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Sun May 03, 2009
(Townhall) Obvious Media 2008: $500 shoes are innapropriate and out of touch. Media 2009: $500 shoes are just so awesome I can't believe it (269)
(YouTube) Cool White House reporters stand for Obama but not for Bush. Can we stop pretending there isn't a liberal media bias anymore? (398)
(New York Daily News) Amusing A day late and a dollar short, Hillary finally ahead of Barack in the polls (49)
(AP) Ironic Drops out of Presidential race. Affair becomes public. Rumors that the kid is his. Now this. Not a good 18 months for John Edwards (96)
(CNN) Cool Ron Paul tells the nation, media to STFU and GBTW (189)
(YouTube) Dumbass Well-informed creationist does huge amount of reading of the primary researchers so he can tell the Texas Board of Education that the roach has never changed over its 4.5 billion year history. Fark: Subby isn't kidding (443)
(UPI) Obvious Tennessee judge rules that student prayer groups can include the word "God" on their prayer posters. Why yes, it's a red state... why do you ask? (162)
(The Nation) Spiffy It's impossible to be sad when you have a banjo. Happy 90th birthday, Pete Seeger (31)
(Daily Mail) Dumbass Italy's Prime Minister Berlusconi: "I'm more popular than Obama and second only to Napoleon" (70)
(Columbus Ledger-Enquirer) Hero Bronze Star w/ 'V' device winner Joe Galloway unloads on Obama, Pelosi, Bush, Cheney and everyone unwilling to address torture with the same vigor he did to the NVA in the Ia Drang Valley November, 1965 (525)
(Daily Mail) Amusing "Ed Balls must be sacked" (25)
(Washington Post) Strange How do you polish a turd? The GOP plans to discover how, in a pizza parlor (110)
(Michelle Malkin) Obvious Obama's likely Supreme Court nominees have about as much experience in judicial and appellate law as he did in governing. Sounds about right (256)
(Reason Magazine) Obvious I Was a High-Tech Sweatshop Worker for the Obama Campaign. "Why did the candidate of hope and change use workers paid less than half of the minimum wage?" (111)
(NBC Miami) Florida Congressman plays "Name That Fetish" on House floor; transcribers cringe, wash hands repeatedly (77)

Sat May 02, 2009
(Guardian.com) Sad Jack Kemp, former NFL player, Congressman, VP candidate, and one of many illegitimate sons of Shawn Kemp, dead at 73 (167)
(Daily Kos) Amusing Weekly Dkos hate-mail bag: Wall of text edition (65)
(Washington Post) Obvious Warren Buffett says the government is doing the right thing to help the economy recover. Suck it, clueless teabaggers (515)
(Americablog) Dumbass Washed up writer of "Ender's Game" wants to overthrow government for allowing gay marriage. Film at 11 (320)
(Free Press) Obvious Guess which religious group has the most love for Obama. Go on, guess (124)
(WJR) Asinine Bankruptcy lawyer says that White House threatened clients to drop opposition to Chrysler deal or have its reputation destroyed by "full force of the White House Press Corps" (169)
(Telegraph) Hero Condoleezza Rice hands lefties their collective asses at Stanford. "Condi isn't going to take the easy way out: she wants to stand up for her principles and put the pantywaists in their place" (424)
(ABA Journal) Ironic Justice Scalia, who openly questions the need to protect private information steamed after law class creates dossier of him based on publicly available information (94)
(Yahoo) Obvious How bad is it for the GOP now? Nearly half of their own members even say their own leaders are pretty much clueless (219)
(Des Moines Register) Obvious Iowa GOP poll: Voters put economy over social issues. Maslow called, said something about a hierarchy (95)
(Politico) Stupid Porn star launches "listening tour" for Senate seat. No word yet on how she's doing, though to say she sucks may be a bit of an understatement (36)
(Pew Research) Interesting If anyone wanted to start a major third party, this would probably be a good time (with stunning graph) (188)
(One News Now) Sad Lesbian illegal immigrant may be spared deportation thanks to Dianne Feinstein, set record for buzz words that set off the religious right in one headline (46)
(Some Guy) Interesting U.S. companies help to firewall China's internets, Chinese help to unfirewall Iran's internets. The internets now face the axis of irony (23)
(AP) Stupid What is more important than picking a Supreme Court Justice with a good understanding of constitutional law and federalism? Arbitrary physical traits, that's what (260)

