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Sun February 01, 2009
(International Herald Tribune) Spiffy Iceland's new prime minister is first openly gay head of state. Hopes to strap on and tackle her nation's canyon of debt (43)
(Kansas City) Followup To the idiots who think Obama is doing a heckofa job in Kentucky local officials would like to have a word with you (276)
(YNet News) Scary After mortars and missiles fired today injured Israelis, Prime Minister Olmert told the IDF to prepare for an attack on Gaza and that this time "our response will be disproportionate" (348)
(Some Guy) Scary Here are some pretty charts to illustrate Obama's package, in case you don't get what all the zeros mean (245)
(MSNBC) Followup To the idiots perpetuating the lie that Obama is ignoring Kentucky, the Governor of Kentucky would like a word with you (273)
(Telegram) Stupid Worcester, Massachusetts' plan to build new city park: borrow money from federal government and pay back loan with other federal money. Did anybody hear a "pop"? (21)
(SFGate) Obvious Liberal critics are suddenly discovering their jobs are not so easy when they don't have Bush to kick around (157)
(The New York Times) Interesting Paul Krugman uses Milton Friedman's economic theory to explain why spending is a better stimulus than tax cuts (166)
(AJC) Sad Guy Hunt, who in 1987 became Alabama's first Republican governor since Reconstruction, dead at age 75 (40)

Sat January 31, 2009
(MSNBC) Obvious Turns out Republican Governors, who have to actually deal with the problems their counterparts in Congress just talk about, are desperate for Obama's stimulus package to pass (140)
(American Prospect) Dumbass George Bush's Chief of Staff says Obama is disrepecting the Presidency by not wearing a jacket in the oval office. Because as we all know if you are going to authorize torture, you should at least dress the part (203)
(London Times) Obvious "Less than two weeks into his administration, Barack Obama is being portrayed by opponents as a new Jimmy Carter - weak at home and naive abroad - in an attempt to ensure that he serves only one term" (202)
(Some Gun Nut) Dumbass Mayor Daley blames Hudson family murder on handguns, cites case as why hangun ban works (115)
(Think Progress) Fail New RNC Chairman says government has never created a single job, but has only destroyed them. I suppose that means when he was Lt. Governor of Maryland he was unemployed (127)
(MSNBC) Interesting North Dakota universities arguing whether or not students should be allowed to carry guns. That sound you just heard was east and west coast liberals gasping and fainting (134)
(Think Progress) Obvious White House Press Secretary says the White House Press Briefing is obsolete and a venue for misinformation (47)
(Some Moonbat) Asinine In their ongoing effort to validate every conservative cliche about them, California liberals are now protesting ROTC because it trains people to shoot guns (156)
(Marketwatch) Silly Poll taken to choose best name for Presidental Dog. "Chris Matthews", "Keith Olbermann" not listed since they're already humping his leg (90)
(Fox News) Amusing "Incredibly, not a Senator on the Committee questioned -- much less burst into outright laughter at -- Gore's absurd point." (460)
(American Thinker) Unlikely Sales tax is a Democrat plot to destroy the economy (125)
(LA Times) Dumbass Tom Daschle pays $128,000 in back taxes, finding the money under his seat cushion (108)
(AP) Obvious Leader of Alaska's house Democrats wonders why the lights aren't on at the Governor's mansion. I guess she wasn't paying attention during the VP debate (83)
(NPR) Unlikely Only NPR could favorably compare Obama with Reagan. It's not news, it's your tax dollars at work (177)
(AP) Stupid Media takes notice of how much the media is taking notice of Rush Limbaugh. It's not news (86)
(OC Register) Unlikely "If we have more STD prevention, it will be safer for loose women to go into bars and pick up feckless men." And why should anyone oppose the stimulus bill? (91)
(Yahoo) Amusing So Pooty-Poot is all 'U guyz r so stoopid' and Billyboy Clinton is like 'Ha ha you suck' and totally unfriends him on Facebook (39)

