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Headlines matching 'government'
Sat May 26, 2012
Source     Fark Headline Comments
(UPI) Silly You'd probably squawk, too, if some government busybody named your kids "Archie" and "Juliette"  (upi.com) (17)


Fri May 25, 2012
(Huffington Post) Asinine Not really news: Woman kicked off plane. Fark: For wearing a T-shirt that said, "If I wanted the government in my womb, I'd f--k a senator" (w/video)  (huffingtonpost.com) (335)


Thu May 24, 2012
(Guardian) Ironic Google says government cybercrime is the greatest threat to the internet; helping governments repress their own citizens and pushing for a tiered internet greatest ideals  (guardian.co.uk) (12)


Wed May 23, 2012
(CNN) Obvious Someone decides to check the mathyness that the government used to show that the bailouts actually turned a profit. Turns out the government sucks at mathyness  (finance.fortune.cnn.com) (39)
(WRCB-TV) Fail Realizing that maybe the economy isn't his strong point, Romney shifts focus to education. You know, that part of the federal government over half his party wants to get rid of  (wrcbtv.com) (40)


Tue May 22, 2012
(Some Guy) Dumbass Want to know what your kid's teacher gets paid? Ask Citizens for Responsible Government. Want to know who put the salaries of 325 teachers on your windshield? Don't expect an answer from Citizens for Responsible Government  (host.madison.com) (141)
(C|Net) Interesting Government sets minimum noise standards for hybrid and electric cars based on testing scale from 0 to Ford  (news.cnet.com) (63)


Sat May 19, 2012
(Washington Monthly) Interesting How an angler and two government bureaucrats may have saved the Atlantic Ocean. And by "saved" they mean preventing the primary source of food for most fish in the sea from going extinct  (washingtonmonthly.com) (67)
(Buzzfeed) Scary Amendment to a defense authorization bill seeks to overturn a longstanding ban on the US government using propaganda on its own people. In sports, President Obama has won Wimbledon for a 6th time  (buzzfeed.com) (120)


Fri May 18, 2012
(Some Guy) Amusing If you choose a CEO with no qualifications beyond "a guy you met kite-surfing in Malibu," the government might realize you're running a scam. Or Yahoo  (sec.gov) (12)
(Telegraph) Interesting Contrarian take on Facebook IPO: "You'd be better off investing in Greek government bonds". Facebook IPO discussion thread  (blogs.telegraph.co.uk) (196)
(Daily Mail) Interesting People have a 'lie detector' in their brains that lights up when dealing with people they don't trust -- enough to power most government buildings in Washington, DC  (dailymail.co.uk) (21)


Thu May 17, 2012
(USA Today) Unlikely Greek government denies there is a run on the bank as everybody looks to cash out euros now instead of taking drachmas later  (usatoday.com) (65)


Wed May 16, 2012
(Slate) Interesting Not news: Most Americans opposed to massive government spending. Fark: On the Apollo space program  (slate.com) (42)


Tue May 15, 2012
(CSMonitor) Amusing Government mouthpiece China Daily: "Will [popular US ambassador] Gary Locke please disclose his personal assets?" China Daily readers: "Um, here's his financial disclosure statement, right here"  (csmonitor.com) (41)
(CNN) Scary Mississippi police would like to warn drivers that if an officer pulls you over and shoots you in the head, they most likely are not affiliated with any actual government organization  (cnn.com) (63)


Mon May 14, 2012
(Spectator UK) Obvious Cutting taxes, cutting government, cutting welfare is economic suicide. Just look at what it's done to Sweden  (spectator.co.uk) (251)
(Townhall) Obvious As we have sanitized our public schools from prayer, from displays of the Ten Commandments, from any teaching that can be associated with biblical sources, we've put government monopoly power behind moral relativism  (townhall.com) (179)


Sat May 12, 2012
(ABC) Obvious Our federal government has commissioned a study to study studies. Conclusion...study studying studies is flawed. Fark needs a "facepalm" tag  (abcnews.go.com) (43)


Fri May 11, 2012
(CNN) Followup Sheriff Joe responds calmly and reasonably to DOJ suit against him. Yeah, who are we kidding... "I'm not going to surrender my office to the federal government. I will fight this to the bitter end"  (cnn.com) (211)