Fri May 01, 2009
(National Review) Unlikely College student: "Can you give us an example of a leader we should look up to as a positive influence?" Dalai Lama: "President Bush" (207)
(Some Guy) Stupid Miss California, Carrie Prejean, called into Fox News and proved that she may not be the best spokesperson against gay marriage (321)
(Denver Post) Interesting It is no longer a crime to wear a T-shirt reading NOBAMA, even in barely civilized outposts of America such as Denver (169)
(Some Guy) Obvious Why swine flu is god's punishment for electing a Marxist Muslim as president: "When the United States has that kind of diabolical leadership in the White House, God's mercy is strained" (226)
(News.com.au) Amusing Italy's Berlusconi claims he is more popular than Obama or Jesus...but then he is prone to repeating himself (33)
(Minneapolis Star Tribune) Spiffy St. Paul, Minn. elementary school to be renamed "Barack and Michelle Obama Service Learning Elementary" (288)
(Reuters) Interesting Add Maine to the list of states wanting to destroy the sanctity of marriage (646)
(Google) Scary Fiji military leader to citizens: No elections for you. Not yours (28)
(ESPN) Stupid Having solved all of the country's problems, Congress tackles the BCS (110)
(Gawker) Amusing Former state employee: "David Paterson fired me because I am white." Paterson: "I don't see race. Literally" (381)
(Wordpress) Asinine Texas Board of Education appoints a man who believes "the separation of church and state is a "myth" and that the nation's laws should be based on Scripture" to review their Social Studies curriculum (482)
(CNN) Asinine The GOP's new winning strategy: BOOGA BOOGA BOOGA (650)

Thu April 30, 2009
(Huffington Post) Followup It's official: add 'Appoint Supreme Court Judge' to Obama's tasks (655)
(AP) Interesting Justice Souter hasn't hired aides for next year; Republicans seen practicing their phone book reading skills (154)
(CBC) Amusing France risks the ire of Lumberjack Commandos, continues to whine about their island off Canada (82)
(CNN) Followup White House apologizes for Biden's swine flu comments, Manhattan fly-by, President Bush, New Coke, destruction of the Library at Alexandria, and for calling time-out with 11 seconds left in the game when they were out of time-outs (242)
(nbcchicago) Amusing Blagojevich gets offer to to be on HBO program Cathouse. Prostitutes interested in hearing from a guy who managed to screw an entire state (50)
(UPI) Asinine Who better to reinvent the Republican Party than their most recent failed presidential candidate and the brother of their most recent failed president? (250)
(Some Guy) Scary Biden says to stay off of public transit and schools should close because of swine flu. In other words...EVERYBODY PANIC (312)
(Think Progress) Dumbass Condi Rice channels Richard Nixon - "If [torture] was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention Against Torture" (587)
(RealClearPolitics) Obvious "Obama is steering the country away from democratic capitalism and toward his big-government command-and-control vision. We are witnessing a triumph of government bureaucrats over entrepreneurs, investors, and small businesses" (395)
(Some Guy) Amusing Rush Limbaugh grades Obama's first 100 days as President "I gave him a D, because you gotta allow room for more failure. If you give him an F now, you're saying it can't get any worse, and believe me, it can" (342)
(London Times) Strange Australian politician deliberately breaks both her legs to improve her chances of running (29)
(CNN) Amusing Yesterday, the GOP accused Specter of being a "radical leftist" and "traitor". Today they're calling him a "model Republican" and "(former president George W.) Bush's greatest ally" (186)
(Talking Points Memo) Fail Michelle Bachmann gets her history very, very wrong. Again. This is not a repeat from every day prior to now. No, this bit of stupidity is completely new (296)
(People Magazine) Interesting Sarah Palin to appear on American Chopper, tell Mikey to shut the fark up (125)

