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Sun December 07, 2008
(Some New Amsterdamer) Interesting Christmas time traditions: eggnog, presents, caroling, and you can't forget the special "Christmas Quiz" by none other than Bill O'Rielly (68)
(Telegraph) Obvious The rise of secularism has made Britain "a liberal society, hostile to Christian morals and values, in which religious belief is viewed as 'a private eccentricity' and the voice of faith groups is marginalised" (112)
(Seattle Times) Asinine Problem: You make an outdated product the DOD no longer wants. Solution: Buy some senators (30)
(American Thinker) Amusing Obama was not born in the US, according to right wing hatemonger and conspiracy theorist Bill Richardson (177)
(Guardian.com) Asinine Old and Busted: Limp-wristed Euroweenies blaming America for 9/11. New Hotness: Limp-wristed Euroweenies blaming America for Pearl Harbor (61)
(AP) Obvious President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration to be most expensive ever (103)
(Google) Obvious "For a Democrat whose opposition to the Iraq war was a campaign centerpiece, Obama is remarkably in sync with Defense Secretary Gates on many core defense and national security issues - even Iraq" (108)
(London Times) Obvious How "buy nothing days", "eat local" and the organic foods movement are spreading the seeds of fascism in our society (68)
(DFW Star-Telegram) Asinine Texas mother believes "public schools are unconstitutional because they undermine scripture" and are a "tool of perversion". Oh, she's also on the State Board of Education (278)
(MSNBC) Stupid As they wipe the drool from their mouths with their scraped knuckles, critics worry that Obama's team is too smart (95)
(ADN) Followup Access denied to Palin's Troopergate testimony. That's bad news... for Palin Derangement Syndrome sufferers (67)
(Telegraph) Obvious One rule for Sarah Palin, another for Caroline Kennedy. That's the way it works for royalty (239)
(Google) Cool William "Dollar Bill" Jefferson will now have a lot more time to spend with his freezer (95)

Sat December 06, 2008
(ABC News) Interesting Gen. Eric Shinseki, the man who was fired for accurately stating how many troops we'd need in Iraq, to be named head of the Department of Veterans Affairs (147)
(MSNBC) Obvious Understatement of the year from George Bush. "Iraq war costlier and longer than expected" (171)
(American Thinker) Asinine The U.N. recognizes its greatest failures in preventing genocide in Rwanda and Darfur. Just kidding, they call for a boycott of Israel (79)
(WorldNetDaily) Dumbass Pat Boone compares anti-Proposition 8 protesters to the Mumbai terrorists (221)
(Strategy Page) Sad Over a dozen U.S. citizens were on Saddam's payroll, not including Michael Moore, who was working pro bono (71)
(Washington Post) Amusing Supreme Court to rule on constitutionality of enemy combatant's indefinite detention, bodacious mullet (pic) (108)
(Huffington Post) Asinine Bill O'Reilly ambushes writer for New Yorker in finest "drive by liberal media" tradition, proving once again that it's only wrong when someone he disagrees with does it (83)
(Yahoo) Obvious Oprah: "I'm not seeking job with Obama." Translation: "I can't afford a pay cut" (39)
(Wonkette) Amusing Wonkette gives us the real skinny on the Canadian Coup. Poutine (84)
(Politico) Followup There Are Four Votes (74)
(CNN) Fail Republicans planning on winning back the White House in 2012 by nominating... Huckabee/Palin. What could possibly go wrong? (221)

Fri December 05, 2008
(Dallas News) Followup Obama spokesman calms a worried nation: The Chosen One does indeed use an iPod (75)
(Some Guy) Video Sarah Palin with a new career option? (36)
(Little Green Footballs) Interesting Little Green Footballs getting hate mail from its readers for not being hateful enough (109)
(AP) Interesting Bill O'Reilly to stop doing his radio talk show "The Radio Factor." When asked how he felt about leaving, he said he falafel  T-Shirt (170)
(Washington Post) Interesting Biden picks Jared to be his Economic Advisor. First suggestion will be that we all take the Subway to work (54)
