Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Country First
Whenever we do an editorial chastising America for not living up to its potential, there are complaints. Complaints that I blame America first. Which is silly - I'm not "blaming" America in any particular order. I'm simply of the belief that nothing gets better until you see the problem for what it really is. Republicans have become the party of red, white and blue rose colored glasses. By drowning out criticism with USA! USA!, they prevent this country from healing itself where it needs healing, and that is the opposite of Country First. For those who disapproved of Friday's editorial about Europe and America, here are two others of similar ilk to choke on :)
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Don't you think you should keep the nuclear launch codes away from the sociopath?
For the rest of you religulous hypos, like you this deluded man believes in magick and not science. I am not questioning your spirituality, but your rational faculties. Its your private business until a goofy motherfucker like Jr drives the human race to the brink of extinction, then I have to take a stand.
Get your myths out of public life; do it now.
Bill, happy holiday! See you in Feb; no shortage of material.
I received Karrine’s book, The Vixen Diaries; her beauty sparkles in print. She has that quintessentially feminine quality to be able to open herself up to us… but trying to play by the rules of an insecure society built on the cult of the individual is a dangerous endeavor for a girl with a generous nature.
What came to mind is a book I enjoy re-reading every once in a while: 'The Introduction to Tantra - A Vision of Totality' by Lama Yeshe. Here is an excerpt.
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All that ranting against Rick Warren has finally yielded some results! In the context of Obama's invitation, he became receptive to criticism about his web page and replaced the offensive stuff with less offensive fluff. It wouldn't of worked without the rants (isn't Rachel cute when she's mad?) and certainly wouldn't of worked without Obama's attention.
Deep down it comes down to fear of differences and fear of change.
Christian minds get short circuited by homosexuality. If there was anything close to a reason for everything, I'd say it's the dangerous neglect of sexual education. Sex should be reserved for those we Love, whether they be near or far. Within those confines, a well developed sexual vocabulary would keep couples together longer... perhaps forever, render homosexuality less threatening and even quell the violence in this sensually immature world. I can't help but think that if Christian wives were adept in the art of anal stimulation, a renewed tolerance would ensue.
Lama Yeshe offers a glimpse into the ultimate self-fulfillment of male/female energy in this passage from the same book.
Old habits die hard.
According to all the gospels Jesus taught love, tolerance and forgiveness.
Con MEN immediately turned this into a racist, sexist doomsday cult. George Bush & friends have adopted the trappings of terrorists as much as their judeochristian muslim counterparts.
We need to contain these wackos!
Check this, excellent interview by Tommy Chong. Its long but I promise its worth your time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iKAfqWPkQU
Down here the stores are all closed the day after Christmas. We know how to give shopping a rest.
Today was a good day to twirl on the beach.
Is that you spinning, 2amuse?
Play is the best of all things, and soon Jr will be out to pasture... if he doesn't blow a few lines, snort some shots get belligeRANT & noided about how we don't appershite his civic service & go postal.
If you liked that Tommy Bong insight into the wisdom of 60 + exp, you'll like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnq5U9ovtaE&feature=related
LoveToAmuse,
I am moved by your perspective about open sexuality and free love - but I want it freer.
As I have been raised, as I AM, sex is not a crucible.
As Rick Warren has stated, he would fuck every beautiful woman he sees, if he were not a conman; otherwise he'd also fuck every gorgeous George he saw.
Trussed by a ribbon of moonlight.
Your root page - the ripples - is the interference pattern / flux wave state I described here in my post about the monad.
Touch this: The Highwayman
The road was a ribbon of moonlight... thats my path, I am a rainbow in the dark.
Your ideas are fun for me, and I toyed with them as I payed my bills, drove, sipped wine, smoked dope, nodded out, etc, mindless effort daily routine stuff. I watched your movie 2x yesterday and my response is that you have a low waist, nice curvy bits in all the right places. Your partner - the cameraman - licky, lucky!
I think we (the enlightened) play and practice at love making to better delight our partners, and we delight in our partner's enjoyment of our effort to turn them on. We learn, we grow. Sex is always intimate, even to the vicious animals, that use sex to control and subjugate.
I think anal sex is pleasure to the very intimate, but in most cases - and as depicted in pr0n - its to 0wn and brutilize.
I hate ugly. Ugly is more than skin deep. I hate ugly, and ugly phears me; I see them. Fuck you ugly scoobies. Read this: Guess what finger I am holding up?
You are only part right. I am also holding up my index finger; I am making a peace sign, you nutters!
Gay people are gay because thats what they are. Thats what Rick "I would be a fag if my GOD allowed it" Warren fails to grasp. Our society is hateful; I can go on, but I know you got it.
What brings me to speak out is that EVANGELISTS also practice the subservience of women as part of their faith.Its in the old book, that jesus cancelled - and they also tolerate slavery.
Houston has a problem.
So walk in the light. Chong said it better.
Change the world for the better in your lifetime, as I have.
I meant, knuckular.
Bibi and Tzipi are fighting to the finish in a hail of fireworks. It’s interesting to note that Bibi is ahead, as Tzipi came off as two dimensional in professing her aim to change realities on the ground by wiping out Hamas during a Dec 29th interview on FOX. In your video excerpt, Bibi on the other hand elucidated nicely the perfectly moral state of the perfect victim, and the deviation from perfection to power justified by the impeccable reasoning to avoid going back to the gas chambers. It’s a beautifully presented argument except for the subtle difference of reality that Palestinians are not building gas chambers. Seeing this video in contrast to your previous one makes me wonder if you are playing Devil’s advocate or really have a Jewish defense mechanism in overdrive. I tend to agree that we’re living in a global village which is only as safe as its least happy members, and the lack of food, education, the abundance of reasons to hate and so few reasons to hope will inevitably produce terrorists.
I tried to sort out the conflict by finding a Jewish perspective on the 6 month lull and recent relapse into madness. I went to Sderot Media to find out about the 50 or so Palestinian mortar attacks from March to November which terrorized Israelis without causing major injury or loss of life. Turns out many of these attacks weren’t sanctioned by Hamas. As the Jewish media reports: “…the lull was sporadically violated by rocket and mortar shell fire, carried out by rogue terrorist organizations, in some instance in defiance of Hamas… Hamas was careful to maintain the ceasefire.” Would vaporizing Hamas off the playing field solve Israel’s problems?
According to the same news organization, the erosion of the lull arrangement was concretized “…on November 4th as the IDF carried out a military action close to the border security fence on the Gazan side to prevent an abduction planned by Hamas, which had dug a tunnel under the fence to that purpose. Seven Hamas terrorist operatives were killed during the action.” IDF's strategy is to shoot first and ask questions later, even at such a crucial junction. Of course, even negotiations without violence were wrought with difficulties. More details emerge from the report: “Israel’s expectations that the lull arrangement would speed up negotiations for the release of the abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, and Hamas's expectations that it would lead to discussions regarding the Rafah crossing were not realized during the six months the arrangement was in force. When it came to Gilad Shalit, Hamas obstinately refused to budge from its former demand for the massive release of Palestinian murderers from Israeli jails. As to the issue of the Rafah crossing, Egypt does not seem eager to negotiate, possibly as a way of exerting pressure on Hamas because it is disappointed with Hamas's policies regarding a variety of internal Palestinian issues and because it fears Hamas will establish a radical Islamic emirate in the Gaza Strip. In our assessment such an emirate might try to establish closer contact with the Egyptian-based Muslim Brotherhood, its mother organization and a major, longstanding opposition group to the Egyptian secular-oriented regime.” It’s not only Jews versus Arabs, it’s also Arabs versus Arabs, and with the price of oil jumping since the conflict it may well be economic realities on the ground taking precedence, with Arabs and Jews versus Palestinians playing out the familiar ‘bash the weak to stimulate the economy’ protocol.
I have to admire Obama’s karma to be able to observe the flare up with impunity and preserve his Sabbatical since ‘there is only one president at a time’. The timing of this thing is telling in even more ways. Besides the parallel with the upcoming election, the Christmas connection is a synchromystical taunt. The Jewish religion doesn’t acknowledge the life of Jesus, the wounds remain deep and worldwide sadness at this time is a natural consequence.
To varying degrees the three major religions, Islam, Christianity and Judaism all worship God as a Being other than us. This may be another latent reason for strife and discontent. Islam, the name meaning submission, is remarkably fragmented. The mosques are decorated with geometric designs and elaborate patterns because the religion forbids religious art from imitating God’s work in the form of living creatures. That’s deep. In turn, unity is well served by a common enemy or cause. Is conflict a roundabout means to unity in the framework of alienating philosophies?
We Jews are cousins with Arabs, but don't quite get along. As I emerged from my mother’s womb in Algiers during the Arab Independence war, the other wing of the hospital was bombed to bits. I was carried out of the country as an infant and later warned to never return, to avoid the risk of getting repatriated by my countrymen and have a burka stuffed over my head. Although I will heed that warning, I feel at one with Arabs, Jews and everybody. George, your interesting anthology of last names is symbolic of the concept of one out of many. Bill is also a Jr. as is my husband Juny who was born on the same date as his father. Tom Robbins shows creative ways to communicate with Arabs in a passage from his book ‘Fierce Invalids from Hot Climates’, as armed insurgents beat down the gate of a Christian nunnery somewhere on the Iraqi Syrian border.
LoveToaMuse, that was a beautiful commentary. Allow me to elaborate:
History of the Planet Earth Part 22:
That region of the world was occupied by tribes of strong men and women and those with the most physical strength ruled the days and built the mighty pyramids that are still marvelous wonders today.
But about the time the written word came about a band of weaker tribesmen broke away. These individuals used intelligence as strength to make up for their lack of muscular content. This group, feeling oppressed and bullied by their stronger family members, banded together and formed their own tribe and called themselves Jewish.
At that time the pyramid symbol, like a triangle, represented the strong and proud peoples of the Middle East region. The renegade group called Jews first adopted an upside down pyramid, or anti-pyramid, as a symbol to represent their tribe’s anti-establishment feelings, but over the years this upside down triangle was merged with the right-side up triangle symbol to represent the Jewish tribe merging, or living in unison, with their stronger family members. Hence, the six sided star, or Star of David, was born from the merging of the pyramids.
Over centuries these physically weaker Jewish people have strived to strengthen their minds while their bodies go to mush, in contrast to their physically stronger ancestors who have continued with more physical endeavors as opposed to mental undertakings.
The Jew is now known as one of the most intelligent beings on the planet, however, his physical attributes have deteriorated over the years. Today, he lives in constant fear of being bullied by his physically stronger ancestors that he still lives amongst. This fear of oppression is behind the Jew’s need for supplemental weaponry. These Jews are excellent inventors and artisans and planners and, but in order to move the earth they still need the strength that their stronger ancestors possess, hence the need for even more weaponry and ammunition to gain power and control their surroundings.
The lack of muscular content is the reason the Jewish tribe stays so heavily armed with the latest in high tech weaponry. And the Earth America is all too eager to sell weapons and ordinance to the Jews for a healthy profit. Thus the proliferation of war by Earth Americas because it turns a fat profit, with the Jewish tribe being the #1 preferred customer of the Earth Americas arms manufacturers.
If these Jewish people would simply realize that they need not live in constant fear anymore in a more civilized world of today then perhaps these hostilities could end. The Jewish tribe still clings to an ‘anti-society’ mindset and this needs to change.
The Jewish people are a beautiful people who have made many wonderful, magnificent contributions to the good of all mankind.
The Arab people are also a beautiful people who have made many many wonderful contributions to the good of all mankind as well.
All are Earthlings. You all live on the same Planet. You all have your own unique strengths and weaknesses. No one is any better then the other.
You all have a special purpose for being here, EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU! WHAT GIVES ONE OF YOU THE RIGHT TO END THE LIFE OF ANOTHER EARTHLING???????????
YOU ARE ALL RELATED TO EACH OTHER in one form or fashion and you NEED each other to survive.
It has been written.
Just wondering, have these Jewish WarPilots and tank crews tried group masturbation in lieu of killing, or a circle-jerk as it is also called? Has General Livni considered this?
I see where the Jewish War Machine has called for a build up of troops, and anytime you have a massive buildup of troops you also have a massive buildup of frustrations and anxiety. Masturbation could be the key to relieving some of these pent up frustrations and aggressions these men have.
Perhaps the Earth Americas could send a congressional envoy to Israel to lead the soldiers in group masturbation. This envoy could be headed up by Larry Craig. I understand he has some experience in these matters.
A competition could be made of it and points could be scored for different aspects of the competition, like the largest salvo or the farthest shot. Imagine scoring points and the elation gained for the accurate shot of a wad onto a target rather then scoring a direct hit and impaling a pregnant mother carrying an unborn child?
Just imagine if a Jewish WarPilot or tank crewman could experience the joyous feelings of sexual satisfaction as opposed to the satisfaction gained by cutting a young child in half with a missile?
It can be done.
Why, the whole competition could be televised and made into a reality TV show. It could be called The HARD ON FOR PEACE Show, or perhaps NBC’s Wide World of Spurts. And the Arabs can even join in and compete side by side with the Jews. Imagine the camaraderie gleaned by these men competing side by side with each other!
Perhaps it could even become an Olympic event! Gosh, wouldn’t it be nice to see these Jewish tribes participating in sports and physical activities again.
It can be done!
Yes, the next time a Jewish Commander instructs a WarPilot to shoot at an innocent civilian, imagine the wholesome feelings experienced when that WarPilot scores a direct hit between the eyes of that Commander with a wad of Jewish jizz in lieu of a direct hit on an innocent sleeping child. Imagine the safe, harmless fun that could be had by all!
Yes, it can be done!
Instead of the Jewish War Machine cry of KILL MURDER HATE REVENGE KILL MURDER HATE REVENGE, it can instead be:
BACK OFF, then JACK OFF!
It can be done!
I suggest the Earth Americas give the state of Michigan to the Jews so they can have a place to call their promised land. I mean, there is water there and everything.
Would this not be the solution? And then the history books can be changed to show that Detroit Israel is in fact the birthplace of Jesus Christ. History will speak of the three wise men who came asking for help. The Big 3 Wise Men they will come to be known and in 500 years no one will know the difference.
It can be done can't it????
History books can be revised to show that a great flood came and covered the Earth for 40 days and nights and there were storms and the Earth shook and tetonic plates shifted and what was once Bethlehem slid to rest where what is now the Detroit Michigan area.
And the history books can show that a child was born in a Ford Ranger under a bright street lamp to a poor cleaning lady who never had sex, and he was wrapped in swabbling clothes and he spoke to the animals nearby including a Pinto and Cougar and a Thunderbird.
It can be done. If it means saving lives and finally living in in PEACE what difference does it make, and I am certain that Jesus Christ and God and Allah and Buddah and Kreskin or whoever wouldn't mind the history books being altered a bit if it meant saving lives and living in PEACE FINALLY. Would they? Jesus Christ and God and Allah and Buddah and Kreskin or whoever DO stand for PEACE & LOVE don't they?
No? Opps, my bad.
My sources deep within the Israeli government tell me that this attack on the Gaza Strip by the Israeli Army has been over a year in the planning. The timing of the attack or in fact whether the attack took place at all was all dependent upon the Earth Americas election.
Had the Republican candidate won the election, then the attack was to be on hold.
But if Barack Obama, the black Democratic Presidential candidate won which he did, then the attack was to take place before Mr. Obama takes office, which it has.
While plans were being laid by the Jewish Army for the attack, concurrent plans were being drawn up by a select contingency of wealthy Jews within, or with connections to, Wall Street, these plans being a blueprint for a sudden financial meltdown in the financial sector of Earth Americas.
Again, whether this plan was ever carried out was all contingent upon the Earth Americas election.
Israel did not want to see the black president elected. The Jewish Nation feels it is the only nation that has ever been an oppressed minority. The Jewish Nation uses the past to brainwash, with calculating control, their tribe members to the point of them living in constant fear of their own shadows while using this fear to justify everything from financial transgressions to murder in the name of protection.
The Jewish Nation cannot and will not acknowledge the fact that the Earth Americas African American has suffered a hundred fold more hardships and injustices then the Jewish tribes, however, the African American does not go about daily to rub it into his or her neighbor’s face. The African American goes about his business of working to survive in a not-so-easy world. The Jewish Nation seethes with jealousy over this behavior as it is contrary to the very definition of their existence.
As well, the Jewish Nation believes it is the ONE chosen people of God, however, it cannot come to grips with the fact that their God brings them into the world with such acute physical inferiorities to the African American who, from birth, is stronger, faster, bigger, sings better, and always gets to go out with the prettiest cheerleaders in high school.
The Jew seethes with jealousy over the resilience & popularity of the African American. The unprovoked attacks on Barack Obama by the Israeli supporters on this comment board are proof of this.
The Jewish Nation’s plan is to collapse the world’s financial markets to cause mass panic and despair and then begin a localized military conflict that they escalate to World War III.
And all this in order to prevent the black President from taking office.
I appeal to the entire Jewish Nation to cease and desist this offensive. You have been exposed by your own people inside who do not wish to carry this plan forward.
I also appeal to the Arab & Palestinian people to lay down your weapons and try to come to terms with the Jewish Nation. You can all live together if YOU want to. It is not up to someone else, it is up to YOU.
Cease and desist now and devote your energy towards learning to live in peace with others around you, especially the African American who can teach the Jewish Nation a little about forgiveness, humility & love.
