Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is
sending shock waves through the 2016 presidential election with a $2
million television ad that takes his message of change to the masses.
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Transcript of the ad:
VOICE OVER
The son of a Polish immigrant who grew up in a Brooklyn tenement.
He went to public schools, then college where the work of his life began.
Fighting injustice and inequality.
Speaking truth to power.
He moved to Vermont, won election and praise — as one of America’s best Mayors.
In Congress, he stood up for working families and for principle
Opposing the Iraq War.
Supporting veterans.
Now, he’s taking on Wall Street and a corrupt political system.
Funded by over a million contributions.
Tackling climate change to create clean energy jobs.
Fighting for living wages, equal pay and tuition-free public colleges
BERNIE SANDERS
“People are sick and tired of establishment politics and they want real change.”
VOICE OVER
Bernie Sanders.
Husband. Father. Grandfather.
An honest leader — building a movement with you, to give us a future to believe in.
BERNIE SANDERS
“I’m Bernie Sanders and I approve this message.”
Notice how the ad specifically mentions building a political
movement. Bernie Sanders isn’t only interested in winning the Democratic
nomination. He is trying to build a movement that will change the
United States of America.
Sanders campaign manager John Weaver said, “Thousands of Americans
have come out to see Bernie speak and we’ve seen a great response to his
message. This ad marks the next phase of this campaign. We’re bringing
that message directly to the voters of Iowa and New Hampshire.”
The Sanders campaign is growing. The movement is evolving. Bernie
Sanders isn’t going to be stopped by politics as usual. Whether or not
he wins the Democratic nomination, Bernie Sanders is sending shock waves
through American politics with his movement to change America by handing
political power back to ordinary Americans.
The message that Republicans, their billionaires, and the corporate
interests don’t want people to hear is now being broadcast over the mass
media. The Sanders call for taking the country back has gone
mainstream.
Bernie Sanders has changed the race for the Democratic nomination by
making it more liberal and giving voice to issues that would not
normally be discussed in primary campaigns. Sanders is also impacting
the Republican contest. Republicans are getting debate questions about
income inequality.
The impact of his message is sending shock waves
through our national dialogue.
The senator from Vermont is changing the political conversation in
the United States, and taking his message to television will only expand
his reach.
The fact that Sanders can spend $2 million on ad buy for Iowa and New
Hampshire is a tribute to the 750,000+ Americans who have donated to
his campaign.
Bernie Sanders isn’t just out to win an election. He’s out to change a country.
WASHINGTON
— JEB, dragging his wilted exclamation point around, is so boring that
it’s hard to focus on the epic nature of his battle.
Not
the battle against Donald Trump, although his beat-down by Trump is
garishly entertaining. I’m talking about the Brooks Brothers “Game of
Thrones” family tangle.
As
much as Poppy Bush scoffs at “the D-word,” as he calls any reference to
dynasty, the Bushes do consider themselves an American royal family.
They have always pretty much divided the world into Bushes and the help.
The patriarch once sent me a funny satire referring to himself and
Barbara as the Old King and Queen, W. as King George of Crawford and Jeb
as the Earl of Tallahassee.
At
91, 41 is living to see Jebbie become president. He is mystified by a
world in which Trump, whom he considers a clown, could dethrone the
crown prince.
Jeb
said in New Hampshire that Poppy is prone to throw his shoe at the TV
when Trump comes on. Fortunately, the former president always has very
stylish socks.
Some
of Jeb’s disillusioned donors are hanging on just because they can’t
bear to shatter the old man’s illusions. How can America be rewarding
the wrong dynasty — Little Rock over Kennebunkport?
As Jonathan Martin and Matt Flegenheimer recently wrote
in The Times, Poppy and Bush retainers like John Sununu are bewildered
by a conservative electorate that rejects Republican primogeniture,
prefers snark to substance and embraces an extremely weird brain surgeon
and an extravagantly wild reality show star.
When
the Bushes had to stick a shiv in the ribs of their foes, they behaved
like gentlemen and outsourced it to henchmen. They can’t fathom a world
where that vulgarian Trump is doing his own dirty work.