(Political Wire) Amusing Obama speechwriter caught groping Hillary Clinton -- or at least a cardboard cut out of her (105)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Conservative Republican upset because new $621 million capitol visitor center is a huge waste if taxpayer money. Just kidding: he's really upset because it doesn't mention God enough (266)
(The New York Times) Asinine Sarah Palin's makeup artist was paid $68,400 for two months' work. That's a lot of lipstick (81)
(National Review) Ironic Managing editor of NRO calls for an end to divisive and intellectually dishonest opinion journalism. No, really. This isn't a joke (171)
(National Review) Obvious Hollywood, university types, and the mainstream MSM media will never admit what they know in their heart of hearts: That George W. Bush was a good president (206)
(Think Progress) Dumbass US Attorney in Pittsburgh: "I don't care who's President. I appoint myself to the next term." Yes, she's the one who hired Monica Goodling. Why do you ask? (118)
(Reuters) Interesting The repeal of Prohibition provided the government with much-needed tax revenue during the Great Depression. If only there were other commodities that could be legalized and taxed similar to alcohol (224)
(Politico) Obvious Harvard Law class of 1991 to soon be running the country. Suck it Yale (34)
(The Atlantic) Followup Thought the whole "Is Sarah Palin really Trig's mom" thing was over? Think again. Another picture emerges from her 'pregnant' days, and she looks anything but (313)
(Think Progress) Asinine Bob Novak, asked if he'd out Valerie Plame given another chance: Fark yes (89)
(Some Guy) Followup Support for Canada's governing Conservative party surges after failed coup attempt by Coalition of Treason™ this week (209)
(Politico) Amusing Step 1) Your dad is Congressman Rangel. Step 2) you tell dad "hai hire me to design your campaign websites" and you just put the little "under construction" icon at each. Step 3) get paid $80,000 (62)
(ABC News) Cool Caroline Kennedy may take Hillary's Senate seat, pantsuits (174)
(YouTube) Video Your pre-Godwinned view of the Canadian political crisis (56)
(National Review) Obvious The medias scandalous double standards illustrate that exalted liberal ends indemnify felonious and hypocritical means (113)
(Daily Beast) Unlikely Cheney will probably be last dick to ever hold such high office (36)
(CNN) Hero Businessman spends $1M to throw an epic inauguration party (in DC) for hundreds of wounded veterans and other disadvantaged people. St. Peter sends the man a confirmation e-mail (44)
(Independent) Spiffy 75th Anniversary of the only US Amendment to be overturned by another. I'll drink to that (157)
(Canada.com) Scary Survey reveals that 72 percent of Canadians are "gripped by fear" due to internal political upheaval. Sympathetic residents of Jesusland recommend they buy some big-ass guns and create friendly neighbourhood survivalist camp (157)
(Washington Post) Asinine Minnesota recount still in progress, officially surpassing Stuart Saves His Family as the longest, most tedious thing Al Franken is responsible for (84)
(Huffington Post) Obvious Democrats finally start seeing what Republicans have been trying to tell them for the last 2 years, Obama is an empty suit (273)

Thu December 04, 2008
(Huffington Post) Interesting Right-wing talk radio host Michael Medved: Right-wing talk radio is killing the GOP. Rabid neocons immediately call for his imprisonment in Gitmo (101)
(The Atlantic) Scary Rick Warren, one of the most prominent leaders of American Christianity, says assassination is a divine and moral action (191)
(SFGate) Spiffy Vladimir Putin: "Yes, I really did say I'd hang Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili by the testicles." Saakashvili: "You don't have enough rope" (63)
(ProJo) Dumbass Rhode Island hopes to increase their 9.3% unemployment to 19.3% by taxing everyone who crosses the state line (50)
(Gawker) Fail Sarah Palin isn't interested in the big O (92)
(Huffington Post) Interesting Ten Democrats who should go away (164)
(WFAA.com) Obvious Dallas' Preston Hollow mansionized house selectificated as Bush post-Presidential residentitude. As if living in Dallas didn't suck enough (199)
