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Sun February 08, 2009
(WorldNetDaily) Asinine It's not censorship when the liberals do it: Fairness Doctrine would censor Christian programming in favor of Islamic/Atheist/non-Christian (224)
(Huffington Post) Dumbass Ann Coulter being investigated for voter, gender fraud  T-Shirt (102)
(New York Daily News) Unlikely Yemen releases 170 al-Qaida suspects after they uncross their fingers and sign strongly worded pledges against terrorism (42)
(UPI) Ironic Good news: New tax means a pack of cigarettes will soon top $10 in New York, prompting many to quit. Bad news: This will reduce the revenue stream for all the other health programs the NY Dem's hack and spend policies rely on (263)
(Yahoo) Interesting Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius may have to start checking her taxes (36)
(WGRZ) Stupid Ever wonder what the "Federal Communication Commission's Universal Service Fund" surcharge on your phone bill is for? Now you know (54)
(Washington Post) Unlikely To: Obama's cabinet. From: American taxpayers: RE: Now that we've proven the tax code is too complex for even you limousine liberals to figure out, myabe you'll finally consider a flat tax (480)
(Boston Globe) Obvious We don't need an "arts czar" even though it appeals to the NPR crowd. Or because it appeals to the NPR crowd (175)
(Politico) Obvious Senate GOP says they were left out. Someone call a waaaaaambulance (291)
(Boston Globe) Unlikely It's only coincidence that close personal friends who helped pay off politician's debts also got rich from government contracts (15)
(Some Wikileaker) Hero 6,780 quasi-secret congressional reports leaked, covering everything from relations with Israel to abortion legislation. Dig in, this could be a goldmine (157)
(London Times) Cool Eddie Izzard to enter politics. Elections to feature new 'Cake or death?' mode (53)
(CNN) Asinine Iranian police deny arrest of Swiss diplomat; though they do say that they have now mastered 14 of the 22 tools on their pocket knives  T-Shirt (31)
(The Sun) Obvious Pooty-Poot outs himself. The Sun is there (131)

Sat February 07, 2009
(NewsBusters) Weird New York Times blogger dreams of Obama in the shower, then things get weird (87)
(Fox News) Dumbass Guess who said "There's a 30% chance we'll get the stimulus wrong" a) House Republicans b) Senate Republicans c) Vice President Joe Biden (359)
(Telegraph) Interesting Obama sends Henry Kissinger to Moscow to work out New World Order deal. Who could be better suited for the job? (128)
(OC Register) Obvious "Jesus took a handful of loaves and two fish and fed 5,000 people. Barack wants to take a trillion pieces of pork and feed it to a handful of Democratic Party interest groups." (201)
(Reason Magazine) Unlikely To improve the economy eliminate the corporate income tax (183)
(Comedy Central) Obvious Jon Stewart destroys Dick Cheney (136)
(Constitutional scholar) Interesting For the first time in 96 years, the size of the U.S. House of Representatives will be permanently increased, and without any constitutional amendment. This is good news, for Obama (190)
(Crooks & Liars) Obvious GOP, 2009: $800 Billion stimulus package is too much. GOP, 2001: $1.4 TRILLION stimulus package essential (98)
(USA Today) Obvious Sarah Palin's husband and 9 state employees held in contempt; you would be contemptuous too if you had to deal with Sarah Palin (50)
(Some Censored Guy) Asinine Sen. Debbie Stabenow proposes hearings on the "We can't beat right-wing talk radio in the ratings, we don't like what they say, so let's shut them down" Act (418)
(NPR) Obvious Apparently, some people are getting just a wee bit tired of "All Obama, All The Time" (100)
(The News & Observer (NC)) Stupid Professor barred from buying software to backup research because of his name (92)
(Washington Post) Interesting In his bid for the Virginia governor's mansion, Terry McAuliffe will have to learn how wield his most powerful tool without staining his chances of victory (30)
(RealClearPolitics) Obvious "I won" isn't enough (432)

