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Sun February 22, 2009
(Crooks & Liars) Amusing World's smallest violin alert: apparently resumes full of legalizing torture and lying about weapons of mass destruction aren't hot commodities in the private sector (76)
(CBS Minneapolis) Asinine Obama moves to keep millions of Bush Administration e-mails secret. Change we can deceive in (155)
(Media Matters) Dumbass Fox News: Eric Holder became Attorney General by the skin of his teeth. Reality: Holder's margin of confirmation was greater than the total confirmation votes cast for a sitting Supreme Court Justice (35)
(Politico) Amusing Southern Governors: We can complain our way out of this recession, so we won't be needing any infrastructure funding. Smart Governors: Dibs (92)
(Daily Kos) Dumbass Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL): "Well his father was Kenyan and they said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven't seen any birth certificate. You have to be born in America to be president. " (260)
(Some Guy) Obvious Obama's February surprise: a total collapse of Mexico (109)
(UPI) Interesting Ted Kennedy not ready for the obituaries. "We'll drive off that bridge when we come to it," he never said, but really should have (39)
(Salon) Stupid In the interest of bipartisanship, Fox News war games the coming civil insurrection (401)
(UPI) Obvious Hillary Clinton concludes her Asian trip to meet with the U.S.'s Chinese overlords (30)
(YouTube) Stupid Ann Coulter and Joy Behar sex debate. The loser? The viewing public (63)
(Talking Points Memo) Amusing Norm Coleman wants the votes he originally wanted thrown out, then counted, then omitted, then included, to be thrown out again. Confused? You won't be after this week's episode of Recount (82)
(Reuters) Cool Obama aims to halve deficit by end of first term. Just like Bush's goal, but with an extra "l" (341)
(Orlando Sentinel) Florida Florida legislature working hard to ensure a steady stream of Florida-tagged Fark headlines for the foreseeable future (34)
(Minneapolis Star Tribune) Interesting Lawmakers in North Dakota have approved a measure that gives a fertilized human egg the legal rights of a human being, a step that would essentially ban abortion in the state (179)
(London Times) Cool "Iran: the friendliest people in the world." Bonus: Pics of girls with decidedly not sharp knees (153)
(Yahoo) Scary W stocks up on flashlights, batteries, and lube at local hardware store. Does he know something we don't? (122)
(Nerve) Interesting How Conservatives have twisted the idea of "rights" to crack down on free speech, pictures of boobies (118)
(Daily Kos) Amusing Sarah Steelman on the Republican Party: "There's a good old boys' network out there that's hard to penetrate..." Apparently she doesn't know you're supposed to tap your toe first (23)

Sat February 21, 2009
(Chicago Sun-Times) Interesting Obama says people should see tax cut help by April 1, also adds that Burger King is making left-handed Whoppers, Taco Bell will re-name The Liberty Bell, and that this year's spaghetti harvest will be the best one in decades (493)
(Examiner) Obvious It wasn't just Wall Street that used off-balance sheet accounting practices; GOP Congress and Bush White House hid $2.7 trillion deficit on seperate ledger (127)
(Google) Unlikely Pakistan hopes Taliban will continue cease-fire after essentially giving them control of region, hopes mouse won't ask for anything more after giving him a cookie (76)
(Telegraph) Asinine Barack Obama continues to bring change to the Oval Office by announcing plans to appoint Louis Susman, one of his biggest fundraisers, as ambassador to the UK, instead of an experienced diplomat. At least he speaks English (171)
(Washington Post) Interesting Before Obama was even elected, Biden warned he'd be tested by the world. Well, it's happened since day one. How has he done? Click to find out (260)
(Politico) Survey OK, can anyone name a single Bush War on Terror practice that Obama condemed as a candidate that Obama hasn't embraced as President. Anyone? Bueller? Anyone? (250)
(Reuters) Hero Obama orders Treasury to begin cutting taxes. Republicans complain in 3...2...1 (272)
(Honolulu Advertiser) Asinine 20 months before election day 2010, the GOP robocalls have begun (30)
(Stuff) Interesting William Shatner wants. To be. The Prime. Minister of Canada. What sort of. Person thinks that. An ex-actor has what it. Takes to lead. A country (84)
(Politico) Interesting In normal bad economic times, one turns to experienced business leaders to fix things. Since this time around, those "leaders" got us into this mess, Obama goes in a different direction (44)
(St. Petersburg Times) Florida County code officials say a business owner must take down a sign that prompted protests because it called for "one nation under Obama." First amendment surrenders (35)
(The New York Times) Interesting Obama Administration - Guantanamo Bay prison meets the standard for humane treatment laid out in the Geneva Conventions - Suck It Libs (128)
(AZCentral) Cool Rage Against the Arpaio (156)
(The Raw Story) Video Glenn Beck's gut tells him "America is headed for a Civil War between the bubbas and the U.S. government." Fox & Friends host climbs under the table in fear (193)
(Hot Air) Followup Bobby Jindal follows through with rejection of stimulus money for Louisiana, calling it useless and corrupt. Ray Nagin: Did someone call my name?  T-Shirt (181)