Thu May 10, 2012
(Some Filthy Neutral) Followup Michele Bachmann requests that the Swiss Government remove her dual citizenship. Switzerland is reportedly neutral on the subject  (bachmann.house.gov) (137)
(Some Guy Who Believes) Unlikely Obama is the "small government president." No, he says so himself. So you just know it's true  (sayanythingblog.com) (135)


Tue May 08, 2012
(Hot Air) Interesting Industries dependent on massive government handouts to even pretend that they make a profit, upset at these Tea Party people think that the government shouldn't prop up failing industries in favor of successful companies  (hotair.com) (73)


Mon May 07, 2012
(Some Guy) Sad Aided and abetted by a complacent and apathetic populace ignorant of history and our founding principles Americans are delivering society into perpetual bondage at the hands of their government masters  (foundersrevolution.net) (72)


Sat May 05, 2012
(Some Guy) Unlikely US government now considers global warming a national security threat, which I guess means we'll start bombing the shiat out of the Arctic soon   (campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com) (295)
(Fox News) Sappy National Christmas tree in DC dies. Sources say this was the only working branch of government at the time. Tag is for the tree trunk  (foxnews.com) (56)


Fri May 04, 2012
(Salon) Scary Old GOP plan: Convince people government is broken and can't do anything right. New GOP plan: Intentionally break government so it can't do anything right  (salon.com) (197)
(Daily Kos) Asinine Annual review by the Arizona state government shows that privatized prisons are actually costing the state more than state run prisons while lacking in actual security. Incensed by this, state legislators take bold action...by ending the study  (dailykos.com) (84)
(STV.tv) Fail UK government political party defeated in election by a man dressed as a penguin  (local.stv.tv) (46)


Thu May 03, 2012
(CFIF) Obvious No matter how you slice the numbers, the outcome is always the same: states that embrace conservative policies consistently outperform states where big government carries the day  (cfif.org) (252)


Tue May 01, 2012
(The Register) Sick Step 1: Patent an obscure bit of government funded telecomm tech. Step 2: Build it into a new GPS system. Step 3: Profit  (theregister.co.uk) (5)


Sun April 29, 2012
(Some Guy) Stupid News: Frustration with government leads to secession talk. Fark: The Upper Peninsula seceding from Michigan  (miningjournal.net) (146)
(BetaNews) Asinine IBM to eliminate 78% of its American jobs, leaving behind only executives, salespeople, and employees working on US government contracts that require workers to be US citizens. Everyone else will be gone. Everyone  (betanews.com) (152)


Sat April 28, 2012
(Some Guy) Asinine Last year, GM awarded its CEO $7.7M in compensation - and used its proxy statement to complain that the government kept them from paying even more  (ksdk.com) (60)


Fri April 27, 2012
(Huffington Post) Fail Cutbacks in government spending unleash power of private sector. GDP growth slows to 2.2%  (huffingtonpost.com) (269)
(CNN) Interesting Not news: Government deporting illegals. News: The government is Pakistan and the illegals are Osama bin Laden's three widows and his two teenage daughters  (cnn.com) (82)


Thu April 26, 2012
(Huffington Post) Dumbass Small government Mitt Romney wants to install mandatory porn censoring devices on every computer in the country  (huffingtonpost.com) (260)
(The Raw Story) Ironic Government grant used to develop video game based on the life of noted philosopher and anarchist Henry David Thoreau  (rawstory.com) (33)
(The Atlantic) Obvious Conclusion: "An increase in government spending never leads to a significant rise in private spending. In fact, in most cases it leads to a significant fall"  (theatlantic.com) (124)


Wed April 25, 2012
(Daily Mail) Interesting Not news: Americans solicit prostitute while traveling abroad. News: They're government officials and broke her collar bone after refusing to pay the agreed price. Fark: This isn't part of the Secret Service fiasco  (dailymail.co.uk) (107)
(The Local (Sweden)) Spiffy Random woman mistakenly invited to dine with government ministers. Fark: she's allowed to stay  (thelocal.se) (22)


