My friends, I was very, very wrong and for that, I am terribly sorry. I said that I believed that the entire Benghazi, Libya debacle was over-hyped by the Republicans; and I still believe that, to a point. However, there are many things that have come up since then, which I simply cannot defend. They are: The IRS …
It appears that Alvin Lee finally made it home. Alvin Lee, the guitarist and singer of Ten Years After, has died. A statement posted on his official website read: “With great sadness we have to announce that Alvin unexpectedly passed away early this morning after unforseen complications following a routine surgical procedure. “We have lost …
Sad News, even if the man was a sworn communist: CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President , the fiery populist who declared a socialist revolution in Venezuela, crusaded against U.S. influence and championed a leftist revival across Latin America, died Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer. Vice President Nicolas Maduro, surrounded …
Los Angeles (CNN) — Aaron Swartz, an Internet savant who at a young age shaped the online era by co-developing RSS and Reddit and later became a digital activist, has committed suicide, a relative told CNN Saturday. He was 26 years old. A prodigy, Swartz was behind some of the Internet’s iconic moments, soaring to …
This is for the children, that we lost. I’ll be back tomorrow.
Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitarist and composer whose collaborations with Western classical musicians as well as rock stars helped foster a worldwide appreciation of India’s traditional music, died Tuesday in a hospital near his home in Southern California. He was 92. Mr. Shankar had suffered from upper respiratory and heart ailments in the last year …
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I will not lie to my readers, Jazz is really not my thing. I am a rock and roller. However, I always show mad respect to the great ones in music. Jazz is an American thing, and we invented it, and people overseas wanted to sound like us. This was back, when America was a …
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I just recently lost a family member and I got permission from her daughter Sandy to post this tribute. Arlene, as we called her,was my Grandfather’s Brother’s Daughter. This would be on my Mother’s side of the family. She was born on August 30, 1946 and passed away on October 8, 2012. She was one …
Some sad news to report on a Sunday. NBC News Politics: Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the Republican-turned-Democrat who played a key role in many Supreme Court nominations, has died. He was 82. His son Shanin Specter says his father died Sunday morning at his home in Philadelphia, from complications of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. …
So sad to get news like this: Two people were killed and 12 others injured Sunday morning when a van carrying youth from Cedar Grove Baptist Church in Maryville, Tenn., collided head-on with an SUV while returning from a weekend retreat in Gatlinburg. The driver of the van, Jeff Trussell, and teenager Courteney Kaliszewski were …
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I remember seeing this news breaking early this morning, before I finally drifted off to sleep. I remember thinking to myself, “oh crap…” and thinking, here we go again, another situation in the middle east. At first, I heard it was over a lamely produced Movie trailer, which was produced by someone claiming to be a Israeli …
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PHOENIX – Dorothy McGuire of the popular 1950s musical trio the McGuire Sisters has died at age 84. Daughter-in-law Karen Williamson says McGuire died of natural causes at her son’s Phoenix-area home on Friday. McGuire teamed up with her sisters Phyllis and Christine to earn six gold records for hits like “Sincerely” and “Sugartime.” The …
This is some seriously sad news and comes via The American Spectator Blog. My Favorite song of his and the chorus of this song is timeless sounding…: ATLANTA (AP) — Singer-songwriter Joe South, who performed hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s such as ‘‘Games People Play’’ and ‘‘Walk A Mile In My Shoes’’ …
I did not agree with his Religion, But I do respect the man for his success and for he good that he did do. The Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the Unification Church and founder of The Washington Times, died early Monday morning in South Korea. He was 92. He passed away …
Farewell to a great American. (Reuters) – U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong, who took a giant leap for mankind when he became the first person to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 82, his family said on Saturday. Armstrong died following complications from heart-bypass surgery he underwent earlier this month, the family …