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Sun December 20, 2009

Source	Fark Headline		Comments
		Sarah Palin, who believes that starting wars in the Middle East will make Jesus end the world quicker, claims that climate change theories represent humanity's "arrogance" (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com)	(898)
		After careful consideration, government realizes that not giving free tampons to mental hospital patients would be bloody awful (edmontonjournal.com)	(85)
		News: Bill O'Reilly says nice things about Michelle Obama Not News: Laura Ingraham has a problem with this Fark: Bill O'Reilly calls Ingraham a Kool-Aid drinker (huffingtonpost.com)	(124)
		American media wins 2009 brown-nosing title for their coverage of Copenhagen summit or, as they put it, 'How Obama saved the world' (blogs.telegraph.co.uk)	(205)

Sat December 19, 2009

(Politics Daily)	Lewinsky delivers Clinton another blow (politicsdaily.com)	(106)
	Democrats' 2010 election strategy is as fresh as their legislative ideas: Blame Bush (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com)	(180)
	Sen. Ben Nelson bought off for number 60. Democrats are now free to subvert the will of the American people (foxnews.com)	(1340)
	Judge rules that City of Chicago can use eminent domain to relocate cemetary for O'Hare expansion. The move is expected to displace almost 1,100 potential voters (suntimes.com)	(127)
	On one hand, third offense drunk driving hit and run with injuries is bad. On the other hand, we wouldn't want the senator to miss any important votes (boston.com)	(89)
	One of the great lies in Washington is that only left and right have ideologies. The reality is that the ideology of centrism is just as stringent and far more uncompromising, and it damages almost everything it touches (yglesias.thinkprogress.org)	(125)
	Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) flies to Copenhagen to make a fool of himself to one reporter. Mission Accomplished (huffingtonpost.com)	(155)
(McClatchy)	Probing of Dicks is over, with happy ending (mcclatchydc.com)	(12)
	Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Facsist) will throw you in jail if you criticize him (politico.com)	(237)

Fri December 18, 2009

	Dems wheeling in cots to burn the midnight oil on health care this weekend - but Lieberman skips town back to Connecticut (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com)	(103)
	Obama leaves global warming conference in a rush so he can get back to Washington before it gets hit by one of the biggest blizzards ever (forbes.com)	(231)
	Passing the health bill would be like calling 911, getting a bill immediately, then waiting four years for an ambulance to show up (article.nationalreview.com)	(124)
	"Republicans threaten health care read-a-thon". This should end well (news.yahoo.com)	(141)
	Astonishingly, there still doesn't seem to be anyone actually vetting Obama nominees (community.fox4kc.com)	(109)
	Paul Krugman, August, 2009: "Congressmen hanged in effigy... is something new and ugly." Paul Krugman, December, 2009: "By all means, hang Senator Joe Lieberman in effigy." (reason.com)	(249)
	FDR used fear to negotiate a vast expansion of federal control over the day-to-day lives of ordinary American citizens. But compared to Obama, FDR was a piker in the panic and dread department (townhall.com)	(496)
(Daily Beast)	Ralph Nader hasn't gotten any attention lately, so today he wants to remind you that he warned you that Obama was just the corporate interests' Uncle Tom (thedailybeast.com)	(111)
	Senator Kennedy wants to cut your taxes (boston.com)	(38)
(Some Guy)	India and China will not be your climate biatch, Copenhagen (thaindian.com)	(243)
	Refusing to go on a junket because you are wary of suprise buttsecks and suggesting an obese colleague has an endorsement deal from Burger King is all part of the fun in the New Zealand parliament (blogs.news.com.au)	(35)
	Mugabe: "When these capitalist gods of carbon burp and belch their dangerous emissions, it's we, the lesser mortals of the developing sphere, who gasp and sink and eventually die." Right. That is, unless Mugabe kills them first (townhall.com)	(261)
	Karzai announces that he will be keeping half his existing cabinet in his new administration. The other half couldn't pony up the cash (washingtonpost.com)	(27)
	Former U.S. Representative James Traficant claims that he is "proud to be an ex-con" and that he's considering a return to politics. Meanwhile, the giant rodent which resides upon his head refused all press requests for a comment (msnbc.msn.com)	(55)
	Remember when Obama ordered "IHS" covered up at his Georgetown speech? Since then he's had no problem pimpin' in front of backdrops all around the world (cnsnews.com)	(164)
	Sarah Palin quits again. This time she can't even make it through a vacation in Hawaii (politico.com)	(420)

