If somebody insists on making some point about the guy at the end who talks about needing to be what was formerly known as a 'third world country', but are now referred to as developing nations, he has been in rural Virginia doing the same thing. Treating people who have no coverage, or are under insured and still can't afford basic care.
The rural Virginia clip can be found here. This isn't an urban problem or a rural problem. It is everywhere.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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Popeye became a Depression-era hero soon after he first appeared in the 1929 comic strip, Thimble Theatre. Segar drew Popeye as a “working-class Joe” who suffered torment from Bluto — sometimes known as Brutus — until he “can't stands it no more”. Wolfing down spinach turned Popeye into a pumped-up everyman hero, making the case for good over evil. source: Times UK
