Here is the full Bernie Sanders speech to a full audience of Liberty University Christian students.....Bernie went into the lions den and spoke to the student body of one of the better evangelical colleges in the country, and it was amazing. He spoke for about half an hour, and then took questions from the students. You really have to watch it to appreciate the power of his speech - one of the most liberal politicians in the country speaking to religious conservatives, and trying to find common ground. He also framed many of his points in moral terms.....
I know there's great TV out there, but if you are interested at all in politics [or want to have faith again in a politician] this is a great 50 minutes.....
Bernie Sanders speaks at Liberty University and answers questions from the University after speaking.
Liberty University is a private, non-profit Christian university located in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States, that describes itself as a Christian academic community. Liberty's annual enrollment includes 13,800 residential students and over 100,000 online students as of May 2013. When including the number of people taking its online courses, LU is the largest Evangelical Christian university in the world, the nation's largest private non-profit university and 7th largest four-year university, and the largest university in Virginia.
Liberty University is a private, non-profit Christian university located in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States, that describes itself as a Christian academic community. Liberty's annual enrollment includes 13,800 residential students and over 100,000 online students as of May 2013. When including the number of people taking its online courses, LU is the largest Evangelical Christian university in the world, the nation's largest private non-profit university and 7th largest four-year university, and the largest university in Virginia.
If you haven't got the time for the whole speech here is a four minute excerpt of Bernie responding to a question about abortion.....if you haven't seen this yet, watch it!
A couple of days after the event an evangelical Minister posted this response to Bernie Sander's address to Liberty University, and I am putting it here because out of the thousands of people in that auditorium at least one was shamed by Bernie's comments, enough to say he is going to vote for him. Wow......
As I heard Bernie Sanders crying out to the religious leaders at Liberty University, in his hoarse voice, with his wild hair – this Jew – and he proclaimed justice over us, he called us to account, for being complicit with those who are wealthy and those who are powerful, and for abandoning the poor, the least of these, who Jesus said he had come to bring good news to. And in that moment something occurred to me. As I saw Bernie Sanders up there, as I watched him, I realized Bernie Sanders for president is good news for the poor. Bernie Sanders for president is Good News for the poor. Bernie Sanders is gospel for the poor. And Jesus said "I have come to bring gospel" – good news – "to the poor."
And lightning hit my heart at that moment. And I realized that we are evangelical Christians. We believe the Bible. We believe in Jesus.
Donald Trump was on the Late Show last night with Steven Colbert, and it was very interesting......I saw a new side of Trump because out of the 14 minutes he actually made sense for at least a couple of minutes, and Colbert was sharp as always and kept getting zingers in about Trump....with him sitting there!.
Stephen Colbert finally faced off with Donald Trump tonight and told him very bluntly that it’s hard to discern between his over-the-top comments and over-the-top comments his faux conservative character used to say.
First off, Colbert did not pull his punches in joking about Trump before he came on, roasting his ego and big-headedness. But when Trump came on, Colbert thanked him for running for president and told him if money is speech, he’s “a ten billion dollar mouth.”
They bantered a bit about Trump’s wealth, his hat, how Mexico’s actually going to pay for the border wall, and whether Trump has anyone he’d like to apologize to. Trump said no.
Colbert attempted to lob Trump the softest of softballs by asking if President Obama was born in the United States. Trump dodged.
But perhaps the best part of the interview came at the end, when Colbert told Trump he used to play an “over-the-top conservative character, not as long as you did,” and played a game called “Trump or Colbert.”
Colbert read off a series of quotes and Trump had to guess whether he said them or Colbert’s over-the-top caricature did. And there was not that big a difference.
Great article in Salon on the best cities to live in in America, and their conclusions are live in a college town.....everything's better! Food, restaurants, downtowns and they're normally lively...
Excerpted from "Mysteries of the Mall"
Places Rated Almanac bills itself as a “guide to finding the best places to live.” It compares and ranks all 343 metropolitan areas in the United States and Canada, taking into account cost of living, job opportunities, transportation, housing, recreation, climate and so on. The metropolitan areas surrounding large, vibrant cities like Seattle, San Francisco and Toronto are highly ranked: after all, these places tend to boast a variety of employment, entertainment and recreational opportunities; they also offer a wide choice of health-care facilities and are usually important transportation hubs. It’s a surprise, then, to discover that the fifth-rated place to live in the United States is Raleigh-Durham in North Carolina.
The Ross sisters in the 1940's had an incredible dance routine involving the kind of contortions we only see at Cirque De Soleil.....actually it's both amazing and a little nauseating......five unique minutes.....and a big band soundtrack....
The best and worst new TV shows coming this fall.....from Vox.....
We love the Muppets and Supergirl. We're less enthused about several other things.
I have seen worse fall seasons than this one in my time as a TV critic, but it's close. The new fall shows of 2015 are a dire, dreary lot, and even though I've found seven to recommend (as I did last year), only one of those positive notices comes without reservation. There are some shows that have promise this season, but they'll need to do some work to fully live up to it.
And yet this is a fall with lots and lots of question marks. Some of the most exciting new shows of the season (like Netflix's superhero saga Jessica Jones and AMC's martial-arts series Into the Badlands) have only shown critics trailers, and still more (including two that made my list) have yet to screen full pilots for us. So consider this more of an educated guess than usual.
Todays fishing joke
After an hour in the boat with four guys out fishing, the following conversation took place:
First guy: You have no idea what I had to do to be able to come out fishing this weekend. I had to .promise my wife that I would paint every room in the house next weekend..'
Second guy: That is nothing, I had to promise my wife that I would build her a new deck for the pool.'
Third guy: Man , you both have it easy! I had to promise my wife that I would remodel the kitchen for her.'
They continue to fish.
When they realized that the fourth guy has not said a word, they asked him, You haven't said anything about what you had to do to be able to come fishing this weekend. What's the deal?
Fourth guy: I just set my alarm for 5:30 am. When it went off, I shut off my alarm, Gave the wife a slap on her butt and said: 'Fishing or Sex?'
And she said: 'Wear sun-block.'
Third guy: Man , you both have it easy! I had to promise my wife that I would remodel the kitchen for her.'
They continue to fish.
When they realized that the fourth guy has not said a word, they asked him, You haven't said anything about what you had to do to be able to come fishing this weekend. What's the deal?
Fourth guy: I just set my alarm for 5:30 am. When it went off, I shut off my alarm, Gave the wife a slap on her butt and said: 'Fishing or Sex?'
And she said: 'Wear sun-block.'
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