Fri January 30, 2009
(USA Today) Interesting Obama begins discussing global trade imbalances. Hu's on first (134)
(Canada.com) Asinine Teachers: "Our students are out of control." Ministry of Education: "Here, check out this scientology website" (149)
(Biz Journals) Hero Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) plans to introduce legislation that will cap compensation for employees of any private company that accepts federal dollars. Suck it, CEO's (410)
(McClatchy) Hero Former USS Cole commander: "We shouldn't make policy decisions based on human rights" (394)
(Washington Times) Asinine With no ulterior motives whatsoever, RNC elects Michael Steele as chairman (398)
(Guardian.com) Weird British politician say campaigning is like sex, presumedly because the electorate is farked (21)
(Think Progress) Obvious Rody Giuliani defends Wall Street bonuses, claiming that the high bonuses created surpluses for the city when he was mayor. Oh, and 9/11 (179)
(MSNBC) Dumbass Houston Mayor under fire for appearing in newspaper ad depicting MLK as "Dream" Obama as "Change" and himself as "Hope". (with pic) (69)
(PolitiFact) Followup Obama has broken his first promise (455)
(Some Guy) Interesting Owner of presidential-themed restaurant surprised by the customer backlash when he emailed the announcement for the new "Obama Room", probably because it replaced "Cheney's dinner critter shooting range" (116)
(Boston Globe) Amusing Samantha Power, 2008: "Hillary Clinton is a monster". Samantha Power, 2009: "Uh, hi boss" (66)
(CNN) Amusing Less than 24 hours after Blagojevich was given the boot, all references to him have been removed from the state capitol (78)
(Fox News) Silly Showing the kind of hard-hitting reporting the media is famous for, a new study concludes 28% of people cried during Obama's inauguration. Since this is from FOXNews, you know why they were crying (42)
(CNN) Dumbass CNN suggest we drop the whole "First 100 days in office" thing for Obama (80)
(NYPost) Spiffy Watch out, bankers - you done gone and pissed off Barack now: "That is the height of irresponsibility. It is shameful ... there will be time for them get bonuses. Now is not that time." (283)
(SeattlePI) Obvious The Republican Party's new motto: "No" (423)
(BBC) Obvious After storming out of a debate on Gaza at the World Economic Forum, Turkish Prime Minister given hero's welcome, which consists of meat on stick and a can of crab juice (62)
(Guardian.com) Interesting Thirty years ago, a group of radical women began arguing that all feminists should be lesbians. Today, Farkers argue that all women should be lesbians. Ah, progress (138)

Thu January 29, 2009
(Slate) Interesting Not news: Man finds discarded document at college library. News: it's called "CHENEY The Evolution of Presidential War Powers." Fark: It's Elizabeth Cheney's 1988 college thesis (93)
(STLToday) NewsFlash Blagowned (619)
(ABC News) Hero Obama signs bill assuring equal pay for womens into law. Now go make me a sammich, dude (341)
(ABC News) Obvious First public monument to former president George W. Bush unveiled (74)
(Huffington Post) Followup Ted Haggard goes on Oprah to talk about "dark and repulsive" sexual thoughts he has had. Oddly, he was not referring to his sex dreams about Oprah (204)
(YouTube) Dumbass Reporter: "Ms. Pelosi, how does STD education stimulate the economy?" Pelosi: "Errr ummm well I like prevention" (382)
(CBS News) Interesting Dear Iranian people, How are you? I am fine. The weather had been cold in Washington. How is it there? Sincerely, President Obama (111)
(Washington Post) Interesting "Buy American" clause in the stimulus bill could bar foreign steel and spark a massive trade war not seen since Qui-Gon was sent to negotiate with Nute Gunray (202)
(Bloomberg) Obvious Bloomberg: "Hey, President Obama: Got a few questions about that openness pledge." Obama: "No problem; I -- LOOK: A UFO" (195)
(Fox News) Amusing Rep. John Carter (R-TX) introduces "Rangel Rule" to allow all Americans the same tax benefits afforded to Charlie Rangel (D-Costa Rica) - namely, to blow off your taxes and blame The Man if anybody points that out (392)
(AP) Followup Fearing he may have toupee for his blunders, Blago now wants to combover and clear the hair in trial's closing statements. Fail tag waits in the wings, bangs at door. Bouffant (181)
(The Local (Germany)) Obvious Polls show that most Germans want their own Obama, that they can hug and squeeze and hold and call George (71)
(Some Guy) Obvious McCain campaign vindicated as Ohio prosecutor uncovers rampant voter fraud. "Rampant" does mean "one guy who turned himself in months ago," right? (45)
(NBC 4) Dumbass Mayor Crackhead in trouble with the IRS for not paying his taxes. Again. This is not a repeat from 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 or 2004 (83)
(Canada.com) Weird Serbian parliamentarians go on strike for two hours to protest televised tennis (12)
(MSNBC) Obvious White house relaxes dress code, concedes that nobody in this economy can afford an entire suit anyway (334)
(Yahoo) Obvious Remember how Obama pledged not to hire any lobbyist in his administration? Yeah, about that... (444)
(Marketwatch) Interesting Will the global economic crisis destroy the dollar and force us to adopt a North American currency? You can bet your bottom Amero that it won't (196)
(Daily Kos) Dumbass Former GOP Rep. Dick Armey lives up to his name. Tells Joan Walsh, "I'm glad you could never be my wife having to listen to that prattle" (88)
(Newsblaze) Dumbass Pledge mentions God? Fine. Pledge while you see a picture of the President? Conservative outrage time (246)