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
ToAmuse:
I am amused. The gloves are off, the mud puppets are showing their limitations, in this fine open democratic forum.
Holy shit! I thought I was pissed off!
Read "The Attack On The USS Liberty" to understand my involvement in this matter.
If there is to be peace in the middle east, someone has to say 'this war is too stupid' - as the Russians did to the US, then kiss.
Do not sacrifice your beauty and youth for any bullshit political reason. Enjoy your beauty, while you have it! These idiots will still be arguing about butt implants when we are senile.
Is not this world the miracle?
God Damn It,
ToAmuse
Are you a nun, on that border? If so I respect you with all my heart, now get the fuck out of there.
I need you to dispense future charitable works that do not involve hate & politics; I need you alive and safe. I did not make you to let animals kill you.
Love,
GOD
Dear GOD,
I'm relieved that by considering yourself thus, you have achieved profound insight into the unified nature of all universal reality and a quality of awareness that goes beyond the limitations and complexities of appearance. In any case, simmer down... everything's fine ...it just looks, smells and feels like a shit storm, G Crisis. On the bright side, I'm not a nun... when things are looking bleak I like to splash some joy.
Like new year's EVE...
Wow... Look at this blog about Bill Maher here.
I have been getting requests asking how will you know when Israel is ready to launch its nuclear warheads towards Iran & Washington DC, and the answer is thus:
The Jewish Plan to start World War III involves three phases:
Phase One comprising an attack on the Gaza Quadrant has begun.
Phase Two involving the orchestrated meltdown of the Earth’s financial markets has also been implemented.
Phase Three of their diabolical plan is underway as we speak and is an all out offensive to acquire each and every Barry Manilow and Barbara Streisand music CD still available on the market and then lock them away in an underground vault to protect and preserve them for all time from the inevitable nuclear destruction of the entire Planet.
So, the day you go online or to your local music store and can no longer find a Barry Manilow or Barbara Streisand CD anywhere in print you will know the end is here.
And this is a damn shame too because I loves me some Barry Manilow and Barbara Streisand.
It has been written.
If our enemy ever needs a safe haven, they can just come to this site!
This is what our future is?
Sorry sad, pathetic Earthling but your slanderous insults carry no weight with me.
I am of the Jew, and I am of the Gentile. I am of the Anglo, and I am of the African. And I am of the Muslim and I am of the Buddist. I am of another galaxy, and I am of the maggot & the fly.
When I was young living in Oklahoma City my cousin Alfie and I were at school one day when a black boy approached Alfie and asked for a dollar from him for lunch money. Alfie had fifty dollars in his pocket but refused to give the hungry black boy anything, so the black boy beat him up and took the dollar. I asked Alfie why the black boy only took $1 from him and Alfie said it was because the little black boy was stupid and ignorant, but I secretly felt it was an honorable thing for the starving little black boy to do.
That night my uncle came to me and said it was time that Alfie & I learned to defend ourselves like men, so he took us out to an open field and gave us each an Uzi and taught us how to hold the trigger down until all 500 rounds in the cartridge were expended. We drilled for hours learning how to hold the trigger down tight until my index finger ached.
The following night my uncle told us to come with him. He said we were going to make sure that we would never again have to live in fear of being beaten up and our lunch money taken. We joined a team of Jewish Stormtroopers and a group of white Anglos and the town sheriff and we infiltrated the black community around midnight.
We sought out and killed the little black boy & his parents as they slept in their beds. As we were leaving the house a small black girl came out of another room and looked at us with surprise. Alfie looked at me and said that these blacks were always using their little sisters as shields when they beat someone up to take their lunch money, and then he emptied his Uzi into her just as he had practiced and we left her there whimpering as her intestines spilled out onto the floor.
The Stormtroopers and Anglos slaughtered the black community that night and torched their homes, then went home to drink beer or read some scriptures and eat kosher pickles.
I was sick to my stomach and I asked Alfie why, why did we do that, what’s it all about Alfie? He told me that they were not Jewish so they did not deserve to live and breath the same air as we do.
After that night I renounced my Jewish heritage and became free from the bonds of bigotry, hatred, and constantly living in fear of having $1 taken from me.
I went on to become a StarJumper while Alfie grew up to be a land developer and the last I heard he had made millions of dollars off the land where those poor black folks used to call home.
But of course, that’s all in the past now.
It has been written.
Let us pray:
Chapter 11, Verses 12-4, Book of major-tom
…and it came to pass that the Jews and the Arabs were fighting amongst themselves along the Gaza Quadrant until one day when a Jewish Stormtrooper and Arab Rocketeer faced each other and said ENOUGH…
…ENOUGH KILLING and they joined hands and with the other free hand rose up and pulled out their phalluses and kneeled down together as one to pay homage to their one true God, the God of Earth & the Mother of Nature and of PEACE & HARMONY and they masturbated each one unto the other…
…until their seeds spilled together the Jewish Stormtrooper and the Arab Rocketeer into a small hole in the ground there in Bethlehem and then the next day a child was born to a poor cleaning lady who had never had sex and they named the child Gesus Arabbas and wrapped him in swabbling clothes and there was PEACE throughout the land…
…until civilization moved in and people started arguing over a small hole in the ground where their ancestors did copulatith and wars began over possession of that hole in the ground and the entire Planet Earth became engulfed in a Holey War…
…and it came to pass that the Jews and the Arabs were fighting amongst themselves along the Gaza Quadrant until one day when a Jewish Stormtrooper and Arab Rocketeer faced each other and said ENOUGH…
This has been a reading from the Book of major-tom, Chapter 11, the Psalm Before the Storm
Amen
Blog for us a little more, please Bill! I miss you.
Hey Everyone and George,
merry Xmas, hanouka, Eid.. Whatever and happy new year !
I see there have been debates about our lovely neighbour Israel's latest fireworks.
Hope to talk to you soon
S.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta is probably as aware as anyone of the tragic distortions in the health business. It also doesn’t hurt that in 2003 he was named one of PEOPLE magazine’s “Sexiest Men Alive”. Since the political scene is a pageant of glamour shots and 'tug at your heartstrings' sentimentality, he has the right combination. Now on the other hand, Obama’s choice for agriculture secretary has me stymied. Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack is a proponent of factory farming, genetic engineering and the use of complex pesticides. Searching for clues to understand this appointment, I took note of Obama’s menu selection: ‘Spam Musubi' sushi. It looks like he’s trying to appease the organic crowd while indulging in his favorites (he names chili as #1). In general, black people love junk food, and even he can only be so pliable concerning tummy delights. (At my house we have to have white bread, but we don’t really speak white. As you entertained us the other day, your soliloquy may as well of been delivered in Sanskrit. Just as well…)
Overall, Obama is still showing a flawless complexion. House of Representatives CA Republican Rep. David Dreier caught my attention on CSPAN this morning, saying: “The democratic majority’s cynicism and manipulation is all the more dismal against the backdrop of Pres-elect Obama’s vision for hope, unity and change for the better.” They’re eating out of his hands!
Not so for embattled Caroline, who walks like a Babushka, has a language abuse issue and evidently won’t do Poughkeepsie. Her best defense is a new stylist; the right look would melt away all doubts.
Our protégé Al is jumping the hurdles; I think we’re all looking forward to some "agile" entertainment in the upcoming audition. Roland Burris certainly has the irresistible ‘je ne sais quoi’ that warms our hearts.
Hope you’re having a great vacation…
no more lies, it is time the Earthlings knew the truth…
… hence, though many people believe the story of how the underdog David, a poor Jew, slew the mighty Goliath, a large Arab who was ten times his size, to be no more then a fairy tale or myth and condemn the Jews for founding their religion on fantasy, the fact is that the ancient tale of how David slew the giant Goliath by outwitting him is actually based in truth…
… the truth being that there, of course, were no actual giants back in those days but the story goes that David and Goliath had an argument one day at the market and the two squared off and wrestled each other to the ground and the story goes that it was obvious from the flapping of their loin clothes as they rolled in the dirt that Goliath’s balls were ten times more massive then that of the Jew David’s…
… balls, and the story goes that Goliath was beating David into a bloody pulp while making him sing ‘Mammy’ until David, nearly beaten, cleverly outwitted Goliath by calling a ‘time-out’ and then an immediate ‘time-in’ catching Goliath off-guard allowing David to land a kick to Goliath’s groin sending him to the ground holding his massive balls in defeat…
… and hence the legend of David was born and it came to pass that the Shield of David, now known as the Star of David, was born, formed in the shape of the urethra on David’s uncircumcised phallus, then later modified to be interlocking triangles after Dr. Reub Goldberg invented the straight edge…
… so you see why the Jewish StormTrooper now carries forward with the confident pride of David as he marches on to defeat the Arab female and kindergartener who have ten times more balls then the Jewish StormTrooper could ever hope to have.
Hi S.
I think the pro-occupation zionists are asserting the territory they took during the Bush administration as they know a reckoning is coming.
I think that the claim that Hammas started it with rockets is bullshit propaganda.
At first I was outraged about refusing to let the Obama's stay in the White House guest house, but know I am positive that it is distraction propaganda. First, it is inconsequential to anything; more might think Jr an asshole, but he's out already. It is a flashbang. Second it distracts from the Israeli oppression of Palestinian civilians. last and most important, it establishes a clear demarcation between BO and the criminal Jr. In doing so it conceals the passing of the torch on critical unpopular issues that will continue under the new admin; we will get a fresh coat of whitewash from the new press corpse.
It also defers focus until a quieter time on the issue of the near certainty that BO will pardon Jr.
Personally i think we should turn Jr over to the Iraqis for trial & execution. He said a global dictatorship is OK with him as long as he is the dicktator. Fine by me, now lets get on to trying & executing the dictator.
Major Tom: you need more, better drugs, you are too tense. try weed and if that doesn't calm you, Oxycontin.
Happy New Year! This is going to be intense!
major-tom,
I knid of like Michigan but the Palestinians can have Texas? Since there are more Jewish people in the NYC area than in Israel I don't think we need to give them any more than they already paid for.
The Jewish War Machine logic is flawed because it fails to take into account the ten Hamas soldiers it creates tomorrow from every one Hamas soldier murdered today.
The Planet Earth peoples do not begrudge the Jewish tribe for defending itself, but the manner in which the Jewish tribe is carrying out this defense is downright cowardly.
The logical response to bottle rockets and a few mortars being fired at you by a some juveniles would have been to:
1) Call for talks to resolve differences
2) Call out the militants for a man-to-man fair fight or some sort of competition to resolve differences
Of course the problem with talking is that the Jewish nation does not believe in bargaining to resolve differences because this might involve giving up or sharing something and the Jew believes that he is 'the chosen people' and should not have to give up anything to anyone.
And a fair fight is simply out of the question. Centuries of bookish pursuits coupled with Jewish religious & cultural laws prohibiting interracial or intercultural marriage has further weakened an already frail race of people. Besides an exceptionally strong mind that has grows stronger to compensate for bone and muscle deficiencies, the only other structurally sound part of a Jewish male is an index finger made strong over the decades from punching in a pin number, pecking on an adding machine, pulling on a gun trigger, or picking on a nose.
Hence, the only manner in which a Jewish tribe member can settle a difference is to take up a weapon and shoot his or her adversary as he stands before him with clenched fists, but for every one adversary killed ten more adversaries are created then fueled by revenge. And this is where the logic of the Jewish War Machine is flawed, and this is why their struggle will never end.
Until Jews understand that ‘their way’ is NOT the ‘only way’ in the world, they will never learn to live in peace with their neighbors. Everyone has a choice in life. If Israel wants to inflict its way of life on the rest of the world, why not make it the way of fairness, tolerance and love, qualities the beautiful, intelligent, talented Jewish people certainly have somewhere inside them?
When will they open their eyes???? The rest of the world sees it, why can't they? It is not logical.
… and this just in, a probe investigating the whereabouts of the original $350 billion dollars given to US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has turned up receipts indicating that Secretary Paulson kept all of the money to spend on himself, some for a surgical hair transplant procedure, and the remaining $14.67 on a pizza…
… investigators became suspicious when Paulson showed up for a Treasury meeting yesterday with a head full of Rob Blagojevich’s hair…
… when questioned by investigators, a bald Blagojevich exclaimed “It’s a [expletive] valuable thing, you just don't give it away for nothing."…
Hello- what happen to you Bill? No posting for two month- did the churches get to you?
What happen to you Bill? No posting for two month. Did the churches get to you after religulous?
What happen to you Bill. Did the churches get to you after religulous? No posting for two month?
12.07.2009 I posted an email here that I sent to all my US government representatives regarding the auto handout.
The only one to respond was Senator Boxer. She said that 153,000 people in California are employed by the auto industry so she supports the handout. this is bullshit, but at least she wasted her time & my money to get back to me and try to trick me; she gets a D - demonstrates internet skills & effort, but no traction. The rest of my supposed representatives get an F and their availability is sent to the federal penitentiary inmate draftboard; they are always looking for a few good catchers.
If you are not from America in this context 'catcher' is slang for being on the receiving end in sexual congress; I mean that these politicians should be sent to prison as inmates and raped for their treacherous actions.
I wrote back to Boxer that it looked like Jr was trying to undermine the United Auto Workers - as he did the unions of the major supermarket chains that you might remember all went on strike a few years ago.
I suggested that Jr is a union buster. Now that they nhave put together this power elite embezzlement.
C Wright Mills 1956 Yale master's thesis: The Power Elite - must read essay on the fundamentals of military industrial corruption, leading to the rise of the NAZIs and framed in American politics of the 50s.
Its on my shelf next to Richard Dawkin's 1969 thesis The Selfish Gene, another compelling work of genius examining the case for evolution and panspermia.
She has not replied since.
I knew the supermarkets were going on strike because the week before, I read on the whitehouse.gov website the news that the CEO of Albertson's - one of the supermarket chains - hosted a luncheon for Jr in Crawford Texas.
Crawford is where the American Bin Laden compound is; Jr spends most of his time there, I hear that when not watching cartoons he loves the Manchurian Candidate ride.
So the supermarkets went on strike over about $20 million in benefits that the employees were trying to keep - they were not demanding more, just trying to keep what they had.
Apparently they lost more than this in the 1st 2 months of the strike, which lasted some 5-7 months. Lots of working class people lost their homes and the unions utterly failed to protect their members. Afterward I heard of consistent actions against the employees which included retaliation for pro strike employees including the shop stewards. If you don't know anything about unions, the steward is the union representative that the employees consult regarding union issues, such as when the boss can't keep his hands off them. The complaints I heard include violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act - legislation that a previous president established to protect employees from manglement pimps, sadists and the unhappily married. To my knowledge no effort was made to investigate these complaints; thats one sellout union they have there. There was also some obvious insider info stock manipulation by these corporate criminals.
Shortly after the strike the Albertson CEO was fired & eventually that company was sold to a European company. The mega bank squeeze looks just like this anticompetition 'one neck for one noose' New World Order & the auto makers 'crisis' is the same shit.
Did you know that the Chevy Aero is 100% manufactured in the Daihatsu factory in South Korea, complete with Chevy logo? Apparently South Korea is the 53rd state... senator. Another interesting thing about South Korea is that they have the highest Ph.D per capita in the world, higher even than Israel. I respect the high Jewish valuation of a decent education & think the greatest tragedy of the Bernie MadeOff scandal is the damage to Stephen Spielberg's education charity. Apparently Jr also hate Jews, along with ejakators and workers.
Another auto industry trick is have slave labor assemble all the components overseas, then put the 'engine' and the 'transmission' into the 'body' and claim that the cars were 'assembled' here. I 1st learned of this when Al Gore got BMW to build a factory in Tennessee. On top of the huge tax incentives - bribes - they got around paying the import taxes that they should have.
This is what happens when dumb politicians think jobs are commodities. What I would like my politicians to do is say "Look BMW you fucking whore we have by far the biggest consumer market in the motherfucking world. You want to pimp your tricks here? I'm the head pimp, you have to kick up to me." What is happening is Dave Chappelle's "if the decider is a crack whore' skit": the 'representatives' are whores getting tricked by their corporate pimps.
So fuck the PACs, the PIGs and the bribes. Fuck the mega churches modeled after rev. Sun Myung Moon's Moonies - did they have Moonies back east Bill? Evangelists = American version, Rick Warren's Worons.
Jr keeps Haggard & Warren around to mentor him on the arts of deceiving the masses.
mjr tom, Nations don't mean shit anymore. At best the nation::multinational corporation relationship is analogous to union::corporation. I know 1/2 the people who read this are thinking unions suck; well, guess what? your government is a representative organization just like a union. I agree, some are completely fucked, but then some do fight against the injustices of sweatshops & greedy sadists, just like the politicians are supposed to.
Gary Condit deserves to suck on a shotgun; don't forget what this sorry bastard did.
Bill,
In appreciation all your fans pooled together and got you a new president for your birthday. You will have to make your way to your birthday party, its in DC; I'm sure you can manage.
Happy birthday Bill!
Mr. Maher
Please background check Governor Rod Blagovich before you judge him. His Wiki profile is consistent with his statements in his defense. He handled the press very professionally when he was charged with all the allegations against him regarding the Obama Senate seat. When he did finally present his case I was impressed I thought he would have a great career as a criminal defense attorney: mob lawyer! But on cursory inspection it appears that what he is saying in his defense is true and that whether his decisions were good or not and he has worked first for his constituents and he does have a long combative relationship with the Ill good ole boys. You know, Mayor "Shoot to kill" Daley's lux mob.
