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Sun September 06, 2009

Source	Fark Headline		Comments
		"Face it, in a country of 300 million, there are a lot of stupid people" (tag is for heroic level of honesty) (videocafe.crooksandliars.com)	(609)
(Some guy)		"Bachmann said that for some Americans, the ratio of tax payments to earned income can reach 50 percent -- compared to 5 percent in 1950" when the highest marginal tax rate for the richest was 84.36% (scienceblogs.com)	(293)
		"I've been waiting for the day when a prominent pol resigns and for print MSM readers it appears to be out-of-the-blue, though everyone on the Web knows the whole story" (slate.com)	(127)
		Well-connected city businessman arrested for having stolen handicapped permits? Go directly to the Mayor's Office, do not pass go, do not collect an arrest record (buffalonews.com)	(64)
		Color him gone (foxnews.com)	(1445)
(PBS)		Bill Moyers: "We Should Be Treating Health As A Condition, Not A Commodity" (pbs.org)	(250)
		"Could George W. Bush or some of his top aides end up behind bars? It's extremely unlikely, but the Obama administration is taking its first steps along a path that could lead in that direction" (cnn.com)	(364)
		Naked cowboy drops bid to become NYC mayor citing red tape, blue balls (abcnews.go.com)	(33)

Sat September 05, 2009

	Democrats are targeting Michelle Bachman for ridicule because they're afraid she'll run for president (crooksandliars.com)	(427)
	All those conservatives and blue dogs saying health care reform costs too much at $900B over 10 years? These are the same people who voted on estate tax reform which cost the government $750B (yglesias.thinkprogress.org)	(408)
	Kenyan Birth Certificate 2: Orly Boogaloo (salon.com)	(344)
	Sarah Palin is sick of people questioning her intellect and seriousness. So she's auctioning off a dinner date with her on eBay (startribune.com)	(176)
	Obama has a creative solution to China buying less U.S. debt. He will keep your tax refund, and give you an I.O.U. instead (money.cnn.com)	(102)
	Goal: Improve Hawaii's economy. Step 1: Plan construction project in Guam. Step 2: Double project's price tag by overpaying for laborers. Step 3: Hope Hawaiians travel 3,800 miles to work on project (forbes.com)	(21)
	Transgender runs for mayor in small, conservative Idaho town, hopes being a Democrat will not be used against her (hosted.ap.org)	(83)
	Obama spokesman criticizes furor over back-to-school speech, apparently failing to realize that you automatically lose an argument if you defend your position by criticizing the furor (news.yahoo.com)	(220)
(Some Guy)	Remember how Sarah Palin quit to save Alaska money? Yeah, her resignation cost the state about $140,000 (wbaltv.com)	(136)
	"For the opposition party, there is plenty of political opportunity in all of this, but why engage in serious political debate when denunciations of our Baathist-Juche-Stalinoid president will suffice?" (reason.com)	(95)
	"Constant war is the normal state of affairs for America. In the 64 years since WWII, we have started and fought more wars and invaded and bombed more countries than any other nation in the world. Those are just the facts" (salon.com)	(160)
	Obama gets sick of Congress dicking around, puts on cape, prepares to draft own health care bill (cnn.com)	(339)
	Music teacher supplies pistol to terminally ill father in hospital so he doesn't have to wait for death panel (dailymail.co.uk)	(171)
	That terrorism vaccine has worn off, Ashcroft loses his immunity (latimes.com)	(92)
	Japanese Democrats announce "Cash for Kids" program (cnn.com)	(88)
(Some Connected Press)	Want free publicity for your mayoral campaign? File charges against the incumbent because he spoke to you on the street (pressconnects.com)	(8)
	White House says furor over school speech marks the start of "silly season". Be vewwy quiet, he's hunting Wepublicans (foxnews.com)	(389)