(TheBulletin) Followup Ziegler, asked why Zogby backed off a similar poll of McCain voters: "He was afraid the results of a poll of McCain voters would confirm that they were more knowledgeable of the issues and the candidate than Obama voters" (123)
(ABC News) Spiffy LBJ Library releases last of his recordings, includes an original a cappella and an amazing cover of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (46)
(Daily Kos) Asinine U.S Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has asked his colleagues of the court to consider a lawsuit filed that questions Barack Obama's citizenship (765)
(Reuters) Unlikely Putin offers Obama "swift, positive changes", resumes massing navy in the Caribbean (45)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious Obama bought the election, says guy that bought two elections (432)
(National Post) Dumbass Stephane Dion, who wants to run a country, can't even deliver his prerecorded speeches on time (141)
(Forbes) Cool North Dakota's Governor, amazingly not a former actor/humvee collector, manages to leave $1.2 Billion surplus in the state's budget (74)
(Boston Globe) Obvious Slick Willie is already creeping his way back into the White House like a cigar into an intern (34)
(AP) Obvious Shocking results of new poll show that Prop. 8 supporters tended to be less educated, more religious (570)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting Don't worry, Hillary, you can still be Secretary of State. The Constitution can be worked around. After all, it's not like anybody in DC is paying it any attention, anyway (213)
(Some Guy) Florida The son of a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard claims he is being discriminated against after being snubbed by the Republican Party of Palm Beach County (41)
(CBC) News Canada's Governor General suspends Parliament in anticipation of post-Christmas sales of sweatervest (843)
(Boston Globe) Interesting Biggest democratic loser of the 2008 election? It just might be John "I Got A Rock" Kerry (45)
(The Daily Beast) Interesting Why Obama should grow a beard (112)
(Reuters) Cool Europe's Human Rights Court to Nanny State: Stop being a douchenozzle (71)
(LA Times) Stupid 1) Arrest terrorist, 2) give terrorist light sentence in exchange for cooperation, 3) spend years interrogating and isolating terrorist to the point where he can no longer cooperate, 4) increase sentence because he is no longer cooperative (70)
(Fox News) Stupid Apparently we now declare holidays for people who just win an election. JFK, FDR disapprove (118)
(Reuters) Scary Emperor Harper to disband the Senate until the crisis has passed (573)
(Some Guy) Fail Canadian PM Stephen Harper says he'll stop breaking the law if they just let him stay in power (43)
(WorldNetDaily) Scary World Net Daily urges its readers to send packages to the Supreme Court to give the justices "a piece of their mind" regarding Obama's citizenship eligibility. This should end well (395)
(Asia Times) Scary What's the difference between Pakistan and a pancake? (64)
(Wall Street Journal) Cool Chambliss's victory "lays to rest one of the nastiest McCarthyite smears of recent times: the repeated assertion by Democrats and the media that former senator Max Cleland's patriotism is in question." (106)
(News.com.au) Dumbass According to one member of the Australian government the cause of the global financial crisis is (a) too much regulation, (b) too little regulation or (c) Christians praying for global collapse? (19)
(AlterNet) Interesting How the 2008 election saw the prying open of many cold, dead hands (946)
(Politico) Obvious Republican senator admits GOP members think of Palin while having sex with their wives (63)
(ABC News) Florida Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Hangs up on the president-elect twice from fear of being Punked (54)

Wed December 03, 2008
(National Review) Obvious Obama finding out that actually closing Gitmo is more complicated than just reading that off a teleprompter (215)
(Miami Herald) Obvious "Public-radio listeners apparently exist inside hermetically sealed ideological compartments that cripple not only their powers of observation but their ability to reason" (111)
