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Sun December 14, 2008
(LA Times) Dumbass CA legislature approves emissions standards for 2011 that will cost trucking industry billions; good thing Obama will have revitalized the economy by then (76)
(MSNBC) Spiffy Awwww Joe Biden gets a new puppy (64)
(CNN) Obvious McCain says he is not sure that he would vote for Palin for president if she chose to run; this is bad news...for the five people who actually think she has a chance (94)
(MSNBC) Obvious Internal memo shows GOP killed auto loans with a deep, abiding concern for the American people. Just kidding; it was all about politics and union-busting (253)
(ABC News) Obvious "Sen. John McCain, D-Ariz" (216)
(USA Today) Amusing McCain visits Letterman: ""I don't want to talk about the bleeping campaign. If you think I'm going to go back to that bleeping situation, then bleep you." (27)
(Huffington Post) Followup Election board in Minnesota has ruled that rejected absentee ballots should be counted in Senate race. In other news, that election is STILL going on? (77)
(Guardian.com) Obvious Bush spending his last precious days in office doing his best to screw Obama (338)
(MSNBC) Asinine GOP Memo about Automaker bailout: We can make this a "first shot against organized labor." Way to keep yourselves relevant, Republicans (149)
(Orlando Sentinel) Florida Santa gives city commissioners practical books as gifts, such as "Motions Made Easy: How to Tell If a YES Vote Is Really for or Against the Issue" and "How to Vote Against Your Own Motion With Confidence and Conviction" (4)
(CNN) Interesting Jesse Jackson Jr. fighting to get his name back. America agrees to give name back, but only if he profusely apologizes for doing nothing wrong and promises to attend therapy and counseling (54)
(Reuters) Scary New report indicates Obama's stimulus package could cost as much as $1 trillion, which is equal to roughly 5% of the entire US GDP. This should end well (131)
(New York Daily News) Dumbass What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Unless you're U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-umbass, Queens) and are there instead of at the car industry bailout hearing. To meet a lobbyist. And paid for using campaign funds (32)
(New York Daily News) Amusing Headline: "No taint seen on Prez-elect" (88)
(Wall Street Journal) Spiffy Obama names Napoleon Dynamite Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. When asked about his plan for the housing crisis the Secretary responded: "Whatever I feel like I wanna do! Gosh!" (117)

Sat December 13, 2008
(LogoDesign) Interesting The man who designed the now-famous Obama 2008 campaign logo shows the other logos that didn't make the cut (74)
(BBC) Scary Now that we've settled which American industries will survive, let's figure out which countries are too important to fail. First up: Ecuador (28)
(NYPost) Obvious Democrat on Caroline Kennedy inheriting Clinton's Senate seat: It would be like giving it to J-Lo. Name recognition, but no talent (59)
(Mercury News) Cool President-Elect Obama pushes for more accessible government. President Bush seen scratching his head in confusion. Is it January yet? (67)
(Washington Post) Hero The Tuskegee airmen get special invitation to inauguration of Barack Obama (70)
(Yahoo) Interesting One of Bush's last acts in office is to change endangered species status from protected to delicious (126)
(The Weekly Standard) Obvious Car industry thrivng in the south. Why? No UAW. "Why would a worker in Alabama or Texas making far and away the best wages he ever could want to join the UAW? The UAW has no story to tell these people that makes any sense" (511)
(Wired) Obvious Don't make Marvel Comics angry, Mr. Rumsfeld. You wouldn't like them when they're angry (82)
(AP) Interesting Israel wants to snip the tip off of the West Bank in peace deal (179)
(Danwei.org) Amusing Analysis of countries which have "gravely hurt the feelings of the Chinese people" according to the Chinese Communist Party since 1947 (57)
(Google) Interesting Garry Kasparov starts new Russian opposition party. Your move, Putin (37)
(Google) Unlikely President Bush plans to send US troops to Somalia as his term winds down, leaving his Democratic successor to deal with the ensuing carnage and public opinion backlash. This is not a repeat from 1992 (59)
(Right Wing News) Obvious Five short economics lessons for the Obama years (115)

Fri December 12, 2008
(Google) Amusing This Blagojevich business is so bad that even the previous governor is apologizing. From jail (39)
(Huffington Post) Obvious Sean Hannity responds to The Daily Show's send off of Alan Colmes. Suprisingly he has a good sense of humor about the whole thing and takes it in stride....just kidding he's a complete jag about it (145)
(Daily Kos) Interesting Why Americans are so conflicted about the death penalty, and what we can do about it (568)