Insha Allah
On either side, this is an explosive issue.
I followed your lead into a creepy dark alley to expose my impressionable mind to your sparring partner, Miss Coulter. I crawled my way through a barrage of abstruse accusations and slander, and then I actually admired this spunky poke on your G-spot. She is the queen of self ownage, and there doesn’t seem to be anything constructive to suggest for her. That’s the problem with lawyers, they can’t be wrong or else they lose. Probably, the best thing to do is to just let it talk itself out, but you’re bringing her out for some saccharin smacks. Ooglyboogly! That thing is ugly.
And the mainstream media concurs. According to her dot com, an NBC insider explains why the network cancelled her for life, stating, “We are just not interested in anyone so highly critical of President-elect Obama right now," explaining that "it's such a downer. It's just not the time, and it's not what our audience wants, either." Obama himself got a clean shot at skeptomaniac Paul Krugman, asserting he’ll adopt good ideas from anyone including Paul, as there is 'no pride of authorship'. That was my intellectual orgasm of the day. Mind you I don’t have a crush on Obama… he’s too saintly to be sexy.
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Instead of conniving to steal France’s health care model, we should approach the issue diplomatically. Didn’t they offer us the magnificent Statue of Liberty, and what have we given back? We could send an adorable Chinese American lady doctor to study the system, and send back the knowledge. We’ll even leave her there as a gesture of thanks. She should show our best intentions by being sensitive, diligent, eager to learn and of course, disinterested in profiteering. Your weather girl looks like a likely candidate… meteorologists are scientists, right?
Let’s face it, there is no easy button. In reality, health care and nutrition are too screwed up for government to handle. End users’ self destructive habits are rooted in some complex psychopathological issues. Seems like the freedoms acquired in the last century have led to burnt out taste buds in need of ever more toxic fixes. Take fake tits, for instance. Those bizarre bubbles crinkled at the edges, masquerading as the expression of sensuous liberation, are nothing more than a violent mutilation of tender breasts in a lame attempt to bamboozle jaded senses. (Yes, it’ll take a while to regain synchronous harmony after the Ann episode)
I’m encouraged by Obama's speech of Jan 8th where he spoke of “a clear understanding that government support for any company is an extraordinary action that must come with significant restrictions on the firms that receive support…”, showing that he is opening a way for radical surgery on the critical issue which he can affect, the economy. All the while MSNBC invited economist James Galbraith, author of ‘The Predator State’, to discuss the breakdown of the free market system and possibilites for improvements. A healthy, well fed society may be unattainable in this incarnation, it's probably best to scale down our expectations and tackle one demon ride at a time.
George, not sure what your point is but as you know I am pro-choice for masturbation over murder.
I believe time is better spent jacking off then impaling young children.
Of course, I am in the minority. Most consider masturbation to be off-limits, so I try to limit my discussions to more palatable, family oriented subjects such as the spilling of innocent women’s bowels and the oozing of young children’s intestines upon the roadside. You know, the kind of stuff that just gives you that ‘warm fuzzy’ feeling all over.
But the murderous war is not the purpose of this transmission. This broadcast is in regard to the economy and is directed towards the new Earth Americas President Obama. This is his solution for saving the Earth Americas economy.
This solution is to be the mandate of any and all companies receiving any aid from the government and taxpayers of Earth Americas. Can some Earth citizen please get this to him.
The Solution Part 1: A Maximum Wage
"The rich don't give a damn about the poor and underprivileged. The rich have become intoxicated by their gluttonous wealth and are oblivious, whether intentionally or not, to the suffering and despair which is choking the Earth Americas country into a slow death....." major-tom, 1994.
In the beginning... It is the year 2001 B.C. Rock strolls menacingly through the village, his village, for he is the king, or chief, or leader, whichever you prefer, and his imposing figure-- a physique seemingly chiseled from forged granite-- has the villagers scurrying for their caves as he passes by. But not fast enough is one unfortunate tribeswoman who, so intent on watching the ground where a pair of battling scorpions have interlocked in a death-grip while frantically stinging each other to death, does not notice Rock coming up behind her.
The tribeswoman spots a shadow and turns just in time to glimpse a club coming down to smash her on the side of the head, dazing and numbing her so that she is powerless to stop Rock as he mounts and has his way with her.
After satiating himself with the tribeswoman, Rock leaves her lying in a whimpering heap and precedes on towards his own cave to rest his weary bones -- its been a long day for Rock, his hunt for Mastodon once again unsuccessful. On the way he smells meat cooking from inside a cave, and he thinks how it would be nice to have something to eat before he goes to sleep, so he approaches the smoky cave, raises his club above his head, and enters.
Inside a woman holds a stick with what looks to be a skinned rabbit on it over a small fire. Sitting off to her side is a male who grabs his club and quickly jumps up as Rock approaches.
The two warriors stand facing each other, clubs raised to strike, when Rock lets out a growl and then a scream. A baby begins crying from somewhere towards the back of the cave. The female holding the stick drops it and runs to the baby, caressing it to her bosom, while Rock and the male stand their ground, glaring and growling at each other.
A tense moment passes, then the male, much smaller in stature than the imposing Rock, slowly backs away towards the rear of the cave. Rock picks up the rabbit and casually walks out, ignoring the wails and taunts of the family behind him.
Rock enters his own cave and looks around. His cave is adorned with clubs, spears, animal furs, animal skulls, and some skulls of humans who were foolish enough to challenge the mighty Rock, mightiest of the tribe, ruler of the land. Satisfied that everything is in its place and as it should be, Rock sits down, devours the rabbit, then lays back onto a pile of furs and falls off into a deep, contented slumber.
And there he lays, Rock, king of the land, one of humankind's earliest descendants, truly Charles Darwin's missing link. His village is his kingdom, his laws are his own, and his actions are mere natural instincts of survival guided by what Sigmund Freud would later refer to as the 'id' of existence. And with no Freudian 'super-ego' to hold these natural desires in check, Rock survives on his sheer animal instincts in a time when there are no social mores, no community laws, only the laws of survival where the strongest feed and multiply, and where the 'super-id' runs unchecked.
"To begin with, in a small human horde, it was superior muscular strength which decided who owned things or whose will should prevail. Muscular strength was soon supplemented and replaced by the use of tools: the winner was the one who had the better weapons or who used them the more skillfully." excerpt from Why War, Sigmund Freud's reply to Albert Einstein's query, 1932
And now to the present... It is the year 1996 A.D. William Randolph Rockefellow, one of Fortune 500's top ten corporation presidents, strolls down Wall Street on his way back to his office after lunch. He strikes an impressive pose in his finely tailored designer suit, manicured nails and teeth, and moccasin-soft Italian leather shoes. "A self-made man," he is quick to boast, yet his grandfather's fortune amassed in the early railroad industry through the sweat of immigrated slave labor makes William Randolph about as self-made as the pompous Mr. Bounderby from Charles Dickens's Hard Times.
Rockefellow passes through a street-side farmers market and spots an attractive young lady at a vegetable stand who is busy fondling a tomato in search of that perfect one. He turns to approach her, and a smile crosses his tight, thin lips as he thinks of how exhilarating it would be to 'take' her right there where she stands. But cooler thoughts prevail as he knows that such action would be considered rape in today's civilized society, so he suppresses his urge, turns, and continues on towards his office content in the knowledge that if he wanted the woman bad enough, he could simply send one of his men out to 'buy her'. Rockefellow is a man accustomed to getting what he wants, and if his years in the corporate world have taught him anything, it is that everyone has their price.
Rockefellow enters his plush, penthouse office and settles in behind his beautifully hand-crafted mahogany desk. The desk is covered with paperwork. It is budget time, and Rockefellow scowls at the thought of having to give his workers a raise. He would rather fire them then give them a raise, but after having cut 10,000 jobs off his payroll in the past year, he can not safely lay off any more workers without risking productivity. Not yet, anyway. The thought of Congress raising the Minimum Wage begins giving Rockefellow indigestion. He knows he can never satisfy his workers, and despite the annual 2.5% raise he gives them, they always want more.
Rockefellow momentarily savors the thought of running a slave camp where he would have to pay nothing, but cooler thoughts prevail as he knows that it is not legal to do so, anymore.
Rockefellow signs the paper to give his tens of thousands of laborers their 2.5%, then quickly tosses the paper aside and out of sight, hoping that his indigestion will now disappear just as fast. And to guarantee that it does, Rockefellow signs another document giving himself and his fellow company officers a nice 15% pay raise, no, make that 25%, okay, 35%, because the company has had a bountiful year, and because he personally wants to buy another vacation home on the west coast. And because he can.
Fact: The rich get richer and the poor get poorer... Human beings are naturally acquisitive. It is a fact of existence. When a person is hungry, he/she naturally seeks food to satisfy that hunger. When a person is tired, he/she needs sleep. When a person is lonely, he/she seeks companionship. All these actions are natural and instinctive. So is possessiveness. When a person sees something he/she wants, he/she will, by nature, attempt to acquire this something.
Take natural sexual desires for instance. If a person has the desire to have sex with another person, then that other person must be a consenting partner to the act. This is the law. Though it is perfectly natural to desire sex and to seek satisfaction, civilized society today places limitations on these instinctual desires through laws. These laws are an essential part of co-habitation.
Now let's take hunger as another example. If a person is hungry, he/she will seek, must seek food to satisfy that hunger. But to get that food, a person must give something in exchange for it, and in most cases it is money. One can not walk into a grocery store and just take what they want, and likewise, one can not just walk into any house at random and take what is in the refrigerator. Our community laws prevent such behavior. Regardless of how hungry a person is, he or she cannot just take food as if he or she were taking a breath of fresh air. It is against the law-- a guideline in the process of co-habitation. A person cannot just take by force, as early man once did, that which they desire.
And as for materialistic goods, or commodities, it is natural to want. Whether it is necessities such as toilet paper and shoes, or extravagant items such as fur coats or precious diamond jewelry, all human beings have a natural tendency to desire things which they feel are pleasing to the eye, or items which they feel will make their life easier. And humans, by nature, attempt to acquire these things.
Our economy is based on trade, meaning in order to get something we must give something in return. Thus, in order to gain material possessions and property, one must have buying power.
Power. Money is power and power is money... In the days of early man, power was sheer brute strength and force. The strong took from the weak; this was the natural order of existence. Society was based on 'every man for himself.' As humankind progressed and adapted to co-habitation, social norms developed and laws were implemented by consensus for order and normality. The practice of taking another's possessions forcefully became restricted by law enforcement. A free trade society was implemented, Capitalism was born, and capital was based on the value of gold.
In our present society, our economy is still based on gold, but it is now represented by legal tender. This legal tender represents buying power through which one may acquire materialistic goods. But in order to acquire legal tender, the common man must work for it. The vast majority of people work for someone and are paid for their labor. And to ensure that an employer does not take advantage of his laborers, the law has established a 'Minimum Wage' which an employer must pay his employees. However, this Minimum Wage, or 'Livable Wage' as it is soon to be called, leaves much to be desired.
The 'Minimum Wage'. Just another word for slave labor...
America's capitalistic society was founded and made strong off the sweat of slave labor. From the African slaves who worked the fields of southern plantation owners or the cheap labor of the European immigrants during the northern Industrial revolution, to the cheap sweat-shop labor of third-world countries, slavery continues today under the guise of the Minimum Wage. Cheap labor is an inherent and adherent element of a capitalistic society, and its purpose is two-fold.
Firstly, by creating and maintaining a large group of lower class working poor, a corporation assures itself of an inexhaustible reserve pool of cheap labor available to the whims and fluctuations of the corporation.
Secondly, by creating and maintaining this large group of reserve cheap labor, corporations may then mistreat the employees they have, safe in the knowledge that if the employees don't like it they will be unlikely to quit because there will always be someone who desperately needs work and will be willing to take the disgruntled employee's place and put up with the company's abuse.
Also, by maintaining a large pool of the unemployed or working poor, corporate America orchestrates an underclass society mired in chaos and desperation, an underclass which will lash out and prey on whomever happens to be within reach, namely each other. The result is an increase in criminal activities amongst the poor, gang violence and 'black on black' crime being prime examples. Corporate America can then blame the country's depressed state on crime and immoral behavior, thereby taking the attention away from their own unethical ways…(cont.)
The Solution Part 2: A Maximum Wage
Every year the number of working poor increases in America..."By acutely upsetting the scales of labor and compensation, greedy corporate America CEO's have blunted the natural bonding process between mankind and his or her labor by removing any dignity the working man or woman could naturally gain by his or her work, consequently creating an unnatural aversion by that laborer towards his or her job, and thereby exponentially increasing mankind's penchant towards deviant means of subsistence." major-tom, 1996
Corporate ethics in America...NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw reported in March of 1996 that the average CEO's salary of the top seventy-six businesses in America went up nearly 15% last year to over two million dollars-- and this during a period when more workers than ever were laid-off by these same corporations. According to the February 26, 1996 issue of Newsweek magazine, AT&T chairman Robert Allen made $3.3 million in salary last year. Add to that an extra $5 million in stock and options after he announced the layoffs of 40,000 workers in January of 1996. Walter Shipley, CEO of Chemical/Chase Manhattan earned $2.4 million last year, and also laid-off 12,000 workers.
To put this all in perspective, there is on average one spouse and two children depending on each laid-off worker's income to survive, thus essentially creating four persons with no income for every one laid-off.
Is this ethical? Not hardly.
Is it fair? Certainly not.
Is it legal? It most certainly is.
It is not legal to steal a $3.00 package of hamburger if you need to feed your children, yet it is legal for a corporation to lay-off or freeze the salaries of their laborers while giving their executives a 100% raise if they so desire. Perfectly legal. And this is where the law must change.
The answer is a Maximum Wage..."Increase the Minimum Wage!" This is the same tired solution always coming from our government. It is time for some real change. What this country needs is a Maximum Wage, a 'salary cap' whereby no corporate CEO can be paid more than 10 times the lowest paid worker in that company. This means that if the highest paid CEO of a company presently makes $2 million, then the lowest paid worker, be it the secretary or the custodian, must be paid $200,000 per year.
Another way to look at this is that any company would have a pay scale based on a ten-tier system. Most new employees would be brought in at the bottom scale and over the years have the potential to move up on the pay scale. The top executives would be at the top tier, but could advance no further unless all tiers were modified to allow the increase. The more successful the company, the higher the pay scales could be. Executives, and laborers alike if desired, could also boost their income through stock options. This would give the common laborers and executives alike more incentive for efficiency and productivity. This is the type of corporate restructuring needed, not mass layoffs.
A law such as this will result in the decrease in pay for the gluttonously rich. A Maximum Wage will require a sacrifice from a small minority of people who can easily afford it, and will give a large majority an easier way of life.
With more money being spread around more evenly, the result will be more buying power for a larger number of people and more small business opportunities, thus creating a boom in the economy. Despair in America will diminish, crime will decrease, a rebuilding process will begin, and Americans will once again be united.
"What's wrong with America? Those 'deadbeat dads' are to blame! And those children, they should all be sent to boys homes for a proper..." Anon
Government wants to blame single parent families for the decay of morality in America. Though there may be some merit to this, why has the government never addressed the fact that the average working American's salary is not enough to support their self plus a spouse and child. Consequently, responsibility falls an unwitting victim to one's own quest for comfort and satisfaction.
The Pleasure Principle: "As we see, what decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start," excerpt from Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud, 1930.
The revolution will be televised... Corporate America will not take a 'Maximum Wage' lying down. Wealthy Capitalists will scream "Communism." Let them. Communism is a bitter enemy to the wealthy, but is a friend to the common man. Americans have, by design, been conditioned to fear Communism. The fact is Communism, derived from the word 'commune (or community), is more a mindset than it is a form of government.
Karl Marx, in his Communist Manifesto wrote "Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation." In other words, Communism does not prevent a person from earning a living, but it does prevent a person from enslaving others as a means to that end.
There are good points to Communism and there are bad points, just as there are good and bad to Capitalism. A 'Maximum Wage' embraces the good in Communism and combines it with the good in Capitalism to form a better way of life for the vast majority of parties involved.
Corporations in Japan have followed this 'Maximum Wage', or 'ten-tier' formula for years, and it has made their country and economy strong. Products made in Japan are noted for their quality. This is because the 'Maximum Wage' system breeds worker participation and responsibility and this is what the American worker lacks today. The American worker feels alienated due to the lack of respect afforded him or her by management and the government alike. However, with a Maximum Wage, the American worker would once again feel as though he is getting fair compensation for his labors, and consequently, his or her productivity will increase.
Get tough on crime. Build more prisons... The inability to achieve a comfortable living by working at a job inbreeds an inclination towards an alternative means of subsistence, and in the majority of cases, this means illegal drug activity, prostitution, or other types of criminal behavior. The gangsters of old in America have all fallen by the wayside. Now make way for the new 'Public Enemy #1' -- our youth. America's younger generation has evolved from being future presidents to being unconscionable criminals, or 'super predators' as they are now being so eloquently labeled. Why has this happened? And what is this country to do about it? Lock up the entire younger generation for being a "menace to society?"
But who is the real 'menace to society?'
