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Ironic News Roundup

Man who campaigned to protect sharks was eaten by a shark.

NPR Correspondent got laid off while reporting on layoffs.

And from the "It's Ironic Depending On Your Perspective Department:
Iranian Prime President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered BBC's Channel 4 alternative Christmas address calling for "happiness, prosperity, peace and brotherhood for humanity".
Pretty ironic coming from a Holocaust denier and homophobe.

TARP Application

This holiday season, why not take the time to fill out a TARP application and ask the federal government for a couple million dollars in taxpayer funds, no strings attached.

TARP Application [.pdf]

Why should the banks get all our money? If you actually get some money and feel guilty about it, just go buy a new car. Just make sure it's American.

David Lee Roth: Runnin' With The Devil Soundboard

courtesy of Henry @ Chunklet

In case you haven't see it yet, this may just be the best thing ever.

Link Roundup: Please Return My Spider

Can I have my spider back
-Henry H. Owings

 

Bible and Bizarre

Religion you can believe in, Dude

The Tongue

ewwwwwwwwwwwwww

ETA
-Davida Gypsy Breier

 

Palin-drome

"Fox News reported Wednesday that Palin's lack of knowledge on some topics also strained relations. Carl Cameron reported that campaign sources told him Palin had resisted coaching before her faltering Katie Couric interviews; did not understand that Africa was a continent rather than a country; and could not name the three nations that are part of the North American Free Trade Agreement -- the United States, Canada and Mexico."

My father, George Wallace, and Barack Obama
-Patrick Tandy

Bush Appoints Lee Greenwood to National Arts Council
-Cary Wilson

Retail Sales Are Weakest in 35 Years

Untold Story of Election 2008: The Death of the NRA

U.S. let Saddam gas Kurds for farm deal

Monumental Video projection 2009

Too Big Not To Fail

Saving the Big 3 for You and Me ...a message from Michael Moore

'Lewinski' reference an offence

White House Won't Hang Christmas Impeachment Ornament

The Clapper

Assuming it hasn't already.....

Why do the terrorists hate our toxic dumping ground in Somalia?

How Many Americans Died Because of Bush's Torture Program?

Funny how the Washington Post et al totally ignored this.....

Hi-yo Silverado, away.....

Revealing RNC document leaked

Anti-terror law requires God be acknowledged

Press and "Psy Ops" to merge at NATO Afghan HQ

Torture and the rule of law: Did Bush just call Democrats' bluff?

'Coalition of the willing' leaving Iraq

Court: Sarkozy Voodoo doll should not be stabbed

Five more members of Congress being probed in bribery affair

Ex-Diplomat Says Georgia Started War With Russia

Lieberman Contributed to GOP Senate, House Candidates

Actor robots take Japanese stage

Image:First amendment zone2.jpg (2004)

Russian analyst predicts decline and breakup of U.S.

Midnight Regulations

Desperate Obama-Haters Give Money to Nigerian Scam?

Why You Don't Invade America

Obama may delay tax-cut rollback for wealthy

Thinking About The Bailout: How Much Is A Jillion Dollars?

That's infotainment!

Second Life bank crash foretold financial crisis

Let them eat Melamine.....

Center for Governmental Studies PolicyArchive

Laissez les bons temps rouler.....

Why the Economy Grows Like Crazy Amid High Taxes

Is Obama the Antichrist?

Financial Crisis Tab Already In The Trillions

George W. Bush Outed CIA Agent Valerie Plame

TAX CUTS: THEOLOGY, FACTS & TOTALLY F**KED

Tent Cities.....

And so it begins.....
-Scott W. Langill

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Link Roundup: Shrooms Not So Bad?

Sacred Intentions: Inside the Johns Hopkins Psilocybin Studies
-Mike Hughes

The Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia 
-Josh Slates

Maron Vs. Seder

Kaiju anatomy
-Joe Rybandt

Zupdog?
-Joe Kang

Sometimes... A cigar is just a ciga…but in this case it’s just a big dick

Dirty diaper diggers strike spicy pork

Binge & Purge

Palin goes rogue
-Patrick Tandy

Aubrey Beardsley is the new Oscar Wilde

Found these doing work this morning (no seriously)
Dull Mens Club

Cleardent

Judge A Book By Its Cover
-Davida Gypsy Breier

Investigation into Anti-American Elements in U.S. Government

McCain's name nowhere to be seen at Palin rally

Senator Stevens unconvicts himself.....

Documents reveal how Ohio routed 2004 voting data through company that hosted external Bush Administration email accounts

Sarah Palin Got Pranked

Are you living in the Constitution Free Zone?

