New Rule: I Want My Country Forward
Some of Bill Maher's funnier lines from his New Rules segment tonight.
New Rule: Don't ask me to believe that the hippest President we've ever had doesn't know how to use an iPod.
...But what's with the fuddy-duddy act. If we wanted Luddite block heads who didn't understand gizmos and doohickeys we'd have voted for the ghost and Mrs. Moron.
I know I'm being a little nit-picky but how exactly does President Sanford and Son think he got elected? By CB radio? No, it was through social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter and RentBoy.com.
The entire campaign was based on the Internet. But you know in America politicians, they do that because they know Americans conflate out of touch with adorable.
...John McCain thinks an iPad is something women wear on their X-Boxes once a month.
...You know there's a specific group of Americans out there who's name I won't mention but it begins with T and ends with baggers. And they have a habit of saying I want my country back. Well I want my country forward.
Lots of arguing about religion on tonight's show since he brought on fake atheist S.E. Cupp and asked her about her book claiming that the "liberal" media has an anti-Christian bias that Cenk ripped her up for. Bill smelled a rat just like a lot of the commenters here and felt that there's no way in hell that she could write something claiming that Christians are persecuted by the press if she's actually an atheist. He wanted to know if her next book was going to be about her conversion to Christianity.
I could have done with a whole lot less of the arguing about religion and a lot more of what they talked about in the Overtime segment on line which really was the best part of the show. I finally got to hear someone tell John Avlon that his book Wingnuts is full of crap and false equivalencies and even if you don't like Keith Olbermann and think he's obnoxious there's no way in hell you should be comparing him to Glenn Beck. Good for Bill Maher.
You can watch the Overtime segment on Real Time's site here when the site updates with the video.
I read on Wikipedia that she told Hanity she's open to the idea of God. I was so close to thinking about maybe buying her book, to think she might have something valuable to say on the topic of religion, but not even a little bit anymore. She's a christian leaning agnostic in atheist clothes. Young smoking hot christian leaning agnostic in atheist clothes. She's a brilliant tool until she tries to defend "her" positions.
She's an idiot.
far left loon >.<
Her book is as shrill and irritating as she is. (I won't be finding out for myself.)
"Trust no one, Mr. Mulder." - Well-Manicured Man
after saying she was an atheist, she actually said that to maher too, and then said "i'm not mad at him!" ... "HIM", as in God... whom she doesn't believe in, as an atheist, that is...
very screwy.
what a terrible episode. they badgered on about religion for almost whole thing, who gives a shit? its not like its been a slow news week.
version of the Three Stooges?
I thought that was Benecio del Toro, Sean Penn and Jim Carrey...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
that I had to stop watching it, and that is rare for me.
The world would be a much better place if we got rid of the US Senate. Great idea. Even they say gov't isn't the answer, so why not prove it? Step aside.
far left loon >.<
I'd be willing to sleep with SE Cupp and find out if she yells "oh God" or not.
I'd sleep with Cupp if she allowed me to bound, blindfold and gag her. No, I'm lying...I'd leave that loudmouth Anne Coulter wannabe tied up.
Maher from what I've heard is actually a horndog on the level of Tiger Woods, and has actually slept with Coulter.
I'll bet when Maher was banging Coulter, she stuck her tongue with during sex and it was forked.
imagine forking coulder. oops coulter.
Quote: "I know I'm being a little nit-picky but how exactly does President Sanford and Son think he got elected? By CB radio? No, it was through social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter and RentBoy.com."
I don't visit Facebook, Twitter, or RentBoy.com, or even have a CB Radio. I voted for Obama for all the other "real" reasons.
it allowed me to keep up with friends who i didnt have regular contact with....
that is until last week...when someone decided it would be cute to report me for harassing them...apparently i sent them one non harassing message
i get spam in my email all the time, and i just ignore it
but on facebook, everyone is in a twitter
so i attempted to appeal, promising never to contact that person again
3 days later, i get a message from facebook that the only way they will hear my appeal is if i send a scanned copy of my drivers license
dont worry they say, we just need this to confirm its you...and will destroy the information just as soon as the process is complete
bullshit
so im done
facebook is run by fascists
You got that right.
And how'd THAT work out for you?
