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Sun December 21, 2008
(CNN) Amusing An evangelical Republican's wet dream: a huge multi-colored hot-air balloon floating in the Baghdad sky, bearing a large poster of Jesus Christ, below it, an Iraqi flag (11)
(Politico) Ironic "In our quest to do good policy, we're going to find a lot more areas of commonality with Obama than we are with House and Senate Democrats" (22)
(The Weekly Standard) Interesting Obama/Media honeymoon may be over soon (98)
(Washington Post) Obvious Dick Cheney mocks Joe Biden, says of Bush: "He could launch the kind of devastating attack the world has never seen" (126)
(AP) Interesting Cheney says Lincoln's and FDR wartime abuses of civil rights were much worse than Bush's (326)
(CNN) Stupid Obama is so worried about the economy that he is going to spend $50 million on his inauguration (196)
(Wall Street Journal) Amusing Bowling associations offer to pimp out the White House bowling alley in an effort to keep Obama from converting it to a basketball court (60)
(AP) Misc You know how they always give that idiot co-worker some pointless busy-work so he can't screw up anything important? (36)
(St. Petersburg Times) Interesting "Some people could make the argument that Bush was the most liberal president since Lyndon Johnson" (190)
(Salon) Obvious Cheney claims that he alone will decide which of his records make it to the National Archives come next month, will shoot you in the face if you disagree (73)
(Michelle Malkin) Interesting How Obama illegally obtained Change.gov (316)

Sat December 20, 2008
(CNN) Amusing From the makers of the critically acclaimed investigative report "Hey look at this dog skateboarding," comes the retrospective "Andrew Jackson: Great leader or angry hick?" (107)
(Wonkette) Obvious President Bush and Santa photographed fisting each other in what apparently looks to be the VIP room of a disco. Bill O'Reilly to redouble his efforts in The War On Christmas® (59)
(The Raw Story) Scary Rove's IT Guru dies after his plane runs out of gas. It's not like he was about to testify or anything, though... oh, he was? Well, he certainly didn't cross Rove, right? What's that, he did? (429)
(LA Times) Scary Kenneth Starr is watching you masturbate (83)
(CTV) Hero Canadians upset at the United States gather to throw shoes at the Yanks: "Participants are encouraged to bring extra footwear for tossing, but organizers say shoes will be provided at the rally" (131)
(Mercury News) Obvious Proposition 8 legal battle climaxes with duelling briefs (563)
(Politico) Interesting "Incestuous, intermarrying with one another to take over the crown and consolidate power." This is a quote about Europe in the Middle Ages right? No, it's New York State politics baby (58)
(Bloomberg) Spiffy China re-assimilates Taiwan without firing a shot. Thanks global financial crisis (69)
(Washington Post) Interesting Washington Post wonders, could we uncover Watergate today? (95)
(Guardian.com) Unlikely Blagojevich: "I have on my side the most powerful ally there is: the truth". The best truth money can buy (39)
(Yahoo) Obvious The media thinks the media's obsession with the media's coverage of the media's influence on that shoe-thrower in the media might be bad news for the media, says the media (97)

Fri December 19, 2008
(Daily Kos) Dumbass Caroline Shlossberg doesn't vote, not even for the Senate seat she wants to be annointed to. Excuse me, "appointed" to (216)
(Chicago Tribune) Asinine The sequel to the Nude Portrait of Governor Sarah Palin? Nude Portrait of Governor Rod Blagojevich. Insert Rod joke here (54)
(New York Daily News) Asinine Time for another game of "guess the party" as New York state senator-elect can't even wait to take office before getting arrested for smashing a beer bottle on his girlfriend's head (109)
(CTV) Interesting Russia to cut arms if U.S. drops missile defence plans. Who knew Russia was emo?  T-Shirt (123)
(International Herald Tribune) Cool Bipartisan Senate committee report contains a "strong case" for prosecuting former Defense Secretary Rumsfield, former White House counsel Gonzales and others for their role in authorizing the use of torture (342)
(Huffington Post) Followup Franken projected to win Senate recount because he's alright, he's not retarded, and doggonit, people are sick of this election (221)
(CNN) Followup Five.... Five Votes.... Five votes separate Franken and Coooooooleman (157)
(BBC) Interesting You have a ceasefire in place. Do you; A) honour your side of the bargain; B) fire rockets at your enemy anyway; or C) fire rockets, blame enemy for blockading you and call off truce so you can fire more rockets? (213)
(LA Times) Dumbass Last minute declaration by the Bush camp allows health care providers to decline treatment if they find it "morally objectionable." Surely that broad, sweeping definition won't be abused (287)
(Newsday) Amusing Obama considering first openly gay head of the Navy, prepares for onslaught of "seamen" jokes (153)
(USA Today) Interesting Shoe-thrower offered solemate (128)
(Some Guy) Sad Deep Throat deep sixed  T-Shirt (170)
(CSMonitor) Fail Why the US isn't having any more luck with Afghanistan than the Soviets did. You know, aside from the whole weakening our forces by splitting them in two to invade Iraq (336)