Trump
has gotten into Jeb’s head, making Jeb so petulant he declared he had
“a lot of really cool things” he could be doing instead, when we all
know he doesn’t.
For Bushworld, this was the election where the Cain and Abel drama of W. and Jeb would finally have a happy ending.
I
covered the Jeb and Junior sibling smashdown from the start. In 1993, I
went on the road to watch Jeb run for governor in Florida and W. run
for governor in Texas.
Barbara
had blurted out to W. that he shouldn’t run because he couldn’t win.
And when I talked to Jeb, he seemed annoyed that his older brother had
jumped into the race in Texas because it turned it into “a People
magazine story.”
But
W. had spent his rowdy 20's and 30's living with the unpleasant fact that
even though he was the oldest, his parents assumed Jeb had the bright
political future. At 47, with his drinking days behind him and Laura
beside him, he was ready to cash in on the family name and money and
make his move.
It
was soon clear to me that the Good Son was not as scintillating a
campaigner as the Prodigal Son. W. didn’t know the issues and he had a
spiteful side, but he was the one with the crackle.
When
Jeb came up with a line on the trail in Florida that worked, W. just
swiped it. When Jeb said, “I am running for governor not because I am
George and Barbara Bush’s son; I am running because I am George P. and
Noelle and Jeb’s father,” W. began saying: “I am not running for
governor because I am George Bush’s son. I am running because I am Jenna
and Barbara’s father.” Karl Rove laughed about the shoplifting.
Jeb
was the image of his mother, especially when he smiled, but his
pragmatic political temperament was more like his father’s, even though
he never had his dad’s manic “ants on a hot pan” energy. W. looked like
his father but got his acerbic streak from his mother.
On
election night, W. was steamed that his father seemed more upset by
Jeb’s loss than excited by his oldest son’s win. Not only did W. shock
his family by making it to the Oval Office before Jeb. In the tie
election, Jeb had to be prodded into helping his brother snatch Florida
away from Al Gore.
This was going to be the year that settled sibling scores. Jeb would get what his parents considered his birthright.
Even
though the brothers are not particularly close, and W.’s tragic over-involvement in the Middle East and tragic under-involvement in
Katrina did not make him a campaign asset, somehow Jeb kept wrapping
himself around W.’s axle — and his Axis of Evil.
When
Jeb was first asked if it had been a good idea to invade Iraq, he gave
four different answers. Then he said he wouldn’t rule out torture and
thought getting rid of Saddam was “a pretty good deal.” And he couldn’t
stop bragging about how his brother kept America safe, even though Trump
correctly noted that W. was not on the ball leading up to 9/11. And, of
course, W.’s two misbegotten wars have been recruiting boons for
terrorist fiends.
Jeb
explained away his shambling, shrinking campaign by saying he was a
doer, not a performer. But the main thing he was doing was helping to
rehabilitate his brother’s pockmarked reputation.
W.
headlined a fund-raiser at a Georgetown home Thursday night. When he
came out, a TMZ camera captured him jovially signing autographs for
people waiting on the street and calling out as he drove away, “Don’t
put that on eBay.”
On
Friday morning, the chatterers were comparing the stiff Jeb to the
loosey-goosey W., gushing with the mistaken cliché that W. is
comfortable in his own skin. It was the ultimate vindication for W. His
parents had been wrong all along. Jeb wasn’t the Natural on the trail.
He was.
Some
Jeb! campaign officials think he should “kiss off Iowa,” as one put it,
where he’s flatlining, and put the emphasis on New Hampshire, setting
the stage for South Carolina. “That’s what 41 did when Bob Dole was
winning Iowa,” said one family friend. The Bushworld veterans think that
someone gave Jeb bad advice about trying to put his protégé Marco Rubio
in his place at the debate.
“It looked out of character for him,” one said. “He looked like he was a little lost when Marco came back at him.”
Jeb’s loyalists are urging reporters to point out, as one asserted, that Trump would be “a catastrophe for the country.”
They also think Jeb has to be more self-deprecating, because he has no choice, and stress his Latino support.
