he said to moses, "moses, just take one of the snakes, make a representation of it and put it on a stick tell everybody to look at it." if they are bitten by the fiery serpent, tell them to look at the stick and they'll be fine. what would you do? what would you do? i'd be like you got to be kidding me, right? i'm going to look at the stick? i don't think so. if i would have had seas open up and the water from the rock and everything else, i might have listened to moses but a lot of them different, because it was too simple. it was too simple. didn't make sense. what is that story really about? what is the message? the message moses was bringing is look to god and live. look to god and live. there is going to be a lot of answers. a lot of them are going to be complex. don't dismiss the simple one. it's not about you. it's not about me. it's really about our children and their freedom. their freedom to look to god to live. i want to bring in two experts on george whitefield. thomas kidd, associate professor and history of baylor university, author of kwelt gr "great awakening." how are yo

they were also calling him the moses figure. he was saying that the previous generation exemplified by joe and john was the moses generation. they suffered for us and they have brought us this far but the journey is far from complete. we are the joshua generation. you can easily follow this biblical metaphor where it's going. i in the speech, i am the head of the joshua generation. it is an act of great rhetorical gull to say this. again, barack obama not lacking for self-confidence. but he is running for president. to get the democratic nomination, it would be nice if he got the black vote. the clintons, remember, at that time, had an enormously deep relationship with many african-american leaders and the population in general. i mean, you know, some people not. but certainly, i mean the diverse population and it is. but obama would not assume the black vote. that's where the vocabulary comes from. the joshua generation of politicians as they talk about and others include the president mayor of philadelphia or alabama arthur da

so they're not the knife sticks of the moses generation. nobody is suggesting for a second that he didn't have access to elite institutions occident occidental, columbia, harvard law school but he didn't escaped that experience either. i don't care if he grew up in hawaii. even in hawaii which prides itself on multiculturalism, except for one thing. all the black people are on military bases except for a couple kids here and there. so it was a really difficult struggle for him. >> and how does that inform his personality. a very good friend of his and advisor of his often describes him as living in america as a black man is to experience something that he aikens to deep muscle tissue bruising. not the kind of thing that he might be able to see but the kind of thing that you feel and aches in a way that they might feel arthritis. it's there. and it surfaces and lets you know that it's there from time to time. to the extent that -- >> the dean of law school at berkeley and has known obama for obama. it's much harder than rocket science. [laug

so they are not the night sticks of the moses generation. nobody is suggesting for a second that he didn't have access to the elite institutions occidental columbia harvard law school but he did peace get the experience either. i don't care if he grew up in hawaii even in hawaii which prides itself on the multiculturalism except for one thing. all the black people are on the military bases except a couple of kids here and there so it was a difficult struggle for him. >> how does that influence his personality with the allies are often describing living america as a black man to the experience to deep muscle tissue bruising, not the kind of thing you might be able to see the kind of thing you sort of feel and that makes itself present in a way you might feel arthritis in the rain. it's fair and services and lets you know that it's there from time to time. how has that informed -- >> welford dena falls, berkeley who has known obama for quite a while picking also chris headley said race and rocket science, much harder than rocket science. one o

you are not smarter than moses, jesus and buddha. note that you praise jesus' peacefulness when it is politically convenient slamming islam. she was referring to the way i contrasted jesus, the man of peace, with mohammed the conqueror who had declared war on unbelievers. but you have no respect for how jesus got there. this is a serious practice for me. when i take on every single day. it's about seeing people in the fullness of their humanity. they are not just child molesters, rapists, adulters. and how pathetically easy to pat yourself on the back for not being a child molester if you have no desire for the first place, resisting is no problem. she went on, back to the practice. if you see someone in the fullness of their humanity, you see how they are acting out their open confusion and suffering. this does not justify hurtful or even acts. it doesn't even always inspire forgiveness. but if you see someone this way, you respond more in sadness than in anger. and that is simply a more excellent state of being. even if you've neve

