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Sat March 20, 2010
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(Yahoo) Obvious Where do God-fearing Real Americans most like to live? They would be in Mississippi, which leads the nation in religious belief. Where are the godless heathens hiding from the Lord? Head on up New Hampshire and Vermont (damn hippie commies)  (news.yahoo.com) (183)

Wed March 17, 2010
(Gallup) Obvious Gallup Poll: Americans actually wanted unicorns and rainbows  (gallup.com) (44)

Tue March 16, 2010
(The Atlantic) Unlikely "Modern British cooking feels more adventurous than a lot of American cooking." Why? Do they put ancho peppers and heirloom tomatoes in their spotted dick now?  (theatlantic.com) (176)
(Toronto Sun) Scary To Americans who don't fully grasp how popular Tim Hortons is in Canada, this pretty much sums it up  (torontosun.com) (216)

Mon March 15, 2010
(Patriot Update) Unlikely "The media paint Tea Partiers as radical, but average Americans see through this bias" says the creator of the Dukakis/Willie Horton campaign ad  (patriotupdate.com) (284)
(WTHR) Obvious Filling out NCAA brackets will cost Americans $1.48 billion in lost productivity claims survey put out by the Department of Pulling Statistics Out of our Ass  (wthr.com) (35)

Fri March 12, 2010
(Washington Post) Spiffy Retail sales up again as Americans find it hard to contain their inner consumer whore  (washingtonpost.com) (17)
(AOL News) Obvious Experts say that American doctors are over-testing and over-treating their patients. But how else will my kid get unlimited time on their SATs if I don't have them checked for Restless Leg Syndrome?  (aolnews.com) (190)

Thu March 11, 2010
(Salon) Obvious Americans strongly prefer Obama to Bush. That's Americans, not "Real Americans™"  (salon.com) (227)

Tue March 09, 2010
(Time) Interesting Many Americans say they're too tired for sex. But really, they're just not into you  (wellness.blogs.time.com) (150)
(Think Progress) Fail Victor Davis Hanson notes that one reason for American exceptionalism may be that we did not inherit from England "a large underclass of only quasi-free people attached to barons as serfs."  (yglesias.thinkprogress.org) (185)
(CNN) Scary Half of Americans have less than 10K saved for retirement. Those who have more will no doubt be asked to share their pie  (money.cnn.com) (781)
(Wall Street Journal) Stupid Your papers, comrade? Bipartisan immigration reform plan proposed--national biometric ID card for all Americans  (online.wsj.com) (308)
(Washington Times) Unlikely A majority of Americans think they are less respected now than when Bush was feared by every neutral country in the world  (washingtontimes.com) (94)
(Washington Post) Obvious "American tradition of zealous representation of unpopular clients is at least as old as John Adams' representation of the British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre"  (washingtonpost.com) (91)
(Fox News) Interesting Prediction: Obama will ultimately win over Americans on health care. Stupid liberal FOX News reporters. Wait, what?  (foxnews.com) (207)

Sun March 07, 2010
(RealClearPolitics) Interesting Obama's health care is "a bill granting every American a free federally delivered ice cream every Sunday morning." Why do Republicans hate ice cream?  (realclearpolitics.com) (122)

Sat March 06, 2010
(Yahoo) Obvious The most discriminated group in America. Is it African-Americans? Hispanics? Christians? Nope... it's the prancing poofters, of course  (news.yahoo.com) (236)
(Guardian.com) Amusing Brit tries to answer readers' burning questions about American TV cliches: do cops really eat doughnuts, how come women eat ice cream from the carton, what are those metal thingies in school hallways, and so on  (guardian.co.uk) (150)

Fri March 05, 2010
(Pew Research) Interesting 73% of Americans say Obama is not black  (pewresearch.org) (145)
(Daily Kos) Amusing Palin-Americans get fired up about video by The Onion that touts Obama being caught lip-synching a speech  (dailykos.com) (218)

