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Sun June 28, 2009
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(Some Guy) Obvious Eliot Spitzer feels better about his scandal now. Paying for sex isn't as bad as what Mark Sanford did  (gabbybabble.celebuzz.com) (129)
(CEI) Followup Report the EPA repressed that found the agency relied upon outdated research, ignored new developments, in deciding to regulate CO2, restore science to its rightful place in policymaking  (cei.org) (350)
(New York Daily News) Sick Get the goggles and the eye bleach. There is a John Edwards sex tape  (nydailynews.com) (89)
(RealClearPolitics) Obvious "Most Americans do want different health care: They want 2009 medicine at 1960 prices."  (realclearpolitics.com) (475)
(Sky News) Scary ...and there goes Honduras  (news.sky.com) (248)
(LA Times) Amusing Evangeligal Christians are starting to become aware that they've been hanging out with filthy politicians. Like there's any other kind  (latimes.com) (99)
(Washington Post) Spiffy 62% of Real Americans™ want Sonia Sotomayor on the Supreme Court. Empathy you can believe in  (washingtonpost.com) (89)
(Examiner) Interesting The vote on the Climate Change Bill, otherwise known as House Resolution 2454, has been rushed through so fast in order to pull the wool over our eyes. The debate is not over and the science is not settled...not by a long shot  (examiner.com) (316)
(American Thinker) Dumbass Truthers, Birthers and now... Bookers  (americanthinker.com) (208)
(Fox News) Followup Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-UI) cancels out Rep. John Sullivan (D-WI) in the battle of drunken politicians on Cap and Trade. Seriously, these people run our country? God help us all  (congress.blogs.foxnews.com) (38)
(NewsMax) Misc Dems promised unemployment would not rise above 8 percent if their trillion-dollar stimulus was passed. Repubs ask: Where are the jobs? Dems reply: Oh look - a shiny object  (newsmax.com) (278)
(YouTube) Hero Alikhani's speech in the Majlis. Either one brave man or someone crafting their own suicide. Maybe both  (youtube.com) (125)

Sat June 27, 2009
(Some Guy) Interesting Turkish and Italian telecoms keep the Iranian government from SHUTING. EVERYTHING. DOWN. Here comes the science  (motleymoose.com) (65)
(Politifact) Fail Bachmann is so wrong on the census that she sets the Truth-o-Meter on fire. Twice  (politifact.com) (234)
(Washington Post) Followup Kerry "clarifies" unfunny Palin joke by doubling down on insult, accusing GOP of not having sense of humour  (voices.washingtonpost.com) (131)
(2-page PDF) PSA Finally: a cure for our nation's woes, courtesy of one brave Oklahoma congresswoman. Long story short: NEED MOAR GOD  (ftpcontent.worldnow.com) (137)
(Politico) Stupid Latest GOP tactic: Obama is "too political" and "disengaged" from actual lawmaking. Which they seem to forget is the job of Congress. Guess they never watched "Schoolhouse Rock" when they were kids  (politico.com) (79)
(WorldNetDaily) Obvious "WND is the only news organization in the world that is vigorously pursuing the Obama eligibility story. This is not without cost to us in terms of credibility, as many in the mainstream MSM media attack us as conspiracy theorists"  (worldnetdaily.com) (283)
(Daily Kos) PSA Olby warns Kos not to criticize him  (dailykos.com) (88)
(SFGate) Fail California one step from total collapse. Unions demand payments from a bankrupt government, and legislators have no idea who to please. Take note, this will happen 49 more times  (sfgate.com) (196)
(Gulf Daily News) Obvious On Paul Wolfowitz, who is responsible for the deaths of 4,316 Americans: "He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow"  (gulf-daily-news.com) (61)
(Washington Post) Scary Obama discovers the joy of the executive order  (washingtonpost.com) (261)
(Some Guy) Strange Not news: man showers women he wants with gifts FARK: It's Gaddafi to Condoleezza Rice  (ennaharonline.com) (35)

Fri June 26, 2009
(Some History Guy) Strange Recently released WWII archives reveal Britain asked US to consider using chemical weapons on Tokyo to help win Pacific war  (yomiuri.co.jp) (158)
(RealClearPolitics) Sad The only thing less funny than John Kerry telling a joke is Sarah Palin responding to John Kerry telling a joke  (realclearpolitics.com) (101)
(MSNBC) Fail In the middle of worst recession in two generations, House passes largest tax increase in history  (msnbc.msn.com) (751)
(Washington Times) Followup Obama to Ahmadinejad: Suck it  (washingtontimes.com) (467)