Fri September 04, 2009

(Some Guy)	Wackenhut, the private security firm that gave us Animal House: Afghanistan, handles security for several American nuclear powerplants says spokesman Homer J. Simpson (michiganmessenger.com)	(47)
	Reporter: Does Obama still have faith in Van Jones? Spokesman: Jones continues to work for the administration. Translation: There's a job opening at the White House (google.com)	(104)
	Obama likely to nix the public insurance option which is more popular than him (dailykos.com)	(356)
	"By the end of the next decade, the United States will spend more money paying the interest on the public debt than it will on any other governmental activities except Medicare and Social Security." (washingtontimes.com)	(206)
	Obama reverses position, will release names of all White House visitors. Change you actually can believe in (news.yahoo.com)	(52)
	Israeli army fire tear gas right at media crew. Oh yeah, theres an "oh fark" and a dodging reporter, caught on tape (youtube.com)	(170)
(Haaretz)	Israel declares right to harass intermarrying American Jews in the name of ethnic purity. You know who else wanted to harass Jews in the name of ethnic purity? (haaretz.com)	(190)
	Obama Green Jobs czar Van Jones: "I'm not racist or anything, but only white kids shoot up their schools. You don't see black kids doing that, do you?" (breitbart.tv)	(217)
	Ah, Switzerland. The trains run on time, everyone has guns, taxes are low... and they have universal health care that's NOT administered by the government. Oh, Switzerland. Is there ANYTHING you're bad at? (open.salon.com)	(122)
	Georgia state congressmen to introduce legislation banning Medicare and Medicaid (blogs.ajc.com)	(121)
	Obama will need some Bushian qualities if he is to spare his country a humiliating retreat (article.nationalreview.com)	(175)
(Washington Examiner)	Here's something to help you sleep at night. The agency that is being proposed as the government watchdog that will determine whether or not your health plan is acceptable: The I.R.S (washingtonexaminer.com)	(217)
(Harrison Daily Times)	Berryville, Arkansas mayor is happy to be attending city council meetings again after missing almost two months due to that pesky little matter of spending time in jail for DWI and pot (harrisondailytimes.com)	(11)
	"It's almost like a religious experience - sightings of taxpayer dollars actually at work on projects for we the People who are paying billions for them." (blogs.ajc.com)	(67)
(CFNews13)	Obama's speech about the importance of staying in school banned in some Florida schools, ensuring a new generation of Florida-tagged headlines in the future (cfnews13.com)	(407)
	Fox to pass on Obama healthcare speech in order to air "So You Think You Can Dance?" and "Glee" (latimesblogs.latimes.com)	(238)
	"The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students." This IS a repeat from 1991 (newsbusters.org)	(413)
(Some Guy)	"Whatever happened to Gary Cooper? Whatever happened, in other words, to quiet, unemotive Americans who went about their business without fanfare, without swagger, but with firmness and no lack of controlled anger at the right time?" (middle-east-online.com)	(395)
	Teaching American kids compassion can be deadly. The only thing that can save them is hatred (americanthinker.com)	(241)
	Ex-Marine, now a reporter for Al Jazeera English, previously granted interviews with Rumsfeld and Condi Rice, visits Houston jail. This pisses off local GOP head, who has his supporters mass-call the emergency dispatch line (chron.com)	(146)
	National Review asks the question no one is dumb enough to ask: "Was World War II worth it?" (article.nationalreview.com)	(351)
	Famous 11-year-old reporter interviews President Obama for his school's TV station. Republicans: ZOMG, the president is brainwashing our children (news.yahoo.com)	(458)

