97)
(The Age (Melbourne)) Obvious The "Federal" Reserve loses its last vestige of credibility as the IMF tells the Fed they are going to perform an "X-ray of the entire U.S. financial system" (243)
(National Review) Obvious A successful Obama presidency would justify all of President Bush's policy decisions and solidify his reputation as the greatest president in the history of the United States (117)
(LA Times) Stupid Callous liberal makes insensitive comment about McCain's death. Just kidding, it's Lindsey Graham (33)
(Some Guy) Interesting Another upside to California gay marriage: It keeps those Westboro d-bags away from soldier's funeral (73)
(Spiegel) Spiffy "The progress is astonishing" in Baghdad, according to Fox...er, left-wing German news magazine (202)
(Talking Points Memo) Amusing New GOP election funding ploy: Run candidates who have no chance of winning, raise gobs of money in their name and keep it for yourself (87)
(NewsMax) Obvious New poll shows America-hating Americans will refuse to do their Godly duty this July 4th weekend by staying home instead of pumping freedom juice into their SUVs (60)
(Crooks & Liars) Amusing John McCain December 2007: "The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should". McCain on GMA this morning; "I never said that". Thats some fine straight talkin' there, John (82)
(Yahoo) Obvious McCain and Obama both need to win over the "mushy middle", a chunk of negative nancy voters who don't care and think the country is screwed either way. Surprisingly, this is only 15% of the population (102)
(Think Progress) Obvious The House Oversight Committee is SHOCKED to find out Bush lied to them about his donors getting sweet oil deals in Iraq (70)
(Washington Times) Obvious Clinton kicked Obama out of the apartment, threw all his belongings out the window and said she never wanted to hear from him again. Now, she sees he's living a successful life and wants to have him back in her life. Cocky (47)
(Huffington Post) Unlikely Huffington Post: Some right-winger caught plagiarizing from a baby. In related news, babies can hold intellectual copyrights (35)
(London Times) Asinine Al-Qaeda setting up training camps in Pakistan, Somalia and Algeria while the U.S. searches for them in Iraq and Afghanistan. We will fight terrorism where ever it appears. Unless we can't make money on it (62)

Wed July 02, 2008
(Globe and Mail) Followup Detailed report of the Afghanistan jailbreak which freed 900. They had put in solar lighting, painted the walls and put in landscaping, but just didn't get around to building guard towers (46)
(Food Price Truth) Asinine The companies that produce corn ethanol want you to know that they are 100 percent not guilty of increasing the cost of food. Now stop questioning them and make with the taxpayer subsidies (72)
(Yahoo) Interesting GOP speculating Gephardt will be Obama's VP choice. Obamanation chanters heard switching from "Yes we can" to "WTF?" (123)
(SeattlePI) Strange Obama courts Middle America in attempt to counter "Anti-Christ" image (192)
(CBS News) Dumbass Congressman honors veteran in mailer. Veteran happens to be from Stalin's Red Army. Oops (62)
(Nola.com) Obvious New Louisiana governor signs strict ethics bill, over 200 public officials resign. Aieee (54)
(Wall Street Journal) Unlikely If you think President Bush has done a great job over the last seven years, vote for Barack Obama in November, who -- according to the Wall Street Journal -- is running for Bush's third term (124)
(CNN) Followup CNN actually admits the error: Obama's fist bump is perfectly safe and not under the bus as originally stated (69)
(Talking Points Memo) Followup McCain staff shakeup: Iranian lobbyist out, lobbyist who lobbies on behalf of lobbying in (158)
(LA Times) Dumbass Rudy Giuliani swears that he's still a better choice for the GOP nod than John McCain, was stunned that Republicans won't enact a general election strategy of spending all their resources in Florida (86)
(The New York Times) Stupid Guantanamo Bay interrogation techniques copied from Chinese who used them to get false confessions from Americans during Korean war (72)
(Politico) Ironic 2004: Republicans demand full disclosure about Teresa Heinz Kerry's wealth. 2008: Republicans whine because Politico points out that Cindy McCain hasn't given full disclosure about her wealth (77)
(The New York Times) Interesting Rush Limbaugh on Bill O'Reilly: "Somebody's got to say it, the man is Ted Baxter" (256)
(Politico) Dumbass George Bush caught doing "terrorist fist jab" with young boy. Fox News busy renaming it the "Super Heroic American Freedom Democratic Bump" (63)
(Daily Kos) Interesting McCain associate tied to terrorist group, to the tune of $1.7 million in support (67)
(Modern Conservative) Stupid For those keeping score at home: Obama=Xerxes, McCain=Leonidas, and Liberals=Persians (166)
(Think Progress) Interesting Questioning whether getting shot down qualifies you to be president is obviously some form of treason, but when asked to explain how getting shot down qualifies him to be president, McCain cannot form a coherent sentence (199)
(Baltimore Sun) Asinine Voters would rather barbecue with Obama than with McCain. Thank goodness we have finally found the burning issue that will decide the election once and for all (126)