Before
the debate debacle, the joyless candidate had been doubling down on his
promise to be joyful, proclaiming on NewsmaxTV, “I’m having a blast”
and “I’m in phenomenal shape for an old 62 year old guy. In fact, I
think we ought to have five-hour debates.”
But
this campaign has been defined by Trump parachuting in, like an Elvis
impersonator in Vegas, and disrupting the royal coronation. Jeb had been
out of politics for eight years and he strolled back, mistakenly
assuming that the vassals were waiting eagerly to hail him.
With Trump belittling him for being low energy and running to Mommy and Daddy for help, Jeb realized he was in a new world.
His
brother’s muscle-bound presidency led to Barack Obama and the diffident
Obama led to a new brand of furious, Tea Party-infused Republicans.
While
Jeb was offstage, the whole party and political environment had passed
him by. He came back looking very ’90's. He’s talking about pragmatic
government at a time when the drivers in his party are talking about
tearing it down.
Jeb
is trapped in a nightmarish déjà vu. Once he was cast as the wonky one
while his brother, the sparky one, slipped ahead. Now Jeb is cast as the
wonky one while Marco, the sparky one, slips ahead.
Jeb got confused. He thought he was still in an era when people had to pay their dues.
A while ago Coldbird and I decided to finish the ARK project for good and add all the missing features that need to be added. So we began working on its next iteration, ARK-3.
However things got cold and little to no information has been released
so far about the project. This is mainly because Coldbird and I don’t go
out publicly too often and because we have problems finding time for
the project.
ARK-3
is a Custom Firmware (eCFW) for the emulated PSP on the Vita (ePSP). It
is essentially a reworked version of PROVita/ARK-1, a port of the Pro CFW for the PSP.
It’s features include:
– Full compatibility with PSP home brews and games.
– ISO and CSO support through the Inferno ISO Driver as well as compatibility with the M33, ME and NP9660 drivers.
– Compatibility with PSX games under PSP exploits with partial sound through PEOPS.
– Partial compatibility with PSX exploits.
– Compatible with up to firmware 3.52
–
Built in menu with advanced features like PMF playback, FTP, CFW
settings and more. It is also compatible with other popular menus such
as ONEmenu and 138Menu.
There’s still a lot of things to do here, most importantly:
– Finish porting ARK-3 to PSX exploits.
– Finish the PEOPS port by improving compatibility and adding game-specific configurations to the built-in database.
– Port 3.5X kernel exploits.
Hopefully
releasing the source code calls the attention of other developers that
might want to contribute to the project. Anyone is now free to do so.
Just a few thoughts on the Republican debate from Boulder, Colorado (the major league one, not the farm team):
1. You can pinpoint the moment that Jeb Bush swallowed
his own balls. The former governor of Florida had decided to lob his
obviously scripted attack at Sen. Marco Rubio, saying that Rubio's
missed votes in the Senate disappointed him as a constituent. Rubio was
ready with a comeback about all the past presidential candidates who had
missed votes, including John McCain. You could see that Bush realized
he had brought a lace doily to a razor fight when he said about McCain,
weakly, as if he wanted to vomit, "Well, he wasn't my senator." Then
Rubio cut off Bush's balls and you could watch Bush swallow them when he
attempted to interrupt the grandstanding Rubio with "Well, I've
been--." The problem, at the end of the day, is that Jeb Bush isn't the
vicious motherfucker his brother was. George W. would have come back
with some remark about Rubio being new on the job...just like Barack
Obama. But you got the sense, as his balls were descending his throat
and into his stomach, that Jeb just wanted to say, "Fuck this." And no
one would have blamed him. At this point, Jeb is a hilariously pitiable
figure, a vaudeville clown, a sad sack. It's time for someone to walk
him into a field and tell him to look at the rabbits.
2. Whoever advised Chris Christie to look directly at the camera and
"answer questions" was a fucking idiot who should be fired immediately.
