Filed at 6:34 pm, Monday January 29th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Is it just me, or has the Vice President been giving some really unpolished interviews lately? First there was that CNN interview which got a great deal of coverage, due partially to Wolf Blitzer’s surprisingly aggressive and serious questions, and now Newsweek did an interview with the Veep which yielded the following exchange:
RICHARD WOLFFE: And […]
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Filed at 3:40 pm, Monday January 29th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
I got a response from my college’s registrar today. Just to get people up to speed real quick here: I was recently contacted by the US Marines who wanted to give me the “chance of a lifetime” if I enlisted in a program they have geared towards college students which would land me as […]
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Filed at 1:30 pm, Monday January 29th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Let me make it clear: I love YouTube. I think it’s the cat’s pajamas, and probably one of my favorite websites ever. But some of the people on the site are incredibly, incredibly dumb. And not just dumb, but dumb to the point of being hilarious. Check out the following exchange I had with some […]
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Filed at 11:30 am, Monday January 29th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Fox News Vice President John Moody admitted to the New York Times that the network’s hosts made mistakes promoting the hoax story published by the right-wing online magazine Insight (a publication of the also hyper-biased and unreliable Washington Times), which suggested the Clinton camp was had discovered that Obama was raised as a fundamentalist Muslim […]
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Filed at 9:30 am, Monday January 29th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Last Wednesday, I wrote a post entitled “Iraqi Insurgents getting better at shooting down helicopters?” From that post:
One helicopter belonged to the US military and 12 soldiers were killed when it crashed on Saturday.
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In addition, a helicopter belonging to the private security firm Blackwater was shot down today while on a mission for the US […]
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Filed at 10:34 pm, Sunday January 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
If you remember, yesterday I wrote that I had been contacted by the Marines, asking if I would be interested in the “chance of a lifetime” to get on the fast-track to becoming an officer in the Corps. I said in that post, that I had emailed them to see how they got my address […]
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Filed at 7:10 pm, Sunday January 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Republican Senator George Voinovich Wednesday, a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, repeating the White House talking points that the Biden-Hagel-Levin non-binding resolution to condemn the President’s Iraq escalation would send the wrong message to US troops serving over in Iraq.
Somehow I am not convinced that US soldiers in Iraq will pay much […]
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Filed at 4:49 pm, Sunday January 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Ugh. Seems like The Politico is a fan of Little Joey:
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman D-Conn., will be on [Fox News Sunday], sounding hawkish yet soothingly sensible about the war.
Eh, well maybe they’re fans, or maybe they think they’re sounding snarky or “fun” like ABC’s The Note. By the way, Little Joey announced on FNS […]
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Filed at 3:55 pm, Sunday January 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Everybody’s familiar with the ‘emboldening the enemy’ rhetoric which usually comes from the White House and its allies regarding dissent towards its Iraq plan. Apparently Biden has decided that the ‘emboldening’ rhetoric is a two-way street:
STEPHANOPOULOS: The administration is stepping up the rhetoric on your resolution. You saw the president, the vice-president, General Petraeus, all […]
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Filed at 11:30 am, Sunday January 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
As everybody knows, the US and Iran have very abnormal relations since 1979, and this creates several problems. Not the least of which is the problem of accurate reporting about activities within and with regard to Iran. Of course there’s a language barrier, but there’s a lot more at play than that.
Iranian media is controlled […]
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Filed at 8:32 am, Sunday January 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
So I’m looking at a few headlines when I come across this, from Reuters:
My first impulse, and I kid you not, was: “What the hell is the Secretary of Defense (Robert Gates) talking about the internet for? What is he, some kind of authority on technology now?”
And then I realized that there also happens to […]
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Filed at 11:55 pm, Saturday January 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Oh, Bill-o. The other night, Bill O’Reilly was hard at work doing what he does best: talking about things he knows nothing about.
In this case, the Fox host bashed a documentary titled “Friends of God” made by Alexandra Pelosi, Speaker Pelosi’s daughter. The film, which aired January 25th on HBO, takes a non-negative look at […]
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Filed at 11:20 pm, Saturday January 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
I’m guessing I’m not the only college student who got this letter from the Marines Corps, promising a fast-track way to become a Second Lieutenant as soon as I graduate.
I have no idea how they got my address here at school, either, because I haven’t given it to anybody. They know my home contact info […]
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Filed at 7:41 pm, Saturday January 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
According to the latest Newsweek/Princeton Survey Research Associates International poll, President Bush has hit a new net (dis)approval level.
but the state of the Bush administration is at its worst yet, according to the latest NEWSWEEK poll. The president’s approval ratings are at their lowest point in the poll’s history—30 percent—and more than half the country […]
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Filed at 4:52 pm, Saturday January 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Just as tens of thousands of Americans are protesting against the President’s escalation plan on the National Mall in Washington DC today, 7 more American soldiers have died Iraq. Almost 3,080 Americans have died in Iraq according to the Associated Press tally.
This, on the heels of revelations earlier this week that the US military lied […]
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