Ashton’s OUT THERE Speech

[Jeff]

I found a new found respect for Ashton Kutcher , I originally heard about his speech on FB but just saw it and I think it was a great speech to be telling teenagers , Honestly after seeing what he did to Demi I thought he was just a pompous ass but maybe not


Ashton Kutcher’s acceptance speech at the Teen Choice Awards is making its rounds on the internet. I woke up this morning, checked my facebook, and saw that one of my friends (in her 30s) had shared the video and added the caption “Be sexy…”

http://patriotupdate.com/2013/08/ashtons-out-there-speech/

[Kathianne]

Great minds, ;)

http://www.debatepolicy.com/showthread.php?42355-Ashton-Kutcher-At-Teen-Choice-Awards&highlight=kutcher

Several other sites I post in had replies along the line of: "I saw on facebook and went by. I'm sorry I did."

Really, I'll be watching for him in videos.

[Jeff]

Great minds, ;)

http://www.debatepolicy.com/showthread.php?42355-Ashton-Kutcher-At-Teen-Choice-Awards&highlight=kutcher

Several other sites I post in had replies along the line of: "I saw on facebook and went by. I'm sorry I did."

Really, I'll be watching for him in videos.

I didn't figure to many would of even paid attention but I had a friend post how great the speech was but he didn't have a copy of it as of this morning so when I saw it I thought it was really good, sorry Ms. Kat I guess I should of looked before posting

[Kathianne]

I didn't figure to many would of even paid attention but I had a friend post how great the speech was but he didn't have a copy of it as of this morning so when I saw it I thought it was really good, sorry Ms. Kat I guess I should of looked before posting

No apologies, it was a great speech to a very important audience. I hope folks will listen and perhaps pass the ideas onto their kids or grandkids.

For that matter, if you need backing of 'young success' being sold on capitalism, check out Bono too!

http://blog.independent.org/2013/08/12/bono-capitalism-takes-more-people-out-of-poverty-than-aid/


Bono: “Capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid”

By David J. Theroux (http://blog.independent.org/author/dtheroux/) • Monday August 12, 2013 12:43 PM PDT

Our Research Fellow George Ayittey met the Irish rock star Bono (http://www.fr.u2start.com/photos/view/7874/Bono-and-George-Ayittey-at-TEDGlobal/) in July 2007 during a TED conference. Professor Ayittey (http://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=766) was speaking and in knowing that Bono would be in the audience, he explains that “I made a special effort to rip into the foreign aid establishment.... Later, Bono said he liked my speech but did not agree with me that foreign aid is not effective in ending poverty. So I gave him a copy of my book, Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Development (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1403973865/theindepeende-20/002-6508816-9461647).”


Bono (nee Paul David Hewson) is the lead singer in the rock group U2, one of the most successful rock groups in history. Bono also became a major proponent of greatly expanded U.S. foreign aid and other government programs (including debt cancellation) to alleviate the dire plight in the world of HIV/AIDS, malaria, abject poverty, and other issues.


Bono has further been Co-Founder and Managing Director with the venture capital firm, Elevation Partners (http://www.elevation.com/EP_IT.asp?id=112), and he may well be the world’s wealthiest musician (http://www.inquisitr.com/238997/bono-im-not-the-worlds-richest-musician/) after his investment in the Facebook IPO, which made over $1.5 billion for the firm.


Bono is also a Christian (see here (http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2013/june/bono-interview-with-focus-on-family-jim-daly.html), here (http://www.religionnews.com/2013/06/21/bono-avid-fan-of-scripture-says-david-sang-the-blues-and-jesus-did-some-punk-rock/), and here (http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-02-02-bono-transcript_x.htm)). He is an admirer of the work of C.S. Lewis and used Lewis’s book The Screwtape Letters (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060652934/qid=1146954305/theindepeende-20/002-6508816-9461647) in a music video for the song “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me,” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold_Me,_Thrill_Me,_Kiss_Me,_Kill_Me) the theme song for the film, Batman Forever. More recently, he has indicated in an interview with Jim Daly at Focus on the Family that Lewis might inspire the next U2 album:


Bono: It’s very annoying following this Person of Christ around [chuckling], because He’s very demanding of your life.

Daly: It’s very hard.

Bono: And it’s hopeless ... trying to keep up with it.

Daly: In fact, Bono, C. S. Lewis has a great quote which I love: “When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that’s left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.” That is powerful, isn’t it?

Bono: Yeah, it might ... that could turn up on the next U2 album, but I won’t give him or you any credit.



Just recently drawing upon his Christian faith (and possibly the economics influence of Professor Ayittey?), in a
speech at Georgetown University, Bono altered his economic and political views and declared that only capitalism can end poverty.


http://youtu.be/PUZFgBqcYt8

[Jeff]

No apologies, it was a great speech to a very important audience. I hope folks will listen and perhaps pass the ideas onto their kids or grandkids.

For that matter, if you need backing of 'young success' being sold on capitalism, check out Bono too!

http://blog.independent.org/2013/08/12/bono-capitalism-takes-more-people-out-of-poverty-than-aid/

This is great you don't get mad and always post such good article's , hell can you say copy and paste :laugh: Kat I am going to look just as smart as you now :laugh: J/K one or two on here might figure out what I am doing :laugh:

[Marcus Aurelius]

That speech came out of Kelso's mouth? Wow. He is certainly NOT a dumb ass.

[Jeff]

That speech came out of Kelso's mouth? Wow. He is certainly NOT a dumb ass.

And to think he was the original Dumb Ass :laugh: but seriously he shocked me with a speech geared towards young people I think he gave great advice

[fj1200]

And to think he was the original Dumb Ass :laugh: but seriously he shocked me with a speech geared towards young people I think he gave great advice

It'll fall on deaf ears; All the screaming was from hearing him say "sexy." Occasionally a lib says something reasonable but changes in policy or worldview are never coming although the Bono thing holds out another faint glimmer of hope.