Thu March 04, 2010
(Some Author) Strange An American editor of an Italian journal is sued by an Israeli author for running a negative review by a German about her book which was published in the Netherlands. Obviously, the trial will be held in France  (thebigquestions.com) (53)
(ABC News) Obvious Georgetown's Austin Freeman has diabetes. Of course he does. Look at him. A fat tub, never exercises. When will Americans learn?  (abcnews.go.com) (40)
(Media Matters) Obvious Bush's $760 billion tax cuts were passed via reconciliation, yet the media did not cover it like it was a gimmick, a nuclear explosion, or a forcible rape of American citizens  (mediamatters.org) (414)

Wed March 03, 2010
(Reuters) Hero What your children will learn in history class: "Single-term President Barack Obama sacrificed his second term to push Health Care through Congress for the benefit of the American people"  (reuters.com) (392)
(The Atlantic) Interesting Thanks, Congress. Toyota's now so desperate for customers it's offering 0 percent financing, and American car companies have to follow, eliminating all the interest they earn, and badly need, from financing loans  (theatlantic.com) (109)
(The New York Times) Interesting To meet the Obama administration's targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, Americans may have to experience gas at $7 a gallon. No comment from Al Gore, but he's looking a little nervous after hearing that  (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com) (618)

Tue March 02, 2010
(The New York Times) Interesting For the past 20,000 years, human culture has been shaping our evolution. In another 20,000 years, expect future Americans to have an enormous tolerance for watery beer and bad reality shows  (nytimes.com) (51)
(Rasmussen Reports) Obvious Poll shows that Americans have as much faith in an economic recovery right now as they have in Buzz Aldrin winning "Dancing With the Stars"  (rasmussenreports.com) (110)

Mon March 01, 2010
(PC Magazine) Obvious Pew report shows Americans 'graze' news. Pew Pew Pew  (pcmag.com) (51)
(sportsmediawatch) Spiffy The US/Canada game outdrew the World Series, NBA finals, and NCAA basketball finals. But yeah, Americans don't care about hockey  (sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com) (325)
(Village Voice) Hero Barack Obama extends Patriot Act for one year, liberating Americans from the burden of privacy  (blogs.villagevoice.com) (262)

Sun February 28, 2010
(Crooks & Liars) Sad Listen to the background chatter cease and the room fall silent after President Obama asks health care summit attendees to consider what life is like for Americans who are not rich politicians (video)  (videocafe.crooksandliars.com) (462)

Sat February 27, 2010
(Yahoo) Obvious 63% of Americans think that reality television shows have gotten worse over the past decade. The rest of us realize they pretty much sucked when they started  (news.yahoo.com) (48)
(Crooks & Liars) Obvious You know why Americans are misinformed? Because the media lies to us and no one does anything about it  (crooksandliars.com) (157)
(CNN) Obvious Majority of Americans believe government is a threat to citizen rights. Tea Party on, pinkoes  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (193)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Fort Worth cops believe that gays and Mexican-Americans are more likely to be intoxicated in bars than other people  (motherjones.com) (166)

Fri February 26, 2010
(CNN) Interesting 60% of Americans prefer socialism  (cnn.com) (622)

Thu February 25, 2010
(NYPost) Obvious Democrats need to stop whining about GOP filibuster threats. "Besides, has a filibuster ever prevented eventual enactment of anything significant that an American majority has desired, strongly and protractedly?"  (nypost.com) (92)
(Washington Post) Interesting Poll shows that Americans think China will soon dominate the world economy, echoing polls in the 1990s when we were convinced we'd all be speaking Japanese and eating live baby octopuses  (voices.washingtonpost.com) (53)

Wed February 24, 2010
(Washington Post) Interesting NBC's Olympics coverage is a microcosm of the USA's cultural narcissism: We are so convinced of our own superiority that, when we lose, NBC doesn't even bother to show the gold medalist on screen  (newsweek.washingtonpost.com) (171)
(Pew Pew Pew) Interesting Support for labor unions among Americans, which was as high as 58 percent in 2007, is down to 41 percent. A spokesman for unions is expected to respond after his break  T-Shirt  (people-press.org) (134)
(CNN) Obvious 2/3 of Americans think that the Republicans in Congress are not doing enough to cooperate with President Obama, according to an new national poll that was obviously produced by the liberal, Obama-loving media  (cnn.com) (236)