Thu December 17, 2009

	Nova Scotia premier sends a Christmas card with a photo of him and his spouse. Some people have a problem with this for some reason (cbc.ca)	(108)
	If you don't participate in the Census, you will make the Baby Jesus cry (newsweek.washingtonpost.com)	(46)
	Al Franken (D-MN) shows Joe Lieberman (?-CT) his pimp hand (tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com)	(781)
	Obama warns that if Congress doesn't pass Obamacare, the nation's going to go bankrupt. What he didn't mention is that if we don't reduce the deficit and cut spending it's going to go bankrupt regardless (online.wsj.com)	(215)
	To: Foreigners. From: The U.S. Senate. RE: Your demand that we give you $100 Billion for green energy. No (politico.com)	(358)
	During a debate over domestic partner benefits, North Carolina official speaks of her adult son's death from AIDS. Her caring GOP colleague replies "Your son was a homo, really?" (charlotteobserver.com)	(208)
	The Kremlin has nothing positive to say about Afghanistan except they're glad someone else is stuck there for a change (news.bbc.co.uk)	(33)
(Some PR Inside)	Andy Martin (R-ighteous, Illinois) filed lawsuit against Wikimedia Foundation. Calls Wikipedia "protosocialist tax exempt scam used to defame and harass Republicans" (pr-inside.com)	(221)
	White House slams Howard Dean, says "no rational person" would oppose the current healthcare bill, obviously haven't been paying attention to Howard Dean (rawstory.com)	(459)
	"Palin meant no disrespect with blacked-out hat". Sweet merciful crap (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com)	(235)
	"Liberals are turning against President Obama with an energy that until now has been reserved for Fox News viewers..." (washingtonpost.com)	(318)
	Nancy Pelosi promises to thwart the future of manned space missions. Great. So the Romulans now have time travel too? (physorg.com)	(331)
	Caption these august world leaders (denverpost.slideshowpro.com)	(84)
(One News Now)	Gay Republican group wants to sponsor popular conservative political conference. Surprisingly, some people have a problem with this (onenewsnow.com)	(232)
	Kerry-Boxer climate bill would create a budget surplus of $21 billion, flying unicorns (dailykos.com)	(351)
(Some Guy)	"We lost real health care reform not because we don't have a 'real' filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. We lost health care reform because we don't have a real leader anywhere in our party." (americablog.com)	(305)
	By signing the Copenhagen Climate treaty, President Obama would be a violating the US Constitution (foxnews.com)	(261)
	Dick Durbin (D-uh), Senate Majority Whip, third highest ranking Democrat in the Senate: I'm completely in the dark on what's in the health care reform bill (thehill.com)	(77)

Wed December 16, 2009

	GOP: Dems are playing politics by waiting to release TARP money until an election year. Dems: "We didn't create the recession, the Republicans did that" Nope, no politics here (liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com)	(71)
	/\ ___/\ ___/\ ___/\ ___/\ ___/\ ______________________________ (news.yahoo.com)	(247)
(Some American Guy)	He's had a hard week job hunting, but only because he is American (guestworkerfraud.com)	(404)
	Supplant The Troops (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com)	(227)
(Some Guy)	People are already pointing out that Ben Bernake deserved to be named Time's Person of the Year about as much as Barack Obama deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize (prospectmagazine.co.uk)	(187)
(SF Weekly)	"San Francisco is spectacularly mismanaged and arguably the worst-run big city in America." (sfweekly.com)	(357)
	DOJ tells lawyers not to cooperate with U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Strangely, this is from the Obama Administration, and not the George Wallace Administration in parallel universe 21 (washingtontimes.com)	(175)
	Liberals annoyed that Obama didn't fight for a health reform plan like he promised during his campaign, one that would create a shimmering Eden of progressive government on Earth that even Europeans would envy (politico.com)	(373)
	Following the tomato-hurling event at Sarah Palin's Mall of America book signing, Salt Lake City CostCo removes all tomatoes from the store prior to Palin visit (tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com)	(192)
	AZ GOP: "We don't believe [the Executive Director] did anything wrong, but let me ask you this: so what if he did?" (huffingtonpost.com)	(92)
	In a show of force against former axis of evil, Obama writes North Korea a scathing letter. Which raises the question.. how does one bow in a letter? (foxnews.com)	(285)
	Right wing blogs and climate skeptics backpedalling from claims about Gore being wrong about sea ice so fast that they're creating a new source of clean energy (planetgore.nationalreview.com)	(827)