Wed January 28, 2009
(Daily Kos) Obvious Stimulus bill passes the House of Representatives with zero Republican votes. Good thing Obama cut out big portions of the bill and spent all that time and effort in order to work together with the GOP (697)
(Daily Kos) Fail Norm Coleman fakes a website crash so he can pretend people care about helping him steal his Senate seat back from Franken (141)
(New York Daily News) Amusing Obama tries to walk through a window. No doubt this proves he's an idiot, as will be proven by billions of copies of the embarrassing photo being posted in the forums (281)
(Wonkette) Amusing George H.W. Bush shows the world where W. got his sense of humor (89)
(NY Observer) Weird Andrea Mitchell has become a gay icon: "She's the Golden Girls rolled into one: the body of Sophia, the sassiness of Dorothy and probably a sex kitten like Blanche, and most likely from the Midwest, like Rose" (49)
(DCist) Fail President Obama complains that DC residents always take the day off when it snows, when he has no trouble walking the 50 feet from his bedroom to the Oval Office (203)
(Some Guy) Followup The House votes to not force you to watch any more of those annoying DTV commercials (314)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious The stimulus plan costs so much because it's a massive payout by the Democrats to groups that support them and to programs they've been dreaming about for four decades (658)
(CNN) Sad Obama: We're going to give income tax "rebates" to people who pay no income tax. GOP: uhhkay (476)
(Guardian.com) Stupid Ahmadinejad demands apology from US, threatens photoshop retaliation (244)
(London Times) Spiffy Russia suspends plans to deploy missiles in Kaliningrad in response to recent American moves. Maybe this Obama guy is on to something after all (84)
(Washington Post) Sad Q: You're an openly gay physician overseeing an AIDS program that's saved 2 million lives. The Obama Administration: A. Gives you a medal, B. Throws a parade, or C. Asks you to leave Day 1 because you're a Bush appointee? (217)
(Boston Globe) Dumbass Boston politician runs for mayor on the "mistakes were made" platform (15)
(SFGate) Silly Why can't the Berkeley public library get their scanner machines serviced? Because the maintenance company hasn't signed the Nuclear Free Berkeley Act. "The act is meant to be a blow against nuclear war." Wait...what? (153)
(AZCentral) Hero Arizona Legislator submits bill proposing that State Legislators lose a day's pay for every day they fail to vote for legislation (50)
(Washington Post) Dumbass Bill Clinton's former budget director doesn't think President Obama's stimulus plan can walk and chew gum at the same time. "Doing stimulus and long-term investment is hard, mmmkay?" (86)
(KDBC.com) Silly Congress to consider important rule change to allow legislators to wear bolo ties during sessions in the House chambers. Spats and ascot lobbyists awaiting decision with bated breath (31)

Tue January 27, 2009
(Chicago Sun-Times) Dumbass Now that he's won his protracted battle to get into the Senate, Roland Burris wants you to know that without him, Obama would not be president (60)
(Politico) Obvious Rush Limbaugh told by GOP leadership to STFU. Rush responds by saying there is no GOP leadership, just a bunch of pansies awed by The One (446)
(The Raw Story) Cool UN officials announce they have enough evidence to prosecute Rumsfeld for war crimes (652)
(NYPost) Dumbass Obama's stimulus plan includes a bunch of cash for that firm who registered your dead grandmother to vote...twice (367)
(Reuters) Misc Clinton says the world is exhaling now that Obama is President. Inhaling not discussed (43)
(CNN) Obvious Sarah Palin launches political action committee, the JoeSixPac, to support future Mavricks (240)
(Huffington Post) Cool President Obama to Citibank's plan to waste $50 million on a new jet: "FIX IT" (388)
(NewsBusters) Dumbass Carl Bernstein patiently explains Journalism 101 to Rachel Maddow (533)
(Oregon Live) Followup Portland Mayor Sam Adams, 45, reported to have made out with 17-year-old Beau Breedlove in a publicly owned bathroom. Any stereotypes I missed? (153)
(Talking Points Memo) Hero House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers sends notice to Karl Rove: "Change has come to Washington, and I hope Karl Rove is ready for it. After two years of stonewalling, it's time for him to talk" (394)
(Quad City Times) Dumbass Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack identifies the greatest crisis threatening the Midwest: The lack of Internet in rural areas (112)
(CNN) Amusing Unhappy at his rapidly increasing irrelevance, Rush Limbaugh resorts to schoolyard bully tactics (525)