(Huffington Post) Dumbass Joe the Plumber says that if you say "In God We Trust" too loudly in some parts of the country, "you will be shot." For good measure, during same speech he also suggests lynching Chris Dodd  (huffingtonpost.com) (161)
(Washington Post) Obvious Dan Froomkin fires parting shot in final column for the WaPo: "When I look back on the Bush years, I think of the lies. There were so many. Lies about the war and lies to cover up the lies about the war..."  (voices.washingtonpost.com) (58)
(CNN) Cool Finally, a political wife who won't stand silently while her dog of a husband humiliates her. Jenny Sanford: "His career is not a concern of mine"  (cnn.com) (62)
(Click On Detroit) Interesting After saying she absolutely, 100%, never-ever commited bribery, Detroit councilwoman Monica Conyers pleads guilty to bribery  (clickondetroit.com) (62)
(Some Guy) Strange How Michael Jackson's death will destabilize Iran and bring about regime change. No, really  (thedailybeast.com) (64)
(Some Guy) Obvious Conspiracy theorists lock onto a new target: Michelle Obama's White House vegetable garden. "That garden was bought at a produce section and faked. That is staged and you all know it"  (concordmonitor.com) (171)
(Politico) Interesting "It is worth noting that the most significant representation of family values---once considered the province of the GOP---in America today is President Barack Obama."  (politico.com) (92)
(CNSNews) Scary Following on the success of the Patriot Act and TARP, Congress proves once again that dereliction of duty transcends party lines  (cnsnews.com) (82)
(The New York Times) Asinine GOP on Stimulus bill: A month is too quick no one has read it. GOP on climate Bill: 1200 page no one read, lets VOTE NOW  (nytimes.com) (145)
(Orlando Sentinel) Interesting Ugandan rebels found to have killed 1,200 Congolese this year, 1,201 if you include that son of a biatch Van Owen, who blew off Roland's head  T-Shirt  (orlandosentinel.com) (54)
(National Review) Obvious If Obama wants another round of stimulus, he should try something that works: Heed the lessons of Milton Friedman, and not John Maynard Keynes  (article.nationalreview.com) (199)
(Google) Interesting Protesters break into Iranian embassy in Sweden  (google.com) (80)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Top Iranian cleric says his God would stoop so low as to get into politics  (voanews.com) (162)
(Breitbart.com) Interesting Obama's progressive supporters dismayed that he's supporting a bipartisan health care bill instead of demanding a government health plan that fulfills their fondest hopes and dreams  (breitbart.com) (185)
(Salon) Fail "Now is the time to finally read Atlas Shrugged"  (salon.com) (483)
(Huffington Post) Asinine When you've gone so crazy that Glenn Beck thinks you're nuts, you've entered The Bachmann Zone  (huffingtonpost.com) (116)
(Yahoo) Interesting Rhode Island to acknowledge Emancipation Proclamation  (news.yahoo.com) (84)
(Some Guy) Amusing Putin swings into action against expensive sausages  (hindustantimes.com) (52)
(London Times) Obvious Iraqis 12 months ago: "The infidels must leave our soverign nation." Iraqis today: "Praise be to Allah for the U.S. military and their glorious occupation"  (timesonline.co.uk) (286)
(RealClearPolitics) Obvious Interviewer to Obama: If you were in a public health plan, and a member of your family gets sick, would you accept the outcome from the public plan or would you buy better care elsewhere? Obama: WHARRGARBL  (realclearpolitics.com) (887)

Thu June 25, 2009
(Talking Points Memo) Amusing Will Jesus ever return? Glenn Beck knows  (talkingpointsmemo.com) (301)
(Daily Beast) Hero Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, the second most powerful man in Iran, is rounding up support to remove Ayatollah Ali Khamenei from power, likely as a way to force a runoff election between reformist candidate Mousavi and President Ahmadouchebag  (thedailybeast.com) (417)
(WTOP) Unlikely Cheap at any price: Senator leading the Democratic health care legislation effort says a revised plan will bring the cost under $1 trillion over 10 years  (wtop.com) (105)
(Some Guy) Asinine Rapper Hurricane Chris performs for the Louisiana state house of representatives, sings song about wanting to fark Halle Berry. It's official, Idiocracy has begun  (celebrityclubber.com) (86)
(NPR) Cool Instead of photographing the 22 senators working on the first health care reform bill on June 17, NPR filmed the lobbyists in the crowd. NPR is also asking for help identifying these lobbyists  (npr.org) (196)
(Some Guy) Video Obvious: CBS "reporter" completely mischaracterizes a speech by President Bush in an attempt to set the ball up on the tee for President Obama. Fark: Obama laughs at the question before correcting the reporter  (ihatethemedia.com) (134)