Tue April 24, 2012
(Yahoo) Asinine AZ legislature passes law demanding the federal government turn over title to 48,000 sq miles of federally owned land in the state. Federal government promises to get right on that the second the Federal Supremacy Clause is repealed  (news.yahoo.com) (198)
(EFF) Misc Want to know if you are being surveilled by a government drone? Here is a handy map of the places using drones in the U.S. Don't forget to wave...one finger at a time  (eff.org) (63)
(UPI) Spiffy Ladies and gentleman, fellow conspiracy theorists, let's all give a warm welcome to the latest target for our government obsessions: the brand new Defense Clandestine Service  (upi.com) (83)


Mon April 23, 2012
(Fox News) Interesting As a favor, US warns Kenya about imminent terrorist attack in Nairobi. It's almost as if Kenya has an agent in high levels of the US government  (foxnews.com) (63)


Sat April 21, 2012
(Reuters) Interesting Money market fund assets now top $2.584 trillion. Or, in government terms ... two wars and three industry bailouts  (reuters.com) (16)
(MSNBC) Dumbass California State university student gets a head start on his career as a politician by stealing 700 voter IDs to win President of Student Government  (technolog.msnbc.msn.com) (30)


Thu April 19, 2012
(Washington Post) Obvious Gaza residents disenchanted after finding Hamas is better at launching rockets than running a government  (washingtonpost.com) (164)
(Business Insider) Scary Starting in 2015 your car will record every action you take. The government and police will never ever abuse this data or use it for personal reasons. Pinky swear  (businessinsider.com) (178)


Tue April 17, 2012
(Some Taxpayer) Fail Remember when the Government paid $500 for a toilet seat? Wait 'till you see what Boeing is going to charge us for an Android phone  (bizjournals.com) (64)


Mon April 16, 2012
(Ars Technica) Asinine In the case against MegaUpload, the government is denying the accused A. The ability to pay lawyers. B. The right to hire experienced copyright litigators. C. The right to present any evidence in its defense. D. All of the above  (arstechnica.com) (116)


Thu April 12, 2012
(The Daily Show) Hero The government should keep their hands off of men's bodies  (thedailyshow.com) (151)
(Washigton Examiner) Sad In a scathing commentary on what's wrong with the American government, Joe Biden calls Senator and former comedian Al Franken a 'leading legal scholar'. Wait, he was being serious?   (campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com) (128)


Tue April 10, 2012
(JSOnline) Stupid Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker signs bill to take DNA from felony arrests pre-conviction and create a DNA database. No word on how this will create jobs and make government smaller  (jsonline.com) (171)


Sun April 08, 2012
(Fox News) Obvious Who's to blame for a 2010 government "conference" in Las Vegas that was basically a taxpayer-funded fark party? Who do you think  (foxnews.com) (154)


Sat April 07, 2012
(The Register) Followup The MPAA is re-packaging SOPA as the "Puppies and Rainbows" act. Meanwhile, the government still wants to know what you're doing at all times  (theregister.co.uk) (94)
(Some whackjob) Silly Nobel Prize winning economic guru Donald Trump warns of massive inflation. And the government is lying about unemployment that is really at 20%  (moneynews.com) (68)


Thu April 05, 2012
(Yahoo) Strange British government outlaws surprise haircuts  (uk.news.yahoo.com) (24)
(Minding The Campus) Scary You know those Ivy League schools that produce the most prominent lawyers, politicians and judges in the country? Turns out their student governments are run like police states and their student tribunals like kangaroo courts  (mindingthecampus.com) (76)


Tue April 03, 2012
(The Atlantic) Asinine Paul Clement last week: Government can't punish people who don't have health insurance. Paul Clement this week: Government can punish people who don't want to marry someone of the opposite sex  (theatlantic.com) (78)
(New Scientist) Asinine Since PM Sweatervest put his foot on the throats of Canadian government scientists, media coverage of global warming has fallen 80% according to a leaked Environment Canada internal document  (newscientist.com) (57)


Mon April 02, 2012
(Telegraph) Asinine Ministers in the UK to introduce a major expansion of the Government's powers to monitor everything of every person that uses the Internet in "real time". It's for your own good 'citizens'  (telegraph.co.uk) (89)