authors and works such as langston hughes, wave of white folks, moses man of the mountain, john oliver kila killing the cotillion all the way up to paul beaty's provides shuffle, darius james-- and preeminently ishmael reed's mumbo-jumbo and japanese by spring, arguably some of the most important works of african-american political satire. today we have a distinguished panel of writers, journalists and political commentators who are going to talk about black clinical satire. the elements of black political satire. it is a challenge. it is limited possibilities. the major practitioners, etc. and we look forward to a lively and interesting conversation. and i am going to introduce our panelists, those who were here and as we say in african-american vernacular, those who are on their way and here is one field has arrived. first, i would like to introduce herb boyd, herb boyd to my left. herb boyd is an award-winning author and journalist who has published 17 books and countless articles for national magazines and newspapers. his books include brother men, on the sea of black men in americ

what was the time he talked moses on the mountain? their eyes are watching god in terms of relationship between -- you may find some aspect, j.d. crawford and some aspects of irony verbally as opposed to in a physical way. there must be some women out there who have been dealing with satire. i went through my library and couldn't find one -- hopkins in her book comes pretty close to some things. certainly i mentioned tony's name, if you are defining satire as being with, tumor, some form of sarcasm and cynicism, being ironic and that is probably the key word, being ironic, how ironic it is and i can't think of a more ironic writer than ishmael reed. if you pick his stuff up, all of his books have an aspect of some element of irony and which and humor. ralph ellison's invisible man, what i am suggesting to you is just about all of the writers, we talked about this earlier, most writers at one time or another in their career have dabbled or had one of their books or essays or something like that that had elements of satire. invisible ma

moses, the law giver, somebody would raise, but he doesn't have a birth certificate! where is his birth certificate? come on, we're falking -- talking about a supreme court justice. vote up, vote down. she will be confirmed. >> since the s.g. confirmation, it sounds like some republicans are going to make a kind of a new litmus test whafment is the counter of the democrats on the committee? i tell you what, i will be happy to counter the republicans when they step forward in the light of day and make their arguments. that will be the time to counter them. >> she lost by one republican vote, including arlen specter. will he need more information? >> well, we will have a thorough and complete confirmation hearing. i think one of the things both democrats and republicans agreed upon after the sotomayor hearing , we conducted a hearing which was open and fair and people had a chance to ask any questions they wanted. i will do the same here. we will have -- i would hope the american public would pay as much attention to this one as they did to sotomayor. it was amazing the

and reagan and clinton, and then, god, moses -- because people were rebellious, saw the promisedan

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this shows up in exodus 22:25 and in the book of moses it says it thou lend money to any by people that is poor, thou shalt not be to him as a user or, neither shalt thou lay upon him usery. and all the other civilizations, babylonians, they all were violent-- so secular economist look back and say this was crazy. how can you have liquidity in the culture? how can you have an investment oriented culture if you ban lending an interest but they are not asking the questions they should be asking. why is this culture drive and all the other cultures fall by the wayside? he read the cold of hammurabi, it is like reading the irs regulations. that is how inspired they are. tedious pickling details and what happens if you violate some law in babylon you may lose your license. you violate a law in israel, you lose your soul and that is a big difference because what that means is that going forward you are going to be self disciplined. you are going to try to do the right thing because god wants you to do the right thing. if you don't do the right thing, there are consequences, eternal consequenc

the president could nominate [unintelligible] i told the present, if you had nominated moses, someoneould raise that he does not have a burst this a ticket. -- i told the president, if you had nominated moses, onsomeone would raise that he does not have a birth certificate. come on. vote up or down. >> what is the counter from democrats on the committee? >> i will be glad to counter the republicans when they step forward in the light of day and make their argument. that will be the time to counter them. >> she lost 31 votes, including arlen specter. will some of those executive arguments have to be withdrawn? will he be given more information? >> we will have a thorough, complete confirmation hearing. one of the things that both republicans and democrats have agreed upon after the semi or hearing is a after the sotomayor hearing -- after the sotomayor hearing, we need a hearing that is open and fair and anybody can ask any questions that they want to appear i will do the same here. -- that they want to. i will do the same here. i hope that the american public will pay as much attentio