Wed April 29, 2009
(AP) Stupid Change you can believe in: Congress passes $3.4 trillion budget for next year with over $1 trillion of it borrowed (409)
(JSOnline) Unlikely Wisconsin legislator thinks just because the state hasn't raised the beer tax since 1969, now might be a good time to do it (64)
(Daily Kos) Strange Georgia politician running for Governor doesn't think his youthful indiscretions will hurt his chances. Even that one crazy night where he had sex with a mule (90)
(Some Guy) Unlikely "Matthew Shepard was killed during a robbery. The claim that 'he was killed because he was gay' is a hoax." -Virginia Foxx, (R)(eally?), North Carolina (560)
(NYPost) Hero The verdict is in: The "Obama Doctrine" for our foreign policy is terrifying and the worst of our lifetimes, more so than Jimmy Carter's foreign policy (437)
(Reuters) Interesting NH Senate passes bill legalizing same sex marriage, banning bromance (669)
(Wichita Business Journal) Followup New Kansas governor sworn in. May be off to a shaky start (37)
(My Fox DC) Stupid Despite owing thousands in back taxes, former DC Mayor Marion Barry pays $800 bucks for an opera coat at an auction. FARK: He outbid Wolf Blitzer (72)
(YouTube) Video 100 days of "Fair & Balanced" coverage for the Obama administration on Fox News (431)
(Daily Kos) Stupid Angry teabaggers protest Janeane Garofalo by buying tickets to her upcoming comedy show. I'm sure the reverse-boycott will go down as one of the most effective protest tactics in history (313)
(CNN) Stupid North Korea threatens more nuclear and missile tests unless the UN apologizes for criticizing its recent missile test. What, is the entire country run by 12-year-old girls? (112)
(Think Progress) Dumbass Kind of news: Rep. Don Manzullo (R-IL) concedes that waterboarding is torture. Dumbass: he says we shouldn't prosecute those responsible because it would be a hassle to do the investigations (118)
(Boortz) Cool Neal Boortz breaks down the winners and losers in the first 100 days (401)
(Mediabistro) Interesting Fox News is recognized as so biased and evil that viewers have made it the top-rated cable news channel in every hour from 6 a.m. until midnight, beating CNN and MSNBC combined (716)
(TheDailyShow) Video The Cramer Affair, Part Deux: torture defender Cliff May goes on the Daily Show and gets his ass handed to him in an interview lasting 20 minutes (379)
(Washington Examiner) Obvious Today's example of the Democratic party climbing in bed with the banking industry comes to you from Barney Frank's top staffer, now working as the top lobbyist for Goldman Sachs (109)
(CBS News) Cool Pakistan, discovering that signing treaties with the Taliban doesn't work, desides to put those billions in U.S. aid to work. Here comes the frontal assault (194)

Tue April 28, 2009
(CBS Minneapolis) Fail On a roll, Michele Bachmann says it's "interesting" that the last 2 swine flu outbreaks have happened under Democrats. Which might be interesting if it were true (324)
(NewsBusters) Scary There's nothing to see here; pay no attention to the members of the White House having secret off the record meetings with members of the news media (165)
(Fox 4 KC) Interesting Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is forced to resign (103)
(YouTube) Video In the university system, the students are amused by two groups of people, the free speech trolls and the administration douchebags. This is one such story (306)
(Minneapolis Star Tribune) Obvious Minnesota to Coleman: STFU and let Franken GBTW (132)
(Washington Times) Ironic President Obama's media cheerleaders are hailing how loved he is. But at the 100-day mark of his presidency, Mr. Obama is the second-least-popular president in 40 years (218)
(TwinCities.com) Amusing US Rep. Michele Bachmann (couga-R) has unintentionally done so much to help Democrats they've dedicated a website to her antics. Bonus: Her response does not disappoint (178)
(Politico) Followup One apparent fallout over the Specter switch? Seems GOP now has renewed interest in keeping Norm Coleman on life support instead of pulling the plug and harvesting his tasty conservative organs (101)
(Specter2010) NewsFlash Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) (1608)
(Politico) Dumbass Gov. John Huntsman is a rising star, with soaring approval ratings and broad appeal... and the Republican Party is trying to ditch him for not being conservative enough (101)
(Huffington Post) Ironic Colbert Study: Conservatives Don't Know He's Joking... except about the bears (204)
(US News and World Report) Unlikely James Carville says Democrats will rule Washington for 40 years, or about the time when he has to renew his contract with Satan (152)
(The Sun) Scary Obama secretly tested for swine flu after man he shook hands with in Mexico drops dead the next day. Officials concerned because Obama's touch usually heals  T-Shirt (214)
(Some Guy) Cool Photos of the worlds HOTTEST political figures, France's Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and Spain's Princess Letizia. Mercy (137)
(Some Maineiac) Silly A Maine company is selling H-2-Obama. That's water I can believe in (28)
(Cato Institute) Obvious When campaigning, Obama said he'd not rush to sign any bills. He'd put them online for five days, review, and make them open to the public. So far, he's 1 for 11 on that promise. (187)
(Daily Kos) Amusing No sooner did Iowa start issuing gay marriage licenses then the entirety of traditional society broke down. Beware the gay zombies and their tight muscle shirts (99)
(Gawker) Hero I never thought it would come to this, but alas: Thank You, Gawker (72)
(Politico) Obvious Israeli foreign minister: "Believe me, America accepts all our decisions" (513)