Thu December 18, 2008
(AP) Sad The United States, where all are equal, refuses to condemn anti-gay laws--the only Western nation to do so. That's change you can't believe in (675)
(Media Matters) Dumbass Conservative pinup model Ann Coulter calls President-elect Barack Obama an "atheist" and asks if "we could get all of his aliases before he's sworn in on the Quran" (326)
(MSNBC) Interesting As if they needed more bad news, the Moral Majority has lost yet another member (99)
(CNN) Asinine Headline: Rick Warren wasn't always controversial. Article: Back when he kept his mouth shut about all that God stuff (231)
(CNN) Fail New York promises they'll use the new fat tax to cure obesity. You know, just like the government has used tobacco taxes to cure cancer (52)
(Huffington Post) Interesting The 2008 P.U.-litzer prizes for the stinkiest media performances (62)
(MSNBC) Unlikely McCain campaign wraps up month-long thorough investigation into why they lost. Naturally, they blame the media, immigrants, and a vast liberal conspiracy. No, really (162)
(Huffington Post) Ironic Remember when everyone said Bush was just a puppet of the Saudis? Hahahaha, that was so funny. Just ask Bubba Clinton (134)
(Bloomberg) Stupid Obama may seek a stimulus package exceeding $850 billion. Here's an idea: why don't we just be poor for a while? Our grandparents did that and still managed to invent rock and roll, hardcore pornography and the atomic bomb (247)
(Yahoo) Interesting Debate on free trade pact with US in South Korean parliament turns into brawl, complete with lawmakers trying to smash down a door with a sledgehammer. Submitter bets that Korean C-Span kicks ass (38)
(Wall Street Journal) Sad Remember how good it was when gasoline in the US was over $4.00 per gallon? Obama's new Energy Secretary want go get back to those good times (273)
(NYPost) Amusing Sucks: Your old college pictures show up. Worse: You're the President-elect. Fark: The pictures were taken in 1980 in all it's time period fashion glory (136)
(RealClearPolitics) Obvious For you it may be two naked lesbians wrestling in baby oil, but for people in the news media, a loop of that guy throwing a shoe at Bush is what they watch over and over again to get off (160)
(The Hill) Obvious Having successfully solved all the country's problems, Congress gives itself a raise (65)
(SacBee) Asinine California Democrats hope to cram billions of dollars in new taxes down peoples' throats by calling them "fees" (143)
(Yahoo) Cool Obama selects Mary Schapiro to head the SEC. This might be his first big mistake, she doesn't know a thing about football  T-Shirt (38)
(Reuters) Obvious 35 arrested over Iraqi coup plot. And what rhymes with coup? Shoe. The connection is clear (67)

Wed December 17, 2008
(Newsweek) Obvious More than 1,000 people have been convicted of political corruption in Illinois since 1971. That's 27 a year (75)
(CNN) Interesting Republican Ray LaHood selected as Obama's transportation secretary, point guard (76)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting Obama team: "Manned space exploration is too costly and dangerous. Lets replace current shuttle boosters with modified U.S. military rockets from the 80's." Barack Obama does not care about space people (360)
(Think Progress) Interesting Newsweek asks "cultural critics" what one work of culture this decade most exemplifies what it is like to be alive in the age of George Bush. If you guess the fracking answer, then you're a toaster and should be airlocked (79)
(Huffington Post) Obvious John Edwards' mistress is broke and living in New Jersey. She's also not certain which is the worse fate (68)
(Yahoo) Strange The reporter who threw his shoes at Bush has sparked a political crisis in Iraq that has already lead to the resignation of Parliament's speaker and might bring down the whole government. Talk about sabotage (240)
(Some Illinosian) Fail Illinois AG: Let's pretend that Blagojevich is physically incapable of holding office. Illinois Supreme Court: You're retarded, go away (81)
(Think Progress) Interesting If you're trying to gauge the corruptness of a state, it goes basically SEC, Big 10, Big East, then the ACC and the Big 12 are pretty much tied, and then the nerds of the Pac 10 are out somewhere actually filing the form in triplicate (62)
(USA Today) Stupid One of the top skill requirements for Obama appointees? Basketball (103)
(Washington Post) Obvious Obama's cabinet has as many women as Bush's, less than Clinton's. So much for thinking outside the box (149)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Interesting Why Rahm Emanuel has been on lock down by the Obama camp since the Blago scandal has erupted -- he's on 21 taped conversations with Blago discussing Obama's Senate replacement (770)
(Politico) Obvious 11/08: Dems righteously biatch about political dynasties. 12/08: Your Senate seats are ready, milady Kennedy, milord Biden. Now, to the sedan chairs (79)
(New York Daily News) Interesting In the first sign of Obama's "keep your friends close, your enemies closer" strategy, she who shall not be named calls off the attack dogs circling Obama supporter Caroline Kennedy (198)
(Salon) Interesting What happened to the bailout money? (159)
(BBC) Interesting Britain announces end of July date for its troops to pull out of Iraq, local prostitutes  T-Shirt (38)
(Telegraph) Obvious "Nothing drives web traffic like a mention of Sarah Palin ... Sarah Palin is crack cocaine to the Internet" (70)
(The Raw Story) Hero Colmes to Coulter: "You are a hate crime" (336)

