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Sun December 27, 2009

Source	Fark Headline		Comments
		White House spokesman Mike Hammer issues strongly-worded statement on Iran, their recent oppression of the masses, and their shortage of the kind of blonde who'd make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window, sport (news.yahoo.com)	(142)
		What can you do with $41? If you're in North Korea, you could be arrested for having too much money (msnbc.msn.com)	(124)
		"It isn't just that that no one has cut Obama any slack. World leaders seem to be taking pleasure in rebuffing him, disappointing him, even, in some cases, mocking him." (slate.com)	(289)
		Ohio Supreme Court rules 4th amendment protections now cover cellphones (nytimes.com)	(178)
		Janet Napolitano's reaction to a known Nigerian extremist boarding a plane with a binary explosive: "The system worked" (realclearpolitics.com)	(156)
		Glenn Beck is the must-have endorsement for Tom Clancy-style thrillers, as nothing embodies the deadly world of macho secret agents like a pudgy, baby-faced drama queen whose blubbery crying jags derail his cushy desk job each night (tnr.com)	(124)
		That Iranian revolution thing may be on again. This is not a repeat from 1979 (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com)	(349)
		Unlike Bush, who abrogated his responsibilities every time he felt like mowing the yard in Crawford, Obama is "actively monitoring" yesterday's terrorist attack. By phone. From Hawaii. Thank God he's on the ball (huffingtonpost.com)	(552)

Sat December 26, 2009

(Some Guy)	Story: "The man arrested with several guns and boxes of ammo near the Capitol obviously planned no crimes of any kind." Headline: BUT HE WORKED FOR BUSH (motherjones.com)	(270)
	That whole plan to move Gitmo from Cuba to Illinois? Yeah, it just got complicated (politico.com)	(156)
	The Democrats overreached. They have tried to push a centrist country to the left, and therefore they're going to lose a lot of seats in the November election (corner.nationalreview.com)	(529)
(Politics Daily)	Sarah Palin: "I'm not the biggest liar of the year" (politicsdaily.com)	(220)
(Some Guy)	In a stunning development, "tea bag" C-SPAN caller who feared he prayed Sen. Inhofe to death was actually a liberal troll (gatewaypundit.firstthings.com)	(154)
	Washington influence peddlers on track to shatter last year's record $3.3 billion spent lobbying Congress. That's change we hoped we wouldn't have to believe in (politico.com)	(41)
	Republicans in 2003: It is perfectly fine to expand medicare without paying for it. Today: OMG Expanding Medicare and paying for it is the DEVIL (usatoday.com)	(205)
	Tori Amos to run on Republican ticket if Sarah Palin runs in 2012. "What I know about Middle Eastern policy could fit on a thumbnail, but I still know more than she does." (contactmusic.com)	(377)

Fri December 25, 2009

		The Obamas did not attench church on Christmas Eve. It's not news, it's Time magazine (time.com)	(223)
		Merry Christmas, to the declining 78% of Americans who declare themselves Christian according to latest Gallup polls (gallup.com)	(259)
		Mastermind behind Bush terrorism counterintelligence strategy was a con man who made everything up (playboy.com)	(73)
		"Imagine the outrage if any Republican President went on vacation during a recession and spent $4,000 a night on accommodations." Hey, at least Dubya's 77 visits to Crawford were rent-free, right? (newsbusters.org)	(167)
		Bunny takes down her Christmas tree and decoration because of the Senate health Care bill. Because of Hitler or Christmas is supposed to be God's holiday. Or something (tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com)	(307)
		Obama signs executive immunizing INTERPOL from public scrutiny, suit, and investigation in the US. Scary tag for this plus NRO being reasonable (corner.nationalreview.com)	(219)

Thu December 24, 2009

	"Hopenhagen" produced as much carbon in 11 days as 2,300 Americans do in a year (reuters.com)	(165)
(Red State)	Jim DeMint (R-emarkable) may very well have killed ObamaCare (redstate.com)	(263)
	Teabaggers organizing national strike to "financially cripple companies that are funding socialism." (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com)	(262)
(Some Antisocialist)	In Sweden, if you homeschool your kids, apparently they can take your kids away from you as you board a plane without a warrant or criminal charges and limit parental visits to one hour every five weeks. Happy Holidays (hslda.org)	(263)
	"That something is wrong in the Senate has begun to penetrate the DC establishment. Pressure on this might ease in the coming months as health-care reform has brought an unusual clarity and urgency to the chamber's dysfunctions" (voices.washingtonpost.com)	(132)
(Some Guy)	Revenues, which is a government synonym for "safety," rise on LAPD's red light camera program (scpr.org)	(99)
	2009 called 'Year Of The Bad Decision' in South Carolina, even though it occurs with such frequency that the state could just put it on their license plates (abcnews.go.com)	(30)
	Stephen Harper has been named Canadian newsmaker of the year in survey of the most boring news organizations ever (cbc.ca)	(36)
	It's not even a law yet, and they wouldn't have jurisdiction over it if was, but seven state attorney generals, coincidentally all Republicans, announce an "investigation" into how the health care bill was passed (news.yahoo.com)	(277)
	McCain and the GOP are secretly trying to sway Rep. Chris Carney (D-Penn) to switch sides, says Carney. But don't tell anyone. It's a secret (news.yahoo.com)	(36)
	Iran warns protestors that its days of mollycoddling, pampering, indulging, and otherwise playing nursemaid to them are over (washingtonpost.com)	(96)
	Senate passes health care bill 60-39 (politico.com)	(1102)
	Sen. Jim DeMint to seek a vote on an amendment to prohibit the practice of trading votes for earmarks in the United States Senate (corner.nationalreview.com)	(135)
	One uppity atheist in San Francisco gets all stars and angels removed from all county department Christmas trees (nytimes.com)	(273)
	Jimmy Carter apologizes for his actions that offended Jews in the past. This has nothing to do with his grandson running for office. In a predominantly Jewish district. Nothing. Honest. Really (foxnews.com)	(69)
	Howard Dean last week: "The Senate HCR bill sucks", Howard Dean this week: "Republicans don't like it, so I like it" (thehill.com)	(51)
	Not news: Al Franken is kind of a dickhead (thehill.com)	(285)