Each time he decided to address the TV audience, it looked like a giant
pumpkin head was angry at us. It was disconcerting and just goddamn
rude. Motherfucker, someone asked you a question. You could at least
look like you give a shit that you're in the same room as the
questioner. And "answer questions" is in quotation marks because, more
often than not, Christie just decided, "Hey, Chico, Blondie, and
Pinhead, fuck what you're asking. I got shit I practiced saying directly
to myself in the mirror." So he'd go off about Hillary Clinton or how
the country sucks beyond sucking under the Negro president who wants
cops killed. And, by the way, of all the lies spit out by the
candidates, Christie saying that FBI Director James Comey "has said this
week that because of a lack of support from politicians like the
president of the United States" cops fear for their lives was the
closest to actual slander. Comey never mentioned Obama. Christie came
across like a desperate buffoon, the faded high school football star who has become a sad, bloated vestige of the time when he was beautiful.
3. None of the candidates give a fuck about your facts. Rubio got pissed
when John Harwood quoted a conservative group, the Tax Foundation, on
the math behind the senator's tax plan. Ben Carson waved off the
illogical math of his tax plan when it was presented to him. And Donald
Trump? Your piddling truth matters not next to his undulating neck flap
of fiction. Did he call Rubio "Mark Zuckerberg's personal senator"? Of
course he did, but who the hell cares? Who remembers things that are
your own campaign website? He loves Mark Zuckerberg. And bankruptcy?
Your stupid laws let Trump businesses declare bankruptcy and get out of
paying debts. Is it his fault that he dicked over so many people? Get
outta here. And guns? Trump might be carrying one right now. He might
have to kill someone on the wild streets of Boulder. And, sure, sure,
it's a great idea to let his employees carry guns into, let's see, yeah.
casinos. That's all just incredible. Amazing. Best there is. Somebody
should be there to shit on Trump's face every day of his worthless life.
4. John Kasich looked like he had a case of coke jaw. Not only was he as
jittery of someone who is jonesing for something, crank, liquor, smack,
something, but he kept clenching and unclenching his jaw and grinding
his teeth. It really took something away from his whole "I'm the
rational one" persona he was attempting. More upsetting was Kasich's
belief in the need for universities to privatize their assets: "[T]hey
shouldn't be in the parking lot business. They shouldn't be in the
dining business, they shouldn't be in the dorm business." A college
shouldn't be in the dorm business? So you want to toss 18 year-olds to
the dogs of whatever corrupt bunch of slumlords bid on dorm rights.
Well, Kasich isn't exactly known for giving two shits about education unless there's a profit incentive for the people providing it.
5. Creepy Ted Cruz, who looks like every peeping Tom, said the creepiest
thing of the night: "If you want someone to grab a beer with, I may not
be that guy. But if you want someone to drive you home, I will get the
job done and I will get you home." He might have continued, "I might
take a detour to my backwoods sodomy pit with you, but your corpse will
be dropped off at your home."
6. Presumptive debate victor Marco Rubio actually tried to plead poverty
after getting a million dollar book advance. If he had a million
dollars in student loans that needed paying off, he must have borrowed
the money from the Cuban mafia.
7. Carly Fiorina's most disgraceful moment in a generally disgraceful
evening when she said of Hillary Clinton, "Every single policy she
espouses, and every single policy of President Obama has been
demonstrably bad for women." What would that be? The Lilly Ledbetter
Fair Pay Act? Keeping funding for Planned Parenthood? Appointing two
women to the Supreme Court? Working for women's rights around the world?
The one number she offered, that 92% of job losses in Obama's first
term were women, was utterly, embarassingly wrong, so she'll probably repeat it endlessly.
8. The Rude Pundit's been told that Rand Paul was there, but there is scant evidence.
9. Mike Huckabee must have jacked off in glee when he realized he could make a blimp reference. He's so in the moment.
10. And, yeah, the moderators sucked early in the debate. Harwood's "Is
this a comic book version of a presidential campaign?" to Donald Trump
really was a bullshit blogger question. But at other times, they asked
direct questions about shit like tax policies, with citations of studies
that absolutely have a place in a debate. But someone needs to punch
Jim Cramer and Rick Santelli in the nuts before their hysterical ranting
is allowed on air. (By the way, fuck you, CNBC, for not freely
streaming the event online.)