(MediaMemo) Obvious Please come back, Sarah Palin: Traffic to web video site Hulu drops in November (72)
(Detroit News) Followup Detroit to Ex-Tiger Jim Bunning (R-Toyota): STFU and GTFO (114)
(Free Press) Dumbass After voting against the auto bailout plan, U.S. senator and ex-Tiger pitching great Jim Bunning plans to go forward with plans to hawk autographed baseballs, jerseys or gloves in the deepest heart of UAW country. What could possibly go wrong? (218)
(Think Progress) Obvious At this point when a Republican Senator is rennovating his house it is a safe assumption it's being done with free, illegal money (47)
(American Thinker) Obvious Democrats are four times more corrupt than Republicans. It's science (239)
(Huffington Post) Unlikely Alec Baldwin sort of manages not to talk out of his ass for once (48)
(CNN) Obvious Blair House: Yes, Presidents-Elect traditionally stay here, but you can go elsewhere, you attractive and successful African-American (260)
(Some Guy) Fail Chicago Tribune sets up a poll to pick the name of the Blagojevich scandal. Surely Farkers could do better than the choices they came up with. Voting enabled (338)
(Some Guy) Asinine Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) in 2005: We must use the nuclear option to get rid of filibusters forever. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) today: filibusters are our friend (77)
(Newsday) Followup All hope for the new secretary of health have been Daschled (149)
(MG.co.za) Interesting How to become an African dictator in 12 easy steps (36)
(Reuters) Strange Obama makes holiday foreign appearances as wise man #1 in Italian Nativity scenes. Obama supporters note that it's obviously inaccurate, the savior should be in swaddling clothes in the middle (116)
(Wonkette) Interesting Psychologist suggests Blago's hair helmet was first sign of trouble, possible location of missing WMDs (56)
(Google) Interesting Former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian to be indicted on corruption charges. There'll be hell Taipei (15)
(London Times) Ironic Ever wonder where the Taleban get the money for all those bullets? Your tax dollars at work (66)
(CNN) Cool Republican Party gets a Colin cleansing (176)
(Google) Fail The protectors of Dubya's legacy let his library domain name GeorgeWBushLibrary.com expire and have to buy it back from a company called "Illuminati Karate" for $30k (42)
(Fox News) Followup FBI complaint alleges Obama knew about Balgo.. Blagojef... that guy from Illinois with the terrible toupee (240)
(My Fox DC) Scary News: McCain campaign sells off everything from campaign-- including a $20 Blackberry loaded with email addresses and phone numbers for former staffers. FARK: They sold it to an investigative reporter (68)

Thu December 11, 2008
(Politico) Obvious Subby is shocked, SHOCKED that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Toyota Plant) as well as Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Hyundai Plant) and Sen. Bob Corker (R-Nissan Plant) don't like the auto bailout plan (237)
(YouTube) Hero Ron Paul on the Auto Bailout- "We're in the midst of nationalization, without a whimper. Theres no real talk about it" (341)
(The Atlantic) Interesting Law professors look at the Blagojevich indictment and come to the conclusion that Blago may have done nothing illegal (107)
(AP) Unlikely Friends of (expletive) wife of Gov. Blogojevich say (expletive) transcript of her (expletive) profanity-laced conversations don't (expletive) represent who she really (expletive) is (126)
(USA Today) Interesting USA Today publishes the most corrupt states in the nation. Who takes the top spot? Well, let's just say your Buffalo wants 90,000 dollars in unmarked bills (191)
(Michelle Malkin) Interesting Here they are: the 32 pro-bailout, anti-free market, hemp-pants wearing, tofu-eating, disco-dancing, Harry Potter-reading, America hating Republicans who voted "yes" on the bailout (208)
(Reuters) Dumbass Dear Israel, If Iran nukes you first we'll nuke the shiat out of them. But they have to like totally nuke you and like kill everyone before we respond. Good luck and have fun. Yours truly, Barack Obama (419)
(New York Daily News) Obvious Blagojevich can't even sell a US Senate seat for a decent price, as one NYC assemblyman racked up the same amount of bribe money all by himself, just for access to a bunch of no-name schlumps in Albany (29)
(Slate) Interesting At the UN climate negotiations, poor countries will reduce their emissions if rich countries pay for it. And we're talking poor countries such as Singapore and Kuwait. Wait, what? (108)
(Daily Kos) Stupid Michael Chertoff, Homeland Security secretary, top immigration official in the country, has his house cleaned by illegal immigrants (72)
(Orlando Sentinel) Asinine Barack Obama's transition team is all "NASA, what's up?" NASA is then like "GTFO" So Obama's team is all, "WTF?" NASA: "I told you GTFO, you don't know shiat" (538)