Thu September 03, 2009

	Man whose finger was bitten off in healthcare scuffle and had finger re-attached with medicare, then didn't have it reattached, now has had it reattached with medicare again (tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com)	(204)
	The topic of gay marriage-which is currently legal-is going to be the focus of Republicans during Iowa's 2010 elections, despite voters saying the economy is more important than who's getting married to whom (desmoinesregister.com)	(88)
	Oh, man, did I misread this headline about Senator Snowe (cnn.com)	(71)
	Rhode Island Governor Don Carcieri hates the gays so much, he's helping raise funds for a group that wants to wipe them off the face of the earth. Stay classy, Don (news.bostonherald.com)	(54)
	Video of George H. W. Bush callously indoctrinating our nation's schoolchildren (dailykos.com)	(159)
	Organized labor's approval ratings are plummieting faster than an informant with cement shoes (gallup.com)	(84)
	President Obama's "green jobs czar" - yeah, he's a Truther (washingtontimes.com)	(286)
	Claims denial rates by leading California insurers, first 6 months of 2009:• PacifiCare -- 39.6 percent • Cigna -- 32.7 percent • HealthNet -- 30 percent • Kaiser Permanente -- 28.3 percent • Blue Cross -- 27.9 percent (dailykos.com)	(337)
	On second thought former Atty Gen Gonzales decides maybe a torture probe wouldn't be such a good idea after all. Removes Cheney's boot from his arse (tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com)	(33)
(Some Guy)	13% of the entire US House of Representatives in August was busy meeting with their constituents in Israel (original.antiwar.com)	(86)
(Washington Independent)	Former senator George Allen looking to macacomeback (washingtonindependent.com)	(116)
	70 years ago today, World War II began. Unless, of course, you're American - in which case you might want to green light this in two year's time (once you've decided who's likely to win) (telegraph.co.uk)	(692)
	GOP Senators decry "Government-run health care" - except for us, don't worry about us, we'll be fine (huffingtonpost.com)	(130)
	Justice Stevens may be on the way out, so you may again proceed with determining what combination of age and ethnicity constitutes a clear understanding of law (thehill.com)	(123)
	Colonel Gaddafi wants to 'abolish' Switzerland: Dictator files bizarre motion with the U.N. (dailymail.co.uk)	(101)
	Not News: MSNBC pundit says right wing talking heads manufactoring rage against Obama for ratings and destroying their own party. News: It's Joe Scarborough (politico.com)	(151)
	Obama has given the majority of his cushy ambassador appointments to campaign fundraisers who gave him tons of cash. This is not the change you were looking for (npr.org)	(286)
	At least someone is offering cushy jobs for brain-dead slobs during the recession: Federal government needs to hire 270,000 over the next three years because the baby boomers are retiring (washingtonpost.com)	(80)
	Staff of Rep. Charles Rangel (D-Uptown) are as forgetful as the boss, with a dozen of them filing amended financial disclosure statements (nypost.com)	(45)
	PETA is preparing a lawsuit against the father who saved his 5 year-old daughter from being a precious seal's lunch (vancouversun.com)	(108)
	Australian opposition hires sex therapist to help them do better at the poles (news.com.au)	(6)
	House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer states that he will not vote for Obamacare (cnsnews.com)	(214)
	Eliot Spitzer continues his neverending quest to help girls work their way through school (foxnews.com)	(81)
	Obama Department of Education misspells "schoolchildren" (hotair.com)	(193)
	Even Ted Kennedy thought Jimmy Carter was a douche (thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com)	(123)
	"President Obama is not Lincoln with a BlackBerry, as some have suggested, but Lyndon Johnson with a war the country and its NATO allies no longer want" (upi.com)	(134)
	Dan Savage: "I really do think the Michelle Bachmanns of the world and the Glenn Becks of the world are actively and, consciously or subconsciously, trying to get, I'm just gonna say it, trying to get the President killed" (dailykos.com)	(954)
	Actual headline: "Why Michelle Obama's hair matters." It's not news, it's Time magazine (news.yahoo.com)	(61)
	Levi Johnston, best known for impregnating Bristol Palin, comes out swinging against Sarah Palin... by questioning her hunting abilities. Really? That's the best you've got? (voices.washingtonpost.com)	(91)
	Why the public option isn't that important (blog.newsweek.com)	(197)
	Government Health Care in action. Medicare pays 4x the cost of the purchase price of wheelchairs in order to lease the wheelchairs (cnn.com)	(114)
	Seeking to prove that Obama is ineligible to be President, WND points to evidence suggesting that he was born in Seattle. Oops (wnd.com)	(136)
(Denver Westword)	Colorado kids can opt out of Obama speech because the last things kids need today is advice from a man who built himself from nothing into the evil secret Muslim facist socialist leader of the free world (blogs.westword.com)	(277)