Tue February 23, 2010
(MSNBC) Asinine Gallup Poll: 4 in 5 Americans have 6-digit salary executive positions and supermodel girlfriends  (articles.moneycentral.msn.com) (66)
(Washington Post) Interesting Thirty-five percent of Americans don't get broadband because it's too expensive, and 20 percent of them are "worried about all the bad things that can happen if I use the Internet" even though they never clicked on 4chan  (voices.washingtonpost.com) (111)

Mon February 22, 2010
(YouTube) Amusing Hitler reacts to the Canadian defeat by the Americans  (youtube.com) (73)

Sun February 21, 2010
(Washington Post) Obvious Unemployed Americans breakfasting on Egg McNothing  (washingtonpost.com) (261)
(Yahoo) Obvious Chapter 9 no longer limited to your deadbeat neighbors. Cities look for an easy way out in this great American story  (finance.yahoo.com) (62)

Sat February 20, 2010
(Newsweek) Obvious Poll indicates that most Americans oppose Obama's health reform - until they learn what's actually in it. In other words, the wharrgarbl is working  (newsweek.com) (585)

Thu February 18, 2010
(Fox News) Hero Las Vegas mayor snubs Obama for his arrogant remarks suggesting Americans might be better off saving their money instead of investing it in blackjack, booze, bimbos and blow  (foxnews.com) (247)
(FilmDrunk) Asinine 80s movie reboots are so last year, let's do 90s movie reboots, starting with American Pie  (filmdrunk.uproxx.com) (82)
(Think Progress) Sick The top 400 families in America earned an average of $345 million in income last year, up 31% from the year before. That's half the total that the bottom 25 million Americans made  (yglesias.thinkprogress.org) (864)

Wed February 17, 2010
(Yahoo) Obvious Americans don't agree on much else, but 80% of Americans, Democrats and Republicans alike, agree that the current Supreme Court is a bunch of citizen-hating corporate whores  (news.yahoo.com) (106)
(Fox News) Asinine And the sign said long haired freaky people need not apply...oh or arrogant Americans  (foxnews.com) (151)
(Telegraph) Obvious Poll: Americans are the most attractive people in the world. USA USA USA  (telegraph.co.uk) (497)
(WTOP) Followup Who killed Chandra Levy? If you answered Gary Condit, like most Americans who read the news, the man actually on trial for her murder doesn't want you on his jury  (wtop.com) (194)
(B&C.com) Sad Survey says 1/3 of Americans don't use the intertubes, pull themselves up by their bootstraps  (broadcastingcable.com) (54)

Tue February 16, 2010
(The New York Times) Interesting Americans on health care bill: Can we just scrap it and start over with a new one? White House: Yes we can  (prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com) (368)
(The Hill) Interesting Just 6 percent of Americans think the $787 billion stimulus plan created jobs, despite economists saying the streets are now overflowing with smiling widgetmakers without a care in the world  (thehill.com) (144)

Mon February 15, 2010
(Boston Globe) Interesting Under the miles of white powder, Bolivia has another export that should really energize Americans  (boston.com) (36)
(The Register) Interesting If you wondered why Americans are so overweight, it might be because french fries are cheaper than Prozac  (theregister.co.uk) (60)

Sun February 14, 2010
(Guardian.com) Sad A record 38.2 million Americans now rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Oh SNAP  (guardian.co.uk) (191)
(The New York Times) Obvious So, it turns out Wall Street didn't just fleece us hard-working Americans, they raped and pillaged half of Europe. This can only end well  (nytimes.com) (61)

Sat February 13, 2010
(Daily Kos) Sad GOP strategy: Tie up Senate to make Americans sick of Congress so they will elect more Republicans. And it just might work  (dailykos.com) (114)
(CBS News) Cool 95% of working Americans got a tax cut, but you just have to explain to them in small words  (cbsnews.com) (189)
(Fox News) Obvious New poll shows Americans consider Tea Party movement a fruitless mix of racism, conspiracy theories  (foxnews.com) (124)

Fri February 12, 2010
(Yahoo) Interesting Americans form a huge line at the Buffett  (finance.yahoo.com) (13)
(Yahoo) Sick Swine flu made 57 million Americans ill, and 243 million sick of hearing about it  (news.yahoo.com) (151)
(Talking Points Memo) Ironic Majority of Americans want filibuster gone, but lack filibuster proof majority  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (229)
(The New York Times) Asinine Poll shows that 70% of Americans support gays and lesbians in the military. However, only 59% support homosexuals in the military. Non-homosexual gay and lesbian soldiers rejoice  T-Shirt  (thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com) (233)