(Vanity Fair) Sick Christopher Hitchens submits himself to waterboarding (with video documentation). His take: "Believe me, it's torture" (201)
(ABC News) Amusing Astrologers predict Election Day, Clinton's Senate departure and VP Bloomberg. It's not news... it's ABC News (53)
(The News & Observer (NC)) Weird This won't help the Dems in the Bible Belt: Democratic Party official allegedly involved in satanic sex abuse (90)
(Daily Kos) Interesting Washington Post story claims Obama got a discount on his home loan, readers call BS. Fark: Before the story even makes it to press (230)
(McClatchy) Cool It's not one of the benchmarks, but alcohol is flowing again in Baghdad. Mission (hic) Accomplished (31)
(Reason Magazine) Amusing Old and busted: Mind bleach. New hotness: To the depths of your very soul bleach (27)
(AP) Obvious Dan Quayle admits that trying to take on Obama is handling one really hot potatoe (83)
(Starpulse) Interesting Tom Brokaw calls Arnold Schwarzenegger an organizational girly man: "If you were the CEO of a public company, the board would probably say, 'It is time to go.'" (24)
(Daily Mail) Dumbass Wow, McCain's a dick (230)
(AP) Unlikely Dennis Haysbert believes his portrayal on "24" as first black president helped pave way for Obama to sell insurance for All-State. "Are YOU in good hands?" (50)
(The New York Times) Asinine Immigrant Vietnamese valedictorian in Louisiana recites one sentence of her graduation speech in her native language to honor her parents. The reaction? Ban all foreign languages (163)
(Hartford Courant) Interesting Sen. Joe Lieberman's approval rating drops below 50 percent for the first time in 14 years. Times are tough for Democrats running as independents who endorse Republicans (52)
(New York Sun) Hero Bloomberg: America is "committing mass suicide" by putting restrictions on immigration (112)
(CNN) Amusing Obama throws the fist bump under the bus (66)
(The Virginian Pilot) Interesting Judge reminds everyone that the First Amendment applies to everyone except Christians (174)
(National Journal) Hero Colin Powell and Barack Obama met privately on June 18th. When their powers combine, McCain's head assplodes (72)
(The Atlantic) Interesting A novel idea for reducing controversy over the Supreme Court: Require a supermajority (six votes) to deem any law unconstitutional (107)

Tue July 01, 2008
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious The company that prints banknotes for Zimbabwe has ended its dealings with the Mugabe government. Now how are those poor Zimbabweans going to pay for that $5 million loaf of bread? (41)
(CNN) Obvious Nelson Mandela taken off US terrorist watch list after Bush applauds his performance with Angelina in "Wanted" (79)
(Daily Kos) Amusing Obama pulls Clark out from under his bus, dusts him off, and gives him a big "attaboy" chuck on the shoulder (133)
(ABC News) Dumbass General Wesley Clark is not done helping yet (149)
(Some Guy) Asinine Power-drunk vampire prosecutors to celebrate July 4th with a "no refusal" DUI enforcement weekend. If a policeman suspects you're a drunk or high driver, you will be pinned down and your blood extracted, whether you like it or not (213)
(Think Progress) Dumbass The McCain campaign, desperately trying to distance itself from decisions President Bush has made, declares George Bush was against the one idea the Bush Administration actually got right (58)
(Washington Post) Obvious "Speculator-bashing is another exercise in scapegoating and grandstanding. Leading politicians either don't understand what's happening or don't want to acknowledge their own complicity" (53)
(Examiner) Interesting Military personnel, normally solidly in the GOP camp, have donated roughly 50% more to Oabam's campaign than McCain's (168)
(ABC News) Amusing The wheels on Obama's bus no longer touch the ground, now that MoveOn's been stuffed down there along with Clark, Wright, Pfleger, his grandmother, the seal, the city of Jerusalem and Scarlett Johansson (187)
(Talking Points Memo) Obvious McCain surrogate takes this opportunity to demean Wes Clark's service. Republicans testing the "I'm rubber, you're glue" strategy early this year (57)
(CNN) Followup Remember how Google started blocking Anti-Obama sites? McCain campaign now pulling his ads from them. Could it be that we'll see a clean fight this year? (41)
(Huffington Post) Dumbass Stephen Baldwin tells Fox News he'll leave the country if Obama wins. GO OBAMA (162)
(Fox News) Interesting Obama then: Gay marriage should be left up to the citizens of each state. Obama now: California's ballot initiative this November on gay marriage "divisive and discriminatory" (377)
(Politico) Ironic Not news: Conservative commentator whines about something Obama said. Fark: Obama was quoting Reagan (122)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious If elected, Barack Obama will increase income tax rates to French-levels, but without the accompanying good cheese, hot women and relaxed attitude toward work (569)
(Fox News) Ironic Remember how Democrats all hated Bush's plan to give federal money to faith-based charities? Obama just promised to make it "the moral center" of his administration (317)
(LA Times) Stupid McCain's veep list is topped by Mitt Romney, who will know exactly what he thinks about that fact as soon as an identifiable consensus is formed about it on Fox News (79)