Professor Paul Butler of the George Washington School of Law, in a paper recently published by the Harvard School of Law, argues that black men serving time in prison for selling drugs should be let out because "they are only trying to better their position in life." Professor Butler has a point. These black men, many of them young men, are only using what resources are available to them in order to acquire the materialistic goods which have been available to rich white Americans for years.
The only difference between what these young blacks do and what corporate executives do is the executive's unethical means of acquisition are legal, and the black’s means are not.
But I digress. This is not an issue of black versus white. It is an issue of rich versus poor, the bourgeoisie versus the proletariat, the 'haves' versus the 'have-nots'. And the battle lines are becoming more and more distinct all across America.
"Does it require deep intuition to comprehend that man's ideas, views, and conceptions, in one word, man's consciousness changes with every change in the conditions of his material existence, in his social relations and in his social life?
What else does the history of ideas prove, than that intellectual production changes its character in proportion as material production is changed? The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class." excerpt from The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1847.
When, in the course of human events... Years ago, our forefathers left the oppressive Monarchy rule of England to establish a new society in a new land where all men would be treated equally and democracy would be the governing force. Well, something happened on the way to the forum. We now have an America where more and more rich are taking everything they can get their hands on, whether it be property, real estate, merchandise, legal rights, or privileges, and in the process are throwing more and more people to the wolves.
Ninety percent of America's vast wealth is owned by only ten percent of its population. It seems the English monarchs of old have returned in the form of the William Randolph Hearsts and their Xanadus, who use their power and control over law and government to acquire whatever they may fancy. It is time for a change.
It is time for Americans to take back America. It is time to go to the polls and exercise your right to vote. It is time to get a Maximum Wage on the ballots across this land, and it is time to use the correct legal channels to change America.
The Modification Era is upon us. Let's come together as Americans in a united cause and take back what is ours -- America!
The slumbering middle-class will be next to fall victim to corporate downsizing...
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." excerpt from The Declaration of Independence, 1776.
LoveToAmuse
I have a great need of your pespective and experience to understand what is happening in the Middle East on a personal level. While most knowledge can be taught, you seem to be very intelligent: you think very well.
I think your perspective would enlighten everyone who is from other cultures. We are all in this together and I believe that we all have so much in common than our differences are small.
I am deeply moved, to me logic is beauty; it is the only lasting thing as in FOREVER; I am attracted to the brilliant light as a moth to a flame.
You are so right.
Ground control to Major Tom,
You have valid arguments but you must - must - abbreviate your discourse to speak to people who work as mangers & perfessirs. Be nice; they are busy. Feed them your conslusions, then back it up what your reasons and only if they ask for it.
Spoon feed them, they are not as bright as you suppose.
Yup. Tom, you are right, everything you have posted recently is accurate.
Now, what are we willing to do about it? As you see people will put up with a fair amount is nonsense before they stand up for themselves; this since WW2.
I think you want more.
Try this. Meditate, auto hypnosis style(google it). Hold each question in your mind and ask, what would God do?
Either you'll solve issues or probably become a christian: we don't know all the answers and our philiological system does not invite self referencing questions.
Ask yourself this also: If you were Albert Einstein knowing what your gift was used for, all that work, would you have shared it?
btw I jumped too fast brother tom. Your hypotheses about capping or controlling any aspect of any any is wiped by the fact that we are all volunteering to participate: you make rules that screw me, I quit and fuck you and I take my toys home!
In this imbalanced world, the game is to keep your own stuff.
Are you clear?
...and I just keep having a hard time with these people who justify the killing saying "...as long as THEY don't think I have a right to exist..." or "...as long as THEY want to kill me because it says so in their Betty Crocker CookBook... therefore I have the right to destroy them”…
... because honestly I have never heard someone say that in my entire two thousand years on and off this planet and I find it amazing...
... that the Jews have progressed so mentally far ahead of anyone else on Earth that they can now read the minds of the unborn Arab fetus...
... and know that these unborn Arab children will one day grow up to attack them to beat them up and take their lunch money...
... and so that is the reason the Jewish Israeli StormTroopers seek out pregnant Arab women to slaughter because they know of their unborn infants evil intention...
... and it just amazes me that the Jews are so mentally far ahead of anyone else and that they can read people’s minds and it makes me sort of uncomfortable when I am in the same room or on a bus with an attractive Jewish lady because I'm afraid she's readin my mind and she might want to kill me...
... cause she’s so beautiful and I'm tryin to guess what color panties she is wearing under that dress and it kinda makes me feel nervous that she might be reading my mind and be offended and want to kill me...
... and so I just do my best to think of other things to take my mind off of thinking what color panties she is wearing under that dress and so I force myself to think of dead bodies and guts and the chests of young children laid open and empty staring eyes and vultures pulling on intestines...
... and other stuff like that that will make the attractive Jewish lady feel more comfortable and then I feel a little more at ease and damn if my mind doesn’t drift again and I begin to wonder if she is even wearing any panties at all or if she has perhaps gone commando on this day...
... but my hope is that one day I too will hear the unborn Arab fetus screaming for the blood of the Jew and then I will be able to sit down at the conference table and mediate peace talks between the stubborn Arab fetus and the proud Jewish leadership…
… in hopes of one day ending their stalemate…
Stop it. Stop judging everyone, it will make you crazy.
Like Dominec.
Try this.
Life is so short and difficult and reality so complex that we all may die at any moment.
If you were the omnipotent deity, The One, you don't need anyone. you especially don't need groups of cowards who stand behind a 'priest', the only one with the balls to face You.
The only thing worth anything to any of us is time, everything else is arbitrary. Spend your time as you will.
Please stop speaking from God's voice, you write a lot of words that I have to skip over & this dilutes your points. In fact, take out all the prose: strip it down, I like bullet points. The job of God is already taken and the only people I know who are seeking it are insane or - every - christian.
LoveTo,
I never read People but I agree with you about the singularity of the divine and us. That thing about angels? Pretty ancient and messed up.
I am a multidimensional entity; my power is unknowable from the perspective of this reality, it is beyond imagining. When I die in this world the focus that is my I will be restored to my higher self.
All this is classroom lab time and I am enrolled in many classes.
In this context, a good life and a noble death have meaning; otherwise, not.
I could be wrong...
Nothing really to say about this post because I'm a little untimely...just would like to thank you for "Religulous." I thought it was going to be like a roast of religion - yes, I would have laughed. Hard. Instead, I laughed and came out with a strong message that should get people thinking for themselves, questioning why they believe what they do, and making a change. But unfortunately, I think that's too much to ask for the ignorant people of this country, and it's sad that the people who NEED to see your film the most are the ones who will protest out of their own closed-mindedness. Thank you, thank you, thank you for finally giving those of us who are brave enough to believe in doubt a little gospel of our own.
My wife and I love your show BIll.
We have the same insular and ignorant nonsense fed to us by the media and the Polies ( see Aussie Baby Language) over here. How do you keep your sanity over there Bill. I am a fellow atheist traveller in Hell and I sometimes despair of seeing some sense from the primitives with whom we share this world. You shine a light mate!
Bill
when are we going to get to see Religilous over here in Aussie
Found a new game for you "children".
Hope you like it.
http://www.aksalser.com/game.htm
I've been very busy designing a new system for producing large amounts of algae for conversion to biofuel. It's now in the lawyer's hands.
Advice: Buy a diesel! Forget about those electric cars. Green car of the year was a Volkswagen diesel. Or as my borderline neo-nazi friend would say "und vagen".
http://www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/georgie.htm
I wonder what Georgie's cherry is worth in the pen. Probably less than he thinks...
I wonder how much the guards will get paid off.
I wonder how much the warden will get paid.
I wonder how much The Dick, Cheney will get.
I wonder how much his mom will make.
Maybe we should just set him adrift on an ice flow - if we can find one.
Bill , you are the next prophet , make sure that you don't let your documentary/movie , fall into some stupid hand , otherwise , you are going to end up being a prophet yourself . i just watched you movie/documentary " religulous " and its an amazing piece . hats off to you man . i wish i had a direct email add for you so that i can tell you how much appreciate your heroic effort about the religion . you forgot to mention the hinduism in your movie/documentary .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCutvXccFlA&feature=PlayList&p=9D4D776DDAE20017&index=20
Please do not be fooled by the "sheep in wolves clothing" that have recently lobbied Congress for renewable sources of energy. These people include James J. (Jim) Mulva, CEO Conoco/Phillips and T. Boone Pickens. These people talk of developing renewable sources, but all they want to do is completely exhaust every last fossil fuel first. T. Boone wants to sell natural gas. Mr. Mulve wants to "drill baby drill". They talk of doing what's best for the country, when all they really want is what's best for their corporations. Is it "best" for the country to drill off the Eastern seaboard and then sell that oil on the world market, or keep it here?
I just don't trust these bastards, and they haven't given me a reason to trust them. Actions speak louder than words. Actions like manipulating investment companies to speculate in oil commodities, driving up the price of oil to $140/barrel, and then saying "it's just supply and demand, blame China and India for the high prices". Assholes!
I don't trust them ans anyone with half a brain in their head shouldn't trust them either.
"It is my belief/vision that biofuels derived from algae, along with other renewable energy sources (wind, solar, geothermal etc.), will not only reduce but eventually eliminate the need for foreign and domestic petroleum based crude oil. It is in the best interest of the country, the environment and mankind to stop burning fossil fuels. Given the current political and domestic attitudes, and the declining state of the environment, the time has never been better to begin the transition."
-Mike M
Someone told me I was brainwashed by Al Gore and the "liberal agenda". I said, "No, I was brainwashed by Sir Isaac Newton, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, and Steven Hawking."
Just to name a few.
"...My words but a whisper -- your deafness a SHOUT.
I may make you feel but I can't make you think...
...I see you shuffle in the courtroom
with your rings upon your fingers
and your downy little sidies
and your silver-buckle shoes.
Playing at the hard case,
you follow the example
of the comic-paper idol
who lets you bend the rules...
...So!
Come on ye childhood heroes!
Won't you rise up from the pages
of your comic-books
your super crooks
and show us all the way.
Well! Make your will and testament.
Won't you? Join your local government.
We'll have Superman for president
let Robin save the day...
... See there! A man is born --
and we pronounce him fit for peace.
There's a load lifted from his shoulders
with the discovery of his disease.
We'll take the child from him
put it to the test
teach it
to be a wise man
how to fool all the rest...
...Let me tell you the tales of your life
of the cut and the thrust of the knife
the tireless oppression
the wisdom instilled
the desire to kill or be killed.
Let me sing of the losers who lie
in the street as the last bus goes by.
The pavements are empty:
the gutters run red
-- while the fool toasts his god in the sky.
So come all ye young men
who are building castles!
Kindly state the time of the year
and join your voices
in a hellish chorus.
Mark the precise nature of your fear.
Let me help you to pick up your dead
as the sins of the father are fed
with the blood of the fools
and the thoughts of the wise
and from the pan under your bed.
Let me make you a present of song
as the wise man breaks wind and is gone
while the fool with the hour-glass
is cooking his goose
and the nursery rhyme winds along.
So! Come all ye young men
who are building castles!
Kindly state the time of the year
and join your voices
in a hellish chorus.
Mark the precise nature of your fear.
See! The summer lightning
casts its bolts upon you
and the hour of judgement draweth near.
Would you be the fool
stood in his suit of armour
or the wiser man who rushes clear..."
--Gerald Bostok A.K.A. Ian Anderson
Damn, why do you have to post such long shit?
How can Bill keep up with all this crap?
quote po police please!!!!
I'm sorry. I didn't realize that you had such a short attention span. That's the trouble with a lot of people. They don't want to, or can't, take the time. Meanwhile, the politicians and business leaders do whatever the hell they want and come up with a 30 second sound bite to explain it all away when they fuck up. And the American people buy it.
So, is that all YOU have to say. Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me I'm right. Tell me something.
The quote is from a song by the British progressive rock band Jethro Tull. The song was released in 1972, but I think sums up the dubya presidency pretty well. The title of the song is "Thick As A Brick". Get it?
Bill? Who's Bill?
... and speaking of compassion, has jr. filed his unemployment claim yet? Cause I would hate to see the little fella have to stand in line all day at the unemployment office. The thought of the little fella actually having to work for a living when he is not very strong- it just wouldn't be right...
... but maybe someone on this comment board can show some compassion and find some odd jobs around their house for the little guy so that he doesn't have to file for his unemployment check. The thought of him having to fill out all that paperwork with all those big words when he is not very bright- it just wouldn't be right...
... and gosh darn it, I'd just hate to see the little fella have to struggle for a living. It would just break my heart to be walking around Texas one day and come across an accordion player on a street corner with a little monkey clapping two cymbals by his side and when I get closer I see that oh-my-god! it’s jr. and I think to myself how wrong it is that the ex-president is now hustling on street corners for loose change and dang it, why doesn’t someone show some compassion and help the little fella-- why, he can’t even keep up with the accordion player…
… it just wouldn’t be right
Here's another "summation" of the Bush presidency. It is a song of HOPE.
"As grey traces of dawn tinge the eastern sky, the three travelers, men of Willowdale, emerge from the forest shadow. Fjording the River Dawn, they turn south, journeying into the dark and forbidding lands of the Necromancer.
Even now the intensity of his dread power can be felt, weakening the body and saddening the heart.
Ultimately they will become empty, mindless spectres; stripped of will and soul, only their thirst for freedom gives them hunger for vengeance..."
Silence shrouds the forest
As the birds announce the dawn
Three trav'llers fjord the river
And southward journey on
The road is lined with peril
The air is charged with fear
The shadow of his nearness
Weighs like iron tears
"Shreds of black cloud loom in overcast skies. The Necromancer keeps watch with his magic prism eyes. He views all his lands and is already aware of the three helpless invaders trapped in his lair..."
Brooding in the tower
Watching o'er his land
Holding ev'ry creature
Helplessly they stand
Gaze into his prisms
Knowing they are near
Lead them to the dungeons
Spectres numb with fear
They bow defeated
"Enter the Champion.
Prince By-Tor appears to battle for freedom from chains of long years.
The spell has been broken; the Dark Lands are bright. The Wraith of the Necromancer soars away in the night."
Stealthily attacking
By-Tor slays his foe
The men are free to run now
From labyrinths below
The Wraith of Necromancer
Shadows through the sky
Another land to darken
With evil prism eye.
Hey Any,
George's cherry isn't worth shit, its the price Cheney will put on his head if he gets indited.
Mike M
I like what you say & you are smart and shit but you should learn from the simps. I would not go over the cliff with the fubalo, but the 6 billion idiots are dragging us over the edge with them. At best if you s p e a k s l o w e r a n d d o n ' t u s e b i g w o r d s a n d w a v e s o m e t h i n g s h i n y you'll better get your message across.
Come on, W is case study how easy it is to manipulate the ignorant peeps; just sell them that its their idea, cater to their greed & lust. They are lame, you are outnumbered, get busy learning the twisted arts of mob control.
This is just because I want the 666th post - take that religulous fiends!
For George:
"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
- George Bernard Shaw
Bill, Please tell Chris Matthews that George W Bush is an idiot and that meth addiction makes one stupid and paranoid.
Bill, Please tell Dave Gregory that Andy Warhol wants his wig & style back. Please also laugh openly at all the news guys who are dying their hair grey to make themselves be perceived as more sage than they are. You of course don't have savvy envy.
Cheers! Everybody smoke dope!
Nameless Archer
Thanks for the advice! But I'm going to try to lay off Bush. Time to stop looking backwards and start looking forward. Last thing I'll say to the right is - sit down and shut the fuck up. You had your chance. If you even mention the word "filibuster" you should be hog tied and pistol whipped! Tarred and feathered! Water boarded. Bound and gagged. Ever see the movie Hostel?
Damn, I didn't even notice the 666.
I agree with what you said about meth addiction. 2C:B drugs (Nexus or Eros)are much better to increase ones intellectual ability, but harder to find. Thank you Sasha Shulgin!
Bill,
D.L. Hughley has stole your show, put some frosting on it and it tastes goood!
Its not HBO, but it is filling the void left by politically incorrect in a big way.
Sure, HBO is nice. But, in all seriousness you aren't reaching many of us and I know you leave clips here and there... please get back on network or cable. You're the best (at least you were.)
Yeah, I could subscribe to HBO and back when the Sopranos was on it was a no brainer... but these days... idk.
anyway,
I'd like to see you and D.L. Hughley do something. Maybe you can be a guest on his show?
All the best.
DO
Not to keep beating the horse but
Is George Bush a Texas Mooney?
I would like to see BO deconstruct the out of control totalitarian surveillance apparatus. 'Intelligence community' is a misnomer.
Genuine RNC services:
Republican Crisis Hotline
George, how old are you ? You are far too cultivated to be less than 40. Am I right ?
S.
Bill I watch your show because your views are exactly like mine. It must be the jersey thing. check out my blog www.wizardofotin.blogspot.com
Bill,
I'm astounded by your film. You left no stone unturned. You searched and identified every crazy bible thumping organization out there. WOW...it's Regilulous.
I'm a little agitated though. All that crap you uncovered and still throughout our history the belief in God is everywhere. What were our forefathers thinking? They all seem to have believed in God. I'm reading the Declaration of Independence, and it mentions God 4 times.
I've read President Thomas Jefferson's letter to a baptist congregation saying that the definition of "separation of church and state" actually means that it stops the government from interfering with the free exercise of the Christian religion not that it should keep references to God, Christ, and the Bible out of public life. Is this true? Tell me it isn't so.