11. And, yeah, the candidates were total twat crumbs about the media. If
the trio of moderators had been the ones at the Democratic debate,
then, sure, you can accuse them of having gone easy on the Democrats.
But most of the time, they were bitching because they hated being
challenged. Whining about media unfairness is great for applause from
the slavering hordes of cretins in the audience. Maybe that's all that
matters to this slate of losers and human hemorrhoids. But Hillary
Clinton or Bernie Sander or, hell, even Martin O'Malley would beat them
stupider.
PENNSAUKEN, N.J. (AP) — Federal regulators say two investigations
have found that the snack foods company that makes SuperPretzels and
ICEE drinks cheated temporary production line workers out of wages.
The U.S. Department of Labor says Tuesday that J&J Snack Foods
Corp. paid more than $2.1 million in back wages and damages to nearly
700 temporary workers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
The labor department found that the company and the temporary
staffing firms it used denied minimum wage and overtime pay to 677
workers.
A spokesman for J&J didn't immediately return a call seeking comment.
The workers made products including frozen Minute Maid juice bars and
Country Home Bakers goods at facilities in Swedesboro, New Jersey, and
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
The Pennsauken-based company makes and distributes snack foods to food service and supermarket industries.
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Russell Simmons is the latest face of controversy following a fiasco involving a RushCard glitch that prohibited thousands of customers from accessing their accounts. According to The Grio, it all started when a number of RushCard customers did not receive their scheduled direct deposits, consisting of paychecks, government benefit checks, and electronic funds transfers.
Many customers reported that their accounts reflected zero balances as if their deposits were never received, but the employers who sent deposits made it clear that the problem wasn’t on their end. As expected, Russell Simmons and the RushCard company – which markets to low-income Americans unable to obtain accounts with regular banking institutions – have received a flood of complaints via Facebook, and quickly attempted to resolve the staggering number of complaints.
Many frustrated cardholders have taken to social media to voice their concerns. Some news outlets have even slammed Russell Simmons and RushCard for exploiting the poor. The card debacle has placed emphasis on the number fees required to get and obtain a RushCard.
I cut up my @rushcard, stepped on it, got in the car and drove over it, hit reverse to back over it again, then got out and spit on it! #BYE
According to the Daily Mail, thousands of RushCard cardholders were unable to access their funds for more than a week. One couple even insists they were “forced to choose between feeding their children or paying their electric bill.” Although funds are now available to most customers, some of the calculations are reportedly still inaccurate.
According to The Root, the prepaid card company recently released a public statement addressing the issue, detailing its efforts to rectify the financial problems customers are facing. In the statement, RushCard CEO Rick Savard stated that the problem began when the company transitioned from an older processor to a new one. The transition led to the glitch that has prompted numerous problems for cardholders.
Russell Simmons' RushCard has tech error, users can't access their money: https://t.co/AkFNofwy4z
The hip-hop mogul has also took to Twitter with a brief statement and a number of updates about the card fiasco. “We have a handful of people left who are still not able to access correct information about their accounts,” the statement reads, according to Rolling Stone. “Their funds are there but their information is still inaccurate. We are working to contact them individually to assist them with their needs.”
We are still working through all of @RushCard's problems. We have made progress, but see that there a number of people still affected.
According to Rolling Stone, the credit card debacle has led to an investigative probe of Russell Simmons’ company. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has stepped in to conduct the investigation. On Friday, October 23, CFPB director Richard Cordray stated that he has been in contact with Savard and the federal agency “will make sure that action is being taken to address harm that has occurred, the harm that may still be occurring, and the cascading financial effects of consumers not having access to their funds for more than a week,” reports Yahoo News.
Customers who can least afford missing paychecks. — Rushcard issues leave customers short of funds http://t.co/Qt1re2WhDC (h/t @aminatou)
However, the RushCard announcements haven’t been enough to please those who are still suffering drawbacks from the card confusion. Due to the financial hardships, limited answers, and partial resolutions, impatient customers have already moved forward to resolve the mater with legal recourse. It has been reported that the 58 year old business magnate has been hit with a class action lawsuit. The suit slams the card company, accusing it of fraudulent induction practices.