Thu February 11, 2010
(CNN) Interesting Why do Americans vote France the #1 place to live? (France's) tiresome bureaucracy and high taxes are outweighed by an unsurpassable quality of life, including the world's best health care  (cnn.com) (243)
(The Star Press) Obvious Remember how the Democrats in Congress would say that raising the minimum wage would help Americans and actually create jobs? Um, yeah, about that  (thestarpress.com) (180)
(Breitbart.com) Dumbass Americans are represented by two separate but equally different political parties: the democrats who advocate liberalism, and the republicans who have Michael Moriarty claiming John McCain is a secret democrat. This is his latest whargarrbl  (bighollywood.breitbart.com) (46)
(Houston Chronicle) Asinine American Airlines takes the only excessive step left in the fee wars, charging $50 extra to fill an empty seat  (chron.com) (64)

Mon February 08, 2010
(Pajamas Media) Asinine Why does this generation of American folk singers refuse to speak out against the things right-wing bloggers want them to speak out against?  (pajamasmedia.com) (100)

Sun February 07, 2010
(Chicago Tribune) Asinine Bulgarian immigrant granted US citizenship in 1981 told she has "never been an American." You'd think with looks like that, they would have given in to her  (chicagotribune.com) (188)

Sat February 06, 2010
(Boston Globe) Interesting Almost half of Americans believe global swine flu epidemic is over. In other news, almost half of Americans believe there was a global swine flu epidemic  (boston.com) (115)

Fri February 05, 2010
(Gallup) Obvious New Gallup poll shows that 36% of Americans, including 53% of Democrats and 61% of liberals, view socialism positively  (gallup.com) (213)
(Fox News) Obvious Most Americans want a "do-over" on health reform, suffer from delusion that they have any control over it and that it would turn out at all different  (foxnews.com) (54)
(National Review) Ironic Democrats 2008: Enlighted Americans have wisely chosen hope and change. Democrats 2010: Americans are evil morons  (article.nationalreview.com) (156)

Thu February 04, 2010
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting Enjoy your organic melamine: Since fewer than 1 percent of American farms are certified organic, many food companies have to import organic ingredients from China  (online.wsj.com) (84)
(Huffington Post) Stupid No, Obama is not going to do any more British parliament-style open question forums for congressmen, because it makes too much sense and is too informative to the American public, and they're not ready for that  (huffingtonpost.com) (88)

Mon February 01, 2010
(Denver Post) Sad People in Colorado are starving because they can't get their food stamps on time. With picture of what a starving American looks like  (denverpost.com) (474)
(Some Dwight) Followup Ricky Gervais confirms he will make a guest appearance on the superior American version of The Office  (digitalspy.com) (127)
(Guardian.com) Asinine In Britain, homeopathy is taken so seriously that the national health service pays for homeopathic "medicines" and there are five homeopathic hospitals. And Brits think Americans are dumb?  (guardian.co.uk) (191)
(American Spectator) Dumbass Ben Stein demands the release of James O'Keefe  (spectator.org) (749)

Sat January 30, 2010
(The Beast) Amusing The 50 most loathsome Americans of 2009. We may disagree with some of the choices, but the fellow at Number 1 has definitely earned it  (buffalobeast.com) (357)
(CNN) Dumbass TSA launches internal investgation over assignment board with "Jeopardy" categories such as "our gang" (meaning African Americans), "pickle smokers" (gays). No word on who was assigned The Rapists or Anal Bum Covers  (cnn.com) (132)
(Some Guy) Fail Only 32% Of Americans Know The Senate Bill Did Not Get Bipartisan Support  (fdlaction.firedoglake.com) (32)
(BBC) Interesting "Why do people often vote against their own interests?" Democrat African-Americans and gay Republicans unavailable for comment  (news.bbc.co.uk) (118)

Thu January 28, 2010
(The Atlantic) Fail Think us Americans are particularly generous? Well, in terms of giving money to Haiti, we're less generous than Ghana and China  (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com) (325)