Wed December 23, 2009

	NRO has finally gone too far - they have insulted Jean Luc Picard: "[TNG's] messages are unabashedly liberal ones of the early post-Cold War era - peace, tolerance, due process, progress." And they mean that in a bad way (corner.nationalreview.com)	(500)
	ACORN didn't violate any federal regulations, and the "undercover heroes of the GOP" may have violated state law by filming as they did (twincities.com)	(328)
(CQ Politics)	In the hours before Parker Griffith flipped to the Republicans, he got them a Christmas present: Democratic voter ID (blogs.cqpolitics.com)	(36)
	The top 13 people that politicians should not have had sex with in the 2000's. Todd Palin strangely absent (gawker.com)	(26)
	President Obama today: "I didn't campaign on the public option." Candidate Obama then: My plan "[o]ffers a public health insurance option" (salon.com)	(287)
(538)	Fivethirtyeight identifies the most valuable and most useless Democrats. Here comes the math (fivethirtyeight.com)	(60)
(The Immoral Minority)	Palin is apparently afraid of nothing...except the four bloggers from Anchorage banned from her book signing. You betcha (theimmoralminority.blogspot.com)	(148)
	Customizable stuffed animal franchise "Build-A-Bear" is a worldwide communist front organization run by Carbonhagen environazis for the purpose of brainwashing your children into believing the Global Warming scam (bighollywood.breitbart.com)	(157)
	Census data shows Minnesota might lose a Congressional seat. We, the citizens of Minnesota, hereby offer up Michele Bachmann for this sacrifice (startribune.com)	(149)
	Some GOP members upset that Chairman Steele is working the professional lecture circuit getting as much as $20,000 per speech; think he should forego personal profit for the greater collective good of the party (news.yahoo.com)	(80)
	"Avatar is not just a movie. And Imagine is not just a song. And Adam Lambert is not just a flamboyant artist. They are all part of an agenda. We are all soldiers in this fight, and popular culture is the front line." (bighollywood.breitbart.com)	(422)
	The ink hasn't even dried on the Health Care Bill, and the media is already starting to discuss costs vs. benefits with regards to end of life care. But don't worry...it's not a 'Death Panel'. Honest (nytimes.com)	(273)
	Secret Service thwarts cat-fight; blocks crazy but hittable blond ditz on First Lady Michelle Obama action (cnews.canoe.ca)	(102)
	Teresa Heinz says she's fighting breast cancer. Warns her husband not to take any pointers from John Edwards unless he wants a fourth purple heart (news.yahoo.com)	(44)
	Massachusetts state senator on home confinement for DWI blames toothpaste for positive alcohol check, will need to stagger around pantsless and maul a few cocktail waitresses before he can expect full Democratic support (telegram.com)	(60)
	Meet the accounting nerds whose job it is to account for every penny of the US's national debt. All $12.1 trillon of it. Sorry, I mean $12.2 trillion. $12.3 trillion. $12.4 trillion (cnn.com)	(28)
	Teabagger calls into CSPAN worried that he prayed James Inhofe to death. Someone is either really stupid or they just took the lead in the Troll of the Year voting (dailykos.com)	(146)
(Frau Blucher)	Nurses Union: Senate Bill Isn't Real Health Reform (workinprogress.firedoglake.com)	(123)
(Gateway Pundit)	Obama now more loathed than Bush was at the end of his second term. Mission Accomplished: 1, Hope & Change: 0 (gatewaypundit.firstthings.com)	(554)

