Filed at 6:05 pm, Wednesday May 30th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
At a tech conference yesterday, John McCain said he is against Net Neutrality, and also said he would hire Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for a cabinet-level position if he is elected as president. “When you control the pipe you should be able to get profit from your investment,” the Republican presidential hopeful said.
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Filed at 5:22 pm, Wednesday May 30th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Ha! Get this, Bill Richardson and Chris Dodd have both just withdrawn from the September Fox News/CBC debate, making it only Biden, Kucinich and Gravel who are willing to participate. What a joke…
Update: MoveOn has a petition asking Biden to drop out of the debate.
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Filed at 3:51 pm, Wednesday May 30th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Go check out my buddy Jason Leopold’s exclusive on-camera interview with fired US Attorney David Iglesias over at Truthout.
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Filed at 3:00 pm, Wednesday May 30th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
File this under “WTF?”
The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease.
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There have been three cases of mad cow disease identified in cattle in the U.S. The first, in December 2003 in Washington state, was in a cow that had been imported from Canada. […]
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Filed at 2:36 pm, Wednesday May 30th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Obviously, Fred Thompson is having an incredible media day, and I really see no reason to add to it by writing much of anything about him. For some reason though, I have trouble taking him seriously as a candidate. He seems to me as just sort of a conservative/actor, rather than a conservative Republican politician. […]
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Filed at 10:37 am, Wednesday May 30th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
As you’ve probably heard by now, Cindy Sheehan has “quit” the peace movement. Well, that’s the story that’s being circulated in the media at least.
I of course did what President Bush was afraid to do– that is, I with met Cindy in early 2006– and even then she was saying stuff about how glad […]
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Filed at 9:16 am, Wednesday May 30th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
“You like usin’ them internets too, huh? Handsome looking feller you got there on your screen.”
Photo taken at Bush’s immigration photo op yesterday.
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Filed at 12:53 am, Wednesday May 30th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
When Americans turned out in unusually high numbers last November to vote in a non-presidential election, they sent an unexpectedly strong signal to those in Washington. Republicans were kicked out of control of both the House and Senate, and exit polls consistently showed that voters wanted to start withdrawing some or all troops from Iraq.
The President sent tens of thousands more troops to Iraq instead. It was the exact polar opposite of what Americans wanted, and polls now show that large majorities of the public do not expect the so-called “troop surge” to be successful in substantially decreasing the level of violence in Iraq. Meanwhile, public support of withdrawal has mounted.
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Filed at 12:21 am, Wednesday May 30th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Another Bush bounce:
In an April poll, Harris found that President Bush’s popularity had sunk to the lowest level of his presidency, with 28% of U.S. adults giving his job performance positive ratings and 70% rating him negatively.
Boingggggggggggg.
Update: Whoops. I read things way too fast: the poll was released in April. In fact, I even blogged […]
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Filed at 10:12 pm, Tuesday May 29th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Paul Wolfowitz got dumped by his girlfriend in the wake of the scandal that rocked the World Bank and resulted in his resignation. Here’s the inside scoop of what happened, and how he’s feeling now:
Even Wolfie needs love.
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Filed at 9:03 pm, Tuesday May 29th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Can you imagine having a former government official being executed for corruption in the US? That’s what’s going on in China:
China’s former top drug regulator was sentenced to death Tuesday for taking bribes to approve untested medicines, as the country’s main quality control agency announced its first recall system targeting unsafe food products.
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The Beijing No. […]
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Filed at 8:32 pm, Tuesday May 29th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
I think President Bush must simply be deluded. There’s no other way to explain this:
Confronted with strong opposition to his Iraq policies, President Bush decides to interpret public opinion his own way. Actually, he says, people agree with him.
Democrats view the November elections that gave them control of Congress as a mandate to bring U.S. […]
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Filed at 7:31 pm, Tuesday May 29th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Well, this doesn’t seem suspicious at all:
A lawyer for Vice President Dick Cheney told the Secret Service in September to eliminate data on who visited Cheney at his official residence, a newly disclosed letter states.
The Sept. 13, 2006, letter from Cheney’s lawyer says logs for Cheney’s residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory are […]
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Filed at 6:31 pm, Tuesday May 29th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Above is a photo of the planned pool to be built at the US embassy in Baghdad. The expansive 104 acre embassy will also include outdoor tennis facilities, a full basketball court, movie theater, mall, and multiple restaurants. Talk about opulent. While Baghdad residents are limited to an average of less than six hours of […]
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Filed at 5:18 pm, Tuesday May 29th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Meet the man nominated by the Bush Administration to become the next head of the World Bank. He is, apparently, a fan of pandas (although it remains unclear whether pandas are a fan of him).
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