Tue January 26, 2010
(BBC) Amusing Brits baffled by American love of gaudy land yachts (with pic of what a European RV might look like)  (news.bbc.co.uk) (190)
(Gawker) Interesting Washington to deport two native-born Americans to China to be a part of a forced breeding program  (gawker.com) (41)

Mon January 25, 2010
(Variety) Spiffy 43% of Americans tuned in to Yesterday's game to watch Brett Favre fail  (variety.com) (83)
(Fox Business) Followup To all those Europeans laughing at us Americans for the Toyota recalls? Welcome to the party  (foxbusiness.com) (43)

Sun January 24, 2010
(The Scotsman) Interesting Tea sales rise in Britain for first time in four decades, driven by young women rejecting expensive American chain-coffee and returning to comfort of the traditional cuppa  (news.scotsman.com) (121)

Fri January 22, 2010
(The Register) Fail Judge rules that the NSA can't be sued because they violated the rights of too many Americans  (theregister.co.uk) (64)
(Gallup) Interesting Fifty-five percent of Americans support putting the brakes on health care reform in order to obtain a compromise with Republicans, while 40 percent think Democrats should instead throttle up and just make the impending trainwreck happen already  (gallup.com) (415)
(Yahoo) Asinine I personally believe that these U.S. Americans don't HAVE maps. The Iraq, such as  (tv.yahoo.com) (54)

Thu January 21, 2010
(BBC) Video How are Americans celebrating Brown's win? According to the BBC, with finger snaps and chicken dances  (news.bbc.co.uk) (29)

Tue January 19, 2010
(ABC News) Obvious 81% of Americans want legal weed  (abcnews.go.com) (504)

Sun January 17, 2010
(The Atlantic) Fail If the GOP wins the Massachussetts Senate seat, it will not only be a vindication of the nihilistic and destructive strategy of obstructionism, but it will be final proof that the American people don't deserve to keep their republic  (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com) (533)

Sat January 16, 2010
(National Journal) Interesting The majority of Americans would vote against Obama if the 2012 election were held today. This is bad news...for Obama  (hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com) (200)

Fri January 15, 2010
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious Karl Rove: Americans learned last year that President Obama discards campaign promises like most people discard used Kleenex  (online.wsj.com) (213)

Thu January 14, 2010
(Houston Chronicle) Cool Johnny Cash's final album in his "American" series to be released in February, but he'll always be around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around  (blogs.chron.com) (10)

Tue January 12, 2010
(CNN) Interesting Obama's first year in office: 48 percent of Americans think "miserable failure" needs a new Google bomb, 47 percent say he spent 12 months bestriding the country as a shimmering colossus  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (165)
(Rasmussen Reports) Interesting Eighty-seven percent of Americans oppose an Internet computer in a car's dashboard. The other 13 percent think that life without constant access to Russian midget tranny porn is just not worth living  (rasmussenreports.com) (53)
(Newsweek) Obvious Al Qaeda succeeded in its real aim, which was to throw the American system into turmoil  (newsweek.com) (280)
(The Hill) Ironic "African Americans for Harry Reid" event scheduled for later this week. Awkward  (washingtonscene.thehill.com) (169)

Sun January 10, 2010
(13WHAM.com) Ironic Howie Mandel to replace David Hasselhoff on "America's Got Talent" making all three judges non-Americans  (13wham.com) (47)
(Wall Street Journal) Cool "Avatar" wins its fourth weekend in a row, becoming the highest-grossing movie released in 2009, crushing newcomer "Daybreakers." Further proof that more Americans prefer their sci-fi good and their vampires sparkly and pale  (blogs.wsj.com) (468)

Fri January 08, 2010
(Seattle Times) Asinine Excited about watching the Winter Olympics? Well suck it Americans, NBC to broadcast events on tape delay  (seattletimes.nwsource.com) (135)

Thu January 07, 2010
(Think Progress) Strange Glenn Beck to African Americans - "You don't exist"  (thinkprogress.org) (381)

Wed January 06, 2010
(Some Guy) Fail "Giving foreign-born, foreign-trained terrorists the right to remain silent does nothing to keep Americans safe from terrorist threats," claims well known legal scholar Sarah Palin  (politicususa.com) (535)