(AP) Spiffy Saying he "understands addiction", President Bush announces that teen drug usery is in declination (53)
(Think Progress) Interesting Europe may crumble because Germany's economy and bad planning is forcing it to take bold action. 1932 called and wants it headline back (105)
(23/6) Satire By wishing our friends well in ways that might please us/ We're slowly and surely destroying their Jesus (27)
(Wall Street Journal) Unlikely On energy policy, Jimmy Carter urges Barack Obama to perpetuate a crisis mentality and constantly guilt-trip Americans into making sacrifices, like he did. Which worked out so totally awesome (215)
(Quad City Times) Dumbass Illinois governor, on calls from President-elect Obama to resign: Whateva, I do what I want (68)
(NewsBusters) Followup November 8: "Obama met with Governor Rod Blagojevich earlier this week to discuss it." December 10: "KHQA has no knowledge that any meeting ever took place." Well, isn't that something (746)
(ABC News) Interesting How the Fedghrsajga *ahem* How the Feds listgajagbl *AHEM* How the Feds listened in on Blagojevich. Gesundheit (37)
(Politico) Stupid Obamanation: We've set up this website so you can ask the President-elect anything you want. Public: Yeah, about Blagojevich- Obamanation: LA-LA-LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU (200)
(USA Today) Obvious Obama to stretch inauguration into four days of events, followed by 6-week commemoration of inauguration, capped off with yearlong tribute to 6-week commemoration of inauguration (51)
(CNN) Interesting Obama: I Chu Chu Choose you (148)

Wed December 10, 2008
(Media Matters) Obvious Bill O'Reilly could read the Army Field Manual to learn what's in it. Or he could use his preferred method: making up whatever he wants to make the scary liberals go away. Wonder which one he'll choose? (96)
(The Raw Story) Amusing Sen. David Vitter (R-LAys Hookers) calls auto bailout "ass backwards" (134)
(USA Today) Obvious House approves $15 billion bailout for the Big 3. If it weren't for capitalism, we'd all be getting free cars right now (138)
(Yahoo) Obvious Just what you'd expect from Congress - the Big 3 bailout plan includes a nice pay raise for judges: an extra five grand for themselves (144)
(AP) Fail "Republicans will not allow taxpayers to subsidize failure," says GOP leader; somehow also manages to keep a straight face and not add "anymore" as an afterthought (52)
(CBS Sacramento) Interesting Schwarzenegger warns about "Armageddon" over state budget woes. Why didn't he warn us about "Junior"? (36)
(WEEI) Obvious Military expert Curt Schilling announces we're winning war in Iraq. GO YANKEES (84)
(Hot Air) Interesting Obama: I never met with Blagojevich about my seat. "He's meeting with Governor Rod Blagojevich this afternoon in Chicago to discuss it." (Nov 5, KHQA) Oops (638)
(Daily Kos) Interesting According to the NY Times, this summer, Obama almost single-handedly engineered an override of Blagojevich's veto of ethics legislation that expressly outlawed the gov's shenannigans (92)
(ManBearPig) Cool Umm, yeah...about that global warming consensus thingie (479)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious In retrospect, maybe an unaccountable $700 billion slush fund wasn't the best idea (142)
(Huffington Post) Dumbass If you had Norm Coleman in the "next politican to be investigated by the FBI" lottery, check in at the right to claim your prize (57)
(Chicago Tribune) PSA Barack HUSSEIN Obama plans to be sworn in using his full name, may ask Chief Justice Roberts to emphasize HUSSEIN "like they do on Fark" (139)
(ABC News) Interesting Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is "Senate Candidate #5" who offered $1million for Obama's seat (472)
(Yahoo) Fail AP applies their unique brand of "analysis" to the Illinois mess: He isn't accused of anything, in fact he had nothing to do with it as far as we can tell; but this is bad news...for Obama" (268)
(NewsBusters) Fail Blago: Morning Shows Dance Around D-Word (119)
(LA Times) Obvious Obama lowers projected magical unicorn and fairy dust giveaway (68)
(WorldNetDaily) Followup Legislation proposed to require laser-etching of every bullet, which will dramatically increase costs of ammo. Looks like the stockpilers aren't so stupid after all (567)
(CBS San Francisco) Dumbass Mayor of SF is out promoting a "Buy it in San Francisco" program. A reporter asks him why he bought his new Chevy truck from the dealer in another town while the only Chevy dealer in SF may be going out of business. Ta Da Dumbass (52)
(Politico) Interesting FBI agent on Illinois: "If it is not the most corrupt state in the United States, it's certainly one hell of a competitor." Illinois to other competitors: Your move Louisiana, Alaska, Arkansas and New York (138)
(Politico) Followup Joe the Plumber sinks McCain, says he'd still lay pipe for Palin (145)

Tue December 09, 2008
