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3.85% Fascist 0.21% Commie
Sun September 27, 2009
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(WorldNetDaily) Asinine World Net Daily's latest proof of grand conspiracy againt all that is good and holy: churches forced to follow same rules all nonprofits have to  (wnd.com) (226)
(Talking Points Memo) Obvious Clinton says there's a vast right wing conspiracy. This is not a repeat from 1998  (tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com) (254)
(Slate) Amusing The Quotable Biden  (slate.com) (74)
(Jules Crittenden) Sad "It's a sad state of affairs when a Frenchman mocks an American president and you have to go with the frog."  (julescrittenden.com) (157)
(Mediabistro) Weird Welcome to Bizarro World, where CNN and MSNBC don't air Obama's speech, while Fox not only airs it but interrupts Glenn Beck's show to do so  (mediabistro.com) (118)
(Courier Journal) Obvious Christian only insurance company pays off plaintiffs. Your God settles out of court  (courier-journal.com) (113)
(Examiner) Obvious Begun again, the Christmas Wars have  (examiner.com) (165)
(Washington Post) Interesting "I can recall no other major American speech in which the narcissism of a leader has been quite so pronounced."  (voices.washingtonpost.com) (528)

Sat September 26, 2009
(Washington Post) Dumbass US to demand access to Iran's new nuclear site, since it obviously has a right to inspect another nation's energy grid, and proved in Iraq that the IAEA is incompetent  (washingtonpost.com) (145)
(Some Guy) Obvious Prime Minister Stephen (Steve) Harper points out that Canada is the world's second largest landmass, the first nation of hockey and the best part of North America: "Every G20 nation wants to be Canada"  (gulf-times.com) (112)
(Daily Kos) Amusing Saturday Kos hate mail: We're not racists, but here's a funny joke about watermelons edition  (dailykos.com) (139)
(Huffington Post) Followup You know what would be funny? If someone found a link to schoolchildren singing the praises of BUSH. For helping them out after Katrina. Yep. That'd be something, all right  (huffingtonpost.com) (200)
(Crooks & Liars) Interesting Sure, Obama's poll numbers have dropped. But if you want to examine where the GOP is polling right now, you better have your whale poop gloves on  (crooksandliars.com) (220)
(Daily Kos) Fail Conservatives want to spend $85 billion more than the liberals do on health care. Of course that $85B would be a transfer of wealth from taxpayers to insurance companies to avoid a public option so that makes it ok  (dailykos.com) (162)
(Hot Air) Scary Handy flowchart explains how to keep your current doctor under Democratic health care scheme  (hotair.com) (95)
(Google) Ironic GOP accuses Democrats for ignoring the public's need for good healthcare  (google.com) (84)
(Google) Dumbass Remember the eighty-seven-leventy promises that Obama made to shut Guantanamo in one year? Yeah, neither does his administration  (google.com) (111)
(WND) Ironic Kirk Cameron: "An entire generation is being brainwashed ... without even hearing the alternative"  (wnd.com) (298)
(Some Guy) Obvious Why schoolchildren will soon pray each morning to Barack Obama. "Could this be the reason that the atheists have fought so hard to get rid of Christianity? Is this secular messiah their planned replacement? Sounds so, doesn't it?"  (michnews.com) (114)
(Boston Globe) Misc Ted Kennedy's recently appointed replacement says joining Senate is "sobering" experience. So he's already abandoning the Kennedy legacy  T-Shirt  (boston.com) (45)
(Boston Herald) Obvious Boston mayor hides corruption by destroying or refusing to disclose incriminating public records, knowing newspapers no longer have enough money to sue  (bostonherald.com) (16)
(Some Guy) Obvious How Moammar Gadhafi confirmed to the United Nations that Barack Obama was born in Kenya in latest story the mainstream media won't tell you about  (michnews.com) (245)
(New York Daily News) Sad Al Gore is tanned, rested and ready to lose the Democratic primary in 2012 (pic)  (nydailynews.com) (93)
(Some Guy) Obvious Freemasons vehemently deny they're a cult. Submitter agrees that they aren't, no way, and let us speak no more about this *exchanges furtive secret handshake with admin*  (mydesert.com) (74)
(National Journal) Amusing If air travel worked like health care  (nationaljournal.com) (194)

Fri September 25, 2009
(Gawker) Amusing Nobody expects the Spanish goth maidens  (gawker.com) (210)
(Huffington Post) Obvious Federal government stops terrorist attack without torture or violating the Constitution  (huffingtonpost.com) (103)
(CBC) Ironic "Concerned Christians" decide to make themselves the laughingstock of Canada  (cbc.ca) (223)
