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New Rules

Video: Real Time with Bill Maher: Opening

Bill Maher to President Obama: Don't be such a TV star

Maher hates to say it but he thinks that President Obama needs a little bit of Bush's personality at this point. Stop worrying so much about being popular.

He says the audacity of hope part is over. He's hoping for simply 'a little bit more audacity.'

I'm down with that.

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Angry, bitter guy Bill Maher sets Sean Hannity straight

Bill Maher answers Fox News Channels own Sean Hannity's remarks characterizing the HBO Real Time host as an 'angry bitter guy'.

I'm a happy, single guy. He's a repressed, typical Republican. I'm sure just terribly sexually repressed and it comes out in all their sorts of hatred and vile and bile -- why would I be bitter? First of all, our side won.

Check out the video of the CNN interview at The Huffington Post.

Video: Bill Maher and 'New Rules'

May 01, 2009: Bill Maher Opening and New Rules

Former CIA officer with Bill Maher: 'It's torture...'

Bob Baer, a former CIA officer visits the set of Real Time and explains why torture doesn't work and why waterboarding is torture. Baer also notes that we haven't even seen the worst of what happened because there are ninety two CIA cases that were destroyed because what was in them was so horrific. source: Crooks and Liars

GOP = 'A guy who just got dumped by his wife'

Bill Maher has an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times. Yeah. It's a newspaper and so far so good, it's still in business.

Here's a snip:

It's been a week now, and I still don't know what those "tea bag" protests were about. I saw signs protesting abortion, illegal immigrants, the bank bailout and that gay guy who's going to win "American Idol." But it wasn't tax day that made them crazy; it was election day. Because that's when Republicans became what they fear most: a minority.

If that sounds good, please read some more.

New Rules

Bonus: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

How Stuff Works

In t­he broad expanse of the northern Pacific Ocean, there exists the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a slowly moving, clockwise spiral of currents created by a high-pressure system of air currents. The area is an oceanic desert, filled with tiny phytoplankton but few big fish or mammals. Due to its lack of large fish and gentle breezes, fishermen and­ s­ailors rarely travel through the gyre. But the area is filled with something besides plankton: trash, millions of pounds of it, most of it plastic. It's the largest landfill in the world, and it floats in the middle of the ocean.

The gyre has actually given birth to two large masses of ever-accumulating trash, known as the Western and Eastern Pacific Garbage Patches, sometimes collectively called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Eastern Garbage Patch floats between Hawaii and California; scientists estimate its size as two times bigger than Texas [source: LA Times]. The Western Garbage Patch forms east of Japan and west of Hawaii. Each swirling mass of refuse is massive and collects trash from all over the world. The patches are connected by a thin 6,000-mile long current called the Subtropical Convergence Zone. Research flights showed that significant amounts of trash also accumulate in the Convergence Zone. read more here

Joe the Plumber: Trying to find some 'cred' on Real Time with Bill the Maher

Real Time with Bill Maher: Opening, March 27, 2009

Bill Maher - New Rules, March 20, 2009

Bill Maher tries to answers the question 'How F#@ked Are We?'

It's not time to point blame and we all are in this together. I get that. I also agree with Bill Maher, that there are some who are more responsible than others. Or maybe it is the word 'complicit' that I am thinking of.

As Maher mentions, most of the rest of us, right or wrong, are not experts in finance, although we too made mistakes, engaged in risky ventures such as buying a first home, the big players, the movers and shakers lead the way and set the tone in this country, and apparently around the globe as well.

We already soaked the rich? The rich are hurting too. Maher attempts to redefine hurting. Hurting is when you are used to three meals a day, and now you are only getting one he says.

It is also about where you are getting that meal from. Although it should not be an indignity to ask for help, go to a food pantry, stand in a welfare line to get food stamps or other assistance, it actually is when you have been used to taking care of yourself and doing your very best for yourself and your family.

I doubt that many rich people, although they too have lost during this meltdown, are suffering the same indignities as those formerly of the middle who are now on the bottom.

It's rather a challenge to feel sorry for the rich, and the rich would do well to recognize how fortunate they really are. Folks in the middle and the bottom have to rationalize through these difficult times by trying to see and acknowledge the material and non material parts of our lives that are good; that we can feel grateful for. That staves anger and resentment.

Erin Burnett of Anchor of CNBC 'Street Signs' and Cory Booker, Democrat and Mayor of Newark, New Jersey.

Bill Maher explains to Bobby Jindal why government isn't all bad

Begin about 2:25 but it's all good to me.

George S. with Bill Maher on Real Time

Boehner's Bronzer & Death to Moochy

Bill Maher is back with more 'New Rules'. I can't afford HBO, but I sure love youtube. I'd rather watch it on the teevee machine though.

Cutting through the crap.

HBO Real Time w/ BILL MAHER - February 20, 2009: Banks, Kate Winslet, John Boehner's tan, Chinese woman at airport, and pyramid schemes and banks. source: DU

President Obama's Performance Review by Bill Maher

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