What's worse is that I just read through every Presidential Inauguration speech from George Washington to Barack Obama and every single president of the United States referred to this so called God of the Bible in his inaugural address. They all mention God; some even quote scripture. What the heck is going on here?
I'm going through the history of the Pledge of Allegiance and the phrase "Under God" was actually added to it 50 years ago by congress. By Congress! What the heck were those crazies thinking?
You might be on to something here...they're all nuts. It's Like they all have some kind of genetic abnormality in their brains... all of them from the day this country was created. All those bible thumping crazies running our country. When will it all stop?
Hopefully never.
God bless you and God bless America.
J Versey
Monument Colorado
Bill,
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.
In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and cherish them.
A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity.
Let it simply be asked: Where is security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice?
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.
Who that is a sincere friend to it can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric.
-George Washington
Farewell Address 1796
Those George Dubya's are crazy!
To think that religion has any connection with morality and politics is just religulous.
The mere thought that if you take religion out of government that morality would then be weakened and would ultimately shake and destroy the very foundation of our Republic is absolute crazy talk.
How is it possible that George Washington (a Christian) believed such things? It's a good thing we didn't have nuclear weapons back then...I'm sure he would have killed us all.
Oh the horror of Christianity.
"Country First" I think not.
"God First" I think yes.
God Bless you and God Bless America
j versey
Monument CO
S,
I don't know what you mean by cultured. I hope you mean that I am charming and witty, or at least operate equally well in diverse and alien cultures, uniformly aligning with the good in every context.
I am 'over 40'. The years don't mean as much as what I have done with my time here and how much time I have left.
I'm not finished.
Mr. Bill
I am pleased with Obama's prelude and overture but I am also watching my republican friends - even the ones who didn't lose their wealth under W - act like 10 year olds who got beat in a fair fight.
Their religulous ideology is being threatened. They now have to account for their unchartitable dickishness from the cradle til now.
Glad I'm not one of them!
Hey Bill, I'm not sure if you'll read this but I just wanted to tell you something. I'm 19 years old and I was born in Pakistan to a muslim, moderately religious family. I used to be very religious when I was young (this is conditioned by the media and society in general). I was very fortunate to have a computer at a young age and learn about other religions, and I realized early on that I don't connect well with many of the teachings of Islam. Still I continued calling myself a Muslim even though I didn't practice any of the teachings. Until I saw your movie Religulous which has given me the courage to freely admit what I already know is true. I now call myself a 'Rationalist' if someone asks me what religion i'm from. I'd like to sincerely thank you for your work and a great documentary. You're doing what only a few people have the courage to do but what many people desperately need.
Thanks again and best of luck!
George,
lol I meant cultivated. Sorry. Just that you know many things that the average guy doesn't.
What do you mean you're not "finished" ? Of course you're not but it always seems like you're preparing for something dark lol
TC
S.
S.
"I was older then than I am now."
Zimmy
Avoid measuring yourself with other peoples' eyes, without also first taking account of their bias.
I am not dark. This world is 'dark' as in broken. We as in you and I, share this knowledge: thieves are rewarded while reason ignored and competence punished, all the time.
I know this because of what you told me about fire in your world.
I like Obama's vision, I am only concerned by those who will cheat and trick this righteous goal. These assholes killed JFK!
I'm not dark, I'm just coming into your focus. Look without judging, think!
Bill,
As you gear up for the killing season I would like to note the heroism of "Richard Tice".
He came clean. I think he is rightly concerned that he has reasonable cause to expect that he might have been set up & zapped by the ratfuckers he worked with.
He came clean. He went right to TIA and DOD. Get your staff on this, TIA is the crux of the totalitarian surveillance system. Almost without question George Sr. killed the inventor of the TIA database system because the fud could not afford the royalties: if he was not dead, today he would be worth more than Bill Gates.
But G Sr. had him killed.
So S, trust me and verify.
Hey again George,
"Avoid measuring yourself with other peoples' eyes, without also first taking account of their bias"
It's probably the best advice I could get, and my parents repeat it to me from time to time (although somewhere it's also about measuring myself with their eyes as well).... I wish I could apply it. But I think you can easily imagine that I still can't.
The fact that I'm out of work still suffices.. Anyways, I wasn't judging, really. It's just the vibes I usually get from the last sentences of your posts :)
I don't know who Richard Tice is. Will check him out later..
Do you think the republicans managed to sabotage their campagne for the presidency ? I keep wondering about that.
S.
I know see the US for what it is. I've been living and working in the US in the shelter atmosphere of educated and enlightened people, in academia. These past few weeks the cocoon I was in finally broke. The US has an official image of being modern, of separating religion and state, and of having shed old-world prejudices. But I recently got to see what's underneath the surface: a movement with its own sadistic interpretation of Christianity, who think the bible tells them to support Israel and see what they vaguely know as the muslim world, as their enemy. Not much different from the bigotry of the pilgrims who held the bible in one hand as they exterminated the natives with the other. This is not an anti-Christian view, I am an Arabic Christian (that would be the *original Christians*
Mind you, if I'm anti-bigotry that doesn't make me anti-religion.
Hala,
As for the image of the States, it's been a while since its evangelists and their extremist views are known to the rest of the world. It's sad that in the arab world, people still see american jews as the ones who control lobbies and support the extreme actions of Israel. During the presidential campaign (2 full years, lots of time to learn), I realized that most jews in the US are democrats and supported Obama. The problem comes from far right evangelists. But I guess that it's harder to see from the inside, when you're surrounded by regular people. Let me guess, you've recently had a conversation with an evangelist :)
You're lebanese, right ?
S.
Have a look at what Odd Todd did during the BS regime:
http://www.oddtodd.com/laidoff2.swf
His whole site rocks! Funny funny man
...THE WRITING WAS ON THE WALL LONG AGO...
...Corporate ethics in America...
NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw reported in March of 1996 (yes, 12 years ago the writing was on the wall) that the average CEO's salary of the top seventy-six businesses in America went up nearly 15% in 1995 to over two million dollars, this at a time when more workers than ever were laid-off by these same corporations.
According to the February 26, 1996 issue of Newsweek magazine, AT&T chairman Robert Allen made $3.3 million in salary for 1995. Add to that an extra $5 million in stock and options after he announced the layoffs of 40,000 workers in January of 1996. Walter Shipley, CEO of Chemical/Chase Manhattan earned $2.4 million in 1997 and also laid-off 12,000 workers.
To put this all in perspective, there is on average one spouse and two children depending on each laid-off worker's income to survive, thus essentially creating four persons with no income for every one laid-off.
Is this ethical? Not hardly. Is it fair? Certainly not. Is it legal? It most certainly is. It is not legal to steal a $3.00 package of hamburger if you need to feed your children, yet it is legal for a corporation to lay-off or freeze the salaries of their laborers while giving their executives a monumental raise or bonus if they so desire. Absolutely legal. And this is where the law must change.
It is time for some real change. What this country needs is a Maximum Wage, a 'salary cap' whereby no corporate CEO can be paid more than 10 times the lowest paid worker in that company. This means that if the highest paid CEO of a company presently makes $2 million, then the lowest paid worker, be it the secretary or the custodian, must be paid $200,000 per year.
Another way to look at this is that any company would have a pay scale based on a ten-tier system. Most new employees would be brought in at the bottom scale and over the years have the potential to move up on the pay scale. The top executives would be at the top tier, but could advance no further unless all tiers were modified to allow the increase. The more successful the company, the higher the pay scales could be. Executives, and laborers alike if desired, could also boost their income through stock options.
A Maximum Wage would give the common laborers and executives alike more incentive for efficiency and productivity. This is the type of corporate restructuring needed, not mass layoffs.
A law such as this will result in the decrease in pay for the gluttonously rich. A Maximum Wage will require a sacrifice from a small minority of people who can easily afford it, and will give a large majority an easier way of life.
With more money being spread around more evenly, the result will be more buying power for a larger number of people and more small business opportunities, thus creating a boom in the economy.
Despair in America will diminish, crime will decrease, a rebuilding process will begin, and Americans will once again be strong.
A 'Maximum Wage' can form a better way of life for the vast majority of Americans.
Corporations in Japan have followed a quasi-form of a 'Maximum Wage', or 'ten-tier' formula for years, and it has made their country and economy strong. Products made in Japan are noted for their quality.
A Maximum Wage could be implemented in the Auto Industry on a temporay basis until such time that they begin showing a profit and display that they have the wisdom to carry on responsibly without any further govt intervention.
This is the answer.
oups... Sorry : Evangelicals not evangelists...
S.
I've just watched 'Religulous', and I'd like to congratulate you. For young people (I'm only 16) who lives in catholic countries (I'm brazilian), it's extremely pleasant to know such a great work.
When Steve Burg told you the story of the glass and the rain, I'm almost started shouting 'and ALL the other 'rain!'s that you said during your entire life?!'
People shouldn't look to the coincidences, but to the other 99% of times when the miracle, actually, doesn't happen.
Congratulations!
…and I am curious to know what percentage of the recent massive layoffs were minorities…
…as it is possible that these layoffs could be construed by some as a form of retaliation or ‘getting even’ by these companies angry that their Republican ‘partners in crime’ lost control of the White House…
…and it is possible just possible that some sort of criminal charges could be brought up against these companies and their executives for unfairly discriminating against minorities by laying off in unusually high numbers as a way to ‘get back’ at the Democrats and especially their black President…
…what say ye Perry Mason?...
Can't wait for you to return to the air..
With Bush out of office, I hope you get some new material to lead us into the next four years..
hey there bill,
I am what some may consider somewhat of a cynic of the major religions of the world.. however i also am a practicing Sikh. To tell you the truth i would like to see some hardball religion debate come from someone targeting the Sikh religion. Frankly, i am tired of people saying that ours is the one religion that has no debatable topics so i would like to hear some. I would greatly appreciate an emailed reply from THE Bill Maher.
Hope to hear from ya,
punjabi_4life@live.ca
When are we going to get a monthly statement from the banks and, a ledger of total money given to them by the taxpayers?
This statement should have the amount of TARP funds going to each bank and should be available to the people as an online statement.
And you are so right about the right-wing jesus freaks who basically fuck up fact with religous inuendo and other wacked out shit.
And in Michigan, Medical Marijuana got more votes than Barack Obama did.
If there is such a thing as karma, someday we’ll achieve the ability to think rationally without having to coerce awareness through experience. It’s just a theory, but...life after life, kick in the ass after kick in the ass, primal fear of loss is carved into us. As animals, we watch our babies get dragged away by predators. Survival is defined by fear and aggression, and it’s downhill from there. In this version of evolution, the amnesia of death is like a security blanket, easing painful realizations but necessarily slowing the learning curve of direct experience. In the meantime, we echo emotions crystallized in primal fears by a natural selection of the species’ perceived strongest traits, culminating in massive layoffs to meet the aptly named Wall Street’s earnings expectations. Ironically, experience shows that layoffs don’t reduce expenses, but lead to losses in long term investments of human resources, reduced performance as the strongest jump ship, and low morale all around. Effective restructuring would be to cut from the top down rather than from the bottom up. What would it take to rationalize beyond primal fears and envision interconnectedness… a total meltdown? I guess we’re being served.
Enter Obama. He offers a shift in perception, opting to protect instead of trap. With the media’s help in portraying his true nature, he’ll retain the popular support necessary to break through evolutionary pressures. His confidence goes beyond unclenching his fists to Republicans stuck in tax cuts, he’s now looking at covering his bases by offering the post of Commerce Secretary to Republican senator Judd Gregg, who would be replaced by a Democrat, thus re-opening the filibuster proof Democratic majority scenario… assuming of course that Al can win our hearts. I would like to see that succeed! His mastery of the medium is also reflected in his choice of words on Al Arabiya, describing Al Qaeda’s ideas as bankrupt, alluding through a veil the mutual trait with our failing system. He’s making the right moves to reach out to all layers of Muslim society, with some help from Busta Rhymes’ and Lil’ Wayne’s great rhythms off the track ‘Arab Money’. Plus, you have to be enthused that he included the denomination of ‘non-believers’ in his inaugural address as well as in the Al Arabiya interview. Religious rebels are finally on the map!
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Of course, there will always be the exception to any rule, same with Pussy’s theory of evolution. There have to be those legal outlaws who, even in the comfort zone of an enlightened society, will delight in their killer instinct with impunity. Comics come to mind…and cats.
PS: I agree with Averie Maddox, the blonde with the smiling eyes on your MySpace page, Gary Shandling is hot!
Make that religulous rebels... Now where were we?
You forget which European country was on your side in your Revolution. I guess the Republicans were on the British side.
Why not treat yourself to an ice cream cone, on me, I ordered the DVD.
Mr Maher
thought you should check this out:
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/150832/14-times-Olympic-gold-medal-winner-Michael-Phelps-caught-with-bong-cannabis-pipe.html
Apparently despite denegrations from the losers, a little weed didn't hurt his Olympic performance.
Our dreams and aspirations are pinging excitedly as Obama’s half brother and Michael Phelps, two profoundly influential world figures (the former by association), are getting high in everybody’s face. Now would be a great time to get organized, assemble some weed revenues and offer Phelps a lucrative endorsement deal.
Obama has other priorities, like bipartisanship; don’t expect instant results on that front. White man’s way number six, the business angle, is the logical road to follow. Kids can see right through corporate whore role models, so those who get real will get the glory… like you. Any sponsorship offers lately?
I used to get high, but kind of like Obelix the Gallic cartoon hero who no longer needs magic potion because he fell in the pot as a baby, my early forays into the mind’s propensity for pleasure came with a lifetime warranty.
Godspeed!
Well i watched your movie Religulous now, of course i downloaded that load of shit... Fuck God, i don't care about religion, i don't believe that shit. FUCK GOD AND JESUS, but you. You're just preaching to retards man. so i hope that one day when you feel good about yourself you sit back and realize... wow i'm king of the retards. Do you really expect us to believe that all those awkward moments making the religious people look stupid weren't just edited in to the movie? It's fucking obvious, and you have just as shady of an agenda as do the christians jews mormons and everyone else you trampled. Does it really make a difference what people believe? Why criticize them? They aren't perfect, even your governors, state reps, presidents, we're all human buddy... What do you want these political figures to be? Even you admited to having God on your conscience for 40 years, so don't point fingers at everyone and say "you're stupid, you're stupid, you're stupid" I don't think you are stupid, but i think you are a shady mother fucker. The only reason you can get away with saying what you do is because you hide behind the Jew/Catholic bullshit... If you hate hypocritical jews, then blow a hole through your own head. You don't know about anything you say is fact in this movie, you just state what the "specialists" think, but did you ever think about the fact that there are specialists in everything who say whatever they want on both the religious and scientific side? Well sorry man, that statistical bullshit doesn't work, only on your retarded, fat-ass, tv watching audience. And hey, once you've made your point, once you've made everyone who believes in something after death feel like idiots and spat on their name with your movie, then what? Do you just kill all these losers who actually believe in something beyond what you see? "religion must die"???? what? talk about holocaust. Ironic that a jew talks about wiping out a belief. But really you're just another american claiming you're a JEW which is what? a religion? an ethnic group? Don't hide behind that lie you piece of shit. And with that said, i hope you fucking die you ugly bastard.
P.S. fuck you and you're misleading, insulting movie.,
~someone who is tired of the hypocrisy spread through tv and movies and figureheads like Bill Maher
These guys did it right & what do they get? Prison time...
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/01/29/ap5982545.html
Wogs.. tories... pimps... madams... republicans. We used to say 'hang loose', now we say 'hang, noose!'
Bill Maher Jewish? I thought Maher was Irish. Must be one of those Irish Jews. Irish Catholics, Protestants, Jews... who the fuck cares. They're all just a bunch of drunks. On the seventh day just before God rested, he took a giant shit, where Ireland is now.
Just kidding. Some of my best friends are Irish.
Obama admittedly fucked up with Daschle, although it was a great idea to get rid of him… health care is a touchy subject. But he did make an elegant move by choosing J. Bonnie Newman to replace Judd. She’s a centrist, independent minded Republican with a quirky initial for a first name… an academic like him, a tree hugger, and a woman, of course.
I had a crazy day too… the downstairs ring beams of Villa Ever Summer, the house I am building, are a few inches too low. I may have to get them trimmed with a jackhammer…logically nothing to get worked up about. Please forgive this gratuitous doodle art while I try to unwind.
The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish!
If this is true, it is a serious fact, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it.
- Frederic Bastiat
Don't look now, it seems everybody wants their 15 seconds of fame.
Meredith Vieira: "We now have with us sheriff Billy-John-Bob-Steve-Paul from Bum-Fuck County in South Carolina. Tell me sir, what led you to the decision to file charges against Michael Phelps?"
Sheriff (with strong southern draw): "Well Meredith, we got us a picture of Mr. Phelps smoking marijuana. Now, we don't like people who smoke marijuana 'round deese parts. Just like we don't like no n@%$#@s messin' 'round with our white women.
I'd like to say hi! to all dem good 'ol boys down at the shit hole saloon."
GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!!!!!
Hey Mikey,
We Irish are world class expert drunks.
Except of course the geneticists now say that the Irish & the Scottish DNA is not significantly different from English DNA. Apparently the Irish outbred everyone except the Mongols, so you have some catching up to do.
So drink up, laddy.
