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Sun December 06, 2009

Source	Fark Headline		Comments
		Obama held a workshop Monday on government openness that was closed to the public (google.com)	(119)
(BuzzFeed)		The 50 best protest signs of 2009 (not a slideshow) (buzzfeed.com)	(550)
		ABC News to Obama: How can we kiss your ass, Mr. President? (dailykos.com)	(286)
		Many Americans now think we should mind our own business (freep.com)	(101)
		Fark dreams do come true: PETA are teh turrurusts (huffingtonpost.com)	(126)
		Japan's huge stimulus package to be unveiled next week, amid concerns it will look so small in comparison with gigantic American stimulus package (google.com)	(60)
		Sec. Gates says troops will leave Afghanistan in stages. I know the economy is bad but can't we fly them out? (cbsnews.com)	(33)
		Some Conservatives want Cheney to have a third term as President (chicagotribune.com)	(114)
		Sarah Palin, a fan of BJ's, services and satisfies 2000 paying customers (washingtonpost.com)	(112)
		Senators who voted against Al Franken's anti-rape amendment blame him for resulting bad PR (crooksandliars.com)	(151)
(OpenSecrets.org)		Chris Dodd says he'll donate AIG money to charity. The Dodd for Re-Election Charity, apparently (opensecrets.org)	(18)
		Gay House members say gay-friendly bills are so near, they're practically knocking at the back door (salon.com)	(56)
		Pollster: When I asked "Who comes to mind when you think of Congress?" you responded "Satan". Why is that? Citizen: "Because I wasn't sure of the correct spelling of "Beelzebub" (nationaljournal.com)	(42)

Sat December 05, 2009

	Showing us all how it's done, a citizen hero manhandles multiple arab terrorists off his flight. If by arab terrorists you mean a Mexican watching porn on his cell phone. Oh, and the guy wasn't actually on the flight (talkingpointsmemo.com)	(105)
(Harvard)	Harvard has released its most popular undergrad course, "Justice", as a free online TV series. As an example of the lectures - is taxation theft? (justiceharvard.org)	(133)
	The dream is dying for Obama's youthful supporters, who have "lashed out at anybody who dared to suggest that Obama was just another politician, subject to calculation, expediency and vanity like all the rest" (washingtonpost.com)	(460)
	Conservative activists want the Republican party to deny funds to any candidate who agrees with fewer than eight of their ten conservative positions. It is being called a "purity test," and it is a mistake (article.nationalreview.com)	(201)
	Roger Ebert: "New Agers and Creationists should not be President" (blogs.suntimes.com)	(226)
(Washington Examiner)	Another global warming scam? SAY IT AIN'T SO 111ONE11ELEVENTY111 (washingtonexaminer.com)	(369)
	Taliban attacks a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Pakistan. Now they have gone TOO FAR (news.yahoo.com)	(48)
	25% of borrowers helped under Obama's massive foreclosure prevention plan have already fallen behind on their new mortgage payments (washingtonpost.com)	(194)
	Secretary of Defense Robert Gates gives his wife a $2.8 billion Virginia class attack submarine for Christmas. Top that, guys (dailypress.com)	(45)
	"The carbon footprint of the global warming summit will be the only impressive consequence of the climate-change meeting" (washingtonpost.com)	(91)
	Contrary to what the fearmongering Obamabots would have you believe, the president hasn't received more threats than his predecessors (weeklystandard.com)	(85)
	Sarah Palin goes full retard, becomes a birther. No, this is not a repeat from April 18, 2008 (huffingtonpost.com)	(196)
	Who will let you keep your toys? ♪ Who doesn't care if you sleep with boys? ♪ Ron Paul, Ron Paul ♪ Who'll put both parties on the shelf? ♪ Who's going to save us in 2012? ♪ Ron Paul, Ron Paul ♪ (azcentral.com)	(102)
(Roll Call)	Some men buy the woman they're having an affair with a ring or necklace, Senator Max Baucus tries to get his girlfriend a Federal appointment (rollcall.com)	(61)
	Not even CNN could keep Obama's approval rating above 50% in their poll any longer (cnn.com)	(124)
	British politicans warned not to use words such as "extremists" or "fanatics" in case they offend ... well, which religious group usually takes offence at such things? (thesun.co.uk)	(113)