US to drop Mullah Omar from blacklist

Some Voters Are Going to Have to Lose Their Homes Before They Connect the Dots

Lucky no Americans have committed acts of torture in foreign lands.....

In The Know: Has Halloween Become Overcommercialized?

In The Know: Has Halloween Become Overcommercialized?

DOD and CIA Can Decide Which Laws They Like

Not-so-happy Halloween: Effigies of Obama, McCain and Palin posed in nooses, covered in blood

McCain Offers Tax Windfall for Cindy the Beer Heiress

Bush Trying To Pardon Himself

Goldman Sachs ready to hand out £7bn salary and bonus package... after its £6bn bail-out

Christians worshipping the "golden" calf at the New York Stock Exchange on the Day of Prayer for the World’s Economies.....

Can I get lead paint with that?
Report: China's animal feed tainted with melamine

 

A Rise in Kidney Stones Is Seen in U.S. Children

USA Food Supply TAINTED? . . . . .Halloween Candy? Melamine + Toxins?

Etch-a-sketch blogging the campaign.....

Obama has the support of Peruvian faith-healers

Sign battle starts with a zzzzzzzt!

CNN: Palin Talks 2012, McCain Aide "Speechless"

News Orgs Investigate Possibly Fatal McCain '64 Car Crash

Block African witchcraft curses against McCain and Palin NOW!

Phony flier says Virginians vote on different days

Cindy McCain Claims She's 'Just Like Any Other Female Human'

Cindy McCain Claims She's Just Like Any Other Female Human

Anchorage Daily News: Obama for president

Popular and Electoral Vote Totals

Abortion clinic bombers not terrorists, Palin says

Poor is pure.....

McCain campaign 'steered' reporters to hoax attack story.

Wassup 2008

Uh-oh.....

Joe McCain calls 911 about a traffic jam

Pentagon Wants Packs Of Robots To Detect "Non-cooperative Humans"

McCain Campaign Violated McCain-Feingold law with Palin Clothing Purchases

Abu Nidal, notorious Palestinian mercenary, 'was a US spy'

"the $3,000 Louis Vuitton handbag that her six-year-old daughter"?

Fox News VP: If McCain Worker 'Mutilation' Story Is a Hoax His Campaign Is 'Over'

McCain Communications Director Gave Reporters Incendiary Version Of "Carved B" Story Before Facts Were Known

Ashley Todd Fake "Mutilation" Exposed
-Scott W. Langill

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Link Roundup: Only Fox Would Think Johnny Was The Coolest Ramone

"He was definitely the coolest one"?
-Patrick Tandy

 

Y'all need broadband for this one..

See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die

-DUDACKATTACK

 

McCain might skip his own election-night party

Official Portraits Draw Skeptical Gaze

Robin Hayes (NC) Caught in Lie

Jihadists for McCain»

Police prepare for unrest

Memo to Fox News & the GOP: America Has the Second-Lowest Business Taxes In the World

Islamic banking escapes fallout

In you face Turkey and Mexico!

Dead bear covered with Obama signs left at WCU

Laissez les bons temps rouler.....
Pawnshop profits were up as much as 50 percent over last year

It wasn't me, the hand sanitizer did it.....

McCain moves old people out of the background behind himself.....

The End of Bailout Transparency Already?

Stephen Harper copies Australian Prime Minister John Howard

My Friend Bill Ayers

The Brokers With Hands on Their Faces

Sad Guys On Trading Floors

Passports will be needed to buy mobile phones

The Horror.....

Final debate photo.....

Wall Street banks in $70bn staff payout

AIG lobbying to relax oversight rules: report

Prophet Yahweh Predicts Spaceships Will Appear Oct. 31st in Support of Senator Obama

Palin's Trooper Complaints Grow Still Crazier

FBI targets ACORN with 19 days to go....

Misconceptions of Obama fuel Republican campaign

-Scott Langill

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Link Roundup: Pals With Blogs and More

Bugs & Cranks
-Pat Smith

Baltimore Arena Watch
-Paul Ryan

$10 billion...

On the history of Iran (and the surrounding region), as well as its historical relations with the US and other foreign influences

Are You Being Served?

Cold(er) War
So, to paraphrase Reagan, are we better off now than we were eight years ago?
-Patrick Tandy

And yet the religious right claims to be ready for a woman president....