(YouTube) Amusing Returning soldiers won't even move for Bush anymore (157)
(MSNBC) Asinine Bush to run for Senate. Everybody relax, it's Jeb (84)
(23/6) Obvious The "Emoluments Clause" in the Constitution is dated. It will most likely be replaced by the "Most Senators Wipe Their Asses With $4700 Every Morning" bill, and Hillary will not be stopped (107)
(Talking Points Memo) Amusing Looks like Bill Richardson now owes Obama twice (55)
(CNN) Unlikely CNN's censors fall asleep on the job, allow a front-page article criticizing the United Nations. Heads will roll (50)
(Fire Dog Lake) Dumbass George Bush blames the economic turmoil on decisions that were made "a decade or so before I arrived." That would be 1990, in the middle of the other failed Bush presidency (452)
(Think Progress) Stupid Fox News uses its first opportunity to ask a question of the President Elect to talk about... Bill Richardson's beard. Maybe it wasn't just the socialism stuff that got them frozen out (45)
(Time) Dumbass Wacky Middle-Easterners think Israel was responsible for 9/11, Saudi Arabia will bail out the U.S. economy in exchange for a U.S invasion of Iran, and - get this - Obama is a secret Muslim (211)
(Washington Post) Interesting Even Bible thumpers think we should get rid of "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. "Under God" was response to godless Communists. What of "godly" terrorists? (372)
(MSNBC) Florida Mel Martinez signs DNR order on his senatorial career (34)
(Toronto Star) Followup Stephen Harper to address the nation tonight. Drinking game words include: "unpatriotic", "power grab", "anti-democratic", "legitimate", "sweatervest" (882)
(The New Republic) Interesting Republicans fantasize about taking down Reid in 2010, which is a healthy departure from fantasizing about little boys (39)
(Washington Post) Amusing Obama's new chief speechwriter, Jon Favreau, is "so money" (32)
(Chicago Tribune) Asinine The assault on the legitimacy of Obama's birth certificate continues (for some reason), so the Tribune gives a fact-based middle finger to the conspiracy theorists (339)
(Reuters) Sad So, after eight years, have the Bush tax cuts started paying for themselves? Neocons? Anybody? (231)
(Politico) Interesting A Republican won the Senate runoff in Georgia because Sarah Palin stopped by and took down the Democrats like a gut-shot moose (94)
(Philly) Interesting Pennsylvania governor called "sexist" for saying Janet Napolitano is perfect for chief of homeland security because she's a workaholic single broad with no real life (54)
(Examiner) Dumbass Award for the biggest douchenozzle to be leaving Congress goes to former Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO), who still has not conceded or thanked her staff, but found time to whip up some republican robocalling fear in Georgia (32)
(Some Guy) Amusing Followers of the Enlightened One not so enlightened after all (237)
(Reuters) Interesting Barack Obama makes final cabinet appointment; now must face daunting task of coming up with embarrassing nicknames for each member. Early favorites are Bill "Big Stinky" Richardson and Hillary "She Scares Me" Clinton (89)
(Some Guy) Asinine Over 100 civilized nations gather to sign treaty banning the use of cluster bombs - guess who's not signing (695)
(WorldNetDaily) Dumbass Worldnut Daily cries out for the US to declare total war against the entire Muslim world, like they do every week or so (555)
(Washington Post) Hero Interrogator uses the U.S. Army Field Manual. Result: "I thought you would torture me, and when you didn't, I decided that everything I was told about Americans was wrong. That's why I decided to cooperate." (419)
(Reuters) Stupid Islamic extremists instructed to use YouTube, upload crappy videos that will never get greenlit (17)
(Fox News) Ironic Remember that oil windfall profits tax Obama planned to use to pay for some of his spending? Well, here is another change you can believe in (198)

Tue December 02, 2008
(BBC) Scary Why bother with all that annoying "freedom" and "democracy" when you can just have opposition leaders seized by anti-terrorism troops for saying nasty things about you? (47)