“Plaintiff’s and class members were fraudulently induced into purchasing RushCards and depositing money into their RushCard accounts because they were led to believe their funds would be ‘safe and protected’ with unhindered access to these monies.”
The unfortunate situation has already prompted a number of customers to cancel their RushCard accounts as the uncertainties lead many to believe the card now comes with a number drawbacks. Hopefully, the situation can be resolved and that the company can regain the trust of its customers.
No illnesses have yet been associated with a recall of bulk and
packaged Curry Chicken Salad and Classic Deli Pasta Salad for possible
Listeria contamination. The recall was issued by Whole Market of
Cambridge Massachusetts. The recall involves Whole Foods in Maine, New
Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and New
Jersey.
A
sampling of the products tested positive for Listeria Monocytogenes
during a routine inspection of Whole Foods Market’s North Atlantic
Kitchen facility.
The recall notice said the recalled products have “the potential to
be contaminated with Listeria Monocytogenes” Listeria is a pathogen that
can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections, especially in young
children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune
systems.
Others may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever,
severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea,
Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant
women. Anyone with symptoms should seek immediate medical care if they
develop these symptoms.
The salads were sold prepackaged, in salad bars, in store’s chef’s
cases and in sandwiches and wraps prepared in the stores. The effected
products were sold in stores between October 18 and October 22, 2015 and
have a “sell by” date of October 23, 2015. The recalled items include:
The
recall list with UPC Codes and product descriptions includes these
products:
285551–Curry Chicken Salad, Our Chef’s Own, sold by weight
263144–Curry Chicken Salad Wrap, Made Right Here, sold by weight
263126–Single Curry Chicken Salad Wrap,
261068–Curry Chicken Salad CC, sold by weight
263142–PPK Salad Chicken Curry, sold by weight
265325–Curry Chicken Salad Rollup, 7oz
260976–Classic Deli Pasta Salad, Sold by weight
270742– Pasta Salad Classic Deli, sold by weight
0 36406 30001 7–Classic Deli Pasta Salad, 6oz
0 36406 30264 6–Classic Deli Pasta Salad, 14 oz
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and Republicans across the country have been
obsessing over former Secretary of State and current Democratic
frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her
time, determined to use it to find some evidence of negligence or
wrongdoing that could be used to frame her and derail her presidential
ambitions.
Ignoring the fact that no classified information was found
within the emails and that there were no regulations against the use of
the private server at the time, Republicans have turned the very
existence of the email server into a talking point, using it a launching
point for all sorts of outlandish allegations which have no basis in
fact.
Which makes it all the more hypocritical to learn that Benghazi
Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) has been exposed for having his own
personal email server at treygowdy.com. AlterNet remarks that
“while it’s not unusual to maintain such a thing particularly for
campaign work, it’s not clear that Gowdy utilizes this email solely for
political campaign work and not congressional tasks.”
Requests for comment by both Alternet and Correct The Record‘s David Brock
were both ignored by the Gowdy camp, which is highly indicative that he
does use his personal email for Congressional work- if he had nothing
to hide, why wouldn’t he just say so? Especially with the integrity of
his failed committee under such harsh scrutiny by the rest of the
nation, demanding answers for the colossal misuse of public funds and
time. If Gowdy wants to push the fabricated email scandal, he’d better
be ready to put his own actions under the microscope.
Here is the full text of David Brock’s inquiry:
Dear Chairman Gowdy:
I noted with interest your public demand that Secretary Clinton turn
over her personal email server, presumably so that the committee can
access some 30,000 Clinton emails deemed to be strictly private and
beyond the reach of the government.
This Orwellian demand has no basis in law or precedent. Every
government employee decides for themselves what email is work-related
and what is strictly private. There is no reason to hold Secretary
Clinton to a different standard— except partisan politics.
But since you insist that Clinton’s private email be accessed, I’m
writing today to ask you and your staff to abide by the same standard
you seek to hold the Secretary to by releasing your own work-related and
private email and that of your staff to the public.
While I realize that Congress regularly exempts itself from laws that
apply to the executive branch, I believe this action is necessary to
ensure public confidence in the fairness and impartiality of your
investigation.