Wed September 02, 2009

	Death panels are real. In the UK (telegraph.co.uk)	(111)
	"The mainstream media raved about a new era of leftist intellectual supremacy during the liberal ascendance on the bestsellers lists, the return of conservative books to the tops of those lists goes unnoticed" (newsbusters.org)	(117)
	Curt Schilling tosses his bloody sock into the Massachusetts Senate race (bostonherald.com)	(100)
	White House Adviser Van Jones on why Democrats can't get any legislation passed: Republicans are a**holes (foxnews.com)	(361)
	M$ pushes for the global patents enforced by "examined and prosecuted by a single examining authority and litigated before a single judicial body." In other words, a One World Government (news.cnet.com)	(69)
(Politifact)	In their race to the bottom of the barrel, Republicans are now calling Obama's speech about "the importance of persisting and succeeding in school" a socialist indoctrination program (politifact.com)	(371)
	42% of people randomly selected out of a phonebook believe that people randomly selected out of a phonebook would do a better job than the current Congress (rasmussenreports.com)	(76)
	South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford vows to stay in office because God wants him to. Besides, a 90 percent grade on the Ten Commandments is still an A (washingtontimes.com)	(89)
(Arutz Sheva)	Ahmadinejad's Imam: "Islam allows rape to get confessions. If you rape a young man it's ok to invite others to watch, do it as often as you want. Raping a virgin who will be executed brings great rewards." The Aristocrats (israelnationalnews.com)	(lots)
	White House says that "administration officials welcome a showdown with liberal lawmakers" and "the confrontation would allow Obama to show he is willing to stare down his own party to get things done. " (voices.washingtonpost.com)	(289)
	A "distorted" debate is better than a government-controlled debate (reason.com)	(136)
	Massachusetts State Rep demonstrates effectiveness of alcohol tax hike that he supported by driving his state-owned car to New Hampshire to buy booze (wbztv.com)	(86)
	Why can't Democrats mobilize the public for healthcare reform? Blame the demagogy gap (salon.com)	(227)
	Aiming to restore the trust of a suspicious public, Democrats aim to replace the late Ted Kennedy atop the Senate health committee with Chris Dodd (voices.washingtonpost.com)	(122)
	Here's how the Obama administration can salvage a victory in health care reform and get rid of the "Yakkety Sax" soundtrack that accompanies it everywhere (washingtonpost.com)	(150)
	Levi Johnston says that Sarah Palin pressured him into letting her adopt Levi and Briston's baby, because adopting her own granddaughter would be a good political move (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com)	(129)
	Pundit who called Sarah Palin's popularity evidence of the GOP having a "psychotic episode" and has ripped Rush Limbaugh and Anne Coulter in print, is starting a new blog devoted to political moderates,-oh and he's a Republican (politico.com)	(100)
	Obama's foreign policy: Abandon democracy (foxnews.com)	(188)
	Let's tax the rich and put a 90 percent windfall levy on Wall Street profits and bonuses to pay for Obamacare. Also, we should cut up the rich and make them into a delicious, nourishing chowder (huffingtonpost.com)	(318)
	Wife of Japan's next prime minister rode a UFO to Venus (reuters.com)	(99)
	Pelosi: You're either with us, or against us. Because bipartisanship is so overrated (politico.com)	(159)
	"Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson" (americanthinker.com)	(515)

Tue September 01, 2009

(Some Paleo Conservative)	Pat Buchanan: "You know, until 1939 Hitler was a pretty good leader. He really was just a pacifist who was forced into starting WW2 by the Poles. He brought cake and flowers, but they wouldn't listen to what he had to say" (buchanan.org)	(516)
	Not News: CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo grills congressman on why he doesn't use Medicare. Fark: Congressman is 44 years old (huffingtonpost.com)	(116)
	Obama to have public Muslim dinner at White House, in refreshing change from the secret Muslim dinners he has there every other night (voices.washingtonpost.com)	(90)
	When Good Liberals Go Wrong (pajamasmedia.com)	(165)
	White House fears liberal war pressure. Wouldn't a liberal war just be a lot of whining and maybe a little slapping and hair pulling, what's to worry about ? (politico.com)	(84)
(538)	538.com's Nate Silver goes on Fox and Friends: "I've never met people more terrified of what might happen if they actually tried to engage in a rational discussion" (fivethirtyeight.com)	(467)
(WOAI)	Texas gubernatorial race just got a little more Kinky (radio.woai.com)	(90)
	"Why would you guys try to stuff a health care bill down our throats in three to four weeks when the President took six months to pick a dog for his kids?" (townhall.com)	(284)
	Rudy Giuliani set to appear on The View. You already know the date (upi.com)	(66)
	GOP congressman laughs at uninsured mother and her son, tells her to 'go be a grown-up" (dailykos.com)	(334)
	Canada is aboot to have another election, eh? (cbc.ca)	(133)
(Oakland Tribune)	Obama the Dictator. "we're coming to the end of times. The Lord's coming back, and to have that, we need a one-world government, and Obama is the man chosen to lead that." (insidebayarea.com)	(160)
	Not news: U.S. commentator calls for ground troops to leave Afghanistan. News: It's conservative George Will (politico.com)	(175)
	More preventive care is not going to save money. Actually, "one of the ways we are living longer and better lives is precisely because we're spending more on health care" (reason.com)	(199)
	Inglorious Basterds is left-wing PC tripe because Tarantino didn't include any scenes with planes flying into the World Trade Center and the WWII-era Jews in the film killed Nazis instead of modern-day Iranian Musilms (bighollywood.breitbart.com)	(293)
	That ROTC student who accosted a Muslim girl for not standing during the Pledge of Allegience? Yeah, she made that part up (tampabay.com)	(557)
	Glenn Bek: blokhead, lod, lown, razy, retin, imbeile, knuklehead, ninompoop, psyho, shmuk (youtube.com)	(lots)
	"Economists, politicians and journalists say that the current recession is the worst since the Great Depression. Repetition may reinforce belief, but the comparison is greatly overstated and highly misleading." (online.wsj.com)	(184)
(Some Union Army)	The secession plans for Texas are thrown into disarray after they realize close to 200,000 Yankee insurgents are already based inside the Republic of Texas. Oops (pao.hood.army.mil)	(269)