(Politico) Unlikely Evidence of Barack Obama and Rod Blagojevich connection becomes heavily down-played, David Axelrod suddenly becomes someone who "misspoke." Because we all know politicians don't have any skeletons in the closet (374)
(Washington Times) Obvious Obama has already failed as our next President because he's now getting fewer YouTube hits than that Roomba-riding cat (57)
(Telegraph) Obvious George W. Bush: The Bible is "probably not" literally true (597)
(WorldNetDaily) Ironic 2003: Book urging constitutionally limited government is a complete flop. 2008: People terrified of the incoming president with a strong constitutional law background have made the book wildly popular (116)
(Riverfront Times) Followup That Didn't Take Long: Illinois Senate Seat up for Sale on eBay (36)
(Politico) Followup Blago wanted to shake down Warren Buffett too. So to recap, the Governor tried to get money out the President-Elect, one of the biggest newspaper companies in the world, and the richest man in the world. Insanity defense here we come (286)
(23/6) Dumbass Obama has yet to prove he isn't from another planet called Argornia in the star system Thraxos and that he didn't come here through some sort of Stargate (137)
(Washington Times) Fail Conservative poltical advocacy group Freedom Watch to shut down at the end of the month. End of election cycle cited , but the fact that its main donor has lost 95% of $28 billion net worth in the last year may also have something to do with it (40)
(UPI) Interesting Mass. Governor Mitt Romney (R-eally fancy underpants) questioned on committee spending (12)
(Washington Post) Asinine It's nice to know that while our country is imploding that members of Congress can still get shiatfaced and silly at White House parties (74)
(Miami Herald) Florida DNC chair Karen Thurman wants to probe the house speaker. Giggity (14)
(The Weekly Standard) Sad This year marks the 75th anniversary of a genocidal holocaust. No, not that Holocaust. The one they never taught you about in school. The one that killed more people (316)
(Breitbart.com) Followup Illinois governor has been arraigned and released on a $4,500 bond, or about one percent the cost of a bribe (114)
(The New York Times) Scary Good news, comrades: the number of political dissidents in China has decreased. Bad news: they're being reclassified as "mental patients" and forcibly institutionalized (76)
(CBC) PSA Next Prime Minister of Canada to be a guy nicknamed "Iggy" (235)
(CNN) Asinine Pakistan tells India to "pause and take a breath," then leans over to Turkey and murmurs something about "womens' troubles." (53)
(MinnPost) Sad 2008's "Most Embarrassing Re-Elected Members of Congress" lineup. Collect the whole set (45)
(Reason Magazine) Obvious The Democratic stimulus plan perpetuates the very bogus idea "that government can boostrap the economy out its funk by hiring two guys to dig a hole and a couple more to fill it in" (277)
(Huffington Post) Amusing ...and then Hannity was all like "You suck" and Chopra was all like "Oh No You Didn't" and like biatchslapped him (59)
(Yahoo) Interesting Sarah Palin visits Canada, talks about things that it and Alaska have in common, such as hockey, hunting, fishing, and wacky right-wing politicians (29)
(Huffington Post) Followup "Local news reports, meanwhile, suggest that it was Obama chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel who blew the whistle on the governor." (123)
(USA Today) Interesting What Obama should do with Cuba. (with bonus zombie pic) (60)
(23/6) Video Chris Matthews in a minute. Can you imagine this guy on the senate floor? Can you? Can you? CAN YOU? (35)
(Fox News) Obvious Bush says "Creation" is not incompatible with "Evolution". For example, when God created the oil in the Mideast, he knew we'd evolve to take it (358)
(Michelle Malkin) Asinine Michelle Malkin's outrage du jour for December 9, 2008: For some unknown reason, she's upset that actor Jamie Foxx suggested that the Obamas get a pit bull (80)
(Washington Watch) Interesting Congress and the public had only 22 hours and 55 minutes to examine the $700 billion bailout bill. Question is, how long will we get to examine the $15 billion US automaker bailout bill? Only 10 minutes? A glimpse as it come from the printer? (37)
(Gawker) Obvious Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are (98)
(AFP) Followup Robert Mugabe tells the world to shut its whore mouth while he's talking (152)
(CNN) Obvious Obama smokes polls  T-Shirt (215)
(National Review) Obvious Now that he's taken down a Democrat, US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has gone from being a Godless partisan witch hunter who hates the troops to a courageous American hero of justice and liberty (128)
(Daily Kos) Obvious Fox cannot bring themselves to update the presidential vote totals to reflect the official certifications, probably because doing so would increase Obama's margin of victory by 2 million votes (31)