(CNN) Spiffy Bill Clinton tells Anderson Cooper that he should be allowed to get married  (cnn.com) (160)
(Hot Air) Obvious President Obama sends cardboard cutout of himself to the UN. As expected, UN flips it over, writes strongly worded letter on back, & sends it back to Washington  (hotair.com) (87)
(National Affairs) Interesting Why is California so screwed up? First off, they thought they could be taxed like libertarians, but subsidized like socialists, but it turns out they are now taxed like socialists and subsidized like libertarians  (nationalaffairs.com) (167)
(Wired) Obvious Researcher finds that conservatives buy Hummers to stick it to those hippie Prius-drivin' libruls. Nobody tell them it's a Tahoe with a body kit  (wired.com) (126)
(Talking Points Memo) Scary The country's first late night birther-mercial. Orly Taitz already suing  (tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com) (99)
(Talking Points Memo) Weird Poll finds that a plurality of self-identified Republicans are for the public option  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (253)
(Talking Points Memo) Amusing Jon Kyl, after introducing a bill to remove maternity care from the list of services insurance should have to provide: "I don't need maternity care in my plan" Debbie Stabenow: "Your mom probably did" OH SNAP  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (278)
(Huffington Post) Silly Glenn Beck uses a discredited argument that says the climate bill will cost every American seventeen hundred dollars, and then completely...you know what, Glenn Beck may very well be retarded  (huffingtonpost.com) (327)
(Google) Sad $3 Million in stimulus money targeted for fighting wildfires has been allocated to the wildfire-stricken forests of downtown Washington DC  (google.com) (56)
(National Journal) Obvious Strong public insurance option saves more money than a weak option, which saves more than no public option. Then again, lowering costs lowers profits, which is fascism  (nationaljournal.com) (83)
(Huffington Post) Unlikely The House voted to defund ACORN because Jon Stewart is a wimp. Wait, what?  (huffingtonpost.com) (198)
(Washington Post) Asinine Obama to waffle and eventually do nothing about Irans second Uranium enrichment plant  (washingtonpost.com) (305)
(Political Wire) Fail Statistical evidence suggests political pollster has been making up numbers for its polls  (politicalwire.com) (79)
(WTNH) Fail Land taken in landmark Supreme Court eminent domain case which promised 3,169 new jobs and $1.2 million a year in tax revenue remains an undeveloped, delapidated, humping ground for feral cats  (wtnh.com) (184)
(Boston Globe) Asinine The ultimate tribute to a Washington politician: John Kerry tries to hide $20 million for Ted Kennedy Institue as an earmark in a defense spending bill  (boston.com) (135)
(Fox News) Hero House GOP bravely calls for hearings over Obama Administration's witchhunt of Medical Insurance Company  (foxnews.com) (232)
(Mediabistro) Asinine CNN interviews author of book about Obamas. White House responds by pulling guests from network, throwing hissy fit, adding CNN to enemies list, giving Sanjay Gupta swine flu  (mediabistro.com) (128)
(Boston Globe) Stupid Health care bill has new $5 billion tax on medical devices, to be paid for by increased price of medical devices, to be paid for by increased government health care spending, to be paid for by new tax  (boston.com) (373)
(WTAM) Amusing Politics at its best: Cross-dressing pictures of East Cleveland mayor released just days before primary election. (with pics)  (wtam.com) (176)
(LA Times) Obvious "Peaceful protest," my ass. "The protesters started throwing rocks at police and police cars, and dragging trash containers into the middle of the street to block traffic."  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (360)
(Hot Air) Followup You know that story about how Glenn Beck boiled a frog to death? Yeah, about that: The video was edited to remove the part where he said it was fake (with full video)  (hotair.com) (225)
(Crooks & Liars) Dumbass Someone's cranky at all the attention Glenn Beck is getting: Michelle Malkin calls Obama the "Groveller in Chief," says he "doesn't like this country very much"  (crooksandliars.com) (270)

Thu September 24, 2009
(YouTube) Video Katie Couric: "You said that Obama has a hatred for white culture. WTF is white culture?" Beck: "Umm, uhh, umm... the real story here is that Obama is racist."  (youtube.com) (683)
(Townhall) Strange Chuck Norris suggests vandalizing US flags to show solidarity with the Founders. Wait, what?  (townhall.com) (203)
(Politico) Amusing Former Rep. Jim Traficant apologizes to "all the hookers in America" for once comparing members of Congress to prostitutes and tells President Barack Obama to "stimulate this."  (politico.com) (64)