Mon January 26, 2009
(KCRA 3) Dumbass Govenator wants to tax rounds of golf, auto repairs, veterinary care, amusement park and sporting event admissions, as well as appliance and furniture repairs. Is Florida accepting new residents? (141)
(Gawker) Amusing Colorado appoints new senator, somehow manages to do so without scandal, buffoonery, or drama. Illinois and New York expected to pimp slap Colorado, tell it to get with the damn bread and circuses already (21)
(ABC News) Interesting President Obama's first formal TV interview as President goes to his good friends at MSNB... wait, al-Arabiya? Really? (629)
(ChiTown) Obvious Chicago bus drivers union complains their drivers can't afford the $100 fine for blowing red lights. City agrees, sticks taxpayers with the bill. Result - violations double in one year. Who-da thunk it? (97)
(MSNBC) Followup Geithner confirmed after a taxing debate (219)
(Politico) Amusing McCain Twitters. Time to change the meds again? (32)
(Huffington Post) Interesting The Obama administration may have a scandal brewing, hints Bob Woodward cryptically (132)
(National Review) Amusing National Review already hyperventilating over Obama: "This is a relapse into paganism" (251)
(Gawker) Cool Cheney's undisclosed location disclosed (89)
(MSNBC) Followup Iceland's government collapses as financial crisis worsens. Bjork spotted holding "Will warble atonally for food" sign (111)
(Breitbart.com) Amusing In a much anticipated match up, we have in this corner noted neocon and creepy smiley guy, Bill Kristol. And in the opposing corner, member of the Film Actors Guild, and outspoken slow talker Matt Damon (221)
(Chicago Tribune) Interesting Blagojevich, his political days numbered, admits he was considering Oprah for Obama's vacant Senate seat. Because if there's one thing Oprah has, it's political experience (69)
(Yahoo) Followup McCain is unhappy with the contents of the stimulus bill, wants it re-written. Democrats respond "come up with another 97 electoral votes and we'll get right on that" (137)
(Politico) Unlikely If the stimulus doesn't work, welcome to a post-apocalyptic nightmare world where China and India rule and America is just an overgrown Albania (534)
(CBC) Obvious Peguis fail to secure native land rights in Canada, after someone points out that they come from the wrong pole (21)
(Drudge) Obvious Pelosi says picturing her naked will save the economy (155)
(Daily Mail) Obvious Obama's approval rating drops 15 percent in one week on news that the unicorns and rainbows are on backorder (465)
(Boston Globe) Misc Massachusetts has now gone [0] days without the Speaker of the House resigning due to charges of corruption (26)
(NYPost) Dumbass NY Gov. Paterson whines to guests at a private event that Caroline Kennedy was "nasty" to him and was disrespectful, and he most definitely would have choked a biatch if someone could put his hands on her neck for him (17)
(USA Today) Interesting Impeachment trial of Gov. Blagojevich will go on without him. To adapt to his absence, prosecutors will question a sock puppet operated by defense counsel, who will say what he "thinks" the governor would say (35)
(My Fox DC) Fail If you missed the inauguration because of security problems, you can gather at the Capitol and watch the swearing-in on your laptops over the weekend. No, Obama won't be there. Bottled water is still $10 though (49)
(Gawker) Hero There's already has a torrid love affair within the White House, and it's not some 50-year-old dude and a fat gay hooker from a conservative news site. Change we can believe in (with hot underwear model pics) (48)
(Reuters) Sad FOR SALE: Really cheap. The State of California is accepting bids from qualifying buyers. The tenth largest economy in the world is for sale. BRING CASH (91)
(BBC) Stupid Congressional Republicans are starting to sour on the economic stimuWOOOO WOOOO LETS RUN THIS MOTHER INTO THE GROUND (181)
(Telegraph) Interesting NATO is suffering from "enlargement fatigue." Hopefully, from the waist up (40)
(AP) Obvious In order to honor Obama's vow to eliminate earmarks, Congress has decided to stop using the term "earmark" (70)
(WTVY) Amusing Looks like Cheney booby-trapped his old office (58)
(538) Interesting Constitutional amendment proposed to eliminate gubernatorial appointments to the Senate. U.S. PoliSci 101 students everywhere sense impending six-page essay (188)

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