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   Lisa Westveld (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 6:24am

   
   

   April's Fools Day???

    

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   The eejit (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 6:26am

   
   

   It can't be an Onion article...

   It's too plausible.

    

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   Gary, Apr 1st, 2011 @ 7:00am

   
   

   That's been the problem with The Onion ever since Bush took over in 2000. Reality is so much more perverse than mere writing folk can imagine.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Apr 1st, 2011 @ 7:10am

   
   

   Is this an alternate reality that we accidentally woke up in?
   
   Maybe he is feeling guilty for accepting such a thing knowing what he has done or then again maybe not.

    

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   fogbugzd (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 7:14am

   
   

   Spagetti Harvest

   There was just an update on the reason for the delay of the first meeting. Apparently Obama had to miss the original meeting so he could attend a celebration of the spagetti harvest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdQqh9jvB6w&feature=related The video isn't for this year, but it was the closest link I could find. There is a more recent one, but I think it was on one of the domains seized by ICE.

    

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   Dark Helmet (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 7:18am

   
   

   Ah, obviously there's more to this story than what's being postulated here. Was a bomb threat called into the rendevous? Perhaps the CIA/NSA/whoever received a report indicating Al Queda targeting the award ceremony?
   
   Let's give our leaders their due credit rather than just falsely lampooning them.
   
   Obviously certain agencies within our government will be overwhelmingly more informed on the dangers than we will. Likely there was some danger they were trying to avoid. Snark for snark's sake does no one any good....

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Apr 1st, 2011 @ 7:20am

   
   

   Re: April's Fools Day???

   I heard this a few days ago so unless it is a very early April Fools nope.
   
   http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/6927-obama-receives-transparency-award-at-sec ret-meeting

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Apr 1st, 2011 @ 7:28am

   
   

   Re: Spagetti Harvest

   "celebration of the spagetti harvest"
   
   Didn't Obama hear that the whole spaghetti trees thing was a hoax?

    

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   imbrucy (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 7:33am

   
   

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   Guilt from a politician, especially a Chicago politician?

    

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    kyle clements (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 7:34am

    
    

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    "Snark for snark's sake does no one any good...."
    
    I don't know, reviving a transparency award in secret is pretty hilarious.
    
    Whether there were dangers or not, it's still a good story, one that is far too easy of a target to pass up.
    
    I got a very good chuckle out of it.

     

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    Steven (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 7:37am

    
    

    This is so massively ridiculous that I can't believe it, yet so believable that I'm hardly surprised.
    
    My head hurts now.

     

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    Capitalist Lion Tamer (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 7:41am

    
    

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    Au contraire, DH. Snark for snark's sake does the person handing out the snark plenty of good. Why, without snark, I wouldn't be half the irritant I am today.

     

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    Dark Helmet (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 7:41am

    
    

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    Apparently you did. Perhaps to some it's funny. Regardless, this is a snark piece. I for one don't appreciate it. Likely others feel the same.
    
    Fear is the likely motivator here. Otherwise they'd publicize the location and all that. Or do you have a more rational explanation? Lemmie hear ya. Seriously.
    
    (FYI, there's a hidden message in all this. See if you ca figure it out....)

     

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    Berenerd (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 7:48am

    
    

    The location was indeed announced...get off his back...

    It was posted to a very popular site which was quickly taken down and replaced with a warning that ICE took it down because there was an illegal font used in the announcement. Later that day Obama got his award and thanked ICE for doing such a good job for the big labels and "protecting" the true Americans...
    It was announced today that Darkhelmet has accepted his nomination for the Pirate Party's candidate for the next American Idol. his running mate will be Angelina Jolie.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Apr 1st, 2011 @ 7:56am

    
    

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    All of us should stop and take a look at this. Pointlessly assuming there is a greater danger is stupid. Reckoning and postulating never solved anything. Is it so hard to accept that he's just another idiot? Let's assume for a moment that you're right and he's doing it out of fear.
    
    First, he is probably the most protected man on the fact of the planet. Optimally he would be behind a transparent bubble shield for a ceremony where something could go wrong. On the other hand, you could be right. Logically it wouldn't be that far fetched. Seriously though, it's funny either way.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Apr 1st, 2011 @ 8:01am

    
    

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    It's been that way before, it's just that our monopolized press never covers the truth and they paint us with this fairy tale image of reality instead.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Apr 1st, 2011 @ 8:02am

    
    

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    Or maybe he's just being modest.

