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Lorien

(31,935 posts)
Tue Mar 8, 2016, 11:19 PM Mar 2016

Yes Berners, your efforts ARE creating positive change!

Posted to the Bernie Sanders, Presidential Candidate for the People Group by Rose Trader:

"VERY IMPORTANT! First let me say I have a family member who is high level staff for the Bernie Sanders Campaign. I want you to know......Don't think for a minute that all of the work you all do through social media as well as volunteer is not making a difference I cannot believe the support Bernie has on this site and if you think your sharing posts and putting pressure on the media is not helping..,,think again, Often times.....I see things here on this site first. But eventually the media picks up on your comments, concerns and frustrations. They actual acknowledge his supporters i.e."YOU" when they speak in the news of your concerns. In past elections, we did not have the benefit of social media. We now do. And you are all doing a great job. We need to keep the pressure on the media to stop including super delegates in the reporting. We also need to keep putting pressure on the media to be transparent when they have pundits on their programs. Who do they work for, or who do they support? I just want to say you people are awesome on this site, and please continue to spread the word and keep pressure on those people we need to. It really does work and you are making a difference."

May I add that I have friends inside several news rooms, and they have said that ONE hand written letter has the weight of 100 emails. So if you want to amplify the impact of your message to the media 100 fold, WRITE THEM A LETTER AND MAIL IT! Our future is worth a few stamps!

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Yes Berners, your efforts ARE creating positive change! (Original Post) Lorien Mar 2016 OP
Yay!!! Awesome! n/t ebayfool Mar 2016 #1
"Hope is all we have" Babel_17 Mar 2016 #2
I only wrote the last paragraph on the OP Lorien Mar 2016 #3
Ah, I wasn't trying to quote you, but the character Lorien Babel_17 Mar 2016 #5
Ah! I've never seen that series nor knew that there was a character in it Lorien Mar 2016 #6
JMS mined lot of SF and Fantasy Babel_17 Mar 2016 #7
I didn't know that Walter had a role in that show! Lorien Mar 2016 #8
He does a nice little tip of the hat to The Prisoner on the show Babel_17 Mar 2016 #9
Great advice. Onward to the presidency!!!!!! highprincipleswork Mar 2016 #4

Babel_17

(5,400 posts)
2. "Hope is all we have"
Tue Mar 8, 2016, 11:32 PM
Mar 2016
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0076726/quotes

Lorien: It's easy to find something worth dying for. Do you have anything worth living for?

Lorien: Hope is all we have.

lol. The person who wrote that, JMS, seems to like Sanders, fwiw.

https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/674833837185040385

Lorien

(31,935 posts)
3. I only wrote the last paragraph on the OP
Tue Mar 8, 2016, 11:35 PM
Mar 2016

The rest was by a woman named Rose Trader (real name, not a username).

Babel_17

(5,400 posts)
5. Ah, I wasn't trying to quote you, but the character Lorien
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 12:01 AM
Mar 2016


I guess it looked like I was snipping lines from the block quote of your OP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorien_%28Babylon_5%29

Lorien

(31,935 posts)
6. Ah! I've never seen that series nor knew that there was a character in it
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 12:05 AM
Mar 2016

named Lorien. Mine comes from Tolkien, though I have a fair number of friends who watch Babylon 5!

Babel_17

(5,400 posts)
7. JMS mined lot of SF and Fantasy
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 12:11 AM
Mar 2016

The Lensman series by E.E. "Doc" Smith, and the telepaths of Alfred Bester's novels. Walter Koenig (Chekov, in the Star Trek series) played a telepath named "Bester" as a tribute.

I looked at the Lórien of Tolkien, and there are similarities enough to make me suspect a tip of the hat to Tolkien, by JMS.

Babel_17

(5,400 posts)
9. He does a nice little tip of the hat to The Prisoner on the show
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 12:40 AM
Mar 2016


Harlan Ellison has a cameo appearance in this episode. He's the Psi Cop Bester instructs to alter Garibaldi's personality.
Bester's parting salute to Garibaldi, "Be seeing you," is a reference to the 60s TV show "The Prisoner." Bester first used the salute in "Mind War."

http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/083.html

Hard to make out in the video but his hand shapes the number 6, which also has significance to The Prisoner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Six_%28The_Prisoner%29

And yeah, Harlan Ellison was a creative consultant for the show.

P.S. Walter Koenig was also great friends with Mark Lenard, IIRC. Keeps a picture of him.
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