The Daily Background
| Sean Hannity just wants to say gracias
Filed at 3:21 pm, Sunday October 29th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Err. You do know that’s not english, right Hannity?
Mysterious quote of the day
Filed at 2:52 pm, Sunday October 29th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
“I’m going to be a little cryptic here, but the Mark Foley scandal investigation is going to widen a little bit.”
What? Video here.
A few misc polls
Filed at 2:12 pm, Sunday October 29th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
A few assorted polls I wanted to highly briefly.
_In New Jersey, the only state where a Demoratic Senator is really in trouble, incumbent Bob Menendez is leading by 6 points (48%-42%) over Republican challenger Tom Kean Jr in the latest poll, conducted by Research 2000.
According to the new Newsweek/Princeton Survey Reserach Associated International poll (what […]
Video- Compilation: Are we winning in Iraq?
Filed at 12:30 pm, Sunday October 29th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Video provided by TheDailyBackground.com
Above is a little compilation video I made regarding the mixed messages that the Bush Administration has been promoting on whether or not we’re winning the war in Iraq.
Poll: Americans fed up with White House spending
Filed at 10:30 am, Sunday October 29th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
CNN notes the increase in government spending under the Bush Administration.
The poll released Friday also showed that an overwhelming majority of Americans perceive, correctly, that the size and cost of government have gone up in the past four years, when Republicans have had a grip on the House of Representatives, the Senate and the White […]
Sweet (new?) NYT election prediction feature
Filed at 9:30 am, Sunday October 29th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
The New York Times has an awesome feature on their website (I don’t know if it’s new or what, but I haven’t seen it before) that has House (pictured above), Senate and Gubernatorial races with a lot of statistics for looking at them in a “bigger picture” all together sense.
Video- John Aravosis on CNN discussing controversial campaign ads
Filed at 10:10 pm, Saturday October 28th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
John Aravosis of Americablog alongside some random Republican blogger that nobody’s ever heard of discuss recent controversial advertising on CNN’s now-weekly “blog buzz” segment. It seems like each time they do this segment, they have a different conservative blogger up against John. I think they’re just trying to find somebody who will perform as well […]
Aide: Iraq using US midterms
Filed at 7:42 pm, Saturday October 28th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Some people have accused Iraqi insurgents of capitalizing on the timing of the midterm elections as an reason to increase violent attacks in order to make the war in Iraq less popular in America (of course Ramadan just ended which is always a very seasonally violent period). Apparently a top aide to the Iraqi Prime […]
Report: Halliburton sub-corp refuses to share data with government
Filed at 5:30 pm, Saturday October 28th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
NYT published an article today that says a federal investigation has now revealed that Halliburton sub-corp KBR has “misused federal rules to withhold basic information on its practices from American officials.”
The contracts awarded to the company, KBR, formerly named Kellogg Brown & Root, are for housing, food, fuel and other necessities for American troops […]
Republican “activist judges” rhetoric may not fly well this year
Filed at 4:32 pm, Saturday October 28th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
One of the favorite election-year targets of hate that Republicans have are “activist judges.” Now who exactly these “activist judges” are, I don’t exactly know. The judges who decided that black men could marry white women in the first place were probably “activist judges.” The judges who decided that women should have the right to […]
The Bush Administration and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Filed at 2:30 pm, Saturday October 28th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
For a Human Rights class I’m taking, we’re supposed to formulate a question(s) related to human rights each week for class. The following is my third one. You can read my first and second here and here, respectively. Question three is here. The forth can be read here. My fifth can be viewed here.
When the […]
Explained: What is “Waterboarding”?
Filed at 12:30 pm, Saturday October 28th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Waterboarding is a torture technique which originally was invented by the people responsible for killing heretics (non Christians) during the Spanish Inquisition. Often times waterboarding is referred to as or explained as simulated drowning. However, waterboarding can, and has resulted not only in injury and permanent physical damage, but also death.
The person who is being […]
McCain wants to send 20,000 more Americans to Iraq
Filed at 11:30 am, Saturday October 28th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Republica Senator John McCain is quite obviously not up for re-election this year. Full article.
Question of the day
Filed at 9:30 am, Saturday October 28th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Did Republican Senator George Allen spit on his ex-wife? No, seriously, did he?
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