(LA Times) Asinine Proposition 8's real victims: The Mormons (644)
(MSNBC) News No, Democrats, you cannot have filibuster proof senate majority, not yours (329)
(Daily Kos) Dumbass How bad is it for the GOP? They are claiming the selection of Hillary Clinton - who only 8 years ago was the convicted murderer of Vince Foster and destroying the American Family with a book about villages - is a victory for Republicans (91)
(AP) Obvious Russian warships hold exercises with Hugo Chavez's entire navy--all three ships (240)
(Washington Post) Spiffy D.C. bars may be open 24/7 for the inauguration. That's change we can *hic* believe in (89)
(US Mint) PSA The U.S. Mint would like you know that they are not responsible for those crappy Barack Obama Presidential Coins, annoying TV ads (180)
(Huffington Post) Dumbass Not only will Palin not go away, wardobegate won't either: Palin seen wearing campaign clothes she claimed to return (550)
(Huffington Post) Fail Fox News asks Omarosa to advise the President-Elect. In other news, Fox News is changing its motto to Fair, Balanced and Bat-Shiat Crazy (57)
(Politico) Dumbass Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski warns Sarah Palin not to run for her seat in 2010: "I don't think the way to the presidency is a short stop in the United States Senate." Because no one ever became President with that strategy (48)
(Washington Post) Amusing News: Laura Bush accepts a Seattle artist's ornament for White House Christmas tree. Fark: It's an "Impeach Bush" ornament. (with pic) (87)
(National Review) Interesting Who would have guessed Obama harbored a secret desire to draw on experienced Republicans to manage his national-security policy? (81)
(DC Examiner) Spiffy The best part of spending $621 million to upgrade the Capital Visitor's Center? Harry Reid won't have to smell the little people any more (94)
(AJC) Scary "The Saxby Chambliss signs are plentiful, but it's clear even before you walk in that this is a Sarah Palin for President event, four years ahead of its time." (143)
(Reason Magazine) Interesting "If limited government is the goal, history tells us we should root for Democratic presidents and Republican Congresses. And regardless of party, Texans should be kept far away from the White House." (78)
(Louie Gohmert) Hero Congressman comes up with plan to save the economy: A two month tax moratorium where workers keep all of their wages (223)
(LA Times) Scary Bush plans to push "right of conscience" rule allowing medical professionals to refuse personally objectionable procedures. Now shut your whore mouth and come back in seven and a half months (468)
(Some Ranter) Interesting "The greatest damage that Bush may have done to this nation is the resurrection of Bill and Hillary Clinton" (62)
(Independent) Cool Nothing says Presidential Bling like a sizable $5k/ounce ring of Rhodium encrusted in diamonds. Pimping to be reclassified as easy (187)
(ABC News) Ironic As Secretary of State, Hillary is likely to be the one dialing the phone and waking the president at 3AM with news of an international incident (48)
(Metro) Obvious Iraqi officials have finished debating what to do with Saddam Hussein's cousin "Chemical Ali", and the solution is they're going to barium  T-Shirt (64)
(Reuters) Interesting Thai Prime Minister is so unpopular and has done such a bad job, that Thailand's supreme court has dissolved his government and barred him from politics. Americans reading this headline think, "hmmmm" (23)
(Variety) Followup David Gregory set to continue the long line of men who look like Muppets hosting "Meet the Press" (55)
(Canada.com) Ironic Coalition government to take over Canada. Conservatives: "That's a crazy political system" Opposition : "That system got you elected with 38% of the popular vote, you weren't calling it crazy then, so suck on it" (408)
(Huffington Post) Asinine Jeb Bush: GOP should create "shadow government" to continually challenge Obama, ensure nothing gets done and no problems get solved. That's being a "real American" I guess (165)
(Madam Secretary) Caption She's back. Caption what Hillary is thinking about her new boss (86)

Mon December 01, 2008
