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Sun July 19, 2009
Source     Fark Headline Comments
(Little Green Footballs) Scary Free Republic calls for the removal of Barack Obama from office, repeal the 16th and 17th amendments and most heinous of all make Hillary Clinton president  (littlegreenfootballs.com) (686)
(Daily Kos) Silly Sarah Palin believes God put the oil in the ground to protect us from global warming  (dailykos.com) (420)
(The Elders) Interesting Evidently we now have something like that council of future dudes who tell Bill and Ted to be excellent to each other  (theelders.org) (70)
(Crooks & Liars) Obvious Anti-Jewish Nazi propaganda, available now through RNC.com  (crooksandliars.com) (134)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Tennessee: We making our own gun law that is only applicable within our state and has no effect on any other state. BATFE: Interstate commerce clause  (infowars.com) (158)
(Media Matters) Dumbass Apparently Lou Dobbs has never heard of Google, Factcheck.org, or Snopes as he demands for Obama to once again produce a birth certificate  (mediamatters.org) (365)
(National Review) Amusing Joe Biden is to employment what Al Gore is to Global Warming  (campaignspot.nationalreview.com) (105)
(ABC News) Cool SC Governor Mark Sanford says cheating is God's way of making him better. So ladies, if you want a better husband, let him absolutely CRUSH some Argentinian tail, and verily unto thee I say, God will purify and deliver you from evil  (abcnews.go.com) (50)
(Some Guy) Followup If America socializes medicine, where will Canadians go, and other questions from the front lines making Democrats panic  (poligazette.com) (235)
(Some Guy) Interesting Jimmy Carter leaves the Southern Baptist church over some joke called women rights  (blogher.com) (119)
(Washington Post) Interesting Pass the peanuts and put on that cardigan: Libertarian critique of Obama that even the most hardcore Obamaniacs will agree on  (washingtonpost.com) (180)
(CSMonitor) Interesting The financial cost on society for legalizing gay marriage. Here comes the (christian) science  (csmonitor.com) (75)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious Senators have no intention of saddling themselves with the health care they force on you  (online.wsj.com) (187)
(Daily Kos) Unlikely Now that Walter Cronkite is gone, the most trusted man in news is Jon Stewart  (dailykos.com) (139)
(Huffington Post) Obvious Bill Maher: "Michael Jackson is America - fragile, over-indulgent, childish, in debt, on drugs, and over the hill"  (huffingtonpost.com) (139)

Sat July 18, 2009
(Irish Times) Interesting Bankrupt Iceland asks to join European Union, crash on its couch  T-Shirt  (irishtimes.com) (39)
(Some wannabe ham slicer) Stupid 1.1 Million for slicing 2 pounds of ham awarded in stimulus package. Your dog wants more ham  (recovery.gov) (97)
(Hot Air) Unlikely Obama promises not to sign any health care bill that increases deficit, offers excellent deal on bridge in Brooklyn  (hotair.com) (271)
(UPI) Obvious Mitch McConnell (R-Lube) says he won't vote for Sotomayor. The twice-married Senator feels that Sotomayor won't be able to keep an oath  (upi.com) (191)
(Daily Kos) Obvious You knew it would come to this: Freepers now declaring the wrong congressional vote "a declaration of war"  (dailykos.com) (579)
(Buffalo News) Dumbass Senator, standing behind a cordon of police protection, calls peaceable protesters "performers" using "Newt Gingrich-type Republican tactics." The First Amendment slowly cries itself to sleep  (buffalonews.com) (159)
(WWL) Amusing City of New Orleans hires IT firm to find Ray Nagin's "accidentally" deleted emails. IT firm: "The files were intentionally deleted." City of New Orleans to IT firm: "You're fired."  (wwl.com) (103)
(The Raw Story) Obvious CIA hit squads allowed to work inside the United States, Paul Wellstone's plane  (rawstory.com) (113)
(Politico) Amusing "We do not advocate attempting to glue the leader of the free world to his chair"  (politico.com) (69)
(Miami Herald) Dumbass Zombie Castro stirs long enough to blame Bush for Honduran coup  (miamiherald.com) (51)
(Huffington Post) Dumbass Old and busted: "I forwarded racist emails about the President to the wrong forward list." New hotness: "Yeah, I did it, but so does everyone else. No disrespect ya'll"  (huffingtonpost.com) (259)

Fri July 17, 2009