(The Atlantic) Interesting What is killing conservatism more than anything else is unbridled arrogance in the perfection of America. The religious right isn't what's wrong with the GOP. It's the pervasive, unthinking, unreflective nationalism  (ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com) (247)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting Garry Kasparov explains why Russia supports Iran's tyrannical clerics. Also notes that he gets his kicks above the waistline, sunshine  (online.wsj.com) (31)
(Talking Points Memo) Obvious Rush Limbaugh: The reason why Mark Sanford went hiking up for Argentinian tail was because of Obama  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (194)
(Wall Street Journal) Dumbass Justice Thomas is the lone dissent in a ruling that a strip search of a 13-year-old girl was illegal, arguing that it sounded kind of hot  (online.wsj.com) (311)
(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Cool Owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers could be confirmed as US ambassador to Ireland soon. Unless James Harrison intercepts his nomination and runs it to Dublin for a TD  (post-gazette.com) (30)
(Daily Kos) Dumbass Latest oppressed minority Republicans consider themselves the same as: Japanese Americans forced into internment camps  (dailykos.com) (88)
(Some Guy) Followup Ahmadinejad is discovering you can't shoot people over standard TCP/IP, even using IPv6  (voanews.com) (37)
(National Review) Interesting "Barack Obama came into office apparently believing that his non-traditional background, charisma, and good intentions could placate dictators hostile to America and ease global tensions"  (article.nationalreview.com) (153)
(Reuters) Obvious Dear government employee: IOU a paycheck. Will pay as soon as this one dude who owes me money pays me back, honest. Love, California  (reuters.com) (243)
(Asia Times) Followup "To call the existing crisis velvet, color or any other type of "revolution" is an absolute misperception". Its more of a Muslin Revolution  (atimes.com) (77)
(Salon) Stupid Conservatism, 1969: William F. Buckley's thoughtful writing in "National Review". Conservatism, 2009: Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly playing with Barbie dolls  (salon.com) (263)
(Politico) Obvious Obama says he is "appalled and outraged". Ahmadinejad responds with ""Do you want to speak with this tone? If that is your stance then what is left to talk about." So there, Mr. President  (politico.com) (230)
(Some Guy) Asinine Ann Coulter sensitively discusses murder of abortion clinic doctor on Bill O'Reilly: "I don't really like to think of it as a murder. It was terminating Tiller in the 203rd trimester"  (politicsdaily.com) (1197)
(Breitbart.com) Amusing Britain replaces U.S. as Iran's "Great Satan." Will be nearly as fat, but twice as argumentative  (breitbart.com) (125)
(CNN) Unlikely Iran's supreme leader calls for tolerance toward protesters that have not yet been arrested, shot, or beaten  T-Shirt  (edition.cnn.com) (624)

Wed June 24, 2009
(CNN) Interesting Obama "seriously considering" sending message to brutal Iranian regime by not extending any new invitations to Iranian diplomats for July 4 celebrations overseas. Invitations already sent will not be rescinded; that would be tacky  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (109)
(Gawker) Followup Governor Sanford's amusing attempts at seduction of his mistress via email. [email excerpt goodness]  (gawker.com) (206)
(Huffington Post) Obvious "I think it would be much better for the country and for him personally (to resign)" - Mark Sanford on Bill Clinton, 1998  (huffingtonpost.com) (264)
(Guardian.com) Sad Wednesday bloody Wednesday (Iranian Discussion thread)  (guardian.co.uk) (2176)
(dcist) Ironic DC Mayor's conservation corps spreads litter throughout DC neighborhoods. In related news, authorities are advising residents stay the hell away from the Mayor's anti-violence task force  (dcist.com) (44)
(Telegraph) Amusing "Gordon Brown hasn't beaten off the EU financial regulators"  (telegraph.co.uk) (18)
(Macleans) Obvious Knock, knock. Who's there? Obama joke. Obama joke who? *silence*  (www2.macleans.ca) (200)
(Daily Kos) Obvious Fox News: Democrat Mark Sanford admits to affair... Wait.. What???  (dailykos.com) (357)
(Bay News 9) Florida Referendum to be held to determine if Tampa residents should drink from sewer. Shiat  (baynews9.com) (47)