Tue December 22, 2009

	Jim DeMint (R-ight) objects to Reid's health care bill changing Senate rules to require a supermajority to make changes to provisions (hotair.com)	(314)
	Freshman Dem congressman from VA: "My ultimate goal is not to get reelected. It's to know that I did the best damn job I could representing the people of the 5th District and making a difference." (washingtonpost.com)	(107)
	Obama Administration wants to ensure that we don't develop moobies by drinking tap water. That's change we all want to avoid (seattletimes.nwsource.com)	(75)
	If there were such a thing as a speech-capable squirrel, and if you could imprint every known Marxist text upon that squirrel's brain, and then if you set the squirrel on fire, it might sound something like this (blogs.news.com.au)	(61)
	Another Congressman switches parties. He's going from Democrat to Republican. Wait, really? :checks: Yup, really (politico.com)	(234)
(Politifact)	A revisit of what Obama campaigned on concerning healthcare. Single-payer, death panels, unicorns notably absent (politifact.com)	(79)
	Rep. Bachmann (R-Lunatic), a fervent anti-socialist, refuses to accept federal farm subsidies she's entitled to. Just kidding. Her family farm received over $250,000 in subsidies between '95 and '06 (politico.com)	(132)
(Washington Examiner)	I know you're going to find this hard to believe, but bear with me here: NeoCons want Obama to invade Iran (washingtonexaminer.com)	(97)
	Obama: Can't we just cut and paste our 2009 agenda for 2010? (blogs.abcnews.com)	(89)
	New Jersey's Republican governor-elect to slash state spending and programs by 25 percent. Essential programs such as hair gel subsidies are exempt (nj.com)	(192)
(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)	Recently-indicted Pennsylvania state lawmaker used his legislative staff in weird ways: "He will hand you a cup and say, 'Get me 12 M&M's'" (pittsburghlive.com)	(79)
	Senators are subsisting on takeout pad Thai, cafeteria panini and office cookies. Oh, the humanity (washingtonpost.com)	(76)
	Obama sarcastically belittles America's Judeo-Christian heritage with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist: "...to base our policymaking on such commitments (as moral absolutes) would be a dangerous thing." (townhall.com)	(398)
	9iu11ani's chances of running for any office go from 9-11% down to (ground) zero (abclocal.go.com)	(63)
(Some Guy)	"What we need is a form of governance which transcends the sovereignty of the nation state" (allafrica.com)	(362)
	White House picks new cyber czar. a/s/l? (news.yahoo.com)	(67)
	Harry Reid (D-ork) defends bribes to Senators to pass health care, saying failing to hold out for a payoff "doesn't speak well" of Senators who supported his bill without one (politico.com)	(225)
(Some Guy)	"The birthers, the militias, the lifers- it is unbearable to them for the presidency of Barack Obama to exist....the lying time is over....there will be a reckoning." (thejoshuablogs.blogspot.com)	(277)

Mon December 21, 2009

	Iranian nuke negotiator calls for a ban on nuclear weapons so "that Hiroshima is never repeated." Apparently Nagasaki getting nuked three days later doesn't count (msnbc.msn.com)	(143)
	Traitorous Democrats delay troop funding... wait, we're getting a correction. Patriotic Republicans delay troop funding bill (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com)	(240)
(BattleSwarm)	Those on the right see ObamaCare as the government takeover of health care. Those on the left see it as a massive giveaway to insurance companies. "Sadly, they're both probably right." (battleswarmblog.com)	(83)
	"American government changed last night. 'We are now functioning under a parliamentary form of government,' says Sen. Judd Gregg (R., N.H.)" (corner.nationalreview.com)	(298)
	Sarah Palin may or may not be hot, but her pants are definitely on fire. "Death panels" named the biggest lie of the year (telegraph.co.uk)	(165)
	Apparently not supporting the troops is patriotism as Kay Bailey Hutchinson (scRewed) is about to find out as Tea Baggers prostest her vote for cloture on a defense appropriations bill (dallasnews.com)	(81)
(Some Guy)	Real ID Act postponed again. White House blames delay on difficulty getting 666 into every ID number (govtech.com)	(126)
	The list of goodies that got health legislation its 60 votes (nytimes.com)	(392)
	Maine legislator leaves the GOP over health care reform, not her, no, not her either, it's.....some guy (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com)	(47)
	The wHitE houSe ThoUght People hID communIcaTions BURied iN the newS (tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com)	(119)
	The nation and its taxpayers are safe: Federal government offices in DC are closed today for snow (voices.washingtonpost.com)	(49)
	Sen. Tom Coburn (Morals & Values) prays that a Senate Democrat falls down the stairs on the way to vote for health care reform. No, really (dailykos.com)	(146)
(Some stats guys)	U.S. government prosecutions reach a record high. Apparently that's what happens when the U.S. government isn't trying to fire the prosecutors (trac.syr.edu)	(21)
	GOP's new prayer guru says gays possessed by demons. No, really (alternet.org)	(169)
	Joe Lieberman (I-Aetna) may run as Republican in 2012 (edition.cnn.com)	(148)
	Good news, everyone. We're getting Socialism for Christmas (abcnews.go.com)	(¼)
	"If I try to buy a cop, I have to use my own money. But, when Harry Reid buys a senator, he uses my money, too" (corner.nationalreview.com)	(131)
(Some Guy)	An honest reading of the Constitution with an original understanding of the Founders and Ratifiers makes it quite clear that the federal government has no constitutional authority to override state laws on marijuana (smirkingchimp.com)	(160)