Tue December 15, 2009

	Is belief in God hurting America? (alternet.org)	(692)
	Howard Dean: Kill the Senate health care bill, sell its women and children into slavery, salt the fields so it never crops up again, and start over in the House (politico.com)	(263)
	Chuck Norris: Obamacare would have made Mary abort Baby Jesus (townhall.com)	(247)
	Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) fires up the Teabaggers, tells them they are like "the charge of the light brigade," one can only hope (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com)	(189)
(City Pages)	Sen. John Thune (R-ecreant) walks out on Al Franken (D-ead on) after getting called out for lying on the Senate floor (blogs.citypages.com)	(395)
	GOP takes down url shortener after one day as pranksters spent all day linking it to bondage sites, communists, Obama sex toys. Because nobody involved with the project could ever have seen that coming in a million years (wired.com)	(197)
(CRoB)	The rush to re-regulate ignores the reality that the least-regulated entities in the system--hedge funds--fared far better than the highly regulated entities like banks and insurance companies (claremont.org)	(179)
	Taking a page out of Code Pink's playbook, teabaggers to stage "die-in" today at the Senate office building to simulate the effect of "government waiting rooms" (littlegreenfootballs.com)	(430)
(WattsUpWithThat)	U.S. Department of Energy sends out "litigation hold notice" requiring employees to preserve all documents related to global warming research (wattsupwiththat.com)	(170)
	President Obama LOVES the caulk (hosted.ap.org)	(192)
(538.com)	Why the Senate healthcare bill is a good thing even sans public option: It's the difference between $19,576 and $9,000 for a family of four (fivethirtyeight.com)	(179)
	Fat Cat Wall Street plutocrats know exactly which side their bread is buttered on...which is why they gave so much money to Obama (nypost.com)	(199)
(Some Guy)	"Iraq finally opened its doors after six years of war, and instead of U.S. companies, you have Asians and Europeans leading the way" (digitaljournal.com)	(336)
(Some Guy)	A GOP themed URL shortener. For when you need to add Michael Steele to your tentacle porn (gop.am)	(120)
	Daily Kos calmly explains why Joe Lieberman is wrong on ObamaCare. Ha, just kidding. "F**K You, Senator Lieberman" (dailykos.com)	(309)
(AMERICAblog)	2009 Poll: 33% of "morals and values" voters in South Carolina want Mark Sanford to resign. 1998 Poll: 88% of "morals and values" voters in South Carolina want Bill Clinton to resign (americablog.com)	(188)

Mon December 14, 2009

	White House computer technicians discover 22 million previously missing Bush administration emails despite having to use keyboards lacking "W" keys (foxnews.com)	(258)
	You say you've got a puddle on your property? Congrats, the federal government now owns it (foxnews.com)	(295)
	Tom Harkin may reintroduce legislation to kill the unlimited filibuster. One of his top allies the last time he tried this? Joe Lieberman (huffingtonpost.com)	(82)
(Nashville City Paper)	He knocks on every single door in his district, steals seats at football games, trash-talks police, and demands membership in the black caucus: meet the representative the GOP really wishes you'd quit electing (nashvillecitypaper.com)	(68)
	Yet another link that will end all debate on climate issues: Scientists conclude sunspots have nothing to do with global warming (independent.co.uk)	(400)
	RNC Chair Michael Steele: "The Democrats are accusing us Republicans of trying to delay and stonewall their government takeover of health care. You know what? They're finally right." (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com)	(171)
(Some Guy)	Kinky Friedman abandons Texas gubernatorial run, will focus on agriculture commissioner post (wfaa.com)	(37)
	Hey, you got your separatist racial government in my Hawaii (corner.nationalreview.com)	(124)
	"At this point, Lieberman seems primarily motivated by torturing liberals. That is to say, he seems willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in order to settle an old electoral score" (voices.washingtonpost.com)	(366)
	Bill introduced in Congress that would rescind the automatic Congressional pay raise slated for 2011 (thehill.com)	(73)
	Keith Ellison's opponent would like to remind you that he is a Muslim, and that she cuts her own hair (gawker.com)	(211)
(Some Guy)	Those Iranian protestors responsible for tearing up photos of Ayatollah Khomeini have been sacked. Well, not "sacked" so much as "arrested for torture and interrogation," but sacked sounds so much better, don't you think? (www1.voanews.com)	(43)
	Three things Obama and Congress can do now to save jobs: Repeal sugar subsidies, end prevailing wage requirements, and reduce the minimum wage. They could also enact the Don't Hold Your Breath Act of 2009 (washingtonpost.com)	(395)
	It turns out that Iranian nuclear research might not be aimed solely at peaceful energy purposes after all (washingtonpost.com)	(314)
	President Barack Obama gave himself "a good solid B-plus" grade for his first year in office, good thing his score on the U.S. Constitution Exam won't affect his GPA (news.yahoo.com)	(624)
	Despite little outward evidence, proposed Botox and plastic surgery tax evoking deep emotional reactions (chron.com)	(123)
	Once again Joe says "no": Lieberman resisting Medicare "buy in" because it fails to line the pockets of insurance companies sufficiently (news.yahoo.com)	(212)
	In 60 Minutes interview, Obama says breaking his campaign promises on war in Afghanistan was the toughest of all the campaign promises he's broken (uk.news.yahoo.com)	(186)
	Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi struck in face by flying cathedral (washingtonpost.com)	(137)