(Some Guy) Obvious It's too bad Obama got booed at All Star Game even before delivering his pitch; a lefty who can throw strikes will have a long career  (justoneminute.typepad.com) (216)
(YouTube) Obvious You knew it had to happen: the Glenn Beck "GET OFF MY PHONE" remix  (youtube.com) (126)
(ljworld.com) Asinine Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-ace baiter) suggests that if government paid for abortions, Obama and Clarence Thomas would not be here today (w/ vid)  (www2.ljworld.com) (383)
(Washington Post) Followup Republican hold Lugar to Sotomayor's back, or something  (washingtonpost.com) (66)
(Hot Air) Stupid Failing to provide each American with a unicorn, Democrats look to spend $700 million on ponies. Giddyup  (hotair.com) (186)
(Some Guy) Amusing Tinklenberg vows to take another crack at Bachmann. Giggity  (minnpost.com) (53)
(Fox News) Amusing The American Conservative Union chooses UPS as it's official carrier because of shared interests in commitment to a market economy and traditional moral values. Just kidding - FedEx refused to pay more than 2 million for their endorsement  (foxnews.com) (93)
(Washington Post) Obvious Congress's chief budget analyst says Democrats' proposals lack necessary controls on spending  (washingtonpost.com) (112)
(The Morning Call) Stupid Pennsylvania to spend $60,000 in stimulus funding for 30 signs announcing how awesome it is that they're spending stimulus funding  (mcall.com) (123)
(Time) Obvious Israeli Gaza vets: Israeli military used Palestinians as human shields, improperly fired incendiary white phosphorous and caused needless deaths. Israel army scoffs, says they investigated themselves, and found the IDF to be totally awesome  (time.com) (367)
(Wonkette) Asinine Right wing blogogdome up in arms over Al Franken's Perry Mason joke during Sotomayor's confirmation hearing, claiming it lacks decorum...unlike, you know, Republican Tom Coburn's Ricky Ricardo impersonation  (wonkette.com) (124)
(Think Progress) Dumbass In a speech to Republican lawmakers, Zell Miller says that Rahm Emanuel should use "Gorilla Glue" to stop Obama from globetrotting  (thinkprogress.org) (479)
(Fox News) Asinine The governor who refused stimulus dollars as wasteful spending spent tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars on international travel, including trips to visit his mistress  (foxnews.com) (105)
(BBC) Interesting Former Iranian President Rafsanjani calls for release of imprisoned protestors, reform of political system, restoration of Fark's green band  (news.bbc.co.uk) (274)
(Gawker) Dumbass Gather around kids, its time for "American History" with teacher Pat Buchanan: "I think white men were 100% of the people who wrote the constitution...This has been a country basically built by white folks." [video goodness]  (gawker.com) (655)
(NewsBusters) Dumbass Bidenomics 101: If you want to avoid bankruptcy, spend more money  (newsbusters.org) (128)
(Politico) Spiffy Sen. Boxer gets verbally btch slapped, yes ma'am  (politico.com) (202)

Thu July 16, 2009
(Think Progress) Dumbass Rick Perry, March: Texas can take care of its unemployment benefits without federal help. Rick Perry, today: can we have more money than we initially rejected?  (thinkprogress.org) (148)
(Fox News) Obvious Senator Jim Bunning (R-etirement ready) hears the Fat Lady warming up  (foxnews.com) (65)
(CNN) Stupid Poll show close race for 2012 Republican presidential nomination - between three candidates that have no chance of winning the election  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (364)
(Google) Followup Hillary: "Reports of my demise are premature. I broke my elbow, not my larynx." I heard she fell off a cliff while filming in New Zealand  (google.com) (80)
(CNN) Cool Sotomayor wins praise from Republicans. Wait...WHAT?  (cnn.com) (90)
(Houston Chronicle) Stupid Dear traveling public, enjoy your TSA-issued enhanced searches. Love, The U.S. Congress  (chron.com) (118)
(Yahoo) Asinine Senator to Sotomayor (WL - Wise Latina): what precedent were you following in ruling against the firefighters? Sotomayor: Precedent? Well, uh...hey, is that a baby wolf over there?  (news.yahoo.com) (458)
(Reason Magazine) Obvious Privately-run OpenRegs.com does a better job finding relevant government regulations than hopey-shiny new regulations.gov - there's a message here, unreadable in the glare of Obama's awesomeness  (reason.com) (65)
(Comedy Central) Unlikely Barney Frank informs Jon Stewart that the $787 billion stimulus hasn't succeeded as planned because Republicans made them reduce the original amount by $40 billion. Go ahead...guess where the congressman claimed that money would've gone  (thedailyshow.com) (805)