Fri February 20, 2009
(Huffington Post) Interesting McKiernan: I need 30,000 more troops in Afghanistan. Obama: What are you going to do with them? McKiernan: Um... err... Obama: How about no? (126)
(UPI) Misc Greek prime minister rejects all-party government despite repeated chants of "toga toga toga" (38)
(Wonkette) Spiffy Obama joins Beatles in the "Bigger than Jesus" club (94)
(Daily Kos) Spiffy Marijuana now more popular than Republicans (440)
(Huffington Post) Dumbass Ann Coulter's latest gem: "Chris Matthews wants to have sex with President Obama" (w/video) (153)
(KHASTV.com) Dumbass It takes a special talent to outcrazy Rush, but it looks like Alan Keyes is up to the task (150)
(Breitbart.com) Interesting Obama warns nation's mayors not to waste the stimulus money on gold-plated snow plows and expense account zoning board lunches (184)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Misc In getting his economic stimulus bill passed, perhaps Obama should have earmarked himself $1.74 million to cover his election victory party tab (72)
(C|Net) Scary Republicans introduce bill that would require home Wi-Fi users to keep their logs for two years. This is a good thing right? (375)
(Edmonton Sun) Silly The invisible sky wizard bus wars continue: Islamic Council to run ads which reaffirm Allah's existence, explode in crowded markets (173)
(Network World) Scary One-third of the broadband stimulus funds will be overseen by the Department of Agriculture (110)
(Google) Interesting Bill Clinton to Obama: Talk more optimistically about the economy. Oh, and bite your bottom lip every once in a while (236)
(BBC) Interesting Tutu reminds Obama that he's no longer in Kansas (98)
(The Atlantic) Ironic Congressional Republicans submitted a resolution to establish a plan to commemorate Ronald Regan's 100th birthday in 2011, costing taxpayers $1 million (476)

Thu February 19, 2009
(Financial Times) Obvious The UN discovers, to its utter shock, that Iran has enough uranium to build nukes. Why didn't anyone warn them about this before? (426)
(Huffington Post) Followup South Carolina Gov. Sanford stands on priciple refuses stimulus money under any circumstances. Just kidding, he said being against the plan "doesn't preclude taking the money." (288)
(NewsOK) Scary No anti-Obama signs on your car, citizens. Unless you LIKE being investigated (374)
(Daily Kos) Interesting Apparently, the best way to describe the current financial meltdown is to compare it to Catch-22 (153)
(Wired) Interesting US Predator drones being flown out of Pakistan? Don't take Sen. Feinstein's word for it, try Google Earth (96)
(SacBee) Followup California Legislature, like, finally passes a like, budget package, and is all "let's totally send this on to that movie dude who's, like, the Governor, who says he'll like, sign it and shiat" (108)
(Washington Post) Dumbass Republican president of Alaska Senate asks Sarah Palin what some of her plans and proposals for the upcoming legislative session. "I feel like you guys are always trying to put me on the spot" (199)
(Boston Globe) Obvious Massachusetts considering Hummer tax. Next thing you know they'll start taxing steak too (158)
(Salon) PSA Yesterday: Bush Derangement Syndrome. Today: Obama Whiplash Syndrome (123)
(CNSNews) Sad Another great benefit of the stimulus package: Lower wages (151)
(The Hill) Unlikely "The United States' presence in Pakistan and Afghanistan is only furthering the spread of terrorism and President Obama could be charged with war crimes, former Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-S.C.) wrote Wednesday" (89)
(AZCentral) Followup Obama: "there will be no assistance for speculators who bought multiple homes as investments, or for people who bought homes they couldn't afford and then tapped all their home equity." So there, F'ing Flippers (528)
(SeattlePI) PSA Psst...You wanna know why no one in the media is referencing Congressional approval ratings? Because they're rising. Well, except among Republicans (172)
(Kansas City) Interesting Sebelius rumored to be next HHS secretary, finish long-awaited 8th symphony (50)
(CNN) Hero Iran to stop religious persecution now that the guy who plays Dwight on The Office asked them to (109)
(Some Guy) Dumbass A few Republican governors decide that their states really don't need a slice of the nearly $800 billion in recovery funds. Angry constituents storming governors' mansions with pitchforks and torches in 3...2...1 (192)
(Boston Herald) Obvious Bill Clinton predicts economic rebound in one year, owing to the fact that there's a Democratic president and the U.S. doesn't have to go to war, it can just lob a few cheap cruise missiles at someone whenever a sex scandal threatens (111)