Tue December 16, 2008
(L.A. Daily News) Strange L.A. Daily News captions pic of Obama as "President-elect Burka Abeam." This is bad news . . . for Abeam (43)
(Fox News) Scary Old and busted: RON PAUL. New, er, hotness: RU PAUL (62)
(CNN) Interesting Word on the street is that Jesse Jackson Jr. is a farking snitch (92)
(Some Guy) Interesting The National Poltical Weather Bureau has issued warnings of a Cat 3 shiatstorm. Obama's Education Sec nominee once created a special high school for gay students to keep them from being teased (193)
(Wonkette) Fail Dick Cheney is proud of ruining America, dammit (156)
(Google) Obvious Media suddenly discovers that Obama is "young and inexperienced" (166)
(The New York Times) Misc Betty Currie leaves Socks' kitty death bed to work for 'The Chosen One'(TM) (50)
(Politico) Interesting Nancy Pelosi has no time for Rahm Emanuel (115)
(Not incarcerated) Obvious Delaware's Governor-elect promises that state employees who go to jail will not keep their job. In other news, apparently if you go to jail and work for the State of Delaware, you can keep your job (11)
(23/6) Spiffy Situation Room + AC360 + Countdown + O'Reilly = Phat beatz (27)
(Huffington Post) Interesting Newt Gingrich rips the RNC for its ad attempting to tie Obama to Blagojevich, calling it "a destructive distraction" and demanding the ad be pulled. And lo, the sixth seal was opened (92)
(Baltimore Sun) Hero Obama plans to take mass transit to his inauguration (109)
(Think Progress) Dumbass NPR reporter shows his "liberal" bias: Iraqis are not sufficiently grateful that we killed a million of their people and plunged them into a decade of anarchy (183)
(Google) Cool Raul Castro (the non-zombie one), announces he'll discuss the 50 year old embargo against Cuba with President Obama (61)
(National Review) Obvious Books are a great gifts to give your friends and neighbors, as they foster a sense of Christmas cheer and respect for your fellow man. To that end, NRO highly recommends a book that compares liberals to Nazis (99)
(Chicago Tribune) Interesting President-Elect Obama and his entourage have such secret service code names as PEOTUS (Obama), FLEOTUS (Michelle), and the lesser-known CLETUS (governor of Alabama) (76)
(Washington Post) Spiffy Congress wants funding for high speed rail service connecting The Capitol and New York City, because otherwise it'll take ages to move all that bailout money to Wall Street (52)
(CNN) Stupid Obama to name Chicago school chief as Education Secretary since the Chicago school district is a shining example of efficiency and higher learning (339)
(YouTube) Obvious Libertarians tell you why bigger government, huge stimulous plans, and Keynesian economics will only make the recession worse, even if you stamp your tiny little feet and wish really, really hard (video) (329)
(Times Herald Record) Obvious "The big egos love to step in at the last moment to save the day...but to do that, there has to be a build-up of hand wringing, teeth gnashing, predictions of doom and a little bit of fact to hang the whole soap opera on" (9)
(SFGate) Followup Obama officially names physicist Steven Chu as Energy Secretary. That's Δx/Δy you can believe in (331)
(Huffington Post) Followup Senator Ken Salazar to be named Secretary of the Interior, brought to you by Carl's Jr (65)
(Car and Driver) Obvious Car and Driver asks: "10 lies pinhead legislators believe about the auto industry - Can these people really be so dumb?" (155)
(Michelle Malkin) Followup What happens when liberals decide "Quotes of the Year" (175)
(CBS Sacramento) Asinine California Republicans propose 5 percent cuts to lawmaker salaries to solve budget crisis. Oh yeah, and 10 percent cut from poor families in the welfare-to-work program. Gee, thanks (42)
(ABC News) Obvious Bush: One of the major theaters against al Qaeda turns out to have been Iraq. ABC: But not until after the U.S. invaded. Bush: Yeah, that's right. So what? (197)
(Some Guy) Obvious 74% of the time, universities violate free speech every time (68)
(Bloomberg) Interesting Another Obama team member investigated for corruption, again (71)
(YouTube) Obvious Lord Vader holds exit interview, defends waterboarding, locks up, and needs to be rebooted (59)