Sun April 01, 2012
(Huffington Post) Spiffy Federal Court throws out FEC rules that allowed super-PAC donors to remain anonymous. At least now we'll get to learn the names of our government's owners  (huffingtonpost.com) (119)


Fri March 30, 2012
(YouTube) Dumbass He said the President is an anti-war government ni-BONG (fast forward to 34:20)  (youtube.com) (684)


Wed March 28, 2012
(Some Guy) Asinine Supreme Court rules that the Federal government can tell the world about your HIV status if it wants to  (fox8.com) (77)


Tue March 27, 2012
(Huffington Post) Obvious Fox News politicizes "The Hunger Games" saying it's a cautionary tale against big government and carries a strong conservative message  (huffingtonpost.com) (228)
(Some Guy) Hero California Assemblyman: Big government and high taxes are killing our state. We should be more like Texas. Liberals: If you love Texas so much, why don't you move there? Assemblyman: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED  (chuckdevore.com) (323)


Sun March 25, 2012
(Gothamist) Strange Would you like to be a squatter? Don't know how to get started? Take this helpful government funded course  (gothamist.com) (104)


Sat March 24, 2012
(Some Tacos) Amusing "The U.S. government is single-handedly preventing you from ordering a taco and having it delivered to you by a totally sweet pilot-less helicopter"  (marginalrevolution.com) (39)
(The Daily Beast) Interesting "ObamaCare" is a tax. You can't sue the government over a tax until you've first paid it. "ObamaCare" doesn't go into effect until 2014. So... welcome your new healthcare overlords  (thedailybeast.com) (383)


Thu March 22, 2012
(The Atlantic) Sad Why is The Daily Show more effective than The Mainstream Media at reporting news like defunding UNESCO? Stewart recognizes governmental madness and absurdity, while MSM takes it as axiomatic in their "objective" reporting  (theatlantic.com) (135)
(BBC) Interesting Welsh sheep are no longer radioactive, the government announces, which is good news for locals who will no longer have to explain why their crotches are glowing  (bbc.co.uk) (20)


Sat March 17, 2012
(Yahoo) Fail It's probably best not to criticize the president's record on promoting human rights in China when you have substantial holdings in a Chinese video surveillance company that helps their government constantly monitor its citizens  (news.yahoo.com) (54)


Fri March 16, 2012
(NBCWashington) Interesting Government studies potential effect of a terrorist nuke attack on D.C. Verdict: Not sooo bad  (nbcwashington.com) (76)


Wed March 14, 2012
(Money Morning) Obvious US Government spends $592,000 researching the Fark Politics tab, plus 17 other examples of how your tax dollars are spent on the mundane to the inane  (moneymorning.com) (107)
(Some Guy) Obvious Sh*t may just get real in New Jersey if government gridlock leads to a shortage on toilet paper  (philadelphia.cbslocal.com) (47)


Tue March 13, 2012
(Some Guy) Amusing Michelle Obama challenged on government role in anti-obesity campaign. Fark: By 11 year old  (mega949.com) (169)


Mon March 12, 2012
(The Raw Story) Dumbass Rick Santorum wants to make it illegal to use a teleprompter when campaigning. Smell the small government  (rawstory.com) (283)


Sun March 11, 2012
(Telegraph) Asinine Government: Christians have no right to wear cross at work  (telegraph.co.uk) (420)


Sat March 10, 2012
(Slate) Obvious Research shows government-funded birth control saves taxpayers money. You submitted this with a sluttier headline  (slate.com) (221)


Thu March 08, 2012
(Reuters) Unlikely US envoy said to be 'confident' Best Korean food aid will go to those who 'really need it,' like those impoverished, starving generals and members of the inner circle of government  (reuters.com) (42)
(NYPost) PSA Here's what you need to know about tomorrow's unemployment report, so you're not bamboozled by the government's efforts to cover for Obama's disastrous policies  (nypost.com) (265)


Wed March 07, 2012
(Wired) Asinine If you have a .com, .org or .net domain name, feel secure in the thought that the US Government can seize it whenever they feel like it, even if registered overseas  (wired.com) (55)