[I may just have stuffed cotton for a brain, but even I know this is just wrong...]
It is sad that Obama played the Luddite card when he is a known Blackberry addict.
It is also sad to see Maher all over Jobs' jock. Jobs' proprietary business model is finally coming home to roost. Yep Apple had some great ideas but by trying to enforce the Apple Doctrine they are putting themselves in the same place they did when the "PC" kicked their butt.
Maher's just engaging in the usual libertarian blather about how business leaders can run the country better than politicians.
thinks politicians are running this country aren't paying attention. Don't make me go into how that is working out for us.
Bush was Custer at Reagan's last stand.
monetary inflation to be specific and the solution Bill wants is to further debase the final vestiges of intrinsic value from our coined currency? My God. He doesn't seem to understand that value of copper and nickel have surpassed the dwindling value of our currency. The solution is to return to a store of value not abandon it completely. How so many people can miss this lesson is frightening.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
In yesterday's Preakness, Super Saver as the odds on favourite was 9-5 leading up to post time, then went 2-1 in the last few minutes.
Coincidence? I think not...
me-oww!
to horse racing
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
i'll say!
maher spent too much time defending his atheism... he's too closed minded and judgmental about others beliefs and preferences...
and, just because she's a fellow professed atheist, he gave sippy cupp a big pass... he let her off easy... ... and her squealing, that squeaking noise... so not "cute"...
and won't dogmatically insist what the "truth" is.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
Christians have been spewing rhetoric with impunity for centuries. Now that a few atheists finally have the cajones to speak up, christians are whining about "closed minded" atheists being too "judgmental." There's no group in the world more judgmental than Christians. (Except maybe Muslims.)
I know I'm just complaining about a very minor point, but was anyone else put off by S.E. Cupp's insipid giggling during Maher's speech? It's bad enough that during the rest of the show she came off as a brainless high school cheerleader wearing glasses in a desperate bid to look slightly less stupid.
observing her behavior towards him. The word, "pathetic" also was there.
I'd actually love to see her on a panel with Hitchens.
I'm pretty sure he'd be able to make her cry.
AGAIN!!!!!
I'm a straight middle-aged white Protestant male from suburbia so at least part of me sees the appeal. Her entire act is to giggle and act cute around older right-wing men. She's not as obviously malevolent as Coulter or Malkin. And Darryl Issa was eating her act up. "Oh you weren't even alive when Reagan was president."
On the other hand, if I were a woman, I'd probably be annoyed by her. Clearly she's got a book contract and gets airtime because she's cute and she flatters older men. There are a lot of women far more qualified to discuss religion than Cupp is who get much less air time.
Good Lord yes, drove me nuts. heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.....
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!1
it was awful. I gave the other vid a miss, but the insipid giggling was annoying. I almost had to turn it off.
me-oww!
Corey Booker's brother bump was pretty lame.
That's not what I like about him.
Booker came off pretty well in that segment.
I live in NJ and the local media's lately been on a crusade against Booker because he spoke in front of a flag that was hanging with the stars on the wrong side.
And I'm talking about the mainstream newspapers. They seem to be chasing the teabagger demographic with everything they've got.
that the international sign of distress?
Something I've been working on the past couple of days to amuse myself whilst bored, a way of systematizing both philosophical and religious experiences and day-to-day life:
Sigeo (Silence)
Khaeos (Chaos)
Phos (Light)
Logos (Reason)
Mathema (Numbers)
Aksiopistia (Relationship)
Lysis (A loosening, to destroy).
Musterion (Mystery)
(Note, they're not successive but often simultaneous...)
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OUTYQz9LnI
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Anything?
Silent music?
That's pretty much what I was using phos, aksiopistia and musterion for.
The problem with Attava, although it can be used, is that one it's not Greek, like the rest of my terms, and the Hindu system already has the Vedanta approach, which inspired mine, and if I remember aright is Raja, Brahma, and Yoga vedanta. There's also Bhakti which is a lower form of vedanta, and involves dogmatically worshipping gods...
So I wanted even more abstract terms...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
just as many pc users hate the mac
the mac fuckin irritates me...cuz it treats users like fucktards
It has been in my head for over a week. I think maybe I saw it on satellite radio, but I cannot find a song or a singer or a band with that name. It's making me crazy. Crazier. Now I'm on a quest.