Brave New Baltimore
-Davida Gypsy Breier

Joe The Plumber? What About Bob The Builder?
-Cary Wilson

GOP Congressman landed earmark for producer of film featuring drugs and gay sex; Senior staffer had role in movie

Irish bookmaker pays out early on Obama victory

Daily Show: McCain 'comeback' like old McCain speeches

NSA Tapped 9/11 Hijackers' Phone Calls for 2 Years - Inside the U.S.

Did Sports Complex Contractors Build Palin's House for Free?

Private sector loans, not Fannie or Freddie, triggered crisis

Palin as President
(I like the oil rigs in the windows)

Reporters Not Allowed Near Palin Supporters

The Maverick

Army developing 'synthetic telepathy'

Precocious Youngster Sells Cookies To Buy Attack Ad

Precocious Youngster Sells Cookies To Buy Attack Ad

Why do their Gods hate our freedom?

John Cleese on Sarah Palin

SNL: Wake Up! Don't Give Palin Your Bully Pulpit!!

Voter registration, a mouse head, and the '08 presidential contest

McCain was not tortured, PoW guard claims

Today's USA is the USSR of the 1980s

Army Orders Pain Ray Trucks; New Report Shows 'Potential for Death'

Dr. Strange McCain Bus - October 5, 2008 - Burlingame, CA

Kung-Fu Election

Can Halloween Masks Predict Next President?

Prosecuting Weatherme

The McCain Wander

McRage.....
John McCain's Rage is a National Security Concern

Troopergate report: Palin abused power

History of U.S. Gov't Bailouts

Disney wants kiddies to agree to 120 pages of legalese to view Sleeping Beauty DVD.....

Vote Republican so they can prove government doesn't work!

Voodoo politics.....

Well, at least he got transferred?

I survived the Georgian war. Here's what I saw.

Foreclosures in your area.....

A crisis made in the Oval Office

The Palins' un-American activities

Keene artist had hard time getting back into US

Join the Pinocchio Posse

McCain finds his own radical friend (G. Gordon Liddy)

Man shot three times in street by racist gunman - for wearing Barack Obama T-shirt

 

AIG Congressional Hearing: "They Were Getting Manicures... While American People Were Footing The Bill"

Interview - Naomi Wolf - Give Me Liberty

McCain's brother says N. Va. 'Communist country'

CNBC: Lehman CEO Knocked Out Cold at Company Gym

The horror.....

Will Rogers Talk to the Bankers VICTOR_45374-A (1924)

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

SNL: VP Debate Open: Palin / Biden

Pit Bull Mom (TM) Lipstick - Republican Red

Do Musicians Have Higher IQs Than Non-Musicians? Yes, Says Study

Rep. Brad Sherman Martial Law

The Lil' O'Reilly Factor

A little problem with capitalism

Foreclosure Alley

Make-Believe Maverick:
A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing
record of recklessness and dishonesty

A List of McCain's Nastiest Moments

Governor Palin's Reading List

Poker, Hookers, and Black Contracts: Or How To Make a CIA Trial Go Away

'Barack Obama' contests Brazil elections against 'Chico Bin Laden'

Bush Had No Plan to Catch Bin Laden after 9/11

Is voting bad for your health?

"Nailin' Paylin"?

McSame's tongue jut.....

Protests on Wall Street - what the news media isn't showing you

Pro-War Group Offering Cash For Frats To Demonstrate At VP Debate

Republicans Released Ad Attacking Dems For Passing Bailout-- Before Vote Failed

FBI Sweeps Anthrax Under the Rug

Anthrax Suspect E-Mailed Himself About Solving the Case

Sacramento banker accused of embezzlement lobbies for bailout

Why Palin Spoke So Incoherently to Katie Couric

A bailout and a new world

A recent IMF study of 42 systemic banking crises across the world.....

McCain's Lack of Eye Contact: A Sign of Contempt?

The Rich Are Staging a Coup This Morning ...a message from Michael Moore

My dog ate every single Lehman Brothers internal document that went to or from the CEO's office over the past six months.....

WaMu Gives New CEO Mega Payout as Bank Fails

October surprise?

As to: Katie Couric Interview w/ Sarah Palin (Tina Fey).....
As is it's wont NBC decided to allow Tina Fey's debut as Sarah Palin to be posted on YouTube. However her reprise of the role Saturday has been yanked from YouTube.
You can find it on nbc.com or hulu.com:
Gov. Palin and Katie Couric get real and adorable

Along with SNL's debate skit:
McCain and Obama go head to head...