Mon April 27, 2009
(Washington Post) Interesting Famed Bush-basher, ex-CIA spook Michael Scheuer rips Obama for "breathtaking display of self-righteousness and intellectual arrogance," accuses him for putting his personal beliefs ahead of protecting country. Then he gets warmed up (485)
(St. Petersburg Times) Florida Florida governor Charlie Crist on whether new Jesus license plates violate seperation of church and state: "If they don't want one they don't have to buy one" (175)
(The Atlantic) Interesting Only 21% of the country now identifies with the Republican Party, compared to 35% for Democrats and 38% for independents (203)
(Think Progress) Stupid Fark: Texas Gov. Rick Perry threateds to have Texas seceed from the Union. Farkier: Texas Gov. Perry threatens to turn Texas into FIVE Texases, Texes, Texii? TEXIS (296)
(Daily Kos) Obvious Torture in "24" vs. Torture in Real Life: A Comparison (158)
(Fox News) Obvious Pakistani president at international press conference: bin Laden is probably dead. But maybe not, We have no idea. On second thought, I probably could have told you that over the phone (90)
(NewsMax) Interesting On news that God hates Mexico City, Fred Thompson calls Obama "naive, inept and arrogant" (99)
(Some Guy) Dumbass House GOP Leader John Boehner: "Release documents that show torture is effective." Reporter: "What about the ones that show that it's ineffective?" Boehner: "No, because cherry-picking is wrong" (155)
(Crooks & Liars) Obvious Pew Research poll shows that Fox News is too critical of President Obama. Other polls show that the sky is blue and water is wet, but those can be outliers (181)
(Washington Post) Unlikely Backers of a "green" economy say it will be cheap to implement and will clean up the environment while freshening your breath and increasing the length of your penis (86)
(Politico) Interesting US to lead the way on fighting swine flu. But hold up a second until Obama appoints 20 top people in HHS, a Surgeon General, and the head of the CDC, and gets his FDA appointee confirmed (168)
(Wonkette) Obvious Obama still has 72% approval rating even after the great teabag uprising (251)
(Breitbart.tv) Amusing In these trying times of swine flu and economic crisises, let's entertain ourselves with another teleprompter miscue by President Obama (192)
(Washington Times) Asinine Bush administration: Hey, let's get rid of all these difficult rules that hamstring corporations. Obama administration: Hey, let's get rid of all these difficult rules that hamstring unions. American public: Facepalm (481)
(WorldNetDaily) Asinine The new One World Trade Center will now be stamped "Made In China." (104)
(Huffington Post) Asinine Questions all Americans should be asking: Should Obama be wearing shorts? (99)
(Powerline) Scary Special Inspector General reports that $700 billion TARP program has expanded to more than $3 trillion without Congressional authorization (121)
(My Fox DC) Amusing The best rendition of former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo's "Torture Memos: Waterboarding" set to music you'll hear all day (39)
(USA Today) Spiffy Shortly after 8:30 a.n. Central Time, the state of Iowa issued the first marriage license to a same-sex couple, giving them an opportunity to share in the marital hell opposite-sex couples take for granted (601)
(Salon) Obvious "If Dick Cheney believes he can prove that torture saved us from terrorist attacks, why does he oppose a full investigation?" (207)
(ABC News) Scary Waterboarding isn't torture.....now shooting at someone with an AK-47, then whipping them, then beating them with a board with a nail in it, then stuffing sand down their throat, then running them over with your SUV..Now that's torture (225)
(Salon) Fail Turns out that Congressman/Brain Surgeon Joe Barton, who believed he stumped a Nobel Prize winning physicist, is not very good with metaphors, either (131)
(Breitbart.com) Hero All this "torture" crap is really just the Daily Kos and MoveOn trying to get back at Bush and Cheney for starting a war they don't like (481)
(Daily Kos) Followup Remember all that pork the GOP demanded taken out of the stimulus bill? Turns out one of those items was prevention for a mass flu epidemic. Oops (261)
(St. Petersburg Times) Asinine Florida senate approves hanging Jesus on a license plate (169)

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