(CSMonitor) Obvious Voters don't care that Sarah Palin quit. Still no cure for Alzheimer's  (features.csmonitor.com) (152)
(Delaware Online) Asinine Hoping $1.3 billion in stimulus money to Amtrak will get you bullet trains or something? The first $700K has been spent to refurbish a 27-year-old Amtrak car. Woo woo  (delawareonline.com) (238)
(The Atlantic) Cool Joe the Plumber: "I wouldn't have queers anywhere near my children." McCain: "Joe the Plumber - you can quote me - is a dumbass. He should stick to plumbing."  (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com) (262)
(Some Guy) Hero Congressman proposes Resolution which states that members of Congress must also participate in whatever health care plan they choose for the rest of us  (soitgoesinshreveport.blogspot.com) (350)
(Some Guy) Obvious Prince Charles sticks his foot in his mouth again, this time with comments over country's fishing industry. American Farkers shake their heads, wonder how this guy ever got elected in the first place  (shetlandtimes.co.uk) (73)
(Hot Air) Silly Old busted: Obama throws like a girl. New busted: Obama's wearing "mom jeans"  (hotair.com) (345)
(Some Guy) Amusing "We might lose Sarah Palin from the public stage altogether. This would be a catastrophe; the woman is a comic genius. Following her on Twitter is like being attached to an intravenous drip of hilarity"  (newstatesman.com) (88)
(Salon) Fail White House reporters: "We need to be totally unbiased and merely report the facts. We shouldn't opine on any issues or inject our opinions into policy debate. Oh, and its ridiculous to investigate torture. Duh"  (salon.com) (117)
(Hot Air) Interesting Obama's poll numbers dropping faster than an Air France jet in a thunderstorm  (hotair.com) (339)
(Yahoo) Asinine Your benevolent government at work: Pentagon says it's OK to have a smoke when getting shot at on the battlefield  (news.yahoo.com) (89)

Wed July 15, 2009
(Crooks & Liars) Dumbass Rove on intelligence oversight: The law is too dangerous not to break  (crooksandliars.com) (87)
(Salon) Asinine Senate Republicans back hate crime bill covering gays so all Americans can live free of discrimination. Just kidding, they're worried it might infringe on the rights of gay-haters  (salon.com) (656)
(CNN) Obvious If the Obama administration doesn't let Secretary of State Hillary Clinton get back into the limelight soon, somebody's bunny is going to get boiled  (cnn.com) (51)
(YouTube) Amusing Glenn Beck calmly and rationally debates health care with a caller on his radio show. Just kidding, he shrieks at her like a psychopath  (youtube.com) (377)
(Yahoo) Followup Mark Sanford is going hiking again  (news.yahoo.com) (34)
(Chicago Tribune) Obvious Not news: No IL state budget. News: 6000 state workers not being paid. Fark: Because lawmakers were at the All-Star game  (chicagotribune.com) (53)
(Telegraph) Scary Sudden Putin Death Syndrome strikes again  (telegraph.co.uk) (78)
(ABC News) Asinine Government workers have fun on the taxpayer's dime, cite need for stress relief after death threats. Death threats justified after seeing video of "motivational dancing"  (abcnews.go.com) (57)
(Reason Magazine) Scary Strict population-control laws, including compulsory abortion, were advocated by: a) Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler, b) Marvel supervillian Dr. Doom, or c) Obama's new science czar?  (reason.com) (141)
(AZCentral) Obvious Sen Kyle: "The stimules is not working". Obama Administration: "Gov Brewer, do you want stimules funds cut off?". Gov. Brewer: Hell no  (azcentral.com) (85)
(Media Matters) Stupid New GOP talking point: Obama throws like a girl  (mediamatters.org) (357)
(LiveLeak) Followup Racist comments posted on freeper website were posted by the DailyKos journalist who reported the story. He blogged about attacking blacks and blaming it on conservatives as well. Not this will ever go green on Communist Fark  (liveleak.com) (190)
(Reuters) Interesting Moody's downgrades California's bond ratings to "Rob Schneider movie"  T-Shirt  (reuters.com) (49)
(Some Guy) Interesting South Carolina judge rules law barring underage drinking is unconstitutional  (wistv.com) (157)
(Reuters) Interesting Another ignorant defense of rich people who deserve only our contempt: Why the Democratic plan for a surcharge on the rich to pay for health care is bad  (blogs.reuters.com) (lots)