As for Michael Phelps, if I was him I would be celebrating my achievements as much as he is. The religulous wrong had no complaints when Joe Namath cavorted around in a fur coat, they had no complaints when they learned that both J. Edgar Hoover and John Wayne (there is no John Wayne!) liked to dress up in women's clothes, but they think this young man should not celebrate his victory??!
Georgie,
It's all about The Culture Wars. Still alive and kicking. Some parts of the country more than others.
I think that line about God taking a shit was from The Gangs of New York
If that picture of Phelps was taken on the campus of NYU or UCLA instead of U of South Carolina, you think those police would be investigating?
This idiot sheriff just wants his name in the paper. Is this a guy you would want in charge of protecting your family and property?
"There's more money for the National Endowment for the Arts than for small business." - Say the GOP
First, we all know how much the GOP loves funding the arts in this country. Even though every civilized nation in the history of man has funded the arts. Except maybe Syria, Afghanistan, Iran etc. I guess an argument can be made that if artists have too much money, or anti-depressant drugs the quality of their work will suffer. We can't have "starving artists" eating like "fat cats". We'd have too many Andy Warhols and Peter Maxes.
http://www.petermax.com/
(Great homepage!)
Second, this "stimulus" bill intentionally does not cover small business. Small business relief is going to come in the form of more money to The Small Business Administration (SBA). More money will be available for the SBA to lend. And the difference is, it will be loaned directly from the SBA, not through a secondary lender such as a private bank.
Besides, being the owner of a small business, a tax cut is not going to stimulate me to hire more workers. The only way I will hire more is when the contracts start piling up on my desk, again. A tax break is useless if there is little/no work. My potential customers are the ones who need cash/credit; middle class America. Give them the tax break, not me, thank you very much. (I'll take it later.)
What the GOP wants is just more of the same of the past eight years. They just don't get it. Neither do too many weak minded Americans who are susceptible to the marketing/advertising tricks that litter the airwaves. "GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE!" "SO EASY A CAVEMAN CAN DO IT!" "IT GIVES YOU WINGS!"
HEY! Shake it off, man! Open you're eyes! Don't be afraid of new things!
Well, I guess the GOP can spew all they want. Just so long that they don't become obstructionists.
Outperformed.
I can't tell which one is more like Mr. Magoo, Cheney or the fool. Either way big Pharma is looking for a new pig to turn:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/05/dea-led-by-bush-continues-pot-raids/
Kalifornia über alles mit dem Präsidenten Arnold Schwartzenegger
Fuck all this stimulus. You want stimulus? Cut my fucking taxes.
Otherwise this is just social engineering & piracy.
Mike M.
Iran as whole is a freaking museum.
S.
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I guess that puts Iran one up on the republicans.
Mojojojo
Yeah I know, it's getting fucking sickening. All the House dems put all their little pet projects into it. Now, McCain has introduced his own stimulus in the Senate. I thought he lost the election. There's just very weak leadership on the part of Congressional democrats. They let themselves get bullied and pushed around by the republicans for so long now, they don't know what to do or how to act. The Congress is so dysfunctional, nothing meaningful can get done. A majority of economic experts have a pretty good idea of what needs to be done. But neither side will concede the fact that they aren't as smart as the experts. So, we will end up with a bill that's full of shit from both sides. The only ones who will make out are the special interests and lobbyists. Our government no longer serves The People.
Look what's happening out in the streets
Got a revolution Got to revolution
Hey I'm dancing down the streets
Got a revolution Got to revolution
Ain't it amazing all the people I meet
Got a revolution Got to revolution
One generation got old
One generation got soul
This generation got no destination to hold
Pick up the cry
Hey now it's time for you and me
Got a revolution Got to revolution
Come on now we're marching to the sea
Got a revolution Got to revolution
Who will take it from you
We will and who are we
We are volunteers of America
You say you want a revolution
Well you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know you can count me out in
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
You say you got a real solution
Well you know
We don't all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well you know
We're doing what we can
But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is brother you have to wait
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
You say you'll change the constitution
Well you know
We all love to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well you know
You better free your mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
Okay, one more.
I'm just a wandering on the face of this earth
Meeting so many people
Who are trying to be free
And while I'm traveling I hear so many words
Language barriers broken
Now we've found the key
And if you want the wind of change
To blow about you
And you're the only other person to know, don't tell me
I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band.
A thousand pictures can be drawn from one word
Only who is the artist
We got to agree
A thousand miles can lead so many ways
Just to know who is driving
What a help it would be
So if you want this world of yours
To turn about you
And you can see exactly what to do
Please tell me
I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band.
How can we understand
Riots by the people for the people
Who are only destroying themselves
And when you see a frightened
Person who is frightened by the
People who are scorching this earth.
Music is the traveler crossing our world
Meeting so many people bridging the seas
I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band.
We're just the singers in a rock and roll band.
I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band...
Why does this old shit seem to make sense again? I haven't dropped any tabs in at least 20 years. Maybe instead of another "cultural" revolution, it's time for a "real" revolution. People won't revolution because they are afraid of losing their "creature comforts". But as this depression spirals out of control, and the government ignores the needs of the people for the needs of the special interests, people will begin to take matters into their own hands. Lines will be drawn. The party is about to begin.
How you are so right!! The stimulus plan is a great idea by Barack.
Many of these Government jobs to renovate our American infrastructure will go to unemployed and impoverished youth. I think this would be great!
And of course there will be jobs available for white American youth too! But in order for children of the WASAMI to qualify for these jobs, they will first have to be forced out of their beds and their Playstations & Nintendos pried from their hands. This will be no easy task.
Then, in many cases, there will be additional training necessary for these white youths because as the privileged youth of the modern day WASAMI has honed his or her brain into the sharpest of tools, his or her ability to use any part of the rest of his or her body to actually apply any of his or her intellectual theories has become an ever-increasingly impossible. The white intellectual youth of today has become so emulsified with bookish technical knowledge of microscopic elementations and formulations and postulations that it seems he or she has no capacity remaining to understand and implement any simple, menial task that may require practical application, common sense, physical exertion, or just plain sweat.
For instance, the modern day white intellectual scientist or technician can tell you, to the 1000th decimal place, the number of calories or ingredient matrix of each and every morsel or crumb on a plate of food, yet ask him or her to prepare that plate of food and he or she will stare at you dumbfounded.
Another example is the white intellectual engineer of today who can design a revolutionary polymer that will double the life of each and every automobile tire in America, yet ask him to change that tire and he or she will be lost.
As the white intellectual in America continues to distance himself or herself from any task requiring some measure of physical exertion, he or she becomes increasingly more physically imbalanced. His or her stress levels rise and overall health declines as he or she becomes an addict to the sedentary pursuit of mental masturbation. The pathetic health of today’s average American and increased need for pills and therapy and medication for today’s American youth is testimony to this.
Why, the average WASAMI American youth has becoming so physically inept that there is now, as we speak, legislation being drawn up in Congress that will soon require a warning label on each and every pack of chewing gum sold in America stating- WARNING: WALKING AND CHEWING GUM AT THE SAME TIME CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH. PLEASE CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN FIRST TO BE SURE YOU ARE HEALTHY ENOUGH TO CHEW GUM.
So yes, there WILL be opportunity for American whites too for these jobs! And imagine the joy & satisfaction these WASAMI youth will feel after having put in a full day of work where they actually ACCOMPLISHED something! Imagine the good work habits these white youth will pick up working side by side with black & Latino youth! Imagine these white youth passing on these good work habits to their parents! Imagine what a difference this could make. It’s easy if you try.
Yes, this is an excellent idea by the Earth American President Elect Barack Obama! And if this plan is what it takes to turn America around, then yes it would be alright for you to declare Barack one of the best Presidents ever!
If the shoe fits, wear it.
...of mice not men...
…and AGAIN I REPEAT, my sensors indicate FEAR…
…FEAR that has caused all MONEY and the vast majority of the wealth & power produced from the sweat of the middle-class laborer in America to be FUNNELED over, mostly by Republican Administrations, to the BOARD OF DIRECTORS & CEO’s of the GUN & BOMB & MUNITIONS PRODUCERS & WAR MACHINISTS in America…
…i.e. Halliburton, BlackWater, Aerojet, Alliant Techsystems, BAE Systems, General Dynamics, Nexter (Giat Industries), Mattel Munitions, G.I. Joe Inc., to name a few…
…who have made deals for the PROLIFERATION of FEAR & HATRED & UNREST for years behind closed doors with Wall Street & Congress & the Republican Presidents and Vice-Presidents and the leaders of the Israel war machine with the vested cooperation by some leaders of the Muslim world…
…so that they can keep control of the world’s power and monies thru the PROLIFERATION of FEAR & HATRED & UNREST…
… and no one held a gun to anyone’s head, there was no need to, for the EXCHANGE OF GIFTS & PROMISES OF UNSCRUPTULOUS WEALTH is all the impetus needed by this small group of elitists to strive to destroy happiness and prosperity for the remaining vast majority of PEACEFUL & CIVILIZED CITIZENS of the planet…
…and it is time to SHINE A SPOTLIGHT ON THESE TRANSACTIONS AND THESE PLAYERS and highlight their FEAR & HATRED & UNREST of having to give up one of the seven or eight or seventy-eight (or was that one hundred & seventy-eight, gosh, I’m not sure, I’ll have my accountants get back to you on that one) homes they own, or collection of cars, or ONE LOUSY DOLLAR…
…and the FEAR & HATRED & UNREST in these mice not men that someone else might make some money too and have some comforts in life too…
…can someone at the Washington Post do an article on this please…
...of mice not men...
...and of course this FEAR is rooted in the inferior physical make-up of the typical WASAMI...
...who long ago found that competition with the black man for power on a level playing field and without the assistance of some device or entity or head start would mean coming in last every time...
...in the game...and the competition...and the race...in life...for acquisition of wealth... and ownership of goods...and a date with the prettiest cheerleader...
...would mean coming in last every time...
...and thus, with the dawn of a new day for Earth Americas and a President whose face does not bring to mind a marshmallow pillow with lips...
...we see the heightened amount of FEAR and the DESPERATION in these WASAMI's & Republican puppets to keep in control of the game and rules...
...in the life...
...of mice not men...
...and especially for you citizen mikem...
We can put a man up in space,
But on Earth it’s just a rat race,
Is this the Future?
Got people workin 9 to 5,
While over half are tryin to stay alive,
Is this the Future?
Crime is up,
Education is down,
But the Dow Jones is on the rebound,
Is this the Future?
Ronald Reagan said stay the course,
But only a fool would want to endorse,
This kind of Future.
Everyday as I go my way,
I can hear the people as they say,
Hey brother can you spare a dime,
I don’t want to end up doin time.
But they say it’s only a sign
Of the Future.
Found a car that I thought I’d buy
But the interest rates were just too high
Is this the Future?
Worked years perfecting my craft,
Now my boss is giving me the shaft,
Is this the Future?
Used to eat steaks and caviar,
Now it’s peanut butter and a candy bar,
Is this the Future?
All my money is nearly spent,
Don’t have enough to pay the rent,
YOU CAN CANCEL THE FUTURE.
Everyday as I go my way,
I can hear the people as they say,
Hey brother can you spare a dime,
I don’t want to end up doin time.
But they say it’s just a sign,
Of the Future...
Major tom,
Sounds like you have one or two teenage children. My buddy can't even get his kid to bring in the EMPTY trashcans from the street. My grandfather taught me a trade when I was 13. And HE worked until he was about 74. He died at 76.
Gotta run, more later.
Check out:
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/
131502.html?success=1#lastpost
I'm Michael
It did it again. For some reasom it posted me as "Mike". This is weird.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm_uZob7K3A
this link is all about me. but great commentary on France, Bill.
For a while now, I've been wondering who could be the right girl for you. Hear out my idea… if you were married, we would both have a stable infrastructure at home, and maybe then could we blog in peace. Even George Carlin says the fidelity commandment could not possibly include merely thinking about someone. In his own words, "I don’t think you should outlaw fantasizing about someone else’s wife, otherwise what’s a guy going to think about when he’s waxing his carrot?" So I started to sift through the hopefuls and first ruled out your typical libidinous, impulsive objects of desire... exotic snake charmer types. Actually I concluded you need a nice Jewish girl… and I saw her today! Watching Sarah Silverman in 'Jesus is Magic', I found her incredibly funny, compatibly acerbic, and cute. She even wears your kind of clothes. There’s only one thing that bugs me: as this white thing using provocative slang approaches two homeboys, shouldn’t they be devouring her with their eyes? I know they’re trying to act, but they don’t look gay… wouldn’t they at least betray some kind of lusty sparkle? This had me a little perplexed, but it might be fun to crack that nut and find out.
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Big hugs and congratulations to Craig Ferguson on his recent wedding. I think all your kittens concur. We’re even licking ourselves in relief.
I really enjoyed his soul opera story, ‘Between the Bridge and the River’. There is one passage I’d like to bring up: Fraser’s panic attack during airplane turbulence, leading to fervid supplications to God. As the narrator explains, “It was part of Fraser’s arrogance that he thought the turbulence affecting a plane carrying two hundred people was actually put there by a Supreme Being to directly threaten him.” I would offer that interrelation of cause and effect can’t be fully understood in context of the ordinary perception of ‘I’ and ‘other’. The dynamic is well summed up by Rastas’ favored expression of ‘I and I’. In the Gaia theory of earth’s equilibrium as well as the 'I and I' wraparound view of interwoven humanity, everyone all the time is subject to Godincidence. It starts to be noticeable as ego barriers go down.
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Major Tom, what great prose and poetry!
Bill Maher (is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me...)
I think you should have a standing invite for Barack on your show. He getting 1-2 gangpiled by both parties, it is obvious that he must appeal directly to the American peeps.
Major tom(boy)
you are passionate & you are po-ed in the righteous way but I have to clarify your point about the war pigs making all the money - this time they aren't American, they are EU - Halliburton & Blackwater, to be specific.
lovetoamuse,
Love your 'secret love' but I don't see whats so secret... you might want to not share pix of your beautiful home, it tends to draw greedy envangelical evilanglizers. Let me tell you, they descend quickly, in droves. If you only had one issue with your contractor, he is a better carpenter and a far better manager than Jesus. I want his contact info.
karma
think.
dharma
Bill, you have got to check this out. It is absolutely REAL.
"The Family Focus Forum has announced the next priority on their legislative agenda, the Gender Definition Amendment. This is a proposed amendment to the Arizona constitution that will further define marriage by defining the terms "man" and "woman".
Man or Woman? The Ministry will decide. With Prop 102, we will successfully define marriage in the constitution as being between one man and one woman. However, the definition of what is a man, and what is a woman, remains a big gaping hole that needs to be plugged. Just because someone says they are a woman doesn't mean they really are...
Read the amendment they hope to add to the Arizona constitution.
http://www.prop102.com/prop102_news/Family_Focus_Forum_Seeks_Volunteers_For_Post-102_Gender_Definition_Amendment.html
Bill,
Thank you for being the voice of reason, humour and descent against the unethical leaders that have led the United States into depression, death and despair.
I strongly support your views as I resist and speak against my Canadian government under the leadership of Conservative fundamentalist Stephen Harper.
I only now hope that President Obama can influence Harper to get out of the 19th century and into the 21st.
Looking forward to the the return of "Real Time" and if you could throw in a comical attack on Harper here or there, I'd really appreciate it!
Gavin
Hi lens,
I don’t have a yacht. Last week I was sitting in a gas station chatting with a business acquaintance who was amiable enough to change my flat tire, when I looked up and saw Secret Love.
It's a long story, but the laid off contractor who was testing my love for humankind is not a carpenter. We don’t build with sticks which tend to blow away; we pour concrete over reinforced steel. It’s hard to share in the excitement when Oprah offers a homeless Louisiana family a brand new house of sticks.
As far as hiding from the evenjellycul Neanderthals, if Bill is OK, I don’t think I need be concerned. Really, they’re nice people, we relate cordially. Have a blessed day...
Here’s something I see on my daily commute.
If the people only knew
If they could visualize
Just open their eyes
Even stop to think about
If they could open their minds
They could get beyond
The world's a funny place you know
Most of what goes on
Is rarely funny
Rarely funny
Could the people understand
In only whisper and screams
And colorless dreams
Could they finally comprehend
If they could suddenly see
And suddenly feel
The world's a funny place you know
Most of what goes on
Is rarely funny
Rarely funny
- Robert Lamm
I was checking out all the promotional clips, I love working hard too! Somehow I ended up in the Religulous box and saw the coffee thing. Would you like to get side tracked down the yellow brick road of Pussy logic? At my house Juny enjoys bringing me my favorite drink, Greens Plus nutritional supplement. No matter how taco macho a man is, whether he’s Caribbean, or even Arabic (I suspect), a sexually elated man loves to fetch for mademoiselle. Arabs wouldn’t want this to be known, but as Tom Robbins alludes in ‘Fierce Invalids from Hot Climates’, in the privacy of their own home it must be impossible for them to resist the urge to be helpful.
“Toufic may have been Christian, but he was nonetheless Arabic and thus subject to the sexual insecurities that among men of the Middle East achieved titanic, even earth-changing proportions; insecurities that had spawned veils, shaven heads, clitoridectomies, house arrest, segregation, macho posturing, and three major religions. The women hereabouts must have really been something! thought Swittters. They must have had loins of fire, pussies of gold; their libidos must have brayed like wild asses and loomed like desert dunes. Inexhaustible, inextinguishable, inextricable, they had turned the weaker sexual animal inside out and drove him to build cultural, political, and religious walls in order to contain their deep, roiling juices; walls so steep and rigid they still stood… Had the men been ego-wounded crybabies and scaredy-cats, or were the women actually that free, that hot?”