(John McCain) Amusing Obama is a man of change. Just in the last week he dropped his opposition to telecom immunity, his support for handgun bans, his pledge to take public financing and renegotiate NAFTA (291)
(Yahoo) Obvious Good news: Over three-quarters of Hillary supporters would approve of her as veep. Bad news: Just a third of Obama backers want her anywhere near the campaign bus (52)
(Huffington Post) Obvious When asked for more than hearsay evidence against a Chinese man held in Gitmo for six years, the government replied: "I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true" (60)
(LA Times) Interesting Can Obama rescue Bush? (77)
(Some Guy) Stupid Barack Obama named "Canada's favourite politician." Wait, what? (31)
(SeattlePI) Obvious Now that the smirking denials that Obama is a Muslim have failed to sway anyone except the 26 percenters, McCain is considering announcing that he will only serve one onion (54)
(Pharyngula) Cool "Expelled," the intelligent-design movie, opens in Canada and makes less than $25,000 on its opening weekend. If I.D. wants to make more money, they're gonna need to evolve (113)
(AJC) Strange Monday at midnight a Georgia state law goes into effect allowing concealed firearms to be carried anywhere. Politician vows to bring his gun to Atlanta Hartsfield Airport on Tuesday (414)

Mon June 30, 2008
(YouTube) Amusing John McCain relates to young people in his latest attack ad... by referencing a movie released 46 years ago (152)
(The Hill) Followup White House backs Joe Lieberman's warning of 2009 terrorist attack on evidence that you can't spell Lieberman without "Lie" (77)
(The Atlantic) Asinine John McCain was against Swift Boaters before he was for them (52)
(Reuters) Followup Peace in Iraq at last (71)
(London Times) Strange That popping sound you're hearing? Heads of Obamamites after finding out he may keep key Bush appointees in place after election (241)
(Bloomberg) Unlikely U.S. Fifth Fleet announces they will not allow Iran to close the Straight of Hormuz, change Coke to Pepsi or find your farking car keys (50)
(PCWorld) Unlikely Computer Survey finds that Colin Powell would be best VP for either candidate (42)
(Salon) Obvious Gen. Clark states the obvious and the false outrage is so immediate it can only mean one thing: He was right (280)
(Crooks & Liars) Strange Bush thanks McCain for passing GI bill that both of them opposed (138)
(Washington Post) Interesting The "Straight Talk Express" takes to the air. The plane tends to fly in clockwise circles and leaves its left beacon on (114)
(Some Guy) Amusing Ahmadinejad's wife is a hottie (450)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting Working-class white voters don't just have a problem with Obama -- they have a problem with Democrats in general (288)
(My Fox Orlando) Obvious Michelle Obama says her husband will fight for gay equality, recognize gay marriage, get rid of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." In related news, McCain campaign issues press release simply saying, "See?" (374)
(Politico) Dumbass Joe Lieberman predicts that the new president will face a terror attack in 2009. Maybe he should have used his crystal ball to tell him that every single justification he gave for Iraq was false (98)
(Talking Points Memo) Obvious The Bush Administration awarded a no-bid contract to an oil consulting firm to encourage Iraq to offer no-bid contracts to American oil companies. But the war is not about oil (83)
(Some Guy) Obvious Editorial cartoonists share their favorite reader hate mail. It's gonna be hard to top "Ann Coulter has more patriotic blood in one of her used tampons then you have in your whole body" (165)
(CNSNews) Amusing Change we can believe in: Women working in Obama's Senate office were paid at least $6,000 below the average man (165)
(Townhall) Obvious "Whatever the Obamorons say, let's remember that that these are not mere typos; they reflect an estranged relationship to the English language" (142)
(Blasphemes) Unlikely Google has joined the Obama campaign, by shutting down anti-Obama sites on Blogspot (77)
(Carpet Bagger Report) Amusing Note to the religious right: Auto-replace is not your friend (71)
(Mojo In The Morning) Ironic File under "Ways to get the week off of work for the Fourth of July": Detroit City Hall loses power and "will take a week to repair." (Milton reportedly the last person in the building) (67)
(Crooks & Liars) PSA An ominous trend in Fox News ratings. (The people who watch it are dying off) (88)
(AOL) Interesting Eliot Spitzer wants to know how come he's disgraced when a slob like Jim Gibbons of Nevada (R-ubbing Up Against Some Waitress Again) still has a gig (231)
(The Scotsman) Hero English supermarket chain volunteers to be Scotland's Tijuana if Scottish ministers crack down on cheap alcohol (20)
(Irish Examiner) Interesting John McCain's "straight talk" has nothing on this Irish politician. When asked how to deal with Mugabe: "Shoot him" (93)
(Some Apathetic Guy) Sad More people in Japan are interested in the U.S. presidential race than the citizens of the U.S. (53)
(LA Times) Obvious Bush's approval rating hits new all-time low. On the bright side, this headline can only be resubmitted 23 more times (257)

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