(NYPost) Followup After two days, NY Senate Republicans have no answer to the ultimate parliamentary maneuver: locking the chamber doors  (nypost.com) (52)
(Talking Points Memo) Followup "Did I say I was hiking the Appalachian Trail? I meant to say I was in Argentina. With a hottie."  (tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com) (194)
(The New York Times) Obvious Things are looking up for Republicans, another GOP presidential hopeful admits affair with A WOMAN. Two years ago he'd have been farking a Dominican pool boy  (thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com) (540)
(Washington Post) Interesting Poll shows that more than 8 in 10 Americans are happy with the quality of health care they have now. So let's dramatically reconfigure one-seventh of the country's economy  (washingtonpost.com) (347)
(Salon) Dumbass Obama: "The images of abuse coming out of Iran are important to sensitize us to violence we would otherwise abstractly dismiss." Reporter: "So you will release US torture photos?" Obama: "LOLWUT?"  (salon.com) (289)
(Yahoo) Dumbass Like a gnat on an elephant's ass, North Korea threatens to wipe the US off the map  (news.yahoo.com) (600)
(Wall Street Journal) Fail Rep. Barney Frank wants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to lower lending standards for condo buyers. Because only good things can come from this  (online.wsj.com) (109)
(WSPA.com) Followup "Did I say I was hiking the Appalachian Trail? I meant to say I was in Argentina"  (wspa.com) (lots)
(Jerusalem Post) Interesting White House appoints first envoy to a rogue Arab country in four years. Syriasly  T-Shirt  (jpost.com) (71)
(Some Thirsty Canadian) Scary Welcome to Ontario. The government controls all the beer & booze sales, and they're letting the union close all the shops for the summer. Cheers  (stcatharinesstandard.ca) (202)
(TorrentFreak) Interesting Nicolas Sarkozy, first French president to address Parliament since 1848, says he will "go all the way" with 3 strikes, your daughters  (torrentfreak.com) (24)
(American Thinker) Misc Sure, saying "I won" or "There is only one president, me" is cue and smarmy, but its also starting to seem a bit creepy  (americanthinker.com) (334)
(CBS News) Obvious The less time Hillary Clinton spends in the spotlight, the more popular she gets  (cbsnews.com) (43)
(Hot Air) Obvious Yesterday: Screw you, wingnuts. It's a brilliant move for Obama not to take sides on Iran. Today, after press conference: Screw you, wingnuts. It's a brilliant move for Obama to condemn the regime's violence  (hotair.com) (263)
(WorldNetDaily) Obvious The "smart money" says that the way for the Republicans to win elections is to appeal to a wider range of voters, including minorities, which is why a black conservative is arguing that Republicans should do the exact opposite  (wnd.com) (150)
(Daily Kos) Followup Mark Sanford is such a powerful man he's moved the Appalachian Trail to the Atlanta airport  (dailykos.com) (180)

Tue June 23, 2009
(CNN) Followup More News on Iran. Clerics decide it's a good day to wear green (Iran Thread XLV, yes XLV)  (edition.cnn.com) (2176)
(Fox News) Amusing When asked to support his figures, White House insists "95% cured" statement is backed by the most stringent of polling procedures for data collection. Just like every other figure they have pulled out of their asses  (foxnews.com) (179)
(Huffington Post) Stupid Mark Sanford's a hypocrite because he's hiking on a trail that will get stimulus money. Next up: Sanford's a hypocrite because he drove on an interstate funded by federal dollars  (huffingtonpost.com) (164)
(Politico) Obvious ...it was "very unusual that Obama called on Huffington Post second, appearing to know the issue the reporter would ask about."  (politico.com) (349)
(Guardian.com) Followup The Iranian government has given the four Iranian football (soccer) players who wore green wristbands during their match against South Korea a lifetime ban from the sport  (guardian.co.uk) (82)
(National Review) Interesting President Obama's ardent supporters stand ready to interpret any world event as evidence of Obama's messianic effect  (article.nationalreview.com) (136)
(Slate) Obvious Health care reformers should heed the lesson of Massachusetts: "Really good health care is also really expensive." This message courtesy of the National Duh Institute  (slate.com) (199)
(Guardian.com) Hero UK: "Oh yeah? Well fark you too, then" (Iranian Discussion XLIV)  (guardian.co.uk) (2055)
(Daily Kos) Fail Standing in front of a banner with a spelling error, Pat Buchanan, with the head of a white nationalist website, attacks Sotomayor for her early struggles writing in English while arguing for an English-only "new majority" (w/pic)  (dailykos.com) (412)
