Filed at 8:21 am, Thursday July 30th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
My general feeling about the current status of health care reform making its way through Congress right now is: let’s just pass something better than what we have now and continue to make it better later. Despite their differences and varying inadequacies, all of the proposals debated by Congressional Democrats are better than what we’ve […]
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Filed at 7:28 am, Tuesday July 28th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
This video pretty much says it all. Hat tip- Huffington Post.
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Filed at 8:37 pm, Thursday July 23rd 2009
by Arlen Parsa
So, you know what’s dumb? This: Republicans keep referring to something called an “Obama health plan.” The problem is, A) he’s still personally popular among the public, and B) he doesn’t actually have a health plan himself (there are instead various competing Democratic bills in Congress, none of which have received his endorsement). So what […]
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Filed at 5:56 pm, Wednesday July 22nd 2009
by Arlen Parsa
Tiffany and I were at the dollar store yesterday and noticed something a bit askew. They had a bunch of copies of the above framed poster, featuring a picture of Obama on election night 2008, and an interesting quote on it, attributed to the president. Here’s what it said:
His famous quote is, of course, “Our […]
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Filed at 5:21 pm, Sunday July 19th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
Our elected reps could use a nudge in the right direction over the health care legislation that’s in Congress right now and the importance of including a public option in the final bill. It’s one thing to blog about it, but writing a letter is a lot more helpful at this stage.
I just wrote to […]
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Filed at 2:58 pm, Saturday July 18th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
The following are the results of a Gallup poll, conducted among Republicans only:
Shudder. I guess it just goes to show how out of touch many of them are, I guess.
Obama couldn’t ask for a weaker rival in 2012. Go ahead and nominate her, fellas.
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Filed at 8:48 am, Wednesday July 15th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
Whoa, go New York state Attorney General’s office!
Internal emails discovered by Attorney General Cuomo’s investigation show that Lifestyle Lift employees were given specific instructions to engage in this illegal activity. One e-mail to employees said: ‘Friday is going to be a slow day — I need you to devote the day to doing more postings […]
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Filed at 8:53 pm, Sunday July 12th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
If you’ve been following at all the reporting about Dick Cheney ordering the CIA to keep one of its intelligence programs secret from Congress, and the furor that’s ensued, check out Laura Rozen’s blog entry for the latest, which lists the key questions that need to be answered. The implication is that there may have […]
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Filed at 6:18 am, Friday July 10th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
This is so stupid for so many reasons:
McLEAN, Va. - The federal government’s most secure prison has determined that two books written by President Barack Obama contain material “potentially detrimental to national security” and rejected an inmate’s request to read them.
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali is serving a 30-year sentence at the federal supermax prison in […]
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Filed at 7:39 am, Thursday July 09th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
Okay so two unrelated but similarly shocking acts of modern day racism. First, from yesterday, courtesy of Fox’s Brian Kilmede on why white people shouldn’t marry outside of their race:
Wow, disgusting. But amazingly, nobody else on the program calls him on saying what is pretty much the same message as the KKK has– they just […]
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Filed at 6:46 am, Tuesday July 07th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
Senator Al will *finally* be sworn in at high noon today and will *finally* become the first sitting member of Congress to have addressed me directly. I forget what the question I emailed him with was and YouTube has since removed the video, but he answered it in a podcast, damn it! For one brief […]
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Filed at 7:32 pm, Friday July 03rd 2009
by Arlen Parsa
… So, you’re the governor of a state and out of nowhere, you abruptly resign on the Friday afternoon before Independence Day with nobody getting advance warning, not even your own party’s gubernatorial association.
Nothing suspicious or odd about that. Nope. Nothing at all.
Update: Just to expound on my thinking, she didn’t offer any details, and […]
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Filed at 9:11 pm, Wednesday July 01st 2009
by Arlen Parsa
A frightening new study on the American health pandemic known as obesity:
_Mississippi had the highest rate of adult obesity, 32.5 percent, for the fifth year in a row.
_Three additional states now have adult obesity rates above 30 percent, including Alabama, 31.2 percent; West Virginia, 31.1 percent; and Tennessee, 30.2 percent.
_In 1991, no state had more […]
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