Fri February 06, 2009
(Daily Kos) Hero Obama's administration says the DEA raids in states that have approved medical marijuana will stop (323)
(CNN) News Senate reaches tentative agreement on $780 billion stimulus plan (1106)
(Huffington Post) Dumbass CIA Director-nominee Leon Panetta performs an extraordinary rendition on his statement about renditions (45)
(Yahoo) Stupid Just when you thought things couldn't get worse, Joe the Plumber: GOP Strategist (190)
(Financial Times) Dumbass Barney Frank: You know what we should do? Cap everyone's salary (281)
(Townhall) Followup Michelle Malkin slaps down Ashley Judd. They really should just settle this in a wading pool full of jello (100)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious Obama's new rules on executive compensation has as many loopholes as a poorly knitted sweater (134)
(Crooks & Liars) Dumbass Glenn Beck: Gore = Hitler (293)
(MSNBC) Stupid Two Afghans face death over translation of the Quran. Good thing America expended all that money and lives to overthrow the Taliban and liberate the country (213)
(Huffington Post) Interesting Instead of simply rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, new GOP chairman Michael Steele has opted to throw all the deck chairs overboard and order new ones (150)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting The trillion-dollar stimulus bill will cause inflation because demand for government securities will wane and the Fed will have to print money like Parker Brothers (283)
(Canada.com) Fail U.S. overpaid banks by $78 billion last year, but that's OK, because every time the government spends money it's stimulus that creates jobs (48)
(BBC) Sad UN to Palestinians: No, you can't haz any aid. Not yours (112)
(The Daily Show) Obvious 2009: Republicans go on TV and decry borrowing money to help Americans. 2008: Republicans love borrowing money to help Iraqis. The Daily Show brings the video comparisons (85)
(Yahoo) Obvious President Obama gives first official "but... but... Bush" explanation of his Presidency, throws in a "let's think big, not small" for good measure (285)
(Honolulu Star-Bulletin) Cool Hawaii State Legislature takes first step to making their state fabulous (51)
(Reason Magazine) Hero A new bill will force Maryland SWAT teams to reveal how often they break down the doors of grandmothers and shoot their dogs while hunting deady marijuana and other vicious pharmaceuticals (348)
(AP) Spiffy Val Kilmer ponders run for NM Governor in 2010, pie for breakfast every day (73)
(Miami Herald) Ironic Feminists yesterday: Pregnancy is a woman's choice. Feminists today: Your extreme fertility offends me (186)
(Huffington Post) Asinine Now that it took three whole minutes to find pictures of Bush in the Oval Office without a jacket, will Andrew Card apologize for his mock outrage? (193)
(Washington Post) Asinine Virginia will be the next state to tell bar and restaurant owners how to run their businesses (553)
(Politico) Spiffy Obama ditches his teleprompter and rips the Republicans a new one. "What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point Seriously." (451)
(Mass Live) Asinine Massachusetts lawmakers, having solved all other problems, look to ban shadows. Peter Pan unavailable for comment (22)
(Daily Kos) Asinine How do you know when a political party is only doing what is best for the nation? When they claim that their resistance to the stimulus bill is modeled on the Taliban (53)
(Some Guy) Interesting Obama has appointed nine members of the Trilateral Commission to top-level and key positions, while simultaneously forcing tinfoil companies to go out of business (28)
(Townhall) Unlikely Ann Coulter: Single mothers are a bigger threat to America than smoking (134)
(CNN) Interesting CIA director nominee Leon Panetta hates freedom, Jack Bauer (31)
(National Review) Amusing Obama admin looked into the possibility of sending debit cards to all 150 million American households. No, really (144)

Thu February 05, 2009
(Boston Globe) Asinine State hires lobbyists to lobby state to prevent the state from banning the state from hiring lobbyists (43)
(Reuters) Obvious Obama: "Americans clearly support my stimulus because they voted for change in November." Americans: "Ummm... we need to talk about that..." (525)
(The Hill) Fail 2008: Democratic lawmakers slam AIG for hosting lavish retreats with tax payer money. 2009: Democratic lawmakers attend lavish retreat paid for with tax payer money (79)
(ABC News) Dumbass ABC Business Reporter: Reducing CEO pay unfair because Obama gets free house rent, free car lease, free airplane rides (370)
(Washington Post) Amusing Today's cabinet appointee with tax "issues" is: .... (drumroll) ...... Hilda Solis, the labor secretary nominee (296)
(NPR) Scary Ruth Bader Ginsburg has had surgery for pancreatic cancer, intends to be back on the bench when the court reconvenes in three weeks. Yowza (341)
(Fox News) Asinine Under Obama, the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives will now become the Office of Initiatives (166)
(Washington Post) Cool Guest editorial understatement of the year: "The writer is President of the United States" (213)
(NBCDFW.com) Amusing Not News: Former President George W Bush offered a job. News: With a Dallas hardware company. FARK: As a greeter (207)
(Reuters) Spiffy The limits on executive pay Obama announced yesterday have already saved taxpayers $10 billion (137)
(Financial Times) Interesting Iran says negotiations with Obama administration will succeed only if US accepts Iran's right to have a nuclear program, unicorns, and latest Photoshop updates (155)
(CNN) Interesting Senate changes "Buy American" clause to "would sure be swell of you" (141)
(St. Petersburg Times) Florida State GOP official loses job after sending email: "How can 2,000,000 blacks get into Washington, DC in 1 day in sub zero temps when 200,000 couldn't get out of New Orleans in 85 degree temps with four days notice?" (614)
(Some Guy) Scary In opposing the stimulus package, House Republicans are in a strange position: the more the economy fails, the more they win (277)
(MSNBC) Sad PA governor calls for major budget cut to school for the deaf. Bet they didn't see that coming (106)
(Salon) Fail The new Great Communicator ... isn't: how Obama and the Dems are abdicating the media war over the stimulus to the Republicans (175)