(Right Wing News) Obvious Five criticisms of George Bush that could be better applied to Barack Obama  (rightwingnews.com) (110)
(Some Graph) Obvious "Despite the continued weakness of the economy and the steady drumbeat of attacks on the President's policies from the right, the coalition of groups that put him in office last November remains solidly behind him today."  (thedemocraticstrategist.org) (370)
(CNN) Obvious Sotomayor felt 'out of place' in Ivy League. Imagine how she would feel on the Supreme Court  (cnn.com) (201)
(Canada.com) Unlikely What was the pinnacle of success for Canada's PM Harper? Was it A] a smooth and effective performance at the G8, B] a private audience with the Pope, or C] winning the endorsement of a has-been 70s pop singer?  (canada.com) (108)
(Washington Post) Obvious After assuring America the federal government wouldn't be making management decisions at GM or Chrysler, Congress prepares to make a management decision at GM and Chrysler  (washingtonpost.com) (271)
(Politico) Interesting Democrat Judy Chu wins special election for California house seat, becomes first Chinese American congresswoman. Welcome to the Big League, Chu  T-Shirt  (politico.com) (156)
(The Atlantic) Obvious Bill Clinton now supports gay marriage. As would any man stuck with Hillary for almost 34 years  (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com) (293)
(Firedoglake) Hero MSNBC drops the word "blowjob" during afternoon broadcast, offended mother writes the best rant you'll read today (with vid)  (seminal.firedoglake.com) (215)
(National Review) Unlikely Liberal law professor on Sotomayor's testimony today: If she was not perjuring herself, she is intellectually unqualified to be on the Supreme Court. If she was perjuring herself, she is morally unqualified  (corner.nationalreview.com) (372)
(CSMonitor) Interesting "Nearly all my professors are Democrats. Isn't that a problem?"  (csmonitor.com) (994)

Tue July 14, 2009
(Think Progress) Dumbass Because all them Messicans or whatever should stick together, Sen Jeff Sessions (R-ejected for a federal judgeship) castigates Sotomayor for having an opinion he doesn't like  (thinkprogress.org) (207)
(Talking Points Memo) Fail The WSJ, Washington Times, and Fox News sent e-mails to Mark Sanford (R-gentina) to let him know that him being "missing" was a ridiculous claim and they wanted to help him  (tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com) (72)
(Huffington Post) PSA Stating that you're going to get African-Americans interested in the GOP by offering them fried chicken and potato salad might not be the best strategy for getting your party back on top  (huffingtonpost.com) (347)
(The New York Times) Interesting House Democrats to introduce their health care bill today, which will establish a government plan and finance the $100 billion annual cost with a surtax on people who made the mistake of earning too much money  (thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com) (948)
(AJC) PSA A primer on judicial terms used in the Sotomayor confirmation hearings. 'Wise Latina' strangely absent  (ajc.com) (74)
(Crooks & Liars) Dumbass Sarah Palin may attempt to form new conservative party, citing need for incoherent speeches, beauty pageants, and reports on lots of dogs  (crooksandliars.com) (672)
(CNN) Silly Whether you're a Democrat, a Republican, or a Fark Independent™ - everybody loves a sex scandal. And since we don't have one at the moment, here's a recap of recent events. This is CNN  (cnn.com) (60)
(National Review) Unlikely Now that it's become clear that U.S. policy under President Obama has largely adhered to the Petraeus/Bush plan in Iraq, surely Hollywood will continue to produce anti-Iraq-War films...right? Right?  (corner.nationalreview.com) (98)
(Some Guy) Obvious Obama's "Green Czar" turns out to be a communist with an arrest record  (collinsreport.net) (182)
(Some Guy) Fail Sotomayor: "Let me be perfectly clear on this so there is no confusion, all white males must be castrated." Obama: "Her comments were taken out of context."  (carbolicsmoke.com) (249)
(Yahoo) Interesting Obama pumps billions into Communisty Colleges  (news.yahoo.com) (322)
(BBC) Dumbass London mayor (annual salary £140k) Boris Johnson dismisses complaints about £250k he gets per year to write weekly newspaper column, says it's "chicken feed". In related news, 200-foot-tall chicken attacks London  (news.bbc.co.uk) (44)