Wed February 18, 2009
(Some Guy) Interesting One Farker's take on Afghanistan, complete with IEDs, Herc flights that are more frightening than the Taliban and Major League Infidels: "I don't hate anyone here. Even the people I've had to shoot, I don't hate them" (217)
(News.com.au) Interesting Opposition politicians accuse Environment Minister Peter Garrett of giving in to Japanese whaling, adding "How can we dance when our earth is turning? How do we sleep when our beds are burning?" (43)
(LA Times) Followup "Chavez would love to have another Bush in the White House. He was a gift from God for someone like Chavez. But with Obama, Chavez will have to act with prudence and intelligence." Good luck w/ that one (75)
(Media Matters) Fail Did you know that the stimulus bill will prohibit any religious activity in facilities receiving money; that the Obama administration advocated cutting the defense budget by 10 percent? Neither did I until a Fox special clued me in (241)
(Newsweek) Interesting Eric Holder, the new US attorney general, introduces himself to America most graciously: You're all a bunch of cowardly racists (306)
(Guardian.com) Asinine Cartoonist portrays Obama as a rampaging chimp who should be shot. Surprisingly, some people have a problem with this (425)
(Boston Globe) Silly Now that the stimulus package has passed, it is time for the obligatory "Things $787B could buy" article (364)
(SFGate) Followup California State Senate Republicans finally agree to bipartisan budget deal. Just kidding, they fired the guy who negotiated the compromise and want to start over from scratch (227)
(NewsBusters) Amusing All 12 Randi Rhodes fans disappointed as liberal radio network fails. This is not a repeat of a repeat (221)
(My Fox DC) Asinine Baltimore mayor bothered that Obama didn't mention her during his stop in Baltimore before the inauguration. I mean all she did was get indicted for perjury and stealing gift cards that were intended for the needy (51)
(Huffington Post) Video If Sean Hannity's video montage is any indication, the stimulus package is sure to hasten the apocalypse (159)
(Slate) Amusing Eliot Spitzer presents four better ways of fixing the CEO pay debacle. 1) Pay them in hookers. 2) Pay their salaries to hookers. 3) Pay them to visit hookers. 4) I really, really miss being governor (21)
(PC Magazine) Cool Obama launches Recovery.gov to track the status of the stimulus package. Now we can see where our tax dollars are wasted (304)
(Some Recent Theist) Scary Arkansas and five other states ban atheists from holding public office. FARK needs an "unconstitutional" tag (300)
(Shelbyville Times) Scary Former FBI agent: Muslims are using our lawsuits and fear of political incorrectness to slowly establish Shariah Law in the US (430)
(ABC News) Cool President Obama: "Here comes your 4.5% 30 year-fixed mortgage." Everyone is included this time (687)
(Nola.com) Amusing TV station to New Orleans Mayor: "Here's a public-records request for all of the Mayor's emails from last year." The Mayor: "Ah, sorry.. we were low on server space, so we deleted them all" (74)
(Dallas News) Amusing Pat Robertson dounces Rush Limbaugh for attacking Barack Obama. Grab your rifles and condoms, Libs, we're off the map here (145)
(ABC 4) Asinine Utah State Senator: "Gays are probably the greatest threat to America." Failed banks, foreclosed homes, global warming, and al-Qaeda unimpressed (439)
(Billings Gazette) PSA Wyoming Senate floats legislation to inflate helium tax, but despite noble intentions to provide lift for inert economy, failure to see reaction may burst lawmakers' balloon  T-Shirt (37)
(Huffington Post) Amusing House GOP: We're back in the saddle again. Aerosmith: We don't like you, stop using our song (113)
(The Raw Story) Interesting Alan Greenspan says it's time to put down the Ayn Rand novels and take a serious look at regulating the markets (384)

