Bernie Brief: Income Inequality | Ep. 1

Bernie Brief: Social Security | Ep. 2

★ About Bernie:

Bernie Sanders is a Democratic candidate for President of the United States. He is serving his second term in the U.S. Senate after winning re-election in 2012 with 71 percent of the vote. Sanders previously served as mayor of Vermont’s largest city for eight years before defeating an incumbent Republican to be the sole congressperson for the state in the U.S. House of Representatives. He lives in Burlington, Vermont with his wife Jane and has four children and seven grandchildren.

Bernard “Bernie” Sanders was born in Brooklyn, New York, to immigrant parents and grew up in a small, rent-controlled apartment. His father came to the United States from Poland at the age of 17 without much money or a formal education. While attending the University of Chicago, a 20-year-old Sanders led students in a multi-week sit-in to oppose segregation in off-campus housing owned by the university as a Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) officer. In August of 1963, Sanders took an overnight bus as an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to hear Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech firsthand at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

After graduation, Bernie moved to Vermont where he worked as a carpenter and documentary filmmaker. In 1981, he was elected as mayor of Burlington as an Independent by a mere 10 votes, shocking the city’s political establishment by defeating a six-term, local machine mayor. In 1983, Bernie was re-elected by a 21 point margin with a record amount of voter turnout. Under his administration, the city made major strides in affordable housing, progressive taxation, environmental protection, child care, women’s rights, youth programs and the arts. In 1990, Sanders was elected to the House of Representatives as the first Independent in 40 years and joined the Democratic caucus. He was re-elected for eight terms, during which he voted against the deregulation of Wall Street, the Patriot Act, and the invasion of Iraq.

In 2006, Sanders defeated the richest man in Vermont to win a seat in the U.S. Senate as an Independent. Known as a “practical and successful legislator,” Sanders served as chairman of the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs where he authored and passed the most significant veteran health care reform bill in recent history. While in the Senate, Sanders has fought tirelessly for working class Americans against the influence of big money in politics. In 2010, he gave an eight-and-a-half hour filibuster-like speech on the Senate floor in opposition to extending Bush-era tax breaks for the wealthy. In 2015, the Democratic leadership tapped Bernie to serve as the caucus’ ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee.

Known for his consistency on the issues, Senator Sanders has supported the working class, women, communities of color, and the LGBT community throughout his career. He is an advocate for the environment, unions, and immigrants. He voted against Keystone XL, opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, wants to expand the Voting Rights Act, and pass the Equal Rights Amendment.

To learn more about Bernie on the issues, click here: https://berniesanders.com/issues/

David Letterman's Final Show - An era ends

Van Morrison & John Lee Hooker-Don't look back-live

Do yourself a favor and watch "Wednesday Evening Blues/Help me" as well on my Youtube channel vossmeister! This video is actual footage of Van and John Lee singing together.*Note starts of with some overlay vision.
Brilliant 1990 rendition of this song written by John Lee Hooker. Van first recorded this song with Them back in 1965 and recorded a duet with John Lee Hooker for the JLH 1998 "Don't look back" album . The Them version was re-released in 1997 on the "The story of Them" double cd.

Henrik Dorsin - Vit Mans Blues

PUNS-FUN-PUNS-FUN-PUNS-FUN-PUNS-FUN

•  How does the Solar System hold up its trousers? With an asteroid belt

• What kinds of music do planets sing? Neptunes

• An astronaut broke the law of gravity and earned a suspended sentence

• That was a poor joke about infinity – it didn't have an ending

 • Let's hope the new Jurassic World isn't a train rex of a film

• What do you call it when a dinosaur is involved in a car accident? Tyrannasaurus wreck

• What do you call a dinosaur with a extensive vocabulary? A thesaurus

• What do you call a blind dinosaur? Adoyouthinkhesaurus

• What do you get if you cross a pig with a dinosaur? Jurassic Pork

• How did brave Egyptians write? In hero-glyphics

• Why couldn't the mummy answer the phone? She was tied up

• Why do mummies not tell secrets? They keep everything under wraps

• What was the most popular kids' movie in Ancient Greece? Troy Story

• What kind of lighting did Noah have on the ark? Flood lights

• Where did Noah keep his bees? In the ark hives

• What would they call a drugs festival at Stonehenge? Stonedhenge

• What would they call afternoon tea at Stonehenge? Sconehenge

• Who was Socrates' worst student? Mediocrities

• Who was Socrates' busiest student? The one with a lot on his Plato

• What do you call a fliratatious philosopher: A Socratease

• What relative did Socrates need after his trial? An Aunty dote

• What did Romans use to cut string? A pair of Caesars

• When Brutus asked Caesar how many oranges he had eaten, he replied: "Et two, Brute"