Fri December 04, 2009

(Some Guy)	For the fourteenth straight day, the three broadcast networks have failed to report on the great and growing ClimateGate scandal on their weekday morning or evening news programs (mrc.org)	(875)
	Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-umbass-MS) is involved in an extortion plot involving credit card companies. Priceless (msnbc.msn.com)	(44)
	Michael Brown to teach a course on the Patriot Act at the University of Denver. Heckuva job there University of Denver (tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com)	(33)
	Democrats in Congress: Hey, we'd like to co-sponsor your joke amendment to the health reform bill forcing Congress onto the public option, because we think the public option is actually pretty good. Republicans: Psych (thinkprogress.org)	(162)
	Aetna throws 600,000 to the wolves, jack up premiums on everyone else due to "insufficient profits." Your free market at work, citizen (dailykos.com)	(194)
	The man Obama is entrusting with our childrens' education wants to force them to read books about boys fondling each other's genitals and watch plays about a Godless homosexual "Satan" Claus (michellemalkin.com)	(259)
	Lou Dobbs: "Who the hell does the President think he is?" Ummm.... the President? (huffingtonpost.com)	(81)
	Democrats who complained about Medicare Part D when the Bush administration enacted it are now going to address it in the health care bill. By making it worse (online.wsj.com)	(25)
	ACORN bribes activist judges to commit election fraud in Ohio (dailykos.com)	(148)
(Latin American Herald Tribune)	Rio de Janeiro to hire Rudy Giuliani as security consultant for Olympics: He says he has a 9-11 point plan to secure the city (laht.com)	(39)
(NY Magazine)	Actual headline: "Michelle Obama Wore Clothes to Light the Christmas Tree" (nymag.com)	(99)
	Today's 'WTF?' headline comes to you from Winnipeg: "Manitoba polar bears may woo Obama's daughters" (canada.com)	(19)
	Glenn Beck's movie fails spectacularly, selling a total 17 tickets in New York and Boston: "The theater's almost empty" (rawstory.com)	(248)
	"People are still whining over the fact that a handful of mediocre actors and hack writers were blacklisted 60 years ago because they were, for the most part, unrepentant Communists whose allegiance was to the evil Soviet Union" (bighollywood.breitbart.com)	(242)
	Jay Nordlinger discussing the history of the teabaggers: "this brings up the question of whether "teabagger" could be kind of a conservative N-word: to be used in the family, but radioactive outside the family" (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com)	(171)
	U.S. Marines launch Operation Cobra's Anger in Afghanistan. Destro waits for them to make a mistake (abcnews.go.com)	(84)
	Hey, nobody ever compared Bush to Hitler, says Democratic senator who was deaf, dumb and blind from 2001-2009 (hotair.com)	(191)
	Senate Democrats seek to strip protection for citizen journalism from press shield law (hotair.com)	(163)
	House votes to extend the Estate Tax indefinitely. It's as if thousands of trust fund kids cried out in terror and were suddenly poor (features.csmonitor.com)	(699)
(Some Guy)	Hi, this is Govenor Charlie Crist. I know you're trying to reach the kids health care line, but here's some phone porn instead (news4jax.com)	(19)
	Sarah Palin's presidential campaign will focus on substantive policy issues. Just kidding: she's already talking secret Muslim conspiracy. In Alaska, you can see Palin/Taitz 2012 campaign signs from your porch (politico.com)	(317)
	Palin issues media guidelines for Mall of America appearance, such as "no foreigners." (wcco.com)	(298)

Thu December 03, 2009

	New Gingrich supports the President's decision for a troop surge. Not a repeat from 2007. Seriously, its not (finance.yahoo.com)	(161)
	"There weren't a lot of surprises in President Obama's Afghanistan speech last night, but here's one: The president quietly repudiated the myth that Iraq has nothing to do with al Qaeda." (online.wsj.com)	(230)
	Mammogram debate prompts cleavage in Congress (news.yahoo.com)	(68)
(Some Guy)	There's a compelling national security argument in favor of alternative energy. But the main "green energy" proponents don't want to make it because it also points to developing nuclear power and "drill, baby, drill" (justoneminute.typepad.com)	(237)
	Climate scientist calls for "glasnost" to bring global warming research from political science to, well, science science (insiderinterviews.nationaljournal.com)	(323)
	"Do you mind if I leave these sensitive government documents in your car while we go into the restaurant?" (cbc.ca)	(35)
	That change you were looking for has arrived as it is now apparently OK for Executive branch employees to refuse to testify before Congress (thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com)	(410)
(Some Guy)	Obama demands that F22 Raptor be removed and replaced with the ancient F15 as the backdrop. The event was honoring the pilots and crews of the F22 (thecable.foreignpolicy.com)	(547)
	Imelda Marcos registers to run for Philippines congress. Observers say she is a shoe-in (news.bbc.co.uk)	(24)
(Some Paranoid guy)	Remember 2006, when Canada was spying on the US with transmitters hidden in coins? No, you wouldn't remember, because the government kept it secret and then said it was all a lie (phillyburbs.com)	(82)
	Karl Rove: "President Barack Obama's speech on Tuesday night deserves to be cheered." Wait. What? (online.wsj.com)	(147)
	Russia: Hey US, remember that crap you pulled with the Afghani mujahedeen in the 80's that really busted our nuts? Payback is a biatch, ain't it? (cnn.com)	(159)
(Jezebel)	Pink ribbons and the politics of empty messages: "Women should save their anger for what really matters - that we still don't know how to heal our breasts, and that the government is trying to control our wombs" (jezebel.com)	(207)