Tue March 06, 2012
(Some Guy) Fail From the same folks who brought you classics like "get your government out of my medicare" and "fix old no new" we bring you "The FCC should regulate cable TV"  (wwws.whitehouse.gov) (170)
(Fox News) Amusing He did it for the lulz: LulzSec leader Sabu turns government informant; rats out his companions  (foxnews.com) (94)


Sun March 04, 2012
(Daily Mail) Spiffy For sale: One slightly used town in Montana. For only $1.4 million you get a small trailer park, general store - which is currently closed - and the newly government-built post office. Serious inquiries only  (dailymail.co.uk) (109)


Sat March 03, 2012
(ScienceMag) Spiffy We're from the government, and we're here to help the spotted owl with chainsaws and shotguns  (news.sciencemag.org) (53)


Wed February 29, 2012
(Huffington Post) Hero "If I wanted the government in my womb, I'd fark a Senator"  (huffingtonpost.com) (157)
(Some Guy) Scary News: Government uses eminent domain to take someone's home; homeowner resists. Not news: Government takes surrounding houses. Fark: Government digs 10-meter moat around holdout's home  (good.is) (88)
(CNN) Spiffy Don't look now, but the government just made a $2.8 billion profit on the sale of AIG's mortgage-backed securities  (money.cnn.com) (285)
(Fox News) Stupid Government builds $750k soccer field to keep youth off the street and getting in trouble. HA. Just kidding. It's for Guantanamo detainees  (foxnews.com) (222)


Tue February 28, 2012
(BBC) Interesting Barclays Bank to UK government: "The law obliges us to declare a couple of our tax reduction schemes". UK government: "Thanks for your honesty. However, due to a new retrospective law, you owe us £500m"  (bbc.co.uk) (28)


Mon February 27, 2012
(National Review) Sad Danica Patrick sums up the attitude of the Millennial Generation: "I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans"  (nationalreview.com) (148)
(CNN) Obvious Santorum is getting a government handout this week  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (72)
(Fox News) Obvious Today's green "success story" is 123 Systems. $390 million in government money has netted $127 million in net losses and 125 laid off employees. On the upside, management got a hefty raise  (foxnews.com) (50)


Fri February 24, 2012
(The New York Times) Obvious Remember how Germany has been held up as the shining example of how government and business can work hand in hand? Yeah, well, about that  (nytimes.com) (66)
(Slate) Interesting Should the government be blamed for high gas prices? Here comes the (economic) science  (slate.com) (99)
(The New York Times) Fail Romney: The car companies should have been bailed out by private capital instead of the government. Former car czar: Uh, we talked to every single possible private financer and nobody wanted any part of it  (nytimes.com) (177)
(Boston.com) Interesting Massachusetts judge says government hiring decisions based on political favoritism are invalid. It is unclear if any state workers will remain employed  (boston.com) (9)


Thu February 23, 2012
(AZCentral) Interesting Arizona Republica uncovers secret government facility in the desert where 22 million moths are grown each day to be released above North American fields. And all the workers are clones who won't mention the UN  (azcentral.com) (77)


Sun February 19, 2012
(Hot Air) Interesting UK: Hey everyone, we are starting to privatize our Health Care system to make it more like the USA, this government thing doesn't seem to work very well  (hotair.com) (271)
(Daily Mail) Scary That text to your BFF Jill? We're saving it for a year just in case the government wants to give it a read. You know...for your own safety  (dailymail.co.uk) (99)


Sat February 18, 2012
(Yahoo) Strange Italian police arrest counterfeiters carrying $6 TRILLION in fake US Bonds; remind people that creating absurd sums of money out of thin air is the government's job  (news.yahoo.com) (61)


Fri February 17, 2012
(Some Guy) Amusing Americans on SOPA: stop it now.. Canadians on Canadian SOPA: Let's tell our government everything, eh?  (winnipegfreepress.com) (39)


Thu February 16, 2012
(Talking Points Memo) Amusing Gramer Nazi sues government for conspiring against him in the slam-dunkiest case of backwards correct syntaxing modification fraud you'll ever see   (tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com) (81)