(Canada.com) Obvious Czech bounced  (canada.com) (99)
(AP) Unlikely Chuck Taylor denies his All Star war crimes atrocities. He was just trying to canvas the population  (hosted.ap.org) (33)
(Yahoo) Asinine Congress approves $173 million for airlines to fly mostly empty flights to rural towns, most of which are in Alaska  (fe15.story.media.ac4.yahoo.com) (230)
(Yahoo) Interesting Palin's PAC reports raising more than $730,000 in 5 months. You betch'ya  (news.yahoo.com) (158)
(Washington Times) Asinine State that thought $3,500 speeding tickets were a good idea now wants to charge people up to $33,280 a year to drive on I-95  (washingtontimes.com) (123)
(Daily Kos) Asinine Oops he did it again. Sean Hannity proves once again that truth and reality have no place in Hannity's America as another selectively edited video is used to try to smear Obama  (dailykos.com) (206)
(Google) Silly Review of the terror alert system underway. Obama reportedly wants to change from green-yellow-red to hearts, stars, horseshoes, clovers and blue moons, pots of gold and rainbows  (google.com) (167)
(Fox News) Cool Obama: There will be no more money for the F-22. Congress: Here is the money for 7 new F-22 fighter jets. Obama: Perhaps you didn't hear me the first time  (foxnews.com) (358)

Mon July 13, 2009
(Some Freethinker) Asinine Alabama Freethought Association puts up billboard that reads "Imagine No Religion". Christians welcome this as a sign of free expression and engage in meaningful debate. Just kidding. They get all butthurt  (tuscaloosanews.com) (1606)
(Huffington Post) Obvious Pat Buchanan calls for Levi Johnston to be drowned  (huffingtonpost.com) (127)
(YouTube) Fail Obama's Teleprompter "Falls Apart" During His Speech  (youtube.com) (292)
(Talking Points Memo) Interesting Miniature economist Robert Reich: Senate committee must soon report a health care bill that has a public option and a tax source. Or we'll all die in pain and misery, or some such  (tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com) (111)
(Washington Post) Ironic Jane Roe, from Roe V. Wade, arrested in anti-abortion protest. Can this woman commit to anything?  T-Shirt  (washingtonpost.com) (558)
(Telegraph) Fail "In hindsight, it appears that putting groups of disadvantaged, vulnerable teenagers deemed at risk of having sex and falling pregnant together has the opposite effect to those intended."  (telegraph.co.uk) (111)
(Huffington Post) Obvious If Republicans want to talk about activist liberal judges, maybe we should look at the record of conservative judges like John Roberts, whose rulings coincidentally reflect the values of the contemporary Republican party  (huffingtonpost.com) (158)
(Fox News) Followup Update on Pelosi's CIA "lie": It was designed to capture AQ leaders, it was approved by Congress, and never implemented. For those keeping score, that's Cheney 2, Democrats 0  (foxnews.com) (292)
(Townhall) Obvious When AIG sends their thieving empty suits to a six-figure retreat it's evil GOP crony capitalism run amok; when the Social Security Administration does it, it's Hope and Change. And those little scallops wrapped in bacon, too  (townhall.com) (97)
(Crooks & Liars) Asinine Fox News puts Planned Parenthood logo in crosshairs. Literally. Which would only be a problem if people were shooting abortion providers or something  (crooksandliars.com) (114)
(RealClearPolitics) Interesting "We face an unprecedented collision between Americans' desire for more government services and their almost-equal unwillingness to be taxed."  (realclearpolitics.com) (330)
(Reason Magazine) Unlikely Do we really need federal laws governing carry-on luggage, college football, and switchblades?  (reason.com) (268)
(Boston Globe) Interesting Official Sotomayor Confirmation thread. Is it too early to drink every time the phrase "liberal activist" is whargarbled?  (boston.com) (817)
(Philly) Asinine Taxpayers pay $200,000 so Democratic state senator can rent an office building from himself. But it's okay: The senator introduced a resolution that allows the payments  (philly.com) (69)
(The Raw Story) Stupid McCain: "Palin didn't quit, she changed her priorities." In related news, your mom isn't a slut, she's just popular  T-Shirt  (rawstory.com) (710)
(Time) Interesting Obama's 5 foreign policy pillars  (time.com) (133)
(Flickr) Caption Caption this photo of Obama on the phone  (flickr.com) (165)
(Reuters) News Kim Jong-Ill  (reuters.com) (273)

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