Tom Robbins? "Another Roadside Attraction" is one of my favorite works of fiction.
Personally, I put him up there with Hunter S. and William S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq7IUM4lCrs
"Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective. Man's peculiarly ambivalent psyche permits him to operate simultaneously according to two opposing codes. There is the code which he professes to live by, and there is the code to whose standards he actually does adhere. The deceit is so ingrained and subtle that most men truly are unaware of it, although to psychologists, philosophers, and the like, it is no news at all."
- T. Robbins
Did he seriously end this blog entry with a smiley face made out of a colon and a right bracket?
http://www.smouch.net/lol/
Heads up, incoming!
The only thing that binds us is Walmart & Starbucks... and taxes. Time to downsize the bloated, overpaid management.
http://patdollard.com/2009/02/new-hampshire-fires-first-shot-of-civil-war-resolution-immediately-voids-several-federal-laws-threatens-counterstrike-against-breach-of-peace/
Kalifornia Uber Alles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgN-lGkVu0U
Bill is a jackass. I listen to the guy make his point and I realize he:
(1) Doesn't have a clue what he is talking about. Did he read anything outside of talking points about policy issues such as the stimulus.
(2) Spends way too much time bashing Bush-probably should be more respectful-it is possible to be funny and respectful
(3) Has his lips attached to Obama's rear
(4) Say inconsistent things all the time. "I support legalizing marijuana, but I want to regulate other personal freedom issues."
(5) Is not a libertarian and should not claim this because he makes the party look bad, he is a left wing nut liberal, so this is what he should call himself
Geithner’s nomination was meant to appease right wingers but Obama miscalculated Tim’s miserable aesthetics and lackluster delivery. How bad was the performance? Fury and despair reverberated all the way in Lone Grove OK.
Note that the actual plan is to form a national bad bank; a national bank nonetheless … down the line, a big advantage for constituents. I admit it’s extremely difficult to find a fed money machine who can emote, but Obama spoiled us with his super charisma. Does the constitution allow for him to sit in for the treasury secretary?
Love2Amuse:
Platt’s 3rd Law: “Laziness trumps everything.”
Every human being ever born is inherently lazy, and can be relied upon to do the absolute minimum amount of work he can get away with (or less), under any and all circumstances. Therefore, (first corollary) that which is easy to do will be done frequently, whether it should be or not, and that which is difficult to do will be done infrequently, whether it should be or not. Therefore, (second corollary) a good design makes the good, safe, smart things easy to do, and the bad, dangerous, stupid things hard to do. Alternate phrasing of the second corollary: “Always put a hand guard on your meat slicer.”
All religions are followed on the basis of this principle: it is easier to believe than to learn.
atm I am cynically amused to watch the bribe taking politicians dangle their banking accomplices - you say 'bonus', I say 'award', I say 'bribe', you say 'campaign contribution'.
Hang them all and be done with it!
lens,
Thanks for the hand guard recommendation. I'll try to remember that next time I try to be funny.
Country first??? You have got to be kidding me. It should be called Country first...after Bill. You act like all the other LA right wingers, thinking that everything is relative and the chrurch is the root of all evil. Watching Larry King Live tonight just made me think of what all the other people in America are wondering as they watched you. Bill your negative comments and opinions are what have made your career as a stand-up uhhh...comic.
Carlo Aaron,
I'm not sure I've ever heard Bill refer to himself as a libertarian. Besides, libertarians can't agree on what hand to wipe their asses with let alone a balance between gov. regulations and free markets.
mike
Better than a veg VW, no SOx / NOx /COx emmissions:
http://www.teslamotors.com/
George
Nice cars! But the problem I see with electric cars is - Where is the electricity to charge them coming from? If it's coming from a coal burner it defeats the purpose. However, if it's coming from wind/solar then it's worth it. But you also have to consider how much is it taking off the grid that would otherwise be used for powering other things.
There's always a catch, and there's no single answer. Electrics will be part.
Check out the oil burner concept car from Citroen -
http://www.netcarshow.com/citroen
/2008-hypnos_concept/
http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/paris-2008
-citroen-hypnos/
A bit over the top with the design?
George,
What do you think of Maher's opinion on the Middle East. I watched an episode about the Lebanon-Israel war and I realized how this guy is a joke. Actually, something between a hypocrit and a joke. Back to prefering Jon Stewart. At least, the guy has a brain not only a dick and a mouth and doesn't takes himself seriously.
Let me know what you think before I leave here. If you wanna leave me your email adress so we chat somewhere, that would be cool.
TC
S.
PS Here is the link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL0zbWm6ba4
The poor idiot is actually also a racist, and he can't even pronounce names correctly.
I like what Karl Rove said about the economy. Paraphrasing, "It will get better by itself in about 9-18 months, depending how much the stimulus package fucks it up".
Thats the logick that got us where we are today, from a most fascist citizen who amazingly, isn't accountable to the rule of law.
If the senate phears him, I bet the irs stays away from his drug smuggling business too. Using military assets & personel too...
It was my experience that the federal stimulus program known as 'NASA' and the commitment to have an Irishman walk on the moon produced the most powerful technological industrial base this planet has ever seen.
I can't make this shit up. Doesn't it sound ridiculous when I say it that way? We sent 2 Micks to the moon, courtesy US taxpayers and got a booming economy in return, that was only hampered by the feds taxing the shit out of the industrial base until it went overseas. Only the computer boom kept us out of the ditch, until now.
We have to address the drunken driving of the idiocrats, they like the ditch way too much. They must think its a sex toy.
Its time to emmigrate to one of the new democracies we have supported. Only thing is, I can't find one. Unless you think S. Korea is a democracy.
People seem to forget about all the things federal spending has got us: interstate highway system, airline industry, agriculture (farm subsidies), and optical fiber communication (fiber optics), just to name a few.
It's only when you start spending money on minorities and underprivileged that upsets the GOP.
I hope you had a happy earth shattering orgasm day.
Naughty, naughty!
...because the inability to achieve a comfortable living by working at a job inbreeds an inclination towards an alternative means of subsistence, and in the majority of cases, this means illegal drug activity, prostitution, or other types of criminal behavior. America's younger generation has evolved from being future presidents to being unconscionable criminals, or 'super predators' as they are now being so ‘cleverly’ labeled for being a ‘menace to society?’ …
…but who is the real 'menace to society?'…
…Professor Paul Butler of the George Washington School of Law, in a paper published by the Harvard School of Law, argues that black men serving time in prison for selling drugs should be let out because "they are only trying to better their position in life." Professor Butler has a point. These black men, many of them young men, are only using what resources are available to them in order to acquire the materialistic goods which have been available to rich white Americans for years…
…and the only difference between what these young blacks do and what corporate executives do is the executive's unethical means of acquisition are legal, and the blacks means are not…
…but I digress. This is not an issue of black versus white. It is an issue of rich versus poor, the bourgeoisie versus the proletariat, the 'haves' versus the 'have-nots'. And the battle lines are becoming more and more distinct all across America…
…Years ago, Americas forefathers left the oppressive Monarchy rule of England to establish a new society in a new land where all men would be treated equally and democracy would be the governing force. Well, something happened on the way to the forum…
…and what you now have is an America where more and more rich are taking everything they can get their hands on, whether it be property, real estate, merchandise, legal rights, or privileges, and in the process are throwing more and more people to the wolves. Ninety percent of America's vast wealth is owned by only ten percent of its population. It seems the English monarchs of old have returned in the form of the William Randolph Hearsts and their Xanadus, who use their power and control over law and government to acquire whatever they may fancy. It is time for a change…
…it is time to expose the modern day WASAMI, or White Anglo Saxon Alpha Male Intellectual, for what he really is--- the most dangerous social predator since the Tyrannosaurus Rex…
…and it is time for Americans to take back America. It is time to get a Maximum Wage on the ballots across this land, and it is time to use the correct legal channels to change America…
...as well...
...any companies receiving bailout funds must implement the following restriction to their payroll:
A Maximum Wage, or a ‘salary cap’ whereby no corporate CEO can be paid more than 10 times the lowest paid worker in that company. This means that if the highest paid CEO of a company presently makes two million per year, then the lowest paid worker, be it the secretary or the custodian, must be paid $200,000 per year, or if a CEO takes $500,000 in salary per year, the lowest paid employee must be paid $50,000 per year, or the hourly equivalent if a part time employee.
Another way to look at this is that any company would have a pay scale based on a ten-tier system. Most new employees would be brought in at the bottom scale and over the years have the potential to move up on the pay scale. The top executives would be at the top tier, but could advance no further unless all tiers were modified to allow the increase. The more successful the company, the higher the pay scales could be.
Thus, a company must either raise the lowest tier of pay, or lower the top tier to satisfy requirements.
Executives, and laborers alike if desired, could also boost their income through stock options. This would give the common laborers and executives alike more incentive for efficiency and productivity. This is the type of corporate restructuring needed, not mass layoffs.
A law such as this will result in the decrease in pay for the gluttonously rich. A Maximum Wage will require a sacrifice from a small minority of people who can easily afford it, and will give a large majority an easier way of life.
With more money being spread around more evenly, the result will be more buying power for a larger number of people and more small business opportunities, thus creating a boom in the economy. Despair in America will diminish, crime will decrease, a rebuilding process will begin, and Americans will once again be united.
This is the solution to somewhat diminish the greed that is destroying the Earth Americas economy.
...ah yes, but my MAXIMUM WAGE PROPOSAL is NOT SOCIALISM...
...a MAXIMUM WAGE is merely a necessary SPEED LIMIT ON CAPITALISM as it has been shown that the modern-day WASAMI corporate CEO is drunk at the wheel...
..but of course you impudent Earthlings saw it coming...
...NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw reported in March of 1996 (yes, 13 years ago the writing was on the wall) that the average CEO's salary of the top seventy-six businesses in America went up nearly 15% in 1995 to over two million dollars, this at a time when more workers than ever were laid-off by these same corporations...
...and according to the February 26, 1996 issue of Newsweek magazine, AT&T chairman Robert Allen made $3.3 million in salary for 1995, then add to that an extra $5 million in stock and options after he announced the layoffs of 40,000 workers in January of 1996.
Walter Shipley, CEO of Chemical/Chase Manhattan earned $2.4 million in 1997 and also laid-off 12,000 workers.
To put this all in perspective, there is on average one spouse and two children depending on each laid-off worker's income to survive, thus essentially creating four persons with no income for every one laid-off.
Is this ethical? Not hardly. Is it fair? Certainly not. Is it legal? It most certainly is. It is not legal to steal a $3.00 package of hamburger if you need to feed your children, yet it is legal for a corporation to lay-off or freeze the salaries of their laborers while giving their executives a monumental raise or bonus if they so desire. Absolutely legal. And this is where the law must change.
The answer is a Maximum Wage in America...
...and the truth is that conservatives are always spouting Republican Misery Machine propaganda...
...by saying THEY DO NOT WANT GOVERNMENT INTEVENTION in any aspect of their life...
...and yet if someone walks on the grass or thru their garden of their vast estate or stands at their storefront and starts selling someone elses wares then suddenly THEY WANT GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION in their life to stop this…
…so you see they can’t have it both ways…
…because the fact is that the entire Earth Americas society has form of socialism built into it…
…where government intervenes to produce and sustain harmony for the good of its citizens…
…and it should be designed to work for THE MAJORITY and not for an elite few…
...thus change is necessary...
…n’est pas?...
major-tom,
Essentially, oui... but if you can’t get a 2 year old to take a nap, do you think the Dow’s drivers are going to sit still for a forced redistribution agenda?
Obama is holding a bomb he has to disable. This can only be accomplished with measured diplomacy. As Dr. Zbigniew Brzeskinsy suggests in his cute French Canadian accent, those who have amassed great wealth should ‘voluntarily’ assemble a national solidarity fund to help jump start the economy. He’s starting to sell the new mood of the moment: showing leadership.
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I like Nadya Suleman's candor and determination. Again, as with so many instances of the road to hell being paved with good intentions, she has been misled by religious indoctrination, in this case 'to go forth and multiply'. Had her pure mothering instinct been freed to encompass a wider bond, she may have applied all this devotion to adoption.
MySpace counterpart cutie pie Amani could also be right that she’s addicted to oxytocin, the feel-good 'bonding' chemical that floods a woman's body when she gives birth, and also after orgasm. I guess I too may have an oxytocin dependency, but I apply cognitive reasoning to those kinds of decisions.
thats ergonovine, L2A. oxytocin is the blowfish poisin.
I know what you mean tho
lens,
Yesterday I looked oxytocin up, and the description matched Amani’s.
Here are some Wikipedia definitions:
Oxytocin (Greek, "quick birth") is a mammalian hormone that also acts as a neurotransmitter in the brain. It is best known for its roles in female reproduction: it is released in large amounts after distension of the cervix and vagina during labor, and after stimulation of the nipples, facilitating birth and breastfeeding, respectively. Recent studies have begun to investigate oxytocin's role in various behaviors, including social recognition, bonding, anxiety, trust, and maternal behaviors.... The relationship between oxytocin and human sexual response is unclear. At least two non-controlled studies have found increases in plasma oxytocin at orgasm – in both men and women.
Ergonovine, also known as ergometrine or d-lysergic acid beta-propanolamide, is an ergoline (and lysergamide) derivative, and one of the primary ergot and morning glory alkaloids. It is chemically similar to LSD, ergine, and lysergic acid.... According to TIHKAL by Alexander Shulgin, ergonovine has LSD-like action at levels of 2-10 milligrams.
The blowfish is a fish in the Tetraodontidae family. The puffer's toxin is called tetrodotoxin. Puffer's poisoning will cause deadening of the tongue and lips, dizziness, and vomiting. These are followed by numbness and prickling over the body, rapid heart rate, decreased blood pressure, and muscle paralysis... Many people report being fully conscious during the entirety of the coma, and can often remember everything that was said while they were supposedly unconscious.
Oxytocin, ergonovine and tetrodotoxin do have something in common; all three can juice up spiritual experience. We know about the oxytocin connection, and ergonovine sounds psychedelicious; but the fine art of introspection is best served by the effect of tetrodotoxin. I went through a couple years of blowfish style paralysis after a head injury left me hypersensitive to low level electrical magnetic fields. Unprejudiced submission ennobles.
Bill. Religulous. Thank you.
The bank nationalization idea didn’t only sprout wings, it's grown fangs, and the pain is palpable in financiers’ voices. Having already lost complete control, they’re about to lose it all as the new administration demonstrates it’s really not that hard to control a balance sheet. An attack via UBS on whale IRS cheats makes it clear that clawbacks are in the works.
It’s time to see through predatory propaganda and consider the profitability of true public ownership. Nor is this communism, but good old fashioned competition.
My husband and I love you!
WHY DON'T YOU EVER COME TO TEXAS!? We would love to see you in person but you never come to this area?!
How about you pull some strings and send me some tickets for a live taping and I can surprise my husband :D
Thanks!
April
Love2Amuse,
Of course you are right. You have saved me the humiliation of turning someone I mean to poison
Bill is back! Plus I have tix when he comes to town, complements Shitty Bank!
I meant turning on!
just to recap,
20 trillion dollars over 8 years is 6.85 billion per day, or $24 per us citizen per day.
Hpw do we get congress to rendition Karl Rove?
There's a great cafepress store SHOOTING at golden parachutes.
http://www.cafepress.com/GoldParachute
Great show last night!
Same question as last season: Where are the transcripts???? Please put them up as you used to! Thanks.
Hey Bill,
Good movie just watched it. Now if we can get the other 80 percent of the world to wake up. I would say we might survive. Bitch to know there is so many dumb motherfuckers ready to die over a man made book.
I've been home for the last year prepping for my new business. Had a lot of time to research all the bullshit going on in the country. What a mess it is right now. To much greed and crazy ass religion, it's ruining our country and the world.
Anyway great movie. If you need any advertisement let me no I'll run you a banner around Panama City Fl.
Have a good one, I am
Lend America or steal from america. i read an article related to the current "chief business analyst" for lend america. it seems that the same problems still exist with mortgage (theft) lending. the chief business analyst , mike ashley, is not documented as the owner...due to the fact of his mortgage fraud he commited a few years ago. actually his sisters are the owners? everyone there knows the story...but it seems the government turns another cheek. can the government dig deeper...can they really see what is going on?...and will they wake up and stop the theft of the american people again...??? written by a concerned citizen. link to article: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_48/b4110036448352_page_2.htm
Bill,
I am not sure if you actually read this but..... I have to tell you that I ditched work in order to make it to your first show back on Friday. Can I just say I luv you! But that first show was awful. I am not sure if it was your guests or that awful tie, are you unwilling to go after Obama? What's the deal! I need the real you back because your first show was reminiscent of a ladies garden tea party, everyone including you was overly polite and it made me think that the FCC was looking over your shoulder. Please come back to me in your actual form and please know that I will not be cutting out of work to come to your show until your true form is displayed consistantly in this season. I did buy your DVD though, and I will be buying a few others to ship off to Jamaica because the rest of the family has been waiting to see it.
Please come back, normally you leave Rachel Maddow and Keith Olberman in the dust, on Friday Anderson Cooper had a one up and you and that is saying a lot.