Tue January 05, 2010
(Some Guy) Interesting New survey claims only 45 percent of Americans are satisfied with their work, much like their employers  (newsnet5.com) (129)
(Yahoo) Fail 32% more Americans file bankruptcy in 2009 because of the Obama stimulus  (news.yahoo.com) (192)
(CSMonitor) Interesting Starbucks customers are satisfied with 97% pesticide-laden coffee, to the dismay of Latin Americans who literally bet the farm on the organic craze  (csmonitor.com) (74)

Sun January 03, 2010
(National Review) Interesting Imagine if I collected the most infamous deeds of African-Americans this decade - say, Michael Vick's dog-fighting scandal and O. J. Simpson's most recent criminal exploit - and then called it "the decade in black America"  (article.nationalreview.com) (266)

Sat January 02, 2010
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious "The Constitution does not give Congress the power to require that Americans purchase health insurance."  (online.wsj.com) (651)

Fri January 01, 2010
(AOL) Obvious Did Americans get any healthier over the past decade? (please use your dialing wand to indicate your response)  (news.aol.com) (76)

Thu December 31, 2009
(Bloomberg) Interesting Ohio's Governor woos Indian consulting firm to open offices in the US. Damn Americans taking American jobs away from hard working Americans  T-Shirt  (bloomberg.com) (19)

Wed December 30, 2009
(Telegraph) Interesting Top ten reasons why Barack Obama gets an 'F' for protecting Americans  (blogs.telegraph.co.uk) (191)
(ICNetwork) Obvious British survey discovers what Americans already knew: people on conference calls are sitting around at home naked, waiting for someone with a sexy voice to talk for a while  (walesonline.co.uk) (11)

Mon December 28, 2009
(CNN) Obvious Obamacare won't make a difference because Americans are too drunk, lazy, fat and stupid to stay out of the hospital to begin with  (cnn.com) (226)
(Townhall) Hero Through their overreaching arrogance, Democrats have succeeded in awakening a sleeping giant - regular Americans. They now climb out of their recliners to have a little cheese dip, assault the Fortresses of Socialism  (townhall.com) (681)

Sun December 27, 2009
(Yahoo) Obvious Where Americans Aren't Moving. Hint: The top 5 states are blue ones and one is Obama's home state  (finance.yahoo.com) (354)

Fri December 25, 2009
(Gallup) Interesting Merry Christmas, to the declining 78% of Americans who declare themselves Christian according to latest Gallup polls  (gallup.com) (259)

Thu December 24, 2009
(Reuters) Fail "Hopenhagen" produced as much carbon in 11 days as 2,300 Americans do in a year  (reuters.com) (165)

Tue December 22, 2009
(ABC News) Obvious Poll conducted on what Americans want for Christmas is pretty ordinary: pair of boots, warm coat, submachine gun, supersonic jet. You know, the usual  (abcnews.go.com) (230)

Sun December 20, 2009
(Telegraph) Asinine 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
(Yahoo) Interesting Book looks at evangelical Christianity in American sports. *cough* Matthew 6:7 *cough*  (news.yahoo.com) (124)

Fri December 18, 2009
(CBC) Interesting Players from an American junior hockey team kill a bat that flew into the arena. While Alice Cooper and Ozzy Osbourne may be impressed, naturally PETA is not  (cbc.ca) (27)

Thu December 17, 2009
(The Business Insider) Scary 10 American Industries that will soon be destroyed. Insurance companies suspiciously absent  (businessinsider.com) (116)

Wed December 16, 2009
(Some American Guy) Amusing He's had a hard week job hunting, but only because he is American  (guestworkerfraud.com) (404)

Tue December 15, 2009
(MSNBC) Spiffy The best argument against health care reform? Americans are living longer and costing more  (msnbc.msn.com) (57)

Mon December 14, 2009
(MSNBC) Obvious Three Americans who accidentally crossed into Iran will be tried. And not just becase Iran learned from N. Korea that you get great political concessions for convicting Americans and then negotiating their release  (msnbc.msn.com) (221)