(SFGate) NewsFlash Illinoje Gojevernor Rod Blagojevich arrestjevid jon federlag corruptigojn chlargesich (964)
(Huffington Post) Interesting Senator Fran Dresher? Hahahahahaha (75)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Obvious Dear Barack, We hope you enjoyed that little election night shindig we threw for you. Now please send us $2 million to pay for it or we'll have to fire a bunch of your constituents. Love, Chicago (76)
(CBC) Obvious Hottest Google searches in the past week include 'prorogue' and 'coalition', proving there are only two kinds of people in the world: Canadians, and people who wish they were (229)

Mon December 08, 2008
(Daily Kos) Amusing Jay Cutler has apparently made an impression in Colorado, as John Elway only polls one point better than Tom Tancrazy in polling for Ken Salazar's senate seat (57)
(YouTube) Amusing Robin Williams on the 2008 elections: "Where did they get Sarah Palin? Did Ronald Reagan have a kid with Posh Spice?" (118)
(Some Illinoyed) Dumbass Illinois Governor clearly has no understanding of how the news media operates (177)
(Wonkette) Followup Webmaster of "Thank You George W. Bush" site racing to remove fail-related comments (713)
(Hot Air) Spiffy More awkward than when Michael Jackson kissed Lisa Marie Presley, or any woman, for that matter: George Bush plants a wet one on Barbra Streisand (video) (84)
(Reason Magazine) Obvious "Deregulation" is to the government as "NOT ME" is to the kiddies in Family Circus (111)
(Huffington Post) Obvious Deputy Obama Campaign Director points out to hard core liberals that America has some serious issues to deal with before they get down to making this a Eurosocialistislamofascist country, may have to wait until second term (71)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Unlikely Obama says gun-owning Americans do not need to rush out and stock up before he is sworn in. Because obviously people acting on impluse to buy guns because Obama was elected will listen to him when he says he won't take them (717)
(CBC) Followup Stephane Dion, the guy who was going to be Canada's next PM, then got defeated in an election, resigned, and was going to be Canada's next PM again before Parliament was suspended, will resign on Wednesday (285)
(Some Guy) Fail Someone set up a web site where you can thank President Bush for his 8 years of service. This should end well (575)
(International Herald Tribune) Spiffy French President Sarkozy surren...err...ups the ante in his tiff with China and praises the Dalai Lama (36)
(Foolocracy) Interesting Guess who else needs a bailout? Hillary Clinton. And Obama's working on it (56)
(Salon) Obvious If you want to know just how eager political reporters are to fabricate stories out of thin air, kneecap one of their sources when he's about to get a promotion (15)
(The American) Interesting Americans spend 55 percent more on health care than Canadians. That's because Americans get more and better health care and don't have to wait for it while their body parts start falling off (328)
(NPR) Stupid US has charged a man with "providing material support for terrorism" because he stored a suitcase belonging to an Al-qaida operative at his house. The contents of suitcase? Ponchos and waterproof socks (184)
(ABC News) Video Respectful McCain campaign respectfully releases previously unaired ad respectfully featuring Imam Jeremiah Wright (35)
(Politico) Stupid The annoying virtual-political-map-coverage guy is going to replace Wolf Blitzer on Late Edition (12)
(Daily Kos) Sad GOP congressman asks GAO for a list of issues facing federal agencies so he can ask Obama's apointees about them. He gets back 150 pages detailing exactly how bad the Bush Adminstration has screwed up the government (102)
(Give it up, already) Stupid Which is more pathetic, the fact that Hillaryis44 is still around, or the fact that they're reduced to equating Obama with Jar-Jar Binks? (61)
(AP) NewsFlash SCOTUS decides Obama is an American Muslim terrorist. Glad that's out of the way (1321)
(Metafilter) Interesting 2000 years ago, the Roman hegemony got its first black leader - a former senator whose father was African and mother was white. Septimius Severus inherited a failed military campaign in Iraq and an ailing economy (119)
(Haaretz) Interesting "Israel will do harm to its relations with the United States if it insists on lobbying Washington for an American military strike on Iran." (136)
(SpikedHumor) Video So we need six basketballs, and a hologram? I think there's a party at 41625 (contains profanity) (13)
(Huffington Post) Interesting Kucinich: It's "unfair and insane" that Obama hasn't put him in the cabinet. Fark: It's "unfair and insane" that Kucinich ended up with Mrs. Kucinich (79)
(Reuters) PSA Obama says he won't smoke in the White House; that's what the Rose Garden is for (134)

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