Sometimes yours, Binks.
Really I expect more from you!
I just watched Religulous and we must be kindred spirits. You said many of the things I have been saying for years. I often quote you saying religion is a neurologiccal disorder. I have one you can quote from me. There are many many people in the world who need freedom FROM religion not freedom OF religion. To name a few, every child who ever died because the parents didn't believe in doctors, the mormon girls FORCED into polygamous marriages, many moslem women and all those who are not allowed to dance, turn off/on lights, use electricity eat pork, etc.
Many people also have it backwards. I am not sure that God created mankind, but I am certain that mankind created the God(s) of religion.
Bill, Just saw your movie. I rented it, but now I need to own it. You need to Blog more and build up your online presence.
The season opener was weaksauce. It was like watching an episode of The View, only everyone agreed with each other.
Go back to the original recipe and stick in a douche like Frank Luntz because this kind of Olbermman insulation is how liberals at home get fat and lazy.
http://marktwainispissed.blogspot.com/
Kudos for your speech at the Oscars.
I prefer saying I am a 'Material Determinst' instead of Atheist. Atheist has connotations that Material Determinist avoids.
You might find my two articles at the address below interesting?
http://krantz2.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/chances-are-zero-or-100/
Cheers,
Krantz
Hey Bill,
Have you heard about this blue dog statue that has been handed down? That is just amazing. I had a fluffy cat statue when I was a kid.
Check this out: proposed bill to get rid of the IRS, really.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h25/show
Loved the season opener, I always enjoy RP.
Hi Bill,
I want to share with you a recent entry from my blog (which has a whopping nine readers!). You might not agree with the first part, but you mentioned the second half on your Friday broadcast of Real Time.
War and Weed
Because I'm attending Roosevelt University, I decided to not be a total hack and do some research about the person that the school is named after, Franklin Roosevelt. And, thinking about Roosevelt and learning new information on the man led to a theory about some possible remedies for our current economic situation.
First, a piece of must-know information. One of the significant events that preceded the Great Depression was the Stock Market crash of 1929. The initial crash was on what some refer to as Black Thursday. The exact date was October 24, 1929. Exactly 50 years later, in a Las Vegas Hospital, yours truly was born. Yes. On the 50th Anniversary, October 24, 1979, Brian Fredrick Wright was born. I just Bo Jackson-ed (referred to myself in the 3rd person). So, there has to be some reason for that. And, I think it's this:
Most experts agree that World War II acted as a springboard to recovery for America following the Depression. Jobs were created based on the needs of the Military. Hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers were now full-timers, building vehicles and packaging food and printing papers and doing jobs that were born from the War. In the six years of World War II, unemployment went from over 10% to roughly 1.2% when the war ended in 1945.
Okay. So, what's the point? Some will say that we're already at war. Two wars, to be exact. But, I think we can all agree that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan don't create jobs (except for the elite companies chosen for contracts). But, there is a war that can not only create jobs, but build a universal pride in America, and put us back on the moral high ground in the world. And, this war will be short. Actually, I hate to even call it a "war" because the war part is the gateway to a larger, more efficient strategy of investment.
The war is in Sudan. I agree that there are evil forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, but on the global evil scale, President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir of Sudan is the equivalent of Adolf Hitler. Many have heard of the Darfur conflict, but most don't know that al-Bashir is directly involved in the deaths of roughly 400,000 people and the displacement of over 2.5 million people. On top of that, daily rapes of women and children and gruesome murders occur.
Is this a reason for war? Yes. I think so. The great, leading American minds on this don't agree with me. These heroes of mine want a peaceful solution. And, I admire them for that. But, 80s Arnold movies taught me that, sometimes, you need to kick ass and take name. But, like I said, this was will lead to something bigger. And, because the US has the most unbelievable military in the world, we can make this war short and sweet. Which leads to the the bigger deal. The Big Deal (yes, taken from Roosevelt's New Deal).
The Big Deal will start in a now democratic Sudan, and spread throughout Africa. One part of The Big Deal will be called InvestAfrica. The model will be Sudan. And, in Sudan, with a democratically elected President (which Sudan used to have until al-Bashir led a coup in 1989), America will invest in the infrastructure and people of Sudan. We'll build roads, telephone capability, power, etc. We'll create jobs. We'll make a now struggling country turn into the model country of Africa. And, other countries will follow. I'd love to speak to finance, infrastructure and government experts on this to really map out the plan. Until then, I'll push for the overall ideology. This idea could be a whole book. For now, it must live here, on a blog. But, hopefully, it can expand into policy.
Another huge factor in stopping the Great Depression was something so simple, yet so important to the fabric of America that we tend to forget about it. And, that's ending Prohibition. Prohibition lasted from 1920 to 1933. In that time, the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol for consumption were banned nationally. It was Constitutional law. So, what happened? Bootlegging rose hence crime rose. People were going to drink... no matter what. They visited illegal bars and speakeasies. They got their alcohol. And, organized crime blossomed and benefitted.
What is the 2009 mirror of alcohol in the 20s? Weed. Pot. Marijuana. That's right. The border problem we have with Mexico is not just illegal immigrants. We have major problems with violence spilling into US border towns form Mexican drug cartels. These violent drug cartels thrive off American consumption of their product. My idea works two-fold for this, and makes Mexican drug cartels irrelevant.
First, the national government must legalize marijuana - the use, sale, manufacture, and transportation. Decriminalize it. Then, industrialize it. Imagine the jobs created in the legal marijuana market. There would be farms, equipment, transportation, wholesale, retail - millions of jobs will be created. Much like alcohol in the 1920s, present pot smokers will smoke pot NO MATTER WHAT. So, why not fix problems?
We have to start thinking Green, too. But, there isn't a plain and simple answer to those problems. I wish there was. But, lifestyle changes are always gradual. I have ideas on simple ways to head in the direction of living green, but that's a different article all together.
So, what do you think? Problems with my plan? Holes? Would you approve of this new world where the economy flourishes and there's smiles on everybody's face?
Dear Mr. Maher:
I caught you riffing about "Songs for the New Depression" on Larry King a few nights ago. You began singing and ad-lib updated version of "Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime?" You sang: "Once I built a website..." and trailed off.
I had the same thought a few months ago. Hearing you inspired me to go ahead and finish the rest of the song parody. I wrote it, recorded it and produced a short video to illustrate it over the past few days. Tonight I posted it to YouTube.
I would be extremely grateful and thrilled if you would have a look and let me know what you think. I mentioned you in the notes section and included an onscreen credit at the end of the video.
Thank you again for the inspiration. Like all your fans, I adore your wry and incisive wit. You are undoubtedly the nation's foremost iconoclast and humorist working today. Keep it up!
Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxo3TrAlSPY
Jindal tells,
Jindal sells,
Jindal all the way,
oh what fun it is to ride,
on an elephant from Bombay...
...and it's knowin' that your door is always open and your path is free to walk...
...that makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch...
...and it's knowin' I'm not shackled by forgotten words and bonds and the ink stains that have dried upon some line...
...that keeps you in the back roads by the rivers of my memory that keeps you ever...
...Jindal on my mind...
Here is a cool NYT story about a guy who posed as a bank to get money from shiti bank:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/nyregion/21scam.html?_r=3
I wonder how many like this are lined up to defraud BANKAID?
What do you feed a mermaid? Certainly not fish.
It is not that republicans don't think the USA is worth criticism, it is that we believe that despite it's problems it is still the greatest country on earth. That is until a majority of people find themselves aligned with you and your dogma. For someone who has no belief in religion you sure do espouse equally divise rhetoric. Maybe you should see what the founding fathers thought were the underpinnings of a great nation. Common Sense Until next time The Silent Majority
Bill, I saw you on Larry King when you started to sing: "Once I built a website..." Well, I finished the song and put it on a video (and gave you full acknowledgment for inspiring it). It's gotten a great reaction so far. Check it out and let us know what you think. Thanks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxo3TrAlSPY
After Bobby’s quasi assassination, who’ll be the next lucky Republican to climb up on the altar and get creamed? Media Joes are asking if any Republican has even one new idea to counter the Democrats. Ironically Ron Paul offers a pertinent path to recovery on a low cal spending diet: Fed reform; but just as his idea to legalize weed without taking the profits defies all logic, so does his obstinacy to defend free market capitalism in its horridious state. Odd Ron… fresh and freaky at the same time.
Who else is out there besides the tired re-emergence of Joe T. Plumber? We haven’t heard from Arnold yet, probably because he’s some kind of closet Democrat, and too smart to challenge Emperor Obama. Still, he may be able to carry the cross for the simple reason that he strongly favors spending. Evidently we prefer to keep the fantasy alive at any cost. As to his citizenship issue, it would be funny if the GOP’s only hope is not American enough.
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Economist Ellen Brown is now trying to downplay the need for radical change in the banking system. In her latest blog she endorses the relatively simple option of funding the stimulus with interest free borrowing from the Fed, instead of suckling from high interest foreign lenders. She argues how this would not result in inflation, our problems would be solved, and how the Fed has already started co-operating with this in its altruistic mercy. Even the commenters on her blog are not ready to relinquish our total distrust of this agency, nor the outrage of emerging class warfare. Obama may be hustling his centrist stance successfully, but an informed society cannot be made numb again so easily. If only his way wasn’t the high road of wisdom! Philosophically he's likely to prevail if he can wheedle his regulations to a resuscitated banking industry without browbeating it back down with nationalism. Spiritually, the pros method of effecting change is through something which could be called passive intervention, wherein illuminated minds do nothing at all, and everything happens their way… of course this has nothing to do with Ron Paul’s creaky conservatism. It’s difficult to understand, but neat when it works. Thank goodness for a little comic relief, like your double banker delight!
HEY DIKSUK, WHY CAN'T YOU ANSWER A QUESTION YOU TYPICAll phucknut? You are the worst I've ever seen. You love to criticize but couldn't even spell your mother's name. Whatever, give a true intellect a chance, bitch
How boring i this ....yu fing people need an f-ing life
Re: Congresswoman Maxine Waters remarks I might add:
We Bought the American Dream with Chinese Dollars!
I understand that bad mortgage loans caused by poor banking practices have pushed us deep into debt with China.
Home owners who took on unaffordable debt and the lenders (the pros who should have known better) should absorb those losses.
Large bank failures will not stop our economy. The resulting assets of such failed institutions will be bought by investors and economic life will go on.
Returning to sound banking practices will provide a better picture of real estate values which will allow the banks to make better banking decisions.
We built our great railroads with Chinese labor in the 19th Century, now we have mortgaged the American Dream with Chinese dollars in the 21st!
Richard Mason
Topeka, KS
Hi Bill
First of all Congratulations on Making of Religious at least you are courageous enough to touch the subject.
But to be honest it really sucks. Most of the parts it was boring and neither funny nor serious.
I Thought Bill Maher is making a documenatary on religion means there must some substance which was lacking in it.
The guys who were interviewed were dumb they can't even defend what they are saying.
And once again you choose not offend jews by saying sorry to your jews friends every other religions is f****d without sorry.
(I understand not to offend mama, Yes off course you never offend your mama knowingly.)
And about Hindu god krishna he was not born to a virgin and he never baptised and he is not a carpenter.
Krishna was born in jail as his maternal uncle put his mother and father in jail. he was crossed the river by his father to put him in safe place.
And he was a care taker for cows not a carpenter. To your western understanding COWBOY. Thats why he got so many girls(The Number is 16008. The 8 are wives and the other 16000 are you know...The cowboy facination existed at that time also it seems.
Good luck next time with the docume(a)ntaries.
The republican party must really be in trouble. I think they've realized that waving the flag, clenching the fist and quoting the scriptures isn't going to work, this time around. So, what's left for them to do?
Fiscal responsibility?
OK
So, what's on their hit list for wasteful spending? Volcano monitoring? I guess that doesn't matter to too many people...except the ones that live near a volcano. They should have known better than to have built their homes near a volcano.
Last night, Lou Dobbs made a valiant effort to rip apart Pres. Obama's budget. But what he forgot to mention was that it ends tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. I think he's been a huge proponent of that for quite some time now. Interesting.
More double talk. The GOP is strongly against ending the Bush tax cuts to the wealthy. They say we shouldn't tax the people who are most likely to invest in small businesses and grow the economy.
Well, I think I remember, back when the tax cuts were enacted, someone saying, that the tax cuts, to the wealthy, would grow the economy, and pay for themselves. Has that happened? So, if the tax cuts didn't grow the economy then, how or why will they grow it now? It's not class warfare, it's common sense - something the GOP seems to be lacking these days. If anything, higher taxes for the wealthy will cause them to look for tax write offs. That will stimulate investment in smaller riskier businesses. A loss is a write off.
Well, that's a stretch but...
This mortgage scam just keeps getting more interesting. It's like an episode of the Sopranos. There was an episode where they had a real estate appraiser on the books. Tony would buy a property, and get the appraiser to appraise the property for more than it was worth. Tony then sold that house at the inflated price.
The large investment banks with their mortgage backed securities and CDOs did almost the same thing. They got rating agencies like Moodys and Standard and Poors to rate their mortgage backed securities and CDOs at AAA, when they barely met BBB status. There are people who really need to be locked up, not just Madoff. Most of those investments were sold oversees in Europe. I'm begining to think the Fed intentionally lowered treasuries so the investment companies could sell these bad mortgages. The EU is really pissed at us, but they won't admit it. I think if they had an army, we would be at war right now. The only way the government can justify bailing out the national banks, to me, would be to put those responsible in prison. Otherwise, let them fail. Nationalize them with the intent to sell off the assets. Selling the assets is not going to be easy because the mortgages that are managed by the banks, are not necessarily owned by the banks. So, the gov. will have to run the banks while they determine the value of all the assets and sort through all the bullshit. Plus, I think the government s afraid of what they might find on the balance sheets of these banks. All I can say right now is Thank God for the FDIC! If it wasn't for the FDIC, you know all the deposits would be gone right now.
Am I deciphering a Republican diss? Growing up before your very eyes…
HEY DIKSUK, WHY CAN'T YOU ANSWER A QUESTION YOU TYPICAll phucknut? You are the worst I've ever seen. You love to criticize but couldn't even spell your mother's name. Whatever, give a true intellect a chance, bitch
Mike M,
When Michael Moore makes another excellent, truthful, personified documentary about the recent activity of the East India Trading Company, then I will learn something about this bullshit circus.
I have seen every movie MM made, always later. His work ages well, like wine or cheese, because the passage of time reinforces the truthfulness of it.
Match that, republican criminal fucks phantasizing revolution... you can't revolt, you are the revolting despots! The despots are revolting! "Let them eat cake..."
Hey Bill,
It seems like we the underground are about to do to the coppertops what the USA did to the USSR.
Finally, we might get some democracy, liberty and justice.
Bill,
You will appreciate this: Atheists Launch Bus Ad Campaign.
Toke up!
WE HAVE FOUND A NEW MESSIAH!
His name is Rush Limbaugh. That uneducated pill poppin' lard ass.
Seriously. If this is the best the republicans can put forward, then we really are fucked. How? By forcing reasonable, educated people to vote democrat. Most already do, but Reagan democrats? Forget it. The best he'll ever be able to do is about 30% of Americans, if he's lucky. If he is really worried that much about deficits, he needs to look at his own party. Reagan, Bush 41 and 43 all ran huge deficits. It was Bill Clinton who balanced the budget, lifted people out of poverty and grew the economy. That's why they hate him so much. He did what the republicans were supposed to do, but couldn't. It's just plain jealousy. Clinton beat them at their own game.
So, if Rush wants to guarantee an Obama reelection, keep on spewing all that hate and anger. And keep denying the facts. He'll sure as shit sell more books and increase his ratings.
Newspaper ink is dirty to the touch and turning pages is like being leashed, compared to the command of knowledge beckoning from the keys. Communication evolves, and since you brought it up, casting your demons into a girl can be a telling means of self discovery… that’s probably why the church is so afraid of it. Possession is better understood in ancient Eastern cultures; Devadasis stretch out on temple altars, taken by invisible forces before the admiring gaze of onlookers. Tantric Buddhism considers it a symbol of non-duality; an undiluted union. A female submits herself body, mind and spirit to masculine energy. Good for the soul and feels great too. She sheds her ego as easily as taking off her clothes, and he immerses himself in another.
Since you brought it up, how many demons were there? At least you only mentioned one girl. Fairy tale characters aside, there is only a meeting of minds in a safe zone of elusive ether, a communication corroborated by orgasm.
-Pussy?
-yes, Honey…
-Who fucks you, little bitch?
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I found an old quote of yours from the back of a bottom drawer on the internet.
On Oneness:
"When I was in college I had this hippie girlfriend and she said, “Well, it’s like, when we make love, there’s no me and no you. Our bodies are like one continuous being.” I said, “OK, but how about paying some attention to our dick.”
How prophetic!
On your show broadcast Sunday, March 1st, at 6:30 CST, you asked why members of the congress/senate were bitching about Obama's agenda of change ... ultimately, it comes down to the fact that we must remember the difference between democracy and capitalism. We have confused the philospohical basis of our government (democracy) with the commerical practice of our governmant (capitalism) for more than a century. Give a person bifocals, and they will feel dizzy until they learn see through a corrective lense. Give an American Democracy, and they will confuse it with socalism until they remember what it means to act for the common good. Go Mahr. Keep it real.
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