(Reason Magazine) Unlikely "There's not really any question that zombie movies reflect left-leaning politics"  (reason.com) (291)
(Classical Values) Asinine The New York Times is disturbed that those placed on the "terrorist watch list" without notification or hearing can't have their constitutional rights taken away  (classicalvalues.com) (126)
(ScienceBlogs) Fail Creationists are selling their own annotated, abridged version of "On The Origin of Species", including a 50 page creationist introduction, and a copy of the bible edited to include DNA and the Cambrian explosion  (scienceblogs.com) (662)
(Wall Street Journal) Sick Upon learning of his son's death, Mr. Alipour was told the family had to pay $3,000 as a "bullet fee", for the bullet used by security forces to kill his son, before taking the body back (Discussion XLIII - feeling stabby edition)  (online.wsj.com) (1410)
(NYPost) Asinine Chris Dodd is deeply offended that people would say his unqualified wife doesn't deserve all those fat corporate sinecures  (nypost.com) (84)

Mon June 22, 2009
(Newsweek) Ironic Robert Bork explains why Judge Sotomayor is a bad Supreme Court candidate  (newsweek.com) (292)
(BBC) Followup Embassy staff are leaving to avoid being taken as hostage by plainclothes Islamic militant. This is not a repeat from 1979 (Iran discussion XLII)  (news.bbc.co.uk) (lots)
(Reason Magazine) Obvious 2002 California revenue: $1.1 trillion; 2007 revenue: almost $2 trillion, an 81% increase. Prices, population rose 19%. Had state increased spending in accord with population, inflation, they could afford all programs, half-trillion tax cut  (reason.com) (333)
(USA Today) Interesting More Nixon tapes released. Says he's just trying to catch up with Tupac, Biggie, and Elvis  (usatoday.com) (69)
(AP) Strange Missing: One Governor of South Carolina, white, Republican, has all shots, answers to "Mark"  (hosted.ap.org) (359)
(LA Times) Asinine Iran to create new court to try protestors. Unsure what to call it after suggestion of "You're Lucky We Didn't Shoot Your Democratic Arse Court" is rejected  (latimes.com) (202)
(Huffington Post) Interesting Today, seventy-seven members of Congress urged President Obama to issue an immediate moratorium on further gay discharges. This issue, which has already affected many seamen, could snowball even further if no action is taken  T-Shirt  (huffingtonpost.com) (298)
(Fox News) Interesting SPOTUS rules that Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No.1 can opt out of the Voting Rights Act. Suck it, Jim Crow  (foxnews.com) (76)
(Pajamas Media) Obvious Under Obama's Plan, 95% of Americans will receive a tax cut, except the ones who drink soda  (pajamasmedia.com) (349)
(Rasmussen Reports) Interesting Poll shows that American voters are rapidly losing faith in Obama's ability to fix the economy, but still think he's a handsome man who talks pretty  (rasmussenreports.com) (256)
(Five Three Eight) Obvious As with everything else they have done so far, admitting that there was possibility of limited fraud is the worst move the Iranian Regime could have taken (Iranian thread XLI)  (fivethirtyeight.com) (1688)
(Houston Chronicle) Obvious "People understand that Texas is just being Texas"  (chron.com) (75)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious North Korea and Iran are seriously harshing Obama's "extend a hand," negotiate-first foreign policy mellow  (online.wsj.com) (174)
(National Review) Asinine Senator John Ensign has set a wonderful example of social conservatism and the sanctity of marriage by heroically admitting he cheated on his wife. The fact that he only did so after being threatened with blackmail is just a coincidence  (article.nationalreview.com) (119)
(Seattle Times) Spiffy The popular revolution in Iran is now creating a rift between clerics, making some of them side with the protesters (This discussion is XL, but still looks like it it's XXXII)  (seattletimes.nwsource.com) (1291)
(AJC) Amusing Meet Newt's vision for the future of the Republican Party: Duluth, Georgia's own fourteen year old Internet tough guy  (ajc.com) (344)
(CNN) Interesting The very basis of ruling system formulated by Ayatollah Khomeini has suffered a mortal wound as regime forced to admit "legitimacy does not flow from divine authority but from popular support"  (cnn.com) (175)
(Google) Followup Democrats urge Obama to stay out of it (Iran Discussion XXXIX - The Revolution just bought a new sportscar and grew a moustache)  (google.com) (1215)

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