(Huffington Post) Dumbass This is the worst ratings stunt since WKRP dropped turkeys on Cincinnati  (huffingtonpost.com) (243)
(The Hill) Asinine House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) wins the award for why the GOP is staying a minority party by envisioning a health plan where the middle-class, made poor by layoffs, cancer and skyrocketing healthcare costs, can beg for charity  (thehill.com) (219)
(Forbes) Obvious To regain momentum on health care reform, Obama needs to do more than admit that opposing it isn't racist. He needs to keep his campaign promises  (forbes.com) (175)
(Some Guy) Hero Iowa county supervisor defends "F**k you" email he sent to complaining citizen. "I don't feel obligated to sit back and take this crap from somebody I don't know," he explains  (press-citizen.com) (103)
(MSNBC) Interesting Despite Fox's claims, altering the missile defense strategy is already producing results  (msnbc.msn.com) (243)
(Hot Air) Asinine And remember, if you like your current plan, you can keep it. Unless it's Medicare Advantage. Then you're screwed  (hotair.com) (160)
(The Hill) Interesting Conservative House Democrats say Nancy Pelosi isn't offering them protection against votes that could lose them their seats, which could lead to an electoral bloodbath in 2010  (thehill.com) (172)
(The New York Times) Interesting Paterson: I never wanted to be a governor anyway. I wanted to be...a lumberjack. Leaping from tree to tree as they float down the mighty Hudson  (cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com) (45)
(Wonkette) Amusing Glenn Beck isn't the only Fox News personality who can't spell  (wonkette.com) (170)
(Miami Herald) Strange Honduran ex-President: "I'm freaking out, man." You _are_ freaking out, man  (miamiherald.com) (58)
(The Hollywood Reporter) Amusing Conan O'Brien presents Obama's health care plan in four SECONDS  (thrfeed.com) (187)
(MSNBC) Obvious You spend years working to become a respected Congressman, key member of influential intraparty group. Then you cross Pelosi and, all of a sudden, that 4% ROI you made selling your old business two years ago is scandalous  (msnbc.msn.com) (159)
(Some Guy) Scary "If measured according to the methodology used when I was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, the unemployment rate today in the US is above 20%."  (opednews.com) (170)

Wed September 23, 2009
(Some Guy) Fail Politics and Photoshop don't mix: 10 of the worst image doctoring failures in modern political history  (designcrave.com) (105)
(Washington Ind) Hero Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) reads the Fourth Amendment to Justice Department official testifying to urge reauthorization of the Patriot Act  (washingtonindependent.com) (506)
(National Review) Amusing NRO takes on Hollywood liberals, and by God this is actually amusing and makes a valid point  (campaignspot.nationalreview.com) (232)
(Fox News) Interesting Kirk ... to take ... Kennedy's ... seat  (foxnews.com) (70)
(Daily Kos) Interesting FBI whistleblower claims Bush administration officials were wiretapped while negotiating with 'foreign agents' for invasion of Iraq. In summer of 2001. Before 9/11. This story is pure thermite  (dailykos.com) (525)
(Huffington Post) Spiffy Cutting off ACORN's federal funding: $0; Defunding half the military industrial complex: Priceless  (huffingtonpost.com) (242)
(Political Wire) Interesting Capitol Hill Republicans are bigger users of Twitter than Democrats  (politicalwire.com) (79)
(London Times) Interesting Why Afghanistan will not be Obama's Vietnam, but rather his Cuba  (timesonline.co.uk) (126)
(The Atlantic) Amusing Sarah Palin's first post-resignation speech is a 6 figure confidential address in Hong Kong about business and world politics. Even though it was confidential, one attendee tweeted the happenings. Here's the lulz  (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com) (302)
(Washington Post) Fail Leader of the free world to tell the other nations of the world that he doesn't want to lead the free world anymore  (washingtonpost.com) (170)
(Some Guy) Interesting Nate Silver describes a new political philosophy, the "PoMoCon", which subby thinks sounds more like "Anarchist."  (fivethirtyeight.com) (262)
(New York Daily News) Obvious Governor Paterson blindsides White House with comeback remark that they are unable to pass any legislation  (nydailynews.com) (58)
(AP) Unlikely Ahmadinejad urges Obama to see Iran as a friend . You know, the kind that tries to bang your wife as soon as you leave the house  (hosted.ap.org) (52)
(Reason Magazine) Interesting Obama's justification for forcing the uninsured to buy health insurance is because they cost those of us who are insured "thousands of dollars in hidden costs" every year. Actually, he's off by a power of ten  (reason.com) (369)
