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Armstead

(47,803 posts)
3. No Dan...Mine was funny..
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 03:00 PM
Apr 2016

Work with me here....A song title doesn't make it funny.....You need the element of surprise.

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merrily

(45,251 posts)
6. Bullshit. He is using three+ days of critical campaign time for a cause he's pursued
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 03:02 PM
Apr 2016

his entire life.

 

Armstead

(47,803 posts)
11. You mean these morons?
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 03:25 PM
Apr 2016

You mean these morons?
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/bernie-heads-to-the-vatican/477471/

Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University professor who is presenting at the event, said in a phone interview that he helped the Vatican reach out to Bernie Sanders in March, and he doesn’t know why Archer alleged that the Sanders campaign initiated the gig. “The academy sent the invitation, it’s pure and simple,” he said. “A lot of people in the Vatican respect him a lot. He is speaking in the same kind of moral themes that Pope Francis, and the social teachings of the Church, promote, which is a moral economy.” A representative who works with Sachs also passed along an official invitation from Sanchez Sorondo to Sanders dated on March 30.
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http://jeffsachs.org/about/
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned professor of economics, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than 100 countries. He is the co-recipient of the 2015 Blue Planet Prize, the leading global prize for environmental leadership. He has twice been named among Time Magazine’s 100 most influential world leaders. He was called by the New York Times, “probably the most important economist in the world,” and by Time Magazine “the world’s best known economist.” A recent survey by The Economist Magazine ranked Professor Sachs as among the world’s three most influential living economists of the past decade.

Professor Sachs serves as the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Sustainable Development Goals, and previously advised both UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria. Sachs is Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network under the auspices of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

ladjf

(17,320 posts)
12. Are you telling me that the people you listed created a cartoon that repeatedly
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 03:31 PM
Apr 2016

exploded someone's head off? If so, they are morons. The cartoon was ridiculous.

 

Armstead

(47,803 posts)
13. Oh the cartoon....Well mea culpa for posting it
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 03:36 PM
Apr 2016

I can't vouch for the intellectual capacities of the creator(s) of it.

ladjf

(17,320 posts)
14. Thanks for the clarification. It was a dumb cartoon.
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 03:39 PM
Apr 2016

As for the Clinton supporters, I am amazed at their level of pettiness. (They probably say the same thing about us.)

 

Armstead

(47,803 posts)
15. We can all be petty.....But this Vatican thing is beyond the pale
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 03:44 PM
Apr 2016

especially considering the purpose of the conference. God forbid anyone should discuss those issues.

ladjf

(17,320 posts)
16. I have a lot of faith in Bernie's wisdom and sincerity. I never get the feeling that
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 03:48 PM
Apr 2016

my ideas about what he should be doing are better than his ideas.

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