• What did Caesar say to Cleopatra? Toga-ther we can rule the world

• Why did the Romans build straight roads? So their soldiers didn't go around the bend

• Which famous Roman suffered from hayfever? Julius Sneezer

• Who refereed the tennis match between Caesar and Mark Anthony? A Roman Umpire

• Why did Julius Caesar buy crayons? He wanted to mark Antony

• Why was Shakespeare denied a drink at a pub? He was Bard

• Atheism is a non-prophet organisation

• Jesus saves . . . but Keegan scores the rebound (famous football banner from the Seventies)

• Jesus said to Peter, "Come forth and I will give you eternal glory." Peter came fifth and won a toaster

• What's a volcano's favourite historical document? The Magma Carte

• What does a volcano do when it wants food for a party? Orders a cratering company

• What did the boy volcano say to the girl volcano? I Lava You

• I used to have a fear of Hadrian's Wall but I got over it

• How did the psychoanalyst injure himself on a skiiing holiday? He had a Freudian slip

• A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but you mean your mother

• Two egotists meet. It's an I for and I

• If you get a fruit basket from your psychiatrist it will probably be shrink-wrapped

• What fast food do psychiatrists like? Kentucky Freud Chicken

• A patient ran into his analyst's office screaming "I'm a teepee! I'm a wigwam!" and was told: "Relax, you're two tents"

• Talking of psychology, does the name Pavlov ring a bell?

• What fish did Lenin hate? Czardines

• What John Green novel is about the Russian Revolution? The Fault in Our Czars

• Victoria was caught gambling. She had a royal flush

• Why did Karl Marx like herbal tea? Because all proper tea is theft

• Why did the communist fail at school? He got bad Marx

• A dying artist painted himself into a coroner

• I ear there's a new Van Gogh been discovered

• Van Gogh's favorite swimming technique was the brushstroke

• Why did you the artist become an Impressionist? He did it for the Monet

• What's a banker's favourite Olympic event? The vault

• Old Olympic skiers never die. They just go downhill

• I love the Olympics. I'm carrying quite a torch for them

• It's always a leap year for high jumpers

• World War One battle report: We're Verdun and dusted

• Trench warfare should always be a last ditch effort

• The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran

• Why do bankers never get the blame? They always pass the buck

• I had an account with a bank in the North Pole but they froze all my assets

• I used to be a banker but I lost interest

• If money talks, why do we need bank tellers?

• How did Castro find out about the Bay of Pigs? Someone squealed

• If you swallow uranium you will probably get atomic ache

• When a Cuban atom bomb operator and Russian nuclear technician got married, she was radiant and he was glowing

• How did Nixon get over the bridge? He double-crossed it

• The president can't pass the bill because it's still incongruous

• Why did the Berlin Wall fall? it wanted to go down in history

• Why didn't people like the restaurant on the Moon? Because there was no atmosphere

• What holds the moon up? Moonbeams

• How did Neil Armstrong get a haircut on the moon? Eclipsed it

• The star asked the sun why the moon was always up so late. The sun replied that it was just a phase

• A blood-sucking arachnid from the moon would be a Luna tick

• What did the cat say to Zedong? MAOeow

• Mao left a huge estate when he died. It was the great will of China

• There is some Confucion about the oldest religion in China

• I tried to look up impotence on the Internet but nothing came up

• What do you call a jockey who likes JK Rowling's books? Harry Trotter.

• Voldemort: Why so sirius?

• Why did Harry Potter need ointment? He had a quid-itch

• Did you hear the one about the tall wizard who couldn't cast any spells because he was short staffed?

• The haughty magician had illusions of grandeur

• I went to Hogwarts but I could only manage a short spell there

• What does Psy use to compose in bed? Sheet music

• Some music stores are in a CD part of town

• How did the rapper know Gangnam Style would be popular? He was Psy-chic

• What Jackson 5 song does Obama like singing? Ba-rocking Robin

• Why did scientist clone Dolly? They wanted some sheep thrills

• I'm writing a new novel called The Cloneliness of The Long-distance Punner

• Why was Dolly special? She was ewe-nique

More than 500,000 people are homeless in the United States