(AZCentral) Weird In November, Sheriff Joe Arpaio arrested a county supervisor and charged him with 118 counts. Those were basically all dropped by last week. So he arrests him again on 85 new charges. And no prosecutor in the state will take the case  (azcentral.com) (288)
(CNN) Followup Israel in April on US settlement pressure: "Believe me, America accepts all our decisions." U.S. in September: "We've just accepted Israel's decision on settlements"  (cnn.com) (60)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Stupid News: Lawyers claim Blagojevich is innocent because his friend is refusing to plea. Fark: His friend is dead  (suntimes.com) (21)
(Washington Post) Interesting Obama to set "higher bar" for what's allowed to remain a state secret. "Does it concern my birth certificate" to be benchmark questions  (washingtonpost.com) (167)
(ABC News) Interesting Germans will mark 15 years since fall of Berlin wall next month with traditional German celebrations including giant puppet shows, starting a land war in Europe  (abcnews.go.com) (70)
(ESPN) Obvious Curt Schilling says he won't run for Ted Kennedy's senate seat, plans to stick to his strengths instead: spouting off semi-lucid, unintelligible rants on his blog, eating Baconators  (sports.espn.go.com) (53)
(KnoxNews) Hero Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-ight on) calls on US to "overcome its fear of nuclear energy" and build 100 new nuclear plants in the next 20 years so as not to fall farther behind the world in reliable power generation and industrial capacity  (knoxnews.com) (612)

Tue September 22, 2009
(Politifact) Obvious The president was accused of being "a socialist, not a Democrat." His plan was described as "state socialism." Critics suggested that communists had infiltrated his administration. Just another day in the life of FDR  (politifact.com) (256)
(Dennis Prager) Interesting Raising taxes is not simply economically wrong and a bad method of governance, but profoundly immoral. Here are the 6 reasons taxes are fundamentally wrong  (dennisprager.com) (705)
(Media Matters) Dumbass Everyone's favorite Representative from Minnesota's 6th District comes out in favor of zero regulations of the insurance industry  (mediamattersaction.org) (175)
(Google) Obvious Memo to President Obama: It's a tax. That violates that pledge you made 50,000 times during your campaign  (google.com) (556)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Michelle Malkin: "I'm a human being"  (thedailybeast.com) (270)
(Think Progress) Sick Rep Steve King (R-eprehensible) decides his best moment ever as a lawmaker was trying to deny aid to victims of Hurricane Katrina  (thinkprogress.org) (72)
(Why we need an Ohio tag) Asinine Couple doesn't understand why their Nazi Obama float is not inspirational  (mountvernonnews.com) (234)
(Jerusalem Post) PSA You'll be happy to know that the person elected to be head of the UN Cultural and Educational Organization is the one who didn't endorse book burning. So, progress  (jpost.com) (18)
(Official Site) Interesting Meg Whitman, former eBay CEO, announces run for Governor of California. Expects to lead early, but get sniped five seconds before the polls close  T-Shirt  (megwhitman.com) (132)
(Huffington Post) Fail Right wing activist calls for public abortions. Don't we already have the Detroit Lions?  (huffingtonpost.com) (151)
(The Daily Beast) Amusing After an event in Peoria, the future president allegedly complained, "Jesus, I wish they'd stop grabbing my ass."  (thedailybeast.com) (36)
(AJC) Interesting America's first black President says Carter is wrong, racism isn't at the root of Obama criticism  (ajc.com) (398)
(Yahoo) Interesting Bob Woodward penetrated yet another administration  (news.yahoo.com) (39)
(CBS News) Obvious Obama to Letterman: "I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election."  (cbsnews.com) (299)
(Politico) Sad Senator Robert Byrd is in the hospital. Subby hopes he's okkkay  T-Shirt  (politico.com) (243)
(Philly) Obvious Baucus revising bill amid concerns that no one is going to vote for it no matter what  (philly.com) (161)
(Philly) Obvious Pass this bill or I'll shoot this dog: Politicians use the "we'll have to close the Washington Monument" strategy to get the tax hikes and spending they want  (philly.com) (58)
(Greenwich Time) Obvious Due to budget shortfalls, that $85 you donated to clean up oil spills in Long Island Sound will instead be used to pay the senator to clean up butter spills in his lobster dinner  (greenwichtime.com) (15)
(NYPost) Fail How on earth is ACORN going to acccomplish its important mission of supporting child prostitution when it has to pay stupid things like "taxes." Priorities, people  (nypost.com) (173)
