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| aside- arg poll aside
Filed at 11:55 am, Monday October 22nd 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Poll: 25% of Americans approve of the way Bush is doing his job.
Should Stark apologize?
Filed at 11:50 am, Monday October 22nd 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Chris doesn’t think Rep Pete Stark should have to apologize for his comments about Bush’s “amusement” in Iraq. I tend to agree (above is a mashup I made for C&L on the subject).
Update: Mashup posted.
34 times?! Really?!
Filed at 2:53 am, Monday October 22nd 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Who loomed large at the GOP/Fox News debate Sunday night? I bet you can guess. And if you can’t, here’s the WSJ:
During the Republican debate in Orlando, Fla. tonight Sen. Hillary Clinton’s name was mentioned 29 times at last count. Sen. Barack Obama (D., Ill.)? Zero. John Edwards? Zero. While the Democratic presidential field is […]
Another Blackwater horror story
Filed at 2:30 pm, Sunday October 21st 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
The Washington Post today gives us the horrific story of a Blackwater mercenary who sumbled upon a bodyguard for Iraq’s Vice President and shot him to death while he was drunk and wandering through the Green Zone after a party on Chistmas Day 2006:
At the vice president’s home, [former US Ambassador Zalmay] Khalilzad found the […]
aside- climate change poll
Filed at 12:21 pm, Sunday October 21st 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Poll: 66% of Americans now want the US to take a leadership role on combating climate change
Say hello to a new site feature…
Filed at 11:08 am, Sunday October 21st 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Here’s something I’ve been thinking about doing for a while but haven’t quite gotten around to it. Say hello to… The Daily Background Special Projects (you can also access Special Projects by clicking the handy tab at the top of the page in the black navigation bar). There’s only one special project at the moment, […]
Video- Slap that yellow ribbon on your SUV
Filed at 11:25 pm, Saturday October 20th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
This video is pretty priceless. Nuff said. (Hat tip- Open Left.)
schip poll
Filed at 8:23 pm, Saturday October 20th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Poll: 81% of Americans favor Democrats’ plan to expand S-CHIP.
Rudy does a 180 on gay equality… How will he explain it?
Filed at 7:11 pm, Saturday October 20th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
As we all know Rudy Giuliani has been explaining away his flip flopping away invoking 9/11. For example, according to him, 9/11 changed his view that the NRA was an “extremist” organization.
Yeah well, here’s his old stance on a gay marriage ban:
Rudy Giuliani came out yesterday against President Bush’s call for a ban on gay […]
Relevancy is irrelevant
Filed at 2:41 pm, Saturday October 20th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Earlier:
I love how we’ve gotten to the point where this actually merits a headline:
Now:
Thanks, AP.
Video- Bill Maher ejects conspiracy theory nuts from his audience, live
Filed at 12:16 pm, Saturday October 20th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
A bunch of 9/11 conspiracy theorist idiots tried to disrupt Bill Maher’s show this past week, and the whole thing was broadcast live (Maher eventually himself got up and went into the audience to “help” his show’s security kick out the idiots). There are plenty of things I disagree with Maher about, but this is […]
After 10 months, Martinez throws in the towel at the RNC
Filed at 12:41 am, Saturday October 20th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Adios, Mel:
Sen. Mel Martinez, who for ten months has been the public face of the GOP, has resigned his post at the Republican National Committee.
[…]
President Bush handpicked the relatively obscure Martinez in an effort to build on the historic inroads the Republican Party made in attracting Hispanic voters. In 2000, Bush captured 30 percent of […]
Blackwater apparently stole Iraqi planes
Filed at 11:06 pm, Friday October 19th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
More legal and appropriate behavior from everybody’s favorite private mercenary firm, Blackwater:
Blackwater USA tried to take at least two Iraqi military aircraft out of Iraq two years ago and refused to give the planes back when Iraqi officials sought to reclaim them, according to a congressional committee investigating the private security contractor.
Report: Comcast treating net traffic unequally
Filed at 1:09 pm, Friday October 19th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Clearly Net Neutrality is just another example of consumer-advocates getting bent out of shape over a silly piece of legislation that is totally unneeded. Cough, cough:
Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of […]
GOP blocks SCHIP veto override in House
Filed at 5:56 pm, Thursday October 18th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
I’m off for the rest of the night. Also, House Republicans can suck it.
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