McCain says "Horse shit" to Obama during Debate

Palin: 'Only Flag in My Office' Is Israeli

Police Union Shirt Pokes Fun At DNC Protesters

Begala Calls Bush "High-Functioning Moron"

Hundreds of Economists Urge Congress Not to Rush on Rescue Plan

How Wall Street Can Bail Itself Out Without Destroying The Dollar

3-Economic stimulus package founders in Congress

McCain Wins Debate

"It was like watching Gidget address the Reichstag."

What no Get Out of Jail Free?

Polar bears resort to cannibalism as Arctic ice shrinks

At White House, McCain Plays Bailout Spoiler

Mickey if not Mighty.....

Trying to keep Pailin from failin'?
(suspend the campaign, move today's debate to next Thursday, postpone the Vice Presidential Debate indefinitely/forever.....)

Palin: Bailout is about healthcare!

Cheez Whiz is the new AIG.....

Your tax dollars at work.....

The NATIONAL ENQUIRER names GOP VP Candidate Sarah Palin's secret lover!

Pastafarian Pirates roust Westboro Baptist Church protesters.....

"We just wanted to choose a really large number."

David Letterman Reacts to John McCain Suspending Campaign

Palin is the new McSame.....

How We Became the United States of France

Army Unit to Deploy in October for Domestic Operations

Now is the Time to Resist Wall Street's Shock Doctrine

"We do not support government bailouts of private institutions"

Bush Backs Unlimited Compensation For Disgraced CEOs

McCain: I'm glad I deregulated Wall Street

Space Alien Predicts Obama Will Win

"Everyone Marry A Beer Heiress"

McCain's Economic Plan For Nation: 'Everyone Marry A Beer Heiress'

Hey Washington, can you buy my bad investments too?

All the Candidates' Cars

All your base are belong to us?

Pakistan leaders narrowly escaped suicide bombing

Was Marriott Hotel Islamabad an attack on US Marines and What Was Stored
On Floors 4 And 5 U.S. military equipment?

Cash for Trash

Unexpected Consequences from a Mug of Soda

McCain Secretly Plans New Tax on Middle Class

When did the McCain campaign take over the governor's office?
-Scott W. Langill

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Links People IM Me: Mr. T - Be Somebody...

Or Be Somebody's Fool... One to grow on!

-Dug Sohn

All Of You Listen To Meee
-Joe Kang

Caught in the Crossfire

Young Repubs Got The Blues
-William P. Tandy

Bob Novak hit-and-attempted-run:
The Party of Personal Responsibility.
-Adam

Dubya wins the Economolympics.....

Blackwater gets $110 million in small business contracts.....

Let's declare war on everybody, forever, retroactively.....

FBI family values.....

But we succeeded in making them more expensive to make and inspect.....

"Are we playing high school with you know 5,000 nuclear warheads in our arsenal?"

Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad.....

See more Paris Hilton videos at Funny or Die

A race card up their sleeve?

Cheney's argument for not releasing innocent detainees: "They'll all get lawyers".....

Ivins was a registered Democrat and Duley has a criminal history.....

Lott accused of encouraging witnesses to give false information......

A surge for America!

Buyers of bogus degrees named.....

White House ordered forgery.....

At least we're keeping them out of combat.....

Pentagon's Unmanned Spokesdrone Completes First Press Conference Mission

White House Told FBI To Blame Anthrax Attacks On Al Qaeda.....

Can you fear me now?

"Fantastic misgovernment is not an accident".....

Saudi Arabia Bans Sale of Dogs and Cats in Capital in Effort to Keep Sexes Apart.....

WPost Calls Out 'Uppity' Obama.....

"Prisoner Boxes" in Iraq .....

Dr. Ron Paul Casts Only Vote Against Ban On Lead In Toys.....

How to Perform a Citizen's Arrest of A Bush Administration Official.....

Nowhere near a quorum.....

OJing Obama.....

Constitution, 2008

Now I understand.....

CNN does it's own Noh theater.....

Rumors that she will speak at the Convention cannot be confirmed.....

"She never gets naked".....

Main Core, the enemies list with eight million names.....

"Barack Obama Rocks".....

McCain may not speak for the McCain campaign.....

The purge is working.....

The tirebiter vote.....

Hypermobocracy.....

Time to criminalize al Qa'ida.....

Run a TV Ad for Six Bucks.....

Stewart: Without 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Army would go 'all gay'.....

Dubya.....

"a request to clear the chambers when the audience cheered Mr. Bugliosi's remarks".....

Rove's non-denial denial.....

Speaking of not visiting the troops.....

Top DOJ Lawyers Spoke 'In Codes' For Fear Of Being Wiretapped By White House 'Lunatics'.....

Natalie Portman turns into an octopus?

Proactive immunity?