(Reason Magazine) Obvious Hating presidents is an irrepressible American tradition  (reason.com) (123)
(Some Guy) Sad German neo-Nazis threaten candidates for public office who don't meet Aryan standards for appearance and genetic makeup. Don't ever change, Germany  (middle-east-online.com) (161)
(Daily Kos) Interesting Will the last Hispanic in the GOP please turn out the lights when you leave?  (dailykos.com) (407)

Mon September 21, 2009
(Discover) Fail In its neverending quest to cast science down into disrepute and into the hellfires of Sodom, the state of Texas has decided to stop teaching kids about Neil Armstrong and Apollo XI  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (349)
(Crooks & Liars) Hero David Brooks: The racists like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are taking over the Republican party  (crooksandliars.com) (681)
(Some Guy) Scary "When Americans have to turn to the foreign press for truthful reports of the size of popular protests in Washington, it's time to wonder: Are we dominated by 'state-run media'?"  (pittsburghlive.com) (164)
(National Review) Fail Who better to investigate ACORN than someone who plead guilty to giving hush money to his mistress?  (corner.nationalreview.com) (112)
(Huffington Post) Followup Connie Rhodes comes to her senses and realizes that Orly Taitz is batshiat insane. Still no cure for 'Birtherism'  (huffingtonpost.com) (180)
(Mediabistro) Obvious ACORN will sit down with Wallace, why not Obama? "They are the biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington," Chris Wallace said of Team Obama and their fear of Fox News  (mediabistro.com) (655)
(Huffington Post) Interesting A poll in Iowa shows that 92% of Iowans say gay marriage hasn't impacted their lives, the other 8% are just more FABULOUS  (huffingtonpost.com) (197)
(Politifact) Silly Hard-hitting journalism from Politifact: Was Obama accurate when he said that the White Sox could still, mathematically speaking, make it to the playoffs?  (politifact.com) (26)
(CSMonitor) Asinine The chair of the Republican party (an African-American) hinted that the President (an African-American) is opposed to the governor of New York (an African-American) seeking re-election because the governor is an African-American  (features.csmonitor.com) (114)
(The Hill) Interesting There's concern that swine flu may hamper the ability of Congress to meet and pass legislation this fall and winter. Oh, darn  (thehill.com) (50)
(Yahoo) Interesting Side-by-side comparison of House, Senate health insurance reform bills. Whoever wins, we lose  (news.yahoo.com) (122)
(Daily Kos) Obvious Someone decided to do a little digging into the background of the guy who brought the "hooker" into Acorn offices. Who would have expected a mini-Rove with a penchant for selective editing and a borderline racist motive?  (dailykos.com) (553)
(Some Guy) Obvious Teachers unions upset they're not getting what they paid for out of Obama  (mcclatchydc.com) (92)
(Gallup) Interesting Poll shows that 57 percent of Americans think the government is trying to do too much. About to introduce the Help Americans Wipe Their Butts Act of 2009, the White House disagrees  (gallup.com) (179)
(The Atlantic) Amusing Religious Christian group holds an anti-pornograpy rally: "'All pornography is homosexual pornography, because all pornography turns your sexual drive inwards."  (ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com) (207)
(LA Times) Obvious Fox and MSNBC: "One goes right and the other goes left, and Spencer doesn't see why those interested in educating themselves on matters of national importance would turn to either for reliable information"  (latimes.com) (146)
(Fox News) Obvious "The easiest way to get on television right now is to be really rude. If you're just being sensible and giving people the benefit of the doubt, and you're making your arguments, you don't get time on the nightly news"  (foxnews.com) (143)
(NewsOne) Silly His High Haughty Holiness, Bill Maher, dons his vestments of bloviation and turgescent miter to contumeliously vituperate Brobdingnagian teabaggers. Pleonasm  (newsone.com) (262)
(Reuters) Obvious China blames slow economic development of their western frontier on constant tension and violence. If only Muslim separatists could just accept discrimination, beatings, and imprisonments like Tibetans, everyone could move on  (in.reuters.com) (49)
(CNN) Interesting Who would ever have guessed that we would be looking back at the presidential campaign of 2008 as a time of relative tranquillity and good fellowship?  (cnn.com) (142)
(Wall Street Journal) Asinine "It turns out the President thinks a health-care tax is not a tax if he thinks the tax is for your own good."  (online.wsj.com) (531)

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