Tue February 17, 2009
(Think Progress) Dumbass Newt Gingrich has a "new, bold idea" to rejuevenate the Republican party: the same capital gains tax cut he's been humping for 20 years (257)
(Crooks & Liars) Stupid Bill O'Reilly says he doesn't have to apologize for calling Helen Thomas a witch because a poll on billoreilly.com says that he doesn't have to (383)
(Hartford Courant) Followup Rahm Emanuel living in a rent free apartment? Yeah, not so much (158)
(CBS News) Dumbass Bobby Jindal might try to become the least popular governor in the US (232)
(Minnesota Independent) Dumbass Congresswoman Michelle Bachman (R-abid): "We're running out of rich people in this country" (100)
(London Times) Interesting British SBS team was "20 minutes behind Osama" who then got away because they were ordered to let US forces take over (97)
(Some Guy) Followup Chalk up another "Promise broken" on the Obama tracker (250)
(Chicago Tribune) Followup Obama to increase troop levels in Afghanistan. A "surge" of troops, if you will (357)
(CNN) Obvious You know things are getting bad when Mitt Romney has to sell two of his four mansions to make ends meet (78)
(Google) Followup NATO to Pakistan: What the fark is WRONG with you people? (192)
(Rocky Mountain News) Interesting Obama's stimulus bill signing today in Denver will feature no lawmakers on stage, only people who work in renewable energy. And probably John Elway and Cartman (135)
(Some Guy) Interesting "Clinton Lays Out Broad Asian Agenda". This headline makes sense no matter how you arrange the words (198)
(NYPost) Sad Rahm Emanuel lives rent free for five years in home owned by pollster. Oh yeah, and as head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Rahm paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars (418)
(Gallup) Interesting Passing the stimulus bill boosted approval ratings for Congress. Instead of being despised by 81 percent of Americans, only 69 percent of us hate them as much as a used car salesman who ran over our dog (195)
(CBS 4 Denver) Cool 'Snow artists' pay tribute to Obama on day of his visit in Colorado with 100 foot wide image they stomped into the snow (282)
(News.com.au) Interesting Former Australian treasurer allegedly responsible for 12,000 births between 2004 and 2006. No wonder he looks so tired (18)
(London Times) Amusing What could be better than a list of politicians? A list of DRUNK politicians (33)
(Washington Post) Silly Forget about the banking crisis, the budget crisis, and those two pesky wars. The hottest topic in Washington nowadays is which Obama collectibles will increase in value (34)
(New York Daily News) Sad Your stimulus dollars at work. Here's a short list of some of the things that we'll be getting, including a heated pool in...wait for it...Miami (235)
(Yahoo) Asinine "To keep executives from using [private] planes is as foolish as not allowing them to use cell phones or computers." Ben Stein on Obama's era of "New Phariseeism." (466)
(Sweetness & Light) Asinine For his role in the glorious financial industry pooch-screwing of 2008, Chris Dodd (D-La Brasserie) gets a) thrashed in the next election, b) run out of Connecticut on a rail, or c) a sweet book deal? (76)
(London Times) Followup Drunk Japanese finance minister to resign, looks forward to spending more time with his sake (17)
(The Newspaper) Hero Mississippi House votes 117-3 to ban speed and red light cameras (122)
(ABC News) Ironic Bristol Palin becomes an advocate against teen pregnancy. Wait, what? (183)
(News.com.au) Asinine Australian citizens forced to pay tax per toilet flush... or put up with the crap (54)

Mon February 16, 2009
(Some Guy) Asinine How do you know a politician is lying? He's taking credit for stimulus, even though he voted against it (128)
(Time) Obvious Bill Clinton: But...but...Bush (454)
(BBC) Unlikely Tony Blair wins $1 million leadership prize. In other news, there is apparently some strange new definition of the word "leadership" that nobody knows about (59)
(CNN) Amusing Paul Begala: if South Carolina's governor is so against the stimulus plan, maybe he should stop accepting federal money and get his state the fark off welfare (426)
(Telegraph) Ironic British diplomats gobsmacked - GOBSMACKED - when Obama sends bust of Winston Churchill back to Britain (246)
(UPI) Stupid Extremely crappy song probably won't help you memorize presidential order (112)
(Townhall) Asinine LA college professor calls student "fascist bastard" for mentioning God and miracles (740)
(Some Guy) Silly Reasonably cute Malaysian politician embarrassed after nude pics of her are leaked online. Person who leaked them, people who saw them all ask "Was that Wong?" (117)
(Bloomberg) Dumbass Bad: Sloppy drunk. Worse: Sloppy drunk at work. Fark: Your job is the Japanese finance minister (27)
(NYPost) Followup Porn industry not aroused by NY Governor Paterson's plan to tax X-rated downloads and subscriptions, say he's rubbing them the wrong way and if he's that desperate for a money shot, all he needs to do is ask (50)
(London Times) Obvious "European Obamamania is not just idiocy, it is a political blunder. Not for the first time Europeans radically misread the United States, a nation of God, guns and fat people" (214)
(Huffington Post) Asinine Ann Coulter supersizes from "regular dumbass" to "white supremacist dumbass" (319)
(SacBee) Fail Thirty hours in session, including a V-Day all-nighter, and California STILL can't pass a budget. Bleary-eyed, dead broke California tag seen applying for job in Fark lobby (109)
(Chicago Tribune) Followup Burris claims he conducted himself "with honor." Must be the Romulan version of honor and not the Klingon version (47)
(Yahoo) Obvious Making a film on the McCain campaign, filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi found a respectful campaign calmly discussing issues. Nah, I'm kidding, she got spit on, heard her mother called "Nazi Pelosi", and Obama referred to by the n-bomb (249)
(Wall Street Journal) Scary Obama thrives off of fearmongering in a way that makes Bush and the Patriot act look like childs play (377)

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