moses malone. magic johnson. larry bird. michael jordan. jim duncan. and steve nash.r award presented by kia motors lebron james! [ cheers and applause ] >> tell them how i feel? oh, man. first of all, i want to say thank you. to everyone that's here and present. thank you. i mean this city of akron means so much to me. you probably heard this story before. ever since i was a kid i always said i was going to find a way to put this city on the map, and i'm going to continue to do that. to be presented most valuable player award means a lot. i'm not going to sit up here and say it doesn't mean anything to me because it means a lot. the individual work that i put in to every offseason to come in to full season to be great pays off. but there's a lot of credit that i give due to the ones that helped me along the line, and that's the coaching staff that we have over there, the training staff that we have over there, the front office, and most of all my teammates. [ cheers and applause ] because one thing i learned at an early age, that the game of basketball is not won by

the burning bush that moses in joy it was probably cannabis. cannabis in leighton's people.t: -- cannabis in leightonen people. host: please turn down your television set so the feedback does not halt the flow of conversation. new haven, indiana. dave, good morning. caller: i am represented in northeast indiana and i'm not happy with my representatives. mark sutter said he is going to resign and he did not have the guts to stay in the senate. as far as the immigration -- i am conservative. i believe humans have great volume. they should open the gates and let as many in as possible. host: i apologize. we were losing the signal. tom, go ahead. caller: i was calling because of the disaster in the gulf. we do not have time to be talking about anything else at this point. why don't they have more domes? we should be producing these domes every single day. when one doesn't work, try another one. keep on target. try another, try another. they need more domes. they have to do something about this and finished the job. host: mississippi. democrats line. caller: good morning. thank y

i told the president, you realize if you had nominated moses, somebody would point out that he does not have a birth certificate. where is his birth certificate? i mean, come on. when we are talking about the supreme court justice, let us look at the qualifications and vote up or down. she will be confirmed. >> it sounds like some republicans have a new litmus test. >> i will be glad to come front and counter republicans when they step forward and make their argument in the light of day. >> arlen specter has said that she was not forthcoming enough with information, that he did not know enough about her. >> we will have a thorough confirmation hearing. i think one of the things both republicans and democrats agreed upon at the sotomayor hearing -- i conducted the hearing, and i would say the same of senator sessions -- i conducted a hearing that was open and there, and people could ask any questions that they want. we will do the same here. i would hope that the american public would pay as much attention to this as they did to sotomayor. it was amazing that thousands of e-mails, calls

host: the next call comes from moses, in bridgeport, conn.aller: how much more american blood and money will we continue to spend on propping up this corrupt regime? let's be real. these people, they're not really interested in democracy. they're just using the u.s. to acquire more. some who were born of some of this country, we have seen over the years, the u.s. is spending money to prop up this corrupt regime. host: what you say that the afghan people are not interested in democracy? caller: they come i'm talking about the leaders of afghanistan. host: sorry about the confusion. caller: these people, when you look at karzai, just a few months ago he was attacking the u.s., claiming that if the u.s. does not stepup he will go back to the taliban. this is somebody for whom we are spending this money, to prop up his administration. in my opinioo, we need to find a better way to fight terrorism instead of keeping these corrupt leaders alive. really, in my opinion, they don't have it in their hearts. host: on the front page of "the washington po

maybe that law that was written on the stone tablet and brought down the mountain by senator moses was a perfect law. ever since then human beings have tried to write laws, and maybe the laws will have to be revisited and revised. i think that humility comes with this job because this is an imperfect process. we try to make compromises, we make consensus. virtually every time, you would say, that isn't what i would have written but that is what the senate as a body decided to move forward with. so now we're debating this law, 1,400 pages lodge, called the financial stability act. why are we doing a bill that looks like a telephone directory? we're doing it because of the recession. the recession that hit america harder than anything since the great depression. $17 trillion taken out of the american economy. that is more than the value of all of the goods and services produced in the united states in one year, $17 trillion yanked out of the economy and most of us felt it. you felt in your savings account, your 401(k), you saw it when the shop down the street laid somebody off or closed.