(CBS News) Fail It seems Al Franken not only doesn't know when he's beaten, he doesn't know when everyone else thinks he's a whiny douchebag who seriously needs to give the fark up and GO AWAY (193)
(Herald-Leader) Asinine The Society for Liberty and Prosperity would like you to know that they are working to bring about a better tomorrow. Starting with challenging the citizenship of President elect Obama, but first they need the freedom to borrow three fiddy (388)
(Washington Independent) Cool Obama is appointing progressives to his White House staff. Hasn't he heard that he's supposed to be appointing all conservatives and centrists to anger the liberal blogosphere? Why won't this guy get in line with the media narrative? (102)
(Fox News) Followup Obama, yet again, says something unnecessarily magnanimous about a Republican who hates him (87)
(CNN) Obvious After cheerleading Obama all year, MSM now warns we barely know him (260)
(The Hill) Dumbass And the 2008 winner of the understatement of the year award: "Bush: Some voted for Obama 'because of me'. " (186)
(Reuters) Interesting Congressional Democrats unveil their $500 billion stimulus plan. It includes middle-class tax cuts, transportation and transit funding, free ice cream, aid to states, and flying unicorns for everybody (93)
(Talking Points Memo) Silly Georgia Senate race is now officially a contest to see which party has the most irrelevant campaigners. Republicans have Palin. Democrats have Ludacris. Advantage: Democrats (55)
(Wall Street Journal) Sad FCC Chair to push free porn-free internet. Apparently he's not familiar Dr. Perry Cox and his theory on the internet (120)
(CNN) Fail The Bush's post- White House plans include building a Freedom Institute complete with waterboarding displays, Patriot Act slideshow and "My brother went to Gitmo and all I got is this lousy T-shirt" for sale in gift shop (35)
(AP) Interesting Rush Limbaugh endorses Clinton for Obama's cabinet; heads everywhere asplode (98)
(Wall Street Journal) Asinine Apparently, arresting economists who warn that the economy is in trouble is not an effective strategy to avoid economic collapse. Who knew? (24)
(Fox News) News President-elect Obama continues with plan to destroy America, names Hillary Clinton to Secretary of State position (616)
(Some Guy) Sad Neocons love Obama: "I have to admit that I am gobsmacked by these appointments , most of which could just as easily have come from a President McCain" (217)
(Palm Beach Post) Florida Palm Beach County's GOP is a bit miffed that a home-schooled 19-year-old upstart was elected to join their Republican Executive Committee. Of course, the fact that he's a white supremacist might also be a factor (161)
(WGRZ) Dumbass State that pays the highest in welfare and allows people to stay on the program for life is shocked to find people are moving across the country to take advantage of the system (52)
(Washington Post) Interesting Charles Rangel needs to resign his House Ways and Means chairmanship so as not to impede Barack Obama and his glorious plan to lead us all to the economic promised land (40)
(Toronto Star) Dumbass Stephen Harper may have regrets about thet circular firing squad he put together last week... and about to add "Former" to his "Prime Minister" title... not so "honourable" though (531)
(SeattlePI) Cool Not news: State Capitol puts up a holiday display. News: Display includes a nativity scene. Fark: display also includes an atheist billboard (180)
(International Herald Tribune) Cool Displaying another potential reversal in American policy, Obama signals he may be against mass killings (47)
(MSNBC) Sappy Not only will Obama save our country, he will save our relationships by showing us what true love and romance in a committed marriage is all about (87)
(Globe and Mail) Fail Canadian PM's office says: "there was nothing unethical about covertly listening in to the private NDP deliberations, taping those discussions and releasing them." Adding, we have always been at war with Greenland (138)
(Breitbart.com) Amusing Obama continues his pledge of change. "Change" - (chnj) (verb) to appoint previous Bill Clinton staffers to government positions (137)

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