Wed February 04, 2009
(Daily Kos) Obvious Tom Daschle: Tax Cheat. Sarah Palin: Tax misunderstanderer (350)
(Google) Scary The front-runner for Israel's election next week, Benjamin Netanyahu, says Israel's offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza last month did not go far enough and he would topple Hamas. Here we go again (249)
(The Register Citizen) Asinine As Connecticut faces $1 billion deficit, legislator's top priority is requiring that all state landscaping contracts use the state flower for at least one-fifth of their plantings (31)
(SFGate) Asinine The nation's digital TV conversion, which was to be delayed, then not delayed, then delayed, then not delayed, then delayed, then not delayed, is now officially delayed. And we mean it this time. Honest (239)
(IndyStar) Obvious The stimulus is a sham. Wow (828)
(The Atlantic) Obvious The "Buy American" provisions in the stimulus bill will violate international law, make America look even more selfish, and result in about 1000 jobs, which is nothing in a workforce of 140 million (238)
(Yahoo) Dumbass Cheney says we're about to be attacked and it's all Obama's fault (584)
(3 News New Zealand) Amusing Good news, America: President Obama hasn't smoked a cigarette on the White House grounds since he took office. Isn't that great? Now, go buy a car (170)
(YouTube) Dumbass Nancy Pelosi claims "500 million Americans lose jobs every month." Damn that's like a billion jobs (255)
(AP) Amusing Letterman to Blago: "The more you talked, and the more you repeated your innocence, the more I said to myself, 'Oh, this guy is guilty'" (67)
(AP) Obvious Elizabeth Edwards is writing a book about how to be a doormat while your husband treats you like crap (69)
(CNN) Followup Rights groups pleads with House to extend deadline for TV switch, expect sympathy for the poor, disabled, elderly. They've apparently never actually seen the show (164)
(Daily Kos) Asinine Obama cutting defense budget by 10 percent and implementing much less expensive hope-based security plan (334)
(Daily Kos) Hero Obama set to cap the pay of executives at banks getting bailout money (725)