Hubble Telescope Wallpaper

Is there a Photoshop Gap?

Why do the terrorists hate my sunblock?

"If they were to say, leave, we would leave".....

Living la vida limitado.....

Esprit Decor.....

CBS Edits McCain's Whopper Out of Broadcast (w/original video).....

Why does Karl Rove hate swearing on the Bible?

The Democrats caused 9/11.....

18.6 Million Empty Houses in America.....

Be prepared to prove you're not part of a sleeper cell.....

Psy flops.....

Why does Congress hate free market torture?

It's not like the millionaires are going to move anywhere.....

Outsmarted themselves again?

Maryland State Police Spying Against Peace and Anti-Death Penalty Groups.....

MSP documents....

Eastasia is challenging Oceania in Africa.....

UK gets all "trust but verify on US.....

The Faux Yorker.....

Politishop 8.0

Biting the hand that feeds them.....

Pakistani Investors Stone Exchange as Stocks Plunge.....

S.F. officials locked out of computer network.....

Dubya redefining contraception as abortion.....

The Darker Knight.....

George W. Bush Sewage Plant Renaming Qualifies for November Ballot.....

The Reptoids were just there to donate to the library.....

Republicans Keep The Feith.....

Mukasey invokes executive privilege on behalf of Cheney.....

McCain Camp's New Attack: Obama Is The One Who's The Same As Bush

If they're innocent, they wouldn't need defense attorneys.....

The Foxification of the AP.....

Williehortonizing Obama.....
-Scott W. Langill

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Secondary Sound Reviewed By BookSlut

Friend of the Shank Justin Sirois' latest book of poetry is called Secondary Sound.

Book blog BookSlut has a great review of it.

"...a fun read through our current cultural situation in which new media technology and information gathering and distribution is constantly growing and changing."

Congratulations! Be sure to check out Justin's book!

Links People IM Me: George W. Bush Sewage Plant

Straight Flush
-William P. Tandy

Zombie Boy
-Lauren Eichelberger

Metaphorically speaking.....

Can my church in DC do this now?

The flag in the fireplace is a nice touch.....

Give the GOP your ideas for their platform.....

He can read yours, but you can't read his.....

McSame is an unnatural-born citizen?
Maybe the Supreme Court will get to pick their favorite again.....

Funometer...

Sound of jelly wobbling recorded for architects' competition

Retroactive Impunity.....

We're Number 1!

FISA: you can't tell the good guys without a scorecard.....
Senate Vote

On to Wellington!

He quit rather than lower flag for Helms.....

Market incentives.....

Mukasey's Nuremberg Defense.....

Fueling disaster capitalism.....

Want some torture with your peanuts?

Bush Claims More Powers than King George III.....

Guantánamo "coercive management techniques" were manufactured in China.....

Mission Accomplished!

Grass Art....

I mean, it's not like anyone's trying to spy on your computalating.....

Hello Kitty Antivirus and Firewall Software

Votage: making the Democratic tent smaller.....

Red State Update: McCain's Alleged Affair.....

Is your daughter a terrorist?

This is your brain on microwaves.....

Rabble Rousers Post Subversive "Declaration" in NYT.....

Funny how McSame just happened to be in Columbia at the time.....

UN-AMERICAN.....

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency.....

Snuggly the Security Bear: Constitutional Compromise

Stars and Stripes Forever.....

"Ding Dong the Witch is Dead"?

President Bush Boosts Porn Industry With Economic Stimulus Plan

Why does Missouri hate my freedom?

At 500 days he'll catch Osama Bin Laden.....

TSA random data collection.....

Obama Network Organizes and Revolts Over Spying.....

President Obama Will Inherit Iranian War

We don't need no stinkin' foofy rights.....

I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch.....

Laptops banned in Bhutan assembly over gaming fears.....

"What I tell you three times is true."

Italy planned to fingerprint all Gypsy children.

Aminopyralid, yum.....

Time to invade Canada.....

Nuclear "'stubby penci' note-keeping".....

White House refuses to open email about regulating greenhouse gases

Where's my Burqa?

Scientists at Porton Down researched comical non-lethal crowd control devices

Attorney Client Privilege is only for DOJ torture policy writers.....

George Carlin is in Hell.....

There'll be 840,000 troops throwing flowers at us in the street.....

On to Tehran.....

Scalia's Claim That Released Gitmo Prisoners Have Killed Americans Is An 'Urban Legend'.....

In response to record oil prices Congress votes for recognition of high MPG American vehicles.....

Now that they have retroactive immunity, your privacy is a cute marketing joke.....
-Scott W. Langill

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