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Sun May 10, 2009

Source	Fark Headline		Comments
		Set the flux capacitor to 1875. That's the last time Americans' carbon emissions matched the goals set by the Waxman-Markey legislation (washingtontimes.com)	(726)
		Dick Cheney says if he had to choose which to follow, the GOP should be more like Rush Limbaugh than Colin Powell (dailykos.com)	(251)
		"It's hard to say that using marijuana will ruin your life when the last three American presidents are admitted marijuana users" (news.yahoo.com)	(219)
		The nation needs a better GOP (latimes.com)	(211)
		Petraeus: Al Qaeda no longer operating in Afghanistan. Mission Accomplished (foxnews.com)	(94)
		Imagine being a healthy, single 39-year-old working in South Beach -- and you're sworn to celibacy? It's like the Vatican version of waterboarding (miamiherald.com)	(91)
		Obama brings down the house. "Rush Limbaugh does not count as a troubled asset, I'm sorry." Both parts of his White House Correspondent's Dinner speech in the link (huffingtonpost.com)	(391)
		New documentary opens the closet door on prominent politicians who have hidden their homosexuality while actively working against gay causes. "I don't see it as outing, I see it as equalizing." (sfgate.com)	(586)
		What do toilet seats, horse manure, a wine rack, rat poison, pool maintenance, piano tuning, a chocolate Santa, a pizza cutter and X-rated movies have in common? (breitbart.com)	(31)
		Comedian Wanda Sykes rips some new right-wing buttholes at the White House Correspondents Dinner (videocafe.crooksandliars.com)	(375)
(Some Guy)		RedState outraged that Obama would request a private screening of the new Star Trek, saying it shows a "psychotic level of arrogance" and ignores the idea of serving the people. THIS is how your faux outrage is done, folks (redstate.com)	(222)

Sat May 09, 2009

(Volokh Conspiracy)	When Star Trek reviews go wrong: "When and why did the Federation turn socialist?" (volokh.com)	(403)
(ONN)	School being sued because they let a LESBIAN talk to the snowflakes (onenewsnow.com)	(206)
	Wtf this sight if full of so many dumb liberials wtf is wrong with you people go burn a flag: more DailyKos hate mail (dailykos.com)	(122)
	Glenn Beck has now cranked it to 14: "The government is acting in the role of Lucifer. The government is the Devil" (littlegreenfootballs.com)	(224)
	"It's sad that the leader of the free world had to call a live press conference to tell his nation of clueless nitwits that employees must wash hands before returning to work." (nydailynews.com)	(107)
(Electotal-Vote)	Remember when presidential candidates just rented hotel rooms in New Hampshire? Not any more... now they actually move there (electoral-vote.com)	(33)
	White House seeking $60 billion for healthcare. That's a whole heaping lot of change to believe in (upi.com)	(170)
	"Obama is Spock: he's tough, cool and rational. Like Spock, part of what makes Obama so appealing is the fact that although he's an outsider, he uses that distance to cultivate a sense of perspective" (salon.com)	(104)
	$30 million in lost ad revenue later, the networks are thinking Fox had the right idea about prime time Presidential pressers (hollywoodreporter.com)	(203)
	CNN has a new segment called "Wingnut of the Week." They want to pick one wingnut from the right and one wingnut from the left. Guess who the first two honorees are (mediabistro.com)	(431)
	Federal Reserve to be named Top Cop in policing all "too big to fail firms." Tin foil hat sales soar (abcnews.go.com)	(31)
	Sarah Palin cleared on ethics charges. No, not those ethics charges, those other ones. No, not those other ones, these other ones (salon.com)	(47)
	Alan Keyes arrested at Notre Dame for trespassing, pass interference (chicagobreakingnews.com)	(53)

Fri May 08, 2009

	Michael Steele, who failed the bar, lectures Barack Obama, who taught constitutional law for ten years, what is and is not acceptable in a Supreme Court judge (dailykos.com)	(306)
	Obama defunds nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev. So it's green energy except for that kind that provides Europe with 80 percent of its power. This oughta be easy (reuters.com)	(307)
	Obama to give speech regarding Muslim relations. No, not HIS Muslim relations (cnn.com)	(176)
	Official who OK'd Air Force One Manhattan flyover resigns, vows not to pay taxes until he is rehired (cnn.com)	(256)
	California so broke it can't afford the handbasket to go to hell in (sacbee.com)	(476)
	US government-funded study sends researchers to cruise six bars in Buenos Aires to find out why gay men engage in risky sexual behavior while drunk. Apparently Larry Craig was unavailable (foxnews.com)	(129)
(Some White House)	One guess as to what the secret ingredient is in "President and Laura Bush's Deviled Eggs Recipe" (georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov)	(195)
	Speed camera catches Arizona Republican Party's executive director driving 109. County Attorney's Office: we're not sure we're going to charge him (azcentral.com)	(95)
	Sean Hannity goes for the low-hanging fruit in defending the apples of the Tree of Liberty (colbertnation.com)	(186)
	Obama to polar bears: Screw you (msnbc.msn.com)	(132)
	"I wanted it to be sexy but I didn't want sex," says politician who answered a Craigslist ad for an erotic massage that turned out to be a sting operation (omaha.com)	(195)
	Fannie Mae reports staggering $23.2 billion loss in 1Q of 2009. This is good news, as it's down from their $25.2 billion loss in the 4Q last year. Looks like the $200 billion bailout is working (online.wsj.com)	(91)
	Work-life balance is a challenge, says the First Lady, so every family needs a "chief of staff and a personal assistant" just like she has (voices.washingtonpost.com)	(132)
	British MPs found to have used office expenses to pay for porn, mole wranglers and chocolate Santas (hosted.ap.org)	(13)
	Medicare is a "fiscal tidal wave" that's going to suck money out of the pockets of young Americans to keep their grandparents healthy enough to get in 18 holes before the retirement community mixer (abcnews.go.com)	(261)
	Obama cuts $40,000,0000 in funding for police officers killed in the line of duty, orders more spicy mustard and buys wife another pair of $550 tennis shoes (foxnews.com)	(293)