Some videos from Lindsey Stirling's current Brave Enough tour.

No, I am not the videographer for any of these, they were shot by various fans from various recent shows on Miss Stirlings current tour. I attended the Seattle show last week. If you are a fan, if you are on the fence about going to a show near you, let me tell you: GO! This makes my third Lindsey Stirling show in as many years, I assure you that this tour features her best work period!

There are only a few of her earlier songs played this tour, Crystalize and Elements are there from her first album. Shatter Me from her second album is there too and added below-note that Lindsey sings the opening. As Lindsey points out often enough, singing is not one of her talents but give her credit for doing so in front of her fans.

I hope that there are at least a couple of Lindsey Stirling fans here at DU to enjoy this....if so let me know and I will try to dig up a few more videos from this tour.

Summer Photo contest: FINALS

Summer photo contest

Thread one:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028151465

Thread two:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028151466

Need advice: 'Obama Care' and an almost homeless freind.

My freind lives in a trailer out in my back yard. He has no source of income currently although he does under the table handiwork when and where he can find it. He is 60 years old, he has never had medical insurance. Furthermore he is very stubborn, (cranky old fart) and never takes advice from freinds.

A few days ago he was sitting on the dock of a nearby lake fishing. While fishing he left his feet in the water and they got horribly sunburnt. Predictably he refused any advice we had (get to an ER) and figured to tough out the burn.

The next day his feet swelled up to the point his ankles disappeared. The swelling is down but the blisters that covered the entire tops of both feet have ruptured. Both feet look horrible-he can not walk because of this. IMO he needs medical attention. He claims that he is ineligible for any medical attention.

I'll let this OP soak for a bit but what i hope for is advice. We live in Washington State. What resources can he actually take advantage of? Is there any coverage from the ACA that he can ask for? If so will he get charged for not signing up for it before all this happened to him?

Not seeking medical advice here, IMO he needs to get to a doctor and I want to present him with options. Thanks

The Arena. (New Lindsey Stirling video)

This video was published to YouTube yesterday. Although the meaning is stated in the opening, some viewers responded that they did not 'get it'. A fan who did 'get it' put it best: "If you are brave enough to step into the arena, the only judge in the audience that matters is you".

Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight (May5-6th)

Tonight thru early morning if the skys are clear in your area you might want to step outside for a nice meteor shower. "The Eta Aquarids meteor shower will peak on May 5-7 in 2016. A new Moon on May 6 will create favorable conditions for observers to see the shower. Astronomers suggest watching the shower just before dawn."
http://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/eta-aquarids.html

or if you wish to watch the meteor shower online:
http://www.space.com/32794-eta-aquarid-meteor-shower-halleys-comet-webcast.html

Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight

Tonight thru early morning if the skys are clear in your area you might want to step outside for a nice meteor shower. "The Eta Aquarids meteor shower will peak on May 5-7 in 2016. A new Moon on May 6 will create favorable conditions for observers to see the shower. Astronomers suggest watching the shower just before dawn."
http://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/eta-aquarids.html

or if you wish to watch the meteor shower online:
http://www.space.com/32794-eta-aquarid-meteor-shower-halleys-comet-webcast.html

Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight.

Tonight thru early morning if the skys are clear in your area you might want to step outside for a nice meteor shower. "The Eta Aquarids meteor shower will peak on May 5-7 in 2016. A new Moon on May 6 will create favorable conditions for observers to see the shower. Astronomers suggest watching the shower just before dawn."
http://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/eta-aquarids.html

or if you wish to watch the meteor shower online:
http://www.space.com/32794-eta-aquarid-meteor-shower-halleys-comet-webcast.html

The day after GW Bush was elected I felt this bad.

I have an internal moral compass, it works just fine. I know the difference between what is right for our country/planet and what will be horribly wrong for it.

Although I could not predict if Gore would have made things better I did not have to be psychic to predict that GW was going to make things far worse...looking back, 'far worse' turned out to be an underestimation.

Thanks to DU and especially Thom Hartmann I get it that unrestricted capitalism in a nation which has the largest military resources this planet has ever seen is a bad thing. No, nobody in DU nor has Thom Hartmann ever put it that way but this is the world's biggest problem as I see it.

My pain is less for the stupid my country does to itself, it is instead for the carnage that we cause worldwide. I have little doubt that our world, well the one outside this country bubble, is watching our election process from this very perspective.

Dear citizens of the great State of New York:

I am a voter from Washington State. For years I have watched as our democracy slid away, as our government became up for bid to the highest bidders. I have also watched as Senator Sanders railed against this usurpation of our democracy. When he was asked on Thom Hartmann's Brunch With Bernie hour if he would run for President my heart leapt with hope. Bernie responded that his office was investigating if there was enough voter dissastisfaction out there to make such a run viable. Bernie warned us back then that it would take a revolution in order to make the changes that we so long yearned for. He warned us that we would have to put partisanship aside because our problems crossed those boundries. Then last year he told us that his research indicated that the citizenry were ready for the revolution, Bernie Sanders announced his run for the Presidency...and we went to work.

This past year the voters have learned who Bernie Sanders is. He fills arenas and stadiums across our nation exactly as Barrack Obama once did, he gives us an even clearer message of hope. For example, as a veteran, I am well aware how the GI Bill changed my life by offering me a chance for a better education, how it changed the lives of millions of vets and the tremendous boon these better educated vets were to our nation. Bernie wants to do this for our kids right now! Friends have asked me where the money for such an ambitious program would come from and I ask them to tell me where America's financial wealth is currently sitting-that's where it and most of Bernie's game changing plans will be financed from. Sanders wants to make Social Security stronger, not harder to gain access to, he wants to break up those 'too big to fail' banks, he wants to put a stop to our government being for sale to the highest bidder, he wants sooo much that our country needs but....

Bernie can not do this alone.

Those who oppose these changes ignored Senator Sanders' run at first. Then they told us that Bernie could not even get close to winning the nomination. Bernie IS getting close to winning the nomination but now they scare us with polls stating that New York may fall to Hillary Clinton, their pundits say it would be 'all over' for Sanders should this happen. Well we who share and support Bernie's dream of a better America have fought hard to get him here....the fate of our efforts is now in your hands. A Sanders nomination truly IS within reach. My questions to you, citizens of the Great State of New York, do you share our dream, will you join us in the revolution and vote for Bernie Sanders?