Tue February 03, 2009
(CSMonitor) Obvious Realizing that Alaska doesn't hold enough suckers to help sustain her career, Sarah Palin has ventured into Texas politics (152)
(Fox News) Cool Obama takes responsibility and apologizes for handling of Daschle nomination (399)
(CNN) Dumbass GOP leaders list items they deem wasteful and frivolous on the stimulus bill, such as money for state and local fire stations, flood reduction projects, and alcohol and substance abuse reduction. Yeah, none of those are important at all (478)
(AP) Interesting Kyrgyzstan shutting down key U.S. air base due to America's flagrant use of vowels (115)
(Breitbart.com) Stupid Obama: "Can we talk?" Iran: "Drop dead, infidel." France: "See? Just proves the Bush Doctrine was a failure" (332)
(Huffington Post) Asinine Senate budget chairman says Wall Street will need many more billions of dollars before it's solvent, promises to attach rider allowing taxpayers to inflict one free whipping to each CEO who takes a bailout (102)
(Yahoo) Sad Some of the 21 Republicans who voted against confirming Eric Holder as attorney general last night did so because he refused to promise NOT to prosecute CIA agents and others who may have tortured detainees (204)
(Huffington Post) Dumbass Barack Obama taps a non-Arabic speaker as Ambassador to Iraq (120)
(MSNBC) Obvious Daschle joins Killefer and Richardson on da rejected Obama list (478)
(LA Times) Fail Week 1: VP Joe Biden smugly makes fun of Chief Justice John Roberts for messing up the oath of office. Week 2: VP Joe Biden messes up Hillary Clinton's oath of office (120)
(Breitbart.com) Amusing Another Obama nominee has some "issues" with tax return or as the new administration likes to call it: Tuesday (229)
(Boston Globe) Asinine Dissatisfied with sales tax revenues in their own state, Massachusetts decides to tax purchases in other states. This should end well (157)
(AlterNet) Obvious Media have glorified torture and made it acceptable in past decade, much like 1970s acceptance of traffic accidents in CHiPs (79)
(Washington Post) Scary In 1976, the richest 1% of Americans took home 9% of national income. In 2006, they took home 20%. The last time that happened, 1928 (464)
(Wall Street Journal) Dumbass "If a certain sort of conservative tends to be moralistic about sex, liberals tend to be moralistic about money. That makes Tom Daschle the equivalent of a televangelist caught in a sex scandal." (101)
(Some Gun Nut) Fail Problem: the NRA has become increasingly irrelevent due to relaxed gun laws and decreased paranoia. Solution: elect insane rocker Ted Nugent to head the organization (205)
(Some Guy) Obvious Secretary of State to visit Asian paymasters on first trip abroad (14)
(Politico) Cool Watch out Sarah Palin; Ashley Judd is COMING FOR YOU (85)
(Belleville News-Democrat) Stupid Blagojevich plans to visit Letterman. Willing to swap his spot on the show for an ambassadorship (21)
(Yahoo) Amusing GOP Congressional staffers invite Joe the Plumber to weekly strategy meeting. And you thought the Obama years wouldn't be funny  T-Shirt (371)

Mon February 02, 2009
(India Daily) Ironic Obama has now issued 17 exceptions to his "no lobbyist" rule. Maybe it would be easier to ban non-lobbyists instead (207)
(AJC) Weird Just how financially bad off can Georgia's university system be if they can employ experts in oral sex? (49)
(Huffington Post) Amusing The very rare "throwing shoe at world leader" trifecta is now in play (66)
(Think Progress) Obvious House Republicans: This study proves our stimulus bill is better than the Democrats'. Economist who wrote the study: Take my name off this whargarbl and get out of my office (300)
(UPI) Unlikely Move over, Hannah Van Buren. Martha Washington was the original FLILF (217)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Obvious America's conversion to renewable energy will take longer than Obama has promised because the current grid can't handle it and there aren't enough guys to expand it, thanks to decades of underinvestment (234)
(Washington Post) Interesting Cabinet nominee Tom Daschle apologizes for cheating on his taxes and getting caught (240)
(Breitbart.com) Interesting Moammar Gadhafi selected to head the African Union, apparently because Robert Mugabe didn't want it and Idi Amin is dead (33)
(CNN) Amusing Obama on who has access to his Blackberry: "Everyone look at the person sitting on your left. Now look at the person sitting on your right. None of you have my e-mail address" (143)
(Washington Post) Weird Ohio debates celebrating Darwin Day. Planned games include primordial ooze wrestling and Are You Smarter Than A Monkey? (45)
(Boston Globe) Misc Boston city councilors who used to get tickets fixed by claiming "official business" stop after learning fines are tripled if they abuse the privilege (12)
(AOL) Obvious Obama is to Kentucky as Bush is to New Orleans (304)
(Huffington Post) Cool "Petraeus made the mistake of thinking he was still dealing with George Bush instead of with Barack Obama" (461)
(Salon) Amusing Failed out of college, failed the bar. Ran for senate, lied about his affiliation, lied about his endorsements, lost by double digits anyway. And stem cells are the same as the Holocaust. Ladies and Gentlemen, your new RNC chairman (112)
(Dallas News) Obvious Obama issues executive order that the CIA still has authority to carry out what are known as renditions, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the United States. Where is your Change® now? (206)
(Crooks & Liars) Interesting New RNC chairman says GOP should reach out to gay voters. Isn't that how Larry Craig and Ted Haggard got in trouble? (265)
(Press Connects) Asinine Old and Busted: Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-isgrace) not paying taxes. The New Hotness: Charlie Rangel taking an all-expenses paid trip to the Caribbean on CitiBank's dime...after voting for their bailout (179)

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