     

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    fogbugzd (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 8:07am

    
    

    Re: Re: Spagetti Harvest

    It's a hoax? Really? I guess that explains why it was so hard to find a youtube video about it that didn't start with "April Fool's."
    
    The worst thing about April 1 is trying to figure out who is being sarcastic and who is just clueless.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Apr 1st, 2011 @ 8:13am

    
    

    No no no no, everyone misunderstood. He's transparent as in that he's invisible. No one can tell what he's doing.

     

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    Marcus Carab (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 8:14am

    
    

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    A progressive, realistic, insightful lampooning! Full-on opprobrium: lovely!

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Apr 1st, 2011 @ 8:15am

    
    

    Re: Re: Re: Spagetti Harvest

    The worst thing about April 1 is trying to figure out who is being sarcastic and who is just clueless.
    
    
    
    
    **For some values of the word worst. I think it's fun.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Apr 1st, 2011 @ 8:15am

    
    

    Today's Philly Inquirer (yes, I still love to read the actual paper product) had this very item boxed within an article about Congress looking into the FOIA politicizing delay situation.
    
    Digital version doesn't have this interesting juxtaposition. Physical layout FTW.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Apr 1st, 2011 @ 8:27am

    
    

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    "I don't know, reviving a transparency award in secret is pretty hilarious. "
    
    Next thing I know you'll tell me he won a noble prize.

     

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    Malibu Cusser (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 8:52am

    
    

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    Nice one DH. Didn't think you were really thinking this.

     

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    Marcus Carab (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 9:14am

    
    

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    Awww please, reconsider it liontamer! Fellowship overrides our looming squabble!

     

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    Greg G (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 9:29am

    
    

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    *shakes head*
    
    Yea, Gary, it's all Bush's fault.
    
    If you want to know who perverted reality, you have to go West, young man, to Hollywood, and, of course, to the rest of the world.
    
    Yes, I am talking about reality shows.

     

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    Dark Helmet (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 9:38am

    
    

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    Apparently pleading reasonableness is lost. Forgive our obvious little sparring....

     

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    The eejit (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 10:45am

    
    

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    Reasonable? In my TD? Okay, who released the Gryphocorns again?
    
    *Fetches Lassoo of Truth*

     

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    Dark Helmet (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 10:59am

    
    

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    Again, please read inbetween lines, fool. Otherwise our lunacy sucks....

     

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    Marcus Carab (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 11:06am

    
    

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    Appropriate Parsing Reveals Intent Lurking (Fairly Obviously) Outside Language Specifics!

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Apr 1st, 2011 @ 11:17am

    
    

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    Alas, people reading improperly lie first on our little site.

     

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    Dark Helmet (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 11:43am

    
    

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Well done!

     

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    Capitalist Lion Tamer (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 11:49am

    
    

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    Looming squabble, eh? I thought I only had one open-ended looming squabble. It revolves around the word "challenge."
    
    Consider it reconsidered. (Yes. I also received the message. But my point about snark remains.)

     

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    Dark Helmet (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 12:55pm

    
    

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    "Looming squabble, eh? I thought I only had one open-ended looming squabble. It revolves around the word "challenge.""
    
    Oh, I issued my challenge a while back. You never responded, which left me utterly triumphant....

     

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    Capitalist Lion Tamer (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 1:48pm

    
    

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    No shit.
    
    Hmmm...
    
    Well, we'll call this a draw...

     

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    btr1701 (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 1:49pm

    
    

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    Ptetty good impression. However since it lacks his particular flavor combination of both condescension and cluelessness, I think it only qualifies as TAM-lite.

     

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    Capitalist Lion Tamer (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 1:53pm

    
    

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    Found it. Some sort of wine metaphor involving Citigroup and the NYT.
    
    I'll chalk that up at 1-0 as I was staring off into the stands or something when that got served past me over a week ago.

     

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    Atkray (profile), Apr 1st, 2011 @ 2:02pm

    
    

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    Nah he is hiding from Glenn Beck.

     

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    Shine (profile), Oct 22nd, 2011 @ 4:59am

    
    

    funny

    Ha Ha! That's funny! I find the writer's name funny too...Chuck Norris' Enemy (deceased)...I always laugh at Chuck Norris jokes.

     

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    Nicole, Jan 14th, 2012 @ 10:49am

    
    

    Governments should always be transparent.

     

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    Katherine, Feb 3rd, 2012 @ 9:34pm

    
    

    It is hard to trust a government that is not transparent in things they are doing or dealing with, unless national security is at risk.

     

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