Wed December 02, 2009

	Obama to welcome president of Lebanon to White House later this month. No word yet if Obama will bow to the guy or curtsey or just throw himself flat at his feet (uk.news.yahoo.com)	(227)
(Some Guy)	Rush Limbaugh gets owned by William Shatner? Wait, what? (mediaite.com)	(243)
	Glenn Greenwald discovers that a blank slate candidate who runs on vagueries one can read whatever one wants into produces a blank slate president who governs by vagueries one can read whatever one wants into (salon.com)	(99)
	Rick Warren won't condemn Ugandan legislation to make homosexuality punishable by death. Maybe it's above his paygrade (blog.newsweek.com)	(171)
(Political Wire)	Proving just as willing to blame others as their heterosexual counterparts, Log cabin Republicans blame Democrats for failure of marrige equaility bill that had zero Republican support (politicalwire.com)	(89)
	After tackling big tobacco, big insurance and big oil, Henry Waxman (Fascist- Ca) set hit sights on straightening out big media (reuters.com)	(55)
	Judd Gregg (cR-Ybaby) distributes "obstruction manual" to fellow Republican senators (huffingtonpost.com)	(318)
	Less than 24 hours after Obama's speech, Gates lays the groundwork for a protracted stay. That ought to make everyone happy, amiright? (foxnews.com)	(145)
	In the aftermath of his speech at West Point, President Obama is facing a new reality (politico.com)	(364)
	Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe(R-ME)², realizing that their constituents are in favor of health care reform, decide to try to work with Democrats in the Senate to get to 60 votes since Joe Lieberman(I-CT) and Ben Nelson(D-NE) won't (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com)	(188)
	State senator denies his ten hour long absence for a fundraiser caused a delay on a budget vote. Bonus quote: "I believe I'm special" (buffalonews.com)	(18)
	Sanctimonious liberals love quoting Ike's "military-industrial complex" line, but what makes them shrivel up like Toht at the end of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' is the stuff Ike said right after that (pajamasmedia.com)	(232)
	"Has there ever been a bigger dick in the history of dicks than Karl Rove?" (crooksandliars.com)	(261)
	Canadian troops vow to establish a "donut of stability" in Afghanistan, which they hope will lead to a cruller of security and eventually to the sweet double-double of victory (theglobeandmail.com)	(112)
	Chris Matthews has seen the enemy... and he is us (youtube.com)	(385)
	Andrew Sullivan, following LGF, also breaks with the right. Someone's butt-hurt (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com)	(654)
	New Jersey likely to legalize medical marijuana, which can help to alleviate the pain of having to live in New Jersey (online.wsj.com)	(74)