Still no Cheney. Maybe in the morning he'll emerge from his hiding place and defend himself. That is, unless he's still busy moving the balance of his cash out of the country. Maybe the Lizard will be on defending him. She's always good for a few laughs.
YET another phoney who publishes YET another book through a right-wing vanity press claiming YET again that "liberals have too much power and hate everyone else."
Notice a trend here?
"I'm a liberal, but I think liberals are totalitarian assholes" (Bernard Goldberg)
"I'm a lesbian and a feminist, but I think Hillary Clinton is a power hungary bitch and I voted for GWB" (Tammy Bruce)
"I'm an atheist but I think we're the ones who are oppressing Christians in this country" (SE Cupp)
And they all seem to appear on FOX regularly. I wonder if there's a connection?
P.S. I'm just waiting for FOX to dig up someone who will claim "I'm a Marxist, but I think Dick Cheney is the greatest champion of workers' rights in human history!"
...I don't want Steve Jobs and his business model anywhere near the public sector. Jobs and Apple represent the antithesis of progressive business models (hmmm, oxymoron?). They're all about proprietary, secretive, consumer at the mercy of the corporate dictator style business. They came out with the iPhone and restricted buyers to AT&T. They are about limiting choice and freedom. Want to watch a Flash video -- tough, Steve doesn't like Flash. (What is his alternative? QuickTime? I'm no fan of Flash, but QuickTime really, really sucks.) I think the real problem Jobs has with Flash is that he can't control it -- and Steve Jobs is about nothing if he's not about absolute control. Creepy.
Their business model is based on extreme fadism. Apple depends on Barnum's Law -- there's a sucker born every minute. Yeah, and a lot of those suckers are buying iPads (etc.).
And lets not forget that his computing products are inevitably underpowered, overpriced, and more a product of good marketing then anything else (from my personal experience, a Mac is no more or less stable then a PC). The iPad is a joke that can't do half of what a netbook does, for several hundred dollars more, but we're supposed to think its a "revolution". Ugh.
/rant
Upon reflection, Apple products are very much like the healthcare system.
Expensive, subpar, but always said to be greater then any other system out there, even if the facts say otherwise.
He said LUDDITE block heads, not one-eyed block heads.
Luddite; one who opposes technical or technological change.
I came here to post that, but found you'd beat me to it. Nice to see that someone is literate here...
[I may just have stuffed cotton for a brain, but even I know this is just wrong...]
"Stop calling disasters with a single survivor 'a miracle'. When 103 people die but 1 lives, that's not a miracle - that's god blowing a no-hitter in the bottom of the 9th." Bill Maher
Thanks, Bill (and writers)!
not his best one, but had some good parts..
I shuddered when I heard Maher say Jobs is our great hope. Think made in China, not different. Hell, Jobs even closed the last packaging plant in the US under his return. As much as I like their products, I'd love to hear Mr. Jobs say that Apple and other hi-techs should bring manufacturing working class "jobs" back to the US. Perhaps then more Americans would be able to afford his products then.
This New Rules segment brought to you by Apple.
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
never mind...
[I may just have stuffed cotton for a brain, but even I know this is just wrong...]
Her mike should have been cut the minute her minute was up.
Okay, I'd have been happier if it'd been cut BEFORE, but...
[I may just have stuffed cotton for a brain, but even I know this is just wrong...]
"Ah won't mah kuntree bayuk."
"John McCain thinks the iPad is what women put on their xbox once a month." - Bill Maher
...would be more persuasive if it demonstrated an elementary grasp of the language; for example, the difference between "whose" and "who's". Sixth grade stuff like that.
I don’t see why liberals aren’t thrilled about this. For Obama supporters honestly hoping for a post-partisan politics, a focused and de-radicalized tea party, working together with conservatives to solve problems, and political disagreement based in difference of values instead of Orwellian arguments about facts, Rand Paul is exactly what this country needs. For those who value heterodoxy, whether Republicans, Democrats, or Independents, Rand Paul should be a welcome addition to the U.S. Senate.
http://www.theinductive.com/blog/2010/5/19/a-...
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