Wed February 15, 2012
(Reason Magazine) Obvious Warren Buffett is playing Obama, the government and you like a fiddle  (reason.com) (74)
(Abc.net.au) Obvious The last minute bailout the Greek government just agreed to? Looks like the EU wants them to work the shaft and cradle their balls a bit more before getting the cash  (abc.net.au) (34)


Tue February 14, 2012
(CBS News) Followup "No, your honor. It's just a social club. That hangs out in the woods. With high powered rifles. And camouflage fatigues. And talks about violently overthrowing the government. An ordinary social club"  (cbsnews.com) (276)
(Huffington Post) Dumbass The government didn't regulate banks, and the economy fell. If the government decides to regulate banks, the economy will fall again. Maybe the problem here isn't the government  (huffingtonpost.com) (150)
(Detroit News) Stupid In an obvious effort to shore up his support in Michigan before the primary, Mitt Romney writes op-ed saying the government should have let GM go bankrupt. What could possibly go wrong?  (detroitnews.com) (228)


Mon February 13, 2012
(MSNBC) Silly While Greece decays in to anarchy and Assad's government is killing of their citizens en masse, Americans also have to deal with outrage, like people tweeting during Rhinestone Cowboy at the Grammys  (entertainment.msnbc.msn.com) (34)


Sun February 12, 2012
(Denver Post) Scary Sheriffs threatening to arrest federal regulators. Another threatening to bring out his SWAT team to go up against a federal government SWAT team. Welcome to the Constitutional Sheriffs Convention  (denverpost.com) (259)


Sat February 11, 2012
(Daily Mail) Scary Iranian government turns off the interwebs  (dailymail.co.uk) (203)


Fri February 10, 2012
(Washington Post) Obvious Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-aking it in), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, is being investigated for insider trading. If only there were some kind of governmental oversight for this kind of thing  (washingtonpost.com) (45)
(International Liberty) Obvious The more a government spends the worse off the economy. Part 2  (danieljmitchell.wordpress.com) (56)
(International Liberty) Obvious The more a government spends the worse off the economy. Part 1  (danieljmitchell.wordpress.com) (12)


Wed February 08, 2012
(Some Guy) Obvious Winning: The American public's dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in just two years under President Obama, with 67 million now relying on some federal program  (news.investors.com) (157)


Mon February 06, 2012
(RealClearPolitics) Fail Question: Why have college tuitions gone up? Joe Biden Answer: Government subsidies like the ones President Obama wants to expand  (realclearpolitics.com) (149)


Thu February 02, 2012
(The Atlantic) Interesting Under Obama, government spending has declined at the steepest rate since the 1970s  (theatlantic.com) (327)


Wed February 01, 2012
(Al Jazeera) Scary At least 73 people dead and scores injured as rivals clash in Egypt. Against the government? No, football  (aljazeera.com) (149)
(Think Progress) Stupid Constitutional "Scholars" in Washington state proposed a bill that would forbid the state government from using any legal tender other than gold and silver coins. At last, those commemorative 9/11 coins will finally be worth something  (thinkprogress.org) (113)
(Some Guy) Fail The Federal Government would like to charge pro weed Montana state lawmakers as "conspirators" to sell and distribute medical marijuana  (missoulian.com) (225)


Tue January 31, 2012
(BBC) Scary Government report says Japan's population will shrink by one third by 2060, which is shocking considering how short they already are now  (bbc.co.uk) (94)
(Des Moines Register) Amusing Recipe for fun: downtown Des Moines Marriott to be shared for a week by just two groups---Chinese government officials and high school wrestlers in town for the state high school wrestling tournament   (blogs.desmoinesregister.com) (49)


Mon January 30, 2012
(Washington Post) Fail New Gingrich ad suggests that America is headed down the same path as Cuba with their government-run inexpensive health care for all citizens. ¡Viva la Revolución  (washingtonpost.com) (129)
(Washington Post) PSA Reminder: When using a government computer network, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding any communications  (washingtonpost.com) (103)
(BBC) Followup CEO of government-owned bank decides he doesn't need that £963,000 bonus after all, would rather not go through life with everyone in the country hating his guts  (bbc.co.uk) (40)

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