Tue December 01, 2009

	Obvious Troll of the day: The right wing blog Little Green Footballs lists 10 reasons why it is parting ways with the right (littlegreenfootballs.com)	(253)
(Some Guy)	Ouch: "Obama is not Bush. More and more, he seems like a continuation of Bush by other means. If anything, he is even more convinced than his divinely guided predecessor that he holds the truth in his hands" (thedailybeast.com)	(386)
(MinnPost)	Politician uses unspent office funds for hookers and blow. Just kidding, he used it to pay down the national debt (minnpost.com)	(77)
	In honor of the American soldier, Sarah Palin's autobiography uses a quote celebrating the massacre of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment (huffingtonpost.com)	(447)
	Michelle Bachmann(R-MN): "just over a year ago, 100 percent of the private economy was private. Today, 30 percent is owned or controlled by government." (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com)	(267)
	NRO Editor-in-Chief Rich Lowry looking for a new assisstant. Must be a well-organized, detailed-oriented, intellectually dishonest partisan shill who enjoys the challenge of lubing up Jonah Goldberg whenever he gets stuck in office doorways (corner.nationalreview.com)	(80)
(Foreign Policy)	"Americans have come to believe that spending govt revenues on US citizens here at home is usually a bad thing and should be viewed wth suspicion, but spending billions on vast projects overseas is the hallmark of patriotism" (walt.foreignpolicy.com)	(113)
	How could Obama tap such a skilled foreign policy team and end up with nothing to show for it? (boston.com)	(81)
	Seventy-one percent of voters are angry about the federal government. Conservatives are mad that it's too big and spends too much, liberals that the flying unicorn hasn't delivered their free ice cream yet (rasmussenreports.com)	(177)
	It's a rich, petroleum-exporting country that rudely and arrogantly stands in the way of stopping global warming, and the world should sanction it. Iran? Venezuela? No, Canada (guardian.co.uk)	(121)
	Former Sith Lord Dick Cheney claims President Obama is projecting "weakness" to adversaries. Also claims he did nothing wrong in Iraq, Afghanistan, Naboo (politico.com)	(143)
	...and here's another article claiming that Obama is an alien (cnews.canoe.ca)	(25)
	O'Reilly to Huckabee for commuting suspected cop killer's sentence: "It's not your fault. It's not your fault. It's not your fault. It's not your fault. It's not your fault" (huffingtonpost.com)	(326)
	"James T Kirk, the Star Trek captain, was based on a young new president, John F Kennedy... the Obama administration is part of a 1960s-type revival. Except this time, Kirk isn't in charge. Spock is" (3news.co.nz)	(173)
	Washington Times catches heat for running "birther" ad featuring three wise monkeys. Cue "That's Racist" kid (thinkprogress.org)	(375)
	Source code for global warming modeling was tweaked to skew results. Who would've thought? (americanthinker.com)	(959)
	Arizona conservatives file suit against state agency, hope to overturn oppressive anti-foot-nibbling-fish ruling (azcentral.com)	(24)
	IPCC chair flew 443,243 miles less than two years to speak against global warming. Someone needs to tell this guy about fiber optics (corner.nationalreview.com)	(211)
	President Obama's address on Tuesday is pre-emptying "A Charlie Brown Christmas." This is bad news... for wah-wah-wah wah-wah (mediabistro.com)	(149)

Mon November 30, 2009

	Michael Moore writes open letter to Obama in regards to Afghanistan. Not surpisingly, the letter is stained with nacho cheese, bacon grease, ketchup, cheetos, mustard, and what we hope and pray is either ranch dressing or mayonnaise (edition.cnn.com)	(347)
	Judge Andrew Napolitano writes that, without a formal declaration of war, military tribunals for Gitmo detainees are unconstitutional (latimes.com)	(274)
	The health bill, which wasn't going to cover illegals, then absolutely would not cover illegals, then would freeze hell solid before it covered illegals, then I totally pinky-promise will not ever cover illegals, is going to cover illegals (washingtontimes.com)	(557)
(Some Guy)	Al from Tool Time connects The Family to Ugandan homosexual Genocide (scienceblogs.com)	(219)
	NRO: The Swiss banning of Minarets is blatantly anti-Islamic and an expression of anti-religious bigotry. And that's a good thing (yglesias.thinkprogress.org)	(462)
(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)	Pennsylvania local governments spent $4 million in taxpayer dollars to lobby state and federal governments to give them more taxpayer dollars. Which they can use to lobby for more taxpayer dollars (pittsburghlive.com)	(48)
	If you legalize marijuana and keep its costs low, you get more public health problems. If you tax it too much, you get smuggling and a black market. So keep it illegal, says George Will (washingtonpost.com)	(257)
	Seven stories Barack Obama does not want to be told (politico.com)	(289)
	Chelsea Clinton is engaged. Bet her fiance is looking forward to the bachelor party his future father-in-law will be throwing (gawker.com)	(78)
	Iran announces that it sees "little benefit" in belonging to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. "So Israel doesn't bomb us into the stone age" curiously absent from their reasoning (washingtonpost.com)	(193)
	That sound you just heard was Mike Huckabee's political career going down in flames (talkingpointsmemo.com)	(655)
	Ladies and Gentlemen, The President of the United States, Dick Cheney (newsweek.com)	(229)
	Arab world has stopped applauding Barack Obama, just like Americans have (online.wsj.com)	(176)