Sun December 13, 2009
(Slate) Fail Slate magazine asks if American's obsession of Drive Thru windows has cooled. Subby wonders this also as he posts this from the jam packed Mcdonald's 24 Drive Thru  (slate.com) (44)

Sat December 12, 2009
(AP) Interesting Instead of taking everybody's guns, gun laws have actually loosened during the Obama administration. "This is all a coordinated approach to respect that human, God-given right of self defense by law-abiding Americans"  (hosted.ap.org) (248)
(Some Guy) Obvious Scientists invent new gun sighting system that they promise will make it easier for twitchy-fingered American gun nuts to kill Commies, each other  (news.softpedia.com) (63)

Fri December 11, 2009
(Talking Points Memo) Obvious The sworn duty of American political leaders, regardless of party, is to grovel to conservatives and punch hippies  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (60)

Thu December 10, 2009
(C|Net) Fail The average American consumes 34GB worth of "data" -- including 18.5GB of "gaming data" -- each day, according to a new study apparently authored by Sen. Ted Stevens  (news.cnet.com) (110)
(The Atlantic) Obvious Forty-four percent of Americans see China as the world's leading economic power. And they're dopes: "People who think this are crazy. Or, to be more gentle, they are really woefully misinformed about what the world is like"  (jamesfallows.theatlantic.com) (191)
(Houston Chronicle) Obvious Latest victims of the slumping economy: Casino Americans  (chron.com) (41)

Wed December 09, 2009
(Fox News) Obvious CBO estimates as many as 10 million Americans will lose their employer-based health insurance under Senate bill  (foxnews.com) (176)
(Springfield Republican) Interesting Amtrak sets record as Americans take average of 0.0023 trips each during Thanksgiving week  (masslive.com) (117)

Tue December 08, 2009
(Fox News) Ironic MTV staff receiving death threats from Italian-Americans upset over their depiction as dumb tough guys in the popular new show "Jersey Shore"  (foxnews.com) (153)

Mon December 07, 2009
(The Hill) Interesting US Senate willing work on Christmas day if necessary in order to pass health care reform and give Americans the most expensive lump of coal ever  (thehill.com) (321)
(Toronto Sun) Cool Canadian comedy legends The Frantics hold 30 year reunion. For you Americans, they were like The Kids In The Hall, only funny  (torontosun.com) (90)

Sun December 06, 2009
(Free Press) Obvious Many Americans now think we should mind our own business  (freep.com) (101)

Tue December 01, 2009
(Huffington Post) Dumbass 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)
(Foreign Policy) Interesting "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)
(Reuters) Cool Cyber Monday sales soar as 100 million brave Americans surf for bargains. USA USA USA  (reuters.com) (22)

Mon November 30, 2009
(CBS News) Interesting University of Arizona professor James Rogers advises 15 million Americans to walk away from their home mortgages. Let's see how this works out  (moneywatch.bnet.com) (137)
(USA Today) Obvious Americans are staying here, and taking the jobs they didn't used to want away from hard working illegal immigrants  (content.usatoday.net) (81)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious Arab world has stopped applauding Barack Obama, just like Americans have  (online.wsj.com) (176)

Fri November 27, 2009
(Huffington Post) Sappy A roundup of cute little animals stuffing their fat little faces on Thanksgiving, just like Americans did  (huffingtonpost.com) (53)
(Yahoo) Sick New study shows that Americans throw away over 40% of the food they purchase, or about 1,400 calories per person per DAY. Or, put another way, enough to give every starving person on this planet the same waistline as the average American  (news.yahoo.com) (310)

Tue November 24, 2009
(yomiuri.co.jp) Strange Small Tokyo factories pool resources to build deep-sea research robot to search for oil and minerals. In other news, small American factories struggle to find workers who understand English and can add two numbers  (yomiuri.co.jp) (34)
(Google) Stupid Recession has caused many Americans to only buy things they can afford - and pay cash. Rather than praise this, the AP is calling these people "Scrooges"  (google.com) (94)

Mon November 23, 2009
(Globe and Mail) Interesting Obama & Palin, the Yin & Yang of American politics: "Ms. Palin connects: Mr. Obama inspires. She's a latter-day frontier figure, impulsive, instinctive; he's pure urban cool, highly deliberate, even detached."  (theglobeandmail.com) (183)

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