Mon August 31, 2009

	Now that he's running for governor, Bob McDonnell doesn't think it's bad that 52% of voters be allowed to have jobs. Funny how times change (firstread.msnbc.msn.com)	(144)
	Glenn Beck thinks there's a coup going on. Coup coup coup-chu (dailykos.com)	(436)
	Dick Cheney outraged at "politically motivated" oversight of CIA (washingtonpost.com)	(165)
	Palin joins forces with Glenn Beck. It's like Voltron, but retarded (voices.kansascity.com)	(268)
	White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs didn't get the memo (realclearpolitics.com)	(90)
	Having a constituent arrested at one of your townhalls is a curious re-election strategy, especially for a Representative who made her name by bird-dogging her former Congressman at his town-hall forums (pajamasmedia.com)	(223)
(Some Guy)	Bill Clinton says not passing Obama's health bill "is the worst thing we can do for Democrats." Because this whole debate is about what's best for the Democratic Party, of course (commercialappeal.com)	(146)
	Get with it Grassley. The heartland with the first caucuses wants a public option now (desmoinesregister.com)	(40)
	Consumer Reports, the magazine whose stated duty is to educate and empower consumers, is now acting as an attack dog for the liberal bureaucrats at the EPA (corner.nationalreview.com)	(313)
	Sarah Palin heading to Asia to get a closer look at Putin's head (huffingtonpost.com)	(119)
	Tom Ridge: "Remember when I said I was politically pressured to raise the alert , yeah.... turns out we just had different opinions." Orange you glad the press will ignore the retraction? (foxnews.com)	(112)
(New Majority)	Author Michael Pollan, hero of food-loving progressive snobs everywhere, says he won't boycott Whole Foods (newmajority.com)	(112)
	There is only one possible explanation for the idiocy inherent to the progressive movement: Liberals are all coked up on the reefer pills (bighollywood.breitbart.com)	(227)
	Pundits predict double-digit loses for congressional Democrats the 2010 election, something as easy to predict as Barney Frank taking a second cruller (politico.com)	(255)
	Pennsylvania governor jokes about raising the beer tax. Not funny, dude, not funny at all (mcall.com)	(86)
(Some radioactive dude)	Russian involved in the Soviet Union's first atomic test says nuclear bomb testing shouldn't be banned because the bombs produce "very nice mushroom clouds." Enough said (skynews.com.au)	(46)
	"In August our ubiquitous president became the nation's elevator music, always out and about, heard but not really listened to, like audible wallpaper" (newsweek.com)	(46)
	The US Government has made $4 billion in profit from the bank bailout. Just imagine how much China is going to make off of it (foxnews.com)	(89)
	Americans should consider how tax cuts could improve the delivery and payment of health care (article.nationalreview.com)	(179)
(Arutz Sheva)	Israel has their very own tea-baggers, complete with a Jewish Glenn Beck and everything (israelnationalnews.com)	(124)
	Many Americans are uneasy about the CIA interrogations. But if we examine the circumstances and the details, we shouldn't be (article.nationalreview.com)	(163)
	Harry Reid (D-umbass) tries to push around the Las Vegas Review-Journal and gets a swat on his liberal fanny pack (blogs.knoxnews.com)	(76)
	Texas Republican argues against government healthcare by telling story about a kid denied care by a private insurer. Town hall crowd isn't fooled. Since this is Fark, you know there's video (crooksandliars.com)	(139)