Mon December 15, 2008
(Bloomberg) Obvious Actual election for President of the United States took place today. Ron Paul supporters still hopeful, annoying (142)
(Politico) Obvious Time Magazine bureau chief to become Joe Biden's Communications Director. This is the second member of the mainstream media to join the Obama administration. Complaints of the media being in the bag for Obama still met with pshaw (80)
(Hot Air) Fail Obama: "When Blagojevich and I met on Nov. 5 to talk about my Senate seat, we didn't meet and we didn't talk about my Senate seat." Media: "Well, that makes perfect sense. Case closed" (687)
(WBBM) Followup Ill Guv's wife to neighbors: 'Dear Neighbor, My husband and I would like to apologize to you and your family for the media barrage that has descended on our neighborhood.'' but not for trying to sell that Senate seat so f-off (47)
(23/6) Amusing Questions for the Secret Service: 1) Shouldn't you have jumped in front of that shoe? 2) Or at least the second shoe? (290)
(23/6) Obvious Bush's handling of the shoe-toss incident is far and away his most measured, calm, and reasonable response to a crisis on record (253)
(USA Today) Amusing The GOP's last hope of an activist Supreme Court dashed when they decide not to hear if Obama is "naturally born"- virgin birth still to be decided by teaming mass of people on January 20th (314)
(American Conservative) Interesting "Liberal triumph in 1976 led inexorably to evisceration in 1980. The same trajectory is likely to recur in the Obama years" (208)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Barney Frank (D-umbass) trys to explain why he didn't understand that giving home loans to people that couldn't afford them would lead to massive forclosures (248)
(Wall Street Journal) Silly WSJ blogger-patriot busts wide open the nefarious plot by the choreographer of "Billy Elliot: The Musical" to turn Americans into gay communists via suggestive anti-capitalist hip thrusts (18)
(Reason Magazine) Dumbass Obama stares blankly into camera while reading "My Pet Blagojevich" (113)
(YAF) Interesting Intolerance 101: 2008's top 10 instances of delicate college students getting offended by un-PC speech (125)
(Think Progress) Asinine If only Obama would be more clear to the media about doing what the media wants, then the media would not have to talk about what the media wants Obama to do with the media, says the media (60)
(Breitbart.com) Interesting Russian ships headed toward Cuba. This is not a repeat from 1962 when the Soviet Union sent ships to Cuba (136)
(American for Tax Reform) Asinine The deficit expands, the economy tanks, but congressional pork never stops: $3.2 million for a blimp, $9,000 for a non-functioning airplane-shaped gas station, and $300,000 for specialty potatoes (67)
(Hot Air) Asinine Well that didn't take long: Ill. GOP runs ad telling people they should be outraged, OUTRAGED, that the Lt. Gov. may deny them a special election and instead follow the Ill Constitution and "hand pick" Obama's replacement (67)
(Wikipedia) Cool December 15 marks the 217th anniversary of the Bill of Rights. Celebrate by protesting in a free-speech zone while the police execute a warrantless search of your home for the handgun you aren't allowed to own (267)
(Palm Beach Post) Dumbass You know that $700 billion bailout? Turns out Bush added a loophole for executive pay. Oops (194)
(Yahoo) Asinine In what was in no way a publicity stunt, US Senator Lindsey Graham, an Air Force reserve officer, recently served active duty in Afghanistan-for five days-you know, just like all the other reservists we've called up (44)
(Politico) Silly And the latest scandal to rock the very foundations of the Office of the President-Elect is... *opens envelope* Obama's Cabinet has no Southerners. Well, sheeyit (150)
(Watertown Daily Times) Unlikely Americans think the TSA is doing a good job (89)

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