Please Join Sen. Bernie Sanders on C&L For A Live Chat on Saturday 11 AM/PST-2PM/EST
August 19, 2011 No CommentThis Saturday Bernie will be joining in discussion with the Blue America community for a question and answer session at Crooks and Liars at 2pm (ET). We hope you will be able to join in the discussion. How many Members of Congress pop into your mind when you read the subject line of this email? No one is more prominent, at least not in this decade, than Vermont’s Independent U.S. Senator, Bernie Sanders. The people of Burlington didn’t elect him mayor in 1980 as either a Democrat or a Republican, nor did Vermont voters send him to the House of Representatives in 1990 as a Democrat or a Republican. And when he won a U.S. Senate seat in 2006 (with over 65% of the vote), he had again refused to run as either a Democrat or a Republican. That’s why Bernie Sanders has been the political leader most independent of the Establishment of anyone in our lifetimes. One thing you can safely bet on is that Bernie Sanders is never going to buy into the Conservative Consensus that utterly dominates the Beltway and the American mass media. God bless Vermont’s flinty, independent-minded voters! There is no voice more present– in fact some times it is the only voice present– fighting for the interests of ordinary working families when both Party Establishments are figuring out how to best serve the interests of the corrupt special interests financing their political careers. This Saturday Bernie will be joining in discussion with the Blue America community for a question and answer session at Crooks and Liars at 2pm (ET). We hope you will be able to join in the discussion. One of many reasons to get to know Bernie… when Blue America decides which other candidates to endorse, we rank them on a “Bernie Sanders scale.” The closer they are to him in agenda, attitude and courage, the more likely we are to endorse them. The Rove/Tea Party Machine will come after him Hard in 2012. Can you give something to help Bernie Sanders fight back for reelection? We are all in this together, Digby, John, Howie and the Blue America team.
Continue reading …Hideki Irabu’s Cause Of Death Revealed: Former Yankee Pitcher Committed Suicide
August 19, 2011 No Comment
TMZ is reporting that the death certificate of former New York Yankees pitcher Hideki Irabu has just been filed and the listed cause of death is self-inflicted hanging. Irabu was found dead in his home in California in late July. The former Yankees pitcher had a lifetime MLB ERA of 5.15 over six seasons. After distinguishing himself early in his career in Japan with his fastball and penchant for strikeouts, the flame-throwing Irabu came to New York amid much fanfare. Current ESPN baseball analyst Bobby Valentine, who managed against Irabu in Japan, once compared him to Nolan Ryan. For all his talent, though, Irabu never made good on his promise or his paycheck. Shortly after Irabu’s death, longtime Yankees stars Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada remembered him as a fun teammate. Despite such pleasant reminiscences, Irabu had been struggling for some time prior to his death. He made headlines in 2008 after he was arrested for assaulting a bartender in Osaka, Japan. In May 2010, he was arrested for drunk driving in the suburbs of Los Angeles.
Continue reading …Michele Bachmann is bad news for the GOP on two fronts, writes Steve Kornacki at Salon . She might somehow win the nomination and thus “cost her party an utterly winnable election,” or, more likely, she could push the other candidates too far to the right and play into President Obama’s…
Continue reading …After feeling a huge tug on his line, English angler John Goldfinch fought long and hard to reel in a very rare catch—a scuba diver. The hapless diver, hooked through the crotch of his suit, surfaced some 50 feet offshore. “His girlfriend then surfaced, helped him remove my tackle…
Continue reading …Once she was a jailhouse nurse; now she’s known simply as the “Bad Hair Bandit.” Alongside her husband, Cynthia Van Holland is being held for allegedly robbing 20 banks while wearing chintzy wigs. After she was caught this week in northern California, authorities want to make sure she sticks around—…
Continue reading …President Obama likes to blame two things for the economic mess we’re in, writes Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post : bad luck and Republicans. Each is preposterous, Krauthammer adds. Yes, we’ve seen troubles with Japan, Europe, the Arab Spring, and on and on, but Obama is supposed to be a…
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Well, that didn’t take long. It’s only been a day since HP announced its intention to discontinue production of webOS devices, and it looks like the outfit’s already throwing its flagship tablet in the bargain bin. PreCentra l reports that HP sent out a memo to its affiliates asking them to cut the price of the ill-fated TouchPad to $99 and $149 for the 16GB and 32GB editions, respectively. The date apparently put forward by HP is August 20th, but at least two Canadian retailers (Best Buy and Future Shop) have already made the cut — though both outlets show the sale ending August 22nd. As proof that being fashionably late isn’t always a good thing, the white 64GB edition has surfaced on HP’s US site, sporting a $600 asking price, leaving us to wonder, well: why now? If all of that isn’t enough to turn your smile upside down, webOSroundup is playing the bearer of bad rumors, with what they say is an internal memo from AT&T stating that the carrier’s launch of the Pre 3 has been “completely cancelled.” Let the liquidation begin — HP’s 16GB TouchPad on sale for $99 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Three Arkansas men, imprisoned for nearly two decades, will go free as a result of a plea deal reached in their conviction of murdering three Cub Scouts in 1993. Damien Echols, Jesse Misskelley and Jason Baldwin, known as the “West Memphis Three,” were tried and found guilty in the deaths of Stevie Branch, Michael Moore,
Continue reading …Burger King is planning a radical change in its advertising strategy that will end the surprisingly long reign of its creepy King mascot. The fast food chain is jumping on the trend of touting how fresh its food is—its latest campaign, launching this weekend, advertises its new guacamole-topped “California…
Continue reading …Three men in Arkansas imprisoned 18 years for murders they insist they didn’t commit struck a deal with prosecutors today and will walk out of jail, reports the Commercial Appeal . The West Memphis Three—Damien Echols, 36, Jason Baldwin, 34, and